i agree they tell greig's how much money they think they can get away with and greeks get a rubber stamp out there's nothing independent about it i mean it goes back to gordon brown and alice to darling i mean the people are introduced to the they say fair attitude the light touch regulation in all of this in the destruction of hundreds of thousands of a semi in the u.k. apparently no one has done anything wrong lloyd to set up this one hundred million pound five violent to compensate good for audience slip for pain the no fine yet. and lloyds is saying lloyds banking group is saying good progress is being made with the apportioning out this hundred million for i presume these are settlements and not admissions of liability or negligence on their books what they say to the victims is we will give you money for distress. and yet what you suffered at the time because it must have been horrible for you they are terrified of

a machine that admitting guilt about it and certainly having broken so many businesses they're not about to give people their stolen goods back so you won't get an admission of any guilt mediation they said to me your businesses would have failed anyway and we don't believe you're a victim of a crime well fortunately for me thames valley police don't agree and my case is now the subject of a criminal investigation so i'm limited just what i can say about that but i can assure you that having spent seven million pounds pursuing the original crime and operation hornet thames valley police would not be spending more public money if they didn't believe they were going to get important prosecutions the police is investigating is as you say. our lives just good to see of him being abroad. how the media has informed the british public about the ongoing crisis that began

in twenty eight because some would say we've been told that this is a vital part of the british economy and we have to at all cost sacrifice everything from libraries of public libraries to social services to save it because without that britain's prosperity is threatened what have you would you characterise the media reporting of what the banks did to the country i only know what i see and that is that millions of people in this country have suffered. and it isn't because of subprime markets in the states it isn't because of lehmann brothers is because of this great global thing it's actually because a few bankers in the u.k. got very greedy they introduced strategy to try and boost their balance sheets by stripping the assets out of small to meet. size businesses well you have to remember is this goes back to the mid one nine hundred ninety s.

when the banks suddenly became large with mergers with building societies and they actually became profitable and they had to boost the balance sheet so where did they go you can't go to the consumer because that is so tightly regulated so they went to the small to medium size businesses and contrary to the way it has been reported these weren't failing businesses as we know from the geology the r.b.s. division over ninety percent of those businesses were destroyed they weren't all ailing businesses it was an avatar it was in the hospital g.o.g. the same with lloyds p.s.u. these businesses had assets and the bankers needed. and so this was a wholesale culling of british businesses that were the backbone of our economy and you use the term prosperity i don't think this country is prosperous and one of the reasons why we have deep economic problems is because we are so dependent upon the

multinationals the great big businesses that don't pay the taxes here anyway and we tore out the backbone of the british economy which was to small to medium sized businesses thank you. after the break national security we speak to the store of the writer with no hands the film documenting alleged us government collusion with hollywood bowl the ball coming up in part two of growing up the ground. american man one of the melting. of the second is the radiologist. of the bootstrapping anyone can succeed in america who works hard so this is a whole group of people all generation in america is saying that there is no melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live up so their response essentially. just to go into conflict and this is a measure of. the most expensive fish in the world each one is selling for

tens of thousands of euros it continues to grow its entire life if it was thirty years old you might have a two ton fish out there and yet they don't get that big today because we're way too busy catching. it's only remnants of a much larger mission was once there and that was much more widely distributed we have politicians that are in office for a few years they have to get reelected everything is very very short term our system is not suited and it's not weird for long term survival and that's why we have the catastrophes. welcome back in a time when some journalists parrot security service spokespeople google plans to censor so-called fake news and the leader of the free world fires people on social media you could think that you could sit in front of a t.v. and switch on a film to get away from government controlled output but you'd be wrong according

to research done by our next guest the us government as that close involvement in the early two thousand movies and t.v. shows dr matthew offered co-author of national security cinema the shocking new evidence of government control in hollywood and the star of the film the writer with no hands joins me now from bar in the south west of england welcome to going underground we appear to be in the middle of some kind of conspiracy film here in britain with the few facts i would you how would you see the coverage of the tragedy in wilcher through the lens of for the prism of say you know i'm trump skis idea about media manipulation and the manufacture of consent. well russia seems to be and has been for a hundred years a. kind of official enemy that's what the way the terms he would put it in the propaganda model of an official enemies are generally presented in more salacious

