monday was the m.p. who represents gerry adams old seat of west. he joins me now paul thanks for coming back on so did you get any assurance from tourism a that island isn't going to be some sort of collateral in this bret's a deal you know we didn't at all. we didn't get on a target i mean we pushed trees in mail and were called mint has had to be also used the term collateral so. i mean we believe that they do you pay because they're in partnership with the tory government here and it's a friday back what they are doing at the moment because their record their practice soundly in the north of ireland where they feel terrible about you going to vote i mean if you speak to a majority of people in the north around they will tell you who you fall here because number one their practice here is they're very pro. they're also against equality for men ever citizens you know it's only people get more i don't have equal rights for people sure i want to get well just sort of i would like

a less of that in a second but you know what you told it like it's a very important point because what we're told is that she is in partnership. with the d.p. who have wrecked the coal mines in the north of iran and who are here and england as well in britain and i think that's if i can describe their own because for us it's very clear that the d.d.p. do not represent the majority of people in north and in fact they represent a minority of people i mean we feel alone with all their parties are absolutely and the majority with regards to you. and i think that's a fairly important point because you could be agreement as i was clear and all of its commitments in the monsour with regards to moving forward with the. stuff we're here at. and i think it's very dangerous for these agents and thought was you know the do pieces it's for the millions that voted for brics it but you must be aware that even in northern irish media little in the republic that some people say.

saying that it looks like there could be a big irony here that english nationalism not irish nationalism may bring about a united front do you guys are just smile as you read those stories or do you sense the real being with them that you go elysian strew in the sense of anybody's going to bring back the reunification of our country is going to be republicans on the end of it is it really got me how would you i mean she has failed to unite. united ireland and do you see which we have a field of feel to me that's a work in progress nice attack they were. meaning these people can do what they want to me that's hoover dam and they can do we're not going to figure and at least politics but the reality is that chen feehan republican i have been a republican all my life i have been arguing and debating for reunification of our country all my life and i will do that on tell that day because i think that's a fine important aspect i mean with regards to the conversation on our end that's

been more problems over the last recent months in the last year than ever before and i just turn to republicans making sure that our job is to reunite our content our job is to do that and it's our job to convince as many people as possible that's why we also research that effort no day and manage to cheat on the british government to ensure that there is a referendum on our unity we call that we are the ones who. reads out of every issue she said this down to the saturday of state on the grid for a day agreement sort of bluff their way through a question related actively talking about the do you prefer bringing down the supply and call for an agreement that keeps to raise the money and power which would then proceed to a no confidence vote in the prime minister and she in vain has a chance to get rid of the prime minister or get involved in a perhaps a line down the irish sea the creeping independence of ireland including the six counties and you're doing nothing i wouldn't say we're doing nothing i mean we met the three. in european parliament are fading on

a day and daily basis for three cards to work on with all the european states putting a pressure on the british government as our ammi are t.t.'s in their house israel her fate on a day and daily basis if you look at the press statements from what's has been relationship and over the last here i mean many of them have been on that not only on certain dates but also what we have done and that's about it engaging with european states is important kitchen but the british government has been gauging at their home and kids and the static and i think that's where we're trading our wage rate three all those different issues to ensure that number one is that the good friday agreement is protagoras attack that we are on the packet we are in the end and we believe that actually comes in and has a dire consequence for these agents republicans hammered as a republican i'm opposed to portrush i don't see a border and i see i don't started to want to see one on the environment good friday agreement say that if polls show that reunification. would be

a likely outcome of a referendum then it must be taken absolutely and that's thrown into the sacristy it to call out and if you look at recent polls and polls are only polls but if you look at the recent polls and they hadn't that the trans is going that direction where a lot of people want to see it and we unite it and i think that's a very important step but the people who will to live out will be the people people themselves are you know how where i'm sure you must be of strategic blunders made by the republican movement in the post you don't see that from outside it looks like the d p is ironically forcing the issue here and of themselves and if you look at all the issues that they've been dealing with even when they were in government in the north of bryant they are clearly and of themselves you look at some of the our hitch i inquiry with regards to big potential as opposed mismanagement of budgets from the executive if you look at all that stuff not requires ongoing of the moment if you look at some of scandals that are there with the do you pay that the people plan their way through a whole lot of things their rockers. exactly well. they do do but this inquiry

