straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in the glossy tourist brochures, the seychelles, an archipelago of islands far off the coast of east africa, is portrayed as a little piece of paradise. but dig deeper and you find a very different reality an island nation threatened by climate change, a population with the worst heroin addiction rate in the world and a political culture tainted by allegations of corruption. well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, it s a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. that s the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, they don t really pay attention to the sids. and yet, the sids of africa are the on
by allegations of corruption. well, my guest is seychelles president, wavel ramkalawan. is this a story of paradise lost? president wavel ramkalawan, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. well, it s a pleasure to have you in the studio. you in the seychelles are known at the un as one of the sids nations. that s the small island developing states. do you think the world listens properly to the sids? i would say no. in fact, as an african country, when the world talks about africa, they don t really pay attention to the sids. and yet, the sids of africa are the ones that are doing very well. when you look at the mo ibrahim index, for example, mauritius is first, seychelles is second, cape verde s third. so you have three sids that are doing extremely well, but the focus is on mainland africa. but isn t that, in a sense, part of the point? you are doing relatively well. i believe your per capita income is over $10,000, which in african terms is pretty remarkable, and you r
on well established platforms such as facebook and instagram in the face of challenging economic conditions. those concerns have led meta and other tech giants to embark on a cost cutting campaign that has so far resulted in 150,000 lay offs across the sector. for more on meta s results and what they say about the state of big tech let s bring in ray wang, founder of tech advisory firm, constellation research. yeah, they showed that the digital add is fine, yeah, they showed that the digitaladd is fine, and i think that s a really important piece. and what you mentioned earlier is important. advertisers are flocking to the big platforms. if you don t have the users and the eyeballs, they are not going to be there. they were able to keep their monthly active users still at 2.99 billion, almost at 3 billion intact, and they were able to drive sales up 3% and give guidance that was much higher in between the 29.5 billion to 32 billion range. and that is coming on the heels of 20
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brokered by the un and turkiye allowing the export of grain from the black sea has been renewed hours before it was going to expire. kyiv says it will continue for months moscow said just six days. now on bbc news: talking movies. oscar s review special and a warning that this programme contains a sub flashy images. some flashing images. and the oscar goes to. ready? whoo! hello from los angeles. i m tom brook and welcome to our talking movies review of the 95th annual academy awards. it will be remembered as a night when a bighearted, kinetic, adventurous, independent american film, everything everywhere all at once, took home how many of hollywood s coveted golden trophies. best motion picture of the year. everything everywhere all at once was the big winner, taking home the top best picture trophy and prevailing in six other catagories. for its creators, both 35, daniel scheinert and daniel kwan, who also won for best director and original screenplay, it was a night