the prisoner abdel baset on the ground he convicted of britain's biggest ever terrorist atrocity how did he get itself to get these contraband that is the question because the british deny any quid pro quo between the release of mark and the tracks b.p. denies it i'm sure so what's the evidence well look in two thousand and four when. he came in from the cold then gave up his nuclear. totally. paid a number of british prime minister paid a number of visits and on his second visit in two thousand and seven b.p. in the libyan government an oil exploration deal well this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the biggest ever demonstration in britain against the war in iraq and b.p. is now the biggest foreign player in the iraq's oil sector just one of their fields in the south produces almost a third of iraq's oil output and the iraqi government is just invited b.p. to raise production in oil fields in kirkuk recaptured from the kurds joining me

now to discuss what has it times been like a nato civil war between the u.s. and turkey and syria is iraqi born british academic reza sami over there and he said we haven't seen you for for quite. some just before we get on with a more grim or matches you were up the war of course and this month marking the fifteenth anniversary the biggest demonstration just is a reminder maybe specially to some on the labor benches voted for the iraq war what do you say to them when they apologists still say saddam is gone. should just a quick trip to baghdad actually to see the outcome of that terrible war of aggression against the iraqi people how iraq's infrastructure was destroyed i would say this has been nullified almost the education system in collapse very high levels of unemployment poverty people actually collecting food for. rubbish dumps

and so on this is iraq one of the richest countries in the wall the by its own resources arguably president hillary clinton would have been even worse for your country some sympathy with trump who says the united states taxpayers wasted seven trillion dollars in the middle east why should it be involved i have no time for trump or not that far ahead nor for war monger clinton. both clintons so really u.s. policy in iraq and announced it all the law clinton would hide it in much sweeter words that after the oil in iraq after its resources and it was clinton who exposed the fact that the united states more or less created al qaeda forces whether. the middle east in general so why does the present iraqi government allow the continued so-called occupation james dimaggio has been emphasizing the dangers of

a semi permanent force it shouldn't just be the united states. presumably protecting the oil or whatever it is you would contend why do the iraqi government what is baghdad do with it i think the iraqi government is handicapped let's put it this way it is facing enormous u.s. pressure the united states has proxy forces in iraq more or less but is on the special forces and iraqi kurdistan allied to the united states and the united states i was just announced they will continue funding to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars peshmerga forces and you know arctic air does so there are actually patients of iraq created on the ground both u.s. presence and iraqi forces which are allied to them or our proxy forces to them so an iraqi government is subjected to this massive u.s. presence they still have the biggest embassy in the world by the way and baghdad so there is that you asked them flown obviously the other countries of them for. and

iraq as well through thing all our neighbors if you like ok but if he's president all term hasn't acquiesced to tory's amazed to say bomb damascus in border in iraq would ring syria well terrorism may obviously what they sometimes do successive british governments actually is is really behave more royalist time they came to feel like if that is a metaphor that could that i could use when it comes to us foreign policy they often the us policy they go beyond these very badly to justify it this has been unfortunately britain's role over the decades they tag along with us aggressive policies across the world not just in the middle east and on syria they have always egged on the united states to commit further regulation and there are the moment even militarily involved with u.s. forces in syria which are increasing their presence inside syria there is huge

shift more recent shift because the united states succeeded in creating a new proxy force unfortunately i am fortunate and sadly of the kurdish forces the y.p. g. forces which the united states itself insisted on be branding into the syrian democratic forces and this proxy force has allowed the united states to strengthen its presence in syria and to take a much more active direct military role in syria the successes of defeating various terrorist organizations al qaida elling tice's linked organizations in syria has has been if you like. by the intervention direct intervention of the united states they have forces now twice and the past week or so before we get to that i mean at least the united states even though it's been supporting goodish groups against its nato. x. . supporting to the little britain is thrilling groups like the white helmets. the

white house most are supposed to be supported by both britain and the united states and fact of the founder as i call it was a colon and the british army so the you know britain is committed to the to the white house and so is the united states which has now pledge the renewal of financial support to the. as a civilian defense force what really impact is and with a lot of eyewitnesses that embedded with al-qaeda linked forces and we have we have a statement from the white house which but at least in iraq they're not aiding extremist groups in iraq if indeed britain or the united states doing so in syria i think u.s. u.s. record in iraq clearly showed from two thousand and four five. very recently who are quite a lot of evidence accumulated that the united states was in league with some of

