before the fire filled in mellon was working for a property development company slyly named socially conscious capital how socially conscious is it that while serving in public office he was also being wind ten times by dismantling. this guy rich convincing councils to sell off assets to his wealthy clients filled in million enjoy steve's five star lunches with him just pennies from us. to look out the window. and you can look out a flaw in the school and you state so you would have been leading this world cup and we're yet i want to go on that one that i saw. now. hopefully won't happen to me if they stay. feeling crap. touching up the paper. i mean one of two things. i think big middle finger to the

people in your family or if during her if you want to get out of here any fellow now which is not anything to do he said ok and i like you need to be nice to go now at least the going up big money and land bankers have planned so where we live only we went part of the. local fight is against global enemies and structures. eight guys have as much money as hostile world because it is systems we are fighting and it doesn't matter if you're in london if you're in their way that's free. when you have a political blow up completely convinced and it's the consensus among them that the most functional economic philosophy for society is neo liberalism whereby you have the big transfers of wealth and redistributions of wealth. and the idea that. cuts in touch with corporations that there's subsidizing of the arms industry subsidizing the banking sector. who pays the price of those things because the

people who are just by the backbone the heart and the lungs of the society is the people that really make it run. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turns some countries into pigs these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of flow gloat even the recession austerity is a very bad idea it doesn't work and it makes millions of people very unhappy those

who are unemployed see their wages decline off the almost a decade how good are the results she's almost at the new year infeasible by the people a kick out of it was the wad of good people with you what you are doing to it sure it let he who traded beautiful blue she still claim what was i mean to for legal. challenge nothing more than this she did not know it was always think it she somehow they cannot get into the. why of the same missions still in place who one of the consequences who's to weaken bluebirds lewdness mood will first be one of those was the truth the consider is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision making.

some animal rights activists are just upset that we eat meat period which makes no sense by the way because animals eat other animals and we're supposed to be equal with animals but suddenly they don't want to humans eating other animals so in a sense they're saying that animals have the right to eat other animals but humans don't have a right to eat other animals even though they think we're all equal so so there's a logical inconsistency there. it was the center of all worlds the whole of my state. the file on june eighth two thousand and seven aim but i hold in all. i couldn't believe it. and i couldn't believe the size of it as well because it was almost on the whole of this side almost i mean you could see that it was spreading quite far you could hear it you could see bits of the climbing kind of food in

around us on the street. a mock up brought on our feet a towel about my side work on the obvious i was right but you could see the smoke circulating and that's when it was are. you know he lets out you saw or it is so painful i don't even know if i at the time what i thought those people are going to get out it was so it was traumatic and l.s.b. on traumatic and we're hoping that somehow something will come along and rescue them somehow we will not literally watch these people beg for help and bend for deaf in front of us and you know what happened a helicopter came and it came within one hundred fifty two hundred mi is of the building and turned back around now that turn around was the most heartbreaking thing i've ever seen in my life the fire that fertile happened because the state the government the local council felt us in

the aftermath of the file to continue to feed us. and i was cern i was with a shock to the first two days at the total absence of the council and that was really shocking i saw and i saw the legion deputy leader being filmed on the first day looking at certain shell shocked as we all were and then that was it that's gone and completely gone there was nobody there was no help we waited day after day after day for the council to step in to say hello this is what needs to happen this is what we need to do. nobody to date has com and said actually this this this and this was the way in that they had to register themselves. about residents the vibe was how to grow and document who survived or who never and that was going on for a day that you i don't know what the council thought was going on or how they fail to see the image and see but they seemed to in some way fail to see the emergency and that first day i remember thinking wow they've been caught with a pounced on

a bit here and like oh but then by the end of the day when nothing much had improved thinking. this is a this isn't this feels like more significant than incompetence or shock even by request from the council seem less than impressed with the response i am concerned very concerned about its capability into the future and i think it's important that the council make sure that we don't have a collapse of services and that we stand ready to manage to manage services if we have to if there's an economic fighting on the part. that there's a perception that the council in the field of the fire power. i i wasn't here in the in the week after the fire i came ten days later so i hear lots of comments and i hear lots of conversations particularly people in the air and so on but you also hear from staff you know and as i said there were there than did

