the guardian spoke to these people and the people in turn transform the guardian into an institution through which the colored people themselves with trotter as their coach defying racial justice on their own often radical terms . wrote trotter used the guardian as a grassroots organizing tool long before the term reached social movement consciousness. this political organization created a movement called political independence that affected boston's political landscape and eventually inspired what white political commentatorscalled the new england example . black voters exercising their dissatisfaction with the national gop by voting for democrats on a populist and local level. additionally trotters insistence that black radicals interrogate rather than accept as inevitable the existing american party system provides a blueprint or 21st-century activists who argue that our two party political system is fundamentally ill-equipped to address the economic and social needs of the people and as one of the first black editors to organize black clinical nonpartisanship as a sustainable and

let's start with the guardian, because the us- start with the guardian, because the us— iran situationn't it? john, hundreds of british troops on standby in iran crisis. does the guardian tell us what they would be used for? it is as much for protecting the british troops in terms of the most likely backlash is going to be targeted strikes, whether it is in the green zone, where the brits are working alongside the americans. we were just positing the thought that iran will feel obliged that it has to strike in some way, it has to do something, otherwise it would lose face with its effective number two having been a subject to a targeted assassination by the americans. so the iranians must do something, but what can they do, and the iranian backed militias do that won't trigger an even further retaliation from donald trump, who seems to be chomping at the bit? and the fear is that third country troops, the brits, the canadians, the germans, various countries that still have troops doing specific expert work in iraq and iran, that they are particularly vulnerable. it is worth remembering

you see the word accident in the guardian. if it was not passengers that so i don't know if accident is particularly well— placed. 79 of accident is particularly well—placed. 79 of the people that died were iranian. behind it the largest nationality was canadian and that's whyjustin trudeau has stepped to the forefront of how the world is interpreting what's happening here and the demand for justice following on. the backdrop of course is the tension that has been there for sometime now between united states and iran. the tension that was massively excluded by donald trump's actions just a few days ago killing the iranian general and then course the de—escalation when everybody held their breath waiting to see what the reaction would be, and in fact although it was explosive it was quite tame as far as there being no casualties. then of course this. which i think it probably will we don't know. it probably was an accident, a very, very damaging accident. we can hear all the echoes of de—escalation, this is opposite of de—escal

let's have a look at this quite striking story from the front page of the guardian. f a masonic geoff pazo is‘s phone, this exclusive investigation by the guardian suggests that his phone was hacked by saudi arabia. whyjeff bezos, justin pickett for us. this actually happened back 2018 and i don't think it is just a warning for a few you want to be friends with because apparently they were having a friendly chat with the crown prince of arabia and geoff pazo ‘s. they were having a friendly chap on what's up and then a video was sent on the what's up message which was somehow infected, this is what the story says and they were then able to tap into the conversations of what bezos was conversing using his phone with others. a bit alarming but it seems to me that there is something far more political under here. the guardian later goes on in this article to say that bezos, who bought the washington post some yea rs bought the washington post some years ago and still owns the washington post of course the khashogi journalist was reporting for the washington post and they

let's begin with the guardian and this extraordinary and devastating photograph on the front. town. the thing that tells you it is australia is that silhouette of the kangaroo. you just do not know how this country will get on top of this. no, it's the worst fires they have ever had. the sheer volume it cove rs have ever had. the sheer volume it covers is incredible. covering some we re covers is incredible. covering some were almost the size of england at the moment. it is absolutely devastating. there are multiple people dead, thousands homeless, and it is so out of control that, for instance, there are lightning strikes that are causing even more fires. because it is tinder dry. australia have had a drought for three years and the fires are so enormous they can be seen thousands of miles away. in the south of new zealand they can see the smoke and the fires have turned the sky orange at this point. and obviously australians are up in arms but the prime ministerjust doesn't seem to be taking it seriously at all. this is scott morrison who keeps saying things like previous ge

of the guardian two weeks before we are due to leave the european union.ernational policing, security, at with international policing, security, et cetera, intelligence sharing. this is not a great story to be happening, because we are going to be relying partly on the goodwill of the eu to come up with some of these agreements and sign up to these agreements. it is not a good thing to happen two weeks before we leave the eu. speaking of two weeks before we leave the eu, will the bongs of big bend ring out on 31 january at 11pm? —— big ben. borisjohnson was talking about this in his interview. he said britons may be able to bunker bob for a big ben bong. he has called for a public fundraising campaign —— bung a bob. and it will cost £500,000. and mps have said that taxpayers shouldn't bankroll this and there is call for a crowdsourcing campaign for them to ring at 11 p.m.. would you support that? i think it is fine, ring at 11 p.m.. would you support that? ithink it is fine, i am ring at 11 p.m.. would you support that? i think it is fine, i am not sure if

