Skip to main content

tv   The Business of Colonisation  Al Jazeera  March 12, 2018 3:00pm-4:00pm +03

3:00 pm
up front at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera is a very important source of information for many people around the world when all the cameras are gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people and nobody else is talking to and bring that story to the forefront. hello again dennis in doha are in these are the top stories here. a plane crash in nepal has killed at least fifty people the u.s. airlines flight from dakar in bangladesh had seventy one people on board the aircraft came down in a field at the edge of katmandu airport firefighters and rescue workers pulled some of the survivors from the burning wreckage. and british m.p.'s say the poisoning of
3:01 pm
a former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted murder by the kremlin prime minister to resign may be discussing the case at a meeting of the national security council of. his daughter yulia remain critically ill in hospital a week after they were found unconscious one of the rebel groups operating in syria has agreed to allow wounded people to be evacuated from the besieged. the army of islam says it struck a deal with the syrian government's russia more than a thousand people have died since the government offensive began three weeks ago later on monday the un security council to discuss how to implement the cease fire deal that still only on paper. and a u.n. fact finding mission in miramar is due to present its initial findings on atrocities committed against the ranger days after the u.n. human rights chief called for crimes to be referred to the international criminal
3:02 pm
called satellite images released by amnesty international appear to show muslim villages being cleared to make way for a military base another shows a road being built where homes were destroyed during the military crackdown last august in iraq kind state the images raise questions about the government's pledge to repatriate hundreds of thousands of refugees who fled to neighboring bangladesh to escape the military crackdown many of the refugees are refusing to return fearing further but violence. is a ranger research or at australia's deakin university he doesn't think enough international pressure is being put on me in miles government to end attacks. we're witnessing a genocide in real time the mistreatment of the rich by me and mars military and me and mars authorities surely meets the criteria to be considered a genocide then and that must compel the international community to act what we've seen so far is seven hundred thousand muslims pushed out of me and my. report
3:03 pm
today suggests that there are no military barracks been built on the land that those people used to live on and what we've seen from the international community short this been humanitarian assistance for the refugees but very little response in terms of demanding action from me and maher and nothing practical yes we actually need to see sanctions back on the table mean man needs to know that the international community is going to prioritize human lives rather than rather than commerce they should be visa bans for the perpetrators of these atrocities and that should include not just the military but it should include the civilian authorities of me and maher who stood by and allowed this to happen around fifty thousand farmers of arrived in india's financial capital long by after a five day protest march they're demanding financial help from the government
3:04 pm
better crop prices and more access to land. the new york times has criticized the saudi crown prince for what he calls his anti corruption efforts just days before mohammed bin sound man if you to visit the us the article says hundreds of powerful saudi citizens have been forced to wear electronic tags which track their movements and their conversations may be monitored this is say the body of a general in the saudi national guard who died after being detained showed signs of torture. hong kong's democracy campaign is have lost ground in a crucial file action candidates recaptured and two out of the four c's up for grabs and that means the opposition might be able to block any bills in the regions legislature the seats were vacated two years ago when democracy activists ousted from office for using their oaths to defy china all right this is the latest headlines europe's for bitten colony is next here and out is there.
3:05 pm
so when did you see stuff nice yeah so that but we can put it on the audience for
3:06 pm
today enter i'm organizing a big event that the biggest theater in this part of europe and we are marking the fourth anniversary of julian assange as political as i don't know like what was happening at the same day today in berlin brussels belgrade paris naples madrid. well i these are all the all the all the venues all our people think this case is not just about julian assange it's about transparency it's about democracy in europe. you nervous about speaking on stage how does it. this is normal. but don't philosophers just sit in a room and write for some of them can we when you do. their own books but also but
3:07 pm
also this go to refugee that you think you are a new kind of from the us. i don't have time to think about. and losses first the world will be near speaker and then it will focus people. there that we have from this side begin to thank so as you know we are going to listen and to have a conversation with you. way here. so please welcome them both on stage and yes very hard yes thank you what they learned from julian assange is
3:08 pm
that you have to be consistent maybe sometimes you have these temptation to feeling that you're not important that the powers are spiraling at the last and laughing when we occupy us fair that they are laughing when we are in a public space but below we have two thousand people here tonight in eight cities at the same time hundreds of thousands watching the lifestream and i think the more they kind of just sit in their own and write books even if you want to write about the refugee crisis you cannot do it if you didn't speak to a refugee for instance or if you are writing about the crisis of europe or solutions for europe i think you cannot do it if you don't speak with the people and i think we don't have time only to sit in the room and write about it to be nice to work because this continent is clubs from thank you thank. them and.
