of this week's british pm q.'s all this and more coming up in part two of going on the ground. yes i was putting up with the police lock up want to buy you something. yeah in the last election i might be well below what sort of money we dump in my wall so you will find you know one of the on the stuff and we will push it out so i can tell you from behind the scenes of the you know the middle of the skies over you the blue cups beliefs now team g.b. easy to show dream even the french. you will know the young will go back to. the prosecutor though i'm wishing you can you get out of when you pull up and you tell us maybe i'm getting this old but you're using my suspension of us to.

apply for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money kill the narrowness and spending to get the twenty million one player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy great so well chance for. at least minute. but politicians do something that. i put themselves on the line and they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or something i

want to be friends with. that's a right to be for us this is what the forecast for me in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the wilds of my. question. welcome back minorities gay government leaders tourism a couldn't even recognize the questions that alone give an answer to 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 new liberal fe the karelian may countered that a labor council in leeds last week owes the commission the outsourcing contract corbin wasn't amused for the record leeds have not signed a contract with career it's the government. it's the government even handing out contracts it's the government's responsibility to ensure karelian is probably

manage between july mr speaker between july and the end of last year the share price or karelian fellah by ninety percent sri profit warnings were issued unbelievably some contracts ruled by the government even after they. profit warning this is fake it looks like the government was handing karelian public contracts. to keep the company afloat which clearly hasn't worked or he was just deeply negligent of the crisis that was coming down the line how did the woman who was in power because of a defacto one billion pound bribe. mr mr speaker i'm very happy to answer questions when the right on which at the last one. corbin again asked 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 cannot say to the shadow foreign section i will indeed on the question but i know that she herself is praise karelia in the party. 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 this food 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 broken system. under this government. under this government virgin and stagecoach can spectacularly mismanage the east coast main line and be let off a two billion pound payment capita 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 olympics failed to do so and the army had to step in and save today 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 ash to end this costly racket of the relationship between government and some of these companies there's no sign yet that mainstream elite media level of tourism. minority governments even accept that privatization 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 that taxpayers will have to stump up hundreds of billions to defacto bail out 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 zero 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 greater me offering a billion pound bunker to keep our government safe are the cuts that she has presided over 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 is 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 or do you understand that there is a correlation with and we're talking about the reduction in police numbers of tens of thousands i know perfectly well what's happening and they use and they muddy the

waters by misrepresenting online 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. 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 . why 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 though they publish. a pathetic police stories like cops are seen 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 it away from central central authority and not alive a 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 they say it won't fit to 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 policing there are now going hang on a minute where are all our place and then i 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 the 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 rebating the ability to withdraw their labor there was a majority for the right so apathetic your colleagues they didn't even go of fifty percent bothering to vote. i'm not sure it's apathy the place has 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 but it's similar to

doctors in a way i was going to say exactly that it's like nurses and doctors year 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 it comes to maintaining public order to raise them a famously blamed mit five zero seem to apply 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 salut 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 seven. surveillance of the suspects that are you know or are possibly on the radar for an attack so these are the selector where these go in this shows they will they're always demanding more when he's of course there's a not enough every turn for sure and if they 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 and we're happy with that and if one happens to fall below what is judged to be that level happens to an atrocity we'll see it and 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 police officers all spies or more 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 tomorrow but the highest level of threat you made to jeezy of course it was in the news because karelian has a management 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 or 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. just can't do it nobody can do it you can't maintain a case load of thirty forty more serious cases and we're talking recently about disclosure in serious sexual offense cases people. report it 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 then 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 houses that newly reported

right will be given to that 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 about it those jobs just keep mounting up a mounting up amount you know and the pressure on those officers is incredible we got more and more officers going sick with stress we've got officers leaving through stress related or health we've got officers leaving image service in their droves to go and trains for even psych you know if you went to victoria now and you want to find an experienced police officer you'd be better off looking in the three eleven from i would say for drivers cap when you would look in on the streets of london i'm sorry peter bergen thank you and that's it for the show we'll be back on monday just with the father of sixteen year old palestinian schoolgirl head al-timimi who has been in prison for her actions do you care about the israeli soldiers gunned down her relatives protesting illegal occupation in palestine until then you can get back with us about social media we'll see you on monday one hundred forty seven years of a day that i am

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was. was. turkey starts a full scale military operation against the kurds in the syrian region of africa and with a ground invasion expected from sunday. afghan security forces killed two gunmen who attacked a major hotel in the capital kabul killing several people and injuring at least six other perpetrators remain at large. and us dollar trump enters his second year in office the government is shut down over the failure to pass a funding bill we take a look back at the highest and lowest of the president's tenure so far.

the international coming to you live from moscow i'm kate partridge thank you for joining us. turkey has begun a military operation in syria against the kurdish held region of africa the turks have launched air strikes and begun cross border shelling with a ground invasion expected on sunday the news agency ruptly has obtained this exclusive footage of aerial strikes on our friend over seven. two planes conducted sorties with all aircraft now back at base in turkey the campaign which ankara considers to be anti terror has been named operation olive branch it's aimed at ousting the kurdish militia from africa which they have held for five years the turks started to cross border shelling on friday. injured civilians in africa were taken to the city's central hospital following the airstrikes kurdish officials claim that at least ten civilians have been injured artie's middle east

