on the basis of dialogue and compromise the very wrong ones a compromise but the solution proposed by cost of all veiny and is not a real solution. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education is being supplanted by the right to access education. higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business and what you're good models of. following good to make. you want is the place of students in this business model for college i was born now i'm an extremely more higher education the new global economic war.

welcome back to dublin i'm speaking to many marco who for fourteen years taught on or president of ireland a lot has been said the but i was chef anomic progress of transformation and i went over the last generation looking through a political career how would you assess the social transformation of our the social transformation of our land i think really is rooted in the massive changes that happened in access to education from the one nine hundred sixty s. onwards with the opening up of second level education free and then the mass of the cation of university education as you know ireland has one of the highest rates of third level education it's working mom is working people are going to give you a simple example my mom and dad my dad god rest of my mother were what were smart but they belonged to a generation that had no chance of education my father became

a barman my mother became my hairdresser they would have loved it had the chance to stay on school after fourteen but it just didn't happen when i got into university i was the wards of nine children the first of my family. were to go to college and my parents were so enthralled that they took the whole nine of us including the baby who was my mother's youngest child who was then only a matter of a few months old they took us to lunch we'd never been to lunch before and. i had just got my a level results so i knew i was getting the queen's to do law. school. what happened was the girl who were serving us came along with the menu and i can still remember my father giving it to me for me to order for all of us i remember the pathos of that some home my father felt increasingly there was a gap between him and his daughter who was nigh to become an educated person

because my parents had wonder in their eyes at the idea of being in the company of educated people they often told them they were really only educated people they were under the thumb of really were the local clerics. and so. for them the idea that their daughter was going into that world was an extraordinary phenomenon now i tick that the image of that that for me was the watershed in ireland because everybody around us was first generation to university everybody around us suddenly had kids who were becoming whatever their parents had never had a hope of being we know could become and did become their culture that we came from the religion that we came from the underpinning value systems that we came from we know had the tools for interrogating that to ensure that those things were consonant with the other parallel track we were living with which was the european convention on human rights the universal declaration of human rights the

realisation that for example that we as women or catholics or blacks or whatever that we were the equal of anybody and everybody and everybody was entitled to risp . ect if we wanted respect we had to give it that systems that had grown up around disrespect around elites the hold for example of the churches in ireland. diminished greatly and there's an irony in that because i and most of the people around me who have the benefit of education got that education thanks to the churches we belong to in my case it was a dominican nuns in the mercy non-zero who who give me access to the education that got to me where i am now to kind of an irony to me that that c.m. church that give me my education simply cannot cope with educated women it seems but at least the hierarchy of the church can't cope with educated women they are

terrified of them and but that's a good thing too because that proves the problem of power. of interrogation that we were given the powers of analysis that ensure that we're always seeking to refresh and that the destiny we see is a destiny of equal and the future of our lives where women the future of. strong i think the future of our land is really very very strong when i think of what we coped with during the years when the celtic tiger disappeared and the huge problems that that produced for everybody particularly people left with huge debts and people who lost their jobs and having come from a time when it looked as if we had actually cracked forever the problems of migration and poverty and. employment underemployment and unemployment for one golden moment when the celtic tiger was and it's you know when

it was at a very advanced age we felt the power of what could be when everything was working well for us then that all fell away it was a diabolical lesson and the hardship the people injured but then they endured it you know with something approaching real economic real stores as an extraordinary store cism and we've now come through it still with casualties but. but we're through the worst of it in my view and in the doing of that i think the social solidarity that we have is really it's an exemplary thing i'm very fortunate my three children who've all been away have all lived away at some time or been away at some time all tell me that by comparison with all the places in the world they've either lived or have studied that they would live nowhere else but the great city of dublin maybe my clues thank you so much for just one thing. for

