the u. k has had a long line of governments which promised to bring down mid migration of this country needs a majority. conservative government, which really aims to get that migration into the 10s of thousands. and that should remain, our impression is really that we want to bring that migration to sustainable levels . what we want to do is bad down on a migration, particularly a skilled workers now and now the government, which pledge to reduce numbers is facing a different reality. last year, so a re, quote hi, nick, migration of $606000.00, facing a backlash from his own conservative and pays. prime minister richie sooner consisted those numbers will come down. numbers a 200. it's as simple as that, and i want to bring them down. study related fees is accounted for $306000.00 arrivals. the largest source of migration work related fees is sold, the most dramatic increase mostly attributes to feeling shortages in the health care sector. the war and ukraine and badges crack down in hong kong

why the u. k. isn't in the happiest of places that say politically or a car, if one actually, and yet, you know, a day of such sort of history and celebration that we're seeing play out in front of us right now. yeah, i think this is what a lot of people appreciated about this and bought them on the key that it is something that doesn't change. and one gentleman, one couple, i've been chatting to who watched the ceremony and who said who, who really, really moves by it. they explicitly said that there are so many changes and we have a war in europe and, and things can, can change so quickly. and yet here we have a moment key and we've got these traditions, it talking back to 2 centuries of, of tradition. this is what they really value. and that doesn't mean that they are unpredictable of everything and unpredicted off tomorrow the key. but i think it's just a moment when people feel that they wants to come together as a country, as i said, not, not everyone, but a lot of people really do feel that

u. k for different viewpoint. give me is professor richards aqua, kent universities emeritus professor of russian and european politics and the author of the russia sca fake news and genuine threats. thank you so much. a professor for coming back on the show. i don't bill so much has happened since you last spoke to us in december before the february move by russia. i suppose i should just ask you how, how it is over there in the britain where i, i'll give you a call and actually do just listen how. how is it in britain of the coverage of jose victory today? uh, commemorating the victory over the nazis and we'll go to as well. i mean, yeah, that it wasn't much mentioned, but the well of course we've had a lot of excitement with the see prime ministers in the course of the year. several finance ministers dispatching the other so it's been a very exciting time in the u. k. politics. and obviously the exit question is still unresolved about how that's going to be sorted out in the future. but

and u. k sponsored organization falsely posing as an independent entity to provide the background noise for us and u. k. regime change operations from eastern europe to the middle east. next plymouth old founder and editor in chief of the grey zone news outlet would come or treat you just one here, anywhere else. thank you so much for you. what big fun carry on. so you same thanks a lot. thank you. now what spring seen as an historic event for damascus in the middle east as a whole. the syrian president bush allah side has puts down in saudi arabia. is that to attend the meeting of the arab league on friday. now the saudi king invited us out to attend the meeting off of the arab league. a recent is decided to we admit syria to the organization officer. it was suspended in 2011. the syrian foreign minister held bilateral meetings this week in the kingdom with several of his counterparts. and that sounds damascus has moved to restore ties with saudi arabia, jordan, egypt, iraq and iran. so live

the u. k. like other high in some countries have seen an increasing number of the migration, but it is not one that's really going up very much all the time. but what we have seen last year is it increase because of separate events that have happened to the one ukraine event sitting in hong kong. we've also seen an increase the amount of due to students, but the case came to bring into the country. sort of this sense accumulates huge, but i would say in the long term, the population, the foreign boom population, in the case, very similar to that of other countries. i'm high income kind of do something has remained relatively the same. but what we do see is that there is a shortage in many sectors, particularly in the health care sectors. and this is also what history then some of that increase. but i think we should really look beyond the numbers and look at the benefits of migrant spring because the huge to the u. k. economy and also the society or so if i can. exactly. that's what i wanted to

and i think really in the u. k, that's your only option these days because as us intelligence or defense whistle blower, there is no legal defense for your whistle blowing. and it's an absolutely appalling stage of us, as i'd like to thank our guest catherine gun for joining us and thank you to our viewers. one of america's founding fathers, james madison said that, quote, freedom may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power and quote, he was right when he said that nearly 250 years ago. and those words hold true today. that's why we need people like catherine gun until next time. thanks for joining us. 2 the voltage to such as was for the right. so see what's printing was are out there. so some douglas, just so basically of course we need the last name was needed. read it 1st. and when we used to imagine we have some more more than one by us or someone. what was this? we went to the the yes or no. both countries got to call the the european agenda is dave about the, to the change of th