3:09 pm
the financial crash of two thousand and eight started in america's housing market but devastated europe as it lurched from sovereign debt crisis to it cannot be stopped nation. unemployment of twenty five percent in some countries led to social unrest and the continent suffered the wars terrorist attacks in years. and that was before over one million refugees decided to walk the balkan route into europe. often all this is discussed as forces of nature beyond our control. but there's a philosopher i look for the root cause what if they can only call ups refugees and terrorism are actually all caused by something more fundamental.
3:10 pm
i'm going on a journey across europe in search of what for next the crazies tearing our continent apart. to saloniki norton greece if you just visited central square you'd never guess this small charming city is at the epicenter of europe's problems. in two thousand and fifteen refugees fleeing war and poverty walked into europe should the nearby village of evil mean. germany said they would accept syrians but after more than a million people came europe panicked and sealed the border trip and those who continue to come in for. greece finally cleared the domine camp in may two thousand and fifteen citing sanitation and safety. but that's not the whole story. we're heading towards
3:11 pm
a new refugee camp for the refugees from the many who are more and we're going to meet most of their. most to face from aleppo and reached the domain or just as the border was closed he spent three months there hoping and trying to cross before deltora this clear to camp and would you say are different dishes better here than in the domine like what we're told what was better there and what is better here yeah actually. here is with her it's a plausible is. it's what tech tool from the song from winning from the wind for the tan tears big. but nobody knows how long we're going to stay and we get information i want to. see how long it takes for the were just. this in. the face taking us back to domine to explain why the camp was clear.
3:12 pm
and this is something i wasn't expecting. a motorway service station transformed by those refusing the government camps. the services allow them to stay but at the same time doing good business charging them for showers. now is hundred persons change the players are too so we are full of chance and no no one now only me. can you show us a bit how it looked like at the tricks you. saw refugees tense all this place here right this one venue i slide full of dance these tricks are the most important rule from greasy ports a crucial way for local companies and multinationals to get their goods into the heart of fuel. there is a train coming. so when the tents were here at this place there were no trains
3:13 pm
coming but yeah because. there is not. try many times to bring that. do you think the refugees represented the problem. for the free. goods and products there is a ministry you know and you see there. in the room with. the tribes with many we thought that your your. children. we. were blocking the trains deliberately you knew that if you were blocking the way. you were and the greeks say they will start to react. the greek train company voice
3:14 pm
he told us they couldn't move for seventy five days costing them a million dollars he lost shipping. i think is the best metaphor for what's happening in europe today in the sense that people refugees who are fleeing from war and from war zones such as syria but also going to stand in iraq became a problem. because we're a train track and they were blocking the train tracks. so it became a problem for for the for peroration as for also other countries not only greece because this way was blocked so on the one hand what you can see is. refugees don't have the rights to move freely on the other. goods can move freely as far and as much as they want. but greece is subject to forces beyond its control. the global financial crash
3:15 pm
reveals that greece has taken out a mountain of loans from european banks. at the urging of european leaders europe's financial institutions gave greece the biggest loan in history. and most of that money flowed straight back to the mainly french and german banks who had encouraged them to borrow. but the loan conditions required extreme osteria to state spending cuts so severe that the economy shrunk by a quarter of unemployment reached twenty seven percent prompting a huge rise this was. another condition was must privatisation of all three s. including this strategic really important. it is one of the most important ports in the mediterranean and recently the greek government has sold sixty seven percent of the shares to a chinese company called costco. the ducks are quiet today the sell off has prompted a better with the unions they say the troika of the international monetary fund the
3:16 pm
european central bank and the european commission are experimented with a new kind of privatization. you would strike over the coming days twenty days today and if they strike. very going where going to trade unionists and me thinking since it's an international trade to us we think they very much interested thing the paper they say sure then that is news stream and these two boards which is highly unusual since they are private i say even the port authority or at least city to fish features on the part of your knowing port authority this is the game plan for getting there for a passport authority headquarters and it will be privatized the day after and this building we've been given to the costco. because costco doesn't recognize unions the doctors fear they will go from being skilled employees with secure jobs to
3:17 pm
