underground i should just ask actually given the amount of abuse these stations getting at the moment why you as a conservative m.p. appear on r.t. at all well i should make it clear i never take any money off you for doing so if i come on of my own free will and the reason i do so is because when the russians were destroying the city of aleppo one of the great cities of the world in syria you let me on you let me have my say and you brought costs what i said and i thought therefore you were standing up for free speech and for that reason i've never had any qualms about speaking out on r.t. and i'm sure the russians and those living in west aleppo would have a lot to say about what you said about east berlin you and i have debated this in the past of course were i do a bit more of this great civilised city is now lying in ruins. yes but presumably i says days have less of a less of force and they did when you were grieving over obviously the mass

casualties occurring in the celeb you probably best leave it ok let's go to jerusalem obviously we're hearing now of drone strikes by the israelis killing palestinians alarming footage of children being rounded up do you think that washington's decision to regulator islam is the capital of a jewish state is helpful as regards middle east peace where we've also seen reports of rockets being fired from gaza into border is ready towns like strawbs and so on so it cuts both ways but obviously anything that leads to greater violence is to be regretted and although to be first to president trump i think he is the fifth united states president to has said they would move the embassy to jerusalem i do not think it's helpful in bringing about a lasting peace in the middle east i don't think it assists towards the two state solution which still remains the declared objective of international policy so i regret very much that he made that decision last week even though of course some ballast syrian activists on the ground perhaps secretly welcoming it as it has

united the palestinian resistance movement finally who've for a long time not believed the british government or the american government when it comes to a two state solution on any assessment or judgment it is and i'm hopeful decision in securing a lost in peace in the middle east does british policy on yemen make britain safer. well i think you have to disaggregate the two points you made earlier one is about the arms sales so we can deal with that and the other is about the humanitarian crisis that has developed in yemen the saudi led blockade of which britain as us is loosely a part although our prime minister has spoken out against the blockade but there is no doubt if some humanitarian supplies been which is what we have called for in the british parliament we have called for a lifting of the blockade totally both for humanitarian supplies and for commercial

supplies because of course on the humanitarian side we're feeding about seven million people in a country of twenty seven million of whom many others are starving and you won't be able to save yemenis from starvation just by lifting the humanitarian blockade you've got to lift the commercial blockade you've got to allow food and medicines in through our data port data port is where eighty percent of the supplies come through in normal times in a country where nearly ninety percent of all the food that is consumed is imported so the absolute critical importance of the data simply you can't get round that and we need the blockade both for commercial and for humanitarian giving the aid while exporting lethal weaponry to kill. the very same people that we're trying to save i think you have to disaggregate the two points and let me explain what i mean by that saudi arabia is surrounded by enemies and is extremely rich they will always buy weaponry they always get the weaponry and the weaponry that britain sells them

somebody else will fly make the point that therefore it seems to me that the selling of the weaponry is a second order issue if it is if it is legally sent from britain under an under an export licensing regime when that is the toughest in the world and it is not your that isn't clear as those hurdles then you know you can take a decision of whether it's right or wrong to supply weapons but that is a second order they will get those weapons anyway the first order issue is how you stop the attacks on yemeni civilians how you address the humanitarian situation if we go into this second point you just said someone else will sell it to them i'm not sure the golden rule actually that was most a one in geo humanoids in yemen is already writing to the attorney general jerry right saying no this is in contravention of any kind of international law so that is that will not be an excuse no but if you allan obviously we cannot act outside

the law there's been a traditional review of britain's weapons sales a traditional view found that they were perfectly lawful but my point is that i don't believe for a second that the situation in yemen will be improved to britain today dick has an arms embargo because the weapons will still arrive and they will still be used and arguably britain has some influence over the way the weapons that we supply are used in making sure that they are used in accordance with the rules of war my deep concern about yemen is not only the blockade it's also the attacks are taking place night after night which are killing yemeni citizens and we need an urgent befitting of the embargo both the humanitarian and the commotion bug and we need a re. ignited a re invigorated peace process bringing all the parties to the table without preconditions because the saudis previously asked for preconditions to be set to learn and that won't work we need no preconditions and we also need urgently the

updating of the resolution twenty two sixteen on the yemen a briton holds the pen at the united nations and my great concern in the aftermath of britain failing to win the seat on the international criminal court the i.c.j. at the u.n. is that if britain doesn't face up to its responsibilities to bring a new u.n. resolution to the united nations security council and relies on twenty to sixty then another country will do it and we hold the pen on yemen we have a deep historic relationship with the yemen i mean a difficult one but we know the area very well and britain should be leading the efforts to get a united nations brokered peace between the combatants and the yemen which is killing so many people this christmas albeit that would washington veto it anyway as it seems to be in making a deal with saudi arabia israel and other parties seeing iran as the biggest enemy in the region well i'm not one of those who thinks that iran is the. is the bad

