Much better well weve got news for them change is coming thats been seen as a dire warning about Jeremy Corbyn in power will destroy Media Freedom in britain not only was he a suspected communist agent Jeremy Corbyn according to commentators interviewed on the statement a to b b c will annihilate free speech newspapers owned by those who go been defamed in that video claim that goldmans refusal to answer allegations catalyzed quiet censorship of the video on British Television so how do we get here with me is more of livingston the director of the new film belonging the truth behind the headlines more ike thanks so much for coming on before we get to the film belonging. Do you think its right for Jeremy Corbyn to threaten our leading media proprietors with democratic control im not so sure i see it so much as a threat per se in that you know our media has for a long time not necessarily reported everything in the news as we have uncovered much in the film but they have taken certain view perhaps a polemic here of the world and i think it is more hes writing that balance thats there particularly in. My understanding of his statement is that hes not increasing regulation but hes actually going to open the media up which in my view is much needed and we were right at the beginning of your film music to the National Composer to terry smith it isnt what is in the newspaper its what isnt just expanded on that so what terry was saying is is twofold one is that the newspaper editors decide what news we see and you know the differences between this program and as you mentioned the b. B. C. Can be quite vast and and one of the things that i learnt from terry particularly was to look beyond that to look at what isnt there as much as what is so for example when we finished our interview with terry i rushed home and spent the next couple of days going back through all our research trying to find out what was missing and i think in addition to that there is a lot of people are popularly calling fake news around i call people not necessarily doing their jobs properly or not being given the time to do their jobs properly you know they have to rush through stories etc so where is the impetus of checking. Those but i encourage people to look at all scoops of news and then make their own decisions and the nexus of power in your film there between the unions on the one side rising against this nexus of media government in the case of mrs thatchers government obviously during Rupert Murdochs rise to power as it were and the police. Explain how or possibly i mean i do think i remember this the b. B. C. s star war reporter kate eighty could have possibly be hospitalized were police in london fighting arguably to protect the interests of Rupert Murdoch and in the film as well terry says that they knew which night so there was going to be a. And of iraq because the police first went after the media and it wasnt just katie to show photographs in the film of the i. T. N. Crew there are reports that weve found actually the Russian Press complained to the government we couldnt quite get that into the film because it was a bit of a tangent but this was a sustained. Approach which came about partly because of a new please hand book. Just been released on. Policing in public order but also it went beyond that you know there was in my view from all the research weve done there was a sustained lack of control to the policeman on the ground they were being the Operations Room was far away you know quite a number of miles away and so there wasnt any control there and yet all the evidence stacks up that there was potentially collusion between murdoch between the government and the police in order to not as the public. View is to in should use technology but actually to reduce the power of trade unions to move then forward so they can control the news and we give an example in the film from where during the miners strike the trade union stopped the front page when i was growing up i always heard that that was because there was too much trading in power when i now look at it and when the evidence was presented to me and speaking to various people. The trade unions believed that they were holding the integrity of news to account and this is a front page of the morning as leader of the scargill doing a doing a survey hitler salute and weve seen the original copy that you know was written at the time by the editor or we believe it was by the editor and weve got the original front page that was stopped we showed that in the in the film and they put a panel in instead because the trade union stopped the front page zero obviously Rupert Murdoch i think probably today would say it was he was up for a free press thats why he fired six thousand workers that were stopping his journalists being able to print a newspaper with whatever views they wish to put forward but then ill throw that back at you and say well is there a difference between in between news and reporting the news and taking a political view and supporting the political agenda of the time that for me is the difference. Controversially or not im not sure that certain newspapers in this country should be called newspapers anymore because our the unless they are reporting the news. In the reporting things that are not factual as weve seen with the recent potentially seen recently with corben. That is to me is called into question what is a newspaper nowadays youre talking about things in a war in the brixton riots miners and so on into in twenty eighteen your phone you found it difficult although you do reveal previously on revealed information you found it difficult to get information from corporations and other departments alone the British Government i think certain certain departments surprises were great some of the information came from the home office within seven days of our request other information we got letters saying well give it to you next month give it to next month the Scottish