today national fire chief submitted information to the grenfell fire inquiry weeks after the worst post-war tower block fire in one of the poorest communities amidst one of the richest in europe you among those who think jeremy corbyn should recount his old views and say look like us and we condemn what media is doing that's my duro is in president nicolas maduro condemned what media is doing that's my duro is in president nicolas maduro who has just assumed the presidency of the world oil exporting alliance opec that's what duros seen here responding to don't trump the military threats against the wall of aryan revolution after that b.b.c. program at an energy conference in moscow president has not ruled out military action in venezuela do you take that threat seriously. you not knowing that this is a form on energy. of course we can discuss other types of benefits of spiritual energy let's take a look at this the president of the largest the most powerful military power in the

world has no right to joke or not be serious the people of venezuela are rebellious people we fight for our freedoms that freedom arguably under threat not only from nature nation propaganda but from richland donors sympathetic to nato nation ambitions in venezuela suspected of killing campus you know jose did a cruise marquez in the past few days here in britain of course the defacto killing continues on the trays of may according to her department for work and pensions twenty one thousand sick and disabled people died waiting for welfare nearly twelve a day waiting for a decision over claims but even that perhaps pales into insignificance compared to how policy on the poorest country in the middle east yemen joining me now by skype from hastings in the south of england is labor council of hollington my evans' my thanks so much for coming on the show everyone's talking about bricks if they still have time to talk about hunger strike garri radcliff less on your hunger strike why did you go on the hunger strike so. yeah i travel. to new york where i took

part in a vigil outside the u.n. and we were on hunger strike and it seems like quite a severe action to undertake but actually the situation in yemen is in a state of dire emergency at the moment you have eighty five thousand children who have already stopped to death sixty thousand people have been killed directly from fighting fourteen million are in a state of famine five million at risk from color and two point two million children have malnutrition at the moment and this is all due to the saudi led bombing of infrastructure such as water points hospitals roads bridges and supply lines and the un has verified for the hundred twenty five such attacks which contravenes international human rights law so i fell a huge responsibility as a citizen of this country and as an elected representative to go out there and to voice my anger about what's happening and the reason why britain is so relevant is

that and since the conflicts broke out in march twenty fifth and has been supplying saudi arabia with weapons. tourism is government says the saudis can make their own inquiries about what you're talking about about human rights we must train their pilots we must target help them target people in yemen and we must sell weapons to them to avoid terror attacks in britain selling one of the most all father terry in countries in the world four point six billion pounds worth of weapons that's it it goes against international laws and human rights legislation i don't think that this country wants to be complicit in war crimes and we all know how corrupt saudi arabia is this country is very quick to jump on the bandwagon and declare wars against other countries which they deem to be undemocratic and yet saudi arabia has a. track record of. pressing democracy of out white violence

i don't think i need to mention jamal khashoggi and the hope that happened in the saudi embassy in turkey is no excuse to say that we have nothing to do with the conflict training saudis and how to use the equipment and arming them with that equipment is clearly complicity we've asked the saudi ambassador repeatedly to come on this show of course he hasn't but he has given reassurances to mike pompei of the us state department and apparently two of foreign secretary jeremy hunt that the kind of allegations you're making aunt true what about the fact that some councils up and down the country apparently forty three pension funds have been on the country stakes of more than half a billion in b.a. systems a bust lucky break the one north of government all companies implicated in the worst humanitarian crisis in in yemen they're making cash offer this because they need to get money from somewhere because of the the bank bailouts of twenty way and

indeed like my role as a councillor since i became elected last may a little of it is about income generation so when i signed up i thought it would be sort of more every day helping people instead much of my time is is taken up by how we going to generate income so for example hastings we've had our budget slashed by fourteen million since austerity we've gone from a staff of six hundred members of staff to three hundred members of staff and it's heartbreaking to hear that councils have invested money in be a systems lot martin boss these arms companies that are supplying weapons to saudi arabia and i'm sure the council workers who are receiving their hard earned pensions a few obvious that this money basically has a lot tarnish to it i do understand why households are looking to. invest

because austerity is so crushing. it's devastating that they're having to make such an ethical investment decisions a lot of talk today about a possible general election in the offing do you would you support a golden government creating some kind of legislation to to convict people for a involvement in the yemen war tourism is husband philip may work for the company which is the largest shareholder in b.a. systems capital group for the second largest shareholder in lockheed would you support a korban government creating a new crime i would one hundred percent support a new piece of legislation convicting war criminals who are we paying billions but always i'm not saying teresa mayes husband is a war criminal if you're not investing huge amounts of money in these companies and they wouldn't exist so you know that's the simple bottom line of it and you know

