a visit to china today will it be the other way around because apparently there were problems of its founder no i would actually think that he will have. i mean you know two of the people go i mean i think he's a very decent guy as a matter of fact and i think he also is a great believer of the national interest and i think he will do all he can to help around to help the country but how he's looking to raise a may negotiate with leaders within the chinese communist party if some people reporting that overeating please point to be a correct decision a major is a major delay that chinese investment into that and it's being accused of not fully endorsing the belt and silk road initiative nothing two hundred billion dollars of infrastructure projects in europe and africa by the chinese communist party and there she is appearing in beijing trying to say look i think i'm very i mean bluntly they can talk about it and she can tell them what we can afford and what we can't afford i mean my perception is that the u.k. has by and large supported that project where. hasn't particularly we don't have bottomless pockets and in terms of hanky point it certainly i think needed some looking at it from the chinese perspective as well i think that you are doing what the media is doing trying to stir up negatives the whole time and hide the good news and. but i want to say this that the brits have been educated by the british media to think the trunk was a complete and had to be removed as soon as possible having actually seen him on t.v. over the weekend they suddenly realize that he's already achieved a great deal and that he's got some enormous positives and i actually think that he and the reason may have the ability to have a pawnshop somewhat analogous to reagan and thatcher well just finally and briefly how quickly do you think that that british media you're told you know we'll just swing around to realizing what china is going to be one of the big allies of both brics it britain well i think. the baddy no no i think you're right i think it's on its way already basically and everyone news the chinese economy is huge and it's going to be a major is a major potential market for us and stupid and i think everyone will be extremely pleased that the reason my government's going to go off its back side is out there marketing interesting u.k. product thank you after the break we ask for your advisor in kabul. if the recent spate of islamist atrocities in the afghan capital can be connected to u.s. president trump. on us. i'm going to use the council in britain creating a benchmark for hiding the whole mess the grammys are dumped. on the north of new zealand told us it will go to them going underground. apply for many. so i know the game and. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch or the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money. and spending to the twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful game great so one more chance with. the currency market itself is still on track to eclipse the global banking. which is what we need what we want and i've always said it's a bank circular that's the primary use of bed going. welcome back to go through some of the stories now is the broadcaster of a liberal democrat member of parliament lembit opaque and you've got to have guts i had to run out during the break to get a haircut anyway i think of dollar drops or piers morgan state of the union address very impressed. by the anyone who loves them both think it was great people who don't like him can you see poke holes in it you could see him really trying to be a statesman not his poetic maybe is the one about the midwest and. i can give you examples but you probably don't want to one thing is he showed great failures of leadership in firing the deputy director of the f.b.i. when he fired james komi given that he knew because he'd been tweeting about it that mccabe's wife received maybe seven hundred k. from hillary clinton the second the headline here from a.b.c. f.b.i. deputy director under mccain's departure a case of curious timing don't make assumptions it's not definite that he's been pushed out he's been bullied i think everyone knows this removed from office. well one thousand days early from his retirement it does look that way but it's not definite as you say you don't think he should have been removed for his political affiliation it is a bit curious and i think we wouldn't really accept it in the united kingdom if somebody in his position had a wife who was trying to only seven hundred thousand dollars we have is that it's not even the money it's not even the money it's such a clear association with a political party because she was standing as a democrat i don't believe in the separation of judiciary and legislature and the executive in the united center in an example of any just as we live in britain where it's all tourism a doesn't mean to say that example of any f.b.i. has another close relationship good or bad with the american president you can't hoover great whatever that gets the f.b.i. involved with the cia definitely in the ten u.s. air bases up and down the country here in britain now we can find out about the secret ones here in britain it's a beautiful thing this the guardian reports fitness tracking out strong because the way location of secret u.s. army bases the law of unintended consequences now there are trillions of records in this struggle running all of