HARDtalk Review of the Year 2016 HARDtalk

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

with the status quo, sweeping through the democracies of the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

leading to the policies which include building a world with

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

immigration and put a stop to illegal immigration and most

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

earthquake. Much more political was the other storyline, the

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

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

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

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

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

still possible and people who believe that our sad and his

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

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

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

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

with constant warfare. Russian military forces, airstrike forces

being involved in offensives against civilians is out of possibility.

They are still performing their task in terms of fighting terrorist

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

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

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

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

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

ROM multiple sources, hitting hospitals. This is false

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

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

and understandably the cessation of hostile activity is not active right

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

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

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

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

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

conversations all make any normal conversations with any of these men

that were holding you? You have come through the most

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

mixed your feelings were in having those children in these

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

start interpreting, Vijaya will never know this circumstance in

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

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

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

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

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

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

damage? That is partly a preliminarily analysis. Guesswork?

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

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

with the Europeans of which I consider myself. You comfortable

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

dishonesty of otherwise intelligent people who sought to persuade people

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

not going to be possible. What is your view?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

compelling. There is no legal or constitutional reason for the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

constitution. We have to operate within the framework of the

constitution. The President is way beyond the bounds of the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

there have been some unfortunate incidents around. This wonderful

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

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

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

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

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

interviewing Nelson Mandela just months after he was released in

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

leadership will be to ensure the white South Africans that change

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

happy New Year.