still remains foreign secretary at the time this show is being recorded isn't bad enough there was this it's not our job to see where actually was manufacture not our job many thought it was exactly boredom downed o.p.c. w remit to find out where the chemical was manufactured after that interview the u.k. foreign office deleted a tweet alleging porton down support for the certainty of tourism is government but then the even the n.h.s. hospital treating the script pals had to be bound by a russian t.v. journal into admitting that the deadliest of nerve agents could actually not be deadly at all following intense media coverage yesterday i would like to take this opportunity to update you on the condition of the two remaining patients being treated at salisbury district hospital. last thursday i informed you that condition had improved to stable. as yulia has self says her strength is improving . daily and she can look forward to the day when she's well enough to leave

hospital and now some in britain a queering why recovery from this year's strain of flu is slower than recovery from novacek anyway britain is now more focused on bizarre claims of alleged chemical use by the syrian government even though previous claims have long been debunked before today's news w m d claims it already bounced israel into another defacto violation of the un charter let's begin with that's not. israel now blamed for a series of airstrikes against syria at an air base attacked early this morning hours after one of the worst chemical attacks chemical attacks in history yes israel being blamed for what tony blair and his room of the british labor party in the palace of westminster want the u.k. to do bomb syria and destroy president assad secular government which is winning the war against british backed extremists on the ground extremists who wish to do harm on the streets of europe not that britain is only aiding groups like the white helmets linked to al qaeda british soldiers are also risking their lives against

islamist apparently the british man was a member of the s.a.'s he is the first soldier to be killed as a result of enemy action in the fight against islamic state yes in the past few days the british people discovered that there are u.k. boots on the ground in syria on the same side as the assad government defacto but then the s.e.'s has always been a british regiment shrouded in secrecy belfast west m.p. and westminster reference their actions of thirty years ago on this program they are not armed and officials and officials were shot there on the straits of gibraltar and i think it was a terrible tragedy of terrible tim and the history of aren't but those legacy issues dismissed by tourism is coalition partners is condoning terrorism let alone the collapse of the power sharing mandated by the good friday agreement signed twenty years ago this week i'm not the only human rights issues the people of ulster have to contend with joining me now is tory peer lord haywood who would thank you so much for. on the shows away from the legacy issues the. end of strawn

you've been campaigning and putting this nation through the house of lords about human rights of a different kind introducing it we hope we'll get it through the house of lords all the rights of commons but more likely initially in the house of lords and that's to make legislation in relation to same sex marriages in northern ireland exactly the same as it is in england scotland as it is there isn't equality you know it's a devolved matter and as long as it was devolved it should have been dealt with by belfast but we don't have a devolved assembly at the moment and we don't know how long we're going to be without one so called him again in the commons and myself in the eyes of boards decided it was appropriate that we should introduce a same sex marriage bill what is the point then if it is a devolve issue then of doing this in westminster we're posting all sorts of northern irish legislation at the moment we had a debate just before easter and paulse the northern ireland budget because there isn't the capacity to do that in belfast so nothing could be dealt with in belfast all those powers are currently with us and we believe that it is actually right

that a same sex marriage bill should be unchanged and passed through the eyes of parliament let's leave it to one side the twenty years ago on tuesday the good friday agreement was signed in now anyway his home rule is with me just really northern ireland i'm sure it's a maze defacto coalition vetoed a vote in any case it's dormant i understand there was a vote for equality it was on the table and it could or could have progressed and it's a decision for belfast if there is a belfast parliament but you can't then complain that something is being dealt with in westminster but say oh but we are the need other matters dealt with in westminster so yes some of the people in the d.p. i don't think oh don't reflect the overwhelming views of northern irish people which is that they don't want to reflect the beliefs of their constituents as a certain group of people but all the polling shows that the vast majority of the. no not in hold of you which is in line with the views of the english the scots and

