On the government over brexit, is named the most influential black briton of the year. Its ok to be who you are because it will make you a success, not in spite of it. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news. Jesse lingards on song for manchester united. Well tell you if they reached the quarterfinals on a big night of league cup action. Good evening. President xijinping has consolidated his position at the top of chinese politics, becoming the nations most powerful leaderfor a generation. His name and his political philosophy, summarised as socialism with chinese characteristics, have now been added to the communist partys constitution, a rare honour only given to two other former leaders, chairman mao and deng xiao ping. The announcement came on the final day of the 19th Party Congress in beijing, and could see the president remain in power beyond the end of his second and supposedly final five year term in 2022. Rivals now wont be able to challenge him without threatening the communi
Bankrolled brexit. But is he all he seems . We have been investigating. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Two republican senators have attacked president trump. In a fierce attack on president trump, jeff flake claims reckless, outrageous and undignified behaviour at the top of Us Government is endangering democracy. Mr trump has previously called mr flake toxic. Bob corker described him as an utterly untruthful president. Our north america editorjon sopel is in washington. We are used to politicians talking in code. This doesnt need to go into google translate. He says the flag ra nt into google translate. He says the flagrant disregard for truth or decency by the president , most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons. Hes not alone. There was another republican senator standing down, senator bob corker, who said the president seems incapable of telling the truth. Does this matter . Well, the republicans have the most narrow majority in the senate, 52 to 48 democrats. W
Station but entire people, and entire language group. First however, modern world works including what you think is the modern pristine roles of social democracies in scandinavia. Its not there. Its just more sophisticated allusion. At all about inches one cable gives you a sense of the wealth of information that is housed on wikileaks site. I want to thank julian assange, the middle of the night there for joining us. I think everyone who was happy to see you. [applause] thanks. And if the julian paved the way like the wizard of oz on the screen, lets remember as we leave that Chelsea Manning is behind bars, Edward Snowden is in exile, julian is in this embassy and other whistleblowers have had their lives ruined, have been targeted after under tremendous russia right now. All of you have one of these books. Make sure you tell your friends about it, talk about it on social media. Buy another copy and give it to someone. And most of all be out there in public whenever the crosshairs are
The post is a charter sponsor of the book festival , and it is my pleasure to introduce our guest for this program. Born in 1976 and is a staff writer for the new yorker. He writes about Foreign Affairs and politics, author of agent ambition chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the knew china. That won the National Book award. In the book he traces the rise of the individual in china and the clash between aspiration in the authoritarianism. He had this to say, and the pages of the new yorker evan oz knows has portrayed, explained, and poked fun at the state china better than any other writer from the leicester east eliminating the gilded age, appetite, challenges, and dilemmas in a way that few have done. Also is a contributor to this American Life on public radio and frontline. Before moving to the new yorker he was a beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune we contributed to a series that won the 2,008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. The award for young journalists an
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Good evening. I am ian bremmer, filling in for charlie rose, who is on assignment. Demonstrators are protesting what they see as chinas attempts to strangle democracy in hong kong. They were initially met by a harsh police crackdown. The standoff continues as student leaders call for the resignation of hong kong chief executive c. Y. Leung. Joining me from washington is jon huntsman. He served as u. S. Ambassador to china from 2009 to 2011, and his former candidate to the republican president ial nomination in 2012. Good to be with you. Lets start by telling us where we are right now in this dispute. How dangerous is it, and how does it play out . On the ground, we clearly have a standoff. That is likely to last some time, which likely accommodates the needs of both sides. It accommodates the needs of beijing because they cannot be seen as cracking down or doing anything drastic anytime soon, and it is a combination of the demons