now a seniorfigure in the national resistance front, amrullah saleh. is internal resistance viable when afghans are starving? theme music plays amrullah saleh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a year, mr saleh, since the taliban swept into kabul and toppled the government of which you were a part. would you acknowledge that this past year has been a year of failure from your point of view? for the taliban, it has been not only a year of failure but it has exposed their real intentions and face to the afghan people. they have brought disaster, starvation, displacement and they have basically pushed women into shadows. and all those people who were architect of the handover of afghanistan to the taliban, justifying that they have changed, are responsible for this catastrophe. you have chosen, in that answer, to focus on what you call the taliban s failings. i was actually thinking more about your own situation, because when you were forced to flee from kabul, you took to y
hello, this is bbc news. the headlines. a group of charities and community organisations has called the rises in energy bills a national emergency as labour is to call for the energy price cap to be frozen in october. but the energy minister say their plan won t work. the author sir salman rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk after being stabbed at an event in new york state. egyptian health officials say at least 41 people have died and forty are injured in a fire at a coptic church in north west cairo. a powerful explosion has rocked a shopping centre and caused a fire in armenia s capital, yerevan, leading one dead and 20 injuried. prosecutions for breaching covid restrictions have been dropped for six people who attended a vigil in london for sarah everard last year. warnings in the uk over the use of disposable barbecues after a weekend of wildfires in parts of england. now, it s hardtalk, with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sac
second hearing this week, which happens on thursday. to genuis experience this week. tuesday, 1:00 eastern. thursday, 3:00 eastern. and again, whether or not you can watch those live, you will have primetime recaps of each of those, at 8 pm eastern, tuesday and thursday nights. now, in terms of what we are expecting tomorrow, this is kind of the one that i ve been waiting for. it s at least the stuff that we have covered most intensively on this show, as these stories, as this part of the plot has started to come into focus. the hearing tomorrow is about how trump and his cohort, coconspirators, what do you call them? team trump, tried to get into individual states to overthrow the election results from those states. and these were states that voted for biden, obviously, but where republicans were in charge of at least some part of the state government. now, the idea on the trump side is that they thought, if they could lean hard enough on republicans state level officials, t
ahead this week, there s two things you should drop into your calendar. first of all, the next hearing of the january sixth investigation is gonna be tomorrow, tuesday. it starts at 1:00 eastern, whether or not you are available at 1:00 eastern, whether or not you are available to watch that live, you should know that we re gonna have a primetime recap tomorrow night after the hearing. we will recap all the most important stuff from the hearing and what it means, tomorrow night, in primetime, starting at 8:00, eastern. and that is true both for tomorrow s hearing and for the second hearing this week, which happens on thursday. two january sixth hearings this week. tuesday, 1:00 eastern. thursday, 3:00 eastern. and again, whether or not you can watch those live, you will have primetime recaps of each of those, at 8 pm eastern, tuesday and thursday nights. now, in terms of what we are expecting tomorrow, this is kind of the one that i ve been waiting for. it s at least the stuf