to have a look at the oil and gas industry and then there was a great number of messages about brian cox the actor who was interviewed on last week's show show between seton says i enjoyed your interview or brian cox it reminded me of my old father when he was asked what he thought of dundonian zz after a long pause he said bolshie but they are well surely i think bolshie but failure is a great description and god says i don't want to give too much away but to my favorite things that malik salmon show today brian cox and magic gems is the scottish delicacy that brian cox was warning us all about and there's the clearly says excellent interview the actor brian cox love that you give proper time for in-depth discussion and not soundbites how about a rubber button special in the next episode and in the summer vein jeff crilley says why the scotland failed to promote bombs week well jeff those are going to celebrate is going to be going on both and scott on them internationally the rubber

bombs federation of course is based in scotland and check out the scottish government that we produced a few years ago as the full body of work in it no one from bradford for scotland and far beyond people be making their own celebrations of scotland's national poet and when next we will now examine sure we'll make our own contribution to celebrating their mortal memory of robert burns. under mitchell was the international development set to stay for the first two years of the coalition government that's the one elected in twenty ten in that period he set the administration's course and finally achieving a united nations target on international development that was the one for set back in one nine hundred seventy. today he states the case for maintaining that level of contribution let's hear from under. the conservative coalition government elected in twenty turn was the first government to implement britain's promise to the poorest people in the world that we would spend no point seven percent of our

budget of our g.n.p. on international development and i believe this is some of the best public expenditure britain makes and i'm very proud to have been a member of a government which stood by its promise to the poorest people in the world and in spite of a time of great austerity in britain refused to balance the books on the backs of the poorest in the world or indeed in britain now this budget it contributes to the safety and stability and the prosperity of some of the poorest countries in the world it stopped conflict from starting once it stopped it then seeks to reconcile people caught up in conflict and it also focuses absolutely on building prosperity by trying to make sure that economic activity increases because the way the poorest people lift themselves out of poverty is by being economically active so it has a real impact on the ground in the poorest parts of the world but it's also in our national interest every penny of this budget helps britain's national interest by

making the world a safer and more prosperous place that increases our own trade and our own safety here on the streets of britain and as you look at the problems that are coming down the runway migration. climate change terrorism protectionism the international development budget spent by britain really tackles all those things at the heart of those problems that's why i strongly support it and why i think that some of the best public expenditure we in britain support well welcome under mitchell you were the international who drove the budget towards this target of zero point seven percent which was achieved in twenty fifteen for the first. but it's no wonder fiercer time people say in the daily mail or other newspapers say that because of the enlarged budget some of this spending is mr bush will answer to that well it is a large budget and we have to justify every penny in the way it is spent to the

british public we have to be clear that every pound of hard earned tax payers money that is spent on international development is actually delivering one hundred pence on the ground and i think in fact it's one of the more efficient budgets that white all dispenses but we justify it because it makes the world a safer and more prosperous place them britain is a big hearted country and we need to support it what we need to justify it because it has huge effectiveness on the ground but we're undergoing a major crisis in the national health service to the present moment or put an answer to people look at that crisis and the health service so well that some of that thirteen billion pounds spent in international aid would be better devoted to the health services here the whole well firstly i think you should do both i think public expenditure should pursue both these objectives i think they're both very important i think the international development budget is a huge investment in the future of the younger generation and there is an intergenerational this issue in britain where the older generation of had it rather

better than the younger generation have it these days so i think it's an important investment in their future but as i say i think you need to do both but you need to justify the spending because there's nothing that more irritates people than the suggestion that the international development budget is either being misspent or corruptly taken under both yourself and your successor just including a heavily committed serious being heavily committed to this large international it budget but since then some people of the tempted not so much enthusiasm among was indeed boris johnson the former just christmas the talked about breaking old jam jars to use and tonight. aid spending for all the budgets of you and well the commitment that the coalition government made which this government reaffirmed the general election is not only to the point seven it's also to the way in which that money is spent in other part other departments. who have eligible expenditure under

the rules which govern the spending of international development money they are entitled to spend that money and they should spend it but it has to be spent well and it has to be spent in accordance with those objectives and the treasury would never allow us not to do that and it's one of the reasons why i established a watchdog which looks over the expenditure so the public can have faith that the money is being spent in accordance with those rules and being spent well many people in international sector than in the volunteer agencies is this a real danger of other departments effectively raiding the international aid piggy bank for example there would be for security purposes things that you think that could be prevented in terms of the rules that your stylist i think it's not possible to do that because it's not possible to spend it in in the wrong way because the rules governing the way this expenditure is made are so clear so for example there is money from defeated the development department which is spent by

