for years and years it is clear. we are with the one who is supporting palestine we cannot be part of any internal conflict special and i become just i'm a country is we have to light of the beginning of this internal. clashes in syria to to to help for a common ground for a compromise from both parties struggle is against the q patient our main issue is by this time and accordingly we decide our policy slogan is limited only to the palestinian territories here inside historical palestine and we kind of people out of any conflict. so was it a lie when has well our sources said they encountered munitions that they gave how mass in gaza which would then used against hezbollah in the fight against isis

dietician al qaeda in syria i think it is it is not to simply again i don't have an idea about such news but we cannot be part of the conflict we are we are only waiting for support from all arabs and muslims and three people all around the world to support all of us that are against the commission here in palestine talk about them name thank you after the break diplomatic crises nuclear threats and this information leading to the end of the world is this the ninth of november nine hundred eighty three or the fourteenth of may twenty eighth and his arms company shares take a hit following korean demilitarized asian clans we speak to the stock limited national peace research institute about which governments are spending the most on with a great boulder some more coming up in part two of going underground. across

europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to me to people this is the simple song alone even some company guess will else with they invite private companies to take over the utilities anybody tell us throw balls up the lab so miss you guys who got the going to go buy been pieces of us to quote them out. of where you're not able to lift bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human rights of access to water it's about water but it's also over much more than water it's about the hurt and the redistribution of all or whether it's on their date downwards we want our. politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

so when you want to be president and you. want to listen. to the right to be press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first sip. welcome back diplomats return to their respective countries nato war games played out on battlefields and threats of war broadcast on mainstream media this sounds like right now but in ninety three conditions like these nearly led to nuclear armageddon here to explain how it's filmmaker and author of the world at war taylor

downing his new book is called nine hundred eighty three the world at the brink taylor welcome to do we're going underground i thought world peace was a short after russia and the arc of. sixty two refused to press the button during the cuban missile crisis one thousand nine hundred eighty three is the subject of this book what happened in ninety three it was a very very dangerous year nine hundred eighty three people think the. cold war peaked with the cuban missile crisis in ninety sixty two october sixty three i actually argue that november eighty three the subject of my book is actually even more dangerous than what went on in the cuban missile crisis is partly because eighty three begins the early part of the year we've got reagan in the white house and aggressive u.s. president who's using all his rhetorical skills to condemn and dismiss the soviet union he calls them an evil empire in one of his speeches in march of that year really insulting thing to say about about the state in the

later in that month he launches what he called the strategic defense initiative which was very soon labeled his star wars program because he intended that they would shoot down all incoming missiles in space they would build a shield over the united states so that no missiles could penetrate and come through that again really upsets the soviets so they take it at face value they believe it and they. i think that decades of defense expenditure the building up of a huge nuclear deterrent is all going to be made redundant overnight by this by this threat so the year is a dangerous year in terms of the rhetoric that the americans are piling up against the soviets the soviet leader was yuri and of food only been there a few months he took over from an effort towards the end of nine hundred eighty two then in the summer of that year a korean airline the famous flight cal seven veers hundreds of miles off course and flies over a very sensitive soviet military area crosses

a naval base an air station misawa station nobody can work out quite how this civilian aircraft with all its modern gears moe's for navigation so last particularly over such a sensitive territory the soviets panic and in a major blunder they shoot down the su fifteen fighter pilot shoots down the korean airliner the worst casualty figures. later by two hundred ninety iranians killed by the us on a six that's often forgotten but at the time in the year that absolutely ignites the pressures the tensions the atmosphere that has built up again reagan erupts he calls the soviet union a terrorist state committing a crime against humanity and it looks to many people as though the cold war is actually going to go hot at that point the end of august one thousand nine hundred eighty three. the violence of the language really couldn't be more extreme is

something that we haven't seen for a very long time on the part of these individuals you emphasise the language of diplomatic rhetoric is so important it is it's very it's very important because although the americans and the west had quite good surveillance upon the soviet union they could see where their weapons were based where their missile silos were they knew the number. they hadn't had a pretty good idea of the number of missiles they had none of these systems could see inside the mind of the soviet leaders so they had no idea quite what effect they were having upon the soviet leadership upon the kremlin leaders and this is where the danger really la america was talking tough uncle sam was out there shouting from the rooftops as it were. but with no sense of the panic this was generating in the kremlin and of course if you want anything from your intelligence organizations you want to know what the other side of thinking you can see what