guy in all of this i think we need to bring iran into the comedy of nations i think that it's very important that we stand by the iran nuclear deal and i think we should be doing everything we can to bring them in and that's why i'm very pleased that boris johnson went to iran over the weekend to hopefully revive five britons relations with iran a move them to a different level i think it's very important for peace or at least jewelry some of our brothers in washington what do you make of seeing the fact the president has a position of diverse because short it seems to be and all these years and all these millions hundreds of millions of pounds with the british money we did it all go the british taxed. money has been absolutely vital in keeping alive and sustaining one of the world's other worst humanitarian crises millions of people who have been absolutely dependent after britain has provided

more support for the refugee camps around syria in jordan particularly lebanon iraq and turkey britain has provided more support than the whole of the rest of the european union added together so that it would be the. better to see vital that are to be prevented in give ability to be preventative when we have a report here we have a league member of the conflict stability security fund talking about two hundred million going to also all manner of different activities which don't seem anything to do with trying to create peace they seem to be supporting islamists in syria be returning home to do mirror in britain that is a highly. highly doubtful statistic britain has been working i have a leaked memo here eighteen million in peace with thirty two million being given to moderate armed groups fifty four million to the white helmets which is now been linked to a sedation al-qaeda linked groups were white helmets very nearly won a nobel peace prize and white house that i know that the russian rick is in china i

know i know the russians think that the white helmet is the most front but actually the clear evidence that we had in britain was the white house that's were incredibly brave men and women in syria going to the rescue of people under attack from russian and regime bombs. i think i think what you're saying about the white helmets is extremely contentious and i'm satisfied from the work joe cox and i and others have done on the all party friends of syria group that the work of the white helmets was enormously valuable in humanitarian terms and yet now we know it's not about geneva it's all about a stronger towards turkey russia iran. the syrian government it's over isn't it for british policy of the two. for where this government of britain british british policy on syria british humanitarian policy provided brilliant support to desperate people but in terms of the policy of the british government to the american government on. syria it was always fatally flawed because the americans with our

sport undermined the kofi annan plan that the united nations secured which would have addressed the issue of assad remaining at the negotiating table but not subsequently being a president the deal that kofi annan put on the table which was rejected by the americans and i'm sorry to say also by the british government today it will be a. deal that we would leap towards because it was such a good one but unfortunately was heavily undermined so in terms of the macro policy on syria partly because of the actions of the british parliament back in two thousand and thirteen partly because of the decisions of the obama government partly because of the decision by the obama government in america to say that there were red lines which couldn't be crossed which were then crossed and america did nothing to have anything warming to have an intimate they have a they haven't really they haven't really you know britain america haven't really been a a big force in the politics of syria over the last few years under mitchell thank

you. after the break always be closing we tread the boards all finance capitalism and corporate sabotage to the style as a director of david mamet's award winning play then got a general on from the news corp some corporates who love to fake a coles the director at sac planes down over the coals over a simple coming up about two of going underground. kind of financial survival john today was all about money laundering first to visit this commission to see different. oh good this is a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we do all these banks are complicit in their tough talk or say we just have to deal with all and say ok i'm ready to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did well

we've got only got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. luxury automobile again from that you know what money laundering is highly illegal don't be a close watch guys of course. credit is one of the basic instruments to drive an economy but it can also lead to tragedy i did it i took a lying down just i came to god and meant that the debts ty came to and in the spiral not. many lives have been broken like excess in the banks got you into trouble and all the big bankers got big prize from the government about the banks but i just didn't think of the. last morning through the back under don't buy creditors people see no future bad things happen you know you become ill you do to job your relationship breaks down you become a casualty is death

a life long trip or is there a way out of those actually going to bed or no wooden right to judge a bill for so much cisco or. everybody i'm stephen ball. test hollywood guy suspects ever proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v. to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru just a little bit different. because. there was no doubt with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the good have fun every day americans. look for the star to bridge the gap this is the great american pill which.

