Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Kahn won power in pakistan two years ago with a promise to root out corruption and take on the countries vested interest. So hows it going . Well, rising food prices and the covid pandemic have left many pakistanis feeling worse off. While the Anti Corruption drive has become a political battleground. My guest today ishaq dar was pakistans Finance Minister a former Prime Minister nawaz sharif now both of those men are trying to rally opposition to imran khan. But how much credibility do they have . Ishaq dar, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Let us begin with your personal status, your legal status. You are a wanted man in pakistan. Are you here in london to escape the judicial process . Not really, i think you must be aware of the pakistan history. When our in pakistan over 73 years the rhetoric has been used over the last two dictatorships and the current one isnt different. Because this regime is known to be under the martial law.
welcome to hardtalk i am stephen sackur. like a gambler desperate to reverse a losing streak, vladimir putin is raising the stakes as he loses ground in ukraine. he has ordered a partial mobilisation for this war that he claims is not a war and is bringing up his threats to go nuclear if necessary. what does this mean for ukraine and the support it relies on in the west? my guest is ivanna klympush tsintsadze, chair of the ukrainian parliament eu integration committee. can putin s threats undermine support for kyiv? ivanna klympush tsintsadze mtf, welcome to hardtalk. ivanna klympush-tsintsadze mtf, welcome to hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. thank you for invitin: welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s welcome to hardtalk. thank you for inviting me. it s a for inviting me. it s a pleasure for inviting me. it s a pleasure to - for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have - for inviting me. it s a pleasure to have
my guest is ukraine s energy minister german galushchenko. battlefield gains cannot disguise strategic vulnerability. is ukraine ready for putin s escalation strategy? german galushchenko mtf, welcome to hardtalk. hello, sir. minister, you have had another day of air strikes in kyiv. these so called kamikaze drones supplied to russia by the iranians that are causing havoc right now in kyiv and in many towns and cities across your country, how worried are you about the fear they are spreading? well, we have seen, they started using drones and targeting the energy infrastructure and that is the massive shellings which started from the monday a week ago and the shellings continue every day and is not only this, several hours ago and shelled by missiles and the number of energy objects in all of ukraine and that is a new approach of russians against ukraine and the targeting of energy infrastructure. and i know you and ukraine are careful about giving too much information about t
office, he was met by israel s new prime minister. mr biden will also meet the palestinian president. that s it for me for now, i will be back later in the evening. now on bbc news, hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. 25 years ago, almost 1.5 million christians lived in iraq. now there are around a quarter of a million. and after years of war and sectarian violence, many of them have been displaced from their ancestral homes. can anything be done to reverse this trend toward extinction? well, my guest is archbishop bashar warda of erbil, home to the largest remaining christian community in a country, a region where christianity has deep roots. does it have a future? archbishop bashar warda, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. welcome, thank you. it s a pleasure to have you here, but i have to ask you, archbishop, how demoralising is it for you as the chaldean archbishop of erbil to see your christian community getting smaller and smaller year af