so the u. k. well the republicans i've been speaking to, um they say they don't want to abolish everything about the monitor key and all the symbols say we were meeting not so why told with a whole scotts in the background. and even though they weren't exactly looking at them with pride, but it was this as well as you know, this kind of state. so we can keep the symbols, we can keep in the way some of the grunge of thoughts. it's the, it's the cement, semantic chanel of the clock system or the really that they are objecting to. and also the um, the wells that the royal family has. so just prince charles's assets and no, no way estimated by languages newspapers to 1000000000 power and say, it's an immense wealth and they all say that this, well, if it was distributed much more family, then you know that would more than make up for, for a possible show would fall into or is me even though they would argue that, you know, britain, which has a lot more to offer than there are. some of the people will

and this is what's being encouraged among the peoples of u. k. in particular, is to not only celebrate and have a great policy through the sites and getting sold to your local community. and that makes sense, doesn't it? because such as what the king has always been king to, to shows it. and of course, his mother, the queen, before that fits the royals, have a huge sense of juicy, and that they are doing as much as they can to help all sorts of different organizations and causes. for example, we know that a queen camilla has been heavily involved in trying to tackle domestic abuse and slavery. not taking the task, but slavery now or some of that case, many women and people who are coming in from countries across europe and being trafficked. and she has made it very, you know, made it a top priority, but that is something that she has wanted to tackle. and also we know that william and kate and the principal princess of wales. i've also got the, the charities and organizations that they all very much involved with with tape, for example, early. ye

between let me ask you, what would the u. k. be without the monarchy? i mean the attention of the world tomorrow will be focused on the u. k. because of the crown. what were the u. k. b without, as i think the case would be much poor. i do think that the issue that you mention about tash and why you got $203.00 governments represented powerfully it's, it's quite extra the use of soft power that goes with the money keeps coming. well, i wrote the headship additional dollars or matching, but if you had some other way of being $56.00 sovereign nations, you would perhaps either drop by rotating, could have a dictatorship boy, you could have a beautiful graphic, wouldn't have the same cache. i think that society, i totally agree we are changing as people or if you're looking at the polls, i'd say, you know, the most important. i would like to see more support, a model young and what have to see how charles and the royal family and most of them, of course have a 2nd to so the working models, that's a child side. we haven't mentioned that and i wouldn't mentio

uh, the u. k prime industry just side, but he wants to be involved in the reconstruction of the ukraine, and that's a shaming and i will be something sold. are you trying to reconstruct all sort of time this card because it's already estimated that the cost of rebuilding a range of a certain number from $50000000000.00. and i have these all say, expect saying the guy talks about as we get involved right? not, but because of course, the u. k. tax fast have software to i run the city because we would have all public sites that strikes result by now. it for money is being spent on putting people a raise more wage in the side. they have uh, spending money on move on growing in ukraine and we've had a huge affects like the rise of interest rates are all 4 percent since the government decided on the policies on your credit. ready russia, we've had a run just rising prices are of a 5. so energy costs which will continue to was a problem with these opinions publish. ready mentioned is they all thought sai

the u. k. will crown a new monarch, king charles the 3rd and queen camilla will stand on the balcony of buckingham palace and wave to their subjects. many will shout long live the king. some may ponder. will charles be the united kingdom's last t? i'm bring golf and berlin. this is the day the i'm just so what sites here. so i'm not inside the room for christmas. braces open my trust. so that's to say like i try to help you, i'm saying i get why they're doing it. i disagree with that. i just think it seems a bit silly when words we've got so many people struggling to have something so extravagant right now. on what else brings us together as a mission live to point, we can also it coming up for most people around the world. the end came sometime last year for the world health organization. the. busy end of the corona virus pandemic came today yesterday. the merchants who called me to match for the 15th time and recommended to me that i declare on end to the property called the emergency of inte

