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but right now, south africa is in a big mess, with a protracted energy crisis, shocking levels of unemployment and inequality, and systemic corruption. my guest is the secretary general of the anc, fikile mbalula. is his party about to pay the price of failure? fikile mbalula, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having us, and welcome to luthuli house. it s 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, it s an exaggeration. er. ican give. but you think that s 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 displaying characteristics of a failed state, of course. we may not be too defensive to that. if certain things are not resolved, we will become a failed state. but we are notjourneying towards t ....
than that, we d still be grateful for it. if it was a pound, - we d still be grateful. i am blown away by the picture created by the amazingly talented charlie mackesy. it shows love and care on a whole new level. thank you, charlie, it s the best picture i have ever seen. rob burrow there, ending that report by graham satchell. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. yes, lots of dry and bright weather to come today, but before that i thought we would look at yesterday, when we recorded 23.1; celsius in cardiff, the highest temperature of the year so far. but how does that compare with the recent mays? it is bottom of the league, recent mays have brought us much warmer weather, there has been no heat wave and there has been no heat wave and there will not be any time soon. although warm weather is bringing up some sunshine, winds are coming from the atlantic rather than air from france or spain. looking at low to mid 20s over the last few days. cooler air ....
during a match on sunday. the brazil international has been the target of such abuse numerous times this season, the latest occuring during real s league match at valencia. the game was paused in the second half after vinicius reported opposition fans to the referee. there has been widespread condemnation of how the incident has been handled, with the player himself, who wasn t at training today, saying after the match that la liga belonged to racists. la liga have released a statement today. real madrid manager carlo ancelotti said on tuesday he expected viniciuer to remain at the spanish club despite the racist abuse he s faced, and the bbc also spoke to former real madrid president ramon calderon. it isa it is a problem. i haven t said that it isn t. but it is not a problem of spain, it is a problem with the whole world, and i have been in many countries with problems like this in stadiums and in the streets, and something we have to fight against. how? i suppose we need ....
former british prime minister boris johnson has a reform of the police to the government cabinet office over new allegations he broke lockdown rules during the pandemic. it is reported the referral is to two regional police forces based on a recently discovered information. it should be stressed at this stage it police are investigating and no breach of the rules as been confirmed. let s go straight to our uk political correspondentjonathan uk political correspondent jonathan blake and uk political correspondentjonathan blake and kenny bring us up to date? this story broke in the last out reported reported by the times newspaper but as you say paper have been referred to the police, to separate police forces, one here in london and also the thames valley police, regarding information in it boris johnson s police, regarding information in it borisjohnson s ministerial diary that was encountered by officials in the process of preparing his evidence for the forthcoming cov ....