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if and after all this he wants to work he'd read economics at university and he wouldn't mind resurrecting his professional boxing career either but his talk is tentative working and living here sounds like a dream one that any day now could come crashing down with the arrival of a final deportation letter. and i knew all ten kilometer race right through the french capital will not be held this year due to the high number of homeless people mostly migrants come car along the road it's a problem many had hoped would have eased over the last year are to use the investigations president michael had pledged that by the beginning of two thousand and eighteen no one would be sleeping rough on the streets of france let alone her and yet not only did he fail to deliver on that promise but it's getting worse much
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worse it's believed that up to one thousand eight hundred migrants have set up camp along the canal here in paris and fears that that could explode to around two and a half thousand in the next two weeks has caused the organizers of the great race to graham paris to cancel the annual event. the ten kilometer race between paris and song to me was to take place in just over a week's time but this is part of where the run is supposed to come through and as you can see it would be virtually impossible for them to navigate this section of the racecourse these makeshift camps are growing day by day the route is impossible
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it is disturbing to have to run the race in the middle of a refugee camp at last year's race around six and a half thousand people took part it was also adopted as part of paris's bid to host the twenty twenty four olympics embodying a couple of the games key objectives solidarity and ecology this cancellation so close to race day has disappointed many you know it's kind of unfair or because of improvising for one time and then you just cancel the last minute just. like they should have reworded it down that's what i think so it's two separate problems you just do your race if your do your race and the rider problem is something else i think they should fix that they help them more. you know when you walk in the street you can see them all the people lying on the sidewalks despite pledges to help migrants off the streets the greater paris region currently only has room to shell to seven hundred and fifty individuals far fewer than the numbers already
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here a number said to be growing in the hundreds each week organizers say they didn't want the camps to be cleared just so that the race could go ahead reluctant to be seen as a tool for social exclusion but safety concerns meant that they couldn't we reach either. participants have been offered refunds or a place in next decent fent assuming of course there is one. ski aussie paris more years interest them up. a plate for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money killion
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a loan to spend spend each image of the twenty million player. it's an experience like nothing else not to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful game played great so chimes with. the base this morning. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. some want to be pressured. into going to be press was like before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters about how. things should.
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thanks for joining us the british foreign secretary is making last minute efforts to persuade donald trump to stick to the iranian nuclear deal boris johnson is currently on a two day visit to washington where he will meet with senior officials. takes a closer look at europe's efforts to change trump's mind. terms the parent intention of dropping the iran nuclear deal later this week has sent the international community into overdrive there are now two competing influence campaigns playing out keep it and kill it seemingly testing out the theory third time's a charm the british foreign secretary boris johnson is in washington and a last ditch effort to save the pact from trump's wrath that's after the leaders of france and germany had no luck whatsoever isn't that we believe it's better to have this agreement even if it's not perfect and have no agreement. the iran deal is not sufficient to see that iran's ambitions are curbed and
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contained it is most important to recognize is that iran through its ballistic missile program is trying to exert geo political influence in syria and lebanon. the solid robust verifiable agreement that guarantees that iran is not a nuclear weapons to denounce it without proposing anything else would be a serious mistake not respecting it would be irresponsible. and we should acknowledge that the current agreement doesn't allow us to address all of the issues among the things not covered by the iran nuclear deal is iran's activity in the region. this by going in with iron resolve both the chrono and merkel and it up looking like they were just trying to pander to the u.s. leader and although boris is set to meet with trump spice president and his hawkish new national security adviser those two will likely try to browbeat johnson into accepting this is a bad job and doomed deal i don't see that there's any prospect of
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a real fix to this deal i think the deal is inherently flawed i think it's a strategic the buckle for the united states the iran nuclear deal is a disaster and the united states of america will no longer certify this field can see. the only hope france germany and the u. . ok seemed to have is to push for a compromise with trump simply tweaking the existing agreement but perhaps we're not seeing the whole picture here maybe the problem for america actually goes deeper than this one pact we got a president is toast a president who doesn't listen to. the people who are naysayers and a president that is as true to regime change as we are. meanwhile pushing the white house to abandon the agreement is the israeli prime minister whose country is in the signatory netanyahu just last week gave
