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. Well, yes, but the point about hun sen is that hes clearly getting older but the whole point of this election is that as soon as the election were 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 cambodias next Prime Minister. But for the cambodian people, this succession within the same political clan the same family, actually is just unacceptable. Scoffs. Its easy in a way for you to say that with great confidence, sitting here with me in the hardtalk studio and from your home in exile in paris, but the reality for cambodians is the Hun Sen Regime if i can put it that way, because he still is the leader of the ruling party, even though he is
Northwest territories terms. This place is twice the size of france, its got 16,000 people in it, so vast scales that were talking about. This is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. And you can just hear a float plane into the distance, by the way. This is the Mackenzie River behind me. Yellowknife under a full evacuation order, as you probably heard, yesterday. We came out here a day before because, to be frank, the writing has been on the wall for days that that wildfire was going to pose a grave threat. Ok, so theres a huge lake called great slave lake. Yellowknife is on the top of it. Then, at the other side of that lake its a very large lake you have two communities called fort smith and hay river. Together, they have got about 7000 people in them. On saturday and sunday last weekend, they were both told to evacuate. Thousands of people fleeing down the highway to alberta, where they still are. We have no timeline for when people might be able to get back to
tens of thousands of people are rushing to evacuate a city in canada s far north as wildfires close in on their remote community. fires have been spreading across canada s sparsely populated northwest territories for months now, but in recent days they ve threatened the territory s capital, yellowknife. it has a population ofjust 20,000. it s1000km away from the next large city, making the evacuation a logistical challenge. the order to leave came as the fire bore down on yellowknife s boundaries. 0llie williams is a journalist from yellowknife who has already escaped harm s way. yeah, so i am now in a small village called fort simpson, which is about 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. it probably sounds like a huge distance
tens of thousands of people are rushing to evacuate a city in canada s far north as wildfires close in on their remote community. fires have been spreading across canada s sparsely populated northwest territories for months now, but in recent days they ve threatened the territory s capital, yellowknife. it has a population ofjust 20,000. it s1000km away from the next large city, making the evacuation a logistical challenge. the order to leave came as the fire bore down on yellowknife s boundaries. 0llie williams is a journalist from yellowknife who has already escaped harm s way. yeah, so i am now in a small village called fort simpson, which is about 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. it probably sounds like a huge distance it really isn t in