thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, number five in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an awful lot of ceos around the world w
Here in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, dc, web donald trump is under new pressure over his sacking of the former fbi director. Where. James comey will give evidence on thursday about whether he was given any pressure to drop an enquiry into links between a senior white has official and russia. And Written Testimony has been released injames comey. In it, he says he believes that the president asked him to drop the investigation into general michael flynn. Here are the key lines from his statement. 0ur Washington correspondent says that the evidence is eagerly anticipated. They are saying that this could be a bigger box office, if you like, as far as capital hill is concerned, then the Clinton Impeachment hearings, all watergate. It will very closely watched. We have this Opening Statement released on the Senate Intelligence committee website. Or watergate. On the Senate Intelligence committee website. Orwatergate. It reveals, amongst other things, the donald trum
Here in singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, dc, web donald trump is under new pressure over his sacking of the former fbi director. Where. James comey will give evidence on thursday about whether he was given any pressure to drop an enquiry into links between a senior white has official and russia. And Written Testimony has been released injames comey. In it, he says he believes that the president asked him to drop the investigation into general michael flynn. Here are the key lines from his statement. 0ur Washington correspondent says that the evidence is eagerly anticipated. They are saying that this could be a bigger box office, if you like, as far as capital hill is concerned, then the Clinton Impeachment hearings, all watergate. It will very closely watched. We have this Opening Statement released on the Senate Intelligence committee website. Or watergate. On the Senate Intelligence committee website. Orwatergate. It reveals, amongst other things, the donald trum
discussions. gallium and germanium, the two metals in question, will be subject to export control subject august one, and china s ministry of commerce said it was to protect national security interests. china is the largest producer of gallium and germanium which are used in a variety of products, including computer chips and solar panels. this is just the latest development in the global battle to control chip making technology. the battle will go on, i m sure. michelle fleury with the latest. later today, president putin is expected to participate in his first multilateral summit, since an armed rebellion, headed for moscow, rattled his leadership. leaders from the shanghai cooperation 0rganisation will convene, virtually, for a summit, hosted by india. the sco is a security grouping founded by russia and china to counter western alliances and has members from east asia to the indian ocean. the war in ukraine and continued tensions between china and the west are