welcome back within the next twenty four hours official u.k. overthe us of a gets us set to show a spike in people sleeping rough all across the country but while for some they're a testament to bank bailouts and austerity they'd likely be ignored by the protagonist of a play glengarry glen ross said. in a us estate agency david mamet's award winning drama follows the wolves and sheep of one nine hundred eighty s. new york real estate tearing apart modern western capitalism and the american dream the fast paced sales batter and dialogue and dark humor could arguably not be more relevant today in an era of fake news donald trump and brutal inequality we went down to the set of a west end revival of glengarry glen ross of the players' theatre in central london to talk to the plays director sam yates and members of the cast stanley townsend and daniel ryan the play is running until the third of february twenty eighth in. sami it's the relevance of glengarry glen ross says the twenty eight banking crisis

destroyed that glamour of the thatcherite bankers i think so i mean suddenly wasn't sexy profession anymore and there's a fair bit of hate thrown in that direction for these reasons they were always hated estate agents anyway but in the end the main salesman who's not here because i'm going to you do it is. all of the characters using language to mystify people rather than communicate absolutely opposite a or to to trick someone or to warm someone up or. you know to wear them down or to sell an idea what i've absolutely guises of must if using the word to get what they want and i know you said that donald trump of course was in the real estate business the state agency business as it were extra perils here but language well for sure i mean that's why he cut his teeth in this sort of eighty's and if anything what he did when he self. sworn in was to sell an idea and go for

a very strong impression and yeah i think it's all there in his rhetoric he doesn't hardly knows what he's talking about most of the time but manages to keep the words coming out somehow subtly downs and your character shelley levine what happened to him he started with so much hope he's a bit like. good help later on because when bankrupt was really your character to show you only time moved. circumstances change he was the most successful estate agent was the machine shelley the machine and he talks he talks a great game but times have changed what he was going is now not what he's selling today and he's using the same methodology these guys have a great ability to talk the talk or die and they say south this confidence. so there's corruption vegas' he doesn't get the right tips that the christian slater character gets this year's model of the new salesman yeah if

you're successful you get the new leads you get the prime premium leads to success breeds success but if you're not successful how do you become successful and meanwhile then you'll run your kind of us the general public being sold to or sold out yeah i love the way you've come to me on the not successful because. of the money to buy you guys yeah absolutely i mean you know if you meet ricky romero in a bar and yeah it's only now that i started trying to decipher some of what roemer is saying as a link trying to you know he is he's a. bamboozles you know i mean it's it's a phenomenal scale to get under somebody's skin and find out what it is that's going to tickle them you know i mean that's and that's what these guys are absolute experts at and also finding who is the pray who is the mark who is the most

gullible who's going to buy into it and i don't have to be this rabbi brady made of the loads of people here who had the engine misselling and oh so many other things you know it's pretty over the resonator what what was we what i mean you turn on any t.v. morning shows that you know on t.v. are all about missile products it's you know it's it's everywhere we were all buying into a dream we're buying into bitcoins with it we don't know where that's going to go but people are people are searching for you know what is the moment that the wise character come to your rescue we never see you know exactly to some wisdom in that you know the the only woman who we ever what we refer to you know living refers to his daughter you know but we don't learn anything about her but we hear about this the only woman character and it seems to be the cent behind the kind of you know even within the the of. premise of greed you know even the mark is someone who's greedy for something and hopefully the wife. is some kind of voice of reason this

is it as you say is your god but people audiences coming here can recognize the events here is if it's really seventy i think so i mean i think that the language that uses is as fresh is as fresh as a daisy really big. characters that we know we just because they're from america absolutely i mean they're quick talking crooks with a great sense of humor and they say outrageous things just as a writer is anything you hear in london for a show and it's really the language of the city of london before everything went. everything had to be bailed out by the taxpayer well i mean it's you know it's guys fighting to be top of the office and i've been saying this bizarre situation where the top guy wins a cadillac the second guy gets a set of steak knives and the third fourth guy fired so i think we can all. remember times of competitive workplaces and people being you know pushed and

pushed and pushed target monthly reviews etc etc also ruled by fear on some level executive don't trump was a buyer and seller of property no longer will the police to the white house only the time of this broadcast here and. here the police turning up yeah but that's not going to happen. so we don't know but seriously we just explain why the police because there are stratagems are trying to get out of the misery there is yeah there was a robbery which is very simply where the police come in i think in many ways shelley has reports a great great successful and there is a parallel between what shelley in that act cells cells were said but he's really selling the american dream i think mahmoud is pointing to her saying listen the american dream it's a pop. you're all buying a pup because to be successful you need to be successful. and if you're not

successful whose fault is it. it's your fault that success breeds success pronounce successful like you become successful. obviously the play was written quite a while ago now we have jeremy corbyn leader the labor buddy saying this kind of thing actually has a politician do you think this resonates with the with the times politically in that way because most politicians would still say no you should be striving and surely living your character is just a failure and as he should have read a bit more in the into there before you start buying property. yeah i mean absolutely i mean a sucker's of me and everywhere there every where you know what but way out you know the thing is the is a great feeling of regret to the thing that seems great one day the next morning doesn't look quite so rosy you know and i think we're living in a time where where you know politically constantly shifting all the time and you

