i'm hoping i'm believing i do believe that humanity does as well for the riches and thank you after the break but yet this is america we speak to the director of this is congo about the years of western backed shadow wars that have torn the country apart and this new figures show that one hundred eighty five modern slavery and human trafficking convictions be made in the past year alone in the u.k. we speak to the bishop of darby about how he's leading the fight against modern slavery both locally and nationally all the civil coming up but to have going underground. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

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the central bankers and build an economy. welcome back britain as a brutal history with congo supporting the military dictatorship of mobutu says a second before the kabila years but in the seventy two hours it has appeared to become clear that the deal will see maybe facing the end of the kabila dentistry joseph kabila whose father always infamously late for che guevara's african

relations of the one nine hundred sixty s. has said he won't contest elections in mainstream. the headlines are about an outbreak of ebola daniel mccabe's new film this is congo follows four characters a whistleblower a patriotic military commander a mineral dealer and a displaced tailor to give a different perspective to see similar pain is the one of the most resource rich and poor countries in the world over to daniel mccabe a deputy had to tell us about the impact so can you stop by to tell me how you came to make this is well i initially i was a nuisance talk for based in east africa my first time in congo was in two thousand and eight covering the what's come of the notice of the c.n.d. people or so that experience really kind of sparked me to dig deeper in my research behind. kind of revealed a lot of holes in it in the narrative that we're often told about the congo so that's kind of the genesis of the project begin there and it was about identifying the root causes of the conflict and really trying to find

a good narrative thread that could flush them out and the female character. the congo is seen sort of around the world it's like a place with lots of sexual violence against women think in the high of one of these it was nearly fifty breaks a day and she's trying to very strong she's actually built her own business she's providing for children why did you start to how did you find with all the characters you know i wanted to challenge. the views were typically given on the outside about congo and i want to characters that i feel the viewers could identify with in mom romances case she's she's out there fighting for the survival of her children and trying to educate them which i think is extremely universal we can all relate with that so that's kind of what drew me into her you know often we think of a smuggler in congo thinking of some big bad nefarious guy but but she just has

this this warmth from this presence where when you hold her you just kind of melting or arms. that that kind of caught me off guard and and i think it kind of catches viewers off guard so it's a great great way to to show the female element coa which often is as you said is viewed in in this way where it's. we're looking at a lot of sexual violence a lot of rape used as a weapon of war so i wanted to. not stay away from that as a narrative because it's such a tragic an important part of the conflict but it's i think in the in the overall context the way the way we were constructing the film it's a bit of a byproduct of the conflict and we really wanted to focus in on the root causes of the conflict and and not you know that there's so many confusing variables. i think mamma romance helps kind of clear that up a bit what did you see is the root cause of the conflict while there's. and there

are so many causes it's tough to pinpoint one obviously corruption is at the top of the list you know when when you have the government code was incredibly corrupt and the government military is balkanized where you have these individual commanders kind of operating autonomously kind of mafioso way so obviously that you know it's going to be difficult to move forward in that country with that system in place so. in terms of trying to come up to a solution find that solution corruptions at the top of the list and another thing that people hear a lot about the congo is also they have a huge wealth of minerals and to hear about children and to mine these minerals base you going to see farms around the world sure i mean kogo has i think an estimated twenty four trillion dollars worth of untapped resources and in addition to cobol you have consider right gold diamonds uranium i mean they've they've got

it all it's an incredibly mineral resource rich country. terms of children you know want to try and look at what that you know we see it as a certain thing where we often we think of conflict minerals we think of children mining in this injustice but but i think we also need to look at is those resources also are providing jobs and not that i'm advocating for child labor by any means but in a country with with no infrastructure como's the size of western europe and they've got three hundred miles of paved roads education's a huge issue people who are dying of mosquito bites you know so so while those those resources certainly are fueling this conflict and this is why the you know you have outside forces and internal internal and external forces really have their hands in the country because of those resources. i think those resources can also be a potential solution and managing the property properly will really help. help the

