former goldman sachs bunker richard sharpe has officially been confirmed as the new chairman of the b.b.c. he's known as an ambitious enough with an impressive list of contacts sharpest. a background in finance and has worked for some notable institutions in the center he's also known for bucking the conservatives donating hefty sums to the ruling party besides that he's also been an unpaid adviser to the u.k. finance minister chairing the pandemic on work for current prime minister boris johnson when he was mayor of london who the chairman of the b.b.c. he is appointed by the queen on the recommendation of the government mr sharp will take home a $160000.00 pounds a year that's around $220000.00 for 3 or 4 working days per week to get some more insight into this apartment we're joined live now from london on the program journalist francis back at francis good to have you on richard sharpe has close ties to the current government he's donated money to the tories how does that reflect on britain's national broadcaster feed. major problem in terms of the position of the b.b.c. is that it's

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richard. cutting her there's a sharp warning for accepting money from the superpower to become dependent on a. chinese gateway to europe. starts feb 19th on d. w. . very well welcome to focus on europe with me liz show things are not calming down in russia ever since the rest of kremlin critic alex a now volley people have been taking to the streets across the country the response from the authorities has been violence and intimidation security officials have arrested thousands.

kama sutra partners richard but in europe there's a sharp warning whoever accept money from the new superpower will become dependent on it can it get other shaking the chinese state has a lot of money at its disposal. and that's how it's expanding and asserting its status in position in the world to be fair to the football. china's gateway to europe starts feb 19th on d w. this is news and these are our top stories u.s. president joe biden is pushing ahead with plans to change the direction of u.s. foreign policy has announced he will halt the withdrawal of thousands of american troops from germany and end support for saudi arabia's military offensive in the long running war in yemen.

sharp for tomorrow. join us, the defenders, in our mission. cybereason. end cyber attacks. from endpoints to everywhere. >>> donald trump got some possibly bad news today from 86-year-old republican senator richardlby of alabama who announced he will not run for re-election in 2022, which means that senator shelby, who was first elected to the senate as a democrat before switching parties, will not be facing any republican re-election pressure when he decides how to vote in the senate trial of donald trump. here is republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana with chuck todd yesterday. >> do you think the outcome is predetermined? >> you know, everybody -- no, i don't. i think it depends upon that which is presented. >> joining us our discussion now is claire mccaskill and john heilemann. claire, did you react the way i did when i saw senator shelby announce today he won't have any re-election pressure on him when he's thinking about how to vote in this impeachment trial? >> yeah -- i -- i we have two categories of possibles here. by my count, we have 13 maybes, which is a problem since we need 17. of those 13, there's two categories. well, three categories. one from a purple state. two with cou

richard. good to see you. we hit at the top of this segment about the new tone coming from the biden administration. sharprom donald trump. what sort of things, mechanisms does this administration have when dealing with russia? we know biden has been clear he wants space for diplomacy with the arms deal. sanctions raised really high. outside of some rhetoric from biden and his team, what else can they do right now to sort of nudge things along within russia? and what will they be looking out for here? >> the sad honest answer is not a whole lot, jonathan. yes, there are some more sanctions against the cronies who are close to putin. but, we've got to keep a little bit of distance. we don't want navalny, who is seen for better or worse as a real russian national patriot, we don't want to any way hurt his reputation as being too close to the united states. as you say, we want diplomacy and we want the nuclear deal. russia still matters with north korea and iran. what this is typical of is two things going on in the world, we saw it with myanmar. there's limits to what we can do to be a promoter of democracy