from when they were asking questions about what this meant for europe i mean i am sure they will deny this by the way and i am very concerned that states and britain have ensured the safety and security of europe because of the count's we've had in our defense because of what america saying i'm not sure that is any longer the case and that is extremely important for all they thank you. as well as the fact that he is the first labor leader in ten years to be the number one choice for britain's prime minister but what other stories have been lost in the other verse three of bricks at the concert was absolutely sweating it's boris johnson is off this week with a heat wave reaching from the north to the most southern points of england where the presenters took great care to point out high pollen count but didn't focus so much on high ozone and particular levels those are the ones that kill millions of people every year but maybe that's because defra allegedly covered up the ad pollution in parts of england breach levels this week with michael gove teresa mayes new minister for the environment having less to say on the matter and the new

conservative chief of staff captain paul well and also about ignoring reports on fire safety in tower blocks. in london amidst a climate of political uncertainty the queen forecast a royal banquet of bracks it filled promises in a strangely pro e crown and the interim prime minister tereza may attempt to apologize to some of the burning injustices that she was supposed to correct even if the foreign secretary sister thinks that the prime minister is a victim of these injustices as well it's like she's one of the victims of the fire as well because she can do nothing right i'm not sure which one of the interviews was was her or her brothers we are we are looking at is. measures to. you know you're. in the usa while hurricane trump has been

burning up a storm over north korea and cuba he's kept his fingers firmly off the buttons of twitter about his decision to send thousands more troops to afghanistan just one of the broken campaign promises that litter the road to his presidency we are going to and the era of nation building and instead focus on just strongly strongly just strongly isis funny that because he shot down two syrian aircraft in the past week maybe all this intervention is a good way to please the military industrial complex and to justify the near trillion dollar defense budget over in the middle east where a new study has revealed that a reign of terror and showers of bombs from nato was have killed an estimated four million muslims since one nine hundred ninety there are allegations of kidnap and. torture of yemeni citizens by close u.s. allies the u.a.e. while the us are arming u.a.e. forces and teaching them how to bomb they've also had quite

a bit experience in torture as well but questions are being raised over whether information forcibly deemed by those incarcerated in these camps is being used to bomb yemen where the most recent attack overseen by the new crown prince of saudi arabia killed twenty five civilians in a market one of the companies who supplies weapons to the saudis is be a systems you know the guys who brought you cluster bombs and wrap the drones they've been taking advantage of the u.k.'s lax export rules by sending over more than just killing machines to repressive regimes freedom of information request discovered that mass surveillance technology powerful enough to spy on entire countries and track people through their mobile phones is being exported to countries such as saudi arabia the u.a.e. and qatar so next week make sure to wrap up warm and take an umbrella because we're expecting a downpour of this information. yeah that's just about back of their own covering this week's buried news after the break neglect

demolition and social cleansing how democratically accountable housing across the u.k. has been allowed to deteriorate tearing apart working class communities as the private sector profits from human suffering and why trays of maize all for luxury apartments to rent residents doesn't satisfy polson the director of the new film dispossession the great social housing swindle told the ball coming up in today's going underground.

bridge to come in the studio to eighty. thousand. and the so for the. welcome back at seventy two since hundreds of day of rage protest as britain's parliament in the shadow of the tragic some say emblematic info know it grunfeld here in in kensington. in london but as grief turns to anger and tourism is post-election chaos and lack of transparency from local councils and private

developers how did margaret thatcher to new labor lay the foundations on which the housing crisis is constructed today his going underground's senior producer pete bennett at the screening of a new documentary dispossession the great social housing swindle to talk with key figures in what they consider a class war against social cleansing since early one nine hundred eighty s. people living in u.k. social housing has dropped forty two percent less than eight percent with an estimated one point four million covered on the council's waiting lists get despite rising property prices and the growing them all for affordable harding's successive governments to slash investment in social housing just as council of whole estates to private developers assy in south east london restate a controversial regeneration scheme which presidents have forcefully re housed people are being stunned into off to london and especially to people reached a clue what age children and their networks are on they've been all good you know

to some of the tomes outside of london and council is so brutal force to us because this is second class division they're often middle class people they don't care about the class you know the king class people we know that we as top is that so we do not expect anything and i know that they are but he didn't totally it's well from you david to the current of physicians grassroots activists and defend council housing member fred milton as germy corbin's manifest affairs ahead of the upcoming grenfell tower inquiry you know jeremy jeremy called an initial promise to back to back to build five hundred thousand council house in five years was very well but i have to say that in the course of the election that was. watered down watered down watered down what does prove what is the truth recently