temporary workers with no rights. can you explain of what is the difference between the working conditions if the part of paedos which is still old by the greek state and the parts which is already old they are using a complex system of suffering so there is no direct employment by costco. and precarious employment that means they work. twelve fifteen days a month so there is no stable job for them and there is no. game show for a trained professional trained show that's why there are frequent. action and saying that mr we know this may be also this more that we subcontracting expanded to other ports in europe the last six years. an experiment for no liberal policies what they are tasting here they tried to export it in other countries in the european union. what we have seen in court today was that the
3:18 pm
biggest historical achievements of the european project. such as collective bargaining such as trade union organizing minimal wages all of this is actually disintegrating. many blame the chinese company cost but i'm eating former greek finance minister. punishing inside information about europe's part in the deal. seems this is not working. yeah. amongst the first things they did in the ministry they one day to was to embark upon a. kind of silent negotiation with the chinese authorities and with
3:19 pm
the costco c.e.o. and we agreed to collective bargaining and were allowing trade unions to present workers for other board if they were given the rest of the port secondly they agreed on a spectacular investment program of anything between two hundred fifty three hundred million euros within eighteen months that would have been a fantastic injection of capital of activity of jobs in the port of the us and finally most importantly they would prepared the chinese government to contribute to contribute to purchase a bond a new bond that we would issue as a minister of finance up to ten billion so effectively that would help us return to the markets and create effective a signal to the rest of the world that this is back now i thought there was a very good deal and guess what happened there was
3:20 pm
a telephone call from berlin to beijing saying keep of greece while you were negotiating with them and all deals were off because of course china is not going to jeopardize its relationship with the heart of europe. in order to seal a deal with us. currently the greek government is selling sixty seven percent of the part of the nose and under your deal it was supposed to be fifty one right yes all those things that we had negotiated the director made sure that we're not part of the league just not want any european body from a country to be even be to begin to imagine that if they voted people like us in they would get a better deal even for one person. although hugely important for greece is only a tiny part of the thirty five year program of privatization across europe. sectors like railways energy cost banking and airlines were all part of the one trillion
3:21 pm
dollars of public assets privatized since one thousand eight. hundred margaret thatcher that led the charge for privatisation in europe. david hall has been studying the impact of it for over thirty years privatisation supposedly reduces prizes improve service and so on what has your experience and your studies it doesn't reduce prices and it usually doesn't improve services and in many cases it services worse. that's the basis on which prostrations always sold but immediately people have experience approach as almost the first thing that happens is that prices go up prices go up because the private companies are taken over or in the business of restructuring it to generate. returns that the public company
3:22 pm
didn't care. which way to explain why it's usually made it popular resistance but it's almost always forced true when you tell us won't it be the referendum where clause promoting water privatization. the government tried to reintroduce that i left that water utilities in private. why do you think that most of the governments in europe but also in latin america and the states still stick to this kind of economic model protozoa actions are seen as an easy way of getting large amounts of money into government so you can use it either true or to reduce taxes and that's half actually used and that's how the going to it and that's how for example countries like greece are being instructed to use it by the i.m.f. this is this is this is the core purpose of proposition a great concept generate revenue to reduce the debt. and once something is in private hands
3:23 pm
it is at the risk of takeover by larger often foreign companies. i mean romania there recently protested against water and held privatization but nothing seems to get them as worked up as their forests. being handed back to private owners they've been heavily exploited by international investment firms and european would processing companies. on the border to be transferred when he's one of the forest that has been decimated. it's be replaceable according to the lawyer representing forest owners who may now have the last intact through a forest landscape where the man has nothing to envy and least for a start. today are they are not protected. how far away is it actually one hour or depend on. their old one hour and a half the legal clear cutting mainly happens in remote places high up in the
3:24 pm
mountains. romania was a colony of give me a name and now. in forest country do you get with you again it will depend if they are for jack. their relative poverty means cutting gangs can exploit forest country can't afford to protect. the sea well he's known for it oh yeah you see it. you. walk so this is it finally. from here we don't see it.
