everyday life i don't mean it as being as great as as you're making it out to be here i honestly sees a very positive movement going in the right direction look at the paris agreement look at the un sustainable development goals look at the way companies are taking these these issues on board large major multinational companies so you know i i really believe this is a a train that is running it's not going fast enough yet we have our backs against the wall on a knife better approach but but i work best under pressure i think most people do and i'm i'm i'm i'm hoping i'm believing i do believe that humanity does as well reza coverage 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 there's new figures show that one hundred eighty five modern slavery and human trafficking convictions have been 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 this and more coming up about two and going on the ground. we have no idea what so if he's doing on a vacation but she will be back on air in september. truths seem wrong. but old rules just don't know all. the world that is

yet to shake out just because the educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. so here you now this new attempt at. the counter global concept. that will be controlled by any central government has the chance to do what galt failed to do. the keys of the central bankers and they will the economist. welcome back britain has 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 dio a c. may be facing the end of the kabila dennis de joseph kabila whose father the wrong was infamously late for che guevara's african race was in the one nine hundred sixty s. has said he won't contest elections in mainstream media though 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 wrist countries in the world over to daniel mccabe and deputy editor sebastian baca so can you stop by to tell me how you came to make this is congo 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 which commonly known as the sea in d.p. war 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 congress 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 mama roma. the congo is seen sort of around the world it's like a place with lots of sexual violence against women i think at a high of one of these it was nearly fifty breaks a day and she trained in 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 my own 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 melt in her 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 in co 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 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 mama romance helps kind of clear that up a bit what did you see is the root cause of the conflict while there's. 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 also another thing that people hear a lot about the congo is was a huge wealth of minerals and you hear about children going to mine these minerals

the base you going to see farms around the world sure i mean congo 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 think of conflict minerals we think of children mining in and this injustice but but i think what 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 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 we got this huge huge amounts of resources could potentially be in one of the richest countries in the world sure we saw how the legacy of clan lism and corruption is held healthy back but 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. sort of see western intervention. like the u.n. 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 the humanitarian groups or 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 and obviously the people in the cold for 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 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's 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 pack of reporting that well within the past few days the british crown

prosecution service revealed that criminal charges the modern slavery offenses of risen by more than a quarter in the past some two hundred thirty nine indictment. in total joining me now is the bishop of darby dr oz to read for a member of britain's committee on the draft warden slavery bill bishop thanks for joining us i'm going i'm going to why earth as cases of modern slavery possibly go to three hundred percent of the bars five years under the tories according to 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 saying 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 drives 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 of

a high school night down your street instead of just thinking well that's life we need to think what's going on. are there people there who look downtrodden who don't speak the language who look as though they're kind of under some kind of or forty or oppression you see the dangers of that already and i know you helped draft the actual act of the modern slavery act because somewhere what is slavery modern slavery in any case given that we have now increasing in our existence emergency departments our hospitals we have hundreds of thousands unable to eat without the help of food banks with help by the judge or england why separating trafficking migration from the rest of the wider 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 darby 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 out we never get to the big operation behind trading people over the globe organizing huge illegal immigration it's a very small 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 a yeah a defacto minorca in this country retailer putting people in zero contract so they couldn't eat without the food and risk losing shelter because they have been phoned

up as part of the contract on the day with a zero contract as part. hived we define poverty and good employment and the un recognizes that one of the answer to slavery is better dignity it was better employment that 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 another way senior academics looking about this idea would be slavery even as defined by the united nations with a pretty stern i think this is a deliberate division between in fact they say actually it's an alliance a convergence of anti slavery. people. abolitionist feminism who don't believe in sex work and celebrity humanitarian as there's

a kind of convergence of these issues which doesn't really address the fact that many people are defacto slaves who might not even consider themselves but this act stops them from being considered slaves 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 his e-rate paid zero 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 there's a balance to read for thank you that's over the show but we're back to where they were retold to award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger for going underground season finale until then you can judge by social media you'll see on wednesday seventy one years since the year after millions were killed and displaced by the british declared independence. america was never a great experiment on the rates in the murder. nothing changed so we said our own response to these situations still dealing with.

people is sad every day tuesday is fat people kill each other but through killing children. there was 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. because you've got the most that's not the little sympathy i want to take on most of the entry level in the us to some just about what if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the draft used to share information about

