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Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing sou...

Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing sou...

Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing sou...

The former communist east. The current chancellor, angela merkel, has led the tributes, describing him as a great german and a Great European. The bbcs paul adams looks back at his life. As the cold war ended, helmut kohl seemed to tower, quite literally, over everyone and everything around him. As a child, he witnessed the destruction of his country. World war ii inspiring his lifelong desire to unify germany and europe. He rose through the ranks of the christian democratic union, becoming chan...

Some pictures from inside the building at grenfell power. These we re building at grenfell power. These were taken inside flats where police know that everyone who was inside has now been accounted for. We would not have released material had not been the case. The metropolitan Police Commander has been talking about the work they have been doing. You can see from the pictures as he says that the scale of damage is just enormous, to recover those people who are still inside, and returned them to...

Some pictures from inside the building at grenfell power. These we re building at grenfell power. These were taken inside flats where police know that everyone who was inside has now been accounted for. We would not have released material had not been the case. The metropolitan Police Commander has been talking about the work they have been doing. You can see from the pictures as he says that the scale of damage is just enormous, to recover those people who are still inside, and returned them to...

Some pictures from inside the building at grenfell power. These we re building at grenfell power. These were taken inside flats where police know that everyone who was inside has now been accounted for. We would not have released material had not been the case. The metropolitan Police Commander has been talking about the work they have been doing. You can see from the pictures as he says that the scale of damage is just enormous, to recover those people who are still inside, and returned them to...

Coming up. As the americas cup reaches its nail biting climax above the water this weekend, we find out if a robot can stop the drama unfolding underneath, as an invasion of these creatures wreaks havoc on the local ecosystem. So he is not expecting you to electrocute him and slurp him into a tube. And ill be finding out how the best way to beat these venomous invaders is to eat them once you remove these spines you are moving from malicious, to delicious hello, welcome to The Travel Show, with ...

Manifestation to date of the slum a phobia. In a call for more to be done to protect mosques, extra police will be deployed. Our security correspondent chris sports reports. It till the government just eight minutes to call this a terrorist attack. It was an attack that, once again, targeted the ordinary and the innocent. Speaking today, the Prime Minister called it every bit as sickening as the other terrorist attacks this year s. She repeated her intention to set up a commission to counter ext...

In a moment it will be time for sports day but first lets take a look at what else is coming up tonight on bbc news, in 20 minutes we will talk to the union of senior Civil Servants about the challenges for the Civil Service in implementing the queens speech. After eight oclock we will be live in salford to get an idea on how some of the policies in the queens speech will affect the north of england and 1030 we will look the papers. Well be joined england and 1030 we will look the papers. Well b...