forces like the green party are basically marginalized and the consequence is that many people have concluded that the dems so-called democratic process in the us is irrelevant and therefore they vote by not voting because the d.n.c. often says it's not their fault it's either the russians facebook or perhaps more believably widespread reporting of voter suppression you're a cause in georgia why is it that us elections have these irregularities and accusations it doesn't happen in venezuela or iran well in that it doesn't and what we have in the us is a eight a decision made primarily by the republicans to engage in voter suppression because they believe i think quite correctly that any expanded. our participation levels among the working class will be of those that were probably picked up by the democrats therefore they have elaborated some very

sophisticated schemes to suppress the vote in georgia they have now taken as to the level of science in the sense that you had a individual who is running for the governor was also the secretary of state the office responsible for in essence organizing the elections and who has been accuse of being gauging and active botha suppression primarily of black voters he'd win at recuse themselves didn't that resigned his position and in fact has been primarily responsible for what we see as a systematic effort to undermine the black vote because we saw by wall street black lives a matter that you think in the face of that kind of accusations people are just going to move politics to the street where they have to move the politics of the street to the streets the idea that the electoral arena. represents the end all of

a political participation only plays into the hands of the do wobbly so even have one believes that the electoral arena is important that has to be also connected to non electoral to go participation so adding one's oppositions express. industries if you will a true political organization is vitally important and that's really the message that minibus tried to advance the idea that all politics in the u.s. should be confined just to the electoral arena only advantages the it to operate that does not represent the interests of the majority and certainly net of working class employed people in the united states of america because now the headlines shifted to the defacto firing of your attorney general jeff sessions what what exactly does an attorney general do because i mean he he told one ton of my last

year kept it open he was attorney general when the us was arguably illegally bombing syria militarily aiding the saudis in yemen who was jeff sessions with jeff sessions as part of the confederates a movement in the us he is clearly a white supremacist and a nationalist we believe who was brought into the trump administration to be the representative of the of the hire as a legal office in the land of the attorney general. she fell out of favor with chop of course because he recused himself from the the the rushing a process ma'am as a consequence he was targeted by the trumped ministration to be replaced as soon as the midterms were or are over but this is you know directly that office is tasked with the responsibility uphold the. holding us low but we know that the

enforcement of u.s. law has always been skewed toward the interests of the most powerful under for example eric holder there was no prosecution of bush administration arab officials who were involved in torture and there was no investigation of the bankers who crashed the u.s. economy so you know that office theoretically supposed to be in force the law and protect the interests of the people but him. to be reduced to a instrument of whatever party is in power at the moment well i'm sure sessions or denies a racist you might say he's a nationalist like trump proudly does say but now there's this caravan that trump was name checking all the time the un saying that the children show signs of mental anguish and distress would would donald trump really order u.s. troops to fire on children in the caravan of the mexican border well we have no

idea what he might attempt to order we don't believe that troops when in fact fire on and on armed. protesters even though truong said that any protester that had a rock there that protester should be considered to have a rifle we don't believe that that's going to happen. but again it is representative of the kind of politics that we see in front and center in the u.s. because they the discourse has moved away from from issues that are maybe more relevant to many people out to these wedge issues like this it is caravan so. this is part of the racial politics in the us and it's something that is going to be with us for the next few years and there's always a coverage in a caravan in the nato nations in britain. not very much about why people should

want to leave their homes and try and enter the u.s. automakers go border what about the united states much debate about u.s. foreign policy impact and as a catalyst for immigration. you know one of the one of the positive consequences of the of the caravan has been that within the u.s. people who are are attempting to try to understand why people are moving toward the u.s. border and as a consequence people are looking at the conditions in these various countries and they're hosing some serious questions and that allows us to provide answers so we can be splendid people they want a reason why you have such a large number of people who are leaving honduras and coming to the u.s. is as a consequence of u.s. policies in honduras they gave it the green light under the obama administration to a anti-democratic crew in that country we can talk about what happened in el

salvador and guatemala to talk about our economic policies in mexico that have destroyed the mexican economy or force people into into the cities and in and to migrate up toward the north so the people begin to understand that the interests of working class people and poor people in the u.s. are very similar to the answer as a working class or people in central america so the sort of internationalist perspective is now developing more as a consequence of this caravan and think and the kinds of questions a people are raising so it's been a very i think positive an unintended consequence of this is a situation and just briefly there's been a lot of talk of identity politics optimism about the new congress do you think if not class politics. and do you think that muslims in congress for the first time

