are scared to death that donald trump is going to get a second term and he is going to clean house in america. we need to think much more cleverly about how we produce food and how we re going to sustain those systems. we ve got to remember that the planet is on fire. i m telling you, there s. going to be a revolution. we are using ai in a way to subjugate people, reduce their autonomy, reduce their agency, reduce their contribution to production. in the spirit of your title of hardtalk, you re completely wrong. welcome to this special year ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. 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
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
implications for the republic. that s what concerns not. look, anyone could stumble and fall, sandbag fall. but when a president does, it usually scrutiny and ridicule follow. trump couldn t even get a walk down a slick ramp without facing scorn. president gerald ford was probably the most athletic president ever. he played football in a national championship. but when he missed a step just once, chevy chase and snl sketches forever set a narrative of ford as a bumbling buffoon. so it is curious that when hillary clinton collapsed like an old armani pantsuit and wasid physically dumped into a van, riere was no snl sketch or ridicule. which bringsdiculed th us to tht th president , who over the last two years has done more pratfalls than jerry lewiso . part of the problem is joe biden is suffering from a stiffo gait and old age. his doctor has admitted as much ,but in an effort to showl how vigorous he still is , hehec tsaffects his skipping routine. i call it the biden trot
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 is time to judge how the anc is doing. for 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 on earth. in africa s most advanced economy, at least half of young people can t find work. life here is never easy, but right now, south africa s power crisis is hitting the poorest hardest. no one in khayelitsha wants to be sick when the power is off. but it happens every day. the main township hospital has had to adapt to what they call load shedding . the man in charge is david binza. with load shedding now in place, and the different stages instead of reducing they are actually
kyiv staged a terrorist attack using eight drones a claim denied by ukraine. it follows an attack on kyiv, with ukrainian officials saying more than 20 drones had been destroyed. one person was killed in what was the seventeenth attack on kyiv since the start of may. there s been some mixed reaction from ukraine s allys. in a statement, the white house has said the us does not support attacks inside of russia . they are also trying to find out about what happened earlier in the day. meanwhile in estonia, the uk s foreign ministerjames cleverly was asked about the drone attack and said ukraine does have the right to attack russian territory. ukraine does have the legitimate right to defend itself. it has a legitimate right to do so within its own borders, of course but it does also have the right to project force beyond its borders to. to undermine russia s ability to project force into ukraine itself. so, legitimate the military targets beyond its borders are part of ukr