example sure you get the quick pushes the couple. as you know the whiskey goes in in the quick or was the scorched best but. this was this is where you have this all over salute you of course for our thank you mike my late father would have adored this though i have to say on his deathbed when we asked him what advice he wanted to give the ninth children gathered round his bed willing for him to die he said jemison is your only man. for good so what a pleasure. no to discuss the interview with really michael hughes and they did the three interviews and this series i'm joined by professor john tong professor of british and irish politics at the university of liverpool john welcome to the valley so i'm unsure so looking at the million mark lives interview which in

some senses personifies the peace process a teenager growing up in belfast when the trouble started to become president of ireland at a time basically of the peace process been established and of gloomy economic and social progress how rate issue to be worried about the brics at threat to all of that progress where you sense from the interview with mary mcaleese her frustration at the way that briggs it threatens to derail a very carefully constructed peace process mary mcaleese was part of that peace process generation having lived through a conflict she came to appreciate greatly as did her children the benefits of relative peace in northern ireland and she seems monumentally frustrated at how briggs it threatens to derail that she seemed baffled at the fact that anyone could receive a carefully constructed process by an act of economic self harm from from a british point of view and from our point of view as she points out what about the good friday agreement that's the question that's not been answered the good friday

agreement is an international treaty it's read just that the united nations it can't simply be changed that the the stroke of a pen and strand two of that agreement the all island dimension you would simply have to rewrite it to accommodate the united kingdom leaving the european union as mary mcaleese said the good friday agreement was predicated upon the u.k. and ireland being part of that european union the implications of brigs it are very profound for both nations and thinking well let's have a look at the other two interviews just snatches from them and see what they have to herrmann middleburg donald had to say. i mean this threesome me or david davis even though you know on either side of the complacent because it's been updated of composite of peace and we tried hard in the breakfast at the base to get the irish message over. i went to some of the universities and textures blood and the court and the dead then to soak went over to some debates both the reality is that

none of them curt 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 in the news. thirty years of troubles twenty years of peace but of course but that process which some people believe is a fundamental danger to the peace process how do you evaluate the braggs this and the good friday agreement are mutually incompatible you can also have brags that you cannot have a forcing of the north of ireland i was of the european union on the one hand and still claim to honor in words and spares and last are the good friday agreement i think the tories have played a very dangerous game no way can our and our show darren and or will our lands be

the collateral damage in the midst of all of the ass. but first here betty i have the myth that he was to show who negotiated the good friday agreement if uses words beautifully but some of his stuff was very very pointed you can understand bertie ahearn frustration with the way things have developed in terms of the good friday agreement when you've got british ministers or former secretaries of state for northern are now recklessly saying frankly the good friday agreement as served its time they certainly weren't saying that when they were in office you can understand why bertie ahearn is virtually uttering disbelief at the way events of turned bertie ahearn was the man who flew up from dublin to belfast on the morning of his mother's own funeral to try and clinch that agreement he put years of effort without any electoral reward in the south people weren't voting in the twenty six counties of violence on the basis of what was happening in the north bertie ahearn wasn't doing it for you know vainglorious reasons he wasn't even doing it for

domestic political reasons he put a lot of effort into the peace process for the good of ireland as a whole and of the middle of mcdonald very much the merging woman of politics if she's going to be a force to be reckoned with merriment on was obvious successes you carry on and she's very very smart intellectually she's very very well politically she will leitch in fane i'm sure to greater success you've got a lot where she come from first of all in one thousand nine hundred seven the year prior to the good friday agreement she only had a single member of the oil aaron you know twenty years on the vote there already up to twenty three t.d.'s on the mary lou i would expect she would fain to continue to grow very rapidly and i think the big attraction in terms of mary lou to ordinary voters is she's not really associated with the northern irish conflict in the way that gerry adams was so she's far less politically toxic and she can in many ways continue to modernize shin fein and lead it further and further away from those ira roups this week we've seen

