and fittings and if you're ever lucky enough to get on board the ship you will see a lot of period features that are of the ilk of titanic i wouldn't say so much they first class may be more the second or third class fittings and fixtures more wooden benches than plus filler seats but. the concept of going this floor with military work as part of a can the software would not make you more competitive in for example the sure top buy in the structures for offshore where blast again with great facilities so having an area dedicated to block or fabrication building for ships an area and are in dry dock with or to koreans something to laugh to actually assemble large scale turbines which we're doing at the moment the job we're doing for scottish power on their offshore wind farm in east anglia one where sampling it hundred thousand tons of steel and to finish jackets and putting that out in a space will point nine months so that's the skill and the ability that we have but the problem is after that's finished there's no continuity of work so having the

allied that work coming and decide that our allies us to keep and maintain skills running through the yard and you can certainly predict the size of offshore turbines is going to get larger much larger than which will bring you sort of space and capacity and deplete it very much so and we're seeing that already you see the turbine sizes and i pushing ten megawatts i'm going beyond that so the infrastructure is not necessarily there within the u.k. tell me about the play for community in launching a ship but when you get the same satisfaction of launching a job short by those as a so we really special about launching a ship i have to say alex that i am still a child at heart when the korean passed my window with a three or four hundred ton piece of steel attached of that i still have to stop and look at it and and all this going together there was nothing that beats the launching of a ship i'm a bit too young i'm afraid to. remember any of the slipway launches that we would

have had and were famous in the past there's something about the job satisfaction of role play its role still coming in and six seven nine ten months later for that actually to become a ship and see it sail away to in belfast lock you know whenever by some my daughter to write says you know what do you do work you know when you look at that ceiling away you go i built that with a little bit of help on. the arts what force of course would be to mend the sli enthused by the turn the ship building i thought that the city of belfast and the community and no amount as a whole i think belfast is almost unique in its shipbuilding terms that partly because of geography and partly because of topographic in terms of the shipyards right in the center of belfast belfast being in a valley you can see the shipyard in the koreans from it are ten miles away so it's always been at the center we are by no means that the me and employer in belfast anymore as we once were but there is still a lot in hair and history and pride with them both of us you only need to travel to

a bar or restaurant or a shop and you'll see the iconic iconic pictures of samson or goliath and all the wonderful ships that we would have built over the years there is a real inherent sense of pride around what we do in belfast and i think a big part of my job is trying to reinstill that again not just with the levels of employment but also the people want to actually come and be attracted to work in an industry such as ours so in enough. shipbuilding in northern ireland sunrise or sunset industry well i would have taken on this job if i believed it was a sunset and strike i think sunrise is there when i can't build you know how what i can do the job that is offered and i think simon crean well i'm very pleased to accept a lot like thank you so much many fights for big you know the drill of course i do indeed i do scott's none of the well i may have to bring up being a northern irishman i may have to put a little bit of bushmills into a plank you that's very acceptable. now coming up after the break we talked to a former mayor of belfast as to what it would mean to the city and its communities

that hollow that will fall to stop building ships like. well you know the fires they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in the smaller boats nipsey don't harp on ships and it's. not something. the little self to be told fish already ninety percent of the dark on any pinball and connor. concept fifteen scoops seventy tons they do it several times a day with a big fleet oh you get an idea on why. we have to

understand we can not stay still and just. be with them this will be used for years or. i'm doing this because i want the future world to the future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. welcome back we have have the plans for a revival of shipbuilding holland the wolf joining me from belfast is not of my own

the same with and that could lead to if the social democratic and labor party nicolette mylan they call it welcome to the alec salmon chill and. now as a former lord mayor of belfast tell us how important is it to the city if ship building will have to start again in northern ireland. well belfast is the economic driver of northern ireland and it's critically important i think given our heritage our history our skills and capacity that we see our revival in terms of ship building but also as we have seen a departure of the kitchen in terms of engineering when it comes to securing contracts for example with oil rigs or with when turbines or in refitting cruise ships so it's a very exciting time in terms of engineering and maritime and belfast i'm really excited about the twenty planes some seven goliath almost some of them goliath

