let s begin in the us where as we ve been hearing, a landmark bill which includes billions of dollars to fight climate change, has been approved by the senate. the $430 billion bill will fund a range of measures to steer the us economy away from fossil fuels, with initiatives to boost electric car ownership and the use of solar energy. the bill also funds measures to reduce healthcare costs. so what does this all mean for the us economy? joining me now isjustin urquhart stewart, founder of regionally investment platform. lovely to see you. on the face of it this is a huge step forward, isn t it for the us in terms of its fight again the climate crisis but the devil will be in the detail, won t it? , will be in the detail, won t it? , ~ it? it s looks like we ll turn the other it? it s looks like we ll turn the other knock it? it s looks like we ll turn the other knock when - it? it s looks like we ll turn the other knock when we l it? it s looks like we ll turn l the o
my guest is the world renowned soviet born conductor semyon bychkov. is art the loser when politics takes centre stage? semyon bychkovjoins me now. welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you are like all of the great musical maestros, you re peripatetic, your career takes you all around the world, you are constantly travelling. is there one place you can point to and say that has done the most to define you as a person and an artist? no, i don t think so. maybe because my destiny made it so that i was born in russia. i lived there 22 years before emigrating to america. leningrad was the city, when it was called leningrad. leningrad today, st petersburg. so the dna, the roots are there, have always been, always will be. but then what happens is that i come to america, i live five years, my first five years, in new york, and then i conduct grand rapid symphony in michigan, buffalo philharmonic, so altogether i think, what, 13, 14 years of life in america, becoming us citizen, having
being an action thriller. and it turns out there are a lot of other hit men on the train coincidence or not, two of them are supposedly british hit men. and we ll see from the clip that they re having a little conversation about their names. one is called lemon, and one is called tangerine. let s have a look. lemon. tangerine. you re bleeding, mate. that s not mine, mate. it s not yours? 0h, in that case, just leave yourjacket open and let people have a good old look. yeah, i want everyone to see my tie. pull your coat together so no one else notices, lemon. i think they ll notice - the childish codenames first, but if we re sticking with fruit, why not apple or orange? - so what s in this case? on phone: are we doing this? you know what s in the case. money, it s always money. tangerine s a sophisticated fruit. oh, now a fruit s sophisticated? yeah, it s cross hybridised with other fruit. they re adaptable like me. then why am i lemon? because you re sour no one likes
the us senate passes joe biden s climate plan, channeling billions of dollars towards ambitious clean energy goals. the world will be a better place for my grandchildren because of what we did today, and that makes me feel very, very good. very, very good. and more than 80,000 tourists are stranded in a chinese resort after a coronavirus outbreak sparks a lockdown. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it sneezed at. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 2:30am in the morning in afghanistan from where we have a special report showing how pregnant women, new mothers and their babies are being affected by acute shortages and a lack of basic services. it comes nearly one year on from the taliban takeover and with much foreign funding suspended. 0ur report was filmed in badakhshan province in the north east of afghanistan by cameraman sanjay ganguly producer imogen anderson and correspondent yogita limaye. some viewers may find this report distressing.
this week we ll have a series of reports looking at life in afghanistan also on the programme. china says it will carry out new military exercises near south korea until the middle of august as taiwan accuses china of practising for an invasion of the island. and the icelandic volcano spewing out lava and molten rock that s become a hit with tourists. live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. there were tears ofjoy amongst democrats in the us senate as a landmark bill to tackle climate change was passed. after more than a year of intense wrangling, the sweeping reforms are being seen as a major victory for president biden. republicans had tried to derail the legislation worth 430 billion dollars claiming it would undermine economic growth. it also contains measures to reduce the price of health care and introduce new taxes for business. senate majority leader, chuck schumer, shared hisjoy that the bill has pa