0llie, thank you so much forjoining us, especially under these circumstances. Now, i understand youve been able to flee these fires. Just bring us up to date in terms of what took place, what happened and how youre coping where are you now . Yeah, so i am now in a small village called fort simpson, which is about 630 kilometres west of yellowknife. It probably sounds like a huge distance it really isnt in Northwest Territories terms. This place is twice the size of france, its got 16,000 people in it, so vast scales that were talking about. This is essentially three communities to the left of yellowknife. And you can just hear a float plane into the distance, by the way. This is the Mackenzie River behind me. Yellowknife under a full Evacuation Order, as you probably heard, yesterday. We came out here a day before because, to be frank, the writing has been on the wall for days that that wildfire was going to pose a grave threat. What were you seeing that led you to think, hey, i better
Five days a week, that hes not to get frustrated, that he doesnt deserve an extra quid if he wants one . Of course his work ethic is money. Its got to be. He doesnt get the satisfaction on the job that we get. Suppose i couldnt answer that and you had me cornered. Thats what i say. A likely story 0h, like what . Yeah, you laugh now, because i caught you it must have been a good question i asked you, because youve been talking for about 15 minutes. Ill talk for 20 more thats right, i know that so how difficult was it before and afterwards to live down the thing ofjust being his widow . Was that a very difficult thing to do . I mean, its still going on, isnt it . No, no, its not. Not as far as im concerned. No, i dont think so. Are you sure . Well, i didnt know then whether i had real talent or not. I knew i loved it. Yes but ijust know if it would work out. Im entitled to a life of my own. And im going to have it, damn it in spite of you, Michael Parkinson applause hello, michael 0h, he
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
And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
Caused him to change direction. Now today, world rugby have announced of course that theyll be appealing this decision to overturn the red card. In a statement, they said they fully support the Important Role that an independent disciplinary process plays in upholding the integrity and the values of the sport, particularly regarding foul play and had contact. And, of course, they went on to say that Player Welfare is the sports number one priority, hence why youre hearing from a lot of charities at the moment, including headway, about why this is so important. Now we have heard very recently that the hearing will be early next week we dont have exact details of that yet but you can see, with the Rugby World Cup so close, why world rugby will want this in some way to be resolved. Well, as sara alluded to there, there has been plenty of reaction to the decision to initially overturn the ban and then world rugby s decision to appeal. Luke griggs is Chief Executive of the british Brain Inj