the wal-mart today they say 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 off to almost a decade how good are the results she saw all of these will by the people gathered in which the wider world get people to see what do i do a choice. to be it will be she thought the climate was i mean to for legal. challenge nothing more than this she did not i was always think it she's not there and not getting paid while the same mission is still in place who one of the consequences is to we can blue bird flu this movie will first

be one of those was the truth the consumer is the consequences are actually quite acceptable to the decision makers. 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 levels. welcome back minority government leader tourism maker. even recognise the questions that

learn given on sir this week's prime minister's questions the leader of western europe's largest socialist movement wanted to know about this week's massive multi-billion pound neoliberal fadia karelian may countered that a labor council in leeds last week owes the commission the outsourcing contract colvin was on jimmy hughes for the recall leads have not signed a contract with korea and its government and. its the company isn't even handing out contracts it's the government's responsibility to ensure the karelian is properly manage between. mr speaker between july and the end of last year the share price of karelians trella by ninety percent three profit warnings were issued unbelievably some contracts rudie by the government even after they. profit warning mr speaker it looks like the government was handing karelian

public contracts. to keep the company afloat which clearly hasn't worked he was just deeply negligent of the crisis that was coming down the lawyer how did the woman who was in power because of a defacto one billion pound bribe. mr mr speaker and very happy to answer questions when the right on which at the last one did corbin again us whether policy was one of negligence or desperately trying to give a drowning company afloat but tourism a was more interested in the remnants of neo liberalism in corbin the shadow cabinet like shadow foreign secretary only thornberry who still hasn't consented to appear on this program since she was appointed i can i say to the shadow foreign section i will indeed on the question but i know that she herself is praise karelia in the possibility of. the law and. i say.

that i say i don't know which i guess i mean there is obviously now a crown representative who's been fully involved in the government's response to the appointment of the crown representative to replace the one that a previous again in place the government chief commercial officer and the cabinet officer office director of markets and suppliers took over those responsibilities for corbin that wasn't the point for him this week's top u.k. story wasn't even just about karelian it was about the wholesale privatisation of u.k. society to favor a handful of massive multinationals but this isn't one isolated case of government negligence and corporate failure it's a pro can system. under this government. under this government virgin stagecoach can spectacularly mismanage the east coast main line and be let off a two billion pound payment capital and

a toss can continue to wreck the lives through damaging disability assessments of many people with disabilities and when more government funded contractors g four s. promised to provide security at the lympics failed to do so and the army had to step in and save the day these corporations mr speaker need to be shown the do all we need our public services provided by public employees with a public service ethos and a strong public oversight. as the ruins of karelian lie around will the prime minister act to end this costly racket of the relationship between government and some of these companies there's no sign yet that mainstream elite media let alone juries amaze minority government even accept that privatisation might as well be an invitation to mafia style racketeering and this week's pm queues took place just

hours before u.k. authorities reveal the taxpayers will have to stump up hundreds of billions in the fact of bailout companies like karelian. in twenty seventeen forty six people under the age of twenty five were stabbed to death in britain's capital alone over new years four killings punctuated a year that bore the highest levels of knife deaths in england and wales in the twentieth to police officer numbers in twenty eighteen coincidentally are due to reach their lowest level since twenty two with police officers across the country blaming this huge drop on austerity cuts brought on to bail out the bankers in the city of london with trays of me offering a billion pound bunk to keep our government safe are the cuts that she has presided over for years putting the people of britain in danger joining me now is peter kirk i mean he's a former police chief inspector with over twenty years of experience peter thanks so much for coming on so we've heard quite a lot in other stories about austerity a collective economic punishment hurting the lives of people what is the reason for

this uptick in knife crime and knife death in my view it's very simple it's because there are fewer police officers on the street and therefore there's less policing of the streets and therefore public space is becoming more dangerous. of course the government continues to point to crime more widely coming down do you think they just see this is something mysterious were there underneath it do you understand that there's a correlation with we're talking about the reduction in police numbers of tens of thousands i know perfectly well what's happening and they use and then muddy the waters by misrepresenting on line about the statistics certain types of crime that we've happened to count over the years yes they've been coming down for years some of them are continuing to go down mostly property related crimes such as burglary theft from our vehicle theft of multiverse calls but quite a lot of street related crime. violence especially is has been for several

years now showing evidence of a rise again and that is now quite a significant definite rise and you said the governor were lying over statistics is . that way mainstream media to cover their bags there may not be as interested because they are believing this is just six of the coming out i don't know what's happening with mainstream radio they be like that i've no idea the why even publish petty pathetic anti police stories like cops the same having a sandwich cops spend x. amount of money put into these when petrol vehicles or whatever if you think other police officers could possibly share your opinion you said trey's i'm a has blood on our hands regarding the increase in knife crime you talk to former colleagues people currently serving they really share their opinion and the the problem with the police is that they cannot talk out. talk publicly if they come out publicly and express their views there would be so and sacked so simple as that

