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to understand her in a new way? a different way? yes. so the funny thing about the book was, i thought writing about her murder would be the very difficult thing, you know, for all the obvious and gruesome reasons. but in the end, what proved the hardest was learning about her life before the murder. in fact, before my brothers and i were born, so what made her a journalist, the kind of country she grew up in. and that was all new to me. and it made, for personal reasons, the book its ...

because theres light 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 sh...

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 with the best of them. let me take...

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 hospita...

ah, well, its actually still, for me, very exciting to be here. but im trying to understand what has happened to this land of yours, because when you arrived here, this was an intensively farmed land, wasnt it? it was. my husband, charlie, inherited it from his grandparents when he was in his early 20s, and this was back in the 1980s. and every inch of the land was ploughed, it was producing arable crops and dairy. and we fully expected to be farmers for the rest of our lives. mm. 17 y...

south africans are realising that if they dont change the way they vote, south africa is going to end up in a very, very dark place. there will be anarchy, _ there will be looting all over this country because nothing will be working. - if certain things are not resolved we will become a failed state. the anc, mandelas party, has ruled uninterrupted for 29 years. is a day of reckoning coming? welcome to hardtalk, on the road from south africa. im stephen sackur. back in 1994, the one o...

You know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with Kings And Queens and that sort of thing. Well, it has that sometimes they chuckle. So it took a bit of getting used to. But when youre young, its easier to adjust to a new environment than when youre old. And once i started school, you know, i settled down and, um. I did rather well at school because the education i had injamaica i went to an Elementary School was in some ways superior to what i w...

you know, you literally imagine the street of london paved with gold and palaces and carriages with kings and queens and that sort of thing. well, it has that sometimes! they chuckle. so it took a bit of getting used to. but when youre young, its easier to adjust to a new environment than when youre old. and once i started school, you know, i settled down and, um... i did rather well at school because the education i had injamaica — i went to an elementary school — was in some ways...

of will be in the milder zone. some significant snow to begin with in the mountains in the north—east. on saturday there will be some sunny spells and temperatures up to about 12. warm christmas eve, back to you, i2. warm christmas eve, back to you, sophie. thanks, matt. and thats bbc news at ten. this is bbc news. we will have the headlines at the top of the hour as newsday continues straight after hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. are the machines about to take over...

thank you for having us, and welcome to luthuli house. its a great pleasure to be here. how disappointed are you with the state south africa is in today? south africa is undergoing challenges like many other countries. but i think to put us into a category of a failed state, its an exaggeration. ican give... but you think thats a conversation that south africans are having amongst themselves? well, it comes from pockets of the powerful thinkers in the country who project us as displayi...