. # we are the sultans. # we are the sultans of swing.at, i suppose, was the time when you became a rock star. i get the feeling you were very uncomfortable, even from the beginning, with being a rock star. yeah, i remember doing — i think i did 18 interviews amsterdam. where we were number one there in holland, and germany, and france, and everywhere, and all these journalists. and i remember lying on my bed afterwards thinking somebody had grabbed the thread, the wool from my sweater, and just kept pulling it. so... that's a really interesting metaphor. you mean, you felt... shredded. shredded, and exposed. yeah, because when you're a songwriter, you're looking at the world, or i am. and, you know, the feeling that i got was that the world was suddenly looking at me. now, it's actually not as important as you think. after a while you start to realise, in fact, that music doesn't matter that much, to most people, anyway, and you learn to get it in perspective. but i think it really did rock me at the beginning, yeah. you as a band were s

sultans of swing., your brother was part of the band, your friends as well, you had had some success , friends as well, you had had some success, but the song was your breakthrough. it took you into the charts, it took you into new territory for touring. let's remind people what it was like, late 1970s, early 1980s, when sultans of swing was on every playlist. # we are the sultans. we are the sultans of swing. so it is you, the red jacket, the bandanna and the guitar. that, i suppose, was the time when you became a rock star. i get the feeling you were very uncomfortable, even from the beginning, with being a rock star. yes, i remember doing... ithink a rock star. yes, i remember doing... i think i did 18 interviews in amsterdam. we were number one debt in holland, and germany, and france, and everywhere, and all these journalist. and i france, and everywhere, and all thesejournalist. and i remember lying on my bed afterwards thinking somebody had grabbed the thread, the wool from my sweater and just k

these people in the last election did not participate in the election and look a little bit that sultan i'm talking to as alternatives so time talking about right now though right now that is a matter of fact there's one i have just a moment right there now just a moment there's one up at a political analyst charge i describe it this way says that political parties don't see each other as political rivals they look upon others as enemies i mean even the language that you're using now seems to be extremely harsh. well it is mr of sun's view my view is that there are elements in all political parties all over the world who try to educate their own party men and other party people and they are not the leaders if you look at what sic has in a has been telling over the years continually that the election will be free and fair that it will not be interfered with by any organization it will be unfair if somebody is committing crime and the police does not stop or low interest

of a space agency to be led by his son, prince sultan bin salman. the 62—year—old prince is better known as being the first arab and muslim astronaut to travel to space in 1985, helping to deploy a satellite with nasa. his appointment was announced as part of king salman's first major reshuffle of leadership positions, after the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in october. at least eight people have been killed and more than two dozen injured after a bus crashed into a ravine in peru. the bus was carrying 55 passengers when it went off a highway and turned over, early on thursday. emergency workers rushed survivors to nearby hospitals. according to local media the vehicle was travelling to the capital lima. five monks have been attacked during a church robbery in the austrian capital vienna. the assailants reportedly entered the catholic church with a gun, forcing the monks to the ground and assaulting them before fleeing the scene.

leaders of course over the course of the sultan but they're all in opposition let me call down the populist in any in any case everybody is ridiculous for a little bit they had of the british populace and the american populace because that party came to power had a break in two thousand and fifteen before the backset before the election of donald trump so in many ways i think poland is it at the forefront of those changes that was my exact point do you attribute that only to disappointment with the economic system or do you see that also as a political development perhaps the crisis of the liberal democracy and well the crisis of the bigger than democracy is has been noticed universally economically potent is doing quite well so of course the well it's always problematic and. up to no run by people who are who are winners and losers wants to have their say and that's a populist term but i think again it is it is i don't feel comfortable in this

