And we find out what these adelie and Gentoo Penguins in antarctica have to tell us about global warming. Hello and welcome. We begin in beijing where the Winter Olympics torch relay has just got under way. Over the next three days, 1,000 people will carry the torch past chinese landmarks, including the Summer Palace and great wall. Its a scaled down event with very few spectators because of coronavirus restrictions. But despite the governments commitment to a zero covid strategy, the Omicron Variant is spreading. The Beijing Olympics organiser says 32 new cases have been detected among games related personnel in the last 2a hours. Lets go to beijing and our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. You are covering every twist and turn as these games are about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. This about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. Todays torch relay. This is nothina todays torch relay. This is nothing like todays torch relay. This is nothing like the todays
Now on bbc news its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Of all the front lines in the so called culture wars, none has stirred up more vitriol and bad blood than the argument over sex, gender and identity. How should society regard people who transition away from the biological sexual category theyre born into . And what represents the truth of who we are biology, or Self Identity . Well, my guest is kathleen stock, a british academic, whose work has generated a storm of controversy and led to her resignation from her university post. Why has this issue become a battleground . Kathleen stock, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. I want to begin, if i may, by asking you about what happened to you last year. After 18 years at the university of sussex, you walked away from your academic post. Now, ijust wonder, having had a few months to reflect on it, whether you are still sure you did the right thing. Yes, im still sure i did the right thing, because the situati
And we find out what these adelie and Gentoo Penguins in antarctica have to tell us about global warming. Hello and welcome. We begin in beijing where the Winter Olympics torch relay has just got under way. Over the next three days, 1,000 people will carry the torch past chinese landmarks, including the Summer Palace and great wall. Its a scaled down event with very few spectators because of coronavirus restrictions. But despite the governments commitment to a zero covid strategy, the Omicron Variant is spreading. The Beijing Olympics organiser says 32 new cases have been detected among games related personnel in the last 2a hours. Lets go to beijing and our china correspondent stephen mcdonell. You are covering every twist and turn as these games are about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. This about to begin. Talk us through todays torch relay. Todays torch relay. This is nothina todays torch relay. This is nothing like todays torch relay. This is nothing like the todays
Role since the assassination in 2021 of the countrys last president. Armed groups have been calling for mr henry to step down, leading to widespread violence. Last week he was prevented from returning home to haiti. News of his resignation came during a high level meeting of the Caribbean Community injamaica. To that end we acknowledge the resignation of Prime Minister ariel henry upon the establishment of a transitional president ial council. Harold isaac is an independent journalist based in haiti. He gave us his reaction to the news. It is unclear for pretty much everybody here at this point, although in the past few hours there were serious indications that resignation was imminent. Prime minister ariel henry had been under tremendous pressure to resign in the past couple of weeks after he returned from kenya on a trip to get police support. As of late, you could see people rushing for instance to Money Transfer houses, trying to get some cash, trying to go to do groceries or to th