Ukraine war at six months - special

Six months on from Russia's invasion of Ukraine we reflect on interviews with key players

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Olga Rudenko: Is there room for government critique in Ukraine's fight for survival?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the chief editor of the Kyiv Independent

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Pinchas Goldschmidt: Is the Ukraine war deepening Jewish anxiety?

Stephen Sackur talks to the former chief rabbi of Moscow

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Gwen Adshead: Getting inside the minds of murderers

How do you treat those responsible for the most heinous of crimes?

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Tova Friedman: Learning from history

Stephen Sackur speaks to a survivor of the Holocaust

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Lindsey Graham: Trump and the midterms

Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Donald Trump's most forceful defenders in the US Senate

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Enrico Letta: Is Italy set to choose a far-right government?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of Italy’s centre-left Democratic Party

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Vadym Prystaiko: Can Ukraine count on its allies?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine's ambassador to the UK

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Maria Pevchikh: Where does Russia's anti-Putin movement go from here?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a leading member of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation

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Alexei Ratmansky: Has ballet become a battleground?

Stephen Sackur interviews a world-renowned choreographer

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William Kentridge: Making art from South Africa's past

A 2020 interview with the South African artist

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Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze: Can Putin’s threats undermine support for Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the chair of the Ukrainian parliament’s EU Integration Committee

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Reverend Richard Coles: Living with grief

How a priest and broadcaster faced the shock of his husband's death

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Evgeny Popov: Russia's mobilisation

We speak to Russian MP, Putin loyalist and influential TV host Evgeny Popov.

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Masih Alinejad: A revolution for Iranian women?

Stephen Sackur speaks to an exiled Iranian women’s rights activist

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Boris Grebenshchikov: Culture and protest in Russia

Zeinab Badawi speaks to a Russian rock musician exiled in London

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Maggie Haberman: Donald Trump and journalistic responsibility

Zeinab Badawi speaks to the author of a new book about Donald Trump's rise and fall

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Amin Salam: Is Lebanon heading for meltdown?

Stephen Sackur interviews Lebanon’s minister of economy and trade

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Dr Anthony Fauci: What did the US get wrong about Covid?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who was at the forefront of America's Covid response

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Ted Hui: Has Beijing silenced Hong Kong dissent?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a pro-democracy politician in exile

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German Galushchenko: How vulnerable is Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s energy minister

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Jan Lipavský: Will energy crisis break Europe's stand against Moscow?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the Czech foreign minister, an ardent supporter of Ukraine

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Audrey Tang: Can Taiwan forge its own path?

Zeinab Badawi speaks to Taiwan's digital minister

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Matthew Collins: Taking on the far right

Stephen Sackur speaks to the writer and anti-racism campaigner

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Dimitar Kovačevski: Can North Macedonia finally join the EU?

We speak to the PM of North Macedonia and ask what's next for the young country

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Rafael Grossi: Is nuclear power ever risk-free?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency

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Ben Hodges: Is Ukrainian victory inevitable?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the former commander of the US army in Europe.

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Sauli Niinistö: Finland's new strategic direction

Stephen Sackur speaks to the Finnish President

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Gerard Lyons: Is Britain's economy up to scratch?

Can Britain’s economy bounce back, or is any optimism misplaced?

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David Dimbleby: Are journalistic values under threat?

Stephen Sackur speaks to one of Britain's most celebrated journalists

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Mark Wolf: Does the world need a new anti-corruption court?

Why an American judge thinks a new court is needed to put corrupt leaders on trial

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Ronald Lamola: Does the ANC have answers for South Africa's problems?

Zeinab Badawi interviews one of the rising stars of South Africa's ruling party

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Salome Zourabichvili: How much does Georgia have to fear from Russia?

