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UK Column News - 21st January 2026 · UK Column Radio

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Good afternoon. It's Wednesday the 21st of
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January 2026, just after 1:00. Welcome to UK Call News.
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I'm your host, Mike Robinson, and joining me by video link
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today are Charles Mallett and Vanessa Bailey.
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Welcome to the program both. Now, later in the program,
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Vanessa is going to be taking a look at the behaviour of
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mainstream media here in the UK and also looking at the
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situation with Venezuela's oil. Charles is going to be reporting
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on defections to reform and EU KS conscription agenda.
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And I'm going to be taking a look at Tony Blair, I mean,
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Trump's new Board of peace. But we're going to begin today,
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of course, with Davos because as Ben reported it on Monday, Davos
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is now now in full swing and Trump has now arrived, despite
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the fact that apparently they had to turn back because of
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technical problems with the airplane.
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But of course, he's not the only important person there because
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another key person as Co chair is Blackrock's Larry Fink.
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Let's just have a listen to what he said.
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But also places like Detroit and Dublin or cities like Jakarta or
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Buenos Aires, we need the mountain to visit everyone, to
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be a part of everyone's life. So in fact, that's why I agreed
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to take on this role after Klaus Schwab, who's more than 1/2
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century of work together with an extraordinary dedicated group of
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men and women at the World Economic Forum, made this
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gathering possible. There was an opportunity to make
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this forum more transparent. And I thought this was the
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surest way to rebuild trust when people and can see in the room
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about the debates, about the participation and about the
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conversations and maybe a lot more understanding that approach
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may fail in other gatherings. And this one, it's going to work
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because for all the caricatures of this forum, the people come
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here. The people I know aren't here to
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congratulate themselves, aren't here to pat themselves on the
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back. They're not here to protect
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their own comforts. The people I know are here for
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something bigger than themselves, bigger than their
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organizations that they represent.
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Charles that would be Satan or something, would it?
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Exactly. Or where he was going with that.
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And I'm not sure it's that much more reassuring to be able to
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hear what it is that they are talking about.
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Yeah, indeed. Well, well, look, of course he
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is a major participant this year as Co chair and he will in fact
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be chairing the session with Trump later on.
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But if we just look at this graphic here, he had five
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sessions and he was chairing yesterday, another three today.
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Undoubtedly he'll have more to do as well.
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So the the session with Trump begins at about 3:30 this
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afternoon. Now Politico then was
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interviewing Borgia Brenda, the president and CEO of the World
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Economic Forum. And they reported that Brenda
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spent a lot of time over the last year working to get Donald
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Trump to attend. And they quote him as saying,
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post Davos. Last year, I started with
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discussions with the White House and also coordinating with Chief
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of Staff Susie Wiles. I also visited DC in early
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December in meetings in the White House, but also with
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different cabinet secretaries. And now we're in the situation
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where Trump is coming and we also have five key cabinet
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secretaries. There'll be a broad footprint of
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the US and Davos. So there's they simply trying to
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reinvent themselves instead of the, the the past few years
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types of topics like global warming, Paris agreement,
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sustainable development goals, so on.
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It's now Trump and MAGA and so on.
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And they quote Mike Rubino, who's a former Trump
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administrator and administration official, sorry, in the in the
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political report there, he works for Forward Global and Ballard
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partners. Now he said that stuff, global
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warming and so on has gone out of fashion.
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But he was also, by the way, talking about Ukraine in that
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comment. So Ukraine is apparently out of
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fashion as well, which is perhaps why Zelensky has decided
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not to attend. So he's abandoned trying to make
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the excuse that Ukraine's critical energy situation is the
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reason. Well, besides MAGA and so on,
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the traditional Davos billionaires are there, of
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course, but also the new billionaire class, the AI crowd.
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So Politico reported that Jensen Huang, that particular session
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also chaired by Larry Fink, by the way, He's of course the boss
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at NVIDIA and other people from Microsoft, Meta, Palantir,
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Anthropic, Open AI, they're all there.
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They're all holding meetings. They're also JP Morgan, Goldman
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Sachs, BlackRock, Salesforce, these types.
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But one person that isn't there is Iran's foreign minister who
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posted this on X, Except of course I can't show you what he
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posted on X because the Online Safety Act means that due to
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local laws, laws we are temporally restricting access to
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this content until X estimates. It's your age.
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So I can't show you what he said.
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I can just tell you what he said.
