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Hello and welcome to Dateline London. | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
This week we discuss the fall-out from the British general election, | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
turmoil heightened by the man-made tragedy that hit London this | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
week, and with Brexit talks about to begin. | :00:35. | :00:42. | |
Also we're looking at the protests in Russia which have put hundreds | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
My guests this week, Ned Temko, the political commentator | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Annalisa Piras, the Italian filmmaker and broadcaster | :00:50. | :00:57. | |
Stefanie Bolzen of Germany's Die welt and the Russian journalist | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
The British Prime Minister lost her overall majority | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
in the general election and is having to do a deal with MPs | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
from Northern Ireland to stay in Downing Street. | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
Theresa May was criticised during the election campaign | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
for not meeting real people and within a week that | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
criticism has resurfaced because of the government response | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
An entire residential tower block in London was destroyed | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
by fire in one night, but when Theresa May first visited | :01:27. | :01:28. | |
the scene she spoke to members of the emergency services, | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
All this just before the Brexit talks are due to begin. | :01:32. | :01:44. | |
Let's discuss the state of Britain, of British politics. | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
Ned, Theresa May, specifically, can she and will she survived this? If | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
we had had this conversation a couple of days ago I would have said | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
to McCready is, probably, yes. Not least because her main strength is | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
that anybody who wants her job within the Conservative Party would | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
have to have his or her head examined to want the job under these | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
circumstances. You're going into Brexit negotiations which will be at | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
least difficult and possibly more than difficult, so there is a | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
communal self-interest among Tories in keeping her there for a while. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
What has changed is, as you say, the response or the utter tone deaf | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
nature of her response to this fire. It drew on a lot of the criticism | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
she attracted during the election campaign and it is utterly | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
unpredictable. If she lasts, let's say, a week, I still give her two | :02:48. | :02:52. | |
years, but it is all very fluid now and reminds me a little bit of the | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
atmosphere on the final days of Maggie Thatcher after the poll tax | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
riots. Politics is about a narrative, once your narrative as a | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
leader or politician changes, that is a very difficult for to escape. | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
But more than anything, her narrative was I am strong and | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
stable, instead she is showing to the people of Britain that she is | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
not strong, not stable, not even compassionate. She is unable to meet | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the people that have lived through a tragedy and hope them, like Jeremy | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
Corbyn did. Not only has she lost the narrative but she is unable to | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
provide another one. They might not want a hug, but they clearly want | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
answers, people clearly feel that the answers have not been given. The | :03:39. | :03:46. | |
overall feeling in London is that the Government is losing control of | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
too many things. The Brexit talks are starting on Monday and we have | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
no idea, in Brussels they have no idea what the British Government | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
wants to achieve in these negotiations. Which is fine because | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
the Government has no idea either! Everything has changed because of | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
the election, everything is up in the hour. Maybe a softer Brexit. The | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
very Eurosceptic Tories in the parliament still dominate talks? At | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
the same time, you might think the easy as things go wrong, which is | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
show compassion. I was there, I spent the next three days actually | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
near the tower, I was there on Thursday morning when she arrived | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
and I told the people that the Prime Minister was here and they said, | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
where was she, we did not see her, why didn't she come to see us? She | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
went again on Friday to try to do it better and it completely went wrong. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Her argument being that she met firefighters and emergency services. | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
It is the easiest thing for such professional people in Downing | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
Street, in terms of PR, to stage a visit. What is your reading of that? | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
The criticism throughout the election campaign, and then there | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
was this, by all accounts, very strong performance in front of her | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
own party, we call at the 1922 committee, the committee of | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
backbench Conservative MPs, MPs were coming out of that meeting saying, | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
