you talk about frustration with government now, but your whole career basically sounds as though you have been banging your head against a brick wall. did you learn some lessons from that? of course, of course. what lessons did you draw? it seems like the only lesson you took was, you know what, after a while you betray your best friends in politics? no. i don t agree with that at all. i bet you know. i bet you know! how do you feel as president that you are going to go down in history as a president who presided over a loss of a large part of your territory? i understood that you wished to do this interview, and you wished to reply to questions that we, in the name of the bbc, are putting towards you. am i not right? yeah, cheers. hardtalk. to the next 20 years! well you got water and i ve got wine?! that s terrible! 0ur show has a name which gives you a very strong clue as to what you re going to get. and i do wonder sometimes whether calling the programme hardtalk has been
good morning. it is sam here in singapore, iam in london, and eight in the evening in washington where president trump has asked his advisers to be prepared to give a full range of options to deal with the nuclear threat in north korea. a us navy strike group is already heading towards the korean peninsula. the us national security adviser said the deployment was prudent and criticised north korea as a rogue, nuclear armed nation. david campa nale reports. the carl vinson strike group, composed of an aircraft carrier, two guided missile destroyers and a guided missile cruiser, had been due to visit australia. instead, it s under full steam towards the western pacific ocean, where it recently conducted exercises with the south korean navy. as well as massive strike power, the carrier group has the capability to intercept ballistic missiles. president trump made it clear to beijing last week that he s prepared to act alone against pyongyang if necessary. the decision to order m