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In an exclusive interview with India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai at Davos, Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister Salah Ahmed Jama spoke in fluent Hindi and slammed Donald Trump for his remarks and recalled his student days in India.

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00:00We've got a very special guest joining us.
00:02A khas mehman hai.
00:04My special guest is Salah Ahmed Jama.
00:08He is the Deputy Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia.
00:14Appreciate you joining us, Mr. Jama.
00:17Good to have you here on India today.
00:20I want to start by asking you,
00:24Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented attack on several countries,
00:27including your country of Somalia,
00:30suggesting Somalia is not even a country.
00:33They don't even have anything that resembles a country,
00:36saying you are a country of people,
00:38just immigrants, of pirates,
00:41with no intellectual capabilities.
00:44How do you respond, Mr. Jama,
00:45to Mr. Trump's thinking attack on the people of Somalia?
00:50Chief Sardesai, we are very happy that you have given us this opportunity
00:54that we will be a guest in India today today.
00:59And we will talk about the whole thing about India.
01:04In India?
01:05In India?
01:05In India, we will talk about it.
01:06Oh, wow.
01:08You are very good in India.
01:10we have a very big relationship with our country and India
01:17we have a very historical relationship with our country
01:23where did you learn Hindi?
01:25where did you learn Hindi?
01:27where did you learn Hindi?
01:29where did you learn Hindi?
01:31we are in Pune, Maharashtra, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
01:34we are in Delhi and we are in Delhi
01:37we are in India
01:42wow, the Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia is speaking perfect Hindi
01:49can you answer? Donald Trump is in Hindi or in English?
01:53Donald Trump, as I said, says Somalia is a country that does not even resemble a country
01:58what do you say?
01:59we are all talking about the world
02:02we will hear our stories
02:04we have said that Somali's IQ is very low
02:10we have asked Indian professors who are growing in India
02:15how smart are Somali people?
02:17in fact, my president studied in India
02:21I myself studied in India
02:23and I think we have a very deep educational relationship with India
02:28so maybe Indians would know better how smart and capable the Somali people are
02:35and in fact the Somali state went through difficult times in the early 90s
02:40but in today's world Somalia is a very viable state
02:43with great potential and prosperity
02:46despite enormous challenges
02:48and we look forward, we come here to this forum
02:51to forge relationships with key global players
02:55including India
02:57so please, let us know
02:59tell us, how you live in India
03:20The way to the heart of the Somalian Deputy Prime Minister is through dal makhani.
03:42Roti ke saath dal makhani, butter aapko achha lagtaya nai.
03:47Salam, good to have you here on India today.
03:50I hope you get a different picture than that being portrayed in the media about Somalia.
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