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—— for months, rail workers have been striking over pay and plans my guest is mick lynch, leader of the biggest rail union, the rmt. the stakes in this fight are high. can the workers win? mick lynch, welcome to hardtalk. you are the leader of a union thats been in a long—running dispute now. it goes back to last summer. there have been rolling, sporadic strikes. as it goes on, does it feel harder to find your way to a compromise? well, theres no easy way out for either side. the...

for seven and a half days. more than 7000 people are now known to have died and that number is expected to rise and not focuses on getting aid to the thousands who have survived. also in the programme, the new family of the victim was legally stabbed says that her death is of the massive hole in their lives. officials have been explaining more about the series of objects that have been shot down from their airspace. three were shut down this past week and we have just been hearing from...

hello and welcome to the programme. president putin has been addressing crowds filling moscows main stadium for a patriotic gala concert, to mark one year of russias invasion of ukraine. he insisted that his decision to launch military action was entirelyjustified to protect russias security. mr putin went on to stress that �*the cooperation between china and russia on the world stage is "very important to stabilise the international situation". our russia editor steve rosenberg is i...

and academic roxane gay, has most definitely cut through with her books, which include unflinching testimony on the impact of being raped, on fatness and the meaning of feminism. how scary is this level of self—exposure? roxane gay, welcome to hardtalk. stephen, thank you for having me. well, its a great pleasure to have you here. youve written with extraordinary candour about your own life. i have. and it strikes me that writing about it — presumably a solitary occupation — is o...

for all the little boys and girls _ for all the little boys and girls look like me this is a beacon _ girls look like me this is a beacon of hope and possibilities! hello and welcome to the programme — the leaders of the us, britain and australia, meeting in california, have given details of a defence pact that will provide australia with nuclear—powered attack submarines. president biden, uk prime minister rishi sunak and the australian prime minister, anthony albanese, have met t...

with ukraine after russias invasion would not last. he counted on a winter energy crisis and economic disruption to weaken european resolve. has that happened 7 well, my guest today is the newly elected president of the czech republic, petr pavel. now, he is a former nato general and a staunch ally of ukraine. so, is europe still ready and willing to do whatever it takes to back kyiv? president petr pavel, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. i must start, mr president, by congrat...

faced fierce opposition from environmentalists. now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. finding your voice as a writer, cutting through the cacophony of noise in 21st century culture is not easy. it helps if you have a talent for writing. it also helps if you have something to say which is powerful, authentic, and confronts tough questions about the human condition. my guest, american writer and academic roxane gay, has most definitely...

my guest is long standing erdogan critic, the exiled turkish writer ece temelkuran. a presidential election is looming. does the opposition have what it takes to end the erdogan era? ece temelkuran, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. your country is grappling with a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable scale. the death toll has now passed well past 40,000, millions are displaced, and the government is saying that this is a time for national unity and solidarity. for you as a very ...

and the occupied west bank. a raid by israeli troops in nablus on wednesday left 11 palestinians dead and about a hundred wounded. now on bbc news, hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. im stephen sackur. the earthquakes that rocked southern turkey in early february not only caused a humanitarian disaster, they exposed cracks in president erdogan�*s carefully crafted image as turkeys indispensable leader. amid the ruined cities, and the anguish of millions of displaced people, basic governm...

investigator and the cause of serial embarrassment to the kremlin with his revelations about the poisoning of alexei navalny and other russian military and intelligence operations. he says he follows the facts wherever they lead but whats his motivation? christo grozev, in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me on hardtalk. its a pleasure. alexei navalny famously described you once as just a bulgarian nerd with a laptop. since he said that, you have become thejoin...