thing to do with it because there are a number of people who have been named problem journalists have been named in the documents which have been released one has to ask the question therefore is it because of their involvement that they are not. covering this real scandal actually and you know reminded of the operation mockingbird that was in existence in the united states it was launched i think in the early one nine hundred fifty s. at the height of the cold war and wasn't really properly exposed until the nineteen seventies i think it was the church report without actually you know highlights of this scandal the been taking place where you know the cia were effectively paying journalists to put out you know propaganda effectively and misleading stories and this is very troubling i mean you know we value a free press in this country don't we i think it's really important for the you know we're confident that you know people in the pay of some shady organization in fairness to some of the mainstream media journalists we are slowly bit by bit since

you're by them in three questions starting to hear from them deborah haynes foreign affairs editor of sky news implicated in this some of the leaks as her position at the times saying i have no formal or informal relationship with the integrity initiative and we're also hearing from david a lot of it was with the never heard of any of these girls again to these so basically we are seeing mainstream media journalists who are being named in a document by a multi-million pound taxpayer funded organization it's got a wish list these are the guys we can probably get. well i mean according to some of the documents i've seen some of these people have actually attended meetings now if this is not true i mean i'm a bit of the trying to big themselves up in order to try and get more funding but look if you know if i was a journalist to be named in the shady organizations activities then you know i'd be probably wanted to sue them frankly for you know misusing their name in that way and i know you are asked the question in the. yes revealing this is

a multimillion dollar operation that arguably disinform ation in stopping affecting public perception what was it like what you went to the registered address of the institute whether to their return addresses they have a registered address in scotland and it's at the end of this remote dirt track actually it was the dead of night when we arrived there and it was rather spooky i've got to say and when i reached the end of the track i was confronted with this derelict mill there wanted to lights on in a couple of the units there and did speak to some of the people who had businesses located. at the mill they'd never heard of the introduced a craft died then went to their offices in london just the temple station and then on this is a state funded organization bearing in mind as well i am a member of parliament here and therefore because we were being stonewalled by ministers in terms of the written palm and three questions and the oral questions

that we that we tabled on the floor of the house of commons of that will try and ask questions directly to the organizations if they can clarify anything and i was met with a very hostile reception i mean shouted out the door slammed in my face now for an organization which is receiving nearly two and a half million pounds in the last eighteen months from the government in this country to the taxpayer from the taxpayer to treat a member of parliament in that way. poses a number of questions and say i mean it suggests that they have something to hide doesn't it and i think there are more questions i think need to be port about this organization we do trust me i'm in need to get to the bottom of what on earth is going on why is the foreign commonwealth office why is the ministry of defense as well as the funding this organization what are they getting out of a more troubling still is why is it this organization the state formed a taxpayer funded body is engaged in smearing jeremy corbyn and the labor party and

officials of the labor party to this is completely unacceptable and totally alien it seems to me to british democracy where you see the. state graphs as it gets its funding from multiple sources including the european union the foreign office and your defense nato to ensure its independence gets from private individuals so i mean you know your amount of our state is would say. they would say that would make i mean look it could be a wishlist i mean in the fact it was in the scottish mill and the names of these journalists as we hear it do you think it's like these people are still in the cold war mentality and there are leaks show that they wishing to be able to control the perceptions of international affairs against china or against russia or against their will is going to get but they wish for it and they haven't been that success well that got me that success because these leader of your party of well though that's true but i mean i was see one of the individuals who was involved with this organization monies to get himself implanted into the bernie sanders campaign to as

we know in the end didn't actually get the democrat nomination but whether it's successful or not the fact remains that they are seeking to influence democracy in this country and that is just unacceptable i mean you call how of state funded organization receiving millions of pounds of said engage in a process of smearing the labor party smearing the official opposition in this country seeking to influence public opinion in relation to. you know potentially future government i want to get on to the subject of world war and peace as a as it would present trouble busybodies do toward mosco very important come under attack from the liberal left the script incident was a water book in poor relation to be left of the most countries make spilled over under russian diplomats chris daughterly of the institute of state grove general richard barron's one of these two explicitly stated because he asked if he was required to warn the public of the dangers of russia vladimir putin very quickly

