and admiral rooke being a gentleman hosted the spanish flag so she wouldn't die of hunger and how long the dollar last for those pilots fly back i think it was about ten minutes you know just. the cream to break a fast with yes yes but we must be required gentlemen. and she must have been a very silly woman. but she was a queen yes but that doesn't really follow does it david ninety six percent of the people gibraltar voted to remain and as european union members but overwhelming result in any of these terms wallace the motor forces behaved such a very well it was a very pragmatic vote the only way that we kept spain at bay was by all of us being inside the repeated union and the european union to keep spain more or less in rain so that they wouldn't do any move problems with the front or all the things that they used to do politically so we voted practically to stay in the union my heart.

and for many people savings we don't have much faith in the european union it was practical it worked in five sample recent events in catalonia it would have reinforced the skepticism about the european commission's gets very complicated because the union the situation is very complicated and it's got legal connotations that work against that whereas we have the opposite we have legal constraints that cement being here the treaty of utrecht particular i would have thought the lesson from catalonia as the european commission would side with the loyal european union member i.e. spain almost regardless of circumstance well it has to spanos a lot of money to your group that you can just go and spoil the client you have to pay that back stay with us for board fascinating insight from david ben tatar after the break.

f.o.c. played golf. since the start of the world cup russian sports commentators have put cruelly sure on their list of teams capable of winning russians love to root for the underdog but will have sympathy for a rival impact on russia's quarterfinal time with croatia. welcome back to the alex salmond show. so tell us about this davis ahead so i seem to remember that quote from somewhere. actually i like writing poetry and my friends told me go well i'm going to do a book and i decided to do it i was thinking of row of a title for it. and in a reply that i got from david cameron in from when he was prime minister he told me

how he had fought for a change in the european union head heart and soul and i thought that's a terrific title for the book and i used it but the book was more successful than referendum yes definitely it still if it will will you do the jury's out on that is it is quite interesting that you never would believe that. it was a european referendum campaign in a way perhaps it was in the school itself and the campaign so he was an instinctive unionist but you never got the impression during the european union referendum campaign that that calum was absolute heart and soul was cameron was right and what he did in one particular way the european union is a club if you don't like the rules of the club you change the rules and you try to get people to support you to change the rules otherwise you have to get out and he was trying to get the rules changed britain didn't have to get out it didn't work

they would tell us a little about the people of gibraltar they know even why is that the mix here and . are people wanting more people want you brought to you but like some of folks a little more less well know that's about two or three questions you've included there basically gibraltar was a garrison garrison required food and drink and everything and from morocco the supplies were coming in from morocco that brought in moroccans and moroccan jews during the trading then when the war was over there were several seizures but in between you had spaniards coming in here replacing the spaniards that left and went to a city called some broccoli on that side obviously english people british people english scottish irish stayed here and then moroccan started coming in later when the spanish workforce was taken away by franco and we have a great mixture here of of cultures and of people and thankfully. there is

a lot of not just tolerance but harmony between the different communities so draws is very proud of its ethnic diversity and its ability to rankle some i am very proud of it and what about. poetry and in a world the deep well in which you draw when you're writing about. perhaps i don't know. hundred one poems are written about things that happened to me the things that i've seen love stories broken hearts and just put it down on paper and people love it i do recycles them with circles in spain in england. and people seem to like it so i enjoy terrific another book perhaps left the court case to fly me somewhere about the dream which will never die. another book out already of short stories and now i'm working on another book again i'm going to stay artistic seem like gibraltar amazing you would not believe that thirty thousand people could have so much art in them again thanks to spain for the great amounts by enclosing us

here it made us concentrate on what we had so your argument would be david the job growth theory and identity was forged in the fire the ostracized by the throat totally and out of that identity what do you see the future of of the. very bright except it doesn't all only depend on us we are a tiny poorly in the chest game the outside forces of spain and britain we dictate whether we will be successful or not by ourselves we can be successful no question about. the people of the regional gibraltarian like yourself you aren't all attracted by the elected state model because you see below you've got your own football team could you in a year we're going farther than gibraltar is a very particular situation we cannot imitate the places we have. different conditions it has to be our solution for our problems not somebody has

