they call me england and the treatment became a little bit better so that's the way they you got your phone closed but no no no no no my my luggage was cut open they took everything they took my tool mobile phones they took my camera they took all my clothes i don't know what they wanted my clothes were british authorities they're debilitating with us they can do anything they're the little britain's closest allies in the middle east to home so that i have an empty suitcase they took all the medicine in my suitcase because in fact these medicines are for the participants we have a separate lot of donations mainly for gaza up because it is going eighty eight i don't know what happened to it but my personal medicine which i i have for the people on all n.t. my clothes were taken away i don't want to wear this black skirt this is a duplicate where the blouse is all gone but to be fair they left one t. shirt for me so that when i got my suit i got a second t. shirt because that has got three guards on it so they left it and i got nothing so

in prison i got the same t. shirt on for four days though you knew when you got on the boat that in a few years ago on the movie moamar terror activities were killed yes by israeli forces israel offered apology twenty million dollars compensation to turkey how could you go on this boat knowing that on previously to this activists have been killed of cost as a element of fear but. all of us all went on the boat know well that there is an element of real danger but i think our solidarity and our love for the palestinians and our love for justice. rises above our personal fear and that's what we are doing the work to do for losing my family of course react to you know big time you know we have to nominate our next of kin when you go on like that and i know i cannot nominate i mean this is still my brother because when they receive better news i don't think i handle it so i nominated a gaza family to be my next of kin because what the palestinians walk on is the

name being persecuted being killed when they receive better news about me it might hurt them they might be so upset but they are strong people so day will be able to handle it and support my family so my next of kin actually palestinians from gaza people whom i love so much or are always waiting you know that the lady will not need to be my next of kin was born when her father was being tortured in israeli prison. her father has been in prison four times and this time he refused to leave gaza even when the ramadan checkpoint was open because he suspect that there will be another big assault on gaza he wants to be there with his people and as a british citizen to know that britain is arming israel since you mention the twenty four team goes a war we are at record high levels of a billion dollars worth of british jobs what we are prepared to be able to have brave perhaps a british weapon from your own country. the british government and the british manufacturer that's what they like for money we the people of britain like that

people from all over the world while put out a life on the line on on the line. with our press people we have done that for centuries and it's our duty to do it if we are killed by a british. i regret being killed that way but that will not stop me from standing up 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 of the will begin to wake up to the fact that this is one of the. black history of the twentieth and twenty of us entry allowing our people to be slaughtered to be dispossessed to be ethnically cleansed before our own 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 the sense that i might be

a handicap to everybody around but i'm quite sure many others will agree that doctors we thank you. you're most welcome after the break we are not good we green we speak to the general secretary of united voices of the world water day striking for more pay in one of the richest areas in europe all the symbol of going up to ground. welcome back joining me now to go through some of the stories as broadcaster for

the liberal democrat m.p. lembit opaque alex jones in for wars where banning that from you tube we're going to ban going underground for huge you're going to ban obviously the term murdoch press that's fine we can't trust people to make up their own minds afshin you should know that i know of very true very important decision by these internet companies they are private and it's up to them what they want about or not purposely dream or not sure to google free man 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 so they say there are some suspects here but i didn't hear very categorical is about to do it and the russian embassy by the way 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 want 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 intercept 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 system but if you forget 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 on the gaza for tiller so let's hear from the israel. press yes the jerusalem post reports israel lourdes u.s. reimposition of sanctions on iran that's true from the israeli president got to

agree with 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 and i think it's an independent country i think it would be big at all from tel aviv 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 that the whole idea that chant has this new kind of diplomacy it's tied into something a chump to sell into 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 in tehran present it imagine rouhani serves us to 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's violated the terms of 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 post sanctions on europe for not imposing sanctions on iran trade or with the a 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 up. on iran at the same time if you step out of line european union are going to have a trade war with you on top of the other trade war but how far is the us going to

