and that means when you squeeze harder your possibility of a state driven bottom up economy also shrinks and it may be that ramaphosa is inadvertently gotten the team together especially with the credit rating agencies right over shoulder that will dig in deeper into a hole by the time of the election next april may june when they have the next election for president he may really regret having gone the neo liberal route any possibility that the poverty created by new liberalism in the ongoing austerity may mark a return to the sort of extreme violence advocated by nelson mandela where yes now mandela very specifically when he turned from the nonviolent mass struggle in the early sixty's was directing targeted sabotage against the facilities of oppression what we've seen since the roughly fifteen twenty years rising township protests where unfortunately many of the social activists in their communities have been so frustrated they've not only blockaded roads burned tires but they've taken on municipal buildings even burning libraries and schools these are tactics and they

appear very violent period that the townships are burning but i think actually the real danger to the system will come when they link up and develop a bigger political agenda we'll see if that happens on the far left the economic freedom fighters south african federation of trade unions a united front or whether it continues to be fragmented or sporadic and part of that will be whether cyril ramaphosa revives his old left wing heroic stance he was a great trade union leader and can put down these protests and promise and divide and conquer and that's a tradition of they and see they've done it well they may not be able to continue given the contradictions because of hundred one thank you after the break. sixty is the day that the campaign for nuclear disarmament is founded we speak to one of britain's great just fine on just peter can a lot about why his work for the organization is more relevant than ever and with london opening its doors in this season's fashion week iconic design a dame's on the road suggests brooklyn. maybe anything but fashionable over the

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so i have all the seasons as i need it back to says they are precious oppressive measures being deployed against the palestinian people everywhere the set of colonialism the theft of all of the land and the many many. you know there's a stating things than this woman is of doing of course the again calls for the intifada or uprising. elliston is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos in middle fiddlesticks misted to do it living for you like you know that this isn't my cup of tea is going up local study hall may be a bit. old john no doubt a tough job but they should be the only palestinians who gets the most help from his jerusalem counterparts i don't think this is about those who in the world under the oak bush didn't know only could give us a book and though it is all of it that is jihad. i know if you compete in the

business you do more. welcome back fashion as always arguably been political welch and l. gucci and boss prove their right wing grit jewels why is help broader and westwood have signaled and the imperialism and while all of fashion except the tour finds itself under scrutiny over labor practices this week's london fashion week contends with a britain about to depending on your break to divert expand into the wider world or retreat into homespun isolationism joining me now is james andrea rhodes who was dressed everyone from princess diana and jackie onassis to elizabeth taylor and freddie mercury she opened this year's london fashion week festival on the twenty second of february so ana thank so much for coming on and so i first of all just tell me about the festival which is slightly separate a lot of fashion well i think it's to give a lovely continuation. i mean everyone does the fashion way to go global and then

everyone rushes office to give it give us a little more atmosphere here in london i think it's a great idea ok well i just said couture no one can insult after bad labor practices thanks to the seamstress unions and so on can mass fashion really ever be good for worker rights alone. the environment it's a very difficult subject because if you're talking about mass fashion you're always going to be talking about cutting costs and how you make things less expensive i mean i think worldwide we've always all got to think about how we can make out clothes last longer not always because of what's happening to the atmosphere but why should we always have to have new new new he's been saying things like this arguably for maybe not quite as long as prince charles has been saying similar things that people street which have that initiative happen before the run of blows a disaster in bangladesh implicating prime or madeleine mangere one soon will.

which killed or injured three thousand six hundred people i mean i went over there with people tree and interviewed some of the people who'd actually seen in that building it was quite terrifying really that whole whole experience i mean i don't know what we can do about it because people are still going to want to buy this economic price one sustainable but for mass fashion that could be it could destroy itself what do you think about with the brics it may spell. challenging times for fashion coming from this guy i can't bear to think that it i did not vote for breakfast i kept hoping that they'd say well we made a mistake let's do another vote in the mean time that's what's happened and where have to wait and see what happens i mean what does it mean for london fashion designers or fashion designers or the rest don't yet know do way i mean we're all going to continue to decide it's possible that it's going to be more difficult for those of us the going to show in italy or from us and it might be a bit easier if you're sharing in the rest of the world but i really don't feel we

