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time after time soon we're going underground is today u.k. prime minister tourism a metre australian counterpart has the nato backed war in syria threatens to cripple fuel supplies to the island nation within a matter of days coming up on the show from south america to syria we talk about the history of international gangsterism a new liberal militarization alleged by the man who could have been mike pence twenty six team usa vice presidential candidate. and stole it well folks commonwealth what was this week's meeting of leaders representing two point four billion people actually like we talked to one premier about i.m.f. imperialism cambridge analytic assuming it is and the terrains of a deportation scandal plus the public are absolutely despise that type of behavior from where. it takes place despicable behavior in britain's house of commons coming

up in today's going underground but first this week marks nearly fifty years since ever more violent u.s. bombing in vietnam sparked protests across the united states with images of veterans discarding their medals to fight a war that would go on to kill millions. fired her mettle in a country that doesn't mean anything but pretty medal. so i got a medal. so i got a medal i got a purple heart army commendation medal air national. guard that doesn't mean. now from south america to syria the u.s. and nato nations continue to practice what our next guest describes as international gangsterism he fought in the vietnam war and ever since watergate sneer liberal interventionism by nato nations right around the world join. now from new york city and the u.s. is the founding executive director of the u.s.

human rights that what twenty sixteen usa green party vice presidential candidate john mubarak had how many thanks coming on going on the one white calling on the u.s. to pull out of syria well thank you for for inviting me we we are making the call like many people around the world for the u.s. to seize this intervention into that nation we say see that as a intervention that is illegal and immoral there's no objective right that the u.s. has to are to intervene into syria and certainly not to quote unquote punish a no other government and their leaders so we say this is a continuation of the kind of of minelli immoral but illegal international gangsterism that will seem the u.s. authorities involved in for quite some time and so we say now is the time to draw

a clear line to clear up people's lawyer and if you will and say us out of syria us cease the the illegal interventions around the country around the world cease the international against a rhythm that has undermined international credibility when it comes it's international law are and create a very dangerous environment in which. many many states believe that they operate above it outside of mental national law and morality then later the opposition it does call it legally questionable why do you believe president trump and mccrone prime minister may bomb syria before u.n. inspectors are allowed to investigate the alleged chemical attack in the damascus area of syria i think the u.s. was and has the objective of establishing a a justification for. remaining and syria and of course they needed

the political coverage from there to their two partners if you will and so i think both great britain and and and france have their own particular reasons but you know those three states are part of the the what what we refer to as the axis of domination and a u.s. navy so the axis of domination so these three states operating as they do these three states that are a part of the western european colonial project have operated together before and it's quite clear they have objective common interests in the middle east so it wasn't surprising as unfortunate and we're glad that there are significant numbers of people in all of those nations they're happy express their opposition ironic then of course you'll call for the u.s. to relieve syria was echoed by president donald trump shortly before the ask right

well of course and that was what appeared to be the the rational response from from his administration but it's quite clear that there is a very powerful forces inside the u.s. state. that the a withdrawal from syria as being against objective u.s. interests and almost like clockwork then we have this so-called chemical attack in syria and then the response from the top administration and the other two political is if you will so it is quite clear that there is there is real attention think even contradictions within the u.s. administration and donald trump. who appears to be always in charge is quite clear that he may not be as in charge. as people might think i'm sure the well they have and there's

a palace in number ten of denied that they're pujols of your president why you doing powerless to the. to this situation in syria to the american backed israeli bombardment of gaza. what we clearly show that there is talk receive here but if the concern is supposed to be to protect human life if if the activities of the of the syrian government that supposedly was involved in this chemical attack was so egregious that it required international intervention that we raise a very simple question as the israelis are involved and shooting with live ammunition on protesters of murdering people on the gaza border one would assume then that there would be calls for some kind of of interventions of sanctions. un security council resolutions when it comes to to israel but

clearly it appears that palestinians are killable and there is a different set of morals involved in these two situations and we say that basically. yes if you want stand one standard of morality one standard of it's national law and that no nation no nation state should be above the law so we point that very simple. example out to show that basically the must be other kinds of ventures and motivations involved in this intervention then a supposedly concern for international concern for humanitarian interests the israeli government denies it's deliberately targeting civilians and has said it's conducting inquiries into footage that seems to go to the shows the i.d.f. killing civilians m.p.'s in this country routinely tell the british public the gaza is run by terrorist hands and you being to gaza how was your experience when i've

