documents relating to controversial episode in british history appear to be missing the national archives claim they were misplaced or removed by civil servants and the revelation has sparked an outcry the british people deserve to know what the government has done in their name and their loss will only fuel 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. which pages of history have been lost. well the national archive is a very important resource especially for people like historians and journalists because it keeps documents relating to the country's history and the idea is a perfectly transparent system whereby once government documents are decursive fide

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 forty a moment in british history among the files missing are papers relating to the full clinton's war there are documents missing relating to the northern ireland troubles as well and perhaps most controversially the files relating to the famous. 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 is an obvious 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 are sending them back to the national archives we're still searching 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 files access these chapters of british history rather than finding that they have been misplaced and according to some misplaced a little too conveniently we contacted the national archives they told us that when lone files go missing they request that action be taken into actual affairs commentator jonathan c. it still says that the huge loss of sensitive documents raises many questions. which is an absolute scandal because as you pointed out most of them refer to incidents in the past britain was in a very bad position because there was a crust of torture in northern ireland there was no obvious letter of a really interesting they were not just a time when we're talking about straight news we used to tamper with elections all kinds of allegations being made we haven't got the the evidence that was once a variable has now gone missing preferences been asked to do did you did you keep

documents did you make copies did you make duplications where are the duplications why didn't you was then send the originals back if you were making a copy and why didn't the dick government department to send it back to the national archives where they belong if they borrowed them just on a term prevent a whole series of questions that need to be answered. the pentagon is being sued by three major u.s. cities new york philadelphia and san francisco accuse it of failing to report acts olders who should not be allowed to purchase a gun the u.s. military is supposed to report felony equivalent court martial convictions certain crimes to a federal database the pentagon has admitted failing to submit information about individuals who went on to commit massacres one case is that of an air force serviceman who was discharged over domestic assault and in a family killed twenty six people at a texas church. where the nine. hundred.

sixty. jennifer breeden attorney an international criminal law believes the case highlights a lack of coordination between government agencies. bre cities this is philadelphia new york and san francisco who are claiming that the that the department of defense is failing to do this well but the only example that they're bringing is a serviceman in texas that the texas church shooting which was a former air force person on the facts itself on the merits of the case they do have a strong case because the air force has admitted that some of their lower officers are in noncompliance with current federal statutes that say they have to report when there is a criminal act by the military servicemen and not only is the air force admitted that but some other departments of the military such as the army the marines and

then maybe they have stated there are failures on their parts and some of their lower service men to report these crimes to the f.b.i. for the national gun registry things like that to see people stand up and say look there's going to be oversight you're going to lose your jobs if you don't comply with federal laws we have to see more of that from the top down and we have to see more compliance between different agencies and local law enforcement these are the kinds of federal oversight programs that are supposed to prevent especially some of our most highly trained military men and women from purchasing a firearm if they have a criminal conviction speculation has been raised that north korea could be weaponized anthrax story and will still to come. 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.

we're so deep in the corruption. and i think that the reason of corruption is liberal our national into production of liberalism is of course one of the most important reasons reigning corruption and could not cure it because she thinks that liberalism is the cure probabilistic is the poison. robot governments can be much more rational and lots more compassionate than the current all the dark human governments that we have i suspect people will be more happy with that new situation than there are with the current.

back to the program the german chancellor has seen a dramatic slump in popularity over the past three months according to the latest poll americans approval rating has dropped from forty four to thirty six percent this comes as merkel struggles to build a governing coalition i think september is inconclusive election talks between the main parties collapsed in november that was after the tail to strike a compromise with the democratic party on key issues including migration policy. the available ones we will not abandon voters for a policy with which we are not convinced it is. better not to govern than to govern badly. i talk it is a day of deep reflection on how to go forward in germany as a chancellor i will do everything to ensure that this country is well managed in the difficult works to calm me and you know we are not entering a grand coalition we said this clearly after the elections and we still stand by

this willy women former vice chief of the o.s.c. tell us the chancellor is unlikely to serve out a full four year term. when we had to elections some months ago it was already in a political sense this on going to sing. it was the first. in to having a change in government will you find a new government or not but i don't know german circumstances if you really start this way when these talks which start. generally. i think no one expects it will last for four years so all of the normal government in germany and therefore i think it is a critical development for the three years old we have an economy which is

