parties believe this socialist the christian democrats they could be i would say important to contribution to. the new parliament and so i think it does is the reason why the ruling majority will have to confront its stronger position otherwise that would be and bad situation to did they actually meant eternally as a whole frank of achieving thank you thank you very much after the break we speak to a former purveyor of fleet street snow tories dogcart strong forward and alleged con man for the murdoch sunday times turned leveson inquiry whistleblower and aware of all the flowers gone the moment she trusted exhibited to government the chelsea flower show in london aiming to alleviate the effects of britain's bombing of a room full of them or coming up a pod through of going underground. forty

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back the british labor party's deputy leader tom watson is demanding the u.k. government reverse a decision of a media regulation in the light of allegations from a former rupert murdoch sunday times worker well that worker referred to in the british house of commons was john ford and he joins me now john thanks for coming on going underground the government says justice has already been served by the inquiry catalyzed by the murdoch media hacking of phones of a dead schoolchild what do you make of the high court decision in the us a few days to go ahead with some kind of legal challenge well not truly on delighted i think particularly this week especially following on from the kerslake inquiry it's clear that press practice is still us that's a reference to the magister attacks that we've been commemorating the dead indeed yes so showing that journalist practice is still out of control in journalism is

a competitive business and journalists will compete with each other to get a line this situation needs a root and branch inquiry we were promised leveson one and leveson to by lord leveson because he considered the. the job unfinished there are a number of areas that were to be looked at particularly the relations of the media and the police and so forth and it seems strangely convenient to a government which is struggling to survive to want to kill off something which is going to be painful for them what did you do at the sunday times i was a black or a black or is a person who uses social ingress so i would ring people up spin them a story to illegally get information from them so i would work it was a gentle step by step process. generally work from an address at the lowest point

from someone's gas account recover at the. very least eric stair tree telephone number that was used as a security. following that i'd then strand find out whether or not there's a direct debit and recover the bank details then move on whatever i could to with those details to open bank accounts mortgage is tax. i stole rubbish and went through the trash of ministers looking for. anything that might compromise them or their political standpoint or certainly when i was working for the sunday times i had a strong belief that i was working in the public interest exactly because i think you can surely see that journalists although i suppose you was going to say that he wanted journalist when you were doing that work there is

a public interest defense of all the things you just said if say a minister had been involved in privatisation of a utility or a myriad other corruption investigations that are legitimately done in the public interest indeed indeed and this wasn't some of the work i did particularly the work on terror identifying terrorist cells in the way was clearly in the public interest. and i have no ethical issue did the public service yes i mean you you did this kind of thing against alistair campbell and tony blair and someone suggests that that kind of surveillance. in the run up to the iraq war i think it was was newt you were doing this it was slightly on the air but yes it was in the run up to the war you know he didn't think that many people in this country would see that is if wanted to reveal details of the kind of economy with the truth then shown to us by the iraq inquiry of

a little joke should have been worthwhile there's legislation in place to govern. the use of. illegality should be. liking the dark arts but there are specific guidelines and they don't include fishing expeditions and removing someone's. rubbish from outside their house is very clearly a fishing expedition and nothing more what happened to. the person who was telling you to go on those fishing expeditions then editor of john with her well what's interesting about john with is that following his performance and parenthesise performance at leveson he then went on to be promoted to the ship of the times the newspaper of record in the case so he got

a promotion john whether it yet is this and it has been one thousand nine hundred thirteen your name of course mentioned only once during the first leveson inquiry i mean he was already controversial he said that michael foot the then labor leader was a k.g.b. agent in these only times that make an out of court settlement of the not supporting the labor party in those days what was it like to work for. i never met him i was always kept out of the what was called the plant i only ever entered the plant once operated as a free lunch so that there was credible bed let's see i only knew reports of him from people that i became very close to working with over the telephone but people actually in the end when the whole day with him became close friends with who more than twice referred to him is as a sociopath was it your interpretation that when you were hacking the abbey national account of gordon brown that rupert murdoch has

