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ok what i did hear that we are on the police a minute approached a friend of mine and got into his car he was trying to bag we couldn't handle the situation any more i don't blame this people i blame the government i don't know what they're doing i'm just here to say that we can't take it any more we don't want them here. with my dad we give them a place to sleep and food we give them eighty euros a day but first we should be taken care of our own children our own people oh elderly but the mayor of this town says ventimiglia simply has been left alone to deal with the crisis by themselves and he's one of the many who has been accusing the you of not providing it's countries with enough support to take in more migrants. the european union we've never seen do anything here i don't think the e.u. has given us any real support the big expense for us comes from under-age migrants who the town according to law has to take care of generally we will be reimbursed
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around half of the expenses there are tens of thousands of yours that our town is paying at the moment because of this earlier this year italy even threatened to close down its ports to boats carrying migrants so we'll just have to wait and see how officials will react to the situation and it's early and also how they plan to tackle the ongoing migrant crisis in the. witching hour to international folks staying with the saving remember you can follow us on the go on twitter facebook and you can download the app. it's. a. low blow hard to sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles with. the new socks for the tell you that will be gossip and probably by itself the most important day. off the bad guys and tell me you are not cool enough to buy their product.
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all the hawks that we along the border will want. i'm actually town say and where in north kensington cation of the grenfell tower atrocity this is going underground on the day u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn introduces hip hop to run the jewels of this he has glastonbury festival in the southwest of england coming up in the show. whether any of the on the streets. with guns can save teresa mayes of britain from
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british foreign policy and the next terror attack and is another london block is evacuated ten days after a mass killing at the tower amidst one of the poorest communities in one of the richest in the world we ask a question. of british governments guilty of deliberate and systematic social plans ing of british cities we speak to director about his new film dispossession the great social housing swindle seventy two hours since the day of rage how the people are rising up against social cleansing of the u.k.'s working classes from alleged u.k. government cover ups to u.s. backed torture in yemen we uncover some of this week's news all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first the politicization of the grand catastrophe in london is becoming clearer coverage of the fire which left so many dead in the poorest community in one of the richest areas on earth initially included voices like this what do i want to happen i want to be
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a revolution in this country also the media the mainstream you don't deserve to be to. be campaigning but to the b.b.c. as mouthpieces for this corrupt government people need a revolution in this country and if any other country that had been a revolution the mainstream media responded to put two years you've hounded demonize. 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. i didn't. rapidly coverage would turn to this. good afternoon from. the queen and prince william have been visiting people affected by the terrible
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fire that. engulfed. and then a charity single initiative going on the record conservative music mogul sleep on. chills it sounds beautiful absolutely beautiful the country will now have to wait for a public inquiry which will report directly to number ten where the former u.k. 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 on the streets. of valence is this the way we're going to combat terrorism and i says in britain i
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don't think it is the right way of combating it doesn't mean you don't need some weapons doesn't mean you don't need some sort of surveillance but i think doing that. it means that all of these various terrorists of various persuasions if we. don't live in a country like that one of the things i love about this guy. 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 would be a retrograde step to go down that road but immediately. secretary started her statement actually went to resume started speaking after the ins repack incident alone the london bridge attack was to talk about internet surveillance all the helicopters events 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
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we got the investigation through. very inaptly name the snooping the not doing would have been a charter for more people being killed and caught. the people who are using the investigative powers bill a totally uninterested what's in your email i mean i could be having affair with thirty different women it would give it would give a damn what they would be interested in is if i was regularly in contact with a known bomb maker in yemen. then they would have to ask bush and they'd 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 aria 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 the whole policy in terms of how we've
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dealt with assad has been bad assad is a thorough really nasty disgusting man. he is a fact of life on the ground some of the opposition forces we are dealing with some of the more hardcore than al qaida itself we call them that are going democratic forces back back to the area and it was there's obviously the libyan blowback which is. i mean what you just been saying about syria is a bit like what donald trump is saying when he was running for president and shot down. he shot down a syrian. airspace russia is 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. the australians have stopped
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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 you what is crucial is that we deal with particularly. 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 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 that is important and there's no doubt that without the element the
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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've got a problem what the hell do you do then and i don't believe. that the main the american. little bit of. i don't believe we would be able to stop having the caliphate and i think that is important but within hours of saying they shoot down. down in a rainy unmade. britain should raise or maybe 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 hugo weapons and when trump said he was against that really worries me like he's done nothing yet. but i think i think we have not dealt with iran very cleverly now admittedly they support
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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 and negotiations are going on here on the record as saying. like headless chickens what sort of preparation military preparations going to break i mean the trident submarine still able to. swim around in the e.u. waters off the brics is 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 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 that 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
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there's no doubt for the last seventy years the united states and britain have ensured the safety and security of europe because of the count's we've had in our defense because of what america is saying i'm not sure that is any longer the case and that is very worrying because the security of europe is extremely important for our nation extremely important. and i think we need to a lot of thoughts about what this all means to us. thank you. jeremy corbin's address to eunice and the u.k.'s biggest public service union in the past twenty four hours wasn't mentioned much in mainstream media as well as the fact that he is the first labor leader in ten years to be the number one choice for britain's prime minister but what other stories have been lost in the other verse three of bricks at the conservative deal with p. and the queen's speech well here is going on the grounds deputy editor sebastian packer reporting on some of the week's buried news.
