as it was unexpected the big to unfold you know for a fight the power between mugabe's own wife and his right hand man the first lady also lose gucci grace and the voice present nicknamed as the crocodile each accuse the other of poisonings and death rates and it seems grace had one of the way with the ninety three year old husband the vice president personally the army stick to taking control of the capital just as the parliament was moving to impeach robert mugabe he quit a smooth transfer of power and the crocodile finally got his seat into running the country. the election is seen as a clash between two main candidates. is a member of the ruling party and the incumbent president appointed after mcgarvie was ousted although and surprisingly hasn't been given the backing of a gobby claims that he grabbed power from an illegally his closest rival is nelson he's the current leader of the opposition and

a recently qualified pastor if elected he becomes a barbie's youngest ever president at the age of forty votes currently being counted with results expected to be revealed in around five days time the two front runners a polar opposites not only in the generations they're represented but also their political views. favors good relations with russia and china while his rival chemise is pro western he traveled to the u.s. to meet with state department officials and members of congress at the end of last year little analyst and author howard feldman says washington is playing a dangerous game by interfering in the vote. i think it's a fairly dangerous. fairly obvious that the us are going to have some form of influence recent days we have seen the withdraw of the americans from n.g.o.s we also do know that there are still sanctions that the u.s. have applied to this infinitely some. form of.

politicizing of the or interference of the elections by the americans and i think america is playing a quite a dangerous game with this because if the wrong candidate as far as they're concerned which is been called way he retains power if he is able to succeed to it and it does look like he's going to that america will certainly be left on the outside of it having used the influence financial and political influence in the run up to the election i don't believe it's going to be if you do positively once a result has been announced. many countries have strict rules on what can and can't be done during political campaigns and bob was no exception some of the strictures during this election though were quite unusual.

over global conflict feelings of hopelessness and spending more time on social media. therapists in the united states say that they are seeing increasing numbers of patients with what they call. a disorder apparently it affects both his supporters and his critics. dislike the. supporters feel

isolated from society and even their families democrats also fret about the origin of success the twenty sixty election. by russia with more. now the ideas that are commonly labeled as conspiracy theories at this point are most commonly associated with right wingers and top supporters in the public mind however it seems that liberals also have their share of tinfoil hat thinking polls show that fifty five percent of democrats believe that russia actually did tamper with the voting results only thirteen percent of republicans buy into this idea which is pretty universally rejected even by the staunchest russia bashers stari know of no evidence that through cyber intrusions votes were altered or suppressed they did not change any votes tallies or anything of that sort so if russia did indeed carry out election fraud on behalf of donald trump why would james clapper

and john brennan and the intelligence community say that they didn't do that are fifty five percent of democrats actually convinced that the cia is covering up for russia that's quite a conspiracy theory we decided to ask new yorkers about it do you think that russia changed the voting results in the last election no no not at all ok and fifty five percent of democrats apparently believe that why media that's why. propaganda fake news trump says it best they're delusional misinformed or they have their own agenda beyond that something else do you think that russia changed the voting results in the last election s. can you tell us now well i'm sure through technology they were able to somehow finagle possibly i think so i've heard that a lawyer. yeah maybe but i don't know that they found.

one story that you keep bringing up and attack president trump and i think they're going to try to milk as much as they can but. i personally don't see any evidence of fresh million or elections i live to prove. over the years. our media. in the united states if people don't know the truth about what's really happening fresh is not the enemy that they make it out to be some people think that the moon landing was fake others think that nine eleven was an inside job and it seems that the majority of rank and file democrats believe that somehow russia got into voting machines and changed votes for hillary clinton to vote for donald trump the truth is out there but perhaps people should look for it someplace else. r.t. new york. the frenzy over trump and saw his hollywood star vandalized last week right response from pranks this.