Office centers information a couple of days after the break read into that what you will and other people point to point blank refuse particularly you know the cabinet office. Years later thirty years later yes by using those well theres two reasons one they say that i wrote the freedom of information requests wrongly for too much of a very limited information at. This the second is one of the other reasons they didnt write the wrong idea and. One of the other reasons they say is because its the formation of government policy and yet when we appealed we go information on the trade union but not on the corporation so there is an inequity in how people are are treated there. Files were also pulled from the National Archives back to the home office in regards to orgreave for example because we we did have a look at that did all grieve well mine is my right as well at all which resume is ruled out an inquiry exactly you know there are files that have been pulled back to the home office that we dont have access to except as so yes of course its curious the freedom of information act in my view needs rewritten. We do not have a transparent open and Accountable Government partly because of the freedom of information act in my personal view. Because it is a struggle to get that information and you know we got more rejections than we got here is the fight here or the files just finally in and briefly a lot of it is about smearing Union Officials and so what do you think this time or would you recall when it may have backfired for the Murdoch Press and the press and by all the barons the smearing of him being a soviet communist spy in that goldman is using it against them well i think that the overstepped the mark in that there wasnt proof as far as i understand that these things took place in fact i understand he was in chesterfield the night he was meant to bet the soviets. So yes i do think its backfired partly because of social media i am concerned about what happens next in the future because treason me when she was home secretary spoke a lot about if you dont think like close them you know youre in the realm of being in trouble with the law even if you havent broken the law. And in terms of the internet you know she her focus is also on that and if the internet hadnt been able to respond in the way it had then perhaps other news organizations wouldnt have looked into it so closely and find that there werent there was an evidence in relation to that so possibly backfired but look i thing. Well come back so unfortunately our livingston thank you thank you very much after the break the chair of the British Association of social workers tells this program that austerity is causing provision in britain for young families to collapse than fifty two years since the first launch of the Apollo Program we speak to the first briton in space Helen Schucman told us of all coming up in part two of going underground. Fifty years ago breaking within two cons again as a sleeping pill does this is what i mean because i just does what he said just the scientific sweat terrible but not on the road as shown in dutch one football love more to hear not the war gamble good luck across europe victims are starting legal battles demanding at least some compensation in something in two ways first will the physical damage itself as well that the concert mind that the people who actually perpetrated this crime has never been the justice and theres been a couple of. Hey everybody im stephen paul russian the task collingwood guy will suspect every proud american first of all im just George Washington and r. V. To say this is my buddy max famous financial guru well just a little bit different im not. Going to find no no no no the up with all the drama happening in our country im shooting the road have some fun meet Everyday Americans norm coleman and hopefully start to bridge the gap this is the Great American people which. Welcome back we heard in part one from or a glowing stone about historic allegations of the destruction of trade unions by the collusion of government the police and the media and that was before the current western economic crisis triggered by the twenty eight crash joining me now is guy shannon the chair of the British Association of social workers the largest professional association for social work in the u. K. On the sixth of march hell be joining others fighting austerity cuts at a meeting in london to galvanize support for what some argue is collective economic punishment thanks so much guys for coming on what about this meeting on the sixth of march what are you hoping to achieve while the meeting in the six months is actually part of a campaign at the sprung into life in the past year or so has been organized. And started by the British Association of social workers together with the social worker union in alliance with a whole range of other organizations just explain that theres a union and theres a professional association pressures associations historically have been much less keen to get involved in politics sometimes even affiliated with the conservative government that might be the case with the but shes association a social workers created a trade union. Several years ago which is now an independent trade Union Associated with the professional association and we work very closely together in fact the social Workers Union is i believe the Fastest Growing union in the country at the moment what have the a story started cuts meant for your members. Well what the cuts are meant for our members is we cant do the job that we want to do properly really. And that has a terrible impact on the people that we are here to serve i think its well documented well known that stare at a affects people in poverty affects the poorest people in society more than other groups and social workers by and large the majority of our Service Users are people who are suffering from poverty so sterrett is actually affecting the work of