help with restoring the water supply in clearing the rubble. i found of mine on the streets near my house my friend and i tried to detonate it from a distance but it didn't go off we thought the mine didn't work and walked towards it and it's exploded my friend was killed and i survived. now the meeting is continuing in the halls of the u.n. security council different countries are stepping up to speak and address the situation in eastern guta so all eyes are on the chamber at that of the body that leaves the united nations people are wondering what will be said next but it is certainly tense as different countries have a very different perspective on what's taking place in syria live from new york this hour callup and thank you well our senior correspondent right because the it now it takes a look at who exactly is in control in eastern. east ghouta is not

a nice place to live in surrounded as it is under. constant war zone within and without. islam the army of islam holds most of east ghouta as the name may imply these guys crusading for democracy and when they aren't busy killing each other they share power with nuestra while kiat in syria and a number of smaller groups. these

are ruthless people in a cage civilians literally put woman and the elderly in metal cages and hoisted them onto roofs where they left them a literal human shield made of civilians to protect themselves their fighters from strikes these same people jihad ists who say they're fighting to free the country from outside then turn their guns on protesters when they day complain about the jihad ists themselves. these infamous incident being one of them a crowd of demonstrators fired upon by rebel fighters john kerry himself once called the rebels holding east ghouta a subgroup of isis and al qaeda remember what the u.s.

. led coalition deeds to isis in mosul. one of its kind of as of yet. they leveled an entire city thousands of civilians dead yet they say there was no choice the terrorists were sponsible by using human shields a sad fact of war for some reason this time around they seem to be avoiding any mention of who it is that controls east ghouta all but the same job that's when these limits blindly shelled damascus every day and slaughter more and more civilians well that's war when the syrian army responds suddenly it's an atrocity

remarkable isn't it how the rules change entirely depending on who's calling the shots. i'm happy to say we're joined live on the program by company a for something a former advisor to runs a nuclear negotiation team and or third calvary always a pleasure collect put this to first cut the proposed cease fire actually help the terrorists fend off the syrian army which is trying to clear them from the city essentially allow them to regroup and rearm. well there's always the possibility under threat temporary ceasefire would be taken advantage of by the rebels in this case these terrorists salafi groups backed by saudi arabia and others but i really hope that. security council meeting today would yield a temporary cease fire in order to create

a humanitarian assistance for the city really who are suffering so tragically and i'm glad that russia took the initiative of calling for this meeting today and security council really needs to look seriously at the situation from both sides and take serious action not just bandaging get through a temporary cease fire and un envoy mr de mistura has drawn powers with aleppo where we witness orderly evacuation of the civilians and the transfer of the rebels fighting there and certainly a similar situation could transpire in eastern good if there is enough political will and security council to bring it about do you believe that the positions that some nations are taking on the computer are different to those undertaking during

the liberation of what we see earlier in iraq and iraq's mosul for example the comparisons there. yeah absolutely you know i completely concur with your report is drawing attention to. the slaughter that transpired in iraq and the lack of any. minimum follow up by us led coalition forces to rebuild iraq are there is now liberated and. total absence of any attention by the mainstream western media. you know the horrific situation that transpired back then and now the somewhat exaggerated accounts we have seen references to you know eastern good. you know reference to the one nine hundred

ninety five bosnia and genocide certainly that's not the intention of the syrian government and as the saying goes truth is the first casualty of war right now we see a very concerted western media attempt to paint the syrian government the bad guy did the wall and to cover it reading space to the terrorists who are who are having the last bastion and the syrian government has legitimate security concerns because of the daily shelling of this capital city by the rebels we're just right erica thanks so much for giving us your take on the program cover africa saw before adviser to iran's nuclear negotiation team underwater decades of environmental damage on a picturesque portuguese island in the atlantic locals fearing for their well being more in the front after this.

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join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. you're back with our to international the windswept portuguese islands off in the azores in the middle of the atlantic ocean is in desperate need of decontamination decades of us are a force activity have allegedly left it polluted with hydrocarbons and heavy metals and islanders say that they are worried by the prevalence of camps or on other serious illnesses.

but back to twenty thousand this is the constant aso like this if this is releases and of a constant is the one now that is eighteen twenty twenty eight hours some twenty thousand twenty thousand. of them freely and it's time to run away from here as we're ready to stay too long. most of all we have is a series of locations with extremely high levels of pollution caused by heavy metals the hydrocarbons there are very high levels of lead in some zones that are copper zinc molybdenum makes all of them having metals that in certain concentrations can cause to realty cancer arrhythmia and neverending amounts of problems associated with an excess of these substances.

