well she plays a record by mick we're on the star of lock stock and two smoking barrels and the harry potter films he joins me now nick welcome to going underground to tell me about the new play the performers. where you start it's as you probably know it's written by and then cabinet and i think it's just sort of. a modern day waiting for god oh really the pair of them came up with this absolutely brilliant premise which is the nine hundred sixty nine don't camel film performance people may know the stars james fox and mick jagger dom kind of had this idea of using real villains it was part of this new wave of of british cinema and so he he reached out into the underworld to get. as many connections with with real life gangsters and chaps is he as he could. quite good friends with james fox he plays this devlin the gangs the character in performances directed him in the kid in the

movies i made him and i heard all sorts of fantastic stories about how james had to hang around with these south london gangsters and learn to box and you know learn the parlance and be one of the chaps so in. the premise for performers is that. to gangsters of being asked to all dition for donald camel for this nineteen sixty's art film and basically you have these two chaps in and they're very alien and uncomfortable environment for them sitting in a director in a car scene directors waiting room about all dition and it's about the parlance between them and how they you know the discussions and how they put the world to rights where they chat and then and then down the camels assistance turns up and starts soaking them so them about burn well and francis bacon and nick rogue and then. it was the with the co-director of performance but it was set more down the camel film. but he's assistant comes in and basically talks them

about high art and tries to get to strip naked which you know they they do or don't do which is on this that's really that's where that is what we get into the nexus between the gangsters and the and the politics and all the rest of the second but so your reaction to the performance watching the film similar to that of the reaction of the world in a world. oh it's a cult movie i've seen it a bunch of times i saw it last time i saw it was. every time it's on as a prince you know they showed it at the electric in portobello road about two years ago and i went with me on the boat is a friend of mine the playwright we both went to see that the prince of performance said you know they tied up another print because the film was banned and then and then so shredded and then and then it actually same project it is bitrate but and then it was reality didn't some bits were cut out and sometimes the version that uses the e.c. broadcast doesn't have a lot of the scenes in it the move to violence point to scenes in. i mean it's it's

a seminal film for all sorts of reasons but it's a have that to use that as the basis to sort of. the establishment and is that as a premise for so comedy of manners is corporately take us back to that time because the film came out towards the end of the. year where it's just meant politics yeah i think it was one of the sort the apex of it really because at the time everybody people have heard the rumors about. the craze and their connections with the aristocracy and stories are the art that if you're allowed to talk about them and i think we will anyway but it was a time when the government could tell the sunday mirror to withdraw a story about a fair between between one of the cronies graham booth we are looking into that yes lord i presume we can talk i don't know what their cries are around anymore and maybe you know you said it was released now you ask i didn't but you had a little bit of be

a fair actually that's in the long it was touched upon in legends the crate and there's there are these very strong connections between the cracks of. the underworld in the success of the world really and this this idea that then. villains start to get involved in the arts which is only a matter of time before the art style get involved with villains and i think this this progression to move made as a conceptual artist and and his film is going to be about the jew aleksey of man and and the criminal fraternity reflected that so basically go on to really spiteful people to be in his film when you do see a jump indian who then went on to become. quite a few films after that he'd done a stretch for manslaughter you know he killed a man. your club. you know was a bit of a face and he's if he's first appearance in a in a feature film there's

a whole bunch of them they had pretty substantial rap sheets so the idea that everybody in it that wasn't james fox is a real villain and ironically enough is something that guy. richie did with lock stock but something that's a bit more accessible and he's funny and self-effacing with the casting of of lenny maclean and all the other chaps that he used in in his debut film so i think there's a bit synergy with with the whole thing you mentioned the manslaughter because there was violence they were new generations seeing it in the french way to say we don't have the gangsters and the phrase back next year i mean they didn't like the banking because the big nexus without i doubt it i think there's a huge shift in dynamics between fringe theatre and whatever bank is i don't think bankers understand that fringe there exists and i would be other than to be many bank is in there i mean there's this idea that you know there's there's money laundering in it maybe you know maybe some of the criminal underworld in the

