hello, welcome to the programme. military leaders in myanmar have staged a coup and declared a state of emergency for at least a year. hours earlier, they detained the country s de facto leader aung san suu kyi and several of her fellow leaders in the national league for democracy. the military says it s in response to alleged election fraud in november s general election which saw aung sang suu kyi returned to power by a huge majority. let s speak to our south east asia correspondentjonathan head. just a few hours ago, elected politicians were about to convene a new parliament and just a couple of hours later it is now a military coup. an extraordinary sequence of events in a very short time period. what have the military been saying? been saying? well, they have siml been saying? well, they have simply announced been saying? well, they have simply announced that - been saying? well, they have simply announced that this i been saying? well, they have simply announced that
and the story of the little girl who vanished for days in australia more than half a century ago. now, finally, answers about what happened to her. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in the morning in singapore and 7pm in the evening in new york, where prince andrew is demanding a trial byjury. he formally denied all the allegations against him, as he gave a court his official response to allegations of sexual assault. virginia giuffre accuses the duke of york of forcing her to have sex more than two decades ago at the london home of the convicted sex trafficker ghislaine maxwell. the 11 page document sets out the duke s detailed response, strongly denying that he abused ms giuffre when she was 17. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more details. across 11 pages, andrew s lawyers have set out his defence a denial of the central allegation of sexual abuse made by virginia giuffre and an assertion in respect of others that a
is economist mariana mazzucato. her faith in the transformational power of the proactive state has made her the go to adviser to a host of governments. does her moonshot economics ignore some earthly realities? mariana mazzucato, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be here. it s great to have you here. your latest book is called mission economy. you are all about mission economics how we human beings can sort of rethink our economic policies to better meet the challenges that we, as a species, face. well, we have to. we have to. and right now, over the last couple of years, covid has been the number one challenge. how would you assess the ability of our economies to meet the covid challenge? well, i think we were caught completely unprepared, as we have been with the climate crisis. you know, we have all these different interlocking crises. the financial crisis, the climate crisis, now this health pandemic. and in each case, we ve been unprepared. and my view is that if poli
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. what is the galvanising force behind transformational economic change? capitalism encourages us to look to the raw power of markets as the driver of innovation, but is that really true? do we underestimate the importance of the state as a catalyst of innovation? well, my guest today is economist mariana mazzucato. her faith in the transformational power of the proactive state has made her the go to adviser to a host of governments. does her moonshot economics ignore some earthly realities? mariana mazzucato, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be here. it s great to have you here. your latest book is called mission economy. you are all about mission economics how we human beings can sort of rethink our economic policies to better meet the challenges that we, as a species, face. well, we have to. we have to and right now, over the last couple of years, covid has been the number one challenge. how would
by the flooding in pakistan. just look at all there is water. it s like being in the middle of the ocean except over there are people s houses and there are people s houses and there are people s houses and there are many more in far flung communities and the water levels here are rising. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. inspectors from the united nations have finally arrived at the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in ukraine, which has been occupied by russian forces since march. shelling around the plant has led to fears of a catastrophic nuclear accident. ukrainian troops are pressing ahead with a counter offensive in the nearby region of kherson, to retake areas seized by russia. our correspondent quentin sommerville filed this exclusive report from the front line, in the donbas region of eastern ukraine. and a warning, there are some distressing scenes in his report. in donbas, there will be no harvest. as russian shells fall about us, these