israel has since apologized there are supporters of israel in the u.k. labor party such as root smee that have allegedly been revealed by wiki leaks to be informants for israel's biggest backer the us state department here is a confidential cable the us secretary of state hillary clinton from agents in london it suggests to me that you gave the us government that backs israel information about former labor prime minister gordon brown's election plans labor's prospect of parliamentary candidate for burton roots need strictly protect told us april twentieth that brown had intended to announce the elections on may the twelfth strictly protect presumably means that agents here in london don't want anyone to know who they have met with the labor m.p. the m.p. that has lately been attacking her leader we contacted roots means office but they told us no comment and meanwhile just to be impartial here is a tory literally at home with israel iran sixty one are we.

to conquer the middle threatens threatens the worst threatens the world netanyahu currently the subject of corruption investigations in which he protested innocence meanwhile is suspected of ordering air strikes on syria in the past seventy two hours causing explosions that reportedly measured two on the richter scale. well one thing we don't hear in the u.k. which bomb syria with millions of pounds with the missiles in the past few days is that double the number of people who have been killed in syria's war have been killed in the same period in europe how allegedly by air pollution joining me now from the w.h.o. headquarters in geneva switzerland is dr maria nera she is the director of the department of public health and environment at the world health organization maria thanks so much for joining us your report has nine out of ten people. breathing

with a high level of pollutants that means both of us presumably are breathing in a high level of pollutants. probably more like you than you because you need but it's still yes we are both breathing air that these are putting at risk our health depending where you are you will have a higher risk or a lower as well but still and the effects of breathing in a high level pollutants you draw extrapolations with the ideas of dying of cancer and heart disease well this is the point of doubly choice so much interested on air pollution is because this is dramatically affecting human health in the reasons why when you brief these polluted air i mean those fine particles that are you are breathing they will go very deep in your lungs and then going to your cardiovascular system representing a huge mortality seven million deaths seven million deaths occurring every year due to exposure to air pollution this is this is it our strong heart disease is.

a struct if chronic commentary this is including our smart and lung cancer and of course pneumonia and children so i think it's dramatic enough for us to take in a scale up of this program and raise awareness about this huge public health challenge we are in front of us i want to get to europe in a second but this figure you just mentioned seven million twenty thousand people have died between sunrise and sunset today how to do you arrive at such a figure well we don't want to be apocalyptic and then in paralyzing people with that history figure figure out what we want is people to realize that measures can be taken there interventions that have proved that out of very very effective and if you take those interventions and you reduce air pollution the health we've been proven almost immediately so this is the very positive part so all of these laird is coming with good solutions and interventions to reduce this air pollution and therefore immediately see the benefits for human health. but you know that in say

your the biggest car companies like vox are going to be done for forging at quality testing how can we trust our political leaders who are sometimes being lobbied by these car companies little of the car companies themselves more we know about this problem or we know about these figures more we know that their pollution is affecting our health more that population we'd be putting pressure in the politicians they're right pressures that they need to put on the car producers as well i think the solution will come for from a more sustainable transport people want to commute so give us good solutions and then the car companies will be able to produce good solutions for these more sustainable not pollute and any species and there will be a big market for that in our politicians are starting to feel that pressure particularly may years because there are the ones that are very much responsible for their health for the people and they are in a little town of the big down in those solutions related to traffic but not only traffic transit and traffic is part of the problem but there are there is there is

the missions the type of fuels we are using the type of energy that as a country we are investing on it how much we are moving on these new virtual energy transmission in those countries who we be doing that there are the ones that it will be gaining from economic point of view from the human health point of view in the reduction of the cost that we are paying at the moment so why do you think given your report is saying two hundred eighty thousand deaths a year in europe over seven years is double the death toll of the syrian civil war that infrastructural spending that you've just been talking about. he was not to be prioritised compared to say bombing syria at the moment. i mean this is a. difficult question but if we look at the public health the basis of public health it would make a lot of sense to invest on reducing risks for i would health that at the same time are promoting and. or sustainable development in

a normal life and look at their richest countries look at the scandinavians they have reached they are going into a sustainable development and others think that they are protecting health so you do not destroy the environment and pay the price in our lungs it's possible obviously if you look at the geopolitics i think i will agree that we need to prioritize a little bit better the way we are doing now said billy but critics of this kind of reporter i say maybe scott pruitt of the u.s. environmental protection agency will ask you why is it the life expectancy has actually been rising as pollution levels have been rising in the country. well you see first you have to part of. their life expectancy in might be if reducing in the next year or so the next generation may not have to the same life expectancy as our generation is having so that that will be reduced for different perspectives but there finitely air pollution is one of them and second i think is

