based on a pretty serious investigation of all the facts that have come to light we don't have really time to go into the details of that but basically there is a lot of evidence that the syrian air force did bomb the. a house in country corn which was not that far from the site of the of the alleged point of impact of a sarin bomb but but several hundred yards a few hundred yards away and that that released an agricultural chemical which then caused phosphate in to be released into the air but that is consistent with basically the symptoms and signs that were exhibited by victims in the city so so that that's the substance of my story and on the country current affair so when the british foreign secretary boris johnson speaks here all when officials are on that lawn behind you speak with such certainty about syrian chemical weapon use it

might as well be bush and blair talking about w m d n a well exactly i mean look we know that the united states and its allies are committed to this point of view for reasons that are complicated you know there's no point in even going into the reasons but but they do have an interest in that narrative and they're going to stick to it regardless of what the facts really turn out to be of course one narrative we never hear about in britain is that britain was involved in killing twenty percent of the population of north korea what do you make of the fact that boris johnson said this week that we must be able to envisage attacking we must have that on the tape just like donald trump set off maybe annihilating the country right i mean this of course is the official position of the trumpet ministration and of course the u.k. government is going to necessarily go along with that and support it and i must say i find this the most worrisome thing. about u.s.

foreign policy today that the trumpet of ministration is pushing this threat of a essentially a not a preemptive but a preventive strike against north korea unless they cease their testing of nuclear weapons and they're there longer range missiles and this is a form of traditional u.s. coercive diplomacy it's very clear that's what they're after i don't believe that they intend to do any such thing but the real worry here the serious problem is that we know the north koreans are very sensitive to any sign that the u.s. might very seriously be ready to strike against north korea we know that in the one nine hundred ninety s. for example the clinton administration was preparing to carry out. a set of severe sanctions against north korea through the u.n. and the u.s. military was extremely upset about that they were very worried about it because

they knew that the north koreans might well consider that to be a prelude to a u.s. attack on north korea that the north koreans would regard any particular particularly any move by the united states to evacuate civilians from seoul which was being contemplated in conjunction with those sanctions to be a proud to an attack on north korea so it's a very very sensitive matter it's very tricky to draw the line precisely the right place and i'm worried that this administration will go too far in this regard russia and china have been expressing concern ironic you mentioned clinton because they again the british foreign secretary this week said he loved it the old days when russia was complying with a with a clinton administration symptomatic of some ideas in washington that they like it when rusher is a kleptocracy run by the i.m.f. why. i think what they're are longing for is are the days when they had

a yeltsin in power who was let's face it he was more or less a u.s. lapdog during the time that he was he was in power in russia and you know that it was a very comfortable time for the united states they were they were feeling like they could do whatever they wanted with regard to russia so we're now facing the consequences i think of that unfortunate period when the u.s. really set out to. push the nato frontier right up to the russian front here and thought they could get away with it unfortunately did not consider the possibility that a more nationalist administration would inevitably come to power later on and that's what we've seen in more recent years of course in russia now i know both of us know iran a fair bit what's your reaction to trump policy on iran because i mean i don't know whether to get the tragic humorous way is trump not doing everything iran once by canceling cia funding for is the mist in syria backing the iranian backed iraqi

government and now reneging on the deal and bringing to have run so much closer to easy to capitals let alone most go in beijing well first of all of course the objective situation in the middle east is such that u.s. real interests trying to stabilize situations which were completely destabilized by past u.s. policy is really coincident to a great extent with the policies and interests of iran that's that's absolutely true and in fact my colleague bob perry consortia news just published a story in which he says that source that that is well informed in side the u.s. government told him that trump actually signed off on a policy that was in fact continuing that policy trend of trying to stabilize things which which was in fact coinciding with. the policies of iran across the

middle east and that would imply and did in fact imply supporting the continuation of the j. c.p.o. way the iran nuclear deal and then according to this source as perry quotes the source the policy suddenly changed after trump met with netanyahu. when when you netanyahu came to the united nations in september there was a sudden shift in policy now you know no one knows exactly why that happened but my guess is that trump you know is somebody who basically does not have his own principles does not have a firm grasp of the objective situation and basically responds to various people who he talks to and change his mind based on netanyahu is. presentation of the situation but i must say that there are very stark similarities between the trump policy as he finally presented it publicly toward iran and the policy that george

w. bush administration support for the eretz israel greater israel a very aggressive israeli military policy in conjunction with an aggressive u.s. military policy in the region so so that's why you know i think there is a very strong parallel between the trumpet ministration policy and the bush administration policy but just finally and very briefly what are your sources saying about the fact that at least trump curbed obama's support for isis and al-qaeda linked so-called rebels in syria which ghibli were allied to israeli policy yes i think that that really represents a position that is shared within the u.s. military leadership and the pentagon who were concerned about the situation in syria and you know really we're not eager for the united states to. he lived

with the al qaeda folks in syria and you know wanted a policy that would be more consonant with the realities of the situation there and so that is again consistent with the view that. the military the pentagon. wanted to have a policy that would support the j. c.p.o. way and try to continue the stabilization rather than rather than reverse that and and support a policy that would be not in keeping with with u.s. interests in the region. thank you after the break fashion icon vivienne westwood on why she shouldn't have to go to jail for protesting fracking in britain a new sign of communism from u.k. pm theresa may despite her wearing a bracelet made up pictures of legendary mexican communist frida kahlo at this week's pm news. going underground.

