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i just want to make this very clear if you know palestine if you know the injustice if you know what the palestinians are like and you love them like the way out of them i'm quite sure more and more young people all over the wall begin to wake up to the fact that this is one of the best black history of the twentieth and twenty of us and treat allowing a people to be slaughtered to be dispossessed to be ethnically cleansed before one eyes and telling lies about them you know people has a strong sense of justice and people will stand up for justice maybe by the next i might be too old to go on it in a sense that i might be a handicap to everybody around but i'm quite sure many others will do that dog as we thank you. you're most welcome after the break we are not the judge read green we speak to the general secretary of united voice of the world watching day striking for more pay and one of the richest areas in europe all the symbol of going up the ground.
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of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the refuse to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the last person asked bank of mom. mostly to morrow i'll tell her that next time i get i'm in a lot of class and i want that. they have that what are their options to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all over for the couples. the who could be brought to the. offense it struggles of many couples won't. deal with the push to political spawn both of you are putting up to the smoke of the. book about joining me now to go through some of the week stories of broadcaster for
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the liberal democrat m.p. lembit opaque lembit alex jones info war was where banning that from you tube we're going to ban going underground from huge you're going to ban obviously the murdoch press that's fine we called. people to make up their own minds afshin you should know that i know of very true a very important decision by these internet companies they are private and it's up to them what they want about it or not i personally dream on our show to google dream on and he will go to the truth from the british guardian newspaper well you say it's the truth the guardian reports u.k. poised to ask russia to extradite solsbury attack suspect now with the russian embassy said it's going to happen is putin to take them in they were obviously killed by russia it's a great story a few small problems russia absolutely denies involvement to this point secondly there's been no legal proof whatsoever about who did it and thirdly we don't know who they want to extradite they say there are some such suspects here but i didn't hear very categorical is about to do it and the russian embassy by the way
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a term of recording have said that they've never heard of any of this but that doesn't really surprise me because this is the continuing smoke and mirrors that we've seen ever since the event took place there are plenty of people who aren't pro russia who are simply saying we have no evidence for this whatsoever who are you going to extradite if you have no solid evidence at all and for ministers to say well we actually have information we can't share it that's not how the law is meant to work in this country i should just say jeremy scahill of the intercepts of the luke harding who's mentioned in the story of the guardian was thrashed brutally for unsubstantiated rumor time and time again in this russia just like if you get one crucial point here russia is bad and the u.k. is good end of story ok well i'm going to say that that some people think it's criminal criminal stuff anyway we had in the first half of this show a person in the gaza flotilla so let's hear from the israeli press yes the jerusalem post reports israel lourdes u.s. reimposition of sanctions on iran that's true from the israeli president got to
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agree with that not a big surprise you would be more surprised if it said israel condemns us the imposition of sanctions on iran to be saying that israel has a huge amount of play with the white house. no they say it's an independent country i think it would be good all from delivery i think of the bigger news if they said that they didn't have that kind of control so they're going along with what trump saying just about saying that israel backs the u.s. putting the turning the screw on iran and stopping me from going into a and all of that is always wore green back the obama era saying to the threat of economic war that's really what we're talking about here and it's connected to the whole idea that chant has this new kind of diplomacy it's tied into something to sell it to this world and so yeah it's tied into this other story in c.n.n. trumps not spock iran sanctions aiming to change not topple tehran officials say now this is interesting the terror and present it imagine rouhani serves us to
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change not topple washington yeah it could be a symmetry. but i'm not sure we'll see that what's really going on here is the spokespeople in the white house are trying to reassure the world that donald trump's not trying to break international convention and law by has horrible in law a regime that is violated the terms of the trying to convince us it's not that bad but what's what's really quite engaging about this story is the fact he's now imposing or threatening to pose sanctions on europe for not imposing sanctions on iran trade war with the bunch of already in the house but it's a second trade war with the e.u. about something else so what chance to side to do here is bearing in mind that they've got relatively small trade with iran about one tenth of what the european union has a saying i'm willing to sacrifice that to really show i'm tough on iran at the same time if you step out of line european union i'm going to have a trade war with you on top of the other trade war but how far is the u.s.
