the result of years of poaching and reflects a wider problem and reflects a wider problem and in the battle for space and resources, wildlife is in a losing fight with humanity in many parts of africa. my guest todayis many parts of africa. my guest today is paula kahumbu. kenyan conservationist, campaignerand conservationist, campaigner and broadcaster. she conservationist, campaignerand broadcaster. she is trying to make conservation africa plus plus common cause. so, how is she doing. conservation africa s common cause. paula kahumbu in nairobi, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much- welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much- i welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. i appreciate - welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much. i appreciate being - very much. i appreciate being invited to speak year. it is very much. i appreciate being invited to speak year.- invited to speak year. it is a pleasure invited to speak year. it is a pleasure to invited to speak year.
welcome to hardtalk. i am stephen sackur. much of the art we love is presented via a medium, via canvas or recording or celluloid. but my guest todayis or celluloid. but my guest today is an artist whose primary resource is her own body. marina abramovic is the worlds most famous and acclaimed performance artist. in the course of a remarkable career, she has pushed yourself to the very limits of physical endurance and stirred intense reaction from audiences confronting her eye to eye. her art and life are one. what do they tell us? marina abramovic, and upstate new york. welcome to hardtalk. hello everybody. it is new york. welcome to hardtalk. hello everybody. hello everybody. it is a pleasure hello everybody. it is a pleasure to hello everybody. it is a pleasure to have - hello everybody. it is a pleasure to have you . hello everybody. it is al pleasure to have you on hello everybody. it is a - pleasure to have you on the programme. may i begin with the relationship yo
major tournament. a bbc news investigation has uncovered the abuse and neglect of disabled people in institutions in ukraine. more than 100,000 children and young people live in facilities across the country, most of them do have families, but poor community services mean the youngsters end up in a system that can t meet their needs. the country may be at war, but this is a problem that predates russia s invasion. human rights investigators say ukraine shouldn t be allowed tojoin the eu until it abolishes this system. i must warn you, this report by our correspondent danjohnson and producer ruth clegg does contain distressing images. far from the front line. i ve been to hundreds of institutions and i get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. ..international investigators eric and halyna are uncovering ukraine s most shameful secret. the abuse and neglect of disabled people. look into these cots, and you see the smothered potential and stunted growth of lives stolen by a s
of france? as the country prepares to elect a new president bears record levels of apathy and delusion among french voters, a spate of terror attacks has sown in security and has sparked debate. my guest todayis and has sparked debate. my guest today is a writer and public intellectual in the grand french tradition. is france living through an age of decline? pascal, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. we are talking with a french presidential elections very close, does france feel right for the sort of political shock that we ve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the united states with the victory of donald trump in the presidential election? i hope not, with all my heart i hope we won t face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. so we re doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with marine le pen. but at the present time we have two opposite candidates, marcha nt, time we have two op
Now on hardtalk, in an interview recorded on monday, days after russia began its invasion of ukraine, my colleague stephen sackur spoke to russian born ukrainian writer andrey kurkov, who fled moscow after hearing he was on a watchlist after criticism of president putin. welcome to hardtalk. russians and ukrainians know each other intimately, thanks to history, language, culture. now they are at war, killing each other thanks to vladimir putin s decision to launch an invasion of his neighbour. my guest todayis of his neighbour. my guest today is an embodiment of the complex layers of the ukraine russia relationship. leading ukrainian novelist andrey kurkov was born in russia, right in russian. but is a ukrainian citizen and fears.