Im stephen sackur. Leaders who routinely abuse their power cant stand to be laughed at. Satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. Pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the White Afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africas recent history for laughs . Pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Youve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. But would you say youre fundamentally driven by anger, or is it Something Else . I think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. So actually i try to keep a balance of 49 anger, 51 entertainment, not the o
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Cooling trade winds, and the crystal blue caribbean sea. Nonstop flights are available from most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news america. This is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, i am laura trevelyan. Day one of the new u. S. Congress and there is drama on capitol hill. And about turn on at the. In turkey, the hunt continues for the gunman who opened fire on new years eve. We look inside the nightclub that came under attack. Vinyl is making a comeback. Many are spinning the classic sound. Viewers onome to our Public Television in america and around the globe. The Political Drama in intense. N is already many members of congress have just arrived back in the nations capital. The first order of business lead to a public spat with president elect donald trump. He took to twitter to express his discontent. As the Brandnew Congress thanned on tuesday, rather celebrating the republican dominance
I remember when you started to back donald trump midway through the primaries. You saw what the middle of america saw early on and the rest of the country is only now coming to grips with. What a great day well have tomorrow. We have been in a nightmare. Mainstream america was so tired of the destructive policies of the obama administration. When donald trump came along, he ignited the fire that we needed to get someone to fix this country. I said people will be surprised at what a landslide hes going to do, and he did it. We pierced that blue wall and that wall is going to go down completely. Charles you called this early on. Here we are right now on the eve of President Donald Trump and expectations are high. I want to share with the audience. We had a poll that just came out. A fox news poll. The mood of the nation. 60 say everyone is in it for themselves. Only 34 believe we are in it together. Opportunitiesn americ34 say it phase other people. Only 36 say it faves them. How do we s
Equities, a little push back. Morgan stanley saying we will see maybe 1 in the First Quarter of next year for the 10 year yield. Some selling in stocks today. The money flowing to some extent into treasuries. The dow had been holding up relatively well. Still down the least. Back into the red. Pulling back from the record close yesterday for the dow and s p 500. The magnitude of the drop is not big, only one third of 1 for the s p 500 but the brett of the decline pretty broad. All of the s p 500 lower today led by energy and materials as we see a commodity led selloff. A lot of individual movers, netflix out with its earnings, the subscriber growth, or lack thereof drawing attention. Adding 1. 6 8 million subscribers in the Second Quarter, falling shorts short of estimates blaming price increases. Johnson from johnson and Lockheed Martin, they had winners, though Lockheed Martin now lower after that Companies Earnings beat estimates, Johnson Johnson with earnings that beat in the Secon