one of the darkest days for indian democracy. now those rising tensions on the streets of hong kong police and protesters going into an 11th week of clashes the big question on everyone's mind will china storm the city whatever political forces there may be which hoppus such evil design calls because hong kong is part of china. change the revolution will be doomed to failure national security advisor john bolton says. first in line for a trade deal with the u.s. comments come after his meeting with british prime minister john. why are you not arresting. if he's been attending parties with boris johnson. welcome to a special season finale edition of going on the ground. doing filmmaker and

journalist john pilger thanks for coming back. in germany today all eyes on the g. 7 at the end of the week russia not invited china not considered by the i.m.f. to be an advanced economy but they will be talking about china being led to believe is the center of this weekend's negotiations or talks what are these talks about. excluding 2 of the most interesting developing developed powers in the world. china and russia. i mean you know the truth is he is talking about is there is a world. it's not a shooting war but it could easily become world war there was a war already trying there has been a war of attrition against russia. somebody is now breaking up the russian

federation is an american objective. the the. maintaining. maintaining the supremacy of the us in all areas of human affairs economic affairs cultural of is is what this particularly this really regime and washington is committed to all regimes have been committed to it's now reaching ahead. because they see a challenging china a challenge that. and undoubtably it's an economic challenge but it's not a military challenge. this 19th century view of the world that permeates washington and has returned to this country in the

united kingdom. has now created a war situation with china very few know that china has now changed its nuclear posture from low alert but is separating the warheads from misawa to high alert putting them together the same as the united states that's something china didn't do for many many is but they clearly now because they were doing him a jew is the coming war in china that's a he's a well we've seen color revolutions thwarted some successful against putin in russia. millions of pounds dollars have been going in from the national endowment for democracy can home call we just maging understand what hong kong is oh yes yes i think beijing understands perfectly but the reason that there is. a rebellion in china nerve is. is complex of course largely made the bet that the

people in home kong do have a grievance there is an inequality but really what has happened is that manufacturing has moved to the mainland the interference in homegrown the the subversion and home comb by the us through the national endowment for democracy through its local agents like the local modo and all the the others who make regular pilgrimages to john bolton of course they are part of the war on china that's not to take away from the fact that there are grievances within china but within hong kong but. the the home comb didn't sign on for 2 countries to system it's signed up for one country and 2 systems and i find it almost. grotesque

that the whole idea of the power of the union jack should be draped. the the speaker's chair in the assembly and home home when it was the union jack over 150 years that represented an oppressive system i went to hong kong several times to write about the oppression of the police under the british under the british. a corrupt police force led by british offices a brutal police false. there was never any democracy even up to the 99 g.'s right up to the 99 days. what they was they was hong kong has been a business silent while one could say that perhaps china is a business now. and and the mainland has. it is

a special role of hong kong so why here are we treated to endless images as you say would just no doubt some of these protests as a justification for opposing what is going on and on call but yet the. protests probably not going to be discussed in berets this weekend of the g 7 because never before have people been called upon to think within such a narrow spectrum. and we could sit here all day talking about inequities of the media and so on but it's even wider than the media there is a spectrum in which we are if you like allowed to think. the news is dominated by a home kong and yet 29 miles from being on those fronts and this extraordinary rebellion of the yellowjackets which is produced the most.

equally extraordinary violence from the state has been virtually ignored. the same is true of kashmir i mean kashmir was a fleeting moment if you like in our perceptual allowed into our perception and here is a country bigger than the. bigger than belgium bigger than portugal 13000000 people where people are denied everything food by the indian state denied denied food freedom of movement freedom of expression. i mean to eat and he has been doing this for a very very long time but kashmir of course india is our friend the world's greatest democracy and so comes as he's being even handed on to china of course which is an interest there another nuclear upon the other 2 has taken it

up at the security council it's a perception i suppose that where we're thinking about our perception of of the way people were concerned that we're going to run out of medicines after october 31st we have no perception of the way the people of iran the suffering under the sanctions. denied cancer drugs almost entirely because of the sanctions the way they have no perception of the way the people of venezuela. a suffering under the sanctions. we have we have we have absolutely zilch understanding of how the people of gaza continue to suffer in the open prison as that has been obliterated almost from the news agenda and by extension from perception so within this this spectrum

