a newly will arms race between the u. s. in china. once that happens, the philippines should look after its own interest. it shouldn't sheet to align itself with the interest of the american station, because our national interest is not the same as with the u. s. we have an outstanding being issue in china and relation to the rest philippine sea. we hope to be able to resolve that to get to a matic and political means. certainly not through u. s. b s u. s. troops on our shores because i think that the only agra made the problem and will not lead to any meaningful resolution that has been official to the philippines. people are the leader of an indian opposition party ro gandhi, has been found guilty of defamation and sentence to 2 years in prison. gandhi was charged for making a speech in 2019,

they referred to themes as having the surname modi, a reference to the current prime minister. the case was filed by a leader of the ruling party, gone the claimed in court that he made the comment to highlight corruption. he has been granted bell and is appealing his conviction. and that's all for now. be sure to check out our t. v dot com for all the latest breaking news and updates. was he right back here at the top of the hour? ah, ah, ah, with

ah ah hello, i'm manila chan. you are tuned into modus operandi. so he has no pull. political pedigree is the child of immigrants to the u. k. he's dubbed a political science as the youngest prime minister in modern british history. but his richie soon ox rise to power as stories as they say. this week we'll take a look at the 1st person of color to hold the prime minister ship in the u. k. all

right, let's get into the m o. ah . in the fall of 2002002, the u. k was reeling from the death of their beloved queen elizabeth and skyrocketing inflation met with tumble in the market. as tori pm liz trust implemented a disastrous financial plan for britain. she resigned from her post just 6 weeks after replacing forest johnson as prime minister. so who's in 10 downing street now? none other than the man who lost to liz truss re she's soon back. now the child, the immigrants of indian heritage is heralded by the media as sort of this immigrant rags to riches fairy tale an image concocted by a team of p. r. people to downplay his immense wealth and privilege as a child of

a successful dr. father and mother who was not only a pharmacist, but she owned the pharmacy chain. well healed. indeed. soon as i grew up to attend private schools, elite universities such as oxford and stanford and california, where he met his heiress wife. he then went on to have a successful career at goldman sachs before trying his hand at politics in just 2015 a 1st time m p in 2015 to take the seat as p. m. in 2022. thank you so much, but so next story is less of a rise to the top rather more of a tale of last man standing or worse flim pickens. to shed more light on this will turn to a former scottish m p. he's now the chairman of the hope over fear grassroots independence campaign in scotland. mr. tommy sheridan is joining us now. so 1st,

tommy, thank you for being with us. re, she soon acts, ascension 2, p. m is lottery as a win for diversity, or even colonialism coming full circle with him. you know, being the 1st person of color to hold this position, the press. harold in his story rise. he himself fancies this blanket, child of immigrant story, but that's not the whole picture. is it? can you fill us in a bit on mr. student ex background or his origin story? it's important that everyone understands that red cheat should. i doesn't represent the average emigrant to the your key. he as a success story for the experience of emigration to the your director, she should not as a man born into privilege and living. and i believe this is a man who attended a boarding school as a youngster, a boarding school,

that costs almost $50000.00 owns a year to attend. the overwhelming majority of families across the u. k. don't am anywhere near 50000 pounds, but that's, that's mine was able to have his dad p to have them educated that wouldn't. chester boarding school a private school near to where he was born and showed hampton in the south coast of england. the man was born to privilege and the man represents privilege, as no average emigrant story. average emigrants suffer from discrimination, suffer from low income suffer from hosing. this is a man who has never known any of those problems and f, any of the years wish to can so venue from 2007. they will see that

you don't, fresh, bushy killed richie should not fail every one in b, b. c documentary that he had many friends that were upper class and out of stock chrissy and he says, and some working class and laughs and says, well, not working class. but then goes on to tell everyone that he goes to state schools to lecture people about the 2 could go to oxford and cambridge just lake hadn't even though he went there from a private boarding school costing almost $50000.00 pounds a year. the mine is privilege, personify this is nor a story of an average american yuki watching his way to the op. this is amman, born into privilege, and no represent stop privilege. and unfortunately,

he has governing on behalf of the privileged and society. critics compare his victory to that of barack obama here in the states and say his prime minister ship will do as much for race relations. immigration class struggle as much as obama's presidency did for solving and racism in america. your thoughts on that? will anyone who suggests that the election over it you should not convey you key will do as much for race relations as the election of bartok obama and america. they really have to ask themselves the asking the right question. because truthfully, do we really think that the election of barack obama has done anything to solve racial tensions and discrimination and racism within the united states of america?

