German was either theyre going to be independent or theyre going to be flunkies for power interests in their own country and the journalist cant really do both well with him by the Chinese Government to respond to that allegation from you norman but if one Lasting Legacy of people like you saying grady is you think another one is the back of the cia took such an interest in him and there is a material his work and himself no doubt cia always attentive to authentic journalism that runs counter to its own dominant narrative but always had a very adversarial relationship to the cia after all he exposed its deadly machinations in Central America during the Reagan Administration and always understood the difference between journalistic intelligence and government intelligence and that has to say the least interest from the cia and certainly the opposite of admiration no. Thank you after the break a physicist and founder of the festival israelian tells us why collective economic punishment. Shouldnt be extended to Space Exploration if we want to human kind of buy on from the news we reveal why double jump should have private Health Insurance if he comes to britain and why one womans terrorist is another womans freedom fighter. Coming up about to have going underground. Im here at muddy field stadium in edinburgh the home on the hop. Im here to interview a scotland legend. A man who fought many great battles behind me now hes engaged in the greatest bottle of all his struggle against newborn disease. Seemed wrong. Wrong just dont call. Me. Out he still comes to. Engage me because betrayal. When something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. Two americas too intensely charged in opposing news narratives to Cable News Networks reflect these divisions or rather function as triggers intensifying Cultural Divide also what has happened to journalism is it now profession inhabited by hacks in the politically possessed. Welcome back with me to go through some weak stories now is the broadcast of a liberal democrat a member of Parliament Lembit opec interesting that the British Government after their sons decision was twenty four hours seems to have said nothing about them having to answer for that Un Human Rights Panel declaring he had been utterly detained all the time but thats not surprising because even yesterdays verdict is a small bit part mini chapter in the overall problem that the science has created for them alternately he blew the whistle on things which are incredibly uncomfortable for the government but this is going to carry on its not going to get any easier for julian in the next weeks or months thats what i think well certainly one aspect of the war on terror hasnt gone away because there are reports in the first twenty four hours as theres been an eighty percent rise in drone strikes on the door drone and lets go to this headline for the morning reports hapless Mark Lancaster blames erroneous drafting for tori double speak on the british drone killing as opposed to the twenty six dead in afghanistan over the past few days because of trouble let me read to you the erroneous drafting the document stated the british had a practice of targeting suspected terrorists outside of the Armed Conflict itself and then governed willian outside the call outside thats the big phrase that also suspected terrorists and then governed wellington seems to back this up as well he said that he would hunt down suspected terrorists in iraq and syria and other areas to active ingredients there suspected terrorists no trial you might be a terrorist so youre a target and second the outside the conflict zone Kevin Williamson in fairness to say that the russian government would. Kill thousands of people in britain to talk difficult well thats all right then to last all right then he doesnt say much about the next story i have to say as written continues perhaps to fly drones who do we know big mass going on in yemen a forgotten war if you like her its report saudi arabia and u. A. E. Yemen setback as our allies turn on each other setback the Worlds Largest humanitarian crisis in harriets thinks a setback is in store when theres tens of millions of people being threatened by british back saudi arabia and we have sold billions of pounds worth of arms there and of course downtimes done the same its not a simple situation until now its like the Saudi Coalition has held together as theyve been fighting there now a part of that coalition is turned violently against it so youre going to lose and theyre basically you can have an army fight all trained by britain fighting each other well first of all even their training is the same because they will be the same to each other while the who and the rest of yemen to get big and here massive vested interests in terms of arms sales into this mass by the u. K. By the United States and then this politics going on here which probably has caught saudi arabia by surprise. Some of the Un Security Council members to talk about the conflict and britain arguably stops training the killers dont hold your breath on that one thats gotten their next one to raise amaze favorite killers everyone in britain favorite killers arguably. A simpler one or is it scalia suppose thats a bombs an i. E. D. Where the suffragettes terrorists what do you mean face well obviously the suffragettes invented the letter bomb they bombed Westminster Abbey st pauls cathedral st martins in the fields of what was this is a womens history professor Julian Purvis says they were not terrorists she claims that emily and pancoast if she were alive today and i quote here she would be horrified by the actions of the present day suicide bombers who ruthlessly kill and injure and run the of course because their islam is millet. Backed by the British Government in syria arguably actually im going to slightly agree with you here because at the end she slips in this phrase Christabel Pankhurst the w. S. P. Used brilliantly strategist decided that more confrontational tactics were necessary well that was the gaffe on her she basically agrees with you maybe they were terrorists after all this is so why dont women and men not torture that we will only go to vote by bombs. And letter it wasnt only by that so dont oversimplify it but it was one of