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have the right to make

such a decision.

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It is time for HARDtalk.

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Welcome to my look back at the best

of HARDtalk, 2017. So many

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personalities, so much passion. And

more than a little anger.

There is a

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lot of pain in America, and Donald

Trump addressed that. He said I will

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be a different type of Republican. I

hear your pain. The only trouble is

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he lied. Blue eye at the work inside

the White House, and I will tell

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you, there is no crisis, we are

creating the results expected of us

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and which got the president elected

supreme he can build as many walls

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as he wants. What he will never ever

achieved, is Mexico paying for the

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wall.

We do not want to have Islam

claiming power in our country.

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Preaching against our values, our

culture!

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The worst thing that could happen

with North Korea was the escalation

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leading to sleep-walking interwar.

It is the entitlement of too many

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men, and it is epidemic. When they

are famous, it gets talked about.

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There is only one place to start in

the look back at 2017, the United

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States. Donald Trump's election

victory reflected a divided America.

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In his first year in office, those

divisions were deepened.

Bernie

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Sanders, welcome to HARDtalk. It is

great to be with you.

To you in any

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way regret what you did with Hillary

Clinton? She could be in the White

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House.

I do not accept that. I

accept the fact our campaign brought

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millions and millions of people into

the political process. Donald Trump

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did not need me to understand

Hillary Clinton gave speeches before

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Wall Street. She did not need me to

understand her record. There is a

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lot of pain in America. And Donald

Trump addressed that an. He said I

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will be a different type of

Republican. I hear your pain. I will

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take on the establishment, the

politics, economic establishment.

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The only problem is Donald Trump

lied.

Senator Lindsey Graham, John

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McCain, your good friend, says it is

time for Republicans on Capitol Hill

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to stand up to Donald Trump. We are

not his subordinates, John McCain

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says. So, are you now prepared to

stand up to Donald Trump?

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Absolutely. We came out strongly

against the first travel ban because

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I thought it was basically a ban on

a person's religion.

Sebastian Gorka

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in Washington, what is the

atmosphere in the White House today?

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Fabulous. I literally just left The

Oval Office where we swore in

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general Kelly as the new Chief of

Staff or the president. It was like

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a family gathering. A great mood.

Lots of breast. We are very excited

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about recent developments.

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Anthony Scaramucci, with his words

to the New Yorker, he has surely

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thrown a bomb into the building

behind you, the White House.

Not at

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all. I know that is what colleagues

on the hill on the left and in the

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chattering classes of the leftist

media would want people to believe.

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But it is not at all like that. We

are excited, the agenda to make

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America great again is working. We

have strengthened the team. We have

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people who can communicate to the

base that elected him as president.

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Sebastian Gorka left the White House

just a month later. One of the most

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extraordinary features of the first

months of the Donald Trump

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presidency has been the deepening

sense of a war between the White

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House and the so-called mainstream

media. On top of the enemy list of

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the president, the New York Times,

the grand old lady of American

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newspapers, which Donald Trump

portrays as a purveyor of lies.

This

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is a president, umm, who does not

like the press. No president ever

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like the pressie gets. He likes it

less. This is a man who made his

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name in the industry by manipulating

the tabloids. He becomes president

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and I think he was expecting the

same thing. Fox News gave it to him.

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But we will not.

You, I think it is

fair to say, for a long time, as a

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paper, did not appear to take Donald

Trump that seriously. Would you at

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least accept that?

I guess the way I

would slip it, it is not that we did

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not take him seriously, we did not

take the Donald Trump phenomenon

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seriously.

Out of touch would be the

phrase.

I will accept that. There

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was anger in the country. Anger at

elites. We were seen as elites. I do

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not think we had our finger on the

pulse of the anger. We wrote about

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the anger in the country, but we did

not understand the scope of it and

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how much people want to change.

None

of the usual diplomatic rules

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applied to the Donald Trump

presidency. Some harsh words came

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from south of the border.

Excuse me,

it starts with the wall. He can

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build as many walls as he wants. He

can enclose that leading nation

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behind more walls because of fear

and because of his crazy ideas, but

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what he will never ever change is

Mexico paying for the wall. That is

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a different thing. That has to do

with sovereignty, that has to do

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with dignity, that has to do with

pride. We are not paying for that

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stupid wall that he wants to build.

Build that if you want with US

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taxpayers' money.

Latin America had

its own big headache this year.

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Venezuela plunged into an economic

crisis which saw shops run out of

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food and medicine. Nicolas Maduro

faced a wave of protesting. For the

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last few years you have been a

diplomat at the UN representing

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Venezuela and the Venezuela

government. A month ago you decided

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to jump ship. Why is that?

It is

impossible to defend what cannot be

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defended. You can clearly see the

violation of human rights and the

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crimes against humanity that have

been committed in the past four

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months. It is impossible to defend

quote unquote socialist utopia, it

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is a dystopia.

A journey to

Venezuela undercover. Journalists

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were barred as the opposition to do

the streets. The mother of the

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country's most famous political

prisoner took me to hear the voice

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of resistance.

