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Tom shakespeare, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, its great to be here. Great to have you. In your personal life and professional life everything has been intertwined in terms of your campaigning work, your academic work. I just wonder whether you ever, for a moment, considered going into something entirely disconnected from your own personal circumstances such as accountancy, law, geology . There are short people, restricted growth people in all of those professions. There are farmers, teachers, solicitors, everything. But i did not go that way. So as a social scientist i have always been inte...

At the start of an election season could have a political impact. arunoday mukharji, bbc news, nuh, haryana. one person has died and at least 25 people have been injured after a typhoon has battered the streets of japan's popular tourist destination 0kinawa. some areas have recorded wind gusts of nearly 200 kilometres per hour — that'si21i miles per hour and the airport in 0kinawa's capital city naha was entirely closed on wednesday for a second day. the slow—moving typhoon khanun neared the country's southwestern islands on wednesday, leaving more than 200,000 people without electricity. ...

Hundreds of thousands of people are without electricty and hundreds of flights into and out of okinawa have been cancelled. more than half a million people were evacuated from the 0kinawa region as the storm approached. the singer lizzo, her production company, and her dance captain, shirlene quigley, are being sued by three former dancers. they have been accused of sexual and racial harassment, disability discrimination, false imprisonment and creating a hostile work environment. two of the dancers were sacked. the third resigned over what she described as the "appalling behaviour" of her bos...

At 0kinawa�*s naha air base, these routine military exercises have become more urgent. japan�*s southwestern islands are on the front line of any potential conflict between taiwan and china, a threat that�*s becoming more real by the day for the self—defense forces or the sdf. captain ura and his colleagues know that any response would have to involve their american counterparts. 0kinawa is home to the biggest concentration of us military presence in japan. but the young pilot tells me, as china�*s capabilities increase, so too should his squadron�*s readiness to retaliate. transla...

Translate: geographically speaking, we are very close to taiwan and southeast asia. we are in a situation where chinese ships are patrolling very closely. the equipment we have in terms of missile launches is for defending ourselves. it's not for attacking other countries. we're not looking for war. japan has not fired a single shot in battle since the end of world war ii, but this country that has spent decades avoiding war might find itself being pulled into one. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, 0kinawa. let's get some of the day's other news now. montana has become the first state in the us to ban...