just get feeling if one means i love this they never play led to this one tokyo find it is going to go. along. like. this one was because did it because it didn't seem quite a cultural fit in height from the premise. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy usual suspects every proud american first of all interests george washington and r.v.'s to say this is my buddy max the famous financial guru well i'm just a little bit different i'm not a. good one no no one knows up with all the drama happening in our country i'm shooting the road have some fun meet everyday americans more. closely start to

bridge the gap this is the great american people. welcome back to more of britain's finance minister or chancellor of the exchequer philip hammond will deliver a spring statement about the economy of the united kingdom mainstream media will no doubt focus on his abandoning of neocon neo liberalism maybe but less attention will be paid to a tory britain arguably riven by division thanks to everything from benefit sanctions to the slashing of public services to subsidise the city of london official figures are conflicting about inequality which worsened under the labor

years of blair and brown but many would argue that whoever has been in power the voices of the most marginalized in society are being unheard senior producer pete bennett went to talk with the grassroots activists fighting for political representation in an effort to give the working classes of britain a starring role in their story how much of our lives are dictated by post schools and policies coming from the building behind me and this near liberal decisions are made on our behalf by select few how can elected members of parliament accurately represent the diversity of british society i speak it's activist on the front line campaigning against tory government and local councils working class issues striving to get the most vulnerable in society a seat at the table of power chris sparely is the founder and c.e.o. britain has class a grassroots charity stablish to tackle the institutions at the center of britain's class. a working class kid from i went to comprehensive schools all my life i'm

going to say just sort of statistically in the sense of you know if you throw enough working class kids in the russell group universities some of them get in and i go and i studied economics for three years and i nearly dropped out i think at least once a year because you just get there and you work so hard together you've done so many things to prove that you're worthy of being somewhere and doing something and then you have just thrown back in your face every minute of every day that you're around people who are better than you know around you equals your own you superiors because people have seen more than you they've experienced more they know more than people you know. so every year people from the top twenty percent of social economic backgrounds drop out of university of about four percent for working class kids which is really about twenty percent about eleven i think so two to three times as many work across kids drop out really every year and you know it's instilled in every single part of. various life and seven percent of kids educated in the u.k. go to private schools but private schools are such and still. a privilege that

a third of employees are going to private schools a third of the one hundred c.e.o.'s are going to private schools sixty something percent of all school and seventy percent of leading surgeons and lawyers went to private school so education policy massively guides equality in the rest of the country and education policy is decided in parliament inside film as an educational project comparing marginalized groups to tell their own stories but a collaborative documentary food bank that projects founder is talk to d.j. neil an activist educated here last school at sixteen to raise it due to single handedly telling night school until eventually in the fifty's been awarded a ph d. we worked with a group that. i showed them how to use film camera just had a handheld camera and what they did is they interviewed each other so that they could talk about why they came to the bank why they need to use it how they felt about used in the tank and of course what you get there when you get people telling their own stories they get very different version. when you it's all mainstream

media and people who come to the concert sanctions is one big thing someone came in a couple of weeks ago and they've been sanctioned because they've been told they'd been to the person that was assessed in their time and so that meant i had no money there was a woman with four kids who came in last week and she had been overpaid by the d.w.p. so they stopped her money so she had poor kids and no money coming in and people are being excluded from the ability to write their own lives they're being talked about by people who have no experience of working class by the high. can they possibly know what it's why to go through what the working class are going through at the moment they can't possibly know that so i think it's really really important that working class people get to represent themselves thirty years in the film industry academy you would winning producer be it bases work some british cult classics the old man is shifty plus the critically acclaimed feature letters from baghdad we spoke about her firsthand experience of misrepresentation from london to

hollywood in the last few years we really know that there have been some real issues around representation and discrimination and sexism and i think it happens around class too and a lot of it is really we're really about our prejudices in the u.k. and it wasn't who i started moving into production that i realised actually i didn't sound the same that i hadn't been to cambridge i hadn't had a private education and that most of the people had and then you also realise that so many of the people who are telling working class stories of course we do tell those stories on you they're not from your class and of course we live in a country that is very very polarized in terms of class and a lot of the information that people get about the working class is just through media representation and if the only visibility you happy working class people is on things like reality t.v. shows then there's not very much knowledge about working class life there's not much engagement particularly critical engagement with our working class people have been treated under

