u. k. yeah, i've not the, ever since i've worked freshly the magician before, you know, doing comedy and thing and thought pay my way free university and stuff. and i still love it. you know, so reading tons of magic books and you know, practicing tricks and you know, fly hand stuff with cards. and even though i, you know, i would rarely perform perform because, you know, acting is sort of now them ok to a writing as well. but i still absolutely adore and it will be a fascination that will never go away. and i think they think that when you're into it, you are just obsessed that you kind of sort of not ever be sort of like halfway in or out of it. you know, i just, you know, i think about it over time. i love watching it. jason is as well. a huge magic, but i think it's quite common with a comedy you know, we say market as well. i think a lot of comedians have secret secret passion for magic. now then there's jerry seinfeld, what took the opposite approach? he used to do a joke. i remember it is

u. k. but yeah, that's, that's not not incidental because you know, it's a big part of the show, but you don't have to be to enjoy the show. i think there is a lot of them problem city and. busy so many fun than very characters in the show that kind of inhabit this world and surround that. yeah. that make it really uplifting. and hopefully can resonate with anyone you know, whether you're a sports fan or not. i mean, not, you know, i'm personally not a huge football fan or so compound or anything. and that, you know, i, you know, i'm by, because i'm in the show by, you know, i love it and totally, it's a real refreshing show. why i didn't mean to be clumsy at the beginning, talking about why i didn't watch it. it's just that there's a 1000000 things to watch and something got a snag. me like, like, fly fishing. like i got, i got to go. i got to go for the fly. when i heard soccer, i kind of went up, but i can't wait to get back to it because i met today cuz a couple times. and i find him as they sat there with them comedian sort as each other out at the beginning that this is a super bright gu

u. k. we say, yeah, that's right. we won't ask you for information of the ones that do submit the information. a significant number say they have no profits and the number of investigations is tiny. so if you want to set up a company somewhere, which is not going to make displeasure, come to the u. k. pay 15 pounds for your company. signed no physical documents to do so, provide no proof of identity, which you would have to do so in any of the recognized fact patients in the well form your company trade for a while and then get rid of it. and literally the company's house in the u. k. will get rid of your company on payment of 10 pounds of declaration that is never traded, whether that is true or not. so this is the place which provides the greatest opportunity for tax cheats in the world. now, we should be deeply ashamed of that and apparently will not. i don't understand why we want to undermine our own economy by providing the opportunity to tax cheats to thrive within it, to provide the people of many other countr

yeah. i think the, we're seeing in the u. k. after years, basically since $979.00 of a perception of the state being sinister. and, you know, the great stature crusade was, get the state of people, set people free, a completely new perception, in which it becomes the benevolent liberator from the pandemic. i do think it is such a direct connection. you know, the n a chess. and then these techs to go and get a vaccine that it has changed the perception of those in government across the u. k. now, that could well be flex. public opinion is all over the place at the moment. and you'll write the morris johnson early on a made a series. you can see it. i mean, his old special advisor dominic coming says don't texting about tweeting about this all the time. you could see the mistakes, parable mistakes. and yet, johnson, one of his all skills, is to sort of the public calling to poll, say we are being the same with anyone. now, that is not the case. but there is, you know, the default position for a lot of politicians is disillusionmen

yeah, and course we broadcast in the 50 countries, including the u. k. and we've been making points about the dangers of debt and money printing for 13 years now. and they have fallen on deaf cares, or they fall in on very active ears. but in a country that is not keen on sponsoring and fostering free speech. that's right. and also to put it into context. so you had it went from 500000000000 pounds to 2.2 trillion pounds. that the public sector debt is that pound also found in that time you can see the decline. it was like $170.00 to the pound back when we started and it's about $134.00 now. so that's partly contained in there. but i also want to say you could also see the difference between, you know, 50 years of the out, the us dollar versus the pound is that the pound, they're not, it's not so easily able to be printed without any sort of consequence. in one example of future coven cost to the united kingdom, the public accounts committee says taxpayers could be liable for an estimated $26000000000.00 pounds of bad loans out of a total of $92000000000

u. k versus the you, what are tensions like there? we've got about 32nd plus. okay, this will go on forever, right? yeah, it's not going to dissipate with the newest thing is this fee, it's not a lot of money. it's actually 6 pounds. but anybody from the u. k, it's anticipated to effect about 40000000 travelers from the u. k. and to you, it's almost like a not a passport, it's a visa, like up to declare where you're from your background. no prior crimes, and you're not obviously a terrorist, etc. 6 pounds isn't a lot of money. i mentioned the currency rate earlier, $139.00, that would be $8.36 money. anybody traveling? no one's going to talk to you if you can afford $0.36. however, it's the principal to put something like this in place. actually, it's not just your opinions, anybody watching from the us. bear in mind they're putting this in the place of the u. s. travellers. i don't mean to be the senate care, but the reason i think they're really doing this. they need to raise funds. they have not done well doing cobit, that policies aren't good. there is not as much entrepreneurship. they've not done