of this narrow spectrum the manipulation of people. is. probably the most extraordinary i've known in my career as a journalist but obviously it's not a physiological problem amongst journalists in newsrooms around the world to take on understand say breaks it no deal there's no there going to be problems here of meds and food and no understanding yemen. i think it's almost i think worrying about what journalists thing i think journalists have given up. many journalists have simply given up there is a so-called mainstream which is a misnomer that is not a mainstream atoll it is an agency of extreme economic policies policies that produce. has. 4.1000000 children in poverty in britain. with children hungry

during the summer. 4000000 children 2000000 under the age of 5 in britain yes it is. and and the kind of suffering that has come out of these extreme paulo's is cold neo liberalism or whatever you want to call it is echoed through our media in the same way that the the the whole absence of a warning. that these vernon can pay against china and russia particularly against the nuclear armed countries could actually lead to something the abandonment by the united states of the i and if treaty the most important pantie nuclear war treaty signed and here we had yesterday i think it was the u.s. . now testing again these intermediate range nuclear weapons cruise

weapons and russia saying well yes of course we were in the noms race against. the dangers of this the dangers of of accidentally my state can be beginning a nuclear war i'm not known to most people that i was you let slip out of this spectrum some say the i.n.f. treaty had to be revised because china was always opposing and was violating the terms of the environment in which the i have treaty was originally created between go but show that come out of washington and even if that treaty didn't need provision then revise it sit down i remember those discussions and i interviewed a number of the american negotiators extraordinary man like paul won't who who sat down and negotiated with the russians these complex treaty they were serious people

. we are not dealing with serious people john i'll stop you there. after this break . so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race. here in dramatic development only mostly and. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very creative. to sit down and talk. going back to medieval days you have the church which is like the monetarists present day 21st century where they would discuss how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and they were in power in close. model and now we've got neo feudalism or

you guys central bankers discussing how many derivatives can be stuff into a worthless pension fund and we've got folks in san francisco in newark new jersey dying for medieval diseases. welcome back i'm still with journalist john pilger some school textbooks in this country still say that. the price is to pay for ending 2nd world war you went to have to read the usa of force. bombings. and that's very clear that wasn't the case when i 1st went to hiroshima it was just about just over 20 years soft the bomb was dropped and it had an extraordinary effect on me i saw on the steps solve a bank in the middle of hiroshima the shadow of a woman she'd been sitting there. apparently preparing her

lunch sitting on the steps when the flash happened a bomb dropped on the oldest of 6945 and her image was burnt into the steps of the bank. i remember looking at this image of the woman you could see her shape. almost her relaxed position and the impact that had on me was. quite profound actually. and it obviously had an impact on many people because they got rid of that they got rid of the shadow japan under u.s. pressure got rid of this extraordinary shadow and it's not they are in a mole now i would suggest that that shadow. represents something ahead of us unless we start understanding the true

danger of the recklessness of governments joan bolden the national security advisor devises trump we're led to believe says that all options should be on the table against dictators like the dura against. people in iran who believe that a government who. all these different places i've interviewed john bolton john bolton comes as close to being a political lunatic as you can get. had friend the conversations with boris johnson he had just the other week in the. political lunatics can have very friendly conversations with all those that they recognize similarities with but bolton particularly is a man absolutely salivating. it appears and i don't think i've ever said this about any politician of this for a war or for an attack or for an overthrow or for

a coup. that he's in the position he's in is the most terrifying thing. but i mean in foreign policy terms you see the european union which completely backs your own bolton's view on venezuela britain and brussels completely aligned with washington saying do is the real leader venezuela the e.u. is a and of nato well you see the problem the problem with the whole breaks it don't see this this is actually almost internet sign. struggle of will. following the referendum and 2016 is how much it excludes there is no public debate certainly no problem entry debate probably never would have paid but no public. debate on the fact that the european union

is an agency of nato is almost by definition certainly by by example a nuclear war fighting provocative organization all these are supported by the you it should be part of al debate about the no doubt there are great virtues in some things about the you who is the going to thing jeremy goldman the leader of the labor party here in britain used to talk about is there a reason why he perhaps has been on the fence or is raghad is on the fence about the mix it with his bricks it because he understands that theory cope and seems to become so. overwhelmed by bricks it. where is the country this country in which so many people are suffering as a result of this hideous ideology austerity one only has to drive outside london

you know i've done in the making the film i'm making about the national health service and and driving into. rather nice places like will share and see the boarded up. towns this is what this is what this needs a labor leader now jeremy cole button has presented himself as that labor. bought bricks it seems to have overwhelmed. every potty anyone who steps anywhere in a pot of money or to this subject it's a very important subject of course no deal or no deal but what is most important is whether. the national health service will survive. not breaks it but survive the ideological to tax on where the people will survive this hideous

