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of any kind of anyone else category even the way mainstream international media sees it arguably the british government is now coming under fire from critics who say billions of pounds in british made weapons sold to saudi arabia are being used to blow up yemeni hospitals and commit human rights abuses against thousands of civilians but tourism is not being the only defacto facilitator of saudi bombing of yemen or body. i want to welcome his majesty king abdullah to the white house. is me on your duty. as i. was and not have been older than. were you. by it was a lot. but i want bananas when north. korea had a. power levy did after.
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representing president obama at the u.n. when that u.s.-u.k. back there strike took place with samantha power yet this week she tweeted that the so called saudi u.a.e. coalition shouldn't be bombing hospitals today saudi u.a.e. coalition while the hospital yesterday unicef reported that they have repeatedly attacked facilities that provide drinking water horrifying in the extreme u.s. and all support full court press on sept peace talks in the shadow of obama administration officials making an extraordinary u. turns of alleged war crimes like that and aid groups claiming continued bombing of the poorest country in the middle east by already have trained warplane pilots we're going to hear from n.g.o.s save the children joining me now from so the last guy because i sure as i'm welcome to going underground the i.c.r.c. has been telling r.t. in the past few days the dozens of civilians are being killed mostly children in u.k. arms saudi strikes in dian in the saga something save the chill. and can corroborate
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what the i.c.r.c. is saying actually it was very tragic what we received these information about an explosion an attack against a bus full of kids and to learn for children and it had been twenty five kilometers northwest of sather city. the numbers and besant skilled and learner injured this was a very very horrifying incident and of course you heard about that incident a week ago that happened in an area in the hospital of an era those incidents keep targeting civilians and the casualties are kids and civilians who have nothing to do with this war so there must be deconstruction these baddies these videos must be the conflict in iraq from any active force and they must be investigation and those to philosopher these attacks must be held accountable and save the children were directly affected by the one in a day there but just before we get on to that one the official saudi press agency saudi arabia is being quoted as saying the school bus bombing was
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a legitimate military action and saudi arabia saying children are being used by the hoody community as human shield. roberta beer's about those carrots is that they're heading to a some account that's an activity the ministry of education is doing in the summertime and they're bringing kids to schools to do activities sports and such so that's that imported statement about the bus and who was incited the children can see why it could be a legitimate military action. there is knowledge in missy in attacking civilians who are not picking up aunts and one not fighting in front lines civilians children's war men they must not be targeted in areas where there are no classes or where they cannot be seen as hostile or participating in this in this in this war so no we cannot we cannot see how this is a legitimate british britain exports billions of pounds whether warplanes and bombs
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and terrorism is as we have the one of the highest standards of arms export systems in the world so i cannot see why saudi is saying that children are being used as a human shield. action would be used against those children. actually what we are concerned essential then is the right of children to survive to survive these can this is a more well more concentrated and focused on the humanitarian needs of celiac as it is and children most importantly even in these these these war and muni's conflicts so yeah tell me about the the very a treatment center near there's a main hospital there. yes i was actually there and heard eight and i heard the explosion although i was very far away in the in the other part of the city they suppose it was very big it was to suppose and heard one of the another five b.n.
