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Brian cox you the truth terms as a rector of the director of a scottish i mean sions coalition of the late and the its a huge position of influence elected by the student body and sometimes the way that academic body but actually chairs the governing body of the university what i loved about being rector was the fact that i could set up surgeries and i could talk to the students about the individual problems they had and they still i have great criticism of University Educations but because i was great believer in the conversation my time there and what i realized is a lot of the way universities are planned in relations with the students need to be dealt with and of course i had the problem not the problem but i inherited the difficulty that students had the law in this that they feel in the University Set up their inability to deal with their own perhaps social diseases like. What have you to some of the young women on young men suffered from so is it was something that was very very you know it was something that really a put you know because that the idea of rector and its all sense was that you know the cho sort of took care of the academic side. The rector took care of the spiritual side so you know being a humanist and you know almost. I took i took that responsibility which was the humanist aspect of hope the students dont have the time but your time is right just ending quite recently twice tell me that can say that with a big change in your home city have done the end of your names for the better many things moving forward you know in the university and in the. Rise of you know well i mean he is. A much blighted city its history is one of blighted which is you know theres a kind of parallel element but i have with my city that were survivors and theyre called on to the city of discovery but i i think its a city of survival actually and its always come through because the people are great. I mean did you know that it was the most corrupt city in scotland in the one nine hundred sixty s. I mean literally the labor party a corrupt labor party literally destroyed the city in the mid and it was like the biggest car park and you know its changing and then you know you mention the victoria and albert arising from the love of china the fact weve funked and we have aspect of the team which was never there before you know you couldnt see the t. V. You know but we have this great frontage now and its fantastic what do you think would be any will be as influential in the indias lets say the guggenheim as i have no question of them i mean i think it leads on to a lot of things and people are beginning to mug because i also am a great even though i criticised a lot of the i think it was a Great University and i thought i would recommend any kid to go to the because its a great environment but you said that lisa said they are survivors but when sometimes children survive and. He was not tolerated because he was there from nineteen or he was m. P. From one thousand know it one hundred twenty two. And he was greatly supported by the irish but when he got to the one hundred twenty two with the black and tans with the whole six counties deal in Northern Ireland and the death of michael cole of the Irish Community held where he went from being a friend a fireman to an enemy of the. Other way of dudleys murdered by the electorate and you had a Family Connection i had a Family Connection here money well call jordie when i was a wee boy used to tell me about churchill who he admitted that he really ultimately said ah but he was the man for us when it came to the war but he said but before all that he said i remember he said he said i remember well he said we were there did in the city square he said and churchill came in and they brought a bag and he was on a big wheel it was what a big armchair with a sort of look like puddles like course they were carrying them and because he was sick and he was no we when we showed that i showed that the guys that would carry it was a. How much of the player the guy shouted back a quid pound the buck were here to have you drop of. So what and. When you would went home so wasnt too pleased to be a lawyer because artistically it really does does seem like the ego by a temp and scandal. Story but im still here didnt buy templars kind of the. So it sort of cost the city that only did he actually made a speech on the platform the train he actually got them to hold the tray in the back and he made the speech to all these people who are sort of trying to get the city said he was very brave i have to say the dog the dundonian the way dead but he did say i will see the grass grow green over what will be an industrial whistler and the great foam and for those of us innocent definitely catch all of it was a fantastic fantastic film so if played by bevan if played chuck show. Any other big politicians youve played well i played my emmy the emmy award for playing herman goering. Just because the scripts lead somebody completely different and boring was really interesting because again you get into the skin of somebody who was hitlers pitcher and he was that as frontman for so long and even though the hand one hundred forty five hitler sentence seems to death because goring was not part of the final solution even though he had created the concentration camps and by the way he created those concentration camps based on the british example of what happened in the boer war in them then and they were the inspiration for during but he was a very complicated money was a bit of a sure of he was a Cross Dresser so that was elements to which were quite quite a sensational but he was brilliant and also. He was extraordinary in the way he defended his position because you know he wanted to be sentenced to death as a soldier this is a new number and you want this unit from the senate and you must get on your record in a certain than youre a good process and he it was really interesting too because he he was wanted to be executed he wanted to be shot but they were going to hang him so he actually took his own life but what he did was he gave them a lecture Robert Jackson who was the american prosecutor or the attorney general had been or what did become the attorney general luck and tony joe he did give him a lecture on why you know why National Socialism happened and it was a very plausible lecture to about you know the state that germany was and the punishment of aside the fact that it was