i don't think so. i think that is clear evidence that racism has go wash, not better. and when you can shut of the disappointment that barak obama representative for many, many of the supporters, many people thought he was going to call on behalf of the majority, not the corporate minority. and sadly, they were let don't because bought a bama. he said that was going into just made the catch that was one of these back platforms, universal healthcare, for every american citizen, the richest country in the world. and they can't afford to give universal health care is absolutely unforgivable. a bought a car bama all shall present these over the largest number of bombings of muslim countries and the planet that's,

that's mine. who was of sensibly amount of piece actually as guilty of dropping more bombs than even bomb or bush beforehand. i'm so bought a bomb up was that disappointment, in terms of the aspirations of many black americans and those who believed in peace across the planet. and richie shook will do absolutely nothing to improve diversity, a race relations and the key because the mind stands for the establishment. he stands for the status quo. he stands for changing absolutely nothing as far as discrimination, racism, poverty, and quality as concerned. all of those indicators within the u. k. have gone wash, and the last 12 years of 40 government and they will continue to get wash eyes.

richie shook, governs for the rich and the privilege you know, the tory popped in the you key has been described accurately as the high, you know, poppy because if you study high, you notice the mama gives the high, you know, mom or you will see that the 3 on the sick, own the vulnerable on the old, as i, you know, do, and natural, the tory does what it said. the 5 and society are party that freeze on the week. the vulnerable, the old rich shark represents that party and he will do nothing to improve society for those of color. or did risha soon acts eventual when of the pm's chair come as

a last resort. and by that, i'm referring to the run off between he and liz truss after boris johnson step down, liz trust defeated soon act only to step down a few weeks later did sooner when only because, and i'm going to put it bluntly, there were no other horses left in the stable, the victory of richie should not into some context for years. we have the key breton, what are has 3 that involves an understanding. thou one, tame, 2 sons of the world. what under the use of british imperialism breton was the dominant. on the planet? no, it's important that context is born and maimed. when you then look at the election in 2019 of boris johnson to become

the play minister of the yuki orest johnson. as a buffoon of the highest order, boris johnson as a pathological liar. whose allies have been well documented all across the british press for many, many years. a man who lost several jobs as a columnist and an alarm squeals for telling lies a man who had to re zane because of the lazy, tall, did british public. a boat. everyone else keeping covent rules and regulations apart from him. a man who was telling ordinary families that they couldn't visit sick relatives in hospital. and carol, visa,

a man neutral families that they couldn't end funerals for loved ones while he was plotting behind number n and in pinging as f, life was just as joyous as it always has been for that bumbling buffoon. she represented the my opinion that up. so look, decrepit, b t off button, the imperialist nation. it summed up just how low but i had sunk. and the world that we were represented by somebody like bought us johnson. and everyone thought, this is the wasp that gag kind of gave watson this. and then less thrust came along . a lovely one thought, oh, we were broke and reference went from boris, the buffoon to all as the app. so look, let me who doesn't have

a low, what's going on while the nation you year on you, your, a women who was completely and utterly of dex and became the shorter sampling british prime minister and history. you have that as the context for register mark wrench, you should, i wasn't all they did by by the black. each people did become. yeah. and he was rejected even by that a minority that pop membership represents. he was rejected by them in favor of last class. imagine lucia that contains the ledge price. and yeah, that's what richie should like that he was eventually allowed to take the range because and i think the expression you've used there been no more hosses table. it's quite a good one. certainly is the truth,

that the tory hearty as an institution as decaying by the d and richey should not be in a place will not address the absolute destruction of that party as a viable tenet of the next election. i don't particularly re key a star ma, i think your stand mouth as a tory in the sky. but he will win by default. not because in the family. because people cannot stomach any more of the tories. after 12 years of economic ruination and corruption, which has been amongst the washed and british political history. all right, tommy sheridan, don't go anywhere. they're still so much more to unpack here. coming up next,

we'll examine why richie soon acts policies from domestic issues like pay inequality to nato. ukraine is really just more of the same. we'll discuss it when we return, said type. the ammo will be right back. ah, ah, look forward to talking to you all. that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings except where such order that conflict with the 1st law show your identification. we should be very careful about artificial intelligence at the point obviously is to race trust or rather than fear i would like to take on various job with artificial intelligence, real summoning with

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reach you soon back tommy sheridan is re joining us. thank you for sticking around . tommy. so 2022 proved to be a pretty wild year for the u. k. a revolving door at 10 downing street. the death of the queen energy prices, skyrocketing inflation, exploding yet with each successive pm who steps in. the more financial commitment made ating the kiev regime in this proxy, nato war, richie su knock was believed to be a fiscal conservative, and was expected to implement more practical financial policies. yet, he's doubling down on the very financial commitments that his predecessor boris johnson made to ukraine. now, the type of monetary promises that lad mr. sumac, to resign as johnson's exchequer. how do you square his priorities? sooner than the british establishment as a whole?

