and philanthropy founding the olivia newton john cancer and wellness center in melbourne, australia in 2020. she was recognized by the u. k. queen elizabeth, who appointed her a dame. and what's the one memory that stands out the most from 40 years ago, remaining olivia throughout it all. she remained close with her grease co star, john travolta from 40 years earlier. ah, yes, i think we had crushes on each other, but we both were seeing other people and. but i think that's what made the chemistry work. after her passing travolta writing on instagram, my dearest olivia, yours from the 1st moment i saw you and forever. your danny, you're john. ah. olivia newton john was 73. leah harding al jazeera. ah.

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shanker had a 6 year head start on total, he came to power and $94.00, put him at the end of $99.00. but he was in your pain language in, but he did young that a he is with get over there, blessed when you get a day or 2. so am i correct, you should see him by the time the putin came to power locker shanker had already essentially established full fledged authoritarian system invalid and began doing many of the same things with lucas shank over there already done. you know, imprisoning opponents, shutting down, independent media outlets. rigging, elections, motoring, political opponents of time. boris themself. call this the lucas, shy zation of russia, who just listening in words, some annoyed yamil. ruskin is bloated him, excuse me, but his indian aunt. but nowhere that assumes gallium all day old that the poor brothers composed comp on eurey new mead newkirk, you whom robin the human

n. as in, by yes, i still, unless you look leisure of it by the moon, we will buy your room and present mutual. yost. i yield, sir, groaned me, cook, he woke, but gives repeated mistake. you could uncle anna who did so millennia and look a minimum she students to present of. oh my so dish nika. yet the suitors will talk to brutal squee. seeley grew up close. thought you was 30. can you get up? she worth of it. but i'm still and you sister yena cheney yesterday. you saying you put him bookstore? i think the way he came to power in a way he established his role. he's also a textbook example of how to transform a democracy to a perfect and solid authoritarian system. didn't happen with a could a tar didn't happen with a in our military vanden have more tanks on the street. it happened gradually. it happened over time. it happened incrementally, asthma, saline, while said, you should flock the chicken feather by feather to lessen the squawking. that's

exactly how pu went about noon. an autocrat is some one who rose by non democratic means. any one who is authoritarian in style of rule. ah, there are many countries in the world now that have been going through this process of gradual descent from democracy to autocracy. mm hm. and then you look at the authoritarian regimes, egypt, saudi arabia, russia, some of the other former soviet states. and of course, china, most of the law and these regimes are even more authoritarian now than they were 5 or 10 years ago. on the 4th day of his no,

the ration is present in may of 2000 vladimir putin sent armed operatives from the tax ponies. and the prosecutor general service to raid the officers of russia's largest private independent media hold afternoon. they tried to bring in reinforcements. city encampment already surrounding the television tower. 2003. we had a parliamentary election. yeah. some difficult to win an election when your opponents are not on the ballot. but he had them when you have the next, you know them what william. okay. black when they go back to you. hm. yeah, the way to do was bring it that i could get that to the bulletin it by the way it was digital at them might be, but you didn't hear the easiest of of things to go through. the sharon, kind of sort of technical exercise as to all details everyone will john lamp will know your suit opinion that may be allowed to use the label it got on. you may more

v and will be july via let also use did i see a video and they had done everything they could to try to guard against to be for the security services to make mass arrests, to threaten in many cases, to matter. political economy. putin is a very insecure political leader, and he clearly fears that if he has a serious opposition, canada who is able to speak and travel around the country and mobilize that things may get out of control in russia, which is the land of monopoly power and monopoly greed and as state that is capable of being murderous when it needs to be in the night of february 27th, 2015. barson himself almost most prominent opponent vladimir putin was dumbbell by 5 bullets in the back. literally in

a shout over kronen in moscow. the bar since i was just a close call, he has a very close friend. he was someone to whom i owe everything i've ever accomplished in my political life. it's says a lot about today's russia that this is the price of freedom that you have to pay the ultimate price. i the i was targeted into occasions both times in moscow both times through sophisticated poisonings. presumably carried out by chemical agency. a tool used by the security services going back to soviet times with this method has especially proliferated on

to vladimir putin. both times i was in a coma on artificial life support. and doctor so told my wife that had about a 5 percent chance to live with so many people in my generation, in russia, it was sort of inevitable to become really politicized. this did perhaps mark the beginning of the end. the 1st conscious political memory was the democratic revolution in august of 1991 the 3 days that ended the soviet regime. as we woke up that morning in august of 1991, tens of thousands gathered at the st. russian citizens, musk of ice, who refused to accept dakota. we're not armed with anything. i accept the dignity and that determination to defend their freedom. and they went into the

streets and literally stood in front of the tanks. and then the tank stopped the soviet and turns away poise. this was my 1st conscious medical memory. i was chinese, all that a time yesterday roaring approval for every freshman. now the biggest fear of any autocrats is his or her own people. it has been like this throughout history. nothing changes in this regard. it was the moment reflection in a low foreign invasion. no. a sort of pressure from our side is as dangerous to them as when they see crowds of people on the street with on vladimir hooton's watch that the many democratic peace revolutions. but none of them so far have been as dangerous, flatter my food as the one in ukraine with

