everything's way up. like my gas, electric bills. just everything. eddie feels the biden administration is partly to blame, and its attacks on opponents are just deflection. i don't like the fact that instead of taking responsibility and saying, ok, maybe we came out of covid and that's what they say, and we were handed this. and they all do that. but take more of a responsibility. but they are going to blame trump. and then they tie in the maga. and the maga people, they demonise them so bad, but what the maga people are, and i know a lot of them, and i'm a union guy. i used to be in the union, i did roadwork 18 years. they are your so—called what they call maga, your constructor, your construction workers, your electricians, your carpenters. there's maga. so i don't like when they label it that way.

and they dehumanise people like that. across the road, a very different tune. siren records is the local mecca for those searching for rare vinyl. ask them about politics in here and manager heidi kaye will tell you that america failed to deal properly with the january 6th riots and that trump can't be allowed a comeback. we don't need more division. we just need to get on with the business of the country. and i'm done, personally, with the novelty of trump, and that's putting it lightly. one concern is that trump is going to win and this country will be under a virtual dictatorship for at least the next four years. the other concern is biden will win and there will be another revolt, some sort of january 6th part two.

of course, donald trump has always been a politically divisive figure, and with the trial under way at the moment, that's just become accentuated. and in a town like doylestown, you really feel that. as if to emphasise the rifts, doylestown�*s cinema is showing the new film civil war, an action movie charting a dystopian america nearfuture. and actual civil war? the price of a previous era's political failure and of subsequent wars is remembered on the battlefield of gettysburg. there, the ground fought over in 1863 is studded with monuments to those who died in that enormously costly conflict. so how should we assess the talk of a new civil war or fundamental changes to america's political system?

well, it's clearly early on in this campaign, but one thing is clear, that both sides will mobilise their supporters, their base, in order to try and win it by dramatising the stakes in that way. in this spot, abraham lincoln gave the gettysburg address, insisting that the sacrifice of the civil war be remembered and america's freedoms preserved. those most critical of trump argue that his popular appeal makes his candidacy a vehicle for those who would undermine the country's modern democracy. i wouldn't call him a dupe but i would call him a vehicle. and that's the way they talk about him. they know that he is selfish. even his strong supporters know that he's a narcissist etc. but they do think that he's leading something in america that's meaningful, and they're right. i mean, he is leading

a powerful antiliberal force, a force that is fundamentally opposed to the founders�* system, and he has taken leadership of that group. and those people do have very extensive plans for how they want to implement that. it's not unusual for those covering american elections to cast them as an historical turning point. but it's no exaggeration in this case. donald trump currently dominates the electoral high ground, leaving most polls. win or lose, his candidacy is redefining us politics. that film was produced by max deveson, shot and edited by liam weir. and the second part of mark's look at the us election, focusing onjoe biden, will be on newsnight later this week. that's all from us tonight. kirsty�*s here tomorrow. goodnight.

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airports across the uk are suffering a nationwide failure of passport e—gate systems. passengers have been reporting long queues to get to passport control — at airports including manchester, gatwick and heathrow. the home office said it was working to resolve the issue. jo mcmanus is a passenger traveling from australia to london — she spoke to us earlier from the queue at heathrow airport.

this crowd, i reckon that it goes back at least a kilometre and it's quadruple and they've been walking around with cans of water for everybody but everyone�*s been patient and i will see, you cannot really get an idea because it is wall—to—wall people. someone said it was a system outage nationwide ended sitting on the airports we have been here for a 45 minutes, we cannot get to passport and all the people at passport control and it is chaotic. let's cross to the newsroom in london and speak to our correspondent chi chi izundu. chi chi, what more can you tell us? we have been told specifically what theissueis we have been told specifically what the issue is or what caused it but we know it as taking de gates across

all major airports in the uk has from edinboro to newcastle, manchester and heathrow and gatwick and stansted and bristol airport, belfast, they all now cannot use the gates and one that you can use with facial recognition as you get to passport control rather than speaking to a border force officer. what are force officers or having to check peoples identifications manually which is leading to the massive queues that were mentioned. they do apologise for any inconvenience caused and they are working hard to resolve it and like heathrow, manchester airport is trying to give people water to try to help alleviate the waiting and they say they will waive car parking fines and any excess car parking finds that people might incur as a result find having to wait in the

queue but as far as we know, there are still outages a border force e—gates across the airports and potentially also some rail ports have e—gates as well. potentially also some rail ports have e-gates as well.— potentially also some rail ports have e-gates as well. thank you for keein: have e-gates as well. thank you for keeping us — have e-gates as well. thank you for keeping us up-to-date. _ it's been revealed that prince harry will not meet king charles during his visit to the uk this week. a spokesman for the duke of sussex said a meeting between father and son wasn't possible because of the king's busy schedule. harry is in london to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the invictus games which he set up to help rehabilitate wounded or sick service personnel. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. ninety people are now known to have died in floods that have devastated the brazilian state of rio grande do sul. dozens of people are missing and more than two hundred thousand have been forced to leave their homes. many areas of the state

capital, porto alegre, are still flooded and more than a million people in the metropolitan area haven't had access to clean water for days. chinese president xijinping has arrived in serbia, the second stop on his european tour after a state visit to france. xi will hold talks with president aleksandar vucic in serbia, where china has invested heavily to expand its economic footprint. earlier in france, president macron pressed beijing not to support russia's war against ukraine and to accept fairer trade. the eurovision song contest, the world's biggest music competition, has kicked off in the swedish city of malmo. fifteeen countries have performed in the first semifinal. and strobing lights. croatia, ukraine, finland are among the first ten countries to have qualified for the grand final on saturday. and irland's entry, bambie thug

