Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. Its 60 years since beijing put down the tibetan revolt, killing tens of thousands of people. And that was also when the dalai lama began his long exile from his homeland. He is still the tibetan peoples spiritual leader, but he relinquished political control eight years ago. His de facto president in exile, is my guest today, 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. Thank you, zeinab. How do the tibetan people remember that revolt 60 years ago . Thousands of tibetans from all over tibet gathered in lhasa, the capital city, to protect his holiness the dalai lama from the chinese army and then it resulted in a bloodshed. As per
From their homes across northern india after days of heavy monsoon rains. As we count down to the moon landing 50 years ago, we talk live to a former nasa astronaut. Whats it really like to be up in space . Live from our studios in london and singapore. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Hello. A warm welcome to the programme. Its midnight here in london, 7am in the morning in singapore and 7pm in washington, where the four democratic congresswomen told to go back to where from they came from by President Trump have accused him of openly violating his oaths and american values. The four women said mr trump had been openly racist towards them and that his attacks were the agenda of white nationalists. Despite the occupant of the white houses attempts to marginalise us and to silence us, please know that we are more than four people. We ran on a mandate to represent those left out and left behind. Our squad is big. Our squad includes any person committed to build a more equitable and j
Time for hardtalk welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. Its 60 years since beijing put down the tibetan revolt, killing tens of thousands of people. And that was also when the dalai lama began his long exile from his homeland. He is still the tibetan peoples spiritual leader, but he relinquished political control eight years ago. His de facto president in exile, is my guest today, 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. Thank you, zeinab. How do the tibetan people remember that revolt 60 years ago . Thousands of tibetans from all over tibet gathered in lhasa, the capital city, to protect his holiness the dalai lama from the chinese army and then it resulted in a bloodshed. As per Chinese M
Its estimated that could cost more than 5 billion. One of the buildings which was destroyed was the grace baptist church. Our correspondent sophie long is in hawaii and spoke to some of the congregation. The fire left more than a city devastated, and charred black buildings behind. Questions hover above the emptiness. How can you rebuild from this . What will exist here in the future . A now churchless congregation gathers at a coffee shop to share their pain. One of the Police Officers sent me pictures. It used to be my house. I wept, but weeping is not a lack of faith. Thank god that he gave us tears. Amazing grace. There are so many questions that remain without answers. Why did one survive to sit in a makeshift church when their neighbour didnt . What will become of their community so crippled by a loss thats still being counted . I dont think it will ever be the same. I hope it will be better. Thats my prayer. And i believe that, i think one day, you know, it can be an even better
, have a good day. Greetings to you all, muhammad, welcome to the news section at 13 00. The members of the Supreme Assembly of commanders of the Islamic Revolution guards corps met with Ayatollah Khamenei this morning at Imam Khomeinis husseiniyya. At night they said that our duty today is to help the people, especially the weak classes. Ayatollah khamenei stated that there is nothing wrong with criticism and criticism along with trust, but we must be careful not to misidentify the enemy. We are one of the problems that sometimes we get infected with it and we must be careful not to get infected. It is not to make a mistake in recognizing the enemy. Sometimes a person makes a mistake in recognizing the enemy. He was doing things in the hidden layers you see, lets shout at america whatever you want, Ayatollah Khamenei also stated that one of the important parts of the enemys activities is to distort the image of the irgc and basij , citing the attractiveness of the irgc and basij and s