ruling family holds on to power paltrow dirge on al-jazeera now the most popular video blogger in chechnya faces deportation from poland inflate his hometown years ago after receiving death threats and legibly from chechen government leaders but now he may be forced to go back home. reports. to me so of to iraq i know there's an online sensation but offline he fears for his life the popular blogger from chechnya has been living in exile in poland for the last three years he's terrified of what will happen if he's forced to return home you're not searches you want to be back in chechnya just the very thought of being deported to russia it's something i try to not even think about. in august one of his youtube videos got two million views in it he's allegedly threatened by one of the most feared men in chechnya the speaker of parliament my goal mitt. romney on kind of as a chechen leader he is reverb by supporters and feared by opponents they say he's notorious for running a brutal regime was ruled through corruption torture and murder of drug money all fled to poland after he says he was th

the number three in chechnya and who could forget the numberthree in in chechnya and who could forgetget the numberthree in isis. i'm happy as an american citizen to hand the muslim world to russia and let them ta ke muslim world to russia and let them take the losses. on that happy note let's move on to the americas. we have not just donald let's move on to the americas. we have notjust donald trump in office at the moment, we have the arrival injanuary at the moment, we have the arrival in january of at the moment, we have the arrival injanuary of both scenario bolsonaro, a strongman. these are a crowded neighbourhood ? bolsonaro, a strongman. these are a crowded neighbourhood? what will happen in 2019, i will put mr bolsonaro and mr lopez to one side and say in 2011, i did this so looking ahead to 2012 and confidently predicted basher al—assad will be gone. confidently predicted basher al-assad will be gone. the same way as hosni mubarak and gaddafi will be gone and they are still there. —— he is still therefore will now confidently predict that i don't think donald trump will be p

this is good in chechnya favorite people fear the authorities they fear each other people start to fit everything the state of affairs is practically the same as maybe in germany during hitler's time or in russia during stalin's time. the chechen government accused up iraq not know of an involvement with iceland syria stamps on his passport to prove otherwise he says and now security concerns in europe are complicating the status of chechens who fled the polish government says thirty one hundred people filed for asylum in the first nine months of the here about two thousand of them were russians mainly from the chechen republic only sixty three were granted asylum for many chechens it's a matter of life and death. through the option i've been getting messages about this there have already been deportations and brenda berg germany many are worried they're calling in to see if it's true they're really scared right now i've dropped my knowledge has managed to hide from chechen security forces but he doesn't know for how much longer katia lopez saw the jaan al jazeera germany is marking th

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and who could forget the number three in isis was abu al—chechnya or something like that.mean. i'm happy as an american citizen to hand the muslim world to russia and let them take the losses for a bit. thank you! on that happy note let's move on to the americas, michael. because we have notjust donald trump in office at the moment, we have the arrival in january of jair bolsonaro, the new brazilian leader, a strongman from the right. and have a strongman from the left in mexico, andres manuel lopez 0brador. these are a big figures, it's getting a crowded neighbourhood? what will happen in 2019, i will put senor bolsonaro and senor lopez 0brador to one side and say that in 2011, i did this show looking ahead to 2012 and confidently predicted basher al—assad would be gone. the same way as hosni mubarak and gaddafi would be gone and he's are still there. so i will now confidently predict that i don't think donald trump will be president at the end of 2019. i'm with you there, absolutely. the variety of reasons for fact saying that. when he goes, this whole thing that columni

these jihad just forces are useful in some theaters like bosnia or chechnya and other places but there was a realisation that they are becoming a threat especially in february of one thousand nine hundred eight when osama bin laden declared his. national or international front against what he called it zionism and the crusader forces so it was the east africa bombing in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight that was a wake up call to the u.k. government the u.s. government the french government the german government because they realize that they have now the jihad does have turned completely against them and i'm surprised i don't know it was appropriate for me for you as well there overwhelming with. i mean it took all for them to figure out yes it took that long for them because because actually when i after this off a couple means when i defected and i started working for both my father and my six i was extremely surprised at how small counterterrorism within both organizations was i mean both departments were really small because y m i five was focusing mostly on the ira counterin

almost a year he says the police planted drugs on him a common means of silencing critical voices in chechnya. last month to it was awarded the franco german prize for human rights a colleague except to be awarded his behalf and told p.w. he hoped for more support from the west. my country needs this pressure pressure brought to bear on it during some hard dialogue from the principle. of. pressure like barring those who help the secret service from travel within the european union. who are dealing with. judges who support those powers are prepared to pursue pre-determined repugnant objectives and ten down verdicts. your dog also let's make sure we don't let him travel to germany for example. and. other pressures such as sanctions as the ukraine conflict continues the kremlin fears more penalties could hit its banks next year but not everyone thinks sanctions are the way to go even if the state were to take stronger action against human rights activists. really harsh sanctions wouldn't be effective because then the government just says see the sanctions hit all russian citizens and we all suff

mainly hate from neighboring countries indonesia malaysia but also from arab countries and from chechnya as he said it and as long as there are grievances longstanding grievances which are not addressed i think the potential is there and international organizations like al qaeda and islamic state you know they do want you know to establish themselves in southeast asia and mindanao as it is is a place where they can grow roots i want to ask you about those grievances in a moment but first those pictures are just stunning you know this is such a devastated city how are residents coping. they conflict with and they conned rebuilt the house because the entire area is still very much sealed off so we're looking at about sixty five thousand people who are displaced who are you know in emergency refugee camps or squatting with relatives. you know unrooted and there is a high rate of unemployment especially affecting young people like opto who in the . government just not doing anything for us. we pick up weapons again he said in the report he worked with i assume would do it again why is that w