we have new date really i mean stormont which is the back bone over the good friday agreement is not meeting you expected ever to really meet again till we start the wannsee the sound the back open on that's i mean we have worked very hard we had an agreement with the d.p. earlier this year and the day you can you are negron that very issue with regards to the inquiry inquiry concludes sometime in the next month and that hopefully will report early next year we had an agreement with them they would they don't and we want to ensure that their rates that came from the very agreement and subsequent agreements are there for money and deliver to all sections of society a quality costs nothing and that's what exactly what is the u.p.a. are afraid of they don't want equality they are the writers and they are the ones who are doing damage to the north around and could end up doing damage to the british government as well but we know since the twenty seven election that politics is on the fed in westminster went to resume speaks to e.u.

leaders today. she can be confident that your abstention ism will mean the d p's. let alone because i know she's got a battle with them because of you she'll be able to get her way or the do you people get their way but without shouldn't frame they do that well i mean i don't want to interfere in british politics i'm irish and i said listen even. the irish for me it's a foreign parliament i also cardillac it and got the largest field ever as here when people when i stood for actions in sand that i'm going to stand sampai i'm not going to take my seat and all of our m.p.'s who got a lack of told out to all of our constituents would you think any of the west with constituents knew that you would ever. employ a strategy that would hurt or damage the cause of irish unity in effect this is as i said to the people who will deliver our unity as

a people and that's where it's going to come from i mean. probably will make a big difference and westminster anyway but the point is my constituents turned her back on westminster they said they didn't want me to go to westminster because they say what we did matter how do we want to live i sort of united ireland never because we are fighting for you know ground and that's exactly where we are and exactly we will deliver that ok well i think juries are made to be confident that your policy will. maybe that something you just would agree on but then looking to the future what will you do with the european union to fight new liberalism. bank bailouts privatization because just like right wing their liberal policy is you cheerlead brussels that they will fail where we're not cheerleading and i think we have with europe and we have stated them. over many years in fact are for any piece across a environed well. but we do believe that it is friday five important that we remain

because to fix it and then you'd better fix it but then i think it's very important because the people and this is done to people the people in north around fifty six percent of those people for to remain in. and the european parliament and i think that photons to me respect that i should respect that float and i hope that the british government can respect that's full disk well and just for me i know you don't go into the house as we did but when you watch conservative m.p.'s baby blairite labor m.p.'s on television talking about bricks of it or do you think about their own just being of the issue of border in the north of i think a problem is money and don't understand it they don't even realise they sure money how many of them how many might they speak to the people haven't even fears of the border so they don't even make a very holy hell i'm going to. that's next how do you want to put it now but we can talk about that all day for it to be the big story that put up. just shows you the state of the tory party my point is that they should be. they should listen. to. what the european parliament and.

the british government on this issue. we were hoping for. we didn't get that card so that is causing a major mayhem right across these agents and i think it's on. businesses and communities. and all of our people when we don't know what we need to know when we do. thank you after the break. we speak to the alleged former wife of the king of saudi arabia about suing the british. view of this week's top. with me and.

china is in the software it's in the hardware as opposed to this so-called threat from russia where they're spreading needs that influence people to vote against their better. of america. but china is actually infiltrating the hardware with. the software with actual malicious software that's ok we're talking about that. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be closer. to going to the pros this is what. people are. interested in the war.

that end. of. not. just an embassy but each force i. welcome back will join me now to go through some of the week's papers as a journalist and writer for the u.k.'s leading independent news site the canary steve top all steve welcome back away from bricks it yeah i saw this piece in the garden which we're not going to talk about this of names of policeman and

you have knowledge of the subject now i know quite a few people who are witnesses there inquiry i mean this list of organizations which the undercover police inquiry or spike in organization to infiltrate it's quite staggering i mean it goes from the kind of sublime a very community group in leeds who got a small grant of the government and some other place or their wealth in which writing to the ridiculous the likes of the socialist workers party one of the sort of move ridiculed groups in the u.k. that imaginatively about to take over the country of course i think massive interventions by the place and the guardian released these names of all these groups huge amounts of groups and it's kind of everyone's gone. like it's a very small story but of course the big question with the spike up saga is what on earth are they doing now behind our backs that we don't know about because it's going on for years i suppose any of us who regulates those names should watch it if someone goes up to them so they want you to be their friend that's goes with ever hear from the questionable figure frank field indeed. i'm going saga here so

