tree's history and the idea is a perfectly transparent system whereby once government documents are declassified anyone over the age of sixteen can go to the national archives and access these files but not all of them because it appears that some of them have gone missing some of the files relating to thorney a moment in british history among the files missing are papers relating to the folk lin's war there are documents missing relating to the northern ireland troubles as well and perhaps most controversially the files relating to the famous zinoviev letter from way back in nineteen twenty four that was a huge political scandal at the time because m i six almost certainly forged a letter that was then leaked to the press that well it was just discredited the labor government at the time and ultimately resulted in its downfall now the files

missing are all listed as misplaced while on loan to government departments so there is this situation now where a number of different government departments are under pressure to explain why they have taken these bits of paper but they have failed to return them now we've asked the home office for a comment on that zinoviev letter we still haven't got a response we have however heard from the foreign office now the foreign office had misplaced a file relating to the markov case that was way back in one thousand nine hundred seventy eight it was the shooting of a dissident both gary and journalist on waterloo bridge which isn't too far from where i'm sitting now this is what the foreign office had to say about those documents take a listen seventeen of nineteen documents have been recovered and we're sending them back to national archives west. solution for the documents that have not yet been

accounted for so an explanation there and clearly efforts being made to shall we say correct what has happened because the public care has a right to access these documents these chapters over british history rather than finding that they have been misplaced and according to some perhaps a little too conveniently now the opposition labor party here has called for an investigation into the missing documents otherwise they say they'll be allegations of a cover up in relation to this while human rights groups like amnesty international like reprieve they use these archives quite often to search for evidence of human rights violations then now demanding that the prime minister to resign may that she launch a search for these missing documents across the government departments that have failed to return them to the national archives. we contacted the national archives

they told us that when files go missing they request that action be taken as a national affairs commentator jonathan steele says that the huge loss of sensitive documents raises many questions. because as you pointed out most of them refer to it in the past britain was in a very bad position because there was a question of torture in northern ireland. interestingly the time when we're talking about fake news being used to tamper with elections all kinds of allegations being made to. the evidence to available. to did you did you keep documents did you make copies did you make. the duplications why didn't the originals back if you were making a copy. to send it back to the national archives where they belong to a. whole series of questions that need to be answered the

largest exchange of prisoners of war between ukraine and the self-proclaimed republics has been completed. after this short break. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm sure business i'll see you then. nor make this manufacture to be sentenced to public wealth. when the ruling

class is protect themselves. with the financial merry go round the sun be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. to be relieved. welcome back to the program on a ledge saudi coalition air strike has hit a busy market in yemen killing at least twenty five people that's according to local security services we're about to show you the immediate aftermath of the attack just to warn views it does contain distressing images of dozens more civilians were wounded in the bombing raid which happened in the west of the country many of the victims are children saudi arabia launched its campaign in

yemen back in march twenty fifth deemed to support government against shia with the rebels but riyadh has repeatedly claimed that it says strikes do not target civilians and smash the law professor believes the global community should bear some of the blame for what's happening in the country the international community but to crew members of the national security council during the night took me through security come. up and. come crying out to be committed. crimes are being committed against defenseless. people very young people popular mark it's absolutely unconscionable if there is any doubt that. these. constitute crimes against humanity there should be at least some kind of investigation. also since early november saudi arabia has been blockading haven't been that plunged the war ravaged

country into an even deeper humanitarian crisis. mobissimo can. push rubbish we drink from rubble and if and when accuses us of lying they can come to us with everything with the wrong choice. to hand over the government now we're here looking for food we have no work no work places that is why we work here.

today if we look at the middle east yemen is the most urgent humanitarian catastrophe that the world needs to highlight the almost eighteen million people need some sort of humanitarian aid more than twenty people men women and children lose their lives on a daily basis in yemen food and and and medicine prices have really increased to an unattainable extent where people are unable to buy their basic necessities this is really unacceptable for people to die of totally preventable reasons. another use the north african country of the misery or has the modern apology from the united arab emirates but so after emirates airlines banned female tunisians from boarding flights to the u.a.e.

