but you do apply this type of mentality in germany you know the cuban him does you know it's a fact later without question that hopelessness is comparisons must stop unfortunately we see that these comparisons have not started. however when it comes to questions over whether german tanks are being used against the kurds answers from the german government the norm the ground there's no official stance from the defense ministry from the foreign ministry or from those who deal with exports at the ministry of economics here no tanks see no tanks speak of no tanks that's the lying coming from the german government at the moment but when it comes to the german people they don't seem convinced that they should be providing arms to turkey right now i don't think so why not. because war is bad.

in this region so i don't think we should sell him tanks well i think that's awful became phonetic to accept fighting against an entire people should not be happening is this is terrible we should not be sending any weapons at all no matter who is behind this. now if someone asks where are you from would you be offended because that very question has to wait about racism after a social media campaign was launched in sweden and as the data. well from sounds like an innocent enough question doesn't it but it could land you in trouble here's what i actually had to explain that i first need to tell you about an online campaign launched in sweden to help expose racism hash tag no stranger we hope to raise awareness regarding the extensive issue of racism that actually does exist in sweden although many want to believe that we live in the world's most tolerant country there dearest shakespearean says of being subjected to racism and

tens out asking why are you from rep some people up the wrong way even though i was born here people always ask me where i'm from i hate it when they do that nobody put on a decide where my home is where i come from doesn't concern you and it shouldn't matter i say shouldn't we ever ask people about their country of origin to be on the safe side. well here's some advice from a man behind the hashtag no stranger campaign you can also question just make sure you do it right it's ok to wonder about someone's country of origin but it should

not be the very first thing to ask a stranger about because the reaction that follows is usually very stereotypical and racist like oh you're from viet nam i think it's quite terrible that you guys eat dogs. so its name fairest originated and no follow up questions got it to. the world economic forum is underway in divorce at the moment with some of the world's biggest players readying for talks at the luxury swiss resort among them is the u.s. president although not everybody is happy that he is actually turning up in fact around two thousand people marched through the city of zurich to denounce donald trump's visit and the entire gathering to several smaller process also took place elsewhere in switzerland including geneva trump is expected to make a speech later this week selling his america first economic idea at a pro globalization forum. on wednesday morning in divorce that's focusing on the

challenges facing the energy market in particular all prices and production we spoke to russia's energy minister to find out what is in store for twenty eight. and we were because a list of all twenty four countries that agreed to the deal to cut oil production have to reach joint names this is needed to find a solution and balance the markets the market is a periodic mechanism this time the unusual decision that was taken for the first time showed the possibility to take joint steps to downgrade the negative effects detected between twenty fourteen and sixteen all our joint efforts are urgent that will still hope we can balance the market by the close of twenty eight but the steps that have already been taken shows they can be used again in the future so there's still to come here an r.t.a. humanitarian group has been targeted by terrorists nice an afghan city of jalalabad we'll have the details of the stories on the way to in a couple of minutes. everybody

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again now a new study has revealed the just one in four britons trust social media people complain that it promotes fake news cyber bullying and also extremist propaganda and therefore requires better regulation. looks into the findings. it used to be seen as an innocent way of keeping up with friends and family but the love affair between the british public and the likes of facebook twitter and instagram has soured now less than a quarter of the u.k.'s population trusts what it sees on social media according to

an international marketing firm seventy percent of britons believe that social media companies don't do enough to prevent illegal or unethical behavior the majority of those are think that more should be done about preventing the sharing of extremist called intent most think the same of how social media combat cyber bullying and then there's the issue of fake. overhauls of britain's surveyed worry about being exposed to it online so how to mend this broken relationship the british public thinks that tougher regulation is key to restoring trust this time these companies sat up and listened the public wants action on key issues related to online protection and to see their concerns addressed through better regulation these findings present a major shift in attitudes towards the internet when it started the world wide web was open free and unfettered that was its appeal but two thousand and seventeen was

the year of a fake news and the public is now where e in britain and the us politicians have put pressure on social media giants to disclose evidence of russian interference. this house but the government and the election commission will examine these reports very carefully we must be open eyes about the actions of hostile states like russia. i was concerned at first that some of the social media platform companies did not take this threat seriously enough to get these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much

