yemeni soil for commercial and humanitarian reasons for the sake of children ports need to be your button just finally in syria the trumpet ministration along with the russians with the syrian government of course was supporting defacto early why p.g. and northern syrian afrin figures of hundreds of thousands now being affected by the british backed turkish war plane attacks on afrin what is the situation as far as unicef sees at the well from a children's press active again syria is an order war on children syria is another situation where fighting parties and all countries with influence all over them have no moment over the last seven years been respecting that secret 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 by peace 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 their grandchildren to suffer your governor thank you. thank you so much after the break the end of britain's dreaming spy as we investigate what forty thousand union members believe in italy shut down britain's university system and after u.k. government threats to shut down this t.v. station we speak to one of the first pirate radio book roscoe who sailed for free speech to break the british censorship blockade. to of going underground.

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welcome back today the british parliament his work and pensions questions but will anyone raise the largest ever strike gold in british irish occasion even oaxaca cambridge where such a disproportionate amount of britain's establishment comes from looks set to be shut down ahead of a second wave of strike action involving tens of. thousands of union members across sixty four higher education institutions i'm joined 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 are there because the lame 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 not teaching. 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 inquiry wherever they want and say whatever they want and that is protected and the 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 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 they 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 has become very wordy but boring as a result it's an immense engine of conformity within i said religious peer review

absolutely yes it's completely politicized. 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 along the 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 performs 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 could 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. thirty or. lot of people be saying you know there are hundreds of thousands starving there's going to reload food bags where should they care about university lecturers and professors 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 no choice basically but

to strike and i think the thing is that there are many other places teachers. teachers and school teachers in the post 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 it. i mean this board of governors vice chancellors i think lord brough does read all this show for her boss a b p yes a former boss of b 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 that agrees not happy with this figurehead of our institution do we dispute your union isn't it because you've got foreign students who are presumably complaining that their professors and lecturers aren't 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 did a 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 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 i mean you teach in 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 legal although there are elements to it and we had a wonderful open air lecture on the last given by tito clarke 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 republican says as much of our 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 lead to do seem to be acts 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. he said well this is a pirate ship that just started nameless and i'm good friends with run and 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 i saw this finished for years and maybe in the south china sea i wasn't 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 in the direct ourself you know so we you have her on the ship when 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 supporting where the girls on sailboats would come sailing out to bring us cookies you may not have known wrote in iran his grandfather who is who i think yeats wrote a poem about but was wrote in like i know he's ill in county allowed at the moment what was his role in the station. ronan was the boss you know perfectly charming man he you know he had louche one of evil he had a cause. he was doing the right thing and he was being successful at it new love the notoriety so it all you know it was all a great you know great ball of 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. 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 actually going three in riyadh was radio luxembourg primarily you know like the decker show would be all decca records but luxembourg was only at night you couldn't hear it very well radio b.d.c. it was like program and they basically did an hour pop music. every day and that was all you got if you were you full force and ironically it was the labor government tony benn who gave his last interview to this show actually tried to shut you down but the conservatives in gilmore actually supported you freedom of speech they did they did and we supported them and i think probably because of

radio car like support which is why the conservatives won back that. that's quite something you you think at that time though you said there was this one hour report music basically statement the same and they did b.b.c. was playing basically white middle class music. oh margaret i know they were playing big band music and middle of the road music and unfortunately a lot of it was recorded live not even the all riginal stuff so basically you know it was an enigma in a puzzle of its own making where is we came along and gave the people the real thing in twenty four hours a day of it now it's television networks of course they get bad and get attacked what do you think of that. obviously i'm i'm against it i'm i'm all for free speech and the only reason you're in that i would think that you were being targeted at the moment as you have the name russia you know title but it's a tit for tat i don't think it's. what you're doing. problem you know broadcast

wise i think it's simply you're caught in the crosshairs for the moment and with a bit of luck you'll skate you know what do we do the name change actually go on t.v. but it didn't the didn't seem to help. no home office knows the truth and how dangerous would you say is it nowadays for governments to interfere with broadcast networks what happens when they try and interfere as you know and the algorithms are very wide and widespread because it is set such a general question when you. will go back to when the berlin wall fell. you said you felt the momentum you saw it all happening and it happened and now.