members of the public were aware of the dodgy dealings behind the scenes of you know certain upper echelons of society who were all good friends and to each have a business sales and it's that me the reason may have husbands it's financially benefit millions from this current war in yemen that the shares that he has company has put money into. are going towards the arms company that supplying the majority of the weapons that the saudis are using you know there's a clear link there and these people they they get away with it you know people spend so much time talking about benefit forward but it's these people who are creaming millions from unscrupulous investments they're the people that need to be taken to court they're the people in need to be held up and. held account for what they're doing it's not acceptable and this needs to stop the meat. we're going to

try and get tourism as ozment comment and capital groups with a comment about your allegations there because the editor of the evening standard george osborne who was chancellor when the austerity measures are brought in works for blackrock as well as the evening standard which is a b.a. systems investor doing it's endemic british elite involvement in the yemen will of course and they are involved at every level in media is the key level to have right wing key media newspapers a sweet newspaper that everybody reads picks up on the on the gravel the train every day influence in people's lives and i think people don't realize how much that doesn't ruins their mind when they you know read these articles criticizing the labor party criticizing corbin is more criticism on. the labor party and the has been on the conservative government around things like rights and this is the right wing ploy where they use media publications and to shape people's

minds and opinions and then suddenly everybody is saying or don't like that jeremy corbyn and you know if you press people and say why but you know generally there's often not a good reason it's just they say things like it's a feeling i just don't like it but there's no tangible reason i would be willing to gamble a lot of that you know opinion has been shaped by reading these but we ought to close in publications such as the evening standard is a key component to. making the general public submissive and just finally we have that d.w.p. the aunts are in parliament in the past forty eight hours seventy two hours twelve and twelve die every day waiting for benefits and twenty one thousand people dead less than here at home i'm not talking about yemen that's the ninety five thousand that died over the person independence payments in the disabled what's in. thank

you hastings where your local councillor we've had universal credit rolled our earlier. and since it came out in twenty sixteen there's been a sharp increase in the use of food banks by eighty percent over the christmas period that rocketed to one hundred six percent tastings example runs considering that we have abba down here is our m.p. and there's been a lot of denial in her camp about the effects of universal credit she's hailing it as a success but then people locally they have a very different story just walking down the street in hastings you can see that homelessness has massively increased the last couple of years where we're struggling now to run facilities thankfully we've received a special grant whereby we can put people in overnight shelters but there's been a massive surge of homelessness as one in ten landlords say that they don't want to take people on universal credit because of the uncertainty of rent so it's pushing

people into crisis immediately. not that well versed with what this report is saying but i can say that the reality of the situation in hastings is that there's a massive increase in people going to food banks as a massive increase of people being homeless and it's humiliating and it's desperate for people who have very little in the first place haven't thank you. thank you after the break amid the chaos of the u.k. stand a chance with the already brakes russia's former deputy prime minister of haiti brokerage tells us whether a post broke the trade deal is both civil and slower than walking how much slower will britain's flagship new trains have to go to save money when you go off the rails with a just to elizabeth coming through of going underground. country's gone into a nihilistic theme i think we got hit the road and get out the travelling across america to find what makes america take the charlatans the genius the

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in one smith's and then when it happened on three swung and i didn't hear them i never saw any contact with. any kind of went back to where they were so the answers back here they're trying again fifteen feet apart at this point and that's when the officer has gone in to turn three. welcome back joining me now to go through some the week's top stories is the original edge of the guard editor. thanks for going back or we see there's been some kind of vote in parliament but i should say yemen government today in berlin governor divergent series on greece u.n. secretary general giving priorities twenty nine team ahead of that vote last night this from the mirror what do you make of this. fix it tory mill side flash is incredible no food no channel tunnel notes unbelievable you know this is supposed to be the most serious subject this is the note this is the

no. no channel tunnel what about fifty percent of the british export to europe what will happen to the banking system what the what will happen to the financial market we could eat the money. presumably this is a propaganda fear mongering ahead of the vote yes definitely trying to do this bill yeah but i don't believe it would work i don't believe this propaganda would work you know why in britain in such a mess why we reach this point now and nobody can tell what will happen to war what will happen in six months what will happen in six years that's that's that's really what amazed me maybe it's an entire establishment against german corben because his vision is arguably so different to the new liberal vision we've been presented with since nine hundred seventy nine i'm not surprised i agree completely simply the don't want germany to be elected i know the man for thirty five years he is very

