right. the old country philadelphia headquarters called sky news that literally embedded in what looks like a saudi helicopter and all the while everyone with any sense knows that yemen is not just a saudi issue here is even a senior adviser to the neo liberal brookings institute admitting it is a jury's a major issue if the united states of america and the united kingdom tonight told king solomon this war us to and would and tomorrow but can oppose breaks it u.k. tails saudi arabia want to do for that matter can oppose breaks that you can't even tell them what to do and will oppose bricks and you can even be the u.k. someone who met with u.k. minority government needed to raise money for urgent bricks and dogs on monday was the m.p. who represents gerry adams old seat of west belfast mask he joins me now well 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 where her government has had to be also use that 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 but 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 well i mean if you speak to a majority of people in the north of and they will tell you who you fall here because number one their practice here is there for a pro rata tears they're also against equality for men ever said dozens you know there's only people of my that don't have equal rights for people sure i want to get well just sort of out of the glass so that in a second but you know what you told it like it's a very important point because what we told her is that she is in partnership. we have to be who have racked the cold in the north of iran and who 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 t.t.p. do not represent the majority of people in north and in fact they represent a minority of people i mean we fear along with all their parties are absolutely and the majority with regards to remain and i think that's a very important point because you could create fraidy agreement as i was if i clear and all of its commitments in the mons with regards to moving forward with the. stuff we're here at. i think it's very dangerous for these agents and thought was you know the do you piece as it's up for the millions that voted for bricks it but you must be aware that even in northern irish media let alone in the republic that some people are 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 listened. that you go elysia it's true 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 i mean how would you i mean she in vain is failed to unite. unite to listen to what you see which we have been feeding feel to me that still work in progress nasa track 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 then please politics but the reality is that chen feehan republican i have been a republican all my life i have been arguing and debating for the 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've turned 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 then

a judean 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 says it's down to the saturday of state on the ticket friday agreement sort of bluff their way through the question is are they actively talking about the do you bring down the supply and call for the 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 perhaps a line down the irish sea the creeping independence of. including the sixth season you're doing nothing i wouldn't say we're doing nothing i mean we met the. european parliament are fading on a day and daily basis for three cards to work on with all the european states britain a pressure on the british government as our ammi paced our t.d.'s and their houses we owe her fate on a day and daily basis if you look at the press statements from what's has been

relationship over the last here i mean many of them have been on projects not only on certain dates but also what we have done and that's about engaging with european states is important teaching with the british government has been gauging at their home and kids in the saddle and i think that's where we're trading our wage rate three all those different issues to ensure that number one is that we create trade agreement as protagoras attack that we are on the packet we are roomy and we believe that actually comes in and it has a dark consequence for these agents republicans hammered as a republican i'm opposed to portrush i don't support it and i see i don't study to want to see one on the environment good friday agreement say that if polls show the dream vacation. would be a likely outcome of a referendum then it must be taken absolutely and that's down to the sacristy it to call out and i. i look at recent polls and polls are only polls but if you look at the recent polls in recent times they hadn't that the trans is going to thrash them or a lot of people want to see hadn't read united and i think that's

a very important step but the people who will deliver that will be people as people themselves you know how where i'm sure you must be of strategic blunders made by the republican movement in the past 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 the issues that they've been dealing with even when they were called in the nor the parents they're clearly on of themselves you look at some of the our hitch i inquiry with regards to big potential i suppose mismanagement of budgets from the executives if you look at all that stuff not required on one of the moment if you look at so many scandals that are there with it do you pay the people on their way through a whole lot of things they are rockers and that's exactly what. they do do but this inquiry we have new date really an installment which is the back bone over the good friday agreement is not meeting your expected ever to really meet again will

restart 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. already this year and the day you can you are negron that friday 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 reneged on it 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 going to 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 part and i also cardillac it and got the largest food 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 the news 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 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 because we

