at at the moment they have apparently bought three hundred homes they keep on saying we secured three hundred people to move into but when when when the residents go on the the website they have to wear it for there are only three or four which suits them so i don't understand what's going on there there's a mismatch between what we're told and what the survivors and briefed are finding in the year to resume a said she would sort things out when when she fully understood it nerved only three out of some one hundred sixty towers were similar clouding the we've asked this countless times in parliament. and we're told by the secretary of state if councils come to us we'll consider it and not a single council has had any funding to have their party replaced you mentioned as you said you didn't want to use the word regeneration and development it's labor councillors that have come under attack for social cleansing and for voting for social cleansing what did you think of jeremy corbin saying that there should be

balance on estates needed before labor council sold off public property hundred percent i think we've really lost our way i think a lot of the labor councils have really lost their way and they've got sucked into space because of a lack of government funding but they've got so sucked into this pier for at joint partnership developing hames and then yeah social housing squeeze and squeeze and some of the labor councils are as bad as some of the worst of the worst offenders on the other side before you even get to a private contractors what does it feel like to realize a k p m g is now being investigated one of the big five orders in the world over the multi-billion collapse of karelian when people like you and pop star lily allen . should have know poured in the public inquiry into granville announced by tourism a while and i'm very glad that it they've been there they're being exposed now some of these massive companies have got their fingers in so many but one of the top orders in the world yes well. who has been you know where is the can't ability he's

keeping an eye on them i do think there's something changing in all of this these massive corporations who are accountable to no one. are crumbling now and that's a terrible thing for people who work for them but i do think that this been a massive problem brewing for many many years with these huge unaccountable multinational corporations and they're going to argue little not just these private multinationals it's housing associations is it time for labor to call time on housing associations over nodding all the housing in genesis housing associations or merging in your constituency they run sixty five thousand homes of the turner of point seven billion pounds is this labor going to do something about housing association absolutely there has to be complete review of how they run they've been getting bigger and bigger and they started where i live in north kensington they started there to get people out of the slums they are now the new slum landlords i've got photographs that would make you feel physically ill but people's health

people living in notting hill housing they've become the slum landlords and they're getting bigger and bigger and less and less accountable and that's completely wrong there has to be a refute of how that works the labor campaign to remain which is ironic that it is precisely because of brics that even the european court of human rights which protects private property. if britain gets out of europe gets out of its commitments to that it will be allowed to nationalize have to be asians will be able to take all these things it's a democratic control it's not a good time for corbin supporting policies supporting politicians yes it is and that there's an awful lot that has to be reviewed but we're in the right place to do that now i think we really are i think we've come to labor coming to grips with the massive social housing problem that we have. think you know i think we need to have done better for quite a long time. voice in the wilderness in kensington people listening now because of this awful atrocity on my doorstep and anyone just finding anyone fearful that they

will return to a blairite years when north london council recently saying the problem with the fact that people like you people is what jeremy goban is you have ideological dogma . that i'm not the same beliefs the thirty years you can call me a cold call me an ideologue dogmatic i'm going to continue believing what i believe which is a fair day's pay people should have a roof over their head that doesn't leak food on the table and children should be educated and if we managed to do that by actually getting tax at a people who. should be paid in the country where it's earned we'd be a hell of a long way to getting a far more equal society and we don't go to thank you. after the break seventy two hours up to date jimmy's return from china we ask oxford university fellow pretty good john why did the u.k. prime minister fail to fully endorse the nine hundred billion dollars bill and the

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welcome back you gave minority government be depriving the stories of may has returned from communist china in about seventy two hours or so but has she done enough to ingratiate herself with the superpower of the twenty first century because despite local media referring to her as aunty may many have been left wondering whether the u.k. has reached its stated goal of becoming china's best partner in the west joining me now is oxford university fellow dr chris could turn out to chris thanks for going back on have we done enough to be back have we done enough has theresa may done enough i guess it depends what her objectives are and i think that you know when it comes to china so often there's divided constituencies there's one group who feel strongly that yes china is the superpower of the twenty first century and so we need to do everything we can to access open that market for goods products services and people and then there are other people who look more soberly at. that