and i and i didn't apple from people in the u. k. um, no, as far as i from the u. s. in fact that i got my, the most support. one of the things that is often surprising for national security whistle blowers is that the mainstream media are not supportive of our whistle blowing despite the fact that in many ways they're the ones who are the recipients of the information, the observer. publish gear information. how did the observer and other british outlets treat you as a whistleblower where they support is? did they help you in any way? is you prepared to go to trial? well, it was the guardian group, the observer being parts of the guardian group, and that broke the story. and so at one point they did suggest that they would pay for a pay for my lawyers. basically, this was before i had decided on who you know, who would represent me. i had several offers. one of them, as i say, was uh and also by the guardian to pay for my lawyers. but, you know, i, i didn't want to be such a tied by the apron strings to a newspaper group. so, and i did end up going for liberty, which

the u. k. counts down to the coordination of king charles. there are just hours to go until the service at london's westminster abbey. when you all the built off ahead of the events. flash floods kill almost 200 people in the democratic republic of congo. the damage has force manning to sleep outside with critical infrastructure washed away, and the hand of russia is wagner, mercenary is trenton, and his forces out of the training and city of boston next week. and he blames to kremlin for his troops. having lots of the and a warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i'm michael low to the u. k. is counting down to its 1st coordination in 70 years. king charles, the 3rd will be crowned at london's westminster abbey in a religious ceremony. that dates back centuries, thousands of people have been lighting the streets of the british capital since long before dawn on a day that will be filled with compton pageantry. the shoes to the king. on the eve of his carnation king charles, along with his son and daughter, and the prince and princess of

good public pay tensions in the u. k. begin to cool off. a majority of unions covering nurses has agreed to a new pay package. but what about teachers, passport officers and others will take a look. also on our show, europe wants to produce more semiconductors at home. a groundbreaking in germany looks to be a step in the right direction. long. welcome to the show. i'm from beardsley in berlin. it's good to have you with us contentions be lowering in the u. k. after months of labor strikes, the british government said tuesday, we'll implement a new pay deal covering more than a $1000000.00 nurses. after a majority of unions voted for the offer. however, other nursing unions have rejected the deal. while teachers unions are talking about ratcheting up their walk out this year, with u. k. government resistant union demand so far it may look like it could be a busy month for strikers. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have been taken part in strikes in recent weeks. with many more industrial actions plant, it's one of the stronges

a payoff for the u. k. government is criticizing the labor actions saying they're not doing any good. it's incredibly disappointed that going to go on strike strikes to do not at any value. they only cause damage and particularly to those young people that you were talking about. other public sector workers are now. i think they voices to those of the nurses and teachers saying enough is enough. and this is going all the way to the crown itself. he will parking attendance in west minister are set to strike this week, including on the day of the king's coronation on saturday, after a new pay offer was rejected. but the ceremony looks like it will be quite a spectacle no matter the circumstances. vickie price is chief economic adviser at the center for economics and business research. she joins me now for more vicky before we get to the economics behind these labor actions. want to ask you as a londoner who's been living through the strikes in recent weeks, do you have the impression that the intensity has b

as well as king of the u. k. charles is also head of space. a full team come on wells countries, some like jamaica was sent as of the british slave trade. another relationship that remains complicated for the king is with his youngest son, harry. the princes controversial autobiography published earlier this. yeah, don't human. it's just how dysfunctional his royal life had become. much of the book focuses on his magic childhood. and it's what seems like a happy marriage between his parents ended in bishop a divorce. a year later, his mother, princess diana, was killed in a car crash at that time. charles and the royal family would deeply unpopular the public could not. so given charles for having an effect with camilla parker bowles was still married to diana. but by 2005, charles and camilla were officially husband and wife together they what todd, to repair that image. and we know with the public charles continued his charitable works and never gave up his environmental campaign, which he began long before it was popular. or is i've tried t

now joining me from cancer be in the u. k for different viewpoint. give me is professor richards aqua, can universities emeritus professor of russian and european politics and the author of the russia sca fake news and genuine threats. thank you so much. a professor for coming back on the show. i don't bill so much has happened since you last spoke to us in december before the february move by russia. i suppose i should just ask you how, how it is over there in the britain where i, i'll give you a call and actually do just listen how. how is it in britain of the coverage of jose victory day at commemorating the victory over the nazis? and we'll go to as well. i mean, yeah, that it wasn't much mentioned, but the well of course we've had a lot of excitement with the see prime ministers in the course of the year. several finance ministers dispatching the other so it's been a very exciting time in the u. k. politics and obviously the exit question is still unresolved about how that's going to be sorted out in the future. but as you say for vic to day, it

