where there are plenty of progressives and affluent people who live here you think well you know we are generally in favor of a change to society so this is our kind of party these days we live in complicated and fluid times so what has happened could it be allied to the resurgence of revolutionary politics over what was so long called postmodernism does anyone even talk about postmodernism anymore the philosophy expounded by ruling elites across nato nations before the rise of germany corbin and bernie sanders here's what know him chomsky said about postmodernism i think the effect is pretty clear it allows people to take a very radical stance you know more radical than they are but to be completely dissociated from anything it's happening well the biggest postmodernism scandal across nato nations was arguably the so-called bric more affair in which theoretical physicists deliberately created a fake connection between hard science and post-modernism so keen were neither left nor right post modernists to ally to hard science as

a badge of intellectual owner that they backed a paper by two eminent physicists and asacol and john brick wall wrote a paper called transgressing the boundaries towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity and it was published despite being complete nonsense and arguably complete nonsense is what the enemies of the president of france are calling the politics of emanuel mccraw who has been recently in washington kissing u.s. president donald trump joining me now from paris is professor bricmont joy thanks so much for coming back on so is my craw postmodernist in the fashion of tony blair classless not left wing not right wing now the friend of donald trump where he clearly is of course that science and he's a not very important if you listen to a stone to congress but they think he's showing exactly the opposite the total contempt for international law because they bomb syria without. any mandate from

the u.n. without any legitimacy from the point of view of international law they did it with before the inspector. you know about the chemical weapons inspector could come to syria to investigate the case so they actually total contempt of evidence so it seems to me that he has shown in his business indeed what you could a person other than this one set contempt for law for his own for evidence but of course he claims you know in his talk to congress that isn't the size of science and reason so is ideology fuisz is not post modernist in that sense and yet outside the academy the french public according to polls showed a bridge already back in twenty thirty in against bombing syria recent polls suggest that macro has the mood of the nation and that there was a majority in favor of french action against the nation of syria of

course it depends also on where the media the line of the media in two thousand and thirteen. the pressure there was no talk of bombing syria and. whatsoever when there was a president's election the whole media were in favor of mark on so i mean there were demonizing of course mine le pen but they were also demonizing tons and tons has been shown as vulgar nationalist not whole it's like manning the pen but now that term has been nice in the sense that it's been bombing syria now you become sort of a good guy maybe not on everything but at least on foreign policy becomes a good guy so it seems to me that what qualifies. people to be good guys in the media is their willingness to bomb other counties against international law you see and very sensitive to that because it seems to me that this is an immense big question of the west. i am not anti western in any deep sense i would like the west

not to collapse into hate if you will the west should admit that it does not control the world doesn't hold the world and is not expected by the rest of the world to hold them they tried to control the middle east with absolutely catastrophically hundreds of thousands of that total destruction people fleeing in the crisis etc i mean they're not invaded and syria and the they're not light in that region one of the reasons they're not liking that region and that's of course the elephant in the home is israel israel is hated in that region us anybody who goes there hear lies is that and of course the support for israel which is up to nine humans in the west the minute you say something and we see it we can loot in belgium a decent player we see it with corbin immediately are behind it and they say mike and you are dead it seems to me that we are in an absolute situation and there's a petition of all these platitudes about democracy and freedom and these again

democracy and freedom people want to have some common sense policy and we don't have it so do you think many of those who voted in my craw a year a good to now feel betrayed obviously because of the peculiarities of the french presidential system the boundary being people that didn't support macro but felt they needed to to keep marine le pen out exactly i mean i don't know how many people voted you see in the first round if you did something like one hundred twenty percent of the vote so we're certainly not the first choice of that many people and the second hand was biased because of my in the pen huge campaign against so the one that way but many people abstain many people have seen the issues that eviction people are not that enthusiastic about in a calm now after the media presenting him as the savior of friends and nice to you know but they've done that with sarkozy now sarkozy she university despise and maybe he's going to good to to jail because of the libyan affair you don't know so . you know in a lot of stuff looking good in

