so how about in the collapse of 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 and 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 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 a very clear and all of its commitments in the mons with regards to moving forward with the. stuff we're here at as very dangerous and i think it's very dangerous for these agents and talk was you know the day 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 little 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 lism that you go elysian strew in a sense well everybody'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. unite to listen to what you see which we haven't figured to feel to me that's a work in progress nasa tractor or what we're doing meaning these people can do what they want to me that's hoover dam and they can do we're not going there figure and then these 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 it'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 is no day and then it's a judy 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 says it's down to the saturday of state on the ticket friday agreement sort of bluff their way through a question related actively talking about the do you bring 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 perhaps a line down the irish sea the creeping independence of. including the six counties and you're doing nothing i wouldn't say we're doing nothing i mean we met the streets of miami page in european parliament are fading on

a day and daily basis for three cards to work on with all the european states printed pressure on the british government as our ammi are t.t.'s and their houses rail 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 as input and teaching with 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 for tax packet we are on the packet we are in the end 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 that tranda is going to thrash them or a lot of people want to see hadn't really united and i think that's a very important step but the people who built the lever that will be people now as people themselves 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 the issues that they've been dealing with even when they were in government in the northern bryant they are clearly and of themselves you look at some of the our hitch i inquiry with regards to big potential i suppose 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 it do you pay that do you people plan their way through a whole lot of things their rackers 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 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 negs and 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 that the u.p.a. are afraid of they don't want equality they are the riders they are the ones who are doing damage to the north iran 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 can do that i mean i don't want to interfere in british politics i'm irish and i said isn't even. the irish for me it's a foreign parliament 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 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 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 administer has a little bit of oil a sort of united ireland never because we are fighting for your head around and that's exactly where we are and exactly we will deliver that ok well i think drazen may get 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 party is you cheerlead brussels at the moment well 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. 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 north of around fifty six percent of those people for to remain. and the european parliament and i think that photons to be respected i sure do 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 it or do you think about their own just being of the issue of border in the north of i think a problem don't understand it they don't even realize they sure manny how many of them how many might they speak to the people haven't even fears of the borders of the don't even make a very holy hell i'm going to vote no that's not 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. no you go show not just shows you the state of the tory party my point is that they should be engaging with people they should listen up and i have

a lesson i don't really think so but the european parliament taz listened and they i thought surely challenge the british government on this issue negotiations are still ongoing we were hoping for cardio save only my trees and we didn't get that card so the on certainly 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 when many do. thank you after the break. the nation outrage following alleged we speak to the alleged former wife of the late king of saudi arabia about suing the british government. the royal pregnancies all weddings that no one's ever told just a full review of this week's top topical topic with me and. going overboard to have going on the growth.

he's gone into a nihilistic theme. i think. the travelling across america what makes america the charlatan is the genius of the south american hero this is a point around which element is gone so we always are on the edge of some. culture. we're starting last with. the beginning heading east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get any more than that we may be completely different in this. my seven years doing drugs my nephew. it was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in the prison population who

are we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill i can see. that the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for. sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by daddy as you're walking out of the business it's just it doesn't get easier. you know world a big part of the law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. 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 yes all of this piece in the guard which we're going to talk about this of names of fake i.d. . policeman. of knowledge of the subject yeah i know i know quite a few people who are witnesses of their inquiry i mean this list of organizations

which the undercover police inquiry or spike in organization to infiltrate 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 somehow the police thought they were worth investigating to the ridiculous the likes of the socialist workers party one of the sort of move groups in the u.k. that imaginatively about to take over the country of course i think massive interventions by the police and the guardian released these names of all these groups huge amounts of groups and it's kind of everyone's gone. little bit like 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's going on for years i suppose any of us who regulates those names should watch. what goes up to them so they want you to be their friend that's goes here from the questionable figure frank field indeed the all 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 says the women in his constituency upcoming 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 it 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 blades of the sex work 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 protein protein and it is the same move more people in work work with people have to properties on the side both the standard stock responses which she which she keeps getting but the wall. have been repeatedly given by charities and organizations of 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 delight of 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 you will 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 the non united tweeted that 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 grandfather 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 have 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 while an inquiry 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 deems lower than themselves unfortunately. judicial welfare to corporate welfare.