there is a picture on the front the guardian of afamily picture on the front the guardian of a family. you can go but your wife stays. this is putting a very human face on this. it's a man who can come back with his daughter but his chinese wife has got to stay behind in china. this is one of the complications. british family in china but because the mother has a chinese passport, and not recognising that she is a british citizen, she is banned by all the same rules over those who are chinese citizens and that is that she is supposed to stay there while they are dealing with this virus. because the flight issues, it's not a choice they had to make in that sense but there was a choice which is, does a husband and daughterfly back without her and they leave their relative there or do they all try and stay there. it's difficult situation. it's difficult to come back two weeks in quarantine stop those coming back and facing two weeks in quarantine, it won't be a nice experience but the general public will think you've got to be better safe than sorry but this kind of decision is clearly q

sources are telling the guardian.saying at this point that the saudi tsar they have nothing to do with the hacking of jeff bezos‘s phone. kate talk is that the story they're stopping with this is a remarkable story in which it is alleged at the crown prince of saudi arabia may have played an active and direct role in the hacking ofjeff active and direct role in the hacking of jeff bezos‘s active and direct role in the hacking ofjeff bezos‘s phone. active and direct role in the hacking of jeff bezos's phone. jeff bezos being the founder of amazon 110w bezos being the founder of amazon now one owner of the washington post and billionaire in the us, a very influential man and man will have an interesting phone to say the least, i don't get would just be photos of cats and dogs probably, some very interesting information on their not just connected to one of america's online tech giants but also a very prominent newspaper. sources, journalists, etc. if this turns to be true, the most shocking thing is the one taking of sa

the guardian calls our exit the "biggest gamble in a generation."ancial times looks at the focus now on trade talks for the uk. on that them, the times claims the uk will next week call for a ca nada—style trade deal with brussels. the independent is already looking at whether we will one day re—join the eu. the prime minister is heralding a "new dawn" for britain — in the metro. and the mirror reports on the britons returning to the uk from wuhan in china. let's have a look at at least some of those over the next ten minutes or $0. of those over the next ten minutes or so. maia, take of those over the next ten minutes orso. maia, take us of those over the next ten minutes or so. maia, take us to the front of the telegraph. big chair of the prime minister. this is not an end up prime minister. this is not an end up at the beginning. this is really a theme, as you say, across the front pages. this telegraph from pages slightly more upbeat which is really focused on boris johnson's speech that will be released tomorrow night at 11pm. speech that will

let's bring in the guardian while we are still chatting about it. step back as senior royals. to pick up on something you were saying about how the red tops will as you put a have ago the red tops will as you put a have a go with them, it is interesting that on their own website, they buy an have a different relations with the media but they don't want to deal with traditional royal correspondence they want to deal with the grassroots and get their own message out there. when henry mentioned about this is been brewing for some time, if you remember they had quite a successful visit to south africa. and then, right at the end, they lost it. they went out on their own but with that statement really condemning the press corps. they read the limit they call it journalistic pulling down there. there is a way in which stories are shared across the media by the one pull. controlling the access. repetition. they will withdraw from that and come out from that and say we will not do this conventionally, we will not do this conventionally, we will not do this

so let's turn to our reviews and i think we are going to start with the guardian and the prophets of off this time. donald trump has called for the prophets of doom which seems to be a thinly veiled reference to greta thunberg, held up as a saint of the anti—climate change movement. and it is an interesting moment, because we are definitely getting close to the moment when catastrophic climate change is hard to prevent or even reverse. we talked about attempts to keep climate change to under 1.5 degrees of temperature rising, now it looks like it will be incredibly difficult to do that. i take not greta thunberg's words, but the words of the climate scientists who have been talking at the world economic forum and beyond. the challenges, we should be celebrating the progress that has been made at davos and will be made this year in glasgow. because we are making changes, both driven by the science of green energy, carbon capture and storage, and a huge debate about engineering solutions and what they have announced at davos. and the danger is climate activists, and greta thunberg has