. facebook will now prioritize so-called trustworthy media outlets and downing street has announced the creation of a fake news rapid response unit if there is now that any subsequent the plaints about censorship could be dismissed as the will of the people. a suicide attacker has detonated a car bomb next to the office of the humanitarian group saying three children in the afghan city of jalalabad local journalist. has the latest. at least twelve people were wounded some of them include afghan employees of the organization but none of the injuries are life threatening the afghan special forces or attacking at least three attackers who are armed with rocket propelled

grenades heavy machine guns and hand grenades we also know from very worried family members who are waiting outside and some of them have been in touch with me including my own relatives that there are a lot of people who are stuck inside save the children would invite their afghan employees from the districts in the words train them they would invite them for seminars in these are afghans do very important work in many of the districts of of our province outside of the city of jalalabad be it where the health education or shelter for refugees or internally displaced people so obviously a major source of concern is how could this attack of taking place because the office is only two hundred or three hundred meters away from a police station and i think that's what you're looking at for two thousand and

eighteen as well these security and intelligence breaches continue to really undermine the confidence of the afghan people in the afghan government. at a time when major cities have been attacked time and again well that incident in jalalabad has come just days after an attack on a hotel in the afghan capital kabul the u.s. state department has confirmed that several americans were killed in that with local officials saying that twenty two people died in the overnight siege by taliban militants. those people had no mercy it was anybody who came in front of them and shot at.

best basically it was that for you know stuff. well the exact number of american casualties is not yet nineteen victims also included citizens of ukraine venezuela kazakstan and germany were looking for private afghan adeline and its school consultant and rockwell police u.s. military presence is aggravating the situation in afghanistan. prompted already talked about sending in more troops and more planes and other weapons so i think this is just a further unfortunate back down from the campaign promises he made he said some very good things about getting out of afghanistan that the u.s. had no business there and then of course as soon as he was elected he switched and is now stepping up the war in afghanistan the afghan government itself said that it would only last a few months if the u.s.

pulled out there's a hint that the afghan government maybe they ought to go with the u.s. troops and have new people come in so that why why is the u.s. killing all these people spending trillions of dollars in afghanistan to have a very unpopular government in power. it's terrible these people were killed i don't think we have any idea how many afghan civilians have been killed in the seventeen years with this war the u.s. needs to get out get out of afghanistan get out of syria what the needs to be done here at home leave other peoples a low. stop killing people all over the world and expecting to be locked. ok let's go to a developing story in france now because these are live pictures from a prison just outside paris where prison guards are in a standoff with police you can see police guarding a prison exit i think there where one inmate is about to be transferred to court to face trial in connection with the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks the jailed

staff are expected to try and disrupt that move prison guards have been protesting for more than two weeks now all across france after a string of violent attacks by inmates against them of course we'll keep you up to date with events from there. now a sculpture by an american artist to commemorate the victims of the twenty fifteen paris terror attacks is drawing heavy criticism in france not only over its meaning but also shape and choice of location two is planned to be installed next to the tokyo modern art museum in paris and as you can see it is a giant hand holding a boat carry of belongings however it will block the view from there of the iconic eiffel tower in response artists and activists have written an open letter demanding the project is scrapped the final look of the piece for me has nothing to do with what happened to that but that clown for me is going to be used only that people when they selfies in front of it and are i don't i don't see you

visually for me when i look at it they all think oh this was to victims i don't feel that at all it's not even in the area of the fact that clarke. has been gauging public opinion seeing on the streets of paris. this is where the sculpture would be installed that would be a huge hand for trudinger out of the ground grasping at twelve to lips with this view of the eiffel tower behind it which some say will be ruined as a result while it's clear that some in paris do not appreciate this gesture what's the view on the street so colorful there's nice to be different really stand out i don't like it so it's a modern horrid europe under g.r. to see showing his vision why not it's a good thing cheerful and full of color it's better than the stuff you memorial day

when the gesture is very very kind. saying whether or not that school is fit for the people that lost their lives it's a little bit weird also to be donated by in america an architect maybe maybe it should be a french one and remembering those people is. a really good idea but probably with something a little bit different if you saw a major what would it make you think of disneyland i think this better way have a membrane people have died and then terrible attacks and that's not the scope of farming i would say for controversial reasons it's a nice culture but when you want to associate it with that day and what happened then. yeah i probably wouldn't leave no bones of the artwork include the u.s. ambassador to france who's been spearheading this gift idea and the mayor of paris however so far it seems that the french on scene and many people on the streets of

paris just don't appreciate this piece of american martin aunt charlotte even ski auty carice. so that brings you up to date this hour top programs continue here in october after birth. days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated and revised america's global defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a defense strategy critics say is a blueprint for without it. as you read the sand here for last. move on what has. come out of this that are a lot of trouble at the rather tough it out before for any kid.

