or us, those that follow us do it, it could be rescued, to an extent. what would we all as a species, the human species, what would we all need to do now to avert that sort of, frankly, end—of—life scenario that you're talking about? i think the first thing is to understand what's happening. you can't really do much if everybody is arguing about it, which they have been, up to date. very few people accept it. my theory is the earth at the beginning... the biologists in particular were... felt that it was in some ways anti—darwin, which it wasn't in any way. mm. it complied entirely in agreement with darwin's great ideas. and it took a long time before they swung round. and the trouble is, science is too divided up. universities, for their own reasons, have separated it into a whole series of different subjects so that physicists know damn all about biology, most of them, and biologists very little about physics or geology or anything else. they just stick with their own subject. and that's no way to understand it, and we've got to change it. when

it's real life for all of us, because not only are we ageing, but those of us who are lucky enough to still have parents around, we see them advancing in years as well. and i know this is personal for you because you've written about the fact that your parents, and particularly your mother is struggling a great deal with dementia. i think she's about to turn 90. so was that something very much in your mind as you wrote this? 0h, certainly what's happening with my parents has played a part in my interest. i mean, afterall, we... that's what we go through. if we're fortunate enough to have parents who, you know, last, then we also often have to go through the misfortune of watching them deteriorate. and that is very emotional, notjust because, you know, generally we care about them and treasure our images of our parents in their prime, but also it's, obviously, the writing on the wall. when you watch your parents get old, it's usually the first time you register on a really gut level that it's going to happen to you. you, ithink, relish plain speaking, so i'm going to ask you a very dir

what does that tell us about mexico's system? the fact that we had powerful evidence from these phone tapes of important people who appeared to be implicated in a plot to detain you and physically assault you, and yet for many, many years, nothing happened. and at the same time, we were seeing journalists being threatened, intimidated and murdered every month, every year, inside mexico. what conclusions were you drawing at that time about the inability of the state to protect journalists like you? well, the fact that the inability of the state to protect anyone from crime, or a journalist, in particular, has a lot to do with the high level of impunity. in mexico, 98% of all crimes go unpunished. and what my case had demonstrated for everyone to understand is how these criminal networks are really linked to political power. but maybe, lydia cacho, things are changing in mexico because the two individuals you have been talking about, the big businessman, mr nacif, and the former governor, mr marin, are both now facing charges for t

president biden has defended the withdrawal of us forces from afghanistan at the end of august, saying he could not send another generation of americans to fight there. mr biden said washington had achieved its initial goal of punishing the perpetrators of the september 11th attacks. but he admitted there was uncertainty with the taliban continuing to gain ground. a row has broken out in spain, over meat consumption after one spanish government minister suggested his fellow countrymen should eat less meat for their own health and the planet's. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. india prides itself on being the world's biggest democracy, but when it comes to those prerequisites of genuine democracy, freedom of expression and a free media, is india falling short? prime minister narendra modi understands the power of information, but is he using his own power to manipulate the flow of information? well, my guest is n ram, director of the hindu publishing group and an influential voice in the indian media. are cherished freedoms under threat? n ram in chenn

working with us. ok, so you accept, you would accept that they have changed? i mean, you are taking part in these peace talks. admittedly, you doubt how genuine the other side are. but if they go anywhere, you are accepting that the taliban have changed. we have not seen a change in the taliban. now, if the taliban try to enforce their ideology and create a monopoly in afghanistan, that is unlikely for any afghans to accept, but if it's a compromise in which we compromise some of our current freedoms to achieve peace, then perhaps it might be worth paying that price. but to say that we will forego all of these freedoms and allow the taliban to return their brutal ways of ruling and enslave afghans inside their own country, that is not an acceptable scenario. 0k. well, you will know of the reports. there are reports in the times, radio free europe, elsewhere of what's happening in northern provinces that have been retaken by the taliban, where they've banned women from going outside without the burqa a