is the key to creating with who. i mean. the challenge and this is why it's you know it's a difficult tightrope for theresa may and i think pretty much every western politician to walk is on the one hand the sheer scale of china means that you know its role economically politically is undeniable and has to be reckoned with we need to be trading with engaging with china and on the other hand it has its own strategic interests and we're you know here in the u.k. or back home in my canada we're naive if we don't think that it is also events and strategic interests in the world were naive if we always think that they align with ours and so it's always a difficult i think you know penetrating analysis that has to be done but how do we balance those two sometimes conflicting objectives before we get too big a specifics does china need to trade with britain some saying the middle class the

job. john would have trouble even fulfilling the does dreams of china's growing middle clubs little be able to export goods of the world. twenty years and i mean this is a good question so you know in the specific case of britain you know could china get by without trade with britain's for sure it could be britain today only just economy where the fifth largest economy will be export about three percent of our total exports to china and it's basically automobiles and tourism which is chinese tourists coming to london and shopping there are coming to our universities and studying here. and there in lies the giant opportunity for british business of course i mean the sky's the limit with with how much that could be increased but from a chinese perspective you know the absolute value of trade with britain i think is far less important then having an ally within the west that has you know for

example been the first major western power to get on board with the asian infrastructure investment bank just a big washington goes away in washington and again this is this tightrope right it is not easy to decide when do we need to weigh our strategic interests highly or as a priority and so not only their member member the can of this is not you know and so again we walk this tightrope and we don't say no and you know people who look at the other multilateral investment banks whether it's the world bank. or the i.m.f. . you know they soberly see that there is there is good in having a new kid on the block with a new innovative model a lot of people agree that there's just too much bureaucracy in overhead within some of these other multilateral development banks and so you know we can't we sometimes we may just sort of sometimes we make the mistake of assuming that you know china's motives are always nefarious and that is just as naive as believing

that it doesn't have a strategic. interest you know when it acts in the world the truth is a balance of both and it's always about in the case trying to figure out which it is well in favor of the united states as an retaliated against david cameron's decision when george osborne was the joy to be what do you think just just for a second what do you think donald trump would do to mr trudeau if canada suddenly decided to be like britain as regards. that's a good and sober quest war on canada. and the politics of it is because nafta is at risk in north america probably the trudeau government isn't going to do all that much to make more enemies within washington until they get past nafta and then maybe they have some flexibility to go their own way i mean i think that the challenge within the united states and the opportunity for china is that i don't really think that the trumpet ministration does have. a very well thought out

approach for how it's going to deal with what really is the big game of the twenty first century which is you know whereas twenty five years ago there was really only one political economy which was rules based free market economic ideology are arguably and i know that i'm simplifying the case because i only have a few minutes but now there is very strongly an alternative model which is state driven hybrid economy. you know one model is promoted through multilateral free trade agreements like the trans-pacific partnership from which donald trump withdrew the united states and the other model is promoted by you know unilateral initiatives that aren't rules based but are primarily interest based like the built in road initiative and that one is moving it tourism has refused point blank to endorse the built in road initiative in a practical sense it is an ambition to develop infrastructure and trade

linkages. about seventy countries in asia in africa in europe and in the middle east about thirty countries have officially signed on to the one belt one road initiative and and at least declared there's about nine hundred billion dollars of infrastructure investments that have been put on the table and the broad strategic objective for china is to reorient the balance of global trade to wardes eurasia and if we think about the twentieth century that really the balance of trade with atlantic it was between europe and the americas. china sees the twenty first century balance shifting to eurasia and they see both the opportunity and the strategic benefit of driving that rebalance historical presidents is a what it is a be then england or persian empire i mean we were that the original silk road

which if you look at the models and the maps that beijing puts out today it's basically the current built roads duplicating the original silk roads which were both the overland trade route sort of through what is now pakistan all the way to europe and then sort of the along the ocean coast trade routes through singapore up of the course of the indian ocean and ultimately into the mediterranean through through the through the persian gulf. it's but of course now that the resume is not endorsing it well it's all going to get out now it's all going to fold up up what do you think the people in beijing are going to think when they read in the papers that to raise them a refuses to endorse their project. i mean i suppose it's it's a setback from a from a chinese perspective from a beijing perspective it's also an opportunity. if if theresa may had come on

