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and you said he was unelectable he can't be there's no possibility of this and you created that narrative that people actually believed for a while but what this election has done is shown that people are there we do you and the other billion in the media owners. and that is the vote of confidence. but also to use the mainstream media. i didn't. rapidly coverage would turn to this . good afternoon from. the queen and prince william have been visiting people affected by the terrible fire that. engulfed. and then the charity single initiative for going on the record conservative music mogul honestly . believe. chills it sounds beautiful absolutely beautiful the country will now have to wait for a public inquiry which will report directly to number ten where the former u.k.
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housing minister. accused of breaking promises on fire safety works. chief of staff will have more on grenfell and its implications later in the show but now we go to outside the british parliament to talk to lord west former minister for security and counterterrorism in the wake of seemingly one terror attack after another on britain. before we get to the latest counter terror initiatives police with machine guns. on the streets. of valence is this the way we're going to combat terrorism and i says in britain i don't think it is the right way of combating it doesn't mean you don't need some policeman with weapons doesn't mean you don't need some sort of surveillance but i think doing that. it means that all of these various terrorists or various persuasions if we. want to live in a country like that one of the things i love about this country is that most of the policeman don't. carry weapons that is very unusual in most countries police all
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carry weapons and i rather like the fact that i think that would be a retrograde step to go down that road but immediately. secretary started her statement actually went to resume started speaking out of the ins repack incident alone the london bridge attack was to talk about internet surveillance on the helicopter surveillance we're obviously now suffering from is it all about the internet not the twenty thousand police officers that was sacked the answer is not all about it's about a whole raft of things i think in terms of internet surveillance i'm very glad we got the investigation through. very inaptly name the snooping i mean actually not doing it would have been a charter for more people being killed in court. the people who are using the investigative powers bill a totally uninterested what's in your email i mean i could be having affair with thirty different women it would give it would give a damn what they would be interested in is if i was regularly in contact with a known bomb maker in yemen. then they would have to ask bush and they say he's
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speaking to him every day and he's speaking to a man we know actually planted a bomb in new york and went inside and. you know actually why is this going on would you give us permission to look at what's in the in his e-mails the area is currently in u.s. backed operations over syria right now with civilian casualties being reported every other day is it time for the u.k. to work with the syrian government in trying to attack isis in syria. have a track record on this as you know i believe the whole policy in terms of how we've dealt with assad has been bad assad is a thug really nasty disgusting man. he is a fact of life on the ground some of the opposition forces we are dealing with some of the more hardcore than al qaida itself we call them that are going democratic forces back. and it was the libyan blowback which we saw in the area around the concert argue. i mean what you just been saying about syria is
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a bit like what donald trump was saying when he was running for president and shot down. is the president. he shot down a syrian plane over syrian airspace russia has now threatened any plane west of your river american and british planes now flying over not at the invitation of the syrian government like russian. syrian planes should britain stop flying over syrian airspace like australia. i fear it being. i mean what the australians have stopped because the risk of australian plane being shot down and i can understand that i think right now over there we've got to be more robust in that with the americans but what invading another country's airspace with crucial is that we deal with particularly sad. control people which we were doing before to make the
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conflict that has got to be done and i think the shooting down of a syrian plane i personally think it's not a very clever thing to have done on the syrian air defense system is still pretty well there they have triple digits that's very very capable surface to air missiles and i think it's a very we're in a very dangerous position and we need to look at this very closely but there's no doubt that the military attrition of. this is making them lose ground so they can no longer claim they have a caliph that is important and there's no doubt that without the element the mixture of forces on the ground could not actually achieve it because i mean if we and the americans went in we could easily take it over but then you got a problem what the hell do you do then and i don't believe we. don't do it but we are. mainly american a little bit of. i don't believe we would be able to stop dying having the
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caliphate and i think that is important but within hours of saying they shoot down . any and made drone should britain should raise it may be part of an anti iran coalition. signal obviously the best one of the best. things that was signed in the last few years was the agreement with iran about the production hugo weapons and when trump said he was against that really worries me like he's done nothing yet. but i think i think we have not dealt with iran very cleverly now admittedly they support a lot of terrorism but actually basically they're a country that they were very good and i think they could be very interesting and i think to demonize them constantly is not clever and just because the brakes of negotiations are going on here on the record as saying. like headless chickens the preparation military preparations going into break i mean the trident submarine still able to. swim around in the e.u.