a significant shift in the labor party british wing on the question of the you. being customs union that may offer an op if it's supported by a majority of m.p.'s as it might be a solution to a physical border between the north of ireland and of the public but many of the interviewees are suggesting this is more than a bit of physical border the storm of the birth a psychological border there more than just the existence of customs porson yeah i mean nationalists across the on the violence will just about accept a border as a political fact in the short to medium term but they want a united ireland more broadly but they're certainly not going to accept it as a fence nor reinvigorated one. of the troubles now whether you have an electronic fence or whether you have a physical fence the fact is you know it's something that nationalists don't want the only way you can get around that is to have a customs union embracing the u.k. and ireland and if there's not a bespoke u.k. island deal then frankly the u.k.

has to stay within the customs union as the labor party is now proposing there are no alternatives professor john tongue thank you so much just one final thing looks air from a liverpool swiss school producing qualities but for being a guest of the show in total to the they'll examine quick whisky scotch in the quick the couple in the past phoned your many friends in liverpool fantastic thank you very much thank you so much for the interview thank you. throughout all three of our programs in ireland these major figures of zero when the dangers that bret's that poses to the peace process they see the dismantling of bali as an island is not just physical but psychological and breck's that threatens up process interestingly the rather more concerned about the potential impact on the island of ireland itself than for example the threat to trade and commerce between britain and ireland. and westminster the tonic plates are also shifting the opposition

labor party switch to supporting european customs union this week is not just a tactical shift to place the government in a tight parliamentary partner but a strategic move past the justified on the basis that only such an initiative can honor the pledge to fictionalise border between the north and south for violent it seems that now for the first time in westminster politics what churchill termed the dreary steeples of a man and tyrone could be crucial in determining the political balance of london. so from all of us that the i like simon show a goodbye and schumann next week for our special program marking international women's day.

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let. me put in unveils russia's new strategic all snow including and you can a capable missile he says can defeat all existing defense systems this comes in response to the u.s. development of an anti missile shield. or with the world reacting to president putin speech the u.s. state department briefing turns ugly after the spokes person refuses to take questions from russian journalists. who say that they are you take out there and from there shouldn't you say that ok enough said done our move on. and south africa's parliament house is a measure that could see white farmers stripped of their lungs without compensation

we hear arguments for and against the controversial new. thank you for watching the news headlines here at entre international broadcasting live from moscow i'm kate partridge. that to me putin has delivered his annual state of the nation address to parliament sharing his vision of the country's future the president announced the development of new strategic weapons which he said outmaneuver all existing masowe defenses r.t. senior correspondent would have guessed if as more. if you aren't russian the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast.

russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in a rush hooted unveiled an arsenal of new weapons bigger faster stronger and deadlier than any that came before. the some super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an enigmatic new development seemingly nuclear powered cruise missile it flies extremely low to avoid detection and can hear its almost anywhere in the world says putin up next it's just fantastic an underwater drone submarine also nuclear powered with

a nuclear payload it can reportedly lurk underwater for months and months silent and detectable next to the oven god the hypersonic michel extremely fast rockets that can actively dog the vaid anti missile defenses you would see it is heading for the target like a meteorite. to top all of that off laser weapons systems though putin didn't go into details saying only that it still classified the russian president says all of this isn't to intimidate or scare anyone or invaded iran these are serious weapons designed for one thing restore and guarantee russia's strategic power in an age where an ever expanding nato is trying to nullify it to show what you mean wish to russia's growing military might is not meant to threaten anybody we have no plans and have never had plans to use this potential to achieve

offensive or aggressive in russia's in harm's military power is simply a guarantee for peace on our planet. restore parity in the world sure that there's no point in gauging in a senseless arms race after all mutually assured destruction has kept the world safe for the best part of a sentry well to stress his point to the new weapons serve only to balance the world powers who pointed out that us missile defense is already deployed in alaska and california we're following nato expansion into the east to science have also been set up in romania and poland and new science as soon set to be established in japan and south korea apart from ground launched weapons the system also includes a naval component this has five cruises and thirty destroyers which is stationed close to russia's borders we talked to several analysts to find out what they think

