in the time honored royal politic way all dealing with the wrong. truth be told they never liked that is the u.k. and the you never lie the u.s. obsession with the wrong the u.s. obsession with iran goes back to the full of the shah or persia who was one of the main pillars of u.s. so-called foreign policy in the middle east and when that came down to nine hundred seventy nine the u.s. has never really recovered its sense its its equilibrium if you like its power in the middle east it wants or wrong back if not back it points to deny iran the independence of the arabian state now why trump in particular is obsessed with this i don't know but why shouldn't he be he's an american president he's doing what american presidents always do the fact that he's trump. then courses

apoplexy in the media and the intelligence agencies and so on for the very good reason that he's exposed america without a mosque america and the presidency without a mosque is trump he's a character true and he does what he wants to do but be assured that a president hillary clinton would probably be doing the same thing to iran this is the same hillary clinton that when she first went campaigning in two thousand and nine to say that one rally that she was prepared to annihilate iran i think the sixty million plus people in iran she was prepared for not invite them so it is it's basically what the american elaboration wants to do but they don't want to be seen to be doing what trump wants to do there's a internet sign warfare going on within the united states. between trump

and those who. who who who really are the institutional foundation of american pow clinton certainly hillary clinton said that they would bomb syria but the national security adviser before he was detained went on this program said syria there would be a difference in policy and to trump they seem to be pro russian but now they're saying the united states will be in syria forever. to attack irena facilities in syria take us through where we are at syria i mean we don't hear anything about syria and iraq is very difficult to tell i can't i couldn't i couldn't in any way chart american thinking. it comes back online from time to time and it it's american circle policy on syria is pretty much the same as

u.k. policy this saying pretty much what they say now we've got to get rid of these was then nationals of assad's father would go to get rid of this group go to control syria they're obsessed with sever. to the point where in recent years they haven't really ball when they put in power in the mass because one of pap's one of the most medieval this vicious regimes one could imagine that led by isis my own reading is the trump would like to get out of syria it's messy it's costly for him he doesn't really need it there's no morality here you just pragmatically doesn't want it bought there is russia in syria quite successfully in syria if you like. having helped to stave off a major defeat of the government. so he feels he must face up to them well venezuela in the western hemisphere is in british media every other day i mean it's

odd because it seems a far away way suddenly is venezuela their big issue the proved evidence would suggest would do is i'm going to dictate that. what do you make of what's going to happen in venezuela i should add that. seven countries argentina can only chile peru paraguay and so on say that the majority should go to the international criminal court that's just after he's been recently seen with the chinese authority will it's going back to the old days is that the united states used to have the entire latin american continent its so-called leaders as its stooges basically who would say what they what the united states wanted them to say when you when you mention we go back to the the unapproved use that is news we don't hear about. there's been an attempted coup in nicaragua

a coup by the united states very very similar to the one it carried out in one addressed in the by very similar to the one it once to carry out in venezuela but it's failed in their character now that failure is on approved therefore we don't really hear about it we hear obsessive li venezuela has the kind of syria in the news of of the latin american continent. i mean going back which i think a little bit of the background is necessary when you i read just before i came in here. a study by the university of the west of england into b.b.c. reporting of the the major chap as he is that he's nine hundred ninety eight to two thousand and eight it took three hundred four news reports on the b.b.c. about venezuela three three out of three hundred four mentioned anything positive

about a government that had more than hall of poverty in that country and that set up a whole infrastructure of welfare and education for the first time in venezuela chavez was the most elected man in the world i have to say held the world record for going before the people to be elected maturer most closely followed but he's country is in difficulty in one of the reasons major reasons it's in difficulty the major reason in my view is that the total collapse of oil and the the also the collapse of any real will inside venezuela to perhaps deal with it but when i say that i i want to mitigate that with the massive wore off so cool sanctions that rather benign would that use of

a blockade only venezuela. president obama you may remember colvin this way a threat to the national security of the united states and he began really that whole block a the trump is now enforcing on on venezuela the fact that venezuela has held out the government has held out i suppose that in many ways this is science he is held out although it's suffered a great deal. for as long as it has is extraordinary so do you think the effect of sanctions you call it a weapon of war is not being not as effective nowadays of course the usa sanctioning russia sectioning china in a way the terrorists during the days when they could sanction the countries governments out of existence are of depends how powerful our country is russia is massively sanction. but russia goes own. it goes oh no it's formed

a very close alliance with china china is a bit sanction it might be more sanctions it doesn't really give a damn actually. but we don't have a sense of this great hinterland of alternative power russia or in china. of this if you like the eurasian power we did we don't get the sense we're so we're so atlantic centric if you like that we think only of europe the united states the so-called west all the time but there is a normal part of the world that yes it's sanction but it's get to go home and it's getting on in many areas particularly forging alliances with other countries very very successfully in this latest article of who it was you exhort redesign view is to translate a kind of news speak public slashing of public expenditure you translate into what they what we hear is efficiency savings the destruction of civilized life you say

is a is really the translation of hard choices it's a complete invention to the ten years ago we're now mourning the anniversary of the great crash if you remember the way the great crash in wall street and in the city of london elsewhere it was reported. it was it was reported as the crooked banks it was quite astonishing right across the british press you would see as their fault pictures of the banks and and we know in the guilty bankers and people will be hold out they'd be shamed in public is usually less a b. it's a shame in the public. if you didn't read you need to measure sorry but usually trade well and others. but so that last good are calculated for just under a year about nine. months and then it changed. it wasn't the debt

