ah, ah, with a german navy admiral steps down a few spots a diplomatic raw by public day in the crimea is now part of russia. also in the headlines we recently notified congress of our intent to deliver and 17 helicopters. after the latest round of the escalation, thought, the u. s. joins or the nato member states in ramping up weapons supplies to care for mattel's motion to pull back its own troops from its florida, with ukraine. rallies against covey restrictions of breaking out across europe with anger in front of a vaccine. monday, across the channel in britain, their process against mandatory jobs for health care workers. are those the

headlines for this hour feel free to head over to r t dot com for more of those stories? that's all for me, peter scott. but neil harvey were taking over the needs in an hour with the weekly how not international. thank you for watching a with time after the returns here we're going underground. 24 hours after you have secretary of state entity blinking met with russian foreign minister survey lab rover ukraine in geneva, falling president. jo biden's, threats against russia in a week of u. k pm, boris johnson, sending weapons to the former soviet nation. well,

this is so called mainstream media declares johnson's premier ship, all but over after alleged corona, virus restriction violations in the country with one of the highest cove, a deaf child in the world. well, who better joined me now for the special edition of the show from your london is filmmaker and legendary journalist john pilcher. thanks john farrah coming back on the show. lots of cove it about. so he asked me remote, this time, you know, one johnson critic said, it'd be like al capone's being done for tax evasion, but headlines all over the world. are you k b, m bowers? johnson? no, apparently relaxing restrictions amongst the worst death numbers in western europe sends troops to ukraine. and it apparently is korea's over. what's your take on all of this hubbub here in westminster? well, it's just that it is humbug around westminster political reporter in this country and, and, and the united states as well as is based around the parliament,

if that narrow focus south of what parliament on sandra. i never understand what the choice why the tories are complaining about the bbc, because if you watch the baby say, all it does is record column or cell run reporting the wider issue. so what we've had in this country is so i great deal of thought. ah, ah anti johnson, the staff he deserves every bit of it, of course. but it's focused almost entirely on him. and on understandably, on the, the scandals of parties and downing street went down a street, was, was telling the country to was to lockdown. but it always scandals ah oh here for sod, for serious ball making. and that's what's happening in, ah,

certainly in the ukraine at the moment. i, it's is probably one of the most to store stories i can ever remember. i mean, 1st of all, if you look to russia, those who were said to be the aggressors and about main bay russian troops are actually in russia. u. s. miss isles, surround, ah, russia and british troops on the borders of russia, nato troops, or on the borders of russia. nato troops surround russia from slovenia all away down. so the, the aggression, the potential aggression appears to be almost certainly on one side. but it's, it's never a quarter that way. and, and that's why propaganda is so important to my life. we've heard nothing but

propaganda or russia about to invade it, go straight back to the old cold war when the russians were coming. and of course, they weren't coming, as we now know from all what classified material the russians had no serious intention of invading western europe. and yet that was the propaganda all the way through. it didn't make any sense from their point of view. this doesn't make any sense from their point of view now. well they, b, b c with sure, right? as sort of it being attacked this week about the funding it re by the government to through. it's curious, a mechanism that that doesn't seem to have happened actually arguably we me see say it is committed to achieving do emerge ality and all of that. but the commitment is one, the mental to our reputation of values. and the trust of audience is you don't think b b c journalist would similarly allow china, save it, add bases in mexico and russian bases in canada for them to say, look,

the united states has to change where its troops are within the united states. no, the status or to record version that you just read out loud as it always was a good laugh among those who actually take the trouble to construct. and unfortunately, most people haven't got time to do that. and so the bbc has an entirely false reputation of objectivity. there's no, typically bbc represents the producer, imperial, foreign policy. it doesn't ride through. it's during a moment on the so called a russian regression in ukraine on domestic policies. they were to learn my, my bill. i'm 2012 and last year, which effectively? ok, so, so for the privatization of the national health firms,

the bbc bailey report, and these bills have a critical effect on almost every one of our war when a turing factor is time. 11 of our advisors advised her to privatize the great public institutions, the and a chess by stealth. that is what was happening now. none of that, none of that is, is given to the baby stays millions of years are, as it really is. are the, the headlines represent her own superficial changes and the house service. and the same, the same is true when the media work. so i austerity news media, austerity. what does that really mean?

