liable for the sexual assault of a 16 year old girl at the playboy mansion in 1975. jurors in the civil trial ruled against him, and awarded his victim half a million dollars in damages. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. after a painful divorce, you never know if the ex partners will be able to build an amicable relationship. for britain and the eu, it seems the brexit break up has left a legacy of mistrust and bitterness, which is overwhelming any desire for cooperation. northern ireland is currently what they re fighting over. the uk is refusing to stick to the divorce settlement and the eu is threatening legal action. my guest is the eu ambassador in london, joao vale de almeida. is this a fight where everyone gets hurt? joao vale de almeida, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. i want to start with some words of yours from, actually, early in your posting here in london as eu ambassador.
stick to the divorce settlement and the eu is threatening legal action. my guest is the eu ambassador in london, joao vale de almeida. is this a fight where everyone gets hurt? joao vale de almeida, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you. i want to start with some words of yours from, actually, early in your posting here in london as eu ambassador. you said, we have divorced. it s always complicated to divorce and it is difficult to find a new balance. well, many months have passed since then. why are you still failing to find a new balance? well, i have no personal experience of divorce, thank god, but i m told by friends that it s always complicated. and this one has proved to be complicated, to be very frank. it was a traumatic divorce, let s be clear. we sort of co existed together for almost. ..almost half a century, and then through a democratic process, which we fully respect, a decision was taken which is a serious one with a num
now on bbc news, stephen sackur talks to american author, stephen king, on hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. millions of readers all over the world are drawn to fiction that explores our fears. horror sells, and no one does it better or more prolifically than my guest today, stephen king. he s written more than 60 books, sold close to 400 million copies. he is the master manipulator of dark places and the paranormal. if you re not a reader, you may have seen the shining, carrie, stand by me all films based on his stories. he s been writing for half a century. how has our appetite for fear evolved? stephen king in florida, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. it s nice to be here. i wish we could do it in person. me too. but nonetheless, it is a pleasure to see you on my screen. and let me begin by asking you about the threat that we all, all over the world in florida, in the uk, all over the world are living with, and that is covid 19. has that inv
Imagine you are a patient about to undergo Brain Surgery. If it goes well, it could save your life, if it goes wrong, you could end up paralysed or dead. You want to believe your surgeon is infallible, a superhero but he is not, he is all too human, just like you. That emerges from the extraordinary honest writing from henry marsh, giving us a rare insight into the mind of the doctor. Is that reassuring or troubling . Henry marsh, welcome to hardtalk. The veryjob description, brain surgeon, i think in most people it prompts a sense of awe and maybe a little bit of fear, as well, and certainly mystery. But youve decided to lift the veil on what it is really like and i wonder why. I was subject to that myth of Brain Surgery myself when i decided to become a neurosurgeon many years ago. I suppose i was Drawing Attention to oneself, as any writer is doing when writing a book, and i am the youngest of four, i have been Drawing Attention to myself from an early age, if you ask my family i wa