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 can go back you've got to go back almost in two thousand and eleven for the prosecution before the most recent one in those it would be a political right would say what you are doing is effective wording 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 arms trade

multilaterally that's why i am pleased of course that britain has signed the arms trade treaty something russia hasn't and we need to persuade russia and coerce russia to do that and we need to make sure that we do that in a diplomatic way not in a aggressive way but the danger is that if we keep watering down our requirements we will become no better than russia no better than iran and that is not what we should do. they have been selling arms to going to try to defeat us in our guidance or yes but what i mean in terms of arms sales we become no better in the sense that we don't have an independent body monitoring the russian around sell weapons according to political decisions rather than looking at the whole humanitarian issue you can make sure those weapons are not going to be used to breach international humanitarian law you can make sure that those weapons we know that britain is really the center arguably over whether it be destroying africa's.

respect half of the country of libya whether it be the iraq war or to your party's leadership of this country or room trying to attack iran through be can only. afghanistan totally wrong those actions that's why we need to start speaking up now we need to realize the awful atrocities that this country over generations over hundreds of years has committed in its international foreign policy and its policy of exporting weapons and it's now is the time we need to realize that jeremy to me in the iraq war and in the syrian discussions we were out on the streets. now we are in parliament and now he is the leader of our party we now need to start making sure that no longer do we have to have people out on the streets protesting to try and stop these kinds of things but that we create goals and we create scrutiny so that never again we learned as human beings we must learn from our mistakes and if we can't we are not human beings at all lord russell boyle thank you after the break as the powerful tinker with neoliberalism in switzerland the british n.g.o.s

i think least well for the few hundred seventeen that could have ended global extreme poverty seven times over on from the headlines find out how russia could go nuclear the british defense cuts and how britain's policy is all let's see all this and more coming up are bought through of going underground. you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some who want to. integrate the press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the water.

yes i was but with. your. help in the last election i believe it's the young thing we will all soon but you know the stuff and we will push it out so. people thank you for. the game you do the. scouts. you the new coach believe you know. he should read the book that. you will know that. the secret of the irish do you can you get other clues but then you tell me if you did to miss all my suspension. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the us is it just. the only show i

go out of my way to find you know it was just really packed a punch oh yeah it is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than booth. and see people you never heard of love jack tonight president of the world bank very. seriously send us an e-mail. welcome back to go through some of the week stories now is will cost of all the liberal democrat member of parliament lembit opec let's go straight to your obvious fear that russia is about to invade the united kingdom well we should all be afraid it's the express offer all for crying out loud option i'm very porting this russia likely to target u.k. with nuclear attack if defense funds cut extra warms the extra hour rule is someone else not the guy chris barrie so many nights in the room tell me what the british army so he's the main man there and he seems to be said. jesting also that we could

be naked in the theater of war if we make army cuts and defense cuts is a good and has made it clear that there are the russians want to invade britain bring back the cold war because obviously the cuts we're talking about just leave us completely exposed and since the european union will be turning its back on us and troubles busy to who knows what could be happening we could be doing this in russian in a year's time thanks to these cuts and on the other hand should the head of the british army be telling the russians that now is a good time to invade i'm not sure that really works let's remember the russians did tell us that the new super carrier was a convenient big targets let's go to that right let's go to this brilliant strategy where one month away from when the start of u.k. or covert operations to destroy the libyan government how well is that libya war working well now it's your turn is not actually funny it's very crude but your turn gives away the concerns in this article the independent reports britain strategy to

target smugglers sending migrant boats across mediterranean doomed to fail study suggests not the most illiterate of title but in essence what's happened is a learned piece of work i believe by dr kampala cambridge university's institute of criminology says that not only is this an ineffective strategy to try and force people back it could be illegal you're sending them back to very bad circumstances and that could violate that this is the strategy of the british government to send boats to just stop desperate people from doing what they want to do desperately hope that he might get away from wars and this isn't the first time this has been tried there was a debate about whether the mediterranean forces should make it so dangerous so difficult to come across that people wouldn't bother trying the ultimate but it was no let's us to get that one but britain may be having a go at this now and the independent i think rightly is saying hold on a second you cambridge university study out of africa i wonder whether the government will have a look at have a look at the i suspect they were aligned you know in the past forty eight hours

