dr. anthony fauci says he plans to retire. i anticipate i will be in this job at the end of the first term of president biden. keeps going long, 2022 home run derby champion. sunrise, sun burn, sun set repeat moon light, all night crashing in the sea. steve: good morning, rhode island, they have those lovely beaches there, i can t tell if that s somebody in the water or a buoy as we look towards the sunrise. right now it s 71 degrees. going for a daytime high of 88. the relative humidity is a killer right now 91% as the northeast braces on this july 19th, a tuesday, 2022, it s going to start getting really hot up here in the northeast. ainsley: when you are on a beach like that in a bathing suit, you don t care. steve: you are dressed for the weather and today it s hot. dress appropriately. ainsley: brian, what do you think steve got a sun set. brian: land locked yesterday watching some weird building with a light on top of it. that was barack obama s vi
realistic or deluded? akinwumi adesina, welcome to hardtalk. it s good to see you, stephen. it s great to have you here. you need the world to believe in a bright african future. how is that going right now? it s going pretty well. if you take a look at the african economic outlook we had from the african development bank, the gdp growth rate, gdp growth rates last year was 3.1%. this year, it s 3.7%. and next year, it s going to be 4.3%. now, why that is important is that that is well above the global average. you still have ten out of the 20 fastest growing economies in the world being in africa. yeah, it s not quite as good as it sounds because you have fast rising populations across africa. yes, but when you have a lot of global shocks like we have, increasing real interest rates, and you have also a lot of geopolitical risks, you have a lot of inflation all around the world, africa still has its head above the water. yeah, i agree with you that in terms of the population
voice-over: this is bbc news. we will have the headlines for you at the top of the hour, which is straight after this programme. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. of all the world s continents, africa is the one likely to see the greatest transformation in the course of this century. it will likely be home to almost 40% of all humanity by 2100. if, by then, africans have benefited from sustainable development, their global economic power will be enormous. if they haven t, then they could be facing cataclysmic levels of economic and environmental breakdown. my guest is the president of the african development bank, akinwumi adesina, sometimes dubbed africa s optimist in chief . is his positivity realistic or deluded? akinwumi adesina, welcome to hardtalk. it s good to see you, stephen. it s great to have you here. you need the world to believe in a bright african future. how is that going right now? it s going pretty well. if you take a look at the african economic out
who had had their licenses taken away because they couldn t pay the fines and fees. i got funding for $2.2 billion. the bridge tunnel is being expanded between hampden and norfolk. that s a $308 billion package. i know how to get things done. we re moving forward and good things are happening in virginia. what we re focused on right now, kasie, are these lives that were lost in virginia beach, four that are fighting for their lives and a thousand that lost their lives last year. enough is enough. we need to put common sense gun legislation on the table, and it needs to get passed, and we need to make virginia a safer community for all of us, no matter who you are, no matter where you live in virginia. virginia governor ralph northam, our hearts are, of course, with the families of those who were lost, those who are recovering, and of course all eyes are on virginia to see how you all will try to fight this. thank you very much for your time, sir. we ll be right back. time, sir. w
and this year, they want to raise taxes by 20 billion dollars through the republican budget, doesn t raise taxes. next year they want to raise the taxes by 40 billion dollars, again, the republican budget doesn t raise taxes and then on the deficit this year, the democrat deficit would be 164 billion dollars bigger than the republican deficit. and next year, 308 billion dollars, just to give you a sense of it, by 2015 the republican deficit would be down to 125 billion and the democrat deficit 433 billion. there s a big indication of the difference between the parties when you look at the budgets of the budget blueprints of the republicans in the house and the democrats in senate and republicans want to restrain spending and democrats want to continue to blow up the budget and eventually, over the decade add 1 trillion dollars of new taxes. sean: yeah, so 1 trillion in new taxes over ten years, a trillion dollars, this is like they know no other way, all right? that s point one, but