i'm going to let him but i don't cut him then you cut him and kick and. i don't think is a channel for truffle that it. was. on the show the times i know it does. get this whole full plate choice. and pay off big time in syria has said. you should. give a. model for them after the whole fuck around mr hates it for jim and then boil the whole thing that are fairly in their court.

i'm after him we're going underground as the architects of neo liberalism in davos face the fact that forty two people have as much wealth as the world's three point seven billion poorest coming up in the show is britain enabling the world's worst humanitarian crisis is angular marco rules out selling german machines to kill children in yemen we ask labor m.p. lloyd russell boyle whether the u.k. is set to become the post-breakfast international weapons dealer of choice and unacceptable and unsustainable that's what u.k. and geopolitics found says about the global system it claims but eighty two percent of all global wealth in twenty seventeen into the hands of the richest one percent plus on the headlines how the grenfell towers like to see it go up in smoke and who's been whitewashing

a blacklist all the more going up in today's going underground but first how disunited is nato today the usa is supporting the neo marxist white b.g. in syria its leader is a lot to learn and who and where is or chill are now de facto backed by donald trump's u.s. taxpayer dollars for almost fifteen years john has languished in a turkish prison as the only inmates guarded by fifteen hundred turkish soldiers of the german is a solitary figure sitting in a remote turkish prison of the sea of marmara he thoughts had lots of time to rethink the strategies of the struggle for cuts rights and independence he also reflected on other key issues the violent guerrilla tactics and strategies obvious marxist inspired peter yes donald trump is backing and he isis near marxists against his fellow nato ally turkey which is using warplanes against them as for britain trains may continue to fact aid i says an al qaeda linked groups in syria amid so many bizarre. our alliance is opposed breck that u.k. looks forward to selling more arms for more conflict around the world joining me

now is labor m.p. a member of the u.k. arms export controls committee lloyd russell morell lloyd welcome to going underground to your fellow member of the u.k. arms export control committee bully let them sit on monday's show that we have the strictest weapons control system regime in the world just like resume said usually agree couldn't agree. with that statement at all i'm afraid we have on paper a. relatively stringent system even on paper we don't have the strictest system we follow the consolidated criteria which is a criteria to sell weapons which is an e.u. set of standards so on paper we just follow the east and. two years ago this government weakened that so they changed the presumption to allow arms sales if there was a political dimension and to override other conditions which other weak and she's done if it's a repressive regime even if you suppressive regime and. one example would be in

twenty fifteen a company that was exporting from norway via the u.k. to afghan warlords was found guilty in norway of corruption and bribery in that deal the directors of the norwegian part of the company and now in jail the warlords have been prosecuted in africa and in britain we are still giving arms export lessons is to that very company so that is an example of where the idea that we have the strictest in the world is just not true clearly this is a prime minister keep saying it is a standard response to every question in parliament when she is asked about yemen or other other countries where british arms are involved because they're getting themselves because they don't want to face up to the reality that britain is sanctioning weapons that go to places like saudi arabia and i used to kill innocent people at the un report was very clear that there is little evidence that it. as for self defense and it is just an aggressive attack on yemen by saudi and that is

the reality the conservatives don't want to face up to so they just continue this mantra in the hope that if they say it enough it will come true they do with all things that they know schools funding in the n.h.s. there's no winter crisis they say but we all know that is there it's the same with the arms trade they all pretend that there's no problem because then they'd have to live up to it the only ritual for vice chair of the tory party is be on the show one of the few european politicians who visited yemen and seen some of the carnage unicef has been on this road they've talked about it pulling the film was a safe zone on your committee as well it said saudi arabia is now beginning to allow women to drive because so things are changing in saudi arabia yes but the argument is not that the sound is a bombing we mean in saudi arabia the argument is that bombing the heck out of people in yemen you know kind so what they're doing for people in saudi is neither here nor there when we're talking about the arms now actually they're allowing them in after many many years of not to drive in saudi arabia is hardly the gold

standard of we means equality in feminism but again what with the tory party really know about those kinds of things well i was born with a point of view female prime ministers. that exporting arms to saudi arabia does not enable violence and when the aria is training these pilots these are the war planes they're not it's not britain that's creating the mess and the death destruction of europe this is like there's an america say we don't need gun controls it's not guns that kill people it's the people firing them saying in a kind of exports do not help contribute to deaths well yes if they were put in a box and not used by the saudis they don't contribute to death but do we really believe they are putting them in storage after spending billions on them no the point of the consolidated criterion the point of having a huge humanitarian. basis for how we export licenses is we do not want to have an

