the commitment to the human story. but it's also the idea of challenging those in power if a politician comes on this channel they will be challenged and that's what people expect of us they want the questions answered. that is what we've always sometimes but we will continue to. see. dark side of the moon is one of the best selling albums of all time and pink floyd a rock music legends and so is the co-founder of bass player sing the song writer and human rights champion roger waters after selling hundreds of millions of records which is left to group in 1985 because of growing disenchantment with the music industry and his band 35 years on and we still selling out concerts around the world. with his dog biting lyrics water states the listener on

a rare musical journey and offstage he's been a loud voice when it comes to human rights issues. he has a particular interest in this really palestinian conflict and has publicly condemned other artists such as madonna for performing in israel he's also involved in many other causes like malaria poverty and climate change this week we connect with the iconic british musician to talk about the current state of the world. roger waters talks to al-jazeera. roger waters co-founder of the legendary band playing for ojt welcome to talk to al-jazeera. in a globe of the famous. you wrote most of the biggest successes

of pink floyd. you're a rock star and you are now very involved politically why why did you take that course. i've always been very aggressive. i was a pole in sort of very political house so my mother would say i'm my father before it was killed parent members of the communist and then when he was a young teenager maybe 13 of boards he'd one day my mother said to me you know roger you're going to come up against different decisions that you have to make you know and when you do. it's strength maybe you identify that as a decision that's been made and then you have to reset it you have to look at these questions from every pippen and the kind that some won't commands. and then you will them down the day and you will have done the difference whether it's on

certain of to die or hunts next because you simply do the blanks thing than ours lessen the mom she's been there through that saying. that's and that's and. if you center. imagine if every parents in the world were satans in the sales of the child my mom and since then you have to educate yourself enough to straighten parents of chardon find out what's out there and before you make a decision. and then having made that was that you have to do why her name was brightest. in all beings deserve their pretty than their parents. and the. impact she'd been beams in knots and universal declaration from the united nations parents so she

actually believes that the. arts because of that that the nation should be him the man saved an exception 8 incident the system the bins. if they were. almost all the problems that we've given race that just care in open arms. but of course the only dogs the 1000000000 plus not all of them in the ones. they believe in the rights of the wealthy and the author and they couldn't give anybody in substance this is quite clear they paid lip service to because it's politically convenient. but the missing don't trump my pencil mark. on the pretty neat inhuman it's. not interesting it's not even there of citizens it couldn't couldn't came to peace with the citizens of the united states and.

never mind citizens of any other than i you've been quite vocal about your opinion about donald trump you among other things you called him a mask this troyer of everything that any of us might love what do you mean well don't track pets no interests for instance and nobody he has never been interested in. he has no interest in compassion he has no interest in me and. he has no interest in the show he has no interest in the last he has found interest in geography gets no interest in a cup of tea he has no interest in what he has no interest in. or he has an interest in he's in several and he's eaten and and isn't tonic can stand for his life to be one big reality t.v.

show where he said in the developing it's good about him so he has a very very small mean spirited it never paid of them on their well that i would like to him because each of to be 19 is when we. grew very rare. axioms and no. wisdom is joe joe biden the better choice joe biden is no different joe and it's a puppet he's just he's he's the glove puppet you know that both both culprits the monster that lives between the suckers which he is well i've been trying to describe which is which has created the monster that it's the united states of america and you know the seats that come from for 3 or 400 years got it all comes from european colonialism the british empire was a disgusting monstrosity we were pouring we could we didn't exactly what the

americans are doing now and we did it for several 100 years along with the approach he was in the spanish and the germans and the dutch and the better chance than we and we we went around the planet stealing rape and destroying everything just so that we or us could be a stream a while the constitution in the united states was very carefully written by the founding fathers to make absolutely certain that power would never orleans people bundestag and certainly it's not going to do with the current system in you have used to. jump and. sniping at each other it's called the outputs and when it's where you keep a conversation so tightly focused on in this case there is action but it's completely elections rather than the picture around it it's they're going to make

sure that they don't let the people look at that picture. not so because it because if they did start looking i swear they would stop undermining the power base and they would start removing. from the very very wealthy and you don't you don't have to be able to do simple arithmetic secret ones what i say is. ok i'm not a sure that you seem quite involved in the palestinian one you have been very vocal against israel's occupation policy and that backfired people like is being anti semitic and it was specially because you showed support for the boycott this invest in sanction movement to be the yes move it but why did you get involved because the palestinian people lost to back him sometimes