universal credit is forcing women into prostitution says frank fails i mean this universal credit story just keeps rolling on and on and on and on and on the story here is that frank fails says the women in his constituency of becoming so desperate that they have quotes gone to the red light district for the first time he says but this is just an example of the chaos surrounding this benefit now i mean it's as a news journalist very hard to keep up with we had the revelations from estimate valet she was forced to admit that millions of families would be two hundred pounds a month worse off and universal credit had to have it in there says the maguey in his blood to the sex worker question was the lots of jobs for the ladies indeed that was and that was a standard reply she was giving in parliament on monday when she's being probed and probed and protests and it is the same moment with more people in work what looks people have to properties on the side both the stand and stop responses which she which she keeps getting but the warning signs have been repeatedly given by

charities and organizations of means in the trussell trust so food bank is going through the roof the housing association come out saying rental rates is rising and just before we went to record this program the government is at the back track on universal credit i'm delighted rollouts over it because of the concerns of the implementation and we also think they're going to bow to pressure and put the two billion pounds that people are recommending is going to be spent in the system but unfortunately you can't fix something that is inherently broken by design in my opinion and universe is if we would have a national living wage as a go to this possibly tweet from granville you know there's a housing association of the guy in a store that just rumbles on and on so when fellow united tweeted that we've written to officials in light of the guardian story reporting toxicity readings on soil tested around. with calling for a public meeting so the story behind this is that some of the professor has written to public health in glenn's saying that so samples from around ground five have

been tested and they contain carcinogens cancer causing. toxins including college and saw an audit in very high levels now of course what's been happening around ground school children have been allowed to go back in this program it's around around the size of the people who've been working in there there's going to be no us to move back yet and so we're in the cladding all of the buildings all around the country indeed yes and all the time it's now been discovered that there's extremely high levels of there is that all the evidence of talks in this yes a bit of course is just plays into the agenda around the government has been guilty of all along which is kind of being on the back foot completely and then we had the stories in june of this year that one hundred residents were still not really housed together after the fall and will an inquiry and expense is going on in order dressing these days exactly and there's been accusations from companies that inquiry is essentially flawed anyway but of course it sums up what we've discussed on the show before which is the government sort of care not attitude to people it

seems lower than themselves unfortunately. to corporate welfare we. will try to of the corporate world richard branson sir richard branson under far i've a fifty two million pound virgin violent stagecoach pie out this is the news that richard branson dividends of twenty six point three million for him fifty two million figures for both companies can find that he got these dividends from the performance of east coast main line the no wrongdoing no wrongdoing if you are a fan of corporates this is the nation egypt literally off the system before the taxpayer bailed it out well essentially what happened is that these are the dividends that the company has made because these cases and you've been performing so well even though the figures show. and had the highest number of days in twenty sixteen seventeen but that's irrelevant to richard branson obviously. yet this was the profits. of these cars made on of course we've had the alleged corporate buyout

by the taxpayer which. it was to my knowledge company's version of stagecoach and their contract early but as can't get out clause in there which meant the taxpayers two billion pounds out of pocket that they didn't have to pay out and of course the whole underlying story was this is that east coast main line was a nationalized industry and nationalized and up until the conservative started to sell it off again so now. there's been a lot of killing in this week saudi arabia nor much in the news about helping anyone in gaza at the moment in. this i mean from one her own story to another so the saudi crown prince behind quote to murder a dissident journalist lines up it for manchester united with cochairman avrohom glazer due to fly to middle east next week despite international for you know absolute confirmation we actually you know we should. probably indeed i mean the it was reported this i think reported as well so it's got to give or the think into

this kind of speculation a minute but i mean they're on the long thrust of the story as of course we've had the for over a over jamal khashoggi the journalist who was allegedly murdered by saudi arabia this is a developing story that keeps going on apparently now we was an interrogation gone wrong is what c.n.n. have to scupper it and of course you have the background so this is about the conflict in yemen which the u.n. has come out in the past few days saying that potentially there could be the worst famine in one hundred years doesn't nothing don't we have no we don't sell them four point six billion worth of arms and twenty fifteen when the conflict began nothing to do with us but good to hear thank you. well this trade secretary liam fox wavers over going to next week's davos in the desert saudi arabia has come under concerted attack by mainstream media it's not for u.k. backed alleged atrocities in yemen but the alleged murder and dismemberment of a saudi journalist we though are going to look at another case raising questions of