the cost i mean why do i need to pay in an m.b. permanently with a bronchitis or having asthma very often or being as bitter lies because i have a chronic respect authority says or that they're looking in twenty years from now or lankans and i think those are the questions that our population is asking today and there is no controversy there is very clear that this is happening and this is very clear as well that we don't want to live in a place where you can't breathe i think its citizens in china and in the me me are is starting to demand that very clearly and i think it's a very logical man i mean we need to have access to safe water food and clean air to breathe every day there is no discussion around that i think and he said was you know of magnitude you can challenge as much as you want to figures but when you look at the magnitude of the problem there is no discussion yes china doesn't want any petrol cars on the streets relative research in india similar. your

report focuses on and mexico city which is easy to lagging behind on pollution in the air levels no i think it is fair to say that e.u. has done very good process advances advancements in the last years and in fact you are up in north america sees the ones where we are seeing most i mean the best results are where because we have rich countries because we have to technologies there is no excuses that we need to keep going down on those figures and making sure that we promote more measures and there are different pieces that needs to off of this equation that needs to be address is about the diffuse we use is about those type of action that we have is about how we recycle holder we manage our waste hole we do transport hole we invest on that and hope we use that at the house for level as well sources of energy that sometimes in the european countries the issue of the house in heating is still an issue in

a challenge that we need to address as well force are there and i think it's a question of keeping the political pressure in will and doing even more come on you're not blaming households are you people of the world should we bring themselves to be blaming political strategies or their governments. we're not blaming anyone we're trying to engage everyone in if we want to engage we need to address all the pieces of the problem including that one why not. it depends in the in which places he will represent the big proportion and the smaller one definitely not playing around the world there are three billion people three billion people who are still you know heating or cooling or light and in their houses with very polluting fields they are listening we will do is to blame the not the country they need to have access to clean sources of fuel they need to have electricity or they need to have a clean. something clean as source of more there and sustainable energy that they

can use for for the basic functions and this is not happening at the speed that we would like to see i hope that these sustainable development goals the number seven which is about access to clean sources of energy will help us on and by using this argument of whole much air pollution is killing people will help us to do to increase the speed at which of these sustainable development goal will be implemented dr varian era thank you. thank you off on the right as france tries to sell tens of billions of dollars more worth of weapons to australia today we talked to the director of west of sunshine jason roughed up poulos about depicting post twenty zero eight working class hora in melbourne and from the headlines the wall that washington called with in afghanistan on the wall that israel shouldn't stalls with iran over the symbol coming up about two of going underground.

palm oil is one of the most controversial products of our time it's a salty vegetable found that's very cheap. twenty seventeen production grew to sixty three million times that rapid growth an international demand for cheap oil has led to the massive expansion of palm oil plantations which means the destruction of the rainforest to. get into the zero a lot more than ten million hiked as of unique rain forest has been destroyed but it's a process that just keeps going. join

me every thursday on the alex salmond field and i'll be speaking to get a feel of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then . welcome back want to go through some of this week's headlines as a broadcaster and former british member of parliament lembit opec no bit no politics there are elections tomorrow no that no bellatrix at all but it had no ballot or nothing i'm not even sure we are able to promote democracy can be promoted or demoed turn out that's go before we go to the actual headline we're not very impressed by the israeli prime minister netanyahu giving their presentation about how iran is obviously in contravention of the iran nuclear deal and despite being the victim of a corruption scandal allegations he seemed to have some pretty well but let me

summarize his entire presentation i think that iran is planning further nuclear project because i said so and everyone goes where's the extra evidence because it's a secret i wasn't overly persuaded by that let's go to the head let's talk about that in fact that iran and israel draw closer to war than ever that c.n.n. the american out that reporting that time warner and it's a serious situation there's been a source of proxy war between iran and israel fought out really primarily in lebanon and also in syria it's getting a lot hotter it looks like israel has killed seven at least seven iranian military personnel recently in maybe a second strike even more recently now the run denies that anyone was killed and not the bottom line here is that israel looks like it's been aggressive towards iran iran had an incursion with

