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increasing worker democracy arguably like that proposed for british boardrooms by u.k. prime minister to raise i'm a has i was i've clarified today's meeting very clear we want workers representation on boards and workers on boards are also advocated by u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn so are the conditions right for a real revolution unlike russia nine hundred seventeen there's certainly class resentment over revelations from the so-called paradise papers detailing tax dodging by the rich the people will no doubt decide but joining me now is the british labor party's shadow emergencies minister chris williams and before we get to revolution the paradise paper has your reaction to these new revelations which is a seriously injured people from the manchurian attack did not get medical help for an hour that's the may twenty second attack in manchester the ground in a concert hall that's incredibly troubling and certainly merits investigation as to why that happened i mean i can speculate i mean one of the reasons i think potentially could be the fact that our emergency services are massively underfunded
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and i've seen substantial reductions in government investments are not spread to a reduction in staffing and consequently right across the piece the emergency services are struggling to actually cope with the pressures that being put on the show the government would deny the cuts had a big influence over the or all i don't think they can deny the only do deny there is there isn't any any money and you guys seem to have all the money is part of the problem the fact we don't have the money because of tax avoidance little well like they were well it's very interesting isn't it i mean the figures suggest that something in the order of a seventy five billion pounds is avoided every single year in this country there is literally trillions of pounds so i don't in the tax savings and you know that's why we're calling for a public inquiry that's why we've said that we want to see a range of different measures brought in including a register of those who have holdings in british dependencies. and we've talked
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about introducing measures such as withholding tax to actually do you know took the tax source as it were to make sure the when companies or making profits it is going to they pay their dues as it were because they know they benefit obviously from this economy they benefit from the infrastructure that's in place in this economy in the house to be paid for out of the public purse and by you know not paying their obligations in terms of the tax that they should be doing then clearly that's putting additional pressure public services or crying out for investment day or in a desperate state with the adequate numbers of policing and adequate numbers of nurses weightiness going through the local government has been decimated social care in absolute crisis no government should be the head to represent the interests of the many not the few but it seems to me this government and indeed successive governments has got to be said over the last. four decades really have served the interests of the elites they've served the interests of the faceless corporations
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or they've served the interests of billionaires formal then they have the interests of people in scottish government removed say that it was worse under blairite and labor they have tried to type up some guy loopholes i mean should there's a question they would your leader as well should the queen apologize for offshoring tens of millions to avoid well i mean i think frankly the creek queen is a sideshow i mean ten million pounds yes i think she should apologize but let's not get too focused on the queen ten million pounds versus literally trillions of pounds and lord ashcroft involvement in this i mean moving we've called for for example georgia for its former tory chairman absolutely but given where things are also calling for is for closer scrutiny of members of parliament and we do know the public accepted member of parliament do have offshore accounts and you know frankly i'd like to follow the ecuadorian example where no public official is allowed to have any offshore accounts they had a referendum earlier than most of you the prime minister doesn't have all as well as i understand what. you make of the fact that her husband merges maybe twenty
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billion dollars in tax dodging companies like amazon and starbucks as well as your executive of capital group whether a clip clearly questions to answer seems to be for the promise to read and the could be conflict of interest here obviously very close family member partner husband. you know. and his business dealings i think do need to come under the spotlight here. you know we need answers i think to these very serious questions a been raised as a consequence of the revelations in these paradise papers it just goes on in fundamental to british capitalist society where the right wing blogger is saying john mcdonald had a chance for his tax filings show that fourteen thousand pounds was involved in some pension in good brazilian that doesn't mean joe will go back in of course of. talk about clutching at straws that's a it's a smear and the fact is that john has no control over the way where the pension fund so nor does anyone well now but the point is really no bit well no we deed but this is where we need. restrictions legislation and we talked about bringing that
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in but where you know complete do have control these corporations they have control these billionaire all they go to these elites they have control and they choose to hold their accounts in these tax havens many of which are british dependencies very briefly when you're in parliament the disgraced defense secretary went how long do you think to raise it is the beginning of the end there is a winner will have is the beginning of the end for this government because if they recently go she would just be replaced by another cardboard cutout who. you know subscribes to to this is a gang there it's the end well i mean i think it's got it's got the stench of decay this government has to sure in theory they could last until twenty twenty two can't see them surviving that long as they are in a minority it has all the hallmarks of the john major government and so i think whenever the election comes are there and they're in a very deep trouble but we can't be complacent we've got to offer a genuine alter. to the system is that on offer at the moment when you know the
