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41 people were killed, many of them children. they blamed the blaze on an electrical fault in the air—conditioning system. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. according to research in the us and the uk, roughly one in 100 people is transgender. but the fact that the debate about transgender rights has become a political and even health care battleground isn't driven so much by the numbers, but more by conflicting ideologies. my guest today has a prominent voice in that debate. shon faye is trans, a writer and a former lawyer....

and a former lawyer. is all this attention on issues of sex, gender and identity making it easier to be trans, or not? shon faye, welcome to hardtalk. pleasure to be here, thank you for having me. it's great to have you here. i also have a copy of your book, the transgender issue, which you wrote. published last year. it's described on the cover as a landmark bestseller. it has done well. and in the intervening months since you published it, the transgender story, as we put it, the issues around transgender rights has consistently been prominent in the political debate. would it be r...

right now, it seems many of those bridges are being burned. would you agree? well, i think it's... yeah, absolutely. we see things have changed a lot in the last five to six years, basically. and a lot of dialogue has been cut off. there's a lot of communications cut off. and most, of course, on top of that, the covid—19 pandemic has also isolated many countries. and also given the, you know, the trade war, the sanctions, the... ..ideological and tax code decoupling and all those things add up. i think that we really need to strengthen the dialogue, strengthen the communication a...

the head of the agency says he believes russia is strategically reducing supplies now to prevent european countries from stockpiling gas. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. on the eve of russia's february invasion of ukraine, president xi of china and president putin declared their two countries enjoyed a friendship without limits. is that a strategic partnership that beijing may come to regret? my guest is influential chinese think tank founder and sometime government adviser henry wang. from a draconian covid response, to st...

to a western alliance reinvigorated by that ukraine war, are china's vulnerabilities suddenly in sharperfocus? henry wang, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, steve. it's a pleasure to have you on our show. i'm mindful that you were the founder, the creator of a think tank, the center for china and globalization. you said you wanted it to be a bridge between east and west. right now, it seems many of those bridges are being burned. would you agree? well, i think it's... yeah, absolutely. we see things have changed a lot in the last five to six years, basically. and a lot of dialogue has ...