they're what what missiles they got what technology they have it you can't see into their minds and this is a huge failing on the american public that means they go along with piling on this pressure as the year passes amidst all of this here in britain information is being gathered you talk about actually john scarlett the former head of m i six criticize well joe got over iraq gets a name check for managing these double agents which yes agents have been in the news over the script they're absolutely watching the news of this criminal affair we're reminded about three months of very much i mean espionage britain had a one hundred eighty three had this very important double agent he was a senior figure in the k.g.b. who was reporting to british intelligence the m i six the germans john scott it was his mind. and it was really one of the very few sources the west had into what the soviet leadership with thinking certainly the k.g.b. leadership and they had started a program to look for signs of an imminent nuclear attack from the west and i think

we now understand this has been repeated several times if you ask an intelligence agency to look for evidence of something and they don't come back and say no nothing that can't come find it or they usually come back and say yes this is the evidence that we found and sure enough in the soviet union that everybody wants to keep their job nobody wants to insult the political leadership that says this is a priority so they find evidence to substantiate whatever it is they're being asked a very. by and that happens in the soviet union in one hundred eighty three when more and more agents are reporting back from the west yet here is another sign that the the us are preparing to go to war in october eighty three there's a truck bomb. set off in the middle of the us marine base in beirut they were a peacekeeping force in the towards the end of the war in them in the middle east two hundred forty marines were killed the americans put all their bases worldwide on alert maximum state of alert for other terrorist acts against them the soviets pick up on this don't link it to the story in beirut they link it to their big

agenda which is are the americans preparing to attack so that this is another box ticked in the list of. signs of indicators of an imminent attack so again the temperature goes up a bit as and then e.g. we have the ninth of november of ninety three i should say we've had massive joint major exercises in the past few days. and in your book able archer eighty three hey bill archer was an annual exercise that nato carried out it wasn't an exercise in which troops or army divisions or tanks went out into the field it was purely a communications exercise and the idea was to rehearse a story in which nato had lost a conventional war with the warsaw pact the forces of the warsaw pact and needed to resort to nuclear weapons and it's the protocols for the launch of nuclear weapons that this exercise is intended to. and sure enough on the eighth of november the

nato leaders those who are playing the war game ask for formal permission to launch a full nuclear missile attack upon the soviet union soviet radio listeners chewing in to every part of this story and slowly the kremlin convinces itself that this is not a war game this is actually the real thing an attack is imminent all these. signs of come together all this tension is built up the holy year of living dangerously has built up to this moment on the ninth of november when the kremlin leadership is convinced because they have plans to attack the west in the guise of a war game they always assume the west would attack them we don't want to give away the ending although we're all alive in the studio today just just briefly are we today in the similar circumstance i don't think. i think there are i think there are lots of parallels between what happened in eighty three and what's going on in

a very dangerous world we live in today we have again we have a very aggressive u.s. president whose rhetoric now is usually by tweet or by public statements but but i don't think he realizes the offense or the insult that he's causing by a lot of what he said is we have war games that that as you say can easily escalate out of control we have a very uncertain situation in which again nuclear weapons are being threatened i thought when the cold war was over in the ninety's living through that period i thought that's behind us that chapter of the use of nuclear weapons is close but it most certainly is and it's being threatened again today let's hope the recent events in korea will diffuse that but only a few weeks ago there was talk of a nuclear exchange in korea and one of the things that eighty three tells us is that when these incidents build up and they often start with minor incidents when a scenario escalates it's very difficult to put a lid on it it's very difficult to prevent it getting completely out of control

thank you. well from threats of war to the tools of war and from the u.s. to saudi arabia to russia who spends the most on their weapons of war joining me now from stockholm in sweden is dr own she's the director of the arms transfers and military expenditure program at the stockholm international peace research institute order welcome to going underground there's so much detail. in this report but surely people who love peace all around the world can take comfort your headline figure of one point one percent is an increase in real terms in the warfare industry between twenty six seventeen very low yeah allowed to number one percent is very misleading actually and what it is is that there's a lot of different and all have trans military spending all going to world and since dad took urgent ends all and contradictory transfer in the n.b.a. tense you cancel each other out so if you have a very large spenders it's just the us which is dominant with thirty five percent

of the raw total with six iron and ten billion spending on that military arsenal and then you've got russia declining mint twenty because now it still remains pretty much save more and isn't the situation rich senora the past four or five years it's a lateral but is really misleading because in the end if you look at the regional and national level then you see a lot more diversity i want to get out of the united states and that surprising find from russia because we're told here in britain that we should be frightened of russian military spending there let's go do britain's greatest one of britain's greatest ally saudi arabia nine point two percent one of the largest increases or the largest increase in the expenditure of a war for. yet not only one of the major drivers for saudi arabia an increase in lighter spending in that war and that it's been waging an er. i mean i think the u.k. and i think the u.k. military families well placed you know that large war efforts are very very costly

