i m samira hussain. i m arunoday mukharji. well, india hasjust had a mammoth election. 6a2 million people voted over a month and a half. and these elections are important because whatever happens here has global ramifications. and the results, they were surprising. narendra modi will keep his job as prime minister. but the intractable leader, well, he now depends on other parties to back him up. actually, arunoday, you broke down the numbers. let s take a look. the world s largest democratic exercise. elections in a country of 1.4 billion, done and dusted. here s everything you need to know about the results. the bjp won the most number of seats, 240, but it s still not the victory narendra modi was hoping for. he has 63 less seats than what the bjp won in the last election, and less than 272 that is needed to have a majority, which means he is not the final word on politics or policy, and will have to rely on unpredictable alliance partners and establish a consensus. other t
temperatures in the indian capital, delhi, hitjust shy of 50 degrees celsius in recent days, the highest ever recorded. meanwhile, parts of brazil are still recovering from extensive floods caused by a deluge made twice as likely by climate change, say scientists. it is evidence, said the head of the un today, that the world is playing russian roulette with the climate. climate change is the mother of all stealth taxes, paid by everyday people and vulnerable countries and communities. meanwhile, the godfathers of climate chaos, the fossil fuel industry, rake in record profits and feast off trillions in taxpayer funded subsidies. let s take a look at average global monthly temperatures over the last 12 months. each of the lines here is a year and shows how high temperatures were compared to before the industrial revolution, when the world started producing lots of greenhouse gases. this line shows the last 12 months. and, look, every single month has set a new monthly temperat
is tonight the night you can turn things around, prime minister? the big question for rishi sunak. the polls aren t budging. could this be the moment for a game changer? and here s the guy who wants hisjob. is tonight the night you seal the deal? pleasantries, smiles and you can bet for both of them a bag of nerves. the debate under way, and the biggest topic of our time, the cost of living, set out by paula from huddersfield in the studio audience. my savings are gone and i m genuinely. worried about my future. i don t think you understand . how this is for people like me. so what can you do about that? both men expressed sympathy, and then the argument began. of course i know everyone is onlyjust starting to feel the benefits of it, but inflation is back to normal, wages are growing, taxes are now being cut. keir starmer would put all that progress at risk. he would put up everyone s taxes by £2,000. keir starmer. paula, ijust don t know how you feel when you hear a pr
chosen as the head of the new coalition government in india. his bjp remains the biggest party in parliament but fell short of an absolute majority for the first time in ten years, leaving it dependent on support from smaller regional allies. earlier i spoke to rahul roy chaudhury, who is a senior fellow for south and central asian defence, strategy and diplomacy, at the international institute for strategic studies. and narendra modi has been governing as part of a coalition for the last ten years. but the key difference this time is that his party, the bjp, does not have a majority in parliament that it did have in the previous two elections that he won. so the importance of the coalition for the bjp is far more than it was in the last ten years, which also means that if the bjp and the nda coalition were to form a government which we expect to take place in the next 48
together earlier? they too have to decide how they function in parliament, and at the end of the day, this is a coalition of the day, this is a coalition of the nda coalition, that has won a majority and so they will have to be some soul searching on both sides of this question. tanvi ta nvi madan there tanvi madan there from brookings institution. police in hong kong say four more people have been arrested on the anniversary of the killing of pro democracy protesters at tiananmen square in beijing in 1989. earlier, people gathered in taiwan to commemorate the day after the island s president lai ching te vowed that the memory of those killed would not disappear. back in 1989, chinese tanks rolled in to the square as troops opened fire on the protestors mostly students who d been demonstrating for weeks in the heart of beijing. they were calling for a free press and freedom of speech. it s a day in history that is still a taboo subject in china. around the world and across the uk,