You are feeling very depressed. In thejuly election in cambodia for the national assembly, the Ruling Peoples Party won 120 of the 125 seats. Was that really the final nail in the coffin of your Opposition Movement . No, we continue the fight. It is an uphill battle. But i think in the end, democracy will prevail. What makes you think that, given the track record of the last 30, a0 years, why on earth do you still believe what you call democracy will prevail . Because nobody is eternal. Hun sen is 72 year old. And many, many cambodians among the young generation, they are hoping for a democratic change. But the point about hun sen, he is clearly getting older but the whole point of this election is that as soon as the election was done he told the nation that he is handing the reins of power to his son, hun manet, who now sits in the parliament and will be cambodias next Prime Minister. But for the cambodian people, this succession within the same political clan, the same family, actua
Given the track record of the last 30, a0 years . Why on earth do you still believe what you call democracy will prevail . Because nobody is eternal. Hun sen is 72 year old. And many, many cambodians among the young generation, they are hoping for a democratic change. Well, yes, but the point about hun sen is that hes clearly getting older but the whole point of this election is that as soon as the election were done, he told the nation that he is handing the reins of power to his son, hun manet, who now sits in the parliament and will be cambodias next Prime Minister. But for the cambodian people, this succession within the same political clan the same family, actually is just unacceptable. Scoffs. Its easy in a way for you to say that with great confidence, sitting here with me in the hardtalk studio and from your home in exile in paris, but the reality for cambodians is the Hun Sen Regime if i can put it that way, because he still is the leader of the ruling party, even though he is
The recovery effort in texas during a visit to houston, where hes been meeting people whove been affected by storm harvey. The president and the first lady have now travelled to neighbouring louisiana, which was also badly hit by the storm. James cook reports from houston. Americans look to their president. He is expected, required, to show empathy, leadership and unity. Today, donald trump did deliver hugs and handshakes, and over the past week, the commander in chiefs response to this hurricane has been praised as rapid and effective. Nice to see you. Go ahead, take a picture. Its been really nice, its been a wonderful thing. As tough as this was, its been a wonderful thing, i think, even for the country to watch, and for the world to watch. Its been beautiful. So far, the storm has claimed more than 45 lives. It has damaged or destroyed 100,000 homes, and left more than a Million People displaced. And yet President Trump spent the eve of this visit talking about scrapping a policy t
Welcome to bbc news. Im duncan golestani. North korea says it has developed an advanced Hydrogen Bomb capable of being mounted on an intercontinental ballistic missile. State media said the countrys leader, kim jong un, had inspected such a device, although theres been no independent verification. Last week, north korea fired an intermediate range missile over northern japan, prompting the authorities there to warn residents to take cover. Our correspondent Yogita Limaye is in the south korean capital seoul. We now have three photographs that have been released of kimjong un looking at a silver coloured what north korea is claiming is an advanced Hydrogen Bomb, an advanced nuclear weapon. The statement says that this is a weapon capable of fitting onto an intercontinental long range ballistic missile. Now, this is an objective they had set for themselves. We know they tested these long range rockets injuly. There were two tests that were carried out of intercontinental missiles and at
Welcome to the programme. We start this hour with some breaking news. That is that reports are coming from both south korea and china suggesting that north korea may have carried out some sort of test. This follows seismologist picking up on some sort of explosion from the United Statess Geological Survey, they have picked up a magnitude 5. 6 tremor, im sorry, thatis magnitude 5. 6 tremor, im sorry, that is actually from the chinese authorities, from the us they have picked up also on tremor is. South korea saying the north may have conduct did another test, that is coming from the newsagency in south korea. We can speak now to Yogita Limaye tell us what we are hearing in the last few minutes. We have spoken to the south Korean Defence ministry who are saying they have detected the earthquake in the North Eastern pa rt the earthquake in the North Eastern part of north korea. They are still analysing to see whether it was triggered by any sort of explosion ora triggered by any sort of e