the guardian leading with the idea that boris johnson has averted a full—blown confrontation.ohnson has made to critics of huawei, saying they will not be involved in the core of 5g, it will be restricted to infrastructure such as masters, their market share will be capped at 35%. so he has promised to try and work with different companies in the future, but it should be said this does not appease everyone. there are those on the right of his party who argue, if huawei is being lit as high—res, white we taking any risk at all? they say luca china, authoritarian leadership, they have abolished term limits, and to them this seems like dangerous territory to be getting into. —— they say look at china. i think it would be dangerous for any prime minister, the reality is if you want the uk to advise in superfast broadband, we are a light guard in that world, trailing companies that countries such as others in europe, you cannot do without huawei. which is interesting, that the chinese are in the lead. the chinese have subsidised this heavily, so they are offering something at a pri

perilous times ahead for the bbc is the headline in the guardian. nounced he will be leaving and they are trying to find his successor but whoever succeeded him in the role will have two take on this challenge of adjusting our long—established main stream broadcaster for long—established main stream broadcasterfor an area long—established main stream broadcaster for an area where people are streaming and not watching scheduled television. the last --in the last year people who are paid the last year people who are paid the fee declined. and of what some mps are saying is that time to change the way that people like consuming media. when should look at how they are consumed with revenue and a standby model for their programming. people say the bbc is institution, it shapes the public opinion globally on britain and it helps to do that in the bbc will be no longer without it. at a license, divided by 12, some different to what one might pay for netflix. the government, some are saying is more political than it's making it to be. and it's bruised mps ge

they are taking a global perspective here in the guardian. , of course, because that is where it started to come and i think in the earlier session i said there was something like 20 million people involved. it's now up to 36 million. so, since —— over the last few hours, there is no an unprecedented locked onto him as they were saying and i3 locked onto him as they were saying and 13 cities covering at least 36 million people, and of course, lockdown means that you are stuck in these cities, and there are quite a few people who are stuck or stranded because they are trying to get away from the chinese lunar new year. —— four. china has taken precautions very quickly to try to stamp this thing down, and i think it does strike me that that is absolutely the right thing to do. they are actually also building a new report of this. racing against the clock to build a hospital to deal with it. the clock to build a hospital to dealwith it. ten the clock to build a hospital to deal with it. ten days, the clock to build a hospital to dealwith it. ten

this is an article from the guardian saying that the bureau of meteorology is saying heavy rain could cause damage and the concern is that that will afft the water quality that is coming in to sydney. we will have further coverage of the bushfdees and the thtorms in australia in later addition of "outside source." see you then. announcer: funding for this presentation the freeman foundation; y and peter blum-kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for s;america's neglected ne and byibutions to this pbs station from viewers le you.

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the guardian splashes on news that increasing numbers of schools that make schools are using isolationunish disruptive pupils. they warn that it could be damaging for children's mental health. the daily mirror ‘s front pages an exclusive interview with the footballing hero who says that he has turned his life around thanks to anti— booze pellets. and will dig (gunshot) on brexit day? the daily express reports that tory mps are demanding a commons vote to decide whether it chimes onjanuary 30 one. —— january whether it chimes onjanuary 30 one. ——january 31. whether it chimes onjanuary 30 one. —— january 31. let's start with a message from the chancellor. my own paper tomorrow he has done a strongly worded and frank interview with us on what business should expect from the upcoming trade negotiations after brexit. that is afterjanuary 3i negotiations after brexit. that is afterjanuary 31 when we get into the difficult conversation that we need to have with brussels over what our relationship and trading partnership will be. he has been clear and he said there will not be alignment and we

let's go back to the guardian. he front page with a warning to ba fta. the front page with a warning to bafta. what is he saying? he is saying that bafta is at risk of irrelevance because i gather that the latest bafta list has no acting nominees at all from ethnic minorities and i think there has not beena minorities and i think there has not been a woman director nominated for seven years. when i looked at the background to this story, it came up on google with exactly the same story from four or five years ago, criticism of bafta for its white and male dominated list. it appears they have learned nothing. i gather they have learned nothing. i gather they have changed their membership with more ethnic minority and female members, but they have not come up with a different list. the contrast is with the brits in music which is dominated by ethnic minority artist and there does not seem to be anything similar in the acting world and steve mcqueen says that is where the irrelevance lies. someone argues maybe that is

