government or through united states as they call it u.s. aid and this is actually. as they say sold into injury that you kill these people and you make money from it and then you get one percent in two to support yemenis and i've just seen i think a week ago the twitter account of the u.k. ambassador to yemen who has never been to yemen during the war he's based in the region and riyadh and he was saying about two. embassy is doing to collect money for yemeni and they have collected about two to three thousand pounds. to eight yemeni just imagine three thousand pounds yemeni to help them and the media in the united kingdom and as well the u.k. government is only folks about this few thousand pounds that they are given into yemen and they keep in a blind eye about like billions of dollars they are make an improv it from supporting the saudi and this is really really sickening yemeni people because it's

a symbol if you want to help yemeni people stop supporting the saudi just just like that we do need your aid we do need your help we never needed this aid for the war but they have a blockade in yemen they destroy all human infrastructure they have targeted the home the saudi that coalition in a joke region north yemen killing an entire family of seven and this is not the only the first family that has been killed they have killed i mean like hundreds of family they are always as is mentioned the double tap strike that the u.s. used to use this tactic and iraq as they say our cultural ties the arm of the world and afghanistan targeting al qaida but the. saudi alleged coalition is using this against civilians targets against the home they target civilians that they targeted riskier than they target journalists if you have a home has been destroyed by a strike the first people who are going to go there their neighbors journalists and they do that and i think this is the kind of training that they are ok. so that's

all going to. be for sale gotti thank you after the break. to raise and forget we look at how a u.s. government sanctioned killing machine and presidential candidate exposes the military industrial complex and the contradictions of post-war america and why is britain's blairites. johnson a jolly for the accused raiser mase government of the criminal we speak to a former prisoner turned reform campaigner about the horrors behind british prison walls all this of all coming up about two of going underground.

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street arms company consultants and his own defense secretary james matters similar increases in was spending a proudly coming from london so let's turn to the u.s.a.'s most decorated soldier in its history a veteran of imperial wars from central america to vietnam and whose on screen representation was sylvester stallone in rambo his name is bo grits and he's profiled in a raisin for get the latest film board winning director dr andrea because i'm in the film is out in the u.k. on march the second thanks so much for coming on why make a film about bo gritz why not make a film about the great many people would think this is a serial killer as well as think he's a hero of the united states i think i'm very interested in the in the way in which we talk about history in the way in which we even get to know about history and there was this one person that has been a hero celebrated until he fell from grace and then became an outsider so for one person i could actually look at what is at stake for him but also what is at stake for us as taxpayers for example you know supporting structures that make people

like him then into heroes or villains and there's this kind of very dangerous binary going on that which i think if you don't try to grapple with it in this history is. we are we doomed when he mentions a general westmoreland such a famous figure in the vietnam conflict which killed four million people in vietnam does he realize that westmoreland picked him out and he westmoreland was a person the presided over things like the my lai massacre i do think that many. soldiers as himself too wasn't aware of what he was going into he believed it was the right thing to do so he was trained from a very young age to be patriotic and to go into the military and to fight for his country they had to kill he claims and killed one hundred people for his country so there's a there was he was very good at what he was doing so he was running these we would call him perhaps mercenary armies but they were unaccountable armies behind enemy

lines and he was very very good at it and he wasn't the only one who was very good at it so there is a system that supported this expression so he then becomes this hero. and then who are you left with and the times change when you are the person who has done all the stuff and you realize that it was perhaps not for the right reasons that's kind of an interesting defamation law being what it is it was difficult to even put in the film where this extraordinary allegation that that makes against to go on which is . now a consultant actually in washington. he makes allegation against george w. bush's job it is interesting. so he has made that there. it exists nothing has ever come of it. the film where this footage comes from was made in order to stimulate some debate and it was never finished it was never bow cast and i think for me this material is kind of a way of how do we grapple when he wants to become an activist and he is silenced

