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, its 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 that direction. but the reality is that if you are a yo
northern ireland but arriving late in the day. temperatures, high teens to low 20s and it will feel warm in the may sunshine and the sunshine is stronger this time of the year so there will be high levels of uv. are out for any level of time might be worth considering suncream. similar on sunday, best of the sunshine in england and wales, scotland and northern ireland cloudy and bright, one or two bits of rain and the temperature is similar, it s going to be quite a one weekend for most of us. nice one, chris, thanks for that. chris fawkes. that s it. more analysis of the main stories on newsnight coming up on bbc two with faisal islam but now the news continues here on bbc one as we join our colleagues across the nations and regions for all of the news where you are. i have a very good night. the economic ascent of china with significant consequences for production of electric vehicles, batteries and microchips. in this new world, does the uk have a strategy? china calls the
east coast that means you still have time. the kids are still asleep or maybe even your spouse. you still have time it is april 1. you have time to pull off a prank, it is april fools for they got me at 4:30 a.m. this morning, walked into my office and this is what i found, an office full of lipstick the the shots put into context, bloomsbury could not walk could not take a step could not sit down. our producer, ariel, was standing in the side of my office in the video tape me. [laughter] i worked out 20 seconds before he noticed her standing there. is a lot of hard work for interns yesterday. working hard blowing up balloons. there he is in the corner it s not really april fools but you were fools. he was a groggy reaction. a while, it was 4:30 a.m. i come in, come to the building a good floor beneath this for the coffee machine to get a coffee we do not have a coffee machine on her floor. put a coffee maker in your office. and then i come up i ve not even even had m
major world economy. it s also one of the major leading players in the group of emerging economies who are talking up the idea of a common trade currency to counter the dollar. so, could they become the trading block of the future? i m going to be discussing all of that and more with these two. there they are. the man who first coined the phrase the brics, and a former central bank economist from brazil. also on the show, shining bright like a diamond. yeah, the shiny rocks have been one of the big winners post pandemic. but can they keep their lustre in a shaky global economy? i m catching up with the big boss of the world s biggest diamond supplier. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello, and a warm welcome to the show. you know, back in 2001, a directorfrom goldman sachs, jim o neill, now lord o neill, coined the phrase the brics, an acronym for what he gauged were the countries with the highest growth potential that would dominate the glo
you guys feel. rachel: me too too. pete: one of those mornings. first hour s the warm-up hour, 7 a.m. s sleeper hour, not as many people watching, but it s really good, you know? will: that s the sleeper hour? pete: yeah. 8:00 we re going and then 9 it s, like, i don t know what 9 is. it s the cherry on top. rachel: 9 is off the hook. [laughter] pete: thank you for joining us. we enjoy being together, we re grateful that you re out there sharing it with us. hopefully, you ve got a cup of coffee, some doughnuts. rachel: thanks. all right. [laughter] president biden is back in the u.s. after wrap withing up his 4-day trip to ireland. pete: and before he left, he got a rock star welcome ahead of his speech last night. check this out. [cheers and applause] will: wow. huh. peter doocy joins us live from dublin with more. very popular many in ireland, apparently, peter. [laughter] reporter: very popular. that s like when they play u2 at one of the pubs here and people just go c