did you use spyware? it is because you paint a portrait of the situation it is because you paint a portray of the situation as there are no secret services in every state and the secret services would not use a different kind of technology in order to protect national security. as far as i understood from this report which i guess you referred to said that there were 45 countries on the globe, 45 governments and like 65, i don't remember the exact number secret services who have bought this technology. my question is, is it a crime that a secret service buys a technology through which the secret service can protect national security interest? is that a crime? or why... well, let me quote the words of one of 36 journalists who we know it is been, his phone is been analysed, he was hacked in this way, he was surveilled, the spyware was put on his phone. he says, i am being treated as a threat, like a russian spy or a terrorist or a mobster. this is a hungarianjournalist who happens to be not a friend of you

, stephen, it upset a great deal of us. until i met tony greig, i hated him. when world series cricket started in 1977, he was the one going around recruiting people. i had left cricket. i was at university. and when clive lloyd told me that tony greig was coming on this world series thing, i said, "tony greig?" i didn't want to see tony greig. when i got to meet the man, i recognised that tony greig was not racist. tony greig was brought up in a society that made him think certain things without him actually knowing that what he was thinking was wrong. i met tony greig. i became very good friends with tony greig. i became good friends with his family. and tony greig was certainly not the person that i thought of in my mind. and again, stephen, that is education. without meeting tony greig, i would not have been educated enough about the man. i only had a thought, south african using the word grovel, meaning that he's almost like he's going to keep a black man down. that was just a thought in my head. i got educated by meet

and we are used to this, aren't we? after such a hot day those temperatures slow to come down, this is 11 o'clock at night and you can see those temperatures are still up at 23 there in birmingham and london. again, a little bit lower than that for scotland and northern ireland, but still plenty warm enough. now our area of high pressure hangs around to wednesday, the only real change is it reorientation slightly to push that hotter air a little bit further northwards. so one thing you will notice as temperatures tending to rise in northern ireland and scotland into more generally the high 20s i think as we go into wednesday. again there could be an odd shower popping outcome of but for the majority it will continue with that dry run of weather with temperatures in the high 20s to low 30s in the hottest areas. beyond that thursday and friday we keep the hot and sunny weather for the most part, there will be a change eventually coming, it looks look at might come through on the weekend. with heavy rain for some. need, i

don't even use that. i brought malawians that are doing something along with me on this trip, and they're just as valuable. ok, so, what, of the ten people in the delegation, four... there's three of them, apart from you, are members of your family. and that's acceptable, is it? and i say this for somebody who a year ago accused the government, got into power on promising to clear the rubble of... i can tell you each one of those have specific functions. and the specific functions are such that, for me to be able to attend a meeting like this, i need their services. "if there is a foreign trip for the president, the democratic progressive party," your opposition, "will flood his entourage with dozens of cash—hungry hand—clappers because it's a chance for someone to steal from malawians. if there's a vacancy at a foreign embassy that requires a professional and career diplomat, the dpp will send someone unqualified whose only credential is being related to someone at state house by tribe or blood becau

thursday wasn't a bad day for many of us. it stayed dry across much of the country, apart from a few showers which developed later in the afternoon across southern england. for friday, though, it looks like we could see a few more showers around generally. but that said, there should still be quite a bit of sunshine around. it'll feel quite warm too. so we're in between weather systems for friday. this area of low pressure, though, will be moving injust in time for the weekend. it could bring quite a bit of rain at times and even some thunderstorms. so we start this morning off rather cloudy for many, bit of mist and fog around. that should tend to melt away quite quickly, and then there will be plenty of sunshine as we head on into the afternoon, but a scattering of showers will develop. some of them could turn out to be heavy and thundery. i think the focus of them towards central and eastern parts of the country. some areas avoiding them completely and staying dry, and it will be quite warm too — top temperatures around