senior officers i think have a duty to tell the public what is going on and i'd like to see them standing up and being coward but the reality is that they are likely to be sacked because their life career is in the hands of a party politician now the place and crime commission has put in place by to rescind my she has taken political control of the police service she has moved the constitutional independence of the police y.a.y. closer to the government and i why from the people the government says it is localizing police autonomy and driving away from central central authority another alive day say that but what they're doing is they're leaving responsibility with local p.c. sees local chief constables but they're not giving them any power to actually make any changes they're cutting budgets they're given them a fait accompli and then when crime starts going up and officers disappear off the street in

a particular county i say it won't off into do with ask. and we've got the ridiculous situation now with tory p.c. season councillors around the country and m.p.'s around the country who have voted for seven nearly eight years of cuts to police saying they're now going hang on a minute where are all our place and then ask in the local paper so you say no i need to be asking her she's put them on she's been told it will that impact will be as quite a lot of blame for the government but come on i mean the police federation conducted a poll to give police officers for the first to have the right to not they weren't going to strike the right to in the worst circumstances which uses do you baby the ability to withdraw their labor there was a majority for the right so apathetic or your colleagues they didn't even go of fifty percent bothering to vote. i'm not sure it's apathy the place have got warm a huge huge strength and that is their dedication and their duty and commitment to

their job and serving the public it's why they joined even though lots of them take a pay cut to do it it's why they continue despite all the bile that they're getting from government and from the media despite the fact they get in be and not right left and center and the courts are giving ever week a sentences they still go in and they do it again and that's a massive strength but it's also a weakness when it comes to things like pursue in the right to strike they would look at that and go now there's no way we'd have a strike they'd certainly never strike for playing conditions brought it similar to doctors in the way i was going to say exactly that it's like nurses and doctors yeah they might eventually but you've got to push them so far i personally i think the time has come they're not being listened to by government no matter how they try they're not being listened to by government and i think they need the right to strike not for pain conditions book to stop the cuts in the service of the public

cops around the country are desperate desperate that they cannot do the job that they know they want and should be doing they just can't do it when comes to maintaining public order to raise i'm a famously blamed mit five or seem to apportion blame on that one m i five for the magister atrocity they give it to terrorists wow protected is britain in this context of cut from terror they have bolstered the specialist counterterrorist unit his own foreign secretary understand salute and she's she spent money on the spies she spent money on g.c. h.q. she spent money on specially scout police terrorist units congratulate her on that indeed she has improved that but we've still got nowhere near sufficient resources for them to maintain any sort of monitoring let alone twenty four so. and surveillance of the suspects that are you know or are possibly on the radar for an attack so these are the celebrities going this shows them well they're always demanding more when these are of course there's

a not enough every turn for sure and if i want to say there's no more money then what the politicians need to do is accept that something can't be done so the politicians need to sit here and say ok we accept that there's three thousand pretty high level terrorist suspects on the books and the current resources they can only watch a few hundred a monitor a few hundred more we're happy with that and if one happens to fall below what is judged to be that level happens to an atrocity will syria go far in fair enough we knew that we didn't have enough money to do that but they don't they keep trotting out this ridiculous idea that you can do more with less you can't or you get for less is less less money equals fewer place officers all spies or whatever it might be which means less time for policing which means less placing gets done so if something falls off the radar they won't accept that they keep saying keep implying that the police are making the wrong decisions but when you've got three thousand

high level terror suspects in front of you all you can do is do your best on what you know and that's often very little to try and decide which ones are looking like the most but the highest level of threat you made to jeezy h.q. of course it was in the news because karelian has a militia role in g c h q if you are still objective chief inspector want to counsel said here look i can't take these shifts because it is amazing shift terms being quoted me i should go into the private sector what would you tell them if if officers speak to me about leaving the place service my advice now is that they need to think about themselves first they are being burnt out their families are being burnt out they cannot sustain the level of stress and the level of long shifts and everything else that's going on permanently. they just can't do it nobody can do it you can't maintain a caseload of thirty forty more serious cases and we're talking in

recently about disclosure in serious sexual offense cases people anticipate that if a rape is reported there's a little squad of officers on it certainly for the first few days to get a hold of it and do the basics with it and then maybe somebody very and keep hold of it on an ongoing basis and the little squad moves on to something else doesn't work like that you've got overworked detectives often have a rank poor role that shouldn't even be doing right investigations in the first place just posted into these units because they can't get anybody else and they're carrying workloads of twenty or thirty or forty ongoing cases that newly reported right will be given to their already overworked officer to fit in amongst everything else they do and i have been warning for a long time that they cannot possibly do all those jobs properly. and yet nobody does anything. and the pressure on those officers these incredible we've got more and more officers going sick with stress we've got officers leaving. today all

health officers leaving him it's. like you know if you went to victoria and you want to find an experienced place officer you'd be better off looking in the three eleven from i would say dr scott but he would look in on the streets of london. thank you and that's it for the show will be back on monday just with the father sixteen year old palestinian school go ahead i'll tell me who has been in prison for their actions. protesting illegal occupation in palestine until then. you will see one hundred forty seven years to the day that schools show all the red . shirts to defend the. key influence on british suffragette sylvia. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be