this is quite an interesting story in the guardian from the uk.o be the first uk city to trail universal basic income. what do they mean by that? a really interesting angle. this is every single person in this city, regardless of the income level will get a fixed income on a monthly basis, between £50 and £100. it was pa rt basis, between £50 and £100. it was part of the labour party manifesto in the recent british general election and it was something the shadow chancellor was really championing. interestingly, though, this has been backed by conservative members of the council as well. hull is quite a forwardthinking city. it has got a bit of a funny reputation but in 2017 it was uk city of culture. it led on that an amazing year, i'd just wonder if this pilot scheme could work, because in finland where it was trailed, it was very successful. crucially, they weren't any more employable, if the jobs under there people aren't employable. i think there has to be a halfway house here, because employment and productivity are called bits of the econom

the guardian follows up it's story yesterday about the jeff bezos phone—hacking allegations.ies a very smiley prince charles and greta thunberg in davos. the times covers the trade tensions between the uk and united states — over the british government's new tax plans for tech firms. they have another great picture of terryjones. the sun claims the deadly coronavirus may have already spread to the uk. they call it a "snake bug". the daily mail says british officials are "facing questions"over their response to the virus. the express reports borisjohnson hinted at a budget tax cut during an online question—and—answer session. the mirror devotes much of its front page to terryjones, and a tribute by his friend michael palin. as you can see, a as you can see, a range as you can see, a range of stories. powerful pictures on this occasion. we will start with the times. their lead stories about trouble between the uk and the us. there is trouble affecting the special relationship. borisjohnson affecting the special relationship. boris johnson wants to affecting the special relation

what's move on to the grenfell inquiry and the guardian now. nvolved. tell us more about this. quite complicated but new information brought in, who was an engineer who was brought in a charity who had links to the firm that was responsive for the cladding. is not a direct link of such but obviously if you were one of the family members, that's unacceptable. and they are really upset about it. the family spent the night and they made it clear that they think there should be more independence. the prime minister has released a statement saying the premise or reaffirm his commitment to get to the truth of what happen, learn lessons to deliverjustice to the victims stomach and look ahead to the next stage. it will be an issue. coming on the back of all the mistakes after mistakes the government has made in this and the families coming out and saying they haven't heard enough and... the way they were treated by the council, when they raise concerns initially, people who have been re—house, massive parity for the government which is not good. onto a

the guardian says a banker implicated in the embezzlement and money—laundering case against africa'shest woman, isabel dos santos, has been found dead in lisbon. nuno ribeiro da cunha managed the account of oil firm sonangol, formerly chaired by ms dos santos, at the small portuguese lender eurobic. and finally, does worrying too much really turn your hair white? in the independent, scientists are claiming new evidence has been discovered showing how acute stress can lead to hair going grey prematurely. the discovery was made after experiments studying the effects of stress on mice showed how hair can turn grey at an accelerated rate. it is hard to imagine what george clooney has got to worry about. i think he has got it made, has he not? with me isjoel kibazo, partner atjk associates, and a former director of communications at africa development bank. let's start with the daily mail and the coronavirus here. big headline, you know, big picture of a lady here in glasgow, actually, protecting herself with a face here, and the words taking their chances on the streets of written. let's

this on the front page of the guardian. it needs to cut £80 million in costs. having to rethink how it does news in order to save money. the interesting thing about this is there is the license fee in the uk that you have to buy. in the statistics show that very few people under the age of 35 and also people down on the income scale have a lot of access to bbc news service, so it is about realigning it, perhaps, with demand. and the plan is to get more digital stuff there and also to try and get more into the audience of the younger people. the under 35 ‘s. absolutely. i don't know how many are about this time in the morning in uk. but thank you, jane. great to have you on the briefing. and thank you for your company. do remember that your company. do remember that you can get in touch with us, hashtag bbc the briefing. we love to hear your comments and whatever you're up to today i hope you have a good one. eye will see you soon. —— eye will see you soon. hello there. we started off this week with a wintry flavour, cold for all of us. but wednesday brought a d

stay with the guardian, the picture there with the queen and the duke touch of sussex at different times. top royals scramble to forage plan for meghan and harry. this took buckingham palace by surprise. the queen, from what we understand is saying we need to sort this and quickly. that was a lot of cove rage of this and quickly. that was a lot of coverage of this story, but the news about the queen not knowing the announcement from pentz harry and meghan meant deep papers cannot give the full run that they wanted to. across all of them i think tomorrow we will see a good ten or 15 pages devoted to the story, and the guardianjust having devoted to the story, and the guardian just having a devoted to the story, and the guardianjust having a side bar here talking about the need to fix it quickly. if brexit was the story of 2019, i think what's happening to the royal family will be the story of 2020, and i'm always looking for the positive, maybe that gives us a re st the positive, maybe that gives us a rest from some of the tribalism around brexit, a chance to breathe and come back togethe

