welcome to this special year ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. it s our chance to look back on some of the most telling and compelling encounters of 2023. how will this past year be remembered? well, a grim new phase in an intractable conflict will loom large. on october the 7th, hamas the islamist group which controls gaza and is proscribed as a terrorist organisation in the uk and the us launched a murderous attack on southern israel. 1,200 israelis were killed. israel s response was a ferocious assault on gaza, now in its third month, which has already inflicted tens of thousands of palestinian casualties. we cannot guarantee 100% safety for the people in gaza who will be around hamas militants. and that s why i keep saying, move out, move out from those neighbourhoods, because we are coming to hunt down hamas and we will do whatever is necessary from the air, from the sea, from the land. we will get to those people and we will kill them. you cannot d
and act as a shock merger with the saudi backed rival liv golf, ending a bitter split in men s professional golf. announces a shock merger. sport now and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s jane dougal. hello from the bbc sport centre. astonishing news from the world of golf, the astonishing news from the world of golf, the pga astonishing news from the world of golf, the pga tour astonishing news from the world of golf, the pga tour has astonishing news from the world of golf, the pga tour has agreed astonishing news from the world of golf, the pga tour has agreed to merge with liv golf and it has been a difficult time for the last year in professional golf and the controversial breakaway league bankrolled by billions of dollars from saudi arabia s sovereign wealth fund led to the pga tour banning the golfers who joined it and personal feuds between players. we can speak to our bbc golf commentator. how significant is the news? hugely significant- si
south africans are realising that if they don t change the way they vote, south africa is going to end up in a very, very dark place. there will be anarchy, there will be looting all over this country because nothing will be working. - if certain things are not resolved we will become a failed state. the anc, mandela s party, has ruled uninterrupted for 29 years. is a day of reckoning coming? welcome to hardtalk, on the road from south africa. i m stephen sackur. back in 1994, the one overwhelming emotion in this country was hope. the repressive, racist apartheid regime had been toppled. the new power in the land was the african national congress, promising a better life for all south africans. well, three decades on, it s time to judge how the anc is doing. to too many south africans, this looks and feels like a story of failure. khayelitsha township, cape town. nestled under majestic table mountain, a sprawling reminder of south africa s status as the most unequal society
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