efficient he is very honest he is very genuine for the cause and mainstream media is characterized as being an anti semite a. russian but anyway when might get under a bit on there but this from the daily mail which theoretically should be a serious. very serious infrastructure project story read that out of. two bosses many new high speed trains floor and lists in a bid to cut cost and stick to its fifty six billion budget you know still have to beat the three in slow. i was looking for i mean they're terribly serious story but it actually says that they could be running slower than the trains we have today i mean why this project why the government is actually financing it why the government is putting money if they want to make train slow and we haven't seen the

project here and i should say just to contracts change contracts rumored to be on on friday let's see how many tory donor companies are involved in that let's go to this room the best selling newspaper in this country about our defense secretary yet here again you know defense secretary government will have since planned to scare away the spanish vessels of gibraltar by using paint ball guns. i mean believable to scare the visible by people i was making a joke in this week of a hundred years since the paris peace conference it was some kind of joke with the defense secretary's little difference ticketed should not make jokes he should put strategies i've been to several times you know pulled people there you know why you are putting them in such awkward position. to take care of that. spanish missile i didn't even know we were a war with with spray and there's a senior source in the sun story governor williamson comes up with some pretty off

the wall things about firing paint balls at the spanish navy beats a lot of them i don't know whether he'll be in position for a june nato defense ministers meeting arguably the next story perhaps is is more serious than american weapons of mass destruction spokes linked to five foot based . unit it's a follow up over we talked about last time this week. and certainly as you know those people who are involved and financed by the foreign office two million a year it's those people actually hold the sort of story of that one of my sister actually in this article you know who is this guy tim brandon group hired by the cia in the ninety's to run a p.r. campaign against saddam hussein yes what is this what does it it's the same the same propaganda i think the same people i think to those people actually it created havoc in the middle east who you know were behind a war which caused the iraqi people the middle eastern people more than three

million web killed in this war who he's understood to have helped set up unpublicized the iraqi national congress in the middle east in the run up to the war and he's appears to be part of this foreign office think. what was wrong with his attempts at the iraqi national congress in the run up to the iraq war in iraq he created that organization and he was. actually that the peace and you know they used the false information and all of that to death to actually to create that environment for the war against iraq under apartheid and look at the outcome of this if you go back to seventy years ago they used the same tactic look what happened to libya it's completely dismembered in that next story i should also say that i know it's terribly serious calling for. portrayal in kingsman comedy film which is also implicated in that we're expecting more from the integrity

initiative which employs journalists employees who knows think tanks and that you know you mention libya here is a young girl you is from the bench press and the u.s. military is all over africa despite not being at war in africa you know i believe you know they will come here it was why there are building a military base there in order preparing for the future war the trumpet ministrations as the seven of thousand u.s. military personnel it's as a thousand contractors presumably to protect protect the united states but if they don't want to see it is about three thousand miles away from africa why they are there you know unbelievably few days ago all prison time said i am pulling out all my troops from see it again simply because he was defeated didn't see it here now i think these military base definitely is a plan future plan to destroy africa to create wars in africa you know that

whatever the american goal it is destruction they are expecting and destruction not construction this is this is how we see it from middle eastern point of view i don't bury our thank you well but it's like trump my next guest is also a man accused of being complicit in russian election meddling but not the us presidential election the election for the top job in chess the now head of the world chess federation and former deputy prime minister of russia. arkady dvorkovich is no stranger to russophobia after helping to organize the twenty eighteen russia world cup event for which the british foreign office issued a travel warning advising england france to look out for anti british sentiment we caught up with him at the russian british business forum in london to discuss russophobia and post brics trade deals arkady you've organized the world cup. presumably seen widely as as a big success do you think that helped to take the edge of the other allegations routinely made here in the. the whole point was in doing this in the right way

and using call more than approaches to the mediation of such events we started doing that few years ago when the team worked hard all the best bits of world cup mediation starting from. just getting through the visas and doing good business fun ideas. to go to the embassy to logistics. stadium construction met and management cultural program and many other things that we had to do to make this world cup legendary looking back. did it make much of an impact for the british government the foreign office were telling british friends don't visit or at least think a lot unfortunately i wish we didn't have money and britain france around and that was due to the fact that the newspapers and the british government are not. giving. signals that it was dangerous probably good or only yes exactly and when