don't really the belfast skyline. the size the position of bell in the. same city well as you say alex somethin and goliath are iconic obviously for people who have lived through the shipyard experience it can mean a number of different things but certainly for our younger generation and for tourists it's extremely positive it's iconic when you fly into belfast whether as a visitor or when you're returning home it gives you a real sense of reassurance when you see it across the skyline it's a constant and a very fast changing society and certainly for me i believe that samson represent the true mettle of belfast they stand tall and they stand strong pride in the face of everything. in this. perhaps some of the employment practices. the darker side to them tell us about well certainly as

a result of employment practices the shipyard was in many ways a cold heise for catholics nationalist it operated an internal market for employment so essentially your right of passage was three your family ties so if your grandfather or your grandfather worked in the shipyard then it was highly likely that you would also. work in the shipyard too but those days are long gone with far employment practices and legislation and we're a very different place now i. have lord mayor of the bell for us shortly after the the opening of the great titanic exhibition tell us about the enthusiasm the success of the exhibition has been greeted with well the titanic exhibition is a global landmark i think this year we have seen well over six hundred thousand visitors and we are delighted and extremely pride that we have been bravest that

maritime history and that we are proudly show kissing that to visitors from right around the world but as well as the titanic exhibition center the titanic quarter in which it is situated is a wonderfully transformed space for me it's a byte where the past meets the present and really points to the future and it's a place of great celebration and regeneration with festivals our people from all across belfast and further afield from right across the world gather there and we just celebrate diversity and culture and it really is a truly wonderful space which here are immensely proud. shipbuilding traditionally has been thought of as very much or a male dominated industry we've got the prospects of the for the young women coming through when the ships roll off the belfast jetty again. well i think that if you look right across the city of belfast and right across northern ireland you'll see that women are very much at the forefront when i was the lord mayor as you say it was the first time that we had female lord mare deputy lord

mare high sheriff and chief executive of belfast city council yes that took us a long time to get there but women are increasingly at the forefront of engineering we have real exciting growth in terms of technology and design industries here and again women are very much at the forefront of that and so i very much look forward to seeing us diversify grow our industries. and i am confident that women will be at the forefront of all of that but as the plans come to fruition will you invite me over to see the ship rolling down the ship with for more than a decade i will of course and more than that i will take you alex to sailors time which has a very strong dockers community sadly we have lost many of our dockers but their children and their grandchildren are determined to keep that maritime history of those social connections and those stories alive and i might even treat it to westgate in the doctor's club about the scotch whisky soup oh no i don't have to be

an irish one are it's fun alex recently the humble for being concentrated on building the steel structures for modern for seaborne wind turbines which is obviously at expanding in a very very productive in the street but you can't get the same sense of excitement and launching a wind turbine as you as you can in a larger great ship would you agree. but i think that if you look at it and take the wind turbine example it's a by boat in on our experience here in belfast in that engineering capacity and engineer day yes it doesn't give the same excitement as launching a great ship but where we have captured the excitement is in the tourism offering with the titanic exhibition center and every day there are very exciting events going on around the titanic quarter so why we mightn't have the excitement and the enthusiasm of launching ships there are many many other ways where we are doing things that are just as exciting and the job of people like me is to be sailing that i just saying that it is developing

a much more diversified economic base both within the ship itself but of course not about as a whole what industries we jus identify as holding the key to the future well i think tourism we have a wonderful terrorism offering not just when it comes to maritime but right across we have some of the most beautiful and i say that in a. objectivity some of those beautiful scenery we have the giant's causeway for example one of the wonders of the words there's also really exciting things happening when it comes to start up technologies and design companies and i really think as we watch that and the development of green technologies we will we will see northern ireland taken its place on the global stage it's ship building in northern ireland a sun set for a sunrise in the city. but i think we realize that we can't go back to a point or place in the past belfast is very much a forward look and say just earlier this year at a company in nuri j.m.