lots of stuff now maybe you know they people weren't aware of them but all i hear lots of different voices some from staff and counselors who were actually present at the time and did lot of work but we didn't see or feel the council presence off to the fire and wonder why they still had time for things that clearly could have waited they can so granted to a marriage and see planning applications the day after the fire. they weren't around to take me in today even for the community but they were able to have a planning application me into grant to emergency planning applications with no committee hearings while the community was dealing with the disaster and the count just tons of aid companies contracted by the council to carry out the but she would have a she began deleting things on their websites there with u.k. group deleted this page about their involvement in installing the smoke ventilation

system in the towers main stairwell but we all began to hold them up what did they have to hide there were fears the council were doing the same thing. these questions. as part of the public inquiry i'm not sure answers we get the i'll explain later why computers are to be safe from the council voting it went off and on. if you were right if you were african you know organization you'd offer him up while working on this film the conservative leader of the council nicolas touchup wound announced his resignation he filled a med and managed to reach innovation that so deadly kept in touch to grenfell now he's advise in big businesses how to profit from local authorities yeah i'll give you the parts. he was actually he's made a business of tenant of accounts who this is how you do a budget night this is how you make money off a budget and he was making a living off this after he was he should be in jail he should be in jail.

projected office to respond to allegations made in this film a week after the fire to rescind me made it official she apologized in parliament calling grenfell a failure of state the support on the ground for families in the initial alice was not good enough that was a failure of the state local and national. but for those of us who disputed continue speeding's of state before and after the fire this was too little too late . failure implies that there is a positive intention in the beginning to actually fulfill this toss what i think we have seen is yes incompetence on one hand but this stain and purposeful money speak of social housing in this bar in order to cleanse it and move its people out we know that people that campaigned against the council in there and with threatened

with eviction were vindicated in that. they were vindicated and that is the most tragic part of this situation that people were not heard. in life and even now they're not heard and. there's a strong sense that justice cannot be done to grant. the call for a just and humane response has food and on deaf ears to community and good but dignified has responded to the state's failings was silent marches they have grown with every march taken place on the fourteenth of each month the date of the file. the lack of justice is never less obvious as when my streets are filled of grieving families and survivors. is clear now there was no justice i had in my mind from three days after the fire that there was never going to see injustice this pill sadness song list some good stories were not going to say there's people that made it out of there with their whole family and their life today and that's good and

that's beautiful but. the problem was me happy about that because i know people that didn't make it out so it's rage it's back to rage. there will never be justice which is it's i personally believe that and it's just my own very own personal belief that that kind of only game in town is moving public inquiry there are fears the state failings will continue to weave in the public inquiry because it is being headed by mobic he's a judge with a history of controversial rudin's in housing cases where he has been accused of social cleansing this guy couldn't be further from my state and why the community people need to go to jump journey people lost their lives if we don't lease you need to be receipt we would be in question we would have you found the whole of the team ok management team need to go to geo what would have been if they go and arrest the guys but not sat in on them the guys who sold the credit. and the guys

who authorized the cabin to go in there and for that would have been perfect justice for me perfect and a lot of these a lot of the main players in these organizations or got connections religious. they all have had direct relationship there prof krause going right back to david cameron. who deregulated fire safety and live within walking distance of grunfeld tower. they remain to be seen what the outcome of the public inquiry and police investigation will be. but one thing we know for sure we will never trust the state and his plight is sick to mates to keep us safe again. since to fire the community continue to come to give a not just to pick up where the council fails but to china increase all power so that nothing like this ever happens again. that was a tragedy what's happened has happened to that and you said it was a lot of people up it's woken up it woke me up what a lot of people up and i believe if we continue to stand and make the noise and not

shut people out we can change as can any way and. we know from observing what's going on that there is a more contemplated mood there is a more thoughtful mood amongst young people there isn't as much madness guy in the streets that was going on as before people off thinking about all. this is it people i didn't roofing we are being pitted against each other how do we deal with doubt and i think there is an opportunity to actually turn a lot of stuff around history is key to understanding the struggle of working class people in north kensington the area known as gold to people down here is the equivalent to new york's harlem it was the setting of a counter culture from sound system to. after the war the fight against racism and fascism. the caribbean and the progressive white working class communities made history taken the far off the streets in the public space flow set the bar in many