board and said yes we are with it then they would be touting that as here's further evidence that everyone else should be a part of this this is a legitimate project this is not china trying to be you know saying it's illegitimate. well again there's this there is this you know always an open question about what are the strategic interests. and do they align with us what is the conversation being had now and the theresa may has said no we're not going to get on board is. china phobia is alive and well in the west right there is this kind of hysteria that everything we're trying to do has some nefarious out here your motive we had joining in the way of doing good business there was a presidential campaign after all what he said about you know we did it but the reality is that and i don't want to percentage is on this is only going to be really known hindsight but you know a lot of the investment a lot of the development that is going to happen that has happened and is going to happen under belt and road is going to be good business it's going to be about

building energy infrastructure so that we can build manufacturing within africa middle east and other parts of asia and that's going to be good for the people who benefit from it you can see here what you're saying just there if we just stop you there how if you look at the wastelands off to kill a to the first stage of the union the waistlines of the midwest or if you go ten miles north of this studio here in central london and you see the destruction of even some service. offices let alone factories and so on you're talking about massive infrastructure you think of different places so i guess let's be clear that belton road is and this is where we get into you know what strategic interest this is a this is an initiative that you know chinese president xi jinping has conceived and is promoting to strengthen china's economic linkages

in the world it's not his plan for how the whole world lifts and gets better and to the extent that the road succeeds in sort of shifting. from a twentieth century where trade was atlantic focused to the twenty first century where it's eurasian focused there is no question that along sort of that there was current trade routes there's going to be losers and when you say you did you detect the strategic problems being debated perhaps here and why to a win in davos britain's woman in beijing investor barbara wood wood said the u.k. saw itself as a natural bugner of belton road to see being too cool to dick to raise amaze later thoughts of the eject. so in some ways actually the u.k. at least theoretically would be a natural partner if we look at the strength that china has to contribute to

building the road a lot of it is around industrial capacity the chinese economy produces too much steel for domestic demand but if we can create demand in all these other parts of the world. that's an advantage that we have china has probably more experience now building mass infrastructure whether it's high speed rail or airports than any other country in the planet whereas the u.k. has real experience in project management in the financing of mega projects and if the opportunity was given for them to be involved in a managerial in a finance capacity a lot of these projects everyone who is well served by these problems still going to raise of able to stand in charge and say what it would have maybe a billion dollars into this well i think that the the practical problem right now is that if you look at the work that has been done under under belt and rode about ninety percent of it has been delivered and managed and financed by the chinese partner so there is a great rhetoric out of beijing about how this is something that is multilateral no

open to everyone and there's a reality at least so far on the ground where it is primarily seems for the benefit of chinese industry and so i think that there are real imbalances like that that you give to recent main people who are more cautious about. where is the line between rhetoric and reality a good case to say not yet or maybe on a case by case basis dr chris catawba thank you and that's it for the show will be back on wednesday with the founder of fairness and accuracy in reporting norman solomon bates tribute to one of the world's greatest judge a list of all patrie who died in the possible but you can even go back with us by social media we'll see on wednesday five years to the day that the u.s. state of mississippi officially approved the abolition of slavery.

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russia's defense ministry confirms the identity of the pilot jet was shot down over syria on saturday. bravery in his final moments. video. that appears to show the russian pilot surrounded by extremist militants before he took his own life. look at the devastation and suffering still the city of mosul after it was liberated from islamic state. and i challenge any member of parliament to live in the conditions we're currently living in here even afraid of entering the. u.k.'s high court rules

that a british man accused of hacking into u.s. central bank systems will not be extradited to america says such a move could put his life at risk. and seven pm here in moscow. live. today thanks for joining us on the program. russia's defense ministry has identified the pilot killed in syria's province on saturday. philip off his described him as a hero a video of the pilot surrounded by syrian rebel fighters after his plane was shot down has been circulated online you may find some of the images.