a series of governments neo liberalism has very little use for working class people and then it's much easier to blame them for their predicament and they are in an awful predicament a moment well to look at the structural reasons why people are all elite in the kind of lives that thatcher's definition the class was a communist concept to the blairite years of we're all middle class it's why we really come confused because the government policies around this equality act as it really protests. class and discrimination now it doesn't so i think we really have to have a really big conversation around this and i don't think it's a simple was all ideologies that are good or bad or particular parties are good or bad bad i think it's like a really big we view that we need to have since blair and those of working class people have turned away from the labor party because they see it's been dominated by middle class people who have middle class concerns and we can say that we can

see how abandoned and i think that's part of the bracks here to idea that oh it's because they're racists because they're an educated now it's because they've been abandoned and added that's what people need to realize that you know you can see in london and kind of being very contemptuous of the working class who voted to leave here but if you go to those mining those are mining towns if you go to the south mill towns and you see how people are living in then you might start to be able to understand why people voted to lay crossed is the early liberation very early to recognise merge most group of society that doesn't have protection of the qualities that you can fire someone or hire someone legally speaking for having a certain accent from being from a certain town or not going to a certain school we think that people social economic backgrounds don't have a bearing on how capable well so it should be decided for you whether you could be successful based on cross i mean i would definitely argue that quads in the whole

of all of the issues that are affecting people in this country of course we have to take things like sex and disability and race into consideration of course with the bar i think what we need to think about is not in terms of intersectionality but in terms of solidarity so that we work together and we recognise that you know there are racist engendered working class people i think part of them with identity politics is it deflects away from past and. the more visible. and i tend to become the more difficult has become poor working class people we contacted labor m.p. for north and a host of brits and has class life where street sing about the role m.p.'s can play in amending the equalities act he was unavailable for comment if you want to join the discussion the charity's next event is the great british class conference held at the london school of economics in central london on the twenty fourth of march. senior producer pete bennett on working class representation at westminster there

because jeremy corbin the bookies favorite to be britain's next prime minister right now change all of that joining me now is liam young author of rise how germy corgan inspired the young to create a new socialism liam thanks for coming on going underground i've got to ask given the massive mystery around this tragedy and wilcher of this m i six agent and his daughter emily six the head of it weighs six a germy deal of said about the protagonist of your book just ahead of the twenty seven election journey corwin is a danger to this nation at six which i once led he wouldn't clear the security vetting. that means jerry coburn is really dangerous yeah well they'd have us believe that for sure but i mean jeremy coleman's been a member of parliament for a hell of a long time and if there was any issue with his background i'm pretty sure that they would have picked up on it already by now and we saw with the whole czech spy scandal and smearing this world that there's no depth to which these people won't

sink to do sport very early on. needles and people all do the million the rules just weren't listening to mainstream media when it came to the result it definitely yeah i mean you know newspaper. sales are falling for most titles and a big reason for that is because the demographic of people who buy newspapers are literally dying off a little bit more that but it is true but we get on news and opinion and information from different sources now and so a lot of those hits against jeremy on in a check spy all the things that we had throughout the election you know allegations of being a sympathizer with the ira with has a lot of all of these different stories that we've been hearing for the last two and a half years they don't really land with young people because it's not an area of the media that we're paying that much attention to the guardian newspaper columnist comparing this is actually serious and quoted in your book of comparing people

people like who do the gruesome and you know ali manson murders years so this was this was the discussion about the cult but it's actually quite offensive to be talking about somebody who has inspired mass membership of the labor party who has engaged young people whether it's a joke or noids not to just dismiss as all is a cult especially in that that way with that comparison what it was and what took hold because quite early on in this a lot of it is about media saboteurs you named the magazine g.q. were. what we're doing is equally all the work will get there were certainly pieces that were asking the question of why do young people hate jeremy corbyn and this because for a while we had this idea that young people were actually big venture capitalists who supported the tory party didn't like socialism or what they offered in that it was old school and they link to all of this which only being old as well so why