the welsh their way is that a.b.c. if we're wise is poured cold water on the bill saying that there's little prospect of it getting through politicians talking about the house of commons the lords are procedures a slightly different and we can start bill in the eyes of lords in a way that you can't in the calm of the commons would never vote it down with a edgy beattie well he bill the indications i've had is that in the lords there is very strong broad cross party support for introducing the bill in the lords if it gets through the lords that would send a very clear message to the commons and i think it's unlikely that it would be voted on in the commons they'd be strong support there already was when quantum again introduced his equivalent bill in the commons there were people from all sides sponsoring the bill they're welcoming the legislation and that was true in the eyes of lords when i introduced the bill as well of course we've come a long way since clause twenty eight but isn't it a fact that there is a may who's only prime minister because of the alliance with a d p could be using her good offices to tell the d.p.

you help lord heywood's bill she's not going to do that because she wouldn't be prime minister i think you made a rash assumption that she's only there because of the t.v. with the conservatives are the largest party in the commons no overall majority overall majority the largest party and more importantly. people in the deep they know what the position is they know what my position is and if the words passes the registration i think they'll recognize what the position is in the commons as well you think she could do more to support the rights she's done a lot she's been very very keen on advancing more women more community people in terms of and also minority racial groups the incredible change taking place on historically she personally always has been yes she has made it all along and so yeah i think we'll we're making progress not as much as i'd like but we'll gather because you are on the record as saying that she trashed the brand of the tories.

do you expect me to be the end of may no a local election only to i i think in terms of the local elections teresa mayes in a much stronger position now you think she was a few weeks back a few months back the general perception amongst the media the political commentators is that her position is now i clearly secure whatever happens at the local election point i mean when you say. no there is a representative i go to them i have to say you're also a member of the lords political polling in digital malcolm is he often described as one of the tories top pollsters do you think she'll do ok then in london i think willy's control of a number of birds in london i've said so it's on the record but governing parties who have been in power is ministering austerity for eight years a generally a lot further behind the neck and neck if we were talking about a government being a ten fifteen percent behind in the polls that wouldn't be surprising we're actually talking about

a government which is neck and neck with the lead party at the moment you believe the polls. i proved them wrong on a number of occasions i think they're pretty close to being accurate at the moment it's neck and neck i mean you predicted breck's it accurately ahead of certainly the commentary at i'd say this program completed did did quite well why didn't the polls go to right this time i think the responses that i've got the difference to me in many of the posts is that i actually do go canvassing i enjoy canvassing i enjoy hearing what people's views are on the doorstep but also you know you talk to your political opponents. privately and i'll tell you what the blairites in the house of government talks of people who know me know i'll talk to anybody but. the commons in the lords are not as politically divided as many people may imagine so you talk about things but you bump into people who come missing from other parties when you're out there on the streets and you get a feel and even if they won't give you their most in a innermost thoughts what they will do is kind of. given indication in one form or

another you can call him q. coined the term which is no bust into a common political parlance of shy tories to explain the ninety nine to two surprise victory of the tories what about shy corbin east side in twenty eight i'm not sure they got it completely wrong in the general election and everybody did and i don't think everyone know everybody there were two out of the major polling companies that did get it approximately like all ministers and i don't believe in shy courtney says i think most people in the labor party who are opposed to the court and they would suggest that companies desire at all shy i think there were other things other reasons why the polling organization going to do something which in fairness i got wrong as well although jeremy corbett of course has been on the record for wanting to leave european union up until the referendum and he became leader being reported as saying that tony blair's calls for a break that second record referendum toxic is actually helpful when tony blair starts to call for i think it's seriously unhelpful and i'm speaking here as

somebody who was and he's a strong remain of. the decision was taken in the first referendum but if you look at any measure on opinion polls whether they are dead oh no not tony blair is perceived as being somebody who support you don't greatly want under current circumstances on anything i'm probably amongst labor voters in particular and i know the way you got it wrong of course was predicting that trey's i'm a would win a majority if she does a very badly when you see a wipe out in london probably i don't i don't see a white light but i don't see the tories currently hold eight bars of the thirty three i think they are likely to lose three four five which leaves them with virtually none but even then i'd my expectation is that the reason may will be stick in a position to continue as prime minister because the reality is that if you are in government for a long period of time in particular if you are ministering austerity throughout that period you would expect me fall further back than they are at the moment and