social workers every day and in a whole range of ways this drill the one specific problem as your members may perceive it i mean theres been a closure of more than five hundred Children Centers is that how does that have a knock on effect on the work of your members not only enormous effect and thats part of a want a picture of cuts in Family Support services i mean thats thats a huge loss to lose five hundred five hundred Children Centers in since two thousand and ten and social workers need to have Available Support Services such as to consensus to work alongside to to refer parents onto and to be part of the care and support the social workers coordinate an offer to for there to say that provision in britain for young families has collapsed as some of its i think is collapsing it is collapsing in many areas and i understand that your members also had to take the slack after the government introduced disability testing what is the overwhelming view of your members about the Work Capability assessments which have been very controversial of course well im not im not i dont know about a poll of our members but i there is widespread. Disquiet dismay about the the use of they were capless us mint i mean many people who wanted at least reformed or even scraps i suppose youre going to say that your members are all to reporting an uptick in the number of Mental Health. Cases that they have to deal with the government says its doing more for Mental Health problems in this country than any other previous government im not sure what the government saying about it but we know that Mental Health services. The limits i mean one one important part of the campaign that weve launched is to give a voice to Service Users to collect stories realize stories of the impact of austerity and if i may if i could just. As an article here which is got a collection of stories in it and i want to read out the words of jane whos a survivor of Mental Health difficulties who said recent cuts understand the measures me that after decades of crucial secondary Mental HealthServices Support i have not been discharged i had at least initially some on line guided support via something called big white wall but even this is now being withdrawn after i reach my free six month usage limit the harsh reality as i enter old age is that i have no support to keep me well now except for the samaritans seems to me in twenty First Century britain with the the wealth that we have as a country that that situation shouldnt be allowed to be the case what are your members saying when say sanctions are brought in at welfare offices in this country do they do they see people coming to them i mean before hopefully they have to see n. G. O. S like the samaritans they do yes they do and they have to send people off to food banks so we had experience with this when we were the company in that the meeting on the six a much is part of really kicked off by a hundred miles notice what we did last year from birmingham to remove you walked the three one hundred s. I did. Many of the social workers and supporters. We met the coordinator of the food bank can run kona he told us about you know the queues that they have their food banks we met a number of people around fairbanks happened. So what our members say and hear about is parents that theyre working with. Having to spend some of that time tested for food killing for food banks see the government again and again say obviously theyre trying their best but stay on the carrot and stick approach to welfare sanctions the government say the sanctions are only used when someone failed to meet requirements without good reason this in a minority of cases people are given every opportunity to explain why they failed to do so before a decision is made and there have been some celebrations of the increased Food Bank Use as a show of the Big Society David camerons old for it i think anyone thats actually had experience of food banks and. Anyone whos watched the film i dont feel blake for example which was a graphic depiction of what using food banks islamic couldnt possibly cite i think thats a comment by someone thats removed from from the actual reality of search of such charitable provision i mean its it to be reduced in the twenty First Century to to people to not start of the children to not start of to have to be reliant on charity which is simply in the gift of people it might be given it might not be as opposed to benefits or provision the people receive is a right that seems to me a terrible state of affairs and they should add you said your union may be getting most of corruptions any other how can a Union Association like yours help to be the sort of vanguard of this movement against austerity well it can help in several ways i mean it can launch the campaign that we have that were talking about here in this interview. Its crucial to act collectively social workers cant absentee on their own youre frightened of being demonized by the press i suspect we should be supported by the press for taking such action. For speaking up on behalf of Service Users people the poorest in society to say that to say that people should be treated more fairly this should be social. This consummation and iraq thinking newspaper would think differently than that gosh other thank you well for a vigorous sterrett in the u. K. To class war in space now fifty two years of their first Apollo Program saturn test flight we caught up with britains first astronauts in space Helen Sharman written out of some subsequent there it is arguably because of russian involvement sherman spoke to me at londons Royal SocietyHelen Sharman illegibility goes back to theres a strap blame for the program that youre both of us are all wanted no experience and as. There might be im a scientist and i was working in industry and driving my car home from work and i actually heard a radio ad that asked wanted no experience necessary and actually it was a chance i had never thought