these terrorist groups groups and this was in korea nation with the saudi regime who is by the way prince might be visiting britain from seven to nine five march and there is now a committee in britain to oppose his visit and there is and early days of motion in parliament opposing the visit of man who was commenting war crimes in yemen and again i think you know this is another subject about. the mainstream media in this country overseas offering us up about saudi arabia telling us that women can drive and and so what do you make of the way that certainly the statement a to b b c is clearly saying the threat is from iran in the whole of this context as they continue to. support the only democratic country in the region as they call it israel. since nine hundred seventy nine since their rainy and revolution of one hundred seventy nine iran has broken links. the united states and the united states

hasn't forgiven iran for ports pursuing an independent foreign policy no matter what we think of the political system in iran this is a fact that iran has become an independent sovereign state while before that it was . tough u.s. policy in the region and british policy as well and this independence of the united states and ever since then they have been trying to damage iran to hit. to unsettle iran to send terrorists into iran this is all very well documented as well as an attempt at a direct attack on iran and scared to release the hostages some years ago so iran has become this if you like very powerful force if you look at the map of the wall go to the global south you'll see that this is a very rare specimen there are very few countries that manage to break away in terms of its foreign policies from from the united states and in the middle east

such a strategic region in the world with israel of the forward base of u.s. military base and of the united states in the region they see iran as a threat in that sense and iran's policies have been really if you examine them very carefully self defense they want to avoid being hit by israel on the united states and israel is on their record officially they want to attack iran under the pretext of stopping so-called nuclear development in iraq and the united states has been backing this policy for many many decades now so really this preparations to hit iran have been ongoing for a very long time and they are putting them in practice now and when they hit lebanon when they hit syria when they strengthen their presence in iraq they have also iran in mind. thank you after the break we'll ask the president of the world consultant john ma. voles i am mannix man of the fantastic four legend recall

macbook create a mug why he doesn't trust the state mandated b.b.c. as his new monthly kick ass comics debut around the globe to mock that attempt anniversary and others don't is pledge thirty billion dollars to iraq what will happen to the three hundred fifty seven million children who are currently living in the conflict zone once they grow up we speak to our own shock around them save the children currently in iraq told us the more coming up about to him going underground. hey everybody i'm stephen bob on the task hollywood guy you'll suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george washington and r.v.

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think of what i know about the beautiful guy a great so one more transfer. and thanks this minute. welcome back of last night's british version of the oscars the bafta is anything to go by and war didn't britain are not going to creators of moving images that truly challenge power one such creator has always had power in his mind mark miller is responsible for work on the kingsmen films iron man x. man and fantastic four and he's the creator of the kick-ass franchise which this week celebrates a decade with a new monthly series debuting around the globe and he joins me there from glasgow marc thanks very rare joining us before we get on to your latest releases tell us about your company miller world which has been taken over by netflix you don't really say that's what's actually is the totally smashed you know like this is the

least corporate environment i could possibly imagine you know that everybody's really interested in they don't really actually genuinely i've never had a job i'm not going to the job my entire life and of t.v. and that's when i saw the governor i see on as an exact of the company and to present a medal lyttleton and your continued innocent another year or two up in the air and so to call the books and movies and t.v. shows and stuff. and just these dear guys like me you know it's like men or women who i would hang out with that remember us you know that seems really do it's a thing and because we think a little is in limbo and this impacts your logic and us the law can spend a lot of the work at that hour and it's a little properties most valuable thing that will turn out especially when you look at the amount of t.v. channels and there are just a lot of content that's so luke they just wanted to have something that was again i think the machine you know i don't know what else has got ok well i want to get on to that in a second but let me just before we get on the yet those the very important ip matches what is magical order because aside from all the other ones at their board there's a new one right magic order yes it's the final are going to get

a sort of done it is up to you and you know and so fast ever since the sailors are snoozing actually it's so since they got company so becoming employee of migrants and what what is it exactly one to do something that was like you know they care. doxy a magical thing you know that imagine an army that's how to parts or something like that sort of appeal to me the idea of doing something if you grew up laking these magical things a lot of that ends now at all that's stuff imagine doing in nazi fashion but really you know so it can add some consented to what it's about whether or not lots of it feels more let's so going to be a bit in history i'm sure very adult there you know what he did a funny you know i says if you like acidulated and this is you know wasn't using that. because of course they were kick ass kingsmen wanted and reborn i mean the controversy over netflix is obviously the amount of data that they pull from everyone's viewing habits i mean how do you know whether they're going to algorithmically does nephi your vision for these books you know is wonderful

