tom shakespeare, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, great to be here. it s great to have you. now, in your personal life and your professional life, everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. ijust wonder whether you ever, for a moment, considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances? something like accountancy, law, geology? you know what, there are short people, restricted growth people in all of those professions. there are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything. but i did not go that way. so as a social scientist, i ve always been interested in what others experience and so obviously disability has to be top of the list. let me ask you about growing up. your family has its own history, which is important to talk about, i think. your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a genetic mutation. my father. so, he was born in 1927. william shakespeare unfortunate name. and his fathe
welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it s great to be here. it s great to have you here. now, in your personal life, in your professional life, everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. i just wonder whether you ever for a moment considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances, something like accountancy, law, geology. and you know what? there are short people, restricted growth people, in all of those professions. there are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything, who are short. but i didn t go that way. and so, as a social scientist, i ve always been interested in what i ve experienced. and so, obviously, disability has to be top of the list. let me ask you about growing up, because your family has its own history, which is important, i think, to talk about. your grandfather, it seems, experienced a mutation, a genetic mutation. my father. so he was born in 1927. william shakespeare unfor
appeal from north wales location was known, and so we had an appealfrom north wales police, social media posts, from the boys families, from a show where they were studying, to say that they were very concerned. and we know that the silver ford fiesta has been the cover further up that road. we have heard from a crystal, crystal, one of the mothers of the boys. she said that she did not know that they would come here to north wales. she has been frantically worried. he was a student at shrewsbury college, hassan, we believe. he left home on saturday night, but they did not know he was coming here, they thought he was going somewhere else. they have been tearing their hair out over the past 2a hours or so, as soon as it became clear that they had come to north wales, and secondly that they had disappeared. there was no contact with them at all since that sighting. since the telecommunications that happened. that was a mackie. in a s chief mike chris whitley has been giving
the biggest, al shifa, is not functioning at all, according to the world health organization. al shifa s head of surgery has told the bbc that a third premature newborn baby has died because of a lack of power. there are reports that gaza s second biggest hospital, al-quds, has run out of fuel. the situation at the al shifa hospital is intensifying as suppliers are not getting through. gaza s hamas run health ministry says at least 2,300 people are still inside al shifa, in an update shared by the who. officials say premature babies have had to be moved out of their incubators. it s now five weeks since hamas, designated a terror organisation by the uk government, and killed more than 1,200 people in israel, and took more than 200 hostage. since then, hamas officials say well over 11,000 people have been killed in israeli attacks on gaza. in this special report, our international editor jeremy bowen assesses what could happen next, in gaza and in israel. the beds were full wh