with u. k. government resistant union demand so far may looks like it could be a busy month for strikers. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers have been taking part in strikes and recent weeks. with many more industrial actions plant. it's one of the strongest trite waves in the united kingdom. in decades persistent double digit inflation and back break and cost of living crisis continue to take a toll on the lives of millions, into u. k. bottom transport is more expensive. it yeah, yeah, my salary. okay. now, nice and are not my bill is and then i'll wait be bill more novels yet. he no longer water. it's not only health workers. teachers are also organizing coordinated strikes as they seek to increase pressure on the government in a dispute overpay oh oh, well the government news in news does not good enough because he's new to new. oh, listen. have to keep going to make the government lose any kind of situation is but they need him to table. they need to listen to pay back what they

not everyone in the u. k. supports the event. and on t millnicky group is planning to protest the combination of bodies, mtv one, the cd. but it's monica abolished. we want to have a comment to the public similar to how many island license ad. yeah, we want to do that because it's wrong in principle to have the key in the democratic society. despite the elaborate celebrations this weekend support for the monarchy in britain is that a historic, you know, according to a survey earlier this year, and the 29 percent of people set them on a key was very important. dw correspondent, very good, nice now joins is from the phone from the british capital. a bird. good. let's talk about the atmosphere. ahead with the coordination today. may not surprise many rain is in london's forecast today, but will that put a damper on festivities? and i don't think at all i actually because of people here all very, very excited very um, it's not the mild say. and then this was a wall a couple of hours time and i was time, we will see the procession goi

. government, but still as a u. k. politician then a member of the parliament, her showing up in taiwan has obviously raised the attention of the chinese government, which of course has already made a statement to express its disapproval. secondly, the policy that has invited police truss and space to speak. that is the prospect foundation of things time can tie one that is known to have a very close connection. weighs the regime on the island, which actually has a reputation of having paid to invite, following politicians to show up in tie one over the years to make and pipe china remarks. so full that meta, the chinese government has recently blacklisted the relatives of these institutions . forbidding them to enter the chinese mainland phone call and i'm a call. what other response could we expect from beijing? aside from the comment of from china? is london embassy a? well, i don't think that this is going to to arouse a major diplomatic incident. what is where the note is that showing up in taiwan is a pass note

my husband is a tech is code and he had applied for assign them in the u. k. but it had been rejected by the british government that was prior to we got married. and so when we got married it was partially the reason was to enable him to stay in the u. k with me without being deported. however, you know, we were told even at that time the marriage only delayed the process of deportation and that eventually at some point it would be deported. um, and that actually happened while i was still waiting to hear whether or not actually no, it was off today charged me up to date actually. um, charge me a breeching official secrets act that uh that they did try to to, to port him from the country. which um was actually the silver lining to this whole case. because had i not actually been facing criminal prosecution with my passport, confiscated and so on. so i think he probably would have been deported history.

but because of course, the u. k. taxed by i have software to i run this a because we would have a lot of public sites strikes result by now it for money is being spent on putting people, raising. ready wage in the side, they have uh, spending money on move on growing in ukraine. and we've had a huge affects like the rise and the interest rates are all 4 percent since the government decided on the policies on your credit and russia. we've had a run just rising prices are with the facts of energy costs which will continue to west of the problem with these opinions publish. ready mentioned is they all adults it and so if we actually had to write john, so it's a direct questions. the, the, the thing is, were big a lot against the u. k. they involved on and also the west of european countries. but the problem is, all of these countries are not actually in the interest of the citizens that might give assistance pool to support this war effort. and some of the strange, this cannot continue. at some stage, the citizens are