attack the e.u. because last time leave you well let's have the u.s. famously aided saddam hussein's chemical weapons program to attack iraq there's no way the united states going to help chemical weapons powers attack the european well just about everyone is guilty but it's mainly in terms of trade here when it comes to the united states here's the reassurance trump has said this today they'll say the opposite tomorrow business as usual that bit of 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 talbott fires the grunfeld 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 all want suffering here and i am not the striking here for myself but i honestly i cannot 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'm going to see if it works so it'll create use in one of their reach its place in london we have to do to survive. and respect i am pretty sure that we're there and 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. is its general secretary. thanks for being on going underground for 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 are striking because they can't afford to survive any longer on the wages that are being paid here kind of potentially council they are paid a poverty wage they need and deserve a living. wage living wage asking for is the living wage which is an independent rate for the mountains only ten pounds twenty is not a huge amount but it's

a massive improvement on the current wage which is only seven eighty three per hour 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 an absolute disgrace in any place in britain in two thousand and eighteen but especially in the richest council in the country and maybe even the well i don't know if there's a council which has more money in its coffers in kensington and chelsea so they're striking today they're going to be striking tomorrow we strike in 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 just refusing to cough it up the refusing to pay them what they need and deserve just from the ministry of justice the heart of government just really you'll have 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 stuff though we do expect them to pay this appropriately and this hand is an update to the 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 words a problem we would when we welcome the news what they haven't done yet is confirm what that means and we'll material terms of the clearance so you know if they announce that again as we paid at least a living wage they will get parity of annual leave allowance experiments with other stuff we call the strike off or go home and we'll celebrate but all they've done so far is say that i 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 out still . which has been highly criticized all areas of british authorities even the public accounts committee yeah i mean ultimately it's

a 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 you think that these workers behind you could 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 consensual to 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 how at least 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 kensington and chelsea have been upgrading oprah facilities and one part of the bar are 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 opera to call on the council to pay they can for 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've made a loss about a million pounds a year as a i understand it the same to 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 london living wage they've also just increased by two million pounds a p.r. budget for the council which are trying to rebrand themselves in light of their you know they were to they were to blame for the deaths of seventy two people to a grandfather who were trying to make savings which led to the deaths of all is an inquiry into that which we have here there. it was a tragedy that will never be forgotten and the counselor should never be let off the hook for you know what they did in trying to make costs which of which

ultimately led to the death of some two people and all that you know and what they're doing here with the cane is destroying the same contempt towards people they don't think are worthy of decent wages and decent 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 of paid workers and they should say the labor him elected to have a debt good refused to come to 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 but it's 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 from m.p.'s and councillors 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 it plain is the months and weeks make me think we're going to win this quite well we will win a strike the question is when whether it's one in this round a strike for the next round of strikes this fight will continue such as the man thank you thank you very much among the many expressing support for petrol strike action by the united voices of the world union was also a labor councillor at kensington and chelsea council at mason i'm now with councillor pat mason he's been a council of the royal barack has been in chelsea for twenty seven years past us two life sentences you're obviously supporting this strike a labor representative labor councils are known for outsourcing which a lot of workers here are saying a lot of the problem of their employment why is the labor wasn't supporting them all this of course is not only because i told the council and that you know back in the such words when the governments were chopping and cutting. budget's they said a message that just so many of your viewers not of not remember who mr structure

was but i do and that you need to contract out your services to save money so a lot of them did it they all did it we are limited in the movement because i was secretary to face council here in this time we of course opposed that so 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 know sixty million pounds sixty million and the committee the only share of 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 year called the managed services contract which had to be junked it alone last 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 sampras running an hour and i mean you can actually live on that you still need to 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 little penny 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 you saying 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

