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disaster in the united states of america will no longer certify this field can see agree. the only hope france germany and the u.k. seem to have is to push for a compromise with trump simply tweaking the existing agreement but perhaps we're not seeing the whole picture here maybe the problem for america actually goes deeper than this one pact we got a president is a president who doesn't listen to. the people who are naysayers and a president that is as true to regime change as we are. meanwhile pushing the white house to abandon the agreement is the israeli prime minister whose country is in the signatory netanyahu just last week gave a pretty dramatic power point presentation on iran's secret nuclear program which turned out to be both not secret and non-existent still b.b. is flying to moscow in the coming days to try and get his message across to president putin the kremlin has been clear on its stance however we are going to
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support the deal concluded with the previous u.s. administration so with both sides battling it out everything for now is still up in the air this deal took years of exhaustive negotiations to reach and surely none of that included worrying about what the next guy in the white house thought but if one naysayer is all it takes to bring them down maybe it sends the message that all landmark international agreements should be structured to only last for one presidential cycle it shows that the united states foreign policy is not based on responsibility but it's based force the u.n. has no place other world powers are not even enough room to play a major actors in the us foreign policy and this shows major failure for diplomacy in resolving global issues like nuclear problem that's the main message of the kind of policy that has been adopted by donald trump. over that report not hundreds of into parties. he worked for the british army in afghanistan are facing
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the threat of deportation from the u.k. despite a promise though they would be allowed to stay we spoke to one of those potentially affected he says that the only thing awaiting him in afghanistan would be death. if they deport me back there is only one times for me to be killed he doesn't know when but the u.k. home office has informed abdul bari that he's going to be deported to kabul within the next three months abdul says he can't go back to afghanistan because he worked as a frontline interpreter for british forces from two thousand and eight to two thousand and ten my life is in danger my family and i have something to be threatening me but he told me that you know that he joined the infidels. used to talk about there was only one chance for me and i must leave the country cost but the second time to put the mean time to post for pay me so if they did catch me if i
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had they would definitely just leave the country the british defense secretary gavin williamson has made headlines in recent days by telling the home office that afghan interpreters should be allowed to stay in the u.k. but that reassurance only refers to around four hundred forma interpreters who had been given five year you tavi says they expire soon and all the authorities have done in reality is say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrator a headline stones are applied to the six hundred or so former afghan interpreter is still in kabul who have had their asylum claims rejected nor do they applied to the handful of complicated cases relating to former interpreters who were forced to flee and entered the u.k. illegally like abdul all of us are delighted that those who've had better criteria
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and their families are here and will stay here and that nobody paid any money there are still people who are being looked at and we need to be careful that we don't let it fall through the dense we have a debt of honor to these people and what we mustn't do is leave someone who actually worked for us looked after us. soldiers helped us we mustn't leave someone like that in a position where they and their families will be at risk and we've got to be very clear make sure we don't do that abdul says he didn't have time to apply for a visa through the official interpreter scheme while he was still in the capital that required months of waiting and his life placing creasing at risk now abdul's lawyer is appealing the home office's moves to deport him many interpreters got these fish directly from afghanistan through the ministry defense relocation was very strict criteria that required you to be. working in helmand province and to be made redundant on a raft ninety percent or twenty twelve
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a lot of people i missed the. word working in two thousand and twelve because they were threatened and targeted by the taliban hard to quit their jobs and flee it's not really fair to make this journey to the you care to escape these threats to be told actually go home they're saying it's it's there for him to read we have evidence from former employees not just from the british army but they also he was working with and be in kabul what he read up here to the originators. but evidence suggests he was threatened in kabul. and. the same will happen again he will be targeted when it comes to its own citizens the u.k. government clearly warns against travel to almost all of afghanistan even districts in the heavily guarded capital kabul it adds that terrorists are very likely to carry out attacks and methods are evolving and increasing in sophistication but that's apparently safe enough for abdul barry to return as far as the u.k.
