rather he is poor and has young children all girls. thousands of documents relating to controversial episodes in british history appear to be missing the national archives claim they were misplaced or removed by civil servants and the revelation has sparked and that cry 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 left. well the national archives 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 key moments missing relating to the northern ireland troubles as well and perhaps most controversially the files relating to the famous zinoviev letter from way back 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 sending them back to national archives. for the documents to 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 and they told us that when known files go missing they request that action be taken international affairs commentator jonathan steele 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 where britain was in a very bad position there was a question of torture in northern ireland there was no obvious letter really interesting to try and when we're talking about a free news we used to tamper with elections all kinds of allegations being made we haven't got the evidence that was once a variable has now gone missing. to do do do do do you keep documents did you read copies did you make duplications where are the duplications why didn't the originals prac if you were making a copy why didn't the government department to send you back to the national

archives where they belong to flavors the. 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 back soldiers who should not be allowed to purchase a gun the u.s. military is supposed to report felony equivalent court martial convictions for 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 november twenty six people at a texas church. we're. going to. search the personal.

with phones video that we talked about going back jennifer braden an attorney in international and crime alone police the case highlights a lack of coordination between government agencies three cities this is still a delphia new york and san francisco who are claiming that the that the department of defense is failing to do this web but the only example that they're bringing is the 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 a military servicemen and not only has the air force admitted that but some other departments of the military such as the army the marines and 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 ways that north korea could be weaponized anthrax has tory 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. running insisting that rachel not in keeping him i am. the twenty

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full on awesome power the only show i go out of my way to find you know really what it is that really packs a punch how to believe yap is the john oliver of harvey americans do the same we are apparently better than booth nothing that says i see people you never heard of love redacted tonight the president of the world bank no way to undermine a seriously he sent us an e-mail. the german chancellor has seen a dramatic slump in popularity over the past three months according to the latest poll angler merkel's approval rating has dropped from forty four to thirty six percent this comes as merkel struggles to build a governing coalition following september's inconclusive election talks between the main parties collapsed in november that was after the chance to fail to strike a compromise with the free democratic party on key issues including migration

policy. the of the other ones we will match abandon our voters for a policy with which we are not convinced it is better not to govern than to govern badly this is 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 in this room after the elections and we still stand by this really women former vice chief of the o.s.c. told us the chancellor is unlikely to serve out a full four year term. when we had two elections some months ago all it was already in a political sense this on this ng. so it was the first. in to having a change in government whether you find a new government or not but on the circumstances it usually.

when he talks which start on. january creator. i think no one expects. for four years old all of the normal government in germany and therefore i think it is a critical development for the country as well we have the economy. and we have the political. will to change. now a north korean soldier who defected to the science early this year has been found to be carrying anthrax antibodies in his blood the discovery has raised concerns that people young 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 if he was either exposed to or vaccinated for the deadly bacteria it comes amid increased

concern that pyongyang 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 counteracts the supplies were delivered an event according to media reports to give you some background on this spike in twenty fifteen the u.s. military admitted to accidentally sending a batch of anthrax samples to a base in south korea however no personnel were infected and the deadly bacteria destroyed security analyst charles super-rich 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 not. tears year has demanded an apology from the united arab emirates after mamet's airlines by women from boarding flights to the u.s. last finding citing a possible terrorist threat and that move has caused widespread anger. at least him she believes why would i go to a country that wonder exactly if that's the case and we should also impose visas on the united arab emirates that most of them are not of your loan visas and. these suppressions are a force preventing an hour from visiting arab countries is unacceptable when we see

westerners going from country to country freely than most or that is one of those up to the tunisian state must defend the rights of two new zealand women and force the u.a.e. to apologize. the passenger ban was lifted in the same day the gulf states foreign minister later tweeted that the measure was necessary for security stressing though that the respects and values genius in women but that wasn't enough attention is year which retaliated by banning all emirates flights from landing at it airports this tweet was posted by the airline informing customers the flight had been suspended we heard from achiness in an activist. become so dire that what happened is violation of tradition women rights but it's a violation of women rights and general the spokesperson for the national presidency talk about security problems but this doesn't trust to

