as for the bombs that are being dropped on yemen surely surely that's a reason for hope for unicef to day because of the war because of decades of in the development and that every single ten minutes a child is dying from a preventable disease for the simple fact that we are not able any longer to vaccinate children timely children suffering from a lack of access to drinking what the resulting in severe acute diary of the war simply needs to stop and all parties need to take that responsibility or for that or any country that has any authority over the fighting parties britain is an ng billions of dollars billions of pounds by selling the weapons in the war planes you're asking for one hundred million dollars more i think that brings you up to something like a third of a billion that you want what has units have been to spend that money well we gonna

spend that money wisely we gonna spend that money to guarantee that every single boy and girl in yemen can lead a healthy life that it has access to those health services that every mother and father one step children to access to guarantee that every boy and girl can go to school and benefit from quality education that's what unicef going to invest it's money into and probably an investment by any count that is the best investment to make in yemen now president barack obama supported the blockade of yemen sports are things better under the trumpet ministration in terms of the ports he obviously has signed a new weapons deal of course with saudi arabia though we call upon everybody to keep sea and airports open at any moment for. for we're here many

darian as well ask for commercial supplies commercial supplies for example food needs to come in yemen is highly dependent on the import of food yemen is highly dependent on imports of fuel fuel that this ferry much needed to do equip the health centers for example to pump water out of the out of yemeni soil for commercial and humanitarian reasons or for the sake of children ports that need to be your button just finally in syria the trumpet ministration along with the russians with the syrian government of course was supporting the fact of the why p.g. and northern syria in africa figures of hundreds of thousands now being affected by the british backed turkish warplane attacks on a friend what is the situation as far as unicef sees of the well from children spritz active again syria is an order war on children

syria is another situation where fighting parties and all countries with influence over them have no moment over the last seven years been respecting that sacred principle of protection of children at any given moment of time thousands of children have been killed also in syria. millions of children are being displaced or living as refugees so we hope that the political leadership both amongst the fighting parties and those who have authority over these fighting barbie's that do that political leadership will take decisions bearing in mind their own children and that they decide to end the suffering that they want they do not want their own children or grandchildren to suffer your governor thank you. thank you so much

after the break the end of britain's dreaming spy as we had just a great white forty thousand union members of even italy shut down if you give us the system and off the u.k. government threats to shut down this t.v. station we speak to one of the best pirate radio book of his overall scope who sailed for free speech to break the british censorship look a simple cover up above two of going underground. with the appointing of john bolton is the new national security adviser should we expect more stupid wars of choice since he wants success but everything associated with bolton's name is a failure of the war party is again in charge. what

politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the house. welcome back today the british parliament his work and pensions questions but will only one raise the largest ever strike called in british irish occasion even oxford and cambridge where such a disproportionate amount of britain's established would govern from look said to be shut down the head of a second wave of strike action involving tens of thousands of union members across

sixty four higher education institutions i'm joined now by professor julian celebrates from london's courtauld institute of art judith thanks for going back on just before we go to the strike cambridge analytical has been in the news associated with universities that as the name cambridge is not just facebook users that are affected by surveillance in a rather crude way the government basically asks us to assess ourselves and of our research and our teaching. it asks our academics to sit in panels for instance to judge the research. well no it hasn't actually in fact what this does is to violate the fundamental principle of academic freedom which is to say that academics should have the freedom to critically inquire wherever they want and say whatever they want and that is protected and their jobs would not be under threat for instance if they were to say something inconvenient. but what the government surveillance of research does through the so-called research excellence framework excellence being

an entirely vacuous concept. is to judge one's research writings or outputs. by a panel of peers and you don't know who these people are going to be and you don't know exactly what criteria are going to use to judge you by and what it's meant is that much academic work has become being pitched towards the center of a particular field that become very worthy but boring as a result it's an immense engine. in conformity with an ideal it is peer review absolutely yes it's completely politicize. it's there to divide and rule universities so the outcomes of these research you know assessment exercises. depends on. the funding that research funding that goes to different colleges and apartments can be massively affected by your performance in these things so there's a lot of pressure on academics to first produce enough work to be assessed and then

to produce work which they think will play well to these panels. elf why are you going to be able to strike ok well there has been a huge attack on our pensions the pensions used to be defined benefits which means that you put a certain amount of money in and you know what you're getting when you retire it's now moved to a different system whereby everybody's pension pot perform this differently and depends on the form of stocks and shares so no one can plan no one will know exactly what they will retire on but the figures have been done by the union show that our pensions will move from being more this but liveable to in many cases being poverty level so especially for younger people you can work your whole life within academia and come out and still be struggling to make ends meet when you retire there are problems with getting work a good worker because this is after all dr austerity or elective eagerly lots of people be saying you know there are hundreds of thousands starving to this good

