sure we can have competition and all of that internationally but we should be working more cooperatively with each other because last time i heard the cold war was over what i'm really concerned about is that we're going to be seen. draining i drain resources to something we really really don't need already they're talking about a hypersonic fighter who needs it that really requires billions upon billions of dollars of research and development and again it's really aimed at keeping the defense industry in business it's been said that budget cuts have done more damage to the u.s. military than anything else they say is an attempt to undo that damage but these are out of business plans remember the f. thirty five for the colombia submarines lethal weapons at least when it comes to destroying budgets but then that's what friends are for you know it winston churchill once said the only thing harder than fighting with the allies is fighting

without them the growing economic strength of today's democracies and partners dictates they must now step up and do more making everyone else pays this much is part of the plotinus all the fancy toys europeans especially haven't been all that enthusiastic about spending fortunes in defense understandably but then there's a new domain to fight in the cyber world this is a wild west right now as you know people in their bedrooms can be doing things that are causing your bank account dire problems at this point an urgent challenge and the u.s. is going to overhaul and boosted cyber forces giving them greater capability to deal with the random guys in their bedrooms i think we've got some serious challenges ahead we don't have the resources for the kind of spending that they want to do and i think we need to be green. more concerned about how those finite

resources are going to be allocated and we need to be meeting immediate threats and that's terrorism. from first year in the white house is being mocked by a government wide shutdown as off of the senate refused to approve a bill to fund the government among democrats all but five voted against the main sticking point with trump's intention to abandon a program for undocumented young immigrants demand that the republican leadership do the job they are paid to do today they put politics above the national security everyone thinks of themselves as a leader in that building is going to have to look at themselves in the mirror and ask are they really being true to the ideals of this country democrats hold on local citizens hostage over their reckless demands we have a divider in chief in the white house this is behavior the structure just loses not

legislate. well this is just the latest example of how bumpy the first twelve months for the president have been calibur up in takes a look back at how trying to tenure has unfolded. when trouble is sworn in a year ago emotions were running high on all sides. u.s. media described it as a pivotal moment in american history you're not having a terrible terrible dream also you're not dead and you haven't gone to hell it will be very bad americans and others will now die washington d.c. the establishment is terrified and they should be they call that the trump revolution trump promised to completely overhaul u.s. foreign and economic policy he promised a brave new world that was cheered by his supporters and dreaded by his detractors as a distro be an apocalypse so a year on where are we well with all this america first rhetoric you might have

thought that would have meant less interference in other countries well that's not exactly how it played out tonight i ordered a targeted military strike. out of our military and it was another successful event we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option if necessary on the home front from promised a new level of protectionism against mexico and china but the usa is increasingly buying more foreign goods and producing less of its own the trade deficit with mexico is up by eleven percent the trade deficit with china is up by seven percent unemployment is low but so are wages there is record amounts of household debt in the united states right now and retail stores are closing across the country and here's one thing that didn't change between trump and previous administrations during the election trump talked about getting along better with russia and his detractors called him a kremlin puppet but now one year later things between washington and moscow are about the same as they were before bad for their action by the. congress to put

these sanctions in place from the way they do best the decision they made that made it very overwhelming. except we may be at an all time low in terms of the relationship with russia this is built for a long period of time now trump promised to drain the swamp of corruption we are going to draw. if washington d.c. . but it looks like that swamp is still here and deeper than ever policy stay the same our foreign policy is the same the monetary policy in the federal reserve is the same spending as the same deficits are still rising so there has not been any significant changes in the direction of our country which i had been hoping for is that he has perpetuated so many of our deeply flawed policies especially in foreign policy foreign policy is a little bit more confusing i am very pleased he's at least made an honest effort

and he's reduced the amount of regulations and i think that's one of the reasons we've had an economic boost. and that is that is good and he's made an effort to reduce taxes that's for from perfect but lower taxes less regulation is good and the marketplace is reflecting that oh and don't forget about that wall we're going to build the world we have no choice we have no choice. yeah how's that going we have some wonderful. prototypes that have been put up now despite the president's ambitious timetable for construction it remains unclear when the wall might actually go up on the surface donald trump looks like a president like no other he's allowed brash he doesn't care about political correctness is even turned twitter into an official white house channel but if you look a little bit closer and judge him by his political actions he's