a lot of us of a and popular do you think. organizations like amnesty international have a point i mean they say that since the since their manual back row has become president twenty fifteen terror attack legislation has been used to clamp down on protests against his government nearly six hundred times you talked about freedom there or i think he's not he's really he pressing he said there's a funny thing people who've been voted for him against behind the pen and against fascism or they call fascism now are very disappointed because of the measure it is about the mag hands because of the impression you go near not something called not read on the lawn where they used to be a plan for an airport and against a student in the universities etc no i mean these are very authoritarian person i don't think in the pen would be more authoritarian i don't know of course but i mean the suspects and eighty's our concern is obvious and was obviously this is a campaign that is completely me get your money back but then of course east little

hole in the american sense of the world that can be very combined with terry and these and like you've seen with tony blair in britain he sent in thousands of french soldiers into western france as you say in in that situation about the airport we've seen tear gas on the streets of paris you expecting tear gas and soldiers so more i mean it's it's obviously the fiftieth anniversary of the main one nine hundred sixty eight protests i don't know but they certainly. i don't know that's very difficult to predict because it depends on the level of resistance you see if he is able to crush the resistance then he doesn't need the repression i mean you know certain movement like the student movement of this business at the airport i'm not that popular so the repression of this movement may not concern people very much on the other hand there is the strike of the one that's divisive

not everybody is for it but they say at least a substantial minority was for it and that you know. these popular it is coming into any blair was very popular at one point i mean it doesn't seem to be very deep but it's very scandalous and in the scheme is still to congress was absolutely scandalous he was such a lapdog of the americans who used to see him in the amazing usa you put that i mean of course he's very happy because they were there standing ovation after standing ovation but. you know he just setting himself with the americans a is not going to influence the americans is not going to influence trump he thinks he used to but that's a nice that's unusual americans are doing whether they want to do this lee has views of immigration and immigration has become a big topic here in london because of forced deportations just give us a taste of what this legislation that macro wants in france is i mean is it

seriously true that a person who gave emergency help help to a person seeking asylum perhaps from one of meters was could face a jail term were delayed on nobody can be prosecuted years ago because good to have been legally mccown's because that's the legislation and for the i'm afraid that this part of this is the nation is going to be another popular because there is intense s.t.t. to illegally me haitian everywhere in europe but there should be also something to be said about the dignity in the open. fans for that if the united states this level of submission even suckers they found sarkozy quite horrible to insert it to do with her speaking i did state that even him didn't do that. mccaw is going it's in the lead of the germans divided at least divided on this police ie i mean the german parliament has said that the strikes on c. here illegally of course a five year old child. you know the the united nations found the founding documents

can see that it's illegal you don't need the parliament to tell you that the fact that they say that shows that these are the poor feet they've been german journalist on the ground the challenge to still have a chemical weapons it's a type that i don't know what's i don't know what is true or false about it but i could remind you that in two thousand and thirteen there was a hope all by two scientists from mit who were absolutely affirmative that the weapons used and could not come from. there he has controlled by the government that must have come from the control by the hubble's one of those was indeed on our program that it was but i am talking to you from a country where the government has maintained that russia has used chemical weapons against people in england recently yes i know but where's the evidence for that in this whole i mean the diversion of the russians know that their guns are heaven or something if you want to kill somebody you don't do something so crazy assumes

a little poison that is where it's written herschel all over the place at this apparently hit and herschel over the place and that doesn't even kill the person you want to kill and you don't use it to kill somebody was no importance whatsoever and you don't do it a week before the election in other to discredit the election a few months before the world cup you know that to discredit the world government that's what they called the destruction of reason they something they were used to be and there has been it let's see it must be see that the strength of the west has been over. thank you he's a certain sound science and he's supposed to shift the shelf. and that's been one of the strength of the west the do seems to me that we have been learning that at the leader. of this and i think those are just giving up that even those who keep on speaking about these unlike my call just given the completely what to be scientific what it means to be scientific would be to look for evidence before i.q.