fitness i don't use it i don't need to my body is already my temple but so i say what other fitness applications are available but maybe not for this if you want to know where the u.s. army bases are in order to do is look at the why because there are repeated cycles in places like afghanistan and and syria those places indicate that army personnel and it's mainly foreign personnel who use this up are running in repeated cycles it's better than if you look at it in detail you can even see the layout of the secret bases because of the way they move around there now it's a bit about how mistaken spirity the air is this is a good one for conspiracy theories showing how incompetent the largest military force on earth is or the other hand they deliberately want to sleep in because they actually put their faces somewhere else. about conspiracy theories whatever the case the u.s. military has he's been killing more so under obama than from thousands of people using drones women dying because of drones it was great to see women casualties of u.s. was brought up at the grammys on sunday night well let's actually there were no they brought up at all more about sexual things go to billboard be the bit ironic there are billboard reports what really happened grammys organizers address on the representation of women lords live now lord isn't a day or t. lord is a famous new zealand singer and she was the only female in her category to be nominated because the men were better well so we're going to get a lot of letters about that this is not the real story here is it lord unlike some of the other people who actually won i think canceled her concert in tel aviv as part of the seemingly as part of the media's movement do you think hopelessly pro israel grammys would ever countenance hearing the lord your being a conspiracy theorist i wouldn't say the evidence is necessarily there for that it's like two stories and one here you are right she has canceled performances and it's obvious that she's done it due to pressure with. groups but to conflate the two maybe it's true but then why are ninety one percent of the not ok it's just. friendly male and not that so there are two questions you heard any of the lyrics of these rap songs by kendrick lamar and you're obviously much more bruno mars i'm not going to i can't actually i can actually see somebody actually on this show but he certainly has an interesting view of women anyway spain is obviously still imprisoning its elected politicians typical your good g.d.p. figures though and philip hammond always says how brilliant the economy is going regardless of all those bricks and not since some people refuse to take part in the brilliant british economy but one count. tory council has a solution that's a big stretch of a link there are some but we got there in the end there's swank box or squad box i think that's a small bore no squire. you're right tory council solution the town center rough sleepers is really a no dutiful idea they don't like the fact that rough sleepers the homeless are sleeping on park benches so what do they do numbers of room of reason exponentially under duress may not exponentially is technically wrong but it is a direct call dog really going to say you're getting closer what they've done is instead of having a straight bench you can lie on they're putting something into a little piece of metal so it's hard to sleep electrified not yet but i think you probably sneak in behind it could stop you from falling off the bench so it might not be completely effective but what a wonderful thing to do to stop the run a civilized country well this way they can hide the homeless from the gentle eyes or of the local population i think is probably not the simplest solution either because frankly jeremy corwin's it found and for them that's a crazy idea that was so much more expensive than doing this though there were a big thank you. well for the first time in the longest war in u.s. history arguably also british history the pentagon has restricted data on the taliban's presence in afghanistan while donald trump u. turns in favor of u.s. deep state trooper escalation and drone attacks on a country where near daily terror attacks killed and injured civilians in hospitals hotels and charities should nato be looking to china for peace in afghanistan joining me now is dr lucy morgan edwards she was political advisor to the ambassador in kabul during her seven years in afghanistan she worked for the international crisis group on the u.n. in kandahar during the taliban rule she's also the author of the afghan solution the inside story of jewel hugged the cia and how western who risk lost afghanistan is he thanks so much for going back on the show in person so how much karzai former president of afghanistan actually told this show that. he was good riddance to u.s. government collusion the de facto collusion with the u.s. military helicopters in jalalabad and islam is isis day is the us or u.k. now implicated in the present spate of carnage this is what former u.s. intelligence agents philip giraldi and robert david steele are saying they're saying the u.s. is actually armed trained and financed isis and i've heard similar similar stories from jalalabad about that the u.s. is now to put in operation phoenix which is what they were doing in vietnam which is sort of kill lists and going into villages and and killing killing large groups of people and one of my interlocutors