it means the impoverished bunch of millions of people. and that's what has happened in this country. i mean, it's interesting that there has been effectively and i, so i use this expression an opposite as an accurate description. there has been a class war in this country against the people that the majority of people are who cannot keep up with the or the kind of group policies, neo liberal policies, but have been imposed on them ruthlessly. none of their, we have no real perspective of the political meaning of us farrah t even the, the human may need, i stared t in terms of the numbers of people who are being on whose lives are being abandoned. every time that the transfer of the chicago stands in front of the chair,

the dispatch box on the these, these are serious failures on behalf of the media, though. no, the more cervical would say, and i think probably correctly, they're not failures because there is the media role to present a power from the top down never from the ground up. well, if philosophically that is just meritocracy is considered by those journalists and policy makers in those in power, i will return to foreign policy in a 2nd. but there were, these are almost hidden announcements about further privatization beyond your film . on the n h. s, which people can watch. i mean, you believe that the lady counting of a covert positive old people in dk homes, 28000 dead. maybe it was that they were killed. and that the, i mean,

we're now here with numbers approaching, i mean it's debated how many people were killed by cove it in this country. but it seems to be more than those killed by the policies of bailing out the city of london after the financial crash. 20 wait for interesting, you know, distinguish academics. i, professor dan, a dollar oxford. can i talk about the 10s of thousands of people who have died as a result of the asperity policy and the the people at amnesty an organization really not given very much to i think her seriously undermining our status, our government or power i was in, i think 2020 but the 3rd and last year came out with

a study which shows that something like 28100 people, mainly elderly people. sick people had been expelled effectively from the national health service into care homes where they die. now, ah, it wasn't i who wrote up the turn state murder, it was another study that came up. and you know, we can see the number of law that have been lost because of the, the cow us. it's wrong to say carelessness because it is being callous, ideological, and driven. and that is reaffirmed by johnson's announcement this week. but on january the 26 is so called plan b would end and the all restrictions will be all. and those who don't wear masks

will not be, were legally required to do so. i and you have a virtually traveling petri dish of, of covert. i'm, unless we're, we're all going to fall when to i'm the fanatical area when people say the covert is no different from the flu, but that's in fact what the prime minister of this country is saying. he says he's saying that we can now regarded as an epidemic. like there are flu academics, but i go to very close friend of the moment who is in hospital. so he's a man of his seventy's. ah, and i'm worried about it because his condition has been, has been to teary aging for some time is fully vaccinated. he has a booster and i guess he just unlucky, but he's picked up the don't

a very. so how often is this going to happen? you know, tell his band way, but he has the flu. but that's what johnson is telling a country. it's an extraordinary, it's like, it's like a you're janice speaking, not a prime minister, but always watch will be sacrificed. even those young burn center. and many of those actually die from, from this thing. ok. but those who fall will will fall ill with those even if they, if they recover from, ah, it's, it's uncertain whether it will be serious. it will go on to being something else. but where to accept all that where to accept but no longer is a supermarket bound to ask people to wear a mask. i should say the london government claims that actually they will have

jurisdiction over some of the transport, obviously, bars johnson's government or would categorically deny as states and murder as a reason you. i mean, and if anyone thinks you are a big girl hawk, for those wanting locked downs, that hasn't been true. john, i'll stop you there more from the legendary jonas and he'll make a john pilcher after this break. ah, with join me every thursday on the alex salmon? sure. i'll be speaking to guess of the world politics sport business. i'm sure business. i'll see you then. mm. ah,

welcome back. i'm still here with the filmmaker and legendary journalist john pilcher . do you think this change of policy about suddenly freeing up the old of britain and just say, allowing things to take their course is, is a political decision based on his own desire for political power rather than on medical evidence, which i have to say hasn't properly been produced, arguably this man who appears to treat the political body politic. and burton the like the, the common room of keegan calling and everything is kind of a bleak laugh. ah. and so we're saying we now have concrete over the parties have been going on in downings free right through the worst week, the covert pan down i can this country while people were, are bearing loved ones couldn't go to their funerals. people couldn't get married.