former capital executive john tizard one of corbin's gentlemen. it says that the the hundred billion pound outsourcing mess should be brought back into democratic control let's go to this story from the canary the reverberations of this multi-billion failure of karelia from trouble on the high seas were all at sea with this one to the canary reports exclusive leaked files reveal karelians payments to block listing agency and far more this story has rumbled on for quite a while now there are explicit claims thanks in large part to the g.m.b. union it turns out that i'm not getting fourteen thousand seven hundred twenty four names at least have been illegally investigated by the consulting association a form of blacklisting to try and courtesy allegation i'm sure we'll be going to a consulting agency divined whether in fact they were blacklisting your seem to be presenting it like. oh i'm just hearing they were shot there we are yes that. was the other but this is a likely one of brando on the watch of rogers and if we're really saying this is

how our service is it hospitals schools prisons you name it in the public sector being run like on the water yes we are saying that and this are to subsidize by the taxpayer well in the sense that the caribbean was making a profit on partly they weren't making much of a profit so only being subsidized now well they've been big movements in the kensington and chelsea council here in the richest borer of this country the richer part of this country something from kensington and chelsea here along with a grim story of granville the movements aren't nearly as big as one would have expected the guardian reports only three out of one hundred sixty social housing towers required after grandfather thought as of this week that's right they've had i think seven months since the incident which killed in the forty which killed over seventy people in grenfell tower that's remember that was in large part because the external cladding turned out to be flammable get this ash and there are more buildings clad with that climb of all material now than at the time of the incident

now the government's trying to fob this soft little bit on the local. it is they're saying savage of it says that not very many councils are come forward and given the information needed to make these funds available but come on let's just be realistic seventy people seventy plus people died here and there are tens of thousands of people living in virtually identical circumstances to this all over the country now that is not exactly the kind of legacy a jew expected from grenfell in fairness lembit a quarter of the grunfeld tenants have been permanently rehabbed this means three quarters haven't that's all you need to remember and since june all this on the day to day when universal credit is on trial in parliament does the employer the minister alex sharma gives evidence of context for all of these stories limit a big thank you well from arguably the disastrous rollout of universal credit little lonely housing prices to forty two individuals having as much wealth as nearly four billion of the world's poorest here to go to oxfam's latest inequality award is the engineers u.k.

deputy head of research deborah harder deborah welcome to going on the ground to tell me about the report which was coincides with the world economic forum meeting in divorce in switzerland writes they this week we've got the world's rich and powerful gathering in the mountains of data and they're talking about the way that the economy and their level have great statistics of growth then we have seen great cities well they will say it's with everyone but what we find in the data is the billionaires have done extremely well the richest one percent done extremely well they've got eighty percent of total that's happened over the last twelve months what we're doing with this report is bringing into this story bring into this event in davos the story of everyone else the rest of the distribution the ninety nine percent the think the bottom fifty percent we're talking about the poorest ten percent of people that still live in extreme poverty and particularly we're talking about the workers that work hard to help support these businesses profit making enterprise is everything that the economy is founded on and still live in poverty

you will see you. more golding said the concentration of extreme world is a symptom of a system that is failing is that just well if you look at the way that the economy is rewarding wealth you know you look at for example the billionaires the billionaires have made seven hundred sixty two billion in twelve months from what from a really great performing stock market in many cases and at the same time look at that money you look at well i think what else could it have done if it was distributed more fairly if for example if we ended the tax havens and we were able to capture some of that wealth and put it into a budget that could be spent on public services that could really help those at the bottom of the distribution are kind of mass that seven hundred sixty two billion could end extreme poverty seven times over so it's about choices right it's about an economy that's able to deliver all these returns for wealth at the top but is

leaving many behind i suppose what i was getting at when i was talking about your c.e.o. saying it is into a system that is failing even mainstream media we're now hearing about whether it is western capitalism that is responsible for these sorts of figures that are in your report yeah i mean we're certainly not alone in raising awareness of the crisis of inequality and the way indeed the system was i mean andy how dayna chief economist of the bank of england has said that the way for example that companies are organized to extract value and to liver it to shareholders is corrosive for the economy so there's plenty of other thinkers that are worried about this the i.f.'s in the way have said inequality and poverty are likely to increase over the next five to fifteen years and that's a concern so there's plenty of other organizations that are concerned about inequality and concerned about the economic and social impacts of it the i.m.f. hardly

a kind of left leaning energy or. you have written extensively on the damaging consequences of inequality for growth and for the prosperity of countries i don't know how defensive some of the. new liberalizations are but the absolute as you said about your report that you haven't even said it in the report said what are you saying confiscation of the wealth is resources that would you are recommending and julie that would put us all at risk with saying actually when it comes to resource is and if you think about a lot of the resources of the extremely wealthy many of them are embedded in companies so we're talking about stocks and shares and what we think is a better idea is to have ownership of those assets much more equally distributed in the way that companies are able to run cooperatives for example so the you have workers with a stake in the business and when the company does well those rewards are distributed evenly among the workers as opposed to concentrated returns for those