russia. lau is the most aggressive and the meat of democracy in the world. the strategy of kremlin used to build your russian world and they've stopped on the ball at the minute. so don't be bought corrupt shop. it's about the culture. they want everybody to feel down. mm hm. and wants to control some parts of this world for they are they think like empire and ukraine is all i did democracy, biggest russian speaking democracy. unfortunately to them, of course, for

a with with that it will show the dignity in the ukraine was more months when ukrainians choose not to share with us, but they can do them from all of the learning to absolute. laura looked up. my so my question about it wasn't super virgin break at all. okay. you got on a recorded no, you won't preview all still. no. when there's not a newsletter. so he will read and he was putting him. i had coke or all of new nasa

budget on when you storage will any pray grow? lou was an issue, but if you excuse to think through it implicitly, woodson but he jumped roll slower. ah ah, why you crane these so important for kremlin? and it means that it's what important for the world for obese battle for democracy. geographically ukraine, he's was actually in the middle of this conflict between the worlds between the liberal world liberal democratic and asserted bank every year we become strong. but kremlin, do, it's best to, oh,

it's resources we to faith because it's impossible to build a russian so tiny results with reinforce 3 units in ukrainian food, ukraine, already volt in the war. and it's not only a conflict between ukraine and russian. granite people is not the island and the russian. maybe i believe that it's a war against democracy. it's not the crisis. it's hand. might she to be sure you will, you will lose it. ah, it will be a loss for all the world when

they're a war, politically with your values, principles, and institutions. you either have to decide that you're going to defend them and fight back. or we are going to be a very, very grave risk. soon as i sit here, russia is massing troops on the ukrainian border. as i sit here, russia is mobilizing new military power in the arctic ocean and so on. china is mobilizing its military in the south china sea and bearing down on taiwan. i don't think we should seek a cold war, but it is a period, a new period of normative battle over democratic values in the world.

i think democracies of the world have to recognize this and rise to the challenge with figuring out how to deal with the rise of china is the great challenge of the 21st century. dis gotten more authoritarian over the past decade, state champion and alternative to western democratic capitalism. that gives dictatorships like china's an incredible vulnerability should a day come when that regime is no longer able to provide economic growth. it will no longer have any reason to stay in power and the only choice it will have therefore, if it wants to stay in power,

is to use increasing repression and increasing violence against its own citizens. ah ah. so in 2014 i was us to the leader. we had the massive civil these um beat him movement. call it the umbrella movement. news, news, news by law. people were promised democracy in a ptolemy by the chinese government. we didn't believe them after the tenant masika and under that one party did here ship. so we have hundreds of thousands of people blocking the major run hong kong showing

a very strong think. know that we are demanding for democracy and the government should let them draw voice they saw us troublemakers, or even the traders of the country because among democratic system in hong kong. so we actually suffered, a lot of them are 1st to tease and attacks. i decided wrongfully election. i managed to win the election at the age of $23.00 and becoming the youngest elected legislative hong kong history. it shows how people want to change. yeah. at the end of the day, the government, they always can find ways to suppress you. they managed to kick me out of the

counsel 9 months after i represent the people in it. a month i went to jo, cause the umbrella bisman. i felt definitely bad about it, but i actually had a mental preparation for that. and i feel like it's actually one of the pest up in our system journey. i, in the end of the day, the madman did not succeed, but it was of very memorable page of history because a brief less the very 1st massive disobedience movement of our time. i decided to flee out of the city in order to preserve

a voice. and sure enough, i left the city i found myself on the want of based off the national security at all. if i were to be back to hong kong, i will immediately be arrested and be submitted to the national security court. the charges they put on me on the metal, the penalty of it is life imprisonment. we are literally facing the most powerful author at heritage in the world. so we are actually facing david versus goliath battle. ah, if everyone wants to change the country, only thought about that personal safety, then nothing in history, whatever sort we know the risks and we accept them because we think our country deserves so much better than you know, being ruled in the 21st century by

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work for your play and you mine yet they're still yes. ma'am, i we sure that ukrainians are ready to die for democracy. you fight. that's it. that's it. if you are not ready to fight, you will lose any weight. because the idea that these guys, poor jungle shaneka we'll go out themself.

not very good idea. it's afraid they'll ah, the most powerful lesson i learned in my life is that however strong dictatorship, how is strong and providing forces, however strong and powerful the repression. when enough, people are willing to stand up for it's right. they succeed. and i think even in the darkest types, in the darkest days when it seems to be most difficult and most appeal to climb, i think it's very important to remember that you know, so he dissidence i had the saying that night is dark as before the dawn and i think that is a very important lesson to remember. mm. pro democracy activists risking their lives fighting autocracy was me. i know that i might go to prison. good. so i will join the rodney democracy may be exposed to

struggle if those who believe democracy is worth dying for. we never know when an opening is going to come. when a fruit vendor is going to emulate themselves and say enough is enough. my life for democracy on al jazeera ah a, what happens in new york has implications all around the world. it's international perspective with the human touch zooming way in, and then pulling back out again. ah .