Skip to main content

tv   Watching the Hawks  RT  July 18, 2018 7:30am-8:01am EDT

7:30 am
what google for more of the french clearly. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you long to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business show you can afford to miss the one and only boom but. the new global economic
7:31 am
war is unfolding in the realm of education the right to education as being supplanted by the right to access educational loans higher education is becoming just another product that can be bought and sold but it's not just about education anymore it's also about running a business where you could no models at the regime look good it's also the fruit drink the fellow economic. want is the place of students in this business model before college i was more now i'm running stream or higher education the new global economic war. i can kick. off a democratic and decent get are going to get. coverage i can. get done with the nelson mandela a free man taking his first steps into
7:32 am
a north south africa. i'm going to follow. in my. own life freedom and tough. determined. not to. see this. thanks. for the. welcome back we are at the queen elizabeth hall on london southbank today to celebrate the one hundredth birthday of president nelson mandela backed by russia and china mandela was a tireless activist in south africa but also in later life a powerful voice against the iraq war and sanctions on cuba he's remembered here at
7:33 am
the nelson mandela santini exhibition one of the organizers of the exhibition is former labor cabinet minister and activist lorna hain who joins me now thanks so much for inviting us to this amazing exhibition tell me about the significance of an exhibition about a leader from a country now talking about is a leader of a brics country in the developing world and the emerging economies. of the south well first of all the exhibition is free it's been able to be said because of general sponsorship and we were thrilled that the the jew conductress of sussex opened this because that is enabled us to attract younger people particularly to learn about mondale in their thousands and tens of tens of thousands of visitors here over the next month running up until the nineteenth of august but of course for the prime of his life nelson mandela was in prison twenty seven years of his life in prison most of it on robben island in a tiny cell where his head hit one side of of the bed and his feet hit the other
7:34 am
side of the the war he was cramped in and it was really tough. struggle and the international mc of ponce movement was led from here in london so we wanted to bring the sex of bishan from johannesburg specially curated for london to bring the story of the international struggle alongside nelson mandela because the two are intimately connected when you look at the history of the great free nelson mandela concert at wembley stadium. at which rock bands and stars of the world played in one nine hundred eighty eight to celebrate his seventieth birthday one hundred thousand filled the stadium six hundred million watched it live on television events like that and much tougher of in stopping the spring ball or white spring rugby tours taking action to try and get economic boycotts imposed it
7:35 am
was a big holiday struggle and this exhibition brings it to life and reminds everybody of the history of course you say london being an important place for this struggle because britain supported apartheid south africa and one of the conservative parties favorite prime ministers margaret thatcher called mandela a terrorist going to your book your new book why even when he was sixteen leaving south africa. did you know then that he wasn't a terrorist nelson mandela denounced five years before he walked to freedom and began to transform the country and negotiate a peaceful change from the evil of a policy to a nonracial democracy he was denounced five years before that by the british prime minister's a terrorist why did that she do that because the west with the exception of scandinavian countries like sweden in particular did not support the anti-apartheid struggle they claim to be against apartheid who wouldn't the most evil
7:36 am
institutionalized system of racism the world has ever seen who wouldn't say they were against it but they didn't do anything. well on the contrary they gave a nod and a wink to the patrol government to continue to sell you know says and they sold our albums they continued the trade they sold tortured quip went and so on and trained a lot of their intelligence services who committed assassinations against international and here policy it leaders tried to assassinate me with a letter bomb which fortunately only little or this letter bomb in one hundred seventy two well i suddenly opened this or rather my younger sister opened this bulky envelope on the on the breakfast table with a pile of campaign a mail as was has happened to me as a party leader at that time in them and there was this horrific thing that i'd never seen constructed in bolsa would have terminals in the warriors and the only thing that saved me according to scotland yard's antiterrorist squad that descended
7:37 am
on the house and made the bomb safe was a a fault in the trigger mechanism because it was a group of exactly the same design that murdered ruth first i noted anti apartheid activist in mozambique in one thousand nine hundred two the wife of the going as party leader just the wife of the a.n.c. leader yes and communist party leader south having come as party leader just level but. and who was responsible for that only i mean for london it was elected as there's justice pitchford inquiry into secret services in so on i mean there was anyone arrested there when nobody nobody did. it was exactly the same type of letter bomb sent by the south african security services by boss as it was called very appropriately the bureau's state security council appointed leaders around the world and killing many of them is when the british government was supporting the south african government well they would claim they were supporting the south
7:38 am