a lot in the press these days about the attacks on the leader of the labor party to recall what was your interpretation that in effect what you were doing was trying to destroy the political chances of gordon brown with the benefit of hindsight it's clear that the there was a political agenda to undermine cotton brown i should say that the government scientist david kelly who somewhat suggest tried his best to avert a war that killed or wounded or displaced tens of millions of people. i don't know if you've been quoted as having qualms about what happened to him did work on david kelly home address utilities and so forth and it was several days later that rufford famously turned up at the kelly's room residence i think it's on the record that it was a great shock to the family. and curiously two days later he was found with

his wrists slit and the inquiry seems suggest that he was incapable of cutting state with his. weak wrists a my theories about the david kelly. remain open i'm just ashamed at some level i may be complicit in in his death. joe ford thank you thank you very much. well from surveilling those who brought us the iraq war let's turn to attempts to alleviate that was catastrophic consequences through literally taking voltages advice to cultivate a garden i'm joined now by kerry perkins the director of operations and cultural anthropology at the lemon tree trust it's an organization that has put the world's worst refugee crisis center stage of the garden at this year's chilled sea flower show in london thanks for going and going on to tell me about the trust and how

anyone who looks at the good show we see everything that it really seems to be well thank you so much for having me the garden at chelsea this year sponsored by the lemon tree trust and we are an organization that supports gardening and gardening initiatives and refugee camps primarily in northern iraq so the garden this year has been directly inspired by the resiliency the determination the creativity that we've seen gardeners exhibit through our work in northern iraq we really wanted to bring a different message to different audience this year and so we thought chelsea might be the correct platform to do that so our garden is to highlight the way that people in iraq and in them as refugee camp are reusing materials that are reusing grey water really creating gardens out of small space and creating gardens and maybe less than ideal circumstances because over usually in media we hear about is the exponential numbers of refugees what was it like because you've been there to

be in northern iraq right so the camp that we work and has opened in two thousand and twelve and when the camp first opened there are over fifty thousand syrian refugees that had fled across the border into the camp primarily syrian kurds we entered the camp in two thousand and fifteen and the numbers had almost half to it was about twenty six thousand people that were still residents in the camp about six thousand to six thousand so. by all accounts still a very very large population and when we first entered as what we did is we first started with a survey we just walked up and down some of the streets and we wanted to identify who was already gardening what were they doing and how could we support existing gardeners to capitalize on their existing knowledge base and how could we empower them to be mentors to other people in the community to put forth this message of you can actually grow things in this camp you can reuse water we can create something green and beautiful in it in a situation where you maybe wouldn't expect that so we entered them as the can't management that we dealt with there was a wonderful woman named layla who was in charge at that time and was extremely

receptive to ideas of planting trees and supporting these initiatives that would really have not only a positive environmental impact but also a positive human and social impact and it's one of the first things that they say to you when you asked questions are being viewed as the one of the first things they miss most leaving their homes for was it as we said these new tunisians are involved in these are the sounds of nature and they're good news in the trees absolutely and so my role on the team my background is i'm a cultural anthropologist and so my role is to sit with people and to talk to them and hear their stories and figure out what works and what doesn't work and and what it is that would make their lives a bit better in this situation and from those interviews from these direct conversations people absolutely said you know if i could open my door and see a tree or see green space you know it gives me somewhere for my kids to play it gives me somewhere to sit where i can have a bit of peace for a moment it can remind me of home and gives us the space to be together as

a family and i think often we over you know we take for granted how important those things are when we entered in two thousand and fifteen a lot of the tents had started being converted into breezeblock homes some more permanent structures were going up but people told us when i first got here within the first two weeks i started planting outside of my tent not just planting food. planting flowers because they wanted to have something that was beautiful and a lot more so it's about being able to reshape the space around you if you're in a situation of forced migration you want to be able to create a sense of autonomy you want to have control of your environment once again and creating a garden is a really great way to do that privacy drazen is hostile environment policy i'll give lee britain detains people in detention camps here in britain the un isn't being allowed notoriously do you think i mean some of those a bound to be people waiting for legitimate asylum claims. i mean how important do you think it would be

