ingrid betancourt, - but that i will. ingrid betancourt, we - but that i will.ut that i will. ingrid _ betancourt, we do sadly have to stop there, but i thank you very much indeed forjoining me from bogota. very much indeed for “oining me from bogota-t from bogota. thank you. thank ou so from bogota. thank you. thank you so much- — hello. sunday brought more squally winds, heavy flooding rain, and travel disruption, as yet another named storm approached the uk, storm franklin. and by monday morning some of its biggest impacts and disruption can be felt in northern ireland, with the met office amber warning, some gusts of wind along north coast in particular, up around 80 mph, just squeezing the isobars around storm franklin, pushing strong and gusty winds as well across many western coastal areas overnight and into the morning. so you can expect some disruption in the morning and, indeed, through a large part of the day, although the winds are going to be be slowly using. this is where some of the gusts will be at into the morning, the strongest ones in through

ingrid betancourt in bogota, welcome to hardtalk.hank you for having me, stephen, it is really really a pleasure after so many years. it is, many years since we last spoke and that, of course, was when you got out ofjungle captivity in 2008. but i want to begin by taking you back a full 20 years to your running for the presidency in 2002. that, of course, was the campaign during which you were taken and held captive by farc guerrillas. it seems extraordinary that you have decided to run again. are you simply revising your own personal trauma by doing so? i think it's, what i feel i have to do, it is like the vector of my life and it is also a strong duty i feel with my country. i think that today, colombia has this window of opportunity to really change the system. we put an end to very bloody war and that opened the path to another kind of consciousness and for me, since the beginning, you know, 20 years ago i was battling against corruption and i think today it is still the same problem. i mean, colombia has lots of opportunities b

i mean, ingrid betancourt, who of course is a former congresswoman in colombia, and of course was famouslyarc guerrillas in colombia, is standing in the elections, the presidential elections. and she says that, you know, "you need the centre to hold a lot more in latin america." absolutely. she's against this kind of polarisation. you agree with that? absolutely. and i think that boric, the new president in chile, is playing to the centre. he understands that he has a programme, he wants things to get done and he needs the other 46%. so, look, you are one of the most famous latina women in the world. how far do you see it as your mission, through your writing, to explain and bring south america to the world, as it were? because a lot of your books are set in a country that could be anywhere in latin america, really, couldn't it? it's not a specific one. yeah. well, i don't see myself as having a mission. i love to tell a story, and the stories that i tell are always immersed in a social and political context. that's why i can't write romance novels because they happen in a sort of bubble.

my guest today, ingrid betancourt was running for president 20 years ago when she was captured by farc