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wealthy the rich the corporations will benefit from you know i mean the end of the day these people are making so much money you can see the cost and just how well the pots just grow and grow and grow would be better if they were paying their way contributing to society contribution to the economy that would help the economy to grow it would help generate jobs the benefit from that you know just seems to me a client of addictive approach that they've taken chris williams thank you. well we just heard from shadow emergencies minister chris williamson and he was quite clear the paradise papers could not only be the final nail in the coffin for to resume but the entire party as well are joined now by the prime minister's trade on boy to nigeria conservative m.p. john as vice chairman of the conservative friends of israel john the expert coming on i mean we have ministers not declaring secret meetings with foreign governments we have people senior people of an allegedly in danger in the lives of british
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subjects abroad is to resume finished no she's not finished and i think you've got to look at what each of those items individually to get the true picture of it there's no point in getting worked up and jumping on the on the back of them and i think it will be totally wrong to say that either theresa may or this concerted government is finished you think it was wise of johnson to. in a sense echoed the iranian revolutionary guard corps allegation that the british subject was indeed the journalism of a charity work well the thing you can't do is to is to hide things and and lying to foreign governments and i think that what morris said was. was actually appropriate and i say that has a as normal critique of policy johnson and i think it was it was perfectly appropriate even if it endangered the lives of the rain ians are a terrible regime they are causing a huge amount of of of upset really that is your view surely the important
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issue is to save the life of a british subject and i understand the bar and spoke to the iranians and i don't i don't know what is going to vote with you trust the iranians after boars agree with and you don't trust them before he said no i don't trust the iranians as far as i could throw the what do you mean iranians at work i've no idea what the iranians said i wasn't privy to that to that conversation but i'm sure he explained the situation to the iranians and we'll have to wait and see what the outcome of that is we know that this government since twenty ten the tories of obviously taking a tougher stance than gordon brown or attorney blair on tax avoidance and tax dodging. what did you what was your reaction to the fact that. tax dodging ceased to be going on industrial scale well i think the thing that you've got to remember here is the enormous hypocrisy on the part of the labor party because in the wash up to the general election they forced through changes that would have created
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eight point six billion pounds for the u.k. treasury and they simply didn't want to want to pursue them so i think that i'm not going to accept any criticism from the labor party. over the paradise paper you know worried the jury's amazin has been involved has been does. in effect advisor on tax dodging i know i'm not in the slightest worried by that i'm sure that he can defend himself on this but quite honestly i think there are bigger things that the cons country needs to concentrate on and as i said it needs to concentrate on the hypocrisy of the labor party in turning down the offer to recoup a point six billion for the u.k. average quite a bit of a partisan politics no no it's not a partisan politics it's an actual fact the before the german election in the wash up to the general election that's what the labor party did so they can't go back on
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this now but still a little of any public inquiry into the implications of the paradise paper i don't see that it needs a public inquiry ok well the governor has a lot on its plate today six round talks at the e.u. i mean given the european union of the dog over the fact to brazil and to pro-democracy activists. i mean how these negotiations going and how does one even negotiate with european union well i think that that's a very interesting question to make how do you negotiate with it with the european union and the short answer to that is slowly and carefully and there are many things that we need to be concentrating on in our trade relationships around the world and one of them you said that. should be growing slowly i want to say that they deliberately not being linked from to buy european officials to see a britain in the end like other european nations look i'm very keen to remain i
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voted and i still think that that was the right decision but the country voted in a different way and i lost that argument and we have to accept it and i don't think it's in anyone's interest either for the e.u. or for us to duck negotiations over future trade policy it certainly it certainly would be in both interest if we got a good deal in place john l. . after the break. a government a bit almost two thirds of grant felt our survivors are still housed in emergency accommodation five months after the tragedy oscar nominated actor willem dafoe tells of why he believes the capitalist model of competition is prioritise business over politics and the ball the ball coming up in part two of going underground.