to them this kind of work i think it would be incredibly of important and i'm from the us myself and we have the same the same sort of situations where people are detained in detention centers and i think if you're able to implement community gardening especially for people that have suffered trauma recently as many refugees that we work with have if you can create a space for women to be together or for families to be together where they can talk about shared experiences in a more culturally appropriate way it has a huge impact on their psychosocial adjustment and on the healing process i think you should be able to bring gardens to all of the situations of people that have been forced to flee and are in a situation that's less than ideal because it does not only give you physical exercise and it's better for the environment i mean the benefits are countless but it does have that huge social and emotional impact that can really make a difference in somebody's just day to day reality why do you think that in the language used about review jesus is asylum seekers. and none of this human

side to it or the toll messi the designer of this go to we should remember that they're ordinary people teach as well as decorations and so this is a wonderful question and thank you for bringing it up and then myself working with refugees professionally and academically we constantly see that refugees. we're often framed in the media as victims as people that are recipients of aid and really categorized into a lump sum of a refugee in a migrant sometimes news organizations will show you what's happening on the ground in very live footage of civil war and and you know if you are watching chemical weapons attacks videos these sort of things have had a lasting impact and people tend to watch engage with that but the flip side of that is that it does frame people and put some into a particular box which is really not true to that population when i work in time as when i'm on the field i meet doctors my last translator had training as an

aeronautical engineer you meet designers you meet carpenters you meet gardeners people from all walks of life i had a several hour long chat with a woman a couple months ago who was a beekeeper who started as a beekeeper when she got married her father gifted her a beehive and this is what she had done in damascus for several years and then she finds herself in a refugee camp you know not able to tenby ease and trying to find a different trade to make a difference but it's incredibly important for people to remember that it could happen it could happen to any of any of us you know at any time and to really place yourself into their shoes and to their contacts that people are just people and the shared humanity i think that gardening can highlight is one of the most positive impacts and i hope one of the largest messages that we're putting forward with our garden at chelsea is very broken so i guess. that's it for the show we'll be back on monday when we go to ramallah to joke about studs chief negotiator so you beric up until then you can talk to us westerners will be with you i'm a big good forty seven years to the day the judge of thousands were killed in the

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buckle good and i got up that's going to. be a. reported to. us north korea talks might be back on track as donald trump strikes an optimistic tone on the prospect of further dialogue. u.s. lawmakers vote to push the pentagon to investigate american soldiers involvement and interrogations in yemen's secret porch of prison but. israel supremum court greenlights the continued use of lethal military force against unarmed palestinians in the gaza strip eighty six palestinians were injured on friday in the eighth week of anti occupation protests there. and muscles in waters off the outsole and west coast america tested positive for

opioids highlighting the scope of a national prescription drug crisis in the us. a very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me we keep our eye on our top story this hour donald trump's historic summit with north korea's kim jong un scheduled for june in singapore might be back on track once again the apparent u. turn comes after the white house called off the meeting on thursday. we'll see what happens with. regard to that now they very much want to do it we'd like to see what . everybody plays you know that you know that better than anybody. well the world continues to

come to terms with donald trump's unpredictability and just a day after he announced of the historic summit in which he would meet with kim jong un in singapore was called off well now he seems to be hinting that it may be back on the table so what changed his mind once again what appears to have been a statement made by north korea in which they said they were still open to meeting and sitting down with the united states at any time now seems particularly sensitive to these statements from north korea his previous decision to cancel the summit was also based on a statement from north korea this is donald trump sadly based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement i feel it is inappropriate at this time to have this long planned meeting now north korea had jumped on mike pence the vice president of the united states and called him a political dummy and that was after he had invoked libya and the toppling of the libyan government in two thousand and eleven as a possible outcome or strategy for the talks you know in addition to statements

north korea has actually released three american prisoners and they've actually gone as far as to blow up their only nuclear test site however it seems that for donald trump words speak louder than actions some people are looking on this and saying that maybe something deeper is going on beneath the surface here perhaps this is what you might call a psychological tactic of attrition donald trump did after all right the art of the deal and it seems like he might be playing hardball in the lead up to a potential meeting or no potential meeting with north korea a lot of unpredictability on the part of the president of united states people wonder what the old. but outcome will be but it seems like only donald trump really knows what's going to happen next who knows what he's up to i suspect least of all donald trump knows what he's up to i mean this is somebody who jumped into that meeting first of all quick of the nefarious upper drainpipes there is no policy behind it this is somebody who is into making headlines and appeasing the base and

