but might stop. a nuclear attack on logic a gradual build and reluctantly i just get them to i mean we know the trays are mad no is attention saying she press a button globe it was a loft at the mill it's in this context that you read this news that scott's we have to go to the pacific fleet says publicly that he would be prepared to destroy the whole of china using the table is to say that publicly in such and such a threatening perfidious atmosphere in the world. it it shows the degree of irresponsibility if a nuclear war breaks out it will almost certainly break out by mistake or accident i can think for a moment that even some of the lunatics that have gone along with this this new legislation that is going for the us congress would want that really one of the truly sane american generals general james cartwright said

a few years ago he lit up a panel that inquired into. the real risk. faced by people on both sides who have to make a decision very quickly about whether to fire nuclear weapons and they brought it down to less than fifteen minutes and the panel including general copyright agreed the obvious that it's madness. well within fifteen minutes of what i just got to just back quickly yes jump obviously his campaign repeatedly saying we want an end to all these foreign wars nothing child can do in the face of the whole of the deep state little own that in a lead is nothing you can do about this against him trump is is a grotesque contradiction he says he says that but he pursues these wars as well it's the one anomaly is wanting to. to have

some peace deal with russia atlee conspiracy people would say ah that's because he's packing them back for putting him in the white house or something ridiculous like that but that's that even looking at trump's record trumps record is pretty appalling mind you trump is a bit of a wimp compared with obama bomber ended. having put american to seven wars including the longest war in its in its history having increased the development of nuclear warheads more than any president since the cold war obama's record was of the soup a whole trump is has a long way to catch up with he's preacher said so that's why i really should stop simply looking at trump the man to trump as a kind of symptom and i mentioned earlier a character true of almost a cartoon version of a system

a system that has produced people that have almost brought us to the edge of nuclear war. thank you you're welcome after the break we speak to actor and coming film festival mc lubber will soon as he switches from the matrix to star in the old the sea a film about marine biologist use joe foretold global environmental catastrophe by diving in the depths of the earth's oceans all the more coming over but two of this season finale of going underground. to get gold is periodic album number seventy nine and has unique attributes that make it great for money do you think a big point it would not more in

a vacuum it has got forty years of history to it and it's evolved through all these technologies it's a unique protocol and it like gold it is attracting a huge amount of capital for for the for this achievement and you can't say that you can simply go out there and create another one there are competitors of course just like there are competing species on planet earth for energy and survival but there is only one the apex predator or that is at the moment before he dies from all the garbage. it's the cradle of jazz. is america still america we have. to mold this jazz feeling. a city of climatic contrast trophies of alligators on the loose of poverty and crime are used by the least swell members of my friends close most. of street racing in the heat of the

night this is a new orleans song. best place in the world. welcome back to a peer reviewed journal nature is published in the past few days that there is a ninety five percent chance of the earth will heat up two degrees centigrade or three point six degrees fahrenheit within the next seventy years or thereabouts aside from possible implications that include the twenty first century ravaged by wars for resources and the displacement or death of tens of millions there are lethal knock on effects for the world's oceans arguably no single person educated the planet about seventy percent of the earth more than jacques cousteau french naval officer explorer a conservationist filmmaker innovator scientist photographer author and research or jacques cousteau's life is celebrated in a new film the odyssey directed by jerome soule starring as cousteau is an actor

a recording artist and director known around the world for his roles in the matrix films lamb bear wilson he joins me now welcome to going underground so what's it like portraying a father son relationship in a film which then so obviously pivots to the fate of the planet itself. i think it's a relief to concentrate on only one subject father son relationship when you're talking about a man who's known as close to him because you avoid the typical bio pic shore which can be boring and by concentrating on the father son relationship you reveal a lot of the facets aspects of his personality of course his personality. his. brilliancy and at the same time his selfishness and or thought of nature and his sense of desire to control his own territory. so i mean we all know about under in the oceans basically humanity knows about what's