a little bit more the rule than the exception. artsy new york meanwhile a growing number of us republican congressman are demanding the release of a top secret intelligence documents they believe it reveals political bias against trump in the ongoing brush of pro. but i had that same shock feeling i was like wait a minute this actually happened from our justice department and this that's how serious this is that there has been a real attempt to undermine this president and it's the type of information that we need all americans to see immediately the american people deserve they must they want to know what's in this document sadly much of the mainstream media will mark be covering this today but in this house on this day let us know that indeed we are still one nation under god willing to protect life now the contents of the secret document is unknown and it's still unclear whether it will ever be released

but based on the comments made by some republicans is thought intelligence officials under the about the administration were politically motivated during investigations into the alleged russian collusion democrats were also quick to react to the memo denouncing gets content they call the document a profoundly misleading set of talking points which attacks the f.b.i. and gives a distorted view of the bureau the issue also made a splash on social media with the hash tag release the memo trending on twitter in the u.s. late on friday and it wasn't long until russia was that it into the mix as well after a group of research is accused alleged kremlin linked accounts of pushing for the memos released on twitter they say the use of the hash tag increased massively over the course of a day among roughly six hundred users they are monitoring independent journalist martin some as think that russia just got caught up in the partisan crossfire. the

russian lynx account seems to have appeared from nowhere the fact that there's a very policies on situation in the us where the f.b.i. quite likely would being used to try and undermine trump i think that's a fairly likely thing that's happened but of course both sides and digging dirt on each other accusing each other of being russian stooges and of course for the the world at large what is this and it's becoming increasingly bizarre and ridiculous that these allegations are being flung around in the way that they all what's happened now is that the republicans are turning this. probe into their enemies by saying we're not sure looks like the democrats have been you know playing fast and loose and not playing by the rules both sides actually probably all cheats that's what i would suggest. when it's coming up after this break do stay with us.

when lawmakers manufacture consensus public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final round be the one percent. nor middle of the room. you really need. in order to overthrow a regime it does take popular discontent and popular mobilization but it also requires actors with in the leadership of the regime who feel that the regime is no longer serving the national interest you need people in the military or the bureaucracy or both who are willing to see the regime change otherwise they would be able to put down a popular revolt but did not have support at higher level. welcome

back a british student has been making headlines after appearing on a radio show and confessing her support for communism twenty four year old fiona lolly told a b.b.c. programme she felt communism was never given a chance to develop in the soviet union and therefore didn't actually fail the story whipped up a storm of debate over how universities are leering students to the left with one professor repeatedly quoted saying she's downplaying the crimes of starlin we spoke to her ourselves. i think it's completely hypocritical and very typical of academics like him to kind of passionately you know talk about the death under the soviet union but i think this is you know very much selective outrage the media in

general obviously don't paint marxism or socialism or really any kind of left wing politics in a positive light and that's because obviously in you know the media is owned by so angry people in the media is owned by a billionaire class have certain interests they want to protect i think people can think for themselves and i wouldn't take their headlines general opinion of the british population but there's the public share the red fear of the media well according to a new opinion poll nine percent of young adults view communism as a danger to the world now compare that to global business which nearly a quarter think actually poses the biggest threats political activist george barda shared his view on the story what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the u.s. of course much of the west identifies communism the soviet union and the like hard left or extreme left i was pretty much different aspects of the same

thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth the mainstream foreign policy journals were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try to explain away why the demonized system was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical reality of. north and south korea will perform as one team at the upcoming winter olympics has just been confirmed by the president of the international olympic committee. the olympic winter games during john two thousand and eighteen hopefully opening the door to a brighter future on the korean peninsula and in writing the world to join in a celebration of hope. but north and the south will march together at the opening

ceremony under the name therea and using the unification flag athletes from the two countries will also compete as a single team in the women's ice hockey and the korean folksong arrow round will be played as the anthem all in all twenty two north korean athletes will take part in the olympic lympics competing in three different sports all of this was agreed as breakthrough talks between the north and the south and it's now been officially confirmed by the i.o.c. . well harrod aussie we'd love to hear your thoughts on all of all stories though do get in touch by following us on social media i'll be back with you in about thirty minutes with all the latest headlines they do join us then. all.

for. something that is really important for us. to be only a common market. as we say to be a community of that it's going to adopt a view was of process as if you twitter is so good to power that from moscow writes damini to it was. terribly to be unsettling to communities he says.