sixty's or. pave the way for what some of the banking on the world do bit later on but i think i think it's all about ego i think really you can't become wealthy without because without affecting your ego something there are i've learned over the years. with. you know being in that environment and seeing friends around but i think it also happens if you're if you're a villain if you become if you become powerful you want to become famous and so the craze had david bailey take a photograph you know those famous or comic you know one in front of the other this is the sort of outline of that that said david bowie portrait done in his studio because the crazed thought that they were they were celebrities now and the idea that they are of course more now going to be a movie star you know that that that's of course that's the next step some is going to have been a film and the idea that the in. a scene that brought brought down the what's interesting about the play you know why it's so funny is because obviously they can

act they don't react they one of them does a speech but can't act. of an apprentice i have never been with. ask anyone i've never been to of and they are really that that will be being said in a theater full of you know. full of actors and but the idea that the celebrity is the thing whether you're a banker or whether you own a. chain of hardware store shops or or whether whether you are the chairman of a football club you know what you want it's about being famous it's about that ego and i think that's what's interesting about even the title performance is that is that the villains are there performing all the time and the great thing about the plays that's what sets you up with your comedy of manners because you have to be put in front of at all times i'm a villain i'm one of the chaps i don't want to look at pictures of francis bacon to get naked in front of you chris that's not what we do is there is there's never

everybody has got a front so who is more powerful than we are to see world or the gangster world i mean the riches in vain which is that he claims of bug been bugging her will soon lead the prime minister that was in power rather to have a formula how much who's more part of the arts world or the political it's that the thing about gangsters is it is you never eat never after you never call him a liar you know so charlie which isn't much say that you'd have to go on the air charlie says you wouldn't actually look old so i will go on their way the time you were saying and write down what we're not so i never asked and i didn't want to spend but you don't whereas if you do it you're called to account the thing about the world of the world is that you know it will change the world i don't know if it will but it does it does have an it just push things in a certain direction people need media people need people who. is storytelling and storytelling informs and affects people and i think i think the

government realized and gangstas realize that if you can beat a friendly face in a in a film if you can. whether you're one of the other then you're going to you're going to cut more favor with the public you know i mean so i don't know that what i do know is i don't know much about harry potter but you were in that report of yes so as the x. rays of me read all of harry potter. your fault about the ascent of to resume the i don't know if she's in league with a bunch of wizards and. let's see where the trees but why do i think it's very ironic is that obviously she does a lot for her films but she has the worst in history of made and i once treasure my i think the army of it is really rich and i thought i said i want to be space up and thank you thank you and the other half are available you can go and see the performance at the edinburgh fringe festival from august in

scotland that is after the break as u.s. navy ship is warning shots of the iranian boats in the persian gulf with off the ground. if sanctions are actually strengthening the islamic republic coming up about going underground.

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to be communications director across the pond drums new communications chief has a different background and to me scaramucci who speaks of political and they self-styled un convention. political convention in california within the next one hundred hours is very much of the swamp that trump said he wanted to drain the new white house communications director now tapped for the fourth time by drone is a wall street hedge fund manager and goldman sachs alumnus expertise that is arguably suited to a climate of mainstream media speculation and watergate theory now after graduating from bob woodward schools government he began his career at goldman sachs in one thousand nine hundred nine but after two years was fired only to be rehired by the same company months later after leaving in one thousand nine hundred seven before the asian financial crisis he started sky bridge capital now with offices in new york zurich and florida he's written several books including goodbye gordon gekko how to find your fortune without using your soul to the little book of hedge funds

and he's also a loyal republican with spawn's with democrats in the past including this interaction with the then incumbent president barack obama and i represent the wall street community we have felt like opinion maybe you don't feel like you're whacking us with a stick but we certainly feel like we've been whacked with a stick but like many loyal republicans scaramucci hasn't been certain loyal to the current commander in chief attacking trump as well as showing support for wiki leaks disgraced hillary clinton calling her incredibly competent in fact his twitter account shows that beyond just being anti trumpy different from the republican base on a wide range of issues in the past the mooch has tweeted that he is and the death penalty pro gun control pro choice a strong believer in climate change and against trump's mexico border wall on russia scaramucci is with the deep state tweeting that one should follow altera roads they lead not just to damascus but to moscow but is he totally committed to