group they secured a multi-million pined contract to refect a luxury caribbean cruise we have secured good strong contracts when it comes to wind turbines to oil rigs and i'm confident that we're going to see many more contracts at going forward but alex belfast is a set a warrior is propecia sunrise for us the sun is always shining and make a lot of the obvious send me across a quick two to hold up whiskey you've been probably. i look forward to it alex thank you for joining us on the show my pleasure. so plenty of support for revival in the world but shipbuilding as a whole has never been shocked of what going through there isn't even the red leather benches of the house of lords the drumbeat of support has been sounding forth in favor of the report by some john parker this is a strategy for industry as much as for government delivering these new ships means

that we need a strong ship building sector as part of a wider marine engineering sector that includes the shipyards their suppliers those that manufacture and support the put for the ships and the skilled workers that support these companies industry and the trade unions were involved as we develop the strategy and i would like to thank them too for their contribution hold any day in the government says it intends to order new warships is by definition a very good day but my fifty two years in the navy of maybe realize that until you actually stand on the quarterdeck of the ship you haven't got it among old. whenever i see the words ambitious visions in reference to defense expenditure i'm afraid my skepticism is a row used because like several of the chamber including the noble lord lord king i remember the days when we were promised about fifty surface ships and that's a promise that was never actually fulfilled but it may surprise some people also i

i welcome today's announcement i would welcome any increase in armed forces capability but as long campbell has suggested one is probably fearful of not just the cost but the opportunity cost of this in harvest maritime capability and i hope it is generally and it helps maritime capability. costs always rise i recall in the defense board in two thousand and seven the two aircraft carriers were voted in it through. point six billion for not costing six point two billion. destroying cases the house of lords or be mourning the fall of british shipbuilding but expressing hope for the future. high cost port in just a relations and a lack of capital investment have all been targeted as explanations for the fall of the british ship building however other high cost locations such as norway will

secure all in strategic parts of the industry while the world market for commercial ship building continues to expand successive you could government saw the end of ship building as inevitable and had no industrial strategy to rest as to quite a policy instruments to place it on an even keel with its international competition now that is a strategy in the shape of sir john parker support but there are serious doubts if the wish and the will exists to carry it through. in the midst of british voters there are half a dozen u.k. yards listed as still building ships and no less than thirty listed as to fund it. does it remain a significant force says i concentrated on building for one customer the british public and for one industry defense however the plan to use a defense or to because a base for expansion depends on the drunk beats of military orders as we heard the last week show the workers believe that only

a full scale campaign can win the day. calling to go for one of the iconic names of the industry's past it would be entirely fitting if they can be a part of a brighter future next week we're going to have ever quite for exams the prospects of another ship voting phoenix emerging from the ashes what type of receivership in twenty fourteen ferguson scotland's last commercials to photo now look quite is also planning a bible and the last of our series on shipbuilding we talked to the management and workforce planning the show bible join us then but for now from all of us here at the alex semin show we'll see you next week.

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own people. just in the morning. thanks for joining us. rounding up your top stories. the russian foreign minister is visiting pyongyang as north korea prepares for a potentially historic. peace summit with south korea and the united states. should the ocean work for these we think that it's very important to approach the talks as delicately as possible to avoid any sudden surprises this should be no artificial drive for this process which would take a significant amount of time and detailed agreements that will not only provide for the denuclearization of the korean peninsula but also for a stable peace across all of east asia we call on all sides to feel full responsibility for succeeding in this very important but so far

a very fragile process. so that a lot off the rushers interested in working with both careers and the north should consider all factors in the peace talks including recent history our correspondent is in pyongyang right now with some exclusive images from inside north korea. this is a truly incredible opportunity for us to film inside the place where most high profile meetings in north korea happen just as the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov is talking to his north korean counterpart behind closed doors right there the moment when the russian top diplomat is gang is absolutely unique on the one hand the resolution of the korean peninsula crisis might be just a few steps away with the massive concessions the north and the south have both been making and even donald trump to however we understand that any wrong move can

make everything collapse so the question is why exactly surrogate lavrov and it up in the north korean capital russian diplomatic sources suggest that it was after several invitations in a row by mr lavrov scout apart during his visit to moscow we were also told that the north korean side wanted the trip to happen asap during a traditional quick chat with the journalists on the plane when we asked. why this was happening and what to expect of the visit his answer was we'll just have to see i don't know for now believe to try and go from the monsoon to power the home of the north korean parliament in pyongyang meanwhile north korea is also planning multiple talks with u.s. officials a bit uncertain over the upcoming summit between washington and pyongyang a former u.s. diplomat says the language of ultimatums is unlikely to solve the situation on the

