perhaps they should go back and listen to donald trump before the arguable u.s. deep state got to him he has aligned with russia and with the rest they don't want to isis but they have other things because we're back in we're back in rebels we don't know who the rebels are we're giving them lots of money lots of everything we don't know who the rebels are and when and if and it's not going to happen because you have russian you have iran now but if they ever did overthrow assad you might end up with as bad as assad is he's a bad guy but you may very well end up with worse than assad well this time to resume unlike blair brown and cameron failed to militarily over there an arab government but arguably she has been successfully trying to overthrow herself one long time opponent of neocon was the man who once had the biggest individual mandate in europe and livingston for his perspective on the current political chaos in britain he joins me now ken thanks very much covering back on so what have you made of this to raise i'm

a brix it agreement document well i can understand why pretty much everyone doesn't have much time for if you if you were one of those that wanted to vote to leave this deal broadly leaves us in the bound by will there always have to pay away money but we've given up our same rules all so for breakfast here it's a disaster quite a lot business is say you live with this we need to stand damaging if we leave but the simple fact is i it's not for you had david cameron decide to call a referendum on this without bothering to get civil servants do some research on what would be the impact and so we've got the last two or two years of we starting from scratch trying to work your way around the simple fact is no i can't think of any other instance where a country has walked away from its predominant trading block so that i mean all these predictions about if you get big disaster or would it be really good no one knows no one's had been down this road no you put enough. if i just kind of being i

mean literally no we. i i've never known appeared in my knife where things have been sometimes in our politics i mean if i want to get on to the split in labor the between corbin's people in the old liberals argue with you think the tory party can still remain together given the current events over you i think there's a real prospect of a split i mean i think at the end of the night there were either if they do split they might be devastated as a general election i tell you when we had the labor party split back in one thousand nine hundred eighty two and a chunk went off to form the s.t.p. i.e. our boat was cut down to about twenty eight percent and then you go about twenty six cent fatter at a landslide so that that might although a lot of them actually can't stand each other they realise they they got to carry on together although be wiped out of the next election well i gave her going to go in a second but what about the dangers of an agreement like this being put in place who

knows drazen may in for another year and issues of state aid by the european union meaning that they called in government anyway wouldn't be able to nationalize water railways electricity and well the utilities people too. many of these institutions in other countries in europe on national life all one's owens are owned by now shares one i think a great ways round this but he said any what jeremy is always said i mean he voted to stay in but he's unhappy with the e.u. which bureaucracy its rules and so i think if we had a labor government i mean they're not going to vote she just walk away but they've got a vote you know we want reform open it make it accountable democratic what you can't have a soldier you are bureaucrats telling jeremy corbin e can't renationalise the runaways but that's exactly what presumably they will be telling him to back he will throw out ways that might be an interesting comfort.

breaks it off to the there will definitely be voting for breaks or maybe what about this blitz then in labor the sort of parliamentary polity that does. favor mere liberalism versus what gerry corbin once. i think now. we've had forty years of neo divisions in sasha go in and we see it happen where the people who voted for brett sit in america because and manufacturing has been wiped out when forty years ago we had eight million jobs in manufacturing now we've got just two million and although we've got fairly high levels of employment most of those jobs are in secure why that's why people are angry and therefore labor government is committed to rebuilding and manufacturing good high tech high skilled jobs i is absolutely crucial one of the. aspects of the brics vote though is that no country has been allowed to leave

a little more you said no country has left thinking only book greece they voted in twenty fifteen to leave ignored island twice the denmark holland was ignored france was ignored isn't the point that near liberalism is in brussels and that's where the power is what that was part of such as influence i mean she moved much more towards the near deputy comics. and the legacy has been it's australia but i think also i mean the one thing we got right we didn't join the euro zone and you actually go countries like italy greece already struck in course a local team to a euro set effectively by germany which has an incredibly dynamic and strong economy. that was a big mistake. during the media's going as well about all these different issues i mean a to be expected that we'd be hearing a sort of soap opera about individuals you know dominic grab this and jacob riis

more but i i think there's a real problem with the british media which is either their own by extreme right wing billionaires like this and you get. actually just on the scow bridge where if you look at say the. b b c. it's all right centrist it wasn't keen on thatcher certainly not keen on corbin it might be old people like david allen and roy jenkins the sort of social democrats the liberals in the middle and i've suffered a lot of bias from the b.b.c. and so on as well over the years yeah generally called in the other day was called out rights of a n t c my eight was accused of being on this list channel which you would see has another i mean there was in the receipt in the evening david dimbleby didn't say anything even to say this was ridge's alliance and smears going on for the last two and a half years and it's quite interesting that you know i mean remember ajah queues

