pillock collapsed in one nine hundred seventy nine with the revolution in iran and that has never been forgiven getting a rom the major ambition of the above and that's why we're coming into a very dangerous period when trump mosse ratify the agreement that a bomb outside and. with iran along with. the e.u. under which iran committed to its self as it frankly always had committed itself to a peaceful nuclear program in return sanctions were dropped and so on we have dangers you know the danger is that a presented to us that is so unnecessary why why are we why we threatening countries like iran which hasn't invaded anyone for about four

hundred years the don't threaten us why is anachronism like israel allowed to have it seem punitive. why do we why do we believe these why do as you describe why do we journalists write down what governments tell us why don't they question them don't they it's just a few years ago that that exactly that or was is terrible mistakes happened in two thousand and two two thousand and three that led to the disaster of the invasion of iraq of iraq what why is this being repeated these are questions the demand to be answered not just by journalists but by the public in democrats particularly in countries that rick still regard themselves as democratic. joe

gallagher the stop you there. to the break. in the heart of the swiss alps there's a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and

better guarded than for knox swiss customs are here permanently all the site is controlled by them and they impose the opening time so it was it was it took these forms all plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani kept boards and sold in the side this warehouse that's where the report comes in that it covers up deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet struck but also discreet because they concern fraud from some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport such a place like china you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business.

welcome back i'm still here with legendary journalist and filmmaker john pilger john did you ever expect to see what looked like did told in korea no i didn't expect it. although i should have expected that the koreans them so. if we've been following them and we don't follow but we follow the big power is

that. impose that themselves particularly in spades on that country it's a very popular move by the president of south korea it's i would i would have thought as clearly a popular move in north korea the koreans korea is one of the most homogeneous societies in the world i mean you can you can find very few countries that are so it's almost like france relate to one big family the idea of them divided. is absurd they recognize that but what this demonstrates is that a regional solution. is is possible not only possible it's probably the only way to all these to all the world's so-called flashpoints

and problems their credit is being given to donald trump's administration but he's there but if you want to give him the nobel peace prize why not given to a few of those below the incoming war in germany details that massive military expansion in that area yet it's always you know everyone is celebrating because the share prices of all boeing raytheon locate and others have gone down how can these regional peace deals be done in the face of all of that military industrial complex pile if this deal is being taught and i think both koreas have to be very careful of not walking into a trap as well the trap could be that north korea is to psalm to completely and that north korea knows that by having nuclear weapons that's prevented it from being another iraq cannot libya from big attacked

i don't think there's any question about. so while it's desirable look north korea is dissolved of nuclear weapons and and all of korea is de nuclearized it also has to be the americanized the two in fact the the former is rather more important than the latter how that happens is going to be a very tricky part of the negotiations coming up because korea as far as the united states can is concerned is is really a front line on a number of countries but especially if front line on china. does russia and china borders rosher unshod or of course but it has its sad. so cold and he'd miss all systems if you just said to be pointing at the north no one believes that it's

pointing at china so these are very precarious days ahead but i think they quite hopeful days and i'm sure if you still have friends in the national security apparatus of the united states but do you think there are people in there taking a rather dim view very day and i will oppose this as you point out all the arms companies will oppose this although the japanese have said publicly they supported but and no doubt the chep these people support it no question about that but whether the united states stays in korea literally leaves. is the crucial factor here that surely the really crazy end of the korean war surely there are interests and we should remind people who don't because it's seldom mentioned here that it was britain was involved in killing of twenty percent of the population of all of korea how far would the united states go in trying to

remain there if peace breaks i don't know but for them it may well get out of control this will become so popular if it isn't already in korea that. they my eye might find great difficulty with the local population and even the local political elite south korea you know does this sort of hybrid it's a it's a vassal state of the united states but it's also bred people like. the the present president and people like kim dodge wrong and all those who who saw. i did tone with the north as their prime political purpose not as a servant of the united states perhaps that's a clash that we've yet to see. happen and perhaps it's coming but the

process has started that's that's the important thing and regional processes like this have a high success rate they have a high success rate in in. i remember in uganda when the east african states following the the whole devastation of video made and you guys and that was a regional solution they were left they were left alone. in latin america when countries very rarely have been left alone by the united states. they've had regional groups that have banded together in economic formations and if you like protected each other maybe that's why they hated to go chavez so