can predict anything we have to now wait and see what really does happen but it could be a bright or is johnson that future of london beijing shanghai i have a choice anyway i do really i mean considering there was a two old british people and you know virtual sadness already of a brother. but i mean we we all where we're going to keep deciding where are all going to take designing somehow and i do think this country attracts talent breeds talent and we have wonderful art colleges that i think that people are still going to come here and we're just going to have to wait and see what really happens in reality even if it could be a russian plot the breakfast referendum or i know you spoke in the past about whether the russians got trump elected. well it might be mostly because you've reported he got a bust of putin let me put it oh i do i've got a bill is passed in fact i did a show in russia. and one of my russian friends came out and gave me this wonderful

money box of putin and we painted him up and he did so he's golden all sorts of bright colors and he sits in my studio he's very happy there he doesn't live that has not yet. fashion associates with politics i mean like i said in the intro there about how when chanel bounce iago's about fascism in spain the real seller was a bit of the left in paris. was as it were the left what is it about fashion and well i mean at the moment in the fashion textile museum that i founded we've just opened an exhibition on statement t. shirts so we've got wonderful vivienne westwood one mommy breasts and all the different statements so i think you've got the fashion that i was of course exactly and you're going to have them making this statements and that's what some people want to wear and then i've got mine that are a different kind of statement i wear and i should just that when it comes to groans

and the cost of training in fashion any concerns you've heard about increasing cost putting people off from entering the fashion world given that britain is famous also for working class fashion designers i think this is going to be room for everyone i mean i just think that what's going to really happen is instead of things being bought fashion you're going to find that there might be more and more small things in communities one hopes that instead of always being focused on london or scotland or island you're going to have small individual communities aren't necessarily making both fashion but making a step this statement of their own i think that's a possibility too even the things are so cheap now in the street arguably if you can just for inflation you can buy and throw away for i find it was terribly sad thinking that people would buy and throw away i hope it would be more like bar i get tired. every work all passes on them is on the roads thank you pleasure.

well it's certainly fashionable in nato nations now to express just pray at the state of international relations the doomsday clock is now closer to nuclear armageddon than it's ever been arguably in part because donald trump's finger is poised over the red button that not only controls billions of dollars of u.s. nuclear weaponry but britons as well sixty years ago today the campaign for nuclear disarmament was founded and the images and arguments put forth in its early years are arguably just as relevant as they were then deputy editor sebastian baca went to speak to see n.d.s. general secretary kate hudson and artist peter kenyon odd who has been working with the campaign for nuclear disarmament for nearly forty years we know. about nuclear weapons because real soon in hiroshima has seen the suffering the horror of . it we've got to imagine the into our own environment we've got to imagine it as

what could happen across the world unless we do something about it. well we say that c.n.d. is one of britain's most enduring mass movements it was founded in one nine hundred fifty eight in the midst of absolutely enormous public concern about nuclear weapons so the first demonstration took place in one nine hundred fifty eight the first mass meeting which founded c.n.d. took place on the seventeenth of february nine hundred fifty eight so sixty years ago today the first meeting had about five thousand people attending it and from then on from strength to strength hundreds of thousands of people became involved over the next few years demonstrations protests protests that basis sit downs in westminster you name. that was taking place i saw it working you see andy i

think it was seventy nine and it was when cruise missiles it was announced that they were going to come to greenham common and most were in a couple. went to see andy and this was in seventy nine they were a very small organization i remember time in a room i think you know. and. everyone was just about interns in vienna chairs people just sitting on the floor of a port case when i was tiny as an artist i want i didn't want to sit in my studio you know waiting for the muse to descend i wanted to actually get involved in in things so the first one i did was the broken missile with the c.n.d. symbol and they were made very crudely i actually went to hamley which is the big toy shop and they seem to have a guided missile department for ten year olds and so i bought some plastic missiles

and then smash them up with a hama and then photograph them so the actual original is crude which i live and then that was used by seeing the. posters at the time. we had the big marches in the beginning of the eighty's because suddenly cindy escalated it suddenly had a quarter of a million members. norma's demonstrations. cruise missiles. in the arrival of cruise missiles was the turning point in our field sandy in terms of people's involvement today our government saying that they wanted to replace trident nuclear weapons system our nuclear weapon system vos costs massive popular opposition to that the overwhelming majority of people would draw up a spend that money on on health on social care education homes and so on. and

rather than spending it on weapons of mass destruction it was very shocking for everyone i think to see last week the report that a homeless person who'd died just in the proximity of the houses of parliament from cold sleeping rough in the street there's no there's no rational explanation i think for all wouldn't really decent people which is the overwhelming majority of people here and elsewhere it's just inconceivable that people would choose people in power would choose to spend our heart of taxpayers' money on weapons of mass destruction that can kill millions of people rather than spending it on ensuring people's needs are met if they put people in the twenty first century dari on the streets of london close to parliament it's it's just unbelievable we need media reorientation of our national priorities and i believe the people as a whole the majority of the people share those common values with us this is a normal human concern value it's the government south of step it's the political