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Look at that.

A Jeep has come out of

the present. They want to talk to

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us. This was the moment our filming

in Venezuela came to an abrupt end.

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As the military police approached us

from the prison, we attempted to

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leave. We managed to conceal the

camera in our car but our cover was

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blown. European politics in 2017

featured concern about immigration,

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the rise of antiestablishment

populist politics, and efforts by

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mainstream politicians to

reinvigorate the centre ground. And,

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of course, there was Brexit as well.

One of the most memorable interviews

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of my year came from Nicholas Frank,

whose father was Hitler's lawyer,

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and the Nazi's top official in

Parliament.

It hurts to admit we

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killed the lives of innocent people

in a system which was really a tough

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system. And to be against the system

was to have a very brave character

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to do it. But this hurts. You can

endure it, and I still love Germany,

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I love being a world champion in

football, for instance. Really, I am

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a nationalist, yes? As you can see,

especially refugees, everything

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changed because it was as if we were

Jews again. The swamp is coming.

You

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feel that? You feel so insecure

about your Germany today?

Yes. Don't

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trust us.

We do not want to have

Islam claiming political power in

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our country. We are very much in

favour of religious freedom, I said

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that already. And a mosque is where

Muslim people are practising their

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beliefs. That is OK. What we know

from our Secret Services is we

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basically, in every mosque have

problems, because they are preaching

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very often in a language which we do

not understand, erratic. They are

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preaching against our values, our

Constitution, our culture. --

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Arabic.

Let me explain, we have

radical and political Islam in

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Europe, jihadists. Secondly, we have

a trap by Putin, an autocrat in the

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Kremlin who tries to divide Europe.

And now we have an American

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president who is seeing the European

unity as a pillar for foreign

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policy. He is saying openly he hopes

the EU disintegrates. I think we

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are, for the moment, in an

existential moment for the EU.

There

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is a clear idea for Brexit. Theresa

May will say that in her speech and

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her Florence speech. There are bits

I am not enthusiastic about, but it

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is a clear manifesto. She has been

generous in the office she has made

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to the EU. The government she leads

is stronger than many, not all,

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Continental governments.

You can

take a decision one day and change

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your mind another day. It happens.

It is OK to open doors and say

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perhaps, if you are interested, one

day, we would be happy to have you

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back.

Throughout 2017, Europe cast

uneasy glances to the east. Vladimir

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Putin continues to flex Russia's

muscle in the international arena

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while maintaining an iron grip at

home.

Vladimir Putin just tries to

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distract the Russian people from

real problems like inequality and

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poverty. We have 23 million Russian

citizens living below the line of

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poverty, and he is distracting them

from this problem with is imperial

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delusions about making Russia great

again and all that stuff.

You know,

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unfortunately, we have a very weak

position in our country. ? Could

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that be because they are not allowed

access to state television, for

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example? It is not about that. You

have modern media. Television is

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diminishing day by day.

In Russia

today, if you switch on the TV and

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you want to find opposition voices,

you...

The American president is

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winning elections using Twitter! In

order to be a successful opposition,

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you have to be sustainable you have

to have a problem of development of

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the country.

You also have to be

allowed a semblance of freedom. You

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have to be a person not at risk of

being assassinated as Boris Nemtsov

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was 100 metres from the Kremlin. You

have to be like election of any

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whose brother was caught up in

trumped up charges. -- Alexi

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Navalny. You need space to make a

movement in Russia.

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Why do you think they are not fair

charges?

Because the European human

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court of rights has said they were

illegitimate.

We don't agree with

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that.

You don't agree with the

European Court of Human Rights?

I

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would rather trust are in court.

Welcome to the HARDtalk Studios.

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Great to see you. We are going to

put you in that seat over their...

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One Russian intent on challenging

Putin and the election next March

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came into the HARDtalk studio,

boasting views, not experience.

I

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hope he will be wise enough if I

will be registered to support me

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because unfortunately, this

situation is very unfair, he won't

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be registered by unlawful lawsuits

that are made against him, so if we

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are fighting for the same goal, and

I think we are, with Alexei Navalny,

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I offered him this option, to be

united a person who just opens the

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door. I am the one who will be

registered and I hope together with

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him we can fight for the best future

of Russia.

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In Africa, 2017 will be remembered

as the year Robert Mugabe's rule

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finally came to an end in Zimbabwe

is, tempting perhaps what is seen as

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a wider determination to push for

more political accountability. The

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former president, welcome to

HARDtalk The mindful of what the

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National Assembly said in November

of last year when you lectured them

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about corruption...

What did they

say?

The person who introduced

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corruption to this National Assembly

is the previous president. He had

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corrupt practices from day one...

Listen to me, when I took over the

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National Assembly said to me... The

national security adviser said

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whenever I said in a bill to them I

shall send it with money and I said

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no. If they don't pass it I will...

The National Assembly says have you

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forgotten the sacks of money that

were displayed on the floor of the

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House of Representatives? Where did

it come from? Being used for bribes.

