fifteen the saudi war in yemen was not declared from riyadh or you when i thought of him or or any other country that and that of history in this coalition 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 the surveyed there are million people who are affected children affected by congress we certainly don't given 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 and 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 help 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 a 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's based in the rain 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 the billions of dollars they ought to make an import of it

from supporting the saudi 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 before the war but they have a blockade in yemen they destroy all human infrastructure they have to get a home that's all going to question in a job for the region north east 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 one hundred it's a family they thought our own was as it is mentioned that double top strike you as used to use this tactic and as they say i got al-qaeda on as well and afghanistan thought of going to but they you they. let coalition is using this against civilians target 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 as they like the fittest people who are going to go

there 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 tactic saying all the country thank you after the break. raises 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 blairites. chancellor charlie for a futurism is 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. study.

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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 look at the moment 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 a 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 we don't try to grapple with it in these

histories 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. potter arctic 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 is japanese interested. 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 asked 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 were going to convince the united states government quite apart from iran contra which arguably has been proven it's now in the history books the scale of drug

trafficking by the us 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 it's been a congress that'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 were 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 in the 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 that as a nation weapons. jr to 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 as 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 we've come complicit in inequality even if it's racism exported elsewhere i think it is racism you know the make others of others are going to give 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. 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 tickle 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 and measure 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 the no two 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 of the unemployed more generally why would you want to pick on that is 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 be made other you come back from the send people to somewhere we bring them back but they're always like a soldier now or a veteran they're no longer john or steve or 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 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 into an 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 you are believed in something like what happened to paul 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 a look as i will thank you well the impact of britain's body in u.s. 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 foreclosure has come out 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 prison. 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 john of the thanks so much for coming on sir fortner alleging all of this about the state of justice in the u.k. what was your experience. fully justified very short sentence in two 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 multipart and 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 deliver your book's 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 refining rates 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 isn't h m p bedford's which i now know the time of the high suicide rates of any prison and then a whiles the missed opportunities the countless different organizations refusing to

be part of the chicks all the others are always identified by my first person 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 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 was trying to do this then 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 of either so i sat around something for ten weeks it's one deadline of missed chances and apathy to me just the other day provinces questions attacked every corben saying the problem with

corwin's ideas about it was actually about policing big trades amazed at 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 is happy news paper happy i don't for one minute think that people who have committed really hideous offense 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 emerges that their share of god's ten billion to six billion 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 c. has been a problem thoughts. 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 make you money one prison not will for that that was stated firm the prisoner 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 now with his u.k. minority government needed to raise a man to heal the bricks it wounds of their increasingly fractious body till they could be judged by a social media if you will with the seventy two years to the day come adeptly is

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 . tens of billions hundreds of billions probably a trillion dollars of u.s. government subsidies the energy industry can subsidize mining big brother crypto currencies and put those into the wall it's called american citizens give each have an automatic wallet tied to the social security account and they can get it. so they can then. the government can easily do that.

more. people who died in sunday's plane crash near moscow passenger. just minutes after takeoff leaving. the u.s. admits parts of the. trains in syria are fleeing to join a conflict against washington's. secure their second medal at the winter olympics in saudi arabia taking silver in figure skating but criticize the russians medal winning performance.

around the clock across the world this is r t international from the team and myself you know neil welcome to the program russia is mourning the seventy one people killed in a plane crash on sunday the regional passenger jet went down minutes after taking off from moscow port there were no survivors it's not been over twenty four hours since the crash and we're learning more about the passengers on board the ill fated plane this was the harling reaction of one grieving mother who lost her only son in the tragedy. it was.

closer to. this woman and her daughter were also on board now the the youngest victim was just five years old and the stuff ski also caught the flight it was his thirty third birthday he was on his way home to celebrate with family here's how some of those affected are coming to terms with the tragedy. she will cut the deficit. this is the document she's got a new shred of safety gear which will put away. the.

