drones during the night. next it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. a warning this edition contains references to racist language that some viewers may find offensive. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. eight decades after the world confronted the evil of nazism, significant numbers of people around the world are still drawn to extreme violent forms of race hatred and nationalism. in his youth, my guest was part of that culture. matthew collins was a violent far right thug, but he changed sides, became an informer and after years in exile, returned to britain to become a prominent activist for the group hope not hate. what is the most effective antidote to hate fuelled neo nazi extremism 7 matthew collins, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. yourjob is rooting out, exposing, the most vile forms of racism, neo nazism. yep. the twist is that you, yourself, in your youth, were one of them. do you see traits of yourself in today s neo nazis? some. some traits. poacher turned gam
and after years in exile, returned to britain to become a prominent activist for the group hope not hate. what is the most effective antidote to hate fuelled neo nazi extremism 7 matthew collins, welcome to hardtalk. yourjob is rooting out, exposing, the most vile forms of racism neo nazism. yep. the twist is that you, yourself, in your youth, were one of them. do you see traits of yourself in today s neo nazis? some. some traits. poacher turned gamekeeper. i see some traits. i see in some of them the uncertainty about what they believe, the doubts about what they believe, the sadness, deep sadness, and it s one of the things i look for. if i want to recruit someone, i don t recruit a happy fascist, i recruit someone who s unhappy, who s uncertain. and that s what i aim at and that s what i go for. sounds like you make a real effort to understand their pain. yeah, i think a lot of people think anti fascists just generally must hate all fascists, but my thing is ijust hate the
have a windfall tax on the oil and gas companies. the taliban are celebrating the first anniversary of their return to power in afghanistan but not everybody is cheering, especially women and girls. here as flash floods hit cornwall, the text alerts that will give you a direct warning about severe weather and other life threatening events. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the uk has become the first country to approve what its manufacturers are calling a next generation covid vaccine. the uk s medicines regulator has approved a new version of moderna s coronavirus vaccine the first to target both the omicron variant as well as the original strain of the virus. ministers say the vaccine will now form part of the autumn booster campaign. our medical editor fergus walsh is here with more details. this is the start of a new era of covid vaccines. until now, they ve all been designed against the original form of the virus which emerged in wuhan in china at the end 2019. t
cases and eight deaths from a mysterious fever are reported. a bbc team has uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian soldiers were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than one 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. the local police chief has said that more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. 0ur east europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, has been investigating one case in particular. and a warning her report contains some distressing details. this is a place where dark acts were committed. civilians tortured and killed by russian soldiers fighting a war in which they break all the rules, like they do not know them or even care. we were shown underground to where five men were held captive, then shot in the head. in the gloom, we saw the chilling evidence. the men s bodies were found kneeling here, be
a further 400,000 cases and eight deaths from a mysterious fever are reported. a bbc team has uncovered further evidence of potential war crimes committed by russian forces in ukraine. since russian soldiers were pushed back from kyiv at the end of march, the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been discovered in the bucha region, just outside the capital. the local police chief has said that more than half of the dead were shot, in what has been described as executions. 0ur east europe correspondent, sarah rainsford, has been investigating one case in particular. and a warning her report contains some distressing details. this is a place where dark acts were committed. civilians tortured and killed by russian soldiers fighting a war in which they break all the rules, like they do not know them or even care. we were shown underground to where five men were held captive, then shot in the head. in the gloom, we saw the chilling evidence. the men s bodies were found kneel