u. k. nationals, together with those i dance. who have a $50.00 effort over the past 20. yeah. and i know the whole house join me and paying tribute to the bravery and commitment of our ambassador sonority. bridge a way to the all right, thank you. primary, or for giving way. i'm a particular point. he will be aware that there are $220.00 it missionaries in afghanistan currently under sentence of death. those missionaries need to be taken out of afghanistan. of course, there are tens of thousands of others who are under sentence of death unfair for their life. will the prime minister share the heis that every effort will be me it to bring back to see if he, even people whose lives are under threat as a result of the catastrophe and foreign policy episode has gone on and not contract . i think the right on which i hook raising the very need to case that he doesn't. i'm sure the colleagues across the house, literally every, every member would imagine has received messages from people who, who know someone who needs to get out of, of afghanistan. and i can tell there, i don't reme

yeah, sounds like it and you just tell us about these reports coming out of the u. k. that britain is now says to offer vaccine booster shots for millions of people. yes. that, that does appear to be the case. they all reports to the stage, but we're hearing from the authorities that 32000000 british will be given the booster shots. booster shots will be apparently in this is subject to confirmation there be choosing a different type of, of, of shots than the job. so originally taken the 1st and 2nd jobs, that is because the full to be more effective if they change the type of vaccine. so that not only that, the idea is to get a number of jobs being rolled out to 2 and a half 1000000 jobs week campaign to use all of the facilities and pharmacies for these vaccinations. rather than putting more stress on the n h s . system for doctors surgeries, they, there is a attempt to really get into clearing the backlog of other demands on the health service other than kofi. so the, the idea behind this, of course, is to, is to push with the immunity even further, but still concer

from a world you sent to your moscow 1st and this says there's yeah, a lot of these coming from i've got to stand to brief. you on the u. s. u k. destroyer. now all warning that there's a higher risk of a terrorist attack cobble airport. and they've told the citizens to stay away from the area. so i've got to stand fell to the taliban, thousands of both foreign nationals and afghans alike of the desperately trying to flee the area around the airport. these pictures into us that resembled something of a disaster zone. certainly chaotic, messy, crammed with people sitting there, mich countless bags and suitcases and rubbish. student over the place. after the taliban rejected claims, it was going to stop us guns with international visas from leaving the country that gave some people some hope of maybe getting out even at this last minute. these last few days to senior correspondence in that conflict with the nation reports back for us next about what life is like at the moment. under the new regime. as we were landing, we expected the situation to be desperate. her end is evil, and we certainly weren't disappointed it isn't quite

u. k. is all about trying to stay there as long as necessary to get people light. what more are you hearing? yeah, i mean it's interesting wording about the taliban giving permission to extend it for them to give permission to mean this deadline has been something of a movable feast. remember that made the 1st with that is the 1st deadline for us and native policies to withdraw from afghanistan that was agreed under the piece deal with the taliban under the trump administration last year. and i also was part of that deal. the taliban agreed to talk to the i struck on the government at the time. well, they didn't hold those talks. so invited jo 5 denounced that april. he was extending the deadline to the symbolically important september 11th. they felt justified in doing so that the thinking being well, if the taliban can break the deal, we can break it to 5 and extend the deadline. and then this august, the 31st deadline was again a put in place by jo bite. and that was put in place in july, he brought forward effectively his own deadline. and so he set it to august the 31st. if he set it, then p

k and now the u. s. is actually needing taliban cooperation to try to help secure the airport to evacuate americans and afghan partners. yeah. and on that important issue of coordination with the taliban, as you're saying seems to be key. do we know if this us cooperation will continue after august 30? first of the taliban we don't know any both biden. and his administration officials are being a little vague on this. what they are saying is this, do we trust the taliban know, do we feel that we can at least work with the taliban for the next few days until august, 31st. yes, biden says that they have neutral interest to work together right now in the short term, the us interest is to have taliban security personnel guarding the outside of the airport, the perimeter, the u. s. needs to taliban to do that in order to help secure the area and the taliban. they need the u. s. or want the us to get out of cobble as soon as possible. so it's in their best interest. the u. s. feels for the taliban to cooperate with the u. s. over the short term. will this cooperation go on after august 31st? nobody knows. but administration offic

