saddam is putin's longtime sidekick russia's prime minister since transfers well and arguably the most tech savvy official in russia. he's also a big fan of rocky's live. live. live like a soldier was liberated let's. listen. is a quick sign of how we got to be in this country second to mom in. law teacher and legal consultant to the mayor of some pizza place in one thousand nine hundred it's read it and says the end is an election she says the fruits of this campaign season winds and yet that it becomes just she's a star of a couple of years later might see thousand employees she's the first deputy prime minister then in two thousand acres and with that many russian president guests to

be transparent so what was his town like. modernization pushing the reset button on relations. military conflict five days south since it was triggered by georgia. but. haven't finished the presidency effective switch because future play well with us live the t.m. play this translator in russia's economic storms in the face of sanctions tumbling oil prices raising the nation's salaries and benefits unless it's not a good might be slim salim the king live the take it but if you like the election you're my guilty and i don't think you're dealing with the subtle but if it is about the overall numbers you'll notice that. some forty percent of russians said they. but i'm still sure she would not be

likely to go but. they do and you would assume leadership is the bully. to deal with it. and that's all you need to know if you get back in just over two million. hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan are now facing the threat of deportation from the u.k. despite a promise that they would be allowed to stay we spoke to one of those potentially affected who says the only thing that awaits him in afghanistan could be death. if they deport me back there is only one tries 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 was in danger my family lives in danger they threatening me but they told me that you know that you joined the infidels. used to talk about there was only one chinese for me i must leave the country cost to come target but the mean time to pose for pay me so if they catch me if i 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 form a interpreters who had been given five year you take these as they expire soon and all the authorities have done in reality is say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrator you 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 leave and entered the u.k. illegally like abdul all of us are delighted that those who for all the criteria 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 do it better you pull through this 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. 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 kabul that required months of waiting and his life was increasingly 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 is. very strict criteria that required you to be. working in helmand province and to be made redundant on or after the nineteenth of december twenty twelve a lot of people like mr. wood working in two thousand and twelve because they were threatened and targeted by the taliban had to quit their jobs and flee it's not really fair but he's had 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 in the in kabul what he really care to the originator of. that evidence suggests he was threatened in kabul. and if he goes back to 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. government is concerned i don't claim kabul is safe cos i think i'm always the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because. bomb is exploding people are dying and i don't. the home office is saying the couple is certain i first met abbeville a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened the surviving thirty five pounds a week and time accommodations are more allowed. so it can do nothing but. some have a very bad depression so bring to the many times some medicine from them.

doesn't work. i'm still struggling i ask him about what he wants to do if and after all this he wants to work he'd read economics at university and kaberle he wouldn't mind resurrecting his professional boxing career either but his talk is tentative working and living here sounds like a dream one that any day now could come crashing down with the arrival of a final deportation letter. from says fear is of the mimics the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks in the speech will explain all after the break. when all the show seems wrong. just don't. let me.

get to shape out these days come out to. and in again trade equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside dives. football 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 money just to spend spend each image of the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy breaks a chance with. the thinks he's going to.

what politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to. have to go on to be press to supply them before three of them or people. i'm interested always in the lines about how. things should. come back there's been a furious response in front of a dumb terms mimicry of victims it was shot in the twenty fifteen paris terrorist

attacks the president's wrong scam in a speech to the u.s. national rifle association. they took their time and got them down to one point five zero zero zero come over here. come over here. but if you want to employ. we're just one patient had a gun the terrorist would have fled or been shot. yes that was president trump suggesting the terror attacks in paris in two thousand and fifteen could have had fewer victims if god knows when so restrictive one hundred thirty people were killed in the attack and hundreds were injured it's. his words where lapped up by members of the largest gun rights lobbying group in the us. the ok with france so they hit

a very roll and there are many sound strums from marxist disrespectful and insensitive to the victims and their families while the foreign ministry and least perhaps the harshest criticism of trump since micron took the presidential reins i'm a common trump those two a tight. expresses its firm disapproval of prison trumps comments about the powers to tax on november the thirteenth two thousand and fifteen and demands that the memory of the victims be respected. trump could have abstained from his comments about the events that shouted only french people he might take back his words and express regret this. but france isn't the only u.s. ally to be prodded by donald trump at the convention trump believes the u.k. is suffering from a problem of its own they don't have guns they have now lives and lives knives knives trumps remarks of course upset before in britain that this time the u.k. officials appear to have developed