you agree with coburn that it is a river and a monastery. no know what we're dealing with here is a collection of local authorities votes on local or local service it's a no show if he loses seats in some part of the country or another he will say anything about it being a referendum on him i think the labor party will do well but the question is i welcome what they do better if they had some leader other than jeremy colgan because most of the polls suggest they would do much better if they had a moment or a leader who they would thank you after the break there's thousands like dead or wounded in palestine in the past few days are charities seeking to alleviate the suffering being targeted to we speak to israeli special forces veteran make up of it about his latest book charting the downfall of the holy land foundation five well the simple coming up about two of going underground.

is this is harlan kentucky. over all of this move them places you could walk through street fanny's or you know you. need. a co money since it was almost no co mines left. the jobs are gone all the coal miners have said. that it was alive to see these people are survivors of a world disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in a million years i would see that and it's happening it's happened. there's strong pressure find a security cap and that's by dependence again and by the media on don't donald trump to do something about it seemed good probably at some stage she might give in

to. it is pressure but i don't think it is his intention what i consider more likely than another u.s. military attack on syria is that united states policy will be to reckon any and by the russians to texans iranians to find a political solution. welcome back in the past few days thousands have been killed or injured by the british backed israeli government since palestinians rose up for their so-called great return march and yet again as journalists learned women and children are being killed by live ammunition the question arises should charity be given to the palestinian people when the statement dated b.b.c. banned fundraising in twenty nine for the people of gaza this is how one labor veteran and mentor of jeremy corbyn responded people will die because of the b.b.c.

decision let me be clear about that and i i started my life six years ago. but he did capitulate to israeli pressure that's the truth i have to tell you but there are people dying now because of what us authorities are doing to charities aiming to help the people of palestine joining me now is israeli special forces veteran grandson of a signatory to israel's independence his new book is called injustice the story of the holy land foundation five we go welcome back to going underground let's get on to the book what happened in dallas at seven in the morning on the twenty seventh of july two thousand and four well if you can imagine a family families with children at home at summer break everybody sleeping in you know planning for a nice calm day seven o'clock in the morning banging on the door fifteen to twenty five armed federal agents and uniformed police barging into the house the wives the sisters the daughters just you know begging them to hold on while they can cover themselves with a head you know get dressed nobody cares they barge in search the house arrest. the

fathers and take them away and they work for the holy land foundation known as the holy land foundation five and they were being. legislation from bill clinton well they were being charged the organization was closed down by george bush bill clinton bill clinton designated hamas as a terrorist organization george bush claimed that holy land foundation was giving money to hamas but there was no proof whatsoever and it still isn't to this day that any that there was any connection between them now george bush made the announcement after nine eleven so december of two thousand and one. in the meantime the organization was closed down five men three of whom really had very peripheral or peripheral connection to the organization itself have been charged tried twice convicted and are sitting in federal prison with sentences ranging from fifteen to sixty five years and they're obviously you should try twice which is against the

sixth amendment of the cause as you just go back a little bit of this holy land foundation it was allied to the u.n. the salvation army the red cross even a two to usaid was one of the first charities on the scene from texas for the oklahoma bombing what is the holy land foundation only it's not a terrorist group it's not a terrorist group it's not even remotely justice as it is just as it is it is not even remotely a terrorist group this is an organization that had nothing but good and they did it in ways that were unprecedented but they were presenting unbeknownst to them they're presenting a picture of palestinians themselves being palestinians and of the palestinian issue in a light that was disturbing the zionist groups within israel the pros really groups the israeli lobby and so they were trying to say that well they're actually terrorists are actually giving money to hamas and there's been no proof not

