Britain is really the center arguably over whether it be destroying africas respect you have a country of libya whether really iraq war or to your partys leadership of this country or trying to attack iran because only exactions or afghanistan are totally wrong those actions thats why we need to start speaking up now we need to realize the awful atrocities that this country over generations and over hundreds of years has committed in its International Foreign policy and its policy of exporting weapons and it is now is the time we need to realize that jeremy to me in the iraq war and in the syrian discussions we were on the streets arguing are case now we are in parliament and now he is the leader of our party we now need to start making sure that no longer do we have to have people out on the streets protesting to try and stop these kinds of things but that we create laws and we create scrutiny so that never again we learned as human beings we must learn from our mistakes and if we we cant. Human beings until lord Russell Boyle thank you for the break as the powerful tinker with neo liberalism in switzerland the british n. G. O. S tells us increased wealth for the few hundred seventeen could have ended Global Extreme poverty seven times over from the headlines find out how russia could go nuclear British Defense cuts and how britains migrant policy is all thats see all this and more coming up about two of going on the ground. Join me every thursday on the alex simon shill and ill be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. Days ago the u. S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis updated in revived americas Global Defense strategy it is a dark vision of the world and calls for a massive defense spending what he calls a Defense Strategy critics say is a blueprint for war without it. Yes i was but with. Your. Help in the last election i believe well do more its almost the young thing we will all soon will but you know the stuff and we will push it out so. People thank you for. The name you do the. Scouts. You the groups believe you know the. Easy reason you did. It was one of. The secret of the irish you can you can other call you up and you tell me if you did to us all but youre using my suspicion i was. Welcome back to go through some weak stories now it will cost of all the liberal democrat member of parliament that bit o. Pick lets go straight to your obvious fear that russia is about to invade the United Kingdom well we should all be afraid its the express offer all for crying out loud option im very porting this russia likely to target u. K. With Nuclear Attack if defense funds cut extra warns the extra hour rule is someone else not the guy chris barrie so the night of the realm tell me what the british army so the Nicholas Carter hes the main man there and he seems to be suggesting also that we could be naked in the theater of war if we may call me cuts and defense cuts is a good and has made it clear that there are the russians want to invade britain bring back the cold war because obviously the cuts were talking about just leave us completely exposed and since the European Union will be turning its back on us and troubles busy to who knows what could be happening we could be doing this in russian in a years time thanks to these cuts and on the other hand should the head of the british army be telling the russians that now is a good time to invade im not sure that really works. Lets remember the russians did tell us that the new super carrier was a convenient big targets lets go to the right lets go to this brilliant strategy where one month away from when the start of u. K. Or covert operations to destroy the Libyan Government how well is the libya war working well now its your turn is not actually vali its very rude but your turn gives away the concerns in this article the independent reports britain strategy to target smugglers sending migrant boats across mediterranean doomed to fail Study Suggests not the most illiterate of title but in essence whats happened is a learned piece of work i believe by dr come parno Cambridge Universitys institute of criminology says that not only is this an ineffective strategy to try and force people back it could be illegal youre sending them back to very bad circumstances and that could violate this is a strategy of the British Government to send boats to just stop desperate people from doing what they want to do desperately hope that he might get away from wars and this isnt the first time this has been tried there was a debate about whether the mediterranean forces should make it so dangerous so difficult to come across that people wouldnt bother trying the ultimate but it was no less us to get that one britain may be having a go at this now and the independent i think rightly is saying hold on a second you Cambridge University study out of africa i wonder whether the government will have a look at a look at the i think they went over the line you know in the past forty eight hours former Capital Executive john tizard one of korban shadow minister says that the the hundred billion pound outsourcing miss should be brought back into democratic control theres good of this story from the canary the reverberations of this multibillion failure of karelia from trouble on the high seas were all at sea with this one to the canary reports exclusive leaked files reveal karelians payments to block the Listing Agency and far more this story has rumbled on for quite a while now there are explicit claims thanks in large part to the g. M. B. Union it turns out that. Im not kidding fourteen thousand seven hundred twenty four names at least have been illegally investigated by the Consulting Association a form of blacklisting to try and courtesy allegation im sure well be going to a Consulting Agency divined whether in fact they were blacklisting or seem to be presenting it like. Oh im just saying they were they were shut down we are yes that. Was the other but this is a large amount of ground on the water of rogers and were really saying this is how our service is it hospitals schools prisons you name it in the Public Sector being run like on the water yes we are saying that and this are subsidized by the taxpayer well in the sense that the caribbean was making a profit on partly they werent making much of a profit so only being subsidised now well theyve been big movements in the kensington and Chelsea Council here in the richest borer of this country which is part of this country something from Kensington Chelsea here a long with a grim story of grand for the movements arent nearly as big as one would have expected the guardian reports only three out of