p.t.o. position in. a crowd of years equal independent states and the european very much so alex joining the e.u. meant that we for us meant not only that we could make all this and find our place around the table where decisions are taken but it also opened up enormous resources financial resources that helped us move up the level of standard of quality of life that europe has to accept just as the standard we started off as an object of one country we are no longer an objective one country you know thanks to the also the funds that would have a little to us which otherwise would not have been available to the. models of the smaller countries. the motors and motor but some similar sure. obvious and ireland was a model luxemburg was another model we looked at luxembourg and we realized that the success over luxembourg small country population very similar to more just $400000.00 about but their focus on the economy was financial services we looked at

it again ireland the irish tiger you remember this phrase that was used at the time and we were looking at what was the secret to how did ireland manage to transform its economy from that was basically very much agriculture based into a completely modern one so we had the benefit of having of looking at that what were your portuguese then decisions were taken to invest heavily in the technology in the infrastructure in the day the use of data and ideas as fundamental building blocks in the meantime investing in our human resources to have the right people in the right place and there you have basically the form of our success what nice man dr collins we're particularly like a story about the libyan gets landing at the airport let's have a look at that. i was at my office in castillo remember it was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon or thereabouts anyway i got this telephone call from our airport officials there tell me prime minister we've got a problem i mean really unusual for somebody to phone directed the prime minister you know this is us jets have just landed in the who are only did our single you

are single airport this is the only airport where our tourists land all the time and said that i sent them to pictured all these international flights landing in malta and seeing these 2 mirage jets part of the in the middle of the truck and i said well part of the way and i said no we're not going to touch them because these things are armed to the teeth and the advice we've been given by the technicians is that if we touch anything the screw the whole thing could be. oh my goodness today i laugh about it but at the time i remember and that's a. situation of course it has to be said there's a darker side to malta sort of the economic success we took up that issue in a 2nd program on malta of course economic success brings with it its own challenges the 1st as well the economic expansion the sustainable in this crowded island with rapid growth and population expansion the 2nd is does economic progress i wind up

the spotty between the rich and the poor and thirdly the 2017 of investigative judgment was. through into sharp relief when our flood of dr money was in danger of undermining the political fabric of the maltese islands. the arguments from the opposition and from newspapers critics of boat corruption in government is that another. byproduct effect a moment successive there's a lot of money sloshing around in the system would you put it down to the look there are there are several sections of corruption which are very worrying and we keep hearing this on a daily basis in the panama papers exposed certain senior people involved in something dodgy business and what happens is you get to a stage where now people are saying ok fine those people are corrupt but i still

have money in my pockets. which is quite a warring thing to to to to to see in my own country having said that really if you take what all the civil liberties. mortal writes for the hartley. the top 20 in terms of fish and sea of government in terms of pluralism of the system in terms of freedom of the press so perhaps. many other countries will be the envy of the crew freedom to a certain extent remember this is a definite i want to let's see on the journalist was killed you know 2 years ago things have changed as oh yes there is the freedom of the press we are free to report whatever we want and i have no problem with that the censorship comes in different ways the censorship comes in we are asking they just amid questions to the governments and not getting any replies and in the last 2 weeks this whole issue has provoked the dramatic vengeful of prime minister joseph muscat despite

the economic success of motor however we also took the time to take a brief look at the table of history of these maltese islands. the moment while calling me up a man as though seeing them be a prostitute shows great changes on the food in these islands with these changes nothing after the child given the history of the maltese islands over the last 2000 years successively the finishes look down the journey and love the woman this is still here also known as the frenchman the british also all the strategic importance of these islands and fought over them as we sail into the ground harbor of the ancient 3 cities of malta which was good to great siege of 50 and 65 we can see from these battlements when the forces of sort of on the mainland of the rise they knew they had the numbers but i was told going to be ample to fight behind these fortifications and so it was to prove we're back to pick up the story of

the. museum because the one constant and multisystem is the seed. emanuel tell us about this wonderful specimen of modern time most of what i've got here alex is a really wonderful object quite big as you can see it's a working model from the late 18th century and this would have been used by the cadets of the order of the knights of st just makes us enjoy the 300 years we're basically in charge of the side of these islands and of course they are a matter of time power above everything else so they need to train their young ones how to operate the real thing so this would have been their virtual but real model everything works you can pull the police raise the sails move the cannons so that eventually when you get on board the real thing you would have had the sense of how

it's going to work and i think it's a beautiful and wonderful object that has recklessly surviving come down to us. so of malta was my favorite about chanel shows what about yourself hers but i liked another one which has become very topical and that's a feature of the shakers island as i did particularly well that community her majesty's subjects cleared from the islands in the 1960 s. to make way for an american air force base every get the right to return to their homeland this was how we introduced the issue. today we take a well deserved break from brakes it to visit the sun kissed the beaches of the indian ocean that is one problem with this island paradise the people have been replaced by an air force base for that has been the fate of the ship or since her majesty's subjects cleared from the homeland half a century ago to make way for american service personnel we consider how this bitter legacy of colonialism still impacts tittie we look at the human cost of

