resume is today is expected to be the last briefing at the u.n. of on boy staffan de mistura on syria this was the official his pleas arguably went unheard by the british government shortly before u.k. bombing in the spring recall of doing sure it's big for international humanitarian and human rights law including humanitarian access across syria to all people in need and we urge one more concrete respect of revolution twenty four d. or one throughout syria that resolution for a cease fire apart from against isis al-qaeda linked groups wasn't really a factor for drazen may and blairite labor for them it was about the highly likely over the conclusive we judge is highly likely but both that the syrian regime has continued to use chemical weapons since then and will continue to do so or as our opposite number said i believe that the action was legally questionable and on saturday the united nations secretary general and turning to terry said as much

reiterating that all countries must act in line with the united nations charter luckily for tourism a compliant press over u.k. aerial bombardment i mean it's a civil war was never really legally questions even of a store of giving his briefing today will likely not mention it well stories i'm a responsible for escalating the syrian catastrophe that killed hundreds of thousands and that involved u.k. taxpayer funded militias opposing president assad of even the media doesn't listen to corbin 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 you might end up with as bad. is assad is he's

a bad guy but you may very well end up with worse than assad well this time to raise a man like blair brown and cameron failed to militarily over there an arab government but arguably she has been successfully trying to overthrow the self 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 governing back on so what have you made of this to resume you brics it agreement document well i can understand why pretty much everyone doesn't have much time for if you if you will one of those that want you to vote to leave this deal broadly leave this in the e.u. found by will there was having to pay away money but we've given up our same rules now so for breakfast here it's a disaster quite a lot of businesses say you did with this we did stanch could be damaging if we leave but the simple fact is i it's not her fault and you had david cameron decide

to call a referendum on this without bothering to get civil servants do some research on what will be the impact and so we've got the last two or two years of we're starting from scratch trying to work out well in 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 now we said we've been down this road nobody knows what divides it's going to be i mean literally no whip knows no leader knows i.e. i've never known appeared in my knife where things have been so i'm certain 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 yours i think there's a real prospect of a split i mean i think at the end of the right there where either if they do split they might be devastated as a general. actually i. 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 mean our vote was cut down to about twenty eight percent man you go about twenty six cent fatter at a landslide so that that might although a lot of them actually come stand each other they realise they they got to carry on together all they will be wiped out of the next election well i gave him 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 corben government anyway wouldn't be able to nationalize water railways electricity and well other utilities people to. many of these institutions in other countries in europe on national life all one's owens are owned by nasa one i think ways around this but you could any what jeremy is away said i mean he voted to stay in but he's unhappy with the e.u.

each bureaucracy its rules and so i think if we had a labor government i mean they're not going to vote just walk away but they've got a vote you know we want to reform it open it make it accountable democratic what you can't have a soldier you are bureaucrats telling jeremy corbin e can't renationalise the runways but that's exactly what presumably they will be telling him to back he will throw out ways it might be an interesting conflict certainly the breaks it off to the there will definitely be voting for breaks or may we what about this blitz that in labor the sort of rum parliamentary polity that does. favor mere liberalism versus what gerry corbin once. i think now. i mean we've had forty years of neo to prisons and sasha go in and we see it happen. people who voted for brett sitting 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 our manufacturing good high tech high skilled jobs why 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 they can only book greece they voted in twenty fifteen to leave ignored island twice that denmark holland has ignored france was ignored isn't the point that there 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 neo 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 are really struggling cause a local team to a euro set effectively by germany which has an incredibly dynamic and strong economy. that was a big mistake. do you think the media's going as well about all these different issues i mean it 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 does on the skull 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 jeremy called in the other day was called out rights of way and he see my mate who's accused of being on this list channel which you would see has. i mean there was in the receipt in the even david dimbleby didn't say anything even to say this was regis elias and smith has gone home 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 but it went around the world globally the simple fact is until jeremy coleman came lida he's forty five years important nearly i live nine hundred forty i think nearly forty is involvement no one ever suggested that jeremy is anti semitic any more than anyone did about me he calls we've campaigned or had on a spit tolerance we've oppose racism sexism and he semitism i mean when i was accused me and i said to journey in my is