yeah. you know, there is still one car in the world that's been around for a while. that is the pal, the u. k pound. it's been around since the late 16 hundreds. but at that time, one pound bought. i think it was 12 ounces of silver to day one british pound by 120th of announce of silver. so, so although the currency in name has survived, in reality, it's become worthless since like every other currency. so i, that is the only car as in history, that is still my name, but my value certainly not. so it's so easy. this game is so easy because it happens over and over again in history. and it's sad to see that all of these investors out of los and governments, they have no interest in history. it's always different today because they live today. history tells us otherwise, right? we're going to have you for a 2nd segment and we've got about a minute left in this segment. so a quick question. i mean, you've got your fund over there, gold, switzerland. and we look at all the money management in the world about one percent invested in gold. one of the trends are people starting to wake up to this a

u. k. prime minister boris johnson. and it was johnson's comment about russia and china that were surprising. what to the up to a. yeah, they were somewhat surprising and i think somewhat realistic, which is essentially saying, look, the situation in afghanistan has deteriorated pretty quickly. it's been, i think shocking to most of the world to actually see again a thin fall in a matter of weeks to the taliban. a fighting force. we should remind folks only 75000 against an african trained army of 350000. that you get a couple days for them to basically take over the entire country. it took them just a weekend to take over the capital city and take the presidential palace. so having said that, the u. s. recognizes in the u. k recognizes in italy and france, a lot of these natal countries that they cannot stop what's happening there and moving forward. they really, really are not going to have a presence. so who can actually deal with the taliban? both china and russia are keeping inside of afghanistan right now. they're in the seas, they're keeping them active and there will be working with the taliban. both russia an

yeah, it's definitely a developing story. what we do now is that the 57 year old man was, is a citizen of the u. k. and he was working for his countries embassy in berlin. it said that his name is david s. on tuesday, he was arrested by german security services in an operation in cooperation with the british security services in the german city of potsdam. and that was on an accusation that he was forwarding documents to the russian authorities on at least one occasion. according to the german prosecutor's office, now the german prosecutors also say that he received an, an, an unknown amount of money in return, and has been collaborating with russia since november of 2020. at the very latest. now, david asked, was arrested in connection to germany's official secrets act, which means that this investigation falls into the jurisdiction of the counter terrorism unit. there. we know that his home in his workplace were searched, but we don't know much else at this point. other than all that, so of course we'll bring our viewers the latest details as they become alright. and don't get on with that, getti

yeah. you know, there is still one congress in the world has been around for a while. that is the, the u. k pound, it's been around since the late 16 hundreds, but at that time one pound bought. i think it was 12 ounces of silver. to day one british pound by 120th of announce of silver. so, so although the currency in name has survived and reality, it's become worthless since like every other currency. so i that is the only car as in history, that is still that monday but, but my value certainly not. so it's so easy. this game is so easy because it happens over and over again in history. and it's sad to see that all of these investors out of los and governments. they have no interest in history. it's always different today because they live today. history tells us otherwise, right? we're going to have you for a 2nd segment and we've got about a minute left in this segment. so a quick question. i mean, you've got your find over their goal, switzerland, and we look at all the money management in the world about one percent invested in gold. one of the trends are people starting to wake up to

k. common folk? yeah, i think it depends a lot on the politics and the rhetoric of congress, members of both parties, the u. s. media outlets. there is certainly nothing worse about the taliban and then 1520 other governments. i could name that the united states fully supports and arms and drains their militaries. the question is whether the enemy of my enemy or rhetoric will outweigh the, the possibility of republican scoring points against biden, by suggesting that he's on the side of the worst enemy in history. because everyone's, of course, forgotten that the united states supported some of the same people in decades gone by. do you think that the u. s. will now continue to launch drone strikes against isis k. now that they have left the country? and if so, do you think that they'll do it with the telephones consent? i think the united states will, as it has openly promised, in the voice of its president, continue to stand missiles into homes and cars and public squares of blowing up human beings. and even if they're 8 years old, it will tell us that they are leading extremist terrorist, evil doers of

k might have done is potentially push the u. s. and the taliban to potentially co operate on tackling a common foe in the region. change. yeah. it's the evolving, we're seeing, we're seeing some movements in that direction. you're seeing for example, telephone talking to iran talking to in recent months and, and there. and you have the russians working with tele, bond and china, it, they're seeking that international recognition. but you gotta keep in mind that tele bond is not a cohesive unit. they have the splinter groups. and if you know, one local commander doesn't like what the leadership is doing, they're going to go up and, and do their own thing. and this is what the problem is. and as i said, to have the, the deputy of all of taliban to be a member of the county network, they are the most ruthless they, they've been killing americans for years. and connie is very much associated in their id ology, but with, with isis k. so this is and, but what we are seeing in the is the northern alliance begin to reemerge now. and the question is going to be, and they're much more moderate, they're much more moderate sunni. so it c