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a pretty dramatic power point presentation on iran's secret nuclear program which turned out to be both not secret and non-existent still b.b. is flying to moscow in the coming days to try and get his message across to president putin the kremlin has been clear on its stance however we are going to support the deal concluded with the previous u.s. administration so with both sides battling it out everything for now is still up in the air this deal took years of exhaustive negotiations to reach and surely none of that included worrying about what the next guy in the white house thought but if one naysayer is all it takes to bring them down maybe it sends the message that all landmark international agreements should be structured to only last for one presidential cycle it shows that the united states foreign policy is not based on responsibility but it's based on force the u.n. has no place other world powers are not given enough room to play a major actors in the us foreign policy and this shows major failure for diplomacy in resolving global issues like nuclear problem that's the main message of the kind
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of policy that has been adopted by donald trump. the fashion of world isn't broiled another racism scandal that's all for the cover of vogue italy sparked widespread criticism is the picture that sparked the controversy it features supermodel gigi hi david. some say is unrelated in eyes of all here on social media people pointed out that skin hair and facial features were photoshop to appear darker than they really are others say the photo is actually a piece of art and there's nothing racist about it instead of just hiring someone of a different culture they transform a white girl change her skin and amended her makeup to make her look more ethnic change hair color etc oh ok this is normal why couldn't you use a black model instead of saying black face honestly so ignorant and disgusting disappointed in the modeling industry these days there's literally nothing in black
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face about this people can't even look ten anymore without others making it something it's not you're making a response out of everything even when it's not she doesn't look black here she looks brunette i think the intention was to show a power of transformation and he wanted to do it on a red a very famous model known as blonde it is art it's magnificent some people just don't deserve. g.g. you had the vogue italy have both apologized saying the photo wasn't meant to offend anyone and the magazine explained it was trying to create a beach look a summer look with a stylized bronzing effect when a political commentator and radio host steve malzberg believes there's nothing wrong with the photo and the whole scandal is a big fuss over nothing. i hear you have a beautiful blue eyed blonde model one of the top models in the world and they put some bronze on her and they photoshop the picture now she looks i mean you could say she looks black or african-american she looks bronze to me but this is
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a whole big issue now where people take offense and they call it cultural appropriation in other words you're stealing their culture so it's really at hand and we have to get over this in our society or it's going to do a very very much harm so i see nothing wrong with the shoe i think people are too sensitive and i think it's getting out of hand political correctness is getting out of hand. it's spin or feel that the u.s. national security agency collected over five hundred million phone records of u.s. citizens last year that's over tripled the number of twenty six to one and that is despite a new law limiting the spy agency's powers the u.s. freedom act bans the bulk collection of phone records and internet method data whilst also limiting government data collection to what is quote reasonably practicable and does however permit the gathering of phone and text logs when
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a link to terrorism is proven in the recent increase in records collected comes in stark contrast to the concerns expressed last year by president the whole trump. i think that is a very big surveillance of our citizens i think it's a very big topic and it's a topic that should be number one and we should find out what the hell is going on in its mission statement b. n.s.a. holds a commitment to protecting the privacy rights of american citizens but also highlights the need for accountability when pursuing intelligence gathering the n.s.a.'s recent actions have raised concern among privacy advocates down carbolic believes that the spy agency has done little to scale back its spying operations even after being exposed by various whistle blows what was revealed by edward snowden the mass surveillance that he uncovered and exposed. my guess is it never stopped happening in that it's continuing to today and i you know most americans who are
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self-aware should assume that they're being monitored most of the time the u.s. government center about national security rarely have anything to do with the security of you know ordinary citizens like myself and everything to do with the security of corporations to make a lot of profit. i think you know it begs the question as to whether we're being monitored in order to stifle political dissent and i think. that is what i believe this is about and i think it's of of great concern and a country that claims to be a democracy and claims to be free but it's been a pleasure having you with us on this monday may seventh more of your wild wide news headlines at the top of the hour with my colleague and your father.