3:25 pm
it's bigger and it's what we can see here is completely illegal alrighty usually you are not allowed to crowd to more than three hundred dollars or forest. and how big is this approximately one hundred fifty two hundred acres of forest and tired to go on and you we need it now they are still cutting it they cut to every day since when did this start and what is the scale of this clear cutting in romania the big one it's beginning after two thousand to two thousand and three. that was the moment when there's oil for kompany or ponder force factorial. are back on to the austrian company whole stench by horse or are now romania's largest wood processor they don't cut the woods themselves but they are able to offer a relative fortune to those who will mostly this clear cut down by you know when
3:26 pm
young people the gang cool. these forests forged the documents and when they reached for factory they had some documents to show them that into to respect any law. but at the factory some didn't even need forged documents. their own mental investigation agency posed as a cutting gang willing to ignore the law something that didn't present a problem for michael a little bit concerns me use rigidity the volume that we have to reduce or be yours we're just not what we get it from from our side. you decide what you want. we ask trying to offer for an interview but they declined so we turned to chance a green activist who has been. one
3:27 pm
of their employees a manager has admitted that if they run at full capacity there's no place for other processes on the market can you tell us once they end up in this factory where do they go this sawmill is actually slicing up the logs they make banks all of it and then they exported worldwide be to china and japan arab countries even usa it's a world market the main problem is the fact that there's not much left for us so the added value happens somewhere else the jobs happen so to say somewhere else all of this exploitation of nature is happening in romania but nothing stays here it actually goes to other countries right yeah you stay in this in this vicious circle ok of selling more and more resources at the price that is being.
3:28 pm
created or fake somewhere else outside of your country and dependency of resources and you destroy your nature and you destroy your livelihood. this makes me wonder whether we can speak about a new kind of relationship which is very similar to the relationship which we had during your mana. you have the empire you have western europe also in companies german companies french companies for cutting forests all around the mania and the pride of the european union and then they are importing them back to europe. and then prayer is using the natural resources not only for us but health care system education water and they are expecting to well you in order to sort this and. so could we say that europe is actually polarizing itself.
