mr sackur, this depends on whether you want to accept everything that is said by someone. u is, what is the difference between mr nagaenthran and the two persons executed in the us in october 2021? surely, surely you should be holding yourself to a universally high standard. you are a minister who has talked about making sure that compassion is at the centre of thejudicial system in singapore. so it's no good pointing to other countries which may have their own flaws. i'm asking you to look at this on its merits. on its merits, this is the point i will make. this is a man who brought in drugs in order to make money. he had the workings of a criminal mind. his own psychiatrist confirmed that he was not intellectually disabled, and... look at the context. we are talking about saving lives. what do i mean? in the 1990s, we were arresting about 6000 people per year. 30 years later, today, there are more drugs around the region. there are... singapore is wealthier. afghanistan and myanmar are among the largest producers of drugs in the world. we are a logistics centre. we would

and it is the reason, mr sackur, i have taken this, the fight against climate change is a north star main responsible sector creating this climate challenge, and i continue with my optimism and determinism. well, fatih birol, we thank you very much forjoining us on hardtalk. thank you very much. hello there. it felt rather cool for the time of year on tuesday across much of the country, particularly in the north and the west, where we also had one or two heavy showers around. but high pressure dominates the scene, as well, as we head into wednesday, but its centre will be pushing towards the east of the country — and that means gradually, we'll start to import air from the south. always a slightly warmer direction, so it'll feel a touch warmer i think across the country on wednesday. we start off dry and sunny, but through the afternoon, cloud will tend to build, many places will turn quite grey, and we could see a few showers sparking off, particularly northern england in towards scotland. temperatures a bit higher — 19—20 celsius in the north, and around 20—23 celsius across englan

and it is the reason, mr sackur, i have taken this, the fight against climate change is a north starain responsible sector creating this climate challenge, and i continue with my optimism and determinism. well, fatih birol, we thank you very much forjoining us on hardtalk. thank you very much. hello there. the weather story's looking pretty benign for the next few days. we'll have very little wind around to move the weather along. but one thing you will notice over the next few days is that it'll be warming up, particularly across england and wales. most places will be dry, but there will be some showers around — increasingly so across the north and the west of the country as we move into the weekend. so, we've got this weak area of high pressure just to the east of the uk, rather cloudy high, drawing up some warmer air from the near continent. but there is a lot of cloud trapped underneath it, so a rather grey day, i think on thursday. showery bursts of rain continuing to affect parts of northern ireland, northern england, southern scotland, certainly through the morning, it'll tend

mr biden will also meet the palestinian president. that's it for me for now, i will be back later in the evening. now on bbc news, hardtalk with stephen sackurwelcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. 25 years ago, almost 1.5 million christians lived in iraq. now there are around a quarter of a million. and after years of war and sectarian violence, many of them have been displaced from their ancestral homes. can anything be done to reverse this trend toward extinction? well, my guest is archbishop bashar warda of erbil, home to the largest remaining christian community in a country, a region where christianity has deep roots. does it have a future? archbishop bashar warda, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. welcome, thank you. it's a pleasure to have you here, but i have to ask you, archbishop, how demoralising is it for you as the chaldean archbishop of erbil to see your christian community getting smaller and smaller year after year? yeah, i would say it's dangerously low in number. challenging, because i'll be honest with you, there is no one reason for our family to stay. i cannot convince them unless we do something for them. yes, we live