at the top that are the inside of us like john lewis although we go to an international audience they probably won't know that department store what about other engineers save the children is saying a quarter of all children in this country under the age of five are living in poverty is worse in wales a little bit worse in scotland are all the ngos at the moment we are were bored basically saying the system is failing everyone i think there's increasing recognition that to address the things that we care about most whether it's an ngo that's looking at housing or whether it's save the children or whether it's oxfam looking at poverty in the u.k. or the joseph roundtree foundation who he found one in eight people that are working living in poverty there's many of these organizations that are recognizing that to address all these concerns we have to look at where the power is and where the wealth is and so yes i think there is a kind of common discourse that we have to look at inequality if we're going to fight for the causes that are really important to us what about the danger that.

these elites will actually divide those who are already poor from one another there's obviously case of malnutrition in britain legacy arguably the twenty wake raises how because they can't see the ceo's earning that much money is this ninety nine percent dividing itself did you see anything like that in the research where we need to build a new narrative and what we need is a new economic model that works better for people and that doesn't build those kind of divides in society that you're referring to and this is possible and there are way in policies and there are you know business models and there are all sorts of things that we can do to actually make it a fairer society and that's not pitting one person against another person so that we're not this kind of race to the bottom in competition i mean in ecuador the legislation on the minimum wage is now such that it must be a living wage so this is just raising the floor so that everybody resumes as she introduced here of course it's not quite on the same not to the living wage that

many people would or the living wage foundation for one would call a living wage. i mean another example is in iceland that is now illegal to discriminate between men and women on pay so this isn't pitting one person against another this is creating an environment where we're saying you know things have got to be fair or things have got to be more just and these kind of policies doable with possible and it just creates a much fairer environment for everyone just finally briefly the electoral cations of this report can we see in this report shades of why the midwest of the united states would go for donald trump something different why people go to jerry corbin here where people in this country went for broke why new political ideas are now being tossed around because it's getting this desperate i mean the data shows that there are large portions of the population in many countries that are feeling left behind that the economy is not working for them and so there's got to be

implications for that in the way people feel about the way. that societies and therefore their governments operating so we're not surprised that there are groups that are breaking away and looking for something that's alternative and so what we're trying to do is create a narrative. that is fair and just and that's not divisive because that's what people that particularly the feeling left behind by the system the mice and you know a representation of what would work for them and not something that would divide them. thank you that's a show we back on saturday just one of your recordings keep calm and realize his former shadow emergencies minister chris williams and whether the n.h.s. is being used as a cash cow by a profit hungry pharmaceutical industry until then you can if you can project with us by social media a few words out of the forty five years of the day of the signing of the paris peace accords officially signaling the crushing defeat of the united states of america by communist vietnam.

prescribe medication is widespread on the u.s. market a frequent cause of death at that point in my life. like everything was ashes my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit suicide watch all who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects why. was. it what i did was done on a cocktail of legal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's six. days ago the u.s. secretary of defense james mattis updated in 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 war without it. russia's complicity in the assad regime's atrocities. are true. the un is america blames russia for chemical attacks in syria regardless of who carried them out also to come this hour. the u.s. government says the destruction in the syrian city of bracket is beyond description after america's devastating bombing campaign there against islamic state terrorists and remained silent on the cell tanks to ankara germany's foreign minister. against kurds in syria. a powerful fake news and extremist propaganda a new survey shows that most people in the u.k. want social media to be better regulated.

hello they're welcome coming to you live from moscow you're watching r.t. international there's been a fiery exchange between russia and america at the u.n. over who is to blame for chemical attacks in syria and how they should be investigated moscow says future probe should require independent experts to visit the sites of alleged incidents but that was rejected by the u.s. . russia is complicit in the assad regime's atrocity you are acting as judge and prosecutor russia is running from the facts your behavior exposes your true motives russia has the audacity to lecture this security council this is a long political spectacle for not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth we should at least have taken

a look at the draft before rejecting it russia all on its own killed the mechanism we had specifically tasked to identify those responsible q what do you need an investigative mechanism for before an investigation you haven't cuse the syrian government of using chemical weapons. during a debate on how to tweak the system used to assess chemical attacks in syria the emergency meeting was held after the us secretary of state claimed that another attack took place in syria on monday he said that russia should shoulder the blame for that one. whoever conducted the attack. russia ultimately burrs responsibility for the victims in these and countless other syrian targeted with chemical weapons since russia became involved in syria the problem is it hasn't even been confirmed that these attacks even happened let alone who is responsible and there are only two sources saying this and both are notoriously pro-rebel this

