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alastair and ambassador taylor. describe similar concerns about mr. giuliani. president trump wanted ukraine to pursue into his political opponent in this case former president joe biden ambassador taylor described the quote irregular channel unquote of ukraine policy directed by mr. giuliani to focus" one or two specific cases irrespective of whether it s helps solve the corruption problem unquote in ukraine. ambassadorad taylor further explained it was his quote clear understanding" that quote security assistance money unquotekr for ukraine would note delivered until president zelensky permitted -- committed to pursue the investigation" that a former senior pfizer to secretary of stateom pompeo resigned because of his shadow diplomacy efforts with mr. giuliani. when the chairman asked mr. mckinley whether he resigned in part because the quote efforts to use the state department to dig up on a political opponent he mr. mckinley responded that is fair and if i can underscore in 37 years in the foreign service in different parts of the globe working on many cont

the soldiers are enforcing a convoy of vehicles the road isn't safe you see in the crossfire as alastair has written about telling stories ultimately it's not just about al-jazeera it's about the people who tell the stories about. when an ethiopian mother pushed her daughter up for adoption she knew little of what was to come. with family bone severed the traumatized child tone between 2 wounds struggles to return home in a profoundly human story exposing deep flaws in denmark's adoption system to. a girl in return a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks difficulties should have been on point mostly young people coming here to protest against the taliban tactics with the police with details coverage is going to be a chance for people from different walks of life to a little affiliations to work together to shake their futures together from around the world not many people critical new type of people who will be front pages represent is a much smaller and slightly. ramping up the pressure of the impeachment inquiry into the us president moves towards a new phase

so this is the equivalent of tony blair's alastair campbell, or dominic cummings, the right—hand man the finger pointed at him, along with another quy pointed at him, along with another guy who was arrested earlier this week. neither cummings nor campbell have been arrested, for those just turning in. but in a european union country, she was killed two years ago, now we have finger—pointing going right to the heart of the government. we have this absolutely appalling day of news of 3—man, in british public life with huge followings, huge talents, all of them who all have passed away this week. the times has a photo of clive james and jonathan miller, i confess, two zeros in my household and my husband and children sort of idolise them, really. it'sjust extraordinary. huge losses. when the news broke of clive james' death this afternoon some people in the office, younger people, asked who he was which is incredibly heartbreaking for those of us who remember the amazing tv they made. the ride, dried humour, these japanese torture programmes. he is a brilliant intellectual, a poet. tran

alastair: four employees. we know a couple of their names, we don't know the other two. four have been involved in protesting some of the contracts that google has with, for instance, customs and border protection agency with the u.s. government. they have also been protesting some of the things happening in the past couple of years at google, including how the company has handled sexual harassment. the connection between all of those is basically that they have either been involved in or helping lead some of the internal protest. taylor: at what point do you look at this and fold this into your fundamental analysis, if at all? mark: four layoffs on an employee base of 110,000, that qualifies as immaterial. if it leads the company to not participate in areas that are potentially commercially attractive like defense contracts, there could be an issue for wall street. there have been some internal dissension, but you would expect it. we are in the bay area, an unusually woke community. you have very actively involved, some of their employees are very actively and political

alastair mactaggart t s alarmed. >> voting is, for me, the mostal ming one.dates in the laste presidential election, in three states... >> narrator: he began a solitary campaign. >> we're talking about convincing a relatively tiny fraction of the voters in a very... in a h hdfulf states to either come out and vote or stay home. anremember, these companie know everybody intimately. they know who's a racist, who's misogynist, who's a homophobe, who's a conspiracy theorist. they know the lazy people and the gullible people. they have access to the greast trove of personal information that's ever been assembled. they have the world's best data scientists. d they have essentially frnttionless way of communicating with you. this is power. >> narrator: mactaggart started a signature drive for a californrn ballot initiative for a law to give consumers control of their digital data. in all, he would spend $4 million of his own money in an of silicon valley.the goliaths google, facebook, at&t, and comct all opposed his initiative. >> i'll tell you, i was scared. fear.

i'm alastair cook here with the ninth episode of "i, claudius." i was not allowed to watch it because it had nudity in it. i very much wanted to. >> rather than try to come up with a show that would run for years and years, it was this idea that, here is a limited story, we're going to tell it in x number of episodes, and let's just do this one self-contained thing. >> we all did things during the reign of my mad brother that we might not otherwise have done. >> it looks cheap. it was the script and the performances that mattered. in other words, it could be good for you, but it was fun at the same time. the miniseries was such a huge success for public television. abc was the network that hit gold with "rich man, poor man." >> how do you even tell a story that isn't controlled by the clock? characters can grow and change and differ. >> i want to talk to you. >> about what? >> about making an honest man out of me. >> it's a subject i rarely discuss in the nude. >> what we saw in the '70s was big-event television, if it was done right and if it was

i'm alastair cook here with the ninth episode of "i, claudius."e it had nudity in it. i very much wanted to. >> rather than try to come up with a show that would run for years and years, it was this idea that here is a limited story, we're going to tell it in x number of episodes, and let's just do this one self-contained thing. >> we all did things during the reign of my mad brother that we might not otherwise have done. >> it looks cheap. it was the script and the performances that mattered. in other words, it could be good for you, but it was fun at the same time. the miniseries was such a huge success for public television. abc was the network that hit gold with "rich man, poor man." >> how do you even tell a story that isn't controlled by the clock? characters can grow and change and differ. >> i want to talk to you. >> about what? >> about making an honest man out of me. >> it's a subject i rarely discuss in the nude. >> what we saw in the '70s was big-event television, if it was done right and if it was compelling, the audience kept coming

well, if you dismantled the parliament and get rid of the current iraqi government you are kurdish alastair it hurts the rest of iraq. it's a very difficult situation to be in because of course you want to make sure they krg retains its positions that they fought hard for in this last government, the challenges of getting seats, the challenge of getting some ministries. that may go away but i think that's the price of this movement if it succeeds, like everyone on this panel has said this government can simply wait it out. your message could resonate with u.s. government officials that we should do it because it will disrupt the krg. i just think this is the cost of liberation and that it's just a different situation. >> i see no reason why any change in regime should adversely affect the kurds or the krg in the constitution, it's written that the kurds and the arabs are partners. i really don't see why the kurds are worried. certainly there may be changes in the constitution at the kurds don't like and they can object, but there is no obvious reason why improving the system should have an

we can discuss this further with alastair henderson, chief executive of the academy of medical royalhe election, i think that is really important. but what we have to have is a debate that is based on evidence and proposals which are deliverable. because our real concern is, if you make unrealistic promises and give people expectations that can‘t be delivered, that is in nobody‘s interest and actually it simply sets the nhs up to fail. so what exactly are the messages from politicians that you don‘t like? because you would think of the nhs is in a good position when the spotlight is on it and politicians are falling over themselves to say we will do the most for the nhs? as i said, i am delighted the nhs is the subject of debate. but it doesn‘t help us if the things that are said from politicians are things that the nhs itself can‘t actually do. thatjust sets up expectations that both the patients and clinicians can‘t... sorry to interrupt but can you give me an example? misses early stages of the election but there are a couple of examples we picked up, from the party conferences. o