troops leaving the. scene you. see when you look normal. korean in your family which is. 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 not in the year when a large scale recovery operation was launched on sunday in the aftermath involving

hundreds of emergency service workers and vehicles but it has been extremely difficult to locate debris due to the weather conditions rough because the of it is on the ground for us at the site of the wreckage. the search and recovery operation continuing it is even nearing its conclusion according to the latest statement we've heard from the emergency services they've searched twenty five of the thirty square heck this where the plane and its bree believe had been through about over but as you see one of the biggest problems here is the weather 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 through that some can rest while others sift through the

snow in the wreckage and debris but booth black boxes have now been found and investigators should have everything they need to rebuild point by point that takeoff the short flight and to find out whatever it was exactly that koos this fatal tragedy. and more global news this hour washington has admitted that some of the kurdish forces it trains in syria are shifting to fight against one of america's own allies turkey is currently on the offensive in northern syria against groups it deems are terrorists are not and has more now on the tensions currently playing out in syria u.s. secretary of defense james mattis has confirmed that u.s. armed kurdish forces in the ass d.f. have been relocating to the northern parts of syria to protect territory from turkey. the destruction of was going on up enough and right now which is drawing

off some of the syrian democratic forces to see that it's nothing new under attack so the schools and police their attention to shift. now the kurds and turkey are both key u.s. allies in the region however there's been tension between all three of them in recent months now we've heard of how the usa has been arming the kurdish forces and providing them with weapons now and car has been quite upset by this action they consider this to be the arming of terrorists now at this point we do have a statement from james mattis confirming that he believes there are legitimate security concerns on turkey's part about these kurdish forces that have been armed by the united states will continue to work with. is of 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 there has been escalating tension between the united states and turkey especially in the

aftermath of an announcement from the united states that it intended to create a thirty thousand strong border force to protect syria's border with turkey now u.s. leaders backtracked from those comments but that hasn't stopped turkey from being quite upset by these remarks now we've recently seen the beginning of operation olive branch and this is turkish forces moving into syria to fight against the kurds two allies of the united states clashing with each other in syria as the tensions escalate we're even hearing calls to rename the street on which the u.s. embassy in turkey's capital is located there are calls to rename the street olive branch after operation olive branch the turkish operation to go into syria and fight against the kurdish forces armed by the united states there seems to be quite a bit of contradiction in the words and statements of u.s. leaders and there seems. to be rising tension between all three parties the usa

turkey and the kurdish forces. the rift between turkey and the us could deepen further over another region in northern syria. where turkey is targeting in the next part of its military operation currently u.s. troops are stationed there opening up the possibility of direct confrontation we asked. a middle east expert where this could lead now the big elephant in the room is members and that's why they invited states is still on the ground they do have troops and in that case if they do not with drove the troops and advisers from this region then ankara says that repeatedly the president here threatens that he's going to go ahead with this operation and member in case this happens i think there will be a kind of militaristic and that could lead to more tension if not a military standoff between the united states and iran korea that could lead to

a major escalation to more wars on the ground that would lead to more alinea ating and more isolating of the united states it seems unclear it isn't looking to ease tensions with washington for the time being the turkish government even rename the streets where the u.s. embassy is located in the capital it will now be called all of branch named after a christmas tree operation which has seen u.s. train kurds moving across the region to fight against turkey. the foreign minister of the netherlands has admitted he lied about hearing vladimir putin talking up to reform the soviet union the claims were made about the russian president back in twenty sixteen speaking to me earlier on the details sim your account. when the dutch foreign minister was campaigning two years ago he said that he overheard president putin outlining his plan to unify russia and ukraine belarus

the baltic states and cause of son as a single country and this was back in two thousand and six with some sort of business gathering but this has also been a general talking point when it comes to russia that putin is supposedly trying to bring back the soviet union however the foreign minister was working for shell at the time but his story was questioned when it was discovered that despite being part of the shell delegation he wasn't at the two thousand and six meeting and not only that he wasn't even in russia at the time when he was confronted about this he said he was lying to protect a source but then he also said that he regretted lying obviously this is the first instance of fake news regarding russia there have been rumors floating around that russia influenced the break that broke and then there's also been president micron's various attacks against russia during micron's campaign and he claims that to russia did influence the election however this was later debunked by a french cyber security chief who said that there was no evidence.