country move forward and i say to this huge huge amounts of resources could potentially be one of the richest countries in the world sure we saw how the legacy of colonialism and corruption is held helping back by well i mean if you if you going back into history you know we really have to start with the berlin conference we can even go before them but that's that's a good place to start in one thousand nine hundred five in europe in berlin european powers really carved up africa according to resources so so this is where it jumped off. and since then you know it seems in most countries that are that are this blessed with resources you find these these these type of corrupt forces in there trying to profit off of it. how did the people. you spoke to sort of see western intervention like the un yeah well you know it's tough the u.n. is creating stability in certain ways but i think often when people are kind of

oppressed as much as they are in the congo they can they can turn that anger towards towards these these western forces humanitarian groups of the united nations. it's extremely complex when we think about potential solutions for the congo it's it's very difficult to for me to imagine a solution coming from the outside to give somebody peace it doesn't make sense to the p.c.'s to organically kind of the obviously the people it's the cold supply corruption the balkanization of the military all the armed groups these prevent. the united nations is not going to help solve humanitarian groups are going to help solve that they're putting band-aids on things so i think to create a lasting peace a lasting solution. it's going to take a reform of the government and building of infrastructure so so education can start flowing into areas that are extremely under-served do you think like you start

seeing even now that the colonial powers the sort of he came in they actually benefit from instability in the country. i mean shadow wars they can create sure i mean the colonial legacy has set the stage for this but but right now you're exactly right there's this foggy shadow of war over the country and it certainly benefits those who are profiteering off of it to have conflict yeah there is the war is is not without reason that they have a vested interest in keeping it going. going underground deputy editor sebastian packer reporting that well within the past few days the british crown prosecution. service revealed that criminal charges for modern slavery offenses of risen by more than a quarter in the past year some two hundred thirty nine indictments in total joining me now is the bishop of darby dr ellis to read fill in member of britain's committee on the draft warden slavery bill bishop thanks for joining us on going

i'm going to why earth as cases of modern slavery possibly go to three hundred percent of the bars for five years under the tories according to some figures in britain is probably more than three hundred percent is probably not related simply to under the tories there are three drivers really more and more vulnerable people displaced people across the globe and in our own society people are desperate for a chance a second factor change of employment practices no longer a personal relationship between employer and employee people are not flexible working hours they want flexible employees so there's plenty of room for agency working and people just to be slipped under the counter kind of thing and then the third reason why it's exploding is that we're also busy looking at our screens and running our own lives we don't notice what's going on and we don't see what's happening some are brothers and sisters we just take it for granted it must be all

right but we've got to start looking and seeing what's happening and raising questions about we were decades of new liberalism in this country which is necessarily individual broken communities how can the church of england play a poet even in noticing in one's own community the sexual slavery of other jobs as they were going down the street or we can be a start and we are in my own diocese in darby we are on the church of england through a thing called called the clear initiative the churches can be agencies where we are asking people to take a look at their neighbors if you think of carwashes if you think of nail bars if you think of people in domestic service if you think of people going in night. the high school night down your street instead of just thinking well that's life we need to think what's going on all the people there who look downtrodden who don't speak the language who look as though they kind of under some kind of or forty or

oppression you can see the dangers of that already and i know you helped draft the actual act the modern slavery act because some would say what is slavery modern slavery in any case given that we have been increasing in our existence emergency departments our hospitals we have hundreds of thousands unable to eat without the help of food banks with by the judge or england why separating trafficking migration from the rest of the way the community always like divided rule between slaves where there's one issue fighting poverty and that's a huge issue we all need to step up to but within poverty slavery is a very smart business practice the people who run it are international gangs and went to three chaps in dobie or in the paper because they've been sent down for