after there were calls in parliament to back and this channel and sputnik what did you think of these latest revelations of their involvement in attempts to close down britain it's a troubling case and you know it's troubling that it seems that you know the trying to set up a country and trying to create a mindset which then justifies further expenditure on the arms industry and so on and you know i just think you know a number of us who absolutely questions and look what happened it's completely on except i'm no can make an excuse and i totally appalling what what went on there i think it's perfectly legitimate to ask questions and be clear and certain before we take any precipitous of action or they would truly say that's because you don't understand the russian threat against this country and that i'm not sure they would say this but that russia wants to invade britain well i mean we've heard these stories in the in the past seventy joy joy in the hearts of the of the cold war and in my opinion in a rush it doesn't pose any threat to the united kingdom it's war will mean you know

it's a struggling economy you know and so the sanctions if you know an impact there's no doubt about that but let's also remember the you know the soviet union the last twenty thirty million people in the in the second world war i mean tony benn used to make this point on a regular basis you know why would a nation that the suffered so greatly want to engage in you know the significant the will world war again in that sense and so no i don't i don't really accept that and i think you know. surely we should be seeking peace we should be using diplomatic means to you know create a safer world and start using our ingenuity to you know create a decent society to support and build our public services role than to create this mindset where we want to expand the arms industry and pour all our eggs in that basket i don't think that's a sensible way forward at all what we should be promoting it seems to me is peace and that's certainly would be a high priority for labor i think going forward to try and ensure that we have

a safer world and that's one of the reasons of course why germany called in has appointed a shadow minister for peace and disarmament and i think in the event of a labor government that would send an incredibly powerful message around the world a permanent member of the u.n. security council who has a priority of peace and is all movement role than you know war and an arms manufacturer but the russian federation as they denied involvement is crippled or that we haven't been able to appease to get hold of what they may or may not have been involved in doing it was do but it's not just corbin russia the left china is also a drip tack in the latest revelations and what do you make i mean you mentioned cia operation walking but their attempts to make use of the entertainment industry i mean they said that china should be perceived as the enemy in the u.k. look what's the film. you know this race is all about softening up public opinion and you know i just think we need a different approach a different mindset putting you know peace and harmony center stage really role

than trying to this kind of bellicose sort of approach that this organization is seeing to try to foster i think is very very dangerous because it would be in the end you know look if we end up in a hot war with any of these countries i mean it's ordinary people that pay the price isn't it but their lives regarding the film industry and these attempts to influence the film industry would by the taxpayer there were. i don't think anyone going to. blake the palme d'or. ward winning film being brought out of the institute of to no no integrity initiative what do you make of the chairman of the tories james cleverly accusing your shadow business actually rebecca long bailey of misunderstanding i don't know blake in explaining to her that the ken loach one was not a documentary shows a callous streak i think within the conservative party also betrays the fact that they are utterly out of touch with reality the truth is and we know this from the un reporter who report the back end of last year's show fourteen million people in

this country living in poverty one point five million destitute we know that the universal credit thing they refer to as universal discredit actually cause immense suffering and poverty and the government seems hell bent on rolling this this this floor this broken system and inflicting it on the country as a whole and it really isn't fit for purpose and i think the deputy chair of the conservative party you know needs to think very carefully actually before he rushes on to social media to denigrate something which is a serious as this and yes most employees are made and watch it well indeed and i think you know jeremy invited her to do so and it was it might not have been a documentary cathy come home with it one of the loaches earlier seminal pieces had a profound impact on public consciousness in relation to homelessness in the nineteenth sixty's led to the formation of shelter and had

a really positive impact i think on housing policy and i'm hoping that i don't you're blake will do a lot worse because of it thank you after the break. the politics of heroin the life of legendary novelist and actress collapsed with award winning director watch westland his film about her is release in the u.k. this friday and from the headlines the hospital flooded with patients and water well the one next door on this drive funs as the americans apply a sticking plaster that combine. readiness of the congo over there will come about to a going underground. financial survival guide i don't buy i prize on a teacher's. face on the friday as of last summer my ex from the future. was kaiser. the most important moments are when the

principals of the foreign minister or the president actually ask your opinion when that happens you are on your own and young just into the two you actually. have to say what you think. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be that prevalent in this population of phone. books and 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 therefore would. say i stayed there i would 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. welcome back joining me now to go through some of the week's top stories of brokaw's reform a liberal democrat m.p. lembit opaque happy new year all of you forget all that british special forces probably still in syria we don't know going to. of a ration of it late last night vote in the senate i think implicitly backing drop syria policy yes well let's do this one let's stay with the story the independent reports jump bolton contradicts trump by saying syria withdrawal depends on defeating isis or i sill as it should they were defeated trump said it would have evoked one thousand nine percent of the caliphates gone according to pompei o one of very close associates do ninety nine boiler to clean their votes kills ninety nine percent of all known caliphates yes the problem here is small little fly in the ointment you're getting some kind of

