saidi came and then they said they would do the reform and get the money and then that did not happen they said they would do the reform and get the money and then that did not happen and now they are saying i have to get the imf and if you do not, you do not get one diem. this is the right approach to organisations in lebanon. we have to get imf and we have to get it quickly. we have lost already a lot of time. and if you do not, it could be the end of your country? economically, yes. socially, it will be catastrophic, people will go into hunger and so on. yes, we have to have it, and we have to have it very quickly. people, politicians have to understand that. they have two stop thinking the way they are thinking before, acting the way they were acting before. again, if our government is responsible, if i am responsible, we have to be taken to court and judged. minister, raoul nehme, thank you very much indeed forjoining me from beirut. thank you. hello. wednesday brought a real mishmash of weather across the british isles, a lot of heat and humidity again and yet, in the saint ives

the final was done just for ever but no editorial comment and she called me, she called my wife and saidi said i have one change you must make. i dislike she said you called my husband and alcoholic and she was a heavy drinker but not an alcoholic. she didn't like that term. i rode very welthey rode very wt about him in my book and so it was one of those things when you get to know somebody this disadvantage is writing about a living person as a biographer because they feel like you don't want to hurt them but in other cases, this experience really uplifted my life. i have three kids that are from 11, 13, 14-year-old they'll study rosa parks in school and i get to go to the schools have told them that you can make the difference. stand up for what you believe in, stand up against injustice. great people can be every day peopleeverydaypeople, and i this important to remember that. it doesn't have to be presidenty and world leaders. it can be us. it can be you and mrs. parks is a great vehicle for that lesson. [applause] >> that is a great story. you know, as i think about the impact on you

some kind of edifice to me ithink in plan some kind of edifice to me i think in dalyan village, i saidi rather have it at the beach if they do one, and could they please, you know, not make it to be grand. you riding a turtle or anything like that? (laughs). that is not allowed. well actually... now that you mention it that would not displease me. in turkey with june now, in turkey withjune now, 97 yea rs old in turkey withjune now, 97 years old and still going strong. this has to be one of the most creative and unconventional people we have ever had on the show. back in 2016 rajan visited palm springs and created a man —— met a 2016 rajan visited palm springs and created a man —— meta man who could create artworks out of anything. welcome to the wacky world of kenny ingram junior. an artist whose work is now luring sightseers away from frank sinatra's old house around the corner to see this fantastic all creation instead. ——fantastical. i have been working on my art for at least four decades that i have been living and breathing. i was born an artist. on these four acres of land kenny

i saidi asked me my opinion of that.described as the highest number in the world. i said because you haven't had a chance to conduct a survey in north korea. if you do that, maybe north korea would be number one. so what that really —— that really gives you a clear picture. interview with north korean people about their government, that the naive mistake the western world, free world and bbc should not make. let me ask you about hong kong, because i know is a freedom and democracy activists, you watch the situation there very closely. the imposition of the new national security law we've seen, a number of arrest including high—profile media figures since the imposition of that national security law. fear is that there any space left for dissent and for a pro—democracy activism in hong kong. we spoke recently on hardtalk to nathan law, the leader of the movement was gone into exile. do you believe that the pro—democracy activists inside hong kong are now going to face as much repression as in the rest of china? yes. yes.

he once saidi symbol of a new india.g truck. well, he was quite the driver. one and only ms dhoni. plenty more on the bbc news website. that is offered now. thank you for watching. —— that is all for now. hello there. we still have a lot of humid air across the uk, the same air mass that brought us the hot and sunny weather. the big difference now is that the extensive low cloud. because of the humidity, still mist and fog and also bits of drizzle dotted around. you see a pretty extensive cloud but that is continuing to work its way northwestward and we also saw saturday some heavy thunderstorms, worked into parts of essex and in writtle brought a0 mm of rain in the space ofjust an hour and through the 2a hours we have 57 mm and that is over a month, so the majority of that brought flooding around the writtle area, including around the chelmsford area. looking at the weather picture, we see that excessive cloud and it is marching its way northward. murky around the coast and hills with fog and quite an extensive drizzle

brad, you saidy, two of the most beautiful words in the english language. two words i have not heard in quite a while. and that his post covid, we've got to hope, right? brad: look, i think this is a time to think not only about what we need to do now, but what we want to do next. and what we should be doing is not just rebuilding, but reimagining the kind of country in which we want to live. the day will come when this is behind us. none of us knows for certain when the day will arrive, but the sooner we start envisioning what we want to build, the more we can harness the free market, call on small businesses, give them what they need to succeed. i think the better off we will be as a nation. mike: brad, you are not in charlotte, but you have an exciting project going on there. you have a smart city initiative going on. one of the big intentions of this investment was to help close the digital divide. brad: yes, charlotte is an important city for microsoft. north carolina is an important state for as as a company. we have thousands of employees who work in

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he saidi i would return perfectly normal. he said i see about you know five or six cases a year.t the end. ifound it, you know, sort of... you realise how much people have suffered for years and years and years before they come and see you. hello. i have just and years before they come and see you. hello. i havejust seen the doctor and he thinks it is something called vagus nerve that is not working properly. 0k. and he thinks that there is a way that he can get me better. michael, by the time you have seen some of these people, they we re really have seen some of these people, they were really sick, won't they, and what a relief for them. absolutely. it is also when you have been ill that long, quite often even those who are close to you wonder whether you are who are close to you wonder whether you a re really who are close to you wonder whether you are really ill or making it up or whether it is some underlying psychiatric condition and again, thatis psychiatric condition and again, that is a huge relief to know that these symptoms are real because with a skin condition it is