Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. Its 60 years since beijing put down the tibetan revolt, killing tens of thousands of people. And that was also when the dalai lama began his long exile from his homeland. He is still the tibetan peoples spiritual leader, but he relinquished political control eight years ago. His de facto president in exile, is my guest today, lobsang sangay, who says the situation is now critical and that tibet is a huge prison under chinas unfettered rule. So what are the tibetan peoples ambitions now . And what is their strategy for achieving it from the increasingly assertive and authoritarian chinese leadership . Theme music plays. Lobsang sangay welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. How do the tibetan people remember that revolt 60 years ago . Thousands of tibetans from all over tibet gathered in lhasa, the capital city, to protect his holiness the dalai lama from the chinese army and then it resulted in a bloodshed. As per
Time for hardtalk welcome to hardtalk, with me, zeinab badawi. Its 60 years since beijing put down the tibetan revolt, killing tens of thousands of people. And that was also when the dalai lama began his long exile from his homeland. He is still the tibetan peoples spiritual leader, but he relinquished political control eight years ago. His de facto president in exile, is my guest today, lobsang sangay, who says the situation is now critical and that tibet is a huge prison under chinas unfettered rule. So what are the tibetan peoples ambitions now . And what is their strategy for achieving it from the increasingly assertive and authoritarian chinese leadership . Theme music plays. Lobsang sangay welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. How do the tibetan people remember that revolt 60 years ago . Thousands of tibetans from all over tibet gathered in lhasa, the capital city, to protect his holiness the dalai lama from the chinese army and then it resulted in a bloodshed. As per Chinese M
Its 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am am in london and 3 00am in zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe took the country and the world by surprise when he suddenly resigned after almost four decades in power. Without warning, his letter of resignation was read out in parliament, just as impeachment proceedings against him were getting underway. The news sparked wild celebrations with thousands of people pouring onto the streets in the capital, harare. Our africa editor, fergal keane, was in parliament when the news broke. It is the night of the free, and night like no other in their lives, a great tension has broken, the epoque of fear, of desperation, of Robert Mugabe, has ended. How rarely does politics translate into something so truly felt . It is history in the making. We never thought Something Like this would happen in zimbabwe. This is what we have been fighting for since independence. One man has been taking us aback, but we are happy it is done now. Suddenly we got the news tonight it was o
Is headed to washington. The party believes his win is a sign of a swing thats happening. And with me now are Democratic Political consultant Eleanor Dezzi, founder of the dezzi group, and republican consultant joe watkins. Joe is also the author of a new book soon to be released titled the new pc. welcome to both of you, thanks. Joe watkins thanks Eleanor Dezzi thanks for having us. Erin all right, so, we have to start with alabama. Eleanor, well start with you. What does this mean . Eleanor well, i think, you know, the last few months, what has happened with the women talking about the sexual harassment, and then the issues that came out about pedophilia with the republican candidate, it just mobilized women. You know, when you go to war, you get an army together, and women have now formed an army on this issue, and the first battle was alabama. And women, African American women, 98 voted for the democratic nominee, and also white women, if they felt that they couldnt vote republican