one two oscar nominations for his film philomena his latest production was the trip to spain and the rewritten version of the police's message in a bottle sung by protesting school children. am we caught up with steve demand the founder of britain's save our schools down the somali right in front of the door of number ten downing street what do you do out here when trays i'm a she says is busy balancing the books in there. with the save our schools campaign the they all started to measure the coming of imposing the last seven years i think people have had enough of them and we're here to sort of fly the flag for state the state education system which has borne the brunt of many of these austerity measures and i don't know whether it's because the government don't use the state education system or many of them because education system but it's not a priority for them but over ninety percent of the people in this country used to education and it's a right not a privilege and the government needs to. provide

a decent education system which of the moment it's not doing. the material facts already even the public accounts committee says the government suffering from collective delusion if you think you can make any further savings by imposing three million three billion pounds a year cuts it's having material that's already teaching stuff being laid off assistance all the all the peripheral support stuff that schools need to operate are being laid off and the arts music sport things a dean don't essential by the brunt of those cuts and those are the very subjects that enhance the lives of schoolchildren and make a huge cultural contribution to the standing of this country throughout the world alison from graeme felt the n.h.s. let alone education we're told continually in britain not to politicize all stare as he would he say to that i say balderdash. frank lake i say as the fifth

largest economy in the world we can surely afford to provide a world class education system for. all the states as ninety three percent of kids who actually use the state's education system we have had these three billion a year in cuts are coming on top of seven years of funding cuts to schools head teachers are cracking under the stress of this school's a cracking and distrust of it as i've said before class sizes are exploding sometimes forty children plus per class we are not prepared to see oscar become as steve has described it a safety net for the poorest in the slums while while the all sports and rich subjects become the province of the lucky few who can actually afford to pay for it privately to resume says more and more people are going to school and they're being funded by the taxpayer. that's what the taxpayer should do that's the responsibility part of the. taxation system is that you found

a decent decent education system a decent health service that's thing that most people agree with that's what most people's country with. fifty percent population would in would approve of increased taxation to pay for these services is part and also because of recent events i think the national debate has changed it's shifted whereas the majority of this country realize that the government's responsibility is to look after the whole community to look after the many not the few and that that debate has shifted now and i think the government on the back foot about it many of the cabinet breaking ranks should ease austerity measures so there's no you there's no. unity in the government ranks about this about any of these issues to do with how education or even the sort of the safety of our our councils and civil servants and politicians behind you are horrified to hear of corbin's proposals that each private schools should be treated. for taxation purposes. in

a way that is not subsidized by the taxpayer so this is just like the separate issue i mean our views on but i think that we need to basically. if something is a privilege like that then i think should be should. people who have money should pay more money so that people who don't have money we need to redistribute wealth in this country because of course the system is set up so those who have money make more money on fastest and we need to readjust the system so that people have the. equality of opportunity and there is an even better than them in all such a society and can i just start on the subject of graham full time you know which was obviously an absolutely devastating cianci day and night as will just. we you know from the heartfelt place that the national audit office is such that school buildings themselves need six point seven billion pounds spending on and for

those buildings to be brought up to a satisfactory standard is the extent to which the which the government has been has been getting away with quite frankly six point seven billion is needed just bring the buildings up to scratch last before that's before you've paid for the paper the books the teachers the all the music all the things that we're starting to see being lost then again and again we hear again this phrase balancing the books we have to pay off the bailouts for the banks because of the twenty eight crash well i mean. it's a choice it's always it's a it's a choice this is where you re appropriate. phones and i mean paul is this problem's going to make him like michael go free schools experiment which needs another two and a half billion just to buy the land for the promised five hundred schools he said he would deliver which is the whole the whole project has been seen as a folly but money's like almost the money suggested should be cut from schools every year. fifty million on the on the project was

a vanity project that's just an example of of irresponsible use of public phones the whole grammar school and which is which is a p.r. exercise because certain tabloids writing tabloid newspapers are obsessed with them and that again is an irrelevance it's a distraction from what we should be doing which is funding our state system properly yet just vitally britain has been involved in wars of course we do have money for that in your most recent t.v. work the trip you see to me being kidnapped by isis israel carried away you know what with the humor in that was that i was there was he read it because i was doing was showing i was trying to talk about the history of islam and i see how historic it is a more tolerant just. historically sort of the morals and yes that cetera and than my own innate or all society's innate is i'm