. governments but also by adam smith international which is a u. k. contractor, we saw a billing cat receiving money from the contractor k monex, which has delivered us taxpayer supported equipment to the so called white helmets in syria. and at the same time belling cat was attacking critics of the white helmets. but he learned bosque, took his own or has been holding a spot with the outlet this week. even cooling by the, in cap. a cy, all is that just he's on bus, you know, shooting from the hip, like he does, or do you think his claims have basis? yeah, i mean, sorry to go so far down the rabbit hole here and it's true. this is one of the few places on an international network where i can say these things, and it's shocking that members of belin carrier now working with the new york times as they rake and us government funding to produce findings that support us and u. k. foreign policy objectives and what do you on musk said about the texas shooting? why can't comment on that? i can't see where that, whether that's true or not, but billing can ab

many people in the u. k. could know, imagine, i mean some historical historians. i'm sort of said that the speed of camille is mess and meaningful. this is staggering because she was vilified by the rush media . and i think he is. and let's not forgot that in 1997 when joanna was killed in that awful called crashing paris of charles and the entire roll family. best standing among the public unlimited, including queen elizabeth the seconds. and um, it took a long time for them to build back on that to try to, to get back from the front foot to the point that in 2005, charles was able to marry the woman who appears to be in the love of his life camilla, that was 7 years off to the death of his divorce. but his then is for my wife, diana, and was very controversial at the time even back in 2005. there were many people that were not happy about the 2 of them marrying. i'm particular what title camilla would be given. so if we think about how they've, i guess cult, as i said the, that the soon is of the, the last couple of decades. you know, they certainly focused on p

we military's in this part of the world, but the reality is whether it's the u. k. france or germany. the either for budgetary reasons, we're just because of popular opinion. it doesn't seem like they're really interested in it and a substantial, ongoing military presence here. and that's something that i think governments in this part of the world are aware of, even though we see a lot of talk from united states or the europe about your or the european countries, nato members about this. but again, the read, the reality is, and i think governments in this part of the world, including here in taiwan, notice i, they probably shouldn't assume that western european countries are going to have a significant military presence when the indo pacific. is there any other response that you think we could expect from beijing aside from what we just heard that? well, i think the china is increasingly concerned about number of members of parliament from different countries, whether that's in eastern europe, central western europe, o, australia, japan, and the united states or c

although after the onset of the ukraine conflict, the u. k. did really ramp up. it's russian diamond buying from around a $188000.00 in 2021 to $4100000.00 worth in 2022. that's it for you to western press reports. so that means that the same time, that's due, next tory government colleagues were all obsessing over the idea of depriving russian president vladimir putin personally of lunch money and fantasizing that it would make him a band and strategic national security object is involving ukraine at the same time the u. k was buying up russian diamonds like they were b pies on sale. it sainsbury's and of the diamonds coming into the u. k. through these talks to play nations. it's pretty much impossible to know which of those are actually sourced from russia. belgium, for example, said the imported $1200000000.00 euros worth of russian diamonds in the 1st 8 months of 2022, which is about on par with the $1800000000.00 euros in port in 2021. what about a quarter of diamonds being sold out as the world's biggest diamond trading hub in antwerp, belgium came from ru

his entire career has been backed up by the u. k for an office since 2013 when he was an anonymous blogger named brown moses. and we reported on this extensively at the grades zone. and higgins has nothing to say back. so if billing cat is to hold credibility, it needs to stop describing itself as an independent news agency drove items found himself facing flag for refusing to apologize for the atomic bombings of head russia, an executive, while he's in japan for a g 7 meeting. however, an anonymous japanese official has apparently revealed the reason why. according to the n h. k media outlets, washington's afraid it will make the president look weak with the elections looming in the united states, there was a decrease as a premium. the dropping that to make bombs was necessary to end the war with japan sooner the us will hold the presidential election next year. it is probably concern that the visit fully incidents public opinion in the country. at the end of world war 2, washington authorized the 1st and only nuclear bombings in h

u. k. is king charles the food and queen kimball. i have been crowned in the ceremony at westminster abbey in london. it's the country's 1st coronation and 70 years. well, it's run you through some of the events that took place. king charles arrived at westminster abbey after 2 kilometer precision and a whole strong carriage from buckingham palace. the mon, i entered the moving past more than 2200 dignitaries. the most senior fig get in the church of england. the honest bishop of canterbury presided over the ceremony. he presented king charles with a special bible. the monarch then took the coordination of swearing to govern the people of the u. k. and the commonwealth, while maintaining the laws of gods. so by him what all things created and that's are in heaven and that are in a she so neck. read from the bible as the service, as traditions of british prime ministers, as he is a practicing send to that were sent to the multi face fame of the ceremony. and there was one moment the public

