Transcripts For ALJAZ Roger Waters 20240712

Was cool. With the grooves and. Dark side of the moon is one of the best selling albums of all time and pink floyd a rock music legends and so is the cool founder of bass player sing the song writer and human rights champion roger waters after selling hundreds of millions of records waters left the group in 1985 because of growing disenchantment with the Music Industry and his band 35 years on and we still selling out concerts around the world. With his dog biting lyrics water states the listener on a rare musical journey and offstage hes been a loud voice when it comes to human rights issues. He has a particular interest in this really Palestinian Conflict and has publicly condemned other artists such as madonna for performing in israel hes also involved in many other causes like malaria poverty and Climate Change this week we connect with the iconic british musician to talk about the current state of the world roger waters talks to aljazeera. Roger waters cofounder of the legendary band playing for ojt welcome to talk to aljazeera. In a globe of the famous. You wrote most of the biggest successes of pink floyd. Youre a rock star and you are now very involved politically why why did you take that course. Ive always been very aggressive. I was bold and sort of very political house so my mother would say im my father before he was killed of parent members of the communist bus and then when he was a young teenager maybe 13 a board seat in one day my mother said to me you know roger youre going to come up against different decisions that you have to make you know and i. When you do. It straight maybe you identify that as decisions thats been made and then you have to reset you have to look at these questions from every pippen and the kind that some wont commands. And then you will down the bay and you will have done the difference whether its on certain of 2100 snakes because you simply do the lines thing. As lessen the money shes been saying. Thats and thats and. If you center. Imagine if every prayer in the world with satan was in the sails of the child my mom and since then you have to educate yourself enough to straighten cares of chart find out whats out there and before you make a decision. And then having made that was that you have to do why her name was brightest. In all in the billions its. Pretty than their parents. And the impact shed been be in knots and universal declaration from United Nations parents so she actually believes that the. Arts codes of the nation should be implemented saved an accepted incident of system the bins. If they were. Almost all the problems that weve given very sad just care in open arms. But of course the only dogs the 1000000000 plus not all of them in the ones. They believe in the rights of the wealthy and the author and they couldnt give anybody in substance this is quite clear they paid lip service to because its police that pete convenient. The missing dont trump my pencil marks. On the pretty neat inhuman nuts. Not interested in the nuts there are citizens they couldnt couldnt came to peace with the citizens of the United States and. Never mind citizens of any other than i youve been quite vocal about your opinion about donald trump you among other things you called him a mask this troyer of everything that any of us might love what do you mean well dont track pets no interests for instance and nobody he has never been interested in. He has no interest in compassion he has no interest to me and. He has no interest in the show he has no interest in the post you have special interest in geography theres no interest in a cup of tea he has no interest in where he has no interest in these things or he has an interest in his needs in several and hes eaten and and isnt tonic can stand for his life to be one big reality t. V. Show where he said in the developing its good about him so here is a very very small mean spirited it never paid of them on their well that i would like to envisage off to be 19 is when we. Grew very rare. Axioms and no. Wisdom is Joe Joe Biden the better choice joe biden is no different joe bugner its a puppet hes just hes hes the other glove puppet you know that both theyre both culprits the monster lives between the suckers which he hates well ive been trying to describe which is which has created the monster that its the United States of america and you know the seats that come from for 3 or 400 years got it all comes from european colonialism the British Empire was a disgusting monstrosity we were pouring we could we didnt exactly what the americans are doing now and we did it for several 100 years along with the approach he was in the spanish and the germans and the dutch and the better chance than we and we we went around the planet stealing rape and destroying. Everything just so that we or us could be a stream a while the constitution in the United States was very carefully written by the Founding Fathers to make absolutely certain that power would never orleans people bundestag and certainly its not going to do with the Current System in you have used to. Jump and. Sniping at each other its called the outputs and when its where you keep a conversation so tightly focused on in this case there is action but its completely elections rather than the picture around it its theyre going to make sure that they dont let the people look at. Thats all because it because if they did start looking i swear they would stop undermining the power base and they would start removing. From the very very wealthy and you dont you dont have to be able to do simple arithmetic secret ones what i say is. The ok im not a sure that you seem quite involved in the palestinian one you have been very vocal against israels occupation policy and that backfired people like is being