well—scattered, so that does mean that many of us will miss them altogether. so, the forecast through the early hours shows a lot of dry weather across the uk. temperatures will be around 1a celsius or so across the south of the country, just a tad fresher in the north, around 11—12. now, the morning will become increasingly sunny right across the uk, but then fairweather clouds will start to develop, and as we head into the afternoon, those fairweather clouds will turn into storms. and some of the downpours really will be very heavy indeed, but as i say, they will be very well—scattered. not too many of them around across much of scotland or northern ireland. maybe across the grampians here, but the showers certainly will be scattered across many areas of england and mostly away from the coasts — so places like western wales should end up having a pretty decent day, for example, in swansea. so, friday's weather forecast shows a very weak area of high pressure over us. that does mean, i think, fewer showers, at least early in the day, but then, come the

the virus was not done with us. what was your attitude at the time? l l. us. what was your attitude at the time? l :, ., ., , :, , time? well, a fundamental problem was that in the _ time? well, a fundamental problem was that in the summer, _ time? well, a fundamental problem was that in the summer, the - was that in the summer, the prime minister attitude that essentially, the first lockdown was a disaster, we should've never done it stop what he believes he should have never done the first lockdown? he said that repeatedly in the meetings. after he came back to work. initially, his view was essentially thank goodness we didn't do that but very quickly, the telegraph in various parts of the media and the tory party started screaming and he basically reverted and said, actually the whole thing was a disaster. i was right in february, we should've just ignored it and that washed all over the country. t that washed all over the country. i remember talking to you as i talked other people in senior positions and other people in senior positions and other parties t

we're talking about more than three billion us dollars of losses. all of this happened, and then you now seem to be saying to me, well, it's partly because the state just wasn't ready. no, i'm not saying that. you are very impatient with me. i am saying to you, first, there is an admission on my analysis to say to you our reaction time. we can't be proud of it. that's one. you say why, and is it because the capacity of the state was affected by what president mbeki's saying. i said over the years... now, president zuma, president zuma, we're talking about, surely. yeah, president zuma, but you also looked at mbeki in terms of his analogy, and i said i'm not farfrom. it is the same. it is a difference of terminology. so i'm saying zuma's, former president zuma's incarceration was going to happen in stages, and then you were asking a question, why didn't the police react on time and the state? i said, i've admitted to you that it was the reaction and then in this particular instance, i think we could have reacted much better and faster to this. it is

surely what the modi government is doing is simply using india's constitution and the law and, where it feels thatjournalists and media groups are overstepping their mark, they turn to the courts. you believe in the courts, too, don't you? yes, but the courts have not responded to the challenges in a consistent way, i'm afraid to say. some high courts provided relief to journalists and media organisations which have gone challenging some of the restrictive rules. some of the actions are arbitrary. the law is applied in different ways, depending on the political colour or the people involved. those are issues that we are confronted with. but the laws, as you say, there are laws and many of these laws were not illiberally applied earlier, so we thought, but today, some of those laws, for example, the law of criminal defamation, the law of sedition, 124a of the indian penal code, which was inserted into our legal system, as late as... ..as early as 1870. and that's continued more or less unchanged since that day. and then... and the new rules that have been brought into force, that have

yes, close enough for us to check. so we could be here for a wee well longer. in here for a wee well longer. in terms of turnout, how engaged were voters in the by—election? do we know? do we have a figure for that? , ., , . for that? yes, about 4796 which is, i for that? yes, about 4796 which is. i mean. _ for that? yes, about 4796 which is, i mean, it's— for that? yes, about 4796 which is, i mean, it's ok _ for that? yes, about 4796 which is, i mean, it's ok for - for that? yes, about 4796 which is, i mean, it's ok for a - is, i mean, it's 0kfora by—election, not particularly high, had been some talk about really high engagement because of the fact that you had quite a tight race but also, you had george galloway standing for the workers party he often targets asian communities, muslims, and there had been some speculation that the turnout might go pretty high. it does not seem to have been the case. i think there's a bit of election fatigue here. this is a constituency that saw a by—election in 2016, general