elite that's out of step the government didn't actually want anyone to see the realities of it they didn't want nuclear weapons to be connected to the horrors of hiroshima which. iran knew about where they were they wanted to sort of make nuclear weapons were possible they were. thinking of something that's. something that's completely. turned into something that's everyday that's what i've always been trying to town to with that's what cindy is trying to counter to this sense that we can live with these things and it's quite so have them. and you know it isn't. going to just explode all over the. program with a couple years ago. you know we still got we've got this. madness of a spending

a. two hundred thirty billion on this reconditioning trident. each each missiles equal to thirty eight russian is i mean the madness of nuclear weapons gets more and more intense now with trump saying that we're going to make use of nuclear weapons and joking about the sizes but in all this you know you just can't believe it because nuclear weapons the minute they start going to blow up the world and they're in the hands of complete crazy well then i'll crazy that power hungry maniacs. so the imagery that i started by making in the eighty's is still as relevant and it's good that it's being used again but it's horrific needs to be used again it's a show in many ways that we still have to use his image and a new image that we still have to carry on sixty years on but the dangers are there

the dangers to regain increasing and becoming great so we will continue to work with peter and to work with the hundreds of thousands of other really dedicated people across britain our partners internationally will carry on working together until nuclear weapons are finally abolished. one of britain's greatest artist peter can often see in these general secretary kate hudson talking to going on the ground deputy had just about your package there about time for the show we're back on monday when we go to iraq for save the children office to ask about u.k. u.s. airstrikes are affecting their humanitarian work today jill that he does rise or maybe we'll see on monday one hundred five years to the day suffragettes fighting for female equality formed the house of u.k. charts cervix jacka david lloyd george.

in twenty four to you know bloody revolution to keep the demonstrations going from being relatively peaceful political protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous or is it just always i mean your list put in the new bill is that i mean you split needle the former ukrainian president recalls the events of twenty four g. . those who took. it invested over five billion dollars to assist ukraine in these another call that will ensure a secure and prosperous and democratic. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry. so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got

off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each first. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was a cave still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters my mind it's consumed with this one difference i speak to you now because there are no other takers. claimed that mainstream media has met its maker. flip. flop it was done for the it was. not there. for.

the headlines on r.t. international or u.s. indicts thirteen russian nationals in connection with alleged meddling in the twenty sixteen election having supposedly actions actually had no impact on the outcome. there is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct altered the al. of the twenty sixth. the f.b.i. admits knowing about the danger posed by the florida shooter and his potential to carry out of school massacre years before wednesday's atrocity. in a case of mistaken identity. of a palestinian school teacher. you're

watching international from all of us here a very warm welcome to. the u.s. justice department has indicted thirteen russian nationals and three companies so for alleged meddling in america's twenty sixteen presidential election the indictment accuses the defendants of waging information warfare against the united states. indictment charges thirteen russian nationals and three russian companies for committing federal crimes while seeking to interfere in the united states political system including the twenty sixteen presidential election the financial legibly conducted what they called information warfare against the united states

with the stated goal of spreading distrust towards the candidates and the political system in general because meddling is not chargeable offense though i'd bet good money it soon will be the thirteen nationals and three entities have been indicted for first and foremost conspiracy to defraud the united states one of the main defendants is the st petersburg based internet research agency and their alleged goal was to sow discord in the u.s. political system namely the two thousand and sixteen presidential election funnily enough a catering company can also be found on the list of the accused apparently they were used at least partially to fund the whole scheme meanwhile the allegations have not been left on the answered with the russian foreign ministry spokesperson calling them absurd tens out there with thirteen of them according to the u.s. justice department fifteen people were meddling in the u.s. election against the billion dollar budgets of the intelligence agencies against the intelligence counted teligent against the state of the art technologies upset

yes this is america's modern political reality by the way why thirty apparently that's the only number with bad associations announce that only hope the parties in question are said to formulate the plans to bolster donald trump and disparage hillary clinton using methods ranging from organizing political rallies to posing as grassroots groups but some of the tactics listed are questionable and one instance russians are said to have fun the construction of a cage aboard a flatbed truck and then to have paid someone to wear a costume portraying clinton in a prison uniform to sit in it defense also allegedly purchased advertisements on facebook to promote our. titled support hillary save american muslims not sure how that fits in with the pro trump anti hillary agenda and let's not forget efforts claim to have been made on social media where the russians are meant to have use fake identities to push divisive hashtags and topics according to the document the fake accounts became the means to reach quote significant numbers of americans

however when platforms like facebook and twitter were grilled about what part their companies may have played in the alleged meddling they testified that the influence was minimal. we determined that the number of accounts we could link to russia and that we're tweeting election related content was comparatively small. aggregate these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but any amount is too much . these videos mostly had low view counts.