all my family they've done that area both of my parents died of cancer my mom of breast cancer and my dad was a different kind of cancer like when i was thirty three i was diagnosed with breast cancer. much confusing the more cancer cases there are the more that appeal ation asks why is this happening and why if private story of the road says that on one side all houses have a had at least one case of cancer and on the other side it's almost every other house that is not normal yours. the u.s. has maintained a presence on the island since nineteen forty three to syria serves as

a stopover for transatlantic military flights and is home to the sixty fifth base there although it's not known how many personnel are currently stationed there or one hundred sixty one hoses to accommodate them one former employee told us about the health risks that workers at the facility say they've been exposed to. you know if you go into your mint there was also a senate commission that came to check a legal process from some members of the american military who died and of them were exposed to redo the so. we and june this is on a found out that we are doing here through here to confirm the existence of radiation the center island radioactive contamination with. the dire environmental situation on the island was first acknowledged in a classified report written in two thousand and three which has since been leaked it details seventeen major fuel spills in one fifteen thousand gallons of jet fuel

released when a pipeline was intentionally activated that was in one thousand nine hundred four there's been no cleanup since the report stresses that the island's inhabitants are at risk from contaminants in this soil air and water is what the local experts have been telling us. we found in the data that was published referring to the two thousand and seven two thousand and eleven period a higher number of certain cancers in the prior. than the rest of the us especially regarding the rare occurrences for example. with thirty three percent of the cases being in prior divots while the area has only eight point five two percent of the population. and this is the repeats itself on various islands occupied by the americans this is almost a scorched earth policy where the problems accumulate and the local government

doesn't react the population has no capacity to take a stance maybe as a result of scientific illiteracy or lack of knowledge on the cause effect relations we have contacted both the us and portuguese governments but have received no responses to the specific questions we. the us government did however forward us a press release from last december it states that the two countries are aware of the situation and are seeking expert advice and best to proceed. right that's the news for our stay with us though because the latest edition of the alex salmond show is coming up on this week former to bertie ahern who's in the hot seat stay tuned for the. economy that's been created by financialization of everything outsourcing

manufacturing to countries like china totally ignore that just made that word up to ignore something. your local infrastructure built now trump saying we want to do infrastructure we've got to go borrow a trillion or two trillion dollars for a low are big. predator that would be china and china is owning all the cars in the twenty second century in america can't even get from point a to point b. . or similar should be exposed to the east europe because in most of the snow more than one of them in some. beautiful yes good new pushing through here bush will see you put him over the i'm close but then this might be able to move him the idea of the oh my goodness with the renewal comes the . surfing demeanor will some day and some as

a woman you can split the video feed the dog to the u.s.p.s. so you just little. to consume and you put jello to some of the feel of the meter showed some cool tools to the priesthood yes the people still most of them fish just to take a well what you could give that would just lucas one nation as we see when you do see each of us knows tells me of something that unify it will be me it will some will be so. there is now three hundred trillion dollars of a lable wealth in the world today when i look at how much money we spend in the world the military. we just talk about a few more billion up. save the lives of people around the world in doing such a way that doesn't create dependency it was that much wealth in the united states

that much well. the rest of the world is inexcusable for any person in the world today to go to bed hungry. you don't mess up syria got caught sick. chris that's russian security interest ok not just to start we want a stable syria and we want a stable lebanon and you can't just send planes every week to bomb the country and disrupt the political process in this way it's unacceptable.

welcome to that alex salmond shore from dublin from the public of violence this is a city that country deeply suspicious of britain's breaks up moves not least because of the implications it has for the peace process on the border between the north of ireland and here and the public but could also be. bonus for the us bustling city of dublin as jobs flock here out of the city of london i think the best the longest serving prime minister of ireland so. this is what you have to say. but after. your second longest serving tea shock after lehman. you have the shock could negotiated from the irish say the the good friday agreement. how much of

a risk is the bricks of process to that crucial agreement that brought peace to the whole idea was to try and make. the island of ireland one economic yunus. so that we could move freely without any restrictions without any regulations whatever that trade was true a frictionless border. which meant because now there are so many arguments about it at the time it was a boarded up was free of any security a free of any checks and free of any passport or reg the two controls of any kind then leave had fifteen years plus. of niland was developing and i lent out how do you cannot make links and was poor compare fickling and unfortunately breakfasts and so many ways and the owner mind and you think in the way that almost two decades of peace. of practical peace has

made keep politicians in the u.k. complacent about the solidity of the good friday agreement in this threesome mayo david davis even the new and on either side of the complacent because of speeding up p.t. that composite of peace and island we tried hard in the bracks at the base at to get the irish message over. i went to some of the universities and textures and accordance with the dead and tea soaked went over to some debate but the reality is that none of them care two hoots about northern ireland it was no longer an issue it wasn't one of the. top three stories as it was for for generations and the news it's as simple or as complicated as this i think that. if. u.k. pull. of the close of union forget the single market we know that are done for get

to you but if that political solution how can you have friction this border how can you have a border controls and without checkpoints along leader of a country you've been to not feel some sympathy for the prime minister to these images caught between a rock that is to say that the point you make with the customs union may be necessary to fulfill the frictionless board on some very hard cases and but. with a cabinet it's the nightmare for any and prime minister to have a cabinet is divided just as hard as both the difficulty for all so if i can be a bit parochial. position pascal lamy who is that the expert on world trade because of his w t o o's world trade organization days and european commission days has said that it is impossible to have