a solution for their problems and adopted by us that wouldn't settle here. overlooking. one side spain on the other side the rock before us and. pushing eighty degrees before a lovely cooling. what would you say the main reason for people coming to gibraltar well it's a great little place it's the center of the world believe it or not if you live here you find that you like in an extended family most people know each other know off each other it's easy to get along crime is low. people are nice. for the rock and you have come to your poor through the cycles but what i can do is present you with the alex i'm in quit for appearing in the show when you know the. only scars. are possible your close friends thank you very much that you know he's a bike thank you. but there's more to gibraltar the politics of the economy

infesting all these subjects let's talk for a bit about the people of the rock and see how these changing background influences affected the communities that make up the brault i'm joined by cruz. after a slow caly charting the the changing nature of the of the influences on gibraltar welcome to the show to know how to thank you very much how would you say the great economic changes have taken place affected the complection of gibraltar and its culture over the last generation. while it's been. interesting time which has had big implications and certainly my generation i mean we've lived and mitchell period with it's a very fluid relationship with spain then a close or a border early in our lives and then you know fifteen years of more of an island life with very close relationship with the u.k. . we turn towards u.k.

and so i think the transition has also been social. that with. i think the incorporation of many new people into trouble actually specifically about the military footprint i mean twenty five years ago military spending was the majority of the gibralter economy sixty percent now it's six percent and it's been replaced by service economy what does that mean for the the communities who make up the rock when it means that really the physical presence of the of the military forces will to reduce dramatically and that was replaced over time between the i would say studied the eighty's and ninety's in particular by a workforce for the new sectors that were evolving and these people came from all over the world and many of them are still here today so therefore that shift economically had massive implications in a social sense to both to suddenly change from being i would say a. fairly stable community from let's say the original.

components from mediterranean origins to the english. to the jewish communities the hindu communities and then evolved into really incorporating i would say mostly anglo-saxon individuals from study from the u.k. but you know from south africa from the english speaking world in the broader sense when general franco closed the ball drop back in the late sixty's you know how the unintended consequence of. our gibraltarian identity again started vast city. that certainly was the case i mean it was one of the most significant outcomes of that certainly wasn't a general plan no but certainly i mean before that i would say that the identity was a softer identity of anything then all of a sudden there was one major thing in common for all members of the community wherever they were you know from all social standing just such as i think all of

a sudden that's emerged as one cohesive sort of. i think you know part of the identity which had big. implications for the future although they say that living in interesting times still charlie is cast as a great burden but op has been all these political changes you see that in your lifetime and gibraltar and the recent change of blacks and challenges that may cause headaches for the politician but it's good news for the op this is it not certainly i think i mean as you go through these periods you don't realize to what extent they can be meaningful but certainly i mean what they have done is they have you know forced us to really be resourceful and as well culturally i think to really consider you know you know where we sit in a cultural sense and in my case you know i really over time come to the conclusion that you know to do. with its heritage and you know which is so rich and diverse

serves as a wonderful sort of stepping stone you know into the much it's a broader world in a cultural and a human sense as well you know you're right you're put in the spotlight as the extent to which despite the political to the soul and despite the complex of the population growth of really is a spanish land all of that more of an imperial posted in europe is the african influence still a very strong and could although what is gibraltar i mean obviously a concept for everybody but i would say that in my case i have chosen part of my work to express myself. in spanish and i think that's totally not only digital made but obviously you know in an artistic sense it was something which was important for me to do i also write in english but it happens that i'm maybe close to a spanish cultural space and therefore i have published in spanish flu looking at it from the poetic sense and literary sense i would not jump to the conclusion from

that towards you know it's a defining identity and i find languages are really you know a bit like dialects i mean poetry is a language you can express yourself you know in english and spanish and french you know in so many languages and whether you write in spanish or english you know has significant but it's only part of the story you know i think it's not but i'm saying you know spanish culture to me is more important because in a lot of i have let's say a cultural heritage which is spanish speaking and somehow that's influenced me to to say to opt up till now which are to express myself mostly in spanish through a cruise the political environment sunset the economic environment going to depend on the political it comes but they have to stick to the gibraltar is flushing is it not it is flourishing and there is i think a lot of activity on many fronts i mean on the artistic the literary the musical there are many initiatives and i would say that there is