u.k. firefighters warning of lives at risk the national health service in crisis and police got steam to disaster for national security times you're watching an emergency special of going underground coming up on the show will the government learn any lessons from the karelian crisis the tens of thousands of threatened with losing their jobs in the u.k. we speak to an n.h.s. nurse about the public private partnerships the g. alleges are destroying universal health care system and our austerity cuts killing young people on the streets of britain we speak to a former metropolitan police chief with over twenty years experience about why he believes u.k. prime minister tourism a has blood on their hands what the government is not running really and the government is actually

a customer of caribbean according to the pm the british government is merely just another customer of the multi-billion liquidated private contractor chaired by her former corporate responsibility adviser all the more coming up in today's going underground but first across british civic society there appears to be a consensus that years of relative cuts to the n.h.s. universal health care system to bail out the banks have caused a crisis even the normally stoic u.k. health secretary in the past few weeks has apologized for the enforced cancellation of tens of thousands of operations for lack of money that is unacceptable and i apologize wholeheartedly that apology came before the mass multi-billion pound corporate failure of karelian which while not being able to manage itself was put in charge by theresa may have managing n.h.s. facilities treating patients right across the united kingdom joining me now is an n.h.s. nurse on the front line of britain's universal health care system jackie barry jackie welcome back to going on the ground eight thousand of karelians twenty thousand staff work in the health sector which means that companies liquidation

immediately triggered. emergency plans in britain's universal health care system really just just give us an overview of what the private sector does you know government health care system what effectively the private sector have been at large. national health service for twenty thirty years now successive governments have had a policy of outsourcing low risk high yield lucrative contracts to private companies things like portraying cleaning maintenance and i've also been involved in the construction of private finance mischief hospitals where effectively the taxpayer pays enormous amounts of money over the odds to private construction firms for shiny hospitals but then gets hired into this thirty year contracts where money is drying out of the service away from the frontline and away from the patients so

the idea is not what they say obviously they say the government labor ministers and tory ministers they all say this is a great we're making things more efficient it was you know just rewarding their friends in big multibillion pound contracting firms but i think if we can learn anything from what's happened really is that actually that's not the case for successive governments so worship to the old to the free market as the bail and end of the delivery of goods and services actually today the chickens are coming home to based the market doesn't work when it comes to the provision of public services essentially what's happened is this government and governments before it have given karelian and companies like karelian by the way they're not the only ones billions of pounds to do work which actually the n.h.s. could do just as well and just as cheaply and these companies have effectively used the n.h.s. as a way of siphoning public money public resources well that we. into the

pockets of private shareholders you know korean put their diffidence up last year something like eighteen i seen point four five percent of my time when the news profits were going down so that no these companies don't add any value if anything they just saw from filing obama co facing karelian it operate runs two hundred operating theatres three hundred critical care beds does remain website version with no running in now eleven thousand inpatient beds on the coalface would you see these managers walking around the wards or were these guys so you have people who do and i chest jobsite porto's or kleeneze or people who demand but i don't work for the n.h.s. i work for private companies a lot of these people actually used to be and i just stuff through the outsourcing of contacts to the privatisation process which actually not just the tory

government but the labor government before and i've seen a massive proliferation of these sorts of arrangements so workers of effectively been tycoon out of the n.h.s. and how can i fit into private contracts which means that the conditions of richest writes collectively organize a stretchin you know where they live in paid part and why do they leave the private sector because the contracts so the the job to do. only are you doing the same job publicly democratically the next you know were labor ministers the blairite and equal been people in the parliamentary labor party they learnt to raise a maze look what the impressed though it's on their website karelians website they have unrivaled experience in managing critical complex environments and assets and they support thousands of patients in health care professionals on a daily basis to believe words like that are persuaded. democratically elect.

politicians they're the ones to do it no public sector workers like you so i mean mr five the marketing might go a wipe actually we've had this government and governments before which have had an ideological commitment and they are liberalism to serve. the poor economic where actually it doesn't really matter of all of these companies i. commit to breaking up public services because i feel frightened by what public service is represent and that is the idea that we will pay you more like what we can and take what we made so. the labor party the more the responsibility because this is all pioneered and brown actually part of the people who supported it mostly the people who try to destroy germany corbin's leadership in the labor party but i think there are some parts of the labor party which have

a legacy in privatization of the health service and actually it goes beyond the tender in the pure process with things like karelian paget's the way that the n.h.s. is structured an organized in itself give you an example there was announcement a couple of weeks ago that fifty thousand and i guess patients were not going to get their elective surgeries in january or february now that's going to impact not just on those patients who are going to have to wait longer for their hips and their knees and their shoulders but it's also going to impact on n.h.s. trusts because now the n.h.s. is no one in h.s. it's divided up into a competitive competitive trusts trusts on the basis of work and it was under brown that an enormous premium enormous tariff was introduced for elective surgery so it means that the n.h.s. won't get that money and i just trust now won't get that money which is going to push more more trust. into the red in the new financial year and actually

