When a new family moves and he is furious about their presence, their noise, generally them being there. However, a woman sees behind that curudgeonly facade, he starts to break down his resistance and amazingly, she gets him to teach her to drive. Heres a clip. Horn blares. A fantastic look of exasperation on his face. He has the most fantastic face. Did you ever see the 100 year old man who climbed out the window and disappeared . No. I know the one you mean, i didnt, sadly but i read about it. I struggled with that film, because it had that scandi humour think that i never really fell in with. With this, it looks like that kind of film but then we start to learn about his life story, young romance, childhood trauma, his relationship with his wife which is idyllic but faces tragedy, and you start to understand how he got to where he is and it is sweet and sentimental. There is a lot of absurdist humour. There is an ongoing argument about whether saabs or volvos are the perfect car. H
In hong kong, where there are concerns the visit of chinas president xi may have stoked divisions in the territory. 0n the face of it, mr xi was simply marking the 20th Anniversary of hong kong being handed back to china by the british, but he used the event to warn against any challenge to beijings control. The Foreign Ministry said the handover deal, Guaranteeing Two Systems until 2047, had no practical significance, and there are fears of new Education Programmes to bring the public into line. It was all smiles for president xi as he left hong kong on sunday, Shaking Hands with carrie lam, the new chief executive of the city, who is widely seen as a chinese ally. But he can be left with no doubt about the strength of feeling among many citizens of hong kong. Thousands of people took to the streets over the weekend in support of greater autonomy from beijing. A little earlier i spoke to the lawyer, former legislator veteran and democracy campaigner martin lee. I asked him what he mad
Saif al islam gaddafi by the bolivian Group Holding him has led to the International Criminal court in the hague, the icc, demanding his arrest. Hes been indicted by the court for alleged Crimes Against Humanity, murder and persecution. The icc was set up in 2002 as a Court Of Last Resort to try such individuals, but its met a barrage of criticisms, principally that it has an anti african bias, because only africans have been convicted and nearly all the cases before it are from the continent. My guest is the prosecutor of the icc, Fatou Bensouda, a lawyer from gambia. What does she say in the courts defence . Fatou bensouda, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. You were born in gambia to a muslim family. You studied law in nigeria. Then you returned to gambia in 1987 to work as a public prosecutor. Why did you want to go into law . I believe it is this, you know, sense of right and wrong, and justice, that something which isjust in me. And the fact that i also grew up in a co