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jonathan shapiro, better known by the pen name zapiro, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. well, its a great pleasure to meet you, and i want to begin with something you said a few years ago. you said, "moral outrage is what drives a cartoonist." youve been at this cartooning for pretty much four decades. can you maintain outrage for four decades? you can. laughter when i was doing five or six cartoons a week, i would sometimes wonder what the hell im going to do today, and you wake up in ...

my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has changed the political dynamic inside iran? it has because on the 16th of september, she was declared dead in the hospital...

welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin with the arrest, questioning and release, of the former first minister of scotland, nicola sturgeon, in connection with the investigation into the finances of the scottish national party. mrs sturgeon says her arrest was a shock and she is innocent of any wrongdoing. shes been released, without charge — pending further investigation. our scotland correspondent james cook reports. nicola sturgeon,...

as a "western perception that the african female is a downtrodden wretch". but when you look around the african continent today — girls abducted in nigeria, polygamy re—introduced in kenya, child marriages and the prevalence of gender—based violence — how much is there to celebrate about being female in africa? ama ata aidoo, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, zainab. theres a lot of political issues and social affairs in your writings. how much do you see yourself as a ...

to laugh at itself? jonathan shapiro, better known by the pen name zapiro, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. well, its a great pleasure to meet you, and i want to begin with something you said a few years ago. you said, "moral outrage is what drives a cartoonist." youve been at this cartooning for pretty much four decades. can you maintain outrage for four decades? you can. laughter when i was doing five or six cartoons a week, i would sometimes wonder what the hell im going to do today,...

no—one�*s asked me that before. um... im tenacious, im a... ..a bit adventurous. thats how i got into it to begin with. and i think the biggest piece of it was hoping that i had done something worth doing, and that it had made a difference. so the values behind the work were important to you, but on a day—to—day basis, you were having to deceive and to lie. are you good at that? and protect. she chuckles and i got rather good at it indeed. yes, ican... ican... i can prevaricate...

today isjonathan shapiro, best known by his pen name zapiro. he is south africas most prominent and controversial political cartoonist. so amid all of its troubles, is south africa able to laugh at itself? jonathan shapiro, better known by your pen name zapiro, welcome to hardtalk. it is a great pleasure to meet you and i want to begin with something you said a few years ago, you said moral outrage is what drives a cartoonist. you have been at this cartooning for four decades. can you ...

name wasjina. the story of irans internal discontent is incomplete without an understanding of irans kurdish population. my guest is abdullah mohtadi, leader of the komala party of iranian kurdistan. is his a fight for rights orfor independence? abdullah mohtadi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. its a great pleasure to have you on the show. i began by referring there to the tragic death of mahsa amini. would you say that her death last september in custody inside iran has ...

at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, its sort of... ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because its the end of an era and its... i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, weve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last — the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because ...

become the inspiration for a continued struggle forjustice and accountability. forjustice and accountability — a struggle now led by her three sons, one of whom, paul caruana galizia, is my guest today. what are the lessons of this tragic death in malta? paul caruana galizia, welcome to hardtalk. thank you so much for having me. it is a great pleasure to have you here and, indeed, also a pleasure to read your book. youve just published it — a death in malta: an assassination and a ...