thank you. pleasure to be on your show. it s great to have you here. as we look around the world, we see heightened global tension, uncertainty, conflict in so many different arenas. does that mean that for you, there are many reasons to be fearful about the impacts of geopolitics on the global economy? yes is the simple answer. i think we thought about the russian invasion of ukraine, we thought that was a contained conflict. now we see in the middle east. the more you fight, if this extends beyond gaza two major areas of conflict makes it much more likely that a third will occur. who knows? the chinese blockade of taiwan, perhaps. all of this is going to put enormous strain on the ability of the united states in particular, but also of europe, to provide the financial support, or support in terms of military equipment, to enable ukraine to resist russia, to bring about some kind of end to hostilities in the middle east, and to prevent any blockade of china becoming much m
translation: we are at war and we will continue the war. we will continue the war until we have achieved all of our goals: to destroy hamas, to bring back all of the hostages and the missing and to ensure that gaza poses no threat to israel. hamas released a statement confirming the deal and the israeli government said in a statement: the government of israel is obligated to return home all of the hostages. tonight, the government has approved the outline of the first stage of achieving this goal according to which at least 50 hostages, women and children will be released over four days, during which a pause in the fighting will be held. the release of every additional ten hostages will result in one additional day in the pause. the government of israel, the idf and the security services will continue the war in order to return home all of the hostages, complete the elimination of hamas and ensure that there will be no new threat to the state of israel from gaza. our senior
well, my guest is former governor of the bank of england, mervyn king. does economic orthodoxy need rethinking? mervyn, lord king, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure to be on your show. it s great to have you here. as we look around the world, we see heightened global tension, uncertainty, conflict in so many different arenas. does that mean that for you, there are many reasons to be fearful about the impacts of geopolitics on the global economy? yes is the simple answer. i think we thought about the russian invasion of ukraine, we thought that was a contained conflict. now we see in the middle east. the more you fight, if this extends beyond gaza two major areas of conflict makes it much more likely that a third will occur. who knows? the chinese blockade of taiwan, perhaps. all of this is going to put enormous strain on the ability of the united states in particular, but also of europe, to provide the financial support, or support in terms of military equipment, to
language is designed to win over all those labour frontbenchers who want a ceasefire right now. the labour leadership is very nervous, lots of conversations today and the reason they are nervous as they expect an snp amendment tomorrow calling for an immediate ceasefire. labour will be hoping it s amendment will knock out the snp won, but the snp are absolutely confident there amendment will be called because day three of voting or making speeches for the third party and the snp are party. thank you very much. the snp are third party. well, we ve managed to sort our technical gremlins with conservative mp martin vickers, so let s return to our top story suella braverman s blistering attack on prime minister rishi sunak and the judgement on the legality of the government s rwanda scheme due tomorrow morning. thank you, we have finally managed to get through to you. can ijust begin with suella braverman s letter, she said of rishi sunak he was lacking in qualities of leade
mervyn, lord king, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure to be on your show. it s great to have you here. as we look around the world, we see heightened global tension, uncertainty, conflict in so many different arenas. does that mean that for you, there are many reasons to be fearful about the impacts of geopolitics on the global economy? yes is the simple answer. i think we thought about the russian invasion of ukraine, we thought that was a contained conflict. now we see in the middle east. the more you fight, if this extends beyond gaza two major areas of conflict makes it much more likely that a third will occur. who knows? the chinese blockade of taiwan, perhaps. all of this is going to put enormous strain on the ability of the united states in particular, but also of europe, to provide the financial support, or support in terms of military equipment, to enable ukraine to resist russia, to bring about some kind of end to hostilities in the middle east, and to preve