with the communist party in china afford to build the nuclear power station not according to its opponents if it goes through. really committee commercial and industrial suicide. because they need to listen to the west. the west financial press they need to listen to their own. who'll say you must go jumping into this e.t.f. cannot afford. the amount of money they'd have to borrow to to build this is more than what they're actually e.t.f. is actually worth e.t.f. denies that but the reactor in southwestern england is based on an e.t.f. design in from of ill in france in the past few days france is nuclear regulator has accused e.d.f. of mismanagement costs have now had to be revised upwards in the project will be delayed according to labor leader jeremy corbyn inc the point c. will not only push up the cost of electricity but involve giving a blank check to e.t.s. for a power station that doesn't work well something that did work as anglo-french partisan

corporation in the second world war crucial was the forerunner to m i six the so-called special operations executive joining me now is award winning journalist and author of a fault alone the true story of the star brothers british secret agents in nazi occupied france charles glass charles welcome back they're going underground tell me about the special operations executive ridge operated everywhere except the demarcated lines dictated by moscow and washington london's islands were special operations was an institution created by winston churchill in july of one thousand and forty the british had withdrawn their troops from dunkirk during the german invasion but when they withdrew their troops they also withdrew all of their intelligence assets britain as we know famously stood alone and they came up with the idea of creating a sabotage unit to hit the germans from the rear and churchill said he wanted to use us. we to set europe ablaze and the as a we operatives worked everywhere in

occupied europe but also in occupied asia against the japanese in the countries that they occupied and what they would do is they would send agents in to recruit local fighters to form the basis of the resistance to harass the japanese the italians and the germans in that long period before the british were able to get the russians and the americans on their side and launched a series invasions in italy and france and the stars of this book the stars litter star the star brothers george and john starr who were anglo american their family the stars sailed over to america just after the mayflower and one of their ancestors dr comfort's or was one of the founders of harvard university has a story of it so would you document that but they go underground in europe as bodies but in one thousand nine hundred thirty nine the just when war was declared

they were both one was living in belgium as a mining engineer george and john was living in paris as a commercial artist and they tried to enlist in the r.a.f. which was the probably the glamor most glamorous branch of the service to be in at the time but because their father was american they were rejected so the enlisted in the army they evacuated the continent in one thousand nine hundred with the rest of the british expeditionary force came back to england and because they spoke french they were recruited by su we as agents and sent back into france now i want to get on to why this is oddly very relevant today how this was replicate the the ideas of replicated throughout british colonial expeditions colonial forces all around the world even in arabia and kenya of cyprus where the tradition traditionally britain was fighting against the insurgents throughout the empire when insurgents were. come along and try to overthrow colonial rule the british

knew how to crush them later than they were unsuccessful with the ira united twenty and the ira got independence for part of ireland but they were successful in most of the other colonies in the in the case of the post-war period or in the case of the war they had to. be on the side of insurgents to create insurgents and their model was lawrence of arabia the one time that they had funded and armed and trained insurgents against the ottoman empire so lawrence of lead arab irregular as against the ottomans in mainly in syria and. was able to help out general allen b.'s advance from egypt with the with the british army by protecting his right flank and was a very successful operation that became the model for us are we basically but after the war this model was misunderstood and the british and the americans who learned

all of their arrests tradecraft of subversion from the british they were trained as we trained american s. o. s.s. office of strategic services which nine hundred forty seven became the cia the british trained them mainly at camp x. in canada but also in other places they used to a misunderstanding of the s.u.v. template so they would send organizers to train people for example in albania or ukraine to go in to try to overthrow the government but they didn't do it in the way they had done it world war two because in the event in world war two. resistance groups really just became a support movement for an allied invasion so it worked in in the case of syria in one thousand six hundred nineteen eighteen it works to assist an invading army but probably on its own it would have failed and it is the same thing with these insurgencies in france the french resistance without the allied invasion would have been useless in ukraine since you mention it at the bold ticks he says seventy five

thousand dead civilians because of this kind of insurgency and civilians both yes i mean obviously this misunderstanding is not because they haven't watched the david lean spiegel film but in fairness to teresa mayes campaign in obama's campaign in syria i mean as far as we know there were they never give coleman to obviously throughout. there were special forces fighting us. perhaps isis linked al qaeda linked groups trying to evade religious orders there were there were two programs in syria there was obama's first program which was a title fifty program it's called which was covert and secret that was done through training camps in turkey and jordan and insurgents were given weapons and sent across and many of them immediately went over to isis or zipcode and most recently the other more extreme groups and the trainers didn't go with them when when isis came and took a large chunk of eastern syria western iraq there was a title fifty program which was completely public of to train. to train insurgents

