originally it was declared from washington d.c. by the saudi ambassador then who is the foreign minister of the saudi just imagine that first of all it's declared from another country against a third country and to show you the total involvement of the united states and britain we're told our mainstream media in britain the years there is a war saudis involved britain really isn't britain i'm sorry you're giving were surveyed there are million people living affected children affected by cholera we certainly don't give in this story or giving me this how how in the west when they when they support a country in a war they will make billions of dollars in arms sales as i mentioned that the u.k. . weapon says today to saudi has increased five times to the united arab emirates it could be as will the same so they make an billions of dollars in profit on the other hand they will get maybe ten million to twenty million pounds or dollars held in yemen either through united kingdom government or through united states as they

call it usa 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 into to support yemenis and i've just seen i think a week ago that was her account of the u.k. ambassador to yemen who has never been to yemen during the war he is based in the early 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 pound yemeni to help them and the media and the united kingdom on as well the u.k. government is only folks in 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. many 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 need not need this before the war but they have a blockade in yemen they destroy all human invested they have to get a home that's all going to question in a job in north east yemen killing an entire family of seven and this is not the only the first family that has being killed they have killed i mean like one hundred it's a family they thought our own was as it is mentioned that double strike you as used to use this tactic and act as they say i got that guy the on of the world and afghanistan thought of going to but they knew they would be let go and as it is using this against civilians to get against the home they target civilians then they thought it is fewer than they thought a good journalist if you have a home has been destroyed by is that i the fittest people who are going to go that the neighbors don't know this and they do that and i think this is the kind of training that the u.k. is given to the saudi the coalition is using this technique for sale because thank

you after the break. they raise and forgets we look at our u.s. government sanctioned killing machine and presidential candidates exposes the military industrial complex and the contradictions of post-war america and why is britain's blairite called an easter for the lord chancellor charlie for the accuser is a maze government of the criminal we speak to a former prisoner turned reform campaigner about the horrors behind british prison walls elizabeth coming up about two of going underground. in america a college degree requires a great deal. of decades of. study.

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welcome back does a perceived threat of war declared by russia and china mean the united states is prepared to go bankrupt donald trump today submitted his annual budget it's expected to include massive expenditure on the military after lobbying from k. street arms company consultants and his own defense secretary james mattis similar increases in war spending and proudly coming from london so let's turn now to the

usas 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 from award winning director dr andrea because him and the film is out in the u.k. on march the second thanks so much and we have a 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 the 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 which which i think if you don't try to grapple with it in this history is we're really 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 west wind 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 that he 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 is japanese interested. so he has made that there exists nothing has ever come of it. the film but this footage comes from was made in order to stimulate some debate and it was never finished it was never go 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 that 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 isn't 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 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 junior killing people in

the 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 can 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 trunk presidency trump is would like to have been bo gritz 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 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 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 hold the how do we want government to be run how transparent as i have to be for it to be functioning and then ultimately 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 of the unemployed more generally why would you want to pick on that as the ending because tried to kill himself yesterday so he tried to insist 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 to bring them back but they're always like a soldier now or a veteran they're no longer john or sleeve or whatever we see 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 whole p.t.s.d. is actually supported how do veterans get the right support in america it's much more i mean this is slightly different systems so many many 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 and join the army 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 your belief in something like what happened 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 not 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 need to have a fairer society and to look is over we'll thank you well the impact of britain's body and us imperial wars is clear in our prison system thousands of veterans of 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 faulkner has come out to attack the state of justice under minority government leader to raze m a from 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 on it about his attempts to get the establishment to listen to his concerns about justice in britain is out now to the 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 since and since two thousand and eleven i've never once complained about being sent to prison i was only there for seventeen weeks. and 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 been listening since then to 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 lunch and 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 is the shock of the nothingness all old new prisoners are given the award that think of induction paperwork which is the kick starts 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 isn't h m p bedford's which i now know the time of the high suicide rate of any prison and then

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 read the image of a recently announced that fifty percent of inmates from the country have the reading level of an eleven year old or less. and i was desperate to do something constructive it's a great initiative they picked you out and said you can help others was 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 or me just the

other day provinces questions attacked every core bit saying the problem with corwin's ideas about it was actually a police equipped to raise amaze at the problem with the opposition policies it is they do believe in longer sentencing and the 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 is happy with newspaper happy i don't for one minute think that people who have committed really hideous crimes they 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 images of 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 it's about the cuts and yes the store c. has been a problem but. if you looked at the money being frozen contracts education contracts catering contracts private health care contracts. i actually think if you spent that money much more wisely the concerns 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 made money one prison not welfare that that was this is a post office that firme the prison its cation class was coloring in peppa pig books for seven point six million quid joe painful joe the robinson 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 till they

could be judged by a social media as you know with a seventy two years to the day coming down to these labor government nationalize the bank of a. while washington's political elites chatter endlessly about memos the u.s. continues to deepen its role in the syrian proxy war of course there is no public debate about this and are the two koreas giving peace a chance. that's in 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.

thank you russia is mourning the seventy one people who died in sunday's plane crash near moscow the jet came down just minutes after takeoff leaving no survivors. the u.s. admits part of its trade forces in syria are leaving to join a conflict against washington's ally turkey. and russian athletes got their second magill at the winter olympics in south korea taking silver in the figure skating canada getting gold in the us coming but some athletes have criticized the russians medal winning performance.

a warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me in the air and. now russia is mourning 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 over twenty four hours since the crash and we're learning more about the passengers on board the ill fated plane one grieving mother who lost her only son in the tragedy so she couldn't believe it when the news first came through. don't want to. close a little bit but. and this woman

and her daughter were also on board now dear the youngest victim was just five years old ilya stab ski also caught the flight it was his thirty third birthday he was on his way home to celebrate with family his al some of those affected are coming to terms with the tragedy. she still could see. the look in which. you. see here which we will but we're going. to be short with nobody. to see it live but to. hear the troops with her people. it's made me go.

with. you when you look normal. she's. the flight's final seconds were captured by a security camera thought to be installed on a nearby house the crash is visible at the top of the picture followed by a powerful explosion you can also see black smoke rising investigators have confirmed that the plane exploded on impact and is not in the air. long scale recovery operation was launched on sunday involving hundreds of emergency service workers and vehicles but it's been extremely difficult to find a point to the weather conditions right out the airport it's getting dark now

and there are minutes of daylight left but the search and recovery operation is continuing it is even nearing its conclusion quitting to the latest statement we heard from the emergency services they've searched twenty five of the thirty square heck this where the plane and it stay bre believe had been through about over but as you see one of the biggest problems here is the weather and the snow it's getting colder and colder and they've had to bring in a lot of specialized equipment especially stuff to melt the snow heat cannons as they call them here in russia there are also hundreds and hundreds of rescuers here they're working in shifts to the some can rest while others sift through the snow in the wreckage and they breed but booth black boxes have now been found and investigators should have everything they need to rebuild point by point that stake

off the short flight and to find out whatever it was exactly that koos this fatal tragedy but as i say the search and recovery operation itself is nearing its conclusion and it will be continuing into the night again. radar stations recorded the a rough take flight path of the plane it reached an all to see it of ninety two thousand meters before suddenly plunging to one and a half thousand off the regaining height it apparently plummeted once again and this a plane disappeared completely from the radar at that point the last time it was seen on screens was it nine hundred meters well the plane was a russian made on small one for bias are told and lines had to be made in operation for a new the airline is now it being investigated by the will for eighty's but the company claims it carried out all of the necessary technical maintenance however this

particular plane was previously involved in several safety incidents including engine on fuselage problems with the investigation underway we talked to aviation experts about the possible causes of the crash the like to extend 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 the fact that the airplane became airborne and climb 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 great great tragedy here a common protocol for an investigation the structural integrity of the aircraft the fuselage the engines and so on then you look at various energies who want to see

this whether we're talking a lecture consistence power to the engines things that. other things are really anomalies external to in the aircraft and then lastly we have to look at human issues. and their account has admitted this some of the kurdish forces it trains in syria are shifting to. against one of washington's i mean allies turkey is currently on the offensive in northern syria against a group of terrorists on she's kind of an open house more on the tensions in syria and joins me now live kind of good to see you so what's the latest on this situation between the u.s. and in syria what we've heard from u.s. secretary of defense james mattis who says that it seems that a number of forces from the s.d.f. that's u.s. led forces in syria and a number of those forces have gone to a wall essentially and gone to the city of offer and

a kurdish stronghold to fight against turkey this is what we heard from the u.s. secretary of defense the destruction of what's going on right now which is drawing off some of the syrian democratic forces which have got about fifty percent. and so the cedar. so that schools in these their attention to shift up there now turkey is a long time nato ally of the united states and they consider the kurdish forces in syria to be their enemy they are currently engaging in operation olive branch hoping to defeat those purges forces they consider them to be terrorists now the united states has been supporting those kurdish forces as part of their efforts in syria as part of their u.s. led coalition but now we've also heard from james mattis that he says that turkey has legitimate security concerns about the kurdish forces this is james mattis also

speaking on the issue. to work with. disagreements which is how do we take them on as he was rapidly as possible they have a legitimate security concern and we do not dismiss one bits of them. now turkey has been very critical of the united states for their support of kurdish forces in syria and if this is indeed a security concern as mattis stated it would appear this is a security concern the united states helped to create as they did support an arm of these kurdish forces now regardless the longstanding tension between the united states and turkey regarding the issue of u.s. support for kurdish forces seems to be escalating at this point from what we understand the u.s. embassy located in the turkish capital the street that this embassy is on has actually been renamed for the olive branch operation for the operation carried out

by the turkish military operation operation olive branch in which in which the turkish military is directly clashing with these kurdish forces that it deems to be terrorists so at this point it's pretty unclear the united states says we've heard james mattis say that there is a legitimate security concern on turkey's part about these kurdish forces however we have also seen the united states continue to align with an armed kurdish forces in syria as part of the u.s. led coalition so it's not exactly clear what the position of the united states is many are watching the situation in syria and somewhat perplexed by the various statements of u.s. leaders that seem rather contradictory. and they're speaking to his line from new york thank you for those days has kind of. twenty four months off to his liberation from islamic state people from this syrian city of rock arrest slowly returning to what's left of their homes.