Stephen sackur speaks to the former Manchester United and france star, patrice evra. Welcome to hardtalk from manchester. Im stephen sackur. Of all the football mad cities in the world, few can compete with this one, home to two of the worlds biggest clubs, united and city. For all of footballs global appeal its wrestling with big problems, from financial greed to residual racism. My guest today is former Manchester United and france star patrice evra. Now hes done something most footballers never do. Hes opened up about the emotional scars hes carried through his career. So why has he done it . Patrice evra, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. What has happened to you . cause as a professional footballer, when you saw journalists you tended to turn the other way, you didnt really want to talk to journalist. But now here you are, youre a massive star on social media, youve just written a searingly honest memoir. What has changed for you . Maybe im more open, more ready, i think emotionall
for as long as it takes. and, temperatures in japan are at the highest in nearly 150 years. now fears the electricity grid could be overwhelmed. hong kong is marking 25 years since britain handed over control of the territory to china. xijinping, china s president, has been in the city to celebrate the event. this was the scene at the railway station as mr xi arrived. he was greeted by the outgoing chief executive carrie lam, who he credits for stopping what he called chaos and violence in the territory. her time in office saw the erosion of civil liberties and the crushing of huge pro democracy protests. speaking ahead of the anniversary, the british prime minister, borisjohnson, accused beijing of failing to meet the commitments it made in 1997 to respect hong kong s freedoms. on the 25th anniversary of the handover, we simply cannot avoid the fact that, for some time now, beijing has been failing to comply with its obligations. it is a state of affairs that threatens bot
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