nepal allows recruitment to enlist gurkhas into the british army. nowhere else in the british army. means better to die than be a coward. the gurkhas have fought and died for the british army since 1814. fought and died for the british army since1814. more fought and died for the british army since 1814. more than a fought and died for the british army since1814. more than a hundred thousand fought in the great wall suffering 20,000 casualties. we are an integral part of the british armed forces. but we have never been treated equal. we have our own terms and conditions of service. the way we are ordered, family life, barracks, it is totally different. the pay was about one third of what the british received. we had no right to settle in the uk. we felt like second—class citizens, having served the british army loyally. people were being deported. and that was really scary. they were living in fear. day and night, while living in the uk because they did not have any status. last weekend i former gurkha was deported by 13 years of service in the british army. it is a disgraceful the

at the same time, i had seen some terrible things the british army did andi terrible things the britishs that the ira did so i mean, at one timei that the ira did so i mean, at one time i had kind of divide — make divided loyalties and i had to remind yourself, listen, you are a soldier, stay focused. yourjob is to get this political thing even of this baby steps. when you had to remind yourself you are a soldier, you were a soldier in a war where your own family and community were on the other side. correct. you were, and i'm going to be blunt about it, you are a traitor and when you left because the brits had to get you out to save your life, when you left, you had to face the fact that you basically cut your ties and became isolated from your own home, pretty much forever. you are absolutely right. here's how i worked it out. i went in there to be one of them, i was never one of them. an informer is someone who turns on their comrades. ididn't go someone who turns on their comrades. i didn't go there. i was not between my conscience. are you saying you weren't a traitor because you n

the break as it emerges that a top twitter executive is an information warfare soldier in the british army we talked this information with one of david cameron's ministers in the conservative liberal democrats go allision norman baker and can boris johnson for just. trade deal with india destroyed by british colonialism indian m.p. and former u.n. secretary general shushu through iran johnson's hero winston churchill one thing mahatma gandhi dead is the world's largest democracy today celebrates the 150th anniversary of the book of the civil rights icon. coming up but to a going underground. join me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. welcome back join me now to go through some the week's top stories former liberal democrat m.p. and former minister of state for crime prevention norman bank of nova welcome back to the show thank you new book out again i can differ among themselves of the 15th of october it's cold and what do you do it's about the royal family will have you on about t

working for the british army and what might be happening on twitter and that's why situation with the army should not be allowed to occur you don't think this means that there needs to be some going to review well i do think you need to be repeated i do think that needs to be examined and i think it's unwise when somebody can be seen to have a potential conflict of interest but on baker thank you well as india celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of mahatma gandhi a global icon for civil rights the people of the disputed jammu and kashmir region continue to have their rights denied them it's an ongoing indian military enforced shutdown joining me now is former u.n. undersecretary general an indian national congress lok sabha m.p. said he thanks for coming on the show before we get into any of that do you think basically the electoral success of. the b j p they signal the end of a gun these dream of a secular india not really 1st of all because of course these victories are always temporary there for 5 years because though most of these party and his ideological forebears in t

the break as it emerges that a top twitter executive is an information warfare soldier in the british army we talk just information with one of david cameron's ministers in the conservative liberal democrats coalition norman baker and can boris johnson to forge a trade deal with india destroyed by british colonialism indian m.p. and former u.n. secretary general shushu through iran johnson's hero winston churchill one thing mahatma gandhi dead as the world's largest democracy today celebrates the 150th anniversary of the book of the civil rights icon well there's more coming up in part 2 of going underground. why. paradise with some ground turned into a round the experimentation field but angry cultural chemicals we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants there's no question otherwise why would the chemical company workers themselves be geared up that suited up locals attempt to combat the on regulated experiments that often in day you have many of these people one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies this kind of

the break as it emerges that a top twitter executive is an information warfare soldier in the british army we talked this information with one of david cameron's ministers in the conservative liberal democrats go allision norman baker and can boris johnson for just. trade deal with india destroyed by british colonialism indian m.p. and former un un secretary general shushu through iran johnson's hero winston churchill one thing mahatma gandhi dead as the world's largest democracy today celebrates the 150th anniversary of the book of the civil rights icon coming up about 2 of going underground. and i think that the impedes the elections will be most door to be something american history because the stakes are incredibly popular for both sides for donald trump and this stake in small just implementation of his domestic politics but actually avoiding prison for the democrats of the stake is that if we bring even deeper a crisis of the party and basically the survival of the traditional at least if it's the problem itself from both sides. but. in this connection the moment the last campaign as

fusiliers, and lots of young boys growing up my age, their parents, their fathers, had been in the british armyas well. catholics. now, when i enquired aboutjoining the army, my father didn't see a problem because in 1965—66, in my regiment, there's 25 young guys my age from derry. so it was something that we did because our fathers did. and as you say, it was before the troubles really took hold. but, let us now move forward to the crucial year of 1974 when you'd served nine years or so in the british army, you wanted to come home and you were approached by m15, by intelligence officers, asking you if you would go home and act as an agent, informing on your own community and in particular, aiming to inform in the longer run on sinn fein, the political wing of the ira. how carefully did you think about the decision? i didn't want to go home. i wanted to go back to germany and get promotion. i was offered promotion. but to go backjust a few months before that, my wife and i had a little girl called sharon and she died of a cot death, six months. and it was decided that she should go home for a w