zinger in this specialty before condemning anybody well thank you thank you very much. for the post breaks it britain be negotiating trade deals with brazil led once again by president lula this time campaigning from prism we go to porto alegre to award winning cartoonist carlos structures and. we have music from palestinian rapper and to gaza who dedicated his newest video to his friend the journalist. who was an educational dead by israeli snipers all the civil coming up in part two of going on the ground. to stand with the king to find something finer than my life. when i look to the

south texas. and i'm having a problem and i'm not going. to. tell us a little bit over the long lead to leave the book the flow on. my. feet . from. the tree of the willing to lump it. he. was in the coming. years on leave off and you don't know. how shameful. admission from.

my. seat. i. welcome back this month britain's ambassador to brazil vigil a rug of rajan said he had an interesting meeting with the contender for october's presidential election care both a narrow but what of the man actually leading in the polls to take over the world's fourth largest democracy and key member of the brics group destined arguably for

superpower status in this twenty first century well former president lula is in solitary confinement and has been denied medical treatment apparently so from porto alegre in brazil we're now joined by perhaps one of the world's greatest political cartoonists call us the truth carlos thanks for joining us before we get to lula's plight what do you make of a white a british ambassador me meeting this man bolsa naro and who is this candidate who certainly will be running in your elections in october. well right couriers. to know what is actually the british ambassador want you to speak with also narrow because as is like. having a meeting with a very well known they're not torrijos faces here and brazil they guy show no respect for for example the natives the rights of the natives so this guy has

a very clear political fire right platform maybe gerry corbin could send an official request to this ambassador give us some context on that because dilma rousseff the former president of brazil has been talking about the plight of her breeder's as the president lula i understand dilma rousseff was tortured by the fascist american british backed dictatorship in brazil before this recent period of democracy in your country i used to say brazil is another and the leader keep so i don't think we had any time along the eastern edge of brazil something we could call democracy you know of course. we we had some periods where the regime was less. authoritarian let's say that but for example for the people who lives in the favelas and the poor and

the poor areas over the cities the democrats democracy never arrived you always had police brutality always had a kind of. dictatorship and. pushed by not only by the cops but also by direct dealers so i really don't believe in him in democracy in brazil when you have for example that mainstream media controlled by families deposit the politics and brazil are in the hands of family groups so what do we have in brazil is a node or league or. village surprised by an elaborate take did it surprise you that even with a media that only witnessed it when i was last there so monolithic and so monopolistic that recent polls show that lula would win

a presidential election in october a reuters report citing an election that citing a poll that would mean lula easily winning october's general election and the brazilian population know he is in solitary confinement right. it's quite interesting. let's make some comparison between brazil. and venezuela with chavez so it's important to say lula was part of a group of government in latin america especially in south america. representing i kind of the new wave of the socialist let's let's put socialist between coat. so you had lula in brazil you had. chavez in venezuela if a model is and believe you. then i think tina.

and all of that this government has had sent the income and they weren't revolutionary but they had a kind of. reformist approach you know more and more leftist reformist approach and. were it was over true or drawn exactly because she and lula wasn't able. to create up popular base and give no less should this popular brazing or to chew to support the government and to push the government for more change social changes you know a former cia asset michel demo was then put in place of course what about these reports that president former president has been denied medical treatment i think

that not only the impeachment of juba but also the i rest of lula was result of. let's say a conspiracy by opposition parties the media. the legal system you know and they work hard they had many options in order to put lula aside from the presidential. elections we had. we had and the recent history of brazil is political history of brazil son kind of accidental for example. check was killed and a car crash. it lock up was a former president president kind of that came to date. died in a plane crash so and the brazilian polish political attacks you have some

kind of a sometimes from time to time you have accidents you know the so if this conspiracy wasn't sexy for on. a par for the elections process i think some kind of accident would happen. color to thank you well brazil under president lula was clear about the sovereignty of not just nations in his hemisphere but also all around the world he recognized palestinian sovereignty unlike the british government which continues to arm israel despite advice international law in the past few days the world has witnessed more atrocities in palestine as the so-called great march of return aims to eliminate injustice and un resolutions as groups within the palestinian movement for the first time in nearly a decade gather in ramallah where going to the old piano bass off to his ear to talk to palestinian rapper m.c.

