i'm stephen sackur.hment. this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. today i'm in canterbury, a place of christian pilgrimage for centuries, steeped in the history of the church of england. the c of e is woven into the fabric of the english establishment.

i'm stephen sackur.istory of the church of england. the c of e is woven into the fabric of the english establishment. but church leaders have become fierce critics of government policy.

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur.na to become the world's most populous nation. its economy is growing at 6%—plus per year despite global headwinds, and its leader is a populist who appears to be popular. so should indians be feeling good about the state of their nation?

i'm stephen sackur.resentment of the degree of centralisation in england, the dominance of london, and the lack of regional autonomy. my guest today is the mayor of this city, andy burnham. he quit westminster politics to come here and he is committed

i'm stephen sackur.ran's islamic republic has been in firefighting mode for months, trying to damp down the flames of mass protest sparked by the killing of a 22—year—old woman in police custody. her name was mahsa amini — at least, that was her persian name. her kurdish birth name wasjina. the story of iran's internal discontent is incomplete without an understanding of iran's kurdish population. my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it's a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has changed the political dynamic inside iran? it has because on the 16th of september, she was declared dead in the hospital. the day after, on the 17th, there was a funeral in her hometown of saqqez in the province of kurdistan — there are four kurdi

i'm stephen sackur. south africa is a land of contrasting emotion. there's residual pride at the success of the struggle against apartheid. there's also deep frustration at the failings of the post—liberation political leadership. and those contrasting emotions are fertile territory for political satire. my guest today isjonathan shapiro, best known by his pen name zapiro. he is south africa's most prominent, most controversial political cartoonist. so, amid all of its troubles, is south africa able to laugh at itself? jonathan shapiro, better known by the pen name zapiro, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. well, it's a great pleasure to meet you, and i want to begin with something you said a few years ago. you said, "moral outrage is what drives a cartoonist." you've been at this cartooning for pretty much four decades. can you maintain outrage for four decades? you can. laughter when i was doing five or six cartoons a week, i would sometimes wonder what the hell i'm going to do today, and you wake up in the morning and the news — itjust keeps coming.

i'm stephen sackur. back in 1994, the one overwhelming emotion in this country was hope. the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it's time to judge how the anc is doing. to too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain, a sprawling reminder of south africa's status as the most unequal society on earth. in africa's most advanced economy, at least half of young people can't find work. life here is never easy but, right now, south africa's power crisis is hitting the poorest hardest. no—one in khayelitsha wants to be sick when the power is off, but it happens every day. the main township hospital has had to adapt to what they call "load—shedding". the man in charge is david binza. with load—shedding now in place and the different stages, instead of reducing, they are actually increasing. we've had to adjust our lives and work around

i'm stephen sackur. the existential challenges facing ukraine aren't just on the battlefield. as kyiv�*s counteroffensive against russian forces in the east and south of the country continues, the scale of kyiv�*s economic losses becomes ever clearer. the world bank put ukraine's rebuilding cost at more than $400 billion, and that was before the kakhovka dam was blown up. my guest is ukraine's foreign minister dmytro kuleba in london for an economic recovery conference. on all fronts, is ukraine getting the support it needs? dmytro kuleba, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i think we have to begin with the military situation. details are limited, but would you accept that right now the ukrainian counteroffensive has not succeeded in punching a significant hole in russia's defensive line in your country? we are moving forward. that's the most important thing. when we speak with our generals and with independent experts, they all say that in the counter—offensive, the most important thing is to keep moving forward, whatever the pace is. i wish we broke all the lines by now and rea

i'm stephen sackur. today, i'm in canterbury, a place of christian pilgrimage for centuries, steeped in the history of the church of england. the c of e is woven into the fabric of the english establishment. but church leaders have become fierce critics of government policy. the anglican church is also a worldwide faith, but it is beset by divisions between progressives and conservatives. my guest today is the first black female bishop in the church of england, rose hudson—wilkin. is her church in danger of breaking apart? bishop rose hudson—wilkin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. now, yours is a pretty extraordinary personal story. being raised injamaica in difficult economic circumstances and now holding a senior position in the church of england. do you think that journey of yours affects the way you use the role of bishop? i hope it does in the sense that i can only operate from being me and being me is covered with where i'm coming from and certainly the journey that i have been on. so it will be ve

