spacecraft for the benefit of life on earth. space is an integral part of society. our way of working only functions with satellites for telecom, for navigation, for earth observation, for weather forecasting, for many things. so, we need the satellites for our daily life. the country that first sent a person into space is crashing back to earth, because of its war in ukraine. if russia doesn t partner up with another nation l or field its own space station, which given the current - circumstances and sanctions i is quite unlikely, it might not have any crewed space flight. what became a story of collaboration is now once again one of competition and conflict. china has its own space station. india wants one. and private companies are getting in on the act, too, sending up their own rockets. i m pallab ghosh, the bbc s science correspondent. come with me on a journey into the future of human exploration, and the new space race. archive: long before man had mastered the earth,
right now, our top story right here out of new york, alvin bragg is sweating even more than usual tonight. now, his pathetically weak case against former president trump has totally imploded. let s be very clear here, the case died this very week. it is very obvious, it is very clear, it s transparent, alvin bragg had every intention of indicting john all j trump this week, second day, grand jury proceedings canceled. telling reuters, it was former president donald trump that created false expectation of arrest. it was never actually going to happen according to bragg, it seems. really? after multiyear investigation, the formation of a grand jury, the da s meeting with law enforcement to create an impending arrest of a former president, and we re supposed to believe that somehow, donald trump created the false expectation of arrest. now the new york times, they reported, of course pulitzer prize reporting, they reported that criminal charges against trump were likely on mar
justice system as he announced indictments against 13 of its nationals. in one case, the department ofjustice nationals. in one case, the department of justice accused two chinese intelligence agents of attempted bribery and espionage in america. now on bbc news it s hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to this special edition of hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi, from the taiwanese capital, taipei. people here in taiwan, which is self governed, live under a constant threat from china, which lies about 160 kilometres across the waters. beijing claims taiwan as part of its territory, and in the past few months has carried out hundreds of military sorties neartaiwan, leading to speculation that it is preparing for an invasion. taiwan has also been subjected to cyber attacks from china. my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, really happy to be here. president xi
leading to speculation that it is preparing for an invasion. taiwan has also been subjected to cyber attacks from china. my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering
my guest is the taiwanese digital minister, audrey tang. can taiwan really forge its own path? minister audrey tang in taipei, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. really happy to be here. president xi of china reiterated at the recent chinese communist party congress that china wants to strive for the prospect of peaceful unification with taiwan, but that he will never promise to give up the option to use force. just sum up briefly the mood for us, the reaction to that possibly new threat. well, there s a familiar message. we ve been hearing that for quite some time. of course, we have to prepare ourselves to face the authoritarian expansionism, but that has been the case for as long as i can remember. so people have not been at all worried by this renewed threat? not especially worried. of course, we ve been seeing renewed interest in, for example, countering disinformation, cybersecurity attacks and so on. but i think the overall mood is quite calm. ok, because china has claime