been to the west bank or they would allow me to go go to gaza. and i could tell you though even the horrific conditions. in the west bank indicates that the conditions in gaza are i have to be even more horrific. we have always said that if people had a chance to really experience life under occupation. people in the west that is. the support for the israeli state would evaporate in a moment it is absolutely incredible absolutely inhumane so the very fact that people live and they are in essence an open air concentration camp in gaza still living in the rubble from the last israeli attack in that strip of land and that now they are attempting to raise their issue to the attention of the international community by marching to the borders of that concentration camp i reminding the international public that you know they are under occupation that

there is a land there that they still believe belongs to them because they were kicked off the land and then they are met with life. ammunition it is absolutely incredible that that kind of activity is allowed to to continue without massive international outcry but let me say this there is massive international outcry not as action unfortunately though we don't see it as intensely as it should be in the west. and of course president taylor has been bombing syria and that's anything to be a reproach moment in israel and saudi arabia which of course is yemen with british weapons how would you categorize your president's relationship to saudi arabia is consistent with the relationship of the previous administrations but basically the saudis. are part of the u.s. strategic. plan for maintaining control of have very important

part of the world it is a state that provides bain's of dollars to the u.s. arms industry and therefore. it gets the support from the administrations even when it is when that government is involved and a clear violation of international norms and standards. be it in bahrain are the current vicious war being waged any emon they get of they get a pass but again it shows the they hope paderewski of western opinion and the hypocrisy of policymakers both in the us and throughout the western european theater that this kind of relationship continues that the saudis and that don't find themselves in the dock in the hague with the other war criminals along with people like a tony blair and george bush and run straight out and not rockall bomb when it

demonstrates that the west a commitment to something called international law is a fraud so we say that own lives are in fact precious and that the law of the palestinians the lives of people in yemen are just as precious that the lives of people in syria and the lives of people on the in the the ghettos of detroit and the southside of chicago we say that basically what we see happening globally being . shooter by the western powers led by the us is just the flip side of the kind of repression that we see domestically in the us and that's what we have building in attempt to rebuild an antiwar movement anti millis rest movement in the us to confront these contradictions and yet nato is military has failed to install proxies arguably from iraq to libya do you think though i've made yet what in

venezuela which will see presidential elections next month we have seen that these attempts to try to circumvent the will of the people who have not been successful they can in fact put in place repressive governments that can be installed in a place for a few years but it is things that the trend in the last thirty forty years have been a trend going toward. establishing more and more progressive government that are committed to upholding the objective human rights of the people that they think they'll be a success have been successful in venezuela that the world's number one oil superpower ocular no i don't but it's very it's a very dangerous situation because we don't believe i'm really concerned whether or not they're going to allow the election to take place and next month if that takes place the less it takes place the basically we're going to see the situation become more normalized in venezuela because the the opposition has to come to terms with

the fact that you have a much newer government in place for six years a gem of iraq and thank you my pleasure. what role did this race take you from cambridge on let's go play in the elections of a small caribbean island we also foreign minister of st kitts and nevis mark brown three about i.m.f. destabilization and the legacy of the delhi and raul castro and stories of a gets question on their policy on the rate of the poor at pm here's gold is a book of about two am going on the growth. in july twenty seventh team on an elephant up a freelance journalist watching was on t.v. a militant shelling in syria. the owner of his sacrifice quality has established a holiday all such a memorial they will recognize will reporters who often risked their lives for the

sake of the truth and through that peace you can submit to your published works in a video form britain for must go to a war don't auntie don't come into the now. the philippine city of angeles when the us military moved out the six tourists moved in . and now a whole generation of fatherless children is growing up here. hi dad and i've been in one month a couple simple down until. i believe the general idea that i'm the only. son. that isn't the first time in the t.v. crew you see you or takes you for you know don't answer is

a little bit no one that it's real or. that's it but i do what my god did. they know that they're. you can take the guillotine that you can take the girl. woman you know. oh i'll give. you. a. welcome back i made calls for the british prime minister's resignation who exactly was to blame for the deliberate destruction of landing cards of british people so

as to allegedly deport them to the developing world tourism a blame the blairites de facto now attacking jeremy corbyn over anti semitism the decision to destroy the lands and its was taken in two thousand and nine and as i seem to recall in two thousand and nine it was a neighborhood secretary who was a. clarification from number ten would later have to be issued for that and jeremy corbin said the blame lay with your resume to the home office keep records it's been months since these cases were first brought to the government's attention we know of at least two british citizens languishing in detention centers in error and a small annoying the jamaican prime minister has said he knows of people who are unable to return to britain remember this is all while leaders of nations formally under imperial british rule the commonwealth of so-called stolen wealth are in london this is a shameful episode and the responsibility for it lies firmly as the prime