a people cleared from the islands. would you say that court ruling against britain was a step forward yes it is a step forward to go on our island and for that to happen we need to make the great britain to realise that they need to horner the rule of the law because they might as well ignore it and we do not want that we want other nations to back us back they should go and as. we need to go home and cannot sense of belonging only be satisfied with the community return to your own people of course but sense of belonging is not here at all for slow sense of belonging it's like we are in a way we've been in it for 50 years we've been in a waiting room for 50 years we've been waiting we've been waiting for how long could you wait this is a prison so this is a life sentence this is

a life long wait. so the sugar sales are very well running and of course continuing to shoot but what's coming up after the break well after the break we'll talk to that famous campaigner medea benjamin about the politics of protest internationally we also find out what is the most contented society on earth and by this gentleman had one of his favorite days are now sure. come time. and i'm going to go after me. how about. i'm going to fulfill the repeated promises apologise to the people and promise to be you know we've all pots to. be ready

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is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way right you being led so. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. aura made in the shallowness. welcome back discussing some of the highlights of the international issues we featured the last year see this in our mini series on the politics of protest i did

normas pleasure speaking to one of the most celebrated company most on the planet medea benjamin asked medea of the social media had made this the new age of protest . are we living through and of protest are we back in 1968 was it just to the social media everything that was happening across the world i think the protests around the climate are new and are global and are huge and are only going to grow as this is a planetary issue that affects us all but then in some other areas i think we're seeing less for example we saw in the middle east all of the uprisings around the arab spring and that spread from one country to another but now that it looks like the results of those were not so positive i think that's put it damper on some other protests in the middle east for example so i think we're constantly seeing

ups and downs in protests but around the climate this is enormous and will only grow medea benjamin you're one of america's most celebrated activists across a range of causes in human rights how has your campaigning been affected by the social media age do you do things differently as a result of social media actually the issues that i am most involved in which is trying to stop wars have been harder to organize not critically because of the social media age but just because the wars have become so buzzy they've gone on for the last 20 years it's harder to get people out on the streets so i think social media can be a key to mobilizing like we see in hong kong but they also think that before social media we had enormous protests we had mass protests around civil rights issues in

the united states when there was no facebook no twitter no instagram. what a remarkable leader however i pushed truck when judging our chapels we discovered the world's most contented country was in fact denmark former maid of culture of copenhagen alice live told us why and how it won that accolade. 6 years of a smear of cultural closure of human copenhagen how important is a cultural aspect to the vibrancy of a great city like this well i think the cultural life in copenhagen is one of the reasons why we have been ranked as one of the best cities in the world of course you need they care centers you need great infrastructure and all that but it's the cultural life is the lesser life it's all the fun things that are important to a city the size of copenhagen at least maybe the cities for the world cup in lagos skyline

a much of the the traditional architecture of the time. difficult thing to do well it was actually one of my 1st political decisions when i became mayor of culture leisure back in 2008 and a former lord mayor she didn't want to keep the skyline she wanted to make it possible if the right project came that we could just put up a big building right in the center of the city but a majority of parties decided that no way we want to keep the skyline we want to keep what is very important and very special to copenhagen but we also wanted to make sure that of course we can build high buildings and spectacular new buildings industry roundings city but the old city has to remain the old city structure the pier for a visitor to the city like myself those wonderful as well the 1st issue you noticed too distinctively about copenhagen but of course with the number of people coming in and wanting to come to copenhagen to still be as

a result the city success of must be quite a tension between not being able to build an accommodating the growing number of people well but i think that most people they prefer copenhagen like this because we're building new fantastic areas in copenhagen with new very modern buildings i think a lot of people they were actually not like to live in the old city because you have all the past you have all the restaurants you have all the people in built cities so the people coming to copenhagen to live here they actually want to stay just a kilometer or 2 away from the from the center but still be able to go there and enjoy the life there so we're building i don't know really many many many apartments right now for for new copenhagen. seems like a year ago. you mentioned who would be the very special very serious unlink. as well doesn't cast you as

a chip chip the last of brittany and the early stages of the war it is the largest market disaster in british history with more lives lost in the titanic and these detainees come by. the great naval and british with a loss of life. is barely remembered. just a few miles off the. road on the 17th of june 1900. minimum loss for. a military. program for remembrance day a history of the. few remaining survivors. long struggle. and we try to the question of why the greatest naval. has been confined to the.