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 their rent which is why sky let those people those those are the sorts of media that 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 nobody in this bar and setting 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 those channel four people should side living on even ten pounds twenty an hour for the next six months and give those they have jobs in the in channel for the b.b.c. i bet you they wouldn't be talking about the blame game after that i'll bet you

they wouldn't be there be living on the streets and sleeping bags. as well drag that idea and really see and of course the leaders of. the council on blind all of that thank you very much thank you. u.s. senate has interviewed the head of wiki leaks on alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election julian assange has repeatedly denied moscow had anything to do with the election related documents exposed by wiki leaks. those concerned social media giants are silencing debate after twitter suspend several prominent libertarian conservative figures for alleged hate speech. also coming up we meet a woman he faces a length thing. well said as for terrorism after following her husband to syria where she joined three where he joined islamic state and i guess we'll debate

whether she deserves to be behind bars. this is very critical because with one accord with the fight all of our. soldiers all of these women have all of them make their own decisions on life. thanks for joining us this is r.t. at. wiki leaks legal team says julian assange is considering the u.s. senate's formal request to testify but only if it quote conforms to a high ethical standard the senate intelligence committee wants the wiki leaks chief to answer questions on what it calls russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election on the situation has been following the story. the u.s. senate intelligence committee has sent a letter to the ecuadorian embassy in london where as we all know the wiki leaks publisher has been holed up for the last six years this letter is addressed to

julian assange basically calling upon him to testify in what is being described as a closed interview at a mutually convenient time and location now given we all understand julian assange has made it clear he has no plans to be leaving that embassy any time soon out of his own free will but this is going to be some kind of question and answer session that is probably going to be taking place via some kind of web link and we have seen no that we can leaks or julian assange his legal team already react to this letter saying they would be open to this kind of testimony but it must conform to a high ethical standards well of course all of this falls under the existing narrative led by the west that julian assange along with russia had something to do with getting donald trump elected back in twenty sixteen and of course when it comes to the topic of russia and being somehow involved with a country julian assange himself has denied any of these allegations over and over

again really countless times. it is not the russian government and it is not something a fourteen year old kid a fourteen year old kid could practice so they are to try to break is that russian intelligence services hillary clinton stated multiple times falsely seventeen u.s. intelligence agencies had assisted. russia was. the source of publications. that's force and of course the latest that was talked about in washington is twelve russian intelligence officers who were said to have broken into the d.n.c. server and taken sensitive information to be passed on to julian assange and wiki leaks to be leader published so hopefully with this kind of testimony that will now apparently be taking place sometime soon with the u.s. intelligence committee more light can be shed in terms of setting the record

straight. human rights activist peter tatchell believes the senate's offer may be just an excuse to go after a silence. i suspect that their motives are not purely about this issue of alleged russian interference in the u.s. elections i think it's probably something much bigger and relating to the other materials that journalist has published in the past i think they want to snare him into somehow admitting or implying that he got information from russian sources that that seems to be the focus of their attention. and i think it also may well be a way of gathering for the evidence against him for use in any subsequent prosecution in the united states so during a sanch has to tread very carefully and i'm sure he's quite capable of doing so six years now on the wiki leaks chief has been stuck in the ecuadorian embassy in london over fears that he'd be extradited to the u.s.

if he left the building some u.s. politicians of even called for him to be assassinated is a recap for you why his revelations of angered washington so. i. i i. i. cut. cut cut cut. cut. cut.

cut cut cut does he say. the millions of. the to wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence sort of like a hot cocoa server. they're all concerned social media platforms of policing what's acceptable to say and think that's after numerous accounts belonging to libertarian and conservative figures were banned over alleged hate speech he said to trying to take a look now at what's considered a violation of the 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 easily follow that topic in the news countries and cultures that got together like never before. 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 spots 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 honestly 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 have band together i think it's a bigger issue and it's an issue that's that's raised his 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 seat and ask. well someone saw it coming when even perhaps the most controversial online talking had alex jones was told get out of here by all major platforms after all they all have to stick to their own rules.

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 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 jones so among 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 that if it is even a crucial step forward in the fight against fake news and fringe extremism. info

wars is the tip of a giant iceberg of hate and lies the uses sites like facebook can use you to tear our nation the parts 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 yeah that covers just two of the twenty amid all the accusations twitter is silencing debate it was actually one of the few platforms not to ban alex jones who is in his report just mentioned was bound by a whole host of social media giants this is led to twitter though being criticized for being too tolerant and.