season there is side war somewhere in russia the trump star can be moved to yeah destroying trump's hollywood star is great but have you tried voting in the midterm election. president security out there on the boulevard protecting is start. to syria now where militants are refusing to surrender despite an advance by

government forces towards the northwest province locals meanwhile have been leaving the area via russia sponsored humanitarian corridors. at. the minute and superior and good to us they demanded six million liras they too called two sons when we reached the checkpoint they threatened us and who had to turn back now we're going home where from up while the who. was. literalists helps to detect explosives and weapons we press the button and scan the

object it has a special indicator this call is one hundred percent clean but we've seen calls with weaponry be full. up with all majority of people coming with skin and breathing problems all children and their mothers have been checked so they were given recommendations and medicine to start treatment because of this and if you have these. became. international relations professor dr abdullah the humanitarian corridor is

a good development for the future of syria. without these kind of humanity it's difficult to for that we want to go back to their homes and. villages especially after the terrorist organisation in control of these areas are speaking about the. future of syria without stability security by the tories and there is nothing churchill because of that i i see is that it's very very important and it's at the end of the day had been the. to war to make economy to to have a step after the civilians of. the fascist war against the syrian people. monday marks one year since the death of. a journalist working with r.t. arabic he was killed by islamic states shelling in syria it was just twenty five in

his honor on a set of a special award to recognize the best reporting from war zones the ceremony which is just ended in moscow began with a minute of silence during the awards how lead's mother gave a poignant speech in arabic to one another. their middle you must sort of. little head of. deacon who lived with the moment. that. i mean i don't want to set a little kylie and. mend in. had a duty. because i had been abused i had a corner and that i could emerge as a hostile if you let's say let's. get out there to show their. side of us and i had them in ages it was me and there is it is it

a. matter. of the law how can gamble a matter of humor to. lottie's also created a documentary about khalid's work in syria here's a preview. no i know where his body's buried deep in my heart i'm still hoping he's a life on that day he called me and asked me to pray for him i asked him to be careful and not risk his life being

a hero i didn't want to lose him i was so afraid to lose him. but he loved like the morning of the day he died i was worried my mind started to come up with the scary stuff images i was afraid he'd be captured by i so i had a very bad feeling. we were near the front line the syrian army was battling i saw how work was over and we were about to pack or equipment khaled stood near it i put helmets on him i just wanted to take a photo as a memory of my work with the film crew when the explosion came. along i realized something had happened to him i didn't know what exactly out of habit i started to film everything after i began filming i saw

a lot on the camera. i tried to room them. i couldn't move my legs i couldn't see anything my eyes were covered in blood mixed with gassed a call for khalid but nobody answered. i checked his facebook page and saw his old photo and the text below said john was khaled al-harbi died a hero i started to cry my husband fell on the floor i just friend out of our house and screamed. i don't want to go on that mission but how to get you out of will she was bright and very determined she was a good journalist you could see that by his reports he did

a lot not only for journalism but for his model and as well he helped people soldiers who would bring them food and prompt mind. all my friends know that i want to do something good for people. who did a lot for me and now i'm trying to do everything for my loved ones that's my main goal. turkalo says the world's deadliest infection may become more expensive to treat that's after the us us for a paragraph to be removed from a u.n. draft resolution or the initial resolution dating from july tenth was obtained by r.t. from a source involved in the negotiations it contains a section calling for t.b.

drugs to be made more affordable but on washington's request that was scrapped doctors without borders explains why its inclusion is essential. don't allow. her and she has to be able to. take measures to remotes and you know generic manufacturing other words to competitions for. for drugs when medicines are unavailable for entry or when there are new generic versions available it's a part of the. international the actual more arms in every country around the route as you read that countries have the rates to through the use of these folks a billion years. per kilo says kills three people every minute it mostly affects the lungs but can also attack the nervous system it's twice been declared a global health emergency in the last two decades alone but it's far from being cheap to treat it cost up to fifteen thousand dollars

a patient and now the drugs industry. does a lot what lobby washington extensively the industry spent a whopping one hundred seventy one million dollars on lobbying just last year doctors without borders are the u.s. was lobbied to amend the un declaration on t b. this is not a new element i mean those of us who have been advocating for affordable access to medicines globally for the past twenty years know that a number of countries are very very strong pressure of their pharmaceutical industry who are constantly asking for much more monopolies stronger monopolies longer monopolies because of course that it's much more profitable for themselves and we know that the united states is very strongly influenced by the pharmaceutical lobby and it's therefore that they are bullying other countries to accept. the deletion of troops sex ability. and your right up to

