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Britain's BBC says Matt LeBlanc, former star of 1990s U.S. hit comedy "Friends", will join the new presenting line-up for its popular car show "Top Gear" when it returns in May. Holly Rubenstein reports.
The BBC has decided not to renew the contract of Jeremy Clarkson, the hugely-popular but divisive presenter of its motoring programme "Top Gear." As David Pollard reports the show is one of the broadcaster's biggest money makers.
Fans from around the world have backed a petition calling for British presenter Jeremy Clarkson to be reinstated to his job hosting the "Top Gear" motoring show. As Grace Pascoe reports, his suspension following a "fracas" with a producer leaves the BBC with a big, and possibly costly, dilemma.
The UN's top court orders Russia to suspend its invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv lodged an urgent case at the ICJ on February 27, saying that Russia had illegally justified its war by falsely alleging genocide in Ukraine's Donetsk and Lugansk regions. Ukraine has asked the court to take provisional measures ordering Russia to suspend the invasion, pending a full judgement on the matter that could take years. SOUNDBITE
Bogota, Jan 18 (EFE).- Hugo Chávez, Lula da Silva, Evo Morales, Daniel Ortega, Rafael Correa and Fidel Castro are leaders in the history of Latin America who have much in common. They have inspired —and still inspire— thousands of people on the continent. They led what was called the so-called Pink Tide, a historical moment at the beginning of the 21st century where the left ruled in part of Latin America and imposed a new path to the future, moving away from the long shadow of the United States. For Will Grant, a renowned BBC's correspondent in Latin America since 2007, those years, from the rise to power of Chavez in 1999 to the death of Castro in 2016, a new way of doing politics with a strong populist component emerged and its legacy has inspired to leaders as distant and different as Jair Bolsonaro or Donald Trump. This is how Grant reveals it in a voluminous and entertaining book, which has been published in the United Kingdom by the publisher "Head of Zeus" and entitled "Populista! The Rise of Latin America's Twenty-first Century Strongman".SOUNDBITES OF WILL GRANT, BBC'S CORRESPONDENT IN LATIN AMERICA.
There are rumors swirling that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is eying Chuck Schumer's senate seat. New York political insiders think she will try to primary Schumer in 2022. New York State's Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs has urged AOC not to primary Schumer. Jacobs told the NY Post AOC would "absolutely" lose if she challenged Schumer. When asked if she would run for Senate, she has previously said that she doesn't know.
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