well, my guest today is the director general of the wto, ngozi okonjo iweala. will rising geopolitical tensions lead to the weaponisation of trade? ngozi okonjo iweala, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. now, you are one of the world s key advocates of ever freer trade, more globalisation. what s it like to be doing your job when the political tide across the world is running against you? the wto s purpose, the world trade organization, is. its purpose is to enhance living standards, to help create employment and to support sustainable development. there could be nothing more worthy than that. so, it s supposed to deliver for people. and that s what i want people to know about it, therefore. nobody could quarrel with those objectives and that sentiment, but the truth is you are a membership organisation with 160 plus members. you have clearly key members like the united states and china, and you can only work if there is an element of trust, of co operation, of a desire
and could one of britain s richest men become the new owner of manchester united football team 7 live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the program. we begin in china where an unwelcome milestone has been reached. the country s population fell for the first time since the 1960s, and the national birthrate also fell to the lowest it s been since data collection began, in 1949. the announcement on tuesday comes alongside one of china s worst economic performances in almost half a century. the labour force is shrinking, as the country s retired population keeps growing. this also means india is expected to overtake china as the world s most populous nation later this year. let s take a look at some of the numbers. china s population last year was more than 1.4 billion people, according to official data. that s a decrease of 850,000 people from 2021. as for the national birth rate, it sank to just 6.77 births per 1,000 people. comp
videotape of a toddler with a gun. an indiana man who is believed to be his father now in police custody as a result. so you ll see the little boy in this video here, you see him waving that gun around, even pulling the trigger at one point. it happened saturday and was shown live as part of the ride along series on patrol live. this is it. of the oh, man, wow. this is the child with the loaded weapon pulling the trigger right there. yeah. police in beech grove, indiana were responding to a neighbor s call and saw the young boy playing with the weapon outside wearing a pull-up. jean casarez joining with more. what happened here on saturday? the neighbors called the police because they saw this happening with their own eyes. he even went to one neighbor s door and knocked on it and say look what i have so the police arrived and the neighbors were talking amongst themselves. we want you to take a listen first of all to these neighbors. i opened the door he wen
i don t use that word lightly. that s exactly what the man is accused of doing. terrorizing. they say the republican candidate was so angry over his defeat and claims the election was rigged against him that he hired four men to shoot at the homes of officials, even pulling the trigger himself during one of the crimes. we have one of the officials who was targeted joining us in a moment. she s going to tell us what the bullets hit and how close they came to her and her grandchildren. it is scary. what makes this our top story today is that it s not just about an alleged one off crazy person. it s not isolated. this terror is part of a growing problem. just ask nancy pelosi or pramila jayapal or the one in five adults who said in a survey they would be willing to condone acts of political violence. what is motivating all of these people and what is law enforcement doing about the threats before they turn violent? joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, ga
commitment to the well being of the people. you can see more on this story on the documentary north korea: the insiders in the uk on the bbc iplayer and on bbc news this weekend. beijing s city government has announced that its health healthcare system will cover the costof a number of of fertility treatments to try to boost china s birth rate. 16 procedures including ivf will be covered by people s health insurance. china s population fell this year for the first time in six decades and the number of babies born dropped to a record low. let s take a look at some of the stories in the headlines in the uk. the families of the three people killed in the nottingham attacks have addressed a crowd of thousands at a vigil in the city centre. 19 year old students grace 0 malley kumar and barnaby webber, as well as 65 year old ian coates, were stabbed to death in tuesday s attacks.