Mother was. Students show their solidarity. The 18 year olds in a stable condition, the situation here is tense, now on bbc news, its hardtalk after a rapid escalation to the unrest. With stephen sackur. Pompeo pushes back. The us secretary of state refuses welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen to help the impeachment inquiry into President Trump despite democrats warning its illegal. Indias plastic crackdown. Thacker. Sackur. It has been two months since india revoked the special autonomous status ofJammu And Kashmir, and delhi still has the territory in a form of lockdown. Political leaders are detained, troops are on the streets and communication links are disrupted. The Modi Government seems confident its dramatic cancellation of a 70 year old dispensation has worked, but what of kashmiri feeling . My guest is iltija mufti, the daughter of former chief minister of kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti who is currently in detention. Do the kashmiris have any choice but to accept their new reality . Ilt
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. It has been two months since india revoked the special autonomous status ofJammu And Kashmir, and delhi still has the territory in a form of lockdown. Political leaders are detained, troops are on the streets and communication links are disrupted. The Modi Government seems confident its dramatic cancellation of a 70 year old dispensation has worked, but what of kashmiri feeling . My guest is iltija mufti, the daughter of former chief minister of kashmir, Mehbooba Mufti who is currently in detention. Do the kashmiris have any choice but to accept their new reality . Iltija mufti in delhi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Let me begin with your personal situation. You are speaking to me from the indian capital, delhi, not from your home in kashmir. Does that suggest that you personally are free right now to travel, to communicate, to do whatever you want . Not in a real sense, no. I re
Officials tell you what they believe you need to know. So they undermine your popularity. Part of russian president Vladimir Putins callin program. You can watch that online at cspan. Org. Search putin. We take you back to the allday forum on u. S. south korea relations hosted by the center for strategic and International Studies. They are getting back underway. Live coverage here on cspan3. Thank you for all the jobs that you have done over the past decade now. Probably seems like its going quickly. But for us journalists, i am a reporter at the Washington Post. Victor and the korea chair have been a valuable, valuable resource both, obviously, in the past few years, but before that. I was bugging victor and others in the program quite often. Maybe many times you didnt necessarily want to be bugged. But for terrific analysis and to help sort of walk me through whats happening. I wanted to take time out to thank the korea chair for that and congratulate you for such a successful ten ye
Think we could have gotten a more diverse group. Not in terms of their interest, they all share that, but in terms of the wealth of experience we have both on the academic side and in policy from the people that we have on the stage today. I think their full bios are in your programs, but i will briefly introduce them in a minute. You know, often the beginning of any administration the first few months are very formative months in terms of the shape and the tenor, the relationships that emerge between a new head of state and all of its regular partners, all of its countries. In this particular case we essentially have two new heads of state, you know, President Trump here in the United States as well as president moon in south korea. So we are right now in this very formative period where the first few months, the first few interactions that take place actually play a very Important Role in the longer term relationship, the directions that are set between the moon and the trump adminis
Not in terms of their interest, they all share that, but in terms of the wealth of experience we have both on the academic side and in policy from the people that we have on the stage today. I think their full bios are in your programs, but i will briefly introduce them in a minute. You know, often the beginning of any administration the first few months are very formative months in terms of the shape and the tenor, the relationships that emerge between a new head of state and all of its regular partners, all of its countries. In this particular case we essentially have two new heads of state, you know, President Trump here in the United States as well as president moon in south korea. So we are right now in this very formative period where the first few months, the first few interactions that take place actually play a very Important Role in the longer term relationship, the directions that are set between the moon and the trump administrations. So we thought it was very important to