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Hello. welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. as 2021 nears its end pakistans leaders may be reflecting on the wisdom of that old adage about being careful what you wish for. islamabad has long aided and abetted the afghan taliban and now they are back in power. americas regional power is diminished, china, pakistans close ally is still making massive investments. so does this all add up to good news for pakistan? well, not necessarily. my guest is national security advisor moeed yusuf. just ho...

Attack taiwan. they have the capacity to do it. if not now, within a reasonably short period of time. so what we have to do is get back to diplomacy and say how do we reach accommodations with these two powers? beijing is more powerful certainly, in terms of economics, but its growing military power in russia is a military power. how do we accommodate their interests without selling out our values and our interest? and thats why joe biden is sitting in that office. >> and thats why we love havin...

Theyre realizing that an invasion of ukraine would not be a short, quick hybrid war in the grey zone, this would be a real war. i wrote this morning about the possibility of a protracted partisan war against russian forces that are in ukraine and are invinvading. so it is a lot, and i think there could be repercussions at home, and i just, you know, more than putin may have imagined when he began this. >> i noticed that in the column today. it is intriguing because the conventional wisdom is tha...

Was to be able to reach people from the very young to the not so young. his actions and his words of wisdom always aims to make a difference, to improve peoples lives. his legacy will be that those words, that vision, and that hope, live on. john maguire, bbc news. well be speaking to captain sir tom moores daughter hannah ingram—moore at 8:45am about the work she is doing in his memory. its the first time she has actually beenin its the first time she has actually been in here. of course it w...

Never forget it. but, yeah, i think that stands taller than any other figure of the music world of the 1960s. one other quick anecdote, i was 12 when he died. i was in a very stuffy english boarding school. i never heard of john lennon. from that moment on, i became, well, in my own mind, an expert. i got obsessed with him. >> nobody is more obsessed than my -- ask him anything. he will know the answer. >> but you did see, though, in the documentary, there had been this, just, belief, itd become...

Is anything that happens inside of china is our business and not yours or anybody else es. we take issue with that. thats the reason we raised human rights issues but something sensitive to them and theyre watching closely what we do and theyre also, i think, i dont think they want to attack taijuan, they have the capacity to do it if not successfully now, within a reasonably short period of time. we have to get back to diplomacy and say how do we reach accommodations with these two powers? beij...

You a sense of how big an active that challenge is with the united states. heres one little piece of it. the conventional wisdom in washington is at the republican party to take control of congress. at least the house, and next years election, historically speaking, they have a good chance of doing that. if that happens, that will mean any senior republican, anybody who is the top republican on a committee right now or who used to be a committee chair, the last time republicans were in charge, a...

That sort of thing, committee chairs, a boring couple of words, but they kind of run the show on capitol hill. they kind of run the legislative branch. so the republicans who are potentially in line for those leadership jobs, if the republicans take control again, they are really stoked right now. they are making their promises. they are raising money. they are planning their staff hires. they are doing all the horse oi trading they need to do among themselves to maximize the powers they think t...

That one is not that easy. because on that one we do have our own significant very live domestic challenges. i mean, just todays news alone on that front shows, gives you a sense of how big and how active the challenge is within the united states. here is one little piece. the conventional wisdom in washington, of course, is that the republican party is c likel to take control of congress, at least the house in next years elections. historically speaking, they have a good chance of doing that. i...

The challenge is within the united states. here is one little piece. the conventional wisdom in washington of course is that the republican party is likely to take control of congress at least the house in next years elections. historically speaking they have a good chance of doing that. if that happens that will mean any senior republican, anybody who is, you know, the top republican on a committee right now, or who used to be a committee chair, the last time republicans were in charge, all top...