my goodness, if she behave that while during the election campaign | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
we would not be in this position. They were really bolstered by this. | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
There were no lessons learned. That is when she can control the | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
situation. The situation out there with people being devastated, | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
helpless, hopeless, waiting for news four days and nights in the heat, | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
outside, homeless, that is the situation she cannot control and she | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
could not handle it, she did not go, she is scared. I do not agree at all | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
with the effect of the Grenfell Tower fire on her position. | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
Unfortunately her weakness was in dealing with terrorist attacks. She | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
was a former Home Secretary. She was actually in charge of dealing with | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
terrorism. For six years. The Russians warning the West, and | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Britain as well, for many years after the first Chechen conflict | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
started, the dangers of Islamic terrorism spreading quickly. Nobody | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
paid any attention, Russia was pilloried and criticised by dealing | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
with this threat. This problem basically swept into the West. | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
Instead of uniting with Russia in dealing with this threat, because | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Russia was dealing with the threat in the sense that it was banning the | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
NGOs that are helping finance terrorist activity, banning | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
charities, which prosper here. Look at them, they are collecting money | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
from disillusioned people and then fund them into organisations like | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
the Muslim Brotherhood. Specifically in the UK? Everywhere across the | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
West, it is a major issue. We are seeing that she did not respond, | :07:00. | :07:08. | |
and... Well to the attacks. In Manchester, a devastating attack, | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
children are blown up. The people who run everything in Manchester the | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
next day said they would not tolerate hate crimes. It is a fair | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
point, but not at its time. It is offensive to people. The unexpected | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
general election, Theresa May and big Conservatives came out with a | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
reduced majority, and expected at the beginning. The vote was not to | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
do with terrorism, it is people having had enough of austerity? | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
Terrorism is a major issue for the West. The West has not been dealing | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
with it. Alexander, you say the West should do it the way of Putin and | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
they would tackle terrorism? Are you serious? I am serious about adopting | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
some of the strategies. You just had a major conflict between Western | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
allies, the Arab countries, that have turned against Qatar for | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
allegedly supporting terrorism in the West as well. This shows is that | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
the Western governments do not have a national security policy which | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
works. What they are doing... Italy has not had one single terror | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
attack. That is one country. And they are applying a different | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
attitude to security which is probably needed. They are an | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
exception. It is not an exception. Explain why you feel Italy has | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
managed that? I do not feel, it is a fact, Italy is the only major | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
European country which has not suffered a set -- suffered a terror | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
attack. There are theories why this is happening, one is that because | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
Italy has been to the 70s and 80s in dealing with terrorism in a very | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
constant daily way, they have found a way of controlling the territory | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
which means that possible suspects are identified and removed and even | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
deported even before they start becoming radicalised, which is | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
different from what they are doing in France and Britain where they | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
tend to have a surveillance, you cannot survey people like that | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
because there are too many. You need to have something much more | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
preventative and... At the start of the process of radicalisation. They | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
are afraid of touching them in Britain, that is the problem. Can I | :09:31. | :09:37. | |
intervene quickly? In defence of the British security forces and the | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
American security forces, it is always difficult in a democracy | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
under the rule of law to control terrorism. The miraculous thing, I | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
have covered this for a long time, is not how many major terrorist | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
attacks that have been since 9/11 but how few. The security forces | :09:56. | :10:03. | |
don't get everything right but it is not... This portrait of us are | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
hapless inability to deal with terrorism is just not real. We will | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
continue to debate the reasons why the Conservatives have reduced | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
