shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, numberfive in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an
shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, number five in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an
In the main city stepanakert, where food and medicine are running low, and power cuts are frequent. Live now to rayhan demytrie, who is our correspondent In The South Caucasus and central asia. A very good evening to you and george r. I think you can hear us, what is the very latest happening at the moment where you are . World, in Nagorno Karabakh, the focus is now on humanitarian crisis because we have people escaping from the azerbaijan so people are concentrated now in the basements, there is no electricity, some pictures have emerged on socialfrom journalists posting regularly about the situation in Nagorno Karabakh and it shows really overcrowded basements with no electricity and people sitting there in fear not really knowing what comes next. I really knowing what comes next. I want to ask while we have you, the Foreign Minister has been speaking at the United Nationsjust Foreign Minister has been speaking at the United Nations just in the last few moments. Saying azerbaijan wil
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