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my guest is us democratic party insiderjake sullivan. a key adviser to senior democrats, including hillary clinton when she was secretary of state as well as on the campaign trail last year. president trump has attracted a lot of criticism at home and abroad over his rhetoric and style of leadership. but is he not proving more effective in important foreign policy issues like the fight against extremists than the previous democratic administration? jake sullivan, welcome to hardtalk. thanks for having me. as a key adviser to hillary clinton, can you be objective about the trump presidency? probably not entirely objective. i would have to put my bias on the table, that i spent two years trying to stop him from getting into the oval office. but i think a lot of things that we predicted during the campaign about his lack of fitness for office have borne out over the past six months. i ve tried to take a step back and be as fair minded as possible in assessing what he s don ....
i m stephen sackur. for 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital, vladimir putin. externally, he s projected russian power from ukraine to syria and internally, opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. but not altogether. my guest today is the most prominent leader of russia s anti putin opposition, alexey navalny. now he has committed to fighting putin in the 2018 presidential election but will his defiance cost him dear? alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me here. you have been involved in opposition politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now your position is perhaps more dispiriting, more depressing than it s ever been before. would you agree? absolutely not. actually, ironically, i can call vladimir putin as my godfather in politics. because when he came to power and the way he talks and what he s saying, what he s doing, the laws ....
and surrey county council is to hold a referendum on whether to increase council taxes by 15%. government funding cuts, they say, have left it with no other choice. that is it. you up to date. now on bbc news is time for hardtalk. welcome to a special edition of hardtalk from moscow. i m stephen sackur. for 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. vladimir putin. externally, he s projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. but not altogether. my guest today is the most prominent leader of russia s anti putin opposition, alexey navalny. now, he has committed to fighting putin in the 2018 presidential election. but will his defiance cost him dear? alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me here. you have been involved in opposition politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your pos ....
for 17 years, one man has dominated the politics of the russian capital. vladimir putin. externally, he s projected russian power from ukraine to syria, and internally opposition has been repressed, intimidated and silenced. but not altogether. my guest today is the most prominent leader of russia s anti putin opposition, alexey navalny. alexey navalny, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me here. you have been involved in opposition politics of one form or another for almost ten years, maybe more, and itjust seems to me that right now, your position is perhaps more dispiriting, more depressing than it s ever been before. do you agree? absolutely not. actually, ironically, i can call vladimir putin as my godfather in politics, because when he came to power and the way he talks and the way what he s saying, what he s doing, the laws he s passing through duma, told me that russia is done with democracy and i should do something, i should join the oppositio ....
under fire after announcing plans to raise gas and electricity prices by nearly 10%. tadcaster‘s bridge re opens, more than a year after it collapsed in the floods in christmas 2015. in this week s film review, we ll look at loving a true story of one couple s fight to change interracial marriage laws in 1960s virginia. mark kermode will give us his take on this and the rest of the other new releases. it s 5pm. our top story a royal marine has pleaded guilty to terror charges after he made bombs and stored weapons for dissident northern irish republicans. ciaran maxwell was arrested in august last year after police discovered two arms dumps containing mines, pipe bombs and mortars in county antrim. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. he was a member of the uk s elite royal marines unit a0 commando after passing the gruelling 32 week training course. but today, ciaran maxwell admitted that for five yea rs, maxwell admitted that for five years, h ....