banned from going for tower three is that we need council housing we need council housing one by a. responsible manager not intended no doubt still for the council but actually it's a core function of the council to. run their housing properly with another means keeping the place back now this allowed to happen in the first place i spoke to green lawn in assembly member and comes in council of the highgate sean barrie about the causes of the housing crisis they also because he's kept his head that the market as a has been unregulated and deregulates it's a faulty log we're saying rising costs were saying look it's a problem it's the people buying homes sits around the fire that distorts the law and the big developers business model really is failing and we're saying look that hangs to all belts no no london is put up or fooled and it's a by those of us that just about scraped enough to rent and further damage our

chances of buying it's genuinely broken any the way you've got ours life got massive a car is rolling back and some of his promises to people on estates to rentals when it comes to things like rent controls and having a boat with her know him is to manage however the crisis goes beyond the capital to communities across the u.k. heavy duty grew up in scotland schools and a housing estate he says has been ignored by power given the choice by films like dispossession the great social housing swindles the people of their god and god and the people you're going to see in this film what can they offer the tory. party nothing when torn apart and when they don't tell policy joins in those trees and doesn't care. what you may call the ones that she's brought on board as a daycare that's not going to make a difference not that you're going to need for their friends is going to religion. her parents show selfishness on this. not care for anyone else if you think if you

actually think. in this country believe in children haitian they don't believe in society margaret thatcher said there is no society there's only that she's not just a movie that she's trained moche she's dennis paw this is a boy from her that she's just saying to the taint this is a show clone creativity documentary film camera and get on people tell the truth from some in this country put on a screen expressing the human cost of the housing crisis on the big screen this documentary explores the cats struck phase that led to a chronic shortage of social housing. essentially we. simply haven't seen them for social housing and they've been coming in. senior producer peter bennett there i'm outside the granville to our north kensington in london with the director of dispossession of the great social housing swindle paul first of all just your

reaction to. be here lots of the mainstream media cameras you don't hear anymore. in the building obviously you can't really comprehend what went on. when i found out about i was in sheffield and i was seeing the images on t.v. and initially like my space where you just feel sympathy and empathy for the people that it's affected and then afterwards you know shock and anger the fact that it's been allowed to happen i think there were a dozen counts so inspections of that building and seeing this this all come out in the last few days it just draws you back to systematic neglect not only of people in council housing of working class people of poor people of vulnerable people all over the u.k. . the thing i keep coming back to is the seventy odd tory m.p.'s that voted against the law to make homes fit for human habitation. and i think that you know this terrible incident just you know raises more questions and more anger about why we

have a government why we have a system of parliament that isn't representative of people who is good with the film because of course again in the game even just after the aftermath. when the. still raging we were told not to politicize it. was the conservative and labor policy of the right to buy so popular and yet so much part of the current housing crisis in britain i think it was popular because you know working class people like anyone else wanted to own their own homes and there's nothing wrong with wanting to own your own home you know it's a desire that goes back years and years and years and so the right to buy in principle wasn't a bad idea the problem was they didn't replace like for like i think that you said that they would be in every place to for everyone they didn't even do one for one and so you know that goes into the blair and brown administrations as well in the combined period of thirteen years of new labor they built fewer houses in total than thatcher's government averaged every year so it's it's an issue across both

parties and it's a policy now lighting needs to end because we do have a housing shortage you know we do have problems with council housing but continuing to sell off that still cannot replace is just senseless and you tackle the issue of labor councils up and down the country blaming not accountable but blaming central government for cuts in housing storms yeah i mean that's the thing i mean it's very it's very easy to blame central government and say this all comes down from the state local authority to have to be a bit smarter i mean obviously their budgets have really been cut to the bone you know announcing things as in the case of lambert council where they announced the demolition of cresting the gardens on twitter you know that's not very clever that's actually the plain sense that if it's actually an offense if so you know not only do councils have to communicate better but they need to explain. why they're doing these three developments and you know working with property developers is always a very murky area because at the bottom the bottom line for

a bob is profit but why do you think if you'd like to subsidize movie it is a way to make housing more equitable gets corn common currency in media and yet in your film it comes out. all it does is to make housing more on affordable accounts housing did used to be a permanent safe secure home you know in the fifty's and sixty's my family when they got council housing they were proud of it they lived in i knew it was their home for life but the problem is now you know with thousand and planning out there are going to be no more you know last time tenancy is in the film that when a person dies in social housing it's a requirement to just sell it on to the private sector yeah that's part of the new housing and i'm not sure we see with that's going to be a case of you jamie solicitor from chambers who appears in the film as doc is of the view that a lot of that policy may or may not actually be in force i mean there are still campaigns to try and repeal that so i think we're still in very early days but what

