miriam will be here at the top of the hour with all news international and national. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. hello there. the weather is in a very unsettled mood, notjust welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. the 20th century was, in many ways, shaped by america s unrivalled power. two decades into the new century, and it s clear the story arc is shifting. china is projecting its power across the globe. russia is out to reassert its regional supremacy, and the limits of american power have been exposed from iraq to afghanistan. my guest is retired us general ben hodges, former commander of the us army in europe. is america in danger of losing the race to define the 21st century? ben hodges in frankfurt, germany, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. general hodges, it s great to have you on the show. i want to begin not by talking about geopolitics or military balance, but about covid and whether you believe for governments around the world,
army knife. the attorney general is not backing down from this fight. let s go out front. good evening, i am erin burnett. rudy giuliani is caught on tape. this is audio of a phone call between rudy giuliani and ukraine official ahead of the 2020 election. if ukraine launch an investigation into joe biden, he ll talk to trump and putting the misunderstanding aside. here is rudy giuliani. re if he could face something like that it would go a long way, it would go a long way with the president to solve the problems. to solve the problems. do what we ask and we can solve the problems. rudy giuliani s dealings with ukraine is part of an ongoing investigation at the department of justice, an invasestigation involved a raid. we have more evidence rudy giuliani helping trump spread the big election lie. the man, of course, tells the top election official in arizona to get, quote, this thing fixed up. bill, it is rudy giuliani, president trump s lawyer, if you get a chanc
weeks now is even greater pressure on the health care system the latest warning reporter from the southern city of bengal to a hospital say they re running out of oxygen they re asking patients to make other arrangements but the problem is that there are no more intensive care unit beds left in bengal to find it like in delhi being one of india s wealthiest cities known for its medical tourism but lose in the state of karnataka where 24 patients died on monday after the oxygen ran out now a politician in the state of karnataka has written to prime minister modi the former leader of the state in fact and asked him to do something to prevent a tragedy the government is coming under a lot of pressure in the us former minneapolis police officer derek children is asking for a new trial citing multiple grounds including jury misconduct. then was convicted of 2nd and 3rd degree murder as well as manslaughter for the killing of george floyd israeli forces of attacks demonstrators in
a mosque compound but we ve been told that there are still ongoing clashes near the compound in the old city of jerusalem and we ve been hearing from many palestinians who would going back to white west bank from that that they were subject to humiliation and torture at the checkpoint one of the checkpoints is separating juice and them through. the occupied west bank and that they are subject to. arrest as well the chinese cover 19 vaccine side of farm has become the 6th to receive the world health organization stamp of approval for emergency use this means it cannot be added to the u.n. backed kovacs scheme coronavirus numbers in the paul have shot up as the crisis spills over from neighboring india it has 57 times more cases than it did a month ago a lockdown has been extended in the capital katmandu. india has again recorded more than 400000 new corona virus infections in a day but experts fear the number is actually far higher the head of ethiopia s author talks church ha
and brazil to record more than $4000.00 deaths in a day bharti mittal has more from new delhi we ve been reporting that both the case count as well as the debt that we remain under reported and there are growing calls for national lockdown but you will remember the prime minister a few weeks ago said that a national law 8 will be his last resort in the meantime states have been announcing their own cobbs sort of creeping coughing it was if you will coffee was that have turned into complete lockdown and we ve seen that in states today this morning the chief minister of tamil nadu has announced a 2 week lockdown starting may 10th when only essential activities will be allowed . covert 19 continues to surge across pakistan it s imposed a countrywide lockdown for 10 days it s an attempt to stop cases spreading during the muslim holiday of. these orthodox churches accuse government forces of carrying out genocide in too great province since november fighting between the central go