Intelligence and Security Chief, Kurdistan Regional Government - Masrour Barzani
The United Nations has declared its highest level of emergency in Iraq as a humanitarian crisis follows the rapid advance of Islamic State militants. There have been eye-witness accounts of people beh...
14 Aug 201423min
Andrei Konchalovsky – Russian Film Director
In August 1914, 100 years ago, the five great powers of Europe declared war on one another. For countries like Britain, Germany and France the significance of World War One is regularly debated and co...
14 Aug 201423min
Secretary General of NATO - Anders Fogh Rasmussen
NATO is 65 years old – does it lack the vigour, resources and political will to be an effective military force on the world stage at a time when conflicts across continents in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine and...
13 Aug 201423min
Karl von Habsburg
Hardtalk is in Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia Herzegovina, to mark the centenary of the start of World War One. Stephen Sackur talks to Karl von Habsburg - the grandson of the last Habsburg Emperor. ...
4 Aug 201423min
Prime Minister, Moldova - Iurie Leanca
Hardtalk is on location in Chisinau, capital of Moldova where the stage is set for another tug of war between Russia and the European Union. With the backing of the majority Romanian speaking populati...
30 Jul 201423min
Ama Ata Aidoo - Author
Hardtalk speaks to the acclaimed Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo who has arguably done more than any other writer to depict and celebrate the condition of women in Africa, in books such as The Dilemma o...
28 Jul 201423min
Former Deputy Defence Minister, Israel - Danny Danon
Israel says its current campaign in Gaza is in response to rocket strikes from Hamas militants and is aimed at destroying illicit tunnels Hamas uses to smuggle arms. In more than two weeks of conflict...
25 Jul 201423min
Former Education Minister, Nigeria - Obiageli Ezekwesili
A few months ago international attention was fixed on the remote forests of north-eastern Nigeria - believed to be where 200 kidnapped schoolgirls were being held by Boko Haram militants. The girls ha...
23 Jul 201423min
