welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the idea of a social contract is a staple of political philosophy. put crudely, it s the ties and obligations that bind the individual, the community and the state. but what happens when that contract is threatened by forces beyond the control of any national government say, a climate crisis or, right now, a global pandemic? my guest is baroness minouche shafik, the director of london school of economics, former top official at the world bank. is humanity capable of collective action to meet global challenges? baroness minouche shafik, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. lovely to be here. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. you have written extensively, through a long career as a top economist, about the relationship between the individual and the collective whether it be the community, the nation state or, indeed, the wider world. what do you think the covid pandemic has revealed to us about the limitations of, for exa
This is a government in chaos and confusion. Well be looking in more detail at the conservative approach to social care in england, and what it could mean for the Election Campaign. Also tonight. President trump starts his official trip to israel and expresses confidence about a peace deal with the palestinians. Ive heard its one of the toughest deals of all, but i have a feeling were going to get there, eventually. Facebook insists that it is serious about monitoring offensive material posted on its pages. And two centuries of Tradition Injapanese Art Stealing The Show at the british museum. And coming up in Sportsday On Bbc News david moyes resigns as sunderland manager afterjust one year in charge. The club ended the Season Bottom of the premier league. Good evening. The Prime Minister stands accused of performing a hasty u turn on her plans to reform social care in england. Just four days after publishing the conservative manifesto and following widespread controversy theresa may c
From the other side of the arena where the bang was heard from suddenly came running towards where they were trying to get running out. That picture of a certain amount of his terrier that you are pointing out that no suggestion of any injuries at the moment his hysteria. I have seen pictures from looking down on the arena. There we re looking down on the arena. There were blue lights because ambulances may have been sent. No word on injuries. We do know that theory fear it self, people leaving and arena in fear like that, we know that can cause injuries. We know that can cause injuries. We know that police are responding to an incident, that people are scared, frightened, screaming, leaving the arena rapidly in an uncontrolled way. The immediate cause, as you say, if the sound of a bang. One or two, according to some reports. We dont know the cause. I saw pictures of big pink balloons in the arena, whether it was speakers exploding, gunfire, an explosion, as some people are reporting
Fever that is common in west africa, the last one is mers, believed to be spread by camels. It has mostly killed here in saudi arabia. This lab in oxford is one of the Research Facilities trying to protect people against mers. It is one of the most advanced vaccines out there. This is the clinical Bio Manufacturing facility and this is the basis for the mers vaccine. It will be scaled up the mers vaccine. It will be scaled up over the coming months and it is suspected hundreds of files of it will be ready for human trials by the end of the year. If this vaccine does work it could still take a decade or so to get it to those who need it. Historically, many hasnt been forthcoming and research is long and context. This Research Costs hundreds of millions of dollars. It may not be any of these three viruses that cause the next epidemic but if it is, putting the time and money in now could stop a small outbreak becoming the next local health emergency. The headlines on bbc News Donald Trump
That its exactly the opposite. And they understand that too. I was explaining about the numbers. We did a speech yesterday, everybody liked the speech. Applause but we had a massive field of people, you saw that. I turned on one of the networks and they showed an empty field. I said, wait a minute, i made a speech. The field was, it looks like a million and a million people. They showed a field where there was practically nobody standing there. And they said donald trump did not draw well. I said, it was almost raining, the rain should have scared them away but god looked down and he said, we wont let it rain on your speech. The first line i got hit by a couple of drops, and isaid, i got hit by a couple of drops, and i said, this is too bad. But the truth is that its dubbed immediately. It was amazing and became really sunny, it poured after i left. We have something that is amazing. Honestly it looked like a million people, whatever it was, it we nt million people, whatever it was, it