tereza means liaison with the oil rig. kingdom could the foreign office be perceived in any way of attempting to interfere with english justice on behalf of those to whom britain sells missiles and warplanes in the past few weeks queen's council really take a road to an approach made by the foreign office to high court judge peter smith it concerned a twenty fifteen trial involving. alleged wife of the late king fahd versus prince abdul aziz the q.c. said this was the first and only occasion in the course of my career that i was engaged on a case where the foreign office attempted to contact a judge although journo was successful in that twenty fifteen trial she would go on to lose in a court of appeal the u.k. foreign office told us they needed a freedom of information request to respond to the following interview no response to the request has been given in time for this program joining me now is the plaintive in that case thanks for covering back on you won that case and the key as

he says obliquely involve the foreign office you may have been appeal when crown prince moment when solomon was here are being sold arms by tourism able so what's the problem the foreign office having been involved in the prior case my league it came out of it it is and they really believe that. this is completely independent and i owe it to the british people mention in this program distorted that it's really not what i think a little of you have against just a matter of the first time queen's council in his career is in the foreign office. calling him eat has committed to hold my solace and get. so listen to the room in the middle of the cork i'm sitting there with my son so he called back to his room because he came to because mitt said to him

foreign office is on the line. so they went in peak assessment towards better but it's too cold my. bet is to stay with us on this course the thought of this was somehow. a killing because that he shouldn't be harsh on the attack because because smith wanted came in contempt of course you know to prove the exact conversation because it's a private legal conversation and though you say you plan to sue the british government. perception here that the foreign office may have. not to me have they have if you will it's my bet is that what that is in advance they have interfered and i look to my my legal people saying that the government is going to lean toward the saudis and. lawyers had had it but that's an after

what they discovered that it was true what i said there is no independent. but it is just i mean in this country and i have to tell the british people that it is true that it is and they said it to herself now i have to call. b.s. on one thing that he owns his own nation which is fine that's his kingdom but to own and be ill and affected but it just judicial system is really protect of course the british going to deny that they're in control of hosted by britain's been solomon decided to go to claim you never were a royal wife at all the saudis now saying that they do not say that they had any role in the alleged murder and dismemberment of democracy shogi in an embassy in turkey i'm sure you may. well let me just answer the first one regarding the why we

have been cut is on pajama. when they could think because you know i don't know why it was voted me this honor to my the. saudi prince in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight because where i come from the saudi people did look at the good the petition of that they had to skiing south who had like four to five wives and capitulation i did it because i love my mine and i respected him and we had a suspected his wife who he is the mother of his eleven children and i agreed with him that i should have gotten that it's in secret and my father agreed with him too and we go we i was on duty there with my husband i worked for him i worked with him and that's the way it is so his story opens and so i saw as a man and his high profile then at that time now for somebody to commit an act of

what he did now with and b s let me be very frank. i just want to see it and be as has been since he started this sort of form he is in danger every minute of the day it take guts it takes courage it takes i don't know what it takes to do what he did because i lived in saudi arabia in fear for the years at the dia i was thinking you know they might come and kill us and kill my family with me in the palace and everything so i don't know what kind of fear it is he has a different feel because he cannot trust anybody you feel under threat from that but it is for the british the saudi dorcas how distant what would be killing me this is how it is i didn't do anything i'm not political i only wanted the money i created myself so in in. is known that justice is. being

a prick. and then killing it is new and i mean it's just. like so why would he put himself and then he's not that good that he wasn't good ups and also made his money without the law and all that stuff and i'm sure we don't know and older i don't know that much old look to sudden you know his good at that good as i say this i don't know what i do with that meanwhile that would be. to be advised. so i guess not fair and b s to be it's not non-self and b s if he did get. so your money and it just fitted mine i think in my opinion he shouldn't have been critical and b s john thank you that's of the show will be back on saturday with respect to call the line a veteran of the struggle for irish unity about whether brooks it means the end of a devoted to dial in digital then he was touched by social media will be back on

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