6 in 2000 by. palestinian civil society starts to repeat yes and they asked people who were not us to. anybody and the rest. to join. in and find. see if they could get paid say. human rights freedoms quite clearly are not and it's not safe never. never spoken as being the and its use and it's a word or it's in my hands hot i think for utter nonsense mentally so what's in my head and in the perp and count the machine it is rape his run is huge and he spent millions and millions and millions of dollars simply trying to spare his mind that anybody who speaks against israeli government on the citizens of cinema as

some have criticised you saying that sometimes you have conflicting positions. like on one side you are defending the rights of the palestinians and then on the other had it seems that you supported the russia russia's move in crimea and many a crane is would tell you well that's an occupied land as well at the moment so how can you explain that. and explain it by simply that the narrative accepted in the west about the russians an accession of crimea is complete. it's you only have to look at what actually happened in crimea where crime and came from crimea which creates you don't to the say. so what's been a deeply divided country with the silence in the east being predominant played.

by russian speaking. people who are here still kinds of russian for titian's and the most recent so when they missed this illegal. but the whole question made protests and what happened is open to interpretation and i'm sure there will be many history is written no any way that we know that the victorian unions and the cia were complicit in setting up this western. aid or. cia and united states government opus rates occur against the jews you know that jade's president and government of the crane back in the day or he is and the imposition of this new government so the country became entirely fractured that when. there are them our staffs other than the excepted western narrative which was overlooked with screening the people of ukraine from the russian young

comply however the russian government was put in a very difficult situation because suddenly now there was a government in kiev that was extremely right wing controlled entirely by the americans and they were concerned about civil the poem about their own supply of oil on the cusp. of the sisco down so i'm not so that there was a population in something that was still called the crimea because people who remember all those races who did not want this new government to the north of these not the friends of the people of the current man. and so actually the people of the crime man well code for 98 percent of them said we don't want to be any off of this new illegal government of the craig we wish to join the russian

federation we want to be russia please 98 percent not excuse me not much response will be an exception in the crimea and such since it's cool that school be an exception but now the legal niceties so what were the. contracts between khrushchev the ukraine back in the years when problem. and that's constitutional or some but i do know the sense of the people who live there say no we want nothing to do least no city no people in the east an ocean it wasn't quite so easy for them i'm not sure why this is no where but once telling you these you cannot you cannot talk about a 70 year old. israeli occupation of palestine and the relatively recent annexation or change of power in crimea in the

same breath they are in is highly different things one is that there are it's not as if the palestinians in 1948 suddenly said could you send a load to jewish people from from north eastern europe please. throw us out of our homes and 700000 of us and send us that we have to get off the land because they are going to make a jewish state and they don't want those that didn't happen there was no home with 98 percent pumice didn't suddenly saying oh you know come on come in terms for us and the russians are throwing out there live in the ground near there supporting i'm sorry to interrupt because i just want to ask you about a few other issues and we're going to run out of time so i want to go back to do you k. a bit you know the labor party is under accusations of being added to semantic

allegation that jeremy corbyn is the man who took the labor party in that direction do you think that these are a fairly geisha is there a labor party anti semite the conspiracy or. overplan. spreadsheet and submitted i mean story about people like me. and the ad about the labor party in england. brought it probably sentiment and came out of the ministry of its strategic. intel a very this was completely respected and very well known. and succeeded totally in destroying jeremy colvin's chances of becoming the next prime minister of the u.k. chances that were very good seemingly a year report 2 years before that they absolutely used the anti semitic smear.