the foreign office by the environment department and also by the defense ministry but they have to be in accordance with the rules and tackling instability and insecurity tackling conflict is absolutely at the heart of international development it's a totally eligible expenditure and indeed conflict is development in reverse in the sense when you go to my sleeves you must have seen many projects on the ground can you point to one which you you find most moving or most impressive in terms of the the good that was doing to deprive communities internationally well i suppose it is the humanitarian relief work that britain leads in many different parts of the world seeing there's nothing more moving really than seeing starving children and seeing the british taxpayer through our efforts coming to the aid of children who are starving and i've seen severe malnutrition in parts of africa. in the horn of

africa and uganda and i see the way the british taxpayers efforts are making a real difference to the life saving lives of people in desperate poverty and in desperate conditions so i certainly saw almost every day that i was development secretary the power of good that the british taxpayer was doing through the disposition of this budget and what would those six other countries who've achieved the united nations target which was say away by more than a generation ago in the sky the living countries mainly what would your message be to the other rich countries in the world who haven't got anywhere near. where germany for the first time has reached it recently and i think that's great we want to see rich countries putting their money where their mouths have been and standing up and spending this commitment for the benefit of the poorest in our world and it really matters because the world is scarred by these extraordinary inequalities of

opportunity and wealth and our generation has the power to do something about that and we need to make sure that our generation steps up and does precisely that. you don't fit was a binge of the you trained of conservatism in favor of international development in favor the key public spend the church is losing. the governing party at the person you think you strand of conservatism is are alive and well yes i do but of course there are dangers in that if you dismiss the budget or disparage the budget then it will that will be reflected in the public view on international development of people will will feel that it's not doing the enormous amount of good that it is so you know it's important that the conservative party stands up for this expenditure and explains why it matters but you know the tory party is a coalition like the scottish nationalist party and there are different views and i certainly don't feel alone in expressing the views i. within the conservative party

on this very important matter finally andrea mitchell do you think your case for sustaining that zero point seven percent of of national income devoted to international development do you think that would be sustained and win the day if they do because parliament will not allow even if the government wanted to parliament will not allow britain to step back from that commitment and both stood by that i have every confidence that the government will continue to stand by this is story commitment that is delivering so much around the world to britain's interest as well as to the interest of the people we're helping now under just just one remaining thing from the well from the new year from coming on the state the occasion title to the quick gallic for the loving cup you know how to do this of course goes and there are some other less potent substance of your wish and then you pass alone your close friends and only your close friends thank you very much indeed i have a scottish heritage so i'm familiar with it and i shal use it with pride and

pleasure and virtual thank you very much for stating your case thank you coming up after the break we'll examine in detail that constable on overseas aid what does business big. about the work in the field. i don't think any country can push a button and get rid of trade this is far too important to be farmers to political backlash money is a very fine people think and i think it will be very quick before people found ways around it because. it may be damaging it might cut it back but the idea that you could do anything merely. is very unlikely.

the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education being supplanted by the right to access education. higher education is becoming just another product that can be born and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you. want is the place of students in this business model. for. an extremely more high education the new global economic war. welcome back the achievement of the u.k.'s international targets and twenty fifteen has not been much controversy although now i wouldn't try and as

a legal commitment that has been a powerful newspaper led campaign to both on better target the thirteen billion pounds plus budget does bebo's been examining some of these arguments your case commitments to far to meet has been a subject of considerable debate in the house of commons. what does it say about the priorities of the government will it allow so many operations to be canceled over the next few weeks of the same time as more and more nearly every year into overseas aid can i say to the minister to the government through the militia that people are going to be about this in the country where there's so much money billions of pounds of overseas aid is so clearly needed by a great many people in the united kingdom will the government get a grip of this is massively out of touch with public opinion if it doesn't do your government's point seven percent commitment a budget to foreign aid has been strained in law since the two thousand and ten

coalition government of late however that money has been spread across a number of departments i spoke to head of advocacy kitty chakrabarti all spun to find out the impact of that on the work they do get him interested in finding i suspect some of the current work in the areas of greatest need across the world what are your latest project i mean sadly it sort of breaks down as really an ever increasing list of humanitarian crises around around the world we're one of the only major international n.g.o.s actually working inside yemen where you currently have sixteen million people that's greater than the population of london and new york combined without access to clean and safe drinking water and we're trying to work within there to deal with the conditions that we have and of course as is always the case women and children are disproportionately affected by and things are happening internationally and of course a natural disaster is do you have any projects around specifically to help women

