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the media has a history of becoming in chanted by jihadi affiliated want to be reporters take karim the story teller when it came to the battle for aleppo people are executed it's as simple as that what can i do here in syria blend in the crowd i don't think so am i going to turn my so over to the regime forces absolutely no so what that he's giving a platform to a suicide bomber right at least he's taking all the right boxes they say you have to protect human rights. they support the terrorism so how on earth. of course you want to support terrorism that's that's the bottom line of the hippocratic they have double standards. if this happens in the u.s. the mainland would be accept it terrorists would be available terrorist organizations . to say the they have good cause of course not the mainstream media has
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a habit of putting itself on a journalistic pedestal getting the facts right giving balance and using trusted sources but those standards appear to be selective and only if the story fits the cover. down of. the time the fighting in syria is no concentrated in need liberal vince the only major in the country still to be held by rebel forces go next for you exclusive video we've detained from government troops battling. the affiliate formerly known as.
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a german children's t.v. channel has caused controversy by airing a documentary about the relationship between one syrian guy and his german girlfriend critics calling it a problem they say it fails to challenge their oppression the women make up your mind is the clip stuff i cannot wear short things always long things these kinds of hours i cannot accept my wife looking like this this is very difficult for me and for arab men in general i do not like other guys talking to my girlfriend she belongs to me i belong those are my rules. does doesn't mean we can't see pork this is forbidden. that's just because it's what's written in the qur'an it's now katie it is not normally and so i asked do i really have to put to us this will have to
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live together i stopped eating it one concerned parent then who describes herself as a qualified psychologist has written an open letter after saying it calling the program an attack on the emancipation of women she says the channels portraying a repressive relationship in a positive light we got reaction from two guests with opposing views on the program . i'm not sure that that's the role of a publicly funded agency or a media outlet if a private company or a cultural center wanted to do it sure but the idea of german taxpayers paying for this kind of sort of fake romance i think it's really disturbing i don't think it's the role of the government or a government agency to to work the children against continuing the values and cultures of their parents this is not really about the ideas of those people it's
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not really about freedom of expression or journalism this is actually about saying look at these we had muslims and brown people with funny views and pushing it on to white impressionable and vulnerable young people in society these are real stories and i think the most important thing of all is it's important we empower young people with good advice intolerance extremism is out there i don't even know if this is a real romance this is about a story a channel what is it what's what are the ages for these for this channel three there are c.n.n. and publicly funded channel right so you have seven and eight year olds who are watching this romantic thing i'm not even sure that was appropriate ok and so let's start there and then the idea that the idea that parents would be subverted by their own government that's absurd listen i'm horrified if they are there i want to send something grand really. censor sir when it's the government and it's taxpayer
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money that's not censorship ok if you want if you want to do it privately with your own dime god bless go for it but if you're using taxpayer money why are you subverting the intention of the parents and the pets and the taxpayers that's the problem how were you speaking for these i'm really sorry about this but just from a you know presumably in a court of law they would say how on earth all you advocating as to the intention of the parents of you is i mean where do you get off doing this stuff i think you need to get back in your box you really are in no position to say what they are i get my lock so it is i don't you know what that means what i'm saying is this ok it is my it is my guess that german parents want to see their culture and their values in their family legacies continue. my guess and i think that's true of them on his mind that his son was materially meal and the other one russian just threw in the united states because he did it so many different subjects every evening on this
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channel as well that was one of them of the conversation continued but to the present after the break police offices in new york taking legal action against the city's leaders for releasing body video to the public will tell you about a lot more eighty seconds away. for the war zone you on the idea that dropping bombs brings us to the chicken or forcing you to fight the battle. to stop spreading tell you that because of the public. my eyes and tell you you are not like proud. of the heart that we were born good fun.
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nor make manufacture consent to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous merry go round. the one percent. we can all middle of the room sick. again hopes are those going good thanks for cheating two out international this weekend so as i said before the break new york's largest police union is threatening to sue its own commission and fundraise and also the city's administration over the release of body comfort age this for this has serious implications not only for the safety and g.
