mohamedou ould slahi in nouakchott, mauritania, welcome to hardtalk.hank you very much, stephen, for having me on your programme. and i salute your audience. well, it is a pleasure to have you on our programme. let's begin with how it feels to have a film made about your story and in a sense have your name become recognised around the world years after you were finally released from guantanamo bay, when perhaps your story should have been better known to the world, but almost nobody had heard your name at all. does it feel weird that your story is now the subject a film? i'm still trying to digest but in a positive way because this whole operation, you know, when i was kidnapped, was conducted in total darkness. no—one should know anything about this abduction, no—one should know anything about torture, no—one should know anything about disappearance and this rendition from senegal to mauritania, tojordan, to bagram, to guantanamo. so i'm happy now that the world is knowing this, the story. in the course of this interview, we'll talk in detail about wh

deeply committed in the sahel alongside the five sahel states, and the summits in pau and then nouakchott laid the -- allowed us to lay the foundation for a coalition to strengthen the fight in the region against our two enemies -- the islamic state and al qaeda. these local organizations have recently suffered unprecedented setbacks. it has made it possible to focus on the three frontier zones, eigs zones, which led to tangible and unequaled results. we will continue our work with the support of barkhane and our european and american partners. havermies of the g5 sahel been able to take back the advantage and resume the position lost before. this momentum must continue. it is along these lines we would also like to recall a truce here seen in recent weeks, and that is the democracy and the fight against terrorism go hand-in-hand. they are inseparable. only democracy and justice, the rule of law and development will bring lasting peace back to the sahel. what erupted in monday under these principles -- what happened in mali and are these principles cannot be betrayed. we must put the coun

prime minister has the audacity to criticize palestine's statement at the arab league summit in nouakchott because we referred to the balfour declaration. i say to him today that our 1993 recognition of the existence of the state of israel, a recognition which remains valid to this moment, is not a gratuitous recognition. israel must reciprocate with recognition of the state of palestine and an end to its occupation of the land, so that the state of palestine can coexist alongside the state of israel in peace and security and as good neighbors, each within secure and recognized borders. mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, there is no conflict between us and the jewish religion and its people. our conflict is with the israeli occupation of our land. we respect the jewish religion and condemn the catastrophe that befell the jewish people in world war ii in europe, and view it as one of the most heinous crimes perpetrated against humanity. realization of a historic reconciliation between the palestinian and israeli peoples requires that israel acknowledge its responsibility for the nakba inf

in nouakchott, the capital of mauritania, people gathered in front of the american embassy and condemned this country's support for the zionist regime. demonstrators also demanded the expulsion of the american ambassador from mauritania. the number of martyrs and wounded in the american and british attack on yemen increased to more than 20 people. yemeni sources reported that at least 5 people were martyred and 17 people were injured in the attacks of the aggressors. american and british warplanes bombed 13 areas in different provinces of yemen yesterday evening. in hodeidah province, the building of radio hodeidah was targeted. north and south of sana'a city. sabain in the south of the capital and around the sana'a international airport is one of the areas that were targeted by the american and british aggressors. ali al-khoum, a member of the ansarullah movement's political office, said that yemen is strong and undoubtedly, he will give a crushing and destructive response to these attacks. united nations with warning about. in the gaza strip, he reported that since the start of the zio

affairs of our country met and discussed with the mauritanian officials during a one-day trip to nouakchott. the development of bilateral relations and regional and international cooperation is the main agenda of the minister's visit. british foreign affairs hossein amirabdollahian's arrival was officially welcomed by the us secretary of state. in the continuation of this visit, the foreign minister of our country met with mohamed wahid sheikh zamani, the president of the republic of mauritania . iran's technology called for the development of relations between the two countries. important regional issues, including the support of the palestinian people and the development of relations between islamic countries, according to the upcoming meeting of the foreign ministers of the organization of islamic cooperation, are among the other topics of this meeting. and the fight against terrorism in the western sahara, he appreciated that the islamic republic of iran is on the front line of the fight against western terrorism and supports every action that helps the stability and security of the afr

why this stop is special, anatoly knows this lazarev the first thing you see when you arrive in nouakchottthe capital of mauritania. it is reddish sand . empty sugar occupies 60% of the country's territory, and in many ways dictate the rules of life of the foundations of the economy. nearly half of the gdp comes from copper iron ore, and gold and almost everything is exported. at the same time, every second person lives below the poverty line . mauritania was the last in the world to abolish slavery and this happened relatively recently in 1980 . that is, there was an olympics in moscow. and here there were officially slaves. however , it is believed that de facto they remained here until until now, the islamic republic of mauritania is located in west africa, the very word sailing came from the third millennium bc from the phoenician sailors and means the western territory is washed by the atlantic ocean borders senegal algeria moth and western sahara diplomatic relations of the ussr and we britain established in 1964 after 4 years after we britain became independent. before that, it was