are fighting for united and 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 near liberal policy is you cheerlead brussels at the blue barrel where we're not cheerleading and i think we have with europe and we have steered them right here to you over many years in fact are for i mean peace across a environed well. but we do believe that it is important that we remain because to fix it and then you better fix it then i think it's very important because the people and this is done to people the people north of around fifty six percent of those people for to remain and the europe. and part of 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 will and just for me i know you don't go into the house as we lose but when you watch conservative m b's baby blairite labor m.p.'s on television talking about bricks it or do you think about their own just standing of the issue of border in the north of i think a problem don't understand it they don't even realize they sure none of them have any money to speak to the people haven't even fears of the border so they don't even take a very hell i don't know that's next i want to put it down but we can talk about that all day for it to be the big story that political a political show not just shows you the state of the tory party my point here is is that they should be engaging with people they should listen up to now i have a lesson i don't really think so but the european parliament has listened and they are factually challenge the british government on their safety negotiations are still ongoing we were hoping for. we didn't get that card so the uncertainty out

there is causing major mayhem right across these agents and i think it's unfair as on foreign businesses and on foreign communities and song for all of our people when we don't know what we need to know and many do paul maskey thank you after the break. the nature of nation outrage following alleged saudi murder and we speak to the alleged former wife of the late king of saudi arabia about suing the british government could we know the royal pregnancies all weddings that no one told just some boring review of this week's top topical topic with me and. told them all going overboard to have going on the ground. seemed wrong. but i. just don't. i mean the world to get to shape out these days to come out to and in again trade because betrayal.

when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. i never had to worry about how i would eat and where i would sleep. i'm facing christmas alone on the streets of london. you know the city still give out food for the homeless. but you don't really feel like human beings you know. and then. the guy just came over to me so me in gave me this book.

welcome back well joining me now to go through some of the week's papers is journalist and writer for the u.k.'s leading independent news site the canary steve told paul steve welcome back away from bricks it yeah i saw this piece in the guardian which we're going to talk about this of names of the policeman and you have knowledge of the subject yeah now i know quite a few people who are witnesses there inquiry i mean this list of organizations which the undercover place inquiry or spike in organizations about infiltrated it is quite staggering i mean it goes from the kind of sublime of a community group in leeds who got a small grant of the government and some other place all their wealth involved 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. it's a very small story but of course the big question with this is what on earth are they doing now behind our backs that we don't know about because it was going on for years i suppose any of us who regularly uses names should watch or. someone goes up to them so they want you to be their friend that's goes for them here from the questionable figure frank field indeed the oh i'm going saga here so universal credit is forcing women into prostitution says frank fails i mean this universal credit story just gets rolling on and on and on and on and on the story here is that frank failed says the women in his constituency upcoming so desperate that they quotes going 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 been there says the maguey in his blood to the sex worker the question was the there were lots of jobs for the ladies indeed there was and that was a standard reply she was giving in parliament on monday when she's being probed and probed improved and it is the same number with more people in work what looks people have to properties on the side both the standard stock 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 and 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 a guy in a store that just rumbles on and on so when fellow united tweet. we've written to officials in light of the guardian story reporting toxicity readings on soil tested around. we're calling for a public meeting so the story behind this is that some of the professors written to public health in glens saying that so samples from around ground five have been tested and they contain carcinogens cancer causing toxins including college and saw annoyed 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 have been working in there there's going to be a nurse to move back yet and so when 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 evidence of toxins 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 i mean when you we had the stories in june of this year that one hundred residents were still not really housed together after the fall and you 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. try it out of the corporate world richard branson sir richard branson and a far i've a fifty two million pound virgin violent stagecoach cry 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 wrong doing well wrong doing 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. and is that these are the dividends that the company is made because these guys as a band we've been performing so well even though the fischel figures show that east coast main line had the highest number of delays and twenty sixteen seventeen but that's irrelevant to richard branson obviously. yet this was the profits were made of these guys made on of course we had the alleged corporate bailout by the taxpayer which was east coast main ones companies virgin and stagecoach and their contracts 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 they see is that the east coast main line was a nationalized industry a nationalized main line up until the conservatives started to sell it off again so