would young people be inspired by an old bloke who makes jam and has some dodgy tracksuits sometimes why did all of these journalists get it so completely wrong as to why. we called and could do better than the evidence of thirty forty five in terms of increased vote well i mean for people who talk a lot about plurality there's no plurality in many areas of the british press. when people were asking the parent left wing papers to represent the korban project fairly they were being told to shut up basically but it's not about critics of any of the typically left wing press saying everything you write has to be protocol that all you have to have all of your commentators be protocol that it's about fairness people just want a balance there's no problem of reading a newspaper that half doesn't support half do it that's good that's a good thing but what we had in the press in the lead up to the election and actually over the last two and a bit years has been complete and utter hatred actually of the project and people

don't even want to engage with it or discuss it and you didn't much time for this term activist media when a blow to review that was somewhere it does give the spectrum clear evolved of our media and so on school books why don't necessarily think it is activist media in the sense that when people use that term they're comparing it to the establishment press who are supposedly the guardians of fairness and safe reporting for me this whole fake news phenomenon is actually down to a lot of them feeling uncomfortable but they've lost their grip on fake news fake news is printed on the front pages of my. stream newspapers every day in this country to the point where you get a little correction on page fifty two but then sites and online news sites that are trying to present the leftwing view are completely dismissed as crazy or mad. would you make of some loser that of course with relative success of

course did lose the lawyer who said that the problem goes down to education in britain. history teaching about russia and the if britain better education system we'll talk more about russian crimes in here who wouldn't be doing so where the response to the election was mind blowing wearily in that first of all they spoke about bribes and fees and said everybody was bribed then it became people only voted labor because they didn't think jeremy had an actual chance of winning and then as the tories realised they had this huge problem they turned to this idea that young people have not been taught about stalin's crimes in the soviet union. you know i don't really know how you respond quite seriously to that but if our debate has descended to that. writing something that's left wing that will be pilloried i'm sure for being so shouldn't be too much of a problem then young thank you and that's it for the show will be back on wednesday

though for the fallout from british finance minister for that hammond spring statement on the state of the u.k. economy till then keep in touch by social media with you on wednesday forty years to the day british backed israeli troops invaded lebanon displacing all killing up to a quarter of a million in catalyzing the un's beautiful force is now in dialogue with hizbollah . and it is a nuisance he says. the church secret indeed catholic priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the do graphic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot were the previous standards not known the highest ranks of the

catholic church help conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that end of that's known as the i intend to include at tuesday's out in. this. case felt. the. same wrong why don't we all just don't call. me while he's yet to shape out he still comes to attica. and in detroit because betrayal. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground .

in the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening times where. it was abducted from his office the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers a deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet felt but also discreet

because they concern fraud. some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport says or you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business. i. think.

the headlines. over fifty. children safely leave the war ravaged syria enclave. via a humanitarian corridor or offer a deal is negotiating with some of the militants that area. the british prime minister to resign may face as pressure from the cabinet over her handling of the poisoning of a former russian spy on u.k. soil. deadline to prosecute former u.s. intelligence chief james clapper for allegedly lying to congress under oath. without any charges being pressed.

welcome to the program here on r.t. international on this monday we do begin this hour with breaking news straight from syria we understand now terrorist and rebel groups occupying the enclave of east and just outside damascus have reportedly started fighting each other that's according to the russian reconciliation center for syria which says the conflict began after the rebel groups were called to separate from the terrorists in exchange for a safe escape from the war ravaged area. in the meantime fifty two civilians half of them children have passed from the war ravaged enclave of eastern ghouta occupied as we know by various rebel and terror groups they've now crossed over to the government controlled side it is the first time civilians have been able to use the humanitarian corridor or intended previously they were either fired at by militants or resorted to using a pasta aid convoy as. the latest exodus was made possible after russia's

reconciliation center in syria negotiated with some of the militants occupying eastern ghouta and we can start to show you what the situation there looks like now of the syrian government has regained large portions of eastern ghouta ultimately in the green area here government control but ultimately they have isolated the militants now into these three individual pockets and civilians who lived in these territories under military rule are now telling their stories. in the deal that allowed dozens of civilians to finally leave the fighting. militants in control of the area have let them out almost two weeks after russia and syria open the humanitarian corridor was not an act of good world on behalf of the rebel factions but part of a deal russia and syria led some anti government fighters safely flee with their families and in exchange fighters in ghouta would allow fifty civilians to leave the war zone as world better mission we've been suffering horribly through seven

years we all stayed neutral in misrata that we could have means can do anything they didn't lattice live controls the pressure on us to leave the mystery much of she'd never we haven't seen any of the elite sent to us we haven't seen any money nothing they took everything from us. militants treat civilians anees good as a bargaining chip making sure that if anyone flees they do it on the fighters terms the gloves were off from the start the russian defense ministry has reported that the paths to safety were shelled almost religiously precisely to prevent anyone from fleeing to damascus trying to scape the hell fire between the government forces and militant groups whose fighters far too often side with terrorists.