in his own ways how do we cooperate with accusations and where do they lead to if he's even going to convince the united states government quite apart from iran contra which arguably has been proven it's low in the history books the scale of drug trafficking by the u.s. government is even bigger than the one we read in the history books and we have the evidence i mean we have to make evidence so it needs to be i mean it is kind of discussed in certain shapes and forms but it's not discussed as to why did it happen you know why it's been congress it's not we can't give you funding for this but there has to be a creatively funded it's not the purpose and i think during the reagan era it was very creatively funded a lot of these missions where and if not even before so i think this is the kind of debate i think we have to have you have to look at our own housekeeping and he is shocked with learns of this information because in effect he's been supporting putting of drugs in american inner city areas i mean let's raise your film clearly describes people destabilizing democracies countries right around that in central

america and even the selling of lincoln cars for world leaders and then you have someone demonstrating the assassination weapons. june killing in lincoln goes why i included all of these things in the film and also they're all people related to each other and somewhere another is because we have to we never ask this question we never ask the questions of what is it that makes us sleepy what is it that makes us be innocent bystanders and i don't believe we can be that we can't be so long as we pay taxes we have to ask and we have a world where we can actually ask these questions about danger to our lives and we have to exercise that otherwise become complicit in inequality even if it's racism exported elsewhere i think it is racism you know we make others of others and it gives us an insight into the job presidency job is would like to remember grits. in a way i mean that the interesting thing is about. about

a certain. first of all both i had to trump he thinks trump was dangerous when he was running for the for the presidency which he then got and i think many many people thought that yet he still has one and the idea of what made him win this idea of absolute distrust into the. the way in which government a to kill its own running you know so which makes the people feel have they got any access to power do they not have access to power i think compass separated from the trump presidency because it gave a sliver of other hope which is of course not real hope because it's just saying one thing but actually doing something quite different so it's a big crisis i think in terms of did it really matter who became president i'm not sure it did of course it does on the social scale it does but does it really on the deep political scale i'm not sure so i think we have to have a debate around how the how do we want government to be run how transparent as i have to be for it to be functioning plain old really you choose to so giving it

away as it were and talking about mental health in the figures a twenty twenty a day suicide rates for veterans in the united states mirroring those. the unemployed more generally why do you want to pick on that is the ending because tried to kill itself yes there's a dragon says that and he struggles with p.t.s.d. severely so this problem of being made other you come back from the send people to somewhere you bring them back but they're always like a soldier now or better and they're no longer john or steve for whatever a.b.c. people just this these clusters of oh he's this over there there's there's this whole machinery i guess around health care and p.t.s.d. and hope p.t.s.d. is actually supported how do veterans get the right support in america it's much more i mean it's slightly different systems so many met many veterans maybe end up in a certain trajectory because otherwise they would have no support at all and would have most likely people to go into an army of the working class young people who

have no chance of education elsewhere or outside of it for example so i think these are issues you come back here or believe in something like what happened to bo and you realize maybe i believed in it but not for the right reasons you know it doesn't mean that you have to not believe in america and you have to believe in whatever you believe in but at the expense of others and therefore you killed for. something that might have needed that and so that's why this this devastation of structurally it's structural violence i think because it's an economic social violence put upon the people who are in need of the most we need to have a fairer society and to look is over we'll thank you well the impact of britain's body on us imperial wars is clear in our prison system thousands of veterans a failed campaigns in iraq and afghanistan have found themselves in u.k. jails and in the past few days tony blair's former lord chancellor charlie fork and his cover to attack the state of justice under minority government leader to raise a major re-offending rates to

a probation service he alleges is ceased to function just how bad is it well we're joined by former prisoner and now reform campaigner jonathan robinson his latest book all it's about his attempts to get the establishment to listen to his concerns about justice in britain is out now george thanks so much for coming on sir for your alleging all of this about the state of justice in the u.k. what was your experience. fully justified very short sentence and see thousand and eleven i've never once complained about being sent to prison i was only there for seventeen weeks. i expected the shawshank redemption. mostly small multiply from there have been groups like the howard league since with the twenty's saying the kind of thing you're saying to me now why have the bullshits not me listening since then deliver your books descriptions of the monty python type on the bus is a situation that m.p. wants it's me jonathan all politicians are terrified of the daily mail and the