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going to attack you because last to leave you well let's have the u.s. famously aided saddam hussein's chemical weapons program to attack iran there's no way the united states going to help. weapons powers attack the european well just about everyone is guilty but it's mainly in terms of trade when it comes to the united states here's the reassurance trump has said this today will say the opposite tomorrow business as usual the video big thank you now to some of the voices of those taking unprecedented coordinated strike action at the u.k. ministry of justice in the council of one of the richest places on earth london's kensington and chelsea this week the royal borrow will forever lie in the shadow of one of britain's worst ever tell book fires the grand fell catastrophe which claimed the lives of so many but it now faces new scrutiny over its use of outsourced for profit private contractors i am striking here today because we are suffering here and i am not the striking here for myself but i honestly i cannot
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support my other colleagues we have to do lots of different jobs to get a basic standard of living and if you have a i mean he t.v. works so it's a great use in one of the places we have to do. to survive. and respect i am pretty sure that. we are going to win this fight strike action is being led by united voices of the world a members led campaigning trade union of migrant and precarious workers petro is its general secretary. thanks for being on going underground so the mainstream media saying there's a blame game going on why are your members going on strike unprecedented coordinated action it's plain and simple a striking because they can't afford to survive any longer on the wages that are being paid here is that in chelsea council they are paid a poverty wage they need and deserve a living wage the living wage you're asking for is the living wage which is an independent for the amount any time pounds twenty it's not a huge amount but it's
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a massive improvement on the current wage which is only seven eighty three hours they can go on any longer having to work fourteen hours a day just just to survive in some cases someone who can even afford a bus fare to work which is about to. disgrace in any place in britain in two thousand and eighteen but especially in the richest council in the country and maybe even the world i don't know has a council which has more money in its coffers in capital and chelsea so they're striking today they're going to be striking tomorrow striking the next day and they will continue their strike until they get their demands met they just can't accept their wages any longer the council's got the money to pay them or they're just refusing to cough it up their refusing to pay them what they need and deserve just from the ministry of justice the heart of government just really you're going to tell me and update you on this because you just counsel told us cleaners are employed by amy we don't control what they mean pays their staff though we do expect them to be their staff appropriately i understand there's an update to the
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royal yeah so they're now on the back of this strike care that they will be bringing the cleaners in-house and that's actually we would have one with the problem we were when we welcome the news what we haven't done yet is confirm what that means and we'll material terms to the cleaners so you know if they announce that again as we paid at least a living wage that they will get parity of annual leave allowance impediments with other stuff because the strike off will go home and we'll celebrate but all they've done so far is say that they will bring the cleaners and house why they haven't followed a statement through with a confirmation of any of the exact pay rates and times of conditions and things will get i don't know. is too much for us to accept to settle this dispute so the strike will continue until they confirm concretely and clearly exactly what it is that they are offering the cleaners and in the months to come any time scale and the previous other statements from councils of talked about stopping outsourcing which has been highly criticised all areas of british authorities even
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the public accounts committee yeah i mean ultimately is the trade union united voice of the world we would call on all clients to bring all of their services in house and outsourcing outsourcing has been nothing but bad news for workers and nothing but bad news for unions using these workers. and you can exert more power than the lobbying power of some of these big multinational companies that employ people in outsource contracts all of the fight is an easy fight first of all for these workers to go out and strike a concern in chelsea council and the ministry of justice is the first time any of these workers are striking before. strike you know strike in this country are going to strike and i don't know with many of them are afraid but i've overcome the fear they were afraid to begin with but that's what we as a union or unions do and should do is we need to help build the confidence of workers so that they can take the action which is required to win the demands which they need to when. they have you know starting out here in front of their manager today on strike that's a big deal it takes a lot of courage and they should be applauded and commended and set an example for all of us to follow really i mean kids in chelsea have been upgrading oprah
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facilities in one part of the bar or you obviously believe that employees who work to clean this bar are more important than opera terms i don't think it's an either or isn't a i mean i don't think we need to be against property call on the council to pay their parents a living wage has been a lot of music absolutely yeah this is a dance with a lively picket line and you know the council i believe is wasted thirty million pounds on the opera house and they're going to last about a million pounds a year as a as i understand it the same happy to make a loss of a million pounds a year on an opera house but i'm not willing to invest apparently would cost a million pounds or thereabouts to pay all of their outsourced of the living wage they've also just increased by two million pounds their p.r. budget for the council which is on a rebranding sells in light of their you know they were to they were to blame for the death of seventy two people a grandfather who are trying to make savings which led to the deaths of all is an inquiry into that which we have here that i will that all went for was a tragedy that will never be forgotten and the counselor should never be let off