of putin's unexpected military announcements. decades after the cold war the usa really ruled the world and that balance of power is now shifting with russia coming in with many other major players and you look at some of the disastrous walls the west is involved ourselves in namely libya and iraq so there's some sort of balance coming back because i see it from what putin is saying and i hope he's absolutely right that this is a deterrent against the american led defense system and that's a very important. effective tool to have so i don't see intensification of hostile talk or scheming and planning has in the cards what is possible and what was what was put its intent was to sober up the west and to bring that back to realities what russia has done is brusque so states whatever it says publicly it's going to have to have

a deep research of everything of spending no on military because it's useless we were very surprised because we didn't know that russia was so advanced in the hypersonic technology and the real surprise in my opinion that not only. elaborated the but they're working actually and though both due to serve in the russian armies in my opinion we can compare this breakthrough with. nine hundred fifty seven when the when the soviet union for the first time since putin the space well the economy was also a key issue in president putin speech and annual four percent rise in g.d.p. was promised which would mean an overall rise of fifty percent by twenty twenty five also average life expectancy is targeted to increase to over eighty years russia's economic development and finance ministers told r.t. what they think of the goals putin has set for them. second issue all these

restrictions stimulated russia to increase production and we've been joined growth not just in sectors such as agriculture and every day goods we see the reorientation of our economy in science towards what we previously received via inputs we're developing our own high tech industries now picture opportunity at a key priorities taking a konami growth rate above the global average the goal set before the government of vital and will require more investment but all six key initiatives highlighted by the president development increased life expectancy improved business climate developing human capital assets boosting workforce productivity and reducing poverty have already been making progress for half a year now we're going to take them to the next level as well reaction to patients revelations about russia's nuclear capability happening coming in from around the world the pentagon said it wasn't surprised adding it had been expecting such an

announcement but tensions were pretty high at the u.s. state department briefing out he said mirah cohen has the details. well the state department says that russia's new hypersonic missile violates international treaties and heather now it was particularly concerned about the video or imagery that was released claiming that it showed the missile targeting the u.s. and when reporters asked about this the scene turned pretty ugly and now revealed just how uncomfortable she was when she slammed the russian reporters who pressed her on this as officials of the russian government let's take a quick look is will slow to take in the united states interests new styles all sent a different direction so i had to say that they are you know you ran from the ocean and i can hear you saying that ok enough said then i'll move on. which is what if it did happen they're not. officials of the russian government they're just asking a question about me oh really ok well we know that. r.t.

and other russian news or so-called news organizations are there i'm good and directed by the russian government so if i don't have to hear a lot of this shooting over how they're going to set you up to that moment you know this is my video is this video that you're talking about yesterday which is not an excuse me through and it was met with significant backlash from reporters all throughout the room but how did she respond with several doses of sarcasm of course but for the record this is her usual m.o. when she wants to avoid answering questions in the past she's referred to me and my colleagues as representatives of the russian government well veteran journalists for the a.p. matley asked a follow up to the russian reporter's question but that her now it's resentment which then carried over when he asked her a completely different question related to the appointment of ambassadors if there were people in line to replace you people were leaving and the fact is that because

you are not aware of it does not mean that that does not exist is that ok have a good moment because there are there are people in mind. and in line for those types of positions perhaps you've just not heard about it yet and then made a berridge of questions now or shut down the entire press conference and then rejected a reporter's question which rightfully upset the reporter who then stood up from her chair and followed now or out of the room we've got it we've got to go. rob i will talk to you after the know the iraqi parliament voted wednesday to call for a timetable for the iraq for foreign troops. now it's unclear what exactly agitated now are but it could have been the continuous stream of questions regarding the american reaction to president putin's address but journalists in the room were all defending each other so i wonder if we'll hear any complaints from the other reporters.