as long as it takes in its fight against russia. president vladimir putin has accused nato of having imperial ambitions and said its members had no interest in the well being of ukrainians. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m sarah montague. when the uk handed hong kong back to china 25 years ago, the last words of the departing british governor to the people of the territory were, now hong kong people are to run hong kong. that is the promise, and that is the unshakeable destiny. the man who said those words, chris patten, now lord patten, is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep thei
is my guest today. has that promise been broken? and could the uk have done more to honour it? lord patten, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. has that promise, that hong kong would be run by hong kong people, been broken? yes. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. and it was based on the perhaps misguided assumption, which some of us had occasional doubts about, that the chinese were. the chinese communist party, let me make a distinction, would keep their word, and they have pretty comprehensively broken their word, which is contained in an international treaty lodged at the united nations called thejoint declaration. you said at the time, you wrote at the time in the hong kong diaries, which you ve just published, that, ultimately, after the handover, much will depend on whether the chinese communist party can actually be trusted to honour one country, two systems, which was the deal agr
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Release by hamas are expected to speak at any moment now. The grandmother and her friend and neighbor are receiving medical care at a hospital in tel aviv. Im todd piro. Carley im carley shimkus. Israel continue to increase airstrike in hamas and gaza hitting 4000 targets over the past day and the pentagon is sending Military Advisors to the middle east before troops get the order to enter the gaza strip. Todd a u. S. Military base in syria came under attack yesterday, two drones successfully shot down. Trey yingst live on the ground in israel. Trey. Trey todd and carley, good morning. Israelis ramped up airstrikes striking 400 separate targets. Israelis were trying to hit a number of cells from hamas, take out militants into the strip. 18 days into the conflict, hamas and jihad continue rocket fire against communities in southern israel. Sirens were sounding this morning. Strikes destroyed a number of positions in northeastern and eastern part of gaza. Helicopters and fighter jets wer
A mother, 32 years old, and her son, four years old, and a little baby, nine months old, is in captivity, kidnapped by hamas terrorists. So forgive me for not being excited about the humanitarian gestures of the terrorists. Also we have more than 200 hostages, some of them are about 78 80, all of those survivors will need medical treatment. They are going to play with the hostages and we know it, and if they think that it will prevent us from going in and destroying hamas, they have a terrible mistake. So do you think this in any way can be interpreted as positive with regards to releasing more hostages . I see it as a manipulation, as an attempt to buy time, and to fool the international community. As long as we have children, babies, innocent civilians kidnapped by hamas terrorists, theres nothing to discuss, and there is nothing that is related to humanitarian thoughts that they have. So qatar egypt mediation, whats your stance on that taking place . Theres a big difference between