trafficking people goes into the sex trade all men into factories we think they're just three rogue individuals is such a clever business model they're taken i we never get to the big. operation behind trading people over the globe organizing huge illegal immigration it's a very smart business model and what because they are able to recruit people who are easily dominated looking for international gangs you know talking there about big multinational companies are the equivalent of it's the second most profitable trade after drugs in the world what i'm saying is what's the difference between an international world international company perhaps yeah a defacto minorca in this country retailer putting people in zero contract so they couldn't eat without the help and food and risk losing shelter because they have been phoned up as part of the contract on the day but this is a contract just part of hide we define poverty and good employment and the u.n. recognizes that one of the answers to slavery is better dignity it was better

employment but trafficking is even worse than that is taking away people's freedom often take away their passport making sure they don't know the language making sure that they know you know where their family lives and so they become trapped frightened just doing what they do differently to one trapped in that way and in another way senior academics looking a bonus idea would be slavery even as defined by the united nations with a pretty stern a saying this is a deliberate division between in fact they say actually it's an alliance of convergence of anti slavery. people. abolitionists feminism who don't believe in sex work and celebrity humanitarianism there's a kind of convergence of these issues which doesn't really address the fact that many people are defective slaves who might not even consider themselves but this act stops them from being considered well. some of those fine phrases are great for

academics who sit in ivory towers and make up big words i mean the people whose humanity has been smashed out of them they don't even have the luxury of deciding whether to take is zero paid zero hours paid job or not which sadly some people can choose to work or not to work and send these people come on a promise it will traffic within our own country the promises broken and then their control they control where they live they are just given pocket money they are controlled in who they can mate often this benefit fraud on the back of it in the name bank accounts rope and credit card debt run up and they're just a pawn in somebody else's game now that is a terrible crime of human beings being treated as commodities in a very basic simple way with no option because of alice or read from thank you that's ever the show would back away as it would result to award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger for going underground season finale until then you can

judge by social media we'll see on wednesday seventy one years india after millions were killed and displaced by the british declared independence. america was never great experiment on the rape and murder. nothing changed so we said in. response to these situations that we do in the ways. people get sad every day she is just sad people kill each other blacks are killing

children. so much just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to be shot down law enforcement. this country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for us. this is can't be happening in america we call from the streets we've got to deal with why this is the reason i have to ride like this is the reason. the ways of the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. costumed heroes to help us find the little sympathy i want to become lost and enter another one the last of us on this planet but many of them look for refuge in the so called sentries sides of the draft used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities how to best friends i asked the man. most you

know know i've ended up my son i get them in a lot of class and i want that. they have water they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house. because of those they both of you who feel to be about to do to go with a sense it's going to have many couples why. near

moscow right now in the headlines of american far right groups are outnumbered by a counter protest outside the white house in washington it comes on the one year anniversary of the deadly rally in charlottesville. his car into a crowd of protesters. also the news this morning a contest in the u.s. reveals that even an eleven year old could interfere with the american election infrastructure and the results. only. come to me around me. says rails controversial nation state law. known jewish citizens claim they face discrimination over it while supporters say it defends israel's identity. this law says that this land is only

for half of the population and about half would be discriminated against well i think that what you just heard is the exact example why we need if you have a person who is not an israeli citizen these bashing my country in israel all citizens are equal under the law. martie h.q. this monday morning the thirteenth of august kevin i am with you for this half hour news update thanks for watching first then a rally by far right groups some white nationalists has been swamped by a counter protest outside the white house in washington it was held exactly a year after the infamous unite the right rally in charlottesville virginia that saw bitter clashes between the rival groups.

ok. so we're here in lafayette park and as you can see we're surrounded by a huge anti-racist demonstration a crowd of thousands is denouncing the twenty four hour or so white supremacy white nationalists whatever you want to call them that have gathered directly in front of the white house now there are thousands of people here representing a very broad group of organizations and we got church groups that are out here black nationalist groups marxists far leftists anarchists we've seen the anti a lot of them assembled actually a lot of if you follow folks assembled wearing gas masks helmets almost as if

they're ready for some kind of confrontation now we're also hearing the sound of police helicopters that are flying above however at the moment it appears that no scuffles have broken out we have not heard any reports of injuries very wide variety of causes represented here in front of the white house says thousands of people have come out other not unified around much but when it comes to opposing new klux klan opposing the white nationalists that is one thing that has brought all these people together. r.t. washington d.c. you know back then the deadly unrest in charlottesville deepened political divisions in the u.s. is a reminder of how and some folded a warning you may find some of the upcoming images this disturbing to. report.