a drone it's got shot down israel's last military jet if this gets any hotter then this could be really serious trouble for the whole region so far donald trump doesn't made any decisions at the time of this recording in fairness donald trump this week has said he's not against negotiation he wants change now i don't know what that means but it sounds a little bit deaf. front to the intransigent position is take until now so maybe it's not quite as bad as it seems that alone is national security advisor john bolton's position it's the instability on the american side which makes netanyahu is behavior towards iran so dangerous let's go do that terrible event that happened on monday the guardian in response to that terrible attack this is a hot war and it continues the guardian reports the u.s. and afghanistan can't win the war can't stop it can't leave now you may remember that donald trump said let me get his words right he is having a fight to win strategy it's not working when the strategy isn't working because we

interviewed the former president karzai on this program who said seem to allege u.s. collusion with the islamists the do seem to be suggesting are the opponents of the united states well if you think about how many on this program if you think about the islamist terror of terrorist activities as a victory for america then i'm wrong let's tear up the rule of the there's no doubt that is not a victory for the united states oh as i said earlier saying we don't even have to go that back to the end when the u.s. was supporting what would become a says that this is and this is only in your right to raise it because that's not forget where this all came from and and it is worth repeating that america was delighted with the mayhem caused in afghanistan when the russians were occupying there once they allegedly won this war they just left afghanistan out to dry and

the old tribal rivalries and resentment towards america which had no rebuilding strategy whatsoever has now come back you know by face higher vis the policy obviously do deny that parliamentary elections though on july the seventh they'll be british troops british boots on the ground in afghanistan perhaps the british public a bigger point here is there will. american troops there for the indefinite future after trump saying we're just going to win and leave it looks like there's no way out and that's what this headline is all about because some of the fighting in afghanistan alone across the middle east concerns this next story courtesy of the bureau of journalism yes this is quite a remarkable but perhaps not a surprising story really the bureau of investigative journalism reports executive who over sore black ops in iraq hired for anti qatar attack bureau reveal we haven't been able to independently verify this story i should think that's true but i'd love to do that let's think about the the value of that original operating as

it goes through their lives hundred million dollars are spent in this black ops campaign where fake videos are created which were meant to be for example videos and then they used those videos to track people who are watching them this is sophisticated stuff in and more than that looking surprised. and sort of this is all then used to attack the nation of kotor know that what's happened is the same man his name charles i think is the way to say it he is now being employed to suggest that qatar is involved in terrorism there's no doubt at all that he is a trusted former member of the pentagon by the individuals who employ such folks for black ops hundreds of thousands of people have actually viewed this series and i've heard these stories emanating before i even realized where they were coming

from the suggestion that it was an association between qatar and terrorism so you could argue this is working this is the black ops we know about we didn't know about the black ops during the iraq war so how much more it's been targeted at qatar and what's the what's the end point what's the mission here that's gone to that other regional power struggle that. until a few weeks ago was threatening the very fate of the earth itself great news for the world not so good news for the american armaments industry fortune report here's who isn't winning from denuclearization talks and friend in north korea south korea isn't winning we're all going to be alive and here merican military industrial complex isn't winning their shares have gone down down down since this all rich enough to have shares in military defense companies you still want to be alive and not be destroyed by a nuclear war but the fact is the who is the military establishment was going up quite markedly up as the risk of

a confrontation was regarded as becoming very serious and that's when all that saber rattling was happening between north korea and washington now we've seen what i thought was really inspiring meeting where both the north and south korean leaders seemed genuinely committed to some kind of a process more but that's but if you're selling weapons because you don't need weapons if there's going to be peace it's quite interesting that some political analysts and some economic analysts say don't worry don't worry it's not as bad as you think we're still going to need weapons for war too early and we have to be too cautious to say that double trouble win the nobel peace prize well i think this is where we have to recognize and you're not going to like me for saying this option it did happen under thomas was always about a drone vote oh yeah you want to cut me off there'd be no big doldrums supporter thank you no politics. well while britain's three hundred billion dollar upgrade to its trident submarine program continues to be

controversial french president macro hort on the heels of his bizarre visit to washington last week is in australia today to sell underwater weapons systems but as australia debates the fifty billion dollar bill for submarines the working classes of post twenty eight gradual strayer continue to suffer in a new film from award winning jason rafter poulos looks at a microcosm of their austerity the do. rector of west of sunshine joins me now jason welcome to going on the ground survivor the twenty eight catalyst crisis warts inspired you to make west of sunshine. avoid being fascinated with con of the stories of our forefathers and how that can become a bit of a mythology to have. lvalue and unique lives and so when all is about to become a father. i knew what was kind of coming consciously but i know it was kind of prepared psychologically started to do a bit of meditation on the whole notion of fatherhood and i think the birth of the

