also on the programme. the wait is over for football fans, the euro 2020 football tournament begins, with italy playing turkey, we ll be live in rome. hello a warm welcome to falmouth in south west england just along the coast from the eden project, where leaders of the g7 countries have been attending a lavish reception with queen elizabeth to highlight the need to tackle climate change. the eden project consists of a series of bio domes housing the world s largest indoor rainforest. the queen wasjoined at an open air reception there by prince charles, camilla the duchess of cornwall and prince william and catherine the duchess of cambridge three generations of the royal family. earlier, opening the g7 summit at carbis bay, the prime minister borisjohnson predicted that the world s leading economies would bounce back from the coronavirus crisis but also urged his counterparts to learn from the mistakes of the pandemic. and speaking at the start of the first in person m
and the story of the little girl who vanished for days in australia more than half a century ago. now, finally, answers about what happened to her. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 8am in the morning in singapore and 7pm in the evening in new york, where prince andrew is demanding a trial byjury. he formally denied all the allegations against him, as he gave a court his official response to allegations of sexual assault. virginia giuffre accuses the duke of york of forcing her to have sex more than two decades ago at the london home of the convicted sex trafficker ghislaine maxwell. the 11 page document sets out the duke s detailed response, strongly denying that he abused ms giuffre when she was 17. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has more details. across 11 pages, andrew s lawyers have set out his defence a denial of the central allegation of sexual abuse made by virginia giuffre and an assertion in respect of others that a
is economist mariana mazzucato. her faith in the transformational power of the proactive state has made her the go to adviser to a host of governments. does her moonshot economics ignore some earthly realities? mariana mazzucato, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be here. it s great to have you here. your latest book is called mission economy. you are all about mission economics how we human beings can sort of rethink our economic policies to better meet the challenges that we, as a species, face. well, we have to. we have to. and right now, over the last couple of years, covid has been the number one challenge. how would you assess the ability of our economies to meet the covid challenge? well, i think we were caught completely unprepared, as we have been with the climate crisis. you know, we have all these different interlocking crises. the financial crisis, the climate crisis, now this health pandemic. and in each case, we ve been unprepared. and my view is that if poli
now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. what is the galvanising force behind transformational economic change? capitalism encourages us to look to the raw power of markets as the driver of innovation, but is that really true? do we underestimate the importance of the state as a catalyst of innovation? well, my guest today is economist mariana mazzucato. her faith in the transformational power of the proactive state has made her the go to adviser to a host of governments. does her moonshot economics ignore some earthly realities? mariana mazzucato, welcome to hardtalk. it s great to be here. it s great to have you here. your latest book is called mission economy. you are all about mission economics how we human beings can sort of rethink our economic policies to better meet the challenges that we, as a species, face. well, we have to. we have to and right now, over the last couple of years, covid has been the number one challenge. how would
this programme contains some strong language. hello. is the tide turning against privatisation? as shareholders of britain s biggest water company today refused to put up half a billion pounds towards a rescue plan for the debt ridden thames water, could it and others be renationalised? we ll explore what s going right and what s going wrong with privatisation, and talk to labour live about their plans for levelling up if they win the next election. did the post office cover up the truth? it knew, when it was arguing in court that its subpostmasters must have been guilty of theft and fraud, that its own defence was untrue. the bbc has seen the evidence. we ll get reaction from this former subpostaster, convicted and jailed, after being accused of a shortfall of £59,000. also tonight. as the crypto king and fraudster sam bankman fried is sentenced to 25 years in jail in the states for money laundering, what does his fall from grace mean for the future of cryptocurrency? a