Award for the father. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Wherever you look in geopolitics today, theres an overwhelming sense of uncertainty, and its notjust because were still grappling with a global pandemic. Russian troops amassing on ukraines border, china and the us are locked in cold war style hostility, Cyber Warfare makes states, systems and individuals feel newly vulnerable. My guest, sir peter westmacott, was britains ambassador In Washington, paris and ankara. Are we right now at a point of peak geopolitical risk . Peter westmacott, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. Let me start with a big question. Do you think the assumptions that underpinned your very long diplomatic career still hold good today . Im thinking about britains place in the world, its place in europe, relationships with the United States, the way multilateral institutions work. Do all of those assumptions still hold good . I think a lot of its changing at th
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Wherever you look in geopolitics today, theres an overwhelming sense of uncertainty, and its notjust because were still grappling with a global pandemic. Russian troops amassing on ukraines border, china and the us are locked in cold war style hostility, Cyber Warfare makes states, systems and individuals feel newly vulnerable. My guest, sir peter westmacott, was britains ambassador In Washington, paris and ankara. Are we right now at a point of peak geopolitical risk . Peter westmacott, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. Let me start with a big question. Do you think the assumptions that underpinned your very long diplomatic career still hold good today . Im thinking about britains place in the world, its place in europe, relationships with the United States, the way multilateral institutions work. Do all of those assumptions still hold good . I think a lot of its changing at the moment. I
With stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Wherever you look in geopolitics today, theres an overwhelming sense of uncertainty. And its notjust because were still grappling with a global pandemic. Russian troops amassing on ukraines border. China and the us are locked in cold war style hostility. Cyber warfare makes State Systems and individuals feel newly vulnerable. My guest, sir peter westmacott, was britains ambassador In Washington, paris and ankara. Are we, right now, at a point of peak geopolitical risk . Thank you, stephen. Let me start with a big question. Do you think the assumptions that underpinned your very long diplomatic career still hold good today . Im thinking about britains place in the world, its place in europe, relationships with the United States, the way multilateral institutions work. Do all of those assumptions still hold good . I think a lot of its changing at the moment. I think that the uks place in the world has been altered by brexit. I
Thats it from me. I will be back tomorrow, at the top of the hour, lewis will be here with the rest of the days news. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Wherever you look in geopolitics today, theres an overwhelming sense of uncertainty, and its notjust because were still grappling with a global pandemic. Russian troops amassing on ukraines border, china and the us are locked in cold war style hostility, Cyber Warfare makes states, systems and individuals feel newly vulnerable. My guest, sir peter westmacott, was britains ambassador In Washington, paris and ankara. Are we right now at a point of peak geopolitical risk . Peter westmacott, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. Let me start with a big question. Do you think the assumptions that underpinned your very long diplomatic career still hold good today . Im thinking about britains place in the world, its place in europe, relationships with the United States, the way multilateral inst
I am Yasmin Vossoughian coming to you live from msnbc world headquarters. Wow, wow, wow, what a day. Bombshell from senator joe manchin, announcing hours ago hes an no. A no on the build back better. We all knew senator manchin couldnt be trusted, you know, the excuses he just made i think are complete [ bleep ]. Let me be clear, there are six of us who had been saying this all along, representative ocasiocortez, and Representative Talib and Representative Bowman and omar and myself, we have been saying this for weeks that this would happen. I hope we will bring a strong bill to the floor of the senate as soon as we can, and let mr. Manchin explain to the people of West Virginia why he doesnt have the guts to stand up to powerful special interests. Put the bill up and let him stand before the American People and tell them that he does not support childcare, and Climate Change and Housing Systems for those who need safe and secure housing. All i want for christmas is a senator that has