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In-depth interviews from the BBC. Broadcasting on BBC News, World Service Radio and podcast platforms.

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“The regime and Maduro have said that I’m a terrorist and that justice is looking for me” – Venezuelan opposition leader @MariaCorinaYA María Corina Machado is in hiding after July's election. President Maduro claimed victory but the opposition and many countries say he stole it

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Pakistan’s anti-corruption body alleges former finance minister Ishaq Dar has assets "beyond his known sources of income" @stephensackur asks Ishaq Dar just what does he own? And will he return to Pakistan to answer these allegations?

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Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for leaking state secrets He spoke to @stephensackur last year about what he sees as a political crackdown in Pakistan 📻

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BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Imran Khan: Is Pakistan heading for political chaos?

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"Unfortunately, the country has been taken over by fascists, and they are petrified of elections" - @ImranKhanPTI The former Pakistan PM says the authorities are afraid of his party, accusing them of "dismantling a democracy"

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"Unfortunately, the country has been taken over by fascists, and they are petrified of elections" - @ImranKhanPTI The former Pakistan PM says the authorities are afraid of his party, accusing them of "dismantling a democracy"

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President of @jkpmparty , @shahfaesal , tells @stephensackur that "it's my generation which has now got the taste of betrayal" over India's actions in #JammuKashmir

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Don’t miss Wednesday’s interview with leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters ⁦ @Julius_S_Malema ⁩

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Should #Pakistan be ashamed of supporting Saudi Arabia after the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi? No says Finance Minister @Asad_Umar

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South Africa’s EFF leader @Julius_S_Malema says he would arm Moscow because ‘Russia is in a war with imperialism’ ‘I will go beyond the friendship with Russia. In the war I will align with Russia and I will even supply the weapons’, he says of Putin’s war on Ukraine

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“Now it’s Ukraine, tomorrow it could be us” – Gabriel Boric The President of Chile says the invasion of Ukraine “violates international law” and Russia “should withdraw”

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‘We will not die of starvation but we will die if we have no freedom’ says @DrSasa22222 Special Envoy to UN for Myanmar’s Parliament

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“Ukraine must win this war….no matter what” says Finland’s President @alexstubb “It is facing a huge aggressor which is violating all rules of war”

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That time Nina Simone tried to shoot a record company executive #HARDtalk20

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“Pakistan’s army respects human rights… they are one of the most civilised armies of the world” Information Minister @fawadchaudhry defends Pakistan’s security services against abuse accusations and says they played a vital role fighting terrorism 📻

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Imran Khan 'is not a very powerful prime minister' says banned Pakistani journalist @HamidMirPAK who also says Prime Minister Khan is 'helpless' and 'cannot help me'

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#Catalonia is a “nation”, says #Spain ’s Foreign Minister @JosepborrellF

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Economic Freedom Fighters’ @Julius_S_Malema warns of anarchy, looting and leaderless revolution if South Africa’s power grid collapses ‘I’m not wishing it, I’m saying it’s going to happen,’ he says

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EXCLUSIVE: “Let me tell you a secret… I had possession of the all the Chelsea Manning information before it came out in the press” - Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg says he was given leaked US diplomatic cables “as a backup” by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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“It’s basically the revenge of the United States” says wife of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange Stella Moris calls US espionage charges against him “political persecution” and says UK Home Secretary - who will decide on his extradition - has his “life in her hands”

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Former adult actress @miakhalifa tells @stephensackur why now is the right time to talk about the dangers of getting into the porn industry and her hopes of inspiring women who are pressured into the industry.

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ASEAN countries will be ‘shamed’ if they don’t tell Myanmar’s military ‘enough is enough’ and end the violence according to UN Special Envoy for Myanmar’s Parliament @DrSasa22222

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The government has “tried every tool in the book to silence my voice and my journalism” says prominent Indian journalist @RanaAyyub . “That’s the cost of speaking truth to power in India” She tells @stephensackur of a series of legal cases against her

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"[Prime Minister Sanchez] has certainly deceived us, but he can correct his course" Catalan pro-independence Minister @AlfredBosch blames the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez for the widespread protests in Catalonia

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“Your choice is either defeat Putin on the territory of Ukraine, or later… on the territory of one of the Nato countries” Exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky says President Putin believes “he is already at war with Nato and the US”

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Former speaker of Italy’s Chamber of Deputies @lauraboldrini says she was a target for online trolling and sexism due her outspokenness over human rights and women's rights

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“We have to believe in Ukraine’s victory” @kajakallas tells the BBC Estonia’s Prime Minister says “When we don’t believe anymore, then we don’t support Ukraine”

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President of @jkpmparty , @shahfaesal , tells @stephensackur that the Kashmiri constitution has been "murdered" by Indian Prime Minister Modi's decision to end the semi-autonomous status of #JammuKashmir

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Retired adult actress @miakhalifa tells @stephensackur she held deep reservations over wearing a hijab in a porn scene - a decision that led to threats against her. "I verbatim told them 'You guys are going to get me killed', she said, adding she was too "intimidated" to refuse.

