changing those situations, and with changing those situations, and i think the median income would reflect that well. everyone i interviewed for this novel, there were maybe 30—40, all told me, i know it is inappropriate and goes to talk about money, but i love talking about it. so i think that obsession is there right now.— is there right now. from what you know, is it — is there right now. from what you know, is it different _ is there right now. from what you know, is it different from - is there right now. from what you know, is it different from here, i is there right now. from what you know, is it different from here, or do you think it is the same for that kind of age group now, this worry about money as well? i do think young people are worried about money. i don't think the idea of buying a house is available to people. millie's house is very inexpensive and small, but i don't think that is available to everyone. i think in the united states, the health care situation does present a huge problem. that is something young people are definitely worried about. �* ., ., ., , about. another thing i thought was ve funn about. another thing i thought was very funny was _ about. another thing i thought was very funny was the _ about. another thing i thought was very funny was the author - about. another thing i thought was very funny was the author who - about. another thing i thought was very funny was the author who is l very funny was the author who is also academic. she is taking this year, but in the end, her stuff is a kind of money diary in teen vogue, which is completely not on the radar of academics and authors. lilo.

which is completely not on the radar of academics and authors.— of academics and authors. no, she does not need _ of academics and authors. no, she does not need to _ of academics and authors. no, she does not need to be _ of academics and authors. no, she does not need to be writing - of academics and authors. no, she does not need to be writing for - of academics and authors. no, she l does not need to be writing for teen vogue! she is having a strange time where she says, no one knows i am here, i can do whatever i want. as a writer, i'm really interested in people using places as i get out of jail free card. people using places as i get out of jailfree card. people people using places as i get out of jail free card. people are saying, this matters in chicago, but not in arkansas. these people don't matter as much. i think that's really fascinating. when money really matters now is if you look at, example, taylor swift. she is worth gazillions. lots of young women and young men really look up to her. she gave $100,000 to the family of the person that was murdered following the super bowl. and her tickets are out of the league of most young people, yet is there not to disconnect there? people think she is wonderful? i don't know in my —— i don't know

people spending that much money! in my mind, i think people should be able to afford to go to her concert. it was a hot topic that came out, because i believe they were in the thousands, and i think when that happens, you are only supporting a certain income bracket and saying, you can enjoy my music, and everyone else, you can wait outside. which is what they did. kiley reid, thank you very much. come and get it is out now. so let's take a look at some of the front pages. the daily mail funnily enough, i love taylor swift for publicly trashing her exes. but "stand with me": yulia navalnaya vows to can't continue her has been's fight. there she was on the video today. ex post office chair out for revenge stop the daily telegraph, us moves to block israeli offensive. another picture of navalny�*s widow there. and men and women brains work

differently. no surprise there! and the mail, hundreds of high—risk london uk unchecked. dramatic warning from borders watching. and in the financial times, surgeon pension funds revives corporate bond market. that's all from us tonight. goodbye. let's turn to the war in ukraine. just days away from the second anniversary of the conflict, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has said the situation remains �*extremely difficult' in several parts of the front line — with delays in western military aid impacting the fighting.

he's been speaking a short while ago. translation: now, the situation is extremely difficult in several. parts of the front — precisely, where the russian troops have concentrated the maximum reserves. they are taking advantage of the delays in helping ukraine, and these are very tangible things. the shortage of artillery, the need for front line air defence. we're working as hard as possible with partners to restore and extend support. russian forces have made some advances in the east of the country, and as america delays new funding to support ukraine, concerns are growing about how long the war could drag on and whether ukraine will have enough weapons and soldiers to continue fighting it. our correspondent andrew harding visited the town of lyman a year ago, and returned recently to find out how people there are coping. how do you judge the mood of a country this big and this broken?

we've come back to a front—line town, lyman, a place seized by russian forces and then liberated by ukraine back in 2022. since then, the closest front—lines have remained just up the road. this was alexander a year ago with his cats. alexander. yes. andrew from bbc? today, he's still here. "yes, i remember you," he says. he shows me the wreckage of his old apartment block, hit by russian missiles. and he says he sees this war differently now. i want peace, peace, peace. so has your opinion changed? changed, yeah, changed. so this is interesting. he's changed his opinion over the course of the last year. before he said ukraine had to win this war, now he's saying there's been too much death, too much suffering.

