Hello. Im marc ashdown. A very good morning to you. We start in hollywood and the film industrys biggest night, the oscars. The awards, which celebrate the best films of the year, finished just a few hours ago, clocking in at a spritely 3. 5 hours. The big winner of the night was, as expected, the Christopher Nolan epic, oppenheimer, which racked Up Seven Awards from its 13 nominations, including best picture. Behind that on four wins is the quirky period dramedy poor things. Heres The Moment Acting Royalty Al Pacino presented the final award of the night for best picture. And oppenheimer. Yes, yes. I think any of us who make movies i think any of us who make movies know that you kind of Dream Movies Know that you kind of dream of movies know that you kind of dream of this moment. You know you do. Dream of this moment. You know you do, right . I could deny it but i you do, right . I could deny it but i have you do, right . I could deny it but i have been dreaming about this moment for
there s more to do, so let s finish the job president joe biden makes his 2024 re-election bid official, vowing to finish the job we ll take a look at how his campaign has already hit the ground running plus, the former fox news producer who s now suing the network weighs in on tucker carlson s ouster what she had to say about the hostile work environment that she faced at fox and during closing arguments in their seditious conspiracy trial yesterday, attorneys for members of the proud boys put the blame for the january 6th capitol attack squarely on donald trump we ll have the latest from the courtroom ahead of jury deliberations. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, april 26th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning in washington where just hours after announcing his re-election bid president joe biden gave his first campaign speech yesterday and was greeted with this warm reception. four more y
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and so one of the greatissi and happy and unexpected smsurprises of this cycle is how many interesting people are running around the country., y people something to say that isn t necessarily about them. people who have interests beyond just accumulating country more power. jd vance and ohio kerry, blake a and blake masters in arizona,nd joe kent in washington state. dr. oz in pennsylvania. none of these people has been in politics before. all of them seem tobefore. be listening to voters listing, not just talkingthey a. all coazingly, all of them could win on november eight . and if they do, that s a huge problem for the democratic dis party and for the people iasnne charge. more broadly, it s a potential thing tdisaster. it s one thing to elect mitc more mitch mcconnell s team. republicanls, tames know what ts are. the first rule, of course,the f is you must lose. bu people like that will play along as they faithfully have for decades. but what happe would happen ifre someo
From southern israel. As israel intensifies its air strikes before its widely expected ground strike, palestinian homes have been hit without warning. These pictures are from rafah where locals pulled victims from the rubble of a house that was hit overnight. And these images are from khan younis in Southern Gaza. Israel had asked Palestinian Civilians to move south for their own safety as it said it was focusing its air strikes on hamas infrastructure. The Israel Defence forces released this video of air strikes over gaza. We cant independently verify when this was shot. Gazais gaza is the south but to the north, israel has also launched fresh air strikes. This time at iran backed hezbollah inside lebanon. This is a video of it firing at hezbollah. 34 3a aid trucks has so far managed to get into gaza. The main un agency there says hundreds of trucks of aid are needed every day. The Rafah Crossing is currently the only route into gaza because its the only one that doesnt border israel.