a very warm welcome to talking business weekly with me, aaron hazelhurst. let s go take a look at what s on the show. the big china challenge. a year since the covid 19lockdowns. as the biggest economy back to full health. ongoing trade tensions with the us are some of the problems government is trying to tackle. this leading china economist will explain how the government needs to balance ambitions of the changing demand of a radically different younger generation if it wants the country to thrive. plus this former head of the international monetary fund china division tells me how beijing struggles are affecting all of us around the world. and keeping the internet free and fair. the big boss of web browser firefox tells me how her foundation is trying to compete with the deep pocketed rivals like google and apple and still have an influence. wherever you arejoining me from around the world warm welcome. china, s second biggest economy a trouser united states and is more th
trey: good evening and thank you for joining us i am trey gowdy and it is sunday night in america. every four years they tell us this is the most important election of our lifetime. usually it is hyperbole. sometimes it is simply logical sense it s the next election it s there for the most important. but i will concede this election cycle does the field disproportionately consequential. our country is at a real crossroads. more people are questioning democracy as a system of government. americans seem less interested in working things out in more ae interested in duking things out. maybe 82024 is the most important election of our lifetime. regardless it is definitely the next one and is 10 months away. joining us now are two old friends of the show washington times opinion editor charlie hurt the handsome hurt brother as i call him and former biden surrogate democrat strategist kevin wall. you ve got to help me with this when there are prominent republicans and conservativ
stephen cave, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a great pleasure. you believe that our human awareness of our own mortality is absolutely central to the human story. why? well, all creatures strive to live on, to keep going. they wouldn t be around us any more if they didn t. the mouse that didn t care about surviving wouldn t pass on its genes. so we come from a long line of creatures that are determined to keep going. but we have these big brains, that s part of our survival mechanism, if you like, that allow us to see the future, to generalise. and we re conscious of ourselves as individuals, and that means we re conscious of our own deaths. and of all the billions of creatures on earth, very few creatures have to live with that terrible awareness that, one day, all of their efforts will come to nothing. and so, if we look back through human history, what we see is humanity struggling to make sense of this. some of the earliest archaeological evidence we f
tonight on the reidout there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy? history is watching. the world is watching. president biden s powerful new ad on the trump threat to democracy amid new polling that shows a shocking number of americans don t believe what they saw with their own eyes on january 6th. plus, two new challenges to trump s place on the ballot. this time in florida and illinois. as a deadline looms for the u.s. supreme court to decide on his disqualification in colorado. also tonight, the scandal that the republican-led oversight committee won t be investigating. the millions of dollars trump raked in from foreign governments while he was president. we begin tonight with the 2024 election cycle that s already under way. nearly three years after a heavily armed trump incited mob atta
and it s going to be a hot and humid weekend, but without heat and humidity there is a chance of some thunderstorms and what you get those thunderstorms and what you get those thunderstorms there could be quite nasty. they will bring all the details the programme. good morning. it s saturday the 10th june. borisjohnson has quit as an mp after he received the commons report into whether he misled parliament over lockdown parties at downing street. the former prime minister is accused of damaging parliament s integrity, but mrjohnson claims he s been forced out. his resignation now triggers a by election. 0ur political correspondent ione wells reports. his own conduct made him resign as prime minister. his own conduct making him now resign as an mp. borisjohnson was being investigated by parliament s privileges committee into whether he d misled mps about covid lockdown parties in downing street. if a possible suspension and even by election if they found him guilty. their bomb