food bergs where should they care about university lecturers and reverses well this is a deliberate attempt to break the union it was imposed by the employers u.k. without negotiation ok we have only been forced into negotiations because of the strike action we taken so far because it's been as you say remarkably. widely supported across the universities by not only by staff and also by students are often. so it was imposed without negotiation so we had a choice basically but to strike and i think the thing is that there are many other places teachers. teachers and school teachers in the ninety two universities or on different schemes at the moment which are better than ours if they can do this to us it will happen to the people too and more widely you know industries generally will be looking at this very carefully how the boss is treating you. i mean this board of governors vice chancellors i think lord brought israel this show for were a boss of b.p. yes a former boss of the b.p.

but a lot more pertinently an architect of the student fees regime so rather extraordinary person to have on a university board i think many of the students who of course suffer immense stress and difficulty because of the very high piece that they pay and the facing debt slavery decades after finishing their degrees are not happy with this figurehead of our institution do we despite your union isn't it because you've got foreign students who are presumably complaining that there are professors and lecturers are turning up for the pictures and you have people who are in this market should an ethic of feeling that they're going to be in debt for degrees which weren't even taught. yes we've had a surprising amount of support from our students i have to say and it's been very very heartening we didn't march down to parliament which took place in a blizzard there were many students on that march is really remarkable you can see some of the photographs of those people around you we have been doing our best so far to minimize the impact on the students while shutting down the university and

part of this has been to do with doing teach outs a lot of less casual or more casual more meaningful teaching perhaps teaching which isn't geared absolutely towards courses but has been discussing deeper issues about about politics about art history in my place but also about the university ought to look like if we escape from those like. there are elements to it and we had a wonderful open air lecture on the last given by a teacher clark coach of the other week and a lot of people talk about zero i was going to say i understand that higher education is becoming part time in so many ways like when the other a public service is as much of a teaching is becoming more and more casual lives that people can't know you know how much work they're going to get and when and they're juggling many jobs and then a sense we're facing both by through management surveillance and this downward pressure on wages and downward pressure on the costs of education very similar

pressures to those faced by doctors nurses or or the police or teachers in schools it's all the same kind of marketization of something which should not be marketed ised it's an artificial system and you can see in this that near liberalism as a whole this system which has been put into place since the one nine hundred eighty s. is a kind of cancer of the state from the inside until it can no longer properly perform its functions reza julian stella brus thank you well from the new liberal marketisation of education to fighting against the law of entertainment joining me now from l.a. in california is one of the original deejays from reputedly the first ever pirate radio station in the. well radio caroline emperor roscoe is currently launching his new radio show on united deejays and you know with us him being portrayed by the late philip seymour hoffman in the boat that rocked ever rosco before we even get to how you broke censorship laws here in britain and got britain done saying what what started your entertainment career. i got started in the military

actually i was as you saw the morning the movie good morning vietnam i was good morning vietnam but in the navy. but of course i'm coming over that was my first my first date the poorer paul mccartney pull the cut he says the beatle of they they had a big helping hand from radio caroline how did you end up on this ship. i was a destruct in france at the time. doing bold emotionally gupta on europe number one and i was also a leader do seen the x. it came from england on tour and i was on stage with sam the sham and the pharoahs when there are a manager came up and he said you know you read a good you should be on radio caroline what's radio caroline. and he said well this is a pirate ship that just started nameless and i'm good friends with ronan o'reilly so

i said well you know here's a tape let's see what happens and two weeks later i had a phone call from rodin who said get your so here i need you you know is a pirate radio station what you frightened of going on to some ship that you knew was illegally broadcasting to britain so i saw this finished for years and then maybe in the south china sea i was going to be too worried about a little boat in the channel. i probably handled seasickness better than most and. you know i was not the least bit worried i know i was a bit of a rebel myself you know so we you have are on the ship when the when the british authorities were trying to board it and shut it down to radio caroline when i was on the ship the only one sporting where the girls on sailboats would come sailing out to bring us cookies you may not have known wrote in a rally his grandfather who is who i think yeats wrote a poem about boys rode in like i know he's ill in county loud at the moment what

was his role in the station. running was the boss you know a perfectly charming man he you know he had lou joie de vivre like he had a cause. he was doing the right thing and he was being successful at it me love the notoriety so it all you know it was all a great you know great ball of good good time and outside of reno running into a few money problems at one point when he had to sell i think thirty percent of the station to fill solomon's own he ran the show the way he wanted it because it was a real rebel radio stations to put it into context at that time the statement they b.b.c. had playlists dictated to them by record companies and some would say that's still the case today.