on his second visit in two thousand and seven. but if we leave to one side of the deal would eventually end up with a failed state in libya and terror in manchester last year b.p. is still active in what green activists call environmental terrorism in just intruders canada his government just green like the deep water drilling by b.p. off the coast of nova scotia not appreciated much by a grassroots environmental coalition the group marched to a liberal party office where they delivered a letter for justin trudeau asking the prime minister not to give any decision making authority to the petroleum boards which is what they get eighteen government did last summer twelve endangered north atlantic whales died in the gulf of st lawrence only between four hundred four hundred fifty now remain in the world something probably won't be in tomorrow's b.p. report 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 has 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 ramadan and he said we haven't seen you for for quite some time just before we get on just over the more grim or matches you were up the war of course and this month marking the fifteenth anniversary the biggest demonstration just as a reminder maybe specially to someone in the labor benches who 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 and france was destroyed i would say this has been nullified. the educational system in collapse very high levels of

unemployment poverty people actually collecting food from rubbish dumps and so on this is iraq one of the richest countries in the wall that by its own sort of resources arguably a 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 clinton would hide it in my much sweeter was 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. in the least in general so why does the present iraqi government allow the continued

so-called occupation james dimaggio has been emphasizing the dangers of a semipermanent force 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 better. forces and iraqi kurdistan allied to the united states and the united states has just announced they will continue funding to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars peshmerga forces and you know arctic air this time 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 sub. 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 actually influence in obviously the other countries of influence in iraq as well to thing all our neighbors if you like ok but if he's president little trump 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 or a back 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 now 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 a lot of 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 denning tice's linked organization 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 into that the. i mean at least the united states even though it has been supporting kurdish

groups against its nato turkey it's not explicitly supporting to the level britain is reeling groups like the white helmets. the white how much are supported by 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. 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 wahhabi 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 will be groups and this was in chorus the nation with the saudi regime who is by the way prince might be visiting britain from seven to nine 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 a man who was commenting war crimes in yemen and again i think you know this is another object of. the mainstream media in this country overseas offering us up about saudi arabia telling us that women can drive in 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 the iranian revolution of one nine hundred seventy nine iran has broken links with 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 and the around 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 encircle 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 a very powerful force if you look at the map of the walls of 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 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 of self-defense they want to avoid being hit by israel on the united states and israel is on the 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 went in there. in iraq they have also iran in

mind. thank you after the break we'll ask the president of the world consultant john models next abandon 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 the tenth anniversary of his donors pledged 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 shakra from save the children currently in iraq told us the more coming up about doing going underground. is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos i'm in bill fiddlesticks mission to do it for you like you know. this isn't

my cup of tea is going to study hall meetings you know john does. the only palestinians who gets the most helpful is to respond counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision of no one who could do this. and the earth is all of us not just you have to this lady of the muscle that you have i don't want you to compete in the doesn't seem to do more commitments also don't piss off. who would have thought thirteen russians three hundred and some cash could impact an american presidential election this is where russia beat stands today also more twists and turns in a messy conflict known as syria. at that your second passing i found we just learned. southend taken your last bang

turn. 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 other. but then my feeling started to change you talked about more like it was again still some more fun to feel those that didn't like to question our arc and i secretly promised to never like it said one does not need a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with this one to see the speech in the us there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its maker.

welcome back everyone nights british version of the oscars the bafta is anything to go by awards in britain i'm not going to create those of moving images that truly challenge paua one such creator has always had power in his mind mark millar is responsible for work on the kings when films are. 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 now from glasgow mark thanks very red. 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 actually say that's like it'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 their own really and actually genuinely i never had a job i'm not going to the job my entire life and a team that's when i saw the company are at least as the on as an exact to the company and to present a mental lyttleton and you know continued innocent another year or two up in there and says are calling books and movies and t.v. shows and so on and i just these the guys like me you know it's like men and women who i would hang out with that remember us in such scenes really really exciting and because we think a lot and seeing lanes go into the same things you look at castillo can spend a lot of the work i've done an hour and a little properties the most valuable thing in the world trade aspect when you look at the amount of t.v. channels and there are just a lot of concepts and that's so lou they just wanted to have something that was akin to a t. machine you know i don't know what else has got

a game well i want to get on for that in a second but let me just before we get on the those the very important ip matters that what is magical order because aside from all the other ones that they brought there's a new one right magical order yes there's the final are going to get a sort of done it is up to you and house and that's my first ever since the sale of the partner thing actually it's so since they got the company since i've become an employee of my parents and what what is it exactly wanted to do something that was like another care a doctor see a magical thing you know that imagine an army that had a parts or something like that that sort of appeal to me the idea of doing something that if you grew up laking these magical things a lot of that ends now at all that's stuff imagine doing a nazi version of it really you know so it's some consent to do well but it's about whether or not lots of it feels moral it's so going to be a bit in history i'm sure very adult there you know if he did a funny you know says if you like escalate things and this is you know whether that's using that. because of course they were. take askings men wanted and reborn

