avoid escalation of the incident. because it is something that the world doesn t want. i something that the world doesn t want. doesn t want. i was ust speaking i doesn t want. i was ust speaking to fl doesn t want. i was ust speaking to our doesn t want. i was just | speaking to our previous doesn t want. i was just - speaking to our previous guest by the visit by the us secretary of state which has been cancelled. what do you think china will feel about that? will they be disappointed? that? will they be disauointed? a ., , disappointed? actually, there are two sides disappointed? actually, there are two sides to disappointed? actually, there are two sides to the disappointed? actually, there are two sides to the story, . are two sides to the story, based on what i have monitored. the chinese side said there is no such thing as a visit, really, and they did not announce that there is such a thing as a visit of blinken to china, it is only the us side that is saying that.
changed his mind about shooting it down or not, he has a perfectly straightforward explanation. he says that he decided on wednesday it should be shot down, and they waited until the safest possible moment when it was over water but with inside the 12 mile limit, the legal limit, and that was the time to shoot it down that s what they ve done. and so he can seem he can he can make the case that he has been completely rational, cool and calm and it makes the republicans who are calling for the thing to be shot down over over land, looking adventurous and quixotic, and so on. so the republicans have now got to explain what benefit there would have been of shooting it down over montana when the debris might have fallen on people i think that s an overstatement, but it might have as opposed to doing it in this very careful, calculated way over water with ships waiting underneath to recover the material on board. and how difficult would that be to execute and any recovery? oh, the r
remaining time on earth and optimising those years? you know, it s strange to be an old person. i don t think of myself that way. you know, ifeel young but, you know, i have limited time. you know, my life is two thirds done and, you know, can i get malaria eradication done? i think so. you ve described yourself as more intense than other people, though you said not more intense than stevejobs. chuckles. you have this remarkable ability to read, to analyse, retain information. greta thunberg credits her asperger s as her special power. what s your special power? you know, i think i m a student, i m curious. uh, you know, defining whether somebody is on the asperger s spectrum is a pretty vague thing, but my ability to concentrate, uh, is very high. uh, and when i was young, it was weird, weirdly high, you know,
0h, about 30 billion. about 30 billion a year. about 30 billion. money buys you power. it s given you extraordinary power. a lot of people would say that the nature of the power it s given you, which you now use philanthropically, is undemocratic, because nobody voted for you. what do you say to that charge? i think spending money on malaria, reducing malaria deaths is a good thing. so when we did ourfirst big grant, we became the biggest malaria funders, or diarrhoea, or pneumonia or sickle cell or hiv. you know, other than a few categories, where the us government spends more than we do, we re the largest funder on every single one of those things. so, yes, somebody can disagree with the choices i ve made. you know, democratic processes don t always let you do the most innovative work. so if you want to do risk, like curing sickle cell or curing hiv, governments are too conservative.
keeping the vast majority dry with those lengthy sunny spells. this cold front has been slipping southwards, and that s been introducing colder air. so quite a few places starting sunday morning around freezing, a little bit milder down towards the south of england, where we re closest to this area of cloud first thing. but that will be clearing away quickly, and then, as you can see, there will be lengthy spells of sunshine. one thing you can t really see clearly here is some high cloud that s likely to stream in across parts of northern ireland, scotland, and northern england that could turn the sunshine hazy at times, but it shouldn t spoil things too much. temperatures a little down on where they have been, 7 10 celsius but with the brighter skies overhead, i think it will still feel fairly pleasant for the time of year. now through sunday night, this area of high pressure tends to drift a little further southeastwards. under the centre of the high with light winds, could see 1