under which iran committed to its self as a frankly always had committed itself to a peaceful nuclear program in return sanctions were dropped and so on we have dangers you know the dangers that the presented to us that is so unnecessary why why are we why we threatening countries like iran which hasn't invaded anyone or about four hundred year is 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 was as 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 rig still regard themselves as democratic. the stop be there. to the brake. cause.

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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. short of expect with the koreans them so. if we've been following him and we don't follow by him we follow the big power is that. impose that them so it's particularly in spades on that country it's a very popular move by the president of south korea it's it's 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 is the us so it's almost like france relate to one big family the idea of them divided.

is absurd they recognise 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 two worlds so-called flashpoints and problems their credit is being given to donald trump's administration of what he's if you want to give him the nobel peace prize why not given to a few of those coming 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 old 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 solve to completely and north korea knows that by having. you clear weapons that's prevented it from being another iraq canal the libya from big attacked i don't think there's any question about it so while it's desirable look north korea is dissolved of nuclear weapons and and all of korea is denuclearized it also has to be the america is the two in fact the the formula is rather more important than the latter. how that happens is going to be the 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 it does russia and china borders russia and child or of course but it has its tad so cold and the missile system 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 david 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 it but whether the united states stays in korea. literally

leaves. it's a crucial fact to hear that surely there really is the end of the korean war surely there are interests and we should remind people who don't because it's seldom mentioned here that 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 the it 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 those 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 the whole devastation of video maine 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 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 we saw were in libya and in two thousand and eleven so again i suppose i'm saying that although it's probably it's a 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 korea 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 and

mickey miles it's it's it's just of so good. i'm as the ruler inquiry progresses you know as if the goal is a road in that within the road to stop this was save the house intelligence committee ruled out found off the months of you 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 of. that her foundation. the cheating you rather she you that the the the force of the saudi arabia qatar or 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 as we can leaks organization can never be forgiven by that is bush 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. so he being in touch with it yes into you directly at the moment i haven't i've been in touch because he's denied visitors. he can't make phone calls he's got no internet it's the pressure pressure is on him and every bit of his extraordinary of resilience is now being called upon it's it's one of those miscarriages of justice that's to malda to. grotesque injustices but that it should. manifest right in the hot of london is that the scrapes

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 hell hole that chelsea manning into it details probably throw away the key with julian assange. he's done that too well and so if these leaks that make them leak actually i mean we can 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 no freedom of real journalism it's headed. thank you. and that's it for the show will be back on monday with renowned anti-racism campaign to mark woods with on his expulsion from jeremy goldman's labor body for bringing the body into disrepute still then you can be touched by social media with you on monday one thousand years to the day nato bombed the chinese embassy in yugoslavia killing or injuring twenty three aging with bullets a bomb back at.

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tracking and contradictions the chemical weapons watchdog now says it's not able to determine the amounts of the nerve agent used in this point and you turning than earlier on claims that nearly half a cup of the talks in the. tens of thousands tonight in paris this weekend of protests president micron's economic policies with tight security following what happened earlier this week at the labor day right. over the anti-government protest take place across russia days before the potence presidential inauguration a man behind the marches opposition leader is arrested on authorized.

by good morning early sunday morning or moscow says r.t. h.q. it's one am my name's kevin zero in top story that the international chemical weapons watchdog which is currently investigating the poisoning of some gay script daughter in england is backing away know from claims my. by its own boss the o.p.c. w. director general had suggested that up to half a cup was worth of the nerve agent novacek was used in the attack on the former spy that saddam as large enough to kill tens of thousands of people were takes up the story usually what happens with ministries is the answers get revealed crimes are solved perpetrators are identified in the script allocates what's interesting is we seem to be going in reverse the 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 and maybe 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 any 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 or determine the amount of the nerve agent the booze used in solsbury on the fourth of march twenty eighth 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 eight 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 served 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 the 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 really remarkable just to think britain was so sure it was all so we singularly exclusively russia is highly likely that russia was responsible the two poles russia culpable culpable culpable for the attempted murder you argue that their source of 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 press

a 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. a party with tight security forty thousand turned. in paris earlier to protest the french president's economic reforms and what they're calling a part of in my craw the heavy policing as a result of what happened earlier this week at the may day rallies when the turned violent this weekend's events generally passive that innocent at least one police officer is thought to been injured or do bensky is among the protesters. so the

police have just moved into the basti area which is the end part of the protest they have started making what seem to me some arrests so far that's often some of the protesters damaged of van you might be able to see in the distance smashing the screen and they also attempted to set it on fire there are around two thousand joined on the police out in clueless in paris today to try and keep the violence here at this protest to a minimum after the violence that was witnessed on the may day protests on tuesday when almost she one hundred people or so who were arrested from a ground to a crowd of around one thousand two hundred ultra militant leftists as they were described by the police now you may be able to see behind me some of the people who cover their faces they generally people describe themselves as being anti capitalist anti fascist and they don't want to see and identified many of the people came here to protest against the policies of the math on government over the

last year that's because on monday it is since he was elected for the moment it feels like it is quite a calm but tense standoff between the police and the protesters here as the police have moved in to try and protect this area where the protesters had been trying to damage some of this property but as you can probably hear they're describing the police in the chance as being racist and these are people who tend to hate the police i mean normally we hear them saying all the world hates a police you get a sense of that tension these protesters who initially came in to protest against that you. in power of mr macro but what they are is against this system capitalism and pretty much anything that go against the natural form of what they want and what they want they've said in the past is to bring up power to the street . rallies russia this weekend to opposition activists been protesting ahead of

libya putin's presidential inauguration on monday heeding the cause of the country's leading opposition figure alexina valmy they have been demonstrating under the slogan putin is not czar to us now live only him self was arrested in moscow earlier today along with nearly three hundred others for breaking protest laws he goes down off report some fifteen hundred people have gathered here in central moscow most of them are supporters of alexina valley a prominent opposition figure in russia now at the beginning of the protests we do know that there have been some scuffles between the supporters and the opponents over latina volley but so far largely this event has been peaceful now right now the police are trying to clear out of the city center they are kind of breaking up the crowd into smaller chunks of people and and trying to disperse them one of the reasons the reason as to why they're doing this is this location for the protest has not been approved by the most school authorities the. system himself that his

supporters should gather here on post disco square while instagram suffered a different location on soccer avenue now it's just a few thousand meters a few kilometers away from here it is also set in central most boys story districts somewhat of a traditional what has become a traditional sport for opposition rallies in moscow one of those actually took place there literally a few days ago organized by different people and it was in support of the internet freedom in russia in the wake of the russian government banning a very popular a messaging service messing. telegram here it's in a volume self did not shy away from appearing at that rally which did raise some questions as to why he chose time i know which troops to denounce that location south or about avenues for his rally and saw no problem appearing there at the do at the rally was by different people also this has been this the protests have not

been contained to just more school it has been a russia wide thing some two thousand people we know have been protesting in c. petersburg and in other russian cities as well we have. reports of arrests in some of those cities too mostly in the cities where locations like here in moscow. approved by the authorities as well and most of all we saw some people being detained by the police to mostly those who are trying to block the streets. this weekend on account of a story in the sun today marks the two hundredth birthday of pioneering german philosopher karl marx people across the world been celebrating and debating to the legacy of his works which portrayed capitalism as an exploitative an unsustainable system our europe correspondent peter all over explores why it is that the iconic think is still captures the imagination of so many to this day germany is

commemorate.