president. for us this is what. people are. interested always in the water. you know when you don't. see the teacher's gallic try to get a court to. what they need not through only ten tests. let alone make. said. time to no seven ten that's a letter. you speak french. most. of. the sandel phone call to new this morning. is busy you can't let them talk

to folks. young children who've worked in bolivia for generations almost three quarters of a million are doing so today. this culture led to the development of bolivia's new liberal and highly controversial children's code in two thousand and fourteen which gave children as young as ten the right to work under certain circumstances but there's a new thing this. is all news. eat well with us in the end or. from the things years. but there are hundreds of thousands of children in bolivia operating completely

outside the local. mining work is strictly forbidden by the children but it's never enforced and that means the schoolboy minus continues risking their lives for the money they need to survive. thank you. libby you're welcome aboard what i am getting. a little bit. weak.

so he's president confirms and correct how started a military ground operation against syrian kurds it comes a day after turkish cross border shelling of syria's african region began. the war on terror is no longer america's top defense priority instead the u.s. will be focusing on a global power play with russia and china which are estimated first stories on the world stage rather pointing to the secretary of defense james mattis. as trump enters his second year in office the government is there to be shut down over a funding bill we take a look back at the highs and lows of the president's tenure so far. under new red alert of the apparent witch hunt against communism emerges we tell the

story of a student who's been hounded for saying in the media that communism never actually failed. to. a very warm welcome you're watching starting international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and the carriage good to have you with us. so ok jack frost. have bombed kurdish targets in syria's afrin region which is now the focus of a military campaign against what ankara calls terrorist targets turkey has named to the operation olive branch we are showing you live pictures from the turkish syrian border you can see huge plumes of smoke rising into the sky there and. meanwhile turkish banks syrian opposition fighters have reportedly entered the

kurdish enclave from the ground turkey's president earlier confirmed his country had started a military ground operation that turkish cross border shelling of the area started on friday artie's paulist clear tells us more about how events unfolded. what we're hearing from the turkish president the one who over the last few days has repeatedly threatened that he's going to launch this ground operation is confirmation now that it has begun and it is understood that it's an operation between the turkish army as well as pro turkish syrian rebels who are operating in their country both of them have the joint goal of ousting the kurdish rebels the white from the region this is what other one has to say. the afrin operation has a factory been started on the ground this will be followed by a member of the promises about membership not so nobody has a right to say anything man but it is

a mainly arab area west of the euphrates that the turks have been calling on kurdish fighters to pull back from for quite some time it comes amid new strikes launched by the turkish military against the kurdish militia the in northern syria we're hearing from the turkish military is they hit in legitimate self-defense and number of refugee centers as well as camps belonging to the white now the white p.t. controls the afrin area in northern syria the turkish government considers the wikipedia as having an alliance with the p k k who they say. we are a terrorist organization since last week we have been hearing with threatening that it's going to launch this operation in the african area particularly after the united states issued a statement saying that it was going to train as well as implement a border protection force that would see the syrian democratic forces involved now the u.s. that is if is aligned with the white p.g.d.

that the turks are against you understand why took you so angry over this whole issue but of course you also have the kurds in the african area he have taken to the streets in anger and frustration as well they have denounced the statements made by the turkish president and those sentiments were echoed in front of the two cliche embassy in london where around one hundred fifty people gathered they were holding placards and they were chanting that the turkish government is a terrorist government that has links to islamic state on that whole issue of whether or not the americans have been helping to establish a border security force the trump administration has been backpedaling and the latest we've heard from the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is that there was misunderstanding over the whole issue but whether that is true or not the facts on the ground are that turkey has started its military operation we discuss the situation with jenkins tome our dean of the political science faculty if doubles mom or university he believes the

military operation could have been prevented if washington hadn't ignored turkey's calls the minute i'm strictly off or to the united states you know in order to corporate in syria against all terrorist organizations worked up to know our strategic ally couldn't listen to us started to walk. a. very big problem for. region but now. i think it's high time after the you know castle law petition operation is going to started. here in the white house is being mocked by government wide shut down that's all to 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 refusal to include protections for undocumented young

immigrants but. 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 holding the local citizens hostage over their breakfast of moons we have the divider is she in the white house this is behavior the structure just loses not legislate. this is just the latest example of how bumpy the first twelve months for the president has been can have more pain takes a look at how trying to tenure has unfolded so far when trouble is sworn in a year ago emotions were running high on all sides. the 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 met last year for. in other countries well that's not exactly how it played out tonight i ordered a targeted military strike. 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 some 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 which one washington and moscow are about the same as they were before bad for their action by the. congress to put these sanctions in place or the way they do that's the decision they made that made it very overwhelming was. the exception that 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 drain the swamp it 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'm very pleased he's at least. made an honest effort now 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 far 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. our see new york times presidencies has also been mocked by a string of quirky catchphrases and diplomatic moves which kept the welds on the media guessing what he was going to do next on his own take on his tenure throughout the year.