iran deal but we not sure how the russian chinese and the european counterparts going to kind of create and provide a package which would save the iran deal in the future supposedly of the american exit from the existing framework and finally based on what you just said and i know it's conditional but if iran were to stay within the agreement will that affect donald trump's thinking because surely it would be highly embarrassing of the u.s. to pull out of the deal and then find that actually they were needed anyway and have no effect. i mean it is already extremely embarrassing for for the united states that this is this is a disk basically this deal is a binding international law it has been kind of negotiated between iran and many of the powers in europe in asia united states and it has been kind of ratified

by by the security by the security council so this is this deal is part and parcel of the international law so now the united states even suggesting that they want to get out of it obviously it has some serious political implications for the image of the united states. at the moment but yes i completely agree with you if the europeans plus the chinese and russians manage to persuade the iranians to preserve the deal as it is of course it's going to marginalize the u.s. even further is going to certainly isolate donald trump even more in this barry historic situation we have to remind ourselves that what we see at the moment is extremely unusual unusual in every sense of the term we never ever seen this much gap certainly between europe and the united states it in the over the

last fifty years this three major powers in europe britain france and germany seem to be absolutely committed to this deal while the united states seem to be kind of more him agreement with kind of the middle east than kind of allies like saudi arabia and israel and that has created kind of in a very unusual drift between europe and the united states but the next week or so it's going to be very interesting and of course they're going to follow it closely the kind of decision. donald trump is going to a standard he's going to make is going to have some serious implications not only for the future of iran and the international community but more importantly for the future of relations between the united states and the wider western world. greatly appreciate your time very intricate your take on this story much appreciate

it talk to my guest senior lecturer in international relations of middle east politics at the university of around for. it on to other news from the dave putin's been officially sworn in as the president of russia almost two months after he won the election. it's been six years since the last ceremony and the think it shows as well if you just look at the number of smartphones fane in the audience who are attempting to capture the moment all these are used on a reports from the kremlin on what else was different this time of lattimer putin

who is known to be sometimes fashionably sometimes not so fashionably late well this time he was right on time with work like a swiss clock i should say and really this ceremony had a very fresh spirit compared to the previous ones for instance the city center of moscow was not blocked off for traffic but instead lattimer putin got a call in his office and then we saw him walk all the way to the east side to this palace now he also rode for briefly with his motorcade and for the first time apparently he preferred to his usual mercedes benz limousine a new one russian made cortege which literally translates as a motorcade it is a new vehicle designed specifically for the russian president it is in its main feature is how well protected it is it is rumored that it can basically withstand being hit by mortar rounds so this is what we know so apparently it was probably

the first time that he actually rolled that vehicle now he got in here he walked through these magnificent kremlin walls kremlin palace walls said an old and then he delivered a speech and basically the first thing that we gathered from that speech is that he does not expect this presidency to be easy but we have to keep up with the global changes to create an agenda of groundbreaking development so that no obstacles to circumstances could prevent us from determining our future by ourselves from realizing our most ambitious plans you dreams so. well also vladimir putin made a very big emphasis on his on the response. he says he is feeling in front of all the people of russia he focused much more on the internal of the domestic policies of russia on the domestic affairs in his speech rather than on foreign

policy for instance he tried his speech to try to be very unifying you tried you made of visual a very vivid effort of trying to unite the nation in these in these times numbers and. we need breakthroughs in all spheres of life i strongly believe that only a free modern society that is ready for change and innovation that rejects injustice extreme conservatism and excess bureaucracy only such a society can achieve this kind of progress i believe that the main basis for the development of our country is the unity of the free responsible civil society and the democratic government alone after delivering that speech vladimir putin was pretty much on his way and the russian government has already disbanded itself it has already you with design which is a normal of course procedure in this situation so the next thing the next big sensations that we could expect is from vladimir putin's new appointments as to

who's going to go in to be the prime minister of cause this is the main entry as to the key positions the key ministerial positions also many of them remain remain uncertain so this is definitely something to look forward to. after the ceremony the president immediately got to work and signed a decree outlining a plan for the country's next six years under his administration he also announced the incumbent prime minister and former president dmitri medvedev as his pick for the leading position in the new government. dmitri medvedev in britain tried to make putin's longtime sidekick russia's prime minister in strength. and arguably the most tech savvy official in russia. he's also a big fan of rocky's lists. plenty. like a listener was livid let's.

listen. is a quick sign of how we got to be in this country second to mom. in law teacher and legal consultant for the mayor some teachers but it's ninety nine cents it's vetted and says the end is an election she's the future this campaign season winds and yet that it becomes just she's a star a couple of years later like two thousand flights he's the first deputy prime minister then in two thousand acres and with a new russian president yes demetrius so what was his town like boswell modernization pushing the reset button on relations to. military conflict five days south essentially was triggered by georgia. but. having finished his presidency

effective switch was about to change the lower of us leave the table piano player existence and weathering russia's economic storm in the face of sanctions and tumbling oil prices raising the nation's salaries and benefits unless it's not a good mind to be sold on shallow the such a clinic and explain it but if you like the significant work but it was shut your mind your opinion and i don't think you delegate that entirely but if it is about the overall number of children what are. some. forty percent of russians said they trusted but i'm still sure that she would not be looking to go into double dip that day do you want to say leave the city if the police get the stood deal with that shit. and that's all you need to know about the future embedded in just over two minutes. on that with more news after this short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy fun for him to let it be an arms race move his arms off and spearing dramatic development only mostly i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the

