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a special love potion was formulated just for the. welcome back in the first of the show we heard from two people in different stages of an arguably caf gasket settlement 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has been ruled by the british high court as blatantly discriminatory the d.w.p. said we introduced pip to replace the outdated d.l.a. system pip is a better benefit which takes a much wider look at the way an individual health condition or disability impacts them on a daily basis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 the payments george labor m.p. and member of the u.k. work and pensions committee joins me now ruth welcome back to 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 i'm a member of the work i'm pension 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. doubly 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 religion is their own 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 but i

don't 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 where 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 what mayonnaise all of siebel bobbitt she work and 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 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 assessment so. 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 kept it so it's only sixteen percent done in assessment so it was 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 cost 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 not thousand peoples a hundred quid 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 are wrong that's costing the state millions almost a balance of sounds familiar and it adds 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 weighed properly why are they being made at all i mean now the government has seen centers was as you would have it and has decided to do it now again reassess what point 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 benefit 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 bart's 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 why do we need any more why are we testing them at who are even 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 party seem to believe there are a significant number of people faking mental illness no absolutely. 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 no that's 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 so 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 give a general exam which labels are the norm or it's not demagogue and labor party policy to get rid of this it's not means testing on income which means testing on health you're going to continue it if you're going to government what we're saying is. that the vast majority of people can be assessed from their medical records and

that their medical information should be made available to assesses 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 have 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 the more agenda blairism of the governing 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 official work and pensions committee in berlin you're also on the committee regarding karelian the multi-million pound failure because a lot of it was going to drag are you going to bring some of this experience you're having over a person depends very much disability just into 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 more and. 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 our it is a the taxpayer is being mugged for hundreds of millions of pounds to. hurt 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. a 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 have you know majorities 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 the 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 it for the show will be back on monday the door jam again showed the british member of parliament who represent the rich. constituency in the u.k.

which includes the boy cans a given jealousy she seeks a new government that 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 luck with that better and i think it's fair and hurting whenever my my baby's says my book was published in the year two thousand more than hoff a million americans have been killed by far olds in the us going out of thought to me as i did as this is a middle school we go through drills and we put ourselves in real scenarios it was

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. education thing. twenty b.s. i never knew. that you criminalist released but the point house to and shaming into an institution those included on the list are accused simply by association. being from russia or is no one except it cools for suspicion so does the criminalist really change it. oh no appetite i mean for conflict is very very low these days publics are much more eager to see economic improvement than they are to. actually get into. or with other powers in the world.

i think it's terrible you want to know the truth and i think it's a disgrace lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that. release through public and memo claims the f.b.i. and u.s. justice department used the highly dubious dossier to obtain a warrant to spy on trump and twenty sixteen and were biased against the president's campaign. also this hour crowds rally in support of refugees in the german city of quote verse. and he margaret demonstration is also on the way. at least four people are injured in a drive by shooting in central italy reports say the victims are of african origin and the incidents might radically motivated.

workers who are to international live from also with me. tonight thanks for joining us on the program. release of a republican congressional memo has ignited a firestorm of controversy in washington republicans claim it shows the f.b.i. and the justice department were biased against donald trump's election campaign as a result they say cast doubts on the federal probe into allegations of collusion with russia the reason for that is that the memo claims the u.s. justice department and f.b.i. may have illegally obtained a warrant for the surveillance of a former trump aide and to be granted the warrant to the f.b.i. or use the highly dubious dossier full of unverified claims about trump and russia that was partly 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 so many other things what's going on in a lot of people should be ashamed of themselves and much worse than that of the democratic party was opposed to them being made public the f.b.i. also expressed concerns it was misleading the democrats now seem to be preparing to declassify one of their own to counter this republican document a lot more than 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 a da 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 ducey 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 i had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory nothing found this is mccarthyism surrender 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 trying to tweet is not so funny after all caleb mop and archie new york now more of commentators we spoke to a concern that surveillance law was used as a political tool 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 phase of 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. crowds are running in the german city of kut worse in support of refugees and there's a mass anti market rally underway in the city at the same time an increased police presence has been put out in place for this weekend. most is home to around one hundred thousand people so the chancellor merkel opened germany's borders to refugees in twenty fifteen when asylum to over three thousand people aunties europe correspondent piece all of a travel to get the latest details. hearing can't both around one hundred twenty kilometers to the south of. they've said they can't take any more refugees the

city's mayor is saying that the infrastructure is being stretched to its limits. we have to realize there in court bush social systems including kindergartens and schools are overstretched and under stress more is not possible we cannot do more now. since the beginning of the year the city has been plagued by violence between refugees and locals just last week a german couple were attacked just outside of the shopping center by three syrian teenagers armed with way one of those boys a fifteen year old has since been ordered to leave khat posts on the surrounding area germany should start controlling its borders and stop the uncontrolled migration that has been going on for two and a half years and america must go the government should change it or it won't get any better. but there are different reasons why people have to look but we have to distinguish those from economic reasons for those who truly seek refuge should be

granted asylum still after this but we need to separate those who really look for shelter and those young strong in the wild man who managed to get all the way to germany things and listening isn't on new year's day a group of refugees were set upon by a gang of neo nazi third and just recently the right wing german national party were handing out pepper spray and refugee fly is in the city the group were temporarily detained by police for not registering their protest. the town of has voted to halt refugee arrivals claiming it is reached its capacity to accommodate and integrate asylum seekers at a special town hall meeting on thursday the mare explained the decision. was we are not xenophobic which we are often accused of being we are dealing with integration we want to guarantee integration we have done

a lot but when in the end there is no space what are we supposed to do however some in freiburg aren't convinced that the move is a good thing that no there are no problems i feel good. this is a general problem not just in freiburg but it has not affected me i have no problems with foreigners you hear it in the news sometimes but i don't have any problems. at least four people have been injured in to drive by shootings in the central italian city of much forever the attacks are believed to be connected local media report the victims were of african origin suggests that this time the incidents may have been radically motivated the suspect who police say is an italian national has been arrested this comes after a dismembered body of an eighteen year old italian girl was discovered hidden in two suitcase. izmir marketed as a larger in migrants was arrested in connection with that.

of turkey and greece have reignited a decades long feud over the sovereignty of two small islands with turkey even threatening to break the legs of officials from its nato ally into feel the anger of turkey we will break the arms and legs of any offices of the prime minister or of any minister who dares to step on the emir in the aegean unspeakable statements like these are early into european political culture we have said this before each should know their place and additionally we would like to remind him that the legal status of the gene is clear and guaranteed by international law. now here you can see that it happened territories in dispute between the two states turkey recently stepped up its claim on the islands and the move came after a greek court denied the extradition of eight officers ankara wanted in connection with the failed military coup in twenty six theme originally the oils were part of the ottoman empire for long ago but they've long been recognized by the e.u.

as greek territory now the sovereignty issue ignited all the way back in december ninety ninety five one a turkish boat ran a greek vessel ashore it was followed by a succession of turkish and greek attempts to remove each others' flags from the island to including journalists arriving to do that a former belgian parliament member and political expert load value says he is not surprised by the route between athens and angry. thirty increase have a passed 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. in such a situation when it won't make that much of a difference of course did the other countries are very poor it that this in might get out of hand you know that of course they do not like to nato members at the wall but nato has always survived these kind of skirmishes especially between greece and turkey we should not forget that all rhetoric aside.