a single shred of evidence that they did anything wrong that they give a. money to terrorism ever but in a court of law in dallas texas the proof made no difference and these men were convicted him edge of the six the member but actually that's the double jeopardy rule which could have been broken for the second trial there was evidence well the evidence came from anonymous israeli secret police yes so what they did in american court what they did was unprecedented in the history of the united states they brought in to expert witnesses from israel the testified anonymously claiming to be officers in the early secret police and one an officer in israeli military intelligence and their job was to say that the organizations with which holy land was working in palestine were controlled by hamas even though all the evidence proved otherwise and there was no evidence to show to have to validate their claim but they said we don't need the evidence we can smell hamas and so the first trial ended with a mistrial the second trial the state amended the charges amended and then ended up

with all convictions the these five what exactly were they involved in the charity off to say the second intifada or understand well they were they were looking in one thousand nine hundred seven the established oil and foundation because there was a great need for relief in palestine intifada just begun. countless were arrested families had no breadwinner there were curfews people could go to work and buy food there was no food. countless were killed by israel and so their many orphans there was a severe need in one thousand nine hundred seven also sure about his daughter sanabel to my dedicate the book was born ill and for many many years she was in need of charitable medical help and that really inspired me to get involved with relief work so that that's what and that's what they did they dedicated themselves wholly to the cause of relief in palestine but not only pals like like you said after oklahoma city bombing after nine eleven tornadoes floods in the u.s. earthquake in turkey refugees in pain you name it they were there and they did an

excellent job and every penny that they had donated was accounted for every penny was accounted for you see veteran labor cabinet minister tony benn wasn't even allowed in the statement a to b. b. c. to read a telephone number for the proper un disaster emergency committee charitable donation line for gaza was being bought by israel are you imaging that the israelis actually have corrupted us due process in courts of law well what i what i asked the lawyers what they thought because my you know my opinion i have my pity but i want to see what they thought because they came into this you know with with no political agenda they just thought that their clients were innocent i mean they are innocent that they believe they were innocent and they said after nine eleven and they said to me this after living in the united states an arab muslim palestinian cannot get a fair trial period and that's exactly what happened that the judges were cowards they bend they bend they bend over when the state came back and said this is

national security this is a special sort of a case so instead of upholding the law and upholding the regulations that are there to protect citizens from arbitrary actions by the government they folded the strange thing in the book is that these charities and already been prevented by the cia the state department being fined yes and they had on the stand they had the former u.s. consul general in jerusalem saying that they were vetted that they were honest that there was never any need to. active by the u.s. government that they should work with them because they are hamas and they have never been designated and they were not listed on any of the u.s. government lists your book also alleges the use of dodgy evidence from people who had previously been convicted over oh absolutely i mean the second the first trial ended with a mistrial the second trial the judge allowed evidence that was not allowed by the first judge and the u.s. government the federal agents the f.b.i. did everything they possibly could including bringing dodgy witnesses and dodgy evidence. and documents that were wrongly translated in other words even the

translations of the documents were brought from. confiscated by israel sent to the united states and translated were translated wrong and transcripts of the phones that were tapped the conversations that these men had for almost two decades were poorly translated to make them sound as though they are supporting hamas as though they're calling for the killing of jews which never happened i don't think it's a deterrent for other charities absolutely it is a terror for the charities it is completely drained you know drain the sources of finance for charity for palestine without a doubt it made an enormous enormous change in the ability to raise money for palestinian causes absolutely this was and that in terms of that this is a this is a big success coming on top of the old terms reduction of aid for say owners relief and works so absolutely the as soon as they were closed down there are reports from gaza showing clearly that this was a disastrous for refugees for poor people in gaza another place in palestine without a doubt we could never thank you thank you. well when i'm