would happen to somebody like me but britain had decided to take part in the soviet Space Program send a british astronaut it wasnt the taxpayer funded but a company was set up to to manage the mission supported by the government but not funded by the government although there was only geo political about it too was also partially to foster better london more secure relations well i think that that wasnt why it was set up in the subject space agency this is back in one thousand eight is realised that they could actually sell a seat on the soyuz spacecraft so they could get its a nice hard foreign currency by sending other astronauts from other countries and a very similar way that sent cosmonauts from mrs comegys friendly countries in previous years and theyve been a bit of a low in this International Collaboration and now that they realize they could they could do it again but this time instead of it being political reasons they could just make it for financial reasons britain then one thousand nine hundred ninety sided that it was going to continue its stance of not funding human spaceflight but thinking that it was a good idea partly because of course it would Cost International relations with. Between britain and the soviet union that they would support it its long as it wasnt funded by the taxpayer so it was great for me because i got the chance to good patch road Space Program you have been speaking about the fact that we know more about the Apollo Program really and were coming up to a big anniversary in twenty million team of Neil Armstrong moon landing important was the soviet Space Program i think a lot of people. Know who is you regarding people never heard of the first person ever in space people often dont remember because the nasa p. R. Machine was fabulous and its still very good the soviet p. R. Machine was much more low key so i think its great that we have had the communication about about the Apollo Missions and so much else that nasa does but i think also sometimes its nice to redress the balance a little bit just to remind people that the only people to go into space havent been americans or have been others and some great first great achievements of happened by other countries in particular the soviet union because so many people were wonder whether you did go to space because major tim peak was the first u. K. Astronauts both what you could find on the internet well this is quite interesting is how will you feel of course was the first british just wrote the first u. K. Astronaut the first briton in space however you want to write it and. Tim mission was once it was decided he was actually going to fly the u. K. Space agency did rather think that it could perhaps make it into a better p. R. Exercise if they called him the first british astronaut and so thats what they decided to do in case it was the first british just draws a commonweal is that they thought that people might just forget that there had been one already but ive had a lot of support since that you gave him advice i would say to every astronaut. Loves looking out of the window and i think take on Short Missions which i know to my. A bit of a long mission a night it is quite a few months he was in space but we often so keen to do a good job and to repeat the experiment and communicate with Mission Control and to do the best that you possibly can that we often forget sometimes just to take a look out of that window and enjoy the view so yes that was my message to tell even some will not agree with you though about the p. R. Given that theyve been trying to make representations to the waiters donald trump is one leaked paper looks set to cancel the u. S. Contribution to the space station what do you think of that if it indeed if it indeed comes to pass so i think ultimately ultimately in the years to come this is the way that Space Missions will go anyway as we have aircraft now that a society funded by the taxpayer will have spacecraft that arent commercialism in space is rapidly going the mental and the dangers that theyre dangerous potentially in terms of health and safety and in terms of regulation environmental regulation that say that wants those space debris around the world we dont want to pollute other planets if companies are going to go there so the some elements we have to conscious of but actually i think its a jolly good thing also mentally it makes absolute sense for lets say the International Space station to be much more commercial and for the taxpayer then to be funding other missions that yet companies dont want to do because some would say the reason why governments are defunding it is not only the banking crisis is the failure of science communication and the failure to explain why programs such as ones you were on a recent programs are so important to society at large what about the state of science communication i think no science communication is better than his it has been for decades actually spaces help because it had a few really great high profile events with landed on the comet weve been to jupiter we can see further and better with hubble than weve seen before with fantastic images we get and also we are. Both reflect on that as a human race and what that means our place in the universe so its more than just the sun something that spins it towards a knife so well thats really great because certainly in britain people still in the media seem to be proud of ignorance. Is this divide still all pervasive here in britain its Getting Better but yes youre right there is there is an element of the idea that some by some people that is cool not to understand science you never say i dont understand shakespeare that would be a definite no no but its sad to the same math so i cant do chemistry that is apparent in ok thing to say so that we need to turn around a lot of people have a lot of opportunities now that never never work on gentlemen thank you. 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