I loved doing BBC HARDtalk with Stephen Sackur.We discussed me playing Mitch Winehouse in @BacktoBlack, John Adams in Franklin for Apple TV,finding the balance between authenticity & diversity in acting and liking people you don’t politically agree with.

Will Guyana's people feel the benefit of the country's oil and gas riches? Stephen Sackur has been on the road to find out

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“The UK government has to stop arms sales to Israel' - Humza Yousaf

The First Minister of Scotland says if the UK continues to provide arms, it will be “complicit in the killing of innocent people”

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Just interviewed Scotland First Minister Humza Yousaf. Clearest break yet with UK govt on Israel. He says: ‘if the UK govt continues to provide arms [to Israel] that makes the UK complicit….The evidence that we have seen certainly suggests war crimes have been committed’

“We have the lowest rate of deforestation in the world… Guyana will still be net zero”

President Irfaan Ali says Guyana won’t take lectures on climate change as it exploits its huge offshore oil and gas reserves

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Are vast oil and gas riches a blessing or a curse?

Stephen Sackur is on the road in Guyana

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“They cannot ask the Dominican Republic to solve the Haitian problem,” says Luis Abinader

The President of the Dominican Republic tells HARDtalk that he will not halt deportations as the crisis unfolds in neighbouring Haiti

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Have lessons been learned from the Birmingham Six injustice?

Listen to the full interview with campaigning writer and journalist Chris Mullin

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“These are the most painful months in my history,” says the Palestinian Ambassador to the UN

Riyad Mansour says “it is within our national interest to put our house in order and to try to unify our ranks”

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Navalny aide Leonid Volkov has been attacked with a meat hammer in Vilnius
 
Lithuanian police are investigating the assault, described by the Putin critic as “a gangster greeting” from Russia’s President

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Listen to Stephen Sackur’s interview with writer Sathnam Sanghera
 
As the British son of Indian immigrants, he wanted to look afresh at the legacies of the British Empire. Why has his work stirred up so much hate?
 
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After the death of President Putin’s most powerful political opponent, is the anti-Putin movement out of options?

Listen to the full interview with Alexey Navalny’s former Chief of Staff ⁦Leonid Volkov⁩ bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

“There is a deep bleeding hole in my heart”

Alexey Navalny’s former Chief of Staff Leonid Volkov says “it’s hard for me to get used to this new world where Alexey isn’t here anymore”

‘Saakashvili is not Navalny’ says Georgia’s President

Salome Zourabichvili says her predecessor, former President Mikheil Saakashvili, is in jail for what he did when he led the country, not because he’s now part of the opposition

“I expect the US to agree a package of continued military support”

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says that he believes the US will continue to support Ukraine’s war effort despite political disagreements in Washington

“Ukraine has the right according to international law to defend itself and that includes also striking legitimate military targets outside Ukraine”

Outgoing Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on whether Ukraine can strike outside its own territory

“There were movements in the university about talking about how left wing do you want to be? Does that mean you would pick up a gun? I always drew the line there. That’s just not my nature”

The Oscar nominated actor Ciarán Hinds on being teenage during the Troubles in Belfast

Alexei Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya has vowed to continue his fight for a 'free Russia' after the opposition figure's death in a remote arctic penal colony.

In 2017, Navalny spoke to Hardtalk about the risks of opposing Putin

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Watch Bassem Youssef talk about a new Superman film and his fear he was ‘cancelled’ for speaking out on Israel/Gaza conflict