sam rainsy, welcome to hardtalk. it is a great pleasure to have you in the studio, i wonder if right now you are feeling very depressed. in thejuly election in cambodia for the national assembly, the ruling people's party won 120 of the 125 seats. was that really the final nail in the coffin of your opposition movement? no, we continue the fight. it is an uphill battle. but i think in the end, democracy will prevail. what makes you think that, given the track record of the last 30, a0 years, why on earth do you still believe what you call democracy will prevail? because nobody is eternal. hun sen is 72 year old. and many, many cambodians among the young generation, they are hoping for a democratic change. but the point about hun sen, he is clearly getting older but the whole point of this election is that as soon as the election was done he told the nation that he is handing the reins of power to his son, hun manet, who now sits in the parliament and will be cambodia's next prime minister. but for the cambodian peopl

sam rainsy, ithank you forjoining me on hardtalk. hello.ms across the south of the country, to sunshine in the lake district and scotland. so a real mixed bag on the way. so let's have a look at the big picture. here's the satellite picture — jet stream pushing along this developing area of weather. multiple areas of low pressure and multiple weather fronts heading our way. and yes, there'll be some storms, too. so let's have a look at the early morning forecast — showers already breaking out across some southwestern parts of the country, possibly some rumbles of thunder, too. but further north and east, i think bright spells, if not cloudy skies across some of these north sea coasts. quite muggy in the morning. but let's have a look at the thunderstorms, then. so sweeping in from the southwest — this is around about 7am — the position of these storms very tricky to pinpoint, but we will see some downpours in places. frequent lightning, gusty winds, as well. some rain moving through northern ireland in the morning, too, then eventually, the

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