that stems what the player brownie the focus was to try and get. his patients to go in and have their operations done in the private sector. so it was about transferring wealth transferring assets out of the public purse into the hands of private companies obviously the cancellation of tens of thousands of surgery after surgery appointments like that is unique in advanced economies but the health secretary jeremy hunt said that had to happen because there was flu that flu every year we know there's going to be flu every year and actually the question isn't did it need to happen or didn't need to happen i don't know price level watch lay there on the beds to put these elective surgery patients in a lot of cases but why was that allowed and why is it that we don't have the beds of these patients we have lost over the last six years fifteen thousand beds from

the n.h.s. so we don't physically have the beds to put the patients in bay on that even if we have the beds we don't have room in hospitals to put patients because we've had asset stripping where. and where land effectively has been sold off to the private sector and that is a process that big seller right it's it's reason why it's government continues on top of that with an oven of staff to look off the patients once they're in the beds so you know we've got an operational crisis in place in the n.h.s. i tried to ask the health secretary hunt at the tory party conference in manchester about this question why are nurses or mass now leaving the national health service . well we haven't had a pay rise in seven is in fact we have had real to have cut your fourteen percent of the last seven years. workload is increased exponentially where

unsupported we have enough staff to do the job so when you don't have enough staff increases eleven stress makes it even harder over shifts for nurses and hospital. it paints a very old mine for to now was overruled over what undervalued we are underpaid. and for the first time in my in my professional life if i met a young person who said that they were considering asking i would not encourage them actively discourage them i suppose the defenders near liberalism would say the british actress had to fund the bailing out of the city of london where for britain's national it was already funded of the level as percentage of g.d.p. that the united states has is that when germany and france it has to be cut further critics of course say that it's a deliberate attempt to force people to go private and kill off the n.h.s. we're still here we've missed the. people around you see new doctors and so on

saying maybe you should go private but you know i don't think it's just saying it out. some people in the n.h.s. who are completely ground down but this government's attempt to dismantle our service that i don't necessarily feel like there's any other option however as a child genius and as a health campaigner i feel that we've got over sponsibility to give some leadership to people inside actually to noble the n.h.s. is the single greatest achievement of british working people collectively taking action and fighting for something and if we are prepared to let that go we will open up a door to a system not what they have in america. now the reason i spend so much more as a percentage of g.d.p. in the united states and waiter in the u.k. is because the market is fundamentally an inefficient system the delivery of health care we've witnessed this just over the last couple of days with the collapse of korea we are on to

a good thing here and we need to fight not just to defend what we've got but actually to tight back into public ownership the karelian contracts the g four s. contrast contrast the people that are running up against service up and down the country and the people who are running community services furch inc had. built i fully into quite his national health and social care service now in the prices of cuts and privatization but on the prices of of democratic public ownership so that we can give the care that we're trying to stop along to be able to expect a bigger inspirational very very good and i think the demonstration of that effect way it's got the upper to potential to be a real lightning rod for a lot of the anger that is out there we have got people dying incognito's on trial days in pine without seeing a doctor over nice that is the situation is an except in a pig lab so everybody's watching if you can come down to london on the third of february to type in a demonstration and to get involved in

a movement up and down the country in your communities to defend the national have said this and to send this government back and jackie barry thank you after the break we'll tourism be held responsible for future terror attacks restrict your former metropolitan police chief with over twenty years experience you believe the government is lying to you about protecting your safety and the minority leader is really doesn't even recognize a question from germany call him in our view of this week's british pm all this more coming up about going underground. we have a winner take all the it's a lottery mentality in america you know where are your dead and the pharmaceutical companies of course the lobbyists go to washington the laws of a possible to peddle all cost in america and nobody cares because it ever learned

a lot as a wal-mart today they said let's do it again. the two thousand and eight economic crisis turned some countries into paid these are the countries with weaker economies that needed austerity policies if you are in a situation of low 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 almost a decade how good are the results she saw in those head to new york city's will by the pew a gathering which the wild are all good people with your daughter julie. who treated people because she was i mean to for legal. challenge must be more than this she did not know it was always the case she found out they were not getting paid while the same measure is still in place who wants.