and upside down on that day plus from palestine to britain we speak to an organization that records on team was slim incidents in the u.k. about whether the mainstream media is to blame for a rise in islamophobia tax and this british campaign is lose their bid to block sales to saudi arabia what exactly was u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson doing in comes to mediate the push and gulf crisis all the civil war coming up and today is going underground but first will schoolchildren understand tomorrow's e.u. talks in ukraine will they understand that the e.u. backed government in kiev as we know allied to far right groups associated with anti semitism after ukraine's tragic world war two history that there is a contextual nazi past to this week's ordering by donald trump of u.s. missile warships and hundreds of soldiers to the black sea maybe not here in the u.k. few even realize the historical context behind tourism is billion pound deal with a party recently allied to anti catholic paramilitaries to stay prime minister here

for instance is how u.k. school children are educated about northern ireland it says the protestant majority discriminated against catholics and that the ira used terrorist attacks and that the troubles involved many high profile attacks no where is any sign of the word gerrymandering or colonialism if curricular are being attacked for being imperialist attacks on the schools by government austerity are also under attack oscar nominated star steve coogan and campaigner alison ali founder of save our schools accompanied m.p.'s and schoolchildren recently to downing street to protest the slashing of education budgets this even before theresa may said school teachers will continue to face cuts in salary steve coogan a shot to fame with his creation of bumbling rightwing chapter of host alan partridge 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 bow. all sung by protesting school children. act am we

caught up with steve wynn and the founder of britain save our schools downtown dallas and alley 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 austerity measures are going to be imposing the last seven years i think people have had enough of them 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 at the moment it's not doing. about syria the 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 sports things a dean don't essential bear 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. the n.h.s. let alone education we are told continually in britain not to politicize austerity what do you say to them i say balderdash quite frankly i say as the fifth largest economy in the world we can surely provide a world class education system. all the states has 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 that this school is 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 all schools to 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 featurism a 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 from the decent decent state education system a decent health service that's thing that most people agree with that's what most people's country with

a poll recently said of fifty percent population 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 in 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 the civil service turnbull additions 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 it's just like that's a separate issue i mean our views on that i think. 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 we 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 some fast system 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 made us all just. weep you know from a heartfelt place that the national audit office is such that school buildings themselves need six point seven billion pounds spending on them 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 were started seeping last they were given 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. it's a choice it always is and it's a choice this is where you re appropriate. phones and i mean paul is the problem isn't 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's been seen as a folly that money's like almost the money suggested should be cut from schools every year. fifty million on the on the project resist it's 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 tabloid rightwing 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 i was there what with the humor in that was that i was there last year at 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 of christianity historically sort of the gods of the more so yes that are cetera et cetera and then my own innate or all societies 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 and. thank you.

i was reading 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 the muslim attacks in the u.k. feel like 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 or something still institutionally bigoted but. i think there is certainly something institutionally that has not been challenged around terminology like i think there is a challenge around some of the endemic racism and 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 labor m.p. any m.p. who makes comments like that can hang on to their job i'm clear is that you know this is unacceptable and these common should never have been made man she has to face the. is all this. good to tell the statistics having heard about his love of

attacks since so-called days is. just up five hundred percent of the island bridge attacks britons responding in exactly the way i want precisely this is 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 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 mention 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 ngo far right attacks like the one we saw in. mosque treated very differently still bowen stream 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 issues 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 hard. 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 it 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. 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 are being stopped in the streets by prevent officers with their every five business cuts to try to infiltrate communities i wouldn't know about that but i would say i mean. what you've been stopped well i mean i i would have often i would hope i will 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 case work on this we have to sometimes challenge those people who think it's ok just to target members 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 fountains of palestinians and after monday's high court decision in london is britain's multi-billion dollar military support the saudi arabian destruction in yemen all but assured. we bought two of going to grow.

all of the bonds that were available to trade in the public market centrally taken private they've been purchased by the central bank and they've also purchased many stocks e.t.f. the central bank of switzerland is a huge buyer of apple stock the central banks are taking all the publicly traded securities bonds or stocks also market as a way to stealthily bail out all these corporations that are buying back their own cite them selves using that money thanks to the low low low interest rates of banks like bank of japan.

