i think that they get an awful lot of focus on on this pushback and i don't in my 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 that are of throats 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 governor ridge and thank you after the break but get 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. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten thousand dollars timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be culled from rich point six percent of the market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building

a two point one billion dollar a i industrial plant but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom box. that. america was never great was founded on the rapes and the murder. nothing changed so we said all response to these situations that we're dealing with. people here is sad every day she is just sad people kill each other blood for killing children. how many still is just no way that people are going to just sit back and allow children to see and shot down law enforcement. this

country doesn't work for us it doesn't function for. this this 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. 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 dealer see may be facing the end of the kabila dinner city joseph kabila whose father the wrong was infamously late for che guevara's african relations in the one nine hundred sixty s.

he 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 countries in the world over to daniel mccabe and deputy editor sebastian baca so can you start by just telling me how you came to make this is congo well initially i was a news photographer based in east africa my first time in congo was in two thousand and eight covering what's commonly known as the sea and the people war so that experience really kind of sparked me to dig deeper in my research behind. kind of revealed a lot of holes in the narrative that were 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 i'm really trying to find

a good narrative thread that could flush them out and the female character. the congo is seen around the world it's like a place with lots of sexual violence against women i think at the high of one of conflicts it was nearly fifty breaks a day and you've chosen 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 universe and 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 warm from this presence where when you hold or 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 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 to have a huge wealth of minerals and to hear about children and to mine these minerals that basically going into the 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 kobol 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 who 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 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 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 but it's 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 the 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 that the pieces to organically kind of the other sleeve the components of the cold for corruption the balkanization of the military all the armed groups these prevent . the united nations is not going to help solve that 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 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. has 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 for their 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 births 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 the 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 and 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 player in in noticing in one's own community the sexual slavery of other jobs as they are 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 asked 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 with that line 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'll see the dangers of that already and i know you helped draft the actual act of the modern slavery act because some way what is slavery modern slavery in any case given that we have. 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 it worked because they were able to recruit people who are easily dominated international gangs you know during their big multinational companies or 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 of food and risk losing shelter because they have been phoned up as part of the zero hour contract on the day with a zero contract as part of hives we define poverty and good employment and the u.n. recognizes that one of the answer to slavery is better dignity at work 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 in what they thought was a different breed someone trapped in that way and another way senior academics looking a born as an idea would be slavery even as defined by the united nations with a pretty stern a saying this is a deliberate division between the 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 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 slaves well. some of those fine phrases are

great for academics who sit in ivory towers and make up the word 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 that just a poor one 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 your alison redford thank you that's over the show we're back to where they were to award winning journalist and filmmaker john pilger for going on the grounds season finale until then you can

judge by social media will see on wednesday seventy one years since india after millions were killed and displaced by the british declared independence.

so here you have now this new attempt at a global unit of account a global currency big point that will be our controlled by people not any subtle government so it has the chance to do what's called failed due to escape the keys of the central bankers and the ph d. wielding economist. the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing the most. sympathetic i want to become lost and i won the last post on this but many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the refuse to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the last person asked bank of mom. to see them or don't have anyone had a person not get them in a lot less than the one that. they had the water they all choose to stay in the

country with donald trump in the white house over political rivals. both of you who feel you could be about to be both a since it struggles of many couples won't. kill the trip the push to put impulse response both of you out to do it most of the. twitter's fake news fail to social networks accused of boosting this information as a target funds diverted from our t.v. ad revenue encourage false stories about so-called russian. also this hour washington gets a cold shoulder for imposing sanctions on middle eastern nations as iran says there will be no negotiations with the u.s.