one hundred sixty social housing towers required after grandfather thought as of this week thats right theyve had i think seven months since the incident which killed in the forty which killed over seventy people in Grenfell Tower thats remember that was in large part because the external cladding turned out to be flammable get this action there are more buildings clad with that climb of all material now then at the time of the incident now the governments trying to fob this off a little bit on the local authorities there saying savage it says that not very Many Councils are given the information needed to make these Funds Available but come on lets just be realistic seventy people seventy plus people died here and there are tens of thousands of People Living in virtually identical circumstances to this all over the country now that is not exactly the kind of legacy edge expected from grandfather in fairness lembit a quarter of the grunfeld tenants have been permanently rehabbed this means three. Courters havent thats all you need to remember and since june all this on the day today when universal credit is on trial in parliament as the employer minister alex sharma gives evidence for the context for all of these stories limit a big thank you well from arguably the disastrous rollout of universal credit little lonely housing prices to forty two individuals having as much wealth as nearly four billion of the worlds poorest here to go to oxfams latest inequality what is the engineers u. K. Deputy head of research deborah harder deborah welcome to going underground to tell me about the report would you go to coincides with the World EconomicForum Meeting in governance in switzerland right so this week weve got the worlds rich and powerful gathering in the mountains of davos and theyre talking about the way that the economy works and their level has great statistics of growth for them have seen great cities well they will say this with everyone but what we find in the data is the billionaires have done extremely well the richest one percent of done extremely well they got eighty percent of total gross thats happened over the last twelve months what were doing with this report is bringing into this story bring into this event in davos the story of everyone else the rest of the distribution the ninety nine percent the thing the bottom fifty percent were talking about the poorest ten percent of people that still live in extreme poverty and particularly were talking about the workers that work hard to help support these businesses profit making enterprise is everything that the economy is founded on and still live in poverty you see here more golding said the concentration of extreme world is a symptom of a system that is failing but it is a system well if you look at the way that the economy is rewarding wealth you know you look at for example the billionaires the billionaires have made seven hundred sixty two billion in twelve months from what from a really great performing stock market in in many cases and at the same time look at that money you look at that well i think what else could have done if it was distributed more for. If for example if we ended the era of tax havens and we were able to capture some of that wealth and put it into a budget that could be spent on Public Services that could really help those at the bottom of the distribution our kind of mass that seven hundred sixty two billion could end poverty seven times over so its about choices right its about an economy thats able to deliver all these returns for wealth at the top but is leaving many behind i suppose what i was getting at when i was talking about your c. E. O. Saying it is into a system that is failing even Mainstream Media were now hearing about whether it is western capitalism that is responsible for these sorts of figures that are in your report yeah i mean were certainly not alone in raising awareness of the crisis of inequality and the way indeed the system was i mean andy how dayna chief economist of the bank of england has said that the way for example that companies are organized to extract value and deliver it to shareholders is corrosive for the economy so theres plenty of other thinkers that are worried about this the i. F. s in the way have said inequality and poverty are likely to increase over the next five to fifteen years and thats a concern so theres plenty of other organizations that are concerned about inequality and concerned about the economic and social impacts of it the i. M. F. Hardly a kind of left leaning and geo. Have written extensively on the damaging consequences of inequality for growth and for the prosperity of countries i dont know how defensive some of the. New liberalizations are with the others with as you said about europe or the and you havent even said it in the report said what are you saying confiscation of the wealthy is resources that would you are recommending and surely that would put us all at risk with saying actually when it comes to resources and if you think about a law. Out of the resources of the extremely wealthy many of them are embedded in companies so were talking about stocks and shares and what we think is a better idea is to have ownership of those assets much more equally distributed in the way that companies are able to run cooperatives for example so the you have workers with a stake in the business and when the company does well those rewards are distributed evenly among the workers as opposed to concentrated returns for those at the top that are the inside with us like john lewis although we go to a Little National audience they will we wont know that Department Store what about other n. G. O. S save the children is saying a quarter of all children in this country under the age of five are living in poverty is worse in wales a little bit worse in scotland are all the ngos at the moment the real were bored basically saying the system is failing everyone i think theres increasing recognition that to address the things that we care about most whether its an ngo thats looking at housing or whether its save the children or whether its oxfam looking at poverty in the u. K. Or the Joseph Roundtree foundation who he found one in eight people that are working a living in poverty theres many of these organizations that are recognizing that to address all these concerns we have to look at where the power is and where the wealth is and so yes i think there is a kind of common discourse that we have to look at inequality if were going to fight for the causes that are really important to us what about the danger that. These elites will actually divide those who are already poor from one