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truth be consider is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision . here's what people have been saying about rejected in the us in the long austin the only show i go out of my way to lunch you know what it is that really packs a punch. is the john oliver of party americans do the same we are apparently better than two thousand. and see people you never heard of love back to the night president of the world bank they. were going to. send us an email. under margaret thatcher there was

a transition away from public housing and government assisted government underwritten public housing and they sold off all the council estates as there are now people bought into the units across the country and they became the land owning the new land owning neoliberal gentrification under the current government in the u.k. it's another socialist scheme of government underwriting property but not for the poor people they do it for the rich people. welcome back to zogby nothing but concerns british campaign is more right now then something called universal credit it's being rolled out by minority government to raise may according to labor leader cool been paul images voted against it the house vote. two hundred and ninety nine zero. to pull the road out

of universal credit will the prime minister respect the will of the house the prime minister replied like the question can send cat food for at a five night at ten and full house of five people are satisfied very satisfied with the service. will have more on universal credit on monday's show but corbin was obviously not impressed by the answer just as he's not impressed by dresden made plans to celebrate the both a declaration which catalyzed illegal occupation of palestinian land in the middle east that's not the way zionist labor and tory m.p.'s celebrate with troy all small national contribution to the creation of a democracy in the middle east actually for those who suffered from anti-semitism and fear its rise again and in the state of israel a true friend of the united kingdom mase reply ritually came within an hour that

israel announced illegal jewish settlements in the heart of a palestinian neighborhood of east jerusalem we are proud of the role that we played in the creation of the state of israel and we will certainly mark the seventeen or eight withdrawing of course it is the creation of israel which fostered islamism in the middle east israel after all funded them us the balfour declaration would also help to cause havoc in the region rich involves all fuels but a different kind of fossil fuel havoc was addressed by the s. and p. at this week's pm queues the scottish parliament voted by ninety one votes to twenty eight to fracking in scotland. the prime minister why she wouldn't consider following school and introducing an interesting a moratorium in the rest of the united kingdom in order that could be a full evaluation of the health and environmental consequences of this controversial technology and in order that the public can be consulted drazen may made clear her unstinting support for the. technology which causes climate change

this is an issue on which he and i simply going to disagree well someone who doesn't agree with the woman who lives in this house behind me and three activists a nine year old boy named all of the fashion icon vivienne westwood and her son the designer joe cora i'm going to go and see them at the gates to downing street. it was back in january that nine year old all of a greenwood wrote to u.k. prime minister tourism a about his fears of anglo swiss petrochemical giant seeking an injunction to prevent any proof from the villages of. to resume herself did not respond next weekend he also will seek an all encompassing injunction over one point two million square acres preventing and potentially imprisoning anyone objecting to its plans to frack in the u.k. fashion icon vivienne westwood and sun designer joe corrie heard about all of his letter and told us that they arranged to hand in another letter to number ten downing street but the police at the gates stopped them we spoke to vivienne

westwood and joke or it beside all of us to get some number ten downing street why haven't they let you in to talk about fracking with the prime minister or even to deliver a letter well i don't know but i've just been reading all of those later it's so good you need both it all himself in exchange between still really needs. and that the country will turn into a gas like sack and its mother's been upset in any way it's so well written it's fantastic if you've been to the communities affected by all of those families and friends knowing and literally unanimously the entire village turned down any of their mounts because this giant petrochemical company has been terrorizing. the most strict company an injunction that i think being granted in history will be in the high court next week to. defend there but

the situation we find ourselves in at the moment is that this country is now literally surrounded by france scotland the republic of ireland of all banned fracking we have moratoriums in northern ireland and even. surrounded by countries of the band and the conservatives also now isolated as the only major political party still pro fracking in the us deny that they're terrorizing anyone and it's for the safety of the protestors they should be banned from demonstrating against fracking. p.r. companies are meant for you are involved in organized professional lying and that will be exposed i hope in the next what is the mood in that community you are in in the past twenty four hours and they frightened even a grandmother making tea could be said to jail but generally this injunction stretches beyond even that it stretches to people making comments on social media

that they don't like it stretches to people talking on interfering with their supply chain who are not even. on the injunction. it creates an imprisonable offense with something that is a minor structure and actually part of our human rights and civil rights to put to peacefully protest they're trying to turn people into criminals they had to do it at a secret court hearing to paint these ordinary people of would say it's and i can tell you i met them last night if you want to talk about dunker spirit any also a bit off more than they can sure this isn't it they're not going to be frightened by this but they've been trying to terrorize people that have been serving in the police force for thirty years says the bronze commanders public. protest can understand this injunction and think it makes their job more difficult not my.