of saying it was a zionist complete loan that it went around the world globally the simple fact is until jeremy coleman came leda in his forty five years important nearly a hundred forty five the needy forty's involvement no one ever suggested that jeremy is anti semitic any more than anyone did about may be calls we've campaigned to advise for tolerance we've oppose racism sexism and he semitism i mean when i was accused me and i said to journey in my ears a smear anti semitic incidents in london were caused by off on to boris johnson they doubled want you ask about why that was but these lies go on and on i mean it's. not just us i mean back in one nine hundred thirty three when president roosevelt introduced benefits to the unemployed the right wing press was saying it's the first step to communism and the nine hundred forty five election year churchill said if labor wins the intrusive you stop on the simple fact is if you

have a leader who's generally progress it is going to stop corporations doing away tax dodging crackdown on those billionaires that don't pay their fair share they will do anything to stop you getting in well some people would say that what you said about the media and its coverage of these things will be. being a bit lenient on them then the un is dreadful journey extreme poverty as we investigating the u.k. and this in the wake of the was benches press corps one hundred twenty thousand makes us deaths because of austerity you said that they kind of like roy jenkins lake. and of david o. and social democracy they didn't really go big on that story even in the immediate of the others present governments well i think it's quite interesting in the year after mrs thatcher was forced out of office panorama the b.b.c. documentary programme produced a programme out economic legacy it's never been shown because he is shows that it didn't really work things were worse off under thatcher than happened before the

same is true with this government starting with cameron he is ago we have seen the most devastating cuts in public services young people facing despair suicide rates going up this government has done more this government actually makes me see sacha look he main frankly any johns you'll be able to be back in the labor body and serve in a golden globe. basically when i lost to boris back in two thousand and twelve i felt you know i'm retired now and we had to lay very that i had miliband young enough to be my son i mean i always said to ed miliband anything you want me to do i'll do the opposite the same for jeremy and do you think the political battle within the labor party really isn't right is not only in the tory body in the labor party is a bit of a problem what about city on your successor as mayor of london do these thinking of trying to be leader of the labor party well maybe it's got to finish is merrill to

and then get back into parliament i mean literally i ate there isn't any a challenge to me because the two leadership elections we had generally one over sixty percent of the vote i know nobody else came close at all and still the senate supporting that our party for jeremy for the first. time in the sixty years we've got somebody that people see as an ordinary decent guy who came into politics to help people not just become a celebrity or get rich there was a thank you. just across the water from the u.k. involved war in yemen lies every trail what lies behind britain voting to drop sanctions against the red sea coast nation he was so larger than life his discourse was so full of not get some extraordinary instructions that when i go back to london after that ten days with school my life seems so small the newly jokes painting. going underground.

seem wrong why don't we all just don't call. me that yet to shape out these days as a kid and engagement equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. yes does. what i mean.

i mean. really i look so good with a movie can you see as you know in this case. that you're in the form of the media. almost humorous with the baby when it was in the mud almost nothing to do with many possibilities but while he mostly was a defense. hello my name's peter and i've been living in russia now for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've gotten through in the time. when

you get it. only because it is then there's the what you did. that got me. i still denied it but if. welcome back the u.k. has for years in forced sanctions against what is being one of the fastest growing economies in the world but within the past few days a british drafted resolution of the u.n.

security council has meant the ending of sanctions against the red sea coastal nation of eritrea in africa for more we're joined via skype from washington d.c. by sophia test from merriam who is on the board of the national council of n. chain america and sylvia thanks for being on what's it going to mean very trav that sanctions have been lifted exaggeration. there was falsely accused in two thousand and nine of supporting al shabaab. and disturbing the peace in somalia not accepting the t.f. g. and supporting the u.i.c. fighting alongside you i see an awful lot of unsubstantiated allegations are made then for the last nine years they haven't been able to come up with a single iota of evidence to prove those allegations it also gives the security council that stick you to hold sanctions o.e. out of face saving from the quagmire that they created for themselves why do you