terrorism is is the use of violence to incite terror and fear and of course it was stirred this egregious display of hatred bigotry and violence on many sides on many subjects. and the year after trying to do some american politicians and now suggesting that russia was somehow behind the unrest i sat in a closed session briefing probably two months ago about charlottesville with the director of the f.b.i. amongst others and asked if russian intermeddling had to do with fomenting the flames of what happened in charlottesville i was told yes it did but he says he got

it from an f.b.i. briefing which was not classified now look if he has information if the f b i has information i'd love to hear it so what erica but it seems kind of bizarre to me that a congressman who says he's not running for reelection because he's having personal problems all of a sudden with a couple of months left in his term takes the opportunity on c.n.n. which will do anything to bash trump it to accuse russia of anything you know something that nobody has ever heard of until this point that was russia's last year well then let's go where is the information if it's not classified tell us everything you found out so i don't i don't believe that it's information let's see if. well we asked people in washington for their thoughts on the claim that the russians could be behind the racial divisions in the u.s. . do you buy in the idea that it's russia's fault that the people having their rally over there is somehow the fault of russia russian bought tacker facebook yet not even a little and why do you think that's so big in the mainstream media why are they pushing that so hard. that's

a good question i don't know i think it kind of it's comforting to hear that this is russia's fault and not something that's been the wrong with america since the foundation of this country it's nice to say it's russia's fault go and it's trumps fault and that once trump is gone and once you know the elections are more secure and all races never fade away because the russian bots or the russian hackers are no longer influencing people to be racist but that's not true it's just a nice story you can tell yourself say this racism and this is the white supremacy the united states is not the fault of the united states the fault of rush hour you know whatever else the media is kind of using the russia stuff as a way to. go after the laughs as they're saying all these left wing activists are being. you know misled by russia or russia is behind it and you know even though there are genuine grievances to be had with you know all sorts of things that and russia plays a minor role if any in you know on the internet do you buy the idea that all this

racism and all this division and all these protests are all caused by russia. now i honestly think it's just what i want to highlight is the intersectionality of what happened that day like there were a small amount of white supremacists here but there are a lot of people who are coming to counter protest them so i don't blame russia well i was just a snapshot poll but the russia did it mantras but i couldn't for some time to even . get increasingly harder to swallow though. thank you a. week of. cut cut cut cut. cut. cut. cut. cut.

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you. for a contest in the u.s. has revealed that it doesn't take a top notch russian computer expert to get into america's election infrastructure in fact it turns out an eleven year old can do it if you're trying to reports. learn more about the twenty hacking contest that's what the link says and yes it's from a real website and the contests are real too it's for kids and it's not being held in russia wide this is america anyway meet the winner eleven year old audrey they need. to be me we can call them the our own name it reminds me we won the election and it just took her ten minutes to hack a replica of an election office website in one of the battleground states. these are members of congress they work hard to approve budget grants to sort out election cyber security the one for twenty seeing was three hundred eighty million

bucks these are child hackers i mean contestants they tap their keyboards to prove that within minutes america's election systems are a piece of garbage thirty five out of the thirty nine youngsters taking part this year were able to do just that so how come there haven't been any warnings for a grown up specialists well actually there have always been the milling machine is you know it's a little different maybe it's extremely easy to get at me because this time it is mostly so they say you have it is magic a little under two minutes. you don't need any totals to do that. and now i have. full advantage it looks like you don't have to turn pro to be a meddling master and outsmart security out for it's worth hundreds of millions of dollars don't bother guessing hole be the ones to.