and prince william greeting some who gathered to grieve, shaking hands with well-wishers and speaking with them briefly as well. world leaders are also arriving to honor the queen. joe biden and the first lady departing this morning to attend the queen s funeral scheduled for monday. earlier today, canadian prime minister justin trudeau and his wife arriving. max foster, richard quest, and anna stewart begin our coverage right now. max, to you first, we re getting new details about the royal grandchildren s vigil, and we are looking at i believe live pictures of some of the grandchildren coming down the steps at westminster hall. what do you know about what we will be witnessing now? reporter: you can see the prince of wales there, prince william, followed by prince harry. they ll take either end of the coffin, i think. the prince of wales will be at the head of the coffin, and prince harry will be at the foot of the coffin. then the other grandchildren, usually beatrice be
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
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
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
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