commemorating our emergency who died whether from complications through injuries or sadly through decide in the days and months after the violence. brian sicknick of new jersey. hallie leeben good of virginia. billy evans of massachusetts. jeffrey smith of illinois. and gun ther hasheeda of virginia. today and every day we remember them. we mourn their loss. we honor their limitless heroism in the face of the unthinkable. second, we also thank every single member of the capitol police, the d.c. metro police, and the national guard who kept us safe and prevented a violent riot from turning into something much worse. that afternoon our capitol police were outnumbered, unprepared, and largely left on their own. just watching on television the brutal beating of one of them by the mob, another being crushed between a door and a wall, just rips your heart apart, and you relive that day, and you remember how the capitol police suffered but persisted and helped preserve our democracy
and 21st century time lord a brand new face for one of science fiction s best known characters. i feel very great to have had the baton handed over and i promise to do my very best. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8:00 in the morning here in singapore and in the philippines, where the polls have opened in the most divisive presidential election for many years. there are several candidates hoping to replace the current leader hardliner rodrigo duterte but just two clear frontrunners. leading in the polls is ferdinand bongbong marcos, jr. he s the son of the former president, ferdinand marcos. critics say he s used his wealth to whitewash the history of his father s brutal dictatorship. bongbong marcos was also convicted in 1995 for tax evasion while serving as a public official. his running mate is sara duterte the daughter of the current president. the main challenger to them is leni robredo. she is the current vice president
disaster. it is not an overstatement and it is a generous assessment. our country has ever seen anything like joe biden has done. barely 15 months into his first term as president, joe biden has crash the stock market, provoked a food shortage, opened our borders to millions of illegal aliens, presided over historic rises in murder, inflation, and drug ods, as well as a corresponding plunge and overall life expectancy. and then because all of that wasn t punitive enough for a country as racist as ours, he dragged the united states into an entirely pointless war with a nuclear armed power on behalf of a corrupt foreign government that once bribed his drug addicted son. that s all real. joe biden did all of that. and those are just the big, easy to measure crimes he has committed. we spent virtually every night cataloguing some of the rest, shuttered schools, permanent looting, latin american levels of wealth inequality, tampons in the boys bathroom. $7 a gallon gasoline, un
enters its third month us secretary of state antony blinken is expected in kyiv the first top us offical to visit since the invasion. the row over lockdown party breaches in downing street continues. a conservative minster says removing boris johnson from office would lead to instability . now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. iran s rocky relations with the west have cost a host of individuals their freedom. the islamic republic has imprisoned citizens from the us, britain and a number of other countries for spying. now, the charges may be trumped up, but tehran s determination to use western prisoners for political purposes is very real. my guest is the australian academic, kylie moore gilbert, who was released from an iranian jail in 2020 after 804 days behind bars. is it possible to heal after such a shattering ordeal? kylie moore gilbert in melbourne, welcome to hardtalk. thanks so much for having me. it s a real pleasure to have you on