happening under the oceans to a huge extent because of jacques cousteau we breathe underwater because if you're going to end this a lot of it will take for granted really religion really because we forget that he invented the famous aqualung in the forty's in one hundred forty three and that's and it's not a little accomplishment. when he was the first one to film underwater and spread those images through television and before that for cinema. the cannes film festival in the sixty's for the world of silence. we owe him a lot of things i'm not saying this because i studied him and i portrayed him i was part of a generation that grew up with him watching his films every week or every fortnight and he gave us a sense of adventure he gave us a sense of fun also because what he was doing with you know his crew onboard calypso seemed you know very french everybody was drinking eating occasionally

running after a dolphin or a whale but it just it was the first reality division it was the first to absolutely and he was a very clever communicator he had a great sense of. you know he invented the red beanie because he wanted to. to kill if so member and you're wearing a number yes. he wanted the crew of the calypso boat to be identifiable straight away so he is an old thing that used to be worn by people going under water in these big. metal things that used to have the beanie under to protect themselves and he used that simply as a it was modern marketing anyway so he said he was a genius but then there's a slow burn through the film until you get to a line like. you speaking as jacques cousteau's way that the elimination of materialism is required to save the planet that's a sudden change that comes in the middle of the ville yes i think change his views

about the planet itself ok cousteau is. representative of man's rapport to nature at the end of the twentieth century in the fifty's when he's starting diving into something he's a predator he learned how to dive in order to kill fish and when he's starting to film he uses fish as material to make sensational images in the sixty's you observe that all the fish that he's been filming in the forty's late forty's have disappeared he starts becoming a little aware and then through a major revelation held by his son felipe who was an activist and cut ecological activist he called him a militant militant he goes to antartica and realizes that instead of just. taking the world filming the world he needed to protect the world and then he embarks on this new period in his life in which he's going to alert the

public and he's going to be a whistleblower on ecological issues and for him everything was linked to capitalism the the guilt was on the side of capitalism he was very very pessimistic he never. allowed himself to express his pessimism in front of the cameras he did so in his book he was very dark he thought the man was not going to . realize quickly enough how fragile it all was and so he was you know he was he was you can have much hope here you didn't see much pessimism in the film as well usual was vacillation ironic and you portray this in the film that we owe big oil company it's a little bit out of it i wouldn't say all of the character was which is the reason why in france unlike in america or maybe in other countries of the world cousteau

in france is. it is still attacked for his ecological actions in the in the fifty's compromises he needed the money to be a good deal the rumors of everything from and simply to to move the boat and so he got his contract with british petroleum to help them find oil wells near abu dhabi and so he contributed to the destruction of the environment in the in that part of the world but he spent the rest of his life. making this major mayor cool. and so i think it's very unfair but he should be criticized on his attitude in the fifty's you know he refused to have the famous film the world of silence for which he won the palme ago as i was saying he refused to have it altered he could have removed a few images to give himself a better image no he took full responsibility to show the world that this was the attitude in the fifty's that you could use dynamite to get items of samples of fish

to study or that you could use young baby whales as a bait for sharks in order to film great scenes he wanted to say this is how we did it the world was i. our oyster we didn't ask ourselves and questions but now we do and we will have to more and more russia's vladimir putin has just made a twenty seventeen year of a call a g. china supporting russia's marine protection area of antarctica that's what they say . what do you think jacques cousteau would think of these big was talking about it really because jacques cousteau and the film is not giving it away because joe and antarctica preservation are where we are legally antartica is preserved because of the action. in the late eighty's in the ninety's he went to visit all the heads of states to extend

a moratorium that already existed extended until two thousand and forty eight. but he actually worked very hard and he started with the australian prime minister and then went he was irritated in washington for big oil companies telling our elected leaders and the general public that they're doing what they can what would be saying about so-called green washing and corporate law here ok i think that. was clever so he made he wanted things to be possible he wanted accomplishments to be made so presumably in the c o p twenty one he would've agreed on the. the compromises the arrangements that were made. thank god we have in france at the moment the equivalent of a cousteau who has does not have such an international profile but we have nicola you know that has just been hired by. minister of the

transition towards ecology which is interesting as a terminology which proves that france intends to reshape its policy as far as you don't think a macro government would bomb a greenpeace rainbow warrior ship protesting. nuclear testing that's sort of that's a tricky question i think that france france still has a tendency to protect national interests. particularly as far as nuclear activity and grow is doing nuclear submarine simulation just the other day showing the. protection of the protection of the national military institutions i think france has a tradition of going all the way you know we are a nuclear force i've just finished a film in the highest where we have some of our nuclear submarines it's very