ways than that allies despite regardless of what actions they they are undertaking it seems that this is just an extension of that it always struck me really that. and i know this is a silly thing in a way to say on a on a russian state t.v. show because it's so it's kind of sort of obvious but in the last sort of twenty five years that the cold war was over should have this should all have been put to bed a long time ago russia's got an economy the size of italy. there is no threat from this country except for the way that except for certain more minor actions and it's kind of crazy that this is being blown up into the biggest next thing where when we have no evidence to to point to russian state involvement at this point anyway what i want to know is your investigations and research suggests that emphasizes that we shouldn't be looking just the way news may have preconceived notions about say russia you've done

a little research on how hollywood changes our perceptions. yeah really important in terms of shaping the way that we see the outside world. from the west so that's what most of my work's been about for the past. three years. looking at how. hollywood film industry and t.v. as well video games shaped the way that we see the outside world shaped the way that we see the institutions that govern us. well some people would be shocked at the connection in recent days the pentagon has actually tweeted how proud it is to work with ellen conan the price is right and c.i.s. why five zero. oprah two i know you've you've also investigated this is pretty much out in the open though. well they ought to give the impression of openness.

the pentagon and cia and white house have all worked with hollywood producers for over one hundred years. they want to show that they have a good relationship so that they seem sort of normal and nice and all this kind of thing but they also want to ensure that they're playing down the amount of cooperation that goes on between these entities hollywood and the government and there was so want to downplay how politicized that corporation is and of course the relationship is very politicized and it is very much more involved than than anyone actually admits i'll give you the key statistic on this which is that until myself and tom seconded this research the assumption and the current knowledge of among started a mix of journalists was that prosecute hundred films and t.v. shows have been affected in some way by the pentagon or cia over the past century

we've shown that it is several times more than that it's actually several thousand products that have been affected and some of these are affected and in very political ways including things that you probably wouldn't expect like meet the parents in iron man and the whole. but of course the pentagon and the cia would be quick to say all they are doing is correcting hollywood productions their script writers the directors that actors are. so they get their perceptions of the u.s. military industrial complex correct and make any mistakes. yes well obviously there is some of that it's a nice sort of cover story and that is part of what's going on but it's i'd say it's a very marginal par i mean in the end yes of course the pentagon's thinking you know this are telling themselves i'm sure oh yes we want to make sure that these medals are on this actor in the correct way and we want to make sure their hats are on the wrong way around. in practice of course they know that the agenda has to be much

more political than that they want to make sure there is nothing there is confrontational information or dangerous information that is put out there that will make them look bad of course that's what happens of course any institution would do that well i mean i mean they they all just asked mcdonald's to give you to work on a film about cows and expect that mcdonald's we're not. we're not try and manipulate the content of that production but none of us to be on counters but they cause they'd say also they wouldn one day any of these war films particularly perhaps more than say ellen and jack chose not to endanger the lives of u.s. servicemen service women well. actually quite spot as far as that with their argument because that would be really crazy i mean this film is are not national security. products that they are not something that is going to affect on the ground what's happening on the ground the news might be if you report the

location of a particular. person military personnel then of course that made in danger people who made you know two years after the event actually happened in the real world or even decades of. even the pentagon does not defend themselves along those kind of lines are we know we're trying to protect national security they protect their own p.r. lines and on this on the fact that you know they want to they say this is for the sake of accuracy that's obviously bogus given all your research that any viewers of this show what should they be aware of when they see a product as you're calling them an entertainment product released from the united states of america from or from a country which as i say the pentagon admits clearly they they do want to alter the perceptions of the u.s. military using entertainment. well i mean just be aware that it happens that happens very frequently that perhaps if you're watching a film with a military that actually depicted in it there's probably

a good fifty percent chance that it's going to be in the script was being gone through with a fine tooth comb by the pentagon and the cia. if you think that that sounds ok then you know you know you've been listening to life anyway if you think that sounds like a dangerous thing for a government to have that kind of power that kind of. involvement particularly behind closed doors without a great deal of accountability it's been very very hard for us to acquire a lot of this information through freedom makes not take a long time if you think that that kind of closed. way of approaching governance is a problem and you come in with name so we should stick a british film because that's fair and square not allied to our military industrial complex hopefully well britain doesn't have a great deal of the military complex and the united states has a much more developed p.r. wing of its national security apparatus but of course any nationalist in america the same whether that's russia or britain or south africa or whatever everyone has

