representing equifax a company investigated by the f.t.c. for a massive data breach i name is andrew smith and i'm a partner in the law firm of covington and burling i'm appearing today on behalf of the consumer data industry association. members include the three national credit bureaus equifax experian and trans union we have the mr smith a twenty eight team heading the watchdog that is still probing the corporation that he defended in twenty seventeen a clear example of the revolving door between the federal government and its trade secrets cable company r.t. new york. a passenger jet overshot the runway and caught fire in southern russia in the early hours of saturday leaving eighteen people injured including three children the boeing plane operated by you tear airlines was unable to land for more than half an hour due to adverse weather conditions at sochi airport and it finally touched down the plane skidded off the runway and into a riverbed the wing and undercarriage were damaged when it crashed through the

airport fence and burst into flames there were no fatalities among the one hundred and seventy people on board but airport officials say one rescue worker died from a heart attack russia's investigative committee has opened a criminal probe into the crash on suspicion the airline may not be up to service standards meanwhile sochi airport continues to operate without any reported delays . dutch police have said the suspects behind the stabbing at amsterdam's central train station on friday had a terrorist motive two people were injured before authorities shot and hospitalized the attacker the man detained is a nineteen year old afghan who lives in germany his house has been searched as part of the investigation authorities in the netherlands and the u.s. embassy have confirmed the two people seriously injured in the attack were u.s. citizens but it's believed they were not targeted deliberately because of their nationality. to syria now where the russian defense ministry

says it has received reports that a terrorist attack on the ancient city of palma has been thwarted it comes on the back of the u.s. secretary of state accusing russia and president assad of escalating the syrian conflict he described plans to liberate libya province from extremists as an assault my campaign also said civilians there would bear the brunt of the offensive against terrorist groups r.t. spoke to the syrian foreign minister about the fight against the hottest in the country. first of all the international community should recognize that liberal vince is a syrian territory and this syrian government must regain full control of it secondly as president assad said our priorities to liberate it live by that peacefully which we prefer or use in the military thirdly it is clear that the new city is listed as a terrorist organization by the united nations to protect c.b.

then. we have opened and humanitarian corridor it has been open for two weeks and we have already received hundreds so families on these bases and i can say that if military action is considered necessary it will be only. the news that those groups who are in favor of a settlement deal should voice their position and me their commitments in terms of for reconciliation. it live has been a haven for rebels and their families back you waited from areas retaken by the government almost three million people currently live in the province and the tense situation there has led to the west and russia exchanging strong rhetoric after the u.s. and its european allies war in syria against using chemical weapons and lip. these people to whom we should syrian armed forces have no chemical weapons and no plans to use them there is no military necessity for it it is not enough for the russians

to a set that the syrians have new chemical weapons sensible people will not be used militarily useless means to draw the fire of three powerful countries upon themselves the russians are claiming and this one and other groups are stockpiling chemical weapons and planning an attack and you know and i think that is more false flag type reporting talking to be doesn't seem that enough for when you try to play the blame they try to put the onus on other groups and we don't buy into that give them the chemical weapons prove the case in which is being prepared is a good keeping all news for them we believe these egotistical unilateral political games counterproductive investigative journalists work sterling says western nations don't want to see the highly trained foreign terrorists in syria returning to their home countries elements within the united states and nato for that matter want to prolong the conflict they basically want the syrian government to let the terrorists stay and it looked province we can just imagine what might prompt

a a would say if there were thousands of terrorists in oregon and washington states in the united states they wouldn't have any patience at all for that the situation is complicated right now it's difficult because there are thousands of foreign fighters there these are trained terrorists with a lot of battle experience and they've been supported by the west they've been supported by the gulf by including including turkey turkey and none of the countries that have supported the terrorists want them to come back to their own their own countries of course and it's kind of hypocritical for my pump aoe to criticize syria for trying to expel terrorists from its own its own territory. that's our recap of the world's top news for this hour but you can always find us on your favorite social media platforms like twitter and facebook for up to the minute reports thanks for tuning in.

join me every thursday on the i like simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. john mccain and his republican cohorts like the bush family and others they will break cozy with ken lay being financed and the bush campaigns of the bush presidency and when they got caught committing massive fraud on the same scale as the savings along crisis thing machinery was already in place thanks to john mccain as a bag man for a long street for decades yeah to bail those guys out and make them all at the expense of the democracy slash economy of the united states which is to celebrate.

time after time simply going underground as leaders of six new liberal nations and italy meet in canada and is arguably declining g. seven powers meeting gallagher amidst a trade war between themselves here in britain it's time for the queen's birthday on as well basically not for some though it's a whole other world really so i don't want to be on the list of those who turned down queen's owners is a long one they've been turned down by some of the most famous britons in history scientists like francis crick michael faraday pulled iraq and stephen hawking people under occupation will continue to resist in any way it.