ways claiming disused lands from the council one of this for the benefit of the community the history of is one of never ending strong. up until today where we have in the biggest threat we have ever faced gentrification some locals think the only way forward for our community is to build on the way we came to give off to file the state has filed the filed the papers have those kind of filed the paper the ground for it was voluntary. wake software's the people did things for themselves and what we think is we can harness that spirit and make it a permanent thing when you look at the numbers that they were able to get in their positions with there's no reason why we can't put forward now pace yourself there's no reason why we can't put forward candidates that we know that we know will not sell us out because they are beholden to and receptive to the movements for social justice which exist within the rather beholden to corporate power in tightly

enclosed time if we want to get rid of the tough from the south and about microsoft's independence and then bring it on you know real direct and not proceed because the one good thing that could come out of a thaw a longer thing is a total new model of work and he's in the hauraki of things in the past there's a great opportunity to do that build from the from the ground up again i think it would be a brilliant thing organize a council tax. you know we all decided one quarter not to pay our council tax to the council and the whole of north kensington pays its council tax to a community organization and then you know facilitate all of those organizations already in place doing the way remember those millions that the council had in the bank they could have spent in that wasn't deadly while we were filming this report the council buckled under community pressure announcing that it would spend much of those sweet house in survivors in the local area we're on track to purchase about

three hundred properties before the second week in december we're looking to try to make sure that we can offer people properties a permanent with buying properties in the. ten and eleven who knows where we would be if it weren't for the community stand alone for five months people have been in hotels the vast majority still my state is being gutted the reality for us the battles will start of got my island of joy my residents association a party campaign to take back what is ours may it's the only way we can survive me to realize that you had elected me we have we will go on with real real power to shape our destinies and to be autism's of office so we need to seize these opportunities and overnight. and that if anything that is the phoenix that will come out of that is an increasingly aware community of its interests all of this not willing to be pushed around.

in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox ellis with customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they imposed the opening times. opposite it was adopted from stop us the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe must to pieces by artists like pecans oh and modigliani i kept boards and sold in the side this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers up deals which are naturally

discreet commercially discreet step but also discreet because they concern fraud of some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport says for for the time that you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business.

in the week's top stories in our getting the sound should you always ecuadorian citizenship but he remains holed up in the country's london embassy is britain insists he'll face arrest but the steps that side. america online army are to learn from and to can plans to develop software to automatically post messages and responses on social media and trump's oval office outburst this global backlash over the u.s. president's alleged crude remarks about immigrants from africa and central america . good morning and watching the weekly here in r.t. international look back at the major events of the last seven weeks now on thursday

ecuador nine cities had granted wiki leaks founder cheating the sound citizenship he's been holed up in the country's london embassy for over five years after seeking political asylum there but he's still unable to leave his the u.k. refuses to grant him diplomatic immunity and says he must surrender and face justice or smith is following the story. billion us on this photograph of himself in an ecuadorian football shirt which gave rise to a lot of speculation about what that could mean he generally doesn't do things unless they mean something and then we saw reports surfacing from quito which said that he had received a national identity number so he's been entered into the tax register essentially which is something that will only happen to citizens of ecuador this follows a statement earlier this week from the foreign minister of ecuador saying that the situation of our sons' living here in the embassy is unsustainable and asking for the first time for

a third party mediator either another country or another person to see if they could help to resolve this issue with a person can't live in those conditions around. considering the option of mediation . and fire resistant country or individual. no solution is possible and without international corporations and it's no wonder that she wants a resolution because of course it's been five and a half years since i first went into the embassy behind me cause there have been developments in his case along the line most notably possibly last year we didn't drop the investigation into sex allegations against him but the u.k. authorities still say that if he sets foot outside this embassy they will arrest him because he of course jumped bail when he went into the embassy and wiki leaks still fears and onward extradition to the united states so what we're seeing ecuador making moves quite concerted moves to try and resolve the situation but the

