and our love for the palestinians and our love for justice rises above our personal fear and that's what we are doing that would you flew think 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 the most is still my brother because when to receive better news i don't think i handle it so i nominated a gaza family to be my next of kin because for the palestinians who are constantly 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 because i always waiting you know that the lady will not need to be my next of kin was born where her father was being tortured it's really 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 we are prepared to be aiming to have by about 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 will put our life on the line on on the line to stand with off 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 i love them i'm quite sure more and more young people all over the world begin to wake up

to the fact that this is one of the best black history of the twentieth and twenty first century allowing a 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 sale and maybe to all go on it in a sense that i might be a handicap to everybody around but i'm quite sure many others will want to get that doctors rethink it. yeah most welcome after the break we are not the judge we cleaned we speak to the general secretary of united voices of the world well today striking for more pay and one of the richest areas in europe a little more going on but to have going underground. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars timestamping each day.

eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent just last year some with four hundred to five hundred trees per second per second and point rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial. but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one one does not show you can afford to miss the one and only food but. it's only natural that baby boomers from vote for policies that help balance i house price boom the stock price of things and different franchise. you know age groups but oh well. tough luck buddy get a job kids get a job.

welcome back joining me now to go through some of the week stories broadcaster for 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 top murdoch press that's fine we can't trust people to make up their own minds option you should know that i know that's very true very important a decision by these internet companies they all private and it's up to them what they want to battle in all. three. more natural 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 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 well 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 intercept of the new coding is mentioned in the story of the guardian was thrashed brutally for unsubstantiated rumor time and time again in this russia just look 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 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 and i think it's an independent country i think it would need to get all from television i think of a 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 will make war bring 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 it sometimes sell it as well and so yeah it's tied into this other story in c.n.n. trump snaps back iran sanctions aiming to change not topple tehran officials say

now this is interesting the terror and present it imagine rouhani steps back u.s. sanctions a wing 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 their desire late in 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 post sanctions on europe for not imposing sanctions on iran trade war with the bugs over 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 is 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 about how far is the u.s. military. because last time we knew 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 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. today they'll say the opposite tomorrow business as usual 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 will forever live in the shadow of one of borrow will forever lie in the shadow of one of britain's worst have a child look fires the grim 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 all 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's a great use in one of their reach it's places we have to do. to survive. and respect i am pretty sure that we're there and we are going despite strike action is being led by united voices of the world members led campaigning trade union of migrant and precarious workers. 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 i'm president did coordinated action it's plain and simple a striking because i 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 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 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 in the world i don't know if there's a council which has. more money in its coffers in connecticut 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're 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'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 amy pays this so though we do expect them to buy this stuff appropriately i understand there's 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 one works a problem we were when we welcome the news what we 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've 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 they will bring the cleaners and house why they haven't followed a statement through with a confirmation of it of the exact pay rates and times of conditions and things will get i don't know. curity 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 in the previous other statements from councils of talked about stopping outsourcing

which has been highly criticised all areas of british authorities even 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 behind you could exert more power than the lobbying power of some of these big multinational companies that employ people in outsource contracts the fight isn't an easy fight first of all for the. 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. striking this country and i'm going to strike a little high 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 this to an example for all of us to follow really i mean kids in chelsea have been upgrading oprah 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 opera to call on the council to pay that kind of the 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 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 a p.r. budget so this is a council which one of rebranding sells in light of their you know they would to they were to blame for the death of seventy two people or a grandfather 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 the hook for what they did and trying to make cost 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 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 resident. a lot by workers and they should say they had labor m.p. duly 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 not a number of labor councillors. sort of open letter in support of this strike some of come to the picket line today i mean code 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 increase the pressure. during the strike on the council to really meet made the 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 it is one and this around the strike for the next round the strikes will continue and i 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 have mason i'm now with councillor pat mason he's been a council of the royal baraka going and chelsea for twenty seven years patch us two life sentences you're obviously supporting this strike a labor representative labor councils and known for outsourcing which a lot of workers here say a lot of the problem. of employment why is the labor supporting them all this of course is not only because of tony 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 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 we of course opposed that contracting out it was a new liberal agenda item to cut down. the government could cut budgets and you could. get that get it cheaper it was always a workers that suffered 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 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 mill they were leeching one to ten million in wasted two year one particular contract here called the managed services contract which had to be junked it alone in the 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 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 sheet there were hundreds of millions of pounds and they make hundreds of millions of pounds and in profit little penny tax or how any taxes 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 channel four news 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 the are losing millions of viewers because nobody believes what they say anymore they don't go out on the ground and. 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 sat 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 those channel four people should sign a living on even ten pounds twenty an hour for the next six months and give those

cleanest they have jobs in that and channel for the b.b.c. i bet you that 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. packed as well dragon i.d.n. b.b.c. and of course the leaders of. the council on the plane all of that thank you very much thank you for. joining me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

camera. roughly once the shorts leave for them. videos. and. more on string. t.v. . washington announces new sanctions against russia over the poisoning case accusing moscow of using a biological weapon russia denies the claims. the u.s. senate asked to interview the head of wiki leaks on alleged russian meddling in the twenty sixth the election. has repeatedly denied that moscow had anything to do with election related documents exposed by wiki leaks. and social media giants are accused of silencing debate after twitter suspends several prominent libertarian and conservative figures for alleged hate speech.