a think again and that its light however across the channel many feel trumped twisting the knife in a deeply apron wind. tens of thousands rocked heavy metal superstar from months tankian this he arrived in the armenian capital to support my civil position protests over the system of a down vocalist a call for rallies to stay peaceful after moving three weeks of us them astray sions that already forced out x. prime minister. protesters a fuming that parliament failed to approve opposition leader we called partially on as the new premier. being the only handed it over to gain on his candidacy on tuesday with the room party pledging this time to back him. makes that annual ten kilometer running race through the french capital won't be held this year due to the high number of homeless people many of the migrants who are camped out along the route it's

a problem many have hoped would have eased over the last year or to show that dubin scheme has more. president machen had pledged that by the beginning of two thousand and eighteen no one would be sleeping rough on the streets of france let alone paris 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 have set up camp along the canal here in paris and fears that that could explode to around two and a half thousand in the next few weeks has caused the organizers of the great race of graham paris to cancel the annual event.

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 camp 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 because of improvising for one time and then you just cancel it last minute just. like they should have reworded it down that's what i think so it's two separate problems you

just do your race if your do your race and the rider 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 toothless social exclusion but safety concerns meant that they couldn't we reach either. participants have been offered refunds or a place in next year's event assuming of course there is one charlotte even ski r.t. paris. new racism scandalous in the world of fashion once after the cover of vogue

italy featured a famous model with a noticeably darker skin tone than normal is the photo of supermodel gigi how did that spot the control of the city and social media people pointed out her skin hair and facial features were photoshop to appear darker for the sake of the photo it's just 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 did 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 disgusting disappointed in the modeling industry these days there is literally nothing in black face about this people can even look ten anymore without others making it 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 a red a very famous model known as blonde it is art is magnificent some people just don't

deserve. if you had it in vogue it's a league of both pollard gys saying the photo wasn't meant to offend the magazine said that it had been trying to create a bronzed beach look. political commentator steve malzberg believes the scandal is just the fuss over nothing. here 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 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 appropriation in other words you're stealing their culture so it's really at a 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 shoe i think people are too sensitive and i think it's getting at a hand political correctness is getting at

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a futures. food aisle to find a solicitor buy it from the fish or the truck up. bon welcome to sophie and co i'm sophie shevardnadze as russia's relations with the west are put to test blood and we're put in is taking the presidential office for the fourth time. what is a russian leader light well i ask you burt said bell german journalist who gave his view of the russian president in the documentary film i couldn't. hear exactly the 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 how do you personally on the phone and you answer here bert i wonder why you i mean you may know more about our president than maybe because he's a very private person why does to trust you. you know look at me understand that person actually knows right when i think it's a matter of time. it's a matter of time because we went quite some months together for the film so in the future would you tim a couple or few small is within three months distance 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 places where we have this kind of relation

so while filming your documentary i puton back in two thousand and twelve you had the chance to see library 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 if you act like a professional of course but you have this to a certain extent an identity and if you want to convince you cannot really cut your identity you have normally from the profession you perform so i think to a certain extent but he's a technician too of course and he is an actor as well because this business requires acting because you deal with journalists and children disliked as well 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 well 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 alive what kind of emotions did you get out of him during your conversations. these i'm 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 a very long game he is 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 a mistake for such a long time in the beginning of my research i found a memo by a big bang it was in the memos from the year two thousand when he took over 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 this guy took place first in the beginning in russia and then they took place oh you mean the living internet perception of him as someone who would follow someone else's orders is that what you mean yeah that's the. it's one of the things that 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 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 dari 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 via 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 after two to 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 to stablish men 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 senior was cia had before he became us president now body so this is a problem. i know that it is not a real a problem because it is the mon ization basically what it is our of former foreign minister to ask intervals two years had of the b.m.d. 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 are 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. 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 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 leave it out i'm out i'm just this is a journalist talking and me and you actually got a lot of other moments where he was very wonderful not only the one in the chapel and that's a very rare side of putin as well you think 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 press and it worked that way and. i'm not a very hostile person. to very hostile journalist i watch try to understand another hour and i have questions so i'm not in a constant fighting position because my philosophy is very simple i think. people 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. inside or to to present most 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 bad whether this was a lie or all knowable.