the highlights of scott will be since its inception twenty years ago celebrate the events and spread the united states and canada have a new york still colorful displays place a premium on. display at the parade of. the scottish kilts is a cool choice of where not just the size of the bag foremost among them to be himself a former grand marshal for the parade. coming in vin diesel and how. he makes kilts for the twenty first century. evolution of. tell us what. i'm trying to kill. every day before. and. after the jacobite rebellion.

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else i'm tired it was great fun it certainly is a celebration of all things scottish which of course takes us on to carnegie hall which also i think you maybe sang a song or two alex perhaps when you got there a celebrated one of the editors. and that's the first of a programmes on the contribution of scots to modern america we start here in the the whole built by under committee was a great claim to be the most influential of all scots on modern america he became the world's richest man for honest and devan ruthless and bishan and i think proceeded to almost invent the concept of one for peace and gave his fortune away because in the precepts of undercover niggas fear if he dies rich dies shamed what absolutely stunning they need to figure ever get the chance to play a pretty good haul at the alex salmond on the shore perhaps africa in general fun to score the tell you the american who should or should do the curator of the the

rules museum as cold as collected hundreds of thousands of committee exhibits over the over the last twenty years or so but the jewel to the grid story if that business for some whole he actually had a part time job as a student in the one nine hundred seventy s. and the very first steve's and we're in the gods the very first the ellis fitzgerald was singing so after the show no more mobile phones in these days almost after the show he phoned his dad instantly and a bit of my job that can make a whole i've been paid i have been paid to listen to ella fitzgerald his dad said well that's a job for you gina and he's still there were for me a re or for service well lovely story what a great job to have in fact i went to work carnegie would have thought under. was that the richest man in the world i mean proportionately much richer than all the dotcom billionaires these days he was by far the richest man in the play. and then

when he retired he proceeded to give away his entire fortune to fight so big was his fortune he had trouble finding things to to give it so i think. the show with good food was not spent command scotland's great reputation of the answer as you do for scott when the brand two cities in particular in scotland have risen very quickly first glasgow with their tourism branding slogan of people make glasgow which was developed by surveying hundreds and hundreds of thousands of glaswegians to come up with words that resonate with the local population so it's truly authentic as people make glasgow make glasgow that's right and then in the city of edinburgh the slogan is this is edinburgh which allows every citizen to contribute their own voice as edinburgh is doing now with the edinburgh twenty fifty project to develop the future of this this great city so from what you say

scotland has achieved a very strong brand identity and has a very high percentage of visitors to the local population is there anything else scotland should be doing from from your assessment is a something else that could be cutting through on yes indeed we should continue to evaluate and analyze brand perceptions of brand scotland but in addition we should not only listen with our head but also our heart it reminds me of when the scottish parliament building that beautiful iconic building or opened in edinburgh many years ago and edwin morgan wrote that wonderful poem open the doors he was the mark of the national poet of sad also correct and mr morgan's point resonated with the entire country so that today our tourism slogan is scotland is now and now it's all about opening the doors to everyone to say this is a welcoming caring sharing country. we invite you to join us the wonderful

professor joke or black protocol scotland a song of course we are proud to have them and we've covered a number of human interest stories one in particular that certainly caught my attention i think many of our viewers too was the story of the former presiding officer the scottish parliament to show market how she faced so much shit by city. you're very seriously ill when you were presiding officer and yet continue to impost with hope people will think be aware of just as soon as you can this was you were one of the first will publish the to be told by you but not nearly so close but how you confronted that illness and term and that you could still continue in post and the effect was preserved so you know it was important that i didn't tell anybody i was because it comes to the fight the it can't you witness and which are a key part known i was in the chair would have done two things it would of helped

bark from being as rough boisterous as the should be or second little bit take advantage of up and i just thought was really really important to keep law firm grip on it and normally we could do that with more telling anybody that's also of course the fear that i was not going to get better. very remarkable in a very courageous lydia are i was one of the very few people who actually knew how ill trisha was and yet she continued her juices as presiding officer a truly remarkable performance and all credit to her for that she was very clear in your questions the first female presiding officer of the scottish parliament wonderful achievement for her in that interview one of the things that struck me the most was what she said about being the first person from a state educated background that meant so much more to her but of course she's not retired at all actually she's in catalonia doing all sorts of things that is issues about the right for people to texas sized democracy which she feels as a presiding officer is the right thing to do but i think some model for what you

should do us the office of presiding officer your ex first minister to do all sorts of things television shows all that sort of stuff what's an ex presiding officer make speaker do but i'm going to the house of lords provides a fantastic example she's doing scotland proud and of course women in politics something again calls to her heart and of course this year marks one hundred years since women had the first rate to put there's been so many marches for women going on across the country i was delighted to interview helen pankhurst how much of an influence has been related to the leaders of the british suffragette movement had on your life how could you not be influenced by two thirds amazing people and you know carrying the surname it had to be part of what i did with my life and you know they were so amazing because of what they did in the past but the fact is that that still relevant today the issue of women's rights resonates through the ages so that name is not just part of history it's part of the present those quotes of interview want of you know what do you do when you've got i mean my prime cost and you're