much because he promoted that he promoted that regional solution to a two to a region so perhaps we're seeing the beginning of something like that of course if you go to the middle east they would be a regional solution. if they wasn't the united states supporting one state in its impunity and its priority in its occupation of politics but if there was goodwill in the united states to make that a regional solution. then to be very difficult there there are a many different. competing tribal forces but those tribal forces of mostly been. reignited

by the the the imperial powers as resource in libya and in two thousand and eleven so again i suppose i'm saying that although it's probably wrong it's so remote at the moment in the middle east but to see glimmers of it in korea is hopeful well if trump has enemies of a career because he may what the big grand gesture he now has the curious enemy of the d.n.c. that is suing him russia is the us democratic party i think this is serious because i had to recheck it again yes is suing donald trump russia and julian assange son mickey mouse it's it's it's just absorb stood. i'm as the ruler inquiry progresses you know as if the goal is a road in that within the road to stop response save the house intelligence committee have ruled out have found off the months of. in looking into

a conspiracy between trump and the russians it was the probably the clinton cables the hillary clinton cables particularly the protests the ones the protests the ones that showed that hillary clinton the absolute embodiment of the democratic establishment. that her foundation that she knew rather she knew that the the the force of the saudi arabia qatar were backing isis they were backing these extreme to harvest movements and he had she she and her foundation benefit from huge donations into into the clinton foundation and she did and went on the secretary of state to

so-called negotiate the biggest alms deal that america's of unknown with those states so that's the that's important information that tells us how power works that's upset them and russia of course fighting isis and al-qaeda in syria but does that mean then that basically julia is in his weekly leaks organization can never be forgiven by that established will never be forgiven we were talking earlier about good journalists and of a forgiven that's why they're good journalists that's part of being a good journalist but such a sound has suffered so much for being for wiki leaks big so good. he being in touch with it yes into a directly at the moment i haven't i've been in touch because he's denied visitors

. he can't make phone calls he got no into that it's the pressure a pressure of zone him and every bit of his extraordinary of resilience is now being told upon it's it's one of those miscarriages of justice that's to malda to. grotesque injustices that that it should manifest right in the hot of london is that to scrapes a songe isn't even allowed to go to a hospital and come back because they won't let him back. he has the right to safe passage out of that embassy he has a justified fear. of the united states extraditing him and putting him in the

kind of hellhole that chills see manning into it oh details probably throw away the key with julian assange. he's done that too well and so over these leaks the only leak actually i mean we could leaks doesn't know where the leak came from but the leak almost certainly came from within the democratic national committee the same body that is now conducting this ridiculous action against against wiki leaks and the rest. you might as well the same thing would be directed against the new york times or the washington post were to publish the pentagon papers and back in those howls in days when they did real journalism if anyone needs the support of democrats. of journalists of those who believe in basic freedoms freedom of speech freedom of knowledge

freedom to know freedom of real journalism it's him job thank you. and that's it for the show will be back on monday with renowned on the racism campaign to mark what's with on his expulsion from jeremy goldman's labor party for bringing the body of the disrepute still then you will be touched by social media with you on monday one thousand years to the day nato bombed the chinese embassy in the slavia killing or injuring twenty three beijing would call it a barbaric act. palm

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be. tracking on contradictions the un's chemical weapons watchdog. neighbor to determine the amount of nerve agent used in the script poisoning you turning on earlier claims that nearly half a cup of a softsynth was used. and this hour karl marx turns two hundred r.t. explores how the i called again pioneering german a full last. i see is a by the present free speech of capitalism a new resonate with many in the modern world. russian opposition supporters

take to the streets ahead of love and presidential inauguration leading figure out lexan if only is arrested at a rally in moscow on the fourth. around the clock across the world this international from the team and myself you know neil welcome to the program our top story the international chemical weapons watchdog which is currently investigating the poisoning of surrogate script his daughter in england is backing away from claims made by its own boss the o.p.c. w. director general. that up to half a cups worth of the nerve agent novacek was used in the attack on the former spy that's a dose large enough to kill tens of thousands of people picking up the story for us