gaza he has been marching for palestine and has dedicated his latest song cor shook to his friend who died mc gaza welcome to going underground just tell me before we play your video course shook how you came to film a video on the actual great return march as a. joining. and that people in gaza. and that great marsh as an artist i must clip i was the first artist. taking video that's the way. it's like the first evolution of. video around the war it's effect it's like fall on the ground you know we so don't much violence and that day i was on my way. then i had a call from a friend who told me that our friend yes i got shot. wiley's walking as a brisk m.r.

man so i get near the edge of that tell while the snipers shooting it was food into place so i was very afraid from getting shots you know there's an idea that is don't care about if that if the people was how mass of fatah or any of these six. flags we was all then just the palestinian flag we just want that bill down to our land. taken it from us nineteen forty eight you know tell me about us and we're talking the germans is a very kind guy who's getting love from only known him you know and his was a great cameraman he was a great juicer so all the people was. loving him. why would israel want to kill

a journalist like your friend yes and we're talking because he he's showing the war that they're all so they don't want the thought to get out of gaza you don't think that the music that you are seeing makes you a target to them because you want to inform the world through your music for sure. everyone will was showing that all around the world that the truth about as. is in danger is. will be shut one day but we don't afraid that we are down in one day and what would you say to those in britain who say there are jobs here for people making the bullets and guns and war plane armaments targeting palestine i think the british government and other governments sold snipers maybe which killed our people and our children and that they so

british and american keep support and that cannot sense nineteen nineteen it's about promise and. in one thousand no forty eight so they are just supporting the killers and you thing music saved you from becoming another martyr trying to protest the breaking of un resolutions actually that they was about to get to get shot so many guys around me get shut fund is that it's not about. trying to solve all my problems on all my issues and my country's issues by my lyrics so far short of my music seventy from that war mc gaza thank you and every gaza song courtship or time. as we'll plants out in

a few moments but that's it for the show and we'll be back on wednesday when we speak to poet in musician would whisper about his new book before rhyming guide to grunfeld britain until then you can give it to us with us by social media with your wednesday fifteen years to the david emmy award winning british director and cameraman james miller was shot and killed by israeli defense forces while filming his documentary and death in gaza an inquest jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing although the israeli government never prosecuted those responsible here isn't he does it with his own volition dedicated to his friend. another journalist who was allegedly shot by israeli snipers on the great detail much. but. if i get a double in what could be some

a couple of. united i'll do a couple in the living globe. and i need. the man on the nichols who i'm not on the finance much to know mushroom and it's not open and the financial gnomes have finished mcandrew shushu. but i'm out on nothing but. up until the what if in much of the summer when no much to. the muslim nation in the house until. some odd talking to some one i should think. about to. know how. much. the sun is going.

no. we live in surreal times a short time ago even imagining a negotiated end to the tensions on the korean peninsula was a flight into fancy but here we are this is becoming

a foreign policy victory for trying. the new global economic war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education has been supplanted by the right to access education low it's high education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business there where you good. luck with these songs. follow they couldn't. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was born now i'm an extremely more higher education the new global economic war. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then.

the israeli pm claims iran lied about its nuclear program. and he presents a huge amount of supposedly secret data to prove it. why would a terrorist regime. hide. and meticulously catalog good secret nuclear falls if not to use the military. there are calls for donald trump to be awarded the nobel peace prize after he takes credit for progress on the korean peninsula. plus a human rights organization accuses the israeli army of deliberate lee targeting the legs of protesters in gaza. i spent six hours in surgery and then one week in the intensive care unit and i did not think my leg would be like.