think britain and other countries for so long accused eritrea of being involved with islam ists is it because of its geographical position crucial just over the over the sea from yemen as it were the horn of africa was already believe gold as an area that was a conflict the burden and a hotbed for terrorism and when you have here you know who's a client state that was a client state of the previous administrations. it was very easy to play into that global war on terror and it was pretty much a way of supporting if you. standing in the region at the same time instituting the global war on terror the policy on that in that area where if european served as the main country and partner in the global war and every chair was the scapegoat you claim ethiopia is a proxy of washington in that way what about human rights organizations that have

for so long and continue to say that eritrea must be boycotted must have sanctions arguably because of human rights violations in the country all of them played into that once every chair was labeled as a spoiler it gave every anti eritrean entity including here. the treasonous individuals that ran around bad mouth in eritrea and corrupt city of the media on the anti eritrea propaganda really helped to to to sway public opinion of course some countries are now wondering why this sudden shift in washington london other countries is this because of the war in yemen does it mean that every trans going to help or bomb yemen does i mean eritrea is going to take i.m.f. money privatizing will it industries and basically give up the revolution absolutely not earch and we had no conception in order to get these sanctions lifted she was

in compliance with the sanctions regime even though they didn't agree with it and even though they were fighting it for the nine years but they didn't give up anything to become to the for the sanctions to be removed and the peace and stability in the horn of africa and the peace between eritrean ethiopia was a direct result of the two countries that have nothing to do with the u.n. and the those who are not the reasons why it was sanctioned in the first place so i'm not sure why they're trying to tie the peace. here p.r.i. and the resolving of the. issue to the sanctions but their chair was wrongly sanctioned because it fit. the narrative that was being pushed for what the intended to do in somalia had everything to do with propping up the regime in somalia that they wanted had everything to do with supporting ethiopia mission in somalia and it had absolutely nothing to do with wrong doing obviously now that we're not under sanctions we will have more leeway to take care of some of our

domestic issues that are economically for sure yeah there's no a government in the conscription will end however and i've got to ask you mention propaganda britain of sanctions against russia by certain sanctions against china in other countries people may know how say a country like cuba withstood u.s. sanctions how did eritrea withstand sanctions from countries like britain and the united states for so long a share will power. it was easy nine years were very difficult for the people of eritrea they decided to concentrate inward and develop their country in the using their own resources and. by time so when the sanctions but we didn't sit idle just decided there was time to do even harder work so we managed to to work hard and achieve the millenium development goals when no other country in sub-saharan africa was able to do that we were able to build infrastructure develop

our roads develop our colleges build eight nine colleges graduate thousands and thousands of air chains from the various colleges so we didn't stop working to feed us for maryam thank you well in the usa hollywood is arguably always been propaganda for the wealthy and powerful even while destroying the lives of those employed by the ogre of showbusiness is the subject of a recently published book by the son of two hollywood icons joan collins and anthony newley that chronicles the alienation felt by those growing up in the spotlight the book is called unaccompanied minor and its author the artist alexander nearly joins me now alexander while. i'm going underground so arguably your paintings sure certain alienation about the show business world elite media spotlight is on what made you write a memoir as well when i felt that i was the guardian of this extraordinary treasure trove of memories about growing up as the son of these two incredible celebrities and born and i was born in the late sixty's in lived in beverly hills during the

late sixty's which is an extraordinary time in american film and i had just these all these extraordinary experiences you know riding on a motorbike with steve mcqueen and playing pool with james carleton and i just felt that i had to share what i saw bear witness to it somehow in a book you can describe where your father told you about your own conception but then after i mean the fantasy befitting an eastern kid who had risen. to take broadway to the newly just tell me a bit about him first thing to say about dad is that he was born into poverty in the east end he was born to what we call a tweeny a between the stairs made so wrong before below normal made he never knew his father. so he was born the illegitimate child of domestic help basically and he was born into debt dickensian circumstances i mean rather like oliver twist he

was born on a on a wooden pallet in a workhouse and nine hundred thirty one fast forward thirty two years he has conquered not only the u.k. charts see him but he's conquered the broadway us broadway scene twice with two barnstorming shows he's married to joan collins news living in beverly hills so in a space of thirty years to go from that beginning. to that point further on is the most extraordinary on this like a judy garland movie with the spinning headlines in the influence so many people have recently as you saw your parents as victims of an ogre called show business way one oh well because their world was extremely insecure they had no insurance in the sense that they had no permanent employer you do a movie here stage appearance there and then it's gone and you have to rely on them and all their money and they live large i mean my neither of them ever turned to me and explained anything about putting