the obama clinton strategy of de facto supporting isis and al-qaeda linked groups against damascus is he really committed. to obama style leadership president obama did say that he was drawing a red line and then he took it away since the wrong message to our adversaries not just the syrian government but people around the world and so i think he had to adapt the play here scaramucci is republican evangelism arguably shows in his donations he was a proponent of the supreme court's twenty ten citizens united decision that allowed big money to attempt to wriggle lections he said of the decision that it activated a sleeper cell of hedge fund managers against obama allowing them to use their capital to influence the debate and since then he's donated vast amounts of money to various political campaigns before maxing out his donations to trump at one hundred thousand dollars he raised money for two other twenty sixteen republican presidential candidates scott walker and jeb bush his head and also donated money

to mitt romney in two thousand and twelve and call rueben twenty thirteen all donations that would have been illegal before the citizens united decision but despite his donations scaramucci has little to no experience in political combs aside from numerous appearances on the. fox network but if you're looking for a reason as to why trump scaramucci some point to its success in helping to force the resignations of staff from c.n.n. over an inaccurate story about his ties to russia trump advisors have said that he loved the way the mooch handled the situation and still talks about it the president then even tweeted about the event adding what about all the other phony stories they do maybe ability to force news organizations to back down is why he hinted at a job at the b.b.c. back in twenty sixteen stating of don't trump becomes the next president i'm looking forward to the b.b.c. helping me find a flat somewhere in london. this week washington again

prepared for more sanctions against countries not in line with us at the moment power there was legislation this week that prevents even president donald trump from. vetoing sanctions against countries perceived enemies of us politicians in congress one of the countries in the usa cites is middle east superpower iran continually destabilized by successive u.k. governments until the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution blessed or cursed with some of the largest known reserves of oil and gas in the world iran has been the only charm offensive in europe sending its foreign minister mohammad gerry fifty e.u. capitals but not to london to increase ties with the world's largest trade bloc well we've caught up with one of iran's most senior clerics grand ayatollah sheikh most an iraqi he is a member of iran's assembly of experts which has the power to appoint and dismiss iran's head of state such as current leader of the islamic revolution ali khamenei

with me as a grand ayatollah shaikh most an iraqi and thanks so much for speaking to me grand ayatollah let's begin with the terrible figures coming from the middle east of numbers of wounded at a mosque maybe a thousand since israel on july fourteenth put the metal detectors up your reaction . small of the money. in the name of god the most gracious the most compassionate or the issue of the mosque is a major issue it doesn't only concern the palestinians not just the muslim world of the it's an issue that concerns humanity and muslims have been praying for hundreds of years in a lot some masculine for the israelis to harm and prevent the palestinians to break goes against the most basic of human rights we see that the israeli occupation has resulted in the killing in torturing of the palestinian people right from its creation if they impose themselves with violence and no doubt this behavior from

them will not stop unless there is a severe response not just from the palestinians but also from the muslim world and anyone who defends human rights and who wants justice and peace why are men on a mission i learned to a center on british media it is the palestinians doing the violence and it is called temple mount not a leg some more will not. be back we see that the western media does not give an accurate portrayal of events and this has a negative impact against their own citizens. they are not happy for happy ha. ha been happening but he will because the inaccurate coverage doesn't just affect those that are being oppressed and more but it's also denies that people of the world demand the truth of what is happening and the people of america and europe supports human rights and oppose oppression so if the coverage is inaccurate this

may lead them to support the oppressors and not the oppressed probably for the happy of the israelis have not defined their borders and and they came in occupied palestine and that palestine has been there for hundreds of years journeymen jews have also been living in palestine for the hundreds of years or they were considered as part of the palestinian. asian at us in the even in iran there are jews who live with freedoms and rights and they are represented in the iranian parliament scene jews have lived in muslim lands for hundreds of years along with the same rights as when their lives let me near to sinning marl muslim in muslim one we know that both saudi arabia and qatar have relations with israel why does the islamic republic support cut which currently has relations with israel we have proof of the do. through and loom so.

