With governments now, but your whole career basically sounds as though you have been banging your head against a brick wall. Did you learn some lessons from that . Of course, of course. What lessons did you draw . It seems like the only lesson you took was, you know what, after a while you betray your best friends in politics . No. I dont agree with that at all. I bet you know. I bet you know how do you feel as president that you are going to go down in history as a president who presided over a loss of a large part of your territory . I understood that you wished to do this interview, and you wished to reply to questions that we, In The Name Of the bbc, are putting towards you. Am i not right . Yeah, cheers. Hardtalk. To the next 20 years well you got water and ive got wine . thats terrible our show has a name which gives you a very strong clue as to what youre going to get. And i do wonder sometimes whether calling the Programme Hardtalk has been a huge advantage, because it cuts thr
Good morning. It is 7 00am in singapore, Midnight In London and 2 00am in the morning across turkey, where a referendum has granted the president a wide range of new powers, but with the narrowest of majorities, just 51. 3 of the vote. It means the role of Prime Minister will be scrapped, and turkey will become a president ial democracy. But opponents say it wont have the checks and balances of similar systems around the world, and are disputing the results, alleging widespread irregularities. From istanbul, our World Affairs Editorjohn Simpson sent this report. Tonight, the victors were out in force, celebrating as though they had won by a big majority, instead of by a whisker. In fact, here in istanbul, and in turkeys two other largest cities, izmir and ankara, the capital, the no campaign seems actually to have won. The worry is that the result has been too narrow to settle anything for good. The bangs are notjust fireworks. Those are guns being fired. The fact is that there is a bi
With governments now, but your whole career basically sounds as though you have been banging your head against a brick wall. Did you learn some lessons from that . Of course, of course. What lessons did you draw . It seems like the only lesson you took was, you know what, after a while you betray your best friends in politics . No. I dont agree with that at all. I bet you know. I bet you know how do you feel as president that you are going to go down in history as a president who presided over a loss of a large part of your territory . I understood that you wished to do this interview, and you wished to reply to questions that we, In The Name Of the bbc, are putting towards you. Am i not right . Yeah, cheers. Hardtalk. To the next 20 years well you got water and ive got wine . thats terrible our show has a name which gives you a very strong clue as to what youre going to get. And i do wonder sometimes whether calling the Programme Hardtalk has been a huge advantage, because it cuts thr
Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. China unveils its latest Economic Growth numbers in just china unveils its latest Economic Growth numbers injust over an hour a Strong Performance is predicted. And we find out why cadbury has lost taste for Chocolate Making in new zealand. Good morning. Glad you could join us for this monday edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We are counting down to new data from china which will reveal how much of its economy grew in the first three months of this year. And there are positive signs with the rebound in exports, a rise in Government Spending on infrastructure and housing prices continuing to soar. Many believe todays numbers could come in comfortable it higher than the governments estimate for the year at 6. 5 . China is still motoring. Do received wisdom for growth in its economy, gdp at the beginning of 2017, is it will come in at around 6. 8 . This is the main reason for that continued buoyancy. Construct
In just a few days from now, pope francis will fly to egypt to offer his personal support to egypts Coptic Christians. Hell find a community filled with apprehension, targeted byjihadist extremists, and subject to persistent discrimination and sectarian violence. Elsewhere in the middle east, in syria and iraq, the plight of christians is even worse. My guest today is the general bishop of the Coptic Church in the uk, bishop angaelos. Do christians have any future at all in the middle east . Bishop angaelos, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Do you think there is something substantively different about the nature of the threat faced by Coptic Christians in egypt today . Because they have faced threats for many, many years. Yes. We have faced threats for centuries, and particularly over the past decades, but to have Suicide Bombers in churches is is a shift, and it looks like the mirroring of attacks in other parts of the world. And think that is why it has shocked the Egyptian Community