correspondent paula samir is following developments there peace eight if sixteen's have been firing from the skies while on the ground you have the turkish backed syrian opposition rebels have moved into this enclave that isn't on tape that is controlled by kurdish militia y.p. g from the ground we're also hearing that the free syrian army has been arriving in buses as well as in trucks that have been fitted out with machine guns we are receiving reports in terms of the civilian situation there and they were hearing that people have been ordered to retreat into their homes and into shelters but there are reports coming through of people who have been wounded and injured and who are being taken to the local hospital now all of this follows threats over the last few days by the turkish president the one that he was going to launch a ground offensive into africa was really just a question of when and he said that this was really the only answer to root out

what he has called terrorist elements there take a listen. for an operation has a factory been started on the ground this will be followed by. the promises of not so nobody has a right to say anything. now man bridge is an area that is mostly arab it is waste of the euphrates and it is the next step in terms of the turkish military's way of dealing with the kurdish militia it is not far from the area that the army has entered now so that is where all eyes are turning for the immediate future the turkish foreign minister has posted a tweet saying the country launched the offensive against syrian kurdish militias exercising its right to self-defense kava show you added that and korea's actions are strictly in keeping with international law he went on to stress the operation is are targeting civilians but only aims to take out terrorist groups r.t. as it goes down after explains the distribution of forces or what brought turkey to

syria. this is what the situation on the ground in syria looks like right now afrin the region where the turks are carrying out their military or peroration the area highlighted in green is where the turkey backed rebels are to a certain extent at least they are helping ankara from the ground read the syrian army this is the syrian army guys they don't have any problem with the kurds but they do have a problem with these guys because this is the area of the green aires also the region which harbors how you have to create or nusra a terrorist organization and finally here you have man bridge there it is also it is a city also controlled by the kurds and it could be turkey's game plan erdogan has already said that after he's done with afrin man beach is next this operation hardly came out of the blue you know the kurds have been historically a major thaw in turkey's but what catalyzed things now was the pentagon saying

they're going to create a so-called syrian border force the coalition is working jointly with the syrian democratic forces to establish and train the new syrian border security force currently there are approximately two hundred thirty individuals training in the inaugural class with the goal of a final full size of approximately thirty thousand one very precise description of america's intentions there by that point turkey had had enough ankara beefed up its forces on the syrian border deployed tanks and president erdogan vowed to destroy quote this terrorist force before washington even has a chance to create it u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson tried to do some damage control saying that the situation has been trade misdescribed and that some people misspoke well that was a nearly enough to contain turkey's fury ankara has been keeping the united states in the loop about the operation against washington supposed america which arguably

pitted to. against the kurds has now called on them to focus on the fight with eisele pretty much the same as saying it's every man for himself in this conflict turkey has also notified syria about the action which damascus is not happy about at all russia in its turn has been cautious and called for all parties to pull the punches the main reason behind the developing crisis in this part of syria is the provocative steps taken by the united states which were aimed at isolating areas with predominantly kurdish populations uncontrolled deliveries by the pentagon more than weapons to pro american formations to northern syria contributed to the rapid escalation of tension in the region and led to special operation by turkish troops loose lips sink ships they say well this time we're looking at a potential all out war done of r.t. middle east commentator allie risk believes the u.s.

faces a dialogue or about how to react to turkey's offensive. what will be the u.s. reaction are not sure that you're going to see a clear reaction i go i think what you're going to see are some conflicting views and when you do have conflicting views with it there's within the same home what i'm going to say home i mean the u.s. administration i think that's made makes it very difficult for them is for the administration to come out with one policy to control that situation so what what that would mean i think is a turkey might continue or might be given room to continue with these with this operation with the absence of one clear coherent american stance and in light of these different divisions within the american branches of government i think the u.s. is a big dilemma if it does continue to continue to support the cause or for the support of them and that leads to more and more confrontation with the turks if the badness of that means it would have burned in the only group it might be able to

depend on and to score points in this war against terror so it is i think as i said a real dilemma now for the trumpet ministration. several fatalities have been reported in afghanistan after four our men attacked a major hotel in the capital kabul officials added at least six people have also been injured two of the perpetrators were killed by police but two others remain at large local journalists allowed so ari reports according to several sources within the afghan special forces the forest and second floor has been cleared some rooms on the third floor either burned down and some of them of caught fire and there's definitely a battle on the fourth floor according to multiple sources within the crisis response unit team one fighter told me that he saw two people who were carried away from the third floor he couldn't really tell me whether they were injured or they

were killed the cysts. an ongoing situation and this is also a hotel that got attacked in two thousand and eleven and we only heard in the last forty eight hours or so from the u.s. embassy in kabul putting a security alert saying a number of hotels in government buildings in other locations were at risk of an attack obviously this sort of an attack shows the constant security an intelligence failure but it also shows how the afghan government and its international allies are finding themselves fight another fight on a very difficult front line which is the cities it's still a very confusing situation some people wore able to get out of the hotel they managed to get out and they have told local t.v. stations about casualties and fatalities so we'll have to wait and hear more. from the authorities there. were defense and security analysts come alarm says

a number of factors led to the relative success of the attack i think unfortunately the afghan security forces are just not up to the standards or there's too much pressure on them and there's not much coordination between nato forces and the afghan police there are multiple threats there's the taliban there's al qaeda there's ice is there's also has missed army which is also in the government so there are number of opponents and i think this simply isn't the right intelligence to counter these kind of attacks because they're happening on the regular basis one day it's a civilian target one day it's a military target one day it's a commercial road or a hotel like today and to counter terrorism in afghanistan you need a regional approach and the regional approach means working with iran working with pakistan and working with russia and the central asian states at the moment the u.s. is not really doing that they have their own strategy and it's not doesn't fit in with the british uncertainty. donald trump's for.