majority, terrorism may be a factor, but we are where we are, as | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
politicians are fond of saying, we are a matter of days away, depending | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
on when you're watching bits, from those Brexit talks finally getting | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
under way. Stefanie, your reading this? Interestingly, I talked to | :10:31. | :10:36. | |
some people yesterday in Brussels, senior officials, the mood in | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
Brussels is very conciliatory. The first thing on the agenda is the | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
very difficult question of EU citizens' writes, what will happen | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
with the 3.5 million European citizens currently living in the UK | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
and more than a million on the continent? Who will guarantee their | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
rights? From the European perspective it has to be the | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
European Court of Justice, from the perspective of Mrs May this is | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
non-negotiable. Interestingly, I have not heard anybody in Brussels | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
saying loudly that this is a red line, I think what they are saying | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
is we need to get this done now, just sit down and negotiate. There | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
is an urgency in this, there needs to be a settlement on the money and | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
the people as soon as possible because we are already in a state in | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
Europe, especially in the UK, that is very dangerous. Up the great | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
political News of the week was that both France and Germany have said | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
something very important, they have said the door is open if you want to | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
do a reflection, a reversal, as they are starting to call it, the door is | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
open. This is the key news of this week, because... Is it not wishful | :11:51. | :12:01. | |
thinking? If there is a possibility of rethinking again it has to be | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
done before the end of the two year process. The window of opportunity | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
is very, very small. Once you have dismantled everything there is no | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
way you can reopen it. There is a thinking that says, OK, Britain is | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
in chaos, they are now calling London Chaos On Thames. It is | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
serious on the economic front, it is the slowest growing economy in | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
Europe, inflation is rising, prices are rising, investment is going | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
away, wages are going down... You are describing France, by the way, | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
word for word. France, politically, is the most successful political | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
landscape at the moment, OK? Economically, it is a disaster, | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
meltdown, it is bankrupt. There is a strong political landscape and a | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
strong president, in Britain we have a hung parliament, no majority, a | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
leader angering the entire country. In France they have nobody... My | :13:06. | :13:14. | |
point is there is a lot of thinking in Europe that we might get very | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
fast to appoint in which Britain should show that pragmatism | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
sometimes can trump pride. Do you mean not going ahead with leaving | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
the EU? There are people inside the EU who have always wanted that, it | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
does not mean we will get it. People are expecting Britain to show | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
realism. It might be that two years down the line, when the deal is on | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
the table and it is clear that it is a disastrous deal because there is | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
no way of making Brexit a success, if the deal is really disastrous and | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
in the meantime the economy of Britain is crushed, is it wise and | :13:55. | :13:57. | |
pragmatic to say to the people do we really want to do this? I think you | :13:58. | :14:06. | |
are absolutely right, it is probably impossible, politically, to reverse | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Brexit. But I think a fudge becomes possible for the first time, it | :14:12. | :14:14. | |
depends on how the two years of talks go. With respect, Alexander, | :14:15. | :14:20. | |
all the polling done about the election so far does not suggest | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
this was about terrorism, it suggests it was about the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
disproportionate participation of young people, including young people | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
angry and a little bit remorseful, about the Brexit vote. The economy | :14:34. | :14:41. | |
is shifting, the political landscape is shifting. You are living in La La | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
Land, Britain is one of the strongest economies in the EU. Italy | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
is nearly bankrupt. France is in meltdown. Portugal is... Fag God for | :14:52. | :14:59. | |
Russia! How can you sit here with straight faces and talk about | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
Britain and meltdown? -- thank God for Russia! The money would go down | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
at once. The reason why Theresa May is not able to start the process | :15:12. | :15:18. | |
properly, she does not want to. The people feel she is reluctant. The | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
only way to deal with the EU is to walk away and say if you don't go | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
with our terms, we are walking away and you are finished. You are living | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
in La La Land, Alexander! The EU is desperate for Britain to stay. Who | :15:35. | :15:41. | |
