Welcome to hardtalk. Im zeinab badawi. It is 60 years since beijing put down the tibetan revolt, which killed tens of thousands of people. That was also when the dalai lama began his long exile from his homeland. While still the tibetan peoples spiritual leader, he relinquished political control eight years ago. Our guest today is the de fa cto our guest today is the de facto president in exile, Lobsang Sangay, who says the situation is now critical and that tibet is a huge prison under chinas unfettered rule. So what are the tibetan peoples ambitions now . And what is their strategy for achieving it from the increasingly assertive and authoritarian chinese leadership . Theme music plays Lobsang Sangay welcome to hardtalk. How do the tibetan people remember that revolt 60 years ago . Thousands tibetan of gathered in the capital city to protect the dalai lama from the chinese army and then it resulted in a bloodshed. As per Chinese Military archives, 80,000 tibetan were killed between m
Following the shooting down of a us drone. A British Foreign Office Minister will meet senior officials in iran tomorrow to call for an urgent de escalation of tensions. Campaigners have joined Richard Ratcliffe outside the Iranian Embassy to show solidarity with him as his Hunger Strike over his detained wifes plight enters its eighth day. The government announces a new permament memorial to mark the First National windrush day which honors the british caribbean community. Good afternoon. In just a few minutes time, the first of a series of hustings events around the country will begin in birmingham. Mrjohnson and jeremy hunt, the two surviving candidates for the leadership, will be questioned by conservative Party Members, who vote next month on which man will become their party leader and the countrys Prime Minister. Boris johnson arrived in the past ten minutes or so. Here he is coming in. Creating some of the members there. A lot of this coming as it emerged that police we re comi
Disease. The sarah kelly. Welcome to the program. Days after the damaging admission that taped conversation between high level German Military personnel was leaked into a russian hands, germanys defense minister says that the blame for the incident lies with simple human error. 4 days after the revelation started making headlines, the story is stepped before the cameras to explain in further detail exactly what went wrong. He says that a single port in color dialed in to join the discussion about the use of tourist missiles and ukraine without taking the necessary security measures 5 for the story as was unable. However, to explain how the recording of the call made it into russian hands on time, are now calling the league a hybrid. This information attacked. The story is expanded on russias attempts to influence the narrative in germany was lumped type. Russia is constantly trying to drive a wedge between us, between the domestic Political Forces in germany, between the policies, betw
Honor of introducing our event today where were going to discuss not only ganesh, his incredible book, but also the animus that really brings it to life. This is the latest in columbia series on markets where we discuss problems, political economy and how to solve them. I want to start by noting that his book is brilliant, and its brilliant because. It touches on problems that are so implicitly obvious to all of us. Im sure everyone in this room has felt frustration. An airline categorically. It feels like air travel has somehow even worse. Were offered less space and stuffed amidst more seats. Were given less food and charge, more fees. Were extended longer delays and offered less destinations. Everything that should have grown has shrunk and everything that should have shrunk has grown. Our planes have inverted and too often it feels like were flying upside down. And these problems with Civil Aviation emblematic of larger problems with our own country all over our infrastructure feel
Honor of introducing our event today where were going to discuss not only ganesh, his incredible book, but also the animus that really brings it to life. This is the latest in columbia series on markets where we discuss problems, political economy and how to solve them. I want to start by noting that his book is brilliant, and its brilliant because. It touches on problems that are so implicitly obvious to all of us. Im sure everyone in this room has felt frustration. An airline categorically. It feels like air travel has somehow even worse. Were offered less space and stuffed amidst more seats. Were given less food and charge, more fees. Were extended longer delays and offered less destinations. Everything that should have grown has shrunk and everything that should have shrunk has grown. Our planes have inverted and too often it feels like were flying upside down. And these problems with Civil Aviation emblematic of larger problems with our own country all over our infrastructure feel