let us turn to the front page of the guardian. ry on the streets of tehran, the capital. the second day of this tragedy. —— the 176 lives. the protests in iran have swung back where they were before the assassination of qasem soleimani la st assassination of qasem soleimani last week where the rainy people briefly came together against the common enemy of america who carried out the assassination —— iranian people. some really vivid stories here about the anger of the crowd andl here about the anger of the crowd and i read out this crowd earlier, one of the chance, they tell us the enemy is america but it is right here. iran isn't going to be happy about this. it is showing a chink within their regime. that is absolutely right. it comes after a spate of protests last year as sanctions levied by the us after withdrawing from the iran nuclear deal really hit the economy hard. this is yet the latest outpouring of discontent by the population. it seems a pretty febrile moment in iran actually. it speaks to the problem with modern techn

in the guardian business pages, kristalina georgieva, the head of the international monetary fund, has said raising income tax on the wealthy will help close the growing gap between rich and poor and can be done without harming growth. with me is dr stephanie hare who's an independent analyst covering politics and economics. bbc online talking about the iran attack. all this has been emerging overnight. swift response from iran. this is in response to the american attack on the iranian general qasem soleimani last week and we have been waiting for what iran's response will be, they launched some missile attacks on two us bases in iraq. we have no word from the pentagon on whether or not there were casualties. donald trump is expected to make a statement later today, but he did tweet, saying that the united states has the best military in the world and all is well. so, watch twitter! but more seriously, what we are looking for now from a business perspective at least as the market reaction, the effect on oil, so we are seeing a the price of oil. the price of gold has gone up to a high s

in the guardian business pages, kristalina georgieva, the head of the international monetary fund, has

ghaith abdul-ahad, correspondent for the guardian newspaper. trita parsi is the executive vice president of the new thinktank, the quincy institute. his most recent book is titled "losing an enemy: obama, iran, and the triumph of diplomacy." he's also the author of "a single roll of the dice: obama's diplomacy with iran." welcome back to democracy now! your response to the assassination of suleimani? formerink a couple of obama officials on tv yesterday put it best when they said this is an act of war. it is an act of war that took place without any consultation with congress, any approval from congress, any authorization from congress. assassinating to see the last -- to see the last couple of days, pompeo has been spending a lot of time talking to the foreieign ministers and the leaders of saudi arabia, the uae, and israel, and not until today did he start making phone calls to the europeans and others. this is someththing that is goig to be a major point of escalation, decision that i think ultimately has made america less ratherer than more

the guardian calls our exit the biggest gamble in a generation.cial times looks at the new focus on trade talks for the uk. on that theme, the times claims the uk will next week call for a ca nada—style trade deal with brussels. it's a "yes, we did it" on the express. and the mirror reports on the britons returning to the uk from wuhan in china. john, we are starting with your paper, the daily mail. by this time tomorrow we leave the eu. it is finally happening after three and a half years. it has been quite a journey to get here. obviously we had theresa may trying. we had boris johnson. it has been acrimonious. times we thought we were heading for ano times we thought we were heading for a no dear brexit, we thought we would have cues of lorries in dover and a massive disaster but we are living with a deal tomorrow and this is an upbeat front page saying it is a new don. it is upbeat. when you look at the spread, the papers doing exactly what you would imagine. a reminder is actually how many of these front pages are positive about leaving the e

shocking, and credit to the guardian for putting it on the front page.arlier, the world leaders, the richest and most powerful are coming into davos right now and hopefully they will see this and other things like this, and put it firmly on their agenda because there is a huge, huge need for a coordinated, multinational strategy, notjust talk, not just summits multinational strategy, notjust talk, notjust summits but climate change and the way to broach it. and thatis change and the way to broach it. and that is not being done at the moment? ask any australians about climate change, i don't think they will have the same view as the current president of the united states. or the prime minister scott morrison who many people would say is in denial. he started to change his mind a little, isn't that right? we will see. let'sjust end on an upbeat note, shall me, because we have the mirror, and they've got brad pitt and jennifer aniston at that awards ceremony. the picture, every gen and brad van wanted to see briefly together. they are not reunited but pictu