flourishing and we have a political system which isn't true. now a north korean soldier had defected to the south earlier this year has been found to be carrying anthrax antibodies in his blood and discovery has raised concerns that pyongyang may have developed biological weapons kim jong un has the capability to weaponize more than a dozen biological agents within just a few days if he wants to wreak havoc on the korean peninsula i mean he was either exposed to are vaccinated for the deadly bacteria it comes of it increased concern there kyung is developing biological weapons something long suspected by the international community. recently the south korean government reportedly purchased one thousand doses of a vaccine against anthrax the supplies were delivered in the event according to media reports. to give you some background on this back in twenty fifteen the u.s. military admitted to accidentally sending a batch of anthrax samples to

a base in south korea but no personnel were infected and the deadly bacteria was destroyed security analyst charles schumer told us any accusations against north korea should be treated with a dose of skepticism. north korea is a public whipping boy at the moment for some in the west media in the west governments and so therefore it's not surprising perhaps that we see a similar. train or trail of actually sessions as we've seen in other examples we all know that for example claims of w m d including biological weapons were made as a pretext for the two thousand and three invasion of iraq by britain and america those claims proved to be totally false no doubt this news will be used to say that we need to take stronger action against north korea but also in terms of further alienating and isolating this government which of course in the past has only served to make it act in a more extreme manner. to media has demanded an apology from

the united arab emirates after emirates airlines byington it in women from boarding flights to the u.a.e. last friday citing a possible terrorist threat the move has caused widespread anger. just in she believes my when i go to a country that wonder exactly if that's the case and we should also oppose these us on the united arab emirates and the nose of the man of the unknown views and. these operations are a force preventing an hour from visiting arab countries is unacceptable when we see the westerners going from country to country freely the most rigid that is one of those statements defend the rights of two new zealand women and force the u.s. to apologize. the passenger ban was lifted the same day the gulf states foreign minister later tweeted that the measure was necessary for security stressing though that the

u.a.e. respects the values of two missing women but that wasn't enough for tunis yet which retaliated by banning all emirates flights from landing at its airports this tweet was posted by the airline informing customers the flights had been suspended we heard from a tunisian blogger and activist. become so dire that what happened is file ation of tunisian women rights but it's a violation of women rights in general the spokesperson for the presidency talk about security problems but this doesn't justify what happened if a small female babies were not allowed on planes i don't think that a toddler is. pretty darn sure such an asian government is still asking for official apology and it happened under the pressure of people here in

tunisia. i made a prisoner swap has been concluded between the ukrainian government and the two breakaway republics of jeanette's and lugansk romana reports this is the largest prisoner exchange since the beginning of the conflict back in that's when the fourteen seventy forty gradient soldiers were returned 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 the authorities in kiev claiming that some of the prisoners had already been released and some of the prisoners had refused to be back here the final number all those who returned home to the let's call it guns stands at two hundred and forty people however everything went smoothly during the prisoner swap. and he

failed to close the checkpoint as it was agreed 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. meanwhile the u.s. department of state has released a statement regarding yesterday's phone conversation between so gay lover of and rex tillerson the document says that the u.s. secretary of state to ask russia to return its representatives to the donbass region they left last tuesday saying that this would help decrease the violence in east ukraine. roundup of the news now don't forget to check us out on social

media and our website which is. on the back at the top of the hour with all three don't go away. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. is there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a struggle. to get this man from his own response to the problem and constructed dozens of tiny homes for people in need of shelter when you have nothing and nowhere to go. you know having something like this may as well be a castle but do the authorities accept such solution. me house on a city parking space is not a solution your craft that someone wanted touring the site otherwise it will be

a free for all and is there a better alternative to end the homelessness crisis. but whole existence to do something to. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or something want to. have to do like to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good . i'm interested always in the waters in the house. this should. 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.

in. greetings and salutations french poet novelist victor hugo once stated music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. for many music is indeed that conduit which allows us to voice everything from our rage our love our our politics our happiness and often times our heartbreak when the world around us would rather we stay silent the great singer songwriters overcome this oppression whether internal or external to provide us that great freedom from oppression. when done right they use their mix of talent dedication and vulnerability to craft songs that truly capture the emotion

and spirit of the human condition their art talent and courage to lay their thoughts and emotions bare gives us those great moments in our lives when a song truly captures who we are what we want and what we feel inside that we we desperately want to share with the world around us. so today let us not remain silent and celebrate the singer songwriters who express that which cannot be put into words as watching the hawks strikes a chord if you want to so let's go with no. three but the fact. that you seriously need to analyze it would have bought a did you speak. with a day like it or not i got this with the belief that it's very difficult to do this world but you know. when. you go. to

