imes tammy's aid and senior presenter from al-jazeera international it's my absolute pleasure to be here with you today my pleasure to be here as well with his excellency told dr mahathir mohamad the prime minister of malaysia where as we begin an interview thank you very much for talking to our desire 1st of all a pleasure to be here with you. you've accepted now this a chief meant to. ward and i want to delve back into some of the highlights in your career you were nicknamed bump up hammer down and for those who are not familiar with that means the father of modernization it's in reference of course to the dramatic transformation that took place in your country while you were prime minister i want to know though how you see yourself do you think malaysia could have made that a chief of men and that transformation without you well in order to country to develop our country the 1st need is for stability i was a multi-racial nation and normally monthly regime knishes and not stable so the 1st job that i had to do was to make sure that all the different pieces work together for the country