is overwhelming evidence that any chance funding and the number of doctors and nurses are in adequate and it's getting worse does she agree with professor hawking there was no answer from to resume about one of britain's best known scientists she had science on the mind though or revenge based on science one assumes britain would within hours veto the un resolution to investigate the atrocity in the south west of england well to take a better look at the russian threats narrative and how it may now affect the future of a post-breakfast britain i went to the green outside the palace of westminster to talk to a member of britain's house of lords international relations committee lord elf well to take a better look at the russian threat narrative and how it will affect the future of a post directed britain i'm now joined by lord valve member of the international relations committee at the house of lords and former member of the european parliament. thanks for being here on the green outside parliament twenty three

russian diplomats being chucked out of the country in the next few days your reaction to tourism a statement. i can't see what. i mean what it will achieve is presumably twenty three pushed diplomats will be thrown out of russia some say more than maybe . but so the. choice everyone is saying in the house behind us because she has the evidence that the kremlin ordered an atrocity in england. i mean what i have no juice he's apparently the russian authorities of oste need with the investigation to be given some samples of the. agent and that's been refused now that doesn't seem to me like trying to solve the problem there in this was very clear that there was security considerations as to why she can't reveal certain bugs the information just as in the public inquiry regarding the atrocity in mayfair in central london the key. but how on earth that we

got ourselves into this position. that's the first question we should be also we have the evil putin regime is how we got it well as i was in we have some more know who was exchanged came to live in britain he's living openly under his own even a house in seoul he's apparently meeting british secret service agencies the first thing i ses had they not yet he briefed you know what he's going all of these all sorts of things that just don't add up but there has to be a consensus in the us a logs in the corridors of power there the about this that the security services are telling the prime minister that. clearly something has to be done against the largest country on earth. something probably does have to be done but he only has to be done because reports also very into the situation and what we now are proposing to do is to reduce the opportunities for the two

countries to work together and we seem to be forgetting that britain has a lot of business interests in russia. what would the reaction be here if there presumably would be some russian retaliation if they said well we'll have some sanctions against british business where do we end up with this we don't gamed up in a good place and also we don't yet know the full facts of this car you saw apart from the fact that anyone who tried to poison is obviously not pretty competent because they failed obviously some ascribe the popularity of levy putin in russia to being someone who dragged in public to crack down on the oligarchs who stole all the money from the russian people and you do brazilian back the measures being taken to freeze assets and that's where they're freezing the assets in london and then giving it to the russian people do you welcome those policies i think. clearly

the. seniors in particular would read from the russia and a lot of money went out of the country that belongs to the russian people and one can only support a government which attempts to turn that around i would be more impressed if that had been laid to the british and russian governments cooperating about money of which so huge amounts are in london. and your understandings there isn't going to be any go operation whether it be a magnitsky act or was ever in terms of repat treating money that's been stolen from russia well i'm not sure the magnitsky act is actually cooperation that's not how many people would be for certainly. but you know it just strikes me that we're getting all selves into more more of a difficult corner and that we really have to have some dialogue and i know that i'm popular particularly in the you know parliament but in the end you have to talk

. to one of the lessons of international diplomacy in the end this problem will have to be unscrambled in the end we will have to talk and that is for the good of both countries so you're not a popular but you live you do support tourism am there cancelling the visits of the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov to britain. cuts he was he will achieve what will it secure mean. highly experienced polished diplomat and actually a pretty good foreign minister or email it's written showing that he's not welcome here. ok so what we say you're not welcome to talk if frankly far as the prime minister i'd be saying i hope he will soon come because we need some very frank dialogue about what he's going wrong in the relations between our two countries. and clearly if there was. a poison attempt something has gone badly wrong and the

russian state is what is the british state needs to get to the both what's happened aside from the geopolitical context and the atrocity in saul's re obviously you're on the house of lords international relations committee and you mentioned business how will worse relations with russia affect breaks in britain is difficult sorry to be quite honest we can only speculate at the moment but it's hardly going to make the russian government feel more co-operative towards helping british business experiment in russia and presumably the brits are going to do the same to the russians so it's not going to help. this great open trade agreement that we're searching for. and why why do you think those considerations are not to the fore. because some would say that there is a separation here given that russia trades obviously

a great deal with the european union with so much of europe's energy coming from russia we seem to have got also into a great big standoff position and it doesn't make sense i mean you notice it i mean germany and gazprom are cooperating quite well in energy supply to europe and i was tend to think that if you talk to people you're going to get further than if you. nature somewhere predictably immediately said they support your resume the white house what do you make of their reaction more contemporary today too busy sacking people where all are in it but even before the sagging of secretary of state believing do you think that in washington they realise relations with russia are more important than immediate reactions. so difficult at the moment to call russian american relations you know the the state department is. frankly

