niklas frank, welcome to hard talk. thank you. do you feel that you have some sort of a duty to your country to speak about your past? i think so, yes. i think i have that duty because by chance, i was born in this family, and i could tell the people how to behave with parents like i had. when do you think you first began to feel that you must speak out as volubly, as publicly as possible about your father and about your feelings towards your father? it was a growing wish because of the silence in germany. the families, all the families of my friends, everybody was silent, and they didn't talk about the past. and this, i couldn't endure because i always wanted to know how 5 society behaves if it changes to a dictatorship, and i always had a feeling that germany is still prepared to do this, and so i looked closer toward families and friends and i found out there is still something in the german people which makes me fear them. fear, your own country and your own people? yes, i would say so. well, i want to pick up on that because

hans frank was hanged for the murder of 4 million human beings, 3 million jews, 1,000,000 poles. it's almost impossible to conceive of the scale of the killing. but you go through their personal documents, their letters, their diaries and you see they are also capable of love and humanity and decency, and this is the fundamental problem. how did a highly intelligent, highly educated, highly cultured human beings get involved in mass murder? and it's notjust an issue for back then. a couple years ago, i stood in the international court ofjustice doing the case for gambia against myanmar and the treatment of their rohingya, allegations of genocide and sitting no further away from me and you are today with aung san suu kyi, than you are today was aung san suu kyi, and i sat there thinking, "how can you possibly defend this now?" this is a nobel peace prize winner ofjust a few years ago and now, she's standing up in court defending, effectively, mass killing. you are a highly educated man and you spent years, decades on this very question of how and why people who appear to be ordina

first of all, the consequence of the risk of covid, to be frank, everywhere. the price of energy everywhere. the shortage about the raw materials everywhere. and, in addition, obviously the mechanic and automatic consequences of the brexit, because the brexit means leaving the eu, leaving the single market, leaving the custom union. it's very serious. yeah... that means the end of the freedom of movement for the truck drivers. all right. that means so many, many new buyers which are direct consequences of brexit. for example, the control for each good entering the uk. ok, but you know that there are european leaders who cannot resist saying to the united kingdom "this is because of brexit". the german spd leader and the likely new chancellor in germany, olaf scholz, says, "the free movement of labour is part of the european union. "we worked hard to convince the british not to leave the european union. "they decided differently, and i hope they will manage the problems coming from that." i am pleasured to answer to your questions, but i managed the negotiation

in all frankness, i do think the most we could hope for and work for between russia and the european union and the us on the other side, i'm not talking on global britain, because i don't know yet what it would mean in practical terms, but at least with those two interlocutors, it's a contractual relationship with no illusions, no ambitions to do business where it is possible and to keep our difference as much as possible separate and apart from what we may do in terms of strengthening global security, international stability, and so on and so forth. how big a problem then is the real difference of opinion between moscow and washington and what is happening in terms of cybercrime and cyber security? president biden said a few months ago that "mr putin would pay for russian interference in the 2020 us election" and of course the 2016 us election, as described in washington. and just a few days ago the us government cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency directorjen easterly said that russia had not significantly changed its behaviour in cyberspace since biden�*s warnings t

but my point about the suicide kit is, i mean, you�*re very honest and frank, as you have always been, about your career and your view of medicine. you�*re honest about it existing, but you�*re also honest to say that you�*ve got a colleague on standby who will help you. yes, well, i�*m worried it might not work. i need backup. but then you�*ll be criminalising him or her. that�*s his choice. you�*ve discussed that? oh, yes, of course. and most doctors of my generation, we... you know, it�*s not something you talk about in public, but you often ease the passing. and that became increasingly difficult after harold shipman. and also, because of more and more attention to this. and the mess over the so—called liverpool care pathway. these are very, very difficult areas. but i think we need to talk about them as openly as possible. and death... we all know we�*re going to die, you know, sooner or later. and it is extraordinary how we constantly are in denial of that fact. i�*m like that still. ithink, you know, "i�*ll be saved. i�*m going to be all right at the e

i used to do a show called baddiel and skinner unplanned, and that show was literally about me and frank coming on stage and just talking about whatever came up. and one time, i don't think i can say it on hardtalk, there was a very big runner about me and... yeah, i can't talk about it. it's a sexual thing. and she just turned to me afterwards and said, you know i have to go to the school gate tomorrow and pick up our children, and everyone will know that you've been totally honest about this thing that you do. let me get away from being the professional funnyman for a bit and get to you, as you've become a serious writer about serious things and a serious documentary maker. you've already told me a little bit about yourjewish family history, you've explored in documentary form holocaust denial. you have written a book — this one, jews don't count, which looks at what you see as the failure of the progressive left, particularly in the uk, to take full account of anti—semitism as one of the discriminatory prejudices that taint society, you think somehow... ..as your title suggests, j