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for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final score it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super manager. and spending twenty million on one player. it's an experience like. nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy was great so while transfer. the case it's going to. in terms of foreign policy donald trump is already earned himself the title the low expectations president this title is now being put to the test during his tour of
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asia because the us a status quo power in the asia pacific region clearly foiled challenging china. prescribe medication is widespread on the us market and a frequent cause of death at that point in my life. like everything with my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit suicide watch who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects. was. what i did was done and. just because something doesn't mean it's saying. welcome back well while former u.k. labor pm gordon brown may be trying to make an audience at the l.s.e.
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forget about how he oversaw a catastrophic economic crash in britain's economy alarming statistics about poverty have emerged in the past twenty four hours according to the trussell trust hundreds of thousands of children have nothing but food banks to feed them in austerity britain between april and september six hundred thousand three day emergency food supplies had to be given out to stave off hunger so what about the usa a country whose new liberal policies have long been revered by u.k. politicians we sent senior producer pete bennett to speak with the cost and crew of a film hotly tipped for the oscars the florida project this friday in britain the film follows underclass survival in the shadow of multinational media corp the walt disney company. directed by sean baker the florida project follows the misadventures of three kids living on the highway to the most magical place on earth disney well florida star an oscar nominated legend willem dafoe and of course
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the first time says the story is set in a budget motel now mostly home to america's hidden homeless i spoke to not act brave and i say he. discovered through social media about her character haiti's experience of poverty motherhood and separate commendation hayley as a young mom she's in her early twenty's she has a six year old daughter named money she's just trying to figure her life out financially struggling doesn't really have a lot of opportunity i and the film is just about her daughter mostly but it's about her kind of trying to figure out the struggles without putting them on her daughter so not being able to pay or right not being able to get where all those things are true and they and they go through these things regularly so it definitely. situations are really going on and these malthouse do you realize before the film about sort of this hidden homelessness situation in america how many people are suffering i never know about that and it's not because i didn't
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want to it's just because it's not really spoken about so it's really awesome that shawn is shedding light on a subject that's really important i feel like i really agree with shawn when he says housing is a fundamental right and i feel like it's not fair that so many people are just overlooked and it's definitely everyone deserves a home but what it is is actually very much stemming from the recession of zero eight and the housing crisis that immediately followed it and you have a lot of transplants and for various reasons you know coming from mostly the new york area puerto rico and looking for a place in which they can they can't find permanent housing so what they're doing is that they're using these budget motels as basically a place to keep a roof over their heads you know they're one step away from the streets they're there it's the last refuge before actually turning to shelters or the streets on the phone this sort of a donation food truck where people are getting free food here in the u.k. we have food banks it's become a massive. issue with poverty to d.c.
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the first time people relying on donated food oh yeah you know it's that's that's one of the biggest concern. it is that there isn't just simply there isn't enough funding from the government whether it's local state or federal and so many of the agencies that are providing social services to the needy are being backed by their philanthropists so the private sector i mean even disney itself had to give five hundred thousand dollars last year to the homeless impact fund which helps central florida so it it's about getting it's about getting basically the government then now to really step up and then provide funding for affordable housing and low income housing so then that's kind of symbolic in a sense that's happening on the doorstep of disney you know the second biggest media company in the united states that is exactly why we decided to have our story take place in this area is this very sad juxtaposition of children growing up right
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outside of the place that we consider the happiest place on earth for children so it's putting a human face on this issue it's having us embrace a little moonie whose only character love her and laugh with her and spend the summer going through going on mysterious adventures with her with the hope that at the end of the film you know when they're at least one audience members are leaving the theater they're talking about the real mooney's out there because they've connected with her through humor and through love. having approached the subject in a journalistic style so met motel residents and manages in the lead up to filming funny cheese and sheets on location at the magic also motel also still operational i suppose it would have to fight about its character bowlby the hotel's manager and what it was like to work amongst the harsh realities of post bail out america bobby the character i play is the manager of a motel
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a budget tourist hotel that's along this highway right outside of the mismatched parks most no not really disney world and central florida and it's a place that does have tourists come and stay there but it also houses a lot of people that don't have permanent homes and they pay daily weekly and they can't establish residence there so they kind of pay as they go but of course this makes a very precarious living situation and you have a lot of people you know living six to a room a lot of children it's it's a tough way to grow up it affects their schooling it affects how they eat. you know home having long should be a basic right these people don't have that. they struggle and that's the world that we're talking about in this movie is that kind of since i'm not sick as
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some sort of some policies i mean i know there's a housing crisis i think this happened it's not just in central florida it's a lot of places and i'm sure there are similar problems here but in the states specifically after the economic crash and the housing crisis there are a lot of people that just can't afford. house they couldn't get the security. money together they couldn't and they had a bad credit rating for various reasons and this was a solution for them but it's a it's a very it's a tough cycle because. the kids are always moving they do they fall behind in school they can't they can cook on hot plates and thanks but they end up eating that fast food restaurants which cost them a lot more and they eat not how filet that you know you see all these threads that contribute to this cycle that is very hard to break and i think rather than talking
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specifically about this it is useful to talk about story because it's not a polemic it's a story. that takes place in this world seen through these kids' eyes so it's not. a totally. downer movie there's something joyous about its portrait of childhood but at the same time always in the shadow and you see the adults who are struggling and you recognize if these kids don't have different opportunities and if they continue to grow up this way though and be facing the same challenges as their parents. yeah. they get out. ok i want to get one drip in your eyes. out now. it's not an inside job. thank you very much.