their national cinemas and and they all are operating for the good of those institutions when there is advice coming to the americans that so much more though it does happen a little bit with m i five and a little bit with israel and things like that but there are so many stories a puny compared to hollywood so even a little you know big about the l.a. hicks building blowing up in central london that was in the famous james bond film l.a. shakes were nothing to do with the james bond films. there's a bit of involvement from. my five in terms of supporting the bond there was every detail some of that in the book is a new book it's not as extensive in the making about what the pentagon does that it does it so kind of formally in officially you know that we're about to go to an archive of material in washington d.c. where there are thousands of papers of scripts where there are where the pentagon to. change this we want this amended crossness out that's what source

structurally and done in such a kind of. careful way by the american government that doesn't seem to happen very much from these with these other countries where there is obviously influence you know the monarchy will be all over anything that's to do with the monarchy. but they won't have the. kind of level of interference it's just not possible on or. across the board as it is with dr matthew offered thank you well in a second we'll hear from the former vice chair of the british woman to move in jackie walker perform a scene from her play the lynching described as a fight for free speech arguably more relevant today than ever that's even a show about on wednesday or the twelve anniversary of the launch of twitter de facto the new battleground for free speech still then keep in touch residential media will see you on wednesday my name is dorothy rebecca ferguson

walker i was born in spanish town jamaica in nineteen fifteen i did well in school in very well in school in fact i want to scholars ship to become a doctor at the world famous unit he for colored people howard in washington d.c. . i had a great time at howard. i have never seen so many well educated people like me colored people all in one place we looked good to some of them fellows it first time i realize about politics in america i was walking down a hall at college and i hear it first like a whisper when israel was in egypt.

and let my people go. and i looked through the door and i listen and i listen and the voices are all our own me you see this was just after the war and politics was a dangerous game they were tell an ass that the enemy was a saw viet union and communism there was a witch hunt led by senator mccarthy era him yes people who stepped out of line people who wanted to change things they were accused of being commies of being on american they were smeared they lost their reputations their jobs some even lost their lives so i

became what you call it now political up to vist but if it was a dangerous time to be an activist can you imagine how it was to be a colored political activist there was legalized segregation you see america was in fact at least in the south what i would call an apartheid state. and the people then no different to the people now those people never want change you resist you are a threat so the government responded same way it always does. with terror state terra i thought. legalized murder.

when he was four and most probably last term is russia's president vladimir putin has six more years to fashion his legacy oh he's changed russia will we continue to check. it was.

a longing for more skilled eleven pm here. in storms to reelection securing his force to win the kremlin and a landslide victory the international reaction to putin's win ranges from congratulations from wellesley giving pleasing i'm going to criticism and insults they came out voted some made up song and dance of the election quite literally from traditional costumes to voters dresses angels and knights all coming out to vote get themselves heard and it seems enjoy themselves.

so twenty six hours oh no since the official voting ballot booth still closed and everything was started to be bolted up good to be a welcome all special coverage of the big presidential election here in russia like the red square continues for a couple more hours yet as we digest with albus so many experts and opinion makers the result the big result that came through the russian side has. eventually lection has been for it and it's been one we'll be bringing you all the latest in terms of developments and of course that all important reaction. is not put on planet earth maybe for the last twelve hours or so let us bring you the headlines limit food to pulled off a huge win last night getting over three quarters of the vote it means he will stay

on as president and could remain in the kremlin for up to another six years there for more than fifty six million russians chose him to leave that country his rivals didn't even come close to be sworn in as president for the fourth time and they put it if i did better than any previous election he's for check out the graph you can see on this graphic how he performed in these previous races got over fifty percent every time but you must be extremely pleased with the results for us today seventy six point six percent of the day but we all know it's not just drawing numbers that make an election it's the people taking pots that give it life.