there is evidence and papers of the guardian is saying that it was a cover—up of the home 0ffice realisednd it failed to informed them of their citizens getting convicted of crimes in the uk. some dangerous criminals because it was rated by the fallout and word that will look embarrassing but actually, not owning up to it and the strata come up like this on the front page of the guardian is more embarrassing still. as charles and said, two weeks until brexit and there are so many areas where we will be relying on european goodwill to strike agreements in important areas like security for example and you just really don't want to see this, people from brussels are saying this went out to be some sort of inquiry into this. it is really not an ideal story to break two weeks before brexit, are going to have to strike agreements and all of these things. we have ended now, calling for an immediate ban on trophy hunting. that is the campaign. yes, the whole idea of treasure hunting, the environment will be taking centre stage and people are a lot more socially aware of this new think it is total

that is the story we will begin with and how it is festival featured in the guardian, caroline. ws on trump to justify the qasem soleimani killing and congress wants a nswe i’s. soleimani killing and congress wants answers. yes, donald trump has made this executive order and we have accou nts this executive order and we have accounts from washington wet nancy pelosi is leading the charge to explain ask to explain why donald trump made this decision. she is joining her voice to those questioning the legality of it. in this country, we have got keir starmer, the now labour leader candidate as of today, questioning the legality of it in a way that our own government is at the moment shying away from. instead, they are talking about seemingly putting their power behind that of the us. obviously, it is a diplomatic tightrope, as much as it is military. the fact that donald trump has got to explain himself, i don't know how concerned are years with all of that. it is done, and i guess reprisals will be what they concentrate on, rather than looking back and explaining themselves. we are

with me are the editor of politicshome, kevin schofield and the deputy political editor of the guardianandrew is on the front of a number of them the guardian reports he's been accused of providing ‘zero cooperation‘ to us prosecutors and their the inquiry into jeffrey epstein. the telegraph reports that the fbi's requests to interview the prince over his friendship with the sex offender has been met with a "wall of silence". this is despite, as the i point out on its front page, the duke of york publicly promising to ‘help any appropriate law enforcement agency with their investigations, if required'. the daily mail has the headline "fbi: why won't andrew speak to us?", next to a picture of the duchess of cambridge at an auschwitz memorial event, who they describe as "a royal who does know how to behave". and the sun have a missing poster on their front page, asking ‘have you seen this prince?" meanwhile, the times says it has seen a brussels diplomatic document which reveals that the eu wants its judges to be able to rule on any post—brexit agreement with the uk. let's start with the

a very different take here on the guardian, a picture ofa here on the guardian, a picture of a sandcastleaditional picture, calling this the biggest gamble in a generation. of course, today will be a celebration for some and commiseration for others and commiseration for others and a resignation for lots of people that we perhaps need to get on with it now. this has been really interesting across the papers this morning, the different takes that there are and it does represent the uk, different attitudes there are in society at the moment. there's lots of unknowns, that is definite as far as the economic state of the future is concerned, but what's interesting is the level of the pound as a fear gauge as to where we are with brexit is concerned can be considered, and it is holding onto recent gains, £1.31 versus the dollar, so gains, £1.31 versus the dollar, so staying up at a level of not positivity but at least we aren't falling out the bottom. yes, absolutely, silver linings, fiona! speaking of which, and all things light, this is interesting from the national, the paper that supports

and the view from iran we get in the guardian, iran vows severe revenge on the us. thousands of people have taken to the streets. they are carrying a picture of general qasem soleimani, giving a sense of what a powerful and very popular figure giving a sense of what a powerful and very popularfigure it giving a sense of what a powerful and very popular figure it appears he was in iran. well, was he? he was popular in terms of being a key member of a regime and the fact that he was seen as an aggressive, successful kind of military operator, yes, but also for the moderniser is in iran, no, he was seen as moderniser is in iran, no, he was seen as upholding the nation back and was thwarting attempts to bring democracy to the country. so nobody should mourn him. his hands were dipped ina should mourn him. his hands were dipped in a loss of blood in a lot of parts in the middle east. he was kind of a key ally of bashar al—assad in syria and instrumental in the carnage that took place in aleppo. there are limitations to how much we should mourn him. what i think we should

that's right, some papers including the guardian are reporting it is unlikely he will be forced to actually to the us and give evidence and it is not quite clear why not. but he is in a very sticky situation. even if he is not forced to go over there it looks extremely bad from a publicity point of view he is refusing to help, and as kevin said, he indicated publicly he would do if he was required to but there was a little caveat, he said he would do if he was advised by his lawyers was the right thing to do and it seems at the moment his lawyers might be advising him it might be better to stay silent. but imean, might be better to stay silent. but i mean, whether he, he is not the sovereign, so whether he has any immunity if the us decided actually to go ahead and try and pursue this, because all the victims in this case wa nt a nswe rs because all the victims in this case want answers from anyone that can help. absolutely, and there would be an absolute outcry if he were to try to claim some sort of immunity to avoid going over there, so yes, it will be interesting to see how it develops.

