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MALE SPEAKER: All right, we're here at the Grand Hyatt Hotel
in Muscat, Oman in the Middle East where we are partnering
with Al Jazeera on a YouTube interview for our Worldview
program, with the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom, David Cameron, right inside here.
So let's go check it out.
We're here with Kamahl Santamaria who's going to be
interviewing the Prime Minister in a few moments, for
the YouTube Worldview program.
Kamahl, tell us what this is all about.
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: So, we've got a whole stack of questions
lined up coming from viewers.
Some are text, some are video.
Yes, and we've got our plasma screen here, which I'm
controlling with the iPad, which is pretty cool.
So we'll just be able to flick through the questions on
screen and once we've got some audio, which we will have,
we'll be able to show the Prime Minister
the questions there.
MALE SPEAKER: And what did you think of the
questions, were they good?
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: Yeah, they were good.
We got a lot--
it was nice to have a mix, basically, of some
international stuff and some domestic policy.
And it's interesting that the most popular questions were
now-- a question would be posted and the people would
vote-- and I think the second-most popular was one
about marijuana.
And the first-most popular was, if you're making
financial cuts in the UK, why are you still fighting wars?
So, we know from that now what the big issues are for people.
MALE SPEAKER: Yeah, weed and war.
Weed and war.
[SIDE CONVERSATION]
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: This was the most popular question.
Basically, if you're making cuts, then why are you still
spending money on wars, was the gist of the question.
You know the morning I'm having.
MALE SPEAKER: The Santamarias would have pulled it off.
DAVID CAMERON: Hello, hello.
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: Good morning, Prime Minister.
DAVID CAMERON: Good morning, hi.
Nice to see you.
[SIDE CONVERSATION]
MALE SPEAKER: So we're watching the television?
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: We are.
No, I've heard you're an iPad man.
MALE SPEAKER: I am.
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: So I'm controlling the
slideshow from here.
MALE SPEAKER: Will I watch the television?
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: Yes, watch the screen and then after
we're done you'll talk to me.
MALE SPEAKER: For each question?
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: Yes.
Some of them are text questions, so I'll read them
off the monitor and you'll be able, of course,
to see them as well.
MALE SPEAKER: You OK Andre?
Everyone OK?
OK, we're recording.
KAMAHL SANTAMARIA: Prime Minister, thank you so much
for your time.
The format of our interview is we've got all the questions in
from viewers around the world.
They've sent in text questions, they've sent in
video questions.
We've split it up into some foreign policy, some domestic
policy, so we hope to cover a nice, broad range of things.
The first question, it's a video question.
And it's, I think, very important at this moment, it's
an international one.
It's about the situation with the uprisings that we've seen
in the Middle East. So let's have a look.
MALE SPEAKER: All right, I'm here with
Riyaad Minty of Al Jazeera.
Actually, Riyaad, you want to stand over
there by the pillar?
What did you think of the of the YouTube interview with
David Cameron?
RIYAAD MINTY: It went very well.
It's the first time we've done something like this, and it
was pretty good.
Some really tough questions that
came up from the community.
But yeah, good answers.
MALE SPEAKER: What do you think Al Jazeera's audience
will think of the interview?
RIYAAD MINTY: I think they'll like it, because a lot of the
time these are the questions people want to hear.
And our audience generally wants Al Jeezera to be the
voice of the voiceless and give people the chance to have
been able to ask questions directly to people in power.
That [UNINTELLIGIBLE PHRASE] for us and I think our
audience will love it.
Hopefully we can do a lot more of this.
MALE SPEAKER: Great.