to fight against isis and in that case the special forces did assist mainly the kurds in northeast syria and that was all public and that was that was when they did go in but the covert program if if anyone went in it it still isn't known to the ignorance continues with these it's very very hard to direct a campaign from inside turkey or inside jordan when you've got hundreds of insurgents running around in syria and you don't you don't you're not seeing with seeing them in the case of say george starr who set up one of the most effective resistance networks in all of france called wheelwright network he was there living among them every day disguised as a belgian emigre living in southwest france retired mining engineer and he lived daily with these people so he knew what they were doing and he could he could control their movements any he could control who got the weapons he didn't give weapons to just anybody he had to know them and trust them. unlike operation timber

sycamore obama's failed campaign to the case of timber sycamore even the obama could many from i've interviewed admit they didn't know where the weapons ended up because today over his lee we have think that there is a british parliamentarians that certainly. united states people hanging out with this group the m.e. k. trying to perhaps use them as insurgents to have their the government of iran they were on the us terrorist list last time i looked. at the emmy. were one of the early resistance groups against the shah they were religious fanatics and marxists were they were at that at that time they lost out in the power struggle to the moon was and tehran they fled to iraq where they became proxy forces for saddam hussein i. you know world of big. lot 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. and. politicians to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and she. wanted. to go right to the press this is like them. three of the more people. interested in the wives.

should. welcome back saudi arabia has been receiving the full extent of mainstream media rough this month but it's not for the u.k. u.s. backed saudi bombing of civilians as numbers of the dead in yemen even this week all that let alone the bombing of a school bus or the millions at risk of famine it's the alleged murder of a saudi journalist joining me now is political satirist and saudi dissident got a milder sorry can't return to his home country for fear of death on him thanks for coming on the show as award is it about what seems like the tragic case of jamal khashoggi that jumps on the one side women driving now in saudi the great improvement and the world's worst humanitarian crisis because of the u.k. backed support for saudi prince mohammad a result but isn't it has to the west as a former honestly i was happy when i saw the women die for this already but this is

their right they say it's their grease this think that i have it is so deep but to be honest the greatest think should happen is so that he is freedom of speech and. which we didn't see cohen but is is going fairly hard on anyone who is just speaking up their mind people has been jailed based on data tweets and last year two thousand and fifty one students and sixteen would win the executed fifty two people and one of them an emitter nemat he would you criticize their competence now you've and i think this is the only he has a crime so. he's good right and and outrage he's much like silencing people in the kingdom but he's going abroad to anyone who is speaking up there might as you know and you're a if you want us. i was attacked here in london in broad daylight in the thirty

first of august because i speak up my mind and the attack of these just shouting who are you to talk about the saudi royal family they said you're. living there they say that to anyone and if you will follow their comments in their social media. is that i really spy and every day they give you any kony this is what the northern territory survivor i've been advocated to israeli spies who are these people i'm presuming they're investigating you your understanding is there were saudis who were visiting london who wanted to actually yet attack the media it wasn't to try and attack to me and it didn't feed us of course the saudis and did he disappeared from the ok we do know their names and the police are investigating this but i have nothing to comment about it because i'm not government confiscated i don't know who what their names and who they are working but in my incident tells

me they are intelligence and they are doing what they've been told to do nobody can do a such action without permission from count but it's or think himself we know that country from a site nobody can do that especially in new york in europe. but we now know that the in the case of the turkish magazines or the turkish finance ministers printed fifteen suspects we couldn't name them here i mean it is the b.b.c. it covering the pictures the branson covering it here they can be suing for defamation very quickly if any of those pictures are not true what do you make of these suspects intelligence suspects in the case of the alleged murder and dismemberment of jamal should get into i am not shocked. there so he sent fifteen to commit this a crime in turkish soil. i'm shocked that. jamil has shipped to

himself was lured to turkey and he was soon and eve two to walk in that consulate from the evidence that came from turkey we see clearly this fifteen there was lain and waiting in the consulate for him to our life i've been told of from a source in turkey the turkish analyzed the water that coming out from the consulate and they found blood on it so this is this is shocking if the dismembered to hit him in there in the consulate but let's go back and. go through this what would you use in the diplomat in order to silence any forests or to spy in any position in two thousand and three. so do you do much here in your case was expelled by u.k. government are you would name him you assume ronnie because he bribed

a police officer in order to obtain private information it's already a position he's here so this is in the media and so this tells us that there's so do this using the diplomats in order to commit to crimes basically i don't know why they are committing because they're not afraid of from the west yet we see president trump in the last month or so he's just appearing in t.v. . you need to pay you have to pay i'm sure you have to pay he never asked kingston man or cone brains to stop committing crimes abroad three years they have an award it is ongoing and nobody's benefited they said they are there to bring their legitimate government but the only one suffering in yemen is the yemeni people so and we see children being slaughtered you know so. this responsibility is to their u.k.