because he himself. During an amazing thing he took his own squadron and flew them and abandoned them in switzerland walked back he went to sweden you lived in sweden for a long time and he came back when this funny we character the sweeping house painter from vienna started up and he became his promoter and i mean he really said youve been you deprecate the politics of president clones you deprecate the black step process but as a sort of thing when you see and understand some of the forces which of of all lead to the. I dont see it as well i do that its the fact that you callow ignore the populace you know and the populace has been ignored on both sides of the like that for far too long and of course what happens when you ignore the proper lists is that ignorance builds up and lets talk about your own past all campaigns and youve been very prominent and diabetes shuki a. Condition you suffer from yourself a and a bit this aspect of the profile it can be given to key campaigns by major figures and stars do you feel youve embraced this as one of your projects well i mean diabetes or k. Of course touch me personally because i am diabetic and i have a terrible sweet tooth which is developed in childhood and of course thats the danger point its all to do with chill wasnt kudos candy world was everything you know it was germs and. This delicacy here supporters ladies and gentlemen is more you know exactly sports but not also to be recommended not a told to be recommended and but i was i was raised on all that and of course thats how it starts it starts with the children and we we still do not acknowledge and this we in the sugar industry is pretty low a documented a documentary about the addiction of sugar yeah and sugar is addict up i mean i interviewed a guy in this documentary who was he was addicted to one of the big things is low fat the whole loaf which. Was created by well it was actually created by in america the idea that again the sugar industry didnt want to be touched so they said it was all fats well actually fats are healthy for you and equate to the should get in the street with the alcohol industry and the drugs in the sky i think sugar is much more pernicious i really think its infinitely more pernicious than either of those four things diabetes is costing a fortune in the National Health service if you could cure diabetes the National HealthService Bills would drop enormously and thats thats real that is a real problem so this is a real concede that yeah it was and because im also an addict i am im a sugar addict you know and i have problems and only i just got a letter from my doctor today saying you know richie one c. Is up you know you got to get it dont fight does that mean the chops will break like a fish right for his political career around the war. A must to be stay and many many going to key decision is also depressive also a depressive but you know one of them to me is ninetys and became the greatest but in the whole time well i mean i think that i mean you know the process of living is still such a mystery to us why some people die i mean a lot people sort of die get to the late sixtys and then pop off road about sixty eight sixty seven is a big figure for people with a loss but no us no us but over here were over the but friend of mine you know which was completely unexpected which was alan rickman you know yes it was well it was a great great man a great mother the theater just a great man generally speaking and died far too young as far as im concerned and he had pancreatic cancer which of course by credit cancer is the pancreas not function in the way it should in that can cause build up and what have you and thats also linked with sugar as we because thats where you create insulin you know so those are the health aspect of prevention is very very important and thats the thing that one should look to and and i feel that we havent done enough about or have your hopes for politics have been one of the start of a year where you know if you were doing you know your new Year Resolutions for change in politics in scotland what old and to mash well what would you like to see as this though theres a sort of conflict between the particular in the general what is needed in that community as opposed to whats needed in the bigger white world and i think theres always this conflict that goes on and it came to me really joining the referendum this is going to have a Scottish Referendum and when i got behind it which was almost intellectual the reason i got behind it was because of social democracy and because the labor party i felt had lost a lot of its values that i believed in and i had to go and so i i embraced Scottish Independence but what i felt was that. And its the thing that really irks me about still the u. K. Is a still very feudal its still based on old feudal notion of everybody in the place you know america for all its problems and there are many probably many more than here in many ways but its fundament is a gallant area where youre the youre the only actor who played in both believe hop island and rob roy some ulterior its the same thing its positive in the negative first. But in terms you you dont personally been what projects youre working on no and im doing a training for h. B. O. Which im in the middle of based in new york playing a very very playing the leader of the fifth largest media conglomerate in the world and hes a model of his selfmade man called logan roy does he have scotts answer he does have scotts answer so he came across as a child it was as if the school it was a refugee to canada and he worked on his own clothes ranch and then he went back to scotland for a while and then he came back and then he set up his empire and he has these four children who hate him and hes not very fond of their lawyer and its a really disproportional media family its very its very sharp its very dark and luck and quite often a fictional of course shortly fictional to a pretty bride cause the before before you go before you go for the new year oh youre entitled to the Alex Salmond Queen thank you and of no circumstances put any sugar sugar out of the holy and only more whisky the kids thank you and thank you so much thank you thank you very much what i thought was interesting about healing from these film stars of east and west is a both the part of the public role was campaigning for causes in the case of faisal and asias dimentia in the case of brian cox diabetes the last of the good works. Generally its