3:29 pm
capital the capital which nature created. when nature is transformed into a commodity big business takes a new interest buying landscapes protecting landscapes it's a phenomenal opportunity to be able to use a business model to achieve sustainability of nature but at what risk banks of course don't do that because they have at the heart protection of nature they do that because to see a business of pricing the planets at this time on al-jazeera in syria thousands have disappeared without a trace. forcibly taken from their families right here in the most terrible thing in syria just to be. this has been the invisible
3:30 pm
weapon of the syrian dictatorship for some time is a call to compete better to die than continue to be she really acted in culture. the disappeared of syria but this time on al jazeera. hello again i'm dennis in doha these are the top stories here at al-jazeera a plane crash in the poll has killed at least fifty people the u.s. banga and lines flight from dakar in bangladesh had seventy one people on board the aircraft came down in a field at the edge of katmandu airport says a rescue workers pulled some survivors from the burning wreckage. british m.p.'s
3:31 pm
say the poisoning of a former former russian spy looks like state sponsored attempted murder by the kremlin the prime minister to resign may's been discussing the case at a meeting of the national security council said gays going to powell and his daughter yulia remain critically ill in hospital a week after they were found unconscious one of the rebel groups operating in syria's eastern good turn has agreed to allow wounded people to be evacuated from the besieged enclave. islam or the army of islam says it struck a deal with the syrian government's ally russia more than a thousand people have died since the government offensive began three weeks ago and later on monday the un security council is jus to discuss how to implement a cease fire deal that still in the paper the u.n. has accused the government of using a policy of force starvation against range of villages in iraq and state and u.n. investigation said the policy appears to be designed to make life unsustainable for
3:32 pm
the ranger who remain in the north of the state around seven hundred thousand of them are now in neighboring bangladesh after being forced out by a military crackdown that began last august around fifty thousand farmers of arrived in india's financial capital mumbai after a five day protest march they're demanding financial help from the government better crop prices and more access to land many of them have fallen into debt due to drought thousands of farmers commit suicide every year. hong kong's democracy campaign has of lost ground in a crucial election candidates only two out of the full seats are up for grabs that means the opposition would be able to block any bills in the region. two years ago when democracy activists from office for using their oaths to defy china. today those are the latest headlines let's go back now to europe's colony.
3:33 pm
3:34 pm
the richest country. countries like greece and. in what could be described as a. it's quite interesting to look back the first globalization the eighty ninety s. the late nineteenth century. where you got a very similar picture of british french german. companies. investing around the world in. sometimes the same kind of sectors christine was right just as a starting not. just as then the companies buying up the sectors have close links to the state like energy giants e.d.f.
3:35 pm
owned by the french government and what in full on by sweden but it's not limited to just european companies and governments europe is also facilitating a colonization by larger forces. sociologists and says fine and the abstract idea of making money from money is the real power in the world today. one way in which i would put it is that we're really dealing with with a period that is dominated by a large of extract that is not the language they use it sounds much better if you say privatization and deregulation that's sounds like such a intelligent and and sober way to go about it when you say finance google and all kinds of other sectors are extract sect. that doesn't feel so good it feels like something is getting taken out of the financial system
3:36 pm
it might as well be mining it has to go into other sectors and extract which makes it particularly dangerous unlike say more traditional forms of investment and corporate is that it can extract. not just from the very rich but from anything including very much. even dollars who once reported the free market of war. in a century old the old also from gary an emperor former politician gosh but time machine campaign for hunger is transition from communism to the free market. but he was forty fight when that led to millions losing their jobs he puts this recent trend into historical context the. the so this is the same colonialism without responsibility without the political project without the royal navy without the reduced raj without introducing this and
3:37 pm
that this is just sheer economic and political force being applied. without any kind of responsibility and any kind of. idea about economy future whatever to the weak a conscience so basically i mean this is even worse than colonialism because cornelia ways in many ways to us this is a politics of totally responsible it's cheating everything and everybody in the same manner maximizing profits and neglecting strategy. and you know this is not the road me you know corrupt company or a little general motors or the old standard oil that had some sort of policy that had some sort of construction that has been you know fresh out of the political for it is and so on so forth these companies today didn't have any policy not even
3:38 pm
a wrong one not even an evil one they just want they just want the money. much of that money flows through the city of london europe's biggest financial center. but how long long will retain that position is i'm not his britain wall today in the referendum to leave that you enjoy in two thousand and sixteen. this utterly stunned the british and european establishment who blamed it on the economic laws or who they say are also xenophobic. but britain was also the pioneer of privatisation in europe especially in places like port tolbert in wales. the last surviving blast furnace of britain's once mighty steel industry this facility was sold off in the eighty's and is now owned by the indian giant. periodical trade and to pose so i wonder is it really immigration or economics behind briggs.