in jalalabad said well it's very clear where the i.r.s. bases are taliban bases they have flags flying above them why doesn't the u.s. just go in and take out the bases and instead they're going in and taking out villages who have got nothing to do with this so it's quite bizarre what's going on bizarre or or or something else i mean donald trump some would say and he's been giving his state of the union about twenty four hours partly elected because he was going to signal a change in policy away from the hillary clinton's and barack obama's appalled early u. turns and decide what do you think of the sudden you turn on afghanistan by many in his campaign he was always quite close to the military and fairly skeptical about the intelligence side of things so it wasn't very surprising when last september he announced that he was going to subcontract more power to the military to oversee operations without oversight from washington and he was essentially going to escalate and we increased troop numbers under him of course we've had this mother of all bombs that was set off last april in the east of afghanistan as well so it seems as though there yes much less control of course in these mass casualty events in which sort of iraq style horrific events with hundreds of people being killed and that calls into question. what's going. you know we were told this was a war about democracy and women's rights and to get rid of the taliban because they were responsible for nine eleven but i think dr abdullah called this a state sponsored event always is that there's a state intelligence agency involved in the latest bomb attack in kabul which she also called a walk in lines pakistan well does he mean pakistan does he mean saudi arabia i mean some some of these former u.s. cia chaps are saying actually this is this is israeli and saudi sponsored terrorism funded by the united states so the question is is this really about the taliban or is this about something much larger and more geo strategic because it's going to be really difficult to get evidence for any of those three governments but then we have donald trump saying we will not negotiate with the taliban the war with the taliban will be won on the battlefield as someone who lived. with around the taliban for years what do you make of daughter i'm saying that i think it's a huge distraction really the taliban i mean how much space to they control essentially i think what's going on in afghanistan is a huge looting exercise by nato it's all about the deep state it's all about off the books revenue is about the drugs trade it's about rare earths which apparently very good the tech industry in california and lithium apparently it's all about strategic control in the region and you've got china with with the new south wales joining they're going to sit back and because i mean people have been saying that there's been visibly more evidence of chinese investment how wrong is huge in bringing us that resumes over there right there how are they going to just sit back and watch all their investments go up in flames well i think you know you have to also see who is benefiting from these mass casualty event i mean essentially what it means is that kabul is going to be emptied of westerners there's not going to be anyone there to to witness what is on folding in afghanistan it's also going to mean it's very difficult for afghanistan to integrate into this new. road projects and the idea that economic development can bring peace so really i think when asked we have to see it differently and try to see who's benefiting also the military industrial complex of course benefiting this idea that we go in there to train the afghan army and then sell weapons to them at the same time. we need to start looking at this in a very different way rather than the sort of manichean black and white taliban and democracy and women's rights angle and amidst all of this it is to be expected that the congressionally mandated information from the u.s. special inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction should suddenly stop for the first time withholding information about what is going on in afghanistan to the u.s. public cigar is quite quite bizarre i mean they they have been the only sort of element of oversight that we're getting on the the impute amount of money that's been spent on infrastructure projects that never seem to appear so it's very bizarre that the americans are classifying this information and classified information on. so-called taliban takeover of provinces and police killed an american soldiers killed but of course already there are so many private contractors involved now that we don't have that information anyway on who has been killed or who's been injured of foreign troops and of course the afghans very little information about about who is dying and who's on a kill list and who's really a terrorist and who's a civilian it's all getting increasingly murky. was i said i was going to return to the drug question i'm not off the back of what you just said anything like cointelpro but what is the effect for heroin distribution on e.u. streets on british streets of the new u.s. policy or the new new old us pretty well i mean i've just spent three years living in new york and apparently the effect of of this is huge in new england and yet it's not being reported by the mainstream media i was driving through vermont up to canada year ago and the local newspaper was