Tom shakespeare, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, its great to be here. Great to have you. In your personal life and professional life everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. I just wonder whether you ever, for a moment, considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances such as accountancy, law, geology . There are short people, restricted growth people in all of those professions. There are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything. But i did not go that way. So as a social scientist i have always been interested in what ive experienced and disability has to be top of the list. Let me ask you about growing up. Your family has its own history which is important to talk about, i think. Your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a genetic mutation. My father. He was born in 1927. William shakespeare, unfortunate name. And his father, geoffrey, who was a Junior Minister in the liberal governmen
and exhausting 24-36 - on the ground. it s been a long and exhausting 24-36 hours i on the ground. it s been a long i and exhausting 24-36 hours now. and exhausting 24 36 hours now. i was out and about for the whole of yesterday in the middle of the storm and also trying to get a sense of the impact. i am thankful to report that the damage is such that is pretty minimal, 0kinawa is right in the middle of typhoon alley. it is built to sustain these powerful storms. thankfully there is very little building damage, but around the island as he mentioned and i saw with my own eyes as evidence, power outages across many areas. evidence, power outages across many arm- many areas. tell us exactly how this particular many areas. tell us exactly how this particular typhoon - this particular typhoon compares to others you have encountered? compares to others you have encountered? interesting, this one is certainly encountered? interesting, this one is certainly different. - encountered? int
at the start of an election season could have a political impact. arunoday mukharji, bbc news, nuh, haryana. one person has died and at least 25 people have been injured after a typhoon has battered the streets of japan s popular tourist destination 0kinawa. some areas have recorded wind gusts of nearly 200 kilometres per hour that si21i miles per hour and the airport in 0kinawa s capital city naha was entirely closed on wednesday for a second day. the slow moving typhoon khanun neared the country s southwestern islands on wednesday, leaving more than 200,000 people without electricity. lets go live to 0kinawa and speak to james reynolds a storm chaser and video producer who has specifically flown in to 0kinawa to get footage of the typhoon. tell footage of the typhoon. us how about the damage on tell us how about the damage is on the ground. it’s tell us how about the damage is on the ground. on the ground. it s been a long and exhausting on the ground. it s been a long
hundreds of thousands of people are without electricty and hundreds of flights into and out of okinawa have been cancelled. more than half a million people were evacuated from the 0kinawa region as the storm approached. the singer lizzo, her production company, and her dance captain, shirlene quigley, are being sued by three former dancers. they have been accused of sexual and racial harassment, disability discrimination, false imprisonment and creating a hostile work environment. two of the dancers were sacked. the third resigned over what she described as the appalling behaviour of her bosses. representatives for lizzo have been approached for comment. the ratings agency fitch has downgraded its credit rating for the us government, from its highest triple a score to aa+, citing america s erosion of governance and rising deficits. the white house has criticised the move.
counterpart, rishi sunak, will sign a new defence pact to deploy a uk carrier strike group to the indo pacific in 2025. shaimaa khalil reports from hiroshima. at 0kinawa s naha air base, these routine military exercises have become more urgent. japan s southwestern islands are on the front line of any potential conflict between taiwan and china, a threat that s becoming more real by the day for the self defence forces, or the sdf. captain ura and his colleagues know that any response would have to involve their american counterparts. 0kinawa is home to the biggest concentration of us military presence in japan. but the young pilot tells me, as china s capabilities increase, so too should his squadron s readiness to retaliate. translate: when i scramble. to intercept the planes and see chinese aircraft in front