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He said WEF cancelled my appearance in Davos on the basis
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of lies and political pressure from Israel and it's US based
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proxies and apologists. And he said that he accused the
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WEFF of having blatant double standards because it had never
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stopped any Israel Israeli official from participating,
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even at when the the worst of what was going on in Gaza was
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going on. He also put out a video, by the
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way, showing some of the organised rioters and during the
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recent uprising in Iran. But The upshot then of of Davos
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this year may be their attempts to make it more relevant.
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And we've we've got to decide for ourselves whether it
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actually is. I suspect the answer to that is
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no in most people's minds. We're of course going to
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continue to watch closely and report more on this, but there
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is a lot going on there. So we'll, we'll keep you posted,
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but let's close this segment with a little comedy because I'm
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sure everyone has seen seen this by now.
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But my question is, did Brigitte give Emmanuel another smack in
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the face? He says that the sunglasses were
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there to cover up a minor eye infection.
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And that may well be true. But nonetheless, the memes are
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already doing the rounds. And bearing in mind the number
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of transhumanists that are attending this year, perhaps
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this one is close, as close to the truth as is possible to get.
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So there we go, a quick round up of Davos.
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We're going to be talking a lot more about Davos in in Extra,
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but any brief thoughts, Charles? Well, in actual fact, it does
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pertain very closely to what I'm going to go on and talk about.
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But I think I think the something I'll come back to is
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this idea that the the sort of the focus might be changing and
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that people who have vested interests might genuinely be
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thinking about changing direction.
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And that and that I think it's it's very hard to get to a point
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where that makes any sense at all.
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So with that in mind, and also with the idea that Zelensky has
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taken a, well, not actually a seat at all, I was going to say
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a back seat, but that he's not there.
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There is this struggle to re energize the Ukraine situation.
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And with all these things being connected, it's no coincidence.
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I wouldn't say that the Ministry of Defence has recently put out
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a tweet from Defence Intelligence suggesting that the
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situation as it stands is that the text will be underlined.
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Of course, the illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine
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is continuing, but there seems to be little doubt that in
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putting out this tweet they really are seeking to just keep
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this in people's minds. Of course, we've had a lot of
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propaganda surrounding the Coalition of the Willing, but
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not necessarily able, and there are many overtures being made
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about the prospect of a looming war.
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Now, I've just shown a map and I'm going to show another one
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now because this goes back to July 1940 and has been reprinted
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in an article published by the University of Portsmouth written
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by Daffy Townley, in which he refers back to the 1930s and the
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technocrats, sometimes also called Technocracy Inc.
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And they propose merging Canada, Greenland, Mexico, the US, and
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parts of Central America into a single continental unit.
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Now I'm not going to go into detail on that because I know
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Mike will later in the program, but I think it's very
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significant to point that out. And just to go on this, they
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called technique. It was to be governed by a
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technocratic principles rather than by national borders and
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traditional political divisions. Just at this point, Mike, I
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wonder what your view of that is, particularly given what
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you've just been talking about with with Larry Fink's comments
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in Davos? Well, not only that, but what
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we're going to talk about later in the programme with the Board
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of Peace and also at the very end of the programme with, with,
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sorry, Greenland now and during extra, actually, we'll probably
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be talking a little bit about the comments from Mark Carney,
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who suddenly seems to be getting very nervous about the fact that
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Canada is being encircled. And I I think you know that what
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you've just shown on screen is the intended outcome of this
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whole process. Absolutely it is.
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And of course, what we mustn't forget is that this is very much
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joined up and has been, well, it's certainly been running
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since 2022 when Russia didn't first make its incursion into
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Ukraine. And of course, this idea that we
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must mobilize and be be ready for war to take on a whole of
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society approach, essentially nudging people towards
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conscription. And so on that note, just going
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to go through through a few recent press releases from the
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MOD, one of which is that they're saying there's going to
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be a major boost to the pool of skilled former military
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personnel who can be called upon in crises as the UK strengthens
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its preparedness. Now, what are they talking about
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here? They're saying that they're
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taking decisive action to boost readiness and deliver on the
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first duty of government to keep its citizens safe.
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Well, the first duty of government really should be to
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protect the powerless from the powerful.
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But we're so used to having it misquoted, I suppose we just let
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it go. They are going to increase the
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maximum age for calling up reservists from 55 to 65.