will. like. a. democrat only elected leader some. people thought they were also turning down the queen were writers like hardy sure huxley and pinned. truth to power. i'm to the maintenance of that power to make during that power if you central the people remain in ignorance but they live in ignorance of the truth even the truth of their own lives what's runs us there for is a boston tapestry of life artists to turn down on us from the queen those like lowery more in hock to me and actors also like peter o'toole julie christie and vanessa redgrave so you have stood for. and you have refused to be intimidated by

the threats of a small bunch of zionists to. those behavior. behavior is an insult to the statue of jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression meanwhile musicians rejecting owners included born williams john leyden of the sex pistols david bowie and brian ino we also late between extreme hubris and extreme paranoia the war on terror was paranoia the triumph of of the west and the downfall of communism was who brasi gun for some turning down orders like the o.b.e. with for what the east good for empire a lot of the atrocities that were afforded soon to africans as was a result of the north of the slave trade. which was invoked by empire and i would have been. a comic about thing for me to do to upset the. and then be

a member of the opposition empire it's a subject that has come under renewed scrutiny in the wake of the so-called windrush scandal in u.k. prime minister tourism aids hostile environment which led to deportations of british people with africa or be in the street and one icon of caribbean cultural interchange celebrates half a century this year trojan records the label was promoted by a d.j. who did so much to fuse the rebellion of political music in global culture don let's we sat down with the celebrated director and clash videographer at the old camden palace now koko in camden town in north london. john thanks for being on going underground here at a venue the old camden palace where the clash meaningful to me empty today unlike it was then we have to start of a trojan records half a century the anniversary tell me about its provenance and the what it shows about

the jamaica u.k. connection the trojan records is a tremendously important label that started in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight when i was twelve years old and by the turn of sixty nine it was having an unprecedented amount of chart hits a run that's never happened again in the last sixty years and this is very empowering to my generation i'm first generation british born black which kind of rolls off the tongue now but back then it was a very confusing concept and it was through the music of trojan that we began to find out what we were about to understand the whole jamaican culture and what was very interesting about the label is this is that emerged at the same time as the birth of a particular british subculture called skinheads now i have to be very clear about this especially for russia when i don't i'm talking about all around the world as i'm talking about the fashion version not the fascist version that it became in the late seventy's in the mid seventy's. and what was interesting about that whole

thing was that the trojan soundtrack that movement and that can sort of acted as a tool for social change because it kind of helped black and white youth to unite in the schools on the streets and in the clubs and you got to understand this is against the backdrop of serious racial tension and we're talking sikh six sixty eight here when politicians like powell are doing the rivers of blood speech and really playing on the fears of the older generation but through the music the b.b.c. just recently played the entire rivers of blood speech ok and it really a grassroots level it was the music and the jamaican culture that was helping people to get on it was by understanding our differences that brought us closer together not by focusing on our differences because the only reason the caribbean people of caribbean provenance is in the news at the moment is the windrush whole

when rocketing i mean my god these are second generation people who were born in this country who were deported where did they go that they were so quietly living in britain without a passport mauler you're exaggerating somewhat i mean basically what happened is in the fifty's. the empire asked for the africa to come and help rebuild the country after the second world war and there's been a lot of focus recently through when russia about them bringing their cheap labor which they did but just as important is that they brought their culture and it's that that's made the biggest impact on this country because it's changed the identity of what it means to be british you know if you check the kids on the street now the clothes the where they wear the way they speak their attitude and the music they listen to it's all coming from jamaica man this is the twenty first century the trojan records they had number ones back then double barrel which you had dennis and greg isaac's a trio called bob marley and the wailers people probably haven't heard of them that's so long ago how could we possibly be still talking about identity and the

hostile environment against people who was parents maybe grandparents were born there well hey it's a. popular theme around the world at the moment in the trump climate there's been a lot of focusing on immigration and all the rest of it and it's really sidetracking from bigger problems is money don't trick divide and rule you know and it's a shame to see it being so easily rolled out decade after decade the whole brix it thing is playing on the fears of old white people who have been in this case you're talking about trojan record music appealing are working class white people and working class like opal and today these are always the elite white people in government the one who create or environment the public at large waves or black or whatever color they are obviously responded to the wind or a scandal at all in they've been working things out on the street with the politicians to get you know to detract from the real problems they start blaming problems on him because it's an age old trick blaming the problems of the country

on the illegal immigrants and the truth of the matter is this country couldn't operate without immigration and immigration built the nation now you contend that music like that from george records directly then fed in to the punk music phenomenon absolutely because how did it wasn't really well call from through yourself because you were the d.j. at the other offices i mean him this is what it is we were like minded rebels i mean in the late seventy's it was a time of social crisis economic political and as i said social and no change yeah exactly very similar to where we are today back but in those days i had a soundtrack to ease my pain which was reggae the popular music in the late to middle age seventy's was totally removed from the feeling.