the tools they used but as you say you advocating violence for political causes on this program im i really dont that we should encourage anyone im not hating some humility here the suffragettes were not beyond blame themselves they got something which i would like to think most people agree with thats votes for women but some of their measures were not exactly completely free of blood is in people in hollywood will be encouraged to start a violent hashtag need to movement i dont think so lets go to the most powerful man in the world shall we yes heres another chance not donald trump not satisfied with annoying us on other things is his latest think the democrats are pushing for universal health care while thousands of people are marching in the u. K. Because their you system is going broke and not working want to greatly raise taxes for really bad nonpersonal medical care no thanks absolute no news about u. Turns at roundabouts it could be something about universal health care the great achievement for donald trump in slamming British Health care on the basis of the march is that hes actually got jeremy hunt the conservative minister to sound left wing this is what the hunt said i may disagree with claims made on that march but not one of the wants to live in a system where twenty eight Million People have no cover and they test may have challenges but im proud to be from the country that invented universal coverage where all get care no matter the size of their bank balance Jeremy Corbyn could have said that so what champ has now done is made him seem like a leftie now thats a pretty big achievement limiter big leg you. Well nasser is made in the news in britain this week after larry love accused of hacking was based agency was spared having to face socalled u. S. Justice by the high court in london but as the annual federal commercial space conference kicks off today in the u. S. Capital with Richard BransonsVirgin Galactic and iran musk space x. Together with nasser in attendance were going to turn to another conference star has twenty nine hundred showcased in londons Royal Society in the past few days and in collaboration with the media partner r. T. As his journal aims to unite the arts and the sciences and gather a constellation of stars in the city where einstein forged the basic equations that arguably rule our lives today the event in switzerland will feature nobel Prize Winners cosmonauts and astronauts as well as prominent theoretical physicists and Award Winning musician the oneness or physicist we caught up with was the founder of straw most dr garrick is really dark its that time of year again were in the internationally famous Royal Society in london why byrne in switzerland for star most twenty nineteen first science experiment astronomy experiment done on board a polo eleven strong can boss old green was to detect a solar helium. And. On the surface of the moon so the university or band was in charge of an experiment that Neil Armstrong and buzz aldrin had to do on the search we have a letter from Neil Armstrong got this letter from Neil Armstrong dated in december sixty nine two to Professor John is hes from university in thanking him for this amazing experiment which gave the most precise composition of solar abundances isotopic about and this is of helium and several other elements there are from the scientific history behind this and of course Albert Einstein writing these important papers yeah some people calling it cold war two point zero youre aldrin a neutral country for star yes exactly yes as we said that is a neutral country and burn actually is the First InstitutionFirst University to put an experiment on the moon so there was a dying because we had a science festival so we go places where the sciences has some connection and connection obeirne with fifty years in the verses of apollo so it was straight forward so that there was no doubt that this is the city we have to do next first first some people might say no ones interested in the moon nasa certainly doesnt appear to be interested in the moon donald trump arguably more as. Why is the importance of the anniversary of the moon still i think important is seven reasons first the moon landing was a great inspiration for an entire generation of scientists an artist at the core of this is still here and there are still many people it was so hard so difficult that many people today dont believe even that. You can replace the becomes like a me that was two thousand years ago as of the so its really not too many of those. But it was a challenge and it was also very interesting to see men walking on a different planet on. Definitely never happened in history and why and what happened why in six seven years that managed to do that for the space race and all those things its quite an interesting story and it is one of the themes you mention people dont believe in the moon landings one of the themes of the nineteen is going to be how scientific elaboration may help to combat socalled fake news why they have a theme can scientists do something to combat fake news and first of all that comes from Climate Change stories that discriminate between scientists and someone but thats already expanding to different topics like genetics and and so on and its probably related to technologies so new technologies its very easy to spread any any news and people wouldnt even know if its science based or fact based or wards but its not fake news or say the president drum doesnt convince climate manmade Climate Change yes i think that to avoid those things we want to initiate them to trigger the discussion at the festival because specially that the collective economic bullish when some would say after the banking crisis you must come across this criticism all the time what is the point of exploring space at a time when we cannot house people here where the benefits from space while there are many there are many first first of all to start new technologies in astronomy when we ask for funding lets say ten or twenty million for for a new camera on a telescope or spectrograph or whatever ninety nine percent of this money goes into technologies developing new technologies and engineering and design and seven it doesnt mean that the money goes into stormier stars it goes