all the seed of the film started there and you want to feel think you're compulsive gambler in death of. all the other it is presumably a lot and it isn't every leigh autobiographical no it was really about exploring what. things of love and and connection i really want to make sure that the film really addressed and explored what love is and in essence what the thing of the film is is that lovise and action in spite of what you feel. using the father son connor tribe and construct i want to convict explore that idea where i have a character who is on resolved and psychologically has broken relationships with his own father and see how that can affect the relationships with the son and whether or not he we have to learn how to conduct come to terms with that pos and i would be present albeit that we have a father hugely affected by extremist circumstances and acting with his actual real

life stepson in the film and putting that stepson through quite some ordeal as he tries to. financially navigate his life yeah i mean casting the stepson. was kind of a fortunate thing i want to i want to the cost of not acting and i was saying access along the y. and it was until die. mian who played the laid suggested he's steps. that economy tweaked an interest in me and i thought this could be really great or could be really bad having seen it i think you certainly pull it off a lot of the hollywood press corps and being on your love of the new realism and to see could tell me how bicycle thieves was an influence it was no. i need they don't want to to have the city become a character in the film you know it was basically using the city as a an overarching kind of oppressive structure in a sense like you know the shyness of the buildings and stick a comma juxtaposed against kind of the psychological state of the character and saw

it by wanting to have the city be a character you basically from a i went back in time i thought on i thought what part of cinema has use that qana tribe in a sense and side you know of course not about telling me a realism and i just started from there i started watching the badass acres the bicycle thief and. debt and your projection is correct yes there is what pulls them through this will again and it's inspired by those qana films you know. which is of this conti's film and and rocco and his brothers all these beautiful telling films that really set. i said in that part of world where the characters live and so i want to the straw for that sensible thing to city so yes it's i mean some would say that's pretty politicized i mean obviously it was going to use only association with a communist party of italy new realism itself the screenwriter in bicycle these

member the communist party how does how does politics of italian go in this buddies principles feed into the blight of your character all acts of in some way political what i loved about those films were that. they used i think the city as a way of showing us look at the way that these characters a living i mean from a some of the opening shots of the film are about the con of the oppressive structure of the of the city in which they live because it is melbourne yet talking about recent years we know that i mean the reason john batsman is the guy who voted . horrific accounts of what he did to the. aboriginal people there any kind of element there of understanding of the genocide against aboriginals the cities conda leave rot on the edge of what is con of harsh terrain in the strata and sometimes you get a sense that this they cities could disappear if they just left the line for fifty

years that's how harsh the terrain is in terms of the people that lived in there what i really want to explore was how. this city is really con of impinging on the psychology of of of these characters i mean. i love melbourne and it's a city that's been voted united livable and all those things but there is an undercurrent and there's a hardness about that and there's a price to that that is really kind of talked about in the anchors of the plight of your protagonist with the whole of australia nickel we didn't melbourne because there was a bank bailout of one hundred twenty billion dollars in australia you are banks into ideal weight which presumably is the the area which you are breathing yeah i mean when i when i wrote the screenplay i was i was very conscious about creating kind of the three live the tease of it so the con of the overarching structural. the structural oppression which is kind of like the city and and capitalism in

a sense the maser level which is kind of the organizational he's gambling and he's now you know he's kind of work life and then the interpersonal khana of problems that he has between himself and his son and he's our own problems that he has with his father. it's a tough city to live in it's a big city and it's not as glamorous and it's not as con of you know. idealized as what you might think it is you know there's a lot of people on how to live in melbourne and there's a lot of people how to live in the big cities in australia because it's a process place to live and that has direct ramifications this need for consumption this need for con a continual growth has. mental health and kind of other social effects and i don't want to push that down anyone's throat but that's part of the overarching con of idea of the film it's part of the subtext of when just very briefly without giving away the ending we have to be necessarily vague about it would you say in some senses the guy is all redeemed by the end of the yeah it's hopeful it's hopeful and

well he he has learnt something he has learnt something that hopefully will change the course of his life and you know the lesson that he learned is the story of the film and so yeah i would say that story jason rafter pulis thank you and that's it for the show will be back on saturday for a full show special with legendary journalist and filmmaker john pilger joel then you can be judged by social media we'll see on saturday two hundred years to the day of the birth of calm looks within a century of his death unloved and billions would live on the governments that claim they were inspired by his work. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy even foundation let it be an arms race based on often spearing dramatic development that only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful

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