also an activist in a campaign for for women's progress across a range of things but carving that family name must be quite sort of orange for helen pat christie's use the pad christine as best as she possibly can to raise that weight i said in a variety of issues moving from votes for women to getting women into parliament has been. quite a lot of antics over the past few months a problem women off getting into politics even lightly controversy is clay much the house of commons in the dying embers of thoughts of the year and not least that in the run up to christmas i think everybody was glad to pack up their bags and go home but the be back next week for the new year we'll see what that brings and also we'll see what's coming up after the break thanks well coming up after the break we'll move from that key issue into some of the other big issues we tackle issues like islamophobia and i'm to segment this a i'm for the book thomas and i will both be selecting our very very very few if the clips from two thousand and eighteen join us then.

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will guarantee that we will remember the holocaust and more importantly will remember the lessons of the holocaust isn't a tragic alec's that so many years after the second world war the world hasn't yet learnt to those lessons so we do need to educate a splendid chuck the the chief rabbi as i do have the privilege of serving with them in the holocaust memorial commission in one of the sponsible for planning the new memorial which is being built beside the the house of lords with its emphasis on education and that's it's not just bricks and mortar it's going to be about the education of the next generation on the hollow of the holocaust but of course the chief rabbi was really keen to talk about religious tolerance because we've had so much intolerance over the past year islam a phobia of course being a subject which we covered and of course at ramadan too we visited of course a central mosque in london after a month of fasting as ramadan twenty thousand approaches it sent in more than one

hundred fifty thousand muslims well have created over this month and it's celebrations are being planned we look at what it means that it's important to muslims iran. the world's. most important because have been many many programs a couple of anti semitism in the labor force to this last year but not so many of covered islam a phobia on the conservative part of course by the sight of r.c. has raised this issue on a number of occasions and that month was also taken up by her fellow at large she wrote to the prime minister about this very issue the conservative party is going to do to tackle in fact she spoke to her cheek on the green lawn chair welcome to the show you have the conservative muslim member of the house of lords recently you've written to the prime minister expressing your consent about as lama for within the party what provoked you to do that unfortunately i believe that islamophobia does exist now within the conservative party of troy to deal

with the matter. by writing to the present prime minister the previous prime minister as well as have spoken to the c.c. h.q. . but unfortunately we have not received the right to reply and no positive action has been. i believe the party should accept. that there is a problem let's come off his high horse of the denial. of the answer to the semitism in islamophobia is education and building bridges but it wasn't just bridges you were building i wasn't just building bridges alex i was building ships and talk about the future of ship building in our city part of cities on it of all the great names of british shipbuilding perhaps harland and wolff is the most famous of all it's not the largest ship boats in the world it's certainly both the world's largest ships with the olympic class including the titanic partly launched in the belfast jetty before the great war the decline of the country much that's

a british ship boating as a whole with effectively the entire industry not confined to military orders with little presence in any commercial shipping markets a world market now worth some two hundred fifty billion dollars. you know those a bit more to that clip as mean as you were extolling the future the shipbuilding to the camera i was don't stopping the people from the family who just landed coming through your door so this queue of people getting off from suspecting a ferry in the thames and i would let them off and tell you for the strip model well they're all a bit of a corporative thanks them all but at the same time that bridge is actually moving backwards and forwards and those who are more distant will have moved from trying to state the law by doing that that delivery there but only we also met with the wonderful people of ferguson shipyard to increase that you've got to do a piece of the thames and i got to go back to school. if you look here very no with

unfair costs and we have our own three hundred people but as the knock on effect about highs in the local community we bring in security back to these ploys well the good jobs that will create here which then gives the forward truth about people buying houses and will clear with the schools the local community well sticking to transport we've moved of course from ship building to trains and the future of real across united kingdom and especially of course h.s.t. what we've got to speak to some of the campaign has been at the end of the day i think people are just looking to get on their journey as quickly as possible for it to be on time but as it is interesting to see is a space where i actually changed my mind with a three part series on a few so there was and some of the campaign was my eyes to change my mind on the chance to. london commuters from the plush bottles of the size the stuffing would be uniting in solidarity with one of the most militant trade unions in the country they have had enough of highfields nightmare of germany's trade so overplayed that