a big drive to actually build on our heritage very calm much more consciously than in the past i would say and is there anywhere else that you passionately would prefer to be walking not at all i think i think that both the provide me with. a privileged vantage point from which to really. look at the world at large today you know i mean without necessarily restricting myself to dribble one question i want to dash it in let's see what it here that's wonderful but. describe to us is that they say that james joyce never actually came here and how did you manage to capture of us for. even visiting gibraltar. obviously a man of genius. no doubt but obviously very well informed because he i think he was receiving sort of regular correspondence from people living there for the nonce of his living here. but it's something which i have difficulty in believing that he never came here. well if it was good enough for james joyce it should be good enough for any of us thank you so much for the it's been

a pleasure thank you very much thank you. as well today the rock of gibraltar the strive for the world is pretty close to the continental europe part of the iberian peninsula i started here i'm only twelve miles from the top of africa each of these factors had a substantial influence in making up their communities of this fascinating territory one thing's for certain. period identity has been forged in times of adversity that's going to stand them in good stead and the interesting times ahead join us next week will be with you what the economy holds for the fascinating territory from all of us here at the show for from the whole of the crew it's good bye for. next week we voted overwhelmingly to remain in the e.u. and now we have to see what effect the hard drugs it could have been the gibraltar economy the reality is we haven't had a hard bragg's it scenario it was still in the e.u.

we're still functioning. as we were doing in twenty sixteen we're a small number diversified economy so we adapt the history of gibraltar speaks for itself i mean it's been understood to protect. the resilience of the people as well here i think it will take is an incredible entrepreneurial group and there's an incredible group.

they're not going to learn how to not they're not a lot out of love go to the not out of the mouth of the money get a little time at a time. this was a good time to. try to move there i'm. not that i want to give up my little body not far north they're going to suck for it turning in the old people we believe just another obedient. little of my kids i don't want them up with john what are you the moment to tell them mother how do a little macuser is a little odd i'm a little work you might be old enough to go out to the people i don't want to put out a look to my work party would i told them of the bloated. hyperinflationary

dilute is when the interest on the debt is greater than your taxes taxable base then you have to throw down all pretenses of quantitative easing and just admit you're monetizing debt such a bank is just printing and buying back its own debt in a deliberate place then you get into what's called a banana republic named after countries that want america that typically are in the butt out of business to end up doing this monetization of their own debt and have collapsed their currencies venezuela argentina come to mind this is now going to be contagious and going into america. i. i.

i. when you carry home secretary says the couple poisoned in southern england were exposed to novacek the same nerve agent used against a former russian double agent four months ago so the job it is now calling on russia to explain the situation. is now talking to the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what was going on. a second noise or violent clashes erupt in the french city of non tove with the death of a young driver killed by police at a checkpoint. and around threatens the globe seaborne oil shipments along a route that is used for transporting almost bottom third of all global oil if washington attempts to hold terrans own exports.

watching our international she's called nine o'clock am in the russian capital but first the saudis with sadness that we can report that long time t.v. and radio broadcaster ed schultz has passed away he's believed to have died of natural causes that his home in washington d.c. was sixty four years old jolts joined r.t. in twenty sixteen after several years as one of the most watched anchorman on m s n b c and had a successful career too as a big radio personality his reporting gave voice to workers and labor unions and he was never afraid to speak out. ed always wanted his country to be a role model to the world and to its own citizens during his short time on r.t. america he covered several high profile news events which did showcase his talents and experience as an all round newsman he covered the breaks it votes with larry

king and america's twenty sixteen presidential election there were few in the news industry as respected as ed schultz and he will be greatly missed his family have asked for privacy during this time of grieving. our arab or our of the. now the british home secretary is calling on russia to come clean about the use of navi chalk in the south of england it's after a couple were taken to hospital in a critical condition at the weekend after being exposed to the nerve agent the pair fell ill in amesbury village just over ten kilometers from seoul sprit the city where the former russian double agents could have powell and his daughter you were poisoned back in march samples from the latest victims were tested by government