find their feet again absolutely we do i mean the you have to take gender and the needs of women and girls into account on all levels so take something like a refugee camp without proper feedback mechanisms that ask women in how it works for them you don't find out things like the fact that in adequate lighting around she. our blocks mean that they will go without going to the bathroom for fear of being attacked going to visit the toilets in the night without understanding the fears about leaving the camps for instance to find so i would in places in africa you realize that women are just going without finding food because they're too scared about leaving the camps and being and being raped by belligerence in in the conflict so gender has a huge place in humanitarian programming but absolutely also in the kind of long term work we do with communities and so much of our work with communities is about working with women and i think getting that point across is really important

because there are many invaded for use and impressions on international aid will come to that in a second in the government's commitment but also public perceptions around it because obviously a lot of your fundraising comes from from private entities from individuals etc i understand that this is not just about helping people in these difficult situations but it's about helping them build a boat a future and boat upon their skills and i think as much as can be done to highlight that we see it must help you in terms of getting people to donate to some of your causes and in british people are through and through tremendously generous i've done fundraising in the london underground just running around in victoria have so many crises and people with the things that come together and we see that in comic relief and we see that in responses to disasters but of course when the media camera goes away these these problems don't disappear and that's going to parties and international development we know of the government's commitments and schoolish government point seven percent however there's been much commentary about high that

is neither being spent the answer for fiscal studies said last year that this concern about an ability they impact on eradicating hopefully global poverty if that be spread across departments and the load at office and also suggested that this the need to be much more in-depth analysis of how. the money is actually being spent for in departments with death ed i wonder what your view was in all of this and how it's impacting on if it's not going to deficit is not a challenge channelings to that how does an impact on the work that you can do part of this shows just how observed scrutinized and regulated aig money is that some of the most scrutinized money that the government spends because of the need to prove to the taxpayers and to others that that it's value for money so you know transparency like this and questions like this is all also always a good thing it's also west saying that the vast majority of british it doesn't anything things you know there are eleven million children around the world that

have an education thanks to british aid it's helping in yemen it's helping in bangladesh as i said it's helping in in uganda. but i do think that it's important to get past the question of how much aid we spend the sort of no point seven we've got across party consensus on that and that's great and should be here to stay and start focusing on on how all the landscape and some tory backbenchers are challenging that point seven percent it is still a a broad cross-product issue consensus yet not without its challenges but we hope that to stay with a question of how it's spent is important. and oxfam would observe the same thing that some of these reports are saying this it is undoubtedly the part with the most experience and the most infrastructure in place to spend money in the way that leads to poor perty reduction which is what these or other government departments have a huge and important role to play in development often it's not about spending a money it's doing things like bringing peace to yemen which is the ultimate thing

that people need rather than aid money it's doing things like tackling climate change which one are major drivers of poverty it's conducting research other government departments have a huge role to play that could well involve bonding aid money but what we think is that until the right structures transparency oversight is in place we shouldn't see a lot more money spent by other government departments of those and if it they're the experts and they're where the majority of spend i think should remain and sing the bush johnson has spoken of more uses where it's sensible spending and of this money across departments but it begs the question you raise a point yourself. we spend money on international development of foreign aid but if any other reined arming. the saudis in terms of what's happening in the yemen you're almost canceling out a lot of your good work yet exactly spending our money as vital as it is is not the be all and end all of this government's global responsibility we have

a responsibility as you say we believe to hold arms sales to saudi arabia we have response busy to push harder for peace in yemen we have a responsibility to play by international global rules and to uphold them that also means the world's companies use when they're considering their tax base for instance because the use of tax havens is undermining the revenue that could be used to fight poverty around the world and of course government is driven also by public opinion and public opinion it can be framed by what we read in the prey and and it is certainly been of concern to see over the past sort of couple of years certainly quite a high level headlines which are a very negative impact on people's perception of international aid for need to seen as a cinderella of politics how can we change perceptions around that. i think it's a combination organizations like oxfam actually to inspire people more about what aid can do there are not risks to be taken in delivering