3:39 pm
immigration it's not just a case of thank heaven i would say can i would jobs are jobs that they've taken because people don't want to him anymore farmers will tell you our farmers cannot get people to go into a field and pick pick sprouts or whatever it might be just because we come out of europe doesn't mean to say you know solve the problem because if you still can't get people to pick the stripes or to pick the fruits then you don't let people into doing what is the importance and significance of the steel factory. and how it all could change if laws that would be there things on the ordinary citizens or families and so i want to know paul told bush to risk all the other downstream suppliers that we've got you know we don't trust road which is fifty mile down the road that has every single heins team in this country origination ports over and he's then tinned in the effect in the economy if you will of sense when this would
3:40 pm
be simply added if anything happened to the knock on effect would be incredible you call it shops headdresses petrol stations self employed people you builders you carpenters all these people rely on the steel works because the people who work if you feed them in the field your water to remain. on the referendum. you're going to get. high i'm very disillusioned with. the. harlem entry processes that go on stage where. the closely just term you're completely off i walk into walked. into t.t. to play and we know and i think. shop a great show that's where i. am for a change as much as in the rocky play their history of cheer. and people had
3:41 pm
nothing to lose each. so it isn't immigration they're angry about but the colonial style extraction britain has practiced on itself for thirty five years the efforts of which are all of us in mark's hometown of tredegar which lost its steel mill in two thousand and thirteen. and all of this is now both permanent i don't know if this was what was it before. it was but it's you know if i had two things going on right now yes i was and how is this connected with the steel works because this is sasa i mean last night yes people come forward to buy the product so use the same system now if you look around you see it's like take away the trash that. this is the kind of place supposedly full of hatred for immigrants but it seems that resentment of foreigners
3:42 pm
has little to do with their anger at the e.u. in the pub i find out what the issue really is prepared for an economics lesson well styled. in short a new low in the liberal economic model full employment is not not of vital importance it's critical to communities like this where full employment and industry were so important and the result is poverty crime. and the only issue in inequalities which the neo litany are liberal there. has caused one major issue which is you've got companies who are bigger than countries so we've got a choice for that crossroads jew except that we're going down a road of this neo liberalism the neo liberalism lism of global corporations which then start to rule the world or we're going to start go in well actually no i can't be allowed to what we got to get back to is assets that of british assets that the
3:43 pm
french assets the german a controlled by those states you know the biggest freight. company in this country is germany all our water companies or electrical cars in the east are all foreign sure that coming right their finger after a break ok want to be open to the dangers of globalization nearly burst a wall or big companies will still be here and you have the opportunity for exploitation that's the way same with the arena where right this would really make a big big difference because they control it whatever. how can this colonial process of dispossession be taking place it was such a massive scale without becoming headline news. well this twenty first century colonialism doesn't ride into town waving a national flag he just seems to happen. but it's actually the result of the
3:44 pm
situations and rules designed to be shipped and. i'm going to try and unravel this beginning at the port of color you're going to hurt. the so-called. triangle. which is a refugee camp in a. jungle is home to those trying to cross the twenty miles of sea between here and britain i was sitting between the french government's regular attempts to clear it at a time when it's still growing you can still see three thousand people here who are in a kind of limbo. people from syria afghanistan africa the rock and all those countries from war zones on the other hand everything is being done to preserve the flea floating off. to your eternal connects britain to europe and covers over one hundred billion dollars of trade a year. junkie is the director of public affairs. so
3:45 pm
while the channel tunnel carries a last live value the perishable the just in time components for manufacturing express deliveries the internet retail so companies can actually manage this dog in a constantly moving process that saves them from having warehousing saves them enormous costs and it means that they can have these integrated businesses that operate across the whole of europe. the full aerial to the five kilometers is like this. previously we had to the boundary fence sort of thing you see around any factory or any industrial site then. people started to try and break down the fences so the answer was increased the only difference is these are the two standards high security fences very difficult very different crime so we now have a very very sophisticated fencing and surveillance operation. and since
3:46 pm
october last year we know disruption from the migrant crisis what about the refugees who came from syria from either many from greece who are actually also trying just to find a better life their future problem is something which is a geopolitical issue so we were company in business that operates between folkston and culling we're not we don't have a role a major role in solving the refugee crisis that's for governments international institutions to to manage we have a role a responsibility to our customers to our shareholders to our own staff and to anybody who's on our side. euro tunnel security is now a seamless operation involving french and u.k. forces a relationship established only after the company sued the government in a special for perth for over questions as to exactly where that responsibility cut in and what how much response from security on a shelf. and so. there was
3:47 pm
a case in the international from patricia. in two thousand and one the president and set the record for the state of that responsibility. obviously from the perspective of the company you're a tunnel it makes sense to ask the course to be covered from the state because in the first place the state was responsible for the refugee crisis but it's very interesting to see what is precisely the mechanism which is being used here in order to get the cost being covered by the state. court of arbitration or to britain and france to pay your account of twenty five million dollars for the cost of securing against migrants in the late ninety's. this is highly controversial song going to the heart of the e.u. brussels to talk to someone who knows how the secret process is for.
