but right now, south africa is in a big mess, with a protracted energy crisis, shocking levels of unemployment and inequality, and systemic corruption. my guest is the secretary general of the anc, fikile mbalula. is his party about to pay the price of failure? fikile mbalula, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having us, and welcome to luthuli house. it s a great pleasure to be here. how disappointed are you with the state south africa is in today? south africa is undergoing challenges like many other countries. but i think to put us into a category of a failed state, it s an exaggeration. er. ican give. but you think that s a conversation that south africans are having amongst themselves? well, it comes from pockets of the. ..powerful thinkers in the country who project us as displaying characteristics of a failed state, of course. we may not be too defensive to that. if certain things are not resolved, we will become a failed state. but we are notjourneying towards that di
than that, we d still be grateful for it. if it was a pound, - we d still be grateful. i am blown away by the picture created by the amazingly talented charlie mackesy. it shows love and care on a whole new level. thank you, charlie, it s the best picture i have ever seen. rob burrow there, ending that report by graham satchell. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. yes, lots of dry and bright weather to come today, but before that i thought we would look at yesterday, when we recorded 23.1; celsius in cardiff, the highest temperature of the year so far. but how does that compare with the recent mays? it is bottom of the league, recent mays have brought us much warmer weather, there has been no heat wave and there has been no heat wave and there will not be any time soon. although warm weather is bringing up some sunshine, winds are coming from the atlantic rather than air from france or spain. looking at low to mid 20s over the last few days. cooler air across
former british prime minister boris johnson has a reform of the police to the government cabinet office over new allegations he broke lockdown rules during the pandemic. it is reported the referral is to two regional police forces based on a recently discovered information. it should be stressed at this stage it police are investigating and no breach of the rules as been confirmed. let s go straight to our uk political correspondentjonathan uk political correspondent jonathan blake and uk political correspondentjonathan blake and kenny bring us up to date? this story broke in the last out reported reported by the times newspaper but as you say paper have been referred to the police, to separate police forces, one here in london and also the thames valley police, regarding information in it boris johnson s police, regarding information in it borisjohnson s ministerial diary that was encountered by officials in the process of preparing his evidence for the forthcoming covid 19
spanish league. this is the player, brazilian international, viniciusjunior, who reported what he said was racist abuse while playing for real madrid against valencia on sunday. the game was paused, before continuing. after the match, vinicius, who has been the target of racist abuse several times during this season, said that the spanish top division, la liga, belongs to racists. la liga s president responded by saying that the player had twice not attended meetings to discuss what the organisation could do saying. that comment led to criticism and an outpouring of support in brazilfor vinicius, including this moment, when the lights illuminating rio s statue of christ the redeemer were switched off as a gesture of support. brazil s government has requested urgent meetings with officials in madrid over the matter. well the episode has reverberated in football around the world. here s former england international micah richards speaking about it on the bbc a little earlie