anti semitic and it was specially because you showed support for the boycott this invest in sanctioned movement to be the yes move it but why did you get involved because the Palestinian People lost to back him sometimes 6 in 2000 find. Its toughest incidence and some started with p. T. S. D. And they asked people who were not history and i asked anybody in the rest. To join. In and find. See if they could get paid say. Human rights for themselves quite clearly are not and unsafe never. Never done spoken as being the absence and its a word or 2 in mind for us and once its meant so much in my head in. The prop and count the machine is read his run is huge and he spent millions and millions and millions of dollars simply trying to spread his mind that anybody can speak see canst Israeli Government im sorry is nonsense and some have criticised you saying that sometimes you have conflicting positions. Like on one side you are defending the rights of the palestinians and then on the other hand it seems that you supported the russia russias move in crimea and many a crane is would tell you well thats an occupied land as well at the moment so how can you explain that. And then explain it by simply that the narrative accepted in the west about the russians an accession of crimea is complete. As you only have to look at what actually happened in crime had a web crime it came from crime and was created up to the 2nd one. You so its been a deeply divided country with the south and east being predominantly occupied by russian speaking. People and here are 2 little kinds of russian for additions and the most recent so when they missed this illegal. The whole question made protests and what happened is open to interpretation and im sure there will be many history is written up anyway but we know that the victorian unions in the cia were complicit in setting up this western. Aid all cia and United States government orchestrates occur against you you know that. President and government of the crane back in the day or he is and the imposition of this new government so the country became entirely fractured that when. There are them our other the accepted western narrative which was overlooked with screening the people of ukraine from the russian comply however the russian government was put in a very difficult situation because suddenly now there was a government in kiev that was extremely right wing controlled entirely by the americans and they were concerned about civil the poem about their own supply of oil. Cust didnt see you say shes comin down so im so that there was a population in something that was still called the crimea because people remember who has made history who did not want this new government to the most of these not the friends of the people of the current man. And so actually the people of the crime man well code for 98 percent of them said we dont want to be any off of this new illegal government of the crag we wish to join. The Russian Federation we want to be russia please 98 percent not excuse me not but she was gone will be an exception in the crimea and such since its cool that school be an exception but russia now the legal niceties so what were the. Contracts between khrushchev the ukraine back in the years when problem the. Next constitutional or some but i do know the sense of the people who live and say no we want nothing to do least no city no people in the east an ocean it wasnt quite so easy for them im not sure why this is no where but once telling you these you cannot you cannot talk about a 70 year old. Israeli occupation of palestine and the relatively recent annexation or change of power in crimea in the same breath they are in is highly Different Things one is that there are its not as if the palestinians in 1048 suddenly said could you send a load to jewish people from from North Eastern europe please. Throw us out of our homes and 700000 of us and sent us that we have to get off the land because they are going to make a jewish state and they dont want those that didnt happen there was no home with 98 percent pumice didnt suddenly saying oh yeah come on come in terms for us and the russians are throwing out the people who live in the ground near their supporting im sorry to interrupt because i just want to ask about a few other issues and were going to run out of time so i want to go back to do you k. A bit you know the labor party is under accusations of being add to semantic allegation that Jeremy Corbyn is the man who took the labor party in that direction do you say that these are fairly gays and is there a Labor Party Anti semite the conspiracy or. The plan. To spread free and submitted. I mean story about people like me. And the ad about the labor party in england. Brought it probably censored and came out of the ministry of its strategic of us. In television this was completely respected and very well known. And succeeded. In destroying jeremy colvins chances of becoming the next Prime Minister of the u. K. Chances that were very good seemingly a year before 2 years before that they absolutely used the anti semitic smear. Campaign to destroy jeremy coatings chances of winning the election and they did it very very successfully and they succeeded in destroying jeremy cool women in my view made terrible mistakes along the way the biggest mistake that he and the labor party made was to the Labor Party Conference in 2090 where they fail to totally dismiss the new i h r a N International public roles remember alliance definition of Bently Semitism the rewriting. And cio that nobody even heard of and that is completely irrelevant in sense of history of politics sort of. Definition offensive semitism so includes any criticism oh the policies of the government of the state of israel wow and the labor poets he did knock. Say rubbish