if some other aggressor did that to a western country there'd be pandemonium it would be brought up in the united nations there'd be an emergency session of the council but this seems to be treated as some kind of collateral damage perhaps because our allies of the west are responsible and i should say the sales of weapons and bombs to saudi arabia from this country have increased by five hundred percent since the start of the war but i think surely leaders apologists as it work could defend themselves by saying wedding parties have been a particular target certainly between whether you want to do any thirteen by the us air force i mean that is just paktika province december twenty ninth twenty one one hundred revellers die in a village in eastern afghanistan. province july first twenty zero to at least thirty possibly forty celebrities twenty seven members of the family twenty of form a twenty and we're going to rebuild iraq forty two dead wedding guests even the musicians hired to play this at the ceremony this is the point afshin that word the sterile phrase collateral damage is written large in the destruction not just of

immediate family but friends and relatives because the west has made another mistake yes i suppose the british could try to distance themselves from the american mistakes but in reality let's not play that game this shows that there's a lack of responsibility a failure of targeting even if one argues that those wars further didn't and they were in place reined by the saudi arabian government say they don't deliberately target civilians britain is giving a massive aid package to the world's worst humanitarian crisis how do you answer that oh well it's a mistake let's move on let's forget about it once again same point if it was the other way around if it was americans or british who died in a wedding due to another country's aggression you'd never hear the end of it but there wasn't much coverage at all on the day after this happened tony all today i should say director general the b.b.c. went beyond some questions as to why there's no coverage of yemen it's about b.b.c.'s commercial activities but you have a story here from evolve politics well this is about the b.b.c. this. is into what we've just been discussing in

a sense of politics reports the b.b.c. worked directly with m i five to bar left wing journalists and prevent a left wing british government this goes back about eighty years i think turn around one hundred thirty three where no was in for the whole story right up potentially to the one nine hundred ninety s. it started then two years after the informal conversations there was a formal agreement that there would be conversation between the secret service which of course didn't exist officially till one thousand eight hundred nine and the people running the b.b.c. to prevent arguably a left wing government now this was all denied at the time and you can kind of understand why but it's. what you get away with it's a he says association was enough you didn't need to be a member of a left wing organization they actually had three different categories and i think that is understandable because there was a terror in this country about the communists over running the country but here's the irony i work with the b.b.c. i must be right wing i joined the b.b.c.

around this time which included years ago do no one ever say i would have to england but they were supposed to file for us today here in r.t. which basically means we've been potentially an article by the b.b.c. and now they have to explain why we're here it makes mockery of those people who point to one or two stations and say we've got a bias but the other ones haven't i think in reality there's much less bias overall then we think but it's also means that those who seek to blame others need to look at their own house first well very serious article which i'm sure they have to be some kind of inquiry into let's go to a source that probably never makes it on to the b.b.c. and perhaps the headline shows were yes the world socialist web site says nearly thirty thousand single parent families made homeless in england in twenty seventeen now let's think about that this is england a first world country and it turns out that something like forty seven percent. of

households for statutory homeless are single parents lots of work but they simply can't make ends meet and the figures have gone up there's a charity called gingerbread which has been very concerned about this and here's the other point the changes to the benefit system make this even worse where does this send austerity well these are the people going or just actually least there has been no coverage on the order of the mainstream media here in britain could be thirty thousand single parent families there is peripheral coverage i occasionally see things on the news you see maybe a little bit more in newspapers especially after leaving ones but this is an inconvenient truth eight percent increase on five years ago as austerity policies the didn't save directly from tourism is david cameron's policies there's been a ten fold increase in zero hours contracts by forty thousand people your party liberal democrat coalition in those early years can't blame me for that i wasn't there for that period of government with coalition but you're right from twenty ten

on words has been a big problem it actually goes back to the labor administration as well tony blair's administration gordon brown's of ministration also made changes to the benefit system let's take a step back from this these figures we can once again sound a little bit sterile we're talking about tens of thousands of people living in the united kingdom which is the sixth wealthiest economy in the world who are homeless and they're trying to bring up children and i think that squares two comfortably with those who claim that we are the bastion of the welfare state that over thank you. well in the past twenty four hours the u.k.'s largest food bank provider the trussell trust has claimed failures in the tory welfare system of lead to more and more people needing food banks to live former food bank manager charles when he wrote an actor in a new british theatre production the food bank as it is joins me now to our thanks for coming on going underground the odds on favorite going to the latest odds to be the next prime minister is jacob riis morg the tory m.p.