elderly people were ha ah, were on their own, couldn't be visited in care. meanwhile, there's been party time in, in johnson's domain and down that street. ah reverse. a truce now for prime minister allows that to happen. ah. what else will he allow to happen when he he is now throwing away, abandoning the most basic restrictions. i mean, i don't agree with lockdown, but basic restriction such as wearing masks, social distance thing. being careful of albert's common sense, but often common sense has to be legally enforced or law legally require. he's throwing all right away. it's so irresponsible, irresponsible as

a pointless words, worse than that. well, his opposite numbers here, scammer also pictured, it should be said, although he similarly said that it wasn't a breach of the rules. his opposite number care scarce darma her. now, leading in the polls, of course, says he would have preferred to be talking about russia than johnson's a alleged parties. what do you see as her, as this sir? prevalent view now that a war is inevitable, as it were, even while the rest of the world sees this is not really about the protection of ordinary ukrainians. why not? sanctions against saudi arabia of human rights abuses, for instance, is being presented to the human rights issue that we need to protect ukraine from russia. what you just said, the whole risk of war and war with the 2nd biggest nuclear hom power on earth. on the whole cost ability

of but i don't know whether shenadra cooper or not certainly sorry to look like that. but the possibility, the fact that there is not an issue or an issue before the country with all the the ramifications with all the r ah, the components of it spelled out to people. so that they understand exactly what's happening. so that they understand that a section that has led to this and all was all certainly all major was have started following to sections. we don't have to go that far. ah, the invasion of iraq was based on a major to section ally. and if there is any kind of war with russia

over you cray or really over its riot to defend its borders, the very same borders for which hitler stormed are in the 1940s, whether it has that right or not. there's no, there's no discourse, there's no dialogue about there is between us or boat wider on the media. there isn't. it's a terribly dangerous time. and in this danger, parsons, the danger which is almost like a movable face. we're going go to china. her because everybody really studies the so called foreign policies of the united states and its allies, pro vassals, such as the united kingdom, will know that an enemy is essential. whether or not there are an enemy is beside the point. they're not as though they're no real enemy, so u. k. in the world. and there's no real enemies of the united states,

but an enemy is needed. so we'll move from russia to china week. we really have to understand, but we have to understand the, the profound sentences that works in geo politics. it's not a sort of academic good. it's something that affects all our lives. and we have the right to comprehend and you know, ordinary people whose lives it's filled with all sorts of things. also have the right to understand. beyond headlines this give only one side, one fear, and elite still know that it, it works. that imperial idea but relies on propaganda the threat from the other. they have to minimize, i don't know the as of battalion now integrated in the ukrainian army with its views about hitler and against jews. and of course,

the are the idea that china brought 800000000 people out of poverty. these ideas, they're not allowed to be put on media in nato nations as, as a matter of course, me who knows, among those who boat. and as i read in some polio, the guy, one of the most popular because of the world, today's barack obama. there was barack obama, who affectively, ah, overthrew the elected government in ukraine in 2014 and allowed it to be replaced with her, an anti russian aggressive regime that came as a result of her own a bomb as people is vice president biden. ah, one of the senior, our secretaries victoria and you on the all part of actually

a conspiracy which i think it was new. and so the price tag or was $5000000000.00. we got the right. we got the government ukraine church that has brought later you worst, the u. k. right up to the border of russia. imagine the reverse. imagine the russians. ah, rather a russian presence right up to the canadian border with the united states or the mexican border. is that, is that it's the refusal to understand, to reverse it, to put our souls in the position of a country that last i don't, i think it was 20 or 1000000 people in the 2nd world war, the history, whoever's in charge, and in russia,

