an issue in london today for the visit of u.n. secretary general and turn your good terra's he has an israeli embassy official recorded talking about jeremy corbyn sparty. and if u.k. m.p.'s don't do what a foreign power wants them to this representative of israel since reassigned makes what hasn't been taken for a joke national champion for. israel has since apologized the 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 me 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 able. to conquer the middle who threatens threatens the worst threatens the world netanyahu currently the subject of corruption investigations in which he protested in a sense meanwhile he 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. we don't here in the u.k.

which bomb syria with millions of pounds over 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 as nine out of ten people on earth breathing air with a high level of pollutants that means both of us presumably are breathing in the high level of pollutants. i'm probably more like you than you because i'm genie but . 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 high level pollutants you draw extrapolations with the ideas of dying of cancer and heart disease well this is the point is doubly chill is so much interested on air pollution is because this

is dramatically affecting human health and there are 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 dead 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 small 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 arrive it's a very well eat 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 the 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 volkswagen have been done for forging. 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 the population will be putting pressure in the politicians the 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 that not only traffic transit and traffic is part of the problem but there are there is there is the missions that 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 energies and season in those countries who we'd be doing that there are the ones that it would be gaining from economic point of view from the human health point of view in the reduction of the cost that we have pain at the moment so why do you think given your report is saying two hundred eight 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 see was not to be prioritized compared to say bombing syria at the moment. i mean this is a dream really difficult question but if we look at the doubly health the basis of public health it would make a lot of sense to invest on reducing risks for our health that at the same time are promoting a more sustainable development in a normal life and look at their richest countries look at the scandinavians they have reached the air. going into a sustainable development you know the same time 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 separately but critics of this kind of reports 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 we had record 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 harbin so that that will be reduced for different ways factors but they're finitely air pollution is one of them and second i think is the cost i mean why do i need to pay and be permanently with a bronchitis or having asthma very often or been a spitter lies because i have a chronic respect authority says or the vela been 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 mean the

air is starting to demand that very clearly and i think it's a very logical amanda 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 and relative research in india similarly your report focuses on and mexico city. lagging behind on point. and we are 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 or where because we have reach 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 go off of this equation that needs to be address is about the diffuse we use about those type of action that we have is about all we recycle hold we manage our waste hole we do transport whole whole we invest on that and hope we use that at the house or level as well sources of energy that sometimes in the european countries the issue of the house in heating the c.c.s. 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 repairing themselves to be blaming political strategies of their governments. but we're not blaming anyone we are trying to engage everyone in a if we want to engage we need to address all the pieces of the problem including

that one why not. be the tensing the in which places he will represent a big proportion and a smaller one definitely no 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 listing we will do is to blame the another country they need to have access to clean sources of fuels they need to have electricity or they need to have at least something clean as source of mother and sustainable energy that they can use for for the basic functions in 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 helmet air pollution is killing people will help us to do to increase the speed at which of these sustainable development goal will be implemented. thank you after the break

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 ruff to poulos about depicting post twenty zero eight working class hora in melbourne and from the headlines the war that washington can't win in afghanistan and the war that israel shouldn't start with iran over similar going over but two of going underground.

one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to stamp out these days to come to advocate and engagement because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. welcome back want to go through some of this week's headlines as broadcaster and former british member of parliament lembit opec nobody no politics there are elections tomorrow no let no politics at all but 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 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 minute she jat 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 taken till 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 women this 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 know there's no doubt that is not a victory for the united states oh i've got to know the saying we don't even have to go that back to the dean when the u.s. was supporting what would become a says this is an island only and you're 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 like this fire vs 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 the british public a bigger point here is there will be. 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 but some of the fighting in afghanistan that 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 saw black ops in iraq hired for anti qatar attack bureau reveal we haven't been able to independently verify the story i should think that's true but i'd love to do that let's think about the the value of the original operators that is 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 afshin and more than looking surprised nobody i mean and sort of this is all then used to attack the nation of kotor know 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 is no doubt at all that he is a trusted former member of the pentagon by the individuals who employed 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 teen 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 going to that other regional power struggle that. up 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 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 weapon systems because australia debates the fifty billion dollar bill for submarines the working classes of post twenty eight gradual strayer continue to suffer a new film from award winning jason rafter poulos looks at a microcosm of their austerity even. director of west of sunshine joins me now jason welcome to going on the guns are part of the twenty eight catalyst crisis watch inspired you to make west of sunshine. of being a 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 i was about to become

a father. i knew what was kind of coming consciously bar you know it was kind of prepared psychologically started to do a bit a 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 invalids presumably or not 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 i'm resolved and psychologically has a broken relationship with his own father and see how that can affect the

relationships with the son and whether or not he will be able to learn how to conduct come to terms with that pos and able to be present albeit that we have a father hugely affected by extraneous 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 because i'm not actor and i was saying actors along the y. and it wasn't all down. i mean who played the lades 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 pulled it off a lot of the hollywood press corps in doing on your love of the new realism and to seeker 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 shining us of the buildings and stick a common juxtapose against con 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 so i did you know of course not about telling me a real ism and i just started from there and i started watching the bod to say because 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. a set

in that part of world where the characters live and so i want to the straw for that sense of authenticity 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 religion itself the screenwriter in bicycle these members the communist party how does how does politics 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 i 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 john batsman is the guy who founded. horrific accounts of what he did to the. aboriginal people there. any

kind of element there of understanding of the genocide against aboriginals the city's khan to leave rot on the edge of what is con of harsh terrain in the strata and sometimes you get a sense that this they see these could disappear if they just left the line for fifty years that's how harsh the terrain he's in terms of the people that lived in there what i really wanted 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 you know 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 echoes of the plight of your protagonist with the whole of australia nickel we did because there was a bank bailout of one hundred twenty billion dollars in australia to your banks in twenty zero eight which presumably is the the area which you were 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 kind 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 that are on hard to live in melbourne and there's a lot to learn how to live in the big cities in australia because it's a process place to live and that has direct ramifications east need for consumption this needful kind of continual growth has. mental health and kind of other social effects and sorry i don't like 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 just very briefly without giving away the ending we have to be necessarily vague about it would you say in some sense is the guy is a 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. change the course of the slots and you know the lesson that he learned is the story of phil and yeah i'll set it straight 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 jill then you can get it that's why social media will see on saturday two hundred years to the day of the birth of calm looks within a century of his death unloved and millions would live on the government's claim they were inspired by his work.

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