the u.n. human rights office identifies over 100 companies which it says all supporting illegal settlements in the west bank provoking the. loss on the b.b.c. faces threats from government cuts in chamonix highlights the growing influence of countries like russia and china in the media. and job and city of dresden commemorate 75 years since the 2nd world war bombing campaign which left an estimated 25000 we speak to a man who narrative a 5 story. parents rushed outside and took nothing with the others went back to their flat and they died in the flames in the narrow streets the flames were

spreading so fast people were suffocating you. live from the russian capital this is odd to me and smash no grab you are in the wild a very warm welcome to our program. let's get started the u.n. human rights office has released a report identifying 112 companies which it says all supporting illegal settlements in the west bank the findings have come in for shop criticism from israel though it's called the document shameful and suspended toys with the body. who have a boy good will be borg to the human rose gone so is a buzz buddy that is devoid of influence the state of israel will not tolerate this discriminates he and he israeli policy and will take action to prevent the implementation of these kinds of decisions the united nations was referring to the

israeli settlements that are constructed in the west bank post the 19676 day war. the 121 officially recognized settlements house around half a 1000000 israeli settlers these places offer places of worship homes and businesses that serve the region for the israelis this list included 112 companies operating in these settlements included some international companies such as moral solutions however they also included mostly israeli banks however some american companies like trip advisor and air b.n. b. were also mentioned in the list however the united nations list does not state that these companies are practicing any illegal activity over that they are only being listed because they are operating within the israeli settlements it's important to note that it is not some claim a blacklist nor does it qualify any companies activities as illegal that would be

a separate and highly complicated terminations finding mission highlighted 10 types of business activities it viewed as being of particular concern given the well established legal nature of the settlements in the occupied palestinian territory the palestinians welcomed the united nations list that arrived from the human rights council calling it a welcome diplomatic victory and a sign of the palestinians diplomatic efforts in the international community to confront israel publishing this list of companies and entities operating in the settlements is a victory for international law and diplomatic efforts the american administer. gratian and out of the deal of the century palestinians call this deal or this piece of ring a pro israel agreement that gave nothing to the palestinians and gave everything towards the israelis this has actually created more tensions between the palestinian authority and the israeli government with these tensions also

escalating into live protests on the ground and tensions are only rising in the days to come mohamed decide is the national director of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement based in south africa he hopes the new report will encourage businesses to end their support for west bank settlements but as a boycott divestment and sanctions movement we see this as a great great positive step in the right direction for holding israel accountable for its violations of international law it has taken the b.d.s. boycott of israel just over 15 years to get to the stage and so we really do hope that this nonviolent boycott movement can have an effect on the israeli government in an attempt to bring israel to the negotiating table similar to how our parties that africa was brought to the negotiating table big businesses like b. and b. bookings dot com to be advisor invidious others should be on the right side of history and should in this complicity with these rules violations of international law well we asked the companies mentioned on not less to comment on the story and

more of course let you know that response while pro israel groups are demanding that songwriter musician and pink floyd co-founder that's roger waters be dropped from the south by southwest music festival in texas next month they claim the star is an anti semite and therefore doesn't deserve to share his views that. it is unconscionable that waters' be given any platform to air his anti semitic views much less the chance to be a keynote speaker at a major music festival south by southwest should remove him from its lineup immediately what you want is a scheduled to be a keynote speaker festival that last year tried to more than $400000.00 people major league baseball in the u.s. and else they were running out waters upcoming tour after they too came on prussia roger waters explained himself how he sees these attacks and what it is that he's fighting for. major league baseball ransom pre-sale adds before

a pre-sell of tickets to my shows there was never any question of us continuing to run more ads of to the priest so period so i think they just lend let it let it go away quietly the equation of the b.d.s. movement with the simitis and is an invention of people like the ny breath and it's an invention of the ministry of strategic compares which spends millions and millions of pounds all over the world that serve the israeli ministry setups pacifically to spread lies about b.d.s. there is nothing and see semitic compound b.d.s. the b.d.s. movement has consistently and constantly and and of quickly stated that it is against all forms of isms racism and semitism and muslim as anything the i 8 show or