scientists at a nearby military research lab at porton down that much the same facility that identified the substance used against. the home secretary said the use of toxic agents in the u.k. will not be tolerated. it is now time that the russian state comes forward and explains exactly what is going on it is completely unacceptable for our people to be either deliberate or accidental targets or for streets parks towns to be dumping grounds for poison we're not seeing very much evidence when it comes to not just the second poisoning but also of course the original script hall case the investigation into which is still ongoing and in this latest poisoning development to this highly dramatic and mysterious novacek saga all we seem to know for now from british officials is that it's said to have been the same nerve agent that was used on sergei script holland his daughter yulia on march fourth it's not yet clear

whether or not this not a child came from the same batch officials here have not yet clarified this they've also said that whichever botched they were poisoned with the second couple did not come from the original cleanup source they also said they believe that this couple was not specifically targeted unless of unlike of course they do think it was the case with screwball and yulia and there have not been very many specifics despite it's now been over twenty four hours that this has been declared a major incident and of course it's also been four months now since the original script poisoning and while officials here are saying it's too early to jump to conclusions of course accusing russia seems to be quite clear clearly on the agenda yet again and this is something that the russian foreign ministry has reacted to saying they're quite surprised to be hearing all of this again because throughout this whole entire time russia has reiterated who knows how many times saying that it would be happy to have

a joint investigation and to cooperate with british officials to find out what it is that happened exactly. kunal and we were shocked today when we saw british officials stating that they are waiting on cooperation from the russian side it's possible that british media. don't inform their citizens dead dozens of such first regard in our countries working together worsened by us through one does diplomatic channels well here in the u.k. again attention seems to be drawn to russia not just by officials but also by the some of the headlines of course surrounding this latest second poisoning it seems that the concern of locals on the ground now in amesbury which is again very close to seoul very is that they would like to know exactly what's going on because again it's been months of investigations and we do know that it's been millions and millions of pounds banta on the cleanup operation and they want some clarity of a ten year old sudden relive the treaty seconds away he plays out here with this.

very alarming we know it's a major incident on your doorstep you know residential area it's. you just could not imagine this happening will you want to know is the safety have to do anything if your family going to be say is it going to be a third say scale ation everyone is extremely surprised and i guess. when you live in the area. incidents coming closer and closer to you it's a very worrying thing to happen and while clearly now this whole saga takes a quite unexpected new turn again attention by some officials here seems to be pointing towards another direction sue petersburg troll for troops and the propaganda channel already gearing up to spread misinformation. couldn't we least do a little bit more to expose this and particularly members of the old saw it's not

appear to change propaganda television channel. i think this is speak of the only members absolute right to raise this issue there have been far too many you since what members of this house after you have supported the russian public. and the machine. for example is one way they have done that if any member of this house has an ounce of common sense they will realize especially after the second incident that the british public will not support any of them if they support president putin and while of course so so much attention seems to be directed at the misinformation campaign in this whole saga it seems at least to me personally i've been covering this case for the whole four months and i think i speak on behalf of all journalists who have russian and from around the world that it might be time for an actual information campaign from the officials that have been investigating this especially given this is something that's happened on british soil and as matter of gas you have now explains in the wake of the incident

there's still plenty of questions to be answered. so many questions first off locals terrified again last time the government promised they had cleaned everything up decontaminated and leaked everything clean and now this how could this have happened. retracted say that. it was possible and so treated it was possible to upgrade not to visit being kept in any information particularly. if the notion that it's on the it is. a little bit worried now that we don't know what's going on because. we are but children come here and there are other parents who live around here and it was being taped and again the government deserving people not apparently everything is safe again second big

question i spent weeks traveling meeting military chemists going to live bora tori's learning about the nova chalk's it's a group of different nerve agents sixty odd of them. the k. quickly so if the substance is left out in the open it decays. warts and loses its toxicity if it isn't a huge pot but the third and perhaps biggest question how have these two survived so far but if we can have symptoms that follows in minutes if it gets in the skin symptoms and can take from minutes to. these is one of the dead years substances in the world look one drop of a new virtual in liquid form is enough to kill ten average weight men and now you have these two who were found untreated hours after being exposed so far

it's all muddled baffling and downright bewildering. see there we also talked to a former u.n. chemical weapons advisor about the specifics of the incident. when we talk about continuation how effective it was we actually fall into the trailer or. idea that was thrown in in the u.k. mass media that there was a problem of continuation but let me tell you these. compound chemical. compound. i can't imagine how. prosperous compounds like. such structures. could still environment for four months to be fact if you had mechanics imagine that some.