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Now on BBC News, it's HARDtalk's review of the year.

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Welcome to my review of heart talk to thousand 16. This was the year of

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a certain Donald J Trump. Hundreds of thousands of loggerheads in this

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country who will follow anyone and vote or a reality TV star. If the

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choice is between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, I vote for Donald

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Trump. The statement of banning all Muslims is very much contrary to

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American values. There is one certainty from the Mac, we have

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voted to take back control of our country. There is my personal

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feeling that comes into play because I love the UK so much I want them to

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be with the Europeans. This could be the beginning of the unravelling of

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the European Union, i.e. Agree. We are in need try new ideas. The only

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thing which will move is war. Ifill want to make the world a better

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place and I leave it a better place and that I am honest while I hear

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which is why I want to do your show because I want to to be asked hard

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questions. Hard questions is what we do and in 2016, our focus was on the

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global political phenomena and, a wave of popular anger and disgust

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with the status quo, sweeping through the democracies of the

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Western world. People left out and left behind. Look for politicians

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who seemed to speak to them. In the US, there are likely champion was a

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billionaire property tycoon with an outsized ego. There are elements,

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sub elements, fringe element in every country. Did I already know

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that there are hundreds of thousands of blockheads in this country, who

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are idiots and will vote for a TV reality star? Lets breed a little

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bit before we give it too much credit of representing a real thing.

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I will say this, there is a phoniness about this, consternation

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at what it means is guys like you love it. You dine out on it. You

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like a chance to look down upon, to go to the mystery of the Donald

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Trump phenomena. Any one of our candidates will be better than an

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Obama third term under the auspices of Hillary Clinton. Even if a colic

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says he is a race baiting xenophobe missed bigot and would be an

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absolute disaster to our party and destroy conservatism as we know it

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and we will get wiped out. I do not agree on all of that. He is a

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leading to the policies which include building a world with

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Mexico. I for immigration reform but because we need to get back to legal

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immigration and put a stop to illegal immigration and most

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Republicans agree with me on that. They are not allowed Holler about

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building a wall. I have lived my whole life on the US Mexico border

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and I have flown it, driven it and read it on horseback and know it

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very well and my view is... You show me a ten foot well and I will show

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you a 12 foot ladder. Of all is not adequate. Once he decided to come on

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board with the Donald Trump, is what you think is so important for people

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to understand and you claim the media failed to understand, is that

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this guy is not ideological? He is common sense, problem-solving in his

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orientation so some of the staff will be surprisingly less than write

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lenient. This guy, far from being a danger to the world is going to be

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somebody that governments around the world can work with and put trust in

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- that is not going to be easy. What I see happening is what happens in

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life, a convergence between how the media presents somebody, how the

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soundbites happen on a campaign on how when you are interacting with a

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person face to face, that might be a difference between your perception

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and what the person is like and as the gap closes, the world community

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will be happy to have him as president. Donald Trump's Drive much

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of the world by surprise. It had the shock value of a political

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earthquake. Much more political was the other storyline, the

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continuation of Syria's hellish war. The slow death of a nation under the

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worlds gaze. We are in a horrible war. Frankly, on behalf of every

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one, we need to throw new ideas about why things are not moving. The

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only thing that will move is war and victory but the reason no victory.

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That is the essence of this crisis. Some players believe victory is

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still possible and people who believe that our sad and his

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supporters in Moscow and Tehran. You are totally right. At this very

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moment, and Assad and his team are feeling comfortable but what they

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should not be feeling comfortable about is that Russia has no interest

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in inheriting a broken, destroyed, non- reconstruct a ball Syria and

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with constant warfare. Russian military forces, airstrike forces

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being involved in offensives against civilians is out of possibility.

