mohammad shtayyeh, welcome to hardtalk, and thank you forjoining us from ramallah. now, the terrible scenes in rafah are just the latest mass casualty event of this war. as we stand nearly eight months into this phase of the conflict, how do you envisage the current war in gaza coming to an end? well, first of all, i hope there will be an immediate ceasefire and an immediate end to these atrocities that israel is committing against our people. as you rightly said, what is happening in rafah is simply a repetition of what has been happening since october 7th, a very terrible situation, genocide, massive killing and also use of aid and food and water and electricity as a tool for killing good people. there are people who have been killed because of bombing, and there are people who have been dying because of hunger, been dying because of lack of medical treatment. so the situation, really, is very catastrophic. and there isn t anything called refuge. there isn t anything that s
they are likely to be seized upon by prime minister narendra modi as proof that his economic plans or modinomics are working. that s despite concerns about food price inflation, growing wealth inequality and high youth unemployment. let s just show you the details. india s economy is expected to have grown at an annual rate of 6.7% betweenjanuary and march that s according to economists polled by reuters. that would represent a slowdown from the rate of more than 8% seen at the end of last year. despite that, according to some estimates, it still puts india on track to overtake japan next year and become the world s fourth largest economy in 2025 according to some estimates. and its forecast to then go on to overtake germany and it s forecast to then go on to overtake germany to become the third largest after the us and china possibly by 2027. will that happen? let s find out what we will see today. let s go to mumbai and speak to our india business corresponden
this makes him the first us president with a criminal conviction and the first major party candidate to run for office with a felony. mr trump was convicted of falsifying business records to conceal a sex scandal involving the former porn star, stormy daniels. the verdict handed down just a few hours ago comes after two days of delebrations. the former us president could face up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each count. the trial officially began on april 15th after a lengthy jury selection process. then, over the course of more than six weeks, testimony from mr trump s former business partners, including long time lawyer michael cohen and his accuser stormy daniels, were heard. 12 new yorkjurors deliberated for two days to reach thursday s verdict in which they found him guilty on all 3a felony charges. mr trump will return to the manhattan courtroom onjuly 11th to be sentenced. here s what he said outside the court right after the verdict. our whole coun
thursday s verdict. here s what president trump said outside the court right after the verdict. this was a disgrace. this was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt. it is a rigged trial, a disgrace. they wouldn t give us a venue change. we were at 5% or 6% in this district, in this area. this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. the real verdict is going to be november the 5th by the people, and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. you have a soros backed da, the whole thing. we didn t do a thing wrong. i m a very innocent man and it s ok, i m fighting for our country, i m fighting for our constitution. our whole country is being rigged right now, this is being done by the biden administration in order to hurt a political opponent. i think it is a disgrace and we will keep fighting, we will fight to the end and we will win, because our country has gone to hell. we don t have the same country any more, we have a divided mess. we are a
comes after two days of deliberations by the jury. the former us president could face up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine for each count. here s what he said outside the court right after the verdict. this was a disgrace. this was a rigged trial by a conflicted judge who is corrupt. it is a rigged trial, a disgrace. they wouldn t give us a venue change. we were at 5% or 6% in this district, in this area. this was a rigged, disgraceful trial. the real verdict is going to be november the 5th by the people, and they know what happened here and everybody knows what happened here. we didn t do a thing wrong. i m a very innocent man and it s ok, i m fighting for our country, i m fighting for our constitution. our whole country is being rigged right now, this is being done by the biden administration in order to hurt a political opponent. i think it is a disgrace and we will keep fighting, we will fight to the end and we will win, because our country has gone to hell. we do