to those technologies and then this is applied in daily daily life. So the patents and everything that you get from infrared cameras from many sensitive tech there is they are all applied in astronomy first and then they go to two to industry and so on and so the same is with Space Technologies most of money which is spending work it interesting and so on it all goes to patents and new discoveries new materials a new softwares and all of those things and then later this goes into so its just the nature of the way the science works to just just finally also i mean we said ritalin is a neutral country some people saying there are heightened tensions echoes of the cold war the space race of course in the middle of the cold war how would you characterize the four string of the torn by scientific elaboration because some people would think that was the soviet Space Program versus the Apollo Program and youre taking us back to the days of war cold warfare socalled well there are probably the best answers given by alex early on of his head that was the space based raissi the history of it its only a straight into soviet. Is the best Olympic Games was much better. Because it leads to something with that so what we believe to be games in b. This is a Pure Entertainment in that case we have achieved something so we are studying the moon we got the rock from the moon bring well is a peugeot human. Korea our city. The knowledge is the knowledge and from the mental science of studying the moon we study be it we want to know the formation of we want to know the evolution of the solar system and so on and two are just all those questions you have to explore and you have to spend what you dont think much of resident job defunding the International Space station how to be these are i think rich we do everything to to have more collaboration from Different Countries to put money to get it to build a new new instruments but not you know this isis was so successful it was the best experiment again ever done in the street to be to the budget was hundred billion or five cents. And for many many years and theyre all started with news station great you and me so there you said he was a three point four billion a year is too much less yeah yeah thats what they think if you ask nasa scientists that will say no theres not enough well theres always enough money for me to tree and bombing and after all its theres no question that when it comes to Space Exploration no we dont want it. Thank you very much. Professor garet israelian of talking to me at londons Royal Society and thats it for the show will be back. In may of about privilege in the u. K. And we asked russias ambassador to the court of st james how do you prepare for the electricity infrastructure attack from moscow to raise a maze government has warned british subjects to expect any day now even social media today eleven years to the day that barack obama announced his wish to run the usa would go down in history as the us president the deported more immigrants killed more innocent people by drone and imprisonable whistleblowers and he before him. Telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the Chicken Hawks forcing you to fight the battle. When you talk to try to tell you that at the top like myself to. Tell you you are not full enough and thats why. The hawks that we along with all the. Across europe municipalities are taking their water supply back from private companies to meet the sales with simple song alone even some company elsewhere though they invite private companies to take over the utilities many by the telescope was allowed to miss you guys you got. To go by been this is. A good time out. For you bill brought up locals are ready to stand up for the basic human right of access to water its about water but its also over much more than law its about the hurt and the redistribution of. This. Debt downwards do you want all. The headlines on the international with to get days to go until the Winter Olympics get underway the hopes of dozens of russian athletes fighting a legal battle to overturn a ban from the games are diminishing. Ecuador says it will continue to protect julian its embassy in london after a british judge ruled the wiki leaks cofounder is still wanted for arrest. And your party is being launched in the u. K. With the. Support its getting from across the channel that has led to accusations of french meddling in britains internal affairs. Wednesday afternoon here in the russian capital and watching the international for me role receive shane. The entire news team here a very warm welcome to you. It is now just two days until the twenty eighteen Winter Olympics get underway and its still unclear who will compete the court of arbitration for sport has heard the case of dozens of russian athletes but no decision was reached today the session is adjourned until tomorrow the russian athletes are challenging the International Olympic committees decision to ban them from competing in south korea over the doping scandal in the effort trying to reports from pyongyang. The Olympic Dreams of almost fifty russian athletes right now depend on the court of arbitration for sport and for the pm chang games this is their new home. The court convened for a few hours on wednesday but there was no decision we resumed the hearing tomorrow. But simply a final decision can be rendered the end of the day tomorrow it is a huge court case as many as forty seven russian athletes and coaches with a clean doping test history against the International Olympic committee but in a sense its a battle between the court of arbitration for sport forecasts and the i. O. C. Heres why a group of russian winter athletes were and this elite a few months ago banned for life by the i. O. C. Their medals were taken away but then all of this was overturned by cas last week regardless of that the olympic officials decided to flash a red card plus there were more russian winter athletes who didnt get lifetime balance but despite the fact that they had never been caught cheating before as well they still heard that they cant come to pee and change so its the careers and the Olympic Dreams of these athletes that a Swiss Law Firm is trying to save and the hearings are happening right behind these doors