a definition cropped up and was adopted and has been adopted by trump and by others as a new definition of and his semitism is such a red herring definition which identifies any criticism of the policies both domestic and foreign of the state of israel as being inherently anti semitic is clearly nonsense this is nothing to do with people and by the way but not by rigged at the bottom of their letter which i read again today they claim to represent all jewish people all over the world well i'm sorry guys but you don't know i am not anti semitic don't say any more please because it is a bare faced lie and it's irritating and it does nobody any good i believe that all human beings have brothers and sisters. room of the well and that we have an

absolute model juji to respect one another and that is the tiny platform upon which i was. clearly i'm being sarcastic when i say tiny it's a huge. human rights and important than almost anything until it israel palestine issue is a glaring example of somewhere where some people have rights and other people don't believe it is that human rights should be something there is fundamental and applies to all people equally well too and not by israel dominated free speech a journalist has filed an all city against the us state of georgia martin's plan talk at a local university was cancelled off to share for the fuse to sign a pledge not to boycott as well the american islamic relations council has spoken out against the university's move by canceling a journalist speaking on campus because she refused to support

a foreign government georgiou violated the 1st amendment freedom of speech guarantee there is no place where free speech is more important than on campus this is attempt to suppress views is as brazen as it is illegal 27 other states have pro israel nor similar to georgia's they forbid state governments from signing contracts with those who boycott the jewish state the laws are designed as a counter to palestinian campaigns against israel now we spoke to the martin who's the john has to initiate thought and also he thinks that people off for fitting that constitutional rights in order to walk. i was given this contract i was pretty shocked to get this contract i heard of these laws i knew of cases for hurricane relief workers just substitute teachers but i guess i never connected the 2 that simply being a speaker on a college campus supposedly these bastion of free speech nationwide would trigger there's clause in force me to sign

a contract to say that i would never boycott israel of course this goes against my 1st amendment. rights this is meant to curb the mounting grassroots pressure that originates predominately on college campuses against the state of israel and i couldn't comply with this how could i comply my entire body of work criticizes the israeli government or so i wrote back and i said i cannot comply with this and that's why i decided to take legal action with care in the p.c. jaf because thousands of contractors are being affected by this law whether or not they know where they are forfeiting their constitutional rights in order to simply work and i think that's an abomination we do have a strong case ahead of us i think it is up to the judges themselves to overturn these laws they've done them in several cases already and that's why i'm confident that we have a very strong clear cut case that a judge will will see that this is a blatant violation of our constitutional rights and it really goes to show you this isn't about free speech at all this is about controlling what kind of speech

we're hearing. now the headline story the chairman of the b.b.c. has warned against funding cuts to britain's national full cost saying it would help russia and china spread influence the b.b.c. is set to lose $200000000.00 pounds over the next 2 years as its license fee is reviewed by the government with an idea to possibly switch to a voluntary subscription system. has the details. it would appear that every time the b.b.c. are faced with these types of challenges they come out fighting although this time it seems they're resorting to scare tactics in order to ward off any threat to their state funding and this perhaps unsurprisingly they've taken a at russia and china the b.b.c.'s mean competitors or the world funded state backed actors of russia and china who see news as an extension of state influence and its will for democratic disruption very easy of course always to raise the

specter of nefarious states abroad trying to infiltrate and influence politics here of course the b.b.c. never engaging in that type of behavior but the chairman of the b.b.c. also going on to sing the praises of his organization and what he says is their commitment to impartiality as a public service broadcaster not a state broadcaster it has been a beacon of journalistic impartiality and a lifeline for millions living in fear uncertainty and captivity worldwide while perhaps a few shared by the chairman is not the same as that shared by many people in the u.k. i mean for a start the b.b.c.'s embroiled in a number of its own difficulties and scandals in regards to for example sexism and racism and how it treats staffan and how it deals with pay between men and women for example but also it seems to be a politicizing of their programming with the very popular victoria darva show being

axed in the last few months that led to accusations that the government was trying to interfere with their output but also accusations from all sides of the political spectrum we've seen on the right accusations towards the b.b.c. that they're somehow against briggs it but even more so and perhaps with a lot of evidence behind it according to those who make this claim that the b.b.c. showed a very. and see dermie corben bias especially in the run up to the election the beginning of that to somebody last year and so it would appear that while the chairman of the b.b.c. wants to defend and sing the praises of the organization and say that this is a vital institution in this country there are rapidly running out of supporters in the country who are willing to come to their defense keva know and talk to john clarke about the challenges confronting the broadcast and what the proposed changes might mean this whole license thing is a piece of history and the b.b.c.

