it s an effort to ease the global food crisis, that is affecting millions of people around the world. now on bbc news, it s time for click. we ve got a tasty programme for you this week. when is chocolate not chocolate? when it s made of. kinky salts! don t knock it till you ve tried it! right. lj s feeling out of this world as she explores the new ways to tidy up high speed space trash. we re going to be bathed in lights and sounds, and apart from that, i have no idea what to expect. and spencer takes a trip to an inner world. yeah, i m looking at the inside of my own brain. 0h, did you find it? how dare you! 0k, what s this one? oh, that s nice. that s 70% dark, isn t it? good. you know your stuff. mm hm. and this one? oh, that s very bitter. i d go 90%. yeah? yeah, you re doing well. now for the big one. there you go. oh, gosh! 0h! oh, that s 100% chocolate, isn t it? oh, that is awful. you did volunteer to be the one to eat the chocolate. tastes like tarmac. cocoa is, of
the global food crisis, that is affecting millions of people around the world. now on bbc news, hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. europeans are already shivering at the prospect of a full on energy crisis this coming winter. partly, it s fallout from russia s invasion of ukraine and the disruption to supplies of oil and gas. but there is a bigger global picture. the world is still dangerously reliant on fossil fuels, even as climate change makes decarbonisation ever more urgent. my guest is boss of the international energy agency, fatih birol. will the much vaunted transition to clean energy be derailed by a short term energy panic? fatih birol in paris, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, thank you very much. let me start, if i may, mr birol, with words of yours. not long ago you said, what the world is going through today is a major, it might be the first, global energy crisis, in terms of depth and complexity. with words like th
welcome to bbc news. a potential visit to taiwan by the us house speaker nancy pelosi is stirring alarm in presidentjoe biden s administration. officials fear the trip may cross red lines for china, and that there s no exit path. beijing, which claims sovereignty over the island, has already issued harsh warnings even suggesting a possible military response. against this backdrop, president biden is expected to call president xi on thursday for the first time in months. well earlier i spoke to oriana skylar mastro who s a center fellow at stanford university s freeman spogli institute for international studies. i began by asking whether she thought us house speaker nancy pelosi was right to plan a visit to taiwan. my my personal view is these types of political manoeuvring is whether it is nancy pelosi going to taiwan or president biden saying that the united states is definitely going to defend taiwan only exacerbates tensions and doesn t help the united states with the fu
hello and welcome. a potential visit to taiwan by the us house speaker nancy pelosi is stirring alarm in presidentjoe biden s administration. officials are concerned the trip may cross red lines for china, and fears there s no potential exit path . beijing, which claims sovereignty over the island, has already issued harsh warnings even suggesting a possible military response. against this backdrop, president biden is expected to call president shee on thursday for the first time in months. gareth barlow reports. this is taiwan. to beijing it is the breakaway province that must become part of the country, if need be by force. to washington, it s the territory of the us has pledged to help defend, if it ever comes under attack. an island nation of 23 million, at the centre of a struggle between two global superpowers, and it s the potential visit to taiwan by nancy pelosi, second in line to the us presidency, who, if the trip goes ahead, will be the highest ranking american
we start with the soaring cost of living because there s a warning home energy bills here in the uk could rise even higher than previously feared this winter. wholesale gas prices have jumped back to near record highs after a further squeeze on europe s gas supplies by russia. our global trade correspondent dharshini david has the details. this is being claimed as the first truly global energy crisis, the result of moscow weaponising fossil fuels in europe has been the key target. this is the wholesale price paid for gas there. 4a8% higher than a year ago because traditionally it got to 40% of its gas from russia. that latest rise reflects a focus on this, this is nord stream one, the pipeline carrying bird of europe s russian gas supply all the way to germany, that flow has now dropped to just a fifth of normal levels, russia blames that on the impact of sanctions on vital equipment, opponents say it s an attempt to blackmail by turning down those taps. those concerns have a