it wonderful angel ever got through the security scanner into the day. earlier today it was so much business despite a busy night held a meeting of the presidential candidates he wanted to discuss their proposals with

their campaign promises and also share with them his plans now for the next six years is next term who to say to try to ensure dialogue with his foreign partners noting though that it takes two to tango this is what you would you know could you know when you're moving to pay special attention to russia's defense complex but let me out nobody here is trying to start an arms race we want to engage in dialogue with our partners of course that doesn't depend just on us it's like you love both sides have to be interested in each other otherwise it isn't going to work out. a love hate relationship so for the love a little at least reaction to the russian presidential elections been coming in from all around the world let's get the u.s. view will go over a d.c. correspondent said there are other scenario not a lot of congratulation ricard flying in stateside over to moscow it has to be said . yes well fortunately the white house has not repeated the rhetoric of

most american politicians as well as western media on russia's presidential election which resulted in president putin winning a fourth term by a significant margin over seventy six percent and even though there was no congratulatory phone call from the white house a spokesman did lee told reporters that the outcome came as no surprise i just as he was boarding air force one but not only that i actually commented somewhat positively on potentially developing relations with russia saying we will work to cultivate the relationship with russia and we will impose costs when russia threatens our interests but will also look for places to work. together when it serves our interests and now this is in stark contrast to other reactions we've seen upon receiving word of president putin's when american politicians attempted to delegitimize russia's political process but as senator mccain took to twitter to discredit putin's victory calling it a sham and going on to say that the u.s.

stands with all russians yearning for freedom which is interesting considering president putin managed to maintain over an eighty percent approval rating prior to the election and despite running against multiple candidates representative adam schiff one of your favorite anti russia folks that he said that putin only won because he banned his opponents from running but besides the usual officials whistleblower edward snowden had some words regarding a ballot stuffing that allegedly took place saying quote it's an effort to steal the influence of one hundred forty plus million people but a snowden also urged russian citizens to quote demand justice demand laws and courts that matter take your future back but the u.s. media similar sentiments no surprise there but i'm sure more officials will be speaking out as the day continues but it is surprising however that spokesman gidley mentioned developing relations with russia especially considering all of the

allegations of collusion and the current anti russia political climate. here maybe a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel it's a miracle d.c. thanks for the. let's get the view closer to home in europe western europe the election result comes amid increased tension with the west so this could reflect to do some of the reaction coming in from. people all over europe correspondent reports from berlin. time to get any reaction out of germany where i'm talking to you from when it eventually did come it actually came from brussels in the form of heiko must the new german foreign minister speaking on his way. into a meeting of european union foreign ministers there in the belgian capital city give mr volatile the results of the election in russia which was as unsurprising to us as the circumstances of the election russia will remain a difficult partner but russia will also be needed for solutions to the international conflicts and so we want to remain in dialogue for that was followed

by congratulations from the german president front. before angela merkel added her congratulations to that list the german chancellor stressing the importance of dialogue in the future is vital me appeared takes over a fourth term as russian president and she wished him luck with the challenges that he would face during that messages of congratulations coming from elsewhere from china from venezuela ran on japan however less congratulatory messages coming out of poland where the deputy foreign minister said that the nord stream to pipeline should be sanctioned that nine billion euro project should actually be be stopped elsewhere in the european union a group of member states headed up by the high representative for foreign affairs federica mockery any said that they would not acknowledge the results of the vote that took place in crimea they were also joined by canada pound norway in saying

that when it comes to more congress to oriel messages they certainly came from the italian president sergio matter rather expressing his actual ations to vladimir putin and finally from france we heard from mr marquand he said that he wished that it may have putin every success in his new term but he urged the russian president to provide some help on finding what happened with the poisoning of the spy said in the united kingdom earlier this month. but. i didn't expect when it comes to reactions from here or there but i see it a vast majority. polling stations were quick with way web cameras streaming everything that happens time and that anyone could be an observer if they wanted to right from the comfort of their couch that home the practice was first introduced to in the two thousand and twelve presidential election and has helped to expose multiple electoral fraud cases this time around.

i think. this. was you. were trying. to. you thank you thank you for this year's presidential election was being monitored by i've read quite a number of foreign observers over one thousand five hundred these included observers from france poland and the u.k. and their own.