know someone makes one slight come and we're with it we're all you know we're on them that's why that's what happens in this play as well you know the federal pounces these guys that they're looking for the floors in people's personalities you know even with themselves in the office you know and i think we are living in an equally. full power. there's a lot of pouncing going to. people who frightened some of the audience members maybe the ones who were rattling the jewelry are a bit frightened of seeing their language being deconstructed in this way little. the american dream the british capital yeah i mean maybe maybe. when your son the safety of an audience you can kind of just enjoy and you can look on in horror and not have to be assassinated on stage by someone else sort of thing so i think people more enjoy it really i mean it is a ton of laughter through the evening audiences really get on the plates at. so

they had this surely shocking and i but i think we've been really surprised about how the the the laughter is so huge i mean certainly in the rehearsal room we knew what we thought was funny but the what's happening in the auditorium on a nightly basis is like wow it's that funny it's that they're obviously so obviously resonating even far more than we could imagine to cope with the pain from . where we laugh that we do not cry. daniel ryan sam yates sandy downs and thank you. well now to go to only week stories is broadcaster for liberal democrat member of parliament and bit opaque today president britain's most senior police officer updates london local government on the ground feel criminal investigation you've should. appear you can see why you should be you know it's. let's go to the murdoch irresistible i said i think it is the times reports

russian t.v. wanted to start class on the rest after a grand fall it's you i've said you've made the news just as i question your state back neglect corruption and got to services led to social cleansing and what did you i think i mean it is it you did it i want zero zero not mean obviously the russians off a mentoring class revolt in this nation no doubt about it last one on the case apparently all around us we careful action ok you next ok lots of things happening in jerusalem terrible atrocities of course we have to say both sides called too often but we've seen children being beaten up by i.d.f. soldiers grad rockets from the palestinian side chair we call being a big supporter of palestinian rights he's being bugged and there's an inquiry pitchford inquiry currently going on. what earth is this story about bugging in the vault let's look at the headline first here option the guardian reports surveillance phone spied on campaign groups the big companies leak shows this goes

back to the fact that we all know that police went to extraordinary lengths to infiltrate campaign groups to the point where at least one of them had a child with one of the campaigners some margin going to those lengths it also now transpires that various large companies may have been doing the same thing in order to get information about things like demonstrations against them and potentially to help them suppress stories which are uncomfortable for those companies and it illustrated article of the great buzz today in effect was rachel corrie. march sixteenth two thousand and three killed by an i.d.f. bulldozer and arguably didn't get the sort of coverage it should have got because of all of this and they were bugging her bereaved relatives that's when it gets serious because arguably this makes it very hard for campaigns to get justice in a corporate and surveillance obsessed world let alone what it means virgin orwellian state your next story i mean i'm sure that story won't get much play on

state mandated media let alone an independent broadcaster in this country which is this big story yet doesn't the previous carry the previous story got a little bit of coverage this cover actually none the canary says jeremy corbyn wins an award for world peace and the silence from the mainstream media is deafening leave aside the fact he didn't get much coverage for his pretty well received speech at the united nations it turns out that he also won something called the let me get the name of it was right short ride to peace prize the response to this is well we never really covered this but hold on a ninety and channel four when survivors is a short of bride was a member of the old ira so well that you know so it doesn't count doesn't seem to be hurting his poll numbers perhaps one reason why it's not hurting his poll numbers is this story from the from the buckley brothers telegraph yes i love this one option the telling. i don't have to be very clever to do my job says secretary david davis later on he said he'd been misquoted but he says it's more important on

the radio but he's not so he said he says it would probably come and he tried to reengineer what he said but maybe suggesting a jocular fashion he claimed that it was not important to be very clever or to know that much to go through that perhaps he's saying divorce doesn't involve much intelligence because it might be the dumbest thing to do that's not how he put it you might call and say i've misquoted him well as the international trade industry spokesperson and so his secretary of state liam fox said it's easy this is the thing is he's a bit of a thank you that's it for the show we'll be back on that they believe in the european union renewal of a five year license for the controversial life for st using monsanto products w.h.o. said it will probably come from jennings if you feel that people talk about social media will see what's out there three hundred twenty ideas to the day since the english bill of rights arguably thrown into confusion by cia whistleblower an expose or mess of valence edward snowden in twenty fifteen.

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