marginally beating corbin on the odds says food banks are rather uplifting just describe what inspired you to create this new play. well far from uplifting i found that when i started working at the food bank i couldn't quite believe what i was seeing i was shocked to be frank at the situations that the people were coming in with. i felt that the stories were weren't widely known amongst the public that that things were going on under our noses that people just had no idea about as they were living in a parallel universe so i was seeing seeing people who had had no money for weeks. yet families with young children it makes absolutely no difference whether they're young children in the family if someone's benefits are delayed or they're being reassessed the presence of children in a household makes no difference if you boris johnson and dominic round the other tory m.p. board shorts of foreign secretary it is not about people languishing in poverty

this is more about cash flow problems i totally disagree with that i mean people living in desperate poverty even even people who are working in secure employment are really just about managing we often find people who. although they may not be able to feed themselves they also can't hit their homes and sometimes they can't even light their homes people are not able to run for it is. or ovens because they don't have the money to pay for the power so people really are in poverty it's a serious problem in this country i know it's been performed in front of jeremy corbin before jeremy corbyn became labor leader we had blairites appearing on this program advocating the carrot and stick approach towards welfare and the most vulnerable how do you think the media managed to create if you do

a perception that actually these are just people scrounging and using food banks as some sort of in a number rudd's words magic money tree of a difference or. i think the discourse in some of the press is the plea distasteful and immoral frankly that you know these are not just words these words are really hurting people they really internalize the stigma pedals. and people just believe it and even articles that depict food bank clients in the supposedly sympathetic light often don't go into full detail and leave the person open to horrible comments trolling and. in so doing they they help to create an atmosphere of which the prime minister said food bank use is complex the reasons for food bank is a complex and that it's not a simply a matter of having enough money to eat going abroad minister. i think that she may

be trying to fudge the issue and distract people from the fact that the main issue is poverty that's what's driving food bank case. over see there are compounding factors that result in a person living in poverty so disability mental health issues addictions. make it more difficult so it's almost soldiers cruelty that on the part of the government conscious cruelty is the phrase used by some as regard to achieve it drives them people like the director ken loach. he's been on this program we depicted them of course famous. palme d'or winning film blake i think before i did the job at the food bank i would have thought that phrase was overblown but having seen the reality is really really hard to escape the notion that there is a conscious policy going on here to leave people in the us and possibly that somehow that will deter people from claiming benefit. i mean when i see

someone who is money has been stopped overnight who has a disability who has maybe depression and is driven to the verge of you know feeling hopeless and despairing i have met people in line people who've been using the food bank who attempted suicide and it's very difficult to escape the feeling that there is a conscious cruelty going on terrorism thank you think here well in a moment we'll hear an excerpt from the play and if you're in london in the u.k. you can see it at seven pm at center in the seventeen in the wharf i'm sure that's it for the show they will be back on saturday with palestinian mc gaza or up to the un's mideast envoy has told israel to stop shooting of children can be judged by social media was your saturday fifty one years to the day muhammad ali refused to serve in the u.s. war against vietnam that would kill more than four million men women and children he was stripped of his title as heavyweight champion of the world now here is sarah

somerville performing an excerpt from food bank as it is a lot of us volunteers a form of this and every week we hear the same things i'm so shy. so. companies it's me needing help it's usually me helping other people some of them are. quite pale some of them thin some of them can barely hold their heads up they're so low on energy. often if you show them slightest kindness or understanding their burst into tears. even the men. will say things like. i feel broken or everything's wrong just everything and

there be tears streaming down their faces. you try and keep it light of course you do. that every week that at least now at least one person says they feel like you know. killing them so. we keep a happy face you know we really try but sometimes it's all we can do not to break down and cry with. i know some people say that food banks are run by a bunch of do gooders taking the place what government should be doing what we meant to do i let people start off.

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