i mean they could drop a c.e.o. of a 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 eight hours of material yeah just in terms of minutes netflix as doing those now is going to want you know the same as drug screen or type so we care you don't take it to micromanage they just let you go and that's what really of us military do something a studio there will be really ask how that's interesting ben let's make this funny that less funny less it with a silence the answer and you know without us netflix is just a cracker you know just just how we could say and the f.e.'s which i love you know the. you shouldn't like everything when you're strolling down and then you know else that there's something wrong because you should appeal to have it or you should actually just something for everyone and 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 that they're playing stage as a sort of safe to say so yes it's more radical and i actually think it's the difference between theater and certain i mean this feels like a change you have one hundred years ago as opposed to the 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 to inspire lives under the name of it has a fantastic there was a masterpiece but because it costs a lot money and that needs a lot of money and it's all in a couple of these is even the fear so i had the buzz of the area around it you know because netflix doesn't operate under that model that movie had been made for netflix nobody has seen the seals out of you know doubled over and i think it's all secret and edited just being 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 out and all the or find a 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 seem like but as. no remove the saturn if you believe it but it's the fields and more than just

feels like it's a base of it's just about to fall or next let's go to the international but completely don't ask the operator which is so it's a military a club or also a consumer look at it say to the idea that you know there's something that i would never find as an american for anyone that netflix any screen stock 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 you're you know that's why there's these legends about fox or and you know the your future is uncertain 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 set and if anything adds anybody and that's about how i was a few weeks ago and the guy you know the company said late see or feel you see it

he says because failure means that we're trying stuff that nobody's trying for and i just i love that shit as a coincidence like the wild west spread we're going to have reports are they and that flags are virtues when i want to tell that streaming service is car obviously 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 alone create anything within a six collusion. of those iconic it's actually you know i guess of them can't they care you know it's funny you know they had these rumors for years and you know what i think really fast is that old emotionally have perhaps have all turned out to be true when something started these are not aware that it's you know the terrible things that's been going on with the bad guys in hollywood the twins and get serious you know that's you know on the cia been involved in some production get not so movies and so it's like it's all true i mean as as the we're just engine.

all of us will have the b.b.c. and they're going to again there's a suggestion i think there's a shift coming in every county in sentiments coming in television is coming in there's i don't trust the b.b.c. anymore it's not for my 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 allowed to read donald duck of a disney was used as a tack protest against the vietnam war there was no there were no authorities in fairness trying to say this mark millar guy is getting a bit powerful he's up the bestselling list maybe we can have a little character and tell him to write one and. there's never happened you know but let's get you know is partly i think that's probably been going on a long time not even getting the subject delco with the plot lanes changed and what they would do was to use that as a lift to get planes that jeeps that adding a jeep a helicopter or something you need to get a c. so that hollywood's always had that relationship to going to save money i can see

how that happened but luckily it's never as never actually came across 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 the images and soldiers that are having extras and just finally when's the jeremy corbyn superhero comic book and of course 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 later hopefully twenty nineteen twenty twenty hopefully before the yemeni government seems these moments are over who finishes off that 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 really exciting 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 though north of baghdad for as it is it is both as aid workers we are there to save lives and support spalding who have escaped from the conflict or that it turning out that the conflict is already in their places but at the same time our staff have got friends and family who i doubt it effected by by the conflict.

thankfully you haven't seen the kind of attacks we saw in jalalabad in afghanistan where i understand fourteen of your people were killed or injured. i says tash attack it was an unfortunate attack on our friends and colleagues in about that 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 miss webbie 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 day actual goodbye town. we have been able to help 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 resources government can mobilize whether it's from international aid or from it isn't better and had 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 really difficult again and yes a future for iraq the iraqi government has 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 sanguine 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 i don't get. what i was in for three million children or been out of school in the last three years is a high priority we hope that the government will prioritize providing education for these children as well as the millions of children who are displaced and have been are now getting their homes some of which are destroyed schools are destroyed and that's what we are hoping to happen would like for your work is because the british backed coalition of admitted to killing hundreds of civilians in the past months in

air strikes on iraq do you seriously send your people in despite warplanes bombing iraq right now say 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. 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 regards children over three million children have been out of school at the moment nearly seven thousand schools need to be built. health facilities have been destroyed they need to be rebuilt roadside infrastructure but for as for children mainly education which is which is. which will make the. ground 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 three shut down its only power plant we speak to professor norman finkelstein about his latest book gaza an inquest into its most of them children keep in touch with us by a social media we'll see on wednesday one hundred seventeen of the day the publication of the communist manifesto by called looks and writer shingles.

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investigators say sunday's church shooting in southern russia that killed five may have been an act of terrorism. syrian pro-government forces are reportedly preparing to enter the city of prince to help kurdish militia repel a turkish offensive to washington failed to deescalate the month long conflict between its two allies. the. director admits the u.s. does interfere in other country's elections whether it is quote for a good cause the comments coming in the wake of the alleged russian meddling saga cuts. i mean what has this country done for the majority of the countries in the middle east if you're an american i don't sound like an american. in the reagan american fashion blog was dubbed un-american by a t.v. host but criticizing u.s.

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