fact that this is the capital at night, it’s pretty unsafe to fly here, and sergey lavrov flew to nouakchottbefore and for praying here he is already managed to meet, because he is called on his feet with his mauritanian colleague. today , negotiations will continue, and there will also be a meeting with the president, and the countries must be said that this is the first visit among lavrov in almost 60 years established on diplomatic relations between our countries. so, uh, here they call it a truly aesthetic visit, most likely, they will discuss, of course, first of all the development of bilateral relations. and britain itself is almost 60%, e deserts, but its western borders are the atlantic ocean and everything that gives the sea and russia mauritania have been cooperating for almost 30 years. this is in the fishing industry. at one time, during the soviet union , dozens of fish processing factories were built here. now this cooperation continues. of course, there are other areas, for example, and russia helped in exploration, and various minerals. in addition, as we know, here in the c

radiator, cheeseburger, allegory , jubilee, grandiose, and nouakchott. >> what was last one?>> got it. okay. all right. starting at beginning, climate, timbuktu, terrorism, superfluous, radiator, cheeseburger, allegory, i'm going to skip next one, come back to it. grand i did i owes, and noukchotte is that right. >> yes. >> only missed one. >> i'm give you, find the last word but let's continue i will figure it out along the way. >> that is the capital of mahre taken yaw. you are three-time usa memory champion. >> can you make any money out of this? >> you know, i've made it my living. i give speeches. i teach people how to improve their memories. so in a sense, yes. >> in 10 seconds, can you tell me what your tactic is? how do you do it? what is the strategy? >> yeah. so the quick thing, i take whatever i'm trying to memorize, something abstract, right, that is difficult and turn it into a mental picture. i make it very vivid and colorful, over the top. that makes it more memorable. >> now another test. give me those 10 words again in the correct order, go. >> you want them

vladislav dubovitsky ntv nouakchott islamic republic of mauritania in the russian business communityrst deputy prime minister andrei belousov in his interview, he said that the government. it is now being discussed by big business and repeated contributions to the budget. we will find out the details, denis, well, we are looking for the idea of ​​​​the appearance of such a contribution in general with the fact that the authorities again discovered in russian companies. today it became known that money for the scarce the russian budget can find the first vice-premier from businessmen. andrey belousov said that it is now being discussed, as he called it a one-time voluntary contribution that large russian companies will make, according to andrey belousov, the financial results of last year were very good for many companies, especially in the first half of the year for the first three quarters belousov explains this is not an increase in taxes . this is a one-time winfox tax, which translates from english as a tax on unexpected luck or unexpected profit last year, more than three trilli

of my friends had reached out to my family to suggest to have a problem because not only could i nouakchott for the underlying issues for the anxiety off on. >> i go to madison central how can you tell when somebody is abusing drugs? >> that is a great question especially in light of thought question we just had. from the schools perspective and if you don't get the alert what are some of the things you was look for to see if the students had a problem greg. >> lot of times behavior changes or don't attend school like a used to make grades may drop to be no longer involved in school activities hanging out with people or attending parties. >> he was o outgoing and social after relearned of the of heroin addiction redo everything we could. in some of those signs they have a nod that they are constructed and they may have a slower gait on it is tricky conceits to just be talking to me and his dad not slurring speech and go to his room and overdose just like that so that change in behavior it is the biggest because he stayed away from been and his dad he would run not really quick then was righ

depuis le début du mois, nouakchott durcit sa politique contre l'immigration irrégulière.re rapportés par les ong, mais également publiés sur les réseaux sociaux, se sont multipliés ces derniers jours. des migrants qui dénoncent des conditions d'arrestation et de détention extrêmement difficiles. beaucoup assurent que des arrestations ont lieu jusque dans les maisons et sur les lieux de travail. beaucoup expliquent que les conditions d'obtention d'une carte de séjour sont extrêmement compliquées en raison des documents exigés. a nouakchott, l'amdh s'insurge contre les conditions de détention de ces migrants. - fatimata mbaye: d'après les informations que nous avons eues, même pour aller faire ses besoins, il faut payer. c'est inhumain. il y a des enfants, des femmes enceintes. il y avait des femmes malades à qui ont a refusé l'accès à toute aide médicale. ce n'est pas normal. - sarah sakho: le gouvernement mauritanien n'a pas répondu à notre demande d'interview, mais hier, au micro de nos confrères de rfi, le ministre des affaires étrangères démentait tout mauvais traiteme