. i have to say she's been a lot of killing in this week saudi arabia nor much in the news about helping anyone in gaza at the moment instead of this i mean from one her and story to another so the saudi crown prince behind quote a murder of dissident journalist lines up it for manchester united with cochairman avrohom delays are due to fly to middle east next week despite international for you know absolute confirmation we actually. principle had been daid i mean the matter was reported this i think city reported as well so it's got taking over the think into this kind of speculation and 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 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 ago nothing though 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 it's good to hear thank you. well as 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 its not for u.k. backed alleged atrocities in yemen but the alleged murder and dismemberment of a saudi journalist we there are going to look at another case raising questions of to raise amaze liaison's with the oil rich 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 counsel really take a road even approach made by the foreign office to high court judge peter smith it concerns a twenty fifteen trial involving. alleged wife of the late king fired vs 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 john hour 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 governing back on you won that case and the key as he says obliquely involve the foreign office you may have more sudden appeal when crown prince moment when solomon was here are being sold arms by the resume but so was the problem the foreign office having been involved in the prior case my link it came out of that he said they really believe that. this is.

and i always go back to the british people mentioned in this. program just go to bed it's really not what i think. just a matter of the first time a queen's counselor in his career is in the foreign office. calling him. teaches me to hold my soul is good and good king god lives if. so listen to the room in the middle of the court i'm sitting there with my son so he called the baddest as to his room because that came too because mitt and said to him for an office is on the line so they went in peek assessment towards betty but it's too cold my. bet is just to witness this and this thought an office was somehow. telling because that he shouldn't be harsh on the police to attend because peter smith wanted him in contempt of

course you know to prove the exact conversation because it's a private legal conversation in that case though you say you plan to sue the british government to perception here that the foreign office may have. not to me have they have interfered well it's my bet is that what that is in advance they have interfered and i looked at my my year legal people saying that the government is going to lean to the word the saudis and. lawyers had had it but that's an afterword when they discovered that it was true what i said there is no independence of that but it is just i mean in this country and i have to tell the british people that it is true that is and they said you two were saudis now i have to call gets you lead. us on one thing that he owns his own nation which is fine

that's his kingdom but to own and be l. and affect it but it just judicial system is is really protecting of course the british government in a way that they're in control of hosted by britain's been solomon decided suppose claim you never were a royal wife at all the saudi. is now saying that they do not say they had any role in the alleged murder and dismemberment of democracy in an embassy in turkey i'm saying you may. well let me just answer the first one regarding the one we had and then it cut is on. when they could think because you know i don't know why it was for me to marry a 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 this king so i would do had like four to five wives and in the petition i did it because i love my

mine and i respected him and we had respect at his wife who he is the mother of his eleven children and i agreed with him that i had gotten that it's in secret that 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 up and so i saw a man and his high profile then at that time now for somebody to commit an act of what he did not work and b s let me be very frank. i just want to see it and be as has since he started this sort of reform he is in danger at the 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 three years at the d.

i was thinking to go to mike to 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 theory because he cannot trust anybody you feel under threat. from the british to the british the saudi dorcas how distant the world would be kilometers how would this i didn't do anything i'm not political i only wanted the money i created myself so in in. this norn that justice is. being it and then killing it is noon i mean it's just great just. at like so why would he put himself and then he's looked at that he wasn't a good option also made his money without the lying all that stuff and we don't know. much only percent then you know his as i say this idea what. that

would be and this came to be is advice. so i guess not fair. to be it's not. as if he didn't get that. and. i think in my opinion he shouldn't have been critical and b s well that's it for this year will continue to show your favorite episodes and you will be back for a brand new season on wednesday january bill then you can talk to us on a show show media you should. know a lot of crazy things people tell. twitter icing and occasionally somebody pops up with something really really interesting.

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