renee calls the sultanate the queen of raisins. the rule. as it is in that they were softened in rum yesterday that's why they're so shiny as you can clearly see here. for the big boys as far as your figure is concerned. how can i put this. stolen is best for your soul with. it's a seasonal indulgence to do with what you've seen what valuable ingredients go into it and no indulgence is ever completely free of regrets and the guns or the wia. dawn has broken in the first vendors are already out the market. is always one of the first address to native she's been at the streets in the market for twenty eight years. she's decorated are most wine booth to look like an old distillery for the weekend she's ordered an extra fifty liters of mulled wine and reordered mango punch three times. marks who delivers the beverages is from the surrounding region. flecked a quality deliver quality so why would i want to use anyone else it's like the customers once they find a place they like and they come back. on the show from. london i think it's never reall

date the outflow of developed force from from hungary that means that family owned companies like sultan who gets his firm would have even more trouble finding workers especially if they drive them away with forced overtime. these rural women are undergoing training to become solar engineers they come from mexico indonesia and kenya. their course at the barefoot college in india lasts for six months they're learning to install and maintain solar panels and to make solar powered lamps. naomi and don't go comes from a kenyan village without electricity. no lights my comment we all know the darkness is not the best so bringing light to the community is a horn big achievement. many things get harder after sundown something you mean a mother of five from west timor also knows. the flu without light my children can't do their homework and when it gets dark they have to go to sleep when i get home we're going to have solar lamps with us from here. to the training is organized by the solar mamas and indian development aid project. debbie has been training women from all over the world since two

facilitate the outflow of the rig force from from hungary that would mean that family owned companies like sultan who gifts firm would have even more trouble finding workers. it's a billion dollar market anted grows by four percent each year artificial christmas trees are becoming more and more popular in the united states they don't wither they don't lose needles and often they come already decorated full of tinsel and lights only thing is they don't spread to that christmassy sent a culture war is raging and only time will tell which side comes out on top. for many families picking out a tree is an integra part of the holiday celebration christmas isn't christmas without a real tree you think says it all watering it every day it's just that smell specially the smell of it and our home just made it feel more at risk to us growing christmas trees is hard work it takes a seedling eight to ten years to grow to a height appreciated by holiday happy decorators and competition from artificial trees have farm owners saying the ranks of traditional minded tree buyers are thinning. we're an industry that

facilitate the outflow of the a force from from hungary that would mean that family owned companies like sultan who guess firm would have even more trouble finding workers. german luxury car maker b.m.w. has been fined ten million dollars by south korean authorities they say the car maker was too slow to recall vehicles affected by a faulty engine a b.m.w. may have bigger worries than just the fine it also now faces a criminal investigation. south korea's transport ministry wants prosecutors to investigate german car maker b.m.w. it says it has evidence the will to john took its time to form authorities of a forty car engine b.m.w. known b.m.w. said it recognise a correlation between the defect in the exhaust and the fire in its vehicles only on july twenty twenty eighteen there but the company's headquarters formed a task force in october twenty fifteen to resolve the problem of the fort and mbox on measures to minimize the risk of fire including changing the vehicle design from sun to one you can check more than forty cases of fire involving b.m.w. cars were reported in south korea where the

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french president amount of a micron has criticized president sultan and moved to pull u.s. forces absent syria on a visit charge in central africa said he was very deeply regretted the reuben said allies should be dependable across also praised u.s. defense secretary says he resigns in protest suspicion that. with the christmas holidays nearly upon us many people are reminded us of the virtues of giving but for one restaurant owner in the us capital washington d.c. there is no off season for generosity. paid to move past this. it's the season of giving for kasi manana this means going into overdrive because he is an immigrant from pakistan who now owns a small but successful restaurant in downtown washington d.c. all of these scarves and warm clothes that he purchased are about to be given away . this is an annual gathering at franklin square park in downtown d.c. various charities and churches will give away food and goods to people in need just before christmas because he has been coming here for the past four years and has built up a small network of homeless people who

past three months who has sailed through this apparently untouched is the crown prince mohammed bin sultan. you know right now most probably of course they're solidly side would hope that this recent cabinet reshuffle puts an end to this case and relieve saudi arabia from pressure by the turks and the international community looking for some answers but it is clear judging from these pictures and judging from the new book that was just released a couple of days ago in turkey was also some additional information including some new names potentially involved in this case i don't think the case is disappearing shuffle shuffling the cabinet or not shuffling the cabinet saudi arabia needs to come clean needs to explain the legal process needs to prove that the people who have been dismissed from office because of their implication and this crime have actually been arrested. being indicted on charges of murder ok we'll leave it there just done great to talk to you as a thank you very much. thank you. ok let's also get the reaction to those pictures from a former crime investigator to discuss thi