prison issue is an election loser through shouting and constant pain in the neck behavior i don't see why we can't make it an election win and make prison purposeful that there are pockets of really good work going on in prison next time you fancy a luncheon month and go to the clink restaurants in h.m.p. brixton there the inmates are trained properly. the food is great and the inmates that have been through that program the refunding rate is only six percent my eye opening experience and mucked up that's where the name. and ah i deserve to be kicked up the rare sense person but from the outset the shock of the nothingness . old new person is given the award that think of induction paperwork which is the kick stoesz it's a rehabilitation i remember my first nights sitting reading it every page of

a spelling mistake that i found stuff asleep on duty this is an agent be bad foods which i now know the time of the high suicide rate of any prison and in a while the missed opportunities the countless different organizations refusing to be part of the chicks all the others are always identified by my first present as being allegedly intelligence and literacy and i was asked if i'd be willing to teach illiterate prisoners to reach the image of a recently announced that fifty percent of inmates from the country have the reading level of an eleven year old a less. and i was desperate to do something constructive it's a great initiative they picked you out and said you can help others trying to do this and sense an open prison which had tennis courts and the system was banned by the private prison education provider which was a company called a four e are now long gone because they want to take the boxes for the cash but in this particular case you did teach other prisoners there while you were inside it was forbidden for the private education vitae so i sat around somebody thing for ten

weeks it's one deadline of missed chances and apathy to me just the other day provinces questions attacked every corbin saying the problem with cool wins ideas about it was actually about police equipped to a survey said the problem with opposition policies is they do believe in longer sentencing and that longer sentencing is one of the keys to tourism a strategy for bringing justice to this country my reaction to that is i think that's just to keep a certain separate newspaper happy i don't for one minute think that people who have committed really hideous offenses should not go to prison but if your not a threat to society. there must be alternatives to custody which actually everyone agrees prison is not working at the moment certainly the short sentences. there must be alternatives and i think. members of the public want to see people who have made mistakes punished but sorted out so they don't refund again i should say the

general sector of the prison officer has been on this show saying this is cuts affecting the prison system and i should add emerges that their share of god's ten billion to six billion a reduction of forty percent in real terms what about the fact that the government of sorts sort interrupts you it's about the cuts and yes the store city has been a problem thoughts. if you looked at the money being frozen contracts education contracts catering contracts private health insurance. i actually think if you spent that money much more wisely the concern about the cutbacks would be less of effect the education contract for the southeast when i was in prison was seven point six million pounds one of the ones obviously make you money one prison not will for that that was visited by ofsted firm the prisoners cation class was coloring in peppa pig books the seven point six minute quick joe painful. thank you

you're welcome that's it for the show but we're back with his u.k. minority government needed to raise a man to heal the bricks it wounds in their increasingly fractious body building but social media as you know with the seventy two yesterday coming down to these labor government nationalize the banks given. that the american interest to not see any russians die in terrorist attacks as it is in russian interest to prevent any terrorist attacks in the united states or elsewhere in the world so i don't think there's any dispute on that in congress and i think maybe some of the posturing is frankly political as opposed to substantive . hey everybody i'm stephen bob taft hollywood guy you know suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v. i'm going to suggest this is my buddy max famous financial guru and well he's

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russia is mourning the seventy one people who died in sunday's plane crash near moscow the jet came down just minutes into the flight leaving no survivors. locals slowly return to the syrian city of raka the once defacto capital of islamic state which has now left with no clean water or infrastructure but there seems to be a shortfall when it comes to first in the bill for reconstruction. and russian athletes grab their second medal at the winter olympics in south korea taking so but in the figure skating with canada getting the gold and the u.s.

coming. over i will welcome you watching r.t. international with me mickey aaron. russia's morning seventy one people killed in an air crash on sunday the regional passenger plane went down minutes after taking off from moscow there are no survivors it's now been twenty four hours since the crash and we're learning more about the passengers on board the ill fated play we talked to one grieving mother who lost her only son in the tragedy. you. don't work. and. it's.

over a little. bit. this woman and her daughter was on board the doomed flight ninety year the youngest victim was just five years old in drag ski who also caught the flight it was his thirty third birthday he was on his way home to celebrate with his family. this is. the. best of my worst fears that the world. hears of the poor of the cross there was

more of a presence of god. each day. as if she were watching don't think you can see or she moll the surface you see just the gutter the visitor more than enough enough for chauffeur much better and so forth ysaye senior class should. do you wish to survive years and years to try to plan for. the move. on.

