And satirist trevor noah, who presents one of the most influential programmes on american tv, the daily show. Born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. With critics claiming that Donald Trumps victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking . Trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1984, six years before Nelson Mandela was released. Your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. How did it feel to be born a crime . Well, the truth is for me it didnt feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. My parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ills, thats what
Hello, and welcome to dateline londons look ahead to 2017. What a joyful year its going to be. Britain will move calmly towards brexit, the European Union will solve all its problems with migration, unemployment and insolvent banks, donald trump will begin a glorious four years as president , The Middle East will finally be at peace, and we can all dream. Back in the real world, lets hear what our expert panel think. Im joined by Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, Abdel Bari Atwan who is a writer and broadcaster on arab affairs, Agnes Poirier of marianne, and Steve Richards who is a british political commentator. Britain first, to coin a phrase, and we can all predict that article 50 will indeed be invoked by march, beginning the formal process of leaving the European Union. But where will brexit, and indeed the eu, be by the end of 2017 . With political change in france and italy, and possibly in germany too. What do we think is going to happen . I think 2017 will be much more diff
And satirist trevor noah, who presents one of the most influential programmes on american tv, the daily show. Born a crime to a black mother and white father in apartheid south africa, he has navigated his way through the explosive issue of race and identity. With critics claiming that Donald Trumps victory has encouraged intolerant rhetoric, does he fear that the space for liberal satire such as his is shrinking . Trevor noah, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, zeinab. You were born in 1984, six years before Nelson Mandela was released. Your father is a white swiss man, your mother was black, a union punishable by five years in prison. How did it feel to be born a crime . Well, the truth is for me it didnt feel any different to being born i guess any differently, because i was really lucky in that i was insulated as a child, so i grew up under apartheid but i was spared from a lot of the ills of apartheid. My parents were in a world where they were the ones who faced the ills, thats what
The rower Katherine Grainger is made a dame by the queen. Schatz. And coming up in the sport on bbc news asenal will have to make Champions League history tonight, if they are going to overturn a four goal first leg deficit against Bayern Munich at the emirates. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. Facebook has been strongly criticised after a bbc investigation found it is still failing to remove inappropriate and sexualised images of children. After a series of Sexually Suggestive pictures and comments were reported to the social networking site, more than 80 of them still remained online. The nspcc described facebooks response as appalling. Facebook says it takes the matter extremely seriously and is continuing to improve its system of removing such content. Our correspondent Angus Crawford reports. The rules are simple. Facebook says it removes nudity or Sexually Suggestive content. But our investigation last year found paedophiles using secret groups to swap obscene i
Taken a dramatic turn, with poachers slaughtering a rhino for its horn at a Wildlife Park in paris. A coroner has ruled that the singer George Michael died of Natural Causes, including heart and liver disease. Its 5. 00pm. A very good afternoon to you. Our top story is that the government is facing another defeat in the House Of Lords over its plans for britain to leave the european union. Peers are due to vote this evening on an amendment to the brexit bill, calling for parliament to be given A Meaningful Vote on any final deal. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young is at westminster. The lords and ladies have been debating this throughout the day. How was it looking as far as they are concerned and the government is concerned . Remember that have already inflicted a defeat on the government over the rights of the eu citizens and this has been debated already House Of Commons and their was heated debate but there was no damage, no defeat inflicted on the government. That is no