actually is there any i'll give you an example as to not distribute us twenty hours of material yeah just in terms of minutes netflix as doing those now is going to once you know it's insane and. so we care you don't take it to micromanage they just let me go and that's what really up us military do something a studio there will be really hostile that's interesting then this made us feel a bit less funny let's take it with us islands he answered you know with as netflix and just the craft are you notice just how big it's aimed and the yes which i love you know there's the. you shouldn't like everything when you're strolling down and you know else that there's something wrong because you should appeal to a bit of it or you should actually just something that everyone on that so just let me do i do best and so i'm so good you know that you can sometimes ask and you really think it marks as seismic a change in film production as the end of the old hollywood studio system when corporations took over there's now another stage which is their plate stage as a sort of safe to say to me as its more radical and i actually think it's the difference between theater and seven minutes feels like the change we had one

hundred years ago as opposed to one sixty years ago this feels like an entirely different we're going to give you a couple of examples of how it's great it's well lived under the name of it has a fantastic there was a masterpiece but because it cost a lot money and that need a lot of money in it all and couple of these was even the fear so i had the buzz of . it around you know because netflix doesn't operate under that model that movie to be made from netflix nobody has seen the seals a little bit about numbers or anything it's all secret and it will just be judged on its artistic merit and the buzzword being this is a great movie in order to pay more and more people would have seen it and as a as a rate as just so that's the most exciting things me that i didn't even have to think about up which you just actually do the best possible work and all the often the way to make it found an audience which is incredible and i think that's attracting a lot of people and because this model of the studios of course and saying look but i see no or movies have to make a billion but it's the fields and i want to just feels like it's a base of it's just a search for the next let's go to the international but completely don't have asked the operator which is so it's a going to create

a but also the consumer look at it and say to the idea that you know there's something that i would never find as an american for anyone that netflix many screens so i think we're coming to the end well you know and we're coming to the beginning of another one i don't care i think you'll see two systems. and they do it you know that's why there's these legends about fox or you know the your future i mean obviously you're already successful but they are young and up and coming comic book writer if you chose a south london youth as the protagonist of like you did in kingsmen it doesn't doesn't matter so much that it might seem so bursts of in some way a company like netflix and other streaming services who put it up as this tested out yes i mean i've never had one conversation with a set on the sat and if anything adds anybody in france at their house a few weeks ago and i gave them the company said let's see or feel you see it is says because failure means that we're trying stuff that nobody's trying for and i just i love that actually there's a coincidence like the wild west spread we're going to avoid sounds like a netflix advertisement i want to tell the three ming service is part of his li

available amazon hulu all bunch of them i just do want to say that we now know that it's been revealed that maybe two thousand films or t.v. movies were made in conjunction with the pentagon and with cia collaboration yet you think. you think you'd ever write any comic books at all and create anything with them a sex collusion. or the psychotic it's actually you know i guess open cancer like a you know it's funny you know they had these rumors for years and you know what i think really fast is that all the rumors we have perhaps have all turned out to be true when something started these remember that as you know the terrible things have been going on with the bad guys in hollywood the twins and get this you know let's get you know all of the cia been involved in some production good notes of movies and so it's untrue i mean as as the we have just n.g.o.s out of all of us who have the b.b.c. and there at the again there's a suggestion i think there's a there's a shift coming in everything is coming in sentiments coming in television is coming in there's i don't trust the b.b.c. anymore it's not the first place i look for in news this morning out of that other

source some of this the modernization of news that operate on experience i think the you knew that when you start a comic book writing there's a infamous book will have to read donald duck of our disney was used to say attack protests against the vietnam war there was no there were no authorities in fairness trying to say this mark miller guy is getting a bit powerful he's up the bestselling list maybe we can have a little character and tell him the right one and. there's no hard you know but they get you know it's funny like i think that's probably been going on a long time not even getting the subject delco with a lot lanes changed and what they would do was. to get planes that jeeps and setting a jeep and a helicopter or something you need to put a c. so that hollywood's always had that relationship to going to save money i can see how the book luckily is never as never actually given to us and yet but if you did a movie or transformers or something like that it costs two hundred fifty million you're trying to save money anyway you can maybe do a deal with the military you know but wasn't it so then motors and soldiers that

are having extras and just finally when's the jeremy corbyn superhero comic book and of course a blockbuster film coming out. i thought it was a little it was like only because of the hour i druther just this is up a little it's a hopefully twenty nineteen twenty twenty hopefully before the yemeni government seems these moments are over who can finish last thank you. well earlier in the show we heard from professor sami ramadani about the british and american role in fermenting violence right across the arab world but what about the children you released figures say that more than three hundred fifty seven million children are living in a conflict zone that means the children are more risk from armed conflict now than at any other time in the past twenty years according to save the children we go to iraq now joining me from erbil two hundred twenty miles north of the capital baghdad as a ramshackle around the deputy director of the iraq office of save the children thanks so much around for joining us from your vantage point can you can you