you know the say the sea is cruel. cruel. remember many. long years. captain shop and. received. it told them to load as many men as possible without regard to the limits laid down by. more than 6000 people exhausted soldiers confused refugees were crowded on to the ship more than 3 times as established a limit at that point the shop made a fateful decision to stay at and not to make a. u. . understandably frightened that would destroy an escort his ship would be easy prey to your boats in the english channel. and never to believe as each month passes there are fewer of the like last year survivors alive to give witness to

what actually happened on that fateful day of june the 17th $1004.00 even since we started filming we have lost 97 year old red blood in a stalwart of one cast of commemorations over the years and therefore today i'm privileged to be here not split to interview like last year survivor royal engineer beazley 101 years young. tom. and frank and i'm do not try me. at. all remember about next year when you have a little less and less take you back to when you were on borderline cast the bombs went down the funnel the ship was packed to the gunnels with people well the old soldiers or world of civilians refugees other people here nearly all.

soldiers and nurses and there are 3. every home repaid. and i. some of my children with them but i think the key thing to survival was was it just your lot was a fight you were the struggle swell of was to your advantage of course but it was where but some people would stay some people would jump because they didn't know what to do on the ship sank and all thought well i'll sure was about to model why i shower for albright jump in when why how could swim quite a bit past one provider 20 minutes then let's row now i the covariant come around and he said in straight pull me i know how sharp edged. it and he stood on the bowery well and the strong

rubber raft. and i went to y o r climb into the rubber roll and i'm saying no no he's brushed covered in or will help comes women are about if shiksha abhiyan god i'm with mayor or can he hollows was hanging on the saw it's and i'll go crunch in my legs and i asked to stand up are and are stored up. no i push me in the say i was a bit much you were on the 1st so you go well i don't like them because they thought you were going to be stabilized roughly as well so i always start to swim towards a hill a cocked shout for why and there was a robbery about come from show. and he's coming towards my help and he comes saying

the cause he calls back to me in a ditch and he comes out and money go bit cross our shire and i are oh we're over here and you know ronnie saying me and he come over he said can you route oh said yeah and then now we're come this rope wellnigh corvette. i took a solemn board and i washed all the old all of us and then the other vehicle on. their own say and this cove that we was on it put us all on to the wrong city you have the sea and. and we set sail for england we don't end up implemented. and we were always slightly from other people because they didn't

want to talk about what happened when our grand how 9 talked my parents about or said one of the. herbs or anything about art. because i refer to begin to put it and a practice pipe or go for years afterwards if you said to some the i was on the lancastrian you very few people would know you were now now when can i talk about your medal so the serious medals here well good because you said right through the water i could see the control of metal say none of them has to do with the long catch all of a this was what happened to me after that would you like to have a medal signifies to learn our overtaking options ah well it just so happens.

that i have one with me and with great pleasure oh i see you are spirit and the speed with has very low engineers my plan was to present a jury that is really nice or i certainly appreciate. you for your service and now on very please tell me here to talk to a paper buyer and talking so well our left the home shall please to spread. well they sadly we have to put ernest passed away in november this year but we know for sure that we made a wonderful man very happy to see his service record recognized after all of these years. makes we somewhat the election results of a prestigious panel of political pundits but no for the short this is how we summed up the story of the lancaster i was here on the banks of that of

a played that our story has its beginning and it said this is where the i was born at the time here in 1022 the name was james the a few years later because american gas found it difficult to pronounce and just a few yards from here is where they're like customer families finally achieved their heart's desire and 2011 by having a memorial built to those who died. it's difficult not to contrast the open hearted remembrance of the people brittany with the coverage in that mission of the authorities in these islands and by denying remembrance the rest to things. if you don't remember walter fall of casualties then you run the risk of repeating the mistake and secondly remember families cannot have. for the loss of the loved

ones. well tonight wolf. and in 2011 when the requiem for the link finally arrived it was people. but louis stevenson said it best. why even study sky dig the grave and let me lie. did i live and gladly die and before will. this be the grain for me he lies when he longed to be home as a sailor home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill.

facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark so. they are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real it's detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another. one comparative shopping service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results on what they think you should be see if they have this kind of power then democracy is an illusion the free and fair election

doesn't exist the more we give them the sooner we are all paying. back geysers financial survival. housing bubble. oh you mean there's a downside to artificially low mortgage rates don't get carried away that's cause a report.

and it says in the us congress want washington to put russia on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. and chinese restaurants in new york by a white woman shuts down off the just 8 months i didn't have a cultural appropriation. once again this is a busybody annoying white liberal preoccupation who think they have to police the world and stand up for all the poor suffering minorities out there was. oh no i did indulge in a few stereotypes. time magazine's person of the year in 2019 is. look at how the 16 year old climate activists risen to form of those promoting green issues around the well.