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the richest areas on earth initially included voices like this do i want to have i want to be a revolution in this country the media mainstream you don't deserve to be. campaigning but to the b.b.c. . corrupt government people need a revolution in. any other country that had been a revolution the mainstream media responded to for two years you've hounded demonize them. 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 with. you and the other billion in the media owners. and that is the vote of confidence. but it also stands out to you as the mainstream media. rapidly coverage would turn to this. good afternoon for. the queen and prince william
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visiting people affected by the terrible. gulf. and then a charity single initiative going on the record conservative music mogul. chills it sounds. 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. housing minister. accused of breaking promises on fire safety works. chief of staff will have more 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's. latest counter terror initiatives a police. it's id cards mass surveillance is this the way we're going to
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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 need you i mean you don't need some sort of surveillance but i think doing that all mass is obviously what you don't want it means that all of these various terrorists or various persuasions of one if we come that sort of society and i certainly don't want to live in a country like that one of the things i love about this country is that most of the policemen don't carry weapons that is very unusual in most countries police all carry weapons and i rather like the fact that i think that we are retrograde step to go down that road but immediately. secretary started her statement actually went to resume started speaking out of the fins repack incident alone the london bridge attack was to talk about internet surveillance of all 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 i'm very glad
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we got the investigation through. very inaptly named the snoopers i mean actually not doing it would have been a charter for more people being killed and called. the people who are using the investigative powers bill a totally uninterested what's in your email i mean i could be having an 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 speaking to him every day and he's speaking to a man we know who actually planted a bomb in new york and went inside is not 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. this is you
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know i believe that our whole policy in terms of how we've dealt with assad has been bad a sad is a family 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 gone democratic forces backed by. the libyan blowback which we saw earlier in the ground. when it comes to the i mean what you've just been saying about syria is a bit like what donald trump was saying when he was running for president and shot down a syrian. president. he shot down a syrian plane over syrian airspace russia has now threatened any plane west of your freight 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 has decided i fear it being. i mean what
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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 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 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 at all 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 caliphate it isn't. most and and and the there is no doubt that without the
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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 will ever agree but. don't do it with. the main the american little bit of. i don't believe we would be able to stop dying having the caliphate and i think that is important but within hours of saying they shoot down. any and made. 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 you but 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
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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 brits at negotiations are going on here on the record as saying. like headless chickens what sort of preparation military preparations go into bricks and i mean the trident submarine still able to. swim around in the e.u. 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 there'd 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're fighting anywhere we have what if after what if one 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 will deny this. by the way and i'm very concerned that there's
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no doubt for the last seventy years the united states and britain have ensure the safety and security of your because of the counts we've had in our defense because 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. 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 the conservative deal with 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
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u.k. was absolutely sweating its boris johnson's off this week with a heatwave 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 those 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 mayes new minister for the environment having less to say on the matter and the new conservative chief of staff captain 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 bank could have filled promises in a strangely pro e crown and the interim prime minister theresa may attempt to apologize. some of
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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 is 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 her brothers we are we are looking at these. measures to. say you know you're there in the usa while hurricane trump has been brewing up a storm over north korea in 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 right to his presidency we are going to and the era of nation building and instead focus on just strongly strongly does strongly isis funny that because he shot down two syrian aircraft in the past week maybe all this intervention is
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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 forces and teaching them how to bomb they've also had quite a bit of experience in torture as well but questions are being raised about whether information forcibly deemed by those in cos rates 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 supply these 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 with. the repressive regimes of freedom of information request
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discovered that mass surveillance 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 a bastion back of their own covering this week's news after the break neglect demolition and social cleansing how a 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 luxury apartments to rent residents doesn't satisfy both the director of the new film dispossession the great social housing swindle told the civil coming up in today's going underground.