u.k. government still remains intractable on the issue even after all this time it's very unclear when and what will be the ending of this saga so is laura was saying there u.s. officials who refused to comment on the matter but there is speculation that if a song does step out of the embassy and is arrested the u.s. may request his extradition we are some people in ecuador what they think the situation. the medical system it's vital to continue negotiating what the situation is difficult and costly rated for several years is dangerous to health is that we all know that the objective behind the trials has nothing to do with. there's a real possibility of extradition to the us. then i think it was treated inhumanely tare trial process a prisoner we don't have to take stand and with rights to defend. and we also got the opinion of two activists and what could happen next to achieving the stuff

which the basis on which the the u.k. authorities would arrest him apparently is for breaking bad conditions so the charges in terms of the case in sweden have now been dropped but absolutely maybe there will be an extradition attempt and various kind of international bodies have found when they've looked into it the chance of getting a free and fair trial in the us of minimal i think that this is really a continuation of a very dangerous and wrongheaded policy to target whistleblowers julian is one of the biggest international whistleblowers and i think that they really want his you know it's the worst kept secret in washington that julian is like least leave it to begin working his way through the u.s. judicial process if you ever leave the embassy well it does judy and has found perhaps a new way to entertain himself while keeping everybody guessing over his twitter

posts. with this naturalization was granted on the twelfth on december twenty seventh. reading the chess board i think i can safely assume the black pieces are the bad guys in the white pieces. so. another interpretation the game still be in progress but is in strong position against approaching us and.

also this week it emerged that the us plans to step up its activities on social media it's now on the hunt for software so which can understand and respond so you online posts in different languages and potentially sway public opinion. discuss this with kevin. the classic boss of been out there for ages and we know what they're usually used for that is sending out spam messages in some cases performing hacking attacks but it seems that uncle sam is after something much more sophisticated here if you go online and check out the us federal business opportunities website you will come across

a pentagon request from earlier this week and this was something that really caught our attention with the us army wants right now is a software system that will be able to translate between languages most notably russian korean farsi and arabic and we all know which countries these languages are spoken in the tool is meant to understand and know how to use correctly dialects slang and even a mode plus it must be a tool that is capable of analysis all these millions of posts comments and replies and we all that these things can be really dodgy are to be at a loss for emotion and sentiment key question is a guess is it's probably overused but what's it going to be used for potentially they want the software to be able to communicate with users online maybe not one hundred percent like a human being but somewhat close to that just take this requirement that i have printed out right here it is the ability to generate at least three or up to ten

unique statements derived from the original social media statement while retaining the meaning and the tone of the original again the software will monitor an adult it's own impact from the messages that it sends then a just plus it also needs to be self taught in a way that it can learn from its own mistakes and then improve an upgrade which provides potentially unprecedented opportunities for influencing opinion on life in a company you're going to notice the irony of this big plan is that it's on the heels of the us leaders complaining about all the update. first of all an interference from other parties other countries in in the case when russian troll farms and bats there are all over the media news about that some experts have already told us that it's part of the u.s. campaign could be to expand their online influence in capabilities something that

they have been up to for years but really the sophistication of this new project machines being able to analyze the emotions and the sentiment of comments online rather something alarming well we did contact the pentagon for clarification on this they got back to us to saying that the two would be helpful to them given the huge amount of data on the internet and also added that there's nothing in the timing of the request on their website we also managed to see the n.s.a. whistleblower william binney and also the former m i five agent annie mashona about the push to develop advance balls and they outlined some of the implications. what they really want to do is be able to monitor royce communications or any kind of communications text and be able to assess and. attracted to or threats or things like that or even. from some of the manipulation programs even respond.

and try to manipulate the other person at the other end so i mean all intelligence agencies had this is one of their objectives white papers are generally circulated among contractors who do business with the government so it is a little unusual to see these things out in the public as far as i know the most obvious interpretation would be that this is a pushback against the allegations that have been made consistently for the last eighteen months about so-called russian troll phone influencing elections across the west and it's interesting to see that the languages that they're advertising for are the language of iran and of course north korea and russia so that would be a bit of a sort of give away about which countries they want to be targeting. now donald trump three world wide anger when it was reported on friday that he launched into a foul mouth rant in the oval office about immigrants several democratic lawmakers who were there claim that the president was deeply do.