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government's concerned i don't claim a couple is safe because i think the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because the bomb is exploding people are dying and i don't know. the home office is saying the couple is saying i first met abbeville a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened to surviving. and. so i can do nothing but. some have a very bad depression so. many times some medicine from them. doesn't work. i ask him about what he wants to do if and off to all this he wants to walk he dread economics at university and
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he wouldn't mind resurrecting his professional boxing career either but his talk is tentative working and living his sounds like a dream one that any day now could come crashing down but the arrival of a final deportation letter. you want to national thank you come thanks for your company this afternoon still ahead by the number of homeless people in paris has prompted authorities there to console an annual race through the city we'll have a look at the problem just after the break. up like the many clubs over the years so i know the guy even so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super mommy killing their oldest and spending children to twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else
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because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful just what great chance for. me. well charles seems wrong. why don't we all just don't call. any world police yet to shape out just they become educated and gain trade equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. without you now an annual ten kilometer running race through the french capital
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won't be held to the high number of homeless people many of the migrants camped out along the route it is a problem many had hoped would have east over the last year although that simply hasn't happened as party should have been reports. president michael had pledged that by the beginning of two thousand and eighteen no one would be sleeping rough on the streets of france let alone her yes yet not only did he fail to deliver on the promise but it's getting worse much worse it's believed that up to one thousand eight hundred migrants of set up camp along the canal he in paris and fears that that could explode to around two and a halt thousand in the next few weeks has caused the organizers of the great race of graham paris to cancel the annual event.
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the ten kilometer race between paris and song to me was to take place in just over a week's time but this is part of where the run is supposed to come through and as you can see it would be virtually impossible for them to navigate this section of the racecourse these makeshift camps are growing day by day the route is impossible it is disturbing to have to run the race in the middle of a refugee. at last year's race around six and a half thousand people took part it was also adopted as part of paris's bid to host the twenty twenty four olympics embodying a couple of the games key objectives solidarity and ecology this cancellation so close to race day has disappointed many you know it's kind of unfair agus of
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improvising for one time and then you just cancel the last minute just. like they should have reworded it down that's what i think so as to separate problems you just do your race if your do your race and in the right problem is something else i think they should fix that they help them more. you know when you walk in the street you can see that all the people live on the sidewalks despite pledges to help migrants off the streets the greater paris region currently only has room to shell to seven hundred and fifty individuals far fewer than the numbers already here a number said to be growing in the hundreds each week organizers say they didn't want the camps to be cleared just so that the race could go ahead reluctant to be seen as a tool for social exclusion but safety concerns meant that they couldn't we reach either. participants have been offered refunds or
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a place in next year's event assuming of course there is one charlotte. r.t. paris. now a new racism scandal has hit the world of fashion after the cover of vogue italy featured a famous model with a noticeably darker skin tone than normal well here's the photo of supermodel gigi had it that sparked a controversy on social media people did point out that had skin hair and facial features were photo shopped to appear darker than they really are but this also say the photo was actually a piece of art and there's nothing racist about it instead of just hiring someone of a different culture they transform a white girl change her skin and even do her makeup to make her look more ethnic change hair color etc oh ok this is normal why couldn't you use a black model instead of saying black face honestly so ignorant as gusting disappointed in the modeling industry these days there is literally nothing in black face about this people can't even look tan anymore without others making it
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something it's not you're making a response out of everything even when it's not she doesn't look black here she looks brunette i think the intention was to show a power of transformation and he wanted to do it on an already very famous model known as blonde it is art is magnificent some people just don't deserve. well gee headed have both apologized saying the photo wasn't meant to offend anybody or the magazine said though it had been trying to create a bronzed beach look political commentator steve malzberg believes that the scandal is actually a fuss over nothing. i hear you have a beautiful blue eyed blonde model one of the top models in the world and they put some bronze on her and they photoshop the picture and now she looks i mean you could say she looks black or african-american she looks bronze to me but this is a whole big issue now where people take offense and they call it cultural
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appropriation in other words you're stealing their culture so it's really at hand and we have to get over this in our society or it's going to do a very very much harm so i see nothing wrong with the shoot i think people are too sensitive and i think it's getting out of hand political correctness is getting out of hand. so that brings you up to date the news here and i say don't forget you can keep crossing events around the world to you on our social media pages and you care .