seemed wrong. but. just don't hold. any gold yet to shape out to stay active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. 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 abdel for going back we're going to have to buy that in the stars on later in the show i should say it's eleven years in. aid to the u.s. and u.k. but the tree forces in the fight against the day as well the one that victory eleven years ago in the twenty six lebanon war was here reflections on the i

believe it was a turning point in the middle east in history managed to pass for thirty two days and he inflicted huge defeat on the israeli army's because they. considered one of the strongest in the middle east maybe the fourth of the world that is really. the strongest country in the middle east actually was tarnished by that war. emerged as a strong power well arguably amnesty international. were defeated go in london your first headline middle east i absolutely shocked rich until our arms campaigners. to blocks tools saudi arabia these moms and the machine. is used against one of the words human. which is actually in the military in. the british government who told us that their foreign policy is whiter than white boards as the secretary of state of britain was a rational title to include the saudi that coalition was not deliberately targeting

civilians more than ten thousand civilian women must a killed by these kind of i mean now it is legal to bomb them it is legal to kill them it is legal to destroy the infrastructure legal does ill weapons and training the saudis are going to be good news for britons but when you factor in company b. systems 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. therefore i don't 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 already escalating the second is that sanction or economy which is also at its peak and the third state if the two states 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 united states trying to defuse that situation whether they are going to succeed personally i doubt 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 patrol in the way to a new study shows clinton last election because of growing working class opposition to war this report is saying that the casualties highest casualties were in the poorest and least educated there is going to stay yes because a vote of mainly middle seats people actually supplying the american army would fight has. a very heavy price for that at least thirty thousand people were

injured in iraq and about five thousand people were killed so those were signals this is our red card you 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 al qaeda fighters or is the syrian what was worst kept secret that. could actually become a nightmare as it is say israel did that it's helping isis yes they are they are helping 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 that syrian fighters opposition fighters fighters in the world and. how does the israeli public over the photograph of prime minister netanyahu the knowing that he is helping isis and the israeli taxpayer is helping they don't want hizbullah

forces or maybe she's all syrian army to be closer to the golan heights border so if those who create a buffer zone for there isn't really why not. put each that border with syria. all financial support and militia i believe is that it will be will be in a very very dangerous 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 ministers raise amazes the balfour declaration as a source of pride it led to what the palestinians called knuckler day and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people one of them was the poet and his

story is recounted in a new play showing now at london's young vic theatre i'm joined by the writer and star and director i mean is ours or everything's. going and we're 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 obviously about this is a one man show it's all distilled in a sense in this in this one. 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 elaborate on 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 prism and 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. i mean you you focus on one person the prime minister of britain says we should be celebrating the balfour declaration the hundred years since the signing of it this year two hundred seventeen i think balfour declaration it took the right from the palestinians to to be a nation and to have their state and independence which is you know until today we suffer like we palestinians who are citizens in israel and palestinians in the west

bank but as you know the palestinians in the arab world are 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 the palestinians and not celebrating balfour declaration because this declaration. was displaced and and was exiled and here was living in. you know different place from his origin a village and he 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 destroyed disorder now there's a settlement chords. which is near the lands of so for myself me i'm and i'm coming from the same same refugee family you know from other village

which my grandmother other 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. about to happen it was it was the this declaration which was will you people if people maybe maybe their excuse could be ignorant because they're not watching plays like the ones you guys are involved it. talks about the b.b.c. educating them in these day in the village in the war to be before. before the 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 would you think it would have made it you know in world press as a general rule our story has been overlooked and just. portrayed

for sure you know our narrative is the one that is not being put on the table openly. and i think a play like that does big service for we telling our narrative from our perspective . you know news or 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 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 fines 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 answer is 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 on before america gives us a rendition of revenge just to tell you about that saturday which malik variously described as donald trump speak for us from buster the european union. leader will see you all saturday for the eleven years to the day of the birth of dutch into rembrandt. revenge by mohammed ali the man who killed my father and raised our own expelling me into a narrow country and if he killed me i would dressed last therefore i were already i would take my of then but i would not to murder him if it were

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

the trump handshake at the g. twenty is now part of history while the reading appeared to go well both presidents said so moving forward almost by law the relationship is problematic best are the u.s. and russia destined to be enemies. still exist. rico's treated as one. hundred forty three called. the island is controlled by the u.s. government and some puerto ricans crave independence. either with. their earliest. still many do wish to join the u.s.

hundreds more leave every day. beings. with the country at a crossroads for anger on the island is on the rise. of observed events of the past few years and asked myself several times what's going on in my native germany. millions of refugees. u.s. intelligence agencies indiscriminately listening in on german citizens of the government. and once again. heading east. 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 interest. someone else's will .

donald trump jr rejects allegations of collusion with moscow over a meeting with a russian lawyer last year but the kremlin saying cheap. no ties to the government . amid reports that displaced mosul residents are starting to return home via so growing that they have nowhere to go as the iraqi cities liberation has left sways of the city in ruins. the british government comes under fire after revealing it won't publish a much delayed report on the funding of extremism and national security reasons.