41 people were killed, many of them children. they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air conditioning system. 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 intervening months
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? er, i think. 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 these conversations, and the actual issu
to be showers. the showers are not going to be widespread today. as is the way with to be widespread today. as is the way with showers, some places will completely dodge them. in cornwall, it is one of the completely dodge them. in cornwall, it is one of the places completely dodge them. in cornwall, it is one of the places that completely dodge them. in cornwall, it is one of the places that could - it is one of the places that could avoid the showers. i will tell you why. showers across most of the country are pretty random in nature, across the south west of nature we have showers across inland areas. places like st austell, taunton and bristol, you are underneath the convergence zone and you could see shower after shower. places like hampshire and dorset are probably staying entirely dry. temperatures, like we have seen over recent days into the high teens, in the best of any sunshine across the east, low 20s. look at this cloud working to the north west of franc
appointing heat advisers to combat the rising temperatures. plus festivities are under way for america s newest federal holiday, juneteenth. why it s important here in the u.s. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. with kim bruneber. defenders hold the line against russian forces in ukraine. the governor of luhansk said that the russians tried to break through but were pushed back. an attempt to cut off ukrainian units, the governor also said a chemical plant sheltering civilians has been shelled again. meanwhile the area around the capital, kyiv, was rattled hours ago by a series of explosions. so far there have been no fires or casualties reported. ukraine s president zelenskyy is promising to regain all the cities captured. here he is. translator: the losses are significant. many houses were destroyed. civilian logistics were disrupt td. there are many social issues. we ll restore everything destroyed. we will not give away the south to anyone, we ll retu
elected president a short time ago telling him that the alliance between the united states and south korea has never been stronger or more vital. now, the president s trip comes as he faces a myriad of problems back home from a shortage of baby formula to spiking inflation, and now rising covid cases too. tying his trip to asia to the top priority on his overseas agenda, president biden referenced russia s war against ukraine this morning saying that democracies must stand together against autocratic leaders. but i really do think we re at an inflection point in world history. things are changing so rapidly, i think we re going to see more of. it s going to be a competition between democracies and autocracies and i mean that sincerely. and unfortunately i think i m being proven to be correct not just here but around the world. in a joint statement mr. biden and south korean president yoon, the decision is a reversal from the trump administration which scaled back exerci