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about your sudden passing i finally just learned you were yourself and taken your last to bang turn. your act right up to us we all knew it but i tell you i'm sorry . so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest piece things that i never got off my chest. i know. when we first met my life turned on each breath. but then my feelings started to change you talked about more like it was a cave still some more fun to view those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one quite
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different person to speak to now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its make. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers available to us but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and the huge amount of pressure you have to go i mean eight percent of the digital with you and we'll show you all the great game the greatest good you are the rock at the back nobody gets busted we need you to get the ball going let's go. to a low. and i'm really happy to join the for the two thousand and three and world cup in russia meet the special one come on top of. me just just at the rio biagi
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team's latest edition may go up as we go so i need better jersey look. what politicians do. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to be rich. to go on to be first this is like them before three of them or can people get. interested always in the waters of college. for sure. bon welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze as russia's relations with the
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west are put to test blood amir put in a stake in the presidential office for the fourth time. what is a russian leader like well i ask you bert said bell german journalist who gave his view of the russian president in the documentary film i put in. your example welcome to the show it's great to have you with us i haven't seen you in a while so we're finally doing this little chat and i'm glad we get to do this. so you've had unprecedented access to lead america. you personally came to an event about your book on hey man you had face to face time with him during the shooting of your film about him he called you personally on the phone and you answer he has great i wonder why you i mean you may know more about our president than may be because he's a very private person why does to trust you you know look at me understand that
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person actually know the right go and i think it's a matter of time. it's a matter of time because we went quote some months to go to run for the film so in the future would you go to my couple or. was in three months distance about for the book so you get to know each other a little bit and you know how or whom you can trust to a certain extent and that's i think the basis why we have this confirmation. so while filming your documentary i putin back in two thousand and twelve you had the chance to see elaborate putin in different settings. what was your personal opinion off him and what kind of vibes as you pick up usually public figures of his scale are one person off the screen and then another person on the screen do you feel he was genuine did you sense like a public persona for the cameras being displayed for you you know put it to the profession do you act like a professional of course but do you have to
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a certain extent an identity. if you want to convince you can a treaty cuts your identity you have normally from the profession. so i think to a certain extent but he's a tactician too of course and to use. it because this business requires because you do visit june of. zero so we have both a profession and react so to speak along the profession but the longer you speak to each other the more you understand the way he acts and the way he argues and the way he is that's so i mean i come from a family of a former president of what as well and i understand how these things work like when you're a leader you have to be tough the there's no room for emotions like your personal emotions don't really matter when you're you know handling global affairs you said that putin came across as very a life what kind of emotions did you get out of him during your conversations. he
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is an emotional guy so it is not very hard to play on the emotion but on the other hand is a technician too and he knows exactly what he wants to transform or what we want to bring over so journalists and politicians have to. play along this road well and of course they have a common currency the common currency is the public and so they behave to reach this am to get their messages through and that's a kind of game on one side and then the other side it is quite serious because people rely and they trust what they get so to speak what they see and what they hear so both parties have to develop this kind of art and to stick to their profession and i think all in all put in lives by two things by his emotion and he is. in the long to he place
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a very long game he's so to speak a. long distance runner in politics and that's the way they underestimate him like if you want a little example by putin obviously had been under method for such a long time in the beginning of my research i found a memo by a big bang it was in the memo was from the year two thousand when he took over the office and the analysts try to inform the board of directors what kind of guy this guy is what to expect and this implicit at that time. the mere vladimirovich is someone who got orders for the last ten years and these very happy to be in this position and he follows these orders and this kind of so to speak underestimating the sky took place first in the beginning in russia and then it took place or you mean to leave me in internet perception of him as someone who
