of the democratic nations of the world that have hitherto looked to american leadership the obama administration was very supportive of low they never joined as was the clinton administration now they're being threatened with arrest i think that this may in fact rebound on america it may in fact stiffen western results to stand up to trump and stand up to this destruction of a wall based. order of rules you mentioned obama and clinton some would say actually when prosecutor. question britain and the united states' role in war crimes in afghanistan or the war crimes. and clinton years it will also come into view. laws do provide some protection

against what would otherwise be the outrageous pollution on british beaches he didn't see it is the end of this kind of fashion for international justice we need international justice the people who demonstrate around the world call for justice that that's what the cry use of oppressed people and we are doing something against america's attempts to be relit to assist the charles taylor for example is in prison in britain as always afternoons always african not always not always and why not if they're guilty if africans are guilty let's start with that and then look to the people murdering the routing and of course when it comes to politics in this country the thing it was the word me the going after all maybe was the telegraph going after german corbin's old friends and mentors michael fuji has drawn the labor party for being a russian agent. permit me to laugh because that's what britain did in one thousand

nine hundred ninety five when the sunday times headed headed k g b colon photo was our agent now i acted for michael forte who was opposed to libel law as he didn't he would always advise people not to sue newspapers but when accused of treason obviously he had to sue and it was a very nerve racking thing to take all the sunday times because michael. he didn't have a great deal of money he had a little house in it. and his. not just his. money that he had but his reputation and his loyalty and integrity was up for grabs he would have to go into the witness box and face anything look the

phrase screwed through of him and i sued rupert murdoch personally because i discovered that. personally approve this piece of demonize ation all of a left wing hero i couldn't stand up the story it was based on his. it's true and. no new evidence whatsoever. but michael foot he's dead so he could live any longer in those get back in nine hundred ninety five the sunday times collapse they didn't couldn't stand up the story and they apologized and paid michael force a six figure sum in damages. from jeffrey off to the break as well as a review of the week's papers.

that's similar. to the law. it's. what somebody doesn't know it's something you never know what's happening. i'll have. to think of that in there but i'm addicted to a minute that's then.

you know world of big part of the new law 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 we're watching closely watching the hawks.

welcome back i'm still with geoffrey robertson q.c. jeffrey you represented the brazilian contend for sunday's election in jail right now will it be a fair election now. is improperly in jail and improper and contrary to international law convicted of corruption wait a minute is still got an appeal is final appeal has not been heard and. contrary to principle i was ruled by the united nations human rights committee he was entitle until finally could be made to stand in that election and he would have won it because he was miles ahead in the polls as per the constitution he can't run if he fails at one of the appeals which he did it he's final appeal. is yet to be heard and the u.n.

route that under the human rights international human rights covenant which has a provision for democracy under that right to democracy he was entitled until his primal appeal was dismissed to stand up to campaign and then to stand instead with judges who are part of a cost on up a cost which was determined to destroy him i'm convinced i sat through part of the trial that he was improperly could be did that he was not guilty of the allegations that he they were determined that he should not be stand for election so they put him in prison and they didn't allow him to campaign you've got to allow him to campaign until he's finally convicted you've got to allow him in

prison maybe even to do press interviews. the government refused and then they refused to allow him to stand and we have an election next week but if between a maniac right winger who believes in shooting people leading in the polls and just there is lula's at the last moment the workers' party which was lose party was intitled to put up a substitute which they have who's the former. emeritus apollo and he's now pretty clips so it's likely to be a run off in a few weeks time probably between lose substitute and the evangelical shoot them in the streets bigger who is. south america's donald trump as he's described by fear he's likely to be south america's president due to what is the condition of look when you were there in i

think is an extraordinary figure this is a man who dragged twenty million people out public out of poverty even his enemies concede that instead he was stuck in solitary confinement because of the extraordinary system brazil has it's based on the old catholic inquisition where you get a grand inquisitor a man in this case called morro who was he was able to investigate to prosecute and to judge he was like the policeman who took off his helmet and put on a weed he was the one after lead biased who held the moolah was guilty and i believe that was a false fight it is a danger to the wives i think what he's in prison at the moment so his humility but yes of course and i saw him not long ago and he

is determined to fight on and i think. in a way he he won he won the legal case at the united nations courts of the human rights committee which decided that he should be allowed to campaign and allowed to stand and the government of brazil refuse to follow the orders of the united nations president how does brazil and he is he was named the candidate of the will we. could he do anything to set him free oh no doubt in in the i would hope that when the supreme court would deliberately delayed hearing the case when they hear it they will overturn the conviction or will be

a free man about of course too late to run the country ever wrote and thinking. well joining me now to go on the week's papers is journalist and writer for the u.k.'s leading independent news site the canary steve job all steve thanks for coming back gone quite a few conferences resume brilliantly successful one according to many. yes i'm not sure independent nonpartisan let's go straight to the anti corbin deputy leader of britain's largest labor movement or the largest labor movement in europe obviously he's writing about poverty presumedly four million children once of course and so this is tom watson deputy leader of the labor party tweeted to die all over it and to jeremy hunt to ask what investigations are talking politics into russian attempts to influence the e.u. referendum it's time we followed the money under laws and how the stalin quadri into the subverting of already democracy so this is all about the ongoing

allegations that russians have been hacking people left right and center i was a fascinating story that's unfolding actually when the accusations is that these russian hackers working. for the g.r.u. even hacked russia's central bank which appears to be slightly odd but so tolerant of the. bank so essentially saying the government isn't doing enough but what tom is also doing is applying pressure to jeremy corbyn on this because jeremy corbyn stance on this is fairly muted doesn't really get involved with the whole debacle between russia and the west he takes a step back from it it seems to be obsessed by evidence. it will shock and i'll tell you we have a job former security official from the british army coming on the show next week and he's saying that also do we have to investigate russian influence over corbin mcdonald these people are clearly they won the labor leadership because of that we need a mirror investigation against corbett as well it must be yes i will be that is serious

