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rate will rise to 40% next year, and reforms are only likely to slow the growth rate. china suggests that moody s was overestimates the difficulties facing china s economy. the shanghai was flat. the hang seng was up by 0.1% in europe, a mixed picture. things are flat forever the dax and cac. ftse up by 0.25 points. m&h na news, constellation brands made an offer to take over brown-forman. and glencore making a takeover approach to bunge. bunge says it is not engaged in talks with glencore. pro and uber says it inadvertently underpaid new york city drivers for 2 1/2 years. the company took a commission from full fare prices. uber says it will pay back drivers, with interest, for the mistake. the wall street journal said the average driver would be repaid $900, totalling $45 million. we will talk with adam lashinsky, author of the new book wild ride: inside uber s quest for domination. let s get to this. the united kingdom raising the threat level to critical ....
i m stephen sackur. leaders who routinely abuse their power can t stand to be laughed at. satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the white afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africa s recent history for laughs? pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you ve made a career and a life out of humour, and pretty subversive humour. but would you say you re fundamentally driven by anger, or is it something else? i think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. so actually i try to keep a balance of 49% anger, 5 ....
i m stephen sackur. leaders who routinely abuse their power can t stand to be laughed at. satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the white afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africa s recent history for laughs? pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you ve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. but would you say you re fundamentally driven by anger, or is it something else? i think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. so actually i try to keep a balance of 49% anger, 51% e ....
i m stephen sackur. leaders who routinely abuse their power can t stand to be laughed at. satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the white afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africa s recent history for laughs? pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you ve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. but would you say you re fundamentally driven by anger, or is it something else? i think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. so actually i try to keep a balance of 49% anger, 51% e ....
he became leader in 2012. this is to tie in with the 20th anniversary of the uk handing hong kong to china. here are some of the pictures we have of the visit. this isn tjust about the past, it s about the present. great care is being taken to make sure any pro democracy protestors don t get anywhere near mr xi. and he s re asserted the one country, two systems formula that has governed hong kong since the british left. we ll get more on president xi s visit in just a moment, but before we do, let s hear from the last governor of hong kong, the man in charge at the time of the handover in 1997. that s him there with prince charles there. he s been speaking to my colleague babita sharma who asked, if after 20 years the people of hong kong feel let down by britain? we have obligations to people in hong kong. their obligations included in the treaty between britain and china which the chinese pretend doesn t involve us. we should be standing up for people s writes in ....