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now on bbc news, it s hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. time is running out for negotiators trying to break the impasse between the united states and iran and revive the deal curbing tehran s nuclear ambitions. iran is still enriching uranium. the biden administration is talking of giving up on the current diplomatic track. my guest is an adviser to iran s negotiators in vienna, mohammad marandi. if a nuclear deal can t be done, how real is the danger of a catastrophic war in the middle east? mohammad marandi in vienna, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure to have you on the show. now, you are in the austrian capital with the iranian negotiating team, us negotiators are there too, but it does look as though efforts to revive the international deal on your country s nuclear programme are running out of road. why is that? the americans are dragging theirfeet, and so are the europeans. they left the deal. from the very beginning, t ....
i m so sorry, it s been impossible. we ve been up against so much and itjust ain t ready. i m really sorry. hello and thanks forjoining us. the uk s foreign secretary, liz truss, is warning moscow that invading ukraine would lead to terrible loss of life, like the soviet takeover of afghanistan. her warning comes ahead of a meeting between the us secretary of state, antony blinken, and his russian counterpart, sergey lavrov. they will be meeting in geneva later to discuss the crisis. russia says it is not planning an invasion, but it has massed tens of thousands of troops on the border. our diplomatic correspondent james landale reports from geneva. it s notjust the russians who are conducting military exercises. these are pictures released by ukraine s defence ministry, showing their forces training close to crimea. it was annexed by russia in 2014 and the kind of incursion that ukraine and its allies are trying to deter once again. i ve been absolutely clear with pres ....
i m stephen sackur. women are still fighting for equality all over the world. even in long established democracies like the uk, plenty of evidence suggests that from the workplace to the law courts, there is an awful long way to go. my guest today, baroness helena kennedy, has been trying to loosen the grip of the patriarchy in the british legal system for five decades. is she winning the battles that really matter? baroness helena kennedy, welcome to hardtalk. nice to be here. it s great to have you. you have had a pretty extraordinary legal career spanning some five decades. yes, i know. you used to talk about a system that smelled of the patriarchy, a man s world. do you still see britain s legal system like that today? oh, yes. i mean, i think that we haven t yet managed to remove that power imbalance. it s still there. and, of course, a lot of work has been done and we ve you know, reformed certain areas of law and we ve seen women in many more positions of authori ....
and the intermission is over cirque du soleil are back in the uk after a covid imposed hiatus celebrating their 25th anniversary in london. hello and thanks forjoining us. there are fresh allegations that two more parties were held in downing street when such gatherings would have breached covid 19 rules. the daily telegraph has reported that the events took place the night before prince philip s funeral, last april. number 10 has not denied the claims. with me is our reporter mark lobel. some more potentially damaging revelations here. revelations here. reports of another two revelations here. reports of another two downing - revelations here. reports of another two downing st - another two downing st gatherings. one friday night in april 2021. around that time there was no into mixing of households allowed because of covid guidelines and outdoors you could meet in a group of six or two households could meet up, but most damagingly, on the 16th of april 2021, ....
government has to listen and has to government has to listen and has to reflect on this because there has to reflect on this because there has has to reflect on this because there has been over the last six weeks or so a range of unforced six weeks or so a range of unforced errors, miscalculations and misjudgments starting with his own patterson debacle and marching mps up the hill to vote marching mps up the hill to vote a marching mps up the hill to vote a certain way and then you turning vote a certain way and then you turning the vote a certain way and then you turning the very next day or so followed turning the very next day or so followed on by christmas parties followed on by christmas parties where the government says parties where the government says nothing to see here, there was no says nothing to see here, there was no party, and yet there are videos was no party, and yet there are videos and was no party, and yet there are videos a ....