he would go on to be courted by labour's alleged iraq war criminal leader tony blair that led to the alleged b.p. deal over lockerbie prisoner abdel baset on the ground he convicted of britain's biggest ever terrorist atrocity how did he get itself to get these contract that is the question because the british deny any quid pro quo between the release of mark and the contracts 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. nuclear. tony blair paid a number of british prime minister paid a number of visits and on his second visit in two thousand and seven 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 ramadan of the sun we haven't seen you for for quite. some time 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 of the biggest demonstration just as a reminder maybe specially to someone of the labor benches who voted for the iraq war what do you say to them when they apologise still saying 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 from rubbish dumps and so on this is iraq one of the richest countries in the wall the by its own 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 he 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. 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 fortune 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 zani special 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 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. 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 it is president a little term hasn't acquiesced to tory's amazed to say bomb damascus in border in iraq would bring 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 now they tag along with the 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 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 the. it's been supporting kurdish groups against its nato turkey it's not

explicitly supporting to the level britain is illness relink groups like the white helmets. the white house most are supported by supported by both britain and the united states and fact of the founder as a call it was a call and the british army so the you know britain is committed to the to the white house and saw as the united states which has now pledged the renewal of financial support to the. civilian defense force what really am practice and with a lot of eyewitnesses that embedded with al qaeda forces and we have we have a statement from the white house much 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 court according 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 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. seventy nine since the iranian revolution of one hundred seventy nine. run

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 a 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 there 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 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 and. mind for us i mean i would like thank you after the break we'll ask

the president i'm in a world consultant on models and mannix man in the fantastic four ledger equipment will 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. he everybody i'm stephen both in the. hollywood guy the suspect every proud american first of all i'm just george bush and r.v. to say this is my buddy max famous financial guru and we're just a little bit different i'm not. going to try not to run your windows up with all

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welcome back of last night's british version of the oscars the bafta is anything to go by awards in 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.-men 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 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 didn'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 they actually do these really interests and they don't really actually genuinely i did the job i'm going to the job i decided late and of t.v. and that's when i saw the governor i see oil as an exact to the company and to present a mental world and you know continued in a certain number of years were in there and sort of holy books and movies and t.v. shows and stuff and i just these dear guys like me you know it's like men or women who i met with they remember us in such scenes really do exciting and because we think a lot and seeing wayne go into this in your logic cast a lot can spend a lot of the work at that hour and a little properties most valuable thing in the world trade has specially when you look at the amount of t.v. channels out there and just a lot of content that's so little they just wanted to have something it was like an ip machine you know i don't know what else has got ok well i want to get under that in a second but let me just before we get on there yet those those are very important ip matters that what is my. 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 us all up done it is up to you and house and that's my first ever since the sailors are sniffing actually it's so since they got company since i've become an employee of my parents and what what is it exactly one to do something that was a can of they care a doctor the magical thing you know that imagine an army that's how the parts are something that's appealed to me the idea of doing something if you grew up laking these magical things a lot of that eggs now at all that's the stuff imagine doing and not see the action but really you know so it can add some consent if you want it's about whether or not lots of it feels moral it's so going to be a bit in the stream sure very adult there you know what he did a funny you know i says if you like acidulated and this is you know whether that's using that sort of humor because of course they were kick ass kings and 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 of not distributers twenty hours of material yeah just in terms of minutes netflix is doing at those hours of that intimacy you know it's insane and. 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 honest try to that's interesting ben let's make this funny but less funny let's say it with a silence the answer and you know without us netflix is just a craft or you know just just how we could say and the yes which i love you know 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 all of it or you should actually just something to everyone and that so just let me do i do best and so i will get to know the future 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 to me as its more radical. i actually think it's the difference

between theater and sudden i mean this feels like a change we had a hundred years ago as opposed to the one sixty years ago feels like an entirely different we're going to give you a couple of examples of how it's great he explained later than a movie that has a fantastic there was a masterpiece but because it costs a lot money and that need a lot of money and it's all in couple of these it was 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 the devil numbers and i think it's all secret and just being judged on its artistic merit and the buzzword being this is a great movie in order taymor to more people would have seen it and as a as a rate as just that 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 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 and it's the fields and more than just feels like it's against others just as a follower and that lets you know that international but completely they've asked

the operator which is so it's a going to create a lot of also the consumer look and say to the idea that you know there's something that i would never find us and i complained on that netflix then it's been stuck so i think we're coming to the end well you know and we're coming to the beginning of another one i think out i think you'll see two systems is going and they do it you know that's why this he's looking to buy fox and so on you know the all the future licensure i mean obviously you're already successful but they are young and up and coming comic book writing 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 from birth of in some way a company like netflix and other streaming services or put it up as test it out yes i mean i've never had one conversation with a set on the sat and if anything added at the entrance of their house a few weeks ago and 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 shit as a coincidence like the wild west spread over. before it sounds like

a netflix advertisement i want to say that streaming 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 a maze exclusion. of those iconic it's actually you know i guess i'm cancer like yeah you know it's funny you have these rumors for years and you know what i think . is that old mostly ever heard of alternate to be true when something started these rumors where that is you know the terrible things have been going on with the bad guys in hollywood the twins and you know all this you know all of the cia been involved in some production good thoughts on movies and so it's like it's all true i mean as the we just enjoy it's up until all of us would have the b.b.c. and there again this is i suggest trying to i think there's a shift coming in every county in sediments coming in television coming in there's

look at i don't trust the b.b.c. anymore it's not the first place i look for in news the morning i look at our source some of this the modernization of news. the you knew that when you start a comic book writing there's a infamous book allowed to read donald duck about 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 miller guy is getting a bit powerful he's up the best selling list maybe we can have our little character and tell him to write one in. you know but like gatt you know it is partly i think that's probably been going on a long time not even hitting the subject delco with the plot lanes changed and what they would do was. to get planes that jeeps and setting a jeep and a helicopter or something in it that i see so that hollywood's always had that relationship to going to save money i can see how the but luckily it's never as never actually came across here but if you did a movie of the 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 it's easy to do but wasn't so the about us 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 bit it was like only because it was of the out i'd rather 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 but miller 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 though 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 effected 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. that i care and that's 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 good drivers 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 welby 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 why 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 could bite 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 resources 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 on and so than live in safety. it will be it'll get really difficult again and yes a future for iraq the iraqi government is 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 relatives. 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 ok if it. does your question for three million children or been out of school in the last three years is a high priority we hope the government will prioritize providing education for the children as well as the millions of children who are displaced and have their own. homes some of which are destroyed schools are destroyed and that's what we are hoping to happen what's it like for your workers because 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 exhausting. 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 going to build. health facilities have been destroyed they need to be rebuilt roadside infrastructure but for as for children mainly education which is which is they which will make the future of. 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 shut down its only power plant we speak to professor norman finkelstein about his latest book gaza an inquest into its martyrdom field and keep in touch with us via social media we'll see you on wednesday one hundred seventeen years to the day of the publication of the communist manifesto i call monks and fried fish and. seemed wrong. wrong just don't call. me old yet to seep

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