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i. was. headline stories this hour twitter's fake news failed with social networks accused of this information revealed diverted from our t.v. revenue encouraged false stories about so-called russian. newly declassified cables reveal c. director gina hospital's past involvement in the agency's torture program giving

gruesome details. a suicide bomber targets the electoral commission office in the afghan capital while a four day ball between the taliban forces leaves hundreds of people dead including civilians. just levon am in caracas sullivan pm in perth on six in the evening here in moscow this monday august the thirteenth welcome to r.t. international our top story twitter's fake news crusade seems to have backfired it's emerged that funds diverted from revenue earned from r.t. before we were. on the side actually boosted the spread of stories about supposedly russian vaults in france don't look quarter went over the details

earlier. well it all started with twitter is anti dissent for mation campaign and that was where it funded research organizations to collect fake to collect information on fake news outlets and one of these in for one of these organizations was belgian ngo disinfo lab following when you police during the twenty sixteen u.s. campaign which involved the purchase of commercials by russia today in sputnik to be committed to redistribute the one point nine million dollars to organizations fighting this information. received one hundred twenty five thousand dollars in january twentieth this info will they receive the phones back in january what i've been doing with them what the they come up with sits well they formed a list of twitter users which who are writing a lot about what was called the but now a case and that was one french president macron his bodyguard was labeled a so-called rusa file now these users were also branded groups of files and some high profile people on the list didn't take too kindly to that hey stupid spook i'm

not a russian but it's just me who tweets against you if you need to leave me to remember is that you are even dumber than you look so i number one four four five two. purchased ration number one four eight zero two database censorship manipulation of information the secret service nice new world but then how did the story of a kremlin twitter plot against the money will appear which it did how did that come about well the mainstream media took this to a whole new level there were people talking about a russian plot and even disinfo lab itself was surprised at this interpretation we did not modify the conclusions of our study a lot of media reported that we studied and identified that there had been russian meddling that the russian state street interference in the banal a scandal we never said this the fact that lumet is all the government spokesperson immediately exploded this for political ends created this sort of hype that was

never the object of our study but here's the kicker our team paid twitter one point nine million dollars for advertising and ironically after they blocked r t and sputnik from advertising on twitter part of that money was used to fund this disinfo lab research project and now this research is being used by the mainstream media to slander russia itself. the new revelations have emerged on cia director gina hospital's past involvement in the torture of terrorist suspects the files were released by the national security archive date back to two thousand and two when hospital run a secret cia detention center in thailand they describe torture sessions run by psychologists working as contractors for the cia techniques ranged from physical abuse psychological harassment to isolation in a box. dittos included who did confinement of machinery in the large box

forced nudity adjusting his shackles and slamming him against the ruling panel interrogators covered the subject's head with the hoods and left him on the wall to pull. shaking and asking god to help him repeatedly. interrogators we're going to get the truth out of the subject eventually. well here are the details on the interrogation of an al qaida terrorists captured in two thousand. he spent four years in cia black sites including the one in tyler gina hospital watch he was subsequently transferred to guantanamo bay that's where he is well his case was highlighted back in twenty fourteen by the senate intelligence committee the committee released a report saying interrogators had obtained no useful information from him.

however when questioned by the senate before taking office possible insisted that intelligence gained from al qaeda suspects had proof i kill the president has asserted that torture works do you agree with that statement. senator i i don't believe that torture works i believe as many people directors who have sat in this chair before me that valuable information was obtained from senior al qaeda operatives that allowed us to defend this country and prevent another attack a former cia officer rima government told me earlier war crimes were perpetrated. in thailand. gina has strong was not was playing fast and loose with the truth and her hearing in she was allowed to do that if she was allowed to classify the gerakan tori information on herself before the hearing she sues with the torture to see the graphics and your tale don't run the interrogator ling does nothing short

of banging someone's head into a war in the water treatment that's water boarding condemned by all manner of nations because it was practiced by the japanese guru or to war crime and so to see this kind of seeing revealed in gory detail the only shallow so you get from this is distracted our system of law sometimes works and that is that the national security archive that did a freedom of information request for this got these details. a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the office of the electoral commission in the afghan capital kabul people had gathered there to protest the disqualification of multiple candidates running in parliamentary elections journalists will turn phasey reports from couple some of the supporters of those candidates who were disqualified from to run for the parliamentarian elections they were they were

gathering out in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and they killed himself and one other from from the civilians who were nearby also killed and two others wounded but this may you know the protests against they are you see or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been at. since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of.

the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first afghan election history meanwhile list city of gallons in which is around one hundred fifty kilometers south west of the capital is facing some of the fiercest clashes between taliban and afghan forces official reports say hundreds have been killed on both sides phasey again has more details on the new this taliban threat facing the afghan government. the minister of interior said it's confirmed the death of seventy security forces in battlefield two with the taliban in gaza that has been taking place since four days but also i have. heard from some local sources in gaza need

that the taliban actually or now withdrawing from those locations that have been committing. attacks against. various government is solutions since for days the situation is actually really harsh and the hospital is full of dead bodies and wounded and i have seen fresh footage from gaza that is telling lots of stories inside the city people are really scared the highways have been blocked since for days the communication has been down and people cannot communicate with their relatives or we even cannot talk to the more our local officials or residents in gaza me it has been a very harsh time for gaza neared has been like a waltz to city but the government is now saying that they are trying to expel the taliban and they are trying to secure it.