3:48 pm
that court is part of the investor state dispute settlement mechanism known as the ice d.s. which allows companies to sue states when their profits are dreads. the whole point about the investor state dispute mechanism is that it runs outside the court system it's about a special sort of law for big corporations i.z.'s is part of that it i stare says it's part of the t.t. ip so for most of the ordinary people if you mention something such as to tip. they will not understand what it is about ok we're to tip is the transatlantic trade and investment partnership and it's a major trade deal on the bill being discussed now between the european union and the united states it has all sorts of implications you know from the food medicines you take the vehicles that you drive the energy that you have animal welfare
3:49 pm
whether you want to keep genetically modified organisms out of your crops you know if the worst comes to the worst and some of the big corporations get what they want . this really is a could be a potential real rollback of a lot of the very valuable legislation that a lot of people who fought over the years to get in the european here ok follow your. supporters on the other hand say that harmonization of regulations will drop the european economy by tens of billions of dollars a year. so i thought it would be sensible to see the document and gene agreed to take me to the reading room for members of the european parliament it's not open to the public in any sort of way. you only get access to the documents if the institutions documents they are gives you permission. going. so if the united states says we're not willing to let you see our documents you
3:50 pm
don't get to see them. it's taken a massive european wide grassroots campaign for a me piece to be allowed to see the text of the t.t.p. agreement. and even now it was pulling hard to find. that's that's the number that i was given below there may be no where is that if you're already the reading of yeah because what we were told was forcing some things that. you know now ok. i came. back they only got half instructions it's opposite force the seventy oh hell the show you know you get to go to the over there was. no it's not that one line up at the top and in that case then it's what.
3:51 pm
we call the you. know she says we can't film here because there was very little money what is this that if you will. no he confirms it is there all the huge trade agreement is behind and find a bill unmarked door with a security keypad. thanks as a minister of finance of greece of one of the member states who was affected by these negotiations i had to sign a non-disclosure agreement promising that i would not reveal to my constituents to my voters that which i read if i was allowed to have a look at those negotiating documents this is preposterous and this is this is this is that the another moment of the democratic process representatives in a representative democracy keeping the de most of the position that they represent
3:52 pm
in complete darkness about what they're saying on their behalf. so why all the secrecy we can leaks has exposed the t.t.p. and its siblings the transpacific partnership and a similar deal covering services so you're going to wrest control in terms. of the effort already an embassy in london he explains why we only know about disagreements from leaks these big teeth three agreements he's a teacher i think and t.p. . kept secret because otherwise there were injuries democratic opposition in the population and i won't be possible to negotiate you conclude you concluded i made it pretty obvious what did they tell us about the new global order and what their deaths on democracy these are the most significant. a plan
3:53 pm
to reorder the legal and economic structure of the west and friends. at least since the construction of europe the nature of the agreements is a construction of a new legal and economic block or ultra neo liberal system which will which will cement culture in your liberalism within your and a wide range of other countries in treaty form and treaties are very very hard to change because you need agreement of all the countries participating treated change it so it is that the end of any other political project because only by violating the rule of law by tearing up these treaties that you agree to that in fact you can proceed in a different political direction i don't think this process could be described as colonialism as a new kind in a way of colonialism yes it's a new multinational colonialism heinies. these
3:54 pm