african government but in practice by default or actively by supplying arms and so on they were and for instance they opposed our international this is a conservative government opposed our international campaign to isolate white south african sports teams why was that important you may think where does sport fit into that the big picture because it's in the end the economy and all the people police states alive the apartheid police state in this case because white south africans were absolutely fanatical about their sport the world said it. treated a policy it's in almost shunned apartheid so it said but actually white south african teams were fated in london in twickenham rugby grounds at lord's cricket ground the international stadia of the world despite a proxy even though they didn't represent the country they represented the white minority only so action against sports action all across the board was very very
7:39 am
important grannie's boycotting outspan oranges trade unionist taking a solidarity action people trying to get on his manufacturers not to sell their arms to to the white south africa all of this action then with the internal resistance led by monday. and his the president of the a.n.c. while he was in in prison all of a tomboy who was based here and that resistance inside the country then sparked a change that was supported and provoked from external pressure is your family thrown out basically for their opposition to it but what if they make. of the armed struggle when when mandela embraced it as a means to overthrow the apartheid system my mother and father both south african born and i was brought up in pretoria as a young south african boy they fairly uniquely amongst white south africans
7:40 am
there's only a tiny minority eight by name on the receipt who took a stand against apartheid because the white minority was so privileged but they also understood why no nelson mandela had had to resort to guerrilla action had to resort to on resistance not to target innocent civilians in the way the terrible wounds that civilians were killed of a few were killed by the strategy hundreds wounded president or wounded yes we believe was moved with but the strategy most of it was like this there was other action taken bundle a decided on the strategy to hit the states and he was a fighter the armed wing he was but remember remember he didn't found the armed wing in nineteen six in one nine hundred sixty the armed wing of the oxen nash african national congress m.k. i'm always sees where he didn't found it nor did his the fellow leaders embark on that strategy lightly only after they'd been banned as an organization only off strikes stay at homes busboy rent boycotts protests of his of
7:41 am
a peaceful client only after those had been viciously suppressed by the aforesaid government did they say we've really got no alternative but point is that at the time when you most need support where if you got that support violence would never have been necessary you don't get it that's the history of struggles for rights and it was certainly the case for monday as a in see it apartheid south africa you don't mention the i.m.f. and he came under huge criticism for selling out the nineteen fifties freedom charter which you do quote from in the book but not the chapter which was about nationalization of the mines i mean what about the grid. this is him that he was basically he died in a south africa more unequal than under apartheid is as the council of churches there are good judges of that's true and the world today and the eck and the neo liberal economic system governing it which which in fact south africa just as it
7:42 am
does every other country is creating a much more on equal world and he didn't want that now if you look at that the transition that the mastermind and they live there is criticism of a particular from young radicals in south africa today and others saying that he compromised too much essentially the deal was whites controlled continued to control the economy. with black increasing black economic empowerment but blacks the majority control the government the democracy side of it what i think should i don't think that was unable to initiative you have to understand when there was strategy and in my view not just understand it but to support it to recognize this was a mighty police state he had to negotiate with his of oppressors to give up their power that's very rarely if ever been done in history there's a choice in government and it would be good if it yeah but equal inequality is worse here in britain inequality is worse in every part of the world but inequality
7:43 am
is not to do with that it's to do with the fact that we have an economic system across the world which in rich is a few and to break from that in one country is really hard now having said that i think the a.n.c. should have been done a done much more not just for black economic empowerment at the top putting black businesspeople on the boards of companies rather than just whites as had been the case but actually empower workers from below and give them a stake in their own industries and the stake in the well then that mine to change the picture and that's what's got to be done no thank you thank you and if you. or in london you can see the nelson mandela submission at the south bank center's queen elizabeth pool until the nineteenth of august and that's it for the show back on saturday the worst violence in northern on the p.b.s. to speak to the song the human rights lawyer for newcome about the british government who did with loyalist paramilitaries to kill his father till then he
7:44 am
would talk about social media we'll see on saturday sixty nine years to the day the united states senate ratified the north atlantic treaty establishing nato whose nations have been responsible for aerial bombardment about yugoslavia afghanistan iraq syria libya. the very idea of a trump the summit was controversial from the start they met in helsinki and essentially agreed the u.s. and russia should at least dialogue to start a process of mending a very damaged relationship much of the media in the foreign policy swamp reacted with an apocalyptic meltdown has the establishment it's my. kind of financial survival job about money laundering first to visit this question
7:45 am
the three different. oh good this is a good start well we have our three banks all set up here maybe something in your something in america something overseas in the cayman islands or do we do all these banks were complicit in the tough talk or sued us up to something to do some serious money laundering ok let's see how we did well we got a nice laundry watch for max and for stacy oh beautiful jewelry how about. luxury automobile for max you know what money laundering is highly illegal thank you so much guys of course.

27 Views

info Stream Only

Uploaded by TV Archive on