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You tell me! He says you and I'm

quoting him directly. The

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grandfather of corruption in

Nigeria.

I never gave anybody dying.

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Never.

Welcome to HARDtalk You made

a decision to call for Jacob Zuma to

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go.

Yes.

Not just as party chief but

as president of his country.

Yes. My

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belief was that if you are in a

leadership position you have the

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responsibility of guiding others.

And whenever they get off the rails

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you have the ability to put them

back and that same conscience should

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help you as well. You don't think

Zuma has a conscience? Today it is

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failing.

It has failed?

I say the

entire leadership is crooked, with a

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few exceptions.

How could you just a

few months ago describe Robert

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Mugabe as a father figure when you

seem to think that the people close

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to him are responsible for the

murder of your husband?

He appeared

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to be a father figure to me. It was

during this trouble that these

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people were giving leadership to

everybody in trouble. According to

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custom, it is out of respect we give

to our citizens.

It calls into

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question your judgement.

About

Mugabe?

About everything we have

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discussed. It is hard to understand

how your political career makes any

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sense at all if you have morals,

ethics and principles.

The issue is

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you have never been to Zimbabwe. The

issue is you have never seen what

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personally I have done for the

country of Zimbabwe. The issue is

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you have never come to the interview

for yourself those people to say,

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how do you take Joice as a person?

Actually I have been to Zimbabwe, I

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have reported from Zimbabwe, so I

have a little bit of an idea of how

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the politics of the bubbly works.

You have been there but you have not

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asked about me. -- politics of

Zimbabwe.

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The map of the Middle East changed

in 2017. The self-styled caliphate

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established by the Islamists of

Islamic State was erased in Iraq and

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much of Syria, so was this the end

of the jihadists search?

I don't

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think we are going to see the end of

Isis at all. That will be with us

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for a long time, not in Iraq but it

is spreading. Already it's reached

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Thailand and the Philippines.

Definitely it has reached Europe.

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But in Iraq you are suggesting they

will change tactics? They won't hold

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territories so much as conduct an

underground insurgency?

Holding

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territories is finished for them,

but they will do insurgencies. And

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they will embark on insurgencies.

They will resort back to terrorist

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activities of explosions and

killings and assassinations. That's

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why I say we need to end the war.

Thank you! I was on the first

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commercial flight to land in

Benghazi, Libya.

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IS fighters had terrorised the city

for a couple of years, before being

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vanquished by a new Libyan military

force, led by this martial. A

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one-time Kadhafi loyalist with his

own ambitions to rule the world.

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Troubling evidence emerged of abuses

committed by him, including summary

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executions. You would have read the

latest UN report suggesting that as

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the forces moved back to Benghazi

there were as abuses of human

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rights. That's something that

worries the international community.

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That worries us as well. These

reports came out and he voiced his

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concern and he said that he would

address them by investigating these

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people who had been committing these

outlawed acts.

Have you seen those

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videos and pictures, minister, of

people being shot in the back of the

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head, bound, feet, executed?

Unfortunately I have seen them.

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These acts should stop and I'm sure

that the Army staff will look into

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that seriously because of the

wrongdoing that we have witnessed.

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Aside from the conflicts and

geopolitics, 2017 will be remembered

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for the power of women's voices,

speaking out about misogyny, sexual

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abuse and gender inequality. Some of

my most memorable interviews from

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this year reflected deeply personal

experiences.

It is the entitlement

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of too many men and it is epidemic

and when they are famous and

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powerful like Harvey then it gets

talked about, so it's really

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important that those women who have

been brave enough to come out...

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Indeed, the logjam has broken. But

there was silence when it's clear

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that people knew of these behaviours

but did not talk in public about

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them for year upon year.

Wire? The

women he preyed on and praise on,

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young women, most of them were in

their 20s when it happened.

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Vulnerable. Afraid that if they said

anything or did anything it would

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ruin their career.

Wiley you felt

you couldn't speak out year ago when

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you heard a lot of this stuff? --

macro -- why.

I was afraid. If it

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had happened to me I would now. It

has happened to me, but long ago,

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and it's very hard to come forward

when you've been a victim of sexual

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abuse, because you get dragged over

the coals, you have to prove. We

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have to stop believing these women

and stop protecting them.

Ian

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McKellen, I wonder if you feel,

looking back now, whether you have

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been a better, Fuller actor,

younger, if you had been more public

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about your identity?

I think

probably. It is a certain truth of

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me and practically every person I

know who has declared their

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sexuality that life becomes better

in every possible way once you are

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honest. That clearly affects your

work and my work, which is dealing

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with honesty and truth about human

nature, it was likely to be more

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convincing. And that's what friends

and colleagues said, that overnight

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my acting took on a depth which it

hadn't had before, because I'm no

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longer disguising, I now revealing.

Personal, political, powerful. We

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celebrated 20 years of HARDtalk this

year. He's looking forward to more

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memorable encounters in 2018. Until

then, have a very happy New Year.

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