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waters off the brits and the answer that one is yes but that's i think my point is that actually i don't think they had been yes exactly i don't think there'd been any i don't think anyone in the immediate thought we might actually leave and i don't think and this is very unusual because one thing that the military good at is lots of water you can bet your bottom dollar where we are fighting anywhere we have what if after what if what of what if and i don't think anything has been done and you could tell from when they were asking questions about what this meant to europe i mean i am sure they'll deny this by the way and i'm very concerned that there's no doubt for the last seventy years the united states and britain have ensured the safety and security of europe because of the count's we've had in our defense because of what america is saying i'm not sure that is any longer the case and that is very worrying because the security of europe is extremely important for our nation extremely important. and i think we need to a lot of thoughts about what this all means to us thank you.
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jeremy corbin's address to eunice and the u.k.'s biggest public service union in the past twenty four hours wasn't mentioned much in mainstream media as well as the fact that he is the first labor leader in ten years to be the number one choice for britain's prime minister but what other stories have been lost in the other verse three of bricks at the conservative deal with p. and the queen's speech well here is going on the grounds deputy editor sebastian packer reporting on some of the week's buried news. the u.k. was absolutely sweating its boris johnson's off this week with a heat wave reaching from the north to the most southern points of england where the presenters took great care to point out high pollen counts but didn't focus so much on high ozone and particular levels those are the ones that kill millions of people every year but maybe that's because defra allegedly covered up the ad pollution in parts of england breach levels this week with michael gove teresa
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mayes new minister for the environment having less to say on the matter and the new conservative chief of staff gap and paul well and also about ignoring reports on fire safety in tower blocks. in london amidst a climate of political uncertainty the queen for cost a royal banquet of bracks it filled promises in a strangely pro e crown and the interim prime minister to raise a may attempt to apologize to some of the burning injustice is that she was supposed to correct even if the foreign secretary sister thinks that the prime minister is a victim of these injustices as well it's like she's one of the victims of the fire as well because she can do nothing well i'm not sure which one of the interviews is worse or how brothers we are we are looking at is. measures to. you know you're there in the usa well hurricane trump has
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been bring up a storm over north korea and cuba he's kept his fingers firmly off the bottoms of twitter about his decision to send thousands more troops to afghanistan just one of the broken campaign promises that litter the road to his presidency we are going to and the era of nation building and instead focus on destroying destroy destroy isis funny that because he shot down two syrian aircraft in the past week maybe all this intervention is a good way to please the military industrial complex and to justify the near trillion dollar defense budget over in the middle east where a new study has revealed that a reign of terror and showers of bombs from nato was have killed an estimated four million muslims since one nine hundred ninety there are allegations of kidnap and. torture of yemeni citizens by close u.s. allies the u.a.e. while the us are arming u.a.e. forces and teaching them how to bomb they've also had quite
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a bit experience in torture as well but questions are being raised over whether information forcibly deemed by those incarcerated in these camps is being used to bomb yemen where the most recent attack overseen by the new crown prince of saudi arabia killed twenty five civilians in a market one of the companies who supplies weapons to the saudis is be a systems you know the guys who brought you cluster bombs and wrap the drones they've been taking advantage of the u.k.'s lax export rules by sending over more than just killing machines to repressive regimes freedom of information request discovered that massive valence technology powerful enough to spy on entire countries and track people through their mobile phones is being exported to countries such as saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar so next week make sure to wrap up warm and take an umbrella because we're expecting a downpour of this information. just about back of their own covering this week's buried news after the break neglect
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demolition and social cleansing how democratically accountable housing across the u.k. has been allowed to deteriorate tearing apart working class communities as the private sector profits from human suffering and why trays of maize all for the luxury apartments to rent residents doesn't satisfy paulson the director of a new film dispossession the great social housing swindle all the civil coming up in today's going underground. social environment. right. chemical discoveries over the last century made every day life easier but at what cost this is cereal is exceptionally sick. no wonder it's confidential. says since the years old industrial
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giants reap the benefit. caused by chemical production. you know as if these people aren't people just experimental animals. the toxic environment continues to poison lives and we found these astronomically high levels of backs and levels that my staff think maybe some of the highest levels ever found in the united states for almost thirty years this very serious problem had not actually been addressed what will that investigation into the chemical industry secrets revealed. this despicable.
