Im stephen sackur. A dozen years ago, europeans looked to turkey and thought they saw a country becoming more like them, embracing Western Values and on a long term track to eu membership. But today, well, europe sees authoritarianism, conservatism, and repressionm embodied in the all powerful figure of president erdogan. My guest is elif shafak, the turkish novelist and writer who lives much of her life in london. Does the west get anywhere close to understanding turkeys complex culture and politics . Elif shafak, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. When you write of turkey today, i wonder what emotions draw you . Would it be anger or sadness or incomprehension . I think there is a lot of sadness. I feel sad. I feel worried. So much is changing in turkey and so fast. I think speed is important with many things that are happening, with a bewildering speed which almost prevents time to stop and analyse because Something Else happens next week and so it goes on and on. I am very sad when i l
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The film review on bbc news. To take us through this weeks cinema releases, as ever, is mark kermode. Lovely to be with you. And you. Nice to see you. What do we have . This is a really, really good week. We have i am not your negro, which is an oscar nominated documentary about James Baldwin. We have raw, which is a real breathtaking debut feature byjulia ducournau. And a quiet passion, Terence Davies film about emily dickinson. And i am not your negro, billed as a documentary. Is it solidly a documentary, a funny genre . Well, basically what it is its based on an unfinished project that James Baldwin had started working on, to tell the story of america through the story of three men, medgar evers, malcom x and Martin Luther king. And so what you get is the film is narrated by samuel ljackson, and it mixes news footage, reportage, clips from movies, clips from Television Programmes and it puts together basically a narrative which tells the story in a way which is both polemical and al
Problem. Sometimes it is part of the solution to international crises. Forlso have to recognize the un to have any credibility anywhere it needs to have the support of big states starting with the u. S. And in russia, china, the uk and france. They need to throw that diplomatic weight behind the un. Takese cases the u. S. The lead. Is iner cases, france the lead. Onetheless, you need overall go throughu have to the Security Council for all its faults. Thank you very much for your time. We will have to leave it there. Think you for watching on this monday morning. Enjoy the rest of your day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] we want to update you on a story coming out of washington, dc. Shots have been fired at the Washington Navy yard. At least one person was injured in a shooting monday morning. Authorities search for an active shooting. Said therefficial was no are at least several injuries. Three shots we