powerful people and is not broadly democratic social justice campaigner and political activist george barda george thanks for coming in the program this hour thank you. a pakistani doctor who was the key to finding osama bin laden looks set to spend the rest of his life in jail pakistan's authorities accused him of helping militants arrested him soon after the u.s. operation in may twentieth levon two american presidents have promised to get him released but it's now been seven years right because the of picks up the story. you can argue dr shakil afridi helped catch the century's most wanted man the man who did this. during the. sama bin laden you can also argue he was a traitor and a fraud it all depends on where you are from the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda tonight we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome gratitude though has its limits dr afridi set up a fake vaccination program in the area bin laden was hiding in in order to collect his fam

business which almost a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat or political activist george barda says there's a need to distinguish between history and propaganda. what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the u.s. of course much of the west identifies communism in the soviet union and the like hard left or extreme left as pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth the mainstream foreign policy journals were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the demonized system was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical realities. twitter has started sending emails to those who might have followed it retreated or lying to suspected russian propaganda accounts during the u.s. presidential campaign twitter estimates almost seven hundred thousand users fall into that category where its message to those us

global business who nearly a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat is political activist george barda shared his view on the story. what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and old in this country and certainly in the us and across much of the west identifies communism in the soviet union and the. left or extreme left as pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when. when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth and the mainstream foreign policy journalists were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the. system was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical reality where you are up to picking up the pieces off to a huge storm swept across the continent which put the skills of pilots to the test more on that after the short break. in order to overthrow the regime it does take popular discontent and popular mobilization but it also requires actors with the leadership of the regime who feel

on wiki leaks what we discussed the options facing the sanj with the social justice campaign or george barda he thinks that the political stakes for britain way legal concerns. the basis on which the the u.k. authorities would arrest him apparently is for breaking bad conditions for the charges in terms of the case in sweden that has now been dropped. maybe there will be an extradition attempt and as various kind of international bodies have found when they looked into it the chance of getting a free and fair trial in the u.s. of minimal with the robert miller investigation and the allegations about collusion between the trunk campaign and wiki leaks there's obviously. a sort of politicize asian element potentially around this case with bricks that looming the u.k. obviously wants. positive treatment from the u.s. as it leaves europe and in terms of potential trade deal you know so there are concerns obviously this will this will be treated politically rather than legally. right now a brand new he u.s. submarine project to be delivered in twenty thirty one could be left dead in the water bef

about russian interference rather than less political activist and a social justice campaigner george barda gave us his views on the story not only. twitter come back and said it's only one percent of these accounts but there was an oxford university study as well that suggests that there isn't much of a link either this seems to be something of a red herring to large extent i mean not only were only one percent of these these twitter accounts linked to russia but some of them were pro remain and some of them were probably leave you know so i think this is really part of a wider political pattern where this kind of divide and rule. story line blaming russia for its going on is a way of distracting from domestic political realities. in pakistan a doctor who is the key to finding osama bin laden looks set to spend the rest of his life in jail pakistan's authorities accused him of helping militants but his lawyers and systems charges are fabricated and he's been my guardian commentary. you can argue dr shaquille afridi helped catch the century's most wanted man the man who did this. during the

global business which almost a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat that you got to miss george barda says there's a need to distinguish between history and propaganda what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the u.s. of course much of the west identifies communism in the soviet union and anytime like hard left or extreme left as pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth the mainstream foreign policy journals were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the demonized system was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical reality if. we're following the allegations of russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election twitter is stepping up its efforts to expose what it calls russia's propaganda machine try to have started sending emails to those who might have followed it retreated or might suspected

global business which nearly a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat let's go back to is george barda shared his view on the story. what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the u.s. of course much of the west identifies communism the soviet union and the hard left or extreme left as pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth the mainstream foreign policy journals were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the demonized system was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical reality. in france right police moved in on europe's largest prison firing tear gas that invades but guards and rest while the prison staff were taking part in a weeklong nationwide strike over what they say a dangerous working conditions including escalating attacks on guards elsewhere in the country the justice minister attempte

global business which nearly a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat the school activist george barda shared his views. what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the us and across much of the west identify communism the soviet union and the like hard left or extreme left as pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth the mainstream for policy journals were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the demonized system was apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical reality. italy has launched a website targeting fake news the move comes ahead of marches general election somebody wants to report a fake well they've got to do is click special link online. of the service will allow users to identify fake news online team has been set up to analyze the authenticity of anything flagged up using special softwar

political activist and social justice campaigner george barda gave us his views on the story not only. twitter come back and said it's only one percent of these accounts but there was an oxford university study as well that suggests that there isn't much of a link either this seems to be something of a red herring to a large extent i mean not only we're only one percent of these these twitter accounts linked to russia but some of them were probably remain as some of them were probably you know so i think this is really part of a wider political pattern where this kind of divide and rule. story line blaming russia for what's going on is is a way of distracting from domestic political realities. the saudi arabian beauty pageant has seen the competitors are going the extra mile to make sure they take victory but some people have got the hump over contestants cheating. thank you very. much yes. yes. yes. yes it makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like oh look at how big that head hits it has big lips a big nose. they are cheating everyone a fine should be applied to

business which nearly a quarter think actually poses the biggest threat is political activist george barda shared his view on the story what one needs to remember is that anybody of my age and older in this country and certainly in the us and across much of the west identify communism in the soviet union and the like hard left or extreme left i was pretty much different aspects of the same thing in the one nine hundred fifty s. when when the soviet union was showing very significant great significant rates of economic growth the mainstream foreign policy journals were very much kind of writing these defensive narratives to try and explain away why the demonized system apparently doing so well i think one needs to distinguish between the propaganda and the historical reality. back to our top story now turkish ackroyd have bombed kurdish targets in syria's afrin region which is now the focus of a military campaign against what ankara calls terrorist targets turkey has named the operation olive branch meanwhile turkish syrian opposition fighters have reportedly entered the kurdish enclave fro

concerns about russian meddling rather than less political activist and social justice campaigner george barda told us the meddling allegations are just a diversionary tactic. not only. to come back and said it's only one percent of these accounts but there was an oxford university study as well that suggests that there isn't much of a link this seems to be something of a red herring to a large extent i mean not only only one percent of these twitter accounts linked to russia but some of them will probably remain as some of them were probably you know so i think this is really part of a wider political pattern this kind of divide and rule. story line blaming russia for what's going on is is a way of distracting from domestic political realities and doctors languishing in a pakistani prison years after helping the cia track down osama bin laden that story much more still to come. a little lot more value on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks wants you to fight the battle. to do stocks try to tell you that every gossip the public. doesn't tell you enough to buy produc

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