talking about the problem in the village with a number. syringes on the main street but you don't see this in the mainstream media as being a huge problem young americans and people here are dying off from the use of opiates and huge problems with that if you will get edwards thank you that's it for the show will be back of south asia review today's u.k. prime minister's questions it isn't resume though at the dispatch box because he's in china and you know what you gave me three media might have expected everyplace but they've been taken we small boris johnson you can keep in contact with us by social media we'll see you on saturday eighty eight years to the day of the founding of the vietnamese communist party of british. how much of. this little bundle of joy would have no chance of surviving in the wild mother pandas can only win one cup at a time but usually give birth to. every year china puts a lot of effort into making up for this cruel mistake of nature. china's panda breeding has become something of a production line. it's almost as though they've been copied three d. printed and put on show for the public. several cubs are born here each year. but only left work by dedicated scientists will be for nothing if panda love can't be encouraged in captivity it's not as though they don't practice at all but in the same lazy way they do everything else with this proud mummy gave birth to twins and has no idea that a special love potion was formulated just for the. the b.b.c. is accused of bias the u.k.'s house of lords questions the corporation's briggs's coverage following the release of damning reports we hear from one of the authors. i think it's pretty poor that a public broadcaster skewed some pilots so dramatically in this direction of political issue but on. trumpets court saying that he'll definitely release the contents of a controversial classified memo alleging abuse of surveillance powers by the f.b.i. . the troops. that were rounded. up. and israel is to new zealanders who allegedly convinced the pop star lord to cancel hotel of his concert. great to have you with us this evening my name is neil harvey this is artie international. the b.b.c. has been accused of bias in this brigs it coverage with the majority of its guests said to hold a pro e.u. stance now that is according to several recent reports which have prompted anger in britain's house of lords. for it is a pretty much become the supporter over for organizing. for your. to mr to the dude who said to me recently that his job in brussels is move even more difficult because every time he makes a small advance for his problems of mind for the future you see. two in order because you do have a duty of impartiality. the report was by an organization called civic tasm a amusingly called it the brussels broadcasting corporation and they found that over a long time period ten years up to two thousand and fifteen out of more than four thousand guests who were asked to speak about the european union just a tiny fraction of one hundred thirty two of them were in favor of this but today's report is from the institute of economic affairs and it allows two of the b.b.c.'s key panel political shows if you like so question time and any questions and they found that out of six hundred panelists who were invited over the last eighteen months two thirds of them supported remaining in the european union with just a third of them supporting bracks it not only that but if you recategorized the people who did support remaining in the european union but are now implementing it inside the government you'd still have a sixty forty split against bracks it here's a little bit of what they're talking about the leave vote has left us with a group of leaders who having lit the fire of all runaway brakes it is a historic mistake for us with it it breaks my heart lying in bed at night worrying about the outcomes of once again i'm the sole lever on the b.b.c. panel the b.b.c. has sent us a statement responding to this latest i.e. a report it says that these programs are not single issue programs and also that it doesn't just. by politicians it invites commentators and pete leading figures from across the life spectrum in this country it also says the b.b.c. is no longer reporting on this binary choice leave or remain which the electorate faced in the referendum they're now giving the public the opportunity to hold politicians to account over the way that they're implementing bracks it. and the editorial guidelines of the corporation however so that it must be inclusive and reflect the diversity of opinions you spoke to mark littlewood story to general of the institute of economic affairs which is behind one of the reports on the b.b.c.'s coverage. but it's true that we are no longer in a referendum period and it is true as the b.b.c. said in a statement they are focused you with but it's no longer a binary choice but the problem is this although there are a wide range of choices do we leave without a day old do we stay in with a transitional period do we stay in the single market do we stay in the customs union and if so for how long well there are now wide range of options really those range of options are subsets of the remaining camp and belief cap i think is pretty poor that a public broadcaster is skewed that gets some panelists so dramatically in this direction on the top political issue of the top teams. in general in britain the stagnation figures famous