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i'm after tense here we're going underground as delegates of the united nations framework convention on climate change meet in germany to address prospects for coming up on the show why is jeremy coleman's labor party listening to an m p named as a u.s. state department source in the wiki leaks cables we talked to expelled a member of the party marc wants to work with forty against racism all his life and from kate moss story on that we speak to a world famous photographer and director ellen going on with about illuminating working class women all the some more coming up in today's going underground but first the largest country on earth russia in order eight to flatter me a putin for another term as its president that's russia are accused of using chemical weapons against people living here in britain. our case the russian culpability is clear no other country has a combination of the capability the intent and the motive to carry out such an act
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so what has happened since gay and newly ascript all literally disappeared from public view up to such unproven allegations u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson unlike u.k. home secretary on the road there's not resigned for misleading the public a story covered even on mainstream media twentieth of march boris johnson gave an interview to a german t.v. station and his answer was pretty clear i mean the people from from porton down the he. may have the samples do they and they they they were absolutely categorical and i asked the guy myself i said are you sure and he said there's no doubt and then then two days later on the twenty second of march the foreign office appeared to back up his claim and tweeted that analysis reporter dan made it clear that it was a military great number chocked nerve agent produced in russia yesterday the head of portadown revealed they hadn't identified the source of the poison and then this morning the tweet was deleted by the foreign office maybe what on the road did
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wrong when she resigned after misleading the british people about deportation targets and the windrush scandal was that she didn't tweet the information before deleting it what is also disturbing some is alleged links between the british agent sergei script all in the company involved in compiling the christopher steele dossier allegedly kremlin stealing on donald trump when visiting the ritz carlton in moscow amidst the media furor over the script of the barclay brothers telegraph announced a security consultant who has worked for the company but compiled the controversial dossier on donald trump was close to the russian double agent poisoned last weekend it has been claimed the consultant to the telegraph is declining to identify i lived close to colonel scruple and is understood to have known him for some time c.n.n. meanwhile reported russian claims that first set. the british embassy in estonia publisher miller was the m i six agent who became surrogates cripples handler and pablo miller o.b.e. who the telegraph seems to have declined to identify also seems to have disappeared
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miller though worked for christopher steele and who is this mysterious man he is u.s. senator lindsey graham of south carolina the far as a warrant. against mr carter page. the das that was used by the court provided by the f.b.i. was compiled by a foreign agent mr cursor per steele who was on the payroll g.p.s. who is being paid by the democratic national committee in the clinton campaign to do opposition research against canada trump no one to donald trump as being more suspicious about the script of case that's because of page here he is on this show denying allegations by the f.b.i. based on were linked to surrogates cripples and i wrote a letter you know just clarifying that basically everything that was said about me is is incorrect since then the u.s. congress is house freedom caucus has drafted articles of impeachment against deputy
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u.s. attorney general rod rosenstein over the handling off surveillance of the page because relegation the russian interference here in britain to raise a maze chancellor philip hammond has ruled out handing back russian money it received ahead of last year's elections we are going underground have not been able to locate either pablum miller oh be all the british agents. nor his daughter the russian citizen yulia script will keep on trying as other espionage in britain an inquiry going to be rolls on into the alleged bugging by the u.k. security services of men and women fighting for the environment for workers' rights and against racism one of those allegedly targeted is our next guest mark what is worth when the past few days was kicked out of jeremy corbin's labor party for bringing it into disrepute he joins me now marc welcome to going underground let's just. for we get to how you were kicked out of jeremy corbin's labor party and with that huge saga remind the people watching you may have only seen your mainstream media because of the korban situation about who you are and tell me about the anti
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racist alliance that you were part of and how it came to in a way draft the racial harassment and racial violence laws of this country when i founded the anti racist alliance in one thousand nine hundred one at the time the been a spree of racist birders of asian people of african caribbean particularly young people have been a rising fascism the british national party had set up a nazi bunker which they claim puts a bookshop in welly and then stephen lawrence was murdered in one nine hundred ninety three so this was the largest black lead and two races movement in europe and it was broad based it had political parties supporting it faith groups black individuals jewish non jewish it was huge and in the past few days people have been commemorating the racist murder of stephen lawrence i understand you were one of
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those who helped get seven lawrence's grieving parents to meeting with nelson mandela here in london that's why i helped during neville the parents of stephen lawrence set up their campaign for justice and i was able through my contacts with . from the african national congress in london to set up a meeting with nelson mandela who famously. decried the fact that a black life was a cheap in britain as in south africa and then of course the whole campaign lifted off and became massive as a result of that intervention i have to ask you this given you've attacked the policies of home secretaries over the decades we've seen the end of amber rudder what was your take on the wind rushed. scandal my father was on the wind rush he was a an aria volunteer from jamaica he paid his own passage to come to this country in one thousand nine hundred four to fight against fascism returned to jamaica in one