blackmailing us. we are not releasing financial funds based on political issues it is simply unacceptable in even more than that, goes goes against that european values and european regulation. you can call it black male but ultimately, the money sits in brussels not with you and you won't get there is another point to what you say, that is you draw this distinction between national competencies and the business of the eu. but the truth is again, because you signed up to the club you have to adhere to core european values as adjudicated by the european court ofjustice. in one very important area right now the europeans believe you are again flagrantly violating their standards. and that comes with your new law which bans what you call the promotion of homosexuality and information about lgbt issues in your schools. the way it seen in europe is, it's a flagrant violation of european values. steve, you know in the european union there is a very, very clear division of competencies. there are competencie

i mean, all of us — notjust governments, but all of us — are we, as a species, capable of taking the long—term strategic view and changing our behaviours? i like to think we are. after all, when a war is threatened and it becomes a reality and you go to war, most people in a nation that's involved in it, regardless of what side they're on, think it's the right thing to do and they've got to go along and support it. and what is needed is that kind of commitment on the part of the population to climate change, and that doesn't exist at the moment. how urgent, then — or maybe it's too late? i mean, ijust wonder — in the past you've talked about a scenario in which 80% of human beings are basically killed off by this long—term warming of the planet, of gaia. is that still the way you see it? i don't think they'll be killed off so much by the heat, i think that as the climate changes, so the plants that we're familiar with will no longer grow. large areas will become desert and they won't be productive. and there's an awful lot of people in the world now — i've forgotten what th

so, i'm delighted to hear you're still going to use it. michael stipe, we've run out of time, but thank you very much indeed forjoining me on hardtalk. thanks for having me, stephen, it's a great pleasure. hello there. storm evert is bringing a quite exceptionally windy spell of weather for this time of year across the south of the uk, with a met office amber warning issued for a good part of cornwall and the isles of scilly. it's all because of this area of low pressure, quite a small low, but quite a powerful one tracking its way eastwards, with the strongest winds on the southern flank. you can see the amber warning area here across cornwall into the isles of scilly. those are the wind gusts in the black circles. but the winds also really quite brisk across a good part of devon, dorset, into hampshire, up the bristol channel and across the south coast of wales as well. so, some damage and disruption quite possible as we start the day, and with this curl of wet weather as well, some heavy and potentially thundery bursts of rain at times.

never benefited in any sort of way from the use of her cells. so there's a lot of suspicion to overcome, isn't there? that's exactly what we're talking about, and that's why... you saw my interviews, i mean, in the washington post and the new york times, what we're talking about equity. we want to collaborate. we want to be in partnership with the rest of the world. we are not saying that everything must be done in africa or by africans alone. we're open for collaboration, but that collaboration should be equitable. equity requires that, as we are collaborating and contributing and generating the data, that the return on investment that is the benefit of those collaborations should be given back to the communities that provided their dna, that provided their rna. we're basically talking about, let's set a new world order where we can collaborate equitably, where we can collaborate as partners, where we can actually share and also share their benefit, i mean, back to the communities. so it's not about charity. it's about doing something that's ab

you used an interesting word there — you described the party as "omnipotent". do you think it is healthy in any society to have a political organisation that is — your word — "omnipotent"? well, i would say societies everywhere in the world are different, and china, given its own historical background, its own history and its own culture, now to have this communist party of china as the omnipotent power in china, very much present everywhere you go and very much in the driver's seat, mobilising the people, pointing out the direction of movement for the whole nation — i think this is the right time for the communist party to be the leader for the whole chinese nation. and we all benefit from the great achievements, and we are very proud of the leadership of the communist party of china. and there you sit in beijing, and, of course, you and your family are just one family of many hundreds of millions across china who are exposed to the constant, as i put it earlier, stream of propaganda in film and signs on buses everywhere across the country. there is this

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