korean peninsula but spirit where there are a lot of people here in washington who do not want this summit to take place and they certainly do not want any kind of accord between north korea and the united states idea that this could be a gradual process which i think the president trump is open to a gradual process nuclear. zation in exchange for a step by step change in the relationship between washington and pyongyang is a realistic one but i think here people here would like to present the north koreans with an ultimatum which of course will will will not solve the problem. journalists have rounded on the ukrainian authorities for faking the assassination of a russian opposition journalist in kiev international media and security watchdogs have slammed the stunt as deplorable and regrettable the staged murder of journalists are kinds of bumps in could by the ukrainian security service is distressing well the reappearance of the report i'm

a great relief is deeply regrettable the crane's authorities have played with the truth no matter what the motive relieved that. he was alive i deplore the decision to spread false information on the life of a journalist it is the duty of the state to provide correct information to the public. the ukrainian authorities had claimed that they had found a russian journalist at a county bob with gunshot wounds in his flat in the capital it was claimed that he died on route to hospital however later it was revealed that the murder had been staged apparently in order to follow an actual plot to kill the journalist. junko is a prominent kremlin critic who is condemning the russian activities in ukraine and syria he's a contributor of a major u.k. news outlets like the guardian and the b.b.c. . donald quarter now reports on the fallout of this controversial case. when a russian journalist was pronounced murdered in the ukrainian capital it didn't take long for the ceremonial finger pointing at russia to begin he was only working

on things that were critical and investigative of russia and of the russian government as well he said there was nothing that was critical of ukrainians of course that network and its boss placing the blame on the kremlin and on russia journalist known political leanings have led some to point the finger in one direction it was a calculated deliberate international terrorist crime committed on the direct instruction of the russian authorities who can blame them when the story has all the perfect ingredients the russian totalitarian machine putin's regime going after the kremlin critic except the guy turned up alive and well a magic in everyone's confusion what on earth is showing on the thread all these developments in just the last hour or so i know left us absolutely gobsmacked second so what the heck actually have been here russia said it was relieved that are alive but also fiore us and understandably so after being falsely accused of

murder questions of life and death in ukraine as well as the international community's trust in its politics are nothing more than a bargaining chip for the kids regime to stir up on t.v. russian hysteria fellow journalists were outraged too when a state says a prominent journalist who had received threats was murdered i think the media have to report it but with the fake news in ukraine have reduced all of our credibility trump would be proud the question i have about this operation to expose russian agents is whether it was worth the discrediting of every credible news agency columnist and reporter especially in russia who believed ukrainian officials when they reported our options because that had learned not to trust ukrainian authorities on don't best warrant but assumed on something like this fishel confirmation was solid apologies it's on wikipedia is most notable faked. death so what gives while the murder was staged by the ukrainian secret service to foil an

alleged kremlin plot they say they did it secretly not even his wife knew imagine what the poor woman went through but one ukrainian lawmaker thinks this is ok because sherlock holmes successfully used the method of staging his own death to effectively investigate difficult and complicated crimes well if it happened in fiction must be good in real life too whether ukraine will produce evidence that there was ever a russian plot in the first place remains to be seen but after a stunt like this it's hard to imagine many will take anything he says at face value the taming is key i think just before we start the world cup in russia which is a sure case event for any country that will cut the horse world cup and suddenly we're getting the story switches does that which are designed i would speculate to discredit russia and discredit russia and the eyes of the world just as a supposed to host the world cup and so this is a very elemental campaign it's been targeting russia because it's no interfering in

areas in which only sions have in the past understood that they are off limits when it comes to using them for propaganda purposes such as trying to use a world cup to undermine the host nation that does no good to anyone especially at a time when we need to try and form an understanding. syria's president bashar al assad says more u.s. strikes targeting the syrian government are possible it was during an exclusive interview he gave to ati's mudguards the assad also explained why he thinks it's wrong to call the conflict in his country a syrian civil war it's a preview of the interview. if anything the syrian civil war is growing hotter on the ground by schild our solders within the rebels and islamists are in retreat unlike their backers forces from five nuclear powers are now

directly engaged in military action in syria each determined to win or salvage what they can on the ground which makes the perfect ground for an escalation an escalation that no one wants but one that nobody would be able to control in the exclusive interview with r.t. syrian president bashar al assad has shared his thoughts on the coming future on the precarious dangerous and fragile months ahead and on the endgame of this devastating war the question is in who is interest is it to gas opposition to you but the most part of the answer in whose interest the question is it in our interest why and why you know because the timing of this leak to strike was.