and taking serious money medication and ended up a statistic when in africa. i don't go out drinking i don't go out you know gambling not i you know it's been. drinking you got gambling you got was money got the best clothes now i haven't got all the best clothes on go everything . but you know what i've got i've got. now. i will i will fox we will some people. they can't fight as well as alex and i will fight for them and this is what we do this is what we do it we will we will. we will win if in the end but. it's a war that's what filled in a way that's what. i was about this week was about and that almost off it's been one. where we went to war disabled people we pick where in the waters of on going towards a wife. what if we lose

a lot. of. the. oil and i'm afraid this is what some people are coming governor i don't care if i could have one word with estimate right now. that you know what you've got blood on your hands or your during this government has blood on its hands the human rights abuses that human catastrophe of the cuts and this i will people's lives for the fasteners of people are no longer here i'm outside to disable people right now is. another organizations and. get involved join in. your rights these are your services you can fight back and do something about it it's not hopeless it might feel like it but there are people out there to support groups out there to get involved when he can do something about this and

it's it rattles the m.p.'s when you go into parliament uncertainty by because you are living testimony of what they're doing and i can't run from that i have a heart i try and you know i don't exist we are here and i am here to say this is rome and we will fight back. if you've been affected by any of the issues raised contact any of the following organizations which may be able to provide professional help and advice coming up after the break more from collective punishment or austerity britain the u.k. work a bit of select committees roots george impeach the number of british suicides of those being assessed for disability is double bowl is a ball coming up in part two of going on to grow. closer to the new i mean you don't. see the teachers who are.

not through only ten. said. come to know. that. if you speak french. then send them continue. them to. the wall this getting away from us dollars wall reserve currency the one road one paul c. linking up russia and china is out of the dollar every last trade oil away from the

dollar and countries are desperate to get out of the u.s. dollar so the dollar is going to lose value no matter what anybody says. treasury secretary trying to make it look like oh that's our polls are for a lower dollar really matter what he says the dollar is going lower as we've been saying for a number of years because the u.s. dollar is all kinds. other countries recognize as funding the war and the weapons and the poverty that they're trying to. welcome back in the first half of the show we heard from two people in different stages of an arguably kafkaesque assessment process that has been ruled by the british high court as blatantly discriminatory the d.w.p. said we introduced pip to replace the outdated d.l.a. system pip is a better benefit which takes a much wider look at the way an individual health condition or disability impacts them on a daily basis underpaid twenty nine percent of claimants receive the highest rate of support compared to fifteen percent under the d.l.a.

our next guest attended this week's debate on personal and about abatements ruth george labor m.p. and member of the u.k. work and pensions committee joins me now ruth welcome back you are going underground so we heard a little earlier from some of those affected by these disability tests conducted by private contractors who are paid cogs on the show apparently created a debate in parliament about this what are you hearing from your constituents about disability testing absolutely i think all them pays a hearing from their constituents about disability testing we get in cases through often every week. particularly after i was first elected i agreed to meet with a group of women who were survivors of sexual violence and abuse who wanted to tell me about how the benefit system had affected them on a member of the work and pensions select committee so they wanted me to be able to take that very harrowing evidence and try and use it change the systems that they're finding because so many assessments and not allowed to be done as

a home assessment then people have to travel often considerable distance to an assessment center somewhere in a in a big city very impersonal buildings often and for someone who's a survivor of violence and is often in suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder then that's. incredibly difficult thing to do and very traumatic again let alone to be faced with an assessor who simply wants to get them through a list of questions in the time allotted and they have a standard script to follow i mean i've heard from women who've said that they've been curled up on the floor and crying from the trauma of having to relive the experiences that they've been through and describe the impact that it's had on them with an assessor who simply repeats the question to them doesn't acknowledge their trauma and their grief at all and this has a lasting impact on people who have to go through the process and he also said the