sultan sings it took a terrible personal tragedy to make him turn this month around how the thought of caring what price of oil prices are up way across the way for a woman. i am less than really. sixty four though i go for a like i was when i was a zero zero zero zero am a southie dog and i've written called who would overcome me i know i can so put on a venture in recovery from a veteran of the past and force is no hopeless whether he be proud or it. that's half the battle it seems just finding the will to carry on the next day we drove down to kevin's home by the seaside sleeping. during a bunch of the money that was finally christmas day. as it makes me crazier stuff and i tell people if you're the star of that you're the star of the of the kitchen was a made all this stuff we have to see we have to have you already do we go to movies you do t.v. you look at you you look great. but. i was a woman go. how many meals have you done we chatted about sixty five today yes yes it would be good for i guessed that . we might have to split because the rod was this big deal scenario right. ye

if approved it would have officially condemned mohammed bin sultan for his killing in the saudi consulate in istanbul. at least four police officers have died after a suicide attack in southern iran the sole targeted a police headquarters injuring at least forty two others the explosion which was followed by gunfire happened in the port city of homs a runs into pakistan an armed group called. has claimed responsibility and those are the latest headlines next the hotel with an opulent pulse that ended up on the frontline of a civil war stay tuned. thanks for watching. control the holiday inn and you control the the region around and that's why it was such a bloody battle. the important thing if you were walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday inn. the bottle of adi in complete its do division all the beadle into two sectors east and west beirut. but also puts us all bullish on the gold on our stuff so you. can club me from. the most powerful building in the system from it is the holidays. warmer tells our buildings that function as normal hotels but ofte

uncertain police help or who was murdered mercilessly sultan is a full time to do some way as sharon made a very good point earlier we're still trying to gather a lot of the facts of the day and actually what has happened there so i want to let me bring and i want you to respond to what i saw you reacting to what i was saying this political analyst said that the rhetoric is so charged and people talk about each other as enemies instead of political rivals do you agree with that. yes to a great extent the point is. just a little bit of political history i mean if you take burma this is political history since one nine hundred ninety one two major political parties have always had divergent you could a tickle class of the political reality and perhaps that has escalated into violence many many times now what happened in two thousand and eight own word is that we had a credible election in two thousand and eight where the current regime came into power but two thousand and fourteen was the pressure. election perhaps but again two thousand and eighteen was the election where all the poli

mercilessly sultan is a full time to do some way as sharon made a very good point earlier we're still trying to gather a lot of the facts of the day and actually what has happened there so i want to let me bring and i want you to respond to what i saw you reacting to what i was saying this political analyst said that the rhetoric is so charged him people talk about each other as enemies instead of political rivals do you agree with that. yes to a great extent the point is. just a little bit of political history i mean if you take part of this is political history since one nine hundred ninety one two major political parties have always had a. you political philosophy politically geology and perhaps that has escalated into violence many many times now what happened in two thousand and eight own word is that we had a credible election in two thousand and eight where the current regime came into power but two thousand and fourteen was the pressure. election perhaps but again two thousand and eighteen was the election where all the political parties agree to come and participate so i shou

cool blues rock sultans of swing was their first big hit. then m.t.v. started out with their increasingly mainstream sound the band fit perfectly to the station's us american music profile. the slow mark knopfler solo career has now lasted longer than his time with dire straits two very different chapters of his life. you can't really compare them i think both and a lot of ways because the first achieved so much of the dream stuff that you want to you know to actually get there. was very important you know that just it was brilliant it was great you know i mean i loved it. i loved the whole thing it until it became so big that i just stopped enjoying it. in the eighty's the band rose into the league of mega stars with the album brothers in arms the digitally produced album helped to make the compact disc popular dire straits was the first band to sell more c d's of the album than vinyl over a million and all until they split up in one thousand nine hundred five they played all the world's large stadiums. next year mark knopfler will go on tour again of