will try it out of the corporate world richard branson sir richard branson and so far i've a fifty two million pound virgin rylan stagecoach cry out this is the news that richard branson dividends of twenty six point three million for him the 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 on the top of 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 is made because these guys as a band we've been performing so well even though the 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. this was the profits were made of these cars made on of course we had the alleged corporate bailout by the taxpayer which was coast to 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 is that the east coast main line was a nationalized industry a nationalized main line up until the conservative started to sell it off again so . i have to say should it be another killing in this week saudi arabia nor much in the news about helping anyone in gaza at the moment instead is this i mean from one who are in the story to another so the saudi crown prince behind quota 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 mantras do you know they should. have been days i mean the matter was reported this. i think city reported as well so it's got a king over the sun i think it's got a 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 in interrogation gone wrong is what c.n.n. after scuppered 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 i think you have written nothing that we have no we don't sell them four point six billion worth of arms since twenty fifteen when the conflict began nothing to do with us but 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 though are going to look at another case raising questions of tereza maze liaison 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 rumi take a road even approach made by the foreign office to high court judge peter smith it concerns a twenty fifteen trial involving. ledged wife of the late king fired 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 journal 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 god. back on you won that case and the key as he says obliquely involve the foreign office you may will suddenly appeal when crown prince moment when solomon was here are being sold almost by the razor

a bit so what's the problem the foreign office having been involved in the prior case my legal team out a very decent they really believe that the. judicial system is completely independent and i always talk to the dispy people mentioning this in this program just go to bed it's really not what i think they need a little bit of care it's just a matter of the first time a queen's counselor in his career is in the foreign office. be calling him reaches me to hold my solace and get king god lives. so listen to the room in the middle of the court i'm sitting there with my son so he called the back to his room because that came too because mitt and said to him for an office is on the line so they went in because me towards very but it's too cold my. bet is still witnesses and this was the

third officer was somehow. telling because he shouldn't be harsh on the police to attend because because smith wanted him and 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 empathy well it might that is what is that is an evidence they have that fear and i looked at my my year legal people saying that the government is going to lean or to the word the saudis. and. lawyers had had it but that's an off the day discovered that it was true what i said there is no independence of but

it is in this country and i have to tell the british people that it is today it is and it. is now i have to call you lead. us on one thing that he owns his own nation which is fine that's his kingdom but to all own and be and affect it but it is just this and system it is really pathetic of course the british go to deny that they're in control of hosted by prince bin salmond decided to go 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 jamal because shogi in an embassy in turkey i'm sure you may. well let me just answer the first one regarding the way we have ben curtis on. when they could think because you know i don't know why it was this.

is how we get pins in one nine hundred sixty eight because where i come from saudi people did look at the good the petition of that they had this king so i would too 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 a suspected 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 a jew too would 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 that man and his high profile. at that time now for someone to commit an act of what he did not work and b s let me be very frank. i just want to differentiate m b s 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 the years at the gate 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 the british the british the saudi dorcas how distant what would be killing me this how would this i didn't do anything i'm not political i only wanted the money i created myself so in in. this norm that justice is. being treated 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 cleaned

that he wasn't corruption also made his money without the law and all that's not good and out so we don't know and older i don't know what all the percent then you know his critical as i say his idea of what i do with that meanwhile good that would be and you asked him to be is advice and b.s. so that's not fair on and b s to be it's not nice of m.b.a.'s if he really did commit that act so you're not an educated man i think in my opinion he shouldn't have been critical and be as much of this year will contribute to your favorite episodes as you were about for a brand new season of wins a generation that will then be tough enough for the social media is.

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