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do. welcome back at seventy two since hundreds of day of rage protesters marched on britain's parliament in the shadow of the tragic some say emblematic in front of it grunfeld here in kensington in london but his grief turns to anger at teresa mayes post election chaos and lack of transparency from local councils and private developers how did margaret thatcher to new labor lay the foundations on which the housing crisis is constructed today his going underground senior producer pete bennett at the screening of a new documentary dispossession the great social housing swindle to talk with key figures in what they consider a class war social against. cleansing since early nineteen eighties people living
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in u.k. social housing has dropped from forty two percent say less than eight percent with an estimated one point four million covered on the council's waiting lists i get despite rising property prices in the groans i'm all for affordable heartens successive governments to slash investment in social housing just as council of whole estates to private developers asin dennis lives in south east london elstree state the site of a controversial regeneration scheme which residents have been forcefully re housed people are being sunday into off to london especially the other day people reached a clue about a children that roamed they've been opened you know to some of the tomes. and council is so brutal force to us because this is a close division off the middle class people they don't care about the class you know the king class people we know that we as published that so we do not expect anything and i know that they are but he didn't totally s.
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well from you david to the current of physicians oil scrawl streets activists and defend council housing member fred mills and has jeremy cool bins manifest a face ahead of the yup coming grenfell tower inquiry of course jeremy jeremy called an initial plan to buy the budget to build five hundred thousand council housing in five years looks very welcome but i have to say that in the course of the election that was altered down malta down watered down what is true what is the recent events on beneful taleb says that we need council housing we need council housing. by. responsible managers not intended not out solved by the council but actually it's a call function of the council to. run their housing. properly and that means keeping them safe but how is this allowed to happen in the first place i spritz
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a green lawn in assembly member and counting council of the highgate sean berry about the causes of the housing crisis they also because he's kept his head that the market as a has been unregulated and day regulates it for the faulty law we're seeing rising costs for saying let's approach the people buying high was there to run my distorting little and the big developers business model really is failing and we're saying lots of hands to all belts no no london it could ever fool it's a body there's a risk just about scraped enough to run and fed the damage on supply and it's genuinely bright and either way you thought i was like you've got a nasty is throwing back on some of his promises to people on estates to rentals when it comes to things like rent patrols and having a buy with the i mr wallace however the crisis goes beyond the capital to communities across the u.k. caving to the growth in school in schools on a housing estate he says has been ignored by power given the choice by films like
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dispossession the great social housing swindle cooking the people the god and god and the people you're going to see in this film what can they offer the tory. party nothing in a tone of party oh no they don't tell policy joins in those trees i'm inclosing. what do you make of all the ones that she's brought on board as a daycare that's not going to make a difference not this nobody need for the fringe is going to religion in. perpetual selfishness social until nests. not care for anyone else if you do if you actually think that the torn apart in this country believe in children haitian they don't believe in society margaret thought you said there was no sunshine there's only. that she's not just a movie that she's trained moche she's dennis potter this is a boy so what this is a saying of the times that she's a she. clone creativity documentary film camera and get on people
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tell the truth in this country who don't screen expressing the human cost of the housing crisis on the big screen this documentary explores the cats phase that led to a chronic shortage of social housing. essentially we. simply haven't seen them for social housing and they'd be coming in. senior producer peter bennett there i'm outside the granville to our north kensington in london with the director of dispossession the great social housing swindle paul first of all just your reaction to. the here are lots of the mainstream media cameras here anymore. looking to building obviously you can't really comprehend what went on in. when i found out about i was in sheffield and i'm seeing the images on t.v. and initially like my space where you just feel sympathy and empathy for the people that it's affected and then afterwards you know shock and anger the fact that it's
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been allowed to happen i think there were a dozen council inspections of that building and seeing this this all come out in the last few days it just draws you back to systematic neglect not only of people in council housing of working class people of poor people of vulnerable people all over the u.k. . the thing i keep going back to is the seventy odd tory m.p.'s that voted against the landlord bill to make homes fit for human habitation and i think that you know this terrible incident just raises more questions and more anger about why we have a government why we have a system of pollen that isn't representative of people who go to the film because of. a game in the game even just after the off to match them when the fire still raging we were told not to politicize it. was the conservative in. labor policy of right to buy so popular and yet so much part of the current housing
