now to go through some of the week's headlines is author professor matthew goodwin these of senior fellow with the u.k. and russia back just about a think tank among others and he's a former member of the u.k.'s working group on anti muslim hatred his most recent book brics it's why britain voted to leave the european union is out now matthew thanks for coming on i know for exactly boris johnson giving a speech today on brics it what is this first headline let's go straight to it yes absolutely this is george soros i want buffed out of politics well i think there's been a vigorous debate in the last week in british politics lots of commentators columnists saying that they feel that this is interference from abroad and there have been charges of anti-semitism and all kinds of things being floated around social media i think the end of the day this boils down to a sense that among leaders at least this is somebody from outside of britain interfering in a domestic debate unlike barack obama who famously. the funny thing about the obama debate is i'm pretty convinced that actually backfired i think if you look at the

leave standing in the opinion polls at the time i think obama hurt or maim rather than they helped romanes you think george soros might do the same with all this money being poured in and their flags outside the commons every every day for remain the same people who go you know that's why we want us over here back my general view on this is that remain has not learnt the lesson of what happened during the referendum and i think if you look at how these types of stories are reaching ordinary british voters i think that the big gamble for remain is going for that second referendum and the last thing they should be doing is courting outside influence that's my my personal view because if we have that second referendum make no mistake they lose again it's over for a whole generation of people going to say it's over a long time back in the end there to be sixteen let's go to than. story people who

criticize or is often being accused ready semitism let's go do what is real the g seven says u.k. fascists modeled on jihad these are prepared to kill say campaigners and this actually brings off. it is rooted in a lot of my earlier research actually which is looking at the potential for violence among far activists in the u.k. so you're the expert on it as it were hope not hate getting a lot of criticism from the right saying this is a far left group we should we listening to them because we tend to think of terrorists could be islamists people returning from for moore's overseas what is the nature of the fascist threat here in britain this picture national action this is the first group to be prescribe to many years in britain. the murder of gerry cox the labor m.p. of course which is very much in people's memories but also we forget you know since nine eleven we've talked endlessly about religious extremism we forget it early in the sixty's in the seventy's in the early eighty's and we forget things like

timothy mcveigh knew us right wing terrorism has always bob would under the surface and open was one of the day when the negatives were united raising has a specific issue and if you compare the number of jihad the type islam is top attacks verses right wing extremist or white supremacist attacks you know it is a far more mixed picture than what you might believe for you to read the latest headlines so i think this is a very real story and worryingly my take on this at least is the government is not investing in countering all forms of extremism it's had ten fifteen years to really invest in this i was i was a member of the government and muslim as a trade was a reason to well i was because i felt that they were not taking extremism in all of its forms seriously enough and they were not embarrassed meaning that it was is because we can see the effects of islam is terror more easily on us. st i think i

think there's a sense that integration is difficult and countering the violent end is easier through the security services at it through the police at it but but countering nonviolent extremism is much harder and i just felt that there was there were not enough resources being thrown into that and there was not enough in gauge went with researchers and you know the social science community this is a live issue it's a lead last week violent attacks against migrants you know by somebody who was affiliated to rightly extremist groups well that's certainly not where the mainstream media looking at it is regards the main agenda in this country not the threat of fascism the threat of oxfam let's go to the deed. so if the government doesn't cut funding to oxfam nothing will change says the independent pretty harsh or at least one columnist sean o'grady i mean come on i mean i was on

this show the other week talking to us about the inequalities of western capitalism the fact that capitalism is not benefiting the poorest surprise surprise we get an old old story arguably about sex workers and the use of oxfam staff and a lack of management i think what this is tapping into is a sense among the to be those on the right of british politics that too much international aid is being sent over to groups that are largely not very transparent or perhaps on accountable and there's a sense that we need a greater level of scrutiny to safeguarding and things like that and so you seem pretty patella people on the right of the conservatives saying actually enough is enough we need to clamp down and this is a very lively debate within the conservative party although people arguably on the left to talk about whether it is being used geopolitically row of them charitably which is another another debate let's go on to this now from the express yeah so this is because his plan to scrap trident and pull the u.k.

