Hello. How are you? i m very well, minister kono, and thank you forjoining us. What has gone wrong? a simple question. What has gone wrong injapan? you re a global powerhouse economy, which seems to have been stalled for decades. Why do you think that is? well, there was a bubble economy back in 1980s, and the japanese economy went through some adjustment, and now we are back on track. The economy is getting warmer and warmer. Back on track. You thinkjapan s back on track, when you look at your massive debt problem, you look at your very weak currency on global markets right now, you look at a cost of living crisis, which is clearly affecting japanese people, who seem to be very disaffected, weary with the political and economic status quo. Well, the post covid inflation injapan is much, much lower than uk or the united states. So, don t worry about it. And economy is clearly back on track. The japanese economy is growing back again. Let me ask you about the politics of japan. For pret
Taro kono in tokyo, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. How are you? i m very well, minister kono, and thank you forjoining us. What has gone wrong? a simple question. What has gone wrong injapan? you re a global powerhouse economy, which seems to have been stalled for decades. Why do you think that is? well, there was a bubble economy back in 1980s, and the japanese economy went through some adjustment, and now we are back on track. The economy is getting warmer and warmer. Back on track. You thinkjapan s back on track, when you look at your massive debt problem, you look at your very weak currency on global markets right now, you look at a cost of living crisis, which is clearly affecting japanese people, who seem to be very disaffected, weary with the political and economic status quo. Well, the post covid inflation injapan is much, much lower than uk or the united states. So, don t worry about it. And economy is clearly back on track. The japanese economy is growing back again. Let me ask
Greg: talking to myself! happy five days from friday, everyone! hope you all had a relaxing weekend filled with great friends, delicious food, or in julie banderas case, a night in the drunk tank. Yeah, well, there was a storm. I had to have a lot of dark and stormis. Greg: i bet you did. I wonder, is this the greatest immolation i ve ever seen? this is the greatest humiliation have ever seen. Biden s botched exit in afghanistan is the most astonishing display of gross incompetence by a nation leader. Vietnam oaks like a master class in strategy compared to joe biden s catastrophe. And it didn t have to happen. All he had to do is leave the soldiers there until everything is out. Our citizens, our weapons, then you bomb the hell out of the bases. We have five bases and you say byebye. Greg: byebye! [scattered applause] let me ask you, do you think that general patton was woke? i don t think so. Let me ask you, do you think that general patton was woke? i don t think so. You know what
Now on bbc news, click. This week: how to uncover deadly secrets online. The secret codes attracting more women into cybersecurity. And tenet, the oscar winning secrets of making time to backwards. Audio tracks backwards. Welcome to click. We all know how easy it is to fake things online these days, not even photos, voiced or videos are safe, as we well know, right? yes, we ve worn fake clothes, we have faked our voices with software. I ve even been entirely faked with a virtual me although i am convinced that she looked ten years older. I whole heartedly agree. Later in the program, we re going to see the hollywood version of this, when we look behind the scenes at the film, tenet. Spoiler alert it wasn t all real. But these days, you don t need a big budget to do this. Just think of those zoom backgrounds that we ve all been looking at. Admittedly, the edges of your hair do often give the game away, but these pictures are pretty good, a lot better than we would have imagined they
Shortly on bbc news newswatch. But before that it s time for click. Welcome to click. Now, we all know how easy it is to fake things online these days. Not even photos, voiced or videos are safe, as we well know, right? yes, we ve worn fake clothes, we ve faked our voices with software. I ve even been entirely faked with a virtual me although i am convinced that she looked ten years older. I whole heartedly agree. Later in the program, we re going to see the hollywood version of this when we look behind the scenes at the film, tenet. Spoiler alert it wasn t all real. But these days, you don t need a big budget to do this. Just think of those zoom backgrounds that we ve all been looking at. Admittedly, the edges of your hair do often give the game away, but these pictures are pretty good, a lot better than we would have imagined they could be five years ago. (harp glissando) so, check out the next advancements. This is where zoom can put meeting participants into a meeting room, a