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In a country run by the world's oldest prime minister, Asia's youngest cabinet minister @SyedSaddiq promises #Malaysia 's youth their voices will be heard

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Does #Pakistan worry about how much money it owes China? Finance Minister @Asad_Umar says the US should be more concerned about its own debts

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His name was omitted from the TV version. This was not an act of censorship, but clearly confusion has been caused, so we are happy to restore that short section to the TV broadcast and we’ll give the new programme an extra airing tonight as well as tomorrow morning. 2/2

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The reason Kulbhushan Jadhav’s name was deleted from the TV version of the HARDtalk interview with Asad Umar has a simple technical explanation. The recorded interview was too long for our broadcast slot and so had to be edited. This was done separately for radio and TV. 1/2

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Former adult actress @miakhalifa tells @stephensackur porn is "not reality". "...the things that men see in videos, they expect from the women in their lives. No-one is going to be that perfect, nobody is going to do those acts on a Wednesday night with the person they love".

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'We are not paying for that stupid wall !' - former Mexican President @VicenteFoxQue on HARDtalk has a message for @realDonaldTrump

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Watch ⁦ @stephensackur ⁩ interview ⁦ @Julius_S_Malema ⁩ on Hardtalk at 0330gmt, 0930gmt & 2130gmt Wednesday on BBC News outside the UK

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"I do not regret...we need to fight for democracy, not only in Hong Kong but in China" Former UK consulate employee Simon Cheng, detained & tortured by China over his role in Hong Kong's democracy protests according to the UK government, remains defiant

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“I felt like nothing besides a gold medal was enough” Former US Olympic champion gymnast Aly Raisman says the culture and intense pressure of elite sport meant she felt she was “competing out of fear” of failure

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"There is no leadership at the moment... #HongKong is, at the moment, a rudderless ship". Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, questions how current Chief Executive Carrie Lam has handled the nationwide protests sparked by the so-called Chinese extradition bill.

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'I'm ready to face life imprisonment' says Pakistani journalist @HamidMirPAK who faces accusations of sedition and has been suspended from his TV job and newspaper column after speaking out against attacks on press freedom in the country

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Raghuram Rajan, reported front runner for Governor of the Bank of England appears to rule himself out telling @Sarah_Montague “the job has become much more political.” Watch the full interview on Monday.

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‘We need a government of national unity… to resolve this immediate crisis’ says South African EFF opposition leader @Julius_S_Malema Defending his March call for nationwide shutdown, he says “that is the most responsible thing to do. Do you want me to fold my hands?’

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Preserving the moral compass of #Malaysia is more important than hosting an international swimming event. Malaysia’s Sports Minister @SyedSaddiq defends his country's ban on #Israel competing in the World Para Swimming Champs

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"Refugees are resilient people, they're strong-minded people, who have so much to give. They have something so beautiful in their spirit that no-one can take away from them” Model @Kinglimaa reflects on growing up in Kakuma refugee camp

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“I’m trying my best to put a smile on people’s face” Afrobeats star @Omah_Lay on why he steers away from politics in his music and focusses on his own experiences

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“I spent my childhood behind barbed wire fences. But as an adult I self-imposed an invisible barbed wire fence on myself and I was closeted” @GeorgeTakei who played Lieutenant Sulu in Star Trek, on why he hid his sexuality in Hollywood for so long

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What does the earth look like from outer space? "Gorgeous" and "fragile" according to one of the few to have seen it, #Apollo11 astronaut @AstroMCollins

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"The elites and the @BBC and the conventional media - has simply not grasped the enormity of what's happening." @ExtinctionR co-founder Roger Hallam tells @stephensackur six billion lives are at risk over the climate crisis. #ExtinctionRebellion #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

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“President Museveni is not treating us as political opponents… he is treating us as terrorists” Pop star turned opposition politician @HEBobiwine on the dangers of campaigning in Uganda’s presidential election

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“It is a tipping point for the Islamic Republic… the end of the gender apartheid regime” Journalist and campaigner Masih Alinejad says Iranian women have been galvanised by the death of Mahsa Amini to demand greater freedoms

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Shah Rukh Khan @iamsrk on @BBCHARDtalk with @TheZeinabBadawi talks about the treatment of women in Bollywood

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"Justice will be done only when Serbia repents... they are still in a state of denial" Kosovo's acting president @VjosaOsmaniMP says a peace deal with neighbouring Serbia will only be possible after a reckoning with the past 📻