a non-controlled regulated border and if on the border if the u.k. pulled out that's our that's our dilemma and you know it's i'd love to hear it said david davies and all of the elders say that they don't want to damage the peace process they don't want to damage the good friday agreement. they don't want to do anything duff will upset the north and the south and all be done for twenty years and then quickly add both we're leaving the european union to a single market in the close of union it's not the people who start fighting again are violence alex it's it's a two way trade it's you know are in it is an export country we export. practically seventy eighty percent of what we produce and the u.k. is the big the big market but it is the industries that are vulnerable and. the agricultural in the face it's the perishables it's they you know the edge to speak to small running in north county dublin as in the supermarkets tomorrow morning and

in different parts of the u.k. when you look right into the limit can you see examples of the one countries in the customs union one comfortable est norway and sweden for example not always out of the customs union sweden overseas afu european union members know that border this is not fictionalise but it couldn't be described as a hot ball of a maybe real sense it's not that it's not beyond the ingenuity of humankind to work the difference with a lot of the examples that are around if you take the european ones is that you know the countries that are outside third involve than i dared the european economic area and they've effectively signed off to brussels roods i'm tightly to movement and afraid meant to move and so so there. might be some technical difficulties but there's not many in our case it's different the. u.k.

will be out of the whole last and and what david davies lights to mention is the american canadian border boat and i don't know why he keeps mentioning that because they always have to do is google it and you'll see the massive coos of traffic. waiting for it to checkpoints so that's precisely the example you use it's precisely our fear on the irish border in this solution that we would like to find of somebody those use ingenuity is near to the status quo as humanly possible. as you led coalition governments you know the difficulties and depending on sometimes small parties for parliament. and that is the position that recently is in with the. that you didn't list party. leadership would seem less flexible less pragmatic so it was twenty years ago.

you surprised the move against what seemed like an accommodation between the tories only and the unit opinion before christmas i was surprised in the referendum campaign that the democratic unionist party they were the only party i think where the only major party in the nort who can bust. everybody else where remainders. and. it was a coalition of all kind of groups wanted to remain and of course to vote in order an ardent was overwhelmingly to remain. and sold out house to be taken into account to do you peto could opposing view they believed. they would get a very good deal at a so i suppose the election result was was great for that and i'm from a political point of view and it's a lot at the beginning of the election may was going to have

a huge majority and that nobody in ordinary that would matter a tall and that ends up in the election. to stay in power that she has to have the support of the. relatively small you know for her very very crucial group of do you pay democratic unionist party and pays so i don't blame them for playing the card i mean what they're. and i don't worry about that because quite frankly they've a responsibility now that if the british government does anything that's very negative. and affects the economy in order and i meant who's going to get the blame in northern ireland patrice and pay it will be that democratic unionist party so they can only support as long as they agreement this puzzle off. and that's not going to be easy as we go through this year. because. the transition agreement ok i don't see that it's

a difficulty transition agreement that probably would go where you want to go to the end to twenty twenty trees may want to go bit a bit longer but she has to watch the next general election when that is but more importantly she has to to now start work what's the future relationship and that's going to be to the crucial issue in order and i don't look at it and the islands off the. scottish first minister as are working together to try and secure the position within the single market a few of the thoughts of advice to these ministers how they might deploy deploy their arguments to get a result it's in our interest to to to watch carefully and the island the veyron of both north and south and how they do and what they do because we we have built up really good relationships in particular with scotland over over two years and that's something we want to keep and treasure a huge interest between our people and scottish people i think the big issue for

dab again it's trade me let's look at what is the future relationship about the future relationship is about foreign policy i think we can see where there can be solutions and those it's on security we can see where the solutions are it's in everybody's interest i've got security but it's trade is the big one. and the future relationship i think for trade is important republicans are in it for the islands environment for scotland for wales. that's what's going to happen in that kind of a knock on effect to our population or force them to your leadership the chinese council. a meaningful institution out of the agreements and normile and do you see. a more meaningful role for the british isles council high. looking at this confused landscape a means of getting that cooperation which would be difficult to see any other

institution which could bring about what we all toss forevermore that we were going to be in the european union together. and that we would be partners in european union and that's the negotiating table for fisheries and. you know for health care and cooperation and education was going to be in the european union and . bracks it happens that's not so anymore there is no british representative sat to table on any of these issues but the issues are still hugely important so i think the british are as council would be the only place i have where political leaders of these islands would meet the institution of the arrangement is dare and it hasn't been used enough in my if you. think it should be more active and there should be more engaged meant so i think you're correct i think it's your other side of bracks as it gets a new lease of life beyond the buttons of possibility the future british prime

minister or perhaps even the english prime minister might be folding up. and asking for some subjects to be raised in the european titles that will not be able to raise them so i think crazy his position in the transition period. is that. the european council would be continuing on and britain would still be in the european union fully and they won't have any say whatever to the go satan table i mean this has to be the worst time and if you're playing cards you definitely give up so i don't think being the long terabyte include the shark terror and the british will need our land and the doors to be helpful it will save us a little boy if you like i don't so we'll follow your cubs face up it's a bad hand.