impressive we ignore that part of the reality but actually it's there and very off the coast of brittany but it was france will be the only nuclear power in the european union when britain leaves absolutely so i think. until the day nicolette you know who is the minister of environment decides to leave because he disagrees i think my calling will want to have a green policy simply because you can only do is an incredibly popular figure in france he is the figure former journalist the figure of and environment they've already had a feud about you know those. chemicals that kill. you know negative noise actually i can never been i thought even in french but he when he you know won so so far and you know if you gave initial support in new to. the green body but i did because you do and i had worked together at greenpeace he was

the director of greenpeace before he became. european parliament member and because i wanted the. ecological questions to be raised within the presidential elections and then he is associated himself with the socialist and then he got absorbed and so i then didn't. new supporting him. ecological issues have not been tackled so much during the french president presidential elections my quiz catching up now i think it's and it's an incredible coup in france that should should have got. everybody trying to get in you cannot go and you could have presented himself as well for the presidential election so he had one he has all that at the macro is a technocrat his new liberalism which candidate is allied to goldman sachs and financial institutions you think jacques cousteau whatever your optimism about the new french president. i think. was a realist and i knew where he was to associated himself with with some politicians

i think that it's very early days he was. yeah i think he was he was a great diver and swimmer politically ducker and over yes exactly it's very early days with michael i think the great thing for us is that he is a very very intelligent man and he's absorbing many new forces including you lou is a great example of what michael has up his sleeve so i don't think that you can reduce into just. the banks and liberals and maybe the crisis will happen i'm sorry i didn't intend to have a political comes about france clearly the key discussion will be in september when the code of work the though the work legislation is going to be discussed then this is when he will. clearly define his his position and maybe again the country will

come to a halt we dream of progress and we dream of. movement in france and every time any quite right is questioned we hit the street and we paralyze the country so we have pretty complicated. and that said for one of your favorite shows of the season we'll be back with all new episodes are going on the ground on wednesday the seventeenth of january till then keep in touch via social media have a happy all tried. hello my name's peter and i've been living in russia now for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through time. but the older i get yes. i need to just run their store do it because. i started.

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we are taught the tremendous courage of the iranian people washington throws its support behind the anti-government uprising in iran threatening sanctions against iran if it attempts to suppress peaceful protests. to impose lives across the middle east over jerusalem the us president now considers he says cutting aid to palestinians and accuses them of not wanting to talk peace. must press each other's buttons. the north korean leader trade barbs over the size and power of the nuclear arsenal. by their life moscow cavalier with just turned six this wednesday thanks for

joining us for this live half hour news update starting with this tens of thousands of government supporters are rallying across the ranted about the violent protests that have been gripping the country at least twenty one people have died there in clashes over the past week the demonstrations initially thought have been triggered by widespread economic hardship on the prospect of a fuel price hike they quickly became political in nature with protesters calling for the deaths of the country's leaders violence that erupted in several towns with police posts being attacked by the protesters in the last several days alone the been more than four hundred fifty arrests into iran in the trump of ministration has chipped in its threaten to impose sanctions if iran fails to respond to the unrest in a way that washington deems appropriate. we don't get ahead of sanctions but that is one tool kit we are watching reports very carefully of any potential human rights abuses of these protesters who are protesting peacefully we are now seeing an organic popular uprising organized organized by brave iranian citizens on the

largest scale since two thousand and nine the united states supports the iranian people and we call on the regime to respect its citizens basic right to peacefully express their desire for change we asked people into what they thought about the protests and the encouragement coming from abroad. but given that that i feel that if people's economic problems were addressed these accidents would never happen and if someone from the government came and spoke to them these incidents would not escalate. the cost of living unemployment a lack of attention to people authorities say that this problem started with a surge in the prices of basic food supplies. they need to pass on who says time for change should think and be worried about their own country and the ring and should think about their country everybody

