thank you for your company, i will be back tomorrow. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk s review of 2021. welcome to a special year ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. now on bbc news, it s time for hardtalk s review of 2021. this is our chance and yours to look back at some of the drama, the passion, the emotion generated by our interviews in 2021. when the precedent is established against bad people, it then is used against good people. if afghanistan sinks into chaos, that will be a stinking spot in the conscience of the global community. if you want to sit behind a computer and write i terrible things to people, you re a coward. - this is hardtalk, right? your view of the american political system, i think, is not right. i think you re missing the elephant in the room. 2021 began with the world gripped by events in washington, dc. donald trump had lost his bid for re election, but he didn t slip away quietly. he claimed without foundation that the ele
and the renowned american journalist and author joan didion dies at the age of 87. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. a jury in the us state of minnesota has found a white former police officer guilty of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man. the prosecution argued that kimberley potter had shown culpable negligence when she killed daunte wright during a routine traffic check in april. the jury was shown bodycam footage, stopping short of the moment when the victim died. taser, taser, taser! kimberley potter told the court she thought she d drawn her taser rather than her handgun when she shot mr wright in the chest. the incident led to several nights of intense protests at a very sensitive time in the united states, and not far from the court where white police officer, derek chauvin, was standing trialfor the murder of a black man, george floyd. let s have a listen to kimberly potter s tearful evidence in court. i remember y
with hardtalk s review of 2021. welcome to a special year ending edition of hardtalk with me, stephen sackur. this is our chance and yours to look back at some of the drama, the passion, the emotion generated by our interviews in 2021. when the precedent is established against bad people, it then is used against good people. if afghanistan sinks into chaos, that will be a stinking spot in the conscience of the global community. if you want to sit behind a computer and write i terrible things to people, you re a coward. - this is hardtalk, right? your view of the american political system, i think, is not right. i think you re missing the elephant in the room. 2021 began with the world gripped by events in washington, dc. donald trump had lost his bid for re election, but he didn t slip away quietly. he claimed without foundation that the election had been stolen. 0njanuary 6, a trump supporting crowd fired up by a defiant trump speech invaded the us capitol. was trump gui
the little town of bethlehem marks christmas eve in a year where tourism has been blighted by covid. and in herfirst christmas broadcast since the death of prince philip, hello and welcome. 1.74 million people in the uk had coronavirus on december 19, according to survey by the office for national statistics that s up by more than 400,000 people on the figure three days earlier. this equates to 1 in 35 people, or 2.7% of the population of the united kingdom. and in london this rises to around 1 in 20 people likely to test positive for covid 19, the highest proportion for any region in england. it comes amid news of a glimmer of christmas hope from the uk health security agency s drjenny harries, who says new cononavirus data suggests that the 0micron variant may be less likely to lead to serious illness than the delta variant. but dr harries cautions that more information is needed, particularly about the impact on elderly and more vulnerable patients. elswhere, thailand
2021 began with the world gripped by events in washington, dc. donald trump had lost his bid for re election, but he didn t slip away quietly. he claimed without foundation that the election had been stolen. 0njanuary 6, a trump supporting crowd fired up by a defiant trump speech invaded the us capitol. was trump guilty of inciting an assault on us democracy? democrats sought his impeachment for a second time, but one of the president s former legal advisers himself a democrat said they were wrong. if president trump had made the same speech and no one had marched to the capitol, would it then be a crime? of course not. and the fact that people marched to the capitol is irrelevant in judging whether or not the speech itself is protected by the constitution. we should not be compromising free speech in the interests of ending a term four or five days earlier. it will stick with us forever and ever. this will be a horrible precedent, and mostly it will be used against t