he is the closest version of a mirror besides me actually looking in a mirror at myself. weird, right? so lee, let s talk about growing up. okay? it wasn t easy. and that s why i think i relate to you, because it wasn t easy growing up, keeping that secret. you know what i m talking about. yeah. the secret. the secret. the secret. i think we came up in a time where it was hard being black. it was just hard being black. hard enough being black. yeah. that s what my dad said. but then on top of that being gay. my dad said that to me. you know, it s hard enough to be a black man. why do you want to add gay on top of that? you will not survive. and i believed him. but your dad threw you in a trash can. yeah. yep. that wasn t hard? but i love my dad. this is the first mentor that i could reach out and touch, that i could really say anything
at the fft were saying in the foreign affairs select committee this week, you know about the difficulty of publishing these stories. paul caruana galizia, tom burgess from the ft. he told the governments, you know that committee that london lawyers apply psychological pressure to journalists. do you recognise that? i do actually not on the lebedev story i should say, because he never threatened to sue, although i thought he might go there. and but in general, a lot of the most aggressive labour lawyers are centred on on london, and they target on london, and they target journalists, notjust in this country, this jurisdiction, but also overseas. so they ve targeted maltese journalists, for example, acting on behalf of maltese politicians for claiming damages in england. and natalia antilla, you ve tried to write i think about the children of oligarchs, but it wasn t easy. is that right? well, it s never yeah, it s never easy- with the oligarchs, i mean, - i, you know, suspect that there
brother. without his help getting her a visa, she would be stuck in poland. it wasn t easy. first he tried the embassy in poland. i stood at the united states embassy. doesn t matter if you are from the united states or not. what they do is pretty much get pushed away from the door. reporter: but alexander kept trying all the while helping others at the polish border. these are pictures of other family members alexander helped find safety, 12 in all. he also helped at least 30 strangers get aid and somewhere to stay. it was all very emotional for him even though he left ukraine 17 years ago. what did you see on the ground there? things that none of us should ever see.
border crossing, and then waited another 14 hours to cross over into poland. her husband stayed to fight, but finally she managed to get to poland s roslov airport, and that s where she reunited with her brother. without alexander s help getting her a visa, she would be stuck in poland. it wasn t easy. first he tried the u.s. embassy in warsaw. i m standing right now in front of the united states embassy. it doesn t really matter if you are from united states or not. all they do is pretty much get pushed away from the door. reporter: but alexander kept trying, all the while helping others at the polish border at ravaruska. these are pictures of other family members alexander helped find safety, 12 in all. he says he also helped at least 30 strangers get aid and somewhere to stay. it was all very emotional for him, even though he left ukraine 17 years ago.
hours to cross over into poland. her husband stayed to fight but finally she managed to get to poland s airport and that s where she reunited with her brother. without alexander s help getting her a visa she would be stuck in poland. it wasn t easy. first he tried to u.s. embassy in warsaw. i m standing right now in unt front of the united states embassy. it tunt really matter if you re from the united states or not, all they do is pretty much get pushed away from the door. reporter: but alexander kept trying all the while helping others at the polish border. these are pictures of other family members alexander helped find safety, 12 in all. he says he also helped at least 30 strangers get aid and somewhere to stay. it was all very emotional for him even though he left ukraine 17 years ago. what did you see on the ground there? things that none of us should