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at her own wedding in 2018. now, she lives in exile, forced out of austria, she says, by death threats. what does her story say about vienna's close ties to moscow and the impact of austria's neutrality? karin kneissl, in northern lebanon, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for your invitation, mr sackur. well, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. i think we have to start with this question about your location. you were a senior member of the austrian diplomatic political elite, until recently. now, you've left your home country and you're in exile in lebanon. just explain ...

now, she lives in exile, forced out of austria, she says, by death threats. what does her story say about vienna's close ties to moscow and the impact of austria's neutrality? karin kneissl, in northern lebanon, welcome to hardtalk. thank you for your invitation, mr sackur. well, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. i think we have to start with this question about your location. you were a senior member of the austrian diplomatic political elite, until recently. now, you've left your home country and you're in exile in lebanon. just explain to me why. well, when our government l...

karin kneissl, the former austrian foreign minister who famously danced with putin at her own wedding in 2018. now, she lives in exile, forced out of austria, she says, by death threats. what does her story say about vienna's close ties to moscow and the impact of austria's neutrality? karin kneissl, in northern lebanon, welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for your invitation, mr sackur. well, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. i think we have to start with this question about your location. you were a senior member of the austrian diplomatic political elite, until recentl...

I'm not going now to enter into this whole war criminal indictment because we have plenty of war criminals on our — within high—ranking political circles. so, just to get to the point, i suppose — the basic blunt point — today, with everything that has happened over the last 15 months in ukraine, you still regard vladimir putin as a friend whom you'd like to see at a social occasion? i am very careful with the notion of �*friend' because a friend is somebody whom you would call at four o'clock in the morning because your car is broken, for instance. i have met president putin at seve...

Related to high—ranking british circles — but i don't... i'm not going now to enter into this whole war criminal indictment because we have plenty of war criminals on our — within high—ranking political circles. so, just to get to the point, i suppose — the basic blunt point — today, with everything that has happened over the last 15 months in ukraine, you still regard vladimir putin as a friend whom you'd like to see at a social occasion? i am very careful with the notion of �*friend' because a friend is somebody whom you would call at four o'clock in the morning because your ca...