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thursday. so the explosion happened to one in front of the hospital the other one is in the backyard of the hospital and luckily the second explosion there was no people around but the first one hitting the front of the hospital it was civilians around there were model cyclists who were waiting for customers to be suited to arrive and then they were actually pregnant woman who was going into the room the the hospital she was just couldn't get in of the bus on the street vendors those were the casualties dozens of people fell between killed and injured. fifteen minutes after or so another explosion happened in the fishery market the center of fish market just across the street from the hospital west. so it was massive and it was bodies on the streets and that was that was actually part of this is the save the children's initial statement said there were explosions didn't
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specify whether they were airstrikes which initially seemed to support the accounts of this was by the hoofing community within a warplane strike it was an explosion of a bomb well nor an expert on starts to deter mine what was the cause of the explosions what we are concerned about in the civilians will pay a casualty now was that an f. side was a propelled shall we cannot say we can actually we cannot have expected to say so and what we are more concerned about is civilians. president obama won a robert f. kennedy humanitarian award in the past few days he of course began selling more weapons as the arabia there than at any time in the seventy three year saudi u.s. alliance just explained how long this has been going on in the country that the conflict has been now for almost four years is yes next march it will be four
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years to all of conflict now and i've been in had a detonator is one of the most vulnerable cities will have been very severely impacted by this conflict because of the city a small city where people lived and very simple life they're relying on daily pain jobs now and with the war and the conflict and yes i'm stating i'm. afraid as an example of what's happening in different parts of the country now today that we have small people who have small jobs they debate ops. we have public sector employees and staff and private sector will be let go and public sector staff who haven't been paid for more than soon years now we have electricity who is not a dinner table for more than two years in the data we're talking about the city where the climate is ninety three fahrenheit degree average highest temperature in the date that's for five months in summer which is right now we're talking about people not having a condition and not having looked to city cholera outbreak now could they damage
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the burrs perfect perfect condition for cholera to spread an outbreak because they hi-z. in a sanitation and our base is filling the streets there are no electricity heat and people are not the people are manners they're not getting the portion of food they need each day because they have to cope with this with this conflict and they're not payment they called with it by reducing portion of the food they eat every day the quarter for data is not functional hundred percent total for the. when it's function one hundred percent that's more than ten thousand people working there those people have the i'm talking about truck drivers custom players agents people who are under databases come to the seaport so they lost their jobs so you find people desperate for securing the little food they can in order to survive if the conflict now the conflict is in the south of the day that two kilometers in the south the for data that come flecked is impossible to the city people will be
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trapped inside their houses they won't be able to go out and secure their daily food and they are literally stuffed in debt. the electricity is gone with the extra sheeting heat will not all probably they'll be nor are water sol it will be a disaster so what we caught for is a peaceful resolution to this conflict all the gothic bodies the un the international community must bring this conflict to an end beastly i know it's a probably difficult for you to appreciate that they're on the front lines but the britain even as of last year made ten times more in arms sales to saudi arabia than agave in aid to yemen can you appreciate while you go over the confliction the amount of money and how profitable it is to sell weapons that are being used the damage that hospital infrastructure i want to share this incident in a drainage trainee is a city south of her data it's a small city in village where classes erupted on the thirteenth of july it wrapped
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it around the city for four days but then it reaches in sight people guts right inside their house and we kept receiving cries and calls for help from families and children who were injured actually people were not able to leave their houses until the morning and when they left they have to walk they had to walk fifteen miles on thought before they could find transportation. we responded to one of those families and admitted an endemic it appears all get into hospital his body was sprayed in charles. his brother who was a newly burnt he suffocated from the small better city example small example of a ladder much destructive scale if the conflict reaches today the city now was just a small example where people soul. what is the suffering is like when under attack
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as a matter thank you. thank you after the break on its thirtieth anniversary the director of heathers on whether a targets of the characters played by we don't know a writer and christian slater is a little like donald trump and eighty two years to the month of the arrival of the international brigade stuff like defacto u.k. u.s. backed fascists in spain could catalonia now finally be reborn told a similar coming about to him going underground.