that the sort of the islamic republic of iran defense of all those who are oppressed whether it is qatar or saudi arabia if saudi arabia were being oppressed by anyone it is iran's duty to defend them apart but here we see that saudi arabia of forcefully imposing demands you that's are unacceptable the saudis want to follow what ever they ordered them to do saudi arabia has done this towards yemen as well and trying to force them under their will and with this is unacceptable at this and it's strange that the western nations are supporting saudi arabia with no logic and rationality model of the. us are odio to their founders for the. prime minister to resume wants to overthrow the government or has wanted to overthrow the government of syria for a number of years just to clear things up for our audience why does a holy person like yourself support a secular system in syria the secular government of president assad.

and the. work of the syrian government has stood up against the biggest issue affecting the world today and that is the palestinian cause as low. as syria did not stand by the palestinian resistance and if they did not create a barrier to the aspirations of israel then israel would have taken control of the entire middle east and would now be on the borders of iran. so this stance of theirs is of utmost importance and it's iran's religious and moral duty to support syria and even though it has many differences that one serious support of resistance groups especially in the south of lebanon is in the interests of the people of the region. there's been so many reports of britain and israel backing al-qaeda linked groups in syria do you welcome donald trump's decision to stop cia funding for al qaeda and isis linked groups fighting assad in syria.

it is unfortunate that the us has proven it is untruthful. even donald trump had previously attacked obama's administration for supporting and creating isis but right now we see that the u.s. is supporting isis that the iraqi soldiers have witnessed on many occasions how u.s. helicopters would come and provide weapons and other provisions to isis so that they can continue fighting their r.v. nation and this at the same time the u.s. claims they are fighting isis at the top of this double standard from the u.s. prevents us from trusting them we believe that the terrorism in the region is because of america's policies around the world. you dog of human rights what about human rights in iran. inequality under your president rouhani has increased under his presidency of course he's been reelected under president of and

in a judge who i interviewed in tehran i should say inequality fell in his final four years how dangerous is the inequality problem right now under rouhani his policies of privatization in iran and giving more money too. the rich private all agog sooner. there are always political differences each group accuses the other of not doing a good job but this and this is natural during election time and however the truth is that there aren't a lot of differences between rouhani. and party means leadership had to be there on major political policies that's no administration can overrule except for a few limited number of things so the accusations and month slinging between political groups are mostly political been well and not necessarily true yes there are economic difficulties over all the economic situation is good. the middle class

make up seventy percent of the country the wealthy class make up twenty percent and the poor make up ten percent but there are societal and governmental institutions that take care of those under the poverty line. and talk a little good shabbily i just finally this week the us congress discusses sanctions on russia trump one sanctions it seems on iran iran has always had good relations with the cuban revolution sanctions good for iran apart from says civil aviation of course but dissensions may countries throw in that kind of drops in the sea. if a country makes clever political decisions then they would be able to turn the sanctions imposed on them into a golden opportunity to develop their nation and to rely upon themselves the developments that have taken place in iran whilst under sanctions may not have ever

happened when if sanctions were not imposed on it in iran is one of five leading nations in terms of their scientific developments. and we believe that sanctions on russia could benefit them of course russia is a very strong nation and it's a superpower if you so the sanctions against russia by the u.s. . in some european nations will only make russia more independent and even cuba and other nations like finish off free and sovereign nations and they don't want to be on that americans control that. kind of a grand ayatollah shaikh was an iraqi thank you very much. and that's it for one of your favorite shows of the season will be back with a whole new episode to going on the ground on wednesday the seventeenth of january till then keep in touch via social media have a happy. country

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the headlines on r.t. international fifty two iraqi civilians from two separate tribes were executed by going to see the fighters. i still. on the program we told the group about alleged killings by. so-called safe zones women. see. to me it sounds it's a bit like he said it's a good idea it's needed. one hundred on the program we find out.