Grounds of the plantatiOn, built in the 1650s, where the Slave Owners lived in great style. My guest is Barbados Born Eminent Historian Sir Hilary beckles. He is Vice Chancellor of the University Of The West Indies and chair of the Caribbean CommissiOn to gain reparatiOns for the descendants of Enslaved Africans. What are his chances of success . Professor Sir Hilary beckles, welcome to hardtalk. Tremendous hOnour, pleasure to be here. So, we are here in the part of barbados that is your ancestral land, your great, great, great grandparents worked On Sugar PlantatiOns just nearby. What is the legacy of that history of slavery here in barbados . This is where the global world and a Small Island came together 400 years ago. This is barbados, the first Slave PlantatiOn EcOnomy in the world. This is where slavery plantatiOn, british capitalism all came together. A small place becoming the centre of the financial world of the west. It is a tremendous history. A tremendous history, but it is
The streets of sydney as australia ramps up its covid lockdown. Live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. Its newsday. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. Its seven in the morning in singapore, and eight oclock In Tokyo, where we begin with news from the olympics that an athlete from belarus has been taken into Police Protection Injapan after claiming that officials from her team were trying to force her to fly home against her will. This is her Krystsina Tsimanouskaya from belarus. She had been due to compete in the womens 200m event on monday. But after posting a Video Complaining about being entered into another race at short notice, she says she was told to pack and taken to the airport. She then contacted police, and uploaded this video on social media, appealing for help. The flight took off without her on board. Im joined now by Sarah Mulkerrins In Tokyo. Great to have you on the programme. Whats the latest on the fate of this
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Sir Hilary Beckles who chairs a commission seeking justice and reparations for the descendants of enslaved Africans. What are his.