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They're going to align the time for which recall applies across
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all three services so that everybody will be subject to the
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same conditions. And critically, they're going to
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lower the threshold recall so that reservists can be recalled
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for warlike preparations in addition to the current
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requirement for national danger, great emergency or attack on the
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UK. Now I've spoken about this quite
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some length before and this is very, very close to a lot of
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what was being done in certainly the earliest stages in the First
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World War and indeed in 1939 as the country prepared to enter
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into a full scale conflict. Now the next press release which
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concerns the how is how are we going to do this?
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What sort of effects are going to be delivered on the
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battlefield wherever and whenever it turns out to be?
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And we have an announcement of a £279 million contribution to a
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new cyber regiment barracks going to be a transformation of
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the Duke of Gloucester barracks in Gloucestershire.
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And the Our Army website here saying that cyber attacks are a
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growing threat. In the last two years there have
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been more than 90,000 attacks on the UK's military networks.
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The government's Strategic Defense Review says that cyber
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warfare is now at the heart of modern conflict.
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While they might well say that, the bit they gloss over of
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course is that without the use of artificial intelligence,
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which they are on the one hand, so much pumping up, these sorts
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of attacks would be far less likely to occur.
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So we absolutely have a situation where technology is in
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effect playing both sides. The statement goes on to say
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that to meet the challenge, a new cyber and electromagnetic
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command is being set up and this will help put the UK at the
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front of cyber operations worldwide.
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Now the other point to make on that specifically is of course
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that the control of the technology will not rest with
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the Ministry of Defence. It is of course, being developed
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by international organisations, many of which are have their
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origin in Israel, or at least the proprietary technology will
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be held there as well as other places, and this represents
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again a significant risk that is absolutely not being discussed
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now. The last announcement concerns
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the announcement of cut against drone degree to train military
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forces of the future. So how exactly they're going to
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inspire young people to sign up for this remains to be seen.
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But the idea is that the conflict in Ukraine has
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highlighted the growing threat posed by uncrewed devices, and
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it's critical that the UK has both the specialist capability
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to meet that demand, but also the power and authority to
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protect military sites from such threats.
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Interesting to note there that of course, there's no reference
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to any threat to civilians. And yes, of course, all of this
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is predicated on the experiences in Ukraine and in Russia, where
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there are many, many instances, of course, of drones being used
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in a variety of ways. And again, it begs the question
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about the overall use of jet drones in the United Kingdom and
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what the Civil Aviation Authority is doing about it and
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where there's any sort of responsible regulation in so far
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as drones and perceived threat that drones may offer it is is
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being dealt with. I think the other point to make
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just to just to draw this to a close, is that the Ministry of
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Defence have also been boasting about record defence exports
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from the past year. But this comes exactly alongside
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the enormous deficit in resources by way of kit and
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manpower. So there's a case being made for
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war with very, very flimsy evidence that we're in any
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position to be able to do anything about it.
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But I think the point to fall out of this is that men, young
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men in particular, need to stand by for an absolute increase of
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the pressure that's going to be applied to them to enter into
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some sort of fray, whether that be technological or indeed
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kinetic. Interesting you say, young man,
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just very briefly. I mean, one word word, answered
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Charles. If they're increasing the age
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for reservists to be called up in the event of a more general
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call up, then that in fact would bring the likes of you and me
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right back into the into the frame.
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It would and this can change on the sixpence and I will be
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writing an article about this which which we'll hope to
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publish next week. Thank you.
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Thank you for that. OK, let's move to Vanessa then.
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And Vanessa, Kathy Newman has been back in the headlines over
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the last couple of days because of a recent interview.
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What are your thoughts on it? I think my thoughts are probably
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not repeatable on air, but good afternoon everyone.
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And I apologise for rather saturating this report with
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sections of Kathy Newman's appalling interview on Channel
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4. But I just quickly wanted to
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show, if you actually scrolled down a search of Channel 4 and
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Iran, you will see that the search itself is full of
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headlines like this on their news reports, basically
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supporting, of course, the regime change narratives, just
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as they did throughout the regime change war against Syria.
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But I'm focusing today on an interview that Kathy Newman did
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with Professor Said Morandi. He's a Tehran University
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professor, but look at it how it's framed in the title Regime
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supporter. So immediately he's he's othered
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into being a supporter of the elected Iranian government.
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He refutes the systemic slaughter of protesters.
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So already she's drawing the conclusion that protesters,
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peaceful protesters, just as she did of course, in Syria in 2011,
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are being slaughtered by the government.
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So let's just have a quick listen to the first section that
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I've taken out. What right does the West have to
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determine who governs in Iran and who doesn't?
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The people on the streets in their thousands, who are now
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being systematically slaughtered in their thousands, they are
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saying that your government no longer has the right to govern.
