Can only help us in that cause. Now to the Us Open Tennis where the wimbledon Champion Barbora Krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second round by the romanian Qualifier Elena Gabriela ruse, beating the czech player 6 4, 7 5 to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time. Krejcikova who was knocked out of the quarterfinals at the olympics chose not to play any hard Court Warm up events going into the tournament, and withdrew from the tournament in toronto with a thigh injury. In the mens draw, fourth Seed Alexander Zverev is in action in the louis armstrong stadium. Hes taking on Alexandre Muller of france, the two have never met before. Zverev has taken the first two sets the second one a closer affair, went to a tie break. Zverev leads the third set 3 1. While the former semi finalist Grigor Dimitrov is through to the third round, the bulgarian ninth Seed Beat australian rinky Hiji Kata in straight sets. Cricket and England And Sri lanka are making their final prepa
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Kahn won power in pakistan two years ago with a promise to root out corruption and take on the countries vested interest. So hows it going . Well, rising food prices and the covid pandemic have left many pakistanis feeling worse off. While the Anti Corruption drive has become a political battleground. My guest today ishaq dar was pakistans Finance Minister a former Prime Minister nawaz sharif now both of those men are trying to rally opposition to imran khan. But how much credibility do they have . Ishaq dar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Let us begin with your personal status, your legal status. You are a wanted man in pakistan. Are you here in london to escape the judicial process . Not really, i think you must be aware of the pakistan history. When our in pakistan over 73 years the rhetoric has been used over the last two dictatorships and the current one isnt different. Because this regime is known to be under the martial law.
But i think that the idea now is that we have to hit back hard, we have to hit back strong if were going to finally put this dual crisis of the pandemic and the economic pain that is engendered behind us. With respect to larrys point, one thing is just wrong, which is that our team is dismissive of inflationary risks. Weve constantly argued that the risks of doing too little are far greater than the risk of going big. Providing families and businesses with the relief they need to finally put this virus behind us. Second, i want to quote fed chair Jerome Powell who strongly reiterated this view the other day, i think it was just a week or so ago, that inflationary risks are also asymmetric right now. Im much more afraid of people losing their careers and life that they built because they dont get back to work in time. Im more concerned about what that will do not just to their lives but to the American Economy. Im more concerned about that than which exists with higher inflation. In our