a bit of money away here but you know they lived large but the outside political world doesn't intrude that much you mean you say when you move from l.a. to london you can see the rubbish piling up being in the mayfair when i arrived in london in the early seventy's there were you know there were some massive it was called the winter of discontent there was a lot of discontent in the union movement so there were a lot of strikes i remember power cuts walking around with candles and so on and to come from beverly hills of los angeles from this world of plenty and light into london plunged into darkness and strife and so on was the most extraordinary kind of movie although it was l.a. was pretty divided well yes but then your mum's a tory of course yes. yes yes you mention in the book that you might you were told by her that you might have to leave the country if there's a labor government yes presumably this is more to do with taxation rather than the

way the famously called the brain drain in the light in the late seventy's and my mother's friend started i mean i remember she referenced michael caine just left. left to the states and she she didn't really explain it to me in any depth but she just said that the new government to come in which was a wilson ago. they had imposed a new higher tax on creatives. people in the upper brackets and so that that was contributing to her decision to go back to l.a. and i wept i really didn't want to leave england you know that was my home and of course a child you don't understand the wider political picture because you didn't you say we're called walked yes composing his great works of evil capitalist london yes there is this idea of power a movie scene in the family's life was the studios presumably and this job was yes . yes really absolutely i mean the thing is that as we in the golden age of the

studio system studio heads like louis b. and the zanuck and so on had unbelievable power over the lives of people in it for instance judy garland famously was worked to extinction i mean she was owned by the studio and for me at least i think that's a rather a moral situation maybe we're evolving out of it now in the current climate where beginning to question the sort of male dominated hollywood. legitimacy your mom didn't feel like that in the seventy's well mom is a great trailblazer for women's rights in entertainment i feel and certainly alexis carrington as a character in her strength of purpose and her no nonsense approach is doing this to some would say could be a. deed in t.v. but i think she really struck a major major blow for women's rights in it which is bearing fruit now. with that

character you know the flinty nurse and the high shoulder blades and take no prisoners attitude of alexis that she that she created and know your politics very much with the environmental movement well very much in the. governor actually really just tell me about the impact of his work. to the to the green movement. because i think it came out of his reading of eastern philosophy and eastern is mysticism he saw that there was no real hard division between human beings and the planet. and so at a very early age he had pressed upon me that he human beings were really an outgrowth of nature and that we really need to take care of the planet and that our fullest potential is to be found in harmony not in not against nature so i have grown up knowing that that is absolutely right on the truth i should ask you what does your mother think of the paintings that you've done about your with

your i think she finds them fascinating you know we you know it must be interesting to have a child who is sort of chronicling their life from the inside out you know i think it's been an enriching experience for her to see her self through my eyes and that those early chapters in my life through my own eyes she's seen the menu as it were through me you know anyone reading the book with think there's bound to be a sequel that's actually your next words not going to be there it's going to be portraits of friend of the show all of us doing the film director and del you got to tell me what it was like being to go over the unbelievable it was rather like you're going to be the greatest public order to live in washington d.c. indeed indeed the painting is now at the smithsonian in the national portrait gallery in washington d.c. for me it was like heart of darkness was like going up river to meet colonel kurtz who was this extraordinary huge personality where they had such a no norma's presence in american politics and cultural life for half

a century and me as a kid i mean i was a virtual kid i was in my late twenty's i'm going brush in hand paint this. and i spent ten days with him in his village in reverse and it was such a he was so larger than life his discourse was so full of not get an extraordinary insight that when i got back to london after about ten days with god. all my life seems so small in miniature to me and when i did finally finish the picture and i sent a photograph of the finished painting to him because i finished it in london when he saw the finished painting he said i looked like gold on the seventh day having decided it was all a terrible mistake. well that's it for this year will continue to show your favorite episodes and you were back for a brand new season on wednesday january ninth bill then you can tell just what a social media uses.

the country has gone into a nihilistic theme. and get out the traveling across america to find what makes america the scholl of the geniuses this is the quintessential american hero this is it we've come a point on which all of it is done so we always are on the margins something. called culture listening for you. we're starting west with. will begin to headed east into the swamp we're going into the belly of the beast i think i want to leave now doesn't get me more than it may be completely different but in the midst of. what holds and. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected.

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