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"They put us through systematic torture for years" Iranian refugee and author @BehrouzBoochani discusses his six years held in detention on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island, under Australia's asylum policy

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"China has been violating the Sino-British Joint Declaration. People [in Hong Kong] feel like we need the help of the international community" Hong Kong pro-democracy activist @nathanlawkc explains his view on China's growing influence in the territory

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"Media organisations used to be gatekeepers...Now that the gatekeepers are tech companies...we're seeing...the growth of...fascism all around the world" Journalist Maria Ressa on the fight for press freedom in President Duterte’s Philippines

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“It was a perfidious and treasonous attack... this administration [was] left with no option but to respond with force” Ethiopia's Attorney General Gedion Timothewos says his government has been unwillingly drawn into conflict in the Tigray region 📻

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‘I’m not being apologetic. I’m not trying to create the impression otherwise’ Pakistan’s Caretaker Prime Minister @anwaar_kakar on whether he’s the military’s choice to run the country until the postponed elections take place

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The reason Kulbhushan Jadhav’s name was deleted from the TV version of the HARDtalk interview with Asad Umar has a simple technical explanation. The recorded interview was too long for our broadcast slot and so had to be edited. This was done separately for radio and TV. 1/2

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“People should be treated with respect and dignity at any size” Acclaimed writer @rgay says fat shaming is an ongoing problem – “it’s the first insult”

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“President Zuma has not said he wants immunity from prosecution”, South Africa’s Deputy President @CyrilRamaphosa tells @TheZeinabBadawi

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"Young protesters in Hong Kong have been let down. It's not an internal problem, Hong Kong reflects the Western ideology, and the West should not and cannot just lose those very important values" @aiww on the ongoing Hong Kong protests, the subject of his forthcoming documentary

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“The Chinese government want to threaten you by going after your family” Pro-democracy activist @nathanlawkc says he will continue to speak up, despite Hong Kong police placing a bounty on his head and interrogating his family

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"I have no other explanation why they are tolerating so much." Are western attempts to drive a wedge between Serbia and Russia leaving Kosovo out in the cold? Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti says the EU is being "soft" on Serbia

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@MthuliNcube Please can you follow back so we can DM you

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“We have the lowest rate of deforestation in the world… Guyana will still be net zero” President Irfaan Ali says Guyana won’t take lectures on climate change as it exploits its huge offshore oil and gas reserves 📻

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Opposition chief whip @TunduLissu says he's "ready" to run for Tanzanian presidency and he'll return when doctors say he's recovered from gunshot injuries

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Don’t miss the 3rd instalment of our trilogy of South African leaders ⁦ @jsteenhuisen ⁩, head of the Democratic Alliance Thursday on BBC News at 0330gmt, 0930gmt & 2130gmt

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“Sometimes I cry on my own. Sometimes I feel like I lost my emotions” Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza talks about the mental health toll of covering the Gaza conflict 📻

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Exclusive interview with ⁦ @matteosalvinimi ⁩ on ⁦ @BBCWorld ⁩ Wednesday #Migration #Brexit

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Star Trek actor @GeorgeTakei talks of being imprisoned as a child in an internment camp for Japanese Americans during WW2 “My father told us that we were going on a long vacation in the country. I thought every vacation by train would have armed soldiers at both ends of each car"

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"No better eyes to help open your own than kids'." @DLanceBlack has just announced he is expecting a baby with husband @TomDaley1994

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Chairman of Pakistan People's Party @BBhuttoZardari says he's committed to realising his mother's political vision

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Can Chile’s young, progressive president bring change to his country? Our interview with President @GabrielBoric is available here 📻

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Greece’s new Prime Minister @kmitsotakis says the reason for the shortage of women in his government is that “they were much more hesitant than men" to join the cabinet

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Afghanistan's First Vice President Amrullah Saleh says his country must not be a “sacrificial goat for a very crude peace process.”

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'All those people who are trying to snatch media freedom from us are enemies of Pakistan' says banned Pakistani journalist @HamidMirPAK

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'Go to hell, Trump !' : watch the former Mexican President @VicenteFoxQue speak his mind on HARDtalk:

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Indian journalist ⁦ @RanaAyyub ⁩ on the abuse, intimidation and threats she faces as a result of her work What does her experience say about the health of democracy in India? Download full interview here

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We speak to Rana Ayyub, who has dug deep into the past and present of India's PM

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“I am a reflection of my country” Pakistani actor @TheMahiraKhan tells @stephensackur

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“Under occupation… No one will have safety and no one will have peace” Photojournalist Motaz Azaiza says he believes there is no hope for Gaza and fears the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians “will never end”

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“In South Africa, there is no threat, harm…to the Jewish people” says Justice Minister “There is no anti-Semitism in South Africa” Ronald Lamola tells Stephen Sackur, despite a reported rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the country since October 7

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Lady Hale, President of the UK Supreme Court, tells @stephensackur that legal aid cuts have had a 'considerable' and 'corrosive' impact on access to justice.