mutation of welfare called universal credit and. a father of 3 killed himself because he couldn't. because he had no money and he boy it hadn't come through on the universal credit. the suffering of people. in this country in this developed country which now what is that 6 or 7. richest country of the world is obscene maybe the 5th or 6th as you say i mean this is a week when the child to trust to britain children are eating toilet paper of just table fungo but it is this in a sense when you talk about the united states and germany is the achilles heel because it was bernie sanders you'll see gathered there are people heading for 2022 of it through democratically donald trump who seem to have

a different vision and is the 28 grace is the context of foreign policy home policy the stuff of age. i mean i think sound as in the rest. of social democrats rushing to catch up with the social kind of social democracy that was between europe and is now being rapidly extinguished in europe for quite a long time but the foreign policy doesn't change we had 2 of the leading socialists. at least they call them members of the democratic socialists of america vote for donald trump it's 738000000000 about just recently now congress because of race. that should concern us in the outside world but. the alphas.

which they are interesting they call the left and in the united states they are. you know ok but as social democrats whether they bring some kind of form of civilized life. to a country where now up to hof. the population up the hoff the population are suffering some form of impoverishment in the united states he said he would hear them defending julian assange of wiki leaks if anything they might be seen to be as part of those people who consider weiqi leaks a russian because that would organization you met judy and as belmarsh prison from this chelsea manning of course refusing to testify against julian as. she's in solitary in the united states telling us a bit about julian's health. but can i just say very quickly. in that we've been

talking about censorship by a mission on a huge scale a federal court ruled that but they have walls no russian connection with julian assange. but that he had constitutional rights to do as he did as a journalist and publish and that has been completely know what julian's own condition is is. how do i put it it's very dangerous when i last saw him about 10 days ago. i was shocked because he'd taken his last fall wait. he was isolated they seem to be imposing a a regime that must be punitive on him of isolation he's in the health when what they call the health care we all little

waiting of belmarsh prison but he's in a single cell and he told me that i see people walking by and i'd like to talk to them but i can't. category a prisoners murderers and all those who've committed serious crimes. are allowed to fraternise julian is not allowed to fraternize. he's not even allowed to telephone his american lawyers and he's facing extradition to the united states he had to wait 2 and a half months to see an optician. and they want to go to his glasses one of the lanes didn't work. he's being denied the right the right to to prepare his own defense. he's denied access to

documents access to the library. a laptop his lawyer. he solicitor gareth peirce wrote to the governor of belmont shown on the 4th of june about about this and received no reply. what's going on. if. if there is no basic we understand if there is no basic. justice in the treatment of somebody like this who was in prison. because he infringed that is just about the mirror. it's not a crime actually. it is about the mirror thing that the law can nail you for and that is in for an old bell he is there also of course because he's facing us extradition but privately he's there for this this minor offense and he's

being treated in the way that political prisoners are treated all over the world that's. that's a morning that won't be appreciated but it applies to these previous button is the guardian newspaper in london the new york times if they helped to seal his fate yes they have helped to seal his fate. mind you they worried. they worried because in this federal court ruling it was made clear by the judge in this very considered very considered judgment that newspapers like the year old times new york times and the guardian published the war logs. in 2010 the war logs from iraq the war logs for about gonna stop that we could leaks had been the conduit for had had pos to them they published them

focused the full week he takes in law and that's what he was saying they are as liable but they are also as julian is and this is the point he was making are protected by the by the u.s. constitution. now. the u.s. constitution is being torn up by the trumpet ministration that's why julian basically is in the trouble it's ollie's charges that he's meant to be facing in the united states a concocted. they're ridiculous they don't apply they're the they are the charges against the journalist and the publisher but they would apply equally against the editor in chief of the guardian the editor of the new york times and the editor sure of el pais the editor of dish will. the editor of the sydney morning herald

they know this and they're worried. but they come from such. they are in such hoops they collude so deeply with the stablish front of their country and that now means the intelligence agencies. they have the power now in western societies they collude so deeply with them that they they dare not speak up but i suggest if this whole protest sharod against you in the songs goes on they should speak up pretty quickly. thank you. that's of the show never this is the movie about good bye new series but wednesday 11 there will be readings only a favorite show is from this season the tools of social media and make sure subscribe to your child will see in september.

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