So much to shape the world of today . Sathnam sanghera, welcome to hardtalk. Its nice to be back. Its great to have you back, and you are back with a new book, which i have here empireworld. Its your take on just how massive the impact of the British Empire was and still is on the world. You certainly dont undersell your idea, its subtitled how British Imperialism has shaped the globe. I really do believe that. I think the British Empire explains so much about peoples daily lives Around The World, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the Bbc World Service used to be known as the bbc empire service. It explains so much about our daily news. Youvejust come back from guyana theres a Border Dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, theres a gap between the way in Which Britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did be
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I really do believe that. I think the British Empire explains so much about peoples daily lives Around The World, tea drinking in india, in britain, patterns of tax avoidance, even the Bbc World Service used to be known as the bbc empire service. It explains so much about our daily news. Youve just come back from guyana theres a Border Dispute there that goes back to empire, israel palestine, a dispute that has its roots in empire, but also, theres a gap between the way in which britain sees itself and the world sees britain through the prism of this history, and i think we need to remember what we did before we go around pontificating on things like democracy and the environment and human rights. We need to remember our distinctly patchy records on those things during the age of empire. But do you think your perspective is driven in part by your own background 7 youre of indian heritage, born and raised in the united kingdom, so britain and india matter particularly to you, you know t
hello from the bbc sport centre. hello i m chetan pathak with your latest sports news we start at afcon the 34th edition of the africa cup of nations has reached the semi final stage with both matches on wednesday. the hosts ivory coast play the democratic republic of congo but before that it s the other heavyweights nigeria. who play south africa. and they ve been given a massive boost with striker victor osimhen declared fit to play who had been a doubt with an abdominal problem. it s a rematch of the 2000 afcon semi final which nigeria won and was the last time south africa reached the last four. this time their coach is hoping they can go one step further: i think for many people it was unexpected. but we did it, and that means that south africa became a good team. it s also more than 20 years ago that south africa played the semifinal, even more that we play the final. that means that we ve got a lot of motivation. meanwhile, ivory coast have never won the competit
around 700,000 children are being taught in buildings that need repairs. the government said it has been investing in transforming schools. nine people are known to have died after a russian missile attack in ukraine. rescuers have spent the night looking for survivors in kramatorsk. the chancellor will meet with water and energy regulators to find out what they will do to lower prices. there are concerns that firms are exploiting inflation. and kevin spacey has arrived at his trial in london where he is accused of sexual assaulting men. he denies the charges against him. the the national audit office found a third of school buildings has develop beyond their initial design life. a lot were put up quickly after the war. so we are talking of 24,000 after the war. so we are talking of 2a,000 buildings. the risk of injury or death from a school building or collapse has been assessed as very likely or critical. what the hell s going on. jessica hill is with us and racheljones, a