minister's door pandering to bogus bogus immigration targets led to. it will lead to a hostile environment for people contributing to our country it will lead to british citizens being denied any chance treatment losing their jobs homes and pensions struggling to be tension centers like criminals and even the poor title historical record straight in and ministers claiming officials corman called it shameful may pay tribute to those who my. be deported the interest generation did come here after the war they did help to build this country many of them worked in our public services they contributed they found they have zero right to be here not only that but as for korban i will not say you cannot play station of dollars from a man who allows one city center just. after three or in corbin with anti semitism

to resume was asked by the s.n.p. leader in westminster ian black about the tourism a rape cause for poor women affected by her man the tree two child policy for poor people scotland have been clear hanging benefits on proving trauma isn't a choice it is a disgrace and one which we will retry the women involved the chief of the british medical association in scotland that's it it is fundamentally damaging for women forcing them to disclose really been abuse at the time and in a manner not of their choosing in our financial penalty mr speaker this is the form with the box for the child steve what kind of society do we live in this type of society we live in a society where we have taken every care to ensure that this is in as

sensitive. as possible well after a week of dealing sensitively in london with around fifty two heads of state representing two point four billion people what has the commonwealth heads of government meeting actually been like one nation that took a lead on the tourism a deportation scandal with st kitts and nevis the smallest sovereign state in the western hemisphere which finally won independence from britain in the one nine hundred eighty s. joining me now is its foreign minister mark brantley who's also the premier of the caribbean island of me this foreign minister welcome to going underground so how did it feel to walk into a huge political storm here during the what was supposed to be this govern world. the governments of it when it will feel to be going down to the destruction of landing cards and to raise amaze home secretary and prime minister deporting people to your region who are british but thank you for the invitation how did you feel i think that we satisfied that through attention from the media and through pressure from the caribbean led by high commissions here in london that we've been able to

get the attention of the british government and this to getting that attention i heard one colleague say that politicians first they feel the heat and then this is the light so i think that this was an example here and the timing of it coming as it does on the eve of the commonwealth heads meeting i think it was a distraction that the government here did not want at this particular time didn't want an absolutely presumably prepared for a group because you were quoted as saying tourism is best placed you are supporting it all through absolutely i think she is best placed i mean she certainly was the home secretary when some of these measures were introduced that have now led to this problem the british government said it was an unintended consequence but the reality is that lives have been destroyed people have been affected we have families that have been ruined part we have a situation where we have reports that people have actually been deported or denied entry haven't left the country this is a very easy in the caribbean as a whole visiting integrated kids to live with really going to jamaica and booklets

being published by the government telling people how to cope with life in the caribbean you didn't have any people we didn't we didn't we we're told again by a high commission that he is now looking at a few cases but certainly this is a caribbean issue and so in having these conversations we are trying certainly to ensure that the government here on the stance of the caribbean is united on this particular issue so this is even gone beyond just the mere question of an apology i think this is now a question of compensation for these people to try to see how if at all they can be made whole again. and around that table with your fellow foreign ministers from all around the former british empire they kind of share your view about oh i think that this view is a view that is is very closely held by colleagues of some that we're passionate about because that's been mine and i think you know your viewers must be in mind that when the when russia arrived here empire when russia would have arrived in one

nine hundred forty eight in fact this year marks seventy years this was immediately after world war two when great britain our mother country reached out to the caribbean and said to its colonies and to its subjects who were then of course all of us were not yet independent and said you must now come come to england and help us rebuild in fact my own father came in one nine hundred fifty five so he was part of that generation and he used to regale us with these tales and said you know in the windows when they tried to get a flap to lift to rent it would say you know no irish no blacks no dogs but what about that region they left behind some might argue the same kids and nevis swapped the colonial masters of london for the colonial masters of washington d.c. in the i.m.f. what is the you were prime minister took to if you have been doing meeting the i.m.f. certainly knows what is the telling you to do what we need to the i.m.f.

