a6 thousand migrants tried to reach the uk across the english channel last year a new record and a 60% rise and a 100 year old war hero, who s now a reading teacher, is the oldest person to get an award in the uk s new year s day honours. hello and welcome. luiz inacio lula da silva, has been sworn in as brazil s new president, 20 years after first becoming the country s leader. almost five years ago he was sent to jail for corruption, on charges that have since been annulled. he ll now lead a deeply divided country. at his inauguration in the capital brasilia he told the crowds he d rebuild brazil from what he called the terrible ruins he had inherited from jair bolsonaro. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson now reports. a return to powerfor the man barack 0bama once called the most popular politician in the world. security was tight amid threats of violence by supporters of his far right predecessor, jair bolsonaro. mr bolsanoro didn t even hand over th
a6,000 migrants tried to reach the u across the english channel last year a new record and a 60% rise. australia refuses to let a cruise ship dock after a marine growth s found on its hull, leaving hundreds of passengers of the viking 0rion stranded off the country s south coast. brazil s new president luiz inacio lula da silva has promised to rebuild his country, and restore protection to the amazon rainforest. two decades after he first held the job, the left wing veteran has been sworn into office at a ceremony in brasilia. he told crowds of cheering supporters that he would reunite society, and govern for everyone. 0ur south america correspondent, katy watson reports. a return to powerfor the man barack 0bama once called the most popular politician in the world. security was tight amid threats of violence by supporters of his far right predecessor, jair bolsonaro. mr bolsanoro didn t even hand over the presidential sash, instead abandoning his final official duty and flyi
dancers. alexei ratmansky is a world renowned choreographer with roots in both russia and ukraine, once director of the bolshoi ballet in moscow, and now putting on a special production of gisele with the united ukrainian ballet to show the world ukrainian culture lives on. has ballet become a battleground? alexei ratmansky, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much, an honour to be here. you hardtalk. thank you very much, an honour to be here. an honour to be here. you are here in london an honour to be here. you are here in london because - an honour to be here. you are here in london because you i here in london because you mounting this extraordinary set of performances of gisele. performed by ukrainian dancers. can you go about putting on how can you go about putting on a performance with ukrainians when their country is at war? there was an extraordinary project, it started in march, i received a call from my friend in holland, she is a former principal ballerina, and
Survival of their nation. Its also about the survival of their identity. Their language, their culture. A big part of that culture is ballet. Some dancers stayed in ukraine and continued to perform even with limited audiences and constant Air Raid Sirens. But others made the hard choice to leave and continue with their training. A group of about 60 dancers found their way to the netherlands, where they joined the United Ukrainian Ballet. Every dancer in that company is a refugee. They perform nonrussian ballets all over the world, and they plan to keep on doing that, showing the world the power and beauty of ukrainian ballet and why their culture is worth protecting. Cnns Christiane Amanpour traveled to the netherlands and to ukraine to meet with this Extraordinary Group of dancers and watch them as they fight the war in their own way. Im rolling. Yeah, thats great. Okay, guys, lets go. From the beginning of the war i began to think should i go to military to protect my country. I actu
Crew rolling. Crew were rolling, daniel. Daniel roher ok, were going, guys . Both yeah. Daniel roher ok, so alexei, i want to talk about something that we sort of touched on this morning. And you might hate this, but i really want you to think about it. If you are killed, if this does happen, what message do you leave behind to the russian people . Alexei navalny oh, come on, daniel. No, no way. Its like youre making a movie for the case of my death. Like, again, im ready to answer your question, but please let it be in another movie, movie number two. Lets make a thriller out of this movie. And in this case i would be killed, lets make a boring movie of memory. [suspenseful music] [speaking russian] reporter Alexei Navalny is stepping back into another showdown with the kremlin. Reporter what to do with navalny presents a conundrum for the kremlin let him go and risk looking weak, or lock him up knowing it could turn him into a political martyr. Reporter mr. Navalny, arent you afraid