the proposal he has it's been reported here is the first time this would be able to be done at airports in britain and all ports people who from the security services immigration offices would be able to question people who have arrived who they suspect osp eyes not for being terrorists but for being spies what do you make of that initiative well this is part and parcel of this draconian overreaction to. terrorist events now what you're going to do is just harass the general public to the point where actual sensible regulations are completely discredited and disregarded it's quite amazing how people have lost all sense of proportion because of nine eleven because of seven seven because of terrorists acts and no one asked why is it always that that they do these things or do they come out of the womb shouting i hate great britain i hate america no it's not that at all look to the

causes of the terrorism that's a much cheaper way to stop it and just finally pictures were beamed around the world of you being injured at jena as bill's hearing she says she won't torture people as boss of the cia what sort of would you say would be a chill the chill sent through nato counterparts of secret agencies here in europe now that she's in langley she was nominated by the president united states donald trump who says torture is wonderful torture works i'm going to do waterboarding and worse now. would trump have picked a person who would say oh no our number do that anymore i did that didn't work when i got there give me a break as for me you know there comes a time we have to take a stand ok if you can stick can't take a stand against torture what can you take a stand against i follow a fellow from actually from the west bank from bethlehem. his name is isa and

arabic. stood up against the authorities and he was tortured and i think that actually they killed him at least i escaped that so for ray mcgovern thank you after the break. how does the un's under-secretary general treasury federal or followed up his best selling chronicle of smooth it in india by the british own book all the small coming up about to of going underground. but. the. tough. blow for good. luck.

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welcome back former top diplomat and internationally one of india's most prominent politicians shas ether or has been in the news over charges surrounding the death of his wife the full statement from his lawyers can be found on our website but we can talk to him about an ongoing court case the former united nations under-secretary general however can talk about his new book why i am a hindu and he joins me now especially thanks for coming back on the great american great american writer said the whole decline of the west can be attributed to the failure of pantheism or the loss of pantheism but you say in the new book that india isn't can mean no god after all so what is interesting hinduism is we really

of approaching our understanding of the cosmos which doesn't actually require us to believe in god in the personalized anthropomorphic sense in fact for a thousand years the hindu idea of god was rather like the muslim idea that is that god cannot be given a shame of form or gender shape a bigger pardon cannot be touched see nude imagine could be an idea could be a spark could be a puff of air we don't know what god is right so a god without qualities is what the hindus worshiped but they realized that in fact ordinary people needed more than that they needed something they could look to a they needed for example in the basic you're a lot of nature worship happened people worship trees and rivers and fire for example so they said no we better have an idea of god that actually do they err by the way the big sages that is the the thinkers and writers i mean you're talking about a religion. about a thousand years into its existence of four thousand years so that's what i'm

talking about and then came up with the idea of god in a more familiar sense issue or a big one but they said since no one really knows what god looks like let's allow people to imagine god as they want and so there are three hundred. three million names of god with lots of forms you want to imagine god as a potbellied gentleman was an elephant's head going to show you men that's the image behind us the start of the show you want to imagine god as an eight armed woman riding a tiger you may do so as well but they're not all world they're all merely different manifestations because the human imagination is soon limited so we need to think of a god that we can worship strictly speaking god in hindu ism is brahman is this a spirit that suffuses the cosmos there is everywhere and every one of us is united by the same soul the up woman which is in you which is in me which is in your pet dog which is which is in every living creature and each of each of us

finds our seven a position where in western religions for example on the abrahamic faiths the body has a soul in hinduism the soul has a body the soul exists it adopts your body or mind for a finite period of time then it discards our bodies and moves on the ultimate goal of the soul is to be able to move into god into brahman and that his is what we consider salvation in the philosophy of course what most critics and people who praise the book have been talking about and that is. the tolerant version of india is a given it verse is obviously what has been seen as intolerance associated with the current indian government. you you say that hindu ism clearly accepts the possibility the abrahamic religions ups are all fine judaism christianity and

islam so weak on the perhaps the greatest modern hindu preacher who in the late one nine hundred centuries made a very famous speech in chicago to the world parliament of religions said the just as all sorts of rivers flow in different parts crooked and straight into the same sea salt so always of worship lead to the same god he said that i'm proud to speak of a feat that has taught the world not just tolerance but acceptance and so profoundly important idea because tolerance we are taught is a virtue but it's ultimately rather patronizing it says tolerance says i have the truth you are in error but i will make none i'm mostly indulge you and your right to be wrong very different except where is except in says much more it says actually i believe i have the truth you believe you have the truth i will respect your truth please respect my truth and by that logic hindu ism is willing to see the merit in every way of worship what it doesn't accept as the clip of any other

faith to be exclusively right and it doesn't make any such claim itself hinduism has no equivalent of saying there's only one way of reaching god or salvation it says always are equally valid ok what about what about this criticism of hindu ism that it it is based around the cost class system and oh you tackle the subject even here the very idea of progress is there is hurt somehow by this version of universal acceptance well the thing is as far as the caste system is concerned many good hindus like myself i'd like to think devout in the us can find plenty of justification for. rejecting caste altogether for saying that this is not it's maybe part of a social construct of the way it has evolved in society as practiced in india but it's not intrinsic to the faith and i can assure you as i've done in the book scriptural examples anecdotes from history parables from our our great old epics