a smear anti semitic incidents in london were cut by half on the boris johnson they doubled want it was 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 ben if. the unemployed the right wing press are saying yes the first step to communism and the nine hundred forty five election year churchill said if labor wins the interests of the star party the simple fact is if you have a leader who's generally progressive 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 some people that say that what you said about the media and its coverage of these things you're being a bit lenient on them that the u.n. is dreadful journey extreme poverty as we investigating the u.k. and this in the wake of this present almost one hundred twenty thousand excess deaths because of austerity you said that they kind of like roy jenkins make

a the end of it david owen social democracy didn't really go big on that story even in the immediate of two others present girlfriends well i think it's quite interesting in the year after mrs thatcher was forced out of office panorama the b.b.c. documentary program produced a program now economic legacy it's never been shown because the a shows that it didn't really work things were worse off under thatcher than happened before and 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 damage this government actually makes me see such a look humane 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 have a very that i admitted and young enough to be my son i mean i always said to admit

it and anything you want me to do i'll do the opposite the same for jeremy and 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. about your successor as mayor of london he's thinking of trying to be leader of the labor but. he's got to finish is. back into parliament i mean. there isn't. the leadership elections we had. sixty percent i know nobody else came close and still the senate supporting. me for the first time in the sixty years we 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. what lies behind britain to drop sanctions against the red sea nation he was so larger than life his discourse was so full of not get some extraordinary insights but when i go back to london after that ten days with the goal my life seems so small. painting. to. put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go right to the

press for free and the more people are. interested always in the water. 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 eritrean american sylvia thanks for being on what is going to mean for eritrea that sanctions have been lifted exoneration. there was falsely accused in two thousand and nine of supporting al shabaab. and disturbing the peace in somalia

not accepting the t.f.t. 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 in stick you could fault sanctions a way out a 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 is 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 illegal that as an area that was a conflict the burden and a hotbed for terrorism and when you have here you know who is 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're. 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. i mean country and partner in the global war and every chair was the scapegoat you claim is your peers 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 every. entity including here. the treasonous individuals that ran around badmouthing 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 privatized all its 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 eritrea and 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. 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. 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 have 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 work hard and achieve the millenium development goals when no other country in 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 show business is the subject of a recently published book by the son of two hollywood icons joan collins and anthony newley that corner calls the alienation felt by those growing up in the

spotlight the book is called unaccompanied minor and its author of the artist alexander nearly joins me now alexander welcome to going underground so arguably your paintings show a certain alienation about the show business world elite media spotlight and so on what made you write in may. mors well well 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 was 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 cannon 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. the fantasy befitting an eastern kid who had risen out of object

poverty to take broadway and 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 and he's living in beverly hills so in a space of thirty years to go from that beginning to to that point further on is the most extraordinary i was like a judy garland movie with the spinning headlines in the influence so many people

have recently you saw your parents as victims of an ogre called your business way 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 with the outside political world doesn't intrude i 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 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 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. in the book that you made 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 that he was 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 go. they had imposed a new higher tax on creatives and people in the upper brackets and so that that was contributing to her decision to go back to and i wept i really didn't want to leave

england you know that was my home and of course the child you don't understand the wider political picture because we were. we're called walked. yes composing is great works. of evil capitalist london yes there is this idea of power a movie scene in the family's life was the studio's presumably it 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 xanax 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. we've got to actually believe this is really 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 this 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 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 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 that 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 i had such a know 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 man. and i spent ten days with him in his villa in reverse and it was such a he was so the larger than life his discourse was so full of not get some extraordinary insights that when i got back to london after about ten days with gore my life seemed so small and miniature to me and when i did finally finish the picture and i sent

a photograph of the finished painting to 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 bill then you can tell just by social media you see. it's hard to imagine after the war. was still active. in the nineteen seventies crittle had as the chair of its board a man convicted of mass murder and slavery. the german company develops an admired drug that was promoted as completely safe even during pregnancy. it turned out to have terrible side effects what has happened to my baby anything. you know she said

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