date but we want the top of them. but after a time they were going underground is britain's old racist colony of zimbabwe holds its first presidential elections since the retirement of independence revolutionary robert mugabe coming up on the show can things get any worse in britain as poverty campaigners slammed trey's amazed policy as we speak during an oxford university

geography the president he dorling who believes we may have reached peak inequality and that in turn could lead to a brighter new future for all of us but could britain's future be going hungry forget post directed food stockpiling why could three million u.k. children needed n.g.o.s feed them now this summer vacation bus forty thousand knife offenses in a year and a fouls and fewer police on u.k. streets we speak to a former gang member about a rise in crime linked to post bank bailout all staring all the symbol going over today's going underground but first today britain's highly criticized former health secretary now replacement for boris johnson jeremy hunt is in china for strategic dialogue with senior communist party members of the people's republic here he is when reorganizing the u.k. n.h.s. explaining why china is close to his heart. the first person to be married was a member of. the policies aren't implemented though as health secretary were arguably

rather different to the chinese communist party here is the leader he supported defending austerity in the wake of defacto gambling gone wrong by the city of london we've had to take some tough decisions about the public sector about public spending we did that because of the state of the economy that we were left with by the neighbor party when we came in in two thousand and ten those difficult decisions have arguably had catastrophic civilizational effect in britain meanwhile . and china china has lifted over eight hundred million people out of poverty into most of the progress that's been made in going from forty percent of the world live in extreme poverty to now less than ten percent most of the progress happened in china watch what about progress in britain actually in fact britain is regress according to figures on poverty this month so could there be something systemic leigh wrong in the u.k. and do the british public recognise it now jeremy corbin is odds on to replace theresa may joining me now is oxford university's holford mic in the chair one of the world's greatest geographers professor danny dorling whose new book peak

inequality britain's ticking time bomb is out now president welcome back to going underground so you trace the roots of why a relatively left of center labor party under jeremy corbyn now looking set to win the next election is directly related to what you call peak inequality what is peak inequality peak inequality is when everything comes together so the way we measure inequality is the gap between rich and poor in terms of income. and that would be getting wider and wider and then they got for people who weren't in the top ten percent but they count on getting more and then they lost out and they went up and so on until around about spring this year spring two thousand and eighteen when the highest paid person in britain lost his job and we'll have reports that bankers' pay was falling so is the peak of the income inequality gap but at the same time problems created by inequality so problems like homelessness. one hundred thirty thousand children homeless christmas that's the highest it's been for many many

years their freight rates are now rising for the whole population by five percent of the last twelve months the things rarely ever happen last time that happened was in war time and when you begin to get so many incredibly terrible. and you see the very best stuff stop taking more because they can't take any more it looks like a pick. it may not be a pain but this is what a peak looks like the last peak was nineteen for taking any woman who got to go on the same kind of thing happened then but you also tend to have a disaster around the time of a peak the obvious one then was the first. next it is a much more benign disaster than the first world war but it's just the kind of thing that makes a country poorer and when you become poor at this kind of extreme situation the only place you can get the money from to keep going is the very rich and that

begins the kind of slide down towards becoming more normal and becoming more equal should say of course those. disagree is going to make us poorer you say there's a myth going around in british public life about who voted for breaks the myth is that it's a working class of disaffected working class votes up and voted leave but only about a quarter to leave out the social class d.n.a. the majority leave vote was middle class a.b.c. won the majority was in the south of england working class people much more likely not to vote whereas middle class people particularly older middle class people voted and your typical lay voter was a conservative told. he wasn't to each but wasn't particularly poor living in the south of england who had watched as far as they're concerned and then write a country slowly fall apart and their own children and their grandchildren been unable to buy a home start a family they don't everything they've been told to do and yet they were looking at

the mostly for future that we promised in the eighty's and the ninety's and they were angry it was not the last industrial jobs of the north at all just a reminder of years before we explore the issues very issues or you go in so clearly a coherent way here you remind readers that back in the seventy's britain was not like this at all it was approaching levels of equality there are now presidents can in a. for large countries in year round about nine hundred seventy six britain was the second most equal to sweden the gap between rich and poor where the now it's a billion the whole of history the british isles people could start a family in their twenty's you could get a hug we have an employment we will find employment you know you could actually choose what job you want not this fake full employment we have now where your sanction to death if you don't take any job you can possibly find you have to resume often and pointing to those employment figures but of course even in