people realized there's not since many people still came and were sending back the signals that it's ok the nothing to worry about and people who are trying to get in but not so many tickets are you surprised by what's been called worse a phobia here given the britons and i make no new trade deals after break so i was not surprised but i know that the. he was picked by his braces of course it's more important than any other things. and it's just unfortunate that. other negative things take part of the journey here of being in opposed to read the sings before they actually they targeted you when you became head of the chess world well i know that there are the statement vocal example of english just figuration but again. it's just unfortunate since people chances to do big things i think both just in

collaboration with the vultures for your ration as well as not about russia now it's about fortunes for your nation and if they will think that if the russian guy at the top of the duration that this would not work with the figuration there were reports here saying that only was a breakthrough it probably was a drop but the russians somewhere we're going to is you becoming boss of the world just rhetoric. all those things are just not true and i think. the thinking create obstacles for further collaboration between the industries for duration and feed the it is an international institution and elected the president i around the invasion because my team and we do this to the benefit of every just eurasian the world including including the english one third we have to work together and stop thinking about. things that are not just not related to

that the feud is different now because the new team new people in there we're not doing courage or political you're not doing well business you're doing chess ok you just draw on the industry more generally and the russian economy is british business is think of doing trade with russian business oil prices don't think that the russian government should be thinking about diversification religio resources because the saudis look to be. when we started thinking about that twenty years ago and three chief great results the dependence on oil in the use substantially while the back in two thousand was twenty five percent now it's nine percent. and our economy is not as much dependent on oil anymore it that will be for other sectors took over services every culture. industrial production in general oil is still important we're not fighting. i didn't put in fact there are the same about

vests for to buy the other things but it is really crucial to understand that oil is not of the same importance it was fifteen twenty years ago still the cure about prices since it's a global factor and prices should be where for all market participants both for producers and for consumers and we truly believe that. stability in the market is the more important than having car prices being fishel for just one site current level is more or less a cavy even sinking. in our budget but the projections that. from fifty to fifty five may be the levels at this they could have been for the market sixty to seventy of course better but it should not expect prices always

stayed the. level. so we are confident that our fiscal stance and pointer policies. are in good shape since we are conservative in our projections but you are right the priority is to they were stiff i because otherwise is in the doldrums really controlling the russian federation we call a week what with the saudi relationship and the reigning sanctions again our budget projection project. prices for two dollars per barrel so if. you're in the prices from seven to sixteen you do not if we need our current budget . thank you russia's former deputy prime minister arkady dvorkovich that the russian british business forum that's it for the show will be back on saturday to see whether the british government still exists until then that's right social media is here on saturday one hundred seventy nine years since the defacto genocidal british east india company responsible for killing millions captured the

capital of yemen. i am. i've been saying the numbers mean some things matter the u.s. is a rich one trillion dollars in debt more than ten point zero or timestamping each day . eighty five percent of global will you longs to be ultra rich with six percent market saw thirty percent minus minus two years some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and going rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars industrial park but don't let the

numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one distance shows you know for two minutes the one and only. going to what it. has buskers. doesn't but that's on us. so i know you're not. you know just i mean most of what i'm already but it was just a lot of the media in the. desert up as well i must admit that really feels i just don't get off on getting noticed but those was. one of those but i was

just part of. my family fussy about my just but that's already. in the. there is albeit a whole cost going on in america for profit and the drug companies are killing millions of americans for profit and if no politician does anything about it i mean i look around the world and i see this relational in the frats protests and i see that is growing and growing globally john locke said in sixteen ninety i believe that if the social contract was broken that it's up to the people to revolt the social contract has been shattered revolution is a necessity. for.

trump when he was running in two thousand and sixteen articulated a vision of foreign policy that was clearly a dog's with what you would consider the sort of post-war liberal international consensus that that american foreign policy is held and there might be some claim that there are elements of that critique that house and the liberty here's the problem though it's not enough to offer a critique you can say that there are problems with the existing foreign policy and then you have to offer something that's better person period alternatives and this is where i think trump is has failed miserably. i just a little ride around and see the nerves to the last three hundred twenty five so the news i mean i don't know who's having. a turbulent week in british.