but on the other hand stated if i mean vivian the law have been frightened of you in the past think it's a multinational paying off the law in this country well fracking kills that's what i want to say and this you can't say that where all of our lives. yeah could go to jail if you protest well i don't know no i believe i will say anyway and find out but. i wanted to present this report. for teresa to read because it absolutely proves that fracking is much worse than calling for the environment and they have been lying and pretending that fracking something that's kind of ok apart from the fact that it's just such an old idea and green energy use is so much change and it'll just then mean financially

disaster for this country. after. the health issues are just you know people are getting killed after the health issues everything it's just me d. kid it's the dick in this it's me dick ok well you mentioned the police there have been allegations of the police using excessive force against protesters in wood. hill. new road in particular that we've had problems with the police the police have stood by and let private security come out on to the public highway and bashed . women around. to actually. i mean march. there is no fracking so i guess. all there is is an empty field and that field has now been posted with injunction.

all the way round cameras everywhere and the injunction you do even contest or try to find out what this injunction is about you will be liable for costs and if you read the wording on it it's true. when only discovered the truth about this injunction that this is what was happening i asked to see a copy of it i had to provide my id my name and address too in your suits lawyer they sent me a seventeen hundred page document full of legally. and at the same time they put me down as the name defendant on the injunction just for asking to see the injunction now we have a right in this country to make sure that we put ourselves on the right side of the law in this case you need to understand what that injunction mean if you will a newspaper eventually persuaded in the australis one document that said there's a real risk for the protesters that's why they shouldn't be able to protest

fracking. i'm afraid from a p.r. company. to protect themselves from these giant bully this petrochemical company and in the end let's face it what does this company want to do with scarce and all this misery that it wants to bring on the british people it wants to turn into plastics. there's only learns the size of texas in the. mind that and. how how brave this is all over i think is stunned by the fact that despite you pretty. free allowing yourselves into downing street journal out of the letter to go forward you know i love the frightened of all over of the. oh i think it's wonderful the t. cell response to such a young age. what everybody should be responsible for because. it's a killer that's i want to say i'm so proud of just my son john. oh

he's my son and both activists and assist speciality and without a hand i just think you know it's the protesters have been the most important of course thank god we've got all these people protesting eighty percent of the country don't want to hear what you have police who machine guns are not allowing you three and to deliver a letter what would you say to activists who want to protest. given there's an injunction and they make themselves liable for prison i mean the injunction hearing three day hearing is happening next week in the high cool we are seeking to remove it and we have it thrown out by the judge we think it's fundamentally wrong in little. country big human rights to protest. and there's lots of problematic issues with these two persons on they might as well have addressed it to the. you know. comfort in this we will fight this for the people who would say it's will fight this fight and we're

not going to have this this monstrous industry unleashed on to the british people this scene here from would say this community coming together this is going to be repeated believes the village they're not going to be scared of white family. and he also going to lose this but. we don't want the spread we don't need we want renewable energy we want a future for our children. not armageddon with fossil fuel no i mean if it was right way over. i just tell you that all of the thanks so much i'm going to read a bit of your letter talking about the not letting it is safe and this is the second leg oliver sent me to chile. and he says i wrote on the eighteenth of january two thousand and seventeen and you did not write that actually i feel disappointed because. a lecture i got from felt like

a lecture you would give to any person asking a question about fracking you did not say i could come and see you fracking will bring that value of houses down number one and then he goes on the plan it will turn into sacks. she said gas in case she didn't know. and it's made me think that. fracking cost healthy. gas will go into the tap more than repopulate. the population of england will go down just kills you say. sorry. thanks. about the allegations made in this interview and they replied any toys he supports people's right to peacefully protest and it's important to make clear that our

injunctions do not prevent this however when purchased become unlawful we have to do all we can to ensure the safety of everyone on and around our sides including the protesters themselves blocking traffic including emergency vehicles is dangerous place resources placing is dangerous in these circumstances it was rights and responsible to see these injunctions and we are pleased that the courts a great. announces on this program a new parliamentary group to tackle one of. the policies till then. you will see on monday two hundred years to the day. independent venezuela the country now with the largest reserves of oil in the world.

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