says that austerity is over but when wreaths are laid today to mark the sente noory of the fire brigades union in london cuts will be on the minds of those who risked their lives for us safety joining me is general secretary of britain's fire brigades union metric thanks for coming back on to tell me about today's teenie in a year where they've been under attack of a grand fail except for further cuts perhaps despite the us territory announcement after the loss of eleven thousand jobs since twenty two yeah it is a very very tough time for the fire service and for firefighters despite what prime ministers is still very much in the fire service we've got cuts taking place as we speak cuts planned for the next few years but it's still being squeezed but this comes in a time of awe seventeen hundred years ago firefighters formed the first independent trade union for firefighters in the u.k. and that's something celebrate for us you know that we've been around for a hundred years we've fought for the rights of firefighters but we also played a big part in fighting to improve public safety in britai

fire brigades union turns one hundred we speak with the general secretary about the tory cuts putting his members at risk plus how come climate change on the get it was three years away last year you know it's the first british politicians returned to parliament to question to resume his defacto governing coalition is now in doubt after a threat to vote down this month's u.k. budget for favorite to be next prime minister jeremy corbyn budget of sterett he was on his mind eight years of painful austerity poverty is up homeless person deaths on our street is up living standards down public services slashed and a million elderly are not getting the can they need wages have been eroded and all the oh mr speaker a little while billions were found for tax giveaways to big corporations and. tourism ignored the bank bailouts and said labor's spending was the problem we know what would really her working people neighbors would cost one trillion how one thousand billion pounds of people's money uncontrolled by worrying spiralling taxes working people paying the price of labor yet again taking u

service helping al qaeda in syria i'm not aware of picture you just shown it may i mean from the fire brigades union we have done international solidarity we've taken foreigners to palestine for example we. segmented into syria and we would be very careful about the political sensitivities around nothing that's a question for the. if if indeed that's what they've done happy one hundred years merak thank you very much. this month minority government needed to raise a maze own environment secretary warned the new deal bricks it would be disruptive to the environment but even without breaks it was the un intergovernmental panel on climate change telling the truth when it warned the world as twelve years to reverse transform nations that could spell the end of the human species joining me now is greg ajah clean vehicles director at the european federation for transport and environment joins me via skype from brussels greg thanks. inning us a time for celebration presumably there that even mainstream media finally awoke to the i.p.c.c. idea that policy needs urgent change if we are to be alive as a speci