the flight's final seconds were captured by a security camera thought to be installed in a nearby house is a short video in which the impact is seen in the distance in the first second or so the crash is visible at the top of the picture followed by a powerful explosion you can also see black smoke rising there the timestamp on the video shows the child was recorded at fourteen twenty seven moscow time investigators have confirmed that the plane exploded on impact and not in the air

and this is drone video of the recovery operation which includes hundreds of emergency service workers nor most two hundred vehicles they bring is scattered over the air over an area of more than one kilometer and the search teams have to sift through deep snow our correspondent jacqueline vehicle reports from near the site. emergency services have been out in mass trying to coordinate the investigation that is currently going on we've been told that it involves around nine hundred specialists and throughout the day we've seen a consequence of police cars trucks and snowmobiles coming back and forth between the crash site which is down the road a bit behind me and here now they're having to use snowmobiles because of the weather conditions at the side of the crash itself which is covered in layers of snow and ice now that is hindering the investigation a bit but everything is going forward and they're working in shifts in order to have the investigation continue non stop at this point all possible causes of the crash are being considered including technical malfunction pilot error and possibly

also complications due to the weather on the day of the crash itself the plane had completed two other flights earlier in the day and the final check that was done on the plane before the takeoff actually happened showed no issues with the plane now we have been told that two flight recorders have been found already and of course everyone's hoping that those flight recorders contain the vital information that has the answers to all the questions that everyone has been asking the plane was on route to or close to the russian border with catholics down it took off from portion of russian capital four minutes later the plane came down the village about sixty kilometers southeast of most. memorials have been set up across the orangeburg region west sixty all the passengers came from some of the victims' relatives and friends learned of the tragedy while waiting for their loved ones to arrive medina cochon of of reports.

the aircraft that crashed just outside moscow departed from this very airport the why did the lease one of the three major air transport hubs in the capital and after the tragedy remains fully operational but over in the small city of course the airport there tells a very different story the shock has paralyzed it most of the sixty five passengers on board of that plane were from that region dozens of family and friends were waiting for them there are scenes of absolute grievous people come to terms with what has happened emergency crews are present at the airport and psychologists are ready to help those trying to cope with their loss the passengers who were due to fly back to moscow on the crash aircraft are handing back their tickets and even to here at this fast paced airport which is forced to keep moving this tragedy has hit

hard. one man hard luck on his side he counseled his ticket just days before the flight mike same color was due to fly back to august but changed his plans he says he still can't grasp what happened. you know see would be good as i turn thirty seven today i want to celebrate my birthday with my family my friends and my girlfriend. my friend who would have met me at the airport called me today and told me what happened at first i didn't believe him later when i saw the news what can i say i felt a chill down my spine i want to express my sorry deepest sympathies to the relatives of those who died it's horrifying. radar stations recorded the erratic flight path of the plane they reached a notice rate of nearly two thousand meters before suddenly plunging to one and a half pounds and after regaining height apparently plummeted once again and then

disappear disappear completely from the radar along. last time it was seen on screens was it nine hundred mi to this the plane was a russian made antonov one for eight by starts off lines that have been in operation for about three years and eight years the airline is now being investigated by the authorities but the company claims they carried out all of the necessary technical maintenance however this particular plane was previously involved in several safety incidents including engine and fuselage problems with the investigation underway we talked to aviation experts about the possible causes of the crash like to send my thoughts and prayers to all the families of the passengers and crew and the airline staff in the wake of this tragedy the weather is probably the primary factor that depends a lot on the rate of the snowfall or precipitation and how long the airplane had been sitting on the ground collecting all that material so if the airplane had only been on the ground maybe thirty minutes maybe not so much accumulated if had been

there a couple of hours obviously a lot more could have accumulated in that case if the airplane was not sprayed with the icing fluid there would be a more serious. result you know so the fact that the airplane became airborne and climbed to six thousand feet tells me that probably the airplane was in pretty good shape at the time of the takeoff we are dealing with a great great tragedy i feel very badly communicated in such a context with the traction there are common protocol for an investigation to various aspects of security and safety factors. a few things really briefly would be the structural integrity of the aircraft the fuselage the engines and so on then you look at various energies whether we're talking trickle systems.