student loan could cost over ten years. the white house is struggling to answer who is exactly paying the tab for the millions of college students off the hook. john: you don t have todd s number on speed dial, john? i ll pass it off to you. sandra smith in new york. biden administration sticking to their line of defense that the plan is fully paid for, even comparing the handouts to covid loans, even though the pandemic assistance was intended to be foregiven. john: biden facing backlash with a growing number of democrats distancing themselves from the controversial hands outs. i think a targeted an i approach right now, people making 30, $40,000, didn t go to college, they need help as well. it does not help people who have already paid off their college debt. a band aid step, a point in time step. not yet contending with the root issue, which is the affordability crisis of higher education in our country. sandra: or bipartisan political panel is on set and read
with further wintry showers. some rain and maybe even some snow over higher ground in the south. you are watching bbc news, the top stories just after 830, jeremy corbyn says he isn t wedded to the idea of keeping freedom of movement for eu citizens during brexit negotiations and he also clarified his position on the issue of a pay cap on top earners. you could set a limit on top pay that i think it is better to look at the issue of ratio because that would encourage wage rises lower down. police in your coming to the child found badly injured yesterday in the city who later died. katie rough was 7 year old and discovered in the woodthorpe area. a 15 year old girl is being questioned. documents leaked to the bbc show a 47 per cent rise in psychiatric attendances at a&e departments in england, over the past four years. you are up to date. now it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the waiting is almost over. we re about to see what kind of impact president don
i m stephen sackur. the waiting is almost over. we re about to see what kind of impact president donald trump will have on the us and the world beyond. today my focus is the international arena. my guest has been close to the centre of us foreign policy making for three decades. richard haass was a senior adviser to both bush presidents and has offered his insights to the president elect, too. from big power diplomacy, with russia and china, to global trade and climate policy, how different, how unpredictable is trump going to be? richard haass, in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. you ve just written a book with the cheery title a world in disarray. in your opinion, does the election of donald trump to the presidency add to that sense of a world in disarray? it s more the world the 45th president of the united states will be inheriting. it s the result, in part, of things the united states has done but also failed to do. it s in part simply a result of
both bush presidents and has offered his insights to the president elect as well. from diplomacy with russia and china to global trade. how one predictable will trump be? richard haass in new york city, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. you ve just written a book with the cheery title a world in disarray. in your opinion, does the election of donald trump to the presidency add to that sense of a world in disarray? it s more the world the 45th president of the united states will be inheriting. it s the result, in part, of things the united states has done but also failed to do. it s in part simply a result of the end of the cold war, the loosening up our international relations, the rise of certain countries like china and so forth. this is the world he s inheriting. where i think he may have added it slightly, and notjust him but first in the american political campaign, candidates including him were saying things and endorsing positions which, shall we say, were untra
two stories dominate the week and are likely to dominate the year ahead, too. the beginnings of the trump presidency and the beginning of the end for britain in the european union. my guests today arejohn fisher burns of the new york times, thomas kielinger of die welt, polly toynbee of the guardian and dmitry shishkin of bbc world service. donald trump first, and as he begins the job of being 45th president of the united states, to paraphrase a question from the presidential debates, let s start by saying something nice, positive and hopeful about the new president. this is going to be a stretch for you, but have a go! after that inaugural speech in which he reached out to nobody at all, in which he trashed all of the previous presidents sitting around him very politely, i think the only thing we can seriously hope for is that this meglomaniac, this sociopath, will overreach himself to such a degree that he will be impeached as soon as possible, hopefully before that four ye