this is a. very fired video that you just saw appeared online shortly after the incident and it shows the last moments of the pilot's life from what we can hear on the video the pilot had waited for the terrys to get closer to him and only after that he detonated to grenade taking his own life and also avoiding capture he even managed to shout that he was doing this for his own colleagues that were fighting alongside him or his defense ministry has already confirmed all these details the details of the last moments of his life how he was fighting till the very end and. major oman salute both foods and so the very last moment of his long against an overwhelming number of terrorists he was bugged me. when it's it was. devotional so long with

a hand grenade rushes defense ministry has confirmed him as major one month reliever from the ministry said that he was an experienced pilot and it wasn't his first time serving in syria now before that he was for several years in the region of russia's far east it was also part of a dozen successful military operations now the pilots plane was shot down on saturday near the province which is located in the north western part of syria which is still controlled by the latest incarnation of the terrorist group and other militants now the pilot was trying to keep the airplane the aircraft in the air as long as he could and he managed to get jacked from the aircraft but then he found himself all over a. terrorist he is the weapon was found with team. magazine and two others have banned now shortly after is that an unverified video appeared

online showing militants taking selfies with the pilots the body and also sampling of the debris of the crashed plane russia has there already reacted to this incident carrying out strikes in that particular area and the ministry said that over thirty militants were killed as a result of these strikes. kilometers of rubble and ruination a vast desert city strewn with countless other five bodies that the state of mosul today six and a half months on from its liberation artie's video agency ruptly has been capturing images of the city's harrowing post islamic state reality warning some of the footage you might see is the stressing. how many bodies have you removed since you started working in this area approximately five hundred. years in housing and all the roads.

if you will i don't know i challenge any member of parliament to live in the conditions we are currently living in here i bet they are even afraid of entering this area they have no idea how horrible the smell is or how critical the medical situation is. we haven't received any kind of aid since thing is finished seven months ago on one occasion didn't receive a small box of. no food nothing. our senior correspondent what i witnessed the liberation operation and its aftermath showed his experience with us in the studio earlier today. seven months since the battle of mosul ended they're still digging up people's bodies and here there's no end in sight i mean these rescuers work every day just this time we we film them

and what's more you know we can't obviously show our viewers everything but this footage in particular is very distressing because it's always so when it when it comes to children but i was there when these bodies had just begun to rot and i don't the gull ever forget it was the smell it was beyond sickening beyond north you know there were areas entire districts in mosul where you could hardly breathe properly mother nature in seven months of job but the smell hasn't gone it's still there it's just isn't this bad on the surface truly the real heroes the people doing the digging the people the rescuers that are sifting through all this all this wreckage and pulling out these bodies they're so desensitized you can see they're not even wearing breathing mosques or even even rags but then again they're

paid pennies to do this hard work because obviously jobs are scarce in moves as are standing buildings and you just described a traumatic and her friends experience. and you've outlined lots of difficulties but without any of the problems that were highlighted when you were that well there's still a huge problem and that is unexploded bombs and they're mixed with all the wreckage the rubble the clothes the bodies the everywhere for example u.s. coalition jets bomb mosul some bombs failed to explode then you have shells mines isis booby traps suicide vest and all of those are still are still. all over mosul and when kids are playing for example on wrecked buildings or when rescue is a digging out of body when homeowners come back to their destroyed ouse trying to

salvage what they coude that's when those bombs go off and rescuers tell us every day they get several more new were victims of well the battle of the battle of mosul but we were there from the very beginning from when those u.s. led coalition jets bombed isis in in mosul day and night then when it was safer we got a little closer to see what those explosions that really caused the price of the liberation of mosul. civilian casualties are a fact of life in this sort of situation. do

you agree that some of the the high level of i think ridiculous standard that we had previously is now created this. behavior by isis that they now realize that they take human shields are going to avoid being struck and that actually this is adding to the problem and i do believe they understand our sensitivity to civilian casualties and they're exploiting man and i do agree that as we move into these urban environments it is in become more and more difficult to apply extraordinarily high standards and for the things we're doing although we will try. the neighboring street all but destroyed the street across. the street over there.

it's the same story wherever you look. cool. calculus very cool this trouble and no one knows how long it will take to get rid of. let me show you west mosul now a wasteland the city for intents and purposes has been erased and there's little or nothing left so it's no surprise people don't want to return and they would rather live in tents oh and want to see if i was really excited to return to my home and see it now when i see it in this state i wish i'd never come back into effect hand i feel completely destroyed i don't feel like coming back to.