that is their front page and the guardian, a different story. and washington post jeff bezos had his phone hacked into germanic picture above the spread of the coronavirus as well. —— the dramatic picture. who wants to start us dramatic picture. who wants to start us off? kate, why don't you take us away here with the prophets of doom line which is down on the bottom of the guardian. many won't want to admit to it but donald trump's keynote day at mac one will be what was the most anticipated event of the conference. it was two years ago when he spoke then and the us president and what if has to say medicine the rest of the rowboat when it is donald trump you never know what you are going to get. highly anticipated, he stuck to script most of the time, spent a lot of time praising what he would consider his contributions to the united states of america, a thriving economy and so forth. he focused on climate change, the focus on davos is the climate emergency andy warned not to listen to the prophets of doom and it is thought to be not so veiled

the front page of the guardian and this ukrainian jet, what's happened front page of the guardian ands ukrainianjet, what's happened here. while it isn't unprecedented for air defence systems in conflict zones to shoot down airliners, it would be an extraordinary error, would it not? is the world really ready to hear that it could have just been an accident? the last time this happened it was over the ukraine when mh17 got shot down. of course, that was denied as well, but it seems that was the same sort of issue. i think the world probably isn't ready to believe that it was an accidentjust because the coincidence is so great. that this was on the same evening that ballistic missiles were fired by the iranians at the americans in response to the qasem soleimani assassination and it seems to be just too much of a coincidence that a plane should have been... should have come down in the circumstances that it did without any kind of warning at all. there's nothing from the cockpit, there is no warning that's been given, nothing to air traffic control. something catastrophic has clearly h

an amazing picture on the guardian. —— look at austria. parts of new south wales, austria. , austria says residents who hope for rain after the bushfires and drought and said they got hit by a massive dust storm. —— australia. australia has been through something in the last three months. it is a shocking picture, great to put on the front page and i hope that as all the world leaders and businessmen and leading lights together it demos this week hope they will see these pictures and talk about notjust the economy but what this means for the global economy as economy as well as the planet because this is turning into... this isn‘tjust about the environment, it‘s but every single aspect of public policy, health, business. it affects everything and it really does need to be tackled by eve ryo ne it really does need to be tackled by everyone collectively. australia, these dramatic pictures we have seen have crystallised over people‘s thinking about climate. you hope thatis thinking about climate. you hope that is the case but even in one of the other papers which were not highl

we have seen some he dire warnings about the climate emergency and rightly so and the guardian is takingng here on temperatures in the oceans which is an easy thing to measure. and it's very significant because the oceans themselves absorb about 90% of the greenhouse gases that have been emitted. so, you can look at the way in which the oceans are heating up and apparently the last five years, the last ten years are the top ten on record for year on year increases in the temperature of the oceans which is having clearly a dramatic effect. 50, it's another serious warning that people need to pay attention to, and it's coming from very respected academics in the united states, so let's hope that's president trump is reading this as closely as we are. i am told you have ten seconds and i don't think thatis have ten seconds and i don't think that is long enough for us and for you to give your views on the climate crisis for some so, hold those thoughts because that's it for the papers this hour. lance price and dia chakravarty will be back at 2330 for another look at the papers. —— half past

ghaith abdul-ahad is a correspondent for the guardian newspaper. ly come back from break, we will hear the response from congress member ao alexandria ocasio-cortez. we will hear from a man who is trying to stop war with iranan o feels he was instrumental in leading to the war in iraq, the chief of staff of colin powell, colonel lawrence wilkerson. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, i'm amy goodman. over the weekend, i caught up with congressmember alexandria ocasio-cortez. she had come to the showing of a film that has just been shortlisted for the oscar which chronicled her race, her unlikely victory in queens and the bronx to become a congressmember from new york. i asked her for her response e o the assassinion of the iraninian commander qassim suleimani. >> we have been looking at how w'reoingng t respond bause it is no enougto just say n wain i ira need toe tactical about how wean a actelyy r resisfurtrthe escation on an alady unprecedented lel l of cacalati andnd aggressn by the president, thefofore, the unit statate h