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the hook for what they did and trying to make costs which ultimately led to the deaths of two people and all that and what they're doing here with the cane is a showing the same contempt towards people they don't think are worthy of decent wages and the. living conditions and a decent life and so again is just another example of this council really trying to make their profits off the backs of the lowest paid residents and a lot by workers and i should say the labor m.p. newly elected to goad refused to come. back you on this program we're going to speak to a counsellor what support do you getting from jeremy goldman's labor body of the opposition bodies so we've got a number of labor councillors. sort of open letter in support of this strike some of come to the picket line today i mean encode was on the picket line today supporting the cleaners yeah we welcome any support from payson council as the cane is needed and deserve it and we hope that obviously that support will you know increase the pressure. during the strike on the council to really meet made the
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case as the months and weeks make me think we're going to win the strike when we will win a strike the question is when whether one is won in this round of strikes or the next round the strikes will continue such as then thank you thank you very much among the many expressing support for petrol and strike action by the united voices of the world union was also a labor councillor at kensington and chelsea council has mason i'm now with councillor pat mason he's been a councillor of the royal bar accounting and chelsea for twenty seven years patched us through life sentences you're obviously supporting this strike a labor representative labor councils are known for outsourcing which a lot of workers here say a lot of the problem. of employment why is the labor wasn't supporting them all this of course is not only because i told the council but you know back in the thought your words when the governments were chopping and cutting budgets they said and this is not just say many of your views not of not remember who mr structure
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was but i do and that you need to contract out your services to save money so a lot of them did it the old did we spot a limited union movement because i was secretary to face council here in this time . of course opposed that contracting out it was a new liberal agenda item to cut down. the government could cut budgets and you could just get that get it cheaper it was always the workers that suffer because seventy percent of any company's bill is the wage bill so you cut down on the on the wage bill this council here as of last year has got contracted out three hundred sixty million of frontline services and the reason you have this is because you want to sixty million pounds sixty million and the committee the only. looked at those contracts two years ago discover that they were wasting nine to ten mil they were leeching one to ten million in wasted two year one particular contract
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year called the managed services contract which had to be junked it alone lost ten million pounds i mean these workers these cleaners only need probably less than a million to have the london living wage which you can actually live in on the living wage anyway. and these huge companies like running our i mean you can actually live on distilled into becoming benefits these big companies you've looked at the balance sheets there were hundreds of millions of pounds and they make hundreds of millions of pounds in profit tax or how any tax they are in turn subsidized by the taxpayer let alone from the contract because of the wealth all contractors are subsidized by the taxpayer if you're paying low wages to somebody going after claim housing benefit. cetera that just just tell me how i just had a british television channel telephone using it's a bit of a blame game you're suggesting that something much more ideological at stake is in the shadow of grand fell that is maybe all i suggest that those your liberal
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policies coming to suggest those well heeled channel four and other reporters should go on start the cleaners for six months and see how if they think it's still a blame game when they can't pay the rent which is why sky. let those people those those are the sorts of media the are losing millions of viewers because nobody believes what they say anymore they don't go out on the ground and because they don't go out on the ground and talk to people like you do. they come down to demonstrations like this and all they see is the westminster bubble. that's why they're not trusted that's why they're not listening no bill nobody in this barra and set in the ground for people they don't trust the council they don't trust the government they don't they don't trust the media tell us channel four people should side living on even ten pounds twenty an hour for the next six months and give those cleanest they have jobs in that and channel four in the b.b.c. i bet you that wouldn't be talking about the blame game after that i'll bet you
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they wouldn't be there be living on the streets and sleeping bags. as well dragon i.d.n. b.b.c. and of course the leaders of. the council on plate all of that thank you very much thank you. seem wrong. to shape. to stay. active. and engaged in trade. when something you find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground .
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what politicians to do something that. they put themselves on the lawn. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be for us. that's a right to be for us this is what before us three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of our. question. you know one problem was. that. i think the. elite. athlete you. because you never knew you couldn't you know
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oh. the top stories this hour this concern social media giants are silencing the. twitter to suspend several prominent libertarian and conservative figures for alleged hate speech the british prime minister meanwhile joins a growing chorus of calls for her ex foreign secretary to apologize after boris johnson said that women wearing burkas look like letter boxes from bank robbers paper on the streets of london to guess who made the remark who do you think would say something like that racist people trump boris johnson and tommy robinson would you go see charles this was actually born johnson. no way oh my god. we meet a woman who faces a lengthy jail sentence for terrorism after following her husband to syria where he
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joined islamic state i guess debate whether she deserves to be behind. this is very critical that we would want to go the cycle of all of. this all of those women have all of their own not you know their make their own decisions on life. but i get awfully well can you watching r.t. international where it's just gone five o'clock here in the russian capital there are concerned social. media platforms are policing what's acceptable to say and think to numerous accounts but only to libertarian and conservative think is where banned over alleged hate speech. it takes a look at what's considered a violation of tech giants policies what matters are all of the stories we hear from all of you about the impact your connections have had on your lives you can choose from an infinite range of topics that interest you and then usually follow
