headlines with former mayor of london ken livingstone thirty three years since the chernobyl disaster a new book alleges the true death toll was covered up by the un the world health organization we speak to its author and professor kate brown all this of all coming up in today's going on the ground first today is a big day for anyone in the world conscious of this global multinational here using celebrities to promote clean energy initiatives. and today a quarter of the hague in all and decide on whether the company they're promoted by artists jennifer hudson pixie lott and others is responsible for what amnesty international calls horrifying human rights violations this is just one of the cases that has made the headlines of nigerian t.v. one of the widows of the nine men killed spotted large in military government and nineteen ninety five is accusing all times shell of alleged complicity in the unlawful arrest the tension and execution of her husband and eight others shows it has produced no warlow gas from a gurney fields since nine hundred ninety three but it continues to serve a

or news stories for naught but do stay with us because the former mayor of london ken livingstone is among the guests next on the latest edition of going underground to stay close this is twenty four seven or two. my son is doing drugs my nephews was still in drugs my sister just me doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse started going at the users in the prison population sewer we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. the war on drugs was a mistake there are countless numbers of people who are in prison for the. sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say bye daddy as you're walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. but politicians do something. to put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. or somehow want to be that's. actually going to be prosperous like the four three in the morning can't be go

why she superglued a self and shell in london and joining me now is the former mayor of london ken livingstone to go through some of the week's headlines thanks ken for going on before we go to this headline is slightly wrong in the wonderful daily mail apparently after forty years of noise and smears finally that their e-mail was forced to apologize pay them out on sunday ran a story a couple weeks ago saying i had said that it was an anti semitic hate the jews of israel now fortunately for the first time in my political career they had been done lying about on the internet and so everyone could go and see i never said that at all because i saw them there and the minute i saw the mail i had learned thought you know what i don't think we should have been living soon i mean this is the power of what they're doing i still get people to now three years since that labor m.p. john mann claimed i said it was designers and i still get people stop going to say why do you say it was a zionist idea i explained i never did it quite happy that go away you know but i the after forty years one. that's taken

welcome back in the first off we heard from former mayor of london ken livingstone about the dangers of air pollution that the world health organization says kills four point two million a year but did the w.h.o. along with the u.n. cover up another literally invisible threat to public health low level radiation a new book proposes that a positive prolific nuclear weapons testing and the future of environmentalists catalyze nuclear power commissioning might lead elites to suppress facts about the potentially deadly effects of low level. radiation the book is a manual for survival a sure that will guide to the future and it's all for a mighty professor joins me now from paris cade welcome to going underground so in discovering new information about the chernobyl you trace where the earth exists today is of twenty nine thousand the russian were bombs went off and thyroid cancer tripling between one hundred seventy four do any good gene sperm counts declining in america your post re the new zealand how how do you think it is that more people don't know how to you know belittle another d

headlines with former mayor of london ken livingstone thirty three years since the chernobyl disaster a new book alleges the true death toll was covered up by the un the world health organization we speak to its author mit professor kate brown all this and more coming up in today's going on the ground before us today is a big day for anyone in the world conscious of this global multinational here using celebrities to promote clean energy initiatives.

in fact, in the case of ken livingstone, he just walked before they had a chance to do anything withhabit of suspending people, hoping the fuss dies down and it all blows over, and the suspension is lifted some weeks or months later. this cannot and must not happen in this case. he was given a very clear warning by the general secretary of the party that this sort of behaviour would not be tolerated. that was too lenient, in my view, jlm's view. nonetheless, he was given that warning. he has reoffended. he needs to be expelled from the nec, expelled from the party for good, now. a man with those kind of views has no place in the labour party. do you think this merits further investigation before any expulsion? well, it is very clear what he said. as i say, he has form. it is very clear that this kind of conspiratorial left anti—semitism that he indulges in is one of the problems with the culture and leadership around the party. we always say, the policies and the process working properly are really important but it is the culture and leadership that are the most vital things. it is t

headlines with former mayor of london ken livingstone thirty three years since the chernobyl disaster a new book alleges the true death toll was covered up by the un the world health organization we speak to its author mit professor kate brown all this and more coming up in today's going on the ground for us today is a big day for anyone in the world conscious of this global multinational here using celebrities to promote clean energy initiatives. today of course at the hague and all and decide on whether the company that promoted biologists jennifer hudson pixie lott and others is responsible for what amnesty international calls horrifying human rights violations this is just one of the cases that has made the headlines of nigerian t.v. one of the widows of the nine a good.

headlines with former mayor of london ken livingstone thirty three years since the chernobyl disaster a new book alleges the true death toll. it was covered up by the un the world health organization we speak to its author and professor kate brown all the some more coming up in today's going on the ground first today is a big day for anyone in the world conscious of this global multinational here using celebrities to promote clean energy initiatives. today a quarter of the hague in all and decide on whether the company they're promoted by artists jennifer hudson pixie lott and others is responsible for what amnesty international calls horrifying human rights violations this is just one of the cases that has made the headlines of nigerian t.v. one of the widows of the nine men killed spotted large in military governments in one thousand nine hundred five is accusing all the time shell of alleged complicity in the unlawful arrest tencent and execution of her husband and eight others shells it has produced no warlow gas from fields since nine hundred ninety three but admits that are goin

us digest all of this news, glen churchner, a legal analyst and den p ken delaney msnbc national reporter, our panel, abby livingston, washington tribune and ron fornier, the atlantic. now, a pr guy if detroit, matthew continetti and doug kornell former adviser to the dnc. ken, let me get to this breaking news first, here on a day when the white house essentially wanted to create its fight with congress and turn it into a partisan brawl between those house democrats and the white house and the attorney general, in comes richard burr, with a subpoena of donald trump, jr., why did they not invite him to come voluntarily first? >> reporter: they did, chuck. our understanding is they were in something of a standoff. donald trump, jr., had been resisting coming back. he testified before the senate intelligence and senate judiciary. let's recall the mueller report suggests special counsel considering charging donald trump jr. with campaign finance violations, ultimately the counsel decided they couldn't do that. the criminal k reliable would make it reluctant to go back under oath to any inquiry. he appear, not willing to

made a contrast with the party taking so long to act in cases of anti—semitism, like cases with ken livingstonend of use has no place in the labour party. do you think this merits further investigation before any expulsion? it is very clear what he said. he has form, as i said. it is left anti—semitism that he indulges in is one of the problems with the culture and leadership around the party. we a lwa ys and leadership around the party. we always say the policies and progress is working properly is important, and it is the wiping of that that is making the labour party a toxic place. what is your message to jeremy corbyn directly? if he cares of the jewish community, jeremy corbyn directly? if he cares of thejewish community, he can‘t engage with the same warm words are not tolerating anti—semitism and racism, he needs to take action, now. we understand peter willsman has been a political ally of his four decades but he needs to put morality as well as the party and the feelings of the jewish community first and expel him now and expel him for good. thank you very much for your time. thank you