Now on Bbc News, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. From John Lennon to bob marley, the Music Business has embraced songwriters who combine their beats with political activism. My guest has upheld that tradition with an energy which sets him apart. Serj tankian is best known as frontman of the heavy Metal Band System of a down. Hes also an Arch Advocate for his familys homeland, armenia. His passionate views on genocide, War And Corrupt Governance have won him millions of fans and numerous enemies too. Which matters more to him the politics or the music . Serj tankian in Los Angeles, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. Thanks for having me on. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. I dont want to start in a downbeat way, but i Cant Help noticing that you recently described the last year as the worst of your life. I guess we can all imagine why that might be, butjust spell it out for me. Well, i mean, covid obviously is a huge part of it, but also i had
Its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. From John Lennon to bob marley, the Music Business has embraced songwriters who combine their beats with political activism. My guest has upheld that tradition with an energy which sets him apart. Serj tankian is best known as frontman of the heavy Metal Band System of a down. Hes also an Arch Advocate for his familys homeland, armenia. His passionate views on genocide, War And Corrupt Governance have won him millions of fans and numerous enemies too. Which matters more to him the politics or the music . Serj tankian in Los Angeles, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. Thanks for having me on. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. I dont want to start in a downbeat way, but i Cant Help noticing that you recently described the last year as the worst of your life. I guess we can all imagine why that might be, butjust spell it out for me. Well, i mean, covid obviously is a huge part of it, but also i had other health issues. My b
Now on Bbc News, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. From John Lennon to bob marley, the Music Business has embraced songwriters who combine their beats with political activism. My guest has upheld that tradition with an energy which sets him apart. Serj tankian is best known as frontman of the heavy Metal Band System of a down. Hes also an Arch Advocate for his familys homeland, armenia. His passionate views on genocide, War And Corrupt Governance have won him millions of fans and numerous enemies too. Which matters more to him the politics or the music . Serj tankian in Los Angeles, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. Thanks for having me on. Its a pleasure to have you on the show. I dont want to start in a downbeat way, but i Cant Help noticing that you recently described the last year as the worst of your life. I guess we can all imagine why that might be, butjust spell it out for me. Well, i mean, covid obviously is a huge part of it, but also i had other health
himself. trade between the uk and eu partially recovered in february. but there is not enough information about the economic effects of brexit. the biggest changes in british trading arrangements for over a0 years meant a chaotic start to the new year for haulage boss pete white. probably the worst, most difficult week i ve had in this job in 20 years. weeks later, it s a different story as teething problems subside. we re winning, that s the basic outlay of where it s going now. my process of customs was less than an hour. very straightforward. but your paperwork has to be perfect. if your paperwork isn t 100% correct, you will get delays. in february, the amount of goods that we sold to the eu jumped by almost 47%. dramatic, but that follows a plunge of 40% injanuary while exporters struggled to get to grips with the new formalities and some stayed away from shipping goods altogether for fear of disruption at the border. that trade has now resumed but we re still down in te
because of overcrowding in many hospitals. and a lot of hot air trying to beat the world record for crossing the channel. and coming up on bbc news: we ve got the latest from the second round of the masters, where the weather has been far more friendly to the players, including england s lee westowood, at augusta. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. russia, an ally of syria, has condemned a missile strike authorised by president trump on a syrian government target. 59 tomahawk cruise missiles were fired from us warships in the mediterranean at the shayrat air base from where mr trump said this week s deadly chemical weapons attack in northern syria was launched. in a moment, we ll get the latest on russia s response and how the strike could affect the long war in syria. but, first, here s our north america editorjon sopel and a warning, his report does contain some distressing images. it was after dark on the east coast of america and before the sun had risen