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would follow someone else's orders is that what you mean yeah that's the. it's one of the things and the second thing that you always have been warned of is you know this guy's a former k.g.b. guy he knows how to deal with people definitely and it's true he worked once for this agency and definitely knows how to treat people but that's only one part of it is he is a very direct guy and if you respond to this direct to this directness you get results but i mean direct is one thing but do you feel like everything he tells you is the truth or he can't allow himself to say the tradition in this world no politician in this world tells you one hundred percent of the truth it's a tactical appearance to a certain extent it's public and you want to transport something real public that what the business requires but at the same time if you do lie and if you do lie too often you're not to be trusted and look to the figures basically from two thousand
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after two today so if i think the figure. he had been elected with the percentage i think fifty three percent and if you go to twelve years later when he returned from the prime minister job he got a thing sixty four percent and now he's somewhere it nearly seventy seven percent so you have a steady growth and you cannot reach this in just lying to the population and. to you. to russia so to speak so when describing his persona you mentioned the fact that he had a k.g.b. background and western media as well as the establishment often put some special focus on put in the past as an intelligence officer i mean we all come from different backgrounds what is so special about that george bush sr was cia had before he became us president now but he so this is a problem. no it is not a real
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a problem because it is the mona station basically what it is our of former foreign minister to ask intervals three years had of the b. and b. so that you can use it as a kind of picture as a kind of threat from the past because we are all living on prejudices and if you develop these prejudices you can be somebody you know politics is theater it's trauma and the difference between. interests and so to speak p r is very very big occasionally but it was always the case this way and so as far as putting was concerned they use these three verbs. and i think this nothing else because it's just. a way to. say ok this guy is lying you cannot do anything different you don't trust him but it's a p.r.
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weapon nothing more so i want to go back to your film i know that there was a scene where put into a cue to a chapel and he talked about his faith why did you leave that scene out of the film i found it very very personal so i had more material than i needed so i had to think what to use and what not to use and i found that in the very moment ok it's very private it is very so to speak when the reveal to a certain extent so i left it out at the moment because i found other things more important in that context that's the reason for that. because he rarely opens up to anyone like that i mean he spoke to you about his face and he actually you know allowed you to be there while speaking about it. and he knew it was going to be in film it's weird that you would live without a man i'm just this is a journalist talking in me and you actually got a lot of other moments where he was very well noble not only the one in the chapel
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and that's a very rare side of putin as well you still in the russian president in a lot of situations you're in charge of occasions during hockey practice. how did you get him used to your cameras and just to be himself or did he never really did he never knew about the cameras. i'm not quite sure about that but he never gave it a kind of direction we were just there we were just watching and i didn't get any kind of. direction to do this or to do that so i think he got accustomed after a certain time that we are present and it worked that way and. i'm not a very hostile person. to very hostile journalist i watch try to understand an hour and i have questions so i'm not in a constant fighting position because my philosophy is very simple i think. people
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first of all have an understanding of what they are seeing and can charge by themselves so i don't have really to press for any kind of. insight or to to present myself self as a very critical god i'm critical but i just simply ask questions and leave my views to decide whether this was ok whether this was better whether this was a lie or good or noble so this is a tendency my work is concerned and secondly if you. are not all the time saying behave this way behave that way it looks better this way or that way it works works it works easier it works much better better. so i mean this film really opens up that in his personality and in the way that you see him in situations and that nothing extraordinary be just random situations that a human being would find himself they would just say we've never seen put in like that before like hunting practice in hockey swimming or like his dogs why do you
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think your country and western audience in general need it to see this side of him because we have stereotypes you know we mentioned this k.g.b. thing beforehand and so it is an incarnation of the evil and the longer our stresses facts like that the more. the more they become so to speak real so we feel we fictionalized reality to a certain extent by repetition and i thought ok this guy is a human being as you and me he's a put it he was at the right time at the right place he tries to develop something for his country ok and going away from this kind of. trenches your logical trenches my interest was how does he argue how does he live and what are his interests because it's all about interests. of a country
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a president normally represents and so that was much more important and built up. picture of an enemy which is useless because it's a rip decision to build the system but. you are going to take a break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking to hear both german journalist and documentary filmmaker about how the world sees to russian president stay with us. highlands was as political ties to one he tells donington disdain said standing stop.
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