should stop by trying to make progress at home. i don't think trump should interfere in our country's issues i don't think our issues are any of his business . the u.s. is also calling for international response now to the rest of the country as america reports the u.s. has firmly voiced its support for the anti government movement baster nikki haley has even called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council to discuss the ongoing situation it takes great bravery for the iranian people to use the power of their voice against their government if the iranian dictatorships history is any guide we can expect more outrageous abuses in the days to come the u.n. must speak out iran's president has come out in defense of peaceful protests but the supreme leader believes the foreign powers are to blame let's check out what was said to the enemy is waiting for an opportunity for a crack it can infiltrate president trump kicked off the new year unleashing

a stream of tweets on the issue accusing iran of corruption human rights violation and spending its wealth on terrorism and of course the israeli government has followed suit even going on to say that the iranians and israelis will be friends once the regime forces but what's even more surprising is that israel faces the same discontent some anti-government protests and some over trump's recognition of jerusalem as its capital but what did nikki haley have to say about this now you saw strong when it comes to the freedom and dignity to a very union people who have but you have a different meaning of freedom and dignity when it comes to the palestinian people would be to have been brutalized for over fifty years of occupation the palestinians now have to show their world they want to come to the table as of now they're not coming to the table but they ask for aid we're not giving aid we're going to make sure that they come to the table and we want to move forward with the peace process so the u.s. and busted to the un's revealed trumps plans to stop funding a u.n.

agency that is giving aid to the palestinian refugees shortly after the u.s. leader himself indeed suggested cutting donations to the palestinian administration for this is the tweet. in it he claims that despite giving them hundreds of millions of dollars a year they show no appreciation or respect as he put it for the u.s. trouble also suggested cutting aid because according to him the palestinians are not willing to talk peace with israel that's not something the palestinians agree with the palestinian administration saying the opposite the president's office says in fact that jerusalem is not for sale and that they are not backing away from negotiations but went on to stress that should be based any future negotiations on international law last year when you look at some of the figures involved here the palestinian authority received about three hundred million dollars in aid from the us should see a figure at the top there quite a sum you'll agree but it pales in comparison to what this one comes to three billion dollars that's the sum that israel receives from washington ramsey brute's the editor of the palestine chronicle he believes the u.s.

move to cut aid is nothing short of bullying. i don't think it is i think it is part of the forest policy that has been followed by the trump administration for months now and it's a policy that is called you needed sort very well with the israeli government the tweet was also joined by a statement made by the the u.s. ambassador to the united nations that she says forthright that we will not be giving money to on the u.n. and refugee agency that is that equated to helping millions of palestinian refugees in palestine and in refugee camps across the middle east if this is not a foreign or bullying it's not a form of intimidation then what is iran palestine north korea all of been on the sharp end of donald trump's twitter verse of late as the u.s. president continues to pioneer its own unique brand of social media diplomacy and

next is a goshdarn off explains concern is growing that his posts could have some pretty serious real world consequences. christmas the new year even the seasonal holidays haven't put the brakes on trump's twitter train in twenty eight in pakistan got it first. the united states has foolishly given pakistan moving thirty three billion dollars in aid over the last fifteen years and they have given us nothing but lies and deceit thinking of our leaders as food they give safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in afghanistan with little help no more no love lost their trumps administration has been walloping pakistan for months but it's not like anything in particular happened on monday to trigger the backlash but to say this tweet got a slam about an age would be an understatement three ministers including the prime minister the army the navy and air force chiefs all converged for an emergency security meeting following trump's post the u.s.

ambassador was summoned for an explanation as protesters burned american flags in the streets then it was the turn of iran one of the biggest thorns in donald trump's side. iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the bammer administration the great iranian people have been repressed for many years they are hungry for food and for freedom along with human rights the wealth of iran is being looted time for change the islamic republic has been erupting in rallies and briards as people have been swarming the streets both against and in support of the government people died the tweet hasn't gone unnoticed in iran urging against the violence president rouhani denied to trump the right to sympathize with the nation well when done with the middle east trump couldn't help but pay the classic twitter tribute to his one and only rocket man. sanctions and other pressures are beginning to have an impact on north korea

soldiers are dangerously fleeing to south korea rocket man now wants to talk korea to south. for the first time perhaps that's good news perhaps not we will see well apparently this was donald trump's knee jerk reaction to south korea offering to hold high level talks with the north after pyongyang suggested the countries should meet to discuss the next olympics it's not government policy it's the. ravings of a person who speaks before things.