he wants talks even if it means giving up land. peace is more important than victory. you can feel the weariness on the streets of lyman. british aid distributed here mostly to pensioners who ignore the sound of another explosion on the front—lines. "our youth are being exterminated. if this continues, there'll be no ukraine left," says nadieska. "this war will go on for a long time yet," says pasha. but it's not all gloom here. council workers are out doing what they can, and a younger generation isjust getting on with life. school is mostly online, but not entirely. laughter. "i've got everything i need," she says. a year ago, we found families hiding

from the war in these cellars. and today, the dimitrenko family are still here, but there's regular electricity now, waterfrom a pump outside, and irina, an accountant, is quietly determined. "we are waiting for victory," she says. "we are all tired, but i don't see how we can negotiate with murderers." still, lyman's mayor is worried that america will stop supplying weapons to the ukrainian troops protecting his town. "we're fighting a monster," says alexander zuraviov, "so we need more outside military help. our soldiers are doing their best, but they're running out of guns and ammunition." this small town feels torn between determination and despair. what unites it now is sheer exhaustion, the knowledge that this

war will not be quickly won and, increasingly, the fear that ukraine's fate may yet be decided by foreign politicians in far—away capitals. andrew harding, bbc news, in eastern ukraine. the reconstruction of ukraine is being discussed at a conference in tokyo where officials and companies of the two countries have been attending. japan has pledged more than $10 billion worth of financial aid since russia invaded ukraine. in a meeting of prime ministers, fumio kishida reaffirmed japan's commitment to ukraine, with the two sides signed a number of agreements including on infrastructure rebuilding, demining, and agriculture. translation: japan will continue to work together with ukraine - until peace returns to the beautiful land of ukraine. following up on the results of the japan—ukraine economic

reconstruction conference, we will work with the g7 and other countries to build international momentum for support for ukraine. and we'll have more on this story next hour — i'll be speaking to japan's ministry of foreign affairs. in the first case of its kind, a man who piloted a dinghy carrying dozens of migrants from france to britain, four of whom drowned, has been found guilty of their manslaughter. ibrahima bah, who's from senegal, agreed with a smuggling gang to pilot the boat in return for a free crossing — even though he had no training in sailing. the case could have implications for future investigations, as our legal correspondent dominic casciani reports. a light in the dark. cries in the distance. the early hours of december 2022. a fishing boat in the english channel discovers a sinking migrants' dinghy.

men swim for their lives. 39 saved. at least four drowned. this man in the blue coat, ibrahima bah, accused of their manslaughter. he agreed to pilot the inflatable to england. over two trials, prosecutors said he was criminally responsible for the deaths. when it began taking on water, he could have taken the dinghy back to france. one of the survivors, who's anonymous for legal reasons, said everyone feared they would drown. people stood up inside the boat, and then the boat collapsed. i don't know whether he is a smuggler, a refugee, asylum seekers, but he helped us and he saved us. i don't know what to say. he was speeding the boat in order to get closer to the fishing boat. he also turned or swerved the boat in a way that helped us. and this is why the crossings are so dangerous. this boat is a similar size and construction to the one that

ibrahima barwas in, and the border force have got this ibrahima bah was in, and the border force have got this out to show us and filled it with the items they find typically in every rescue. you've got buoyancy aids, used on canoes, on lakes and rivers — totally unsuitable for the job. you've got fuel bottles, we've got foot pumps. and look at this, the construction — it's basically a bouncy castle. and that's why they say these are a death trap. jurors were told smugglers had offered ibrahima bah a free seat in return for piloting, so prosecutors argued the deaths occurred as part of a criminal enterprise — the senegalese man was responsible for everyone's safety and could have foreseen the tragedy. but bah said he had no choice — the smugglers threatened to kill him when he had second thoughts. this manslaughter trial has been unprecedented. somebody is responsible. he can't duck out of saying that he was responsible simply because he says that he was in the same situation as the other migrants.

he chose to be the man in charge. yep. more than 140 other people have been prosecuted for piloting boats since 2022 — boats that have brought 30,000 men, women and children on dangerousjourneys. a trade the government is under huge political pressure to stop. dominic casciani, bbc news. the oldest football manager in the english premier league, roy hodgson, has stepped down from his job at crystal palace. hodgson, who's 76, was taken ill during training last week — he's now out of hospital. he'd been under growing pressure, after a run of bad results for his team. crystal palace have moved swiftly to replace him with, oliver glasner. he managed a total of 17 clubs, some of them twice. crystal palace have moved swiftly to replace him with, oliver glasner.