the crooked banks alistair darling gordon brown's chancellor forked out five hundred billion pounds effectively gave it to the banks i'm sorry if i'm a few billion out there but it was an epic amount of the country's treasure it was a hard choice and you gave a choice and that was good the approved news was that it was good but the choice of the crooked banks and the crooked bankers then disappeared from the media instead the wood that was just lying in the news from time to time during the second world war a stereotype. was hold out and we now have something called a stereotype and the stereotype means that all the civilized premises of life in this country have to be attacked have to be on to mine the hospitals have to be starved to farms the. the the poor people have to

remain poor people and then he'd get poorer everything has to be cut back councils have to lose something like up to forty percent of the money they have available to do normal things for people in it that is their responsibility that when overnight the debt became how did it it became peoples day that the whole notion of crooked banks went completely i've never known actually i've never known a reversal of of from fact to illusion so completely and it was accepted it was accepted by all sides it was accepted by both sides and paula is that we've septa by all media would be yes but even those that had named the guilty bankers with such enthusiasm no longer name them austerity had

to be solved the debt had to be paid back above all it was a complete call and that was an ideological situation the national health service could have been paid several times over by the money that led this country hemorrhage from this country allowed by the tax regime which will still be there will from job fill jobs or the break. cooked additional submersed if not on what was a gets up there to look at some of these it's just a good usual thing it's not. simply you have to swim if you can also post and. look at with

a showing of the plan to ship a skeleton is lost when the church. he think it will ship. if this keeps only. well the top shipping. yup and most of the book it too will look at the posting it will still mostly know i don't know what. or. who is the latest who's in the plus. stuff no worries i'm all right so yeah that's good because was going to say. lyricists recently still yeah. it doesn't have to anon approved news the b.b.c. spree porting all the two thousand and twelve health and social welfare act was really i do wish you could the headland will be seeing stories bill which gives power to g.p.'s aus as well which is a complete distortion all but they sum summed up this bill that really

a ball or sht. i'm not. whole notion of a national. health and which most of the people of this country i would suggest still believe is the notion of a national health service ok that's a b.b.c. headline about that. something if anyone thinks britain isn't in the lead in some things you said a survey said the b.b.c. was bostom of the major nation broadcast is in offering opposition at him in the run up to the iraq war this is the libya syria three that's correct that was a media ten no that's worse than any other name it was below i was vaguely surprised to see they're not really i suppose the b.b.c. just below the american networks the likes of c.n.n. in offering so little facility to those who opposed the invasion

of iraq and i have to say who represented the majority of this country who also opposed it. and the another follow up. academics study by the university of wales at cardiff found pretty much the same thing it said that basically what the b.b.c. reported was what the government wanted it to report it didn't really challenge it amplified what the government was saying and we know that the government was lying through its teeth the empty year cool been paper if i put it that way the guardian you don't seem to like that paper too much i mean when editor katharina says it's a progressive a thoughtful and progressive newspaper and you say particularly when it comes to judy this of course is in the able it's so thoughtful and progressive in the way

it's conducted a cam of a campaign of unrelenting vindictiveness against. julian assange. why do you think the guardian hates julian as it's stump times it strikes me is kind of. an unrequited love or something. they fell in love with and they got a lot from him they exploited him they won all sorts of awards they go hollywood movie deals they go to bork they ended up getting a fable pulitzer was basically on the back of water saunders and we keep leaks in its brief tenure with the guy in had had given them but once that affair was over. a song nj. received the full force

of the guardian's displeasure and i think in that article i quoted to a number of its leading columnists in the kind of abuse that i don't think i've seen in a serious newspaper i can't remember i've seen actually against an individual the sun refused to be a member of the club he shamed so many journalists because he had more firsts if you like in scoops in and what we keep leaks revealed than they've had in the whole in life and he was so successful and he showed i think that the media is really has probably always has been never more so than now an appendage of a stablished he shone a light on that and that was on forgivable. and yet it was just one small organization wiki leaks because i know you also quote the disgraced cia boss former

cia bo's betray us. saying a war of perception conducted continuously using the news media is what is being called for isn't just something they say to their people. well it's certainly it'll come out of all the dreadful corporate job clotted conferences. they go to. but the head of the british force was she from generals i think generally this is nick sid said pretty much the same thing he said that you know what what appeared in the media was much more important than defeating the enemy now what this sunday on both sides of the atlantic is that they were done to find the true enemy. in a war of basic propaganda

a lot of people are killed in this war propaganda because it is a war propaganda the main enemy of the people at home the main enemy for general petraeus for the american people the main enemy for cynic of the british people it's they all end up with unapproved opinions and that could be calamitous for a world without militarism without nuclear weapons and. all the things that they don't want and they feel i feel very insecure about clearly. began by the. mainstream progress so. mcdonnell. himself as he was doing clearly with mahler on the b.b.c. by saying that an opportune moment that's a pretty job thank you. that's it for this special edition of going on the ground

see you again on saturday just after this year's nobel peace prizes and until that can be judged by social media we'll see you on saturday forty two years to the day of the cia then construction of a cuban passenger plane killing all seventy three people. by. secret indeed priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it quite literally i like to call this the geographic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out that the priest is is a perpetrator is simply no. moves him to

a different spot where the previous standards not know the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that of their son as the end and then i can flip out at tuesday's out in. the street. you know world of big partisan movie. and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

america is a house deeply divided and that division only continues the entire brett kavanaugh saga has turned into blood sport demanding each and every one of us pick a side we're in new territory and that place is called winner takes all. by not. bought up. by.

un's highest court orders the u.s. to drop iran sanctions on humanitarian aid but washington calling the ruling. will take a look at washington's problematic relations with international bodies. also this hour the british prime minister and the mounting pressure the reason may gets a letter of no confidence from her own party members just moments before giving a key speech. china's rising star eclipses the u.s. people trust. less than some world leaders that's according to new data from a washington based think tank.