twitter well when it comes to the social media giants operations in the middle east it turns out the british army has quite the hounded it middle east has discovered that twitter's head of editorial specializing on the middle eastern region also moonlights for the u.k. army former journalist gordon mcmillan has openly shared this information when his linked in page on the 77th progress made macmillan serves in is no ordinary unit created back in 2015 it conducts non-lethal warfare with a proud slogan influence an outreach these warriors fight their battles on the front lines of social media seeking to change and influence behavior our aim is to challenge the difficulties of modern warfare use alone lethal engagement and legitimate nonmilitary lever's as a means to death behaviors of the opposing forces and adversaries it's no wonder the middle east has become a priority for the british army with its forces having played quite a role destabilizing the region in the past decade. or. so great 77 certainly got plenty to get its teeth into general nick carter the head of the u.k. army was full of high

and social media platform twitter is middle east editor turns out also to be an officer in the british army's psychological warfare unit raising concerns over the tech giant it turned. very warm welcome you're watching r t international with meaning. our top story u.s. democratic presidential hopeful candidate joe biden's campaign team has demanded that major t.v. networks abound donald trump's personal lawyer for appearing on the show use it alleges that rudy giuliani is spreading damaging false hopes about biden on behalf of the u.s. president kill of course. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani is making his rounds on america's t.v. networks now rightly or wrongly donald trump is under a lot of heat facing an impeachment inquiry and rudy giuliani intends as the president's lawyer to tell the other side of the story but the president's talking about is however there is a. lot of evidence that the ukrainians created false information people were ignoring that that biden played a role in getting these collusion allegations covered up i didn't ask him to look at the job i know us knew of t

irish manpower is both protestant and catholic, and from 1778 the british army will scotland tocus from the much bigger demographic reserves of ireland. the result at the end of the wars that the army is very, very irish at the officer and manpower level. and you're right, it is a huge thing that needs to be looking at -- needs to be looked at. but you have to balance the fact that probably more so than scotland, ireland is divided by this. side, the to just one crown. that poor gentleman had his hand up for ages, quick question and then i will wrap up. i will keep the answer brief. >> you said 85 percent of scotland is presbyterian at this period. the were the other 15%, rest of the minority in scotland. mr. mackillop: the minority in scotland is another protestant church. the scotland population that is catholic is less than 3%. cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] you're watching american history tv. schiff talks about her book, "the witches, suspicion, betr

still to come in the program a twitter executive has been exposed as a british army information warrior details after the break. with manufactured incentives instant to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous larry go around listen to the one percent. in the middle of the room sick. room. in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. welcome back more than 200 migrants have reportedly landed on a tiny and shores over the weekend as the country embraces a post something era recently left in the former interior minister as controversial ban on rescue boats reaching a tie and ports are to charlotte devinsky picks up the story. under the cup of darkness fresh arrivals set foot on the tully soil these migrants were picke

still to come a twitter executive has been exposed as a british army and information warrior story and more after the break. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person or those with. thinks. we are here to ask. oh great post campbell is ongoing the whole negative interest rates are the same it's that we work in the better in the bond market these things are happening or experiencing a breakdown of markets all over the world so what we have we dodged one bullet call the we work i.p.o. but we're getting gunned down in a hail of financial polish from financial bad guys shooting at us with impunity. oh welcome back it's been revealed that twitter's middle east editor is also an officer in the british army's psychological warfare unit artie's alley looks at how compatible those 2 roles are. they have for years been questions as to who shapes the editorial policies of twitter well when it comes to the social media giants operations in the middle east it turns out the british army has quite the hand in it middle east has discovered that twitter's head of editorial specializing on th

still to come a twitter executive has been exposed as a british army information warrior a story and more after the break. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to be rich. too great to be 1st that's why before 3 of the 4 people. i'm interested always in the waters of my. question. when else should seem wrong why don't we all just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days become active. and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. oh welcome back it's been revealed that twitter's middle east editor is also an officer in the british army's psychological wear warfare unit artie's is al it looks at how compatible those 2 roles are. they have for years been questions as to who shapes the editorial policies of twitter well when it comes to the social media giants operations in the middle east it turns out the british army has quite the hounded it middle east has discovered that twitter's head of editorial specializing on th

and we asked the british army spokesperson for comment he told r.t. that was. no relationship or agreement between the 77th great brigade and twitter other than using it as a social media platform. new yorkers could our phase their quarter of a $1000000.00 fine for using the term illegal alien with the intention of humiliating or harassing someone same goes for threatening to report a person to our race the u.s. immigration and customs enforcement agency that's according to the new documents released by the city's commission on human rights. threatening to call ice when motivated by discrimination derogatory use of the term illegal alien and discrimination based on limited in proficiency of a lawful discriminatory treatment under the new york city human rights law under the new law telling someone they should speak english or go back to their own country also carry fines as there are any acts of willful discrimination whatever a person's legal status but term illegal alien refers to people who entered or who were in the united states illegally including those w