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They are still performing their task in terms of fighting terrorist

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organisation. Your air forces been involved with the Syrians in the

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most ferocious on bad men of Aleppo that we have seen in more than five

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years of the Syrian conflict. Why are you the point, for example,

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these are uncovered a sting bombs which reach down into basements,

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kill civilians where they are sheltering, and also, we know this

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ROM multiple sources, hitting hospitals. This is false

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information. There is no possibility that Russian air force can be

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involved in this kind of activities. Understandably, the war is going on

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and understandably the cessation of hostile activity is not active right

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now and we are too far away from a situational ceasefire in Aleppo. We

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tried to give voice to the survivors of conflict, particularly and

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predictably, women. For those oppressed by so-called Islamic State

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to those victimised by one of Africa's most violent militant

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gangs. You were held for three months, in that time did you have

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conversations all make any normal conversations with any of these men

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that were holding you? You have come through the most

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terrible dramatic experience - eight years you were held captive by the

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Lord's resistance Army. Do you still find it easy to recall just how

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awful those moments were? First of all, I was so scared. They are

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telling you, get up. Get up. I did not know where we were going and

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that was the day and I only realised in the night, when I been told,

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come. A lady told me to go to the other tent. Two gentlemen alone? I

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asked what is this? He said if I do not accept, I have the power to kill

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you. I accepted it. That is how this man raped me. You board this man to

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children, a son and a daughter. I cannot even begin to imagine how

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mixed your feelings were in having those children in these

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circumstances you were forced to have them? In real life, when you

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start interpreting, Vijaya will never know this circumstance in

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which anything happen. -- the child. You never know where their children

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will lead me to. Europe will remember the thousand 16 as their

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year of Brexit, coined to reflect Britain leaving the EU. It reflected

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deep unhappiness with business as usual. A poke in the eye for the

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political and business elite. Brexit, the idea of leaving the EU,

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your team said that would cause severe national, regional and global

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damage? That is partly a preliminarily analysis. Guesswork?

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Partly intuition and a teeny tiny bit of my personal feeling that

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comes into play because I love so much of the UK I want them to be

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with the Europeans of which I consider myself. You comfortable

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with the idea that the IMF is making statements which are making a huge

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vertical role and in internal British debate? What right does the

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IMF to play that role? Clearly embedded in the articles of the IMF

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is our duty of analysing and maintaining as much as we can

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stability in the global economy. Ultimately, there is one certainty

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from Brexit, that we have voted to take back control of our country.

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Are you ready now to express some regret for some of the things,

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including false would pedal by the Leave campaign... As far as the

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Leave campaign there was one mistake, what factual mistake. The

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350 million. It was on the poster. A very small factual mistake. ?350

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million a week will go to the NHS is a complete falsehood. Why redirect

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my question? Why not now that it is over, acknowledge that some things

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were said that were false and you regret it. I think that was the only

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fundamental mistake that was made in terms of fact... A fundamental

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mistake! The course you are cynical and would say almost anything to

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win. It was not my figure and argue very strongly against it. It was one

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of the most that regular acts of litter called dishonest on the part

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of a number of opportunists and populists. I bought interested in

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the intellectual bases EU approach of this. All those of reasonable and

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rational mind must be pro- remaining in the EU- you seem to assume that

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those who won the argument are nothing but opportunists and liars?

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Am not going to back pedal about my dismay at the intellectual

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dishonesty of otherwise intelligent people who sought to persuade people

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about this sort of Utopia beckoning. I want your opinion on what you are

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seeing from the British government? About what kind of Brexit Theresa

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May wants. Are you worried about the sense of confusion and K is the EC

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in London? In your opinion, does it have to be

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the so-called hard Brexit? President Hollande has said that Britain will

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have to pay a heavy price for leaving the European Union, and

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therefore, he seems to be suggesting that the idea that we stay in the

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single market or have preferential access to the single market, it is

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not going to be possible. What is your view?

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This could be the beginning of the unravelling of the European Union. I

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agree, it cannot be excluded. That could be terrible for Britain. Also,

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I think it would be terrible to have a united Europe to Britain's

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exclusion, which is something that Britain tried to prevent 500 years.

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We will miss you. The European Union with Britain in it was better than

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what we are going to get now, but you have made your decision. We have

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to take care of our union, do have to take care of your union. We are

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facing an existential crisis as never before. It is a crisis of

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solidarity. Everybody is talking the national talk, and pass imperilling

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the European Union and its ability to commonly act. This could be the

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new experience, the new situation, that failure of Europe is possible,

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and I think we have even more awareness of this new possibility

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which has not been there since World War Two. Do you see yourself and

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your political movement as part of a worldwide phenomenon? I am thinking

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of Donald Trump in the United States, I am thinking of the vote

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for Brexit in the United Kingdom. Do you think something is happening

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which the Front National, your party, is a part of?