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process rights of police officers but for the privacy and rights of members of the public as well furthermore the union claims the release a video from offices body cameras is a breach of citizen's privacy for a start goes on to add that the administration uses quote arbitrating consistent parameters and is guided by quote political considerations one case in point an incident last september when a man was shot after pointing a toy gun at police now that video was released despite fears it could jeopardize the on going investigation a former officer who blew the whistle on police activities believes the current system allows videos to be used for political gain. i don't think it's an all of a sudden decision if you actually read the lawsuit in the very first paragraph it states clearly what it wants and all it's asking for in the gist of the complaint is for these body camera videos not to be used selectively for political gain that that's that's all that it's asking for it's asking for
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a better system for these to be disseminated out into the public and as of right now the two people that the complaint is listing against for seemingly abusing the authority is for the blasio and the police commissioner itself so the complaint says that it wants just not selective videos being removed. last year three body cam video released by the new york police department two of them show offices shooting and killing suspects one local news channel if i paid thirty six thousand dollars to show additional footage the union says the videos are selected to make a point they could be from years ago and used to highlight current issues a warning you may find some of the images coming up next distressing. to the.
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you're seeing police officers being pawns in political game. games are good political games and they need to be protected they're in the middle buffer between the law's the law makers the people they're supposed to troll police the laws over and then their body camera usage their squad car video footage is all being used either for them or against as a as a pawn moving game and it's just not fair that struck it was how these should be easy a still trouble there's been more violence in the choosing capital where hundreds of people took part in an anti-government rally yesterday friday and rest has been escalating into news of late since new austerity measures were announced at the start of the year.
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i'm sure this latest demonstration you can just catch it there is some of those shots you can see people holding up yellow cards calling for the tough policies they introduced to scrap over the past week protesters are sent dozens of government buildings like to the thirty's to deploy soldiers on the streets in response at least one demonstrators being killed almost eight hundred been arrested him you see it instantly will mark the seventh anniversary of the pro-democracy arab spring uprising this weekend. in a surprise move donald trump has announced that he will be attending the world economic forum in davos forthcoming the decision was widely criticized because of
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his america first agenda during his election campaign the u.s. secretary of the treasury defended the move though saying the former is not purely a quote hang out for globalists but not everyone is happy to see trump there one zero based groups launched a petition calling for the u.s. president to stay out of davos so far that's been signed by over eleven thousand people they accuse him of racism islam a phobia war mongering and attacks on human rights. we will no longer surrender this country or its people to the false song of globalism replace the present policy of globalism with a new policy of americas we are now putting america first. that was is unique in terms of streets with just
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a cold or code should be key issues in the world cannot be so for governments alone but business alone we should add up to and guide economic globalization and make it possible for all people to benefit from globalization. i don't think it's a hangout for the globalists i think the idea is that you can on the team is going to go over and talk about the america first economic strategery i'm totally surprised this guy has come out with that remark because it's so unbelievable it's the major attraction each year for the international calls in the politan elite that have the best politics of the year davos.
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by definition is a fact because he's been he's a property billionaire and he's very much hate to those people and his results such as they result that he loves going to down in florida so in that sense they're all going to be the same sort of people. well even if mr trump's there are no we usually are will be reporting about from there all the highlights has went out also happens bit late at nice place to be it costs eight seven zero in for another this weekend saying thanks for watching this latest live bullets and well for me just of the house when i was time oh great shows lined up for you right after this quick break. but politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most somewhat want to listen.
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to the right to be press the cycle before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first city. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat somewhere i would sleep. but i'm facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. well you know. i could logically like going to school you know just going to those still give up food for the homeless. because you don't really feel like a human being you know. and then. the guy just came over to me saw me and gave me this book.
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in two thousand and sixteen the panama papers shocked the world with a tax haven the secrets to trillion united states dollars passed through most of conseco in the amount of time that we've been in panama paper's exposure that's what it shows a lot of money it really is. journalism it's an act of journalism looking at things that people want to keep secret and asking why would they want to keep these things secret. millions of. documents were examined. the only people we basically have tried to get an advantage out of this sort of war
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newspaper. and probably other politician which were. other politicians the media were quick to find targets such as the kings of morocco and saudi arabia the president of argentina several prime ministers. and russian president vladimir putin of course. oh my god i've had so i have sued so many newspapers for defamation some things don't just happen by chance it was very striking there were no more marriage of single special a lot of people from the brics countries specially brazil russia and china their special project reveals what was missed in the media coverage. the panama chronicles.