by going to warning in this promote multiculturalism and diversity the british army seems with offended one of the racial groups it was trying to attract he tweeted the black history month is not be expanded to include asian people too so it could telescope the story. there are some battles you can't when just ask the british army no i'm not talking about iraq or afghanistan or even the faster war i'm talking about the fight to win over the hearts and minds of each and every citizen of us old blighty black history month has kicked off in the u.k. this week in the british army determined to keep its finger on the pulse has dedicated the next 30 days not just to black people but to all the asians who have served in its ranks still haven't got over that guilt that we missed a trick here we didn't expect that black history month has expanded to include the history of asian people and the contributions to our recognition of our historic partnership with the indian army but in the minefield of political hypersensitivity the initiative might just be a flop it's been slammed by the very communi

we asked the british army spokesperson for comment he told r.t. that there was no relationship or agreement between the 77th brigade and twitter other than using it as a social media platform. and that brings you right up to date thanks for joining us see the scene stay with us updates for you. for. a little walk not that. you're misusing the flag. join me every thursday on the elec simon shore and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. rumple from what i know comes out of the cold war you are the set of one of mark one of them. a finalist for the main t.v. way to hide nasty hi i'm i said. months in front of the shawn. for the sum total of the most to me just the luck of the. theater someone that would do the board. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president and you. want. to go to the press this is what the 43 of them will be. interested always in the waters and. this is broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of our

this week in the british army keep its finger on the pulse has dedicated the next few days not just to black people but to asians who have stopped in its ranks still haven't got over that plain old guilt that we missed a trick here we didn't explain that black history month has expanded. to include the history of asian people and their contribution to and recognition of a historic partnership with the indian army but in the minefield of political hypersensitivity the initiative might just be a flop it's been slammed by the very communities it was supposed to ingratiate herself with unless these asians a black i don't want to see it to be honest there are 12 months in a year black history month to go one month of the 12 but they wanted to be black asian and minority ethnic moms w.t.f. become the other months and make that asian history month i'm sure a lot of asians will appreciated come on don't be stupid it's bloody black history month why is that you can criticize the army for its lack of manners for the move very thought point for the british so thank goodness for the good old delet

the gurkhas have fought and died for the british army since 1814.housand fought in the great war suffering 20,000 casualties. sadly, although we are an integral part of the british armed forces we have never been treated equal. we have our own terms and conditions of service. the way we are quartered, family life, barracks, it was a total difference. the pay we received was about one third of what the british received. we had no right to settle in the uk. we felt like second—class citizens, having served the british army loyally. people were being deported. and that was really scary. they were living in fear. day and night, while living in the uk, because they did not have any status. last weekend, the home office deported a former gurkha despite 13 years of service in the british army. it is a disgrace — they've been in the british forces now for almost 200 years. the bravest soldiers i have ever served with. the way the government has treated them is disgraceful. the newspapers got involved and we received massive support from the media and the br

and reparations for their homeland being taken and reallocated to white settlers they allege the british army used rape murder and arson to seize land and carry cho. are you learning i'm so angry because we were a very rich people i want to british to apologize so that we can be friends and embrace one another. how much hearing they are. for the victims of this forced deportation to t. from there on several homelands is stained with blood. south africa's woes continue to mount the finance minister says the budget deficit is had to hit a 2 decade high shortfall cost for this year has been slashed from $1.00 and $1.00 half to just half a percent we could call me means less money flowing into public coffers bailouts for state owned companies especially utility eskom a straining the government's finances. digital technologies are transforming economies but not in many parts of africa 1st you need the internet it's not existant in most rural areas and then the quality and cost of connections for those lucky ones vary widely in escrow and the international telecommunications union and pushing for u

absolutely insane the british army by the way did the client to disclose anything about mcmillan's duties with the 77th grade or say whether or not you know twitter helps with it or are involved in it they're basically saying you know we know nothing we can say anything like nothing at all unusual but usually. a bowl.

let me lay it out for you at the time of its creation back in 2015 according to the independent british army officials told the media that the 77 for great big aid would use social media including facebook and twitter to fight in the information age troops were to deliver means of shaping behavior through the use of dynamic narratives using the very best talent from the regulars and reserve in other words propaganda leaders and gentlemen they are warriors created to spread british military propaganda so isn't that a wild going to be doing that mr mcmillan found himself an exhibit in an executive position on one of the biggest social media empires on the planet. one of the chances yes that's the narrative they're pushing which means it's time for us to start watching the whole. thing. but the. real thing is what we. need to get out of it. what they like you know what i got. was that we. would say. welcome on the watch of the i robot and on top of. the you you brought this story to my attention this morning and it's a doozy to think that like yours as a british intelligence officer that or in