the u. k. promises ukraine more air defense hardware, but it stopped short of including fighter jets, add a political shake up in thailand, pro democracy opposition parties of one by a landslide and parliamentary elections ending a decade, the military backed group. the fiber gap is good to have you with this on this monday, we begin with the election results in turkey. turkey's presidential race will be decided in a runoff election with counting nearly complete state media of and the under the news agencies say that president richard ply air to one received 49.5 percent of the vote. his wible come off college, the owner is trailing with just under 45 percent. officials of val confirmed that there will be a run off in 2 weeks time because no chance that it was able to take more than 50 percent of the vote. a glitch still new and hope to harness public anger at turkeys dire economic situation and also at the government's botched response to the earthquake earlier this year. well, the result has

this means that the u. k. has voted to leave the european union. cameron himself against exiting the you didn't expect the result and resigned a represent. some of the athletes who benefit from remaining in the european system of finance is did terry as a may the next prime minister advocate the u. k. 's resurrection as an independent well leader context of the time was theresa may have sought a deal with you that was effectively, you know, a continuation of e membership and what name it would of texas we have britain here financially for politically bureaucratically and militarily tied to the you may also belong to the elite group of international finance is the soft break said she'd been working on didn't suit brakes and supporters and they decided to speed up the exit will up with got all of her new recording bugs. pizza bureau us if, where you're just going to do it. that's a good as in the key figures within this war we have our old friend, richard dill, of an gwydion prince, who is a longstanding of brit

and unfortunately, it's become figure out how to do that is unfortunately in the u. k. above all, i think i'm feeling submitted today. there's a very interesting and lively discussions, and then germany unpopular protests between the u. k. in england, i mean i, pads and scotland. why is this different? but in england it's very limited. doesn't surprise you that since we last spoke to each other, people like anglo muck level. people came out to explain that the minutes agreements. do you think we discussed in that just temper edition going undergrad? december 2021. that that was a, a basically a point to, um, ukraine. further in preparation as it was a bombing, of course the civilians were doing. yeah. it's gonna ends. which provoked as the russian see it and the response for bosco. yeah. um, she did say that in fact twice and so did for us what a long day as a member of the enrollment, the format i wonder is as concerning miracle, i just wonder whether she's saying that no because she's getting so much flag because she supported all the way through the building of node

but now we're seeing the u. k. defense secretary basically saying nobody's going to get in the way of new cranny and military if they try to take crimea by force, that they've lost sides of their lives. as a result of that invasion. and i think ultimately it'll be ukraine's decision under international law. they have every right to do that. in accordance of self defense, a person isn't gonna stand in the way of that. what else was told was about by the defense may as well to be quite honest, some startling stuff. as we know, the british government has been supplying the ukrainian military with uranium, depleted munitions, and a partnership is claiming that radioactive cloud is actually heading towards western europe after russian forces were forced to destroy one of these ukrainian and munitions stock files that was holding specifically that depleted uranium, munitions that were supplied, they were supplied by the british now. the cnn, cnn. the news channel even did a report about this in which the news anchor was

this magnificent bed was hunted to extinction in the u. k. and the 19th century was the time of victorians out shooting grouse and another game. the time when sheep were being bored into the highlands and they didn't want any predators around . so why until he goes to the top of the list to get rid of as the last name, whites out ego in the highlands. schultz and the chapman's in 1918 just shameful, really want to human beings are capable of doing that off to decades of hard work and dedication that by that breeding david sexton and all those involved. it's been a lifelong lee. but as now the of to several found attempts, the reintroduction program gathered momentum in the 19 seventy's. and today that continued what has led to one of the most successful wildlife conservation projects in the building 10 the yeah. and no way from 75 to 85. and they were kept in avery's own room and said taffeta and then released. and that was the beginning of it already. that sounds like it all started the fees well, but did not ask that piece to then from and

we strongly deploy and reject this during a you and hearing the u. k presented a report claiming that hong kong authorities are using security legislation to persecute opposition. hong kong officials, state and national security law has brought the ability to the city after mass anti government protest back in 2019 international independent china specialist. andrew long says the west attempts to discredit china because it appears it's growing influence. the national security law was enacted because of all closed for subject to.