mainstream media than talking about the working poor not even being able to afford houses you claim that the right to buy a policy of being able to effect the privatization of council housing is one explanation of why fewer people now are starting the yes initially right to buy was the biggest transfer of wealth that the poor had ever got in britain initially but you bought your council house if you'd lived some years with a discount but then you sold it on to a private landlord and that private landlord then charges a private went in the council went and you suddenly find that the country as a whole is in a much worse situation so the consequences are the opposite of what was that and. not intended they really did want people locked in their houses paying a mortgage being well behaved. very recently over a quarter of all families in england in chile with children have

a private landlord can be evicted with two months notice this is a quarter of all families in england with kids going to school have no security that they can carry on living in that home never in at any time they can be told you've got two months and you've got to go ok when you claim that. making all these announcements about housing and your claiming that the one point two billion pounds is about the price of a long street in chelsea. in the rich broader if we are at the peak of inequality and your political parties all begin to step to the left you could imagine getting into a situation in twenty or thirty years time when a right wing government tries to build more social housing the labor and that is exactly what happened twenty or thirty years after the last peak. the matt millen actually managed to build more decent quality free bad big council houses than the ninety five labor given to done of course is a way to look at it would be that big inequality could mean

a rise of the far right and immigration is certainly debated nonstop on our screens in really have to the brakes of debate you appear to correlate lower rates of immigration to britain with falling g.d.p. growth. if you look at immigration over the last century human beings move all around the planet. trying to stop them doesn't work immigration tolls are incredibly ineffective what stops people coming or staying is if there are no jobs they don't come so the poor parts of britain don't have immigrants. but also if you have a more equal society which means fewer jobs of the bottom you get less immigrants on health care you say the worst record cameron may have the worst record of any post where ministers know that the health care. crisis is unbelievable it's the cuts in social has the most devastating half of all those other social workers he's a turn of for half an hour at a frail elderly person's house once

a week just to check the handful of the bottom stairs those jobs are gone males in wales and another being delivered. to me. and the really odd thing about it is that the biggest effect has been on people in their eighty's and late seventy's and this could well be majority middle class to live that long majority and probably voted conservative in seventy nine and eighty three in eighty seven and the. bulk of the premature deaths that happened to date is at least one hundred twenty fans and their support for it has actually elderly people who had swallowed during their middle age the idea that you vote for the market and laissez faire would never be good and they're the ones dying earlier and dying earlier than people elsewhere in europe and it's not just the poor who are being affected by this this is affecting everybody the in the in from the whole population is now going up five years ago it was just for babies with mums who were from working

class now it's everybody and this is what happens at the peak in. those things i used to complain about five years ago and say this is terrible. elderly women were losing five and a half weeks of life expectancy and i came out that you can't believe this has not been nothing compared to what's happening today just just finally you say you compare the new labor blairite in tory policies to if they were a medical trial they'd be done on ethical grounds you compare inequality policies to terrorism since you've got to be mentioning death. well in your thought experiments that at the end of the book in the fourth or in the last section of the book. tries to look back on the day for imagining a hundred years in the future because if you're swept up in it if you're in it now it's very easy to say nothing can change much you know that which will hold on to what they've got if you look back at nine hundred eighteen and look at just how much change so quickly from one hundred years ago you can see that change is

actually normal change is what we should expect what you have to ask is what will people look at in the future the we're doing now and say they didn't realise how in human that was and i'm not really trying to guess the future because you can't do that i mean is the example countries that are ahead of us in time if you like and they get better results but also their children are happy in the mental health. and i also get to look at. what we're doing now which i suspect will be seen as as ridiculous in future and at the heights of inequality countries do the most ridiculous things and his well being i mean the big rise in inequality in germany was in the one nine hundred thirty s. . inequality wise are not necessarily good news they can relate to fascist governments but any ever kind of bad news is after the peak in normally takes twenty years before.