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my mom says that i was saying before i could really speak and there is actually a video home video of me standing on the stairs maybe two and a half and being like. i don't know being a opera singer so i guess i sort of want to do that i grew up listening to my parents records and classical music and my grandparents and i grew up on a farm so we didn't have cable i think we got one channel and it had lawrence welk on it so we watch that i say we a lot because i have an identical twin sister so so i'm not saying like the royal we. so then really it was just about discovering those. those inspirations and then started seeing in church choir has been to catholic school and then when we moved to california. i got into theatre camp and doing musicals

and i had to be incredibly afraid to sing in front of people on stage just by myself it was very scary but i want to do for some reason and it got me out of my shell super super. shy and i think when i started singing and performing that really brought me out and i got to be loud i mean people out of times say that i have this voice that doesn't seem to go with my the way i look and i'm small and whatever but you know again my mom said that when i was born i was less than four pounds primi and but you can tell by my voice i knew i was there screaming really loud so it's been always that way and then i started listening to hanson discovered hansen that is really the reason i wanted to be a singer songwriter. i'm not even really alone because i was like oh they are so

young in their doing this than i had started learning how to harmonize with my sister and then. with a guitar and. the rest resident history. songwriting where a lot of people started saying and then you get to some writing what inspired you to start writing. well ok from the beginning i had already been writing songs with my sister like on our tree house on the farm we wrote our first song when we were three i think it was about being cold and wanting to go inside and and i actually wrote that melody of that song into another song that i have now. but. after that after like the our clubhouse songs that we wrote. i found the artist brandi carlile and i thought she was so had this incredible

voice and such an incredible. you know message to her songs and it was like oh my gosh these are songs that i would write and i should write them and that's when i started really writing my own songs then and then after that after a while of doing that by myself i started doing co-writes which initially were very scary for me but now this whole e.p. that just came out today is. co-write oh no there's one song that's not a but most of them are and i think it really brings a whole new level of excitement and something new and i always feel like if as an artist if you're not scared you're not doing it right. and so i was really scared kind of not actually scared but like it was a whole new experience and. it was really fun and i think it came out really well. so one of the most unique things about singer songwriters is their ability to you know open themselves up and share of the world you know some of the most emotions

and feelings and life experiences how difficult is that. i mean it is when i really think about it is like yeah it's kind of crazy that i put so much of my personal story. and feelings out there for so many people to hear but. i got to be honest i it hasn't been hard i'm not well ok though the hard part about it is only when i am thinking about the person that it's about i'm like ok they're going to know and sometimes that's really scary and awkward and embarrassing because i'm like oh well i don't want to think that i care that much but reading far i really i do but mostly it's because. it's last night i thought. it's not about it being that i care about what the public thinks it's just about that person but

a lot of times it is the thing that i can do to say the things that i could never say to that person so i'm actually kind of i don't know vindicated by like yeah this is what i'm saying to you and i hope everyone hears it on the radio and i hope you do too you know so so how important is that sharing of yourself sharing of the memories and emotions that you feel i guess what i'm trying to say is how important is the singer songwriter to the culture of the audience and to all of us. oh. i mean. it really i mean really important because i think that it brings a lot of people into a place where they couldn't put a certain feeling or a certain experience into words and then you hear the song and you're like oh yes yes that's exactly what it is i don't feel alone anymore and i feel like i can really be in this feeling which a lot of people i think don't really settle into their feelings and why we all have

you know stomach problems like anxiety because you're not really just like letting it out and i think i've i've definitely suffered with anxiety in my life and i think i don't know how how do people who don't have something like songwriting get through their lives at least i can do that and i know that. every time i think i'm going to feel better afterwards but you know there's all those people like bob dylan you know i mean really shapes political commentary like. yeah i think that it is very important because even if you also can't understand the lyrics even if you don't speak english or whatever language the song is then it's a universal language music and you can feel what it's about even without understanding the words and a lot of people times people don't even if you do want to stick to the liquid. what was the song or a songwriter that showed you that someone else could write a song and understand. oh my gosh there's been

a lot. i wish i had a ready answer for this. one of the artists that comes to mind that just sort of does this in a general way as the artist israel minting that probably wasn't the first time but he just has this voice that comes like from the earth right like soul. and he has this really amazing way of saying things that have been said thousands millions of times in songs before but where you're just like yeah that's the bare bones human experience simple that's what it is. and then more recently if you're thinking about a song just the one that came to my head is. a great big world say something it's so perfect it's so simple it has extremely like.