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time after time as you were going underground a century on from the day of the bolshevik revolution that would arguably save britain from hitler coming up on the show as britain's chancellor. philip hammond is nowhere to be seen for an emergency parliamentary question on the paradise of papers should britain's head of state apologize for offshoring millions of pounds for aggressive tax avoidance we speak to jeremy corbin's u.k. labor party shadow emergencies minister chris williams and band we asked dorian b.n. deputy chairman of the u.k. just a select committee john howell if minority government be to teresa mayes premiership is sustainable in the wake of what appears to be a new scandal every day but there's new figures showing arming rises in u.k. food bank use award winning director sean baker an oscar nominated actor willem dafoe on what the western economic crisis is doing to the children of the usa all the civil coming up today is going underground but first this week marks one
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hundred years since a revolution without which arguably britain today would be in the hands of nazi descendants the rapid industrialization that took place after ten days shook the world in russia would ensure the defeat of hitler on the eastern front that enormous human cost and allowed britain's escape from being an outpost of the third rush but of course according to go marks the revolution was supposed to happen here in london not three and a half hours by east of this studio in moscow it's something you can detect in the work of no i'm chomsky the soviet union called it socialism in order to gain whatever to benefit from the marl appeal that true socialism had among large parts of the general world population but this was about as remote from socialism as you can imagine so what about a socialist revolution in britain some marxist analyses require for conditions one a split amongst ruling classes like say over fifty fifty if you like direct it to
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winning over the middle class say by catalyzing resentment over paradise papers tax dodging three instability over law enforcement say slashing police numbers by more than twenty thousand which has happened to the tories for increasing worker democracy. arguably like that proposed for british boardrooms but u.k. prime minister to raise i'm a has i what i've clarified today's meeting very clear we want workers representation on boards and workers on boards are also advocated by u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn so are the conditions right for a real revolution unlike russia nine hundred seventeen there's certainly class resentment over revelations from the so-called paradise papers detailing tax dodging by the rich the people will no doubt decide but joining me now is the british labor party's shadow emergencies minister chris williams and before we get to revolution the paradise paper has your reaction to these new revelations which is a seriously injured people from the manchurian or attack did not get medical help for an hour that's the may twenty second attack in manchester the grand concert hall
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that's incredibly troubling and certainly merits further investigation as to why that happened i mean i can speculate i mean one of the reasons i think potentially could be the fact that our emergency services are massively underfunded and i've seen substantial reductions in government investments and that's pled to a reduction in staffing and consequently right across the piece the emergency services are struggling to actually cope with the pressures that being put on them through the government would deny the cuts had a big influence over the two or all at once and they can deny the only do deny there is there isn't any any money and you guys have all the money is part of the problem the fact we don't have the money because of tax avoidance little well like they were well it's very interesting you know i mean the figures suggest something in the order of a seventy five billion pounds is avoided every single year in this country there is literally trillions of pounds tied up in the tax savings and you know that's why
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we're calling for a public inquiry that's why we've said that we want to see a range of different measures brought in including a register of those who have holdings in particular british dependencies and we've talked about introducing measures. withholding tax to actually do you know took the tax source as it were to make sure the when companies or making profits in this country that they pay their dues as it were because they know they benefit obviously from this economy they benefit from the infrastructure that's in place in this economy in the house to be paid for out of the public purse and by not paying their obligations in terms of the tax that they should be doing then clearly that's putting additional pressure public services or crying out for investment they or in a desperate state with. numbers of policing and adequate numbers of nurses weightiness going through the local government has been decimated social care in absolute crisis no government should be the head to represent the interests of the
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many not the few but it seems to me this government and indeed successive governments is going to be said over the last. four decades really have served the interests of of the elites they've served the interests of the faceless corporations or they've served the interests of billionaires formal then they have the interests of people in scottish government removed say that it was worse under blair right and brown led labor they have tried to type up some guy loopholes i mean should this was a question they would your leader as well should the queen apologize for offshoring tens of millions to avoid well i mean i think frankly the creek queen is a sideshow i mean ten million pounds yes i think she should apologize but let's not get too focused on the queen ten million pounds versus literally trillions of pounds and lord ashcroft involvement in this i mean moving we've called for for example georgia for its former tory chairman absolutely but you think well things are also calling for is for closer scrutiny of members of parliament and we do know . do have offshore accounts and you know frankly i'd like to follow the