it can do in principle is bad enough i think that in the film you talk about social stigma or a bit like in rio's villas people don't admit to living in social housing so. polarized is this class in britain today yeah there's a lot of stigmatized around it and you know that comes from the media it comes from t.v. programs poverty point shows where you know council tenants are depicted is on benefits that the picture is somehow on this thing is stupid and that's not the case you know some of our brightest minds and people came from council housing. it's actually the social problems created by a society by system of government the problem but when it comes to who the government listens to in your film get a beer is the. very very rich state agencies recommend to the gun. with policies like destroying four hundred thousand special housing homes and the government listens to reports coming from estate agents that that

will win from that pool of yemen i think there was a report from samples that came out and it was very i think they put a figure on someone's worth in london i think you've got to be earning about seventy thousand pounds to be worth your spot in london that was the average figure you know i don't know too many people that much money and so what you have then is the colonize ation of space you have the idea that to be in this city you have to justify your place here by earning a certain amount of money which means you can afford to pass a rent or mortgage and also spend this much on you know what is the london economy and that's you know that's just it's nonsense isn't it. your film outlines how areas are socially cleansed. in the issue that there would be real housing there for the survivors of the ground for tragedy the latest i think is in london actually saying that boras or neighboring bar is how do you think i do in policy

makers if we have to hold them to account and if they've moved some residence into some nearby luxury apartments which have a concierge service which have a gymnasium and it's important that the people that move into that property get those services i mean whether they're in a separate section i don't know whether they're think they will be in a separate. area for so-called affordable housing just describe what a poor do or is yes i mean a poor doris' and luxury apartments which is where the social rent tenants leave and enter there are all sorts of reasons for that used to justify or part of the agreement with the builder is that they'll only make a certain amount of social grants available if there is a separate and entrance it also reduces the cost down for everybody so you can argue economically that you know there is a reason for it but then on the other side of it. you can look at it as being a systematic microcosm of our society that the rich going one way the poor leave

another wife and then you've got you know two people that were in the press complaining about the price of property they complain about how they've worked so hard and now they're going to have to mix with you know all of these you know working class people and i despair at that you really despair and it just shows you where we've got to where we've sunk to as a society because you know we're all culpable in this we're as a society we all need to actually you know take responsibility and if we don't have those years challenge those fees. and that's it for one of your favorite shows of the season we'll be back with all new episodes going on the ground on wednesday the seventeenth of january till then keep in touch via social media have a happy. president donald trump's two thousand and seventeen national security strategy report tells us how he sees the world or rather how the washington foreign policy leads to clearly washington's neo cons are running the show.

i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat and where i would sleep. but i'm facing christmas alone on the streets of london. well you look to be honest. i could love for you like. you know just to still give up food for the hope. that you don't really feel like that. and then. this came over to me so me in. this book.

an explosion rocks a supermarket in the russian city of st petersburg injuring ten people were thought to say they suspect the blast was caused by an improvised bomb packed with ball bearings. also this hour german authorities identify a large network of women sporting islamic state ideology online officials warn that the wives of killed isis fighters are now more effective at sport in the groups message of hate. thousands of documents relating to controversial episodes in british history have gone missing country's national archives claim that civil servants simply misplaced them. a welcome saltines a national live from moscow with me daniel hawkins wherever you are today thanks so much for joining us on the program this hour well first this hour the russian city

of st petersburg news coming from their security services say an improvised ball may have caused the blast at a local supermarket without further ado let's go to. jordan we live in the studio with. one point we all thought these were reluctant to say what exactly happened as a bit of power to coming forward now about what exactly the device was what's the latest news coming from the well according to latest reports that we receiving from russia's investigative committee an improvised explosive device who could have been because of the blast that took place in a local supermarket in the city and petersburg just several hours ago now according to preliminary information into preliminary reports that particular explosive device was filled with unspecified objects and that means that explosive device intended to cause as much damage as possible now committee also. adds that

the force of the blast was equal to two hundred t.n.t. now experts say that it is about the same as the force of a hand grenade now for now we know that ten people were injured by that blast and all of them were taken to hospitals we also managed to speak to an eyewitness at the scene and this is how he described what happened. as i got closer the street was already on lockdown and there were many ambulances and fire fighters or so injured people being carried out of the supermarket i live five hundred meters down the road from this distance i heard the sound of the explosion well it is still unclear what was the motive behind that blast but the committee says that it will take into account all possible versions we're getting some casualty figures in initially those four six ten people taken to hospital it's a pretty busy time in the city what i was that pretty christmas presumably. there