Zeinab Badawi interviews the president of Georgia

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Chelsea Manning: Does transparency justify leaking state secrets?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the former analyst who leaked a trove of US military secrets

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Getachew Reda: Have Tigray's rebels surrendered?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who signed the Tigray peace deal on behalf of the TPLF

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Barbara Chase-Riboud: Monuments and controversy

How should society deal with public monuments to controversial figures from the past?

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Rachel Clarke: Talking honestly about the end of life

Stephen Sackur speaks to the palliative care doctor and writer

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London Breed: What does San Francisco reveal about the US?

Stephen Sackur is in the US to speak to San Francisco’s mayor

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Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?

Stephen Sackur meets the Pentagon Papers whistleblower who exposed US lies about Vietnam

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David Friedberg: Can tech fix our biggest challenges?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the billionaire investor David Friedberg.

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Allen Ault: The most premeditated murder

A 2014 interview with a former US official who became an opponent of the death penalty

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Oleksandra Matviichuk and Yan Rachinsky: Fighting for civil rights

Stephen Sackur speaks to two of this year's Nobel Peace Prize laureates

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Wes Streeting: Is Britain ready for a new government?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent member of the UK's Labour party

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Ericka Huggins: Do the Black Panthers have lessons for Black Lives Matter?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ericka Huggins, an original member of the Black Panther Party

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Hardtalk in 2022

Stephen Sackur looks back at some of Hardtalk’s most compelling interviews of the year

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02/01/2023 GMT

In-depth, hard-hitting interviews with newsworthy personalities.

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Evgenia Kara-Murza: Has Putin neutralised his Russian opponents?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent Russian opposition activist

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Fawad Chaudhry: Is Pakistan heading for economic meltdown?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a senior figure in Imran Khan’s opposition PTI party

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Waheed Arian: Migration in the Western world

Stephen Sackur interviews a British doctor who fled war in Afghanistan as a child

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Boris Bondarev: Speaking out against Putin

A former Russian diplomat who quit his post after the invasion of Ukraine

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Marilyn Stafford: A life in pictures

A 2019 interview with a pioneering photojournalist

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Jagath Weerasinghe: Sri Lanka's bloody past

Zeinab Badawi is in Sri Lanka to talk to an influential artist

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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Is global free trade possible?

An interview with the director general of the World Trade Organization

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Celso Amorim: Is Brazil becoming ungovernable?

Stephen Sackur interviews President Lula’s foreign policy advisor

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Ruben Vardanyan: Nagorno-Karabakh and Putin

Stephen Sackur speaks to the state minister of the disputed enclave

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Dmytro Kuleba: Is the West's hesitation undermining Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ukraine’s foreign minister

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Leopoldo Lopez: Has Venezuela’s opposition been outmanoeuvred?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Leopoldo Lopez, a key leader of Venezuela’s opposition.

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Robert Malley: What next for US policy on Iran?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the US special envoy for Iran

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Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah: How should international aid work?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the boss of Oxfam Great Britain

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Sergey Karaganov: Is Putin placing bets he cannot win?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Russian foreign policy strategist and sometime Kremlin adviser

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Zsuzsanna Szelényi: How strong is Viktor Orbán's grip on Hungary?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent opponent of Hungary’s Prime Minister

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Pervez Musharraf: Power in Pakistan

A 2014 interview with the former president of Pakistan, who has died aged 79

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Kira Rudik: Can Ukraine win this war?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Ukrainian MP who leads the opposition party Golos

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Kenneth Roth: Is the fight for human rights being lost?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the man who led Human Rights Watch for three decades

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Mick Lynch: Strife, strikes and workers' rights

Stephen Sackur speaks to the leader of Britain’s biggest rail union the RMT

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Waris Dirie: The fight against FGM

Stephen Sackur speaks to Somali-born model and activist, Waris Dirie.