whole blame russia game continued at the security council and it seemed making haley's statements were more about russia than anything else she even accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism but at the meeting russia said that the joint investigative mechanism became a political tool and call for an impartial investigation into all cases of chemical weapons use in syria including the joint investigative mechanisms new reports so we're not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth or that politicizes what must be an independent and impartial investigation. of the fact that the us dismissed up proposal right from the start reveals the truth that they do not need an impartial investigative mechanism so even though several other member states supported the proposal of a new impartial investigation the us rejected it saying that it's ready to bring back the old joint investigative mechanism quote but all other suggestions are unacceptable so american reporting there will be mechanism she mentioned was

established in twenty fifteen by the un security council along with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and together they drew up several reports to accusing the syrian government of carrying out chemical attacks it concluded one of the deadliest income she in april last year however experts did not actually visit the site before reaching their conclusions with a mandate for the joint teams investigation has now expired moscow has requested that changes should be made particularly me that signed the. it should be part of any future investigation so that samples can be taken directly it also underlined the importance to him of eyewitness accounts which have been heavily relied upon in the past by the un sterling de from the syria solidarity movement does point out that the timing thing you chemical attack allegations comes right ahead of the expected peace talks we've seen that in the past day or two before geneva

negotiations would start there would be so flame up an atrocity and that again is what we're seeing happen happen here so it's really sad the the it looks like there's a possibility of ending the conflict in syria but evidently there are some forces that just want to prolong it and keep it going it's really sad and just one five zero point it's pretty stunning hypocrisy to hear the moralizing from the united states which have actually just be only use nuclear weapons and world war two that used. massive amounts of chemical weapons and in vietnam and massive amounts of depleted uranium in iraq still the country that used chemical weapons to the greatest extent. among all countries is in no position to be more allies. and we well with rex tillerson blaming moscow

for chemical attacks in syria senior correspondent not aghast if looks now what responsibility washington should take for its involvement in the conflict. the end justifies the means they say some things no matter how horrible just have to be done these are hard core finances they have to be rooted out this is an ugly business but it is necessary business it's only after when the dust settles and you see what you've done the to start having second thoughts this is when you say damn what did i just do the devastation goes back as far as you can see it is almost beyond description how deep the damage is as many as a thousand strikes a month on record alone just strikes not including hillary tags and all that more than eighty percent of the city was deemed unfit to be in by the un at city

hall but raised so let's start with the obvious incredible work has to be done just to get people back into their homes except we won't pay here is the disclaimer stabilisation not reconstruction the us will help fix the pipes but someone else is going to have to sort out the rest of this mess no sir the coalition freed you you do the rest we humanity ariens including the un do not have access to iraq a city because of the presence of explosive hazard contamination which is endangering people trying to return to iraq a city and it's also endangering humanitarian access over two hundred people have died while trying to return to their homes and hundreds more have been injured from our understanding of the reports that we have only a limited number of neighborhoods in iraq

a city have been cleared for returns and that's mainly in the outskirts. so who is going to pay to rebuild an entire city the guys who helped the straw it say they won't the civilians returning from tents in refugee camps the syrian government which doesn't even control rocca who. but i gassed you there well meanwhile thousands of protestors across europe are rallying against turkey's military operation against the kurds in syria demonstrations were held in athens and london as people wave kurdish flags and carried antiwar banners a similar project took place in the german city of mannheim to the people there are angry that german made tanks are being used in the turkish offensive more messes peter on. the turkish military operation against the kurds in syria has caused some consternation here in germany however officials in berlin say that they're only somewhat concerned about the actions of ankara the military confrontation between

turkey and the kurdish forces carries rich in. the last thing syria needs is another standoff imagine the surprise when german saw the footage of turkey's military offensive against the kurds and they saw german made leopard tanks as the spearhead of that offensive it comes at a time when germany's foreign ministers the rio is pushing further upgrades for the tanks supplied by to anchor it is included things like upgrades to the mine protection abilities that they would have with rumors that other upgrades are in the pipeline for the hundreds of tanks provided by germany to turkey this is all seen is part of the charm offensive by the german foreign minister as he seeks to normalize relations between germany and turkey.

are disturbed when we speak about nazi mentality but you do apply this type of mentality in germany. does not effect without question turkey snatches comparisons must stop unfortunately we see that these comparisons have not stopped. however when it comes. questions over whether german tanks are being used against the kurds . and says from the german government's off the ground there is 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 this 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.