been a smear campaign against us food, saying that production techniques in europe are like a museum of agriculturedards will not be compromised in the pursuit of trade deals, but the national farmers union has said that it says consumers wants to maintain the current standards of food production here, but they say there is a huge risk that farming standards could be sacrificed as trade talks begins, because the us has insisted in various trade negotiations that it wants to sell more food around the world. rob young there. guy smith is deputy president of the national farmers' union. he told me that he feared a bad trade deal would lead to lower food standards, and notjust in relation to chicken. well, it's beef, because we know that american farmers use growth hormones in their beef production. they use a lot of gm. that's a technology that's denied to me, as a british farmer. there's lots of ways that they get that advantage. i am not here to say that american food is unsafe. you must ask that of a food scientist or the regulator. i presume i'm asked to go this extra mile, with these increased re

we are on the cusp of some important reforms to agricultural policy, that would far from leaving the us as i think a museumaking agriculture fit for the future. to be sustainable and have food production into the twenty first century we need to do that in a way that is consistent with healthily, environmental processes. they can't be sprapted. -- separated. what do your members and environmental organisations and farmers think, do they think that there is a likelihood that the uk is going to cave in? on this point in order to secure that brexit deal? what is the feel something there is a huge amount of uncertainty. it depends on the power dynamics and what sort of relationship the uk agrees with the eu. if we stay in close co—operation with the eu, which we believe is a good idea and we need to commit to both sides committing to high standards, that would avoid the damaging effects of a pivot to the us. it is all to play for, but we are so close to exit day and we don't know whether it will be and we don't know whether it will be a close relationship with the eu or a close relationship with the eu or a wea

has been a smart campaign against us for reducing production techniques in europe are like a museum of agriculture will not be compromised in the pursuit of trade deals but the nationalfarmers union has said it says consumers want to maintain the current standards of food production here, but they say there is a huge risk that farming standards could be sacrificed as trade talks began because the us has insisted on various trade negotiations that it wants to sell more food around the world. two senior labour figures have clashed over how the party handles anti—semitism. the general secretary, jennie formby accused the deputy leader, tom watson, of using a "vague parallel process" by asking labour mps to forward complaints to him. mr watson said, people had lost trust in labour's ability to investigate allegations. our political correspondent, nick eardley reports. chanting: enough is enough. allegations of anti—semitism have not been easy for the labour party — protests byjewish groups outside parliament, mps quitting the party accusing the leadership of failing to act, rows over whether it is eve

has been a smear campaign against us food, saying production techniques in europe i like the museum of agriculturenment has set high standards will not be compromised in the pursuit of trade deals. the national farmers union says it says consumers wa nt to farmers union says it says consumers want to maintain the current standard of food production here, but they said there was a huge risk foaming standard could be sacrificed as trade talks begin because the us has insisted in various trade negotiations that it wants to sell more food around the world. rob young, thank you. rob young, thank you. the us space agency nasa and the private company spacex have successfully launched an astronaut capsule from american soil for the first time in eight years. the spacex falcon blasted off from the kennedy space centre on an uncrewed test—flight to the international space station. spacex founder elon musk says it could be the first step towards opening space travel to commercial customers. pallab ghosh reports. three, two, one, zero, ignition, lift off. up and away, the spacex mighty falcon rocket. and on t

in a newspaper article, woody johnson compared food production in the eu to a museum of agriculture.peatedly denied that it would accept lower food standards. our business correspondent, rob young, reports. the trade landscape could be about to change. as brexit approaches, the uk is looking to do trade deals around the world. the way food is produced could become a sticking point. the united states says it wants to sell more american food in the uk. currently, there are eu—wide bans on american chicken washed he goes on... british farmers are unhappy. they've rejected the call for them to adopt american farming methods to help secure a transatlantic trade deal. we are asking our politicians to put their promises in writing, that they will respect our high standards and they will not sell us down the river by doing bad trade deals that don't respect the fact we have higher standards and higher costs and make us compete against farmers that have lighter regulation and lower costs. the government has said it's clear the uk's standards would not be compromised in the pursuit of trade de

in a newspaper article, woody johnson compared food production in the eu to a museum of agriculture.iness correspondent rob young reports. the trade landscape could be about to change. as brexit approaches, the uk is looking to do trade deals around the world. the way food is produced could become a sticking point. the united states says it wants to sell more american food in the uk. currently, there are eu—wide bans on us chicken, washed in chlorine, and cattle given growth hormones. writing in today's daily telegraph, the us ambassador in london, robert wood johnson, said... he goes on... british farmers are unhappy. they've rejected the call for them to adopt american farming methods to help secure a trans—atlantic trade deal. we are asking our politicians to put their promises in writing — that they will respect our high standards and they won't sell us down the river by doing bad trade deals that don't respect the fact we have higher standards and higher costs and make us compete against farmers that have lighter regulation and lower cost. the government has said it's clear that

something like a museum the way we do agriculture in europe well it's have the most profound backlash i think more and more and more people are worried about the story they're worried about the kind of deregulation and liberalization that could be locked into place by u.s. trade deal post we're going to have to get those t. to play cards and leaflets out again because this is this is something really scary that we need to stop thank you thank you thank you. well how long will brics it chaos prevent corporate media arguably smearing the leader of western europe's largest socialist movement and is the media not as powerful given the journey called when is now actually leading juries are made by seven points according to the pollsters who best predicted the last u.k. general election professor julian petit co-author of the revised culture wars the media and the british left joins me now julian welcome to going on the ground so we nor one poll by the one who is accurate polls just actually. general election showing corbin is head by seven points do you think the u.k. mainstream media has arguably been more successful than in the eighty's when culture wars recounts the propaganda against