has become the first and ireland's entry, bambie thug has become the first irish eurovision song contest finalist since 2018. there'll be another semifinal on thursday, where 16 more countries will compete. but the contest is taking place amid protests against the gaza war. former swedish eurovision contestant eric saade was not competing and had the keffiyeh symbol, commonly used by people who want to show their support for palestinians, on his arm as he performed his 2011 entry popular. let's speak to eurovision expert and journalist callum rowe, who's in malmo for us. first, just quickly, put in context the significance of the eurovision song contest? good evening and first of all, the most and biggest watched non—sporting event watched on the planet, to 50 million people are just across europe but worldwide

watch it in from the 70 years now, and as longevity for a reason people across europe in the world love it and it's a chance for people to come together and celebrate music and share culture. it is not the biggest eventin share culture. it is not the biggest event in the world for nothing. does this year feel different to others because the wars in gaza and ukraine? the singing competiion hasn't been able to stay clear of politics, has it? eurovision always tends to get it so tied up in politics. at best, he tries not to be the fact that we are talking about the contentious inclusion of israel shows that headline just will not go away for contest organisers, i am seeing more and more palestinian flags and that is one thing for sure. but i do not feel unsafe. there were some protests last week and there's been some protests this weekend and more

protest band leader in the week by the authorities can be on top of in the authorities can be on top of in the organisers, things seem to be going off without a hitch so far. tell us about the first semifinal thatis tell us about the first semifinal that is taken place was yellow we are just an hour after the first live semifinals and rear of one here and it did have music being the centre of attention for two hours this evening and islands. nowhere in the expectations _ this evening and islands. nowhere in the expectations of _ this evening and islands. nowhere in the expectations of fans _ this evening and islands. nowhere in the expectations of fans and - this evening and islands. nowhere in the expectations of fans and experts | the expectations of fans and experts and journalists and then we had the first rehearsal yesterday and suddenly, they became the favourites to win the whole thing. there have beenin to win the whole thing. there have been in the final since 2013 comes this remarkable for ireland. it's good to see everyone celebrating

this in the fan favourite and the noises tied the arena tonight rumbles unlike anything —— or unlike anything i've ever heard. we know half of the acts that will be in the final? who are the favourtes or acts to look out for? we've already talked about them but he'd be singing a song called hurricane in the semifinal she will be near the end of the show and we'll see whether this will be like and they may be some protests inside the arena in the form of bluing does not any noise at all from some fans or the big favourites closing the show on thursday semifinal is a young man from the netherlands. who young man from the netherlands. who do ou think young man from the netherlands. who do you think your favourite is to win? �* ., . . do you think your favourite is to win? �* ., .. ., do you think your favourite is to win? ., ., win? algorithmic a case for about four or five _ win? algorithmic a case for about four or five of _ win? algorithmic a case for about four or five of them _ win? algorithmic a case for about four or five of them because - win? algorithmic a case for about four or five of them because it's l win? algorithmic a case for about | four or five of them because it's so open this year, usually we know who's going to win in invesco for

one country, it is switzerland for me. callum rowe, journalist in malmo that's all for now — stay with bbc news. hello. the weather has been gradually drying up over the past 2a hours or so, and we've got some more dry, settled weather on the cards through much of the week ahead, really. high pressure is going to be in charge over the next few days. but for the rest of the week, we will at times see weather fronts just trying to topple across the north of that high pressure. could bring a little bit of rain at times across parts of scotland in particular, perhaps the north of northern ireland. but it'll be warming up here. mostly dry elsewhere, though, with some spells of sunshine on the cards. so we are in for a relatively quiet

few days of weather. we're likely to start wednesday morning with quite a bit of mist and fog around, especially so for parts of eastern england, also perhaps wales and the south—west of england. could be some misty patches elsewhere. for most, they'll tend to lift and clear, so it'll brighten up — some sunny spells, particularly for england and wales. just the odd isolated shower. more rain moving into the north west of scotland later on in the afternoon. so temperatures in the north—west, under the cloud, about 13 there for stornoway, but up to around about 21 for the likes of birmingham and london too. so there's that wet weather through wednesday evening, northern ireland, northern and western scotland seeing some outbreaks of rain. further south, most places staying dry, but there should be some mist and some fog that's going to be forming again into the early hours of thursday morning, but certainly mild — many places staying in double figures overnight. so more of the same on thursday, high pressure still in charge. so a lot of dry weather, mist clearing away gradually. lots of sunshine, i think, for england and wales by this stage. there just could be the odd isolated shower. again, a little bit more cloud across the north of scotland. temperatures in lerwick only around 11 degrees, but for the bulk of the uk, we're looking at around

about 18 to 22 degrees. and that warming trend will continue as we head into friday, too. so, high pressure still very much in charge. i think by friday, we'll have less in the way of rain and cloud across the north of scotland, and quite widely across the uk, in those spells of sunshine, temperatures will be above 20 degrees. we could see 23 or even 2a down towards the south—east. again, a little bit cooler, especially across the north of scotland and the northern isles in particular. now, heading into the weekend, it looks like high pressure will be sitting out towards the east there. this weather front will just try and nudge in from the west by the time we get to sunday. but saturday, certainly looking dry, fine, pretty warm for all of us. just that chance of a few showers moving into the west as we head through sunday. bye for now.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines at the top of the hour, as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. all of us are heavily influenced by the social, cultural and economic environment in which we are raised. as ideas, trends and

technologies change, so too do generational traits. and right now there is intense focus on what is happening to generations of young people closer in age to my kids, than to me. are young adults inclined to be open—minded or closed? are children's minds being rewired by the ubiquitous smartphone? well, my guest is the renowned social psychologistjonathan haidt. are we losing sight of what freedom and curiosity really mean?

jonathan haidt, welcome to hardtalk.