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America is changing and so is the world.
But what's happening in America isn't just the cause of global upheaval.
It's also a symptom of disruption that's happening everywhere.
I'm Asma Khalid in Washington DC.
I'm Tristan Redman in London and this is The Global Story.
Every weekday, we'll bring you a story from this intersection, where the world and America meet.
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Hello, welcome to NewsHour.
It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service Studios in central London.
I'm Tim Franks.
We're beginning with a story which might seem small beers.
Who cares that much about one man's late night TV show in the US?
But which, at least in the telling of it,
in the United States is prompting splash headlines about a new era of censorship and about the very future of free speech in that noisiest and most powerful of democracies.
The briefest of recaps.
On Monday evening the TV chat show host Jimmy Kimmel mused in his opening monologue about whether the suspect in the Charlie Kirk killing might have been promoting a right-wing agenda.
On Wednesday, the US broadcast regulator, a Trump appointee,
suggested that TV stations which broadcast Kimmel might have licensing problems ahead.
The same day, Kimmel was pulled from air by the ABC network.