and to date isn't still there increasingly if you're spending in a country pretty clearly so it would be the same dynamic in saudi arabia that this saudi arabia employs a lot of weapons some of it coming also the u.k. but the us and several other western europe is not to do search and this is a very costly but together and this will push military spending upwards and also i mean saudi arabia. you know objectives of being an influential actor's actor read in the middle east and even beyond to some extent so our lives together are classical drivers up military spending. but you say the united states has a big warfare industry there three times during that russia however u.s. spending has been declining and it was unchanged when it is explicit and yet there's been some issue in the domestic level of the domestic political level and bearish until vote for the current budget we just didn't write they were

constrained i mean the u.s. military the u.s. overall government budget including the military budget were constrained by control that limited the. amount of resources devoted to different terry only had ceiling that it could go around just understand they're not that much from different time around they are still constrained by previous year funding so that explains largely the stability of the spending compared to last year it's pretty much just sinking really get into details of the levels of funding however it's been mentioned a lot that next year could be an increase it's still hard to say there whether it's going to happen on at the end the mystic problems the domestic political problems related to debt finance of the country the debt and deficit end of military spending altogether it remains to be seen how this one if not in next year and vitally briefly israel that other nuclear state in violation of u.n.

resolutions difficult to assess their increases whatever five percent but you exclude more than three point one billion dollars a given to the israeli government by the u.s. taxpayer yet we don't guarantee u.s. military aid because it's actually the u.s. taxpayers and so we give that to you but one billion to do us damning even though it is really the ease regularly that actually benefit from this report one million different i mean does not count from the east. really taxpayers this is why we excluded the israeli major expenditure estimate is extremely difficult to put together and our that's in bits and pieces that are spread out within different agencies and different ministries that we have to pull together and to help experts in that country in order to make up artist in it and we still think this is an estimate therefore there might be a little bit lower a little bit higher but it's not particularly transparent we have no idea how much the nuclear arsenal has covered by an estimate for instance which isn't being

a for all nuclear countries actually and a lot of them don't anything and some of the figures i haven't even published are not particularly clear our national definition are not congress is that it meant specifically mentioned that israel is definitely not one of the most transparent and that media would not drugs are all thank you and that's it for the show we'll be back though on wednesday when after the apparent disappearance of gay and junia a former permanent representative of the o.p.c. w. gives us his take on the mysterious script of affair until then you can keep in touch with us by social media we'll see on wednesday sixty five years to the day of the death of romany french jazz guitarist django reinhardt. some officials do not. fully understand or do not fully accept the principle

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east. i. think the big story tonight dozens of palestinians are killed by israeli fire or protesting along the gaza border as tensions flare over the united states controversial embassy moved to jerusalem earlier on today. coming up to u.s. soldiers subject to waterboarding to refute high level claims that the interrogation technique is a form of torture we'll bring you the mixed reaction to that. and a british tabloid newspaper wraps up the fear factor just a month ago now to the world cup to russia of course using a photo project to highlight the supposed threat of football linked to violence but

turns out the photographer says his work has been taken well out of context. hello good evening this is our to news at ten with me kevin owen live from age two here in moscow so the breaking news story the official opening of the new u.s. embassy in jerusalem has been marred by a day of deadly violence as israeli gunfire killed dozens of palestinians protesting the move on that gaza border the united nations has condemned what's become the deadliest day in the conflict since twenty fourteen protests and clashes broke out in several locations gaza's health ministry now says fifty two people have been killed including at least eight youngsters more than two thousand other people reportedly injured and that number is continuing to rise too so it was predicted donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the israeli capital last december's cause deep anger because claims over that city are hugely dispute

it. water glorious day remember this morning. this is history. the united states will always be a great friend of israel and a partner in the cause of freedom and peace.

diapers are still shooting tear gas canisters on the protesters at trying to disperse all these all these protesters in the e.u. can see that at the tear gas fired is very concentrated we look at feel it from very very far away there are palestinian protesters that are injured and trapped inside where. the palestinian minister has been the ambulances can't reach them. so what happened right now is we heard a huge huge explosion and. that the israeli air strikes were playing out fight as rights of the on out place they needed to the protest as they're trying to scale the palestinian protesters did it the goal.

