With a full round up of all the days news but first of all hard talk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk from singapore. Im stephen sackur. This citystate is one of the remarkable economic Success Stories of the last 50 years. If you want to find a place that has ridden the wave of globalization, well, this is it. But storm clouds are gathering over singapore. President trump is challenging assumptions about global free trade, Security Tensions are rising across east asia. I have an exclusive interview today with the Prime Minister of singapore, lee hsien loong. Is singapore feeling vulnerable . Theme music plays. Prime minister lee hsien loong, welcome to hardtalk. Lets start with the International Political climate. Donald trump is now president of the United States. He talks about protectionism, he talks about ripping up trade deals that have been bad for america. How dangerous is this new Political Climate for singapore . We are watching it very carefully. We of all countries
Of the remarkable economic Success Stories of the last 50 years. If you want to find a place that has ridden the wave of globalization, well, this is it. But storm clouds are gathering over singapore. President trump is challenging assumptions about global free trade, Security Tensions are rising across east asia. I have an exclusive interview today with the Prime Minister of singapore, lee hsien loong. Is singapore feeling vulnerable . Prime minister lee hsien loong, welcome to hardtalk. Lets start with the International Political climate. Donald trump is now president of the United States. He talks about protectionism, he talks about ripping up trade deals that have been bad for america. How dangerous is this new Political Climate for singapore . We are watching it very carefully. We of all countries depend most heavily on trade, our Foreign Trade is 3. 5 times our gdp probably the highest in the world. We have free Trade Agreements with many countries, including the United States. W
Of the remarkable economic Success Stories of the last 50 years. If you want to find a place that has ridden the wave of globalization, well, this is it. But storm clouds are gathering over singapore. President trump is challenging assumptions about global free trade, Security Tensions are rising across east asia. I have an exclusive interview today with the Prime Minister of singapore, lee hsien loong. Is singapore feeling vulnerable . Prime minister lee hsien loong, welcome to hardtalk. Lets start with the International Political climate. Donald trump is now president of the United States. He talks about protectionism, he talks about ripping up trade deals that have been bad for america. How dangerous is this new Political Climate for singapore . We are watching it very carefully. We of all countries depend most heavily on trade, our Foreign Trade is 3. 5 times our gdp probably the highest in the world. We have free Trade Agreements with many countries, including the United States. W
Stars dorondo dale, and in the face of all that lying the president took it to a new level this week. Just remember what youre seeing and what youre reading is not whats happening. Well, this is a president who doesnt hesitate to tell you that whatiosee with your own eyes and hear with your own ears is not the truth. The sheer number of lies can be overwhelming, and the danger is well become numb to all of this, that well tell ourselves its just trump being trump. But theres a larger question here. Can the truth survive President Trump . As a new York Real Estate developer he built his business on his own blatant lies claiming trump tower has 68 floors when the truth is easy to see, it has 58. When according to a forbes
reporter his real worth was closer to 5 billion and this is man who built his campaign on lies starting with racist birther lie starting with president barack obama was not born in this country, a lie he still reportedly clings to in private. He wasnt born in this count
The former head of Wellington’s public transport department sent alarmed text messages to Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown’s office describing how “incredulous” he.