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thousand nine hundred six and then came back to this country in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight to help rebuild it after the devastation caused by the war and he died but i'm sure if he were alive today he would be appalled at the way that this whole issue has been handled he would call out the conservative government for its racism. he would equally be outraged at the way his son's been treated how far does your friendship with jeremy corbyn go back jeremy for more than thirty years before he was an m.p. he was elected in one thousand nine hundred three i remember him as a trade union official who worked side by side with bernie grant who became an m.p. four years later bernie was a part of the black sections campaign of labor party which i led between one thousand nine hundred sixty nine hundred eighty eight and i'm pleased i was able to play a part in the selection and election of the four black impedes in one thousand nine
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hundred seven that historic breakthrough that gave us black representation in parliament previously been all white it reflected that the parliament of south africa strangely enough perversely enough yeah there was a breakthrough seen by many and arguably people saying it's more multi-racial today what did you feel like though and i know this politics of yours goes beyond identity it goes also class what did you personally feel when jeremy corbin was elected leader of the labor party well i left the labor party in opposition to it supporting the invasion of iraq and i came back in when germany was elected leader tonight in two thousand and fifteen i thought it was very important that old comrades and cohesive is like myself came in to support this project this very exciting project of having a socialist leader for the first time in labor's history leading the party someone had a long record on fighting racism being an internationalist being against war supporting
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social justice all the things that have meant so much to me in my political life. you've been found to have brought the labor party into disrepute and this is all kicked off i understand because of an m.p. roots me the who is named as a us state department informant in a way he leaks cable what does that make you feel like you. disgusted that there will be this huge miscarriage of justice and i have to say i've been overwhelmed by the huge amount of public support a poll of thousands of people that went ninety four percent against my expulsion but how do you think the procedures are in the labor party that could mean that you are bringing the party into disrepute there is video footage of you what do you think of that footage now well first of all i'd like to say that our new general second jenny formby is on record as saying that this plenary process by which i was effectively tried is unfit for purpose so i asked the question of the party why did
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they proceed with the two day hearing that ultimately found me guilty and a senior m.p. said that the process was perverse it was pre-determined so that already made up their mind this panel before i even appeared before it my legal team won all the arguments it was very disturbing actually that the party couldn't come up with a definition of anti semitism they couldn't work out what the party had adopted as its definition and had to call an adjournment at one point during the hearing to take legal advice and that's deeply disturbing because you know and zionism is i've been fighting under semitism all my life i've been an anti racist all my life i've stood shoulder to shoulder with jewish comrades you know you might say on the front line against the fascist eighteen on the isle of dogs when tara beacon was elected b.m.p. council in the early one nine hundred ninety s.
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i worked with so i haven't lawrence on the board of deputies of british jews to craft a racial harassment bill saw the law change twice on the issue of harris mint and violence making them criminal offenses for the first time so why is it that jeremy corbyn who i should say gave one of his key leadership or made interviews on this show it doesn't go on anymore why. you mention a senior labor m.p. who backs you or seem to cast doubt on the process why is he so silent about you well i've been very pleased that i have had the backing of senior m.p.'s chris williamson keith vallas clive lewis is this personal where is this german testimonies to the hearing i'm told that jeremy what he is under siege from huge forces in society one hundred seven two hundred seventy two of his own m.p.'s signed a motion of no confidence and that's the vast majority of the parliamentary labor
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party that is still filled with blairites that will never accept his leadership arguably you and jeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell were under siege for decades before these two are now. you know on the cusp of power why are they so silent where they feel i think that they've got their hands tied that they needed to be seen to let you process take its course and they'd hope for a positive outcome but that's not what's happened and so i think that it's an opportunity now for the labor leadership and politicians to step up to the plate and make sure that this miscarriage of justice is put right because that's what the overwhelming majority of the public are demanding every spoken to german go into an advert or drama going i've got a lot my plates in that how about should ram talk you may need to people who are organizing the fight back including a national speaking tour that will begin this week people are saying to me that this is really the crunch point that if they can expel someone like me then no one
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is safe and possibly jackie walker's next ken livingstone and that doesn't speak very well for a party that is founded on the principles of fighting for social justice is supposed to be the premiere party for social justice in this country and i think that it's got a lot to demonstrate now in terms of proving that can you see. any sense in the strategy of trying to keep on an even keel and allowing what some of the near mccarthyism in the party just to coast slowly to power in this country in case the right wing media jump on a corbin labor party that said we welcome aguado with look i'm going to be very blunt my supporters are saying that you don't win this bitter battle for the soul of the labor party to keep it socialist and to war and to racist anti black racism anti islamophobia by
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a piece meant for capitulation bhagwat for thank you after the break naomi campbell david bowie and kate moss just some of the subjects of one of the greatest photographers in the world. to run away from the circus to pick up a camera all this and more coming up about two and going underground. ministries police forces in the city administrations of many countries depend on one corporation that doesn't want to. just. with their. proprietary software you don't know isn't that a security risk when you have a black box operating in the public i think microsoft dependency.

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