Now on bbc news, hardtalk, this is the briefing. With stephen sackur. Im sally bundock. Our top story a Murder Investigation welcome to hardtalk. Is launched after British Police find 39 bodies in the back im stephen sackur. Armenia is a small state of a lorry that came from europe. With outsize strategic significance disruption at the trump impeachment inquiry ina with outsize strategic significance in a caucasus region beset as republican members of congress with tension and hostility. Barge into a hearing room last year popular protests delivered ahead of a testimony. A so called velvet revolution which saw a new government installed confrontation in chile in yerevan amid ambitious on the first day of a general strike against inequality as an apology talk of reform. From the president fails to quell public anger. My guess is the foreign minister in shock treatment tesla stuns wall street by returning to profit, when analysts expected a loss. Now all eyes are on its that government,
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Armenia is a small state with outsized strategic significance in a caucasus region beset with tension and hostility. Last year, popular protests delivered a so called velvet revolution which saw a new government installed in yerevan amid ambitious talk of reform. My guest is the foreign minister in that government, zohrab mnatsakanyan. Is armenia looking east or west for political and economic inspiration . Zohrab mnatsakanyan, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Last year saw Major Political upheaval in your country armenia, the so called velvet revolution, after which you and your government claimed that you were working for a new armenia. Sceptics will say it looks very much like the old armenia. So, whats different . Why would they say that . Because, for example, you were an official for many, many years, under previous regimes. You are a man of great governmental experience, you are not a new broom at all. I made a choice of my own, i made a ch
As warren buffet called it use weapons of mass financial destruction so there instead of just trying to be a conduit from the central bank to main street they are saying that we are going to abuse our role as intermediary to coerce you to. Reward us with huge rewards of cash that well then pocket and not circulate in the economy and this is a problem thats gotten worse and worse we saw it in the 2008 crisis where hank paulson went to washington and got the tarp money and we didnt get it the 1st day he instructed his minions on wall street to crash the stock market the next day they did it again abusing their role as Market Makers to weaponize that role. All and then the next day Congress Gave them the 750000000000 which became now 16 or 17 trillion. And so the ability of bankers who have weaponized intermediary Market Making products to cold worse government and to have the media on their side to bankrupt the economy has led to now a situation of extraordinary duress so what hes saying
We talk to an armed fighter who boasts of a license to kill those who dont follow his groups strict rules. And in hong kong theyre sticking up for their own former Police Officers say their on duty colleagues have shown great restraint during months of protests as allegations mount of Police Brutality. Im brian thomas great to have you with us after a year of school strikes it was great to turn bergs big moment on the world stage and she didnt hold back the 16 year old climate activist offering a stinging rebuke to leaders at the un climate some for a summit in new york her speech to rounds of applause as the conference discussed how to reinvigorate the stalled paris climate accords. People are suffering people are dying and tired School Systems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of the time of Economic Growth oh dad you know i was. It was an impassioned speech but one of those who most need to to hear it
Camps we talk to an armed fighter who boasts of a license to kill those who dont follow his groups strict rules. And Britains Supreme Court decides today if Boris Johnson broke the law when he suspended Parliament Just 5 weeks before the bracks a deadline how might he respond if he loses his historic ruling. And footballs may Megan Rapinoe is scoring another big when shes named fevers best female player of the year and on the mens side a record winning for reigning football royalty. Im brian thomas great to have you with us after a year of School Climate strikes. It was a great attune bergs big moment on the world stage and she didnt hold back the 16 year old climate activist offering a stinging rebuke to leaders at the un Climate Summit in new york her speech drew rounds of applause as the conference discussed how to reinvigorate the stalled paris climate accords people are suffering people are dying and tired School Systems will collect singing we are in the beginning of a mass extin