welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. the idea of a social contract is a staple of political philosophy, put curedly, it s the ties and obligations that bind the individual, the community and the state. but what happens when that contract is threatened by forces beyond the control of any national government, say, a climate crisis or right now, a global pandemic? my guest is baroness minouche shafik, the director of london school of economics, former top official at the world bank. is humanity capable of collective action to meet global challenges? baroness minouche shafik, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. lovely to be here. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. you have written extensively through a long career as a top economist about the relationship between the individual and the collective, whether it be the community, the nation state or indeed, the wider world. what do you think the covid pandemic has revealed to us about the limitations of, for example,
for shooting dead a taliban member in afghanistan, has been released from prison. and vauxhall has been severely criticised by mps over the way it dealt with a number of fires with it zafira b model. and coming up in the sport on bbc news. the arsenal manager arsene wenger believes the only way to completely stop players betting would be to ban gambling altogether. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. police say they ve foiled an active terrorist plot after carrying out an armed raid in north west london. a female suspect was shot during the operation and is in a serious but stable condition in hospital. six people have been arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation and instigation of terrorist acts. two women, two men and a 16 year old boy were arrested at or near the property yesterday evening; another woman was detained in kent. police said the operation was unconnected to the arrest yesterday of a 27 year old man armed with knives in westminster.
and london. this is bbc world news. it s newsday. good morning. it s 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in the evening in washington, where president donald trump has been singing the praises of china in sharp contrast to his campaign rhetoric. in an interview with the american cbs network, the us president said he was in constant touch with president xijinping, and believed he was putting pressure on north korea to rain in its leader kim jung un‘s nuclear ambitions. the relationship i ve had with china, it s been already acclaimed as being something very special, something very different to what we ve already had. on north korea, mr trump warned that a conflict with the country could kill millions of people. but he had some surprising words of praise for supreme leader kim kim jong un. dealing with obviously very tough people, in particular the generals and others, and at a very young age he was able to assume power. a lot of people i m sure tried to take that po
details on that. labour having a turbulent time in england, scotland and wales, parts thereof. strong challenge from the snp. in wales they ve lost bridgend and merthyr tydfil, keeping hold of cardiff, swa nsea tydfil, keeping hold of cardiff, swansea and newport. in england they ve lost more than 100 councillors, many to the tories. they ve won the male role contest in the liverpool city region. lost the liverpool city region. lost the mayoral contest. and it has been a terrible night for ukip, overnight they lost every seat they were defending. and the party has been wiped out on councils like lincolnshire, hampshire and essex. their vote share is down dramatically, most of it going straight to the conservatives. in scotland the snp have managed to deprive labour of an overall majority in glasgow but we are not yet sure if they have won overall control of scotland s biggest city for themselves. we re still waiting for most of the results in scotland. we ll keep a cl
now on bbc news, all the latest business news live from singapore. a strong earnings results for way bow. will we see similar numbers for tencent? tencent?. good morning, asia. glad you could join us for this midweek edition of asia business report. chinese social media giant weibo has reported reve nu es of media giant weibo has reported revenues of just media giant weibo has reported revenues ofjust under $200 million, an increase of 67% compared the year ago levels. profits are coming in at about $47 million us. the company claims 347 million monthly active users, an increase of 30% over the past year. another tech giant in china, tencent, is tipped to report encouraging numbers today. but with a saturated market, what are the other avenues for growth? certainly they need to start looking outside of the chinese market. there s still a lot of growth in chinese market, for example tencent are actively looking outside, looking at notjust china but around hong kong and sing