at home, in the street. that s all fine. none of that depends on saying trans women are literally women, or trans men are literally men. those two things have been pushed together by trans activism, but they can be detached. kathleen stock, we have to end there. i thank you very much indeed for being on hardtalk. thank you. hello there. it was another windy day for many on tuesday, but the winds will be a notch down for the day ahead, as will the amounts of sunshine actually, it s been the sunniest january on record for england. and we did have a fair deal of sunshine during tuesday.
now on bbc news it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. of all the front lines in the so called culture wars, none has stirred up more vitriol and bad blood than the argument over sex, gender and identity. how should society regard people who transition away from the biological sexual category they re born into? and what represents the truth of who we are biology, or self identity? well, my guest is kathleen stock, a british academic, whose work has generated a storm of controversy and led to her resignation from her university post. why has this issue become a battleground? kathleen stock, welcome to hardtalk.
ukraine s president zelensky has accused russia of deliberately targeting the theatre, something russia denies. now on bbc news it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk from brussels. i m stephen sackur. every time you hear an eu leader condemn vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine, it s worth remembering one key fact, every day eu nations are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into putin coffers, thanks to europe s reliance on russian oil and gas. my guest today is the eu commissioner for energy kadri simson. is europe ever going to go cold turkey on its
addiction to russian fossilfuels? commissioner kadri simson, welcome to hardtalk. commissioner, would you accept that as we speak today, european union nations are still addicted to russian oil and gas? that s true that we are too dependent on imported russian fossil fuels. not only oil and gas but also coal and even nuclear fuel. and i called it an addiction, which implies dependency, that s fair, isn t it? there is a profound dependency on russia s fossil fuels. i think that this is a very good moment to acknowledge that yes, we do have that, we have to do
we do see how fundamentally for example, germany has changed the policy and decisions they ve made and it s a clear testament that they have understood that they undermined the concerns of a neighbouring countries towards putin and his regime. commissioner kadri simson, thank you very much indeed for being on hardtalk. thank you. hello there. the weather is really