clearly see on a day by day basis the well in iraq for all four of those three hundred fifty seven million living in the conflict zone. thanks for having me on this program and it's unfortunate. that it's old and have experienced violence of decades of violence especially in the last four years it has been dating again violence for children and their families across central iraq and take it out and what does it mean for your staff on the ground in say be a little the north of baghdad for as it is it is both as aid workers we are there to save lives and supports building the obvious case from the conflict or that it turning out that the conflict is already in place is that at the same time our staff have got friends and family who i doubt it the affected by by the conflict thankfully you haven't seen the guy and of attacks we saw in jalalabad in afghanistan where understand fourteen of your people were killed or injured.

i says to ash attack it was an unfortunate act on our friends and colleagues in jalalabad. i can understand why aid workers would be would be attacked and it's really. sad to lose friends and colleagues we continue to talk to provide assistance to children we need our assistance wherever in the world because there's been considerable could drive a z. in syria over save the children in alliances with possibly related white helmets and serve with you in iraq you know deal with is the mis wabi groups in iraq what do you have to fight as we are helping children and wherever they are we are helping children and from this specially those who have been in conflict and what escaping from the conflict that is our main job but it's pretty hard to hit help children if they're in a i says they will get by town. we have been able to help them over a half a million children in the in the last twelve months especially those who are escaping

from mosul from so that being from parts of can cook and lifesaving aid provided education and psychosocial support so we have been able to reach the most needy children across iraq we've been talking on this year about the fact that the iraqi government has invited b.p. to start up the oil in kirkuk which where is the money going from from all the oil of iraq to the burgeoning oil export program for as we hope whatever source this government can mobilize whether it's from international aid or from it isn't better and then more resources education is priority times for children and especially this is this is going to be an investment in the future of children in iraq which is you know i mean and less education and i mentioned than live in safety. it will be it'll get any difficult to get and yes a future for iraq the iraqi government as expressed disappointment about the recent kuwaiti donors conference where only thirty of the eighty eight billion has been

pledged to as far as foreign aid to iraq goes you or your relatively. and when that money is going to be at least in some way it's going to help the children of iraq we are yet to see how this money is going to be ok it. does question for three million children who are been out of school in the last three years is a high priority we hope the government will prioritize providing education for these children as well as the millions of children who are displaced and have been know about it and their homes some of which are destroyed schools are destroyed and that's what we are hoping to happen with it like we'll work is because of the british backed coalition of admitted to killing hundreds of civilians in the past months in airstrikes on iraq do you seriously send your people in despite warplanes bombing iraq right now saying that someone cares for this stuff and we do

everything possible to keep our stuff safe but at the same time provide aid when it is possible to do so here in britain the charity sector is not in the news for helping children it's in the news because of alleged sex crimes have you seen any instances in your work in iraq of. allegations of sexual abuse by save the children any type of abuse where that again children or against our staff is not tolerate it and say that someone is doing everything possible to prevent and we have mechanisms in place to report and and i guess any concerns of. abuse against that exhaust i was talking and just finally i mean you have an annual budget of four hundred million billion dollars a year one of the biggest challenges in iraq specifically has regard children over three million children have been out of school at the moment nearly seven thousand

schools need to be new when you had to build. health facilities have been destroyed they need to build roads on infrastructure that for us for children mainly education which is they will make that. graham thank you and that's it for the show will be back though on wednesday when is arguably the world's largest open air prison camp has to shut down its only power plant we speak to professor norman finkelstein about his latest book gaza an inquest into its martyrdom killed and keep in touch with us by a social media we'll see you on wednesday one hundred seventeen years to the day of the publication of the communist manifesto by call monks and friday shingles.

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stunt is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos and member wolf it was dismissive to do it like you know that this isn't my cup of tea is going to have no clothes on me all maybe. yeah you know john i don't know but they should be the only palestinians who gets the most hope from his jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the old commission didn't know only could do this. and though it is unfair advantage to have to display any of the most of the jihad i'm going to continue in the doesn't seem to do more commitments also because often. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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the headlines. a former cia director. does interfere in other country's elections. for good cool comments of course coming in the wake of the alleged russian meddling saga. i mean what has this country done for the majority of the countries in the middle east if you're an american. and iranian american fashion blogger an american by a t.v. host questioning u.s. policy in the middle east. cia agent. who was sentenced under the espionage act for talking to a new york times reporter has been released from prison.