these to up its game do you agree with that it is a great institution i think the problem has been really in the last i would say 10 years or so it's been with its political programming i think that that's where a lot of discontent lies we heard easterly talking there about people believing all thinking it would not without any evidence that the that there were a lot of bias but sample against europe we called it now we're hearing today b.b.c. saying propaganda from the likes of china from the likes of russia are they really that important is it such a problem you know i think the funding so i don't know about the chinese or c.c.t.v. funding but i know from reading articles or reports that in fact the b.b.c. as a whole gets more funding than r.t. gets so i think that's a bit of a red herring so to speak i think it's sad that he's felt the chair of the obliged to make that comment to get that to get russia because it really is and should really be about that it should really be about do we need a public sector broadcaster i think we do and how is that public sector broadcaster

funded what he should be saying i think is look the b.b.c. has got a very long history. 80 odd years history of producing good programs we've done it down the years please keep the funding. it's a song but day in the job in city of trust and as it commemorates the victims all the mass call that bombing campaign it's estimated that 25000 civilians died in the raids led by the british and american asil says 75 years ago to the day since then the intensity of the strikes in dresden have been called into question as the 2nd world war needed sound. and. everything

around turned into i see a woman in her hands is a bundle it's a child she runs and forms the child disappears into the plains.

we had the story of a man whose parents how the foresight to take him out all dressed and shortly before the bombing began and although he was only 5 years old at the time he still has recollections of what his family went through. the bombing started and the house was on fire parents rushed outside and took nothing with them others went back to their flats and they died in the flames in the narrow streets the flames were spreading so fast people were suffocating it was a simple struggle for survival after the attack no more no less for weeks afterwards the corpses were burned at the old market my father had to help there to from february to the beginning of may they started to clear some rubble and burned the bodies there were $6.00 to $7000.00 corpses burned at the old market 200 meters from here there are pictures of this there were bodies lying around everything was destroyed it was chaos because there were also many refugees from poland and east

prussia that's why you don't know how many in fact died because there were so many unregistered people here who were burned the corpses could not be identified. minimal stories and just 90 seconds to type.

we know in psychology that the more people are told that they can't or shouldn't do something whether it's sexual or otherwise the more it makes them want to do it so trying new things violating taboos are some of the most common and pervasive elements in our sexual fantasies. and welcome back united states nato representative claims that every nation has been targeted by other russia china and cyberspace warning the walled that it must strengthen its files against moscow and beijing but said well reports revealed the cia on its job and counterpart rigged swiss made encryption machines bought in the

1970 s. allowing them to spawn number seize and government institutions of 120 countries as dumb course of reports. the washington post is calling it the intelligence coup of the century the cia working with west german secret services pulling the strings of a swiss and christian company and stealing government secrets from over 120 countries foreign governments were paying good money to the us and was germany for the privilege of having their most secret communications read by at least 2 foreign countries it was a foolproof operation 1st called the saurus and later renamed rubicon for over half a century of the company crypto a.g.d. was a captain of the world's encryption industry based in neutral switzerland most governments were quick to believe their secrets were in safe hands little did they know the cia and west germany's b.m.d. had co-opted the company's founder to create

a backdoor into the world's best kept secrets in 1988 western spies had complete access to the egyptian president's communications with cairo during the camp david peace talks with israel a year later washington was spying on iranian officials during the hostage crisis and as late as 1986 u.s. intelligence was listening to libyan officials congratulate each other for the bombing of a berlin disco although the c.i. a and b. and d. weren't able to hook their main rivals russia and china had enough foresight to look elsewhere for their encryption needs nowadays though those 2 are the scapegoats for all of the west's cyber woes if you see throughout our alliance every one of our countries has had side by and hybrid attacks from russia some from china for washington it's become a routine to point the finger at russia and china but it's not like u.s. intelligence operations have wound down since then on the contrary they've adapted