i say i used to write for the guardian.identifying myself, and i tell her that i am interested in doing a story on life in hollywood, that i have been contacting people, whether it's catering staff, actors, actresses, executives, and i'm doing a broad—strokes piece on life in the industry now, compared to when people started out. but let's be clear. you weren't doing that. i wasn't doing that, no. you were wanting information, and you were successful. correct. and you were successful because when you spoke to her, you were asking her lots of questions, during which she told you about her allegation against harvey weinstein. yes, and if you listen to the tape, it's 75 minutes long. i obviously don't bring up weinstein at all, because then you're going to tip someone off. ijust say, tell me your life and times. and, to be honest, we got on very well. if you listen to the tape, there's a natural back—and—forth. at some point she brings up her allegations against weinstein. ijust listen to it like i'm listening to everything el

starting to call the guardian angels as they did in the '70s, '80s, and early '90s. we shouldn't have to go back to that period of time. we became such a better city. now we're beginning to slip back into the abyss. >> and security was tight at metlife stadium in new jersey yesterday. that's where at least 90,000 jews gathered to celebrate a religious event. those who attended said they will not bow in the face of hate. >> i think it's very important to demonstrate that we're not afraid of doing something like this on this kind of scale that's showing who we are, showing the things that we care about, celebrating the things that we care about in a very large circle. >> meanwhile, the family of a man stabbed at a hanukkah celebration says he may have permanent brain damage. the 71-year-old was attacked at a rabbi's home last saturday just north of new york city. the suspect has pleaded not guilty. >>> southeast australia is reeling from the worst bush fires the country has seen in decades. yesterday thousands of residents and tourists rushed to seek refuge on this bea

let's have a look at the guardian and the times.nds over budget according —— due to tory failures. what this report says is that the politicians involved simply misunderstood or did not understand the complexity or the financial implication of it all and blames them for the situation we are in 110w. them for the situation we are in now. it is late, very late and will cost billions of pounds if it goes ahead. we read that dominic cummings, the prime minister ‘s special adviser, and andrew gilligan, formerly of this parish, are among those strongly opposing the project. well if mr cummings is opposing it one has to say on the basis of what has happened in the past the prospects are not very good. the times says it is a decade later than do not know how much it will cost, supposedly 13.7 billion but revised up and up and up. will cost, supposedly 13.7 billion but revised up and up and upm could be one of the early sticking points for borisjohnson could be one of the early sticking points for boris johnson because you have a group of co

scobee at the new school for public engagement, in the nation institute, nation books and magazine, the guardian, all sort of really worked to make tonight possible. we obviously have a special thank you both to all of you who came out tonight and all of the people watching this, the event is being live-streamed and also being taped by booktv for booktv and free speech tv. so i would ask to everybody to check their cellphones just to make sure that your cellphone is off. and also just so you know its being filmed tonight. we will be taking questions later, and passing around note cards, and then reading the questions from up here so they can also be part of the livestream and the booktv and there will be a book-signing afterwardded. hay market books has a table and gary will by signing books. so please join is. this weekend i went to d.c. and had a couple of extra hour size went to she the king memorial. how many people have seen it? it's exceedingly depressing. i'm sure he monument included alcoves to honor other civil rights martyr its but those were scrapped. king towers over us, the sculptur

so they could find your byline in places like the guardian that also online. correct.e commodities market, where you had been wiretapped because there was an energy market manipulation, due whether whistleblower in that. so i was wearing a wire for the regulators. so in effect that was my debut at actually getting close to someone without them knowing there's an ulterior motive, which is to extract the end information on behalf of the regulators, in that case, or harvey weinstein in this. 0k, regulators, in that case, or harvey weinstein in this. ok, so for example, someone weinstein in this. ok, so for example, someone who is well known in connection with the harvey weinstein story is the actress rose mcgowan. you contacted her saying you are a journalist. well, i am a journalist. 0k, you are a journalist. well, i am a journalist. ok, but you were not interested in her for journalist. ok, but you were not interested in herfor a story journalist. ok, but you were not interested in her for a story you we re interested in her for a story you were writing, were you? well,