government of course to america and by history who want to destroy our i would call them thugs. in power who put them in power and i think they have more power on them to try to make them behave hello to say thank you you're welcome sir. well while london has the film festival leo in france has the festival named after the pioneering filmmakers the lumiere brothers but a new film be natural narrated by jodie foster destroys forever the myth that film only had founding fathers the documentary director pavel to be green. joyce remember power things were going on how can it be possible that no one has basically hood over the world's first few will film director well academics have heard of her. but i think like many stories it's not been pushed to the masses. and also i think she hasn't been properly documented and

gazillion all watching things is. a yes who is she is the first woman film director in the history of film who wrote or directed a produced a thousand films and had a career in france working for leo. and in the us she had her own studio she's the first woman to have our own studio there's many firsts with alice. and so she was a privilege of this entire studio says that was it existed only east coast of america along with power modes and forests and all the other one of the pioneers at the beginning and i think not only because she's a woman i think a lot of pioneers tend to be forgotten because being first isn't everything and even if you look at the beginners of my space or you too you don't know who those people are you just know that that's a medium and whatever comes next is what people know is what's the what's your

latest so i think being responsible for moving a medium forward doesn't always get working condition but she's so much more because people are going to have a different slang metropolis eisenstein and in your documentary actually eisenstein credits. that knowing that it's her because as a child he saw a film where women act like men and they're in charge the consequences of feminism in one thousand know six that he saw as a child and he depicts it in his memoirs scene by scene and it was only through detective work that we realized that that's the film because there is no other film like that i don't know. working with go more she came into contact with the with famous names in europe at the time you fell just described that all clear as of innovation in its barest of that it's kind of like the first class of silicon valley of paris eight hundred ninety five in a way. you have maybe steve jobs and bill gates if you will so it's like path am

gaumont and she's there at the right time at the right place where it's a photography studio and all these people are experimenting and they're famous inventors engineers scientists etc and they're walking in and out of this photography place to use that device for their research it's out of us she gets to meet a lot of people and mr eiffel tower himself is on the board of directors of the company so she's she's in good company and i do there is you do comparison for us and they were doing things like. video makers but when people first were using similar they were showing things like reforms and so on you. does put narrative in the emotion of the film. exactly that for a younger audience to understand cinema because it's you know early cinema is so

far away we're like one hundred years apart from the beginning of cinema there are like content to me cars and when you go on you tube it's like all what can i do with this device you know i can jump up with a etc but she was a daughter of a bookseller. her father had bookstores in chile and she learned as a child to read a lot of stories and experience a lot of travel as a child so she connected the storytelling with the medium of recording and that makes her special because she's one of the first people to do a narrative for a second doing away from the identity politics a little and judging i was one of the innovators in all the east coast studio system. i didn't know this story how edison moved hollywood in effect to hollywood from the east coast using would. yes so he basically it was it wasn't just him but he had something called the trust we could only use his cameras in. fort lee new jersey and he actually had detectives come out and if you weren't

using the camera you know you would get in trouble but it was really his board of directors that created the problem and investors and basically that twelve people out to california but also was the weather too with the combination everything is not always only one thing it's usually a combination of things but she. was arguably more way more progressive than the d.w. griffith would you say or the race in particular revenge press saying that using race as the united states was she made a film called for in his money which was supposed to be a mixed cast and once the white players found out that they would be coupled with black players they decided that they don't want to be part of it so they thought it would be embarrassing so then she decided to make a film with an all black cast which is also very unusual and so she writes she

directs she builds into studios as employees under debris paul. writes these scripts are the same claim of pioneer is that how directors can treat actors because the title of your film is being true was because she had a sign in her studio that said be natural so she wanted her actors she says that's all i asked as i wanted them to be natural and it became a known factor about her but again not documented for us to know about it today so it took research finding some of these articles and interviews and different people talking about her to be able to place her. in that era in history and for it to be her legacy if you will and the like you know identity politics stories whether it be sexuality gender race the other side betrays a man betrayed yes just describe why we've never heard of this basically that's why we've never why i think it's

a combination of things people didn't think cinema would have a future and didn't document it properly so her name wasn't really listed on the early films but also once anything becomes viable and it has money. the women get pushed out and the men kind of take over and that's what happened there's many women that there's like sixty other women that have been discovered after alice i mean she's definitely the first but there's many other alice is out there we just need to find them and we need to to document them and there's more there were more women back then working and there are now some respects that will be green thank you that's it for the show will be back on wednesday to speak to the alleged former wife of the king of saudi arabia about meeting the shoji and possible foreign office interference in a case that would end as to raise them a good old days deals with a little bit been so all the love in the deal that you talked about social media will be back on wednesday thirty nine years to the day that mother to raise their

once worked with alleged torture and cia boss to the hospital with a nobel prize. and you'll. find out that. i am. no more i. am. in film and there is a trade in young girls sold into an underground six industry sometimes by the. i trust the most. i'm not a tough one. kiran e u two can be disappeared in broad daylight also the fate of

a saudi journalist is testing washington's relations with riyadh is the crown prince's rule in doubt and much much more on this edition of crossfire. i don't have faith in this government official of president i don't have space in the system. i've got it i'm too liberal the system is not designed for people like me who move. as long as there are. different people who are here for different reasons but also job losses. most people in philadelphia are only about two paychecks away from homelessness.

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