Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me zeinab badawi, coming to you from barbados. I m on an historic sugar plantation where enslaved africans toiled in backbreaking labour during three centuries of the transatlantic slave trade. Barbados was one of the earliest and most profitable of the slave colonies in the caribbean. This is the house on the grounds of the plantation, built in the 16505, where the slave owners lived in great style. My guest is barbados born eminent historian sir hilary beckles. He s vice chancellor of the university of the west indies and chair of a caribbean commission to gain reparations for the descendants of enslaved africans. What are his chances of success? theme music plays professor sir hilary beckles, welcome to hardtalk. Tremendous honour, pleasure to be here. So, we re here in the part of barbados that is your ancestral land, your great, great, great grandparents worked on sugar plantations just nearby. What is the legacy of that history
Grounds of the plantation, built in the 1650s, where the slave owners lived in great style. My guest is barbados born eminent historian sir hilary beckles. He is vice chancellor of the university of the west indies and chair of the caribbean commission to gain reparations for the descendants of enslaved africans. What are his chances of success? professor sir hilary beckles, welcome to hardtalk. Tremendous honour, pleasure to be here. So, we are here in the part of barbados that is your ancestral land, your great, great, great grandparents worked on sugar plantations just nearby. What is the legacy of that history of slavery here in barbados? this is where the global world and a small island came together 400 years ago. This is barbados, the first slave plantation economy in the world. This is where slavery plantation, british capitalism all came together. A small place becoming the centre of the financial world of the west. It is a tremendous history. A tremendous history, but it is a
The streets of sydney as australia ramps up its covid lockdown. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. It s newsday. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. It s seven in the morning in singapore, and eight o clock in tokyo, where we begin with news from the olympics that an athlete from belarus has been taken into police protection injapan after claiming that officials from her team were trying to force her to fly home against her will. This is her krystsina tsimanouskaya from belarus. She had been due to compete in the women s 200m event on monday. But after posting a video complaining about being entered into another race at short notice, she says she was told to pack and taken to the airport. She then contacted police, and uploaded this video on social media, appealing for help. The flight took off without her on board. I m joined now by sarah mulkerrins in tokyo. Great to have you on the programme. What s the latest on the fate
of the scottish parliament election on the 6th of may. ministers in england launch a campaign to reassure parents it s safe for children to return to the classroom. now on bbc news global questions. covid 19 slammed the brakes on international tourism, but with vaccines now being rolled out around the world, there s optimism that international travel may soon take off again. hello and welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi. covid 19 lockdowns have wreaked havoc on our economies, and one area that s been knocked sideways is the travel and tourism industry. one in ten people around the world work in the sector, and it accounts for $9 trillion of global gdp. has the travel industry been transformed for ever? and could some of the changes actually be good for us and the planet? that s global questions: travel in a post covid world. well, to bring you this edition of global questions, our two panellists and our questioners join us live via video link. let me tell you
global questions. hello and welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi. covid 19 lockdowns have wreaked havoc on our economies, and one area that s been knocked sideways is the travel and tourism industry. one in ten people around the world work in the sector, and it accounts for $9 trillion of global gdp. has the travel industry been transformed forever? and could some of the changes actually be good for us and the planet? that s global questions: travel in a post covid world. well, to bring you this edition of global questions, our two panellists and our questioners join us live via video link. let me tell you who s in the hot seat this week giving the answers. paul theroux is an internationally acclaimed american author and explorer who s been described as the world s most perceptive travel writer. he has a new novel set in hawaii called under the wave at waimea out in april. and gloria guevara is ceo and president of the world travel and tourism council, which rep