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that topic in the news countries and cultures are brought together like yesterday. that was the online world as we used to know it all flim it's to any of those pesky folks trying to set limits in two thousand and eighteen you'll be told to hold up if twitter decides there are sparks of your world that shouldn't be discovered what if you're keen to know what someone has to say let it be former u.s. diplomat peter van buren you might as well unfollowing your interests the man's profile is shut down for good because he jokingly wish someone had eaten the face of his opponent in a twitter rant on asli that's by far not the most offensive thing you can find online but what's abusive about showing mr van buren some support to users who did so god bands to it's not about me it's not about the group of us who are band
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together i think it's a bigger issue and it's an issue that's that's raised its head this week people like us who are not part of the legacy media we're not new york times shapers of opinion we're also allowed to have our say so if someone from the new york times or the washington post put something up that we know is false we can refute it almost in real time that's very threatening i think for the powers that be this tendency to want to shut people down if they disagree with you is very dangerous it's going down a very slippery slippery slope toward totalitarianism there's a word for that. see and ask. well someone saw it coming when even perhaps the most controversial on line talking head alex jones was told get out of here by all major platforms after all they all have to stick to their own rules and keep people safe from hate speech but then even those anti-left who come to hate jones went on alert could be because they thought someone would click on their
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profiles and see a hold up pop up alex jones a bad guy but the problem is that once you start saying that hate speech is a rationale for banning people from social media you get in some very very big territory. i'm no fan of joe and some other things he has a habit of repeatedly slandering my dad by falsely and absurdly accusing him of killing j.f.k. but who the hell made facebook the arbiter of political speech free speech includes views you disagree with but there's no turning back when it comes to the online censorship evolution so i'm not sure it works like that anymore mr cruz plus people on the left are ecstatic bring it on is there a call and if it is even a crucial step forward in the fight against fake news and fringe extremism. info was is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies the uses sites like facebook can use you to tear
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on nation opponents these companies must do more than take down one website the survival of our democracy depends on it the world is getting older and a bit more author a tarion only lately a top u.s. intelligence committee democrat has come up with twenty legislative proposals for keeping online platforms under a close watch brace yourself as you might soon have to say goodbye to things like anonymous posts or accounts that can be tracked down yep that covers just two of the twenty. well the middle of the accusations to its silencing debate one of the few platforms notes about alex jones who was it is report just mentioned was banned by her use of social media this has led to twitter being criticised for being too tolerant when in response to a c. you tweeted that jones hadn't violated any of the platforms. we discussed in sanctions the former u.s.
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congressman ron paul he believes social media platforms is simply no longer independent that is a real mix bad to social media in one stance is a real delight there's a lot of information out there i have benefited by but it originated with a lot of government assistance in the biggest role the social networks play is working with the government and giving the government the information they do the work for the n.s.a. so it's a mixed bag or they call themselves a private company a libertarian so we don't regulate private companies. and yet it's so mixed in empire law is the truth is treason so when people blurt out the treason on the internet it's not like they're saying something mean and ugly. things challenging the status quo is what they can't stand. them so they have to silence people so it's more likely for an individual like myself to be silenced because i represent a challenge to the status quo but if anybody understands our first amendment the
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first amendment isn't there to talk about the weather the first amendment is there for us to be able to challenge our government but if we do that now whether it's direct regulation from the government or indirectly through social media we have a real challenge i'm just hoping that technology can stay ahead of it all and that we can have alternatives to the dependency on twitter and these other companies that have been working hand in glove with the government meanwhile donald trump is a victim to the census which threatens his place on the hollywood walk of fame.
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the city council or the council can ask for anything they want they have no jurisdiction it's the hollywood chamber of commerce they are the ones who decide how we what it is failed oh and people have been convicted of crimes and murderer and mayhem and abuse and they've said no this becomes a part of history if they really wanted seriously to make a statement about donald trump do that but that involves reading and understanding issue you know this is easy it goes to show you the trump. syndrome has come lately
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a critical mass and they have all gone completely off the rails. now the british prime minister to resign has backed calls from within her own party for her former foreign secretary to apologize for remarks about muslims. compared women wearing the cabs to letterboxes were writing in his newspaper column johnson said it was offensive when muslim women covered their faces britain's x. top diplomats also commented on women wearing burkas saying that they look like bank robbers and should be to remove their veils we read remarks to people. on the streets of london to see if they can guess who made the. who do you think would say something like that racist people trump boris johnson and tommy robinson who. was actually boris johnson was. all. told it was actually boris johnson even a normal person there. were position should know that they could make you choose
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from trump. boris johnson and tommy robbers don't think it was boris johnson. in public. exposure who do you think could have said something like that somebody didn't thank me for this well i'll give you some options trump boris johnson or tommy robinson. it sounds like the. club. is actually boys johnson. was actually worse johnson guys really. no great depression for him to say that's that's a terrible thing to say well if you were to get. anything he says i didn't. say that especially someone in that position that's that's even worse well some do say that the timing of johnson's comment. to shore up.
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