and turkey calls the move a stab in the back together in a show and then you seek to stop your strategic partner in the back. and newly declassified cables reveal cia director gina households past involvement in the agency's torture program giving gruesome details. you're watching r t international coming to you live from the russian capital where it's just turned ten pm come to the part of. twitter's fake news crusade seems to have backfired it's emerged that funds diverted from ad revenue earned from our team before we were banned from advertising on the site actually boosted the spread of false stories about supposed russian bots and france went over the details earlier with my colleague you know neal well it all started with twitter's anti dissent from ation 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 and geo dis info lab following when you believe during the twenty sixteen u.s. campaign which involved the purchase of commercials by russia today in sputnik committed to redistribute the one point nine million dollars to organizations fighting this information. do you design for lab 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 were 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 richest 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 orchestrated 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 our team 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. for more on this we can cross live now to bill new a privacy campaigner and technology and social media expert welcome to the program now how surprised are you that twitter's fake news takedown strategy is seeing funds actually help suspicious stories get out. unfortunately what we are seeing here is people putting a number of different things together under enormous pressure and possibly coming up with the wrong results in france we have a president mark crumb who like many statesman is facing a level of unpopularity and a lot of negative press and then for they were very keen to try and divert

attention when this report came out they jumped on it in order to try and talk about some sort of russian botnet attack which it's not what the report said at all and i think the reporters have come back to try and counter some of the hysteria that's going on around this so i think we need to be a little bit measured about exactly what was said in some of these reports and look at some of the whys in which people have reacted and try to understand what their motivation has been in seeking direct i'm not sure that we can level the the blame twitter of its funding it was simply seeking to try and spawn studies that would attack a fake news i think some of the blame here is the why in which some of the people under political pressure have reacted to a report and spun it slightly out of context on what are your thoughts on europe's disinfo lab itself and the methods used to profile so-called files.

i think what do these labs and some of these research bodies are trying to do is very laudable a very worthy in trying to identify where fake news occurs it's not easy to do and itself is trying to constantly revise its algorithms if there's been a very big purge across twitter and not all of those accounts that have been purged have been necessarily appropriately purchased because some of the automation behind some of the the tests that they run to try and identify fake accounts isn't that i cured and it needs to be improved and again identifying fake news we need to improve the way that that is identified now in terms of seeking to identify russian nets this isn't what that report said and it was only for political purposes that people spun it in that way in any case it's very very difficult to actually

identify which accounts of fake anon logs the fake actors out there are actually be very sophisticated in much of their approach so i think it would be dangerous to follow some of the hysteria or to leap to conclusions what i think we need to do is to have a lot more measured research and to see if we can actually have a lot of more in-depth analysis and slowly better getting of what is really fake news. bill new privacy campaigner and technology and social media expert thank you so much for joining us on the program. new revelations have emerged on cia director gina hassels past involvement in the torture of terror suspects the files were released by the national security archive and date back to two thousand and two when housefull ran a secret cia detention center in thailand they describe torture sessions run by a psychologist working as contractors for the cia techniques range from physical

abuse and psychological harassment to isolation in boxes. vito's included hooded confinement of machinery in the large box forced nudity adjusting his shackles and slamming him against the wall and kind of interrogators covered the subjects head with the hoods and left him on the water moaning shaking and asking god to help him repeatedly. interrogators were going to get the truth out of the subject eventually. these are the details on the interrogation of an al qaeda terrorist captured in two thousand and two he spent four years in cia black sites including the one in thailand under gina watch he was subsequently transferred to guantanamo bay where he is to this day his case was highlighted back in two thousand and fourteen by the senate intelligence committee they released a report saying interrogators had obtained no useful information from him on this

machinery however when questioned by the senate before taking office housefull insisted that intelligence gained from suspects had proved vital the president has asserted that torture works do you agree with that statement. senator i am 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 former cia officer ray mcgovern says war crimes were perpetrated at that black site in thailand gina has to go it was not was playing fast and loose with the truth at her hearing and she was allowed to do that she was allowed to classify a derogatory information on herself before the hearing she super virus the torture tissue the graphics and your tale don't run the interrogating does nothing short of

banging someone's head into a war in the water treatment that's waterboarding condemned by all manner of nations because it was practiced by the japanese general or to war crime and so to see this kind of thing revealed in gory detail blue only shows so you get from this is the fact that 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 to chose. here and supreme leader has rejected holding talks with the us following president terms offer of a meeting to improve bilateral ties and they bluntly worded tweet coming any railed at u.s. officials comments about iran and for mentioning talk of war to which the toll stated there will neither be war nor negotiations there have been months of increasing strains after the us reimpose sanctions on the country now those had

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