aiden aslin, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the pro russian forces in occupied donetsk. looking at you, your physical scars have healed. what about your mental scars? erm, definitely my physical scars have definitely healed or, like, i m now a lot bigger compared to when i was released. i m sure everyone would remember the images. i was a lot skinnier than i am now. but i think mentally, you know, i m mentally better than i was, especiallyjust coming out of captivity. but as most people can probably observe, i still have, like, a lot of issues mentallyjust dealing with going back out into the big wide world after going through what we did go through. i am wondering how a youth in his late teens turning 20 in his late teens, turning 20, could become so fixated on fighting in other people s wars, because that s what happened. cos that s what happened. pretty much, and i think, the important thing
later. i think we can speak to the journalist christopher hope now, which just should be setting up journalist christopher hope now, whichjust should be setting up his line. firstly, what is your reaction? is that the face of your reaction? is that the face of your reaction? fair enough! on the way home we hear he has resigned on the way home we hear he has resigned from parliament. governments were given zero notice of their governments were given zero notice of their so governments were given zero notice of their so it governments were given zero notice of their so it was told in the what s of their so it was told in the what s up of their so it was told in the what s up as. i understand boris johnson what s up as. i understand boris johnson is what s up as. i understand boris johnson is known africa. he s not in the uk johnson is known africa. he s not in the uk to johnson is known africa. he s not in the uk to wipe up this mess. he wants the uk to wipe u
everything and someone else s war? aden, that welcome to halep hardtalk. it isjust aden, that welcome to halep hardtalk. it is just over a year since you were released from captivity after being held by the russian forces in occupied have your mental scars heal like your physical scars? i have your mental scars heal like your physical scars? your physical scars? i was a lot skinnier than your physical scars? i was a lot skinnier than i your physical scars? i was a lot skinnier than i am your physical scars? i was a lot skinnier than i am now, - your physical scars? i was a lot skinnier than i am now, but. your physical scars? i was a lot skinnier than i am now, but i i your physical scars? i was a lot - skinnier than i am now, but i think mentally, i m mentally better than i was, especially coming out of captivity. as most people can observe, i have a lot of issues mentally. going back into the bible. i remember going back in time. going so fixated on fighting and o
welcome to the programme. russia s leader vladimir putin says civilisation is at a turning point because of the war in ukraine. he gave a speech in moscow marking the anniversary of soviet victory over the nazis in the second world war, called victory day. but the nomral parade was scaled back. here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. he speaks russian. they chant in russian. it is the day russia likes to project power and invincibility. military band plays. despite security concerns, the annual victory day parade went ahead on red square to commemorate the defeat of nazi germany. but the war in ukraine made this feel a very different may 9th, the 80 year old t 31i the only tank on display here. modern tanks are normally a feature of the victory day parade. not this year. there was no military fly past, it was cancelled, and there were fewer soldiers here than normal. watching from the stands, russia s commander in chief. vladimir putin is under intense pressure. his inva
my guest is a member of parliament in mr netanyahu s likud party, and former minister, danny danon. is the great survivor netanyahu nowjeopardising the future of israel? danny danon injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for having me, stephen. it is a pleasure to have you on the show. would you agree that right now israel appears to be in a very perilous position? you have deep political turmoil at home and a security crisis at the very same time. the former makes it more difficult to deal with the latter, doesn t it? well, it is never boring here in israel. we are a very dynamic democracy and as you mentioned we don t have the best neighbours in the world and we have to face with the security issues and indeed in the last few days we ve seen attacks from different directions and we believe it is not a coincidence. we think it is all coming from the same source, from iran, that is why we are dealing together with ourforces pushing back our enemies. surely the real lesso