. i'm sure it is very serious in his mind it's kind of flimsy from a and if you don't think this is the key element of what we should be talking about with putin caused bricks and. i'd say if we're talking about people subverting democracy i think three hundred fifty million on the side of a bus probably had more of an influence maybe than russia's dodgy place facebook adds a little of the russians don't have that on the goblet of mcgregor fight today full employment though it's been a big theme with drazen may's speech and supporters and the freedom to work where one once some people don't like the freedom to work where they want well they don't know this is a story which is laid out backs look strike as mcdonald's t.g.i. friday's and wetherspoon stuff joint and delivery careers well walk out over. this is a great movement what's happening is there's a lot of young low paid workers coming together at the minute sounds of the bikers and food workers union striking over over ten pounds an hour but it's also about

working conditions it started with mcdonald's where a group of people got together saying they weren't happy about zero hours contracts . mcdonald's did give some movement. all the stuff in their company is slightly more but this still isn't enough and obviously mcdonnell has come out in full support of this it was at the rally global came out in full support of this it was at a rally in leicester square yesterday it's quite an interesting story because i'm not i'm not being cynical about liberia not being cynical but this also applies very much in the same of labor's policy conference which is i mean that the kind of eighteen to thirty four year old working class. forgotten if you like the generation of party politics on the particular school board broadcast is very much in that think it's a tactical move by supporting this but i'm not going to you know a lot of tories say that this is kind of a strike against flexible working the modern age is about don't get me wrong i mean not one of these people is going to say it goes zero hours contracts are terrible a lot people like them students especially they're good for but

a lot of people don't have a choice they're forced on zero hours contracts which leaves them in carroty which reason in love incomes has been stories of people not going out to pay their rent while working at mcdonald's and of course this is a multi-billion pound multinational corporation should just. as it does everything by the book as do all these other companies and as you said multi-billion this was followed up internationally and there's a large movement there is right around the world of america actually yes it's also of a minimum minimum ten pounds an hour fifteen dollars american started as. well very little coverage relative little coverage of that in the mainstream media lots of coverage about how successful the minority government leader theresa may has been at a conference much better than last year done saying these are the important facts but your side seems to be suggesting things aren't quite so rosy simply not yes. promises to end austerity again but this time with dancing i should point out at this point this was

a satire pace over surgeries and i didn't promise to end austerity while doing the summer and titian of from the film big nights or anything this was this was. she did say we're going to really yeah the point is of course george osborne announced in twenty fifteen that austerity was going to end and then david cameron echoed that and tried to sixteen and tories and i said it last year and she said it again this year this climate is kept being repeated and a lot of the leftwing media especially points out the fact that well austerity isn't over because two days before philip hammond announced that some councils were seeing one point two billion more cut from their budgets over the next two years i mean it's classic sort of manipulation if you like from the tory party but of course austerity isn't i've as i said this film. we've had the big story this week on the education claims by two ministers the conservative party conference which the u.k. statistics authority looking into is being followed saying spending has gone up by this much and we've got the spending in the o.e.c.d. which isn't actually the case. so we have this rhetoric from stories in may where

the reality is actually very very very different well she also said it in a speech noticeably that identity politics was noble of the conservative thing saying good things about saying that they are the party of inclusive of this from the guardian about. a kind of blows that there was really so threatens to deport grandchildren of it to choke off the ins so this is a story for background obviously nine hundred seventy one britain booted everyone out of the child or silence and sentence of the say shows because they wanted to turn it into what is now known as dagger garcia which of course the us military base which has been associated with rendition torture big scandal over that on that labor government consequently what we're now seeing is this family example in the picture is the grandchildren of a woman who was deported and whose mother has legal right to be british they're not in charge of the british citizenship and suddenly it's kind of no way that they

have to leave the country now overseas has echoes of the wind rushed scandal and it kind of from a nullifies anything that would concern. government asked the side about that wonderful stance on immigration but has apologized for the windrush scandal though they're not for the hostile environment but she has apologized for winter so you're being a bit of she has apologized of course but it doesn't it doesn't detract from the fact that all these stories also one in the side if you like that we have this will hang out with in not only the conservative policy but also the civil service because it was i was by a big part in this and this is this attitude if you like. anyone they consider less than them and. i mean this story as well thank you that's it for the show will be back on monday when we discuss u.s. president will trump trade balancing act with a former clinton white house director and a man once held by the f.b.i. and a special counsel robert willis investigation until that. monday fifty years to the

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