campaign to destroy germany coatings chances of winning the election and they did it very very successfully and they succeeded in destroying germany cool women in my view made terrible mistakes along the way the biggest mistake that he and the labor party made was that the labor party conference in 2090 where they fail to totally dismiss they knew i h r a an international public roles remember alliance definition of bently semitism the rewriting. and cio that nobody even heard of and that is completely irrelevant in sense of history or politics or anything of. definition offensive semitism so includes any criticism oh the policies of the government of

the state of israel wow and the labor poets he did knock. say rubbish throw out the bill dosed it and jeremy colvin did not resign and should have done he's sure it he should on those grounds of resigning as leader of the on scene anybody with a hawk also should have resigned at that point because it is such a huge and numbs how come how come criticizing israeli israeli policy of occupation and cost savings which is what they're operating how come and he said mincing. that would be like calling criticism of the south african adminstration before the end of the post say stuff africa and christian all and christian yeah we could like courting anti christian oh you know

you just hate white people don't hate the system that europe moves in. against the color of us pin on your religion just as i have nothing against jewish people. you know i'm an atheist so other concepts cripes who in the mist you know the mystification if you want to of would call in. to any of the after how many religions or any religion and it just doesn't make any sense to me but i wouldn't dream of sending people that they call believe whatever they want to believe in the meat well it's plot a look people do in texas by the way so said the labor labor pool and also the labor party under the new leadership of dawn backed down from the miss. case in the high court just

a few weeks ago. and the documentary that john well made about it a year earlier and just where it's now saying he made he made soup jeremy cool and . these are rabid zionists and their are involved in a smokescreen a human being to cover up their violent more crimes that have been perpetrate seats every single day against the people of palestine by . their. ministration initiative in the state of israel has been going on for 7 millions since none since or since and it's not support here exemption so anybody of good conscience and good heart house continuing the line and do you think labor can recover from this if labor get its labor yes maybe it you know actually this fight she's taking place it's

really a fight between. can the truth is i know it's not just rhythm but the meat you are generally control now by very very very rich very very powerful people and it's no coincidence that jeff bezos which made hundreds 160000000000 dollars now odom's the washington post on his young one man and influence who printed all the papers or by. the times of london it's a. huge schoolrooms probably hermione's the times and they all come from a member anymore you know but so that this is a fight between. it's it's well it's your lunch in 94 it's a fight between we the people all the winston smith sound. and the ministry of

truth who are telling you mine's 24 ounce of 37 they simply and who are pulling the wool of all of the other is a boom of the people who continue to do so until we stand up and say we need education and we need a system and we need because we are so we can buy you. turn your neo liberal economic policies that it's hard to see them through. which is why a lot leonard. nazis. actually into the streets of american citizens is something to a certain someone planked them from the you know strong we're going to have to wrap up very soon bafta questions to ask you and which changing gears here somehow back in 97 did not and you wrote mother and you osted that song mother should i trust

the government have you found the answer to that. yes of course not unless of course i'm a wager no you know or danish or somewhere where there is a government is trying is subscribes to some of the same beliefs and beliefs that the government. of any of any country of any group or of any nation of any ship that you serve the needs of the people all the people not just a wealthy people but all of and if you were to write a song about the current state of the world what would you like it to say. man or a writes about ace. 2 strangers policy industry by chance to pursing drone strikes me and i am you one well i see it's me they were all human beings were all even brothers and sisters of all at least distant cousins we're all

african we all of an indigenous women. we all have to stand on you know it's here and refuse to be slaves to the few very rich who control the knife's and who are destroying the planet and i'm writing about is always on and so what title would you give us all bad hurriedly right now if you had to do it about today. or your asking me to you know. so slip out so i throw it says which is would be flippant well roger watches it was a pleasure thank you for talking to al-jazeera thank you thank you for getting me this platform says to say one thing because of love to have a platform where i can say what i think right or wrong openly and honestly and still thank goodness al-jazeera is one of the places i can do that i can do and how

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these new korea may bers partition borders of blood. i was taken to prison just now that i was barely 21 years or just me old mother and the father of my daughter i did not hear. when parents are imprisoned the government doesn't have any plan for the trigger left behind for these children need for they need shelter they are searching for love. my passion is to see that this should be enough prisoners are also given another chance to live like now much of it because they are not a party to that crimes committed by their parents when i finally get their place to build a home for these children and they see them become somebody used to fall into society fending for themselves. which would give me satisfaction.

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