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Stefanie Green: The ethics of assisted dying

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Canadian doctor and assisted dying advocate

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Olesya Khromeychuk: Conflict and identity

Stephen Sackur speaks to the British-Ukrainian historian and author

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Ece Temelkuran: Is Erdogan's control of Turkey under threat?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a prominent exiled Turkish writer and critic of the president

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Tikhon Dzyadko: Is there an audience for independent news in Russia?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Rain TV editor, Tikhon Dzyadko

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Félix Maradiaga: Standing up to Nicaragua's president

Stephen Sackur speaks to the recently deported former Nicaraguan opposition leader

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Notis Mitarachi: Has Greece's government lost the confidence of the people?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Greece's asylum and migration minister

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Simcha Rothman: Is Israel plunging into chaos?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a key architect of the government's controversial legal reforms

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Sergei Pugachev: Inside Putin's rise

Sergei Pugachev helped Putin become President. Then they fell out. What does he know?

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Roxane Gay: An unflinching memoir

Stephen Sackur speaks to American writer, academic and cultural commentator Roxane Gay.

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Mustafa Barghouti: Can Palestinians improve their situation?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Palestinian opposition politician Mustafa Barghouti

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James Daunt: Is the books industry a place where creativity and diversity truly thrive?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the CEO of Barnes & Noble James Daunt

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Evgeny Popov: Are cracks appearing at the Kremlin?

Stephen Sackur speaks to a Russian MP and pro-Kremlin TV host

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Petr Pavel: Can Ukraine still count on Europe's support?

Stephen Sackur interviews the newly elected president of the Czech Republic

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Bogdan Aurescu: How is Romania handling the pressure from the war on Ukraine?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Romania's Foreign Minister, Bogdan Aurescu.

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David Beasley: Can the world afford to feed its most vulnerable?

Sarah Montague speaks to the chief executive of the World Food Programme David Beasley

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Geoffrey Robertson: The case for international justice

Stephen Sackur speaks to the renowned human rights lawyer

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Minette Batters: Is farming ready for the future?

Stephen Sackur meets the President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales

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Richard Neal: How Northern Ireland affects US-UK relations

Stephen Sackur speaks to an influential voice on US policy on Northern Ireland

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Ben Ferencz: The last Nuremberg trials prosecutor

A 2017 interview with the Nuremburg Nazi trials prosecutor, who has died aged 103

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Danny Danon: Is Netanyahu jeopardising Israel’s future?

Israel is in political turmoil with deteriorating security. Can Netanyahu end the chaos?

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Christo Grozev: Investigating Russia

Stephen Sackur speaks to Bellingcat's lead Russia investigator

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Péter Szijjártó: Is Hungary alienating the EU and Nato?

Stephen Sackur speaks to Hungary's foreign minister

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Vladimir Kara-Murza: Defying Putin

A 2017 interview with the Russian activist, who was jailed for 25 years earlier this week

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John Cooper Clarke: Punk and poetry

Stephen Sackur speaks to the pioneering performance poet

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Baaba Maal: Can the Sahel overcome its challenges?

Stephen Sackur speaks to the acclaimed Senegalese musician

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Niels Annen: Germany's new foreign policy

Is Germany set to pivot away from its reliance on Russian energy and Chinese trade?

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Jerry Springer: The king of tabloid TV

A 2014 interview with the controversial TV talk show host, who has died aged 79

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Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann: Has war in Ukraine led to a rethink in Germany?

Stephen Sackur talks to the chair of the German parliament's defence committee

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Penpa Tsering: Preserving Tibet's identity

Sarah Montague speaks to the president of Tibet's self-declared government-in-exile

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Karin Kneissl: Vienna’s ties to Moscow and the impact of Austrian neutrality

Stephen Sackur speaks to Austria’s former foreign minister

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Wavel Ramkalawan: Are the Seychelles becoming paradise lost?

Stephen Sackur talks to the president of the Seychelles

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Hartmut Dorgerloh: Where do colonial treasures belong?

Stephen Sackur interviews the director of the Humboldt Forum

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Jane Horrocks: The pathway to empowerment

Stephen Sackur speaks to an actor with an extraordinary range

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