the entire region of luhansk. kyiv denies carrying out a series of attacks across the russian border, which have reportedly left at least four dead. and a warning in the uk that the number of people being admitted to hospital with covid is expected to rise again. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore and 1am in the danish capital, copenhagen where police say three people have been killed in a shooting at a shopping centre. there are also many injured. the mayor of copenhagen says it s a very serious situation, and one person, a danish man, has been arrested and charged with manslaughter. eyewitnesses have spoken of chaotic scenes after the man
is singapore s political and economic balancing act sustainable in a world of rising tensions? minister k shanmugam in singapore, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, mr sackur. let me ask you about singapore s model. it was sort of set up by lee kuan yew. it s been in effect for well over six decades. it combines economic openness with a real sense of political control and social control. do you think that
she will feel safer or freer to report from any of these countries compared to singapore? i dismiss reporters without borders, completely nonsensical. let s quickly, because we don t have much time left, move on to the geopolitical situation you find yourselves in in singapore. you ve traditionally tried to maintain very good relations with the great powers in your region. that is, of course, china, but also the united states. that s becoming increasingly difficult as hostility grows between washington and beijing. you re going to have to pick sides. which side will you pick? no, we will not pick sides. i think, you know, for us, it s important that we deal and navigate in the environment. but picking sides is not the right way to go. i mean, the us and china. ..everyone can see the tensions are deep. 0n the side of the us, there is a bipartisan thinking, that consensus that china poses
or malay people to rent in certain neighbourhoods. when it comes to the workplace, often, jobs are advertised which say mandarin essential when it is quite plain that mandarin actually isn t essential, but it s a way of ensuring that ethnic chinese people get the job. that happens. you live in singapore. you know it happens. let me explain to you. let me tell you, first of all, no one will deny that racism exists in singapore, just like it exists in most other societies which are multiracial. the question is how systemic it is and how much does it happen? and if you want an extended discussion on that, i m happy to do it. but my own experience as a minority in singapore, and the experience of many others is, on the whole, compared with many other societies, it s much less in singapore. and, you know, this thing about housing is interesting. 93% of singaporeans live in their own housing. so, what you re talking about
intellectually disabled. and last year, when his final appeal was dismissed, at the same time, in october 2021, the us executed two men whose lawyers argued that they were similarly intellectually disabled. they had similar iqs, same range. somewhere between 69. 64 and 72, 63 and 95. the courts, the us supreme court in one instance, upheld the executions. the men knew what they were doing for those reasons. now i don t see the bbc. the thing is, it s about reputation. it s about your presentation of singapore to the world, if i may say so. the un human rights experts on the death penalty in may 2022, the un panel said that the executions of persons with intellectual disabilities for drugs related offences represent a violation of the right to life and the right to be free from torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. they amount to, quote, unlawful killings. is that the way you want to present singapore to the world? mr sackur, this depends on whether you want to accept