do you speak to in the EU who tells you that? Every single they make, | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
please come back! They were saying effectively, hurry up and get on | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
with it. The EU is crumbling, financially, it is finished. The EU | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
is stronger than a few months ago. They are pumping ?80 billion every | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
month into the markets. The ECB, if it stops the quantitative easing... | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
This is fake news! Done is take this down that route exhalation Mac | :16:09. | :16:14. | |
Stefanie, one way or another, no matter what anyone thinks, what do | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
you pick on? Annalisa talks about Chaos On Thames, if we have a | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
leadership election later this year if the Conservative Party changes | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
its leader, if we have a new British Prime Minister, does that play into | :16:29. | :16:29. | |
this? I can only speak for people in | :16:30. | :16:40. | |
Germany. They see it as a problematic situation politically | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
because as you said, politically reversing Brexit is difficult. With | :16:44. | :16:48. | |
big parties, the Tories and Labour, have said, we want Brexit. It has to | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
be implemented because it is the will of the people. This is | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
democracy. Within the next month, is turning around and saying, it is | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
democracy but we're not going to do it, that is a very difficult job to | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
do politically. We approach the coming weeks, the beginning of the | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
tog Stark you are seeing the first stage might not be so bad because | :17:12. | :17:14. | |
you touched on the issue of citizens' rights, but thereafter it | :17:15. | :17:20. | |
gets tricky? Yes. The EU has very clear guidelines. The unified on | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
this for the time being. The departure than the future framework. | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
We have to find an agreement on EU citizens rights. And the Northern | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
Irish border. These issues are sensitive. They have only a couple | :17:34. | :17:35. | |
of months to sort them out and only start talking about free | :17:36. | :17:49. | |
trade. There has to be big political will from both sides to compromise, | :17:50. | :17:51. | |
otherwise it will fail. Complicated by the fact that there is not a | :17:52. | :17:54. | |
settled view within a very vulnerable British government. There | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
is not, but at the same time, they have put out lots of red lines. They | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
do not have a strong view but they have lots of red lines. Red lines | :18:02. | :18:14. | |
which were posited on a landslide victory and her having a strong | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
hand. The position has changed. That is true. We will see what awaits us | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
in the coming weeks. Let's turn our attention is to do is continuing | :18:22. | :18:22. | |
anti-corruption demonstrations across Russia. | :18:23. | :18:23. | |
Hundreds of people have been put in prison. | :18:24. | :18:25. | |
President Putin seems determined to stamp out protest - | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
but the calls for him to stand down, and for an end to what many see | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
as blatant corruption by those in authority continue. | :18:32. | :18:33. | |
Alexander, what is going on in your country? | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
Well, the protests against corruption, and corruption is an | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
issue in Russia, but it is an issue across the world. In India, China, | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
everywhere else. The problem is, they deserve a reception that Alexei | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
Navalny, who was detained, is some sort of the leader of an opposition, | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
which is not really an opposition. It is a tiny group of people. The | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
reason why he was detained, that was not mentioned here, what they did, | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
they were given official permission to stage a demonstration in a | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
specific area of Moscow. He was detained during the protest. No, | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
before the protest. Arrows before the demonstration, he announced to | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
his supporters, let's hijack a celebration of Russia Day outside | :19:31. | :19:36. | |
the Kremlin. What happened, these people infiltrated the celebration. | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
It was massive, in the centre of Moscow, children, with their parents | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
and grandfathers and grandmothers. They were celebrating this party. | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
Suddenly these people appear in between them and started shouting, | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
down with Putin, down with corruption. The police had to | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
interfere. It was turning into chaos. The interesting thing is, the | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
reasonable... A very respected member of the opposition, he | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
denounced this. He denounced Alexei Navalny and said, you cannot do | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
this, you cannot hijack peaceful manifestations with violent thugs | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
and put these people in danger. That man who said that is a critic of | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
Putin. We have seen protests all over the country. They pose no | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
danger to the regime. Why are hundreds of people in prison? They | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
are all out already. Tiny numbers were kept for a day or two. Under | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
what charges? There were attacks on police and so on, the usual stuff, | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
like when the students rioted here. There was a problem when they put | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