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Every year, HARDtalk throws up moments of tension, drama and deep

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emotion. It can be political, like my encounter with a member of South

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Africa's troubled government, or it can be personal. Either way, it is

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compelling. There is no legal or constitutional reason for the

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President to leave office. It becomes a political question. One of

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the most important ministers in your government, the government which you

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loyally serve, has basically declared that in his view, given

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what the Constitutional Court has said, the President has roped in his

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contract with the people. I am asking you. Do you agree with that,

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or disagree? I... I think the minister was actually saying, he was

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warning us, that we cannot operate beyond the bounds of the

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constitution. We have to operate within the framework of the

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constitution. The President is way beyond the bounds of the

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constitution. Well, I think that is a matter of debate and discussion,

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so what I am saying is that I inked that from a legal and constitutional

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point of view, there is no reason for the President to leave office.

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Minister, are you in any way embarrassed by the answer is that

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you feel you have had to give to me today, presumably for political

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reasons? I haven't any reason to be embarrassed. I am just telling you

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the way I look at the situation in South Africa, that we have got a

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functioning government in place, we have got a president in place, which

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there have been some unfortunate incidents around. This wonderful

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creation of yours, which has in essence to find your career, and

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that if this marvellous lady, the veto. -- Evita. She is this sort of

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wonderful Afrikaans woman, obviously a creation, you are in drag. Let's

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get our first look at Evita herself, in the most iconic circumstances,

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perhaps one of the most memorable times of your life, actually

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interviewing Nelson Mandela just months after he was released in

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1994. Let's play this video clip and give everybody an idea. In the old

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days, as you probably remember, Afrikaners like me were frightened

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that when black South Africans would take control of South Africa, all

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the old symbols, the old paintings, the old furniture would be removed,

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and we are so happy to see that everything is still here. Minorities

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are entitled to be concerned about the type of changes that have taken

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place in our country. The task of the government and the ANC

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leadership will be to ensure the white South Africans that change

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will not mean a reversal of the position where blacks were oppressed

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by the white minority and the other minorities. And I think that we have

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succeeded, we are succeeding in addressing their fears. I mean, what

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is beautiful about that is that Mandela appears to be taking it very

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seriously. Very seriously. And we sat down I was ready with

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everything, which is frightening when a film crew weights, you know,

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it is like waiting for the death warrant, the death sentence. And we

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could hear his voice down the passage. He walked in, he came

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round, he saw Evita and he said, Evita, you look so beautiful. He sat

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down and I said, President Mandela, thank you so much for allowing us

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this 30 minutes. It was a 30 minute interview. He said, no, I want to be

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at Evita's show because I have important things to say at nobody

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watches the news. I like this phrase that one of your critics came up

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with. Every online pronouncements from planet well. You being the

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ruler of Planet Wealth. Is there a spaceship bike and take there, too

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Planet Wealth? You know, the truth of the matter is, we have a complete

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range of price points on the site. You know, we have $8 lip balm, we

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have $12 non-toxic deodorant, and also, to be honest, we have a bit of

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fun and we will affiliate link to a $15,000 gold dildo just to trawl

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people back. The two things that I remember most that I will not get

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over, and that I probably worry about all the time, the feeling of

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being existential, of having no power, that nobody cares, you are

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invisible, you are nothing, you are not going to amount to anything, and

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there is a part of me that I will always feel like somehow it is going

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to turn out that way again. I will live running with that chasing me,

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that I will be that helpless child, once again. And that is what keeps

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me going, and you do not get over these things. And I think that

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sometimes when I immerse myself in the traumas and the tragedies of

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other people, because I desperately need to try to heal other people,

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because I know what it feels like to have nobody come and do that for

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you. So, you know, life is a struggle and it is what we make of

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it, and I am so grateful to have the success that I have, but I also want

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to feel that I make the world a better place and that I leave it a

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better place and that I am honest while I am here, even if it is hard,

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which is one of the reasons I want to do your show, because I want some

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big asks me the hard questions that we should all be giving hard answers

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to. I get to produce something beautiful out of it. The art is fun.

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If I entertain people, then I have taken something and actually created

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something good about something that maybe didn't start out so hot. 2016

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was a year that stirred deep emotion and turned conventional wisdom on

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its head. My only prediction for 2017, HARDtalk will still be roving

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the world with the questions that matter. Until then, have a very

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happy New Year.

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