figures an influential people have tended to be in favor of a you membership it's more the ordinary man or woman who rebelled against the political stabber sometimes believe side it seems to be the balancing act for people's views on breakfast and making sure you had a fair share of voice from babies in the school and for the argument to be a very very high priority indeed. i think the politicians on the leave side of the argument those who are in favor of projects that are beginning to lose their license with the b.b.c. at the b.b.c. would argue that the boys take back the riverside people in the center right by in the center left people in the center left like the center right and if you are taking sort of equal amount of flak criticism from all sides of the fight for perhaps back to sign that you have got talent but i would say that the b.b.c. now should be concerned but there are politicians here with the right in the british parliament in the house of lords genuine concern about whether the baby so you really can be considered a neutral broadcaster one that doesn't just show and tell you versatile your views but a proper balance and if the b.b.c. starts to lose the faith of politicians and the public in that key question of neutrality then i think over the longer term i have a great deal of problem justifying their present funding and possibly even the present basis of their existence. contacted various unions and organizations that represent journalists for their reaction for now we've only had a response from the o.s.c. which refused to comment we'll bring you further replies when and if we receive them. from. the white house says that it plans to release a controversial classified memo allegedly detailing abuse of surveillance powers by the f.b.i. you know what comes after donald trump was caught on a hot mike saying the same he was leaving the chamber after his state of the union address. was released. under. the right. it's claimed the document reveals the f.b.i.'s abuse of the foreign intelligence surveillance act particularly with regard to the claims found in the infamous trump dossier if confirmed it could damage the reputation of the agency and the ongoing investigation into trump's alleged links to russia the memo was drafted by the chairman of the u.s. house intelligence committee with senators voting on monday to make it public some of the committee members who read it of called it absolutely shocking and worse than watergate president trump has until friday to decide whether to release it and harris quickly chairman of the conservative think tank the bow group believes the memo could reveal the f.b.i. has been acting with bias and that it tried to influence the outcome of the u.s. election people ready seen a lot of evidence of this sort of thing of security services collusion and abuse of state power in order to effect a political bias or to operate with those all biased in order to affect a certain outcome the f.b.i. which is supposed to be an agency in the united states that is beyond corruption beyond bias and operates with a completely straight bat i think if it is discovered that the f.b.i. has been using the great powers of surveillance and state intervention towards influencing political outcomes i think that may represent the next essential threat to the organization of the f.b.i. itself and it was very difficult to see how the f.b.i. could continue to do that if it's turns out that they've been operating with a bias. the reaction to transfer state of the union address was mixed from then to give a shit through to booze can was following the speech. on foreign policy there was plenty of american exceptionalism mixed with platitudes and clichés he introduced the subject by naming every so-called threat to the u.s. but in general it was all pretty vague he didn't go into detail explaining how he would accomplish any of these goals but beyond that trump took credit for eliminating isis and he seemed to have hinted at continued military presence in the region saying quote we will continue our fight until isis has defeated he ended it with north korea calling it the worst of all dictatorships warning that their pursuit of nuclear weapons could very soon threaten our homeland even though d p r k has never attacked another country before north korea's reckless pursuit of nuclear missiles could very soon threaten our homeland past experience has taught us that complacency and concessions only invite aggression and provocation i will not repeat the mistakes of past administrations that got us into this very dangerous position while russia and china have been trying to reduce tensions between the u.s. and north korea and they even called on the u.s. to not provoke them anymore but somehow they were designated as threats and from speech around the world we face rogue regimes terrorist groups and rivals like china and russia that challenge our interests our economy and of advice in confronting these horrible dangers we know that weakness is the surest path to conflict and matched power is the surest means to our true and great defects i was just a watching mainstream coverage earlier in the only criticism big had wellies foreign policy wise was that he was apparently too soft on russia and you know the united states requires to have major enemies to justify the seven hundred billion dollar defense budget which is actually one point one trillion if you break it down so these are all and.