a total of thirty seven people including 23 children were killed in an attack that has shocked the nation. those are the headlines. now on bbc news it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. lebanon is experiencing one of the most disastrous economic collapses of the last 100 years. the national economy is less than half the size it was just three years ago. one powerful symbol of the catastrophe, people are holding up banks in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanon s minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, we re delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your government are levelling with the lebanese peop
in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanon s minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, we re delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your government are levelling with the lebanese people, and indeed with the international community as well, about the scale of the economic catastrophe that your country is currently living through? absolutely. stephen, let me tell you, it has been quite a challenging year since our government took office and we started really working on a very tough mission to recover the economy in lebanon and to fix all the mess that the past two decades have left lebanon in. our government came with a big title th
The transition to Electric Vehicle is the focus. It could mean less job security. Michelle fleury visited lordstown. Stretching across 64 acres, the factory is far from the picket line. But this site, a partnership between General Motors and a korean battery supplier, lg, is at the forefront of the United Auto Move to electric does. A Maintenance Technician here at the only american Battery Plants to be represented by a union. Seeing those machines move and make a sale. It was like a kid in the candy store. I was so excited. She loves herjob and said she had to vote or pay and benefits. Battery workers in a factory a fraction what traditional auto workers make. We want that job security. We want the fair justice and fair wages. 16 an hour was not fair. 18 an hour was not fair. You know, and we want to safety. Safety was not there. Frustrated, she and her colleagues voted to unionise last year, recently winning a pay increase. In michigan, president biden, whose policies are exhilaratin
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