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traversed the nation before our military shot it down. after china said it is still thinking about arming russia in its war on ukraine. the list is so long. i m harris faulkner. the action against china fully on display. a china select committee held its first hearing in prime time yesterday. just because this congress is divided we cannot afford to waste the next two years. our policy over the next ten years will set the stage for the next 100. we can now allow the ccp to prevail. earlier yesterday democrats called for accountability. democrats calling for it from both china and the biden administration. there is a considerable dispute as to whether covid came from a wet market or came from the lab. the reason for this dispute is that china was absolutely opaque. they failed to cooperate. they failed to come clean. state department has done almost nothing to tell the world how china s responsible not maybe for the virus but certainly for their failure to cooperat ....
internal warfare we have seen this movie before, and we know how it ends. tax cuts is the issue dominating the contest so far. we ll look at what the candidates are saying they ll do if they win. we ll also look at the crisis in sri lanka. the president has confirmed he will step down after protesters stormed his palace. and we ll look at twitter s share price, which has fallen sharply after elon musk pulled out of his takeover attempt. let s start by continuing to get reaction to what we have heard, that this process will be down to two by next week. there is a threshold of 20 mp5 next week. there is a threshold of 20 mps for any contender to get into the first round, and have to get their applications in by tomorrow evening. also, people get the winner of the entire process, the person who will become the next prime minister, by the 5th of september. that speak to an mp who resigned last because first hit of the conservative party. being quite a few days since that happen ....
Treatment for cancer. Doctors say they are pleased with the kings progress and remain positive about his recovery. Also tonight a warning from washington. Us Secretary Of StateAntony Blinken says the us will act if china doesnt Cease Weapons Supplies to russia, aiding its war on ukraine. Trump on trial. As the first week of testimony draws to a close, well assess what weve learned from the historic trial of the former president. And is the uks bid to stem illegal migration, by deporting people to rwanda, now fuelling a rise in migration to ireland . All that to come, but we begin tonight with news that king charles is to return to some public facing duties. They will be his first engagements since being diagnosed with cancer. Buckingham palace says the kings treatment isnt over, but doctors are encouraged by ....
the individual, the community and the state. but what happens when that contract is threatened by forces beyond the control of any national government say, a climate crisis or, right now, a global pandemic? my guest is baroness minouche shafik, director of london school of economics, former top official at the world bank. is humanity capable of collective action to meet global challenges? baroness minouche shafik, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. lovely to be here. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. you have written extensively, through a long career as a top economist, about the relationship between the individual and the collective whether it be the community, the nation state or, indeed, the wider world. what do you think the covid pandemic has revealed to us about the limitations of, for example, the nation state? well, i think the covid pandemic has revealed fault lines in our social contract. and that was revealed by who suffered the most the ....
welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the idea of a social contract is a staple of political philosophy, put curedly, it s the ties and obligations that bind the individual, the community and the state. but what happens when that contract is threatened by forces beyond the control of any national government, say, a climate crisis or right now, a global pandemic? my guest is baroness minouche shafik, the director of london school of economics, former top official at the world bank. is humanity capable of collective action to meet global challenges? baroness minouche shafik, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. lovely to be here. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. you have written extensively through a long career as a top economist about the relationship between the individual and the collective, whether it be the community, the nation state or indeed, the wider world. what do you think the covid pandemic has revealed to us about the limitations of, for exa ....