thanks for joining us here on r.t. to match the life from moscow and. welcome to the program. moscow has responded to the new u.s. sanctions over the poisoning of. his daughter in the u.k. in a statement the russian embassy in washington said the u.s. has provided no evidence that moscow was in any way involved this comes after some serious accusations were leveled at moscow. the united states the six two thousand and eighteen determined that the government of the russian federation has used chemical biological weapons against its own nationals following a fifteen day congressional that if you cation period these sanctions will take effect the publication of a new tuesday in the federal register expected. twenty second two thousand and

eight the so-called russian puppets new sanctions against russia will come in two rounds the first round will limit financing and exports of banning licenses to export national security goods the second round of sanctions that's due in three months or so could affect hundreds of millions of dollars in exports and if imposed will cut diplomatic ties to russia and all arrow flights to aeroflot flights to and from the u.s. and stop all imports and exports according to reports however the second round of sanctions will not be imposed if russia provides assurances that it will stop using chemical weapons and commit to on site inspections by the u.n. but what this ultimatum says is that russia does not have the luxury to print pursue the innocent until proven guilty russia has already been implicated in the crime but here's also something to keep in mind about the ultimatum last october the un verified the destruction of russia's chemical weapons a through on site inspections and also confirmed that all of russia's chemical

weapons facilities were closed it looks like the u.s. will be a sanctioning russia for allegedly using chemical weapons the u.n. says it doesn't have this all began when a former double agent and his daughter were poisoned back in march another chop was determined to be the agent used and immediately the u.k. and the rest of the western world almost instinctively blamed russia because the agent was originally developed in the u.s.s.r. but since ninety one it's been developed in several other countries now russia has denied any involvement and has even offered to cooperate in a full. investigation the open c.w. and porton down the british laboratory that analyzed the samples could not identify the source or country of origin as in russia can be implicated it also comes at a very interesting time senator rand paul hand delivered a letter from president trump to president putin to apparently a strength in bilateral relations so we're just going to have to wait and see how

russia react to this and what the global response will be former u.s. diplomat jim says the new sanctions are all about politics and have little to do with the script poisoning. goes so far to say that the u.s. government like the british government knows very well that the russians were not responsible for this and this is this is a political demand this is designed to undercut the overtures from the trumpet ministration for president trump directly and also senator rand paul now in moscow to warm relations with moscow with russia and this is a way to undercut that by making accusations against russia that are not only false but there's no way they can disprove president trump would like to have a good relationship with russia i think senator paul would like to have a good relationship with russia and they're being called traitors for wanting it that they're being attacked personally their loyalties being attacked for reaching out to russia in this way is a political ploy to conduct and sensually a kind of

a warfare against russia and i think the people in the kremlin know that i think they know there is nothing they can do nothing they can say that would satisfy these demands. and we can make founder julian assange is considering a request from the u.s. senate to testify on claims of russian meddling in the twenty six the election auntie's and as this is sort of across 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 it's 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 rick countless times. is normal. and it is normal that. fourteen year old kid a fourteen year old kid could practice so they are to try to break is the russian intelligence services hillary clinton stated multiple times falsely seventeen u.s. intelligence agencies had assisted. russia was.

the source of all publications. that's false 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.m.c. server and taken sensitive information to be passed on to julian assange and wiki leaks to be later published so hopefully with this kind of test. morny 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 we got to analysis earlier from human rights activist peter actual he says the senate's often maybe just an excuse to go after assad but i suspect that their motives are not purely about this issue of alleged russian interference in the us elections i think it's probably something much bigger and relating to the other materials that journalists aren't 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 journalists aren't has to tread very carefully and i'm sure he's quite capable of doing so the wiki leaks founder has been stuck in the ecuadorian embassy in london for six years now over fears he'll be extradited to the united states if it leaves the building is a recap of why his revelations have angered washington.

i know i. owe her little. illegal. little does he say any the millions of those who are little wiki leaks walks like a hostile intelligence sort of like a hostile takeover. there

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