here's a quick song we go to the country section to get mom. looks teacher and legal consoles into the matter simply to maintain one thing it's headed in says the land as an election she's a piece of this campaign you should win and get that it becomes just she's a star a couple of years later like two thousand stories she's the first deputy prime minister and then in two thousand they come in with a new russian president yes to be transparent so what was his town like boswell modernization pushing the reset button on relations to. military conflict five days south since he was triggered by georgia. but. having finished his presidency a bit of switch is about to change the role reversal of the tape here limo's distance twittering russia's economic storm in the face of sanctions tumbling oil prices crazy sanctions salaries and benefits unless it's not

a good mind to be foolish and see such a living you can't live such a good but if you like the steelers but you know they shut your mind you live you know i don't think you're dealing with something entirely different is it about the overall number of children but i think that. some forty percent of russians said they trust the police though surely that she would not be looking to go to the right to say do you want to say leaders say yes the police get the stood still attention. and that's all you need to know about it your best bet in just a bit to make. hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan are facing the threat of deportation from the u.k. that's despite a promise they would be allowed to stay we spoke to one of those potentially affected who says the only thing awaiting him in afghanistan would be to. 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 was in danger my family life was in danger threatening me but all the time we know that he joined the infidels. used to talk about there was only one child from the and i must leave the country cos so can target but the mean time to post for pay me so if they catch me 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 interpreter 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 take these as they expire soon and all the all sorts of down in reality as say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrator you headlines don't 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 abbeville 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 don't betty fall through the debts 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. has 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 relocation visa was 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 most of the. world 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 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 him be in kabul what he really care to the originator of. 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 tarrytown as far as the u.k. government is concerned and i don't play with a couple who is safe because i think i'm always the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because the 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. and a very good time accommodations allowed. so it can do nothing but. some have a very bad person so bring to the many times some medicine something. doesn't work. i'm still struggling i ask him about what he wants to do if and after all this he wants to walk he dragged economics at university and capital 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. coming up in the program the u.s.

has slapped him as well with a new round of sanctions and has denounced the upcoming election as a sham the details on that story and more after a short break. about your sudden passing i've only just learned you were yourself and taken your last

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welcome back to the program the united states has sanctioned three venezuelans and twenty companies said to have ties to president nicolas maduro accusing them of narcotics trafficking activity u.s. vice president mike pence called for other nations to join in increasing pressure on but as well he also slammed the country's upcoming election as a legitimate. the so-called elections in venezuela scheduled for may twentieth. will be nothing more than for. there will be no real election in venezuela on may twentieth and the world knows it will be a fake. we think. the us has been calling for venezuela to delay its presidential election since february saying there's no guarantee of a free fair and internationally validated result the trump administration blames the government of madeira for a deep recession and hyperinflation in the opec member state washington has also accused of causing food shortages and sparking

a flood of migrants into neighboring countries william robinson professor of sociology at the university of california santa barbara so the new sanctions are part of a u.s. plan for regime change. these new sanctions have absolutely nothing to do with drug trafficking and they have nothing to do with the lack of democracy or electoral fraud in venezuela the united states specifically targeting out that as well that because it's trying to overthrow that government the u.s. strategy for these elections coming up in venice well it's very important to note this there is an opposition candidate running and we found cold and in fact he's increasing in the polls who knows he might win these elections but the u.s. strategy and of a jar to the right far right wing opposition intensely left which is a long range with the u.s. policy of overthrowing the revolution is boycotting these elections this is a boycott strategy because it does not want the venezuelan government with jude have made it quite another and another election that we have seen since well the government is going to ignore that demand is actually absurd and outrageous demands

so. you give me dual government has made very few con beginning it's not going to succumb to this u.s. intervention but neither is he going to take such such interventionist demands seriously. tens of thousands rock to heavy metal superstar front man serge tankian as he arrived in the armenian capital to support massive opposition protests earlier the system of a down vocalist called for rallies to stay peaceful after more than three weeks of vast demonstrations that have already forced out x. prime minister serge stark scene protesters are fuming that parliament failed to approve opposition leader nicole rushing in as the new premier despite passion and being the only candidate parliament will vote again on his can assist canada c. on tuesday with the ruling party pledging to back him this time around. now there's been furious response in france over donald trump's mimicry a victim shot in the two thousand and fifteen paris terror attacks the president's

remarks came in a speech to the u.s. national rifle association. they took their time and got them down one by one. come over here. come over here board. 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. with france so they hit a very wrong 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 and the 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. that trump could have abstained from his comments about the events that shot to the french people he might take back his words and express regret for them. 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 arrived and lives. trumps remarks of course upset before in britain but this time the u.k. officials appear to have developed to think again and that flight however across