fly what happened if a small female babies who are not allowed to go on planes i don't think that a toddler is a. darn zhorzh the generation government is still asking for official apology and it happened under the pressure of people here in tunisia. a major prisoner swap has been concluded between the ukrainian government and the two breakaway republics of donetsk and lugansk kozyrev reports. this is the largest prisoner exchange since the beginning of the conflict back in that's when c. four hundred seventy four ukrainian soldiers were returned from donetsk and lugansk sukey if 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 ritzer back here the final number all those who read serb home to the let's go to guns stands at two hundred and forty that beagle however everything went smoothly during the prisoner swap as the thirty's and a key have but failed to close the checkpoint as it was agreed for this prisoners swap and they changed to a little bit longer a lot longer than planned and this surely 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 i 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 us thanks phone conversation between saturday labral and rex tillerson the document says the u.s. secretary of state also russia to return its representatives to the region they left last tuesday saying that his this would help to decrease the violence in east ukraine. and that's our round of of the news for now don't forget to check us out on social media and our web site which is r.t. dot com i'll be back at the top of the out with the headline so don't go away.

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i'm actually town say and where in north kensington location of the ground atrocity this is going underground of the day u.k. opposition leader jeremy corbyn introduces hip hop to run the jewels at this year's glastonbury festival in the southwest of england coming up in the show. former u.k. counter-terror minister out west whether only the army on the streets valence and police with guns can save teresa mayes britain from british foreign policy and the next terror attack and just another london block is evacuated ten days after a mass killing at the tower amidst one of the poorest communities in one of the

richest in the world we ask a question. of british governments guilty of deliberate and systematic social plans ing of british cities we speak to director paulson about his new film dispossession the great social housing swindle seventy two hours since the day of rage how the people are rising up against social cleansing of the u.k.'s working classes from alleged u.k. government cover ups to u.s. backed torture in yemen we uncover some of this week's news all this and more coming up in today's going underground but first the politicize ation of the grand catastrophe in london is becoming clearer coverage of the fire which left so many dead in the poorest community in one of the richest areas on earth initially included voices like this what do i want to happen i want to be a revolution in this country the media the mainstream you don't deserve to be to i mean we should be campaigning not to go but to the b.b.c. as mouthpieces for this corrupt government people need a revolution in this country and if any other country did it in

a revolution the mainstream media responded we have to put two years of how did demonize them germany called it and you said he was unelectable he can't be there's no possibility of this man been elected and you created that narrative that people actually believed for a while but what this election has done is shown that people are. then we best to you and the other billionaires to the media owners and rupert murdoch. and that is the vote of confidence not in terms of journey mrs man but it also stands to you as the mainstream media. i didn't. rapidly coverage would turn to this. good afternoon from west london where the queen and prince william have been visiting people affected by the terrible fire that. engulfed. and then a charity single initiative from an on the record conservative music mogul honestly . believe. chills it sounds beautiful

absolutely beautiful the country will now have to wait for a public inquiry which will report directly to number ten where the former u.k. housing minister gavin barwell accused of breaking promises on fire safety works to raise a maze chief of staff we'll have more on grenfell and its implications later in the show but now we go to outside the british parliament to talk to lord west former minister for security and counterterrorism in the wake of seemingly one terror attack after another on britain. before we get to the latest counter terror initiatives police with machine guns on the streets on the streets id cards mass surveillance is just the way we're going to combat terrorism and i says in britain i don't think it is the right way of combating it doesn't mean you don't need some policeman with weapons doesn't need you i mean you don't need some sort of surveillance but i think doing that on mass is obviously what you don't want it means that all of these various terrorists or various persuasions of one if we come

that sort of society and i certainly don't want to live in a country like that one of the things i love about this country is that most of the policeman don't carry weapons that is very unusual in most countries police all carry weapons and i rather like the fact they don't and i think that we are retrograde step to go down that route. glee amber of the home secretary started her statement actually went to resume started speaking out of the ins repack incident alone the london bridge attack was to talk about internet surveillance or the helicopter surveillance we're obviously now suffering from is it all about the internet not the twenty thousand police officers that were sacked the answer is not all about it's about a whole raft of things i think in terms of internet surveillance i'm i'm very glad we got the investigation go through. very in the name the snoopers charter i mean actually not doing it would have been a charter for more people being killed in court. the people who are using the investigative powers bill are totally uninterested what's in your email i mean i

