Ambassador-at-large, Ukraine Foreign Ministry - Olexander Scherba
Vladimir Putin is reported to have said he could take the Ukrainian capital Kiev in two weeks if he wanted to. As he offers increasingly brazen support to the pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, hi...
3 Sep 201423min
Political Scientist - Francis Fukuyama
Hardtalk speaks to Francis Fukuyama, one of America's leading political scientists who, 25 years ago, watched the Communist bloc unravel and concluded that history had delivered a conclusive verdict -...
2 Sep 201423min
Secretary General, Palestine Liberation Organisation Executive Committee - Yasser Abed Rabbo
Hardtalk is in the West Bank to talk to Yasser Abed Rabbo, who was a senior member of the Palestinian negotiating team in the years after the Oslo Peace Accords were signed with Israel. In wake of 50 ...
1 Sep 201423min
Writer and film-maker - Xiaolu Guo
It's 25 years since the Tianamen Square Massacre in Beijing that saw hundreds killed and many more detained. One award-winning British-Chinese writer and film-maker Xiaolu Guo was a teenager at the t...
29 Aug 201423min
General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the UK - Bishop Angaelos
Do Christians have a future in the Arab world? It's a question raised with a new sense of urgency as an extraordinarily violent brand of jihadi extremism sweeps through Syria and Iraq. Tens of thousan...
29 Aug 201423min
Special Assistant to the US Ambassador to Iraq, 2003 - 2009, Ali Khedery
American warplanes are once again attacking targets in Iraq, ordered into action by a President who made it his business to end US military involvement in the country. To his critics it's one more pie...
29 Aug 201423min
Minister of Intelligence, Israel - Yuval Steinitz
With a ceasefire now in place in Gaza, the Israeli government faces a simple question: what exactly did Operation Protective Edge achieve? For all the death and destruction in Gaza, has Israel's posit...
29 Aug 201423min
Afghan Presidential Candidate - Abdullah Abdullah
Afghanistan's presidential election was supposed to mark the country's progress, instead it threatens to inflict new wounds. The long drawn out process appeared to deliver a second round victory to As...
20 Aug 201423min
