Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me again, stephen. Well, its a pleasure to have you back in the studio. We talked last soon after you fled from hong kong. Youve been living a life in exile for pretty much three years now. But your situation has changed recently because the chinese authorities or the hong kong authorities, i should say have put a bounty on your head of1 million hong kong dollars. What difference has that made . Well, its definitely a step up of the Intimidation Tactics that the chinese and Hong Kong Government has been using. For me, ive been wanted on several other charges, but putting a bounty on someone s head is completely new. Like, when i google and search on the list of bounties from the governments list, its actually quite strange because you saw people who are wanted under homicide or any other serious crimes, they were wanted with 300,000 hong kong dollars and we were, like, triple of their bounties. But the charges, of course, ar
Increase in Co2 Concentrations in the atmosphere. The link between c02 and rising temperatures is well established and this year Global Temperatures got an extra boost thanks to el nino, which brings warmer water to the surface of parts of the tropical pacific. That explains why february was 1. 77 degrees warmer than preindustrial temperatures, and why global average temperatures hit a record 1. 55 degrees above preindustrial levels over the last 12 months. It means we have temporarily at least breached the 1. 5 degrees threshold the world agreed to try and limit Temperature Rise to, to avoid the worst impacts of Climate Change. February 2024 was the warmest february on record globally, with an average temperature of 13. 54 degrees, above the 1991 2020 temperature. While this is remarkable, because, for instance, it is a tenth of a degree warmer than the warmest previous february, which was 2016, its not really surprising, because this has been the el nino year, where temperatures tend
How to make repression work . Nathan law, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me again, stephen. Well, its a pleasure to have you back in the studio. We talked last soon after you fled from hong kong. Youve been living a life in exile for pretty much three years now. But your situation has changed recently because the chinese authorities or the hong kong authorities, i should say have put a bounty on your head of1 million hong kong dollars. What difference has that made . Well, its definitely a step up of the Intimidation Tactics that the chinese and Hong Kong Government has been using. For me, ive been wanted on several other charges, but putting a bounty on someones head is completely new. Like, when i google and search on the list of bounties from the governments list, its actually quite strange because you saw people who are wanted under homicide or any other serious crimes, they were wanted with 300,000 hong kong dollars and we were, like, triple of their bounties. B
For joining me. Im Rahel Solomon Fredricka Whitfield has the day we begin this hour with a biden trump rematch in full swing, fresh off his state of the Union Address, President Biden is now on his way to the Battleground State Of Georgia and thats exactly where Presumptive Republican nominee donald trump will be today their dueling Campaign Events will be happening in just a few hours biden is holding an event in atlanta and trump is holding a rally in rome. Thats located in the northwest part of the State Of Georgia is a key Battleground State that biden won in 2020 by less than a percentage point the only swing state among primary contests happening on to say, we do have a team of correspondents covering todays dueling Campaign Events. Steve contorno is with the trump campaign, but lets actually begin with camila to shallow, she is in wilmington, delaware. Thats where the president is about to head to georgia. Camila good to see you. So what can we expect . What messages . Do we thi
Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of