. newton leaders abilities minister on to do and said esther agrees department they want to give people a good customer experience will you make of the answer to what you just said when you say the environment what i asked them really is a language that gives people a good customer experience it's very much the language of the private sector i don't object to the fact that if people in they they do you have to we do have to have some form of assessment for benefits we can't just have anyone who applies to receive benefit absolutely we all understand that on all sides of the house but you want to make sure that it's a helpful experience what he means these words means tested before were they being means tested now why do you recognise the importance of mean it's it's not so much means testing for income it's about testing what people are able to do one nasal of bobby and she can i mean the government say that they want to enable people to live

a fulfilling life often there should be enough medical evidence from people's medical records to be able to ascertain what's the point where they're all in knots they're able to work for some people there might be a need for them i mean my view is that there's far too many people having to undergo these assessments far too many are having to go to assess. it centers and the private companies that are doing them are actually cutting the costs by particularly outsource or i.a.s. as they're now calling themselves say about sixty nine percent of their assessments are done in assessment centers whereas the other company capital it's only sixteen percent done in assessment senators members of the minority conservative government say the problem with what we're going through is you don't understand that we have to reduce costs there's no doubt this is reduced cost testing the most vulnerable in society to bail out because of the cost of bailing out the banks incentivizing bankers to come here this is what is what is important you don't realize it because

. government is again still repeating even though they've changed their mind on the testing regime that its intention is to reduce costs by twenty percent absolutely that's the aim is to reduce costs but the government themselves are admitting that they're failing in that way the whole system is actually costing more than it did previously partly because we've got private companies involved so they're making a profit tearaway although maybe you're not as in people's undergrad a week is it. disability benefit they're paying the disability benefit but i mean they're also paying for the costs of the whole assessment process where we're seeing so many hundreds of thousands of people having to go to monday to reconsideration and then even more than that having to go to tribunals and appeal because the decisions of wrong that's costing the state millions almost a balance of sounds a million added to the cost of the assessment process so if you are the costs to the government of rectifying the appalling decision that they made to illegally

refuse people with psychological trauma support in order to get out of the house then that's going to cost three point seven billion pounds to reassess that make takes up all of the savings that they've made over a three year period they should have. simply done these assessments properly in the first place in a way that really supports people with disabilities have to be made properly why are they being made at all i mean now the government is in centers was as you would have it and i just cited to two of now again reassess what went six million claims . that the right decision listing government finally we've had the right decision that the government needs to reassess the claims of one point six million people to make sure that they're receiving the benefits that they need to make sure that they get the support that they need to get out of the house to work if they're able to do that but certainly we on the labor benches would say they need to look very

carefully at how they do that to try and make sure that they don't actually contribute. any more why are we testing them at hul i mean if one figure is seven hundred million pounds the cost to someone argue torture people out of one hundred pounds a week do you in the labor board who seem to believe there are a significant number of people faking mental illness no absolutely we're not certainly not saying that everybody needs to be tested by any means and only a very small number should actually have to go for any sort of assessment with that who is tested i'm certainly arguing on the work and pensions select committee and the labor party are arguing that the government ought to be bringing this back in-house so that we've got a proper system for training the assesses and proper system for making sure we haven't got targets in place that they have to meet the targets for the numbers of people who are refused benefits and that we've got

a decent system that treats people properly not as we've seen from all the case studies that have come through to give a general it's not just labels i mean it's not jeremy corwin's labor party policy to get rid of this it's not mean says you're on income which means testing on health you're going to continue it if you're going to government what we said. saying is that the vast majority of people can be assessed from their medical records and their medical information should be made available to assess and and it should be clear is day for most of that medical records what a person is capable of or not in a few cases because there are cases where people have graduations of a different disease then maybe a few people need assessing but not the sort of ninety percent or so assessed in assessment centers or at home as they are at the moment we're looking more like a sort of five or ten percent number who maybe do as a five or ten percent it's done in-house by the government in a way that supports people make sure that they're actually getting the support that

they need because that's part of it to some peers not return to blairism under the golden everybody that you are still going to means test this isn't this isn't about means testing it's about where it's absolutely necessary there will be cases where people have to be tested on abilities. in the vast majority of cases that is not necessary what people are being put through is not necessary it's not cost effective and all it's doing is putting money in the pockets of private companies you're not only on the visual work and pensions committee in berlin you're also on the committee regarding karelian the multi-million pound failure. of the large was going to drag you to bring some of this experience you're having over a person depends very much disability has to do what you do on that committee you want to really i think it's absolutely relevant to look at the way that these huge outsourced companies which gain billions of pounds of taxpayers' money are actually

using that money whether they're meeting quality standards and whether there's actually any competition in there to make sure they're not simply taking money for old rope. and driving their own costs down driving paying conditions for their own staff down to the lowest common denominator but simply using a system that takes more than. more contracts and fees of the government to prop up an increasingly failing internal financial structure where you've got huge dividends of directors taking huge bonus pay because of ours as a the taxpayer is being mugged for hundreds of millions of pounds to. these people are trying to get around. i think that if we look at the way the system operates the system is mugging people for. it by putting them through so much trauma that often they don't feel able to go through an appeal process because they've been through so much as part of an assessment process already and those people individuals are losing out this is what we conservatives are meant to

