Russia had engaged in some kind of nefarious and effective plot to sway that twenty sixteen u. S. President ial election and that further you know he needed neutrally i think him from the big power brokers u. S. Media i mean he just in Consortium News dot com the web site that he founded almost a quarter century ago he was daily ripping into the latest. Launched propaganda from the New York Times in the Washington Post about russia and it simply made by another only a pariah but also a trailblazer he burned a lot of bridges in the process but thats what independent journalists should do and some people even try just where im going him so im going to putin useful idiot because he also different about ukraine didnt me but he fundamentally had a very different narrative about ukraine a different narrative about nato in general in terms of its expansive efforts he like anybody paying attention really saw. There was a pledge made and broken from the u. S. Government after glenn wall fell about not moving nato eastward in. Current events in that context and he frankly would not do well in other countries either in terms of power structures he would be under tremendous pressure if you were a journalist in russia you would be in prison if you were journalist in china he simply had an independent mentality that said that journalists should not be functionaries for any Political Party or any government and in the current context that made him someone who to my mind was a truth teller about the conflicts now between russia and the United States because he saw clearly that its the United States with eight hundred military bases overseas its the United States that has encroached upon and moved upon or what have traditionally been the close in border areas of russia and you know he saw that journalists 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 overseen by the Chinese Government to respond to that allegation from you norman but if one Lasting Legacy of people like you saying grady is do you think another one is the fact that the cia took such an interest in him and developed i visit 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 peak interest from the cia and certainly the opposite of admiration known zalman thank you after the break. Physicist and founder the best of all dr garrick israelian tells us why collective economic punishment to bail out the banks shouldnt be extended to Space Exploration if we want to human kind of buy on from abuse 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 all the civil coming of about going underground. In america a College Degree requires a great deal. Of. Studying so hard it requires trust to. Go through mediation to enter society. And paci sometimes quite literally. Want other true colors of universities in the us. To americans 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 a profession inhabited by hacks and the politically possessed. Welcome back with me to go through some weak stories now is the real cause of a liberal democrat or a member of parliament lembit. Interesting that the British Government of the us on decisions about twenty four hours seems to said nothing about them having to answer for that un human rights battle declaring he had been up fairly detained all the time not surprising because even yes its a small bit mini chapter in the overall problem but the song 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 and 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 to morningstar reports hapless Mark Lancaster blames erroneous drafting for tori double speak on drone kills a british drone killing as opposed to the twenty six dead in afghanistan in the first 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 outside thats the big phrase that also suspected terrorists and then government and 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 did say that the russian government would kill thousands of people in britain to talk difficult well thats all right than just all right then he doesnt say much about the next story 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 inherits thinks a setback is in store when theres tens of millions of people being threatened by british back to 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 going to lose a day 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 you when you get too big and 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 havent 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 similar looks a simpler one or is that scalia supposed thats advance 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 they were in this history professor june purvis says they were not terrorists she claims that emily implant cursed 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 militants backed by the British Government in syria arguably but 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 brit key strategist decided that more confrontational tactics were necessary well that blows the gaff 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 advocating 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 are not exactly completely free of blood is in people in hollywood will be incur. Start a violent hashtag need to movement i dont think so or right lets go to the most powerful man in the world shelly yes heres another chance not donald trump not satisfied with annoying us on other things is his latest thing 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 absolutely no news about u. Turns at roundabouts it could be something about you know going to 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 trump has now done is made him seem like a leftie now thats a pretty big achievement then meadowbank their gear well nasser is read in the news in britain this week after larry love accused of hacking was based agency was spared having to face so called u. S. Justice by the high court in london but as the annual federal commercial space conference he coughed today in the u. S. Capitol with Richard BransonsVirgin Galactic and even musk space x. Together with nasser in attendance were going to turn to another conference star was twenty nine hundred showcased in londons Royal Society in the past few days and in collaboration with the media partner r. T. This is 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 musicians one of the physicists we caught up with was the founder of strawman dr garrick is really a gag its that time of year again were in the internationally famous Royal Society in london one. A burn in switzerland for storm of twenty nineteen first ice experiment first strong to me experiment done on board polo eleven Neil Armstrong can buzz aldrin 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 weve got this letter from Neil Armstrong dated in december sixty nine two to Professor John is hes from university of been thanking him for this amazing experiment which gave more precise composition of solar abundance is isotopic about and this is of helium and several other elements there are from the scientific history behind this and of course Albert Einstein reading these important papers yeah some people calling it cold war two point zero zero three a neutral country for star yes its switzerland 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 have a science festival so we go places where the science is there some connection and connection with fifty years and adversity of apollo 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 maus. 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 is of the so its really not too many of those. But it was a challenge and it was also very interesting to see a man walking on a different planet on a definitive never happened in history and why and what happened and 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 landing is one of the themes of the twenty million is going to be how scientific elaboration may help to combat socalled fake news why they have a theme can scientists to 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 partly g. 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 memory climb a tree yes i think that to avoid those things we want to initiate them to trigger the discussion at the festival because specially the time will stare at the collective economic bullish when some would say of 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. Were 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 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 so on it doesnt mean that the money goes into stormier stars it goes to those that knowledge is and then this is applied in daily daily life so the patents and everything that you get from infrared cameras from many sensitive 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 software and all those things and then later this goes into it its just the nature of the way the science works. Lets just finally also i mean we said switzerland 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 taunt by scientifical aberration because some people would thing that was the soviet Space Program versus the Apollo Program youre taking us back to those days of war cold war for socalled. Probably the best answer was given by alex earlier on of his head that was the space based racy history of you its all the astronauts its obvious this is the best Olympic Games was much better. Because it lead to something that it was ricci redelivery games. Pure entertainment in that case we have achieved something so were studying the moon because rocks from the moon bring them well is a peugeot human. Career city is a knowledge is a knowledge and its a fundamental 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 i dont think ledger resident jones defunding the International Space station how to be these are i think rich we we do everything to to have more collaboration from Different Countries to put money to get it to build a new new instrument but not. As isis was so successful it was the best experiment again ever done a nice trick to be to the budget was hundred billion or five cents. And for many many years and he started with new station its great you have me so there you said he was a three point zero 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 but when it comes to Space Exploration no we dont want it. Thank you very much. Prof