going to make any difference as regards u.s. policy on israel well i suspect not i do think that if if some of those individuals take a very strong line that would be helpful but you know ones as to your race i had nothing to do would one's political stance so as to be a very lonely a task if they are not able to bring more individuals within the democratic party in line with real support for a palestinian rights real support for putting a brake or u.s. policies in the so-called middle east responsible for the destruction of various nations in that part of the world. the task still is trying to move one of those parties to it is issue where they will be in opposition to the

permanent wards end of both parties very difficult task but one of which they're going to have to take on in conjunction with those of us who are outside of the. well who understand that it's vitally important for us the people that put a brake on us policies that are responsible responsible for the death and destruction of millions of people around the world and have a brag a thank you well pleasure after the break i had a job or a singapore summit riaz the u.k. government's adviser on china with a britain can be part of any bold brics future it has again on from the headlines the cold should truth about the iraq invasion and the tory twists of ignited and the bait about the taste told us about going to have about two of going underground .

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welcome back to me not good news on the week's papers a book us from former liberal democrat member of parliament lembit. lembit what he think of the midterms at least the attorney general is gone should be better for russia not sure about that but it's some expired somehow trump gains votes because more people voted for him we have those particular areas where he campaigned so in that sense maybe he's an electoral genius but on the other hand the last house of representatives as we always say we haven't really got a clue what's going on it's too close to call and who really cares executive orders of the way forward and said that's representative democracy anyway let's go to this horrific joke which made the papers all this week with different spin the age of joseph yes politics as exclusive graham felt our effigy burning group members conservative party links revealed the former speaker of the house bernard

weatherall who's not with us anymore he was the chair of this group the. this bunch who who burnt an effigy of grenfell tower on bonfire night that's fifth of november in. exceptionally bad taste now this is caused a big for already and there seem to all fewer than the toxic soil stories in the royal behavior of kids in jersey let alone the rehab of the jewels of a it's not that big yet but the issue here is a bunch of idiots did this in the fast pace and then we discover they can so the conservative party are involved in this as well only by proxy but that makes it embarrassing suddenly it becomes a national story there's no doubt it's tasteless whether they should go to prison for it or not it's a debatable point in as a conservative nor they took down the pictures of the members involved in the sex they have and these guys now in hiding as well so whether it's legal or not i think this is a big no no don't do this kind of thing if you want to be respected and if you don't want to bring your own political party into disrepute i don't think many

people would think of doing this sort of thing they did well it's a tragedy those go into a poet well professor benjamin zephaniah says in his own words i have absolutely no interest in this job i won't work for them they oppress me they upset me they are not worthy i write to connect with people i have never felt the need to go via the charts the state or the monarchy to reach my people no money freedom or death is talking about being laureate he's been tipped as a successor to that position and he say no way not interested don't want to do it don't like the empire so he's turning down a potentially influential position now the counter argument is why not find it from the inside why not take this position he's not even a year going for the poet laureate becomes vacant i can neither confirm nor deny ash i mean he said he wouldn't even take the order of the british empire which some . fake he did turn an o.b.e. into a no b. and that was quite a big statement too because it's quite an honor if you like that kind of thing he

is distancing himself from anything colonial turned on and let's go to the man who . deals in malaysia or dollars over here of us does day yes here's another irony afshin the times reports european army can protect us from u.s. policies as marked on short version is simple trump invades your well not exactly if trump or putin invade europe he thinks that having an independent european army gives us the independence to fight alone against the russian threat and potentially against whatever's coming from america today doesn't define that threat is the irony then he goes and marches parades for peace and armistice day with wait for it putin and trump that would be an interesting conversation maybe the e.u. will protect iran after all you leaders are opposing trump on the iran deal and their parent leave the european union is saying that they go ahead with all this i think i'd have heard reminded us that this would be happening and it was always denied this go into our intelligence services our security state and on it goes the

canary reports m i six knew that the key source justifying the invasion of iraq was tortured but used his intelligence anyway now this is a dark story turns out and it's not surprising to me but some of the evidence used to not surprising to you when you were a member of parliament who thought that there were torturing people for evidence i thought they were torturing people we knew this but it was just swept under the carpet it was an inconvenient truth british media not to report this kind of thing at the time of course i didn't know about this individual but the whole of the iraq war justification was riddled with an accuracy with untruths with misconceptions and deceptions turns out it also was riddled with torture we have no evidence that that continues to this well maybe not but this man was called the cook who mysteriously he died in a libyan prison apparently he committed suicide question marks on that too we'll never really know the full story here but we do know that his his confessions were maintained under torture and as they say you can get people to talk but you can't