trade agreements reveal hidden mechanisms to be true of this on the one hand colonized by multinational companies and financial institutions and on the other hand colonizing itself. however these very same forces are behind a more traditional style of colonization which is not through trade agreements but for bombs and wars. the u.s. british and french air strikes against president at the half in libya in two thousand and eleven swept away a regime that was controlling migrant fulls from africa into least huge amounts of weapons into an already unstable region. the females suggest the real reasons for france's involvement were less than humanitarian. gadaffi had accumulated more than one hundred forty three tons of gold and was planning to use this to introduce. an african dyna as an alternative currency to
3:55 pm
the franc in francophone africa so this was a threat to french colonial worst. desires within the francophone countries. this reveals precisely how the refugees are linked to europe's economic crisis far from being some kind of a natural disaster as for or a flood it is europe's colonial behavior abroad that forces them to make that dangerous journey. and garion philosopher agnes heller has lived through a lot of european history including losing her father in auschwitz she says the refugees challenge europe's core idea of itself. in the eighteenth century already and of first constitution of france to write to rights became lex lots of it in the
3:56 pm
constitution the right of man don and the right of the citizen drug to sit so i am the program yes now there's not too hard in a conflict situation in europe that they do other men. and right would the basic goal of blanche asked to take your daughter future yes because they are indeed the men like us they are like us there are born with reason and conscience and right to liberty and to fear and to all kind of freedoms and to live just like us so we have to lead them in and they are the hand the inventor's also the right of citizens in their country and is fair citizens should decide who can and that their territory or not this is the right told us it is at the first time in our history short of his thirty two hundred years has learned it occurred that the right of man and the right of his insisted or out of the charter of course you good government
3:57 pm
can persuade the citizen to give priority to human rights a better government like us where is who is the citizen not to. forget our part to my mates general. so maybe the danger they pose is not that one or even two million people. or five hundred million. but because admitting we should provide for these fellow humans would reveals how europe's own citizens have been stripped of their resources and democracy by this financial colonization. in episode two we look at how the anger and frustration this generates is manifesting itself political on both sides of the spectrum. and search out some hope for europe's future. we don't want the state to evolve because
3:58 pm
this is a. moment of people in fact and had to learn here not something i did to ya. from the me only to beijing. to the sistine never seems. hello there the rain has now cleared away from buenos aires that means it's a lot fresher now here's that area of clouds that works its way away from us towards the northeast and behind it well the winds are feeding up from the south so the temperatures are around twenty four when i think or for us even as we head
3:59 pm
through into chews day twenty six degrees will this time be on maximum but just to the north it is a lot hotter here and where these two different things collide that's where we're seeing a fair few showers if you shout over parts of paraguayan into the northern parts of argentina on tuesday and some of these i think are likely to be pretty heavy as we head up towards the central americas most of the cloud here is in the northern parts valmont here it is over the u.s. just sinking its way southwards and it has already given a some shop show is over the northern part of cuba and across the bahamas this system then will give us some heavy rain during the day today and then on tuesday it will sink its way southwards and as it does so will bring in some slightly fresh as safe a half an hour maximum will go from about twenty eight to twenty two and forth in the bahamas will also see a maximum of around to twenty four degrees if we head up towards north america we've got a weather system here that's beginning to pull itself together it's going to give us a lot of heavy snow along this eastern coast then work up to the northeast for tuesday
4:00 pm
. the weather sponsored by cattle and he's. a global economic superpower that's underperformed in the world of football. explores how china is now spending billions in his quest to conquer the beautiful game. at this time on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome to this al-jazeera news hour live from i'm martin dennis coming up in the next sixty minutes about playing.

81 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on