interview because the majority agree winning their cases on appeal yet almost two thirds of people win their cases on appeal that's how bad the system is i would absolutely advise people if they have been turned down for a benefit assessment that they should go to appeal if they feel they can cope with that process but there's so many people in such a fragile state of mind that they really don't feel they can cope we've had some figures in the last couple of months from disability news service who said that the number of suicides the proportion of suicides had actually doubled for people who undertook the work capability assessments that's an absolutely appalling statistic that labor party have asked the government to go away and look at in the context of the questions on suicide that being asked in those assessments and it's very important that we protect people absolutely i would want to see people go to appeal if they will get what they need and what they deserve from that i would hope that they can also find support through that process because it is so traumatic but

unfortunately support services are being cut as well and many people are finding that they're having to go through that whole legal a stick adversarial process with minimum support george thank you that's over the show will be back on my little dram again showed the british member of parliament. the richest constituency in the u.k. which includes the. hands of the she seeks a new government by jeremy colbert you can keep it all back with us by social media will see only fifteen years to the day u.s. secretary of state colin powell refused fabricated evidence to the un security council to justify the illegal american invasion of iraq. seen years ago i traveled across the united states exploring america's deadly love affair with a gun if a bad guy tried to get to one of my family members he would have better life better

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i think it's terrible you want to know the truth and i think it's a disgrace a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than. the f.b.i. and u.s. justice department used highly dubious to obtain a warrant to spy on donald trump twenty sixteen election campaign those are the claims made in a new release declassified memo. nato members that turkey and greece enter a threatening over the sovereignty of two small islands with threatening to break legs if this doesn't back down. and with direct order murder rates and the police crush from the u.s. city of baltimore is introducing a so-called ceasefire weekend hoping it temporarily stop the spate of killings. people all around the city make commitments to just be peaceful and not be valid

for three days we distort what we can do we keep it in a week you know. it's one o'clock am in moscow and you're watching all to international line from a studio with me in a day or two to welcome to the program the release of the highly anticipated congressional memo approved by the u.s. president has ended speculation on one and started it on another this time over the fate of the investigation into donald trump's link to russia here's a breakdown of the controversial memo it claims the u.s. justice department and f.b.i. illegally obtained a warrant for the surveillance of a former trump eight and to be granted the warrant the f.b.i. used a dossier allegedly funded by the democratic party and clinton foundation. i think it's terrible you want to know the truth i think it's

a disgrace what's going on in this country i think it's a disgrace the memo was sent to congress it was declassified congress will do whatever they're going to do but i think it's a disgrace what's happening in our country and when you look at that and you see that and some of the other things what's going on in a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that the democratic party with opposed to the memo being made public now seems to be preparing to declassify at one of their own to counter this latest republican document kellett more print breaks down all the controversy surrounding its release . for over a year there's been an investigation by congress into donald trump for alleged collusion with russia so how did it all start well according to the recently declassified memo it all started with the foreign intelligence surveillance act a warrant issued allowing the government to spy on trump during his presidential campaign so how do you get a warrant to spy on

a presidential campaign well you present the pfizer court with ca in this case it's the infamous steel dust ca now the f.b.i. chief admitted that it was dubious but he still used it and the f.b.i. still relied on it i was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious unverified material no surveillance weren't would have been sucked from the foreign teligent surveillance court without the still dusty information so you present the court with a dot ca you pretty much don't believe because it'll help you get a warrant to spy on who you want now this is what deputy attorney general bruce or said about christopher steele the former british agent and his agenda steele was desperate that donald trump not get elected president and was passionate about him not becoming president so why would a judge issue a warrant based on a dasi a that was pretty non-credible oh that's because the f.b.i. never told him that according to the memo this was intentionally left out of the

report now trump tweeted last year. terrible just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory nothing found this is mccarthyism so rember all those people that mocked trump's tweet and said oh federal agencies could never spy on people unless they have good reasons that couldn't have happened well it started to look like it did happen and trust tweet is not so funny after all cable mopp and archie new york experts we spoke to a concern that surveillance law was used as a political tool and not for security reasons we could know what the their intelligence agencies are doing this must be protecting the american people from from threats but this one was a case where they intervene in a political process that looks like and that's highly unusual and very disturbing this is how the f.b.i. does business they do it surreptitiously they do it by stabbing people in the back