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It's 50 years since the launch of #Apollo11 – the first mission to successfully land humankind on the Moon. @stephensackur met pilot Michael Collins, who recalled Earth looking like a "fragile little thing" from space and urged better environmentalism #Apollo50

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'Majority of Kenyans believe that I am their President' @RailaOdinga tells HARDtalk

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Could Victoria Falls run completely dry? @stephensackur visits the Zimbabwe side of the falls with climate change expert Elisha N. Moyo who says 'maybe one year there will be no falls completely, no water' Hardtalk on climate change in Zimbabwe. Watch on November 25

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“The acts of the Chinese government clearly points in the direction that this is a genocide” @nuryturkel left Xinjiang for America in the 1990s and currently chairs the US Committee on International Religious Freedom and the Uyghur Human Rights project. China denies genocide.

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South Africa’s Transport Minister @MbalulaFikile says delayed response to recent violence in the country gave plotters “a field day” “But for all the days they had, the plotters, they couldn't achieve that result”

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Shah Rukh Khan on Bollywood harassment

The Bollywood superstar gives his take on harassment towards women in the Indian film industry.

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South African Opposition Leader @jsteenhuisen warns of “Doomsday” post-election ANC/EFF coalition “Imagine how terrifying it’s going to when the ANC would rely on them… to be able to secure a majority”

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"It’s this constant disinformation talk; it gets very tiring. You see this a lot with academics and think tanks, I find, where everything is about Russia" @EliotHiggins , the founder of the investigations website Bellingcat, criticises the obsession with Russian disinformation

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Former South African Finance Minister, Pravin #Gordhan : President Zuma needs to do some self-reflection on how he is damaging the #ANC .

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Ethiopian Attorney General Gedion Timothewos says more than 30 Ethiopian soldiers have been convicted - some sentenced to life in prison - for crimes relating to the conflict in Tigray. There have been reports of mass killings, rapes and other serious war crimes.

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Former Afghan spy chief @AmrullahSaleh2 says his country "will not agree to sign an unequal agreement which will undermine the sovereignty of the Afghan state over the entire territory" #Afghanistan #Taliban

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Nuclear button tweet was part of Trump’s “wit, part of his personality”, White House ex Comms Chief @Scaramucci tells HARDtalk.

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Leaving the EU is number one priority - Iain Duncan Smith @MPIainDS "The problem ... is the British public voted as a majority but the majority in parliament is ... for remain. We gave them the authority when we gave them the referendum. Parliament now must act on that." #brexit

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Download our interview with South Africa’s EFF leader ⁦ @Julius_S_Malema ⁩ on power, Putin and politics

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Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters party

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"The low falls are becoming more frequent. It is quite a possibility....one year there will be no falls completely, no water" Elisha Moyo, Principal Climate Change Researcher for the Zimbabwean government says the average flow over Victoria Falls in 2019 is down by almost 50%

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"Post-truth... is pre-fascism... you're opening the way for the big lie" Renowned historian @TimothyDSnyder says the Trump presidency exhibited signs of early stage fascism and exposed flaws in US democracy 📻

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Is South Africa’s Democratic Alliance a credible alternative to the ANC? Full podcast interview with ⁦ @jsteenhuisen ⁩ here

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Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of South Africa’s biggest opposition party

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Download @StephenSackur 's podcast with Hameed Haroon, CEO of Dawn Media Group in Pakistan

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Hameed Haroon is the CEO of Pakistan's influential Dawn Media Group.

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You can listen to the full interview with Afrobeats star @Omah_Lay here

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BBC World Service - HARDtalk, Omah Lay: Is there a universal message in his music?

Sarah Montague speaks to Omah Lay, Nigerian Afrobeats Musician

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Pakistan’s Information Minister ⁦ @fawadchaudhry ⁩ on freedom of expression and journalist safety. Podcast with ⁦ @stephensackur ⁩ here

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HARDtalk - Fawad Chaudhry: Is Imran Khan reneging on his promises to Pakistan? - BBC Sounds

What happened to Imran Khan’s pledge to deliver clean, transparent governance?

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"…When [the Spanish government] resort to putting people in jail instead of dialogue, they're making a huge mistake" Catalan Minister, @AlfredBosch , says the Spanish government should be talking to the pro-independence movement not cracking down on them

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"I just want to let Americans know that China is not the enemy of the United States. It's the virus that's the enemy...find the right target" Chinese UK Ambassador, @AmbLiuXiaoMing , on tensions with the Trump administration over its coronavirus response

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