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The brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi last month has prompted India to confront a disturbing truth: the country is failing to protect women from sexual violence.
Kiran Bedi has seen the problem close up – she was the most senior female police officer in the Indian Police Service when she retired.
Is India ready for the deep-seated changes that would make the country’s women less vulnerable?
Kiran Bedi has seen the problem close up – she was the most senior female police officer in the Indian Police Service when she retired.
Is India ready for the deep-seated changes that would make the country’s women less vulnerable?
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EU officials in Brussels insist the worst of the Eurozone crisis is over; but is that relief premature? Europe's debt mountain still casts a long shadow. Rising unemployment is fuelling anger on the streets. And Europe's biggest nations are divided on the basic question – where next for the EU? Amid this uncertainty, big practical challenges remain – not least for the EU's Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia. Short term or long term, is there reason to be confident about the EU?
(Image: Joaquin Almunia – EU Competition Commissioner, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
(Image: Joaquin Almunia – EU Competition Commissioner, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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Rupert Everett achieved success in his early twenties through his acclaimed lead role in Another Country and Dance With A Stranger.
But much of this success was lost in a haze of sexual promiscuity and alcohol.
Later in the '90s he had a fleeting brush with Holywood stardom.
As an openly gay actor in movie business, did sexual descrimation rob him of a chance of becoming an A-list star?
Stephen Sackur talks to Rupert Everett about his career and his film directorial debut about Oscar Wilde.
But much of this success was lost in a haze of sexual promiscuity and alcohol.
Later in the '90s he had a fleeting brush with Holywood stardom.
As an openly gay actor in movie business, did sexual descrimation rob him of a chance of becoming an A-list star?
Stephen Sackur talks to Rupert Everett about his career and his film directorial debut about Oscar Wilde.
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Half way through its parliamentary term Britain’s Conservative-led coalition government has a growth problem - the economy is flat; possibly heading for a triple dip recession. But how does a government committed to fiscal austerity juice things up?
HARDtalk speaks to Lord Heseltine, a former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister who was last year commissioned by David Cameron’s government to come up with a growth strategy. But are today’s Tory leaders ready to heed this voice of experience?
(Image: Lord Heseltine. Copyright: Press Association)
HARDtalk speaks to Lord Heseltine, a former Conservative Deputy Prime Minister who was last year commissioned by David Cameron’s government to come up with a growth strategy. But are today’s Tory leaders ready to heed this voice of experience?
(Image: Lord Heseltine. Copyright: Press Association)
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Arabs have risen up against their repressive authoritarian rulers, but what will their post-revolutionary societies look like? In Egypt and Tunisia, power has shifted in the direction of political Islam. Is that the culmination of the march to freedom?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Mona Eltahawy, who thinks not. The controversial Egyptian-American writer and feminist says genuine liberation is impossible while Arab men continue to hate Arab women. In this era of uprisings is her message a wake-up call or a dangerous distraction?
Stephen Sackur speaks to Mona Eltahawy, who thinks not. The controversial Egyptian-American writer and feminist says genuine liberation is impossible while Arab men continue to hate Arab women. In this era of uprisings is her message a wake-up call or a dangerous distraction?
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Not so long ago it seemed the world’s addiction to fossil fuels would soon be ended by dwindling supply. But that was before fracking, tar sands and deep sea exploration transformed calculations about global reserves of oil and gas. HARDtalk speaks to Fatih Birol - one of the world’s most influential analysts of the global energy market and its effect on the world economy and environment. Is the resilience of fossil fuel supply a cause for celebration, or despair?
(Image: Fatih Birol, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
(Image: Fatih Birol, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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Olympic gold medal-winning Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe on his crippling depression.
(Image: Ian Thorpe, Credit: Getty Images)
(Image: Ian Thorpe, Credit: Getty Images)
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Alan Moore - man behind the mask worn by computer hackers and Occupy protestors the world over.
But he's no typical insurgent, rather a graphic novelist. He has championed the form for its effect on politics and culture.
Why is he now becoming disillusioned?
But he's no typical insurgent, rather a graphic novelist. He has championed the form for its effect on politics and culture.
Why is he now becoming disillusioned?
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Philip Glass is one of the most influential and polarising composers of the last 50 years.
The trademark sound in his prolific output of symphonies, operas and film scores, is repetitive, rhythmic and hypnotic.
He has been driven by a simple question - what is music?
The trademark sound in his prolific output of symphonies, operas and film scores, is repetitive, rhythmic and hypnotic.
He has been driven by a simple question - what is music?
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As Belle de Jour, she achieved global notoriety for years, writing a blog about her sexual encounters as a high-class escort girl working in London.
Now, after revealing herself to be an expert research scientist and no longer engaged in prostitution, Dr Brooke Magnanti is calling for prostitution to be decriminalised.
Now, after revealing herself to be an expert research scientist and no longer engaged in prostitution, Dr Brooke Magnanti is calling for prostitution to be decriminalised.
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Former England rugby captain Lewis Moody talks to Stephen Sackur about his battle with bowel disease, and winning the 2003 Rugby World Cup.
(Image: Lewis Moody, Credit: Getty Images)
(Image: Lewis Moody, Credit: Getty Images)
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Stephen Sackur talks to the British barrister Sir Geoffrey Nice who led the Hague tribunal prosecution of former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosević and asks if the ICC has been a disappointment.
(Image: The prosecutors during the second day of trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal. From left: Dirk Ryneveld, Carla del Ponte and Geoffrey Nice. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
(Image: The prosecutors during the second day of trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal. From left: Dirk Ryneveld, Carla del Ponte and Geoffrey Nice. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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How far is Egypt becoming polarised between Islamist and secularist forces? The current vote for a new constitution in Egypt has exposed divisions which at times have erupted into violence on the streets between supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. Hardtalk speaks to a leading member of Egypt's liberal and secular elite: Coptic Christian billionaire businessman and politician Naguib Sawiris. Who has a better claim to be democratic - the Islamists or their opponents?
(Image: Naguib Sawiris, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
(Image: Naguib Sawiris, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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Afghanistan is reckoned to be one of the worst places on Earth to be a woman. Forced early marriage, high maternal mortality rates and little secondary education. Hardtalk talks to Dr Sima Samar, a medical doctor, educator and Chairperson of Afghanistan’s Human Rights Commission. Ten years ago she also became her country’s first ever Minister for Women’s Affairs. She has been a pioneer for human rights in Afghanistan but does she have the right strategy to win greater freedoms for Afghan women?
(Image: Sima Samar, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
(Image: Sima Samar, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
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The politics of Palestine are in a state of flux. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the stalwarts of his Fatah movement face a crisis of credibility; they've been outmanoeuvred in recent weeks by the hardliners in Hamas whose message is defiance, not diplomacy. Hardtalk speaks with the Palestinian Authority envoy to the European Union Leila Shahid. Is the game up for Palestine's old guard moderates?
(Image: Leila Shahid, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
(Image: Leila Shahid, Credit: AFP/Getty Images)