last friday they saw that a possible terror threat the move has caused widespread anger. i just i'm she believes my when i go to a country that wonder exactly if that is the case and we should also be opposed to just on the united arab emirates. these are persians are a force preventing our lovely visiting arab countries is unacceptable when we see the westerners going from country to country really the most rigid is one of the tunisian state must defend the rights of two new zealand women and force the u.s. to apologize. the passenger brian was lifted the same day the gulf states foreign minister later tweeted that brian had been necessary for security stressing also though that the u.a.e. respects and values to museum women but that wasn't enough for them is year which retaliated by banning all the flights from landing at its airports this tweet was posted by the airline informing customers that flights had been suspended we talked

to newseum blogger and activist who said the you were using michelle passenger was an insult consider that to have happened is all asian of often asian women rights but it's a violation of women rights and general the spokesperson for the national presidency talking about security problems but this doesn't trust you for what happened if a small female babies were not allowed to go on planes i don't think that a toddler is. the generation government is still asking for official apology and it happened under the pressure of people here in tunisia. a major prisoner exchange between care fund the self-proclaimed it's going to grad school publix in east ukraine has finished is the largest since the start of the conflict autism and cost of the news. this is the largest prisoner

change since the beginning of the conflict back in next wednesday fourteen seventy forty great and soldiers were a reserve from donetsk and lugansk. while three hundred and six were supposed to be returned from kiev here to the nest and look guns however that figure has changed at the very last minute with authorities in kiev cleaning that some of the prisoners had already been released and some of the prisoners had refused to be ritzer back here's the point on number all those who read third home to the let's go to guns stands at two hundred and forty fifty go however everything one smoothly during the prisoner swap as the thirty's and a key have failed to close the checkpoint as it was a greet for this prisoner swap and the exchange took a little bit longer

a lot longer than planned initially of course this prisoner swap with the humanitarian part of the minsk agreements which are designed to settle the conflict here in the east of ukraine however one positive that can be taken out of this is that the families will see their loved ones for the new year holidays both in ukraine and here in the contested territories as well. i mean while the u.s. department of state has released a statement regarding yes that ice phone conversation between psychological fun rex tillerson here department of the document although says that the u.s. secretary of state has all structures returned its representatives to the dog bites region they left last tuesday saying that this would help to decrease vonnegut's in east ukraine. less fertile to our breaking news from the russian city of st peters but security services have said an improvised explosive device may have caused the explosion at

a local supermarket and the full. of the blast thoughts of an equivalent to about two hundred grams of t.n.t. a device was apparently filled with objects aimed at causing as much damage as possible emergency teams say ten people have now been taken to hospital one is in serious condition the surrounding area has been put on lockdown and the building has been evacuated as well a russian investigative committee says it will consider all possible causes of the blast. all the top top of next hour we'll have more on that breaking news out of course all of the news stories for all the while to find out about seoul from me and the team here at all t. thanks for staying with us on all things national. snow

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this is boom bust broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. i'm part chilton filling in for those who celebrated christmas we hope you had a great day from everybody here at boom bust and on this day december twenty sixth in eight hundred sixty five the inventor of the great patent in the u.s. the first coffee percolator james mason franklin massachusetts invented it and he was one of the original mr coffee's i guess all humans are believed to have discovered the joy of a cup of coffee in ethiopia and the arabian peninsula the earliest known coffee making devices are believed to have been created in ancient by ancient arab traders of course technical and commercial innovations over time with help spread coffee's

popularity cultivation and stimulated literally the growth of many fortunes based on the marketing of your daily cup of joe. just this month the largest starbucks in the world opened in shanghai china the flagship store in seattle is only about half the size of the new store in shanghai's thirty thousand square foot location for starbucks whose growth for the third quarter was only two percent down from four percent a year ago china has been a big bright scott spot it's a gargantuan growth area more than three thousand stores already in china and they're opening a new location every fifteen hours every fifteen hours starbucks says their goal is for ten thousand locations in ten years and by comparison the company operates about eight thousand plus locations in the united states now what's next for two thousand and eighteen starbucks plans to open a new roast yury location and first ever starbucks in italy in milan and for twenty

nineteen they have plans for a site in tokyo. in troubled times coffee in our typical global commodity continues to bring our world together. record record livestock production the united states is making food more affordable for all of us but what is the impact on agriculturally dependent states and is there a way for us to use our vast resources more efficiently maybe effectively maybe even on foreign policy we'll get some of the facts that will harvest from the author of bet the farm how food stop being food fred kaufman joins us from new york fred thank you for being with us the department of agriculture released a recent report which documents that the cost of food for families is about seventy one hundred dollars per year that's only up just a little bit over last year and that has really impacted iowa and south dakota

where in the second quarter of the year the g.d.p. the gross domestic product which actually negative but as important there are twenty three other states so you combine that all of all of those that's half the states and the nations are being impacted negatively by these food prices because of the commodities that they grow obviously and many people don't realize how many states of the unions have a role in producing this mood that makes us really the most plentiful nation in the world with regard to food at the lowest cost but what does that mean for these rural communities fred. well that's it it's a real hit part because one of the things is that we're looking at that that grocery bill and we're looking at bread xin crackers for instance which are coming from the grain from those from those states really when you're buying a ritz cracker most of that cost in the grocery store is for the packaging is for all sorts of other subsidiary costs of the grain itself grain is tanking it