yesterday the news to not go down well with his base supporters that he had pulled out of this meeting he'd always seen it as the chance to make peace on the korean peninsula which would be world breaking history and i think you saw yesterday you saw all of the dissolving the on after play as he comes as pyongyang decommissioned its only nuclear test site in a conciliatory efforts ahead of the original talk date our correspondent he caused on up was among the small pool of international journalists invited to this ceremony he not only witness the destruction itself but also managed to get a little insight into the reclusive country. this is the restroom call and as you can see it's dinner time we have been promised a ten course banquet also we know that's the part of the journalist pool from asian countries not dining in

a separate cause but then you'll see some more traditional for them and ours was tailored more along to our tastes. this is where i will be spending the next eleven hours or so my very own oriental express i guess so check out the room the first thing to notice about it is the windows the blinds are shot there is some sort of a seal and we're not allowed to even peek from them never mind filming the thing. is an air conditioner some beverages but really not much left to do but to go to bed. everybody so we just woke up puts sits in the morning but check this out i just want to feel something really quickly and they've opened the window the blinds are out so we probably means that we're really really close. so we finally arrived this is the dog station we're being told to sew in the now we're up for a bus ride these are the buses that will take us through the next leg of our

journey. and. this is where the buses have taken us behind me is an entrance to one of the tunnels and in a few hours from now it won't exist anymore. right now we're walking into a different tunnel the people here reassuring us saying that there have been no radiation leaks but many journalists may think that well it's better safe than sorry as you can see some a wearing respirator mosques and some crews have taken to see me to sit with them to this trip which were confiscated at the customs who were also handed. these yellow safety helmets inside all tunnels more or less look the same but this one is the newest one and had to be used at school but still as you can see like all others it is rigged for an explosion.

around this trip we have been made very clear that what we've been treated to on this trip was a privilege not to many people here in north korea to experience it done of reporting from north korea to see. dawn of that he's still regularly posting updates from north korea on his twitter page that's well worth checking out . the u.s. house of representatives has voted to demand the pentagon investigate the alleged involvement of u.s. military personnel in torturing detainees at secret prisons in yemen according to a un report suspect that the scientists were exposed to beatings electrocution and

sexual violence some were imprisoned in a many metal cell in the sun while others were denied medical treatment now there are reportedly eighteen secret torture prisons in yemen and in neighboring countries the sites are mostly run by one of the main u.s. allies in the region that's the united arab emirates where those persons were reported on in an investigation by the associated press their sources at the pentagon acknowledged that u.s. forces had been involved in interrogations but denied any participation or knowledge of abuse however even if that was the case this could still amount to complicity in torture if american personnel interrogated detainees who had been tortured human rights advocates have condemned the reported methods of interrogation the u.s. hasn't learned the lesson their corporate in with forces that are torturing detainees and ripping families apart is not an effective way to fight extremist

groups the united arab emirates has officially denied any involvement in running secret prisons in yemen as well as torturing suspects political scientist cullen cavell says there's a reason for low public awareness of what the u.s. is doing in yemen. congress. continue to call for the exposure of what the u.s. is doing in yemen the mainstream media of the united states has not been formally american. yemen or exactly what we're doing like most americans have some of the no idea what we do with the middle east in the first place and definitely when it comes to a particular country. most americans have no idea or so the mainstream really feels no pressure or the courage the real expose the

illegality of what the united states is doing in yemen the illegality there's a tremendous war. eighty six palestinian demonstrators were injured in violence on the gaza border on friday it's the eighth week of anti occupation protests known as the great march of return him occurred where he has been following events oh. oh. god. oh. my god. says the beginning of the great march of return on the thirtieth of marked at least nine thousand palestinian protesters have been injured with live ammunition tear gas canisters and other weapons there israeli forces have been used against the palestinian protesters and sense the last the last death toll is.