there are a huge number of vacancies there you've had the last year with the secretary of state and the president basically is each other's throats and it's difficult to see the united states as being a very credible foreign policy planning at the moment and then many in the palace of westminster that we're expecting to resume to attack this station. surprised or but the fact that she didn't ban this channel in britain and the fact that shut it down very sensible over i mean i've never believed in shutting down the press i had a long long time dealing with turkey i'm sorry to the turkish authorities let them say what they want to say you know. because if you drive it underground you were killed it will still be there but i think it's fundamentally wrong to baron a agent of the free press but of course the statutory regulator off call

has been clear that it is listening all the time to what is being said at the dispatch box as to whether they should review the license of the channel. is that we'll know a period of free speech that's what they say and i hope they just keep saying i'm not doing well about thank you ok thank you very much after the break. for rex tillerson. i very much. and i wish him well. the firing of his secretary of state rex tillerson because of the russia and to resume we speak to award winning author in rolling stone journalist matt taibbi and andrew pierce the daily mail's consulting editor writes off jeremy corbyn even though the latest opinion polls show you the odds on favorite to be britain's prime minister all of them all coming up to him going underground.

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very familiar john and good song and events are going to. bring you since and then when you're not. welcome back well the stakes could arguably never be higher in what some are already predicting could turn into a nuclear confrontation between britain and russia no wonder some might argue that labor leader jeremy called in a seeking to decrease tensions whilst applying stringent sanctions of those who have stolen money from the russian taxpayer but that's not the way some see it from the makers of the most visited english language newspaper website in the world

joining me now is andrew pearce consulting editor of the daily mail andrew welcome back what did you make of today's amaze speech and jeremy corbin's response to reason may is a very boring speaker she just doesn't often get the complete command of the council commons chamber but i thought her statement this week was magisterial by her standards she had the commons with her she is a former home secretary so she was able to draw on her experience as being and responsible for security and terror and the leader of the opposition was shameful it was an embarrassment because the leader of the opposition has a job in my view to be supportive in a time of national crisis to sound at least vaguely patry arctic instead he was peevish and in failing to condemn the state of russia for what is perceived to be a russian act he showed himself to be according to some of his own side on the wrong side of the argument. and it was made worse by the briefing after the

statement by his press secretary seamus milner seamus miller's got four he's been to russia expensive dinner literally and he's a great supporter of the state of russia and he elaborated us to what i call been refused to accept that russia is responsible and he peddled out that line used by the russian embassy that britain should actually give over a sample of the nerve agent so the russians can test it oh great idea what are they going to send back to the russian embassy and get some scientists to test test it and then they'll say because it's nothing to do with us you know ridiculous idea russians are saying there is under o.p.c. w treaty that they have to do that danielle days not twenty four hour deadline but let's just get back to the cold war literally a cold war is a cold because in the next twenty four hours plus buds of britain already probably feeling it there's a cold snap russia's response could literally be to flick off a switch and stop british shows being heated and then lit is that

a price worth paying the fact is we don't have enough gas it is running out and we buy some of our gas from russia it's been a matter of great concern in number ten not just under this government under the previous government and putin could do that i suppose but of course russia needs our money too and they need to sell the gas to us because they need the cash bill bell from the first of this show is saying we need partners in a post rex it world i know the european union has come to help in this time of defacto war with russia presumably both brics that we're not going to have any great trade deals only with russia and its allies maybe even its brics allies in the in the rest of the world we will be it will be announced next week that britain as part of the brics it process can start negotiating traders that's a huge change by the european union it's a big win for trees amazing to go she just wants law school in beijing or. together

well we will be doing trade deals with china we'll be doing traitors with the united states i suspect we will be doing a trade deal with that me putin anytime soon but then trade with russia isn't huge in any case but the idea was it's supposed to grow well as a country and what it will grow with other countries and it will russia know just not russia well unless of course russia comes to its senses and stops assassinating or trying to assassinate people on british soil loads of people aboard about international politics in this country and don't really care one way or the other of course they care about the tragedy of a british police officer and so forth is that way to resume could never have said that the england squad can't go to mosque and i think it's not inconceivable that that made position may change so so far the prime minister has said no member the royal family will go prince william is president of the football association in this country a job i imagine he loads because we know he can't stand for much happier on the pitch old chap but he won't be going no officials to be going so i'm sure that to