a phobia this is like just rivers its head picks its head above the parapet and the final scene you have to watch it's on the sombong going on about. thank you. award winning actor and writer steve coogan there what he sees as society's innate islamophobia joining me now is he has mogul founder of tell mama and geo the records and measures and team muslim attacks in the u.k. so much for coming back go on the show before he goes islamophobia your reaction to tory m.p.'s marie morris using the n word symptomatic of something still institutionally bigoted about. i think there is certainly something institutionally that has not been challenged around terminology like this and yes i think there is a challenge around some of the endemic racism around language that is still prevalent we can see in this case i mean what does it say where a tory m.p. things that language like this is acceptable i think in today's world a tory m.p. or a late. and the any m.p.

who makes comments like this can't hang on to their job is clear is that you know this is unacceptable and these common should never have been made man she has to face the consequences of this. to tell the statistics having heard about islam of attacks since so called is. up five hundred percent of the island bridge attacks britons responding in exactly the way it is precisely. a sadly this is you and i know this is exactly what they want to separate communities they want muslim communities to feel victimized nice lated and the wider community is effectively to fracture and not connect with muslim communities so you know hate crimes actually feed into that we've got a very clear hate crimes targeting any member of the muslim community or any member of a community particularly the muslim committee feed into his narrative the other factor as you mentioned you're absolutely right you know after after london bridge we saw a spike in hate crimes and a incidences same aftermath just a very very large one after manchester and these spikes have been continuing the only one we didn't see a spike in was after the westminster parliament attack and we're looking into that

as we would we need to do some work as to why society or members of society didn't react in relation to that incident the fact is these peaks these very high peaks are not good for communities are not good for society they're not good for cohesion and actually they may also as you rightly said play into the very narrative we're trying to corrode and undermine which is separation ism promotion of extremist narratives these things we need to corrode and undermine but actually hate crimes and reaction to hate crimes by targeting muslims feed into that which is you started the engine far right attacks like the one we saw entrance republic mosque treated very differently still though in three media in this country compared to your absolutely right i think you're an outgrowth of newspaper headlines i think you're absolutely right the denial that far right extremism leads to deaths is really atrocious we know that actually three people have now been killed by extremism far right extremist and narratives three muslims but in the newspapers we see a downplaying of these a. hughes we see

a downplaying of the narrative issues of how dangerous far right extremism is and actually then in many instances these individuals are unbalanced they've been you know they've had hardline they're mentally ill they may be issues in their lives but we have to get down to the crux of it if we're talking about ideology of isis let's talk about the ideology of the extremist far right communities small number but they're there in our society and let's talk about it i mean you look at today i had coming into our twitter feeds britain first's activities today reaching out to members of the polish community who i'm sure will reject the narrative but we are how we are allowing this to continue how the newspapers not saying the b.b.c. picked it up so you know or power to their elbow but actually the fact the matter is why we're not challenging this. really because of identity politics or they're obsessed with it and just very briefly no sign of any let up british muslims in being stopped in the streets by prevent officers with their way five business skirts to try to infiltrate communities i wouldn't know about that but i would

certainly consider. what you've been stopped well i mean i i would have often i would hope i would which is where other parties are against i would say clearly if that ever happens it has a huge detrimental impact on the individual who is stopped and it doesn't build trust in any way shape or form i would say that but i also got to say this that actually if people feel that they have been targeted for whatever reason whether it's whether it's through far right or other movements reported in to us reported in to us we will pick it up we will do casework on this we have to sometimes challenge those people who think it's ok just to target isolate outnumbers of any community particularly in this case because we work the muslim communities as mughal thank you thank you very much after the break as thousands of refugees die trying to cross the mediterranean from a major destroyed libya we speak to the director and star of the new play tough but tells one man's story of the impact of zionist terror that made refugees and hundreds of thousands of palestinians. and off to monday's high court decision in

london is britain's multibillion dollar military support to saudi arabian destruction in yemen all but assured. to him going underground. i see i don't want to see you i'm still. not back. to zero you know. we might need to move six o'clock i don't see him who twenty. points to the. magnificent. some place from which is my for food i. say russian people really nice and friendly and i might the foreigners feel welcome in russia. it was the food was dusty not very enjoyable place to be a very friendly play told. the losers you. want to