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welcome back with the top u.k. teaching union saying this week that school funding is in crisis teresa mayes government has decided to bring up rosy views of taxpayer subsidized upperclass private schools like but across the pond rosy childhood recollections thanks to hollywood have long been promoted about the state sector one film though you
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believe ruined it all made thirty years ago this month heathers starring winona ryder and christian slater added class and violence to the reagan era mixed markets for k. we released we went to the british film institute of london south bank to talk to its director independent spirit award winner michael leman. previews it is me. michael thanks for being on going underground thirty years since this film i'm going to was what you think of heather's thirty years old i can't believe anybody still watching this movie thirty years on it's very strange to look at it now and say oh my god those were teenagers thirty years ago. but i think that i think what we were talking about in the movie and what we were addressing in our own bizarre
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humorous way is still relevant to a modern audience and the movie i think holds up more than i would have ever expected and i want to get into some of the themes of the secular but in britain we had frank clucks he wrote letters to brezhnev with some bleak films about what it was like in the eighty's deregulation of financial dealings happening at the same time as this you have the breakfast club but all those on the joint news films and so on but this film is considerably dog while being humorous yeah my friends and i all of us making heathers we we like john hughes movies we thought they were very funny and that they presented a kind of a light and. the happy view of teenage life and high school life they did deal with in many ways they dealt with more serious issues than earlier teen comedies might have but there was a sort of a rosy outlook to the john hughes movies and most of the teen films of the time and for for me and dan waters who wrote the script for heathers in the group that made
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it we thought ok fine those movies they are what they are there are plenty entertaining but we want to get down to what things are really about and express the humor that was much darker which really reflected our sensibilities so if if you can remember when a writer finds itself in this school where there's this many plus this time which is because other films also tackle i think that this idea that teenagers that the social structures of high school in the ways teenagers treat each other they preach sage and reflect what's going to happen in later life and they are a departure from what we think of as childhood where things are kind of kept kind of you know safe and things become not so safe in high school and americans is as i think we all probably know or have figured out we're obsessed with the high school years as somehow being emblematic of everything that happens in life and you hear these cliches you know well hollywood is just like high school american politics or just like high school the fact is that we form our ideas in the states i think
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probably everywhere but in high school where you're you're classified as part of a group and somehow you fall into certain social structures and people treat each other certain ways and these are the kind of things that we were addressing in the movie. actor way to just live the american politics or like the plot of heathers that really is joke ugly would go up to the wave in political analysis inevitably people are going to say could it be a sad. now adult in washington d.c. it could be cool people the geeks yes right right the bullying which is something that people talk about in. american politics these days yeah sure these are these are relevant issues i suppose although it's going to write of that comes out top at the end you think don't trump would say you know he's one of the jokes being hit by the by the winona ryder's of this well on family i don't know we'd have to ask mr trump and see which which of the heathers characters he identifies with most i mean
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there's corruption right through this school that would have a writer and christian slater are in and it meets the television media even and yet some point pretty dim of you you would take. away t.v. treats. schools right this was something but part of the theme of the movie was that that the way adults and the way the outside world viewed what these kids were doing was so disconnected from what was actually going on and so it was an early form of look at how things get twisted in the media and you know that the the girl who was the meanest girl in school was celebrated for being great once she died and once people thought she committed suicide so they said oh there was so much more going on inside her head than we ever knew about and the obvious irony of it is no none of that was going on inside her head at all she was just mean and even the news even the school you scrape tried to jump on the bandwagon there was
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a africa or appeal across the eighty's were famous for live a yes or to have a good appeal and everything but the even the school magazine is saying you know let's go for the sensational headlines yes that was and that was also a nod to something that happens as part of high school life you see the editor of the school paper is really just the editor of the paper order to get something that will help them get into a better college so they're doing sensational journalism with an agenda that is their own personal agenda it's not anything that has to do with what the news is and the sense of entitlement to them and some of the richer students strolling about ivy league schools and and money no object it's. yes. you know the social structures of high school we tried to represent them in a way that reflected the standard clichés unity of your geeks you have your jocks you have your pretty girls you have the rich kids you know we laid that out as it as it has always been laid out in high school movies but we took a little bit of
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a darker more satirical turn happy with the way mainstream media then just wanted to target the idea of school shootings and suicide literally that kind of violence hadn't happened in american schools at that point it wasn't even it wasn't even on the table it was nothing we thought about and i think they missed the point there are all these other issues you know i you know part of what we were saying was that the media is quick to label things a certain way and people are quick to jump on stuff and take an interpretation that may be removed from what's actually going on and that was part of the irony and satire of the movie that holds true today holds true in many other contexts as well because i think you're on the record as saying it's a film about suicides it's not no it's not about it it was all about. what are you working on. i've been doing a lot of what i think to be really good quality television in the last seven or eight years because that's that's where i think the kind of movie making that i was
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most interested in before has now gravitated to t.v. so i just finished i finished a show called snow fall which is an f.x. show it's terrific it's trivial show actually set in one thousand nine hundred eighty three in los angeles about the rise of the crack cocaine trade and it's a fascinating show i don't know how much it gets out of the states but it's really good we certainly cover a journalist gary webb's ticals about the rise of it out at that do when you're in the industry that people know to even go.
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