Of u. S. Democratic Party President ial primaries we look at how the establishment favorite to pace to be the chosen one despite some embarrassing my. Fellow there is 3 pm here in moscow and with Us International now a leading german right wing politician appears to be the latest victim of Violent Attacks on lawmakers in the country nicholas fest from the alternative for Germany Party had his car destroyed by aston in berlin peter all of a look at the worrying trend. This street is the scene of what is potentially the latest in a growing number of politically motivated crimes in germany this time its all the car the politician nicholas faced go up in flames last night a car caught fire in charlotte and bork the firefighters extinguished the blaze but could not save the car because of the suspicion of a possible political motivation we were handing the investigation over to a specialist unit yesterday morning the Police Called told me that my car had been. Set on fire 2 in the morning a
Sackur. There was a time last year when it seemed that president maduros grip of an power in venezuela was loosening. Yet here we are, two months away from a president ial election with maduro using confidence and his opponents seemingly in disarray. My guest todayis seemingly in disarray. My guest today is one diehard anti regime activists, david smola nsky, today is one diehard anti regime activists, david smolansky, who was the mayor of a district in caracas until he fled the country to escape ajail until he fled the country to escape a jail term for aiding the street protests last year. Wide as venezuelas opposition so consistently promise more than it delivers . David smolansky in washington, dc. Welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. Were glad to have you won the show, albeit via satellite in washington, dc. How does it feel to be a venezuelan, a politician, an activist who currently is living in the us capital . Do you feel uncomfortable . Obviously it is not co
Time for hardtalk welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. There was a time last year when it seemed that president maduros grip on power in venezuela was loosening. Yet here we are, two months away from a president ial election with maduro oozing confidence and his opponents seemingly in disarray. My guest today is one diehard anti regime activist, david smolansky, who was the mayor of a district in caracas until he fled the country to escape a jail term for aiding the street protests last year. Why does venezuelas opposition so consistently promise more than it delivers . David smolansky in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. Were glad to have you on the show, albeit via satellite in washington, dc. How does it feel to be a venezuelan, a politician, an activist who currently is living in the us capital . Do you feel uncomfortable . Obviously it is not comfortable because i want to be in my country. I am a public servant. I was removed from office wi
Im stephen sackur. There was a time last year when it seemed that president maduros grip on power in venezuela was loosening. Yet here we are, two months away from a president ial election with maduro oozing confidence and his opponents seemingly in disarray. My guest today is one diehard anti regime activist, david smolansky, who was the mayor of a district in caracas until he fled the country to escape a jail term for aiding the street protests last year. Why does venezuelas opposition so consistently promise more than it delivers . David smolansky in washington, dc. Welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much for having me. Were glad to have you on the show, albeit via satellite in washington, dc. How does it feel to be a venezuelan, a politician, an activist who currently is living in the us capital . Do you feel uncomfortable . Obviously it is not comfortable because i want to be in my country. I am a public servant. I was removed from office with no justification at all. But at the
This is a little under an hour. Thank you for coming out. Can you hear me okay . No. Do i turn up the volume here or elsewhere . Get friendlier with the mic. How is that . That friendlier . As far as pulling up your chair. It sounds like unpaid labor to me. So i dont know. Like unpa can weid turn off the light oron turn down the lights . Re ill just start. What im going to do is run yout through the first day of the go battle and talk a bit about it the first day of the battle of the somme and talk a little bit about it. This is the word kitchner of Great Britain in the first part of world war i. He was quite prescient. He predicted that no more would go on for years. Many people thought it was going to be over bye christmas. You have always heard that line but he heard of what it would require is a lot of manpower so he built up a volunteer army. He started this recruitment process. The british professional army was small by confidential standards about 100,000 people, 100,000 troops