another theres obviously a case of malnutrition in britain legacy arguably the twenty rate rises how because they cant see the c. E. O. s earning that much money is this ninety nine percent because they are dividing itself did you see anything like that in the research but we need to build a new narrative and what we need is a new economic model that works better for people and it doesnt build those kind of divides in society that youre referring to and this is possible and there are way in policies and there are you know Business Models and there are all sorts of things that we can do to actually make it a Fairer Society and thats not pitting one person against another person so that were not this kind of race to the bottom in competition i mean in ecuador the legislation on the minimum wage is now such that it must be a living wage so this is just raising the floor so that everybody resumes as she introduced here of course its not quite a say not a living wage that many people would order Living Wage Foundation for one would call a living wage. I mean another example is in iceland that is now illegal to discriminate between men and women on pay so this isnt pitting one person against another this is creating an environment where were saying you know things have got to be fairer things have got to be more just and these kind of policies doable with possible and it just creates a much fairer environment for everyone just finally briefly the electrification of this report can we see in this report shades of why the midwest of the United States would go for donald trump Something Different why people give a jury call be near where people in this country went for broke that why new legal ideas are now being tossed around because its getting this desperate i mean the data shows that there are large portions of the population in many countries that are feeling left behind that the economy is not working for them and so theres got to be implications for that in the way people feel about the way. That the societies and the four that governments are operating so were not surprised that are all you know groups that are breaking away and looking for something. And so what were trying to do is create a narrative. That is fair and just and thats not divisive because thats what people that particularly the feeling left behind by the system the mice and you know a representation of what would work for them and not something that would divide them. Thank you thats it for the show will be back on saturday it was one of your recordings keep out of the. Shadow emergencies minister Chris Williams and whether the n. H. S. Is being used as a cash cow by a profit hungry go industry until the new can people talk with us by social media a few words out of the forty five years to the day of the signing of the paris peace accords officially signaling the crushing defeat of the United States of america by communist vietnam. Prescribe medication is widespread on the u. S. 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When the ruling classes project themselves. With the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent so. We can all middle of the room sick. To lose the real news is. The u. S. Claims russia is ultimately to blame for the Chemical Attacks kyra dives in syria regardless of who was behind them and then when jack the russian proposal to create a new body to investigate suspected chemical incidents causing tensions to flare at the u. N. Were not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth learn from the fact that the us dismissed all proposal right from the start reveals the truth that they do not need an impartial investigative mechanism. U. S. Government say chief says that the scale of destruction in the syrian city of rocket is almost beyond description after americas devastating Bombing Campaign against islamic state. And theres an outcry in the sporting world over the potential exclusion of a number of things from the upcoming winter olympics. Its six oclock here in moscow and youre watching r. T. International life lost you do with me. Welcome to the program theres been a Fiery Exchange between russia and america at the United Nations over who is to blame for Chemical Attacks in syria and how they should be investigated moscow says in the future independent experts should be required to visit the sites of suspected incidents but that proposal was rejected by the us russia is complicit in the assad regimes atrocities you are acting as judge and prosecutor russia is running from the facts your behavior exposes your true motives russia has the audacity to lecture this Security Council this is a long political spectacle for not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth we should at least have taken a look at the draft before rejecting it russia all on its own killed the mechanism we had specifically tasked to identify those responsible you need investigated mechanism for before an investigation you have accused the Syrian Government of using chemical weapons. Came during a debate on how to tweak the system used to assess Chemical Attacks in syria the emergency meeting was held after the us secretary of state claimed another attack took place in syria on monday he said russia should shoulder the blame for that and other incidents. Whoever conducted the attack russia ultimately bears responsibility for the victims of these and countless other syrian targeted with chemical weapons since russia became involved in syria the problem is it hasnt even been confirmed that these attacks even happened let alone who is responsible and there are only two sources saying this and both are notoriously prorebel this whole blame russia game continued at the Security Council and that is a mickey haley statements were more about russia than anything else she even accused russia of killing the joint investigative mechanism but at the meeting russia said that the joint investigative mechanism became a Political Tool and called for an impartial investigation into all cases of chemical weapons use including the joint investigative mechanisms new reports were not going to accept any russian proposal that undermines our ability to get to the truth or that politicizes what must be an independent and impartial investigation to naturism so the fact that the us dismissed all proposal right from the start reveals the truth that they do not need an impartial investigative mechanism so even though several other Member States supported the proposal of a new impartial investigation the us rejected it saying that its ready to bring back the old joint investigative mechanism quote but all other suggestions are unacceptable. Samir