they do it by setting people up by entrapping them by tricking them and that's exactly what they did with the place of court they played the fight as a court judge by not telling them the source of this deal they plead that judge by not telling them that this was a partisan. report and and they got their warrant they got there weren't any way. turkey is threatening to break the legs of officials from its nato ally greece as the two countries reopen the route of the sovereignty of two small islands. athens will feel the anger of turkey we will break the arms and legs of any officers of the prime minister or of any minister who dares to step on the emir in the aegean unspeakable statements like these are elie into european political culture we have said this before it should know there please additionally we would like to remind him that the legal status of the gene is clear and guaranteed by international law here on the map you can see the uninhabited territories being

disputed over turkey has made recent incursions towards the islands after a greek court denied the extradition of eight men and chris says were involved in the failed coup last year originally the isles were part of the ottoman empire but have long been recognized by the e.u. as greek the sovereignty issue ignited back in december one thousand nine hundred ninety five when a turkish boat run a greek vessel ashore it was followed by a succession of turkish and greek attempts to remove each others' flags from the islands even by journalists former belgian parliament member and political expert says he's not surprised by the route between athens and ankara. turkey and greece have a past off military conflict i mean in the seventy's they were even at war at some point it's not a surprise that these two could nato member states are in such a situation for a minute it won't make that much of a difference of course the other countries are very poor it that this is might get

out of hand you know that of course they do not like to nato members at war but nader has always survived this kind of skirmishes especially between greece and turkey we should not forget that all rhetoric aside and nato was never about democracy and human rights i mean when nato was founded greece was a military dictatorship and turkey was a military dictatorship that did not impede their nato membership so i think on the whole things will go on as usual just that the only thing that we have to take care is that this does not get out of hand this can always happen of course. u.s. city of baltimore will introduce a cease fire this weekend aimed at tackling record high murder rates and stopping a spate of killings is the third ceasefire of its kind comes as members of a police unit in the city are on trial in one of america's biggest corruption scandals american has been following the story. this weekend activists are calling

for a seventy two hour cease fire asking for a weekend without any violence whatsoever this is a third event of its kind in the last six months but these cease fire weekends began in august when baltimore's homicide rate reached a record high last year with three hundred forty three murders the highest in the u.s. people all around the city make commitments to just be peaceful and not be violent for three days and to celebrate life and do life affirming event so they're events all over the city with what a weekend he would keep it is a weekend of no homicides the rise is partly attributed to a drastic drop in arrests made by the gun trace task force which is now dissolved as most of its members are on trial but there's been some damage control authorities have replaced its police commissioner baltimore police commissioner kevin davis was fired the notice shocked many this morning as mayor catherine pew pushed out a press release at eight o'clock this morning i'm impatient we need violence reduction we need the numbers to go down faster than they are however his

appointment came as somewhat of a shock his name almost instantly brought back memories of police shootings back in one thousand nine hundred five nevertheless the new commissioner came out guns blazing with a bunch of reforms including predictive policing a computer system that can estimate the date place and even the possible perpetrator of a crime that's yet to be committed he's planning to install more surveillance cameras and deploy more patrols to troubled districts but stepping up surveillance doesn't really sound like a new plan even the department of justice advised against it bottom a law enforcement widespread unconstitutional and discriminatory policing has exacerbated community distrust of the police particularly in the african-american community as court hearings continue here in baltimore many fear that there could be a problem much greater than one rogue unit and some of the latest testimonies. jenkins the indicted officer told me he had handpicked the gun trace task force to be a front for a criminal enterprise he also said there were officers from other units working

with him baltimore police provided security for jenkins when he met with the drug supplier from new york despite efforts to reform the system it seems that every testimony undermines citizens trust in law enforcement and there are still weeks of trials to come samir khan r t reporting from baltimore. a small german city of cop purse is the latest to make a stand against newcomers in the country an increased police presence is expected there this weekend with mass anti migrant protests planned for saturday caucus is home to around one hundred thousand people and since chancellor angela merkel opened germany's borders to refugees in twenty fifteen the city has given asylum to around three thousand people however the policy continues to create tension in small towns across the country now the mayor of this city and one other in germany say they will no longer accept refugees as anti migrants and.