we have extraordinary success in the muslim world whether it's internally in chechnya and who could forgetm happy as an american citizen to hand the muslim world to russia and let them take the losses. on that happy note let's move on to the americas. we have notjust donald trump in office at the moment, we have the arrival injanuary of both scenario bolsonaro, a strongman. what will happen in 2019, i will put mr bolsonaro and mr lopez to one side and say in 2011, i did this so looking ahead to 2012 and confidently predicted basher al—assad will be gone. the same way as hosni mubarak and gaddafi will be gone and they are still there. i will now confidently predict that i don't think donald trump will be president at the end of 2019. i'm with you there. the variety of reasons for saying this. when he goes, this whole thing is that columnists and journalist who spent no time in the countries that they actually write about, this whole thing about strongmen and autocrats, that will die with them. for a strongman, donald is actually really bad at it erdogan it is good at it, putin is good at it

with various ministries how good your health is are we welcome thousands and thousands tourists in chechnya and the capacity of the airport does not correspond to this numbers and do we have the main avenue put in seven you do or we are building zuko powers which will have the name of putin you are supported widely now region and the churches. to respect you a lot now that's why i was like he from out to gay or correction. my colleagues. invited you there if you go there please come to us as well thank you. you can not come to you as well you have to one have to go there directly or. will be there i'll come to you as to the kids. we're dealing with this problem. we have the problem of returning people returning kids still have their motherland to caucus says. rahm's unquote they have is doing that and we keep doing that as to the airport it is functioning and. it is far standing as international airport as well if you need something else . well amazon ahmadi which will come to me and we will discuss what else is needed i don't understand what else shall be done it is working and the airport

president putin has a lot of things hanging over his head over the last eighteen years beginning with chechnya on to accuse asians of assassinating journalists on to assassinate thing opposition figures in the u.k. and others so really when it comes to the leader of the g twenty i think in some way and and do excuse me if i do sound cynical mohamed missile on my thought might might feel at home now having said that for a good number of the more liberal more democratic more global leaders from western europe and other places. you get the sense that they do find it all toxic and they don't lecture him about what is right or wrong but look at what the pictures we just saw earlier i mean present is very busy with the yellow uprising in his country but prime minister may is incredibly paralyzed by the brig's that transition and president trump is of course completely preoccupied if not obsessed with his own investigation into russian collusion so these people of course have their own preoccupations with the with the trump administration also perhaps finessing what they'll say when they get the invi

the old man in the basement in chechnya the back of his head blown off by russian rockets. the body of the president in a suit. the young palestinian woman that she watched die from gunshot wounds in beirut and the human body down and broken. the energy routed until she was terrified and safe in her own bed grabbing the next night. that gives you some idea of the extremes she went through. that is one of the reasons it is called extremist and if it is something she wrote. it told the stories of people who live in the extremists going through the unendurable tissue people what happens but that is how i came across her. always braver than the rest of us and got the best stories and made the rest of us feel just a little bit ashamed. you do not do that you give a full picture of her life so i would like to reflect on that by talking about the first half of the book with you about the growth of grew up in a catholic family one of five children on long island and then maybe we can get some information from you who knew her then. how did her upbringing affect her as an adult woul

whether it's crimea or chechnya, i no longer have any confidence -- i didn't have any to degin with butow with the filings on friday, that this president can act in a national interest and not in his own self-interest. whether he'd overcompensate and be overly aggressive in a decision or whether he needs to back off and go leanient. i see a huge issue involving conflict here that i don't hear anyone addressing. >> frank, let me press you. you make a really good point. would you go so far -- so far all the public-facing policies are in the latter category. he's gone too leanient. so far as to believe vladimir putin over the u.s. intelligence community. would you go so far as to suggest that he continues to be compromised? do you think he's acting in the interest of the russians? >> i don't think he's -- i don't think he's capable anymore of making unilateral decisions that are truly, solely in the national interest when it comes to russia. >> wow. >> he chose not to meet with vladimir putin in argentina, right? that was window dressing. that's just a small example of where he didn't have

opposition figures overseas and certainly launching wars in chechnya and other places so you know he does feel at home with the likes of businessman and vice versa what does this g. twenty summit marwan say about the current world order in the future well we've been talking today a lot on al-jazeera about the legacy of george h.w. bush has died and you know he the world order that he installed when he came to power it's very different now what when you look at what's happening in argentina today what do you think this new world order is going to look like in the coming suddenly a quarter of a century after the rise of the liberal order the triumph of the liberal order over communism and that we've seen it inaugurated with george bush sr with tom corbett of and so on so forth that did seem like the end of history as one of our previous guest or not to you know it used to say the end of history well there not to be in the history of all and if anything a quarter of century later is the liberal west that is facing a major crisis it's not declining but it is facing it's imploding from wi

the old man in the basement in chechnya, the back of his head blown off by a russian rocket. the body of a peasant in a warm woolen soup that she came across under a bush in kosovo. the young palestinian woman she watched die from gunshot wounds in beirut. the human body, broken, her own body. the images rerun until she wakes and rested terrified in her own bed. but the next night when she would relive it all again. i think that gives you an idea of the extremes that marie went through to get the story. that's one of the reasons the book is called "in extremis". she wrote that through her work, is telling the story of people who live "in extremis". going to the unendurable. and it was asked important she said to show people what really happened in wars. she lived her home "in extremis" too. and that is how i came across her. but marie was always the person that went and stayed longer. she was always a person who that bit braver than the rest of us. and she was the person that always got the best story. and made the rest of us feel just a little bit ashamed. you know what i me