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and if any other country did it in a revolution you know you the mainstream media responded 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 we do you and the other billion in the media owners. and that is the vote of confidence not in terms of gender. 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 have been visiting people affected by the terrible. gulf grenfell and then the charity single initiative for going on the record conservative music mogul sleep on the lead. chills
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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. 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 weapons. but i think doing that.
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these various terrorists of 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 they don't and 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 the finzi park incident alone the london bridge attack was to talk about internet surveillance of all the helicopters avails were 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 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
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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 actually planted a bomb in new york and went inside and. you know i was 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 and syria. have a track record on this as you know i believe that our whole policy in terms of how we've dealt with assad has been bad a sad is a fairly nasty disgusting man. he is a fact of life on the ground some of the opposition forces we are dealing with some of the most. more hardcore than al qaeda itself we call them the different
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demographic forces backed by. the libyan blowback which we saw in the area around there. 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 now shot down. 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. 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
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is that we deal with particularly. control people which we were doing before to make sure. that it's 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. very very capable 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. every which way. before
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you know you don't do it without without without 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 have signaled 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 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 bricks of negotiations are going on here on the record as saying. like headless chickens what
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sort of preparation military preparations go into bricks and i mean the trident submarine still able to. flick 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 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 do 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 your. is extremely important for our
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nation extremely important. and i think we need 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 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 it's boris johnson is 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
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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 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 injustices 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 was was or her brother's. we are looking at these.
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measures to. you know you said in the usa well hurricane trump has been burning 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 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 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.
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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 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 aliens 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
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we're expecting a downpour of this information. about 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 communities as the private sector profits from human suffering and. luxury apartments to rent residents five balls and the director of a new film dispossession the great social housing swindle. just shows patrolled by. enemy troop
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movements have been spotted on the river. here in the early to troops of militants have joined forces. those groups need to determination for an independent state in the philippines. even after two months of funding keeps finding hidden weapons and explosives. not being. used to live daily occurrence. is a busy day. walking. for the species says he doesn't.
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parent better than. i see. heard of. the president of the world bank. sent us an email. welcome back. hundreds of day of rage protest as. in the shadow of the tragic some say emblematic in. here in kensington in london but his grief turns to anger post-election chaos and lack of transparency from local councils and private developers how did new labor lay the foundations on which the housing crisis is constructed today is 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 against social 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 hirings successive governments to slash investment in social housing just as council hold the states to private developers asin dennis lives in south east london elstree states the site of a controversial regeneration scheme which residents have been forcefully re housed people are being sunday into off to london and especially do to people reached a clue what they've children at home they've been all through do you notice some of the tomes. on 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
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anything and i know that they are but he didn't toadies well from you david so the current position i also cross streets activists and defend council housing member fred milton has jeremy cool bins manifest affairs ahead of the coming grenfell tower inquiry of course jeremy jeremy called and initial plan to buy the body to build five hundred thousand council housing in five years with her he will. have to save it in the course of the election that will fall to down watered down watered down what is true what is the recent events on the bench of talent says that we need council housing we need council housing and by a. responsible manner just not intended not out of the council but actually it's a call function all the council to. run their housing properly. well and that means
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keeping the place but how is this allowed to happen in the first place i spoke to greenland assembly member and counting council of the highgate sean perry about the causes of the housing crisis they also because he's kept his you know that the market as a has been unregulated and day regulated for the faulty law we are saying rising costs were saying look the problem is that people buying high risks are to run the minute that distorts a little and the big developers business model really is failing and we're saying let's that hangs all belts no no london it could ever fool it's a body there is a risk just about scraped enough to run and fed the damage archons is a buying it's genuinely broke and either way you thought it was like you've got the city is rolling back on some of his promises to people on estates to rentals when it comes to things like rent controls and having a buy with from the highest of all age however the crisis goes beyond the capital to communities across the u.k.
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heavy duty grew up in scotland schools and a housing estate he says has been ignored by power given the choice by films like dispossession the great social housing swindle cooking the people of the god and god and the people are you going to see in this film what can we offer the tory. party now for an attorney 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 a daycare that's going to make a difference not this nobody need for their friends is going to be listening as. per parent show selfishness so central nests. not care for anyone else if you have to if you actually think that the torn apart in this country believe in children haitian they don't believe in society under such a said there was no son to his own can 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 chains this is a show. clone creativity documentary 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 now with the director of dispossession of the great social housing swindle paul first of all just your reaction to. be here lots of the mainstream media cameras you don't hear 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 was seeing the images on t.v. and initially like my space where you just feel sympathy and empathy for the people
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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 seen it come out in the last few days it just draws you back to systematic neglect not only of people been in the 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 aftermath. when the fire is still raging we were told not to politicize it. was the conservative and labor pool. 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 that goes 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 the combined period of thirteen years of new labor they've built fewer houses in total than sacha's government averaged every year so it's it's an issue across both parties and it's a policy now life needs to end because we do have a housing shortage you know we do have problems with council housing 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
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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 authorities do have to be a bit smarter i mean i see their budgets have really been cut to the bone by you know announcing things as in the case of lambeth council where they announce the demolition of cresting the gardens on twitter you know that's not very clever it has actually deeply insensitive is 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. base 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 media and yet in your film it comes out. all it does is to make housing more of affordable housing. used to be
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a permanent safe secure home you know in the fifty's and sixty's my family when they got council housing they were proud of it they lived in i knew it was their home for life but the problem is now you know with the housing 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. chambers who appears in the film. 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 about what he 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 it's class in britain today yeah there's a lot of stigmatized around it and you know that comes from the media it comes from
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t.v. programs poverty porn 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 that are 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 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 man. and so what you have
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then is the colonize ation of space you have the idea that to be in this city you have to 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 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 there for the survivors of the greenfield tragedy the latest i think is in london she's saying that boras or neighboring bar is 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've 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 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 we are. as
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a society we all need to responsibility and if we don't have to challenge those fees. requested favorites from the latest season. we'll be back with another great season of going underground on saturday the second of september but till then keep in touch by social media will still be reading lol your communication with the team. oh.
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a complete denial i think at all levels of government that there was any connection between berm 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 way to the decades a lot of those soldiers will die in time and they won't have to pay. to get the middle finger the movie in my hole is. delayed and i hope it does.
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not. clashes between protesters and police in the u.s. city of seattle during rival pro free speech and to hate marches it comes a day after violence at a white nationalist rally in virginia and. children are being reunited with their relatives after artie's campaign to bring home russian speaking orphans of this law makes they fall the worse in iraq. as tensions rise in the verbal spot between the u.s. and north korea donald trump's military.
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