who have all sorts of needs inside the border today the priority remains medical help that we need to. reach with the people inside all that food aid as well. got the other people what about the rule of law. that started this year.

the british prime minister facing pressure from some over the poisoning of a russian spy. they want to adopt a stance on the case investigators think that his daughter deliberately targeted with. traces of the substance have been detected at the restaurant where the two before they were found. is a former russian intelligence agent he was stripped of his rank spying for the u.k. and then jailed for thirteen years for espionage though he was released in a high profile spy swap between the u.s. and russia although the probe into his poisoning is. already pointing the finger at russia. the reports. hey poisoned the former russian spy you could argue it's a rhetorical question because everyone seems to know the answer we look objective lee at the evidence we don't get ahead of ourselves and if there is evidence of

a foreign state involvement we will need to respond as being more aggressive and we have to change the way that we deal with it because we can't be in a situation in these areas of conflict where we're being pushed around by another nation the fact that a nerve agent was use strengthens the likelihood that this was a state sponsor of some sort and russia is the chief suspect of course but what about innocent until proven guilty seems that it's just guilty guilty guilty even though the home secretary's been calling for caution we need to make sure that we respond not to rumor but all the evidence we must avoid speculation to make sure that we give the police the space that they need regardless of call for a thorough inquiry british politicians and some in the media seem to want blood spilled right now and theresa may face is increasing pressure to respond to these claims as she meets with security minister if from helping hands and offering the

governments a list of options a slap on travel bans and so a freeze on assets for russian nationals this suggest kicking known spies out of britain or even sending troops to eastern europe piece just as well that we're currently reviewing our defense capabilities so that we can increase them can't we the fence is a first use of the realm and spending two percent on defense is now not enough it's quite extraordinary because what we've got is a good ministers who at the same time investigations take grace. who are actually urging their own prime minister to take action against the country which is innocent until proven guilty you know everybody is innocent till proven guilty that's the burden of proof and the evidence the investigation finds out that russia was not responsible for this. then my concern is whether this will get the publicity that the deserves because there is a danger i've already we've seen that in the investigation we want to be told and

all of the information will be classified and so. you know the damage has already been done to russia if you like russia has been deemed guilty in the in the media and most of the media in the court media they have been waiting for the evidence they've been putting on the front pages and the paper that russia was guilty the fares to where ever former russian double agents had the worldwide media in a spin until the tree itself it appears the only option is to keep calm and investigates. the five year deadline to charge former u.s. intelligence chief james clapper expires on monday despite calls from both parties to prosecute him he allegedly lied to congress under oath about domestic surveillance. does the n.s.a. collect any type of data are on millions or hundreds of millions of americans. no sir. it does not. not wittingly. there are

cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect but not not willing when. statement was revealed to be eroding just months after the testimony with edward snowden's revelations about mass u.s. surveillance american lawmakers have criticized the justice department for failing to open clappers case he and others who have held administrative power must be held accountable to the same laws that govern the people of the united states he admitted to lying to congress and was an remorseful in flippant about it the integrity of our federal government is at stake because his behavior sets the standard for the entire intelligence community political analyst charles alltel says quote was case fits into a larger pattern of failures to prosecute. it can be taken very seriously but to date it is seldom been prosecuted aggressively and depending on the facts of the case. prosecutors may make a determination that they only want to go forward with cases that are easily won

when you look past the narrow issue of clapper and you look at the long period of president obama's tenure for eight years which is only now beginning to come under the kind of scrutiny i felt it deserved a long time ago what you see been a longstanding pattern and practice of harnessing the machinery of the fearsome machinery of the us federal state against enemies of the obama administration and in favor of friends of the a bomb in a straight and that's the larger story are not simply whether clapper should be prosecuted for the one instance that's admitted where he did lie under oath to congress. rushes the defense ministry has released a video of tests of his latest missile systems among the new weapons is the hypersonic kinja or dagger missile which can go ten times the speed of sound and is said to be capable of.