. edward snowden is a 29 year old intelligence contractor who leaked top secret national security agency information revealing the incredible extent to which the u.s. government is monitoring and keeping records of not just our phone calls the national security agency has developed his build an infrastructure they can intercept almost everything. national security agency there in the united states allegedly spying on quite vast amounts of citizens data the group by president obama who is reviewing the washington spying program has largely defended it although the program had not prevented a terrorist attack it was still vital to homeland security. the

central intelligence agency has lost control of highly classified documents and computer code about the cia's technical capability to carry out tracking into electronic devices things like android phones only julian assange. accusing the cia of devastating incompetence saying the agency has lost control of its cyber weapons it doesn't matter who you are friend or foe they're coming for your secrets. i have since we started talking about then and see always made it clear to the u.s. president that spying among friends is not acceptable and if you take wiki leaks vault 7 documents into consideration it makes operation rubicon look like child's play the scope and direction of the cia's global covert hacking program its malware arsenal and dozens of 0 day weaponized exploits against a wide range of u.s.

and european company products include apple's i phone google's android and microsoft's windows and even samsung t.v.'s which were turned into covert. microphone's even their own citizens aren't safe now increasingly we see that it's happening domestically and to do that they the n.s.a. specifically targets the communications of everyone in just some by default it collects them in its system and it filters them in a tantalizes the minute measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends snowden took the revelations about crypto eiji even further comparing it with a formerly secret $10000000.00 contract between the n.s.a. and a major u.s. computer security firm it begs the question what info grabbing operations are still going on right now under our noses. well given how much time has posthumously i

am lestat whistleblower john kerry at who doesn't expect anyone to come clean over the reported operation i can only speculate but we have a mandatory declassification law in this country where if information is at least 30 years old and it is not operational in nature that is it doesn't include information related to sources and methods that it has to be declassified and i wonder if that's really what this is all about that the information is old enough that there's no reason to keep it classified anymore the u.s. has interfered in more elections around the world then any other country in the world and i wouldn't be surprised if it was more than all other countries in the world combined this is something they that the u.s. does routinely regularly this may at least temporarily serve to take the attention

off of russia off of china and other countries because this is something the united states does all the time not only will will there be no criminal repercussions i would not at all be surprised if those responsible for this operation who are still in the cia or n.s.a. are not given medals for what they. finally you know make has in italy how though to put the anti my quit santa. on trial of the claims his decision to hold more than $100.00 people at sea it will cost $21000.00 was illegal but the far right firebrand defiant tone often he was stripped of his parliamentary immunity thinking that he's ready for the naming court battle. i feel is my duty to the country italian people and to my children i want to be proud of what it is to hold my head high our constitution says that protecting our homeland is

a sacred duty for italian citizens as a minister as a man as an italian fighting people traffickers defending our borders and security defending the pride and dignity of my country protecting italians from all the illegal migrants in the country was not a right but a duty for me. to take a selfie and he was a sleaze interior minister at the time of the incident which caused a major outcry among human rights groups he was pushing for the closure of the country's ports to migrant rescue boats claiming that all the e.u. countries need to take their fashion to prosecutors allege that he acted alone in refusing to let the passengers disembark in sicily and didn't have the consent of his coalition partners salvini for his part says he was sticking to his campaign promises it to me was among the country's most impacted of course by the my crisis at the time.

i think it is a said page for our democracy i mean so many it was a minister who was a minister of the italian republican and the holy try to defend our national interest only try to defend our borders and this is a political. party the democratic and the 5 star movement so now in italy we have how you know maybe the leftist government in our republican a story and this government try to attack in a political way so really because every time that the. center right to go to hell. during the election but maybe except for in media romagna election in the local election every time the center right and leg are the force political party in italy

so now what's happened is that one of that the left the can defeat the salvini during the normal election and wanted to defect political at dark and wanted to persecute salvini with the process in the next day. thoughts are up for now i'll be back at the top of the by late to see that. the battle of.

the liberal corporate media are fickle they fall in and out of love quickly and often not long ago they were infatuated with being wrong wrong now they are smitten by me or the media love to drone on about their preferences in the mean time. their candidates. welcome to alex salmond she will return to the subject which has dominated the headlines over the last month the. this is a global pandemic now inevitable or can the extreme public health measures hold up the transmission of.