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white house. we are in detroit where the white working class voters still have their back. he spoke to their need for change. when he spoke they said, i will remember him. he said he would fix the problem and i demand to do it raced on my experience. he won over the hearts and minds of the many people. i remember one very senior minister telling me that if it was the last day of an election campaign, and he had a choice between canvassing a hall of residence or an old people s home, you do the old people s home any day because they re the ones who are going to vote. good evening. 23,000 deaths by nitrogen dioxide poisoning. a ruling today that the government can t block the clean air plan until after the general election. they claim publication would drop controversial bomb into the mix of local and national elections, but that didn t wash and after the local elections we will find out what theresa may plans to do about reducing dirty diesel, the main culprit. the mayor ....
i m stephen sackur. leaders who routinely abuse their power can t stand to be laughed at. satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the white afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africa s recent history for laughs? pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you ve made a career and a life out of humour, and pretty subversive humour. but would you say you re fundamentally driven by anger, or is it something else? i think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. so actually i try to keep a balance of 49% anger, 5 ....
i m stephen sackur. leaders who routinely abuse their power can t stand to be laughed at. satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the white afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africa s recent history for laughs? pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you ve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. but would you say you re fundamentally driven by anger, or is it something else? i think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. so actually i try to keep a balance of 49% anger, 51% e ....
i m stephen sackur. leaders who routinely abuse their power can t stand to be laughed at. satire is a potent political weapon, and that is a truth my guest today has exploited for a0 years. pieter dirk uys styles himself as the most famous white woman in south africa, thanks to his alter ego, auntie evita a character he created to poke fun at the white afrikaner establishment during the apartheid era, and which he now uses to lampoon jacob zuma and the anc, but are there are dangers in playing south africa s recent history for laughs? pieter dirk uys, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. you ve made a career and a life out of humour, pretty subversive humour. but would you say you re fundamentally driven by anger, or is it something else? i think anger is a very important motivation, after all these years, and especially in the beginning when i was very quiet and very scared of opinion, because most of it was illegal. so actually i try to keep a balance of 49% anger, 51% e ....
within the past few hours it s been announced that the veteran actress and singer, debbie reynolds, has died, just a day after the death of her daughter, carrie fisher. it s reported she was taken ill at her son s house in beverly hills, while discussing her daughter s funeral. earlier our correspondent david willis in los angeles gave us some detail about the relationship between mother and daughter. they were not speaking for quite a while, mike, there was a 10 year period in which they didn t communicate very much at all, and then they refound each other, if you like, and were very close towards the and of carrie fisher s life. but, you know, terrible news coming just 2a hours after we heard about the death of carrie fisher, now we are able to report that her mother, debbie reynolds, a hollywood icon, 84 years of age, has herself passed away. looking at what carrie fisher said about her mother in that interview in november on npr, in fact, she said, very few women fr ....