this is bbc news. the headlines. the former us president donald trump says he expects to be arrested on tuesday and has called on his supporters to protest. it s not yet clear what charges, if any, he is facing. a court in islamabad cancels a hearing into the charges of former pakistan prime minister imran khan following clashes between his supporters and police. mr khan faces corruption charges which he says are politically motivated. a deal allowing the export of ukrainian grain from black sea ports which was due to expire has been renewed. ukraine says the agreement will continue for four months, but russia claims it agreed to just 60 days. the scottish national party s chief executive, peter murrell, has resigned with immediate effect. the move comes after the snp were forced to reveal a massive drop in its party membership this week. you re watching bbc news. now its time for click. this week we re going flat out. spencer is on a building site to put up spencer is on a b
across the country. earlier, emmanuel macron s government narrowly survived a vote of no confidence over the plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. now on bbc news, click. this week, we re going flat out with a formula 1 team that s hoping to stay ahead of the pack. spencer s on a building site to put up a house, although it looks like he has got away without doing any actual work. there has to be some banging at some point? is there some banging at some point? there s got to be some banging doesn t there? didn t even get my hands dirty. we also look into a crypto investment scam that seems to be evading the authorities. and paul visits a factory, but where are all the drivers? completely happy with the fact that there is a very large, very heavy piece of equipment driving around autonomously. the cars can go from 0 to 100 in four seconds. they are made of 80,000 parts. the brakes can hit 1000 degrees. this is formula 1. this year s season is getting under way and i
submerging homes and roads, in the capital seoul. at least eight people have died. the south korean president has called an emergency meeting now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isn t driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my guest today has a prominent voice in that debate. shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the
shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here. thank you for having me. it s great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it s described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issues around transgender rights has consistently been prominent in the political debate. would it be right to assume that you are delighted those issues are so prominent? shon laughs er, ithink. in one way, i feel vindicated. the argument that i make in the book, essentially, is that there has been an explosion in discussion of transgender people across all forms of media and in politics. but what i argue in the book is that trans people are often not at the centre of
audiences in the uk and around the world. thousands of people in areas at risk of flooding in pakistan have been told to evacuate their homes. aid agencies say floods could develop into one of the country s worst disasters as the heaviest monsoon rains in decades continue. nearly 1,000 people have died sincejune, while thousands more have been displaced southern pakistan has been hardest hit by the rains particularly sindh province. it has received nearly eight times its average rainfall for august. rivers have also burst their banks in the north west khyber pak tunkwa province. 0ur correspondent pumza fihlani reports from sindh. swathes of land across southern pakistan have been turned into islands. the rains have been unforgiving, and the water is still trapped between people s homes. homes, roads and infrastructure have been destroyed, and some villages completely isolated. this week authorities issued fresh warnings for people to get to higher ground. for some, that mea