be so amazing to me in some ways you go through a. bunch. i mean most people here are very mad that i'm going here which of us will. maximize us financial survival guide stacey let's learn about fill out let's say i'm a strike and you're a police. fight street spot thank you for helping. destroy that's true if you looked at slavery. i've observed events of the past few years in the us myself several times what's going on in my native germany. refugees. u.s. intelligence agencies indiscriminately listening in on german. citizens of the

government. and once again german tanks are heading east. politicians from various political parties and various independent experts and journalists in an effort to understand just how independent germany really is when it comes to decision making. whether it acts on its own national interests ok result someone else will. welcome back joining me now to go through some of this week's headlines is abdel bari atwan editor in chief of arabic news outlets thanks so much of going back we're going to have two palestinian stars on later in the show i should say it's eleven years and has made two u.s. and u.k. forces in the fight against as well the one that victory eleven years ago in the twenty six lebanon war were to reflections on the i believe it was a turning point in the middle east in history managed to speed fast for thirty two

days and he inflicted a huge defeat on the israeli army's because they. considered one of the strongest in the middle east maybe the fourth of the work that is really. the strongest country in the middle east actually was tarnished by that war. emerged as a strong power. straight were defeated i go in london your first headline middle east absolutely shocked rich until arms campaigners lose two blocks see. these moments immunity. is used against one of the poorest countries in the words human why this is actually all the humanitarian in. the british government who told us that their foreign policy is whiter than white boards and the secretary of state in britain was a rational title include the saudi that coalition was not to do. really targeting

civilians more than ten thousand civilian women must a killed by these kind of i mean now they say it is legal to bomb them it is legal to kill them it is legal to destroy the infrastructure of the eagles as ill weapons and training the saudis arguably said the good news for britain is about when a faction company b. a system that's going to an extra hour of course which has been working with a pseudo yemeni government base in saudi arabia but because of this. we are meets with share in latest effort to mediate gulf crisis does he know. is he experienced enough and actually to handle this personally i believe the war goes through three stages the first is the media war which is a read these quality the second is that sanction or economy which is also at its peak and the third state if the two speeds are not going to work but third stage could be military intervention whether to under the pretext of helping internal

coup or actually to invade the country and teeth of it so i believe there is collusion there is a danger of war and the foreign minister to foreign ministers of britain the united states trying to diffuse that situation whether they are going to succeed personally i got well arguably trump may be more worried about massive mainstream media the united states talking about are you going to go into power because of the kremlin is southern southern lord or your lawyer this is from the world's oceans website suggesting it might not be putin the put in the way to a new study shows clinton lost election because of growing working class opposition to war this report though saying that the casualties highest casualties were in the poorest and least educated there is going to stay yes because they voted mainly middle states the people actually were supplying the american army with fighters and a very heavy price for that at least thirty. thousand people were injured in iraq

and about five thousand people were killed so those people said no this is our red card we are not allowed to do so and we are not going to vote for you or abstain from voting and of course we have to mention the millions displaced wounded or or killed your next story from global research quite disturbing about syria or tel aviv pays fighters salaries the syrian what was worse kept secret that could actually become. a real nightmare as it is say israel did that it's helping isis yes there are they are hoping and how do we know this it was documented person we have seen a lot of pictures of binyamin netanyahu the prime minister of israel visiting the syrian fighters opposition fighters fighters a little. bit of how does the israeli public go with a photograph of prime minister netanyahu the knowing that he is helping and the israeli taxpayer is helping soldiers they don't want hizbullah forces or maybe

she's all syrian army to be closer to the golan heights border so if those people can create a buffer zone for the israeli why not that is if they've managed to reach that goal border with the syrian army with. all financed and supported militia i believe is that it would be would be in a very very big position. thank you. eleven years ago today israel declared war on lebanon beginning a thirty three day conflict with as well are now fighting with u.s. and u.k. troops to combat isis day action syria was victorious israel's weapons in the twenty six lebanon war was supplied by britain which bears responsibility for the belfer declaration signed one hundred years ago while u.k. prime minister is amazing is the balfour declaration as a source of pride it led to what the palestinians called knuckler day and the displacement of hundreds of thousands. people one of them was