even the leader of her majesty's opposition can't get a seat for love their money what brings you of course all together you know residents of the bar of camden perhaps john can tell us what that means for you all intensity can steen this most you say all residents of country more we live in the area which is around euston station just to the north of the station and as you know the the new high speed line is on it's way into used them from the from the door so where are they in the firing line as it were they could very very easily move this departure point for the station and this bigger argument to say about employment and this huge travel. massive hub which is a great thing isn't actually essentially think about it we've already got connections into london we don't need this thing ramrodding it's way right you know you're saying that we should have started fast rail in scotland in the north of england where the whole absolute i think connectivity into london it is perfectly

good in fact we need to get congestion out of london we don't increase congestion it's to show it is much greater opportunities the nation to do develop the north more than another but the connection in the midlands and these precious little bits of our ecology for example in the urban environment is what i wanted to interested in this land grab and it is really an acceptable and for the greater good of our nation is environmentally disastrous and part of a year or maybe one from sort of the environmental to the environmental aspect you're concerned about affect an ecosystem plant animal life and indeed taking our de forest up and down the country and you know close the ecosystem they say they're going to build new ecosystem but it takes four hundred years you know to build an ecosystem so that's rubbish they close the very closed one and a half you know. eastern parks down the pollution is going to go sky high and really worried about the air pollution and climate earth is taking the government to court three times in the fourth time to the new parliament i've gone to our

house which is part of the un environmental division and you know but they're not compliant they don't want to get so when they got the dreaded news you know that this was you again closed down i think you didn't leave any of the stop buying good no no the last weekend we had a party where we drank it dry and anything left in this place would want more and more students the story of the pub been named after his daughter the fact that the way that aspect of the wheat communities have been treated grown euston station by the chance to development is very moving stuff and just out of the persuaded me for the arguments of the campaigners that perhaps fast till the time it was built will be technology of the past that's what really told me was certainly a very moving interview that i wish all of his family well i'm sure we all too at the show but there have been or there must've been some high points of two thousand and eight what was your what's your favorite clip the favorite place of being to interview i think the because i thought i'd been to the clip

a bit to see how much the suffering from some struck during this clip so the substrate wasn't pleasant to be able to finish the clip was a triumph over the song the rock of gibraltar but strived for the world as britain's course to the point of the europe part of the iberian peninsula to start me here i've only twelve miles from the top of africa each of these factors have had a substantial influence in making up their divest communities of this fascinating territory one thing's for sure both period my identity has been forged and plains of adversity that's going to stand up in good stead and interesting times ahead. well that was tape twenty five and. i was sure that day to his playing that i have like so much it was a triumph trust me. what is your favorite subject of favorite clip i thought it might be really really difficult to choose a clip or sees of clips of the most to me over the past year but i think the c.d.'s we did on the one cast you had

a profound impact to me it because i didn't know enough about it and i learnt so much but b because of the people that we met along the way let's just take a look at some of the back into the show. the great naval disaster and british history with the loss of life was great the. lusitania had come by. barely remember. what it is just a few miles off the port side and see them. on the seventeenth of june one thousand four hundred one castro was sung with a minimum loss of four so the belly of a moment so interesting program for remembrance day which on the history of the cost we speak to the last few remaining survivors who speak to the relatives of those who perished and those who survived to speak to the campaign those about the long struggle for remember i would try to answer the question of why the greatest naval disaster in british history has been confined to the vaults of history. you

know the sea the sea is cruel but perhaps not quite as cruel as those who have denied remember the so many seventy eight you. talk about your medal so because you serve right through the what i can see the medal you say none was that. there was a long couch or missouri well to me. it would delight to have a medal that signifies a letter. although you can watch as our somberly told me their order version in scotland not just. though everybody was given one house you want to apply well it just so happens that one with me and with great pleasure so you. must be asleep very narrow engineers

my privilege to present as you are that is really. horror are certainly are pretty high. for yourself now on very pleased i'm here to talk to a paper about talking so well or love. this privilege. the lovely i miss beasley there receiving maids or probably and it was just the most wonderful moment for him and for miss family hundred one years old one of the lancaster survivor is an amazing experience one i'll never forget and treasure forever well ever speciously one hundred one years young as you rightly say it was a dozen not just of the most moving moments of the you also told that joke of the year because believe me does every single faculty. come to town. in fresno and nine do not know me but.

they want you. well normally would climax a new year's show with more song song in the plaza all blind sign something tells me that has another button song among the buttons in mind well we're going to hear from my favorite thing our vibrance is going to play a fight with international anthem of equality a man's a man foot or that so from the spin of myself and everyone at the show it's a good new year and good bye for now. this the. week. we do. it or.

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a german company develops in the denied a drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy and. it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby anything. you know she said is just. minutes of it a mind victims have to this day they received no compensation they never apologized for the suffering that not only want the money i want the revenge. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that profile in the spot place the phone book of the. book had any interrogation out there what you'll see

is threat promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make the most comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said if i would. say on the statement that i will be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with all their crime. they're bred for a single purpose. they have a supermoon. they start training very young. eight months of intensive school. rats. and they saved lives.

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