i just knew coming up in the 80s and 90s in newjersey. i was the son of a black man from the segregated south and a white mother from out west in california. and the culture that i grew up in was one in which the logic of what we called the one drop rule prevailed which was essentially if you have any black ancestry at all, then you are black. the white kids i grew up around in newjersey did not think of me as white and the black kids i grew up around as white and the black kids i grew up around were as white and the black kids i grew up around were accustomed to accepting any manner of different skin tones and hair textures under the umbrella of blackness so my sense of self was rather complicated until the age of about 30 when i had moved to paris —— rather uncomplicated. i married a blonde hair, blue—eyed white french who resembled my mother in her physical characteristics, actually, in terms of blonde hair and blue eyes, and i realised if we were to have children, they very mel —— they very well may not physically present as black. th

the white kids i grew up around in newjersey didn't think of me as white and the black kids i grew up accepting any manner of different skin tones and hair textures under the umbrella of blackness, so my sense of self was rather uncomplicated until the age of about 30, when i had moved to paris, married a blonde haired, blue—eyed white frenchwoman — who resembled my mother in her physical characteristics, actually, in terms of blonde hair and blue eyes — and i realised that if we were to have children, that they very well may not physically present as black. thomas, i'm going to stop you because this is such a fascinating story and i want to go through piece by piece. so if i take you back and rewind until you're a kid growing up in newjersey, i believe, you say that you could identify with the black kids around you in the neighbourhood but what you missed out in that story is what your parents actually told you, because you have your black father, your white mother — what do they tell you you were as you were growing up, or what are they sort of encourage you to think? sure. so, you

joining me live from newjersey is alan sepinwall, chief television critic for rolling stone magazine.engers is one that she is probably most remembered by. what was it that made that character so special? emma peel was basically a superhero before there were many superheroes on television. she was an amateur who fell into espionage and she knew martial a rts espionage and she knew martial arts and more fabulous clothing and had scorching chemistry who played —— with the character who played her partner. she came in and replaced honour blackman who was already beloved for having played inaudible and an unenviable task and no—one ever talked about cathy gale, they talk about cathy gale, they talk about emma peel because that is how unbelievably charismatic and how real and exciting and sexy diana rigg was in that part. you mentioned her clothing because it was not just her acting that stuck in peoples minds she really was a style icon, wasn't she? she was, they started putting her in these leather catsuit and they quickly realised she had her own look and they put her in this oat coutur

and long island and connecticut and new jersey, at westchester and long island and connecticut and newjersey and as we all know, new york was the epicentre for the coronavirus. right now, our numbers are coronavirus. right now, our numbers a re low coronavirus. right now, our numbers are low 1%. we are in conversation with governor andrew cuomo as well as mayor andrew de blasio. we are hoping that our opening date, they are going to be able to let us open up are going to be able to let us open up at 50% capacity. good luck and thank you for talking to us and we appreciate you letting us talk to you this early. a growing insurgency has been ravaging large areas of northern beak —— mozambique. both the islamist insurgents and the mozambican army have been accused of atrocities. in one of the latest videos from the region a group of armed men can be seen murdering a naked woman but, where exactly did it happen and who are they? the bbc and other researchers have been trying to find out. you might find some parts of andrew harding's report distressing. video surfaces on social media and it shows

at what happened in manhattan, ta ke what happened in manhattan, take a look at what happened in newjersey, that means that is seven days after the election, in theory, should have been announced. ok. major state all run by democrats. crosstalk. president trump, you are going to be able to continue. you have been charging for months that mail in balloting is going to be a disaster. you say it is rigged, going to lead to fraud but in 2018 in the last mid—term election, 81 million people voted mail in voting. that was a quarter, more than a quarter of all the voters that year, cast their ballots by mail. now that millions of mail in ballots have gone out, what are you going to do about it and are you counting on the supreme court, including justice barrett, to settle any dispute? i think barrett, to settle any dispute? ithink i'm barrett, to settle any dispute? i think i'm counting on them to look at the ballots, definitely. i hope we don't need them in terms of the election itself, but for the ballots, i think so because what's happening is incredible. ijust heard, i read today that at leas