yeah, i mean, in this country, thousands of british troops wounded hundreds of thousands of afghans. obviously the army doesn't count. the us over u. k. hope he doesn't get african civilians. i mean use the word imperial. there. people are going to wonder when you fall in iraq and afghanistan, lots of this book. you taught to people who fight for the united states and you use the word imperial. that is not the rhetoric we hear from the hillary clinton's of this world and the liberal interventionists at all. it's trying to actually, net countries govern themselves is the whole idea, right? i mean, the polite liberals and the polite imperialist, as i call them, or the white intervention is they. they always come up with rhetoric to justify these interventions. but 11 looks at the practical end of it and for better or worse my life, really, my adult life was spent at the practical point, the end of the sphere. it looked a lot like invasion, occupation, and sort of, you know, a brand of imperialism. no one likes the word empire in the united states. in fact, we're really proud. we just celebrated the fact that, you know, we're, we were o

yeah. well, 1st of all, in, in se 1st question, i mean, we've been dealing with the us. we had generous office from the u. k. in spanish governments to bring in through cable. you know, as, as your early story indicated, the logistics insecurities context just didn't allow to bring those supply the supplies in that way. so we're, we're going to bring in with the pakistani through another airport and bizarre, bizarre research in terms of our own presence we, we have a presence in every province across the country. we have stuff, national staff working every day. although we evacuated 6 of our staff last week, we still have 5 of our international stop. 5 most senior staff, still in campbell, directing our operations out distributions of a central supplies, a monitoring of that health situation. now technical guidance. we're working on code still. so the operation is continuing, and as soon as the situation allows, we'll be able to search in additional stop. but where on the ground where working every day. and we're able to monitor the situation every day from our staff and or 30 for problems. i just want to b

u. k. as a met says he spent months trying to escape siri up while barely being able to walk . although initially he says he was preparing for his inevitable death. yeah. well, just to get as much says, it's a miracle that he eventually began to recover and did find his way out of syria on his own. the think documents which 1st help them reach the later became the cause of his arrest there and further deportation to russia. he says where he ended up is absolutely his own fault. but at this point he wouldn't mind looking into the eyes of the brit swill, legit. the scared him with their persistence dragged him into the worst nightmare of his life. and supposedly for him in a disgraceful manner. so l i n, jamie, was that me who actually read mystery but also i knew i knew we said that i'd appreciate that. as always we have a little a sense of what it was. so the we have come all the way to my home town about 40 kilometers away from the regions capital. that's after getting in touch with his mother who still lives here. but for years she was completely unaware of the fate of her son. we were welcomed by a decent, educated and hospitable family. surely it'

we have a yeah of cuts editor in chief of the jerusalem post and author of shadow strike, and co author of weapon wizards, and israel versus iran in cold chest. in the u. k. natasha winsted, a specialist on u. s. foreign policy and deputy dean in the department of government at the university of essex. natasha is also author of democracies and authoritarian regimes. and in arlington, virginia in the united states salad again the senior fellow at the middle east institute and author of blind spot american and america, and the palestinians from bow 4 to trump. good to have you with us. natasha lynch, that if i could start with you. this is the 1st time in 12 years that american president is meeting with an israeli prime minister who is not benjamin netanyahu. i suspect the optics of this will be more important than anything else at this point, but what is the brightest button administration looking to get out of this? yeah, do you think it really is more about the optics particularly because for biden, he's dealing with the crisis in afghanistan. i think look a bit chaotic and he wants me to look at business as usual. i think that he does want to try to as

u. k. it's been going on for years. it seems that, you know, i think they're protest a lot of these beforehand, but it just seems to be funneled into these last couple of weeks. yeah, active, you're absolutely right. treat that. it's easy and data taking this easy route to attack the american government. let's face it, we know more. i'm not even most devastations. there is much to talk to the american governments for, but i think bite has been put in a very difficult position here in respect to the agreement that trump himself can see with the taliban. and indeed, the never to ability of that agreement as chris is my think are biden or trump in the fact that troops withdrawing that with george if those troops and almost inevitably, the subsequent collapse of the african government was the timing of it may not be actually dictated by most people, the fact that it would be rapid was well telegraphed in advance. and i think the west britain, germany, france, and many other countries have had a great deal of notice and a great deal of opportunity to put these contingency plans in place. and as you suggest, they hesitated and did it, and as we saw to contribute to the