i'm stephen sackur.back in 2015, world leaders pledged to speed up cuts in greenhouse gas emissions in a bid to stop our planet warming by more than 1.5 degrees over pre—industrial levels. most climate scientists now believe that threshold will be crossed, and soon. as a result, many millions of people around the world face potentially life—threatening climate—related disruption. my guest is patrick verkooijen, founder of the global center on adaptation. is his focus on making the world climate change—resilient an admission that the battle to cut emissions has been lost? patrick verkooijen, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. now, you are all about adaptation. your global center on adaptation is sending a clear message to the world that it is time to make particularly the most vulnerable parts of the world resilient to the impacts of climate change. does that mean you've basically accepted we've lost the battle to curb emissions and prevent the worst of climate change? thank you so much, stephen. we

i'm stephen sackur, and today i'm in beautiful northern california to meet the man once described by henry kissinger as the most dangerous in america. in 1971, that man — my guest, daniel ellsberg — leaked the so—called pentagon papers. he exposed decades of us government lies about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it's a great pleasure to be at your home. you have lived a long and a very full life, and i guess the truth is you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i've lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, suppose

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. when we talk about people with the power to change the world, we're usually thinking of political leaders or maybe corporate titans but today, my guest is a philosopher who's harnessed the power of ideas to influence collective behaviour. australian peter singer has spent a lifetime wrestling with ethical choices in the real world, most notably in the field of animal rights. five decades after first publishing his manifesto calling for animal liberation, has the movement he inspired become unstoppable? peter singer, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it's good to be with you again. it's great to be here and have you here with me, and partly the reason is because you've written an updated, rewritten version of that book you almost five decades ago, animal liberation. it's called animal liberation now. is the publication of this update recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed?

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i'm stephen sackur. brazil is six months into the post—bolsonaro era.rs of devastation of the environment, the economy and social justice.

he spoke with our stephen sackur last year on bbc�*s hardtalk program.olicy staff position for a week. and i'd been doing it almost ten years. and i thought, this is 7,000 pages of top secret documents. i'll go to prison for life. and in fact, i was charged with a possible 115 years, which would have been a life sentence. made it very clear. this was a loser. this was not the place to plant the imperialflag. i didn't use the word imperial in those days. and the answer was, i really was dangerous to the policy he and nixon were carrying out in secret. they were secretly threatening nuclear war to north vietnam. and nixon had reason to believe, it wasn't paranoid, that i had access to that. that's all from us here in washington. we leave you with these live pictures of london as we hand off to our colleageus there. buy from all of us. —— bye. hello there. it's looking pretty different weather—wise this weekend — we're not going to have wall—to—wall sunshine like we've had the previous weekend. we have low pressure working its way in. that's going to bring

i'm stephen sackur. the existential challenges facing ukraine aren't just on the battlefield.ry continues, the scale of kyiv�*s economic losses becomes ever clearer.

welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. demographers reckon india has just overtaken china to become the world's most populous nation. its economy is growing at 6%—plus per year despite global headwinds, and its leader is a populist who appears to be popular. so should indians be feeling good about the state of their nation? well, my guest, shashi tharoor, is both an opposition politician and an historian. can prime minister modi credibly claim to be making india great again? shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india's current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it's not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it's a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it's number one in global population, it's number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, number five in dollar t

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welcome to hardtalk, i'm stephen sackur. by people could soon be the domain of intelligent machines. is that good news? well, not necessarily. leave aside nightmare visions of a terminator—style apocalypse, my guest today, the renowned economist daron acemoglu reckons technological progress often reinforces inequality and exploitation.

i'm stephen sackur.city styles itself the capital of the north of england, but with the pride there is also some resentment of the degree of centralisation in england, the dominance of london, and the lack of regional autonomy. my guest today is the mayor of this city, andy burnham. he quit westminster politics to come here and he is committed to a radical vision — a decentralised, united kingdom. but is own party, let alone the country as a whole, ready for his brand of radicalism? andy burnham, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. now, mr mayor, you have had six years in thisjob and you came to it with very big ambitions. do you think you have made a difference? i hope so. i think manchester today in 2023 is different from the city i came to in 2017. you just need to look at the skyline of manchester city centre to see that difference. the city is growing in stature, physically, but i think also in terms of its reputation, both in the uk and around the world. this was, obviously the home of indust

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