and other poor honor's which see that you should not pay attention to superficial external distinctions such as caste hierarchy but it's true that many hindus still practice it and particularly when it comes to discrimination against people because of their belonging to supposedly lower caste that is actually illegal in india it's against the constitution where we have an affirmative action program for the so-called costs and tribes from the lowest street of society the most the most unfortunate members of our society but discrimination prohibiting people entry into temples for example on the grounds of their cost that's illegal an action can be taken against you if you practice caste and that's what some would argue it is of a scale of say racism in the united states is the only difference is where is reese is visible castors not you can look at somebody and say that i was new yorkers to look at somebody else and say he's up on the fact is that that's why cost is

eroding with urbanization you know idea of the cost your of the person you're rubbing shoulders with on the bus and with affirmative action the scum of democracy you may be an upper caste person go to an office and take orders from a lower caste woman that's life going too far to say i know you touch upon this in the book and your previous book that the british entrenched the existing india cost system was a way of organizing in people in the colonialism well look the question of organizing the indian people in some of the communities i think attempted other bearded unable to do but you're right categorize control classify this was important to the. brits and the the map the census the museum were all instruments of colonial domination and showed it and they love him to his and we will get to use this really can yes exactly so they actually did take we had castle we don't have a car system in the rigid hierarchical ossified sense that it became under colonialism so are you against party politicization of religion generally whether it be

political islam or political hinduism that's what i'm against identity politics generally whether you want to keep up political fervor mobilize voters on the basis of cost of creed of religion i think identity is the least interesting way to organize political contention we should have it's very powerful about ideas we should have arguments about ideology we should be have arguments about economics who's going to do most to give us a better life who's going to improve the education system who's going to defend our borders better those are legitimate grounds for argument but to say vote for me because i'm hindu or for me because we have the same caste i know it happens but doesn't mean i need to like it i don't and. so basically the way the entire hindu religion is organized could be under any political system whether it be capitalism feudalism or communism it doesn't matter it or any of it it should matter in fact

the point is precisely that's true of any society on earth that the wind which you organize yourself should be distinct from hindu ism in any case fascist it could exist under fascism yeah but hinduism you see actually sees religion as an intensely personal matter my father would pray every morning very development never oblige me wants to join in the idea is that it's everything about religion is between you and your maker or whatever image of form of human could you wish to worship or not that amount of choice is intrinsic to hindus so that kind of hammer all of that in into some sort of narrow street jacket of uniformity that's not something that's truly hindu or tall and that's where the political movement called hindutva which is. the ideology of the of the ruling party today and those forces supporting it that dismays me a great deal because in fact you can take such a vast completions accepting diverse all encompassing religion and reduce it to the team identity of the british football hooligan which is what frankly some of the

goons who are the fellow travellers of the hundreds of movement today are doing some studies say that comment on violence is up thirty percent under and or modi do you see any signs of optimism in recent months lessening of this identification of in do with whom. and the hindutva movement central tenets with the ruling of india are political the problem unfortunately is that communal and identity politics seems to get turned on and off when it suits those in power when the economics is doing well they'll talk about that when the government's doing badly they'll turn up the volume as it were of the communal loudspeaker in order to polarize voters on the grounds of religion so i can't be complacent or even optimistic the battle stopped happening those who are in power today started off very much on the hindutva bandwagon mr modi won the last election with a significant upper layer as it were of economics of saying i will permit willems

version or absolutely but but but it's also true that the economics has not been well managed and as a result the country is not as well off as the dreams mr moody and his colleagues manage to sell to the voters the big risk therefore is it may turn around and once again creep up communal sentiment in order to compensate for the deficiencies of their economic performance it worries me well we invite the indian ambassador on to . give a challenge that thank you very much as you are thank you good talking to you and that's it for the show we're back on wednesday on the eve of arguably the greatest sporting tournament in the world the world cup russia twenty eighteen till then he will judge us by social media with your wednesday the birthday of one of the world's greatest ever mathematician the scottish born james watt maxwell and forty seven years of the day the world work up to us lies about vietnam initial releases from the so-called pentagon papers.