world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then. or as. welcome back hundreds of interpreters who worked with the british army in afghanistan are facing the threat of deportation from the u.k. now that's despite a promise that they would be allowed to stay we spoke to one of those people potentially affected he says the only thing awaiting him in afghanistan will be death. if they deport me back there is only one times for me to be killed he doesn't know when but the u.k. home office has informed abdul bari that he's going to be deported to kabul within the next three months abdul says he can't go back to afghanistan because he worked as a frontline interpreter for british forces from two thousand and eight to two thousand

and ten my life was in danger my family life was in danger threatening me he told me that he you know that he joined the infidels. you've been talking about there was only one chance for me and i must leave the country cost so can target but the main target was for paying me so if they catch me if i had they were different and it can be just the kind of british defense secretary gavin williamson has made headlines in recent days by telling the home office that afghan interpreters should be allowed to stay in the u.k. but that reassurance only refers to around four hundred form a interpreters who had been given five year you tavi says they expire soon and all the all sorts he's of done in reality as say that they'll waive the costly renewal fees so those celebrator you headlines don't apply to the six hundred or so former

afghan interpreter is still in kabul who have had their asylum claims rejected nor do they applied to the handful of complicated cases relating to former interpreters who were forced to flee and entered the u.k. illegally like abbeville all of us are delighted that those who've had better all the criteria and their families are here and will stay here and they don't owe anybody money there are still people who are being looked at and we need to be careful that we don't fall through the debts we have a debt of honor to these people and what we mustn't do is leave someone who actually worked for us looked after us. soldiers helped us we mustn't leave someone like that in a position where they and their families will be at risk and we've got to be very clear make sure we don't do that abdul says he didn't have time to apply for a visa through the official interpreter scheme while he was still in kabul that required months of waiting and his life was increasingly at risk now abdul's lawyer

is appealing the home office's moves to deport him many interpreters got these first directly from afghanistan through the ministry defense relocation was very strict. criteria that required you to be. working in helmand province and to be made redundant on a raft ninety percent to twenty twelve a lot of people like mr barry weren't working in two thousand and twelve because they were threatened and targeted by the taliban hard to quit their jobs and flee it's not really fair to make this journey to the you care to escape these threats to be told actually go home they're saying it's it's there for him to read we have evidence from former employees not just from the british army but they also he was working with him be in kabul what he really care to the originator of. but evidence suggests he was threatened in kabul. and. the same will happen again he will be targeted when it comes to its own citizens the u.k.

government clearly warns against travel to almost all of afghanistan even districts in the heavily guarded capital kabul it adds that terrorists are very likely to carry out attacks and methods are evolving and increasing in sophistication but that's apparently safe enough for abdul barry to return as far as the u.k. government is concerned i don't play with a couple of safe cos i think i'm always the most dangerous place in the world at the moment because every bomb is exploding people are dying and i don't know. the home office is saying the couple is so i first met abbeville a couple of months ago since then his already fragile mental state has worsened the surviving thirty five pounds a week and. more allowed. so it can do nothing but. something i have a very bad depression so i bring to the many times some medicine that.

doesn't work. i'm still struggling i ask him about what he wants to do if and after all this he wants to walk 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. if you thought that was one of the most fascinating half hours of news that you have ever seen just wait until you see what we have for you next hour.

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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 the u.s. state department source in the wiki leaks cables we talked to expelled member of the party mark wants to work with sports against racism all his life and from kate moss story on that we feed the world famous photographer and director ellen going on with about illuminating working class women all of the more coming up at today's going underground but first the largest country on earth russia in order rates of law to be 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 for russian culpability is clear no other country has a combination of the capability the intent and the motive to carry out such an act

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 that's 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 dot 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 down made it clear that it was a military great number chopped nerve agent produced in russia yesterday the head of portadown revealed they happened to identify the source of the poison and then

this morning the tweet was deleted by the foreign office maybe what on the road did 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 steel dossier alleging the 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 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 problem miller was the m i six agent who became surrogates cripple's handler and

pablo miller o.b.e. who the telegraph seems to have declined to identify also seems to have disappeared miller though worked for christopher steele and who is this mysterious man here is u.s. senator lindsey graham of south carolina the fossil warrant. against mr carter page. the das yeah that was used by the court provided by the f.b.i. was compiled by a foreign agent mr curser first steele who was on the payroll a fusion g.p.s. who is being paid by the democratic national committee in the clinton campaign to do opposition research against canada trump no wonder donald trump has been more suspicious about the scribble case as for carter 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 u.s. attorney general rod rosenstein over the handling off surveillance of her page because relegation the russian interference here in britain drazen made chancellor for the palin 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 problem miller or be all the british agents strip ol 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 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 racist 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

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. my father was on the wind rush he was 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 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 six and one 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 hundred eighty seven that historic breakthrough that gave us black representation in parliament the 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 are 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 all 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 jeremy corbyn was elected leader at night 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 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. route me the who is named as a us state department informant in a wiki 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 went ninety four percent against my expulsion but how do you think the procedures are in the labor party that could mean that you bring 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 i knew general second jenny formby is on record as saying that the disciplinary process by which i was

effectively tried is unfit for purpose so i asked the question of the party why did 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 a ninety 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 derek beacon was elected b.m.p. council in the early one nine hundred ninety s. 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 a big 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 clive lewis is this personal where is this a german testimonies to the hearing i'm told that germany well 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 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 not particularly 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 abbott or a drama going i've got a lot my plates is about should i'm talking mainly to people who are organizing the fight back including a national speaking.