a joint you're making investments if you like in some of the most risky areas of the world i think the central political question that there's been around about aid how much do we spend and we can start to have a conversation like we do on all other areas of government policy which is where what's the best way to do this how can we innovate how can we get better at doing it and how can we make sure that the whole government has a complementary approach to to ending poverty what would your message be to pay more than international development secretary in terms of what you'd like her department to be doing moving forward so we went to penn east and pretty soon after she was elected and put yemen actually top of our radar and we were thrilled to see her make a trip to the degree to which is the port which people used to get into yemen and has cells have some tough conversations i think with saudi officials and be influential in helping to keep the main port of yemen open as a woman in cabinet herself i think it makes absolute sense to do as she is doing to

continue focusing on the role of women and girls and the central role of investing in them. not just women's economic empowerment which is a lot of people are talking about of the moment but ensuring whether it's an economic life or not that women have voice and have a sense of control over their lives and for power in their communities and he said if you spend money on women she will and women will look to save not spend all this at once and make sure it's spread around a greater group of people it's a space interesting statistics about the importance of more women in imparting women and you'll be aware of course of that the scottish government's work with refugees are very proud in scotland to have taken in more refugees to head of population than the native in eighty nine but also the work of our freshman. to nicholas judge an empowering syrian woman to deal with the crisis which is this until i come to rebuild the city and i i'm sure you believe like idea that women

hold the key to to to the future that empower those women i'm able they will help me help me build those countries exactly and their. understanding the needs of women often turns out to be the key to understanding what's the right thing to do in any situation it's the needs of women often are about also the needs of families the needs of communities the needs the needs of people who are going to build back a sort of a stable life whether it comes to refugee policy where at the moment we're focused on the need for family reunion in the u.k. there are too many people here who have reached suppose it's safety here in the u.k. but on able to build a life here because that's the ninety's you know their adult children even if that's only a nineteen year old girl alone in europe and they're denied other family members that they care for so yet the needs of women families communities to be resilience to help each other i think that. is an inspiring message to think about development

in twenty eighteen it is kids type of artist thank you very much ideally thank you bonnie. well watching from oxford i thought one of her key points was when she said look international aid budget in this all is not enough it has to be consistent across the range of government policies you can really example if we have policies might come into conflict with a point well made by keep tickly and this week where information has been released that in the year since the break support there been three billion pounds worth of arms export licenses issued by the u.k. government one point one billion of those inhalation to saudi arabia and so it does become a vicious circle and should be questioned not asked he points from from kate was the role of women targeting the women's role and development was not so important well as a couple of aspects to that there's a need to be in the aftermath of of attacks and helping people you know helping women rebuild their homes but beyond that it comes to rebuilding their countries

and giving women the scope of it might not necessarily have to be able to do that is a hugely empowering thing and something oxfam and many other agencies are committed to doing people to see empowerment and you can rebuild your nations and herbalist diversion of siphoning off money out of the international aid budget of departments or. a bigger danger thoughts from see that is that's one of the greatest concerns for aid agencies because the defense budget is greatly scrutinised and you know whether the money's being spent if it's all channels to address that but bush wants the foreign sector suggests that there are more i use his words sensible ways of spending that money that will go across different departments and i started to happen that then can impact on the effect that the different different apartment can it have on ensuring that they are contributing their eye to the eradication of global poverty that is being spread across a number of places and despite the attacks some quite ferocious at the present moment on the concept of housing zero point seven percent the mark targets been

around longer about been in politics so must be slower. satisfaction among the international aid agencies that target has finally been stopped and hopefully not here to absolutely secure not mind money has been hugely important to our commitment internationally in the and that's a very good thing and showing that it's protected and ensuring that it's not infected by the often front page headlines we see where it's questioned why there were even spending this amount of money in the first place must remain at the top of our agenda i think in the mean people across the whole of the united kingdom and very proud of our commitment to helping people and cause conflict flinty people their lives has been a thank you very much now thirteen billion pounds is a fair whack of cash in times of a start at it over this not even three quarters of one percent of the national income of the u.k. joining the club of countries who make this sort of level of contribution was a proud boast of the common government and i'm certain when asked to detail the

chiba of his time in office the former prime minister terms that this subject rather than the bracks eleven and some m.p.'s backed by much of the press will half and powerful but the wastage of resources but most people see the essential point about contributing something to those in this world who have nothing a more immediate danger this is a diversion of international development funding into other budgets for example the line between international security spending and genuine development spending can be a very narrow one indeed but let us hope that the light is drawn firmly to do otherwise would be to strike a fatal bug to sacrifice the world's poor to release a few billion pounds to sacrifice moral authority to political pressure. so from all of us you know that like salmon show goodbye for now.

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