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people where our only activists sixteen of them a unserved police helper who was murdered mercilessly sultan is a full time to do some way as sharon made a very good point earlier we're still trying to gather a lot of the facts of the day and actually what has happened there so i want to let me bring and i want you to respond to what i saw you reacting to what i was saying this political analyst said that the rhetoric is so charged and people talk about each other as enemies instead of political rivals do you agree with that. yes to a great extent the point is. just a little bit of political history i mean if you take burma this is political history since one nine hundred ninety one two major political parties have always had divergent you could a tickle class of the political idiology and perhaps that has escalated into violence many many times now what happened in two thousand and eight own word is that we had a credible election in two thousand and eight where the correct current regime came into power but two thousand and fourteen was the correct. election perhaps but again two thousand

try to convince the sultan with the speech. piece. you want it to work with them and fight it into the solution. but curia understood that there was absolutely no support from the opposition party. to maintain his government even inducer conditions. the largest hot air balloon ever made appropriately named russia has been brought to life in the u.k. a famous russian traveller i don't cough will now use the craft to attempt a record high ascent up to twenty five kilometers the main goal of the project is to conduct unique flights across russia setting records in both altitude and distance along the way the seventeen metre tall balloon made by british company cameron balloons was the result of cooperation between the u.k. and russia on a cost of flight to this. this year is scheduled for the beginning of april. all right a german football club was expecting a frosty reception after being drawn against a russian club in the europa league but to their surprise they were set to receive a much warmer welcome than expected check it out. wher

this month where again defended the suspected involvement of the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan on in the murder of with regards to issuing an arrest warrant we don't extradite our citizens i believe turkey's constitution prohibits the extradition of turkish citizens as the motion follows months of questions controversy and denials about the killing of the saudi journalists and widespread condemnation of the kingdom including the us congressional resolution which said mohammed bin someone was responsible for the killing of his critic while donald trump repeatedly maintained his support for the crown prince senators call for an end to u.s. support for the war in yemen where was appointed foreign minister by king solomon in two thousand and fifteen a month after saudi arabia went to war in yemen air strikes were launched with the aim of quickly crippling who's the fighters backed by iran instead the war has dragged on for almost four years killing at least sixty thousand yemenis millions face starvation in what's called the world's worst humanitarian crisis where's final months as

saudi arabia's king salman has announced the creation of a space agency to be led by his son, prince sultanb and muslim astronaut to travel to space in 1985, helping to deploy a satellite with nasa. his appointment was announced as part of king salman‘s first major reshuffle of leadership positions after the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in october. the saudi foreign minister adel al—jubeir was demoted under the cabinet changes. we're spending more and more time in front of our mobile devices. eye yoga is claimed to help relax and strengthen our digitally—strained eyes. but does it really work? sodaba haidare has been to an eye yoga class to see for herself. you keep it closed until your hands... this is one of the many eye yoga exercises subhan nair is teaching his students today. rubbing your hands rigorously together to generate energy and covering your eyes to block the light getting through, he says, helps ease out eye strain. in between the eyebrows... eye yoga has existed for centuries. it began as an ancient practice in india and is mostly taught alongside

the obama administration now let me ask you specifically about the saudi crown prince mohammed bin sultan on the whole denies any culpability for this murder but the regardless of whether he is responsible on nob he and his regime are clearly vulnerable to international pressure as you mentioned before he is eager it's you rehabilitate his reputation do you think that kind of fall in our ability could and should be exploited to improve the overall human rights situation in the country. definitely that is very much that we we hope for what we hope for is that generals will provide an opportunity to show the spotlight and some hope for those on justly detained in saudi arabia for expressing their political views for expressing political opinions like the women activists who are currently jailed in saudi arabia because they advocated for the right to drive we are very much focused on bringing international pressure on saudi arabia to release all those detained for other matters for example for fairness and equality for the shallow community where a number of activists who have made that kind