arms export system a bit like the russians do for example where it's just a political decision the point was to make sure we took it out of just the hands of politicians to work out who our friends and who our foes are and to something where you're looking more objectively are these weapons going to be easier because it's pretty rich for labor m.p. just talk like you we know tony blair was going the serious fraud office inquiry into the systems in the biggest arms deal of this country's ever signed over saudi arabia i mean various senior tory figures have been on this show and even former ambassadors say saudi arabia could threaten to stop security counter-terror cooperation if we don't sell them killing machines well in terms of former labor party governments selling weapons and closing down investigations that was totally wrong of course it was the labor party with robin cook first of all started actually even publishing where we were selling arms they were the first we were the first people to put in a consolidated criteria and adopt the e.u.

standards but that doesn't mean that there were no phones most people i think have seen the labor party's under new management now and then back on to the other point the idea that the saudis will suddenly have us over a barrel and they were cooperate with we just start cheering effect that beatrice does on british street we didn't sell them weapons we had here is some of the saudi ideology is the ideology that is causing terrorism around the world this is causing danger to our streets and actually to not cooperate with saudi would probably make our country a great deal safer do you think there's a growing understanding in parliament the british weapons are now ending up in the hands of isis. in the middle east in other battlegrounds years of war there is some understanding and there is some cross party support to the idea that we need to start monitoring where weapons go bearing in mind with our supposedly so robust regime. we only look to see where the first owner of that weapon is now if only

doesn't use it they sell it on second hand weapons we don't monitor that and so could go anywhere we saw when we had friend after and get afy was in libya we sold a huge amounts of arms and weapons they were put in stashes then of course we decided he wasn't such a nice chap and we caused him to his regime to fall and those weapons light weapons and heavy weapons then across the mcgregor in the hands of some of the most violent and nasty people that you can imagine british weapons being used to cool danger to british citizens and citizens around the world and that is the problem if you don't monitor where the weapons and end up in when you're on this committee i'm sure there will be people saying what most people say to defend the arms industry. best the weapons are used to implication is to kill people in yemen then we lose vital jobs in britain well let's see aces was being allowed to let us through some perspective on this first of all we are talking about not point to five percent of our g.d.p.

this is about the same size of the beverage industry or the plastics industry now we're just talking about planning plastic cups and straws and putting charges on bags and trying to stop we don't hear people saying well you can't ban plastics because it will make jobs be lost what we say is that we will transform those jobs into things that are environmentally friendly well is the same with killing machines now we can still to ship building because you need ship building even without arms being attached to those ships you can still do car building and manufacturing all those jobs are transferable and actually they wouldn't even need to change company because the companies would just diversify as well the majority would surprise you receive new conservative groceries have also made the argument on this program that if we didn't sell the weapons someone else would oh that's fine someone's being mugged down the end of your road well if someone else is doing the mugging i might as well because i'll get a few bucks that is that kind of moral argument is no morals at all i'm afraid. if we have overall less weapons in this world overall the world will be

a safer place we knew that corbin is your leader is a minority you are a minority of the parliamentary labor party it wasn't that long ago that people like hillary burned all the leadership candidates trying to destroy his premiership voted to bomb damascus. you sure the labor party in parliament agrees with you on these ideas and issues about the arms trade the labor party is not just a party in parliament we have a party of trade unionists and members of activists of peace campaigners and i know the party is on our side on this matter now of course there is an argument to be won for some people that need persuading but i'm sure the members of the party will make their voice very clear to their m.p.'s and i'm sure their m.p.'s will come on side do you think they'll be any investigation of british support for moderate rebels as they were called once by your parliamentary labor colleagues little of the conservative party in parliament other any british weapons in the hands of what are now al qaeda. in syria trying to get rid of president assad of syria i have not

seen evidence directly that british weapons are being used actively by diane but it would not surprise me if there were because we don't track them and we should track them and we should investigate we also don't prosecute when export license is not abided by last year we prosecuted only one person the year before no people two thousand and fifty no people were prosecuted you know you can go back you've got to go back almost in two thousand and eleven for the prosecution before the most recent one when there's only geopolitical right would say what you are doing is in effect supporting russian foreign policy iranian foreign policy you're not helping our allies like saudi arabia in the great game that is the middle east right now i'm afraid i don't consider saudi arabia one of our allies so maybe that's where we. differ with the american administration of course we need to make sure that we would use.