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agent. needs an ice cream or a very. very fine. very sassy girl. she's she's very very funny. well jancee is not so what troublemaker but when she meets these two christopher and of course mooney. i don't little out of control but jancee isn't a bad person and. jensen is just a little girl that just. dreams and when they're trying to get money. they actually really get it. sometimes in really think that people are
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going to give it to them but they do know that they do but they're hungry they don't really have a lot of it so they're hungry and so. they don't really know for the cost money they sow the trying to get money to get their own food what do you guys want people to think after they see the maybe there's a special message which i'm going to tell you they should make the world a better place they should help out the community just go and bring things that you don't use that can still be in use and give it to them and make them want a better pleased they should give people things that they need because they should really be faithful fairly have let has they could be put in harry mini's position they could put in like small motels like budget motels and all that stuff and they should be really really fine for that to have us and it could be their bill.
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and their money and food and all that stuff just because you can't just because you we're living in very politically heated times not only that we have we have technology that gives us you know updates every three seconds about either a political heated political scandal or or a disaster or a tragedy we're getting hit a lot with it with news that isn't exactly positive and i think that film needs to still be an escape and so audiences they want that escape but but a filmmaker can also use this art form and this this pharmacy of escapism to to to shine light on an important issue and i think that that's when film becomes its most powerful our politicians are not morally. leaders there are businessman and
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in this case you know a businessman that you know totally is is his judgments and his and his wisdom. you know totally comes from this kind of. capitalist model of beat the other it doesn't exactly make you. think as a nation or think yet as a community it's all about getting over on the other guy something at the heart of competition and the heart of capitalism is you know who gets the most stuff at the end and i think we were learning for a while that that's not the way things get done you know in the end it becomes what you want to do when you want to pay for it you want to pay for education you know. and i was saying and you want to pay for cops and jails and it's pretty clear that . for me it's not
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a great story but we're going on the wrong direction now but hopefully there will be an adjustment so. jena beauty's a beat bennett there with austin crew of oscar favorites the florida project the film is out in britain from friday the tenth and lots of the show will be back on saturday forty six years to the day of the first publication i'm just told since fear and loathing in las vegas to speak to its award with the illustrator ralph steadman feel that even the treasures of media will see once out of a one hundred thirty yesterday the united states executed labor activists or get species held at possible adult fiction and george engle for taking part in it because the international workers day in a market square chicago illinois. we
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all willingly accepted the risk of being shot wounded taken prisoner but noone first signed up to be friggin 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 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 burn pits would really literally send a be a prob 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 will have to pay and. call for
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help and get the middle finger to move using model is. delayed and i hope you die. back geysers financial survival guide. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away once guys report. through this one do you like to get to class as i live the good for yourself then. you need no. need. i d. . be young. and i gave you. really were. we have other things in this world sounds and this is an e-mail for
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everyone and why do some people's also take our thing all the power just for themselves since that is the mother. we believe that. whenever you believe. you're not just going to get closer. to the little bit are.
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