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would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words and helps to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some i found a few those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it's one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this is a speech in history no other takers. claim that mainstream media has met its maker. welcome back at seventy two hours since hundreds of day of rage protesters marched on britain's parliament in the shadow of the tragic some say emblematic inferno at granville tower here in kensington in london but as grief turns to anger
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a tourism is 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 has going underground senior producer pete bennett of the screening of a new documentary dispossession the great social housing swindle to talk with key figures in what they consider a class war against social cleansing early nineteen eighties people living in u.k. social housing has dropped forty two percent less than eight percent with an estimated one point four million comedy on the council waiting lists get despite rising property prices and the groans i'm all for affordable hard's successive governments slash investment in social housing just as council of whole estates to private developers. state the site of a controversial regeneration ski lift residents have been forcefully re housed people of. being sunday and all off to london and especially the other to people
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reached a clue what they've children networks roamed they've been all food you know to some of the tomes outside folks lumber and council is so brutally forced to us because this is a close division off the middle class people they don't care about the close you know the king class people we know that we as published that so we do not expect anything and i know that i mean they are but he didn't toadies well from you david so the carnal physician oil scrawl streets activists and defend council housing member fred milton has jeremy cool beans manifest affairs ahead of the yacht coming grenfell tower inquiry of course jeremy jeremy colvin's initial plan to buy the body to build five hundred thousand council housing in five years was very wealthy but i have to say that in the course of the election that was altered down
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watered down watered down what does prove what is the true of recent events on benfield taleb says that we need council housing we need council housing one by a. responsible manager not intended no doubt sale for the council but actually it's a call function over the council to. run their housing properly and that means keeping them safe for houses allowed to happen in the first place i spoke to greenland in assembly member and comes in council of the highgate sean barrie about the causes of the housing crisis they also because this capitalism that the market as a has been unregulated and day regulates itself on to deal with say rising costs were saying let's go for the people buying homes sits around my that distorts a little bit and then they develop this business model really is fight. we're
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saying lots of hands to all belts no no london it could ever fools it's a body that is arrested just about scraped enough to run and fed the damage on supply and it's genuinely bright and either way you've got powers life got a nasty is running back on some of his promises to people in the states to vent when it comes to things like rent patrols and having a buy with a little history lesson however the crisis goes beyond the capital communities across the u.k. kevin judy grew up in school in schools on a housing estate he says has been ignored by power given the choice by films like dispossession the great social housing swindle looking at people of their god and god and their people are you going to see in this film what can they offer the tory . party enough and it's only party when 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 if they care that's going to make a difference not this you're going to make a difference is going to be isn't this
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a perfect show selfishness so sent on this. not care for anyone else if you have to if you actually think that the tory apart in this country believe in social haitian italy believe in society under such a said there is no scientists there's only. that she's not just a movie that she's trained moche that she's dennis paw this is a postman what stuff this is a saying of the times this is a show clone creativity documentaries phelim camera and get on people tell you they'll tell the truth for some time in this country put on a screen expressing the human cost of the housing crisis on the big screen this documentary explores the cats struck phase that led to a chronic shortage of social housing in brits essentially we've had success in the simply haven't seen the role for social housing and they being coming in. senior producer peter bennett's there i'm outside the ground felt our north can. i'm in
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london now with the director of dispossession the great social housing swindle paul first of all just your reaction to. be here lots of the mainstream media cameras here anymore. look in the building obviously you can't really comprehend what went on in there. when i found out about i was in sheffield and embassy in 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 been allowed to happen i think there were a dozen council inspections of that building and seeing these these so 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 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
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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 aftermath and when the fire still raging we were told not to politicize it. was the conservative and labor policy of right to buy so popular and yet so much part of the current housing 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. 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 just said that they would be in every place to for everyone they didn't even do one for one and so you know that goes into the blair and brown administration. as well in the
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combined period of thirteen years of new labor they 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 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 i mean that's the thing i mean it's very it's very easy to blame central government and say this all comes down from the state local authority to have to be a bit smarter i mean obviously their budgets have really been cut to the bone by you know announcing things as in the case of lambeth council where they announced the demolition of trusting in god and. 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
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three developments and you know working with property developers is always a very murky area because the bottom line for a job is profit but why do you think you'd like to subsidise move is a way to make housing more equitable gets going the common currency in the media and yet in your film it comes out of. all it does is to make housing more of affordable housing did used to be a permanent safe secure home you know in the fifty's and sixty's my family when they got council house and they were proud of it they lived and they knew it was their home for life but the problem is now you know with thousand in planning out there we're going to be no more you know last time tendencies 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 we see with that's going to be the case for you jamie solicitor from chambers who is in the film. his daughter is of the view that
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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 villas people don't 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 point shows where you know council tenants are depicted is on 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 but when it comes to who the government listens to in your film get a beer is the. very very rich state agencies recommend
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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 they i think they put a figure on someone's worth in london i think you've got to be earning 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 that much money and so what you have then is the colonize ation of space you have and the idea that be in the city you have to justify your place here by earning a certain amount of money which means you can afford to pass a 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 are socially cleansed initially we heard that there would be real housing there for the survivors of the greenfield tragedy the latest i think is. in london
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she's saying that boras or neighboring bar is how do you think i did in policy makers are we have to hold them to account after they've moved 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 a poor door is yes i mean a poor door is an 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
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a systematic microcosm of our society that 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 all of these you know working class people and i despair 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 actually take responsibility and if we don't have those fears challenge those fees. thank you. hope you enjoyed that requested favorite you're from the latest season of going underground we'll be back with another great season of going on the road on saturday the second of the till then keep in touch via social media we'll still be reading all your communication with the team.
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we all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone signed up to be free poisoned by our own people of seeing stuff that was nuclear biological and chemical products the said do not truck tires all types of styrofoam polystyrene batteries trucks there was a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between burn pits and what these brave soldiers were suffering from to compensate every soldier marine airman and sailor that was on the ground that are complaining about illnesses from their exposure from the berm pits would really literally send a v.a. broke and they don't want to pay it so the waiting decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they will have to pay and. called relevant to the middle finger of their views and mottled is. delayed and i hope he
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hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each other. but then my feelings started to change you talked about more like it was again still some marshawn to view those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not need a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one quite different speech because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its make. such stuff up there was.
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