the white kids i grew up around in newjersey didn't think of me as white and the black kids i grew upng 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 know, my

its founder joins us now from newjersey. thank you very much. for being on the programme.self? i get to play. i don't want to show off but i play a lot. how much does one cost? these are not cheap to buy for your home, are they? a base model starts at 1600 and $50 and the collector edition that are sold out was $12,000 and we sold our 500 of them in about two hours when they went on sale. did you anticipate this kind of demand? when we, in march this year when we were, many countries around the world were going into lockdown, did you see this coming? i had a little experience with it back in 2001 after 9/11 happened, people we re after 9/11 happened, people were cocooning at home and i had a feeling that many people staying home would still want to have fun. they are not travelling or spending money on vacations or going out to dinner so they are buying a big lots of fun and getting together and playing it and having a great time. itjust goes to show that this old technology, really, when you compare it to virtual reality and gaming, is still hugely popular. well, this is

the country that since the holiday have recorded record daily infection rates, from california to newjerseynd the country‘s top infectious lead expert, dr anthony fauci, has warned people who may feel they dodged a bullet, he says his concern is just as severe in the build—up to christmas, and maybe more so as the christmas holiday is longer. before we go, the winners of one of the world‘s biggest lotteries — spain‘s el gordo, or the fat 0ne — have been announced. the prize is nearly $2.9 billion. only a few minutes into the draw, a ball worth 60,000 euros was called. the largest prize, nearly $4 million, was called for lucky numbers 7, 2, 8 and 9. school children call out the winning numbers as a tradition. participants often team up with friends or family to buy series of tickets in the hope of sharing large winnings. if you‘re watching on bbc world news in spain, fingers crossed it was your lucky day. a reminder of our top story. nearly 3000 lorries are backed up at dover in the south east of england awaiting agreement between the uk and france on reopening the borderforfreight. france h

former republican newjersey governor chris christie has expressed regret about his own approach to theed symptoms. he now admits he should have kept his mask on when he attended a white house event earlier this year — a gathering which turned out to be a superspreader event. this message isn't for everyone. it's for all those people who refuse to wear a mask. you know, lying in isolation in icu for seven days, i thought about how wrong i was to remove my mask at the white house. today, i think about how wrong it is to let mask wearing divide us, especially as we now know you're twice as likely to get covid—19 if you don't wear a mask — because if you don't do the right thing, we could all end up on the wrong side of history. let's talk now to angela kender, who's been campaigning for mask mandates since she lost her mother to covid in june. thank you so much forjoining us, angela, and we are so sorry for your loss. it must be so difficult, especially now with the holidays just around the corner, but when you hear chris christie saying that, where a mask, do you issue at her that earlie