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crisis in britain i think it was popular because you know working class people like anyone else wanted to own their own homes and there's nothing wrong with wanting to own your own home you know it's a desire i was back years and years and years and so the right to buy in principle wasn't a bad idea the problem was they didn't replace like for like i think that you said that they would be in every place too for everyone they didn't even do one for one and so you know that goes into the blair and brown administrations as well in a combined period of thirteen years of new labor they've built fewer houses in total than the fascist government averaged every year so it's it's an issue across both parties and it's a policy now i think needs to end because we do have a housing shortage you know we do have problems with council housing but continuing to sell off that still cannot replace is just senseless and you tackle the issue of labor councils up and down the country blaming. councils blaming central government for. housing storms yeah well that's the thing i mean
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it's very it's very easy to blame central government and say this all comes down from the states but local authorities do have to be a bit smarter i mean i've seen their budgets have really been cut to the bone you know announcing things as in the case of lambeth council where they announced the demolition of pressing gardens on twitter you know that's not very clever that's actually deeply insensitive it's actually an offensive so you know not only do councils have to communicate better but they need to explain why they do in these three developments and you know working with property developers is always a very murky area because of the bottom line for a. profit but why do you think you'd like to subsidise move is a way to make housing more equitable gets going common currency in the media and yet in your film it comes out. all it does is to make housing more of affordable account. indeed used to be a permanent safe secure home you know in the fifty's and sixty's my family when
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they got a council house and they were proud of it they lived in they knew it was their home for life but the problem is now you know with thousand in planning out there are going to be no more you know last time tendencies you see in the film that when a person dies in social housing it's a requirement to just sell it on to the private sector yeah that's part of the new house and i'm not sure it is there that's going to be the case for you jamie. chambers who appears in the film as doc is of the view that a lot of that policy may or may not actually be in force i mean there are still campaigns to try and repeal that so i think we're still in very early days but what it can do in principle is bad enough i think in the film you talk about social stigma or a bit like in rio's of illicit people to admit to living in social housing so. polarized is its class in britain today yeah there's a lot of stigmatized around it and you know that comes from the media it comes from t.v. programs poverty polling shows where you know council tenants are depicted is on
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benefits that depicted as somehow being as stupid and that's not the case you know some of our brightest minds and people came from council house in town. it's actually the social problems created by a society by system of government the problem when it comes to who the government listens to in your film is a beer is the. very very rich state agencies recommend to the government policies like destroying four hundred thousand special housing homes and the government listens to reports coming from estate agents that that will win from that policy yeah i mean i think there was a report from samples that came out and it was any of they i think they put a figure on someone's worth in london i think you've got to be on in about seventy thousand pounds to be worth your sport in london that was the average figure you know i don't know too many people. much money and so what you have then is the colonize ation of space you have the idea that to be in this city you have to
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justify your place here by earning a certain amount of money which means you can afford to pay rent or mortgage and also spend this much on you know what is the london economy and that's you know that's just it's nonsense isn't it. your film outlines how areas especially. in the issue that there would be real housing of the survivors of the greenfield tragedy the latest i think is in london she's saying that boras will neighboring bars how do you think i did in policy because it was we have to hold them to account and if they've moved some residence into some nearby luxury apartments which have a concierge service which have a gymnasium and it's important that the people that move into that property get those services i mean whether they're in a separate section i don't know whether they're think they will be in a separate. area for so-called affordable housing just describe what
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a poor door is yes i mean a poor door is an annex to luxury apartments which is where the social rent tenants leave in and there are all sorts of reasons for that used to justify it. part of the agreement with the builder is that they'll only make a certain amount of social rents available if there is a separate and entrance it also reduces the cost down for everybody so you can argue economically that you know there is a reason for it but then on the other side of it you can look at it as being a systematic microcosm of our society the rich going one way the poor leave another wife and then you've got you know two people that were in the press complaining about the price of property complain about how they'd worked so hard and now they're going to have to mix with you know all of these you know working class people and i despair at that you really despair and it just shows you where we've got to where we've sunk to as a society because you know we're all culpable in this. as a society we all need to watch any responsibility and if we don't have to challenge
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those fees. thank you for the show outside. in north kensington in london we're back on monday with the creators of the new film dying laughing about why we need comedians to say the things they're both reasons one. social media will see you on monday two years to the day of love the friday alleged. attacks from. somalia to kuwait to syria killing or injuring nearly seven hundred fifty. loads. of.
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