throw it out and go dosed it and Jeremy Coburn did not resign and should have done he sure did he should on those grounds of resigning as leader of the potency anybody with a hawk or so should have resigned at that point because it is such a 1000 nuns how come how come criticizing the israeli israeli policy of occupation and say things which is what their operations are how come and see some incident. That would be like calling criticism of the South African adminstration before the end of the post say stuff africa and christian all and christian yeah we could like courting anti christian oh you know you just hate white people dont hate the system that europe moves in. Against the cover of us pin on your religion just as i have nothing against jewish people. You know im an atheist so other concepts cripes in the mist you know the mystification if you want to of would call in. To any of the after how many religions or any religion and it just doesnt make any sense to me but i wouldnt dream of sending people that they call believe whatever they want to believe in the meat well its plot a look people do in texas by the way so said the neighbor labor and also the labor party under the new leadership of kissed on backed down from this bridge to keep this. Case in the High Court Just a few weeks ago. And the documentary that john made about it a year earlier and just where it is now saying he may he may sue jeremy cool and. These are rabid zionists and there are involved in a smokescreen a human being to cover up their violent more crimes that have been perpetrate seats every single day against the people of palestine by. Administration initiative in the state of israel has been going on for 7 millions since none since or since since nonsupport here its machine so anybody of good conscience and good heart houses continue in the line and do you think labor can recover from this if labor get its labor yes maybe it you know actually this fight shes taking place its really a fight between. Can the truth is i know its not just rip but the meat you are generally control now by very very very very very very powerful people and its no coincidence that jeff bezos which many thousands 160000000000 dollars now. The Washington Post on his young one man and influence who printed all the papers or by. The times of london its a mother you score runs probably hermiones the times and they are gonna come remember anymore you know but civic this is a fight between. Its part its well its your lunch in 94 its a fight between we the people all the Winston Smith sound. And the ministry of truth who were telling you mines 24 ounce of 37 basically and who are pulling the wool of all of the others a bone with the people who continue to do so until we stand up and say we need education and we need a system and we need because we are so we can buy you. Turn your neo liberal economic policies that its hard to see them through. Which is why the lot leonard. Nazis. Actually streets of american citizens is something to assume someone planked them from the. You know strong were going to have to wrap up very soon bafta questions to ask you and which changing gears here somehow back in 97 did not and you wrote mother and you osted that song mother should i trust the government have you found the answer to that. Yes of course not unless of course im a wager no you know or danish or somewhere where there is a government is trying is subscribes to some of the same beliefs and beliefs that the government. Of any of any country of any group or of any nation of any ship or that you serve the needs of the people all the people not just a wealthy people but all of and if you were to write a song about the current state of the world what would you like it to say. Man or a writes about ace. To strangers policy industry by chaunce to person drunks its me and i am you and well i see its me that were all human beings were all even brothers and sisters of all at least distant cousins were all african we all own and religions were not we all have to stand united and refuse to be slaves to the few very rich who control the knifes and who are destroying the planet and im writing about is always on and so what title would you give us all a bad hurriedly right now if you had to do it about today. Youre askin me to you know. So slip out so i throw it says which is would be flippant well roger watches it was a pleasure thank you for talking to aljazeera thank you thank you for getting me this platform says to say one thing because of love to have a platform where i can say what i think right or wrong openly and honestly and still thank goodness aljazeera is one of the places i can do that i can do and how much is here i can do it on how to see a conduit anywhere in the United States because. As i met out of his parents house after he got me he says he found more space living in this case after a run of eating it last year its now his home along with his wife daughter and health but its really government said that he was to be constructed weve gotten permits and issued as a militia and ordered last month our interview with cut short as he hears that the israeli army has arrived in the village with the bulldozer residents say soldiers gave them one minute to get home it took the found me months to build their brick house and just an hour to see it get demolished. More than 7 decades ago a country was split into really big but didnt do anything and the time. To go to being off the bench all it took was a pan a map and a collapsing empire when the british had to draw a line they pulled the 67200 have been to india before aljazeera examines the violent but of india and pakistan and docks what the future holds for these new korean neighbors politicians borders of blood. 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