has been found guilty of her murder, after nearly two decades and an internationl manhunt. piran ditta khan, who s 75, fled to pakistan shortly after pc beshenivsky and a colleague were shot when they interrupted an armed raid on a travel agents. emergency workers in taiwan say around seven hundred people remain trapped in buildings and road tunnels after yesterday s powerful earthquake on the island s east coast. nine people were killed, and more than a thousand injured. the epicentre of the magnitude seven point four quake was the strongest to hit the country for 25 years. president biden has told the israeli leader that future us support depends on israel s immediate steps to reduce civilian harm and ensure the safety of aid workers in gaza. this is president biden on his call to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu who emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. here s secretary of state anthony blinken
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the idea of a social contract is a staple of political philosophy, put curedly, 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 example,
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Australia will not challenge Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's extradition to the United States and has confidence in the Brit