swiss lawyers are saying that the grounds for the lawsuits are the nontransparent nature of the criteria plus the on lawful nature of the verdict itself and most importantly discrimination on basis of citizenship and remember that some of the people whose fate is being protected here are reigning olympic champion. Movement does not consider me an athlete who deserves to be a part of it without even providing an example a nation ive never given a reason to doubt my honesty and my integrity. The games in korea were to be the first in my career together with my partner weve been working towards these in the mix for many years was my cherished dream. I was shocked to lympics my dream and i was working towards this goal throughout my entire sports career ive given no reasons to doubt one. So to put it very mildly cason the i. O. C. Dont see eye to why the cord clears a group of russian athletes but the olympic officials cant be bothered to situation put the two organizations almost on a brink of conflict the secretary general of cass says that there is no crisis but see for yourself who this kind of decision is sheikh streamlet disappointing these decision shows the the urchin to meet for reforms in the internal structure of castes i must support my traitors and so far i think the procedure was fully respected their reaction was very strong in the stand is the disappointment of the i. O. C. Because they expected another verdict but we should not. Its better to wait before criticizing the decisions themselves because they are not being drafted yet so again there is very little time for cast to make up its mind the opening ceremonies coming up on friday february ninth but whatever the decision is the Russian Support cas and the i. O. C. Will never be the same again. Earlier we spoke to a russian skater she did not receive an invitation to the games despite being cleared by cas a week ago. It is sad for me to see other russian athletes posting videos and photos from korea clearly the first explanation which comes to mind is that they want to get rid of the strongest competitors maybe they were upset because we were ranked first at the sochi Winter Olympics they give no explanation do not share their reasons thats why the fear of losing seems the only plausible motive behind the decision i saw those looks from my foreign colleagues i heard them sneaking around some foreign athletes even took pictures of me it wasnt a pleasant feeling when other athletes refused to enter in the elevator with me i felt helpless because there was no way for me to prove them wrong we spoke to. A lawyer representing some of the athletes currently appealing the i. O. C. About. Beliefs necessary to take all legal steps available to us to ensure participation or arsonists in the uk. We hope that the independent panel that was composed will truly and. At the facts and of the law in front of them and. To the right decision. The i. O. C. Has almost plenary power to even ignore what the court of arbitration for sport says has decided and i think nations would probably say we dont want the i. O. C. Making arbitrary decisions that while it may one day affect our Athletes InternationalSports Community and member nations really need to get together and create a body that can enforce rules fairly and across the board. Equally because we do not have that right now athletes from all around the world have started to arrive at the olympic facilities in the south korean city of yung chang among them are russian athletes who are allowed to compete as a limb pick out the lead from russia under a neutral flag earlier the i. O. C. If you had strict rules regarding the uniform uniform should bear the was a limping athlete from russia or if i quote him a are should also be of a single if you will color we know it will be grey no russian flag or any of its colors white blue and red are allowed so that has not stopped one russian Design Company from showing its support for russias athletes by launching a special line of t. Shirts putting on the acronym we spoke to one of its designers with when is stupid to deprive people of their own country and identity because whatever uniform naturally its wearing we all know that their own russian athletes and thats why we came up with the project using this strange name for a little bit teen and olympic athletes from russia a we wanted to show you that for us and for athletes truth and sport it would drive us and all these bands and sanctions is just political gain weve really seen huge numbers of these prints for noncommercial use theyre intended to the fan and we hope it will encourage around fleets theyll see that we support them and that we need their records in victory. And you and bricks and ponty is about to be. Launched in the u. K. With support from across the channel french m. P. s belonging to a manual microns on march movement not only back the idea but every portal being giving advice to the founders of the new party trying to do been ski investigates this is really a brand new Political Party thats about to launch in the k. Its goals are quite ambitious pledging to transform british politics and reverse brigs it it wants a second referendum on it i think theres no chance of brakes it being reversed the brave people have spoken and thats an end of the matter they can bash their head against a brick wall although gas is a sore head while the party is launching in the u. K. Its getting advice but of course you can all hear it from helping her and coming from a manual much pauls party the republic of march with advisors said to be at a recent meeting did something about tactics and its normally one euro girl friends was like you can be like us and like many of the countries looking for a hole because it was fields there i think today july increasing you can look at the future musical and i think the movement that greece and others i believe with when you use the future you can embrace. Burring the ideas of mcewans which invited in every day people regardless of their experience in politics who knew also calls on everyone to join and those behind it hope itll work for them too we dont have much time the only way of winning is by the same miracle as michael the u. K. Electoral Commission Says there is no issue with the british part