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nice to be here. would you agree with me that your bank has moved an awful long way from those early days and from its original mission? no, i wouldn t. i would certainly agree with you that we have expanded our geographically, but the mission is the same. private sector development, the creation of effective markets. we re still actually operating in oui’ we re still actually operating in our traditional region. but because of the success of the business model, we decided we should expand to turkey, central asia and north africa, as you said. it is a sign of success, not mission creep. the problem with that is that from the beginning, you were a financial institution underpinned by a clear statement of values. in the places you ve just outlined where you operate today, those values do not seem to be applied in the same way. sometimes there are values, such as political, democratic, values, pluralism, like stated. they are certainly applied inconsistently in some plac ....
stephen sackur. today, the bbc is running a series of programmes about democracy, the idea and the reality. it s a theme our guest today has reason to consider in great depth. wu erkaixi was one of the leaders of the tiananmen square student protest in beijing in 1989. he became one of the chinese government s most wanted men. he escaped, and he now lives in exile in taiwan. and today, hejoins me, and a hardtalk audience here in london. applause. wu erkaixi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. we could use more platforms like this to voice our idea. well, i want to talk to you all about your ideas. and i want to begin by taking you back to 1989. you made a stand as a student leader for freedom and for democracy. and looking back at it now, it has cost you your life as you knew it then in 1989. on a personal level, do you have any regrets? well, i survived in a great movement and i m proud to be part of it. but it ended up as a massacre. regret can sometimes be an ....
with me, stephen sackur. today, the bbc is running a series of programmes about democracy, the idea and the reality. it s a theme our guest today has reason to consider in great depth. wu erkaixi was one of the leaders of the tiananmen square student protest in beijing in 1989. he became one of the chinese government s most wanted men. he escaped, and he now lives in exile in taiwan. and today, hejoins me, and a hardtalk audience here in london. applause. wu er kaixi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. we could use more platforms like this to voice our ideas. well, i want to talk to you all about your ideas. and i want to begin by taking you back to 1989. you made a stand as a student leader for freedom and for democracy. and looking back at it now, it has cost you your life as you knew it then in 1989. on a personal level, do you have any regrets? well, i survived in a great movement and i m proud to be part of it. but it ended up as a massacre. regret can somet ....
newsday. welcome to london bridge in the heart of the british capital where we now have a fuller picture of the attack that killed seven people and injured many others. three men arriving by van, went on the rampage. first hitting people with their vehicle, then lashing out with knives in bars and restaurants. this is still very much and i are active crime scene and you can see the area targeted by those three men is in lockdown. police say these cordons will remain up for quite some time as the investigation continues, and we re getting a fuller picture of what happened that night. police say they know the identities of the three people and there have been raids in east london as well, 12 people have been arrested. throughout this special edition of newsday carrico i indi will bring you full details of what happened in london and also the international reaction to that event mariko oi. first let s get more from our home affairs editor mark easton. clear the area now ....
we have, for those of you who have been with us for this spring semester, we have had a number of really great presentations and special events. this is one puts particularly me, the special to launch of greg brezinski s worldg the third sino-american rivalry during the cold war. know, isany of you associate professor of history and national affairs at george washington university, really one of this country s leading historical voices and historians of asia. of nation building in south korea korean-americans in the making of a democracy. of course now, winning the third world. it s really she s a friend and part of the wilson center family, is even more special. 2010, 2011 at the as the most senior fellowship you can get from the wilson center. he is a senior adviser to two of the programs at the center the history of public policy programs of north korea documentation progress project is also a member of the advisory board of the center. he his current w ....