are determined to maintain their support for the natal proxy war and ukraine. and number one, of course is to provide cover for all of the problems that the british population face. you see the u. k. as in the up of the was them felician for almost 50 years. the u key has a standard of loving crisis. that means the standard of living is expected to fall by a full 7 percent over the next 12 months. we have food places at the highest level in terms of advance places. we have energy, places that are on, on affordable. we have what cause being forced to big part and straight actions. hundreds of thousands, millions of what cars are going to be forced to take vague action the voted the voted for and the post to industry and the kitchen and health and

transport all across the u. k. what? because i've been forced to fight bike, but what is the response of the government or nothing to do is there's no fault gulf, as there was a new korean in the past, few russians blame the russians. so as it's very convenient for the branch astonishment to continue this coverage. and so or for the proxy war and you clean because it gives them a bookmark, it gives them some victim blame for the problems. and the 2nd reason, of course, the maintain the support as because british aerospace and all of the bag armaments companies are making a packet, making a packet of this war just as they have done in relation to the horrible, horrible play your conflict in yemen, which is destroy dot country has introduced the biggest humanitarian disaster on

the planet. just note our moments which have been supplied to short the read several 1000000000 pounds was abundant when supplied and all done for that particular point to be executed as disgraceful, and protected. and america obtained up to 12 is ratio soon, actually use here a boon for the u. k. you know, having a young pair of eyes at 10 downing street or will his age proved to be a liability, especially on the global stage. because by contrast, us president joe biden is approximately twice his age is quite clear to most independent observe those of politics across the world. that by the chain you have reached into your eighty's and you've been around the electrical shock up for as long as job by the eyes staying to hang up the political i and joe biden,

and my opinion is if he has the answer to america's problems, then they are asking the wrong questions to begin with, because the mind does not represent the future of america doesn't speak up for all the people across america. this is a mind who was going to his way to under maine, the point of progress of policies of the late. so bam, nissan, those were family sandals was talking about universal. medicare for all would be on the sandals. was talking a cancellation of a student tuition fees to left so many millions of the poverty that no run because of trying to pay off student dressing fees when bailey shambles was talking about a minimum wage of 15 dollars. i know of to try and tackle which poverty jo bivens are typed up, one of those policies he has refused to embrace any of the policies do by them.

has continued to gone more or less in the same vein as donald trump, that on this george bush, that before him in our woods. nothing is changing as far as us society, as the wretch are becoming even more seemingly wretch. whereas the pool of the is getting becker and becker, that's why problems in america are growing. in my opinion, the divisions in america are growing on day as a country that is very much of war with itself. i think the age of jewel biden doesn't help that, but more important than he's each is what he stands for. this is a man who was behind the legal invasion of a right. that's a mind to been behind. supporting tax breaks for the multi national corporations in

america, but not supported a loving minimum wage for all the nu, what cars and america. so it's not job biden's age. that's the i guess problem why he stands for. this is the biggest problem and that's the same to you. kima threat . she's tonight. circling back to soon acts indian heritage soon act is thereby asian. will his ethnicity be reflected in his foreign policy towards the global south or will his financial status cloud, his decision making abilities, especially since he's now been quoted as calling china and russia the enemy of the u. k. yes, the, the election of ritchie should, i think, will change britain's colonialist imperialist chauvinistic attitude in asia. and china are deluded this man, as recently ought to be the end of the year of port build relations with jane of

this mine eyes done his duty and been obedient to his bosses and america who have been trying to work up until rushing, feeling, anti chain of feeling and run feeling for many, many years now, because the want to sheet the world the way they see it, which is all about the free market, apa the lives and the success and promotion of business are all cost. that's the most important thing in the world. and what will happen under rich, you should, i as breton, will continue to be a colonial, a ruler and chauvinistic country as far as asia, as far as india, as far as pakistan as can see him. you know, people ought to just pause for a moment and try and think about what

a lot of women said. and 1979 when message child was elected the new key. a lot of women thought or greece, the women pray, managed out a need. your kid that is great for women rates. that is great for the advancement of women. at was an absolute asked for women. why? because she introduced policies that what are both economists division? she along the way, geez, of all the new people, she at the set goes that most women, what then the adding say goes what, what did that mean? amend them more and more women were driven into poverty and despair. spite the fight, but she was a woman play minister and that is the same story. the hush to be applied, richie, should not. he has a man of color. he is a man, rosa. i heritage. yeah. his parents and grand evans and dea and

pakistan. but you have a situation where he represents nothing more and nothing less than the chauvinistic british colonialism that breton has always embodied. all right, unfortunately i have to leave that right there, tommy sharon, and thank you so much for this conversation. and that is going to do it for this weeks episode of modus operandi the show that dig deep into foreign policy on your host manila chance. thank you for tuning and we'll see you again next week to figure out the emma. ah ah a question of your mind you thought it home

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