shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, number five in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an
the former president. speaking after day one of the trial, mr trump sought to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the court. it s a scam trial. if you read all of the legal comments, from all of the legal scholars today, there s not one that i see that said that this is a case that should be brought to trial. it s a scam. it s a political witchhunt. it continues for ever and we are not going to be given a fair trial and it is a very, very sad thing. live now to new york to speak to our correspondent john sudworth. john, bring us up to date with what happened today? when donald trump s motorcade left the precinct here in a man well used to breaking the norms of political life hit another milestone, this time a legal one, becoming the first us president to face a criminal trial. when it did get under way, as is often the case, the business was pretty humdrum, procedural discussion, the defence raising a number of issues and discussions over the timing. donald trump suggesting he
nearly all of the more than 300 missiles and drones were shot down. israels military chief has again said the attack will be met with a response despite the fact that many of israel s allies have warned against escalation. here s our middle east corrrespondent lucy williamson. israel is deciding how to respond to this hundreds of drones and missiles fired over the weekend from iran. damage on the ground was limited. damage to regional stability, much more severe. at an airbase hit by missiles in the negev desert today, israel s chief of staff promised a response. iran will face the consequences for its actions. we will choose our response accordingly. the idf remains ready to counter any threat from iran and its terror proxies. israel says only a handful of missiles made it through air defences, but this direct confrontation with iran, the first on israeli soil, has thrown the middle east off balance. what s shaken israel in these attacks isn t the damage caused, but how
Eknath Shinde said: “The statement by Wadettiwar regarding the martyred policemen and innocent Mumbaikars who lost their lives in the 26/11 attacks is infuriating. Wadettiwar seems to be following the slogan of Rahul Gandhi, who is conducting not ‘Bharat Jodo’ but Bharat todo yatra.”