i want to show you this remarkable image, showing a free diver examining whale bones on the sea bed off remote greenland. it was taken by swedish photographer alex dawson who won �*underwater photographer of the year�* against more than 6,500 other entries. he�*s been talking to us about his work. it�*s all amazing. i feel so honoured that somehow my image managed to make it to the top. we dived under thick ice that�*s close to a metre thick and my model, the free diver, she was swimming on one breath from the surface, trying to find me under the ice among these whale bones. it�*s a minky whale on the bottom that she�*s swimming by and yeah, it�*s a very challenging environment. —2 degrees in the water, it�*s pitch black down there. yeah, it�*s a privilege and it�*s been a long, hard journey. i mean, i�*ve been educating myself also in diving,

in very advanced systems, very advanced cave diving, with vehicles that push you deep into the caves. it takes me to places that very, very few people have been able to go. the more people that can see my underwater photography and cinematography, the happier i am because it�*s such a different world and people need to know about it. we need to take care of what�*s under the surface, we need to think from environmental perspective, so think this is all very relevant in many perspectives, as much as i�*d like to show beauty. i like to show the beauty of the world, like, it makes me happy. before we go — every football fan wants their side to get his club it says it hit the back of the netjust two seconds after his

kick started the game, incredible kit, isn�*t it? that is it for this edition of newsday, i�*ll be back with business news shortly, thanks for hello. this round of incredibly mild weather continues as we go through the next few days. on monday, we saw temperatures reach 15 degrees almost in parts of london. that makes it seven consecutive days of seeing the temperatures of 1a degrees or more and well above the average of 6—8 celsius. but that kind of weather will be back later this week — feels much more like february with temperatures 6—9 degrees for many, which will actually be higher than many have been by night recently. and if that�*s the case, we start tuesday — 7—9 degrees in western scotland, northern ireland. but it�*s here where we start to see the rain arrive, first of all. in fact, a spell of at times heavy rain sweeps across scotland, northern ireland during the morning, followed on by sunshine more extensively for the afternoon — a few showers in the highlands and ireland. through the afternoon, though, northern england and wales turn increasingly wet and windy. to the south and east of that,

many will stay dry during daylight hours, but fairly cloudy, some sunshine and again, 111—15 celsius will be possible. the patchy rain will, by the end of the afternoon and evening, edge its way southwards. it looks like it starts to fade, but then regains strength. after some clear skies for a time in the north with a touch of frost, cloud and rain will surge its way northwards later in the night on wednesday and mild weather fights back once again. so it will be a very mild start to wednesday but a thoroughly wet one. these weather fronts bring in outbreaks of rain quite extensively, pushing its way eastwards with some strong and gusty winds throughout the day, too. wettest in the morning for many, and particularly so on hills exposed to those southerly gales brining up from the west later — sunshine and showers — but rain will hold on across shetlands into the middle part of the afternoon and it may never fully clear the channel islands and the english channel. in the sunshine, it�*s going to be mild. southerly winds, a0 mile an hour winds, if not more. and temperatures again in double figures, if not low

teens for the most part. but that milder weather is eventually pushed out the way. this area of low pressure to the north of us, as it works its way eastwards, introduces winds from the north atlantic, and that brings a drop in temperature. clears away the rain slowly, though, that we see again across england, wales, eastern scotland on thursday. bright conditions into the west, but the showers will be a mixture of rain, hail and on the hills a bit of sleet and snow on the tops, too. temperatures dropping as we go through the day. and that cooler run continues through the rest of the week and into the weekend with further spells of wind and rain at times.

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this is bbc news. we will have the headlines of the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i�*m stephen sackur. new york is the ultimate american melting pot, the focus of so many immigrant dreams, but right now, immigration is a hugely contentious political issue in the united states, which makes it a great theme for my guest today — bassem youssef, a comedian who made his name in egypt, who now makes his home in the united states. he�*s an arab—american

who wants his fellow citizens to think hard about the most sensitive of topics. what could possibly go wrong? bassem youssef. yes?! they laugh. that�*s a great start. yes. it�*s very hard — hardtalk. it is a great pleasure to welcome you to this show — hardtalk. i�*m very, very pleased to be here. thank you so much for having me. i want to begin just reflecting on the move you made from homeland, egypt, to the united states. about ten years ago, just less, you became a migrant. but i�*m just wondering about one particular aspect of the move — your sense of humour. how easy is it for humour to cross borders? very difficult.

because it�*s notjust about the words, it�*s