a mixed message here not for the first time from the administration because there are new conditions to withdraw all that is difficult to hear both and saying well actually we're not so sure about going away from from zero. street again how can you really misspoke about that how could you be undermined all the time by your president i mean it's amazing you're not going to go around everyone not just the president undermines everybody else that's the new consistency that way you can never be caught out because you just say you misspoke that's what's happened with this there's no chance of the americans walking away from syria they might move away a little bit but with wheels and wings you can still get that apart from london paris beijing and moscow in the u.n. security council today being briefed about humanitarian situation we hoping that from indeed it is out of there let's go to the british army where they're not trying to close down this channel using the integrity initiative what is this they're recruiting big time controversial set of posters has come to the fore the

in one of the gamers gamers your army needs you and your dry drone killings of the beans in ten years you are a gamer on a joystick running a drone about these folks are self-taught and they've paid a fortune in time and money to become absolutely great practitioners in exactly the skills you need to run a drone it's not the only post there are the ones calling for snowflakes. join the army as well just even would oppose doing on facebook that he wasn't consulted before and he may resign from an english army he says that he will resign as soon as he can he's still got to serve some time before he leaves but dres may help in the n.h.s. this story from the sun yes another mixed message coming up here afshin water waste brand new five hundred million pound n.h.s. hospital lies empty just three miles from where to reason made launched and it says plan now to resume a the prime minister went to all the hague children's hospital to say how she and

the conservatives are going to revamp the anywhere by a privatized but about you might say that millions my degree at the same time karelia and the private contractor too big to fail failed and so there's a thirteen story building which is part of the royal liverpool hospital lying empty now this hospital has been flooded not just with patients but with water because it had both pipes and all other kinds of problems there as well the irony three miles away from where we were told the n.h.s. was safe and to ease the maze hands it seems to be drowning in its own water that's a problem it's embarrassing but i guess they'll just carry on regardless and the sun attacking tourism here which is interesting up in liverpool which is also ironic having ironic is that on voted for british and eventually in libya they were going very well as far as i understand it this story for military success after success after the military dot com reports u.s. troops and got on remain focused on congo despite local coup attempt short version

here is the americans are mad willing and god bomb because it's really near the congo congo causes lots of troubles trying to ensure you can see in the region i think they just trying to control the congo let's be honest about that not doing a good job of it seem to have provoked the locals and got on an attempted coup arguably not a us spend the coup it didn't work but it's still going on there the u.s. says it was a u.s. friend because it was only in september president. was applauding closer ties with china putin of russia and bongo in july was saying closer ties who is behind this is can i ask the head because he's a way out of the country and medical treatment how convenient at the moment who is behind the coup you know who knows what we know is the americans are involved so let me guess is the wildcats maybe the americans trump says maybe indefinitely the troops have to be engaged on to secure u.s. safety at home maybe he's misspeaking them but overt thank you well in the first

part of the program we had from chris williams on about the use of hollywood as neo con propaganda that accusation could probably not be leveled against a new decide to be a nollywood film about one of the front says most subversive novelists tell it which stars keira knightly and on the quest is directed by watch westmoreland whose previous film is oscar winning still alice we caught up with him before christmas ahead of this week's release of the film in the u.k. . watch welcome back to going underground tell me about collette and other british director goes to hollywood makes a film urge in a reasonable period because well yeah it's not quite a hollywood movie it was made in europe it was financed out of the u.k. and it was shot in france and hungary. is a story of french writer who lived at the turn of a century who famously had their apprenticeship writing books as a ghostwriter for a husband who took all the credit for her work over stories about seeing how she fights off this giant male ego to claim credit but when i jokingly said merchant

ivory this is very different well yeah approaching this period piece we wanted to see what we could do to loosen up the whole genre of period piece because it can be a very uptight or own a bit of a bastion of of whiteness and upper class privilege so we approached it to show what life in the nineteenth century was really like it's a period piece with belching and farting and i mean within the first five minutes there in the barn a lot of. area pieces you spend two hours waiting for people to get engaged and. and all the time it's like collect was a very sensual writer in the movie you know she is very much a sexual explorer but was never any negative consequence on her for a woman being sexual that everyone presumably is talking about the female identity sex identity in the film i mean i want to talk about that but this constant issues of opposition of different town and country rich in india because they're not rich