criticism is commendable nonetheless what does often provoke attack is when actors ventured into the more directly political arena the if i should dismissal if someone cares enough about the human condition to enter public debate then the celebrity is being used to good advantage they are prepared to put their heads above the Political Part of it. I think its no disqualification for political knowledge after all are not hugely talented actor once became a successful president of the United States those who lead criticism in the press these people who love to exercise power without taking any of us sponsibility they should be shrugged off meanwhile those in rival parties are gone the attackers are usually just be green with envy their field the land the big fish so good luck to people like brian cox they graced public life just as they graced the stage and so will scream so from all here at the alex salmond shores goodbye from now. In the heart of the swiss alps this is a place probably more secretive than the pentagon more mysterious than the cia and better guarded than for knox ellis with customs are here permanently on the site is controlled by them and they impose the Opening Times for a few opposition if the forms are plus the procedures in place of the strictest in all europe masterpieces by artists like pecan so and modigliani are camped boards and sold inside this warehouse thats where the report comes in it covers a deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet strict but also discreet because they concern fraud that some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the Geneva Freeport system and youll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world like the art business. Its being called an olympic truce after months of over the top rhetoric the two careers are talking again the first time in two years is this is serious diplomatic opening up south korea appears to welcome the opening of the same apply to washington. About your sudden passing ive only just learned you were a south and taken your last to bang turn. Your output up to you as we all knew it would i tell you im sorry for me i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. I remember when we first met my life turned on each fret. But then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was again still some more fond of you those that didnt like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind gets consumed with death this one different person i speak to now because there were no other takers. To claim that mainstream. I had a great education a good job and a family that loved me. I never had to worry about how i would eat some where i would sleep. But im facing christmas alone out on the streets of london. Well you look to be a tough way to pull out a political you like good. You notice a lot of those still give up food for the homeless. Her. But you dont really feel like the human being in that. And then. The guy just came over to me assure me and gave me jojo this book. I. Grant citizenship to wiki leaks chief Julian Assange who has been unable to leave the countrys embassy in london for more than five years. Undercover report suggests and twitter prevents him from seeing certain. Great technique shadow banning. The president says the north Korean Leader kim jong un the latest round in the ongoing standoff with western powers. Are broadcasting live from moscow this is our two International Tell us glad to have you with us now Julian Assange has been granted citizenship by ecuador a country that has been hosting him at its embassy in london since two thousand and twelve after he requested political asylum and explains what the move could mean for the wiki leaks chief. Unfortunately for Julian Assange it continues to be quite complicated as this long winded saga continues if you remember the rumors were spread last night following him tweeting a picture of himself wearing a t. Shirt with the Ecuadorian National colors stirring lots and lots of rumors online and in the press about the possibility of him potentially having received ecuadorian citizenship now tonight we have got a confirmation of this here is what the ecuadorian foreign minister had to say. This naturalization was granted on the twelfth of december twenty seventeen the ecuadorian government is empowered to crunch nationality status to the protected person the big question remains what happens in terms of the british officials reactions who have been clear over and over again that if he does walk out of the embassy they would still arrest him because of him having breached his bail conditions at the time of what he initially went into the embassy obviously the biggest fear for Julian Assange is continues to be possible extradition to the u. S. Where of course he is wanted for all the work that we can leaks have been doing in terms of exposing the actions of the American Government we do know that ecuadorian officials have requested that britain allow for Julian Assange to have diplomatic immunity or diplomatic status and this has been a big no from the u. K. Who said theyre not going to go ahead with this kind of plan we did hear from the officials of ecuador that theyre going to continue and have been negotiating with britain still to try to find a solution as we know also the foreign minister has said that the situation with Julian Assange has become unsustainable and its time to move his case along now we here at r. T. Have spoken to the people in ecuador about what they think of his case lets take a look at them with your level of it because he does need human rights support and i think thats what the government will give him there is also a health issue because we know hes enclosed in a very small space there are many things that cross my mind is he healthy enough to stay there. A supermodel in a level to the. As a refugee policy and suppose you mean this. All of this of course despite the fact that the initial case carried out by sweden and followed by sweden in terms of sexual allegations made against him has been dropped so the reaction there would be that that would potentially open the gate for him to have more freedom ability in this whole case but that hasnt happened obviously of course we saw what is such as the United Nations see that have been holed up inside the Ecuadorian Embassy here in london it could be seen as arbitrary detention so certainly its a very complicated case of course that has been going on for years and years but it seems that this