now, she lives in exile, forced out of austria, she says, by death threats. what does her story say about vienna s close ties to moscow and the impact of austria s neutrality? karin kneissl, in northern lebanon, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for your invitation, mr sackur. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i think we have to start with this question about your location. you were a senior member of the austrian diplomatic political elite, until recently. now, you ve left your home country and you re in exile in lebanon. just explain to me why. well, when our government literally imploded in 2019, all i wanted was to continue my academic work and publishing, but i had to find out that there was not a single contract. furthermore, a lot of harassment, also the death threats. but the bigger problem, honestly, was this de facto prohibition to work, so i decided to quit and first, i went to france and now, i m in lebanon and i cherish the freedom of mind here in leban
karin kneissl, the former austrian foreign minister who famously danced with putin at her own wedding in 2018. now, she lives in exile, forced out of austria, she says, by death threats. what does her story say about vienna s close ties to moscow and the impact of austria s neutrality? karin kneissl, in northern lebanon, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for your invitation, mr sackur. well, it s a pleasure to have you on the show. i think we have to start with this question about your location. you were a senior member of the austrian diplomatic political elite, until recently. now, you ve left your home country and you re in exile in lebanon. just explain to me why. well, when our government literally imploded in 2019, all i wanted was to continue my academic work and publishing, but i had to find out that there was not a single contract. furthermore, a lot of harassment, also the death threats. but the bigger problem, honestly, was this de facto prohibition to work,
What do you have coming up, and hows the weather . So far, so good on the weather. Actually last time we were doing it outside on the island. Today were doing it inside on the off chance the weather does worse than it has been. Were at the annual Sports Complex conference going on. We have a huge lineup of guests throughout the broadcast. Bruins ceo george pine is going to be with us and arcs cathie wood. We can have a debate about bitcoin with her. So much going on in her world. Then well have a conversation with ceo ted leonsis who weve been talking about because hes been involved in that deal in washington, back and forth. And at 8 15, an exclusive interview, First Time Ever on cbc, steve cohen, now, of course, the mets owner, but maybe better known to those on wall street as the chairman and ceo of point 72. So many folks in the sports world. We have many of the commissioners from all over the league. I think we have michael rubin, arod, i saw last night. Corbin is trying to buy th
Battle for patents for the second time in seven years. Donald trump calls on carl icahn to help him combat excessive regulation as the activist investor will become the president elects special adviser. Good morning. Good morning. Do you hear that . Whole bunch of kids super excited. Santa on the way. Always on the roof. Dasher, dancer, prancer. I think we should do something on reindeer, whether or not they really have red noses. The stoxx 600 flat to a couple points lower. You would anticipate we would be looking at light liquidity at the moment. People already packing up their bags if theyre heading to the caribbean. Trade very thin. Just a reminder that officially the japanese market is closed tomorrow because of the emperors birthday. So we will have no trade another reason for quiet. Exactly. Mixed markets in europe, the ftse, xetra dax, a bit lower. To the upside, media, autos, healthcare. Big story in healthcare biotech, the underlying pharmaceuticals. Basic resources off by 1
First round of president ial elections in france. Been ringingua has as the news throughout the weekend. We see her in paris. I watched the special yesterday. The question i came back to was how could we get to a world where the two established parties in france did not even make it to the second round . Francine this is significant. There will be a lot of introspection and navelgazing today from the candidates who did not make it. There are two lines of thought. First is that france is ready to reform. They want growth and a more market friendly economy. That is why they voted for a 39yearold the wants to shake things up but is not too scary. How does that explain 40 of the votes going to extreme candidates, Marine Le Pen and jeanluc melenchon. There were four candidates. You can see the old school, the republicans almost had a clear win until january when we had Francois Fillon immersed in a scandal about paying his family without work being done. Macron won because he was the most p