could be having affair with thirty different women it would give it would give a damn what they would be interested in is if i was regularly in contact with a known bomb maker in yemen. then they would have to ask bush and they say he's speaking to him every day and he's speaking to a man we know actually planted a bomb in new york and went inside and. you know i was actually why isn't this going on would you give us permission to look at what's in the in his e-mails the area is currently in u.s. backed operations over syria right now with civilian casualties being reported every other day is it time for the u.k. to work with the syrian government in trying to attack isis in syria. of course have a track record on this as you know i believe that our whole policy in terms of how we've dealt with assad has been bad a sad is a fairly nasty disgusting man. he is a fact of life on the ground some of the opposition forces we are dealing with some

of the more hardcore than al qaida itself we call them that are going to democratic forces back back to the area and it was obviously the libyan blowback which we saw in the area around the concert argument. when it comes to the r.a.f. i mean what you've just been saying about syria is a bit like what donald trump was saying when he was running for president but now donald trump a shot down a serious trouble. he is the president. he shot down a syrian plane over syrian airspace russia has now threatened any plane west of your river american and british planes now flying over not at the invitation of syrian government like russian. syrian planes should britain stop flying over syrian airspace like australia has decided i fear of it being. i mean what the australians have stopped there because they risk an australian plane being shot down and i can understand that i think right now over there we've got to be more robust in that with the americans but what invading another country's airspace with you what is crucial is that we deal with particularly sad.

control people which we were doing before to make sure that there's the conflict that has got to be done and i think the shooting down of a syrian plane i personally think it's not a very clever thing to have done at all the syrian air defense system is still pretty well there they have what are known as triple digits that's very very capable surface to air missiles and i think we're very we're in a very dangerous position and we need to look at this very closely but there's no doubt that the military attrition of. this is making them lose ground so they can no longer claim they have a caliphate it is important and and the there is no doubt that without the air element the mixture of forces on the ground could not actually achieve it because i mean if we and the americans went in we could easily take it over but then you've got a problem what the hell do you do then and i don't believe. you know you don't do

it without our air without the air power mainly american air power but little bit of. i don't believe we would be able to stop dying having the caliphate and i think that is important but within hours of saying they shoot down. any and made. after britain should raise or maybe part of an anti iran coalition have signaled obviously again as the best one of the best. things that was signed in the last few years was the agreement with iran about the production uber weapons and when trump said he was against that really worries me like he's done nothing yet. but i think i think we have not dealt with iran very cleverly now admittedly they support a lot of terrorism but actually basically they're a country that they were very good and i think they could be very interesting and i think to demonize them constantly is not clever and just fine because the bricks of negotiations are going on here on the record as saying you heard like headless

chickens what are the preparation military preparations going to break i mean the trident submarine still able to. click swim around in the e.u. waters after bricks and the answer that one is yes but that's i think my point is that actually i don't think there'd been gas exactly i don't think there'd been any i don't think anyone in the immediate thought we might actually leave and i don't think and this is very unusual because one thing that the military good at is lots of water so you can bet your bottom dollar where we're fighting anywhere we have what if after what if one of water and i don't think anything has been done and you could tell that from when we were asking questions about what this meant for europe i mean i am sure they'll deny this by the way and i'm very concerned that there's no doubt for the last seventy years the united 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 is saying i'm not sure that is any longer the case and that is very worrying because the security of europe is extremely important for our

nation extremely important and i think we need to a lot of thoughts about what this all means to us thank you. jeremy corbin's address to eunice and the u.k.'s biggest public service union in the past twenty four hours wasn't mentioned much. stream media 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 conservative deal with p. and the queen's speech well here is going on the grounds deputy editor sebastian packer reporting on some of the week's buried news. the u.k. was absolutely sweating its boris johnson's off this week with a heatwave reaching from the north to the most southern points of england whether presented to great care to point out high pollen counts 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 gap and 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 crown and the interim prime minister theresa 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 found wasn't more troops to afghanistan just one of the broken campaign promises that litter the right to his presidency we are going to and the era of nation building and instead focus on destroying destroy destroy 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 need 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.