that's been my experience of being in russia and in the soviet union, but history is like a preference. it, it, it, it inflows home influences almost everything. history has no presence in the united states. ah, it's her kind of permanent allusion. it does in this country which makes the cynicism even more rather desperate in the united kingdom that should go along with these dangerous, as well as renewed interest apparently in russian or chinese, a placement of facilities in cuba in nicaragua, in other places, i should say that obviously, when it comes to history of the nato think tanks, the one here rooting says there was no deal on guaranteeing a ukraine not being bought of nato, the national security archive. people could look it up. apparently, there were agreements but not official treaties. of people go watch the victorian

newland liter fogel on line. i've got to get to the person that illuminated so much of this for so much or of the world. julian hasanti of wiki leaks who according to the u. n has been tortured here in london and who is detained just very briefly because i know it's law affair, according to his defenders. is, julian isn't going to be freed, or is he going to be effectively killed in the united states? i can answer that directly and it gives me the shivers even to make the choice. frankly, it doesn't look hopeful at the moment obviously. but just before we began this interview, i checked with julians lawyers, whether they had heard. if the high court, the high court was going to effectively allow an appeal after the supreme court or whether it will go back to the lower court. so what we're looking at,

i think over the next year or so is a more hearings in this country. ah, it will almost certainly go back to the lower court and, and julian's defense team will appeal on all the issues that the district john's day and i didn't accept and that will go all the way up to the high court again it's, it's like a slew long torture. it's quite to pray, you know, if to pray the whole persecution while the whole prosecution of julia in the south, under a 1917 espionage act in the united states. when it's clear to everybody who understands anything about the case. so the whole thing has been do, didn't, that's about shutting out journalist who do they draw with implications,

therefore, for the editors of the guardian lamond new york times and all those that collaborated with liquid helix oversee joe biden. cosmo i tech are terrorists. irregular pentagon released their own video of civilians being killed by a u. s. joint strike in afghanistan as they left her a bit like the collateral murder one. i know just depending in our leasing things a bit like wiki leeks, but of course as part of the campaign to defend him, direct action is being talked about in defense of him, given the parlous nature of the all legal process. what did you think of what he saw? a jury acquit those who clearly vandalized the statue of edward colston lee, a british slave trader, celebrated in bristol port assign the direct action, and juries can destroy power in this country. after all. the good news that is the good news and you know, the colston ah,

the coast and decision which was just to aspire jury and the difference between endurance and, ah, a judicial system but allow somebody like julian sounds possibly probably to be expedited is the moral or surgery dislike people themselves. the jury's took a moral view and they've been a whole i, there been a whole litany of, of jury pictures. it goes back to 11 that i was in her in the mid ninety's when a group called ploughshares, women broke in to a british aerospace or arms factory where they were manufacturing the hawk aircraft in lancashire. then britain, how just on a 500000000 on deal within the leisure to supply it with 4 k ultra, which

a claim for training. in fact, the whole k craft and i saw the results were in east timor were strafing and, and bombing. i really hot who actually had close in may hands. well, the, the, the jury in this of course, found from them the reason the women are broken into the a factory and vandalize, at least one of the aircraft was to prevention was a quarter in the fence to prevent jennifer. and the jury agree that was a moral decision. and we said the same with extinction roberto with anti war protesters. people who have gone past the bbc view politics passed westminster, who carry with them always responsibility of,

of great issues. ah, and get enormous or all of our world will have to get you on to talk about the police bill to the curb protest, of course, in this country. but people can watch death of a nation. the documentary you did, which was used in evidence in that trial on your website, john build your thank you and that's it for the show will be back on monday, 5 years to the day, the president, donald trump, would you the u. s. from the proposed trans pacific partnership agreement, the never came to me in 3 years since the trump administration officially recognized the unelected boris johnson supported venezuelan opposition leader, one guy, those the countries president did bill them keeping touch viola social media. let us know if you think you are free to protest in your country. ah. back either financial survival. no, they say my little girl, i've worked in

a central bank support. dying academy. call them right now and they stop the madness. ah, well your man, my yes, what is the see? i and now i lisa typical, there's only 9, but already university students. she could well be the most famous and talked about child in russia. then i bring him for him. lisa's brothers and sisters and we had in their studies to some might even try to get into university earlier. my daughter was only one when they took off had a news. i had to wonder if gifted.