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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 particular levels those are the ones that kill millions of people every year but maybe that's because defra allegedly covered up the ad pollution in parts of england breach levels this week with michael gove teresa 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
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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 brothers we are we are looking at is. measures to. you know you said in the usa well hurricane trump has been bring up a storm over north korea and cuba he's kept his fingers firmly off the bottoms of twitter about his decision to send thousands more troops to afghanistan just one of the broken campaign promises that litter the road to his presidency we are going to and 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
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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 wars have killed an estimated four million muslims since one nine hundred ninety there are allegations of kidnap and. torture of yemeni citizens by close u.s. allies the u.a.e. while the us are arming u.a.e. forces and teaching them how to bomb they've also had quite a bit of 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
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discovered that massive valence technology powerful enough to spy on entire countries and track people through their mobile phones is being exported to countries such as saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar so next week make sure to wrap up warm and take an umbrella because we're expecting a downpour of this information. just about their own covering this week's news after the break. 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. for the luxury of. residents. the director of the new film. the great social housing swindle.
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welcome back at seventeen. hundreds of day of rage protest as britain's parliament in the shadow of the tragic some say emblematic inferno and here in kensington in london but as grief turns to anger at teresa mayes 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 has 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. eight
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. point four million. rising property prices and the growing them all for. housing. puts us in the southeast moments elstree states the site of a controversial regeneration scheme which residents have been forcibly re housed people are being sunday and all off to london especially the other two people reached a clue what they've children that roamed the 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 need to close people they don't care about the close you know the king class people we know that we as well dish that so we do not expect
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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 bins manifest affairs ahead of the yacht coming grenfell tower inquiry of course jeremy jeremy called an initial plan to buy a buddy to build five hundred thousand council housing in five years looks very wealthy but i have to say that in the course of the election that will alter down more to down watered down what does prove what is the tree of recent events on beneful taleb says that we need council housing we need council housing and by a. responsible manager not intended not out so well for the council but actually it's a call functional council to. run their housing properly and that means keeping
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them safe for houses allowed to happen in the first place i spoke to greenland in the simply member and comes in council of the highgate sean barrie about the causes of the housing crisis they also because it's capitalism that the market as a has been unregulated and date regulates if it will fall to deal with say rising costs. so the saying let's approach the people buying high sits around the fire that distorts a little and the big develop this business model really is fighting and saying lots of hands to all belts no no london it could ever fool it's a body that was arrested just about scraped enough to run and fed the damage on supplying it's genuinely bright and either way you thought i was like you've got the masses 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 a little history lesson however the crisis goes beyond the capital to communities across the u.k. caving to the grew up in scotland schools and
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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 the god and god and the people you're 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 a daycare that's not going to make a difference not that's not going to make a difference it's going to be isn't this 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 children haitian they don't believe in society under such a said there is no son to his own people that she's not just a movie that she's trained moche that she's dennis paw this is a boy from her black stuff that she's just saying of the times that she's a show clone creativity documentaries phelim camera and get on people
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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 cat's strong phase that led to a chronic shortage of social housing in brits essentially we've had. for social housing and maybe. senior producer peter bennett there i'm outside the green field to our north kensington in london with the director of dispossession the great social housing swindle paul first of all just your reaction to. the here are lots of the mainstream media cameras here anymore. 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 i'm seeing the images on t.v. and initially like most people 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 saying it's the sole come out in the last few days it just draws you back to systematic neglect not only of people in council housing of working class people of poor people of vulnerable people all over the u.k. . the thing i keep going back to is the seventy odd tory m.p.'s that voted against the landlord bill to make homes fit for human habitation and i think that you know this terrible incident just raises more questions and more anger about why we have a government why we have a system of pollen that isn't representative of people who go to the film because of. a game in the game even just off to the off the mountain 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
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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. years and years and years and so the right to buy in principle wasn't about id. yeah the problem was they didn't replace like for like i think that you said that they would be in every place too for every one 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 built fewer houses in total than the fascist government averaged every year so it's it's an issue across both parties and it's a policy now life it 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 cuts in 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 states but local authorities do have to be a bit smarter i mean i see their budgets have really been cut to the bone you know announcing things as in the case of lambeth council where they announced the demolition of cresting gardens on twitter you know that's not very clever that's actually deeply insensitive it's actually an offensive so you know not only do councils have to communicate better but they need to explain why they do in these three developments and you know working with property developers is always a very murky area because of the bottom line for a. profit but why do you think you'd like to subsidise move is a way to make housing more equitable gets going 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
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a permanent safe secure home you know in the fifty's and sixty's my family when they got a council house and they were proud of it they lived in they knew it was their home for life but the problem is now you know with thousand i'm planning out there are going to be no more you know last time tendencies you see in the film that when a person dies in social housing it's a requirement it's just. sell it on to the private sector yeah that's part of the new house and i'm not sure he's there with that's going to be the case for you jamie solicitor from st james who appears in the film. is of the view that a lot of that policy may or may not actually be in force i mean there are still campaigns to try and repeal that so i think we're still in very early days but what it can do in principle is bad enough i think in the film you talk about social stigma or a bit like in rio's village 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 polling shows where you know council tenants are depicted is on benefits that depicts it as somehow being is stupid and that's not the case you know some of our brightest minds and people came from council housing. 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 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 money and so what you have
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then is the colonize ation of space you have and the idea that being 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. socially. initially we heard that there would be real housing there for the survivors of the ground for 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 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
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a poor door is yes i mean a poor door is. 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 mentions 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 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've 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
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