of wheat can t be exported. russia says any problems have been created by western sanctions. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are ros altmann, former pensions minister, and natalie fahy, senior editor at the nottingham post, the derby telegraph and the lincolnshire echo. good evening to you both. we ll talk in just a second. business fears rail strikes cost as prospect grows of more walk outs that s on the front of the financial times. the telegraph repeats the prime ministers claim. the prime minister s claim. unions harming those they are meant to help, reads their headline. planes, trains, automobiles all come to a halt, and the mirror says on the front page, the transport secretary still refuses to act. on the front of the i tomorrow, the government plans to tear up the limits on city bosses pay. pm inflames rail dispute with strike breaker threat, reports the guardian. strikes are a £1 billion lockdo
to a western alliance reinvigorated by that ukraine war, are china s vulnerabilities suddenly in sharperfocus? henry wang, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. it s a pleasure to have you on our show. i m mindful that you were the founder, the creator of a think tank, the center for china and globalization. you said you wanted it to be a bridge between east and west. right now, it seems many of those bridges are being burned. would you agree? well, i think it s. yeah, absolutely. we see things have changed a lot in the last five to six years, basically. and a lot of dialogue has been cut off. there s a lot of communications cut off. and most, of course, on top of that, the covid 19 pandemic has also isolated many countries. and also given the, you know, the trade war, the sanctions, the. ..ideological and tax code decoupling and all those things add up. i think that we really need to strengthen the dialogue, strengthen the communication and bridge building. absolutely. i ho
they ve been asked to denounce russia s military aggression. when does solidarity turn into censorship? my guess is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. it is our the loser when politics takes centre stage? my guest is semyon bychkov. semyon bychkov, a very warm welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all the great musical mic stressors, you are peripatetic, your critics are all around the world, you are constantly travelling put up is there one place you can point to and say, that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist?. and an artist?. no, i don t think s0- and an artist?. no, i don t think so. maybe and an artist?. no, i don t think so. maybe because l and an artist?. no, i don t l think so. maybe because my destiny made it so that i was born in russia. i lived there 22 years before emigrating to america. . ., , ., . , america. leningrad was a city, when it was america. leningrad was a city, when it was called americ
on the baltic coast. after the floods, the struggle to reach millions of people affected by the rising waters in bangladesh and north east india. and, after meeting preisdent zelensky in ukraine, the hollywood actor ben stiller tells the bbc he praises the spirit of the people. these are just people like you and i who have been caught in a circumstance totally beyond their control of. nobody wants to flee from their home. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. three us republican state officials have been describing the direct pressure they were put under by donald trump and his team to overturn the 2020 presidential election result. in an, at times, emotional testimony to the congressional committee, they described threats of violence directed at them from trump supporters when they refused to bow to the pressure. we have various groups come by, and they have had video panel trucks with videos of me, proclaiming
can panic, but if you re vaccinated, no real reason to be concerned. let s look at the telegraph. not a huge story. rupert murdoch. divorcing after six years. now 91 and he had apparently, when they got married, said he was the happiest man in the world. i m wondering if there s a prenup there. i’m man in the world. i m wondering if there s a prenup there. there s a prenup there. i m not aeoin to there s a prenup there. i m not going to talk there s a prenup there. i m not going to talk about there s a prenup there. i m not going to talk about my - there s a prenup there. i m not i going to talk about my employer there s a prenup there. i m not - going to talk about my employer for obvious going to talk about my employer for obvious reasons! i know nothing about obvious reasons! i know nothing about them! look, i think the private about them! look, i think the private life of people is, i dared to discuss, private life of people is, i dared to discuss, i think if