a much more drastic way and this is going to spell tree auction really there's got to be some intervention here right and you know it's tanking you're absolutely correct and you know this stuff cold but we did see this huge spike back you know two thousand and ten eleven where all commodities were were on a tear and one of the things you know people don't actually understand that these cost of production are actually tied to the commodity be it corn wheat beings or. live cattle so we produce all this food fred but how much of the prices actually get back to rural communities at the same time the question just real quick at the same time fred we've got hunger and malnutrition all around the world how do we deal with this problem. we've got eight hundred fifteen million people around the world who are hungry we have all this excess wheat in this country so much access

that the price is going down in terms of the spike you have to realize that even during those years one of the reasons for that spike was the unbelievable influx of wall street money which is just been sucked out of the commodity sector because of this overheated stock market so this is actually a really old problem this is not something new since the beginning of civilization farmers have come to market all the same time with an oversupply of their grains and the prices have tanked and there's a really old and simple solution to this from mesopotamia to egypt to ancient china up until the present day this is the moment for government intervention either to go in there and set price floors to. buy the grain and put it in a grain reserve and what will happen is you will stabilize that price you will bring it up the food is too important to be messing around and driving farmers out of business now some might ask well what does the government need to do with their

grain in fact every country on earth except the united states has a national grain reserve to guarantee food sovereignty why doesn't the united states have this it's absolutely absurd so once we have that grain what can we do with it well there are a number of things we can do with it either put it in that grain reserve or do the traditional thing we've done with foreign relations and use a plow shares in swords diplomacy and start getting that food out to the world where it's needed most which also happens to be places where we need to get some political clout places where terrorism has been breeding in eastern africa and places like that where the united states can really come in and do the savior. fantastica but do you think this is ministrations able to comprehend and get on that task fred that foreign policy component of commodities this administration is . particularly unable to understand any of these subtleties they've been events aerating the diplomatic corps they have no sense of the of the pushes and pulls of

how foreign diplomacy works and they also don't understand foreign trade i mean they're putting up all these tariffs and barriers and what's that what's that doing it's making the e.u. and france in particular putting up their own tariffs and barriers to protect their own farmers so they're not put in the position of well really the farmers let's say in a country like india who are losing so much money that farmer suicides are are very common people are drinking the pesticides which were meant for their crops it's a global shame. fred thank you so much you know i've heard there's vacancies at the state department middle try to smuggle you in fred kaufman author of bet the farm how food stop being food our gratitude for your time. the u.s.

homeless population is on the rise for the first time since the great recession new york city's homeless population rose four percent in two thousand and seventeen and several cities in the west including seattle portland san diego and sacramento all reported surges in people living on the streets r t a correspondent natasha sweet has more on that. it's arguably one of the worst one movie disasters in any first world country even though millions are being spent to combat the issue of homelessness in the u.s. those in the middle of the price just saying the numbers are only well we. we've never seen anything like this driving through the streets of los angeles it's hard to know what the country's worst homeless population it's it's like a female like red cross disaster and it needs to be treated as such in the bills c.e.o. of the union rescue mission has been working with those that are home for nearly

thirty years bill says right now it's the worst he's ever seen we have more families who have come to us than even during the the worst part of the great recession bell says it's in part too drastic thirty percent increase in rents pushing homelessness past the tipping points for sean really it all changed when really found out the restaurant he was working out was closing down i wasn't saving any money couldn't afford any rent. family really. good one we order too much for your permission three monthly rate is the value of this one. relation to the people that are selling everywhere from the sidewalk the canyons to what you see right here under a bridge and we are one hundred eighty four toilet shy of a un refugee camp in syria with only nine working toilets among more than twenty five hundred people on the infamous skid row sanitation is a huge concern well the city of l.a.

alone has spent four point two million dollars to put in a handful of bathrooms it's simply not enough came in contact with feces on the on the sidewalk and i contracted flesh eating a coal i strap and staff bales eventually had his right leg amputated last year just from walking on the streets this led the city of los angeles to declare a state of emergency but it still hasn't stopped other viruses like hepatitis to plague the homeless population drug addiction is also among the main culprits as to why some don't get off the streets the bad part is i guy who are poor sick from april through october and the program i was joking a low it was one of the lucky ones his relapse last seen at the union rescue mission let him to get the help he needed now he's been clean for a year working as an apprentice at the shelter i would hope that we do it just because of our hearts we will not allow somebody to be devastated by homelessness

but if it's if it takes a lot then then we need to pass a law bill says with more than one thousand sex offenders on skid row alone you know how women and children sleeping on air mattresses in their chapel only a band-aid for now the bills hopes the country will wake up and fix this it growing epidemic in los angeles and sweets are to. stay right there are plenty more best of buses on the way we'll be right back. but i was selling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken

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