out of nato were viewed in a somewhat sensationalist you might suggest a new book. if i mean you're in the us you're on live t.v. reading a book or these pages of a book over corbett you're never going to underestimate or kill him or i underestimated corbin by one point eight percentage points i might point out that i also said corbin would lose the last general election and he lost the last general election for the issue here i think is this is what i think is going to characterize this parliament until two thousand and twenty two if we don't have an early election which is much greater scrutiny of what jeremy corbyn believes there is a sense i talk to senior conservatives quite regularly and there is a belief that if they put corbin under enough scrutiny that they will somehow swing the next election because they believe the next election will not be like twenty seventeen when voters thought he's a dead duck there's no chance he can win the next election i think now conservatives are cordoning on to the idea that actually if they push him hard

enough they put him under enough scrutiny he may buckle resume thank you and we've now had a comment from jeremy corbin's shadow breaks it secretary care starmer about our item at the beginning of this show concerning him and we keep leaks founder julian assange start his office said he was unavailable to come on going underground in addition we were referred to the twenty sixteen starmer resignation letter citing corbin's ineffective leadership and starr's office also referred us to the crown prosecution service itself the c.p.s. however would not comment about recent allegations that its staff under the stewardship of care starmer were not entirely disinterested over the now drop case against the founder of wiki leaks we should also add that gears dharmas office advised us to remove a tweet we put up on monday about starman voting record in the run up to the iraq war they were eventually satisfied when we clarified that he did indeed in twenty sixteen choose to vote against an investigation into the contrast between public

statements and private actions in the run up to the iraq war that's good for the show on the fifteenth anniversary of the big. demonstration in british history against the iraq war. thank. god. i thank. god they don't know. who.

is shooting in a florida high school leaves at least seventeen people dead with both children and adults among the victims. have taken the suspect into custody he is nineteen year old nicholas cruz former student of the school. of broadcasting live in moscow this is r.t. international i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us let's start with our breaking news this hour coming from the u.s. where a shooting has taken place at a high school in southern florida seventeen people are dead following the attack according to local officials. has also left up to fifty injured reports say video has emerged online appearing to show the moment of the shooting at the high school now we cannot independently verify its authenticity but before we show you it must

warn you that you might find the video of why. our reporter samir khan has details on this latest tragedy. multiple fatalities have been confirmed in the deadly shooting that took place today at marjorie stoneman douglas high a high school about fifty kilometers north of miami florida now according to the broward county sheriff's office seventeen people lost their lives and up to fifteen were injured and the sheriff's office had a detailed account of today's events so let's take a quick listen we have seventeen confirmed victims twelve victims were in the building. the true true victims were outside just outside the building one victim was on the street at the border of pine island. and choose for. people.

lost their lives at the lodge it's a bitch i don't know thirty teachers border there would be more sure we students are in the store you go to the sheriff's office has also confirmed that the suspected shooter has been detained and is now in police custody authorities have identified the shooter as nineteen year old nicholas cruz a former student who was quote expelled for disciplinary reasons and now near the end of the school day cruz opened fire outside the school then proceeded inside and continued shooting he reportedly used in a ar fifteen rifle and even had extra magazines in his possession and as soon as the incident unfolded multiple ambulances police cars and even armored vehicles were deployed to the scene swat teams cleared the school and reunited students with their families who described the circumstances as quote chaotic and frantic florida governor rick scott said he's been in touch with local officials and homeland

security has apparently been in contact with both state and local officials but we also heard from the white house donald trump expressed his condolences via twitter and white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders said that trump has offered financial assistance to florida if needed but a. according to every town for gun safety a gun control advocacy group the u s s c kenya school shootings in the first forty five days of twenty or so these horrific suspects six could absolutely reflect a greater societal issue police are detained of the suspected gunman and identified him as nicholas cruz he is in one thousand year old former student of the school who was expelled for disciplinary reasons and this is the latest video we have of the suspect nicholas cruz you can see him being taken out of a police car wearing a hospital gown he is being led into the police station presumably for questioning . and one freshman student was tweeting out of the school as the incident was

unfolding and unimaginable situation take a look. earlier we discussed of the issue of gun politics in the u.s. with dave lindorff founding editor of the online outlet this can't be happening and dominic is oh a former police officer here's what they told us. so over three hundred million

guns is enough for every person in the united states to have a gun. and you know we license cars you can't just get in a car and drive it but you can get a gun and shoot it you don't need any training you don't need any licensing. and a lot of states now you can carry them. undercover legally there's a lot of nuttiness in this country about how guns make you safer and the evidence is all to the contrary when the guns are so readily available we get these shootings every week but if we can't get rid of them after the sandy hook massacre of all those first graders i don't think we're ever going to get rid of them this is an ultimate cry for attention and i'd like to see the media for the first time not look at this is a gun issue and to shy away from the anatomy object or start to start to look away

from why or how these individuals are getting the guns and start looking at the intent behind it why are they doing this what's the mental health of this person what's their personal individual issue if there's one thing that we do know it's been proven time and time again that the gun itself does not do any damage but the issue is the person behind it their intent their motives their means we have to start looking at accountability of the human being and make this an issue more focused towards them in mental health i don't know one sane one healthy one compassionate human being on the planet who takes such a massive cry for attention that they have to take a life or several lives of others this is got to stop being a gun issue that has to stop being a mental health and human issue let's take a look at the history of u.s. school shootings there have been two hundred seventy five incidents since two thousand and thirteen with an average of nearly want to week and there have already been.