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ecuadorian example where no public official is allowed to have any offshore accounts they had a referendum earlier the mother of the prime minister doesn't have all as well as i understand what do you make of the fact that her husband. maybe twenty billion dollars in tax dodging companies like amazon and starbucks as well the senior executive of capital group whether a clip clearly questions to answer seems to be for the promise there and the could be conflict of interest here obviously very close family member partner husband. you know. and his business dealings i think do need to come under the spotlight here. you know we need answers i think to these very serious questions a been raised now as a consequence of the revelations in these paradise papers it just goes on in fundamental to british capitalist society where the right wing blogger is saying john mcdonald had a chance for his tax filings show that fourteen thousand pounds was involved in some pension in good i'm presuming that doesn't mean javagal back in of course of
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others i mean talk about clutching at straws that's a. smear and the fact is john has no control over the way where the pension funds are nor does anyone well know but the point is. well no we deed but this is where we need. restrictions legislation and we talked about bringing that in but where in a complete do have control of these corporations they have control these billionaire oligarchy these elites they have control and they choose to hold their accounts in these tax havens many of which are british dependancies very briefly when you're in parliament the disgraced defense secretary went how long do you think to raise it is the beginning of the end there is a winner will have is the beginning of the end for this government because if they recently go she would just be replaced by another cardboard cutout who. you know subscribes to to to this is a gang there it's the end well i mean i think it's got it's got the stench of decay this government has to sure in theory they could last until twenty twenty two can't see them surviving that long as they are in
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a minority it has all the hallmarks of the john major government and so i think whenever the election comes or they're in a very deep trouble but we can't be complacent we've got to offer a genuine alternative to the system it's. it's often at the moment when you know the wealthy the rich the corporations will benefit from you know i mean the end of the day if people are making so much money you can see the cost and just how well the parts just grow and grow and grow would be better if they were paying their way contributed to society contribution to the economy that would help the economy to grow it would help generate jobs they would benefit from that you know just seems to me a client of addictive approach that they've taken because really thank you. well we just heard from shadow emergencies minister chris williamson and he was quite clear the paradise papers could not only be the final nail in the coffin for to resume but their entire party as well i'm joined now by the prime minister's trade on boy to nigeria conservative m.p.
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john howard yours it's as vice chairman of the conservative friends of israel john the expert coming on i mean we have ministers not declaring secret meetings with foreign governments we have people senior people of an allegedly in danger in the lives of british subjects abroad is to resume finished no she's not finished and i think you've got to look at what each of those items individually to get the true picture of it there's no point in getting worked up and jumping on the on the back of them and i think it will be totally wrong to say that either theresa may or this concerted government is finished you think it was wise of the board's johnson to. in a sense echoed the iranian revolutionary guard corps allegation that the british subject was indeed a journalist a lot of charity work well the thing you can't do is to is to hide things and and lying to foreign governments and i think that what warren said was. was actually appropriate and i say that has his normal critique of boris johnson and i think it
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was it was perfectly appropriate even if it endangered the lives of the rain ians are a terrible regime they are causing a huge amount of of of upset really that is your view surely the important issue is to save the life of a british subject and i understand the bar and spoke to the iranians and i don't i don't know what is clearly both ways you trust the iranians of the boers agree with and you don't trust them before he said no i don't trust the iranians as far as i could throw the what do you mean iranians at work i've no idea what the iranians said i wasn't privy to that to that conversation but i'm sure he explained the situation to the iranians and we'll have to wait and see what the outcome of that is we know that this government since twenty ten the tories of obviously taking a tougher stance than gordon brown or tony blair on tax avoidance and tax dodging. what did you what was your reaction to the fact that. tax dodging seems to be going
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on industrial scale well i think the thing that you've got to remember here is the enormous hypocrisy on the part of the labor party because in the wash up to the general election they forced through changes that would have created eight point six billion pounds for the u.k. treasury and they simply didn't want to want to pursue them so i think that i'm not going to accept any criticism from the labor party. over the paradise papers are worried that there is a maze has been involved has been does. in effect advisor on tax dodging i'm not i'm not in the slightest worried by that i'm sure that he can defend himself on this but quite honestly i think there are bigger things that the cons country needs to concentrate on and as i said it needs to concentrate on the hip hop.
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