khan reporting there while the mechanism she mentioned was established in twenty fifteen by the un Security Council along with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons together they drew up several reports accusing the Syrian Government of carrying out Chemical Attacks it included one of the deadliest in can chicken in april last year however experts did not actually visit the site before reaching their conclusions the mandate for the joint teams investigation has now expired and moscow requests changes should be made particularly that site visits should be part of any future investigations so that samples can be taken directly it also underlined the importance of i witness accounts which have been heavily relied upon in the past by the un Rick Stirling from the serious Solidarity Movement points out that the timing of the new chemical attack allegations comes right ahead of expected peace talks well were going to bring in live now and i should be a security and political analyst welcome to the program. Lets start with why you think the u. S. Has dismissed russias call for a new investigation into Chemical Attacks in syria given that there were clear flaws in the report on the attack in qana chicken last year for instance what do you think the objection could be. Well first of all obviously the americans want to use this as a Political Tool to put forward their political agenda now i dont understand but but i have to say it very bluntly bluntly that how how do you expect a report an investigative report to come up with a credible. Outcome and a conclusion without visiting the field in the place where the incident took place that was the main criticism so the amendments that were proposed were to actually create a more realistic work and a more of a credible work for the commission and the Impartial Commission it should be completely you know away from any political agenda we dont want to know what actually happened but im afraid it doesnt seem that this whole issue is about an investigation on who used chemical weapons this is a instigation i think by the americans because the timing is very interesting next week theres a conference and sochi and theres such a is a conference where the russian government is pushing forward the National Reconciliation in syria lets say or National Dialogue an exchange between the different various groups in syria including the kurds by the way as the Prime Minister lavrov said last week they want to get everything on a table to sit in talk and find a solution for the continuous suffering of the Syrian People for so many years and i think that it doesnt play into the american interests and therefore they want to actually create obstacles raising this issue and raising the tone in the Security Council against russia by accusing russia and i just heard you know the American Ambassador saying whatever is the these are the persons or the side that is using chemical weapons she actually blames russia for that and that i think is a ridiculous statement i mean you should know the facts before you actually accuse anyone thats the basics of any diplomatic move or any logical lexx change and i think well this shows this shows what kind of level american diplomacy is. At this point and this is absolutely ridiculous its using an issue that has to do with softening of people an issue that is a legal issue an investigative issue. And to accuse russia for being responsible for it in order to make a setback for any move towards you know a dialogue and finding a solution in syria and thats absolutely ridiculous and counter to u. N. Objectives i mean mentioned that the suggestions by russia would be create a more impartial investigation so and youve talked about it being ridiculous about them suggesting that russia is complicit in a lot of these Chemical Attacks can you expound on why this is being a continuous thread. Well i think first of all because when you talk about chemical weapons this is a big big topic everyone in the whole world will discuss is going to think that you know the russians and the Syrian Government are using chemical weapons against this innocent civilians that creates a lot of support for the american agenda and for the western agenda that calls for that immoveable of the government of assad and that calls for achieving their own object of sin city and that they have had a big setback on now the issue of chemical weapons has been raised before this is not the first time and it has been raised so many times before and the russian government funded in a position where it had to veto Security Council resolutions that were based on reports that were not impartial and that were not credible because they didnt have any concise direct tangible evidence you know the this is the problem and as i said earlier they there was no inspection for the field so how is supposed to actually reach a conclusion or ditch any credible finding when you didnt actually inspect the location itself so the russian proposal calls for a more credible. Credibility investigation and the americans didnt even werent even interested in reading the russian proposal and that is the problem and that is the setback for finding any solution ok well if we look at this iteration now the u. N. Meeting was called after reports of a gas attack on a rebel held area close to damascus on monday and weve heard about whats the outcome of that was the russian representative he suggested it may have been a false flag what are your thoughts about that comment. Well thats where the attack the alleged attack actually took place in the eastern suburb i believe of damascus and that that that that is an un club so that is an area that is completely surrounded by the u. S. Syrian army and therefore this solution is not to use anyway if were talking militarily speaking this area is the teacher clee is not really in the hands of the rebel groups or slowly it will be dismantled and it will be back in the hands of the Syrian Regime so even if we were to suppose that chemical weapons were used i think it would be really stupid and i dont think that the Syrian Government is stupid enough to actually use chemical weapons in that particular area that would be completely counters as productive and counter to their objectives and they are achieving a lot of military advances and a lot of achievements and i dont think theyre going to use this because that would actually you know mean that theyre theyre theyre theyre the weaker player and theyre at this point in the field they are the Strong Player with the support of the russian army. National security and political analysts kate having on the program with your thoughts tonight