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the epic. this schedule for adult trauma but kim jong il is highly anticipated u.s. north korea some. it is revealed as the leaders spend time seeing singapore ahead of crunch talks there on tuesday. us teams from around the world are running for the fifo world cups and plates are continuing to push within russian football on society to us trillion filmmakers came here to try and find so it's been well documented. there are no flicker on the times but. the nine year old girl is police there for her addiction to a game for her and distressing changes in her behavior

a former hacker and a psychologist tackled the issues. i think computer games have been around for a long long time our children are losing that if the site as to what's real and and what's maybe bert's. role in the clock across the world this is your r.t. international my name's you know me a welcome to the program some of what to expect from choose these historic summit between the u.s. and north korean leaders has been revealed by the white house in six hours time. kim jong un will hold a one to wall meeting company and only by their translators delegations from the

two countries will then convene for talks under working lunch it is hoped the discussions will lay the groundwork for peace on the korean peninsula as far as washington is concerned it's all going well so far. they are in fact moving quite rapidly and we anticipate they will come to their logical conclusion even more quickly than we had in to subpoena for we get but i'm very optimistic that we will have a successful outcome from tomorrow's meeting between these two leaders it's the case in each of those two countries there are only two people that can make decisions of this magnitude in those two people are going to be sitting in the room together tomorrow. and it will be the first ever meeting between a sitting u.s. president and a north korean leader that singapore is stumping up an estimated fifteen million dollars for hosting the one day of it and he's just said it's a delves into what else makes the event so significant. when it comes to the on off

summits between the u.s. president and north korean leader it appears trump has a track record of making impromptu decisions and this historic meeting may fall on another swift judgments along will it take to figure out whether or not there's a sense that maybe in the first minute trump's own level of seriousness is hard to measure so far we've seen insults and threats of a nuclear war which have suggested anything but progress in the past north korea best known are getting more interested in our state. they will be met with farther fury. like the world has never seen a frightened dog barks louder i will surely definitely tame the mentally deranged us daughter and with fire now the stage is set the capella hotel on sentosa island sentosa meaning peace and tranquility perhaps at least the name will rub off on the

fire religious when it comes to negotiations is said they shouldn't even enter the meeting room fly the same door this is to avoid perceptions that one into fest and is waiting for the other it will all be choreographed through with the president and mr kim each side will try to add some stops to get advantage the question that hold this many decisions is what will choose the menus what will they drink of trumps the teetotal and then there's the touchy subject of who pays for what during the pay on chang and lympics the south korean government set aside two point six million dollars so here's how male and transportation expenses from north korea will the north korea which bring cheerleaders this time without question a top priority for both sides is security with the host country measures more stop and search house for place and increase in surveillance cameras and even restricted air space although this probably won't stop the two leaders having their own.

curity entourage. for. some three thousand in math or expected to have a historic summit and thing a pool it'll be a neutral environment for the two leaders to play nicely by diplomatic protocol if trump gives it the time something good is going to happen it will happen fast i think within the first minute i'm not going to waste my time i don't want to waste is to. see what the report will leaders how to really spend the day in singapore enjoying a spot of dollars before the someone gets going. being a late night city to her large crowds turned to a glimpse of the secretive north korean leader who was accompanied by his team of bodyguards they're also joined by singapore's foreign minister who even took a selfie with the north korean leader at the city's famous gardens by the bay for

dull trump though it's all been about the catering singapore prime minister lee hsien along surprise the u.s. president with a cake day ahead of this seventy second birthday on thursday it's not just the leaders making the most of it their look alikes are living it up to. i. wouldn't tell me i'm still looking for the. army because if somebody like. me. i. want to take on twitter facebook want to give you joy look i do weeks ago first. you need. to be. right.

this is. not the real figures get all as well as they do we should be ok well despite all the positivity surrounding this summit the negotiations ahead could still take several more rounds before they produce any kind of concrete results here's a reminder of what the two sides hope to take away from the meeting washington say it wants the complete permanent verifiable denuclearization of north korea and exchange for. the toughest sanctions imposed. security guard

teats. from the korea policy institute thinks a deal will only be reached if the u.s. is willing to make concessions. there's too many people in washington who are in agreement with north korea as something to be avoided and they prefer to maintain a hostile atmosphere you have. more than one through. there will be no economic sanctions relief until after north korea have fully denuclearized i think that the total nonstarter is kind of approaching the capitulation model again where there's not going to be much offer to north korea but everything could speculate on that from the north koreans so i'm hoping that the united states is going to take a more realistic position and realize that if it wants to get. north korea to go for it it's going to have to offer a step by step approach and really really goes along.

switching gears now national teams from across the globe been arriving in russia for the twenty eight hundred fifty world cup among the latest arrivals team brazil touched in the southern city of sochi with their superstars serbian in the western most part of russia kaliningrad both nations get their tournaments on to win june the seventeenth brazil take on switzerland in the last stuff. while serbia's clash with costa rica takes place. for some though it seems that this world cup is not just the by the beautiful game in the run up some media outlets have been focusing on those notorious russian football hooligans on the threat that they may pose to those coming to russia in the uk has been folding to australian filmmakers as they try and separate fact from fiction in their own inimitable way. russian funny sometimes violence and you're going to see places

that. you have to fight tax or sanctioned by the kremlin a lot of me if she was somehow linked to the hooligans the alleged leader of the russian hooligans in marseilles the city the killer we go take it i got my film crew together man alex finally got to russia they could become whole again it's time to head in. housing is tourists we managed to get a camera inside. i reckon i buy gold to go there and also look in there on the fence. in a stadium full of hooligans we got nowhere for some reason these russian hooligans refused to me to us that they were actually the guys. are tracking down the men terrorize mosques i agree to talk but only on the condition they're on.