quite regularly we are members of course of the i.m.f. we are contributors to that and we get advice and we get what record article for assessment so they come in from gives them the right to tell you what to do and govern well i don't know if it's you give them right i think they come in and they make suggestions or recommendations or look at the economy let's bear in mind there's a lot of us in the smaller countries we do have a scarcity sometimes of the technical skills and the technical expertise so they come in they have to be invited in and so it's not a question that they impose anything on us we decide of course whether or not we accept in fact we had. program an austerity program that the form of government incentives the u.s. had introduced in response to an out of control debt situation and they are not that the pill is any less bitter but they argued quite success was a home grown program rather than an i.m.f. imposed telling you and you were doing it to involve yourselves in

a land for debt program basically privatizing was to save kids and live this well the most work too well not most but clearly there's a price to pay and i think that the lesson of saying it's in the us is that there is a price to pay for profit spending for an approach to governance which is all about tax and spend and you get to a point where our debt ballooned now in fairness they did not just balloon on the basis of profit spending there was some of that there was one to the wastage but it also ballooned because we've been hit by climatic conditions the storms we had to rebuild because we are treated by international organizations as a middle income country we know and have access to overseas development assistance or concession refinancing so what that resulted in is that we were forced to go to the market to borrow often times at commercial rates for building infrastructure and so that naturally affected our debt position in the numbers the lenders yeah you talk about climatic conditions because there's one country in your region which

famously under the castro. fidel castro and his brother not only the castro is in power of course cuba is that they owed their success to the fact they never did have an i.m.f. obligation to have cuban doctors come to your country to help in the wake of a testament to their medical system over yours well this is not so much odd because i think the cuban revolution has done one thing and it's shown the strength of human spirit cuba has been on the embargo blockade from the united states now for nigh fifty years the reality is that we have suffered as a people but through that's. for india build resilience and one of the areas that have excelled is medical care medical. care of all kinds so the truth is that cuba is not only because they have it with this they call it brigades that come out and have assisted countries not only in the caribbean but in africa and elsewhere in times of tragedy but they also have over the years trained no doctors so we have

many of our own doctors from sink is in need so we trained in cuba and so it is part and parcel of that cooperation we have always supported cuba and cuba is reintroduction into the world we have always virtually every speech you make of the united nations we condemn the embargo which we think has a horrible effect on people and the standard of living in their lives and one must with all the other. things that one can say about cuba one must admire the resilience of the circumstance what sort of payback from washington do you think you get for those kinds of speeches because the european union finance ministers are just blacklisted your country is being an uncooperative jurisdiction for being in the panama papers you know what so late after the papers do you see that is the swearing of your country it is a smear and it is an unfortunate smear and because i think that we have been very responsive we were assessed two years ago by the global tax forum and given the rating of largely compliant the same rating that the united states of america got we have been very responsive legislature with the e.u.

do this i think they did this because the e.u. required all of us a commitment last year and in our commitment led to this that one particular commitment was too vague we didn't use the precise language of the e.u. wanted part of the problem with the e.u. and all the organizations you know the g seven the g twenty you name it they make rules for the rest of us but we're not at the table when those rules have been made so whenever there's a meeting you're sort of watching and waiting with bated breath to find out what new world order we're going to have after this that we have to comply with because there's a lot of fear in going on living with you think cambridge analytic a story was a smear against your government i mean this video footage of a. opposition politician apparently being called in a million dollars sting curdle trump always says everything came originally because being complained about is based probably a smear with a smear against you i think it is a smear but of course it is what we call dirty tricks and politics frankly i don't know if it was cambridge analytical but a similar effort was made in addition to me so the picture of you with i think

julian assange is lawyer yes i did tom i didn't even know that he represented julian saw he would write yes that is yes we were having a conversation about a possible operation sentence and it's in the it was that he wanted to set up so it was only afterwards of course that this connection became clear but that aside i feel that the whole issue of cambridge and lit it was to expose sort of the most sordid side to the politics and the sort of mind bending techniques that people now get involved in trying to sway public opinion so who did offer this opposition. to millions of well there's a lot of finger pointing going on i have no evidence as to who might throw your government all i can say is it didn't it did not benefit him it didn't benefit our side of the island so one can presume that it was the other side that was involved with this and that would have been the form of government they were placed voted out in two thousand and fifty so we're leaving the european union how far are you

thinking about the alba economic union in that region obviously venezuela very much one of the big stories of that hemisphere from the whole of the foreign affairs that nato nations have destabilising is going to be where you see alberta's a economic trading block i think i think algos important i think there are some suggestions now did it arguably needs to be reformed but let us not forget that when oil prices were at the highest and our economies were on the knees and at the brink of extinction that meant a swimmer provided relief through alba through pressure they offered us the opportunity. if you continue to run our economies because clearly you need fuel you know to run your economy they offered us that opportunity on terms that made it a little easier for us until oil prices again got back to some semblance of respectability in our view so the truth is that album has for us certainly in its membership.