sam ramsey as the acting presence of the cambodian national rescue party as an opposition leader who lives in exile in paris. he says the canal project has been overshadowed by she a political considerations and a lack of transparency. this is a very control about her project to the decision to date, the time uh was to may. well, why do you think the reasons not for economic reasons? eighty's wanted to go reasonably do use the pressure from china. china wants to have an access to the goals of hi there. see me now. us and sunni, kimball. yeah. those are 2 countries are and the chinese is good. so the end of the china east to bypass. yep. and to bypass the u. s. navy, in the region. but the quarterly could be speaking the project. uh is uh, not very useful. we could use the, the money. uh, but uh if we want to have booked up tempo, jim farmers the matters of us just in terms of him, but yeah, has become a military us throw hold, and i'll post the fall of china to lead aggressive policy against the neighboring countries. so i think that these uh, come out of what the need to do, increas

uh, we really do appreciate your insight into this is sam ramsey for us. i think president of the cambodian national risk group policy. thank you. the olympic spirit is spitting among the people of paris. now before the games began, they were phases of traffic gridlock and cited prizes and tourist tiles. but as natasha butler explains level seemed to be in pricing the events. a few months ago, his powers was preparing to host the big games. there seemed little enthusiasm in the fridge. capital, a city wave residents have a reputation for being grumpy. i think it's going to be a bit of a disaster because there's nothing going right. have you seen the color of the river? it looks like the suit. i think it's going to be a mess. makes it very excited. no, certainly not. i'm not excited at all about the olympics, even if it's undoubtedly a big event for paris. but since the games began, something's happened is, you know, remote couple transformation people, the whole team and cheering, even phones is outgoing. prime minister joining the fun finds things like th