going to go through some of this week's headlines joining me now is professor sami ramadani said he thanks for coming back on before we go to the good news coming out of the middle east let's go to a different kind of chemical attack here in britain from murdoch sky news. a secure location after discharge from hospital what have you made of this whole saga i mean it's spinal. up the mysteries about this story from day one until today now she's out of hospital in reasonably good health why are they hiding her away why not face press conference because the russians will kill. the russian government saying quoting the vienna convention and saying they treat this kind of abduction it would have video interview then remote location and the technology is so advanced now sure you could have a live link with and chat with her by journalists from all over the world what is

it that is keeping this story so control the more you dig into this this story the more you find contradictions unexplained events from day one until now there is no coherent narrative alleged chemical attacks are in the news in the middle east let's go to this tweet we obliquely references that oh yeah let's have a look again to our very foolishly do not attack syria if you do many very bad things will happen and from that fight the u.s. gets nothing if there's a temper twenty thirty and now he is threatening to attack syria and while we're talking maybe an attack is under way there is really a grave situation developing around many hotspots in the world and there is an eagerness and readiness to escalate tensions to aggravate situations from

afghanistan to iraq to syria very significantly all of their plans seem to have produced nothing if you like in terms of their own set of objectives and they want to change that balance if you the central trump was referencing and recognize opposite for you why does he not recognize that he doesn't recognize it actually but he's big he's becoming under he's coming under enormous pressure by the if we if we like to the war lobby or the tensions there of the of aggravation of tension . in the war world lobby and they are using his personal affairs as his personal misconduct his has a loud mouth and stupidities to isolate him but of the same time as soon as he throws missiles at syria he's he's again the decisive leader who. became president he said the fifty nine. last year all these policies of the last fifteen to twenty years have been led by these new york who are now in now in circle trump actually

led by john bolton and significantly john bolton or sitting behind them one trump threatened to attack syria because israel has already has already this week been bombing syria without any resolution obviously against international law let's go to this room middle east should say prime minister netanyahu giving a speech today on the holocaust memorial day no innocent people in gaza says israeli defense minister obviously this character. gets famous for for making statements and he gets away with it he's been doing that for many many years and he's said even worse things than this about the palestinian people but for somebody that israel is protected against being exposed for an apartheid state that it has developed into well i'll give you the mainstream media would say there is no there are no innocent people just a hamas own clave that seems to be from mainstream narrative that should somehow be wiped out seems to be we are over a one and

a half million people are there what are they talking about even of hamas controls everything which is not true by the way there are still women children and innocent civilians and journalists i should say palestinian journalists year old shot dead with press written on. them but there is something different this time one of britain's most senior politicians is an advocate for palestine and for the international the u.n. resolutions let's go to this from here it's generally calling calls for a review of you. sales to israel of a gaza border deaths exactly you. every day the labor party and the left in general in britain have a proud record of fighting fascism and semitism who stood against anti semitic fascism in britain and the nine hundred thirty whether that in the streets of the trade unions meeting them a station or whether it is the left in general including the labor party standing up to the real fascists and to see much is the right wing press of britain which

stood for fascism for anti-semitism and not the left in britain so this is really a blowing things out of proportion in order to sign and criticism of israeli regime policies and to attack the leadership of the new leadership of the labor party because they fear an independent approach to foreign policy that criticizes israel that does not. assume that the united states says let's go to war britain and follows on goes to war there is a new approach they are frightened of and they want to isolate this leadership of jeremy korb and and the labor party. thank you. and that's it for the first show this season will be back on saturday with the british iraqi hip hop artist loci is pretty much ten months to the day of the grenfell catastrophe seen by many to be able to magic of the fabians of you know the because i'm told that people talk about social media they also one thousand years to the day when you came back major

coalition claimed forces killed seventy because of an albanians only to admit two days later that the bodies identified as refugees were the responsibility of making itself known just when europe in the one thousand nine hundred killed or injured hundreds of. the drive towards war against syria is unmistakable the pretext is still another alleged chemical attack as usual no evidence is presented as usual conclusions are drawn before an independent investigation we live in a very dangerous time. join me every day. to get the politics score. i'm sure i'll see you then.

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