200 in prison. You can see from the pictures who they are. They were not | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
thugs. Some of them were 17. They have lived all their life under | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
Putin. 17 years under par, since 2000. In France, the elected a | :21:06. | :21:12. | |
nobody. Nobody knew who years. We have covered that. Compare. They did | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
not allow any protests in France. They stated, we have a state of | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
emergency. Which you were in favour of, tougher against anti-terrorist. | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
Anti-terrorism Alexei Navalny's major point to the people of Russia. | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Alexei Navalny criticises the West for allowing this flood of people | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
with alien cultures. That is his words, not mine. Can I come back and | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
hijack for a second? This is important. You know what Alexei | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
Navalny said about Muslim immigrants coming to Russia. We all know this. | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
Let's hear from him. He is also a former Moscow correspondent. He is | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
not in a position... How do you know Russia? Russia is different now. I | :22:02. | :22:07. | |
believe Putin had nothing to do with the Soviet Union. Let the record | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
show, not with the KGB either. One of the wonderful things about | :22:13. | :22:14. | |
discussions like this is how familiar it is too living in the | :22:15. | :22:21. | |
Soviet Union for three years, because I will just ask a respectful | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
question. Do you think one reason for the size, you say these are | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
small demonstrations, might be because there is a proven record, | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
and forget this particular demonstration, that if you show | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
public opposition to Vladimir Putin, you are almost certain to get | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
arrested, you're likely to suffer economically, you may even lose your | :22:45. | :22:49. | |
life? That is probably a disincentive to public opposition. | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
That is a cliche that you as a former correspondent in the Soviet | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
Union would say on and on. Times have changed completely in Russia. | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
There is an opposition in the newspapers, oligarchs are being sent | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
to prison. Show me a banker in America who went to prison? Why had | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
the Russian paper that reported on the Panama Papers, Russian people | :23:15. | :23:18. | |
very close to Putin involved in corruption, why is that paper, the | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
editor in chief was fired and it has been bought by an oligarch in | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
Russia? So what? You have oligarchs in Europe. If you are critical, you | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
will not last long in Russia. What are you telling me? The price in | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
every country does what it is told. That may be news for you but that is | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
how it is. The BBC is the only one left. If you have an owner like | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
Murdoch, you do what he tells you, you do not write wonderful things | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
about something that you think about it. There is freedom of the price in | :23:54. | :24:01. | |
Britain. Russia is a massive country. You cannot hold it together | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
with the pussyfooting president. It is an enormous country under attack | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
from all sides. What does this mean for next year, for Putin, back to | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
you? I predict Putin will win, one way or another. It is interesting, | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
on one hand uses Alexei Navalny is a nobody. For a nobody, the Russian | :24:27. | :24:33. | |
and Putin personally do try awfully hard, for instance, to prevent him | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
from standing against Putin admixture's election. If he is such | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
an irrelevancy, who cares? You're forgetting one thing. Alexei | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Navalny, in a sense, ye suits the Kremlin. He is keeping those | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
oligarchs and those corrupt officials on their toes. Show me one | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
person in America who will be allowed to show a film about a | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
corrupt minister, Senator, and accused him of corruption? Only one? | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
You have no one, not a single one. Your papers are quiet. They are | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
saying things that are not really important. Whatever. In a sense, | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
Alexei Navalny sits Putin. Putin will win the election. When Bush was | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
in power, anyway, this is very entertaining. It should be | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
entertaining. It is Saturday. When someone says that freedom of the | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
press in Russia is the same in Britain, that is very funny. It is | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
so outrageous you should just laugh. THEY ALL SPEAK AT ONCE | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Here, I do not see ministers being bashed. An independent journalist | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
was killed in Russia. Regrettably, on that sad reminder, we will have | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
to leave it for this week. Do join us again next week | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
same time same place. Hello. We are seeing a big leap in | :25:58. | :26:34. | |
temperatures compared with yesterday. Temperatures are expected | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
to get to the high 20s in some areas today. Not surprising we are seeing | :26:39. | :26:45. | |
plenty of sunshine, strong sunshine across the southern half of the | :26:46. | :26:46. |