. usually what happens with ministries is the get revealed crimes the soul of perpetrators are identified in the script case what's interesting is we seem to be going in reverse. for research activities or protection you would need for instance five to ten grams of but even in souls free it looks like they may have used more than that without knowing the exact quantity i'm told it may be fifty one hundred grams or so which goes beyond research activities for protection it also stretches the realms of reality here's some perspective one drop of a new for chalk nerve agent is enough to kill roughly ten people one hundred grams the equivalent of a small glass would be enough to wipe out at least a neighborhood kill thousands and thousands and the serious chemist familiar with

nerve agents will tell you as much know each other is supposed to be very toxic highly toxic five to eight times more toxic than the x. which is already a very very toxic what's interesting is how the head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog could possibly make such a mistake perhaps it was a mistake the u.p.c. w. didn't take long to shall we say clarify the o.p.c. w. would not be able to estimate all determine the amount of the nerve agent the booze used in souls bring on the fourth of march twenty eight in the quantity should probably be characterized in milligrams fair enough they miscalculated a slight exaggeration of about who hundred thousand fold but ok remember when russia protested the accusation that only eat could make new each ox no one took them seriously in fact the accusers were offended by the very idea.

the russians crossed all boundaries when they said the novacek agent could have come from the czech republic that is a lie fake news right so imagine the czech foreign minister's face when the president then comes out and says this. novacek was produced and tested in the czech republic it was a small quantity though we know when and we know where it was done it would be hypocritical to pretend that such a thing never happened pretty remarkable just to think britain was so sure it was all so we singularly exclusively russia is highly likely that russia was responsible be to hold russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder you argue that their source of the chalk is russia how did you manage to find it out so quickly i look at the the evidence when the people from from porton down

they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt only russia it could only have come from russia said the guy over there to boris johnson hundred percent guaranteed go ahead sanction russia you can probably guess what happened next as a pattern here of not verified the for say source to be clear you're not able at portadown to say where it is from we haven't yet been able to do that so much backtracking it might as well be back running yet the media hits the breaking news peddle over any scandalous statement no matter how unsubstantiated and every time those statements turn out to be untrue no one cares staying tuned only for the next sensational revelation. award winning journalist and filmmaker

jump ilja her is on today's going underground he talks to me about how in the current political climate news outlets take a totally uncritical approach to claims that leveled russia here some of what's ahead i've never been a time when so cold as you describe it mainstream usually. a satirical to. mainstream journalism has been so integrated into a propaganda. and that that propaganda campaign at the moment pointed rights against russia suggests to me that it's the beginning of a kind of not the macho russia i've been a journalist for a long time. i've covered many wars i've covered the first cold war i've covered it from the soviet union i've covered it from the united states i would say

there was a pseudo journalism now to simply write down and swallow what governments tell you is the very end to this of what real journalism is. it's the two hundredth birthday of pioneering german philosopher karl marx people across the world have been celebrating debating the legacy of his works which betrayed capitalism as an exploitative sustainable system our europe correspondent peter all over explores why the iconic thinker remains so popular with many and why his ideas continue to resonate. germany is commemorating one of its most famous sound controversial think is such a date as the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the author of the communist manifesto karl marx to say that his ideas of class struggle and the overthrow of the ruling classes by the workers were hundred maying divisive here well that is

beyond understatement marx's ideas were truly at the root of the ideological division between east and west germany post world war two but that's not stopping his place of birth tree in the south west from hosting a series of events to mark his big birthday bash. it surprised many when it was announced that the guest of honor at the big party in tria would be showing claude younker the e.u. commission president hardly house proletariats credentials in fact the former prime

minister of luxembourg has been accused in the past of exuding the worst excesses of the bush was he so perhaps mr younger has been a closeted common rate of marx all these years marxist con marx is not responsible for all the atrocities carried out by his followers and his writings does capital and the communist manifesto change the world as we know it so marx's name and image has appeared all over the place from a major street here in the german capital to these t. shirts you can even save your capitalist pennies inside the heads of one of communisms founding think is marxist also appeared in more than east. share of t.v. shows and advertisements as well.

oh come now dad. my son is called the list. take. it. to. the ideas put forward by moxie here alongside frederick angles haven't been consigned to the nineteenth hole for that matter the twentieth centuries a recent poll of people from twenty eight different nations showed that hall for them said to get a better society we should follow socialist ideals however it is worth noting that in the same poll around the same number said that.