they collect comes from a family a country family that fallen on hard times and when she gets married she can't afford the parents can't afford a dowry so that scene is quite scandalous because we're leased from a middle class publishing family in paris and this the marriage is a bit of an odd fit initially but you were working on this film for many years before. me too you were those are all of the. women being abused in favor of men within us as yeah i mean the movies timing is extraordinary because it really speaks to the me too in the times of movement but really this is been going on not just for years voting for millenia i mean women have been kept down by men within male power structures you know women have not been given a fair shake so this is just one example of that kind of story of you know very interesting example because it was such a dynamic character and it was such

a very particular time there's like a seismic shift happening in gender roles around the time of the law that got refracted through this marriage of these two tremendous characters and it automatically lends itself to cinema because she was an actress as well as a. very cinematic about story around the time the marriage goes on the rocks you know in movies often you get long looks into the mid distance a lot of melancholy collette was unstoppable she decided she was going to go on the stage. and not like the high theatre wasn't shakespeare she actually went into the musical with like the performing dogs and the russian acrobats and you know was it was seen as a scandalous move she starts touring around france doing these very out almost pieces of performance art which is very striking and really it's the sort of the genesis of silent movie acting it's she was a mind to do these plays and scandalized people wherever she went and hair was very important to rose mcgowan was on this show and she was really about the boards of

hair in hollywood well yeah collette was very famous for her she was known in her village as the girl with the have she had incredibly long braids she used to call her whips. and when she got married she moved to paris was often commented on as part of her rustic charm she was very much outside of the kind of bohemian boys who are elite and sort of kept her own distance from it and then in a radical move she actually cut her hair off into a ball which gave you the iconic look and at the time again this was seen as something very new and quite shocking but within a matter of months many society women started copying before anyone thinks i mean the idea here i'm going early read about women's hair being that important why was there is political because when. she was really making a statement of sort of go into a look that was more kind of free and independent and modern at the beginning of

the twentieth century we think of a lot of technological and innovations like invention of telephones invention of motor cars invention of gramophone but really there was a lot of style innovations around sort of women declaring their independence that were also happening and a lot of innovations in terms of understands and of sexuality and of the way she dressed and in the film is a transformation very much. the transformation the way she dressed she goes originally from a country style into kind of a young parisienne fashionable look but then she moves to a more undrugged in a style that we often associate with color that she was moving away from traditional famine in deployment and not the going to thing donald trump would probably favor in a woman who really. don't know donald trump and collette would have to say it's of about i'm sure she wrote him but i am trying to do all that relevant between the i mean to be able to compare the idea of even being able to compare to the nineteenth

century paris twenty first century usa you really think there is that could be a lot has changed in the last hundred years but a lot hasn't i mean in the movie willy says women writers don't sell and of course that was in the nineteenth century many women writers took on male pen names like george eliot and shows on korea belfour the bronte sisters and then people say oh that was a hundred years ago well j.k. rowling goes by the initials j.k. because she was advised by a publishers that woman's name woman's purse name wouldn't sell to a young male audience so we're seeing the same thing today now some might say this is very different to the oscar winning previous film it was still alice how do you how do you how did you make that huge break out it seems to i think is a very different film. every time i approach a film i'm looking to break new ground or want to do something new but each film looks a woman just tackling something that's kind of you know

a very difficult and their life. still alice it was illness and it was very much a look at illness and the individual how you know not to let the illness become your identity but become the person who's living with and fighting the effects of the disease in collette it's a woman who is her husband she is you know fighting for her own rights as an artist again something that's very much holding her back. but you think it's becoming more important in your films i know i mean when you won sundance years ago with your your late husband is it becoming more important there's always awareness of class and economics in my movies i sometimes see films i'm always like where did they get the money from how are they doing this how are they affording this is one of the first things that rich and i always used to work out and the class dynamics of the story are always incredibly important to us from and thank you thank you it's been a pleasure. award winning director watch wrestling speaking to me that before

christmas you can go and watch the u.k. cinemas from this friday and that's it for our first episode this season will be about gone saturday to speak. of a delayed critical vote that could potentially topple the regime a minority government a deal then even touched by social media will see on saturday fifty two years to the day that the louisville kentucky draft board refused dali's conscientious objector claim when describing his opposition to the vietnam war he said i will not disgrace my religion my people or myself by becoming a tool to enslave those who are fighting for their own justice freedom and equality . i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the us is over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten times happy each day. eighty five percent of

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