throughout the day there was a bunch of highs regarding violence in fact two hours ago during the highest peak of violence where the protesters and the israeli military forces clashed almost head on israeli military forces using rubber coated steel bullets tear gas canisters stun grenades and other armaments at their disposal against the palestinian protesters were mainly throwing stones and chanting against israeli military forces this had increased as the day went on with things calming down but make no mistake this area was a battle zone before with many protests happening across the west bank from ramallah to nablus to bethlehem and even hebron and other protests have occurred in the region as well with different places such as lebanon and even a man with some protesters going against the these decisions and rejecting these

policies that are being presented by the americans i see as you see on the red ticker the number killed has gone up we were talking about fifty two before it's not a fifty five and the number injured today from two thousand to about two thousand seven hundred here's some of the reaction to monday's event several countries repeated their concerns over the ramifications of the embassy's move describing it as violating international law and un resolutions others condemn the use of force and violence warning of negative consequences for the region now the unpopularity of trump's decision to move the u.s. embassy was also underlined by the no shows interesting lead at the opening ceremony although there were representatives from the east of europe hungary romania the czech republic interesting none were from western europe read what you will into that and guess what donald trump not there either you may find that surprising he was represented by these guys washington the delegation spearheaded by his daughter ivanka and her husband the white house advisor. as well so

long been fought over as we've been saying by both israelis and palestinians so if you need a recap here's a brief remind why. jerusalem is a city that's been a point of contention for nearly a thousand years ever since the first crusaders arrived to drive the muslim population away for nearly two centuries the area was governed by christian congress under the name of kingdom of jerusalem but the end of the thirteenth century had been a crusade of the holy land and up under muslim control with so much turbulent religious history today the area holds significance for christians jews and muslims alike all regard different parts of the old city to be their holy sites and since the formation of the state of israel in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight israel considers jerusalem to be its capital the subsequent conflict with the arab neighbors so israel captured and annex the entire city of jerusalem the move has never been recognized by the united nations it stands firm on the idea of

establishing the two state solution where israel and palestine exist independently so by president trump announcing moving the embassy to jerusalem he's on the line that the u.s. recognizes the holy city to be the capital of israel for the international community that goes against the notion that any change in the city status should come through negotiations and not take unilateral action as of now out of eighty seven countries that have embassies in israel the u.s. will be the only country to base its facility in jerusalem. i'm standing here in front of the american embassy where in the last few moments an angry crowd has gathered there protesting against him if you need any israeli police are trying to keep the crowd at bay why you have. i'm here to oppose the surge and by the u.s. administration to relocate their embassy in the heart of the contest the city in the heart of the city there were thirty to forty percent of its residents are living under occupation that are not that is that that is their denied basic rights

i mean they look at all that's left during the day after jews against the occupation we're here because we oppose transcending the we think it's playing with the lives of israelis and palestinians alike in our lives and it's. this is not a game what's happening today is illegal and unacceptable and it's our duty to say no admittedly anybody parliamentarian why what do you what do you think about the whole incident we are. in a demonstration which has been liason by there's been a police but immediately after we arrived they attacked us attacked a member of the knesset just because we had it been two of the best known for them and then they attacked us and pushed us to the back we are here to see that jerusalem east is ok if i did it today it could be the capital of the state the palestine the tensions are definitely running high here as you can see this scuffles and clashes and we're being pushed forward and it was out of anger out of

who. and what happened let up in fact right out the heart of the firefight up the material that up but it sure didn't before we went i don't think. it. was all of this coming as the embassy just across the road is opening so while the world is witnessing crum pictures of a historic occasion our feature we see them in to see opening just across the road are these kind of scenes unfurling where there's a lot of anger and out of frustration and a lot of disappointment that the american government went ahead with this move now the americans have been putting a lot of pressure on countries to sign up and approve this move although there is a lot of resistance internationally to it we have seen the u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki how he was altering to duty tactics and writing a threatening letter to consider the vote i want you to know the president and the

u.s. take this vote personally he will be watching this vote carefully and has requested our report back on those who voted against us thank you for your consideration and more more question. being asked if the current violence that we witnessing here is a response to the embassy me well then just how exactly does the american president try to think that he is going to cut as he has said the deal of the century between israelis and palestinians the palestinian envoy to the un says the security council said the old emergency session about all this within the next twenty four hours will cover it and israeli military spokesperson insists that the i.d.f. on its side is trying to minimize casualties but also stop the gaza border fence being breached he blamed hamas which controls gaza for inciting violence encouraging people to attack the israeli border. our message to the hamas is clear we will not tolerate this violence we will continue to defend our sovereignty our

sin.