a poet and his story is recounted in a new play sharing now at london's young vic theatre i'm joined by the writer and star and director i mean is. going i mean it is amazing it's a one man show with it without restoring it and yet it was a double we're seeing hundreds of thousands of refugees drowning or risk in the mediterranean hundreds of thousands of palestinians. it's all distilled in a sense in this in this one poet what is a better way to understand the catastrophe of many except single izing one would be telling a story deep because in the refugee camps in lebanon across the arab world where palestinians have been made refugees in forty eight each one of them is a complete person with a complete life and today with the syrian catastrophe looming and happening all around us and thousands of people hundreds of thousands of people being misplaced each of them is a ta each of them is

a complete person with aspirations and dreams and and have been unsung talents that might be revealed later or not but every one of them is a complete person and we tend to forget that when we talk about big masses so actually reducing the prison in talking about one person and in the medium of theater which is the most intimate of all mediums to tell a story to recount a story because we in the audience share the same space the same air we breathe that means that the audience and the performer are both the same creature. earlier though i mean you you focus on one person in the prime minister of britain says we should be celebrating the balfour declaration one hundred years since the signing of it this year twenty seventeen i think balfour declaration took the right from the palestinians to be a nation and to have their state and independence which was you know until today we suffer like we palestinians who are citizens in israel. palestinians in the west

bank but a scene in gaza and palestinians in daraa border of refugees millions we are still suffering from balfour declaration and we we i hope that you know the british government. would you know would make justice with palestinians and not celebrating balfour declaration because this declaration. was displaced and and was exhausted and here it was living in a you know different place from his origin a village and he got you know he had a very you know hard hard life to rebuild his life from this the killer is in the village destroyed it destroyed limply to destroy there now there is a settlement chords. which is near its own the lands of for myself me i'm and i'm coming from the same same refugee family you know from other village which my grand grandmother my grandfather's was the same story of and this is you

know this is started with but for the liberation like the green line was to you know it's. not about to happen it was. this declaration which was will you people if people maybe maybe their excuse could be ignorance because they're not watching plays like the ones you guys are involved it. talks about the b.b.c. educating them in this day in the village in the war to be before. before ninety forty eight and then later actually. what do you think make of the way mainstream media coverage palestine these days i mean the b.b.c. did not cover was not banned even the raising of money funds from the gaza conflict. recently do you think it made it you know in in world press as a general rule our story has been. overlooked and unjustified. portrayed

for sure you know our narrative is the one that is not being put on the table openly. and i think a player does a big service for retelling our narrative from our perspective. you know muser segments of voice bites they're not they're not the reality in any way and the reality is always more complicated than what our t.v. or b.b.c. can cover at the same time. there is there is a need for balance to cover but this is impossible because there is no balance in nature you know the history is one is written by the victors that was always the case. in today's world in two thousand and seventeen when you have a free press on line and you've got a completely. you know revolutionary way to get informed i think our story will start seeping through because it's like water you know it will go to

the first crack at find and there's much more information out there maybe not yet in the mainstream media but will it will get to the mainstream media because there is there's no way of suffocating that story for so long world. will that really result in change on the ground i don't know we're not politicians we're theater makers. our responsibility is to tell the human stories as honestly as we can and as profoundly and. in the most complicated way to raise questions not to have answers if i'm honest i think having answers about politics is always a reduction of who we are we are complicated you know. it and me are part of the palestinians who live inside the state of israel our relationship with the other is complicated it's not straightforward but that's great that's not a bad thing we spend our times working in the west bank. we have

a very strong relationship with our palestinian diaspora that's who we are. trying to reduce the palestinians to a political headline is bad for the palestinians it's bad too for us. because it's reducing the way we perceive ourselves and that's the first thing that we need to fight against when we talk about occupation. thank you very much recovering god and before america gives us a rendition of. just trying to tell you about the saturday which variously described as donald trump speak for us are about to go to the european union. leader will see you all saturday for the eleven years to the day of the birth of a rembrandt. revenge by mohammed ali the man who killed my father and raised our own expelling me to our oak tree. and if he killed me i would just lost the five were ready i would take my revenge but i would not to murder him if it were soon made clear that he

had brothers or sisters who loved him and constantly longed to see him or if he had a wife to greet children who could into his absence but if he turned out to be on his own. like a branch from a tree without a mother or father with neither a brother nor sister wifeless without a child and without can or neighbors or friends colleagues or companions then i would not i think too is within that aloneness i convinced myself that spaying him no attention in its soul was a cause for event which. the

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