the channel many feel trumps twisting the knife in a deeply open wind. and then you'll tend to a running race through the french capital won't be held this year due to the number of high number of homeless people many of the migrants camped out along the route is a problem many had hoped would actually have eased over the last year. 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 and yet not only did he fail to deliver on the promise but it's getting woods much worse it's believed that up to one thousand eight hundred migrants have set up camp along the canal he in paris and fears that that could explode to around two and a whole thousand in the next few weeks has caused the organizers of the great race to graeme 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 or 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. paris. that's a wrap up of today's top stories for this hour but i'll be back with more in about thirty minutes.

when lawmakers manufacture consensus uncertainty of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts and me the one percent. we can all middle of the room signals. the real news. across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me to peep out the cells with simple song alone even cycle niggas full elsewhere so they invite private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell

us drop us a lag solicitously got booked but while on the going to call my band this is us to quote them out of it a promise of more years than both the left bill brought up the locals are ready to stand up for the basic you. right of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than water it's about the hurt and the redistribution of all as to birds and their debt downwards do you want or will. join me every thursday on the alex salmon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. today there are four million students studying abroad a trend is on the rise in the game of global competition international students are

very much coveted the best research graduates are entirely taken care of as for the huge number of students that can afford studying abroad they represent an irresistible financial honeypot the expression global student market has become a household term among university head offices. in france and germany the foreign students don't pay tuition fees just yet but it changes soon to come in england they contribute fourteen billion euros ten billion pounds a year to the national economy a foreign student pays between twenty and thirty thousand euros a year twice as much as the european student and it represents an additional consumer in the country a dream client. so the university of manchester house about ten thousand international students which is the most of any u.k. university or there was a percentage it's not the highest so those students are important to us for

a number of reasons they bring diversity they bring different cultures they bring different backgrounds different ways of thinking our own students benefit from studying in an environment with students from very different backgrounds of course they also bring income to the university which is important the largest community of chinese students which make up just under forty percent of the total international student body and the crowds lining the streets around the university of manchester. or the president visited. during his visit the president met at university to. message. not a sale all. around me the thinnest lightest. material. rise with.

a stopping point. since the early ninety's chinese higher education is experiencing a spectacular growth. over the course of thirty nine years the number of students grew from seven million to thirty five million studying abroad has become an absolute must for all the chinese new benefiting from the economic boom this year over seven hundred thousand young chinese studying somewhere in the world a four hundred percent increase in fifteen years and the trend is unlikely to reverse. a new business is multiplying worldwide. companies in rolling students in international universities in terms of commercial office universe does in the u.s. u.k. and australia clinch first place. pushes

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despite disenchanted hopes of upward mobility china has no intention of slowing down the development of its universities it wants to become a key player of global higher education the us australia and western europe all covered this new market countless partnerships are entered into every year between china and foreign countries. the entire world has its eyes set on china and china has its eyes set on the entire world in two thousand and three university researchers developed a shanghai ranking the most media ties to the most controversial and the most followed ranking reports worldwide a world ranking based on the number of nobel prizes fields medals and publications

in scientific journals the united states clearly dominates the ranking among the top two hundred there are at least fifty american universities eighteen blish four french and four german. so i'm afraid international rankings aren't and i sound afraid because i absolutely hate but in some parts of the world in particular by all accounts it ranks. strong. organised for us of all of these. daughter any president went off track is often up in the end i'm raking in sit what's your one and. for the high

have it tucked it does ring can of one fun crunch it even for freddie up big it's to do with your own dimension bill didn't mention the us i know my hero and i know man of god they come on this minute crowded mess and in the end. would you when you president got of the phone to not mention quality. to shower. and then and mark just kind of wanted you know of a dozen and up. whereas the criticism is substantial there if you your opinion university presidents resist this ranking race the narcissistic offer is tempting be seen and be identified as the best and so countries increase university merges with an explicit objective build up the number of research labs multiply publications and accumulate awards they go climb the rankings in

france the most representative project settled in the south of paris eighteen of the country's top leading higher education and research institutions grouped under a unique banner here lies the future pinnacle of french education and research the next french have it stanford or mit a poll of sheer excellence amidst fields of beetroot. the new table that you're on that you're a daughter. on that your daughter. knew it and. for the. challenges to cure the challenges. it was or for him or the only sure those despondent. or me out there.