get the truth by causing the pain of it over thank you. well. tomorrow's brief trump meeting in paris leaders from russia china india japan and the us will next week convene with the commonwealth nations in singapore to chart out a new world order of trade advising the u.k. government on china and britain's department of business energy and industrial strategies as professor usually joins me now thanks so much for going on the show everyone in the world arguably talks about the trump trade war will that be a focus of the ends meeting in singapore. not the director utopias a focus a hiver there will be topics that the relevant because. as a country so we are already there you address me caused by this trade a war i have to ask you given that you've been advising the government here why is to raise or may maybe not lean folks at the meeting i mean maybe at the apec

meeting in papua new guinea i'm not sure but surprise that britain hasn't got a strong delegation there because of life yeah back to the u.k. and the china already have a very very close relationship and u.k. has already a try its best to attend the most significant event i know you can even have or foreign secretary whose wife is a chinese over here if you watch say this day by day the b.b.c. . have read the press when they're running a story china is burdening perhaps africa with debt bloomberg asking whether china is on the road to hell with its debt why do you think there are so many articles and of course you're also with the business school here in. what do you make of the media coverage always and it's been doing this for ten years pointing to the fact that we shouldn't think china is that big a deal or any of anything china has

a severe problems if you look at the fact that. africa counts for half china. china is only taken maybe very good to be a one or two percent and actually it's the countries or other financial institutions out to really give a burden to african counters economy and they already are not told for resources over this country because those countries could not afford to pay with or however if you look at china main purpose is to help the development of those country certainly and get their resources but then what do you make of the attacks on china i mean usually the human rights or is it the fact that we shouldn't really consider china as a strong economy even now ten years of foreign policy magazine say or the

economist magazine would say don't exaggerate china's importance i think this is because that china is quite to be honest compared to its already saving the largest economy. china is quite a modest compared to us china very friendly developing the strategy on the to help other us and it's not the two countries are the us and china do not already use the military force or start wars ok so in this way maybe people think of china are not that powerful that's because of china trying to be our friend but we now get even reports of china creating islands i know that china is surrounded by nato nations military but we also get now images of china being the warlike country as well there are many. issues that the

remaining to be solved under this is seen to many other countries by the china trying to resolve all the usual so we see the surrounding countries peaceful but britain didn't. publicly back to the belton road massive keynesian infrastructure system in africa asia europe did you tell the british government they should publicly back it why did they not because of things like military or. i think because it's. a different the political system compared to many western countries rather than to our money for the country. and actually you u. k. is a quite a supportive you know last year. bet on the road to. china. or to china it's time for you. at the moment a terrorist mysterious than the most important officer under her

leadership i believe is out just like a terrorist to me said. you golden era hugh to be hung sed to a new level c. because russia and china are now considering cross border payment systems hundred billion dollars of trade in twenty eighteen you don't think washington will be telling downing street even while you tell the business here it's really dangerous this because they're cutting out the dollar from international trade well i think many ours are comes from apart from us maybe even support of these because they would like to see who powerful countries rights are only one powerful countries so just like a you many countries the as is the reason why they want to create your royal is because out there was a counter is that because the really maybe it's better to give up using dollars

yeah m.f. of course is backed by washington money and has quite a track record in half. i think maybe you were alluding to that institution with respect to africa yeah. china. perhaps risking an international financial crisis maybe more because of the debt do you think we should the code statements made by some major nations when they criticize china i think for china to have a system no matter its economy. and this may be. history is out you can see there is a population during the process i think a wish for the gave the chinese government more support rise of more criticism because even for us government as there are not criticism even us creators so much

trouble for the word press or usual thank you thank you and that's it for the show we'll be back on monday with revelations of another p.r. spinning for saudi arabia in twenty four hours after the hundred year anniversary dramas just a hip hop artist and i just know he will explain how world war one paved the way for a century of u.k. u.s. conflict until then you can judge by social media it was your money forty nine years to the day that the bulk of major initial claims about syrian use of chemical weapons seymour hersh broke the story of the me like massacre in vietnam. in twenty four you know bloody revolution future demonstrations going from being peaceful protests to be creasing the violent revolution is always spontaneous

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it's. not. insults are put aside after a twitter rout over a mooted european army as the french president warmly welcomed that donald trump to paris for the centennial commemorations of the first world war. more divisions emerge in the u.s. this time over a video involving c.n.n. reporter jim acosta some claim and the material was a doctor in order to justify the banning of the journalist from of the white house . and outcry as in saudi arabia posts a tweet in support of a yemeni chill yemeni children where the u.n. warns tens of thousands die every year as a result of the.