straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. when chinese sovereignty was restored in hong kong, beijing s communist rulers saw the logic of maintaining the one country, two systems principle. so, how come some 26 years later, hong kong s autonomy looks more like a convenient fiction than a fact? my guest is regina ip, convenor of hong kong s executive council and leader of the new people s party. what does hong kong s fate tell us about beijing s worldview? regina ip in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to talk to you. let me ask you a very simple first question. 0k. since 2020, hong kong has been living with a very draconian national security law that was imposed from beijing. now, it seems that the hong kong government is determined to legislate an even tougher national security law during 202a. why? well, our national security law, mandated by beijing, is not draconian at all. it is far less comprehensive and sweeping than the nati
the defence secretary grant shapps said the royal navy is working on a new dragonfire laser weapon to complement its existing weaponry, the sea viper air defence system. that s to be upgraded with a new warhead and software to counter ballistic missile threats. here s grant shapps. we have, for example, the largest ships that we have ever put to sea in the aircraft carriers. i toss it off, i think, 13 frigates and destroyers which are under commission at the moment. we are modernising the navy, going throughjust massive through just massive capitalisation programme and just this morning, for example, i have been on x, twitter, yesterday, the results of a new weapon which is a laser weapon called dragonfire, capable of doing what those men and women on hms diamond have been doing, with the sea viper missile system, and doing it with a labour laser instead to bring down incoming so the technology is also moving on very fast, as well as the investment. economists have warned
regina ip in hong kong, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to talk to you. let me ask you a very simple first question. 0k. since 2020, hong kong has been living with a very draconian national security law that was imposed from beijing. now, it seems that the hong kong government is determined to legislate an even tougher national security law during 202a. why? well, our national security law, mandated by beijing, is not draconian at all. it is far less comprehensive and sweeping than the national security act that your parliament enacted last july, you know? you created a lot more new offences. our national security law enacted by beijing is nothing compared to what you have. what you have is far more stringent, comprehensive and draconian. well, i think a lot of it depends on the implementation, doesn t it? and when your territory uses the laws that you have through the national security legislation to lock up opposition politicians, pro democracy activists, to eliminate
now on bbc news, the travel show: city kids on the high seas. ready to tack in three, two, one. it makes you just feel so powerful and strong. but it also makes you feel free. it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. it was pretty rough conditions, like 20 knots, wind against tide. let s keep behind, let s keep behind. the weather was crazy. right? and is the ambulance on the way, is it? the coastguard apparently lost contact with it. so when my parents first found out i was sailing, they were like, what s sailing? you re just on a boat. but once i qualified and now i m a sailing instructor, they realise that i m actually getting somewhere. it s not what they expected. the main reason why i do this whole programme is that it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. i ll probably use the helm one. sometimes it s hard for me to articulate myself. and when you re a boat with different people, you have to kind of communicate. if not, it can g
now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. a conversation with, rather than a news like interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped the layers. my guest this week made the cover of time magazine when they profiled the first muslim leader of a western democracy. he is at the headline put it, the new face of scotland. the youngest leader this country has had in course of a century of having a devolved scottish government. but this, admits humza yousaf, here in glasgow, has been a difficult year for him. difficult for his party, too, don t buy a police investigation, criticised for failing to deliver, and divided about when independence might actually be possible. humza yousaf, first minister, thanks forjoining me. my pleasure. it has been quite a year! you re telling me! how much do you feel you have aged in that time? i think people can probably look at pictures of before i became first