me peter will be devastated that the sports minister tracey crowd would be terrified by that is killer possibles as well but there is talk of the possible that could be the end of may not go and it would be it people say you can't invoke sport politics hang on. british prime ministers were heavily involved in trying to get the world cup to britain but russia won the bid with the help of mr blatter who of course is suspended from international football for corruption. and is hugely significant and i suspect there's a possibility even now that we may not go to the world cup because. it's going to be tarnished that would mean losing marie muir the affable manager who are just taking on to do commentary that might be a mistake what do you think about the fact that people like him are told not to appear on this channel and indeed m.p.'s from both sides of the house who are so keen to appear all of them some of them are even saying we should be shut down as well i can. disagree with the idea that. we're disinform ation network poorly and i

was in for putin britain is a haven for free speech we're just a few hundred yards from the mother of all parliament and people like russia today oh they don't like its output don't watch it but do not close it down of come to my understanding i've got no problems with the output and it would just be turkish frankly and or pierce thank you well it's been quite a week for u.k. u.s. relations mainstream us commentators were quick to assume donald trump firing of his secretary of state rex tillerson via a tweet was connected to tillotson support for terrorism a and her war with russia hopes for the torrent would soon be dashed as trump's u.n. ambassador nikki haley echoed may's attacks on moscow and then washington reportedly introduced new sanctions even before any u.n. investigation of the chemical weapons atrocity in england joining me now from new jersey in the usa is award winning rolling stone journalist and author of insane

clown president matt taibbi in math welcome back to the show i'm going to start actually with the fact that the russian federation has warned britain not to threaten a nuclear power how do you characterize relations from between britain and russia regardless of america and russia i'm in. the nuclear doomsday clock because right now. it's i think it's the equivalent right now is that one nine hundred fifty two levels and hasn't been this low since one thousand fifty two this is an extremely perilous time in the relationships between the west and russia. i think there is a variety of factors that are that are going into the danger. one of the uses the situation going on in. the poisoning incident but just so serious as the situation in syria what we. of. u.s.

troops and russian you know contract mickie on the other side of the euphrates river. we have a lot of sort of bombastic talk by leaders on all sides about nuclear capabilities the new states. and the little the level of and the. russian sentiment you know particularly in the united states is is at a pool at a place where i haven't seen it in my lifetime and i you know i can remember the reagan years during the when he was talking about the evil empire and then after the shooting down of k seven so this is. we're in an unprecedented place right now the british politicians in palm and with a few honorable exceptions some of them are saying we now need to launch a site of cyber attack on russian institutions and all manner of other levels of

response and that russia is a rogue state so it will not respond to reason and i don't understand i mean i do understand look there are a lot of political. angles to this story. there are things that are going on that have always gone on these two countries have always meddled in each other's the shares there of zero is there have always been. games back and forth between russia and england and russia in the united states you know there was an excellent book written by one of your countrymen the called the great game that details this activity dating back to the late seventy's hundreds early hundreds i lived in russia in one in the ninety's when the united states openly meddled. in boris yeltsin's reelection campaign there was a cover of time magazine after. after yeltsin won reelection there were it's

a picture of yeltsin and the headline of the yanks to the rescue because we had advisors american advisors to reporting directly to bill clinton. who were aiding yeltsin in that victory and this is just part of the way of use. the countries are operated toward each other forever we've always been interested in each other's affairs i think the difference is now that there is a political angle towards demonization. of russia that is inspiring some politicians in the sitting and in america to make up a public issue out of this in a way that they have they would now be floor that they wouldn't have have. sated. such a heated situation in the past over what essentially is a domestic political aim to scare people into you know being certainly politically

to town a lot in america has of course had to register as a foreign agent from this the nazi era act don't trump tweets a lot about mainstream media but he seems unable to ban it using your version of off come the f.c.c. . surprise that in britain the prime minister can say things and immediately the regulator will take steps or or talk about steps in closing down the television station one of the benefits of the american system. is we've we've gone quite a long time in our history without really having a strong will national. media regulator we do have the f.c.c. they did play an important role in the formation. t.v. and radio. stations with

a couple of key laws in the late twenty's early thirty's there was the communications act of thirty four. there the federal radio commission the nine hundred twenty seven also had some things to say about what radio station should be but for the most part there is no regulator for print media and the communications regulator is a very very weak one in the united states which for most of us in the press we've long considered to be a good thing that the government mostly stays out of our business. you know for it to take the step of forcing our teats or register as a foreign agent understand our opens the door for an incredible. amount of the abuse that could be directed at almost any kind of foreign news agency in the future and i think that's and then huge mistake. and i'm not thrilled with

the decision to to retaliate against r.t. in britain either i think this is somewhere to the decision that they made with the olympics in one nine hundred eighty you if you have a political issue with a country you don't go after sports you don't go after the media you you take more serious diplomatic measures that typing thank you. hope you enjoyed that epicenter going on the ground from our latest season we'll be back on the eleventh of april for a brand new season of going underground but you can still keep in touch with us while we're away on facebook twitter and instagram season. with us this morning the blue of them someone. good news over the course was

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