efficient. safe. protected. controlled. a utopian city-state run like a multinational company. welcome to singapore incorporated. this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder shchlt ah la la la la sha la la la singapore. one could be forgiven for thinking it s a giant, ultramodern shopping mall. an interconnected, fully wired, air-conditioned nanny state, where everything is beautiful and nothing hurts. and those things are kind of true, especially if you read the papers or the carefully monitored internet. you look around the litterless streets where everything seems to work just fine, just fine. and you think, or you could be forgiven for thinking, gee, maybe a one-party system is just what we need. you look at all the social problems and ethnic strife, street crime, drugs that singapore has managed to avoid, and you could think, is this the life we want? it ain t my sy
And they made a big fuss about everything that i ever found. And it was because of the stage of where the plane was. If im looking at a plane thats supposed to be getting shaped and im the last person to see it, i shouldnt be finding missing fasteners, missing parts and things like that. So why were they not thanking you for picking up on these things . They just wanted the product out. They werent focused on the consequences of shipping bad fuselages. They were just focused on meeting the quotas, meeting the schedule, meeting the budget, meeting the numbers. If the numbers looked good, the state of the fuselages didnt really matter. And thats how i think the culture was driven in spirit. Throughout all this, youre picking up problems on fuselages that are being sent to boeing. Are fuselages getting through to boeing that still have flaws that have not been fixed . The whole time we were there, boeing knowingly knew that spirit was sending fuselages with many defects many, many, many o
And they made a big fuss about everything that i ever found. And it was because of the stage of where the plane was. If im looking at a plane thats supposed to be getting shaped and im the last person to see it, i shouldnt be finding missing fasteners, missing parts and things like that. So why were they not thanking you for picking up on these things . They just wanted the product out. They werent focused on the consequences of shipping bad fuselages. They were just focused on meeting the quotas, meeting the schedule, meeting the budget, meeting the numbers. If the numbers looked good, the state of the fuselages didnt really matter. And thats how i think the culture was driven in spirit. Throughout all this, youre picking up problems on fuselages that are being sent to boeing. Are fuselages getting through to boeing that still have flaws that have not been fixed . The whole time we were there, boeing knowingly knew that spirit was sending fuselages with many defects many, many, many o
They havent gone in rafah yet. If theyre going to rafah, im not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. Were going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and their ability to respond to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. Lets ta ke lets take you to the scene, looking out at gaza. You can see in the distance there, a heavy plume of smoke, a reminder that the conflict continues on. And heavy shelling has been reported in rafah in the south of the gaza strip this morning. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, told me more from jerusalem. We still havent heard from the israeli Prime Ministers office. We do have some comments in the past hour or so from the Israeli Foreign minister obliquely referring to this. Hes written on x. Theres no war more just than this. And said israel will continue to fight until hamas s destruction. Weve also had, in a characteri
Respond to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. Our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, is injerusalem. She told me more about the reaction, starting with that of israels foreign minister, israel katz. He has written on x that there is no more war just he has written on x that there is no more warjust than this and israel will continue to fight until hamas s destruction. We have also had in a characteristically quite shocking comment from the National Security minister, he has put on his x account. A mass heart biden. So there is a lot of upset here about these comments. From the us president , the us, of course, israels closest ally, and that will put pressure on this Israeli Coalition government as to what it does next, particularly with regard to rafah. And we know that there are also reports that from within the Israeli Defence establishment, a lot of concern there about what this means for such a critical relationship. And all of this as were Hearing Reports of