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Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. There is plentiful evidence that covid 19 has inflicted more serious damage on the United States than on china. Does that play into a wider narrative about an accelerating transition of global power from west to east . Its a question which demands an historical perspective, and my guest today, peter frankopan, brings just that. He is a professor of global history and author of the best selling book silk roads. Is the west continuing to overestimate its central importance to the past and to the present . Peter frankopan, welcome to hardtalk. You are a pro...

Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. There is plentiful evidence that covid 19 has inflicted more serious damage on the United States then on china. Does that play into a wider narrative about an accelerating transition of global power from west to east . It is a question which demands an historical perspective, and my guest today, peter frankopan, brings just about. He is a professor of global history, and author of global history, and author of the bestselling book silk roads. Is the was continuing to overestimate its central importance t...

Later today, chinese president xijinping will make the keynote address to open a virtual davos organised by the World Economic forum. The week of online discussions will focus on the economic, environmental and technological challenges facing the world amid the pandemic. One thing is already clear the crisis has worsened inequality. Today oxfam launches a report, the inequality virus, that says it could take the worlds poorest over a decade to recover. It states that half a billion more people could be living in poverty on less than 5. 50 a day in 2030, compared to the start of the pandemic. 0...

Spirit that was a good analysis. My first job in journalism was middle east times in cairo, and we used to have a layout program. And so is young journalists, we would sometimes to no end try and depict reality as best we could on the pages of the newspaper. To the middle east credit they allowed us to do so. So we put everything on the page and write our words and put graphics and so on. But there was this intense moment where we had to see if it would work or not. There was this button cold snap to grid. What you laid out on the page which depicted really didnt match the grid, the design loo...

Good morning, hello, im Victoria Derbyshire with you this wednesday morning, 2a hours into this partial lockdown how are you doing . Welcome to bbc news. Let me bring you the latest headlines. Stepping up the fight against coronavirus a huge makeshift hospital is to be opened in london but theres a stark warning from these a e doctors. We are seeing patients in their 20s, patients in their 30s. We dont know what the outcome of some of these patients will be. They will go to intensive care, they may be in intensive care for some weeks. In some of them will die. And its completely heartbreaking ...