is a step forward so were going to have to wait and see whether this is a further were now joined by jim junctures former u. S. Diplomat jim thanks for being with us here on R T International thank you so we just heard you join us on the show hes now a citizen of ecuador so will this make it any easier for him to get out of the embassy without being arrested there in london. Immediately it doesnt appear so and even the ecuadors request to give him a diplomatic status being summarily denied by the British Government i think this simply illustrates the extent to which the us authorities are really determined to get their mitts on him and have this notion that we should have a worldwide jurisdiction and that the British Government as our obedient poodles will do whatever we want after all the pretext he was going to be arrested on earlier was this phony sex charge from sweden which is now defunct there is no real reason that the british could even point to now to say that they will rest him but nonetheless they seem to be bound and determined to do so and thats only because the americans insist on it you bring up a good point about the british not really having a reason to arrest him at this point time but still saying that they will go after him. But the police force in london theyve spent millions and millions of pounds guarding this embassy round the clock for the past five years waiting for assad to step out on some excursion of some sort wouldnt sending him to ecuador be a Good Opportunity to get him off their hands in rooms all of this problem once and for all well i suppose when you have a demand from washington that no expense of the british taxpayers is too much to pay to make sure uncle sam is happy and im sure that the british taxpayers if they thought about there was say hey why are we spending all this money just just just so some other country can get their hands on this fellow i mean if we take a step down the rabbit hole even further sweden has even dropped its investigation into assad last year and there has been no formal extradition request from the u. S. So why is a songe so sure that he would end up in america if u. K. Police were to arrest him. Well i think its to start with the very fact that the british have rejected out of hand and quarters request to give him diplomatic status shows that the policy of the British Government hasnt changed theyve made it clear who will be arrested since there is nothing else thats visible we have to assume that there is a nonpublic request from the american authorities to the british aid of the sort of five five eyes very close cooperation between the american the british the australian the new zealand of the Canadian Intelligence Services and that there is theres a theres secret communication here i dont think its secret but everybody really knows whats going on so earlier we heard from wiki leaks saying they tweeted rather that songes detention violates International Law weve heard from the un something similar do you agree with this concept i am not saying its wrong i dont really know what the basis is for saying so that its arbitrary detention detention you can make the argument hes detaining himself in the embassy so he wont get arrested extradited to the United States a i think you could argue that either way the question is is would that would that finding have any effect on the british or the american authorities and i dont think so. About so now the Julian Assange has ecuadorian citizenship. Someone whos familiar with the diplomatic process does this means that he is actually eligible for diplomatic status now from the ecuadorian government i mean if they choose not necessarily that. Well they were the way this works is that a country can name somebody on their side as having diplomatic status but that really then has to be accepted and recognized by the host country in this case the United Kingdom is this even goes up to the ambassadorial rank you could say you want to send somebody to another countrys ambassador but they have to accept that person they have to accredit that diplomat to their country so it is within the sovereign rights of the United Kingdom to say no we dont accept his diplomatic status but that then gets the underlying question well why are they doing that i guess were going to have to put him in a big big big human sized diplomatic pouch i guess to get him out of that embassy on some level. Good talking to you here on our to International Thanks for your thoughts thank you. If nobody is tweeting you on twitter it could be because the social network is censoring you by imposing a socalled shadow ban the move has come to light in the latest undercover investigation by project a very tough. One. Thank you from want to. Thank you but you know what she should. Think that no one. Well you know a group behind the revelations has a mixed reputation it has been accused of getting information and infiltrating organizations under false pretenses project very ties has also been criticised for heavily editing material to deliver its point the groups founder james okeefe is a conservative political activist and some say he has a Strong Political agenda samir khan has more on the revelations. Well the social media giant has presented itself as politically neutral but project veritas seems to revealed otherwise according to several employees whove been caught on camera twitter regulates its content by controlling what its users can see on their feet now one of twitters policy managers says that the company is currently developing a system that down ranks controversial users and another employee says twitter is trying to ban a certain way of talking online so theyre going to go with the single user the things that. Weve seen and you know. Its good to see them in the mindset of believe twitter can also apparently dig into its users profiles and conversation history to figure out their political leanings and then determine whether or not they should be banned and another issue that came up was Julian Assange just twitter account and the fact that it was deleted without explanation a couple weeks ago but an employee was asked about it and he did hint at one possible reason. Why. We cant verify if these are real twitter employees or not and if they are they definitely could be lying but weve requested twitters comments on all of this but we havent heard from them as yet but regardless the whole issue is definitely something to investigate further the executive director of prague