and it looks like at the end of the day all of those efforts were in vain at least according to the us deputy attorney general there is no allegation in the indictment that the charge conduct alter the outcome of the twenty sixteen election now this development came out of nowhere and something worth noting is that all the accused are private individuals and companies the indictment is silent when it comes to trump kremlin collusion the goal of the whole investigation. we have discussed the indictment with a number of experts they believe its timing could be significant. is it beneficial for them on a friday and people have always thought that on a friday when this is done it'll absorb as much of the heat as possible but isn't that interesting i ask the question we had a shooting where the f.b.i.

apparently and other law enforcement agencies were told repeatedly that various young man is exhibiting behavior which most probably is dangerous. why you can only suspect whether that the idea that the indictment was released today to take pressure off the f.b.i. i mean these indictments of course are prepared took a long time to prepare it could have been ready to go. for some time they could have held it is no evidence for me to say that but i wouldn't rule that out i mean it's an interesting thought that they were going to maybe do it next monday and they pushed it up. yes b. i has admitted it knew the florida shooter opposed to a threat years before wednesday's atrocity and says it had been receiving intelligence on the alleged perpetrator of one of the deadliest school shootings in u.s. history before the attack. and we have uncovered at the broward sheriff's office that we've had approximately twenty calls for service over the last two years

regarding the killer the f.b.i. has a term and that protocol was not followed. the information was not provided build office. and no further investigation was conducted that. the f.b.i. had been given information about nicholas cruz's gun ownership and his social media posts is designed to kill people erratic behavior and potential to conduct a school shooting were also flagged and one of those who actually warned the security services about cruz has spoken about what led him to raise the alarm. september twenty fourth two thousand and seventeen i sent a screenshot of a comment on one of my videos you know this comment said i'm going to be a professional school shooter and i knew that i couldn't just ignore that i hit the report but reported to youtube of course they remove the comment and then

i tried to email it to the beyond the shooting in florida a code on wednesday when a former student fatally shot seventeen people and injured some dozen and more a nineteen year old suspect was detained by police on the day of the shooting his case and how the f.b.i. failed to recognize the threat posed by him is now being investigated u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is now calling for an immediate review of the f.b.i. and the department of justice florida is not the first deadly attack that could potentially have been avoided had more attention being paid to saudi's up and reports nicholas cruz isn't the only mass killer to be on the radar screen of the f.b.i. before conducting their crime all marma teen who shot up the post nightclub killing forty nine people in orlando florida was investigated by the f.b.i. twice before he committed his mass murder.

turns out they deemed him not to be dangerous that all forget about dylan rufe the self-proclaimed white supremacist who killed nine churchgoers in south carolina. well it turns out he was able to purchase his weapons because of errors in the f.b.i.'s background check process and then there's the delhaize saw he shot up a u.s. military post in texas back in two thousand and nine. turns out the f.b.i. was fully aware that he was online in communication with top al-qaeda leaders they still didn't bother to investigate him i think we've seen time and time again over the last few years our intelligence agencies across the west dropping the ball in terms of getting tips being aware of potential threats and not following up on those threats and. taking out defensive measures it seems lessons not being learned

they need to have a proper view about you know what exactly are the threats what are they trying to do how can they best protect the people effect on tree to protect against these threats and that doesn't seem to be done it's not like these federal law enforcement agencies are lazy just recently we heard from the f.b.i. that chinese foreign exchange students are a threat to national security we also had federal agencies urging us not to buy chinese brand cellphones and more recently congress renewed the power of the n.s.a. to wiretap and spy on american citizens some might come to the conclusion that it's not incompetence or a lack of effort the issue is rather the type of threat these agencies are choosing to focus on. r t new york. palestinian schoolteacher has been left scarred after being mauled by an israeli army dog but what of warning you may find some of the following scenes up setting. it was assaulted in the.