tucker if this is confirmed as that attack were targeting you know baby crowds of shoppers exactly is the incident took place in a year quite a big shopping complex on that particular supermarket was located on the ground floor and the it happened during indeed the busiest time of the year we're talking about the a run to the new year celebrations and now we believe that the shopping complex as well as the supermarket was quite crowded at the time of the blast so if those of us there with the people in the hospital hopefully no fatalities those serious injuries to come out of this would be the question of bringing us the latest on the last book thanks. well we spoke earlier to charles troubridge a security analyst and former u.k. counterterrorism intelligence officer and he told us it's too early just yet to jump to conclusions it's relatively small scale attack two hundred grams would

equate to the rough explosive content for example of a hand grenade and therefore together with the shrapnel that that would be surrounded with that's not to downplay the impact on the victims of course which is terrible and can be of course fatal and often is and indeed the russian authorities seem to be stating quite quite or thought actually at the moment that the motivation for this attack or this blast appears unclear for example it could even have been a situation where a device intended for use against another target was left in a bag at a shopping shopping center it's very important to keep an open mind here and of course bearing in mind the definition of terrorism which is widely accepted. not universally as being violence that is carried out with a political or perhaps also religious motive this may not even turn out to be terrorism as the fighting that way it could be for example a criminal act something perhaps with

a commercial economic background. now in other headlines the german security services have identified a female terror network aggressively sporting is the most ideology online but if a national report i salute crewman's throughout europe that's not for the first time what we see women actively involved in promoting jihadist fuz we have been hearing reports about isis female recruiters since of police twenty fourteen those are wives of killed islamic state fight areas who decided after the death of their husbands to somehow continue that fight they now germany says that their number is on a constant dramatic rise the women are now ideology promoters the men have realized that women cannot work much better and therefore more. expanding the scene in this most recent case germany identified what they called the islamist terrorist women's network consisting of a least forty what they call sisters who follow an ultra conservative branch of

islam known as salafism and spread extremist views via internet particularly targeting so-called nonbelievers the german authorities stress that it would be wrong to equal salahi's and to terrorists but at the same time they add that it could be potential breeding ground for terrorists in all of europe including here in germany especially following last year's bullying terror attack christmas has said has become the time for extra concerns and worries over security because christians and their faith and their holidays and everything that is connected to it include in christmas mark is that the now operating and will be open for the next week at least all of the europe have repeatedly been targeted by islam missed so it has been bet for quite some time but now fears are increasing with the number of those who share salaf views here in germany rose to an all time

high according to the country's intelligence agency germany sees it as a direct result of dramatic losses in the middle east and as a consequence a rise in the number of return east europe including women and now they say that with the defeat of so-called islamic state in syria and iraq europe security could be as fragile as never before. the fall of islamic state in syria and iraq more titles of horror or emerging of life under the terrorists rule kurdish minority families in iraq suffered captured or in slave correspondent what does it has been speaking with some of the who survived. the ordeal will show you the full interviews on thursday here is some of what we have in store the. number and

we were captured we spent two months in iraq then we were taken to syria they made me a slave we were put to work and held where the troops were we were given one hour a day to rest then i ran away they caught me in locked me in a toilet for three days without food or water i tried to escape again and again but each time i was caught beaten and severely tortured they shot my friends we begged them for mercy on our knees then we were hit by an airstrike and i was concussed my head still hurts i can't talk for long. monologue i was pregnant but i was so terrified that i lost my child my husband and family were captured and i was left alone with my mother so i took poison i decided it was better to die when they caught me i thought that since my family my husband and my house were gone it would be better to die. well in twenty fourteen up to ten

thousand you see these were killed or kidnapped by i saw in just a matter of days of those up to a third were executed however the truth scale of the tragedy may never fully be no or the testimonies that have emerged suggest many have been tortured beheaded or even burnt alive in many cases entire families were captured together women and girls were often sold as sex slaves while young boys were forced to become i saw fighters someone even old enough for school when they were forced to serve the terrorists. my daughter was five years old when she was captured careers have passed since then so she is nine we endured a lot of suffering my brother escaped and i stayed at his place then he died instant jar i was desperate after his death and i went to stay with my other brother he's poor and has young children all girls. over to the

u.k. now where thousands of documents relating to controversial episodes in british history appear to be missing the national archives claim they were misplaced or simply removed by civil servants and the revelation has sparked quite an outcry the british people deserve to know what the government has done in their name and their loss with only a few accuse ations of a cover up as a historian it's impossible to believe this loss the declassified files themselves show governments view the public largely as a threat the threat of democracy is deeply embedded if it happened in russia for example would be up in arms about corrupt governments but hey this is the british way to avoid scrutiny of its past misdeeds. parties polly boko takes a closer look now at what the exact pages of history have been lost all the national archive is a very important resource especially for people like historians and journalists because it keeps documents relating.