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Yesterday we saw rallies across the country and the footage is
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online and it was broadcast live, even though now people
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like Musk and others are trying to pretend it was AI.
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These were people who were. Forced to go out and protest,
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but people of their own free will bravely went out and in
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return the government, your government, has slaughtered them
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in their thousands. And for what?
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I mean, this is just extraordinary.
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We're back to Syria again. Where?
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What right? Protesters, sorry, where
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protesters are being literally forced out on the street in
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support of their government. And then if we look at what she
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bases the report on, it's a report from Reuters about 5 days
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ago. Iranian official says verified
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deaths in Iran protests reaches at least 5000.
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However, of course, the official is not named, and so therefore
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we can pretty much dismiss that report from Reuters as we can
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the majority of the reports coming out surrounding Iran
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itself. And then I just want to play a
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second clip from Kathy Newman. There are no bodies piling up on
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the streets. No bodies piling.
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Up on the. Streets.
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We've seen them with our eyes. And by and no, not on the
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streets. I live in Tehran.
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Well, in the morgue and by the way, and by the so then rephrase
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and don't produce propaganda. You're supposed to be a credible
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news outlet. 100 police officers roughly or officers of the law
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were murdered. Two were burnt alive, 1 was
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beheaded, and we had a nurse burnt alive in a clinic.
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The clinic was burnt down and she was burned.
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She was a young nurse. We had a 3 year old kid who was
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shot by these rioters, or who you the people who you call
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protesters and murdered in her father's arms.
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These are. Violent people, Let me ask you,
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Let me ask you 20. Now notice, though, she says,
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that she's seen the piles of bodies with their own eyes in
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the streets of Tehran. She then switches it to the
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morgue. So how on earth you can have any
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trust in what Kathy Newman and Channel 4 are reporting on Iran
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is is kind of beyond me. And then how she dismisses said
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Marandi's reports are from on the ground in Tehran of the
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people that have actually been killed by the Mossad operatives
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inside Iran itself. And and Israel, by the way, has
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admitted that it's been supporting the so-called rioters
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and and or as they call protesters.
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Then the final clip from Kathy. These are people who were
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rioting and these were people who are shooting at police
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officers and there's footage of it.
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And that footage is online and it's on the accounts of many
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people and people can see it. Mainstream media in the West,
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and obviously your media, since you are trying to create an
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environment for war and to justify illegal activity on
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behalf of your regime and the regime and the Trump regime,
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you're of course creating a narrative of thousands of
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peaceful protesters on the streets being slaughtered.
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If reality is something. If you don't like my questions,
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Professor Morandi, let me put to you what the German Chancellor
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said, Friedrich Mertz said. When a regime can only maintain
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power through violence then it is effectively at it's end.
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Do you accept your government is nearing it's end?
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It's in the final days. And of course it was Chancellor
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Merz who said that Israel was doing it's dirty work when it
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attacked Iran back in June last year.
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Then let's have a reminder from 10 years ago of Kathy Newman
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interviewing the then advisor to President Bashar al-Assad in
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Syria. This doesn't mean that there is
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any hesitation on the Syrian government.
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After all, these are our people and we are tired.
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Yes, and your people excuse. Me.
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Your people are being massacred. Your people are being starved to
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death in Aleppo. Children the the victims of
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chlorine gas attacks just less than a fortnight ago.
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Seems Kathy Newman's style of interview doesn't change in 10
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years. But then I just also want to
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look at the BBC. And this is Hugo Bachega
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reporting, one would imagine from inside everyone.
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Let's have a look at this. It is also very difficult to
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verify the number of people who have been killed across the
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country. One human rights organization
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says more than 2600 people have been killed.
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Who is this organisation that he's relying on for their
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figures out of Iran during the protests?
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HRA&A. Let's just put that on the
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screen quickly. And if we look at this
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organization, when you be delve a little bit deeper, if we can
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just pull up on the screen, HRANA, so this is the news
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agency for the human rights activists in Iran.
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So again, you could be excused for thinking they're based in
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Iran and they're reporting out of Iran wrong.
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Let's have a look at the next slide, which shows very clearly
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on the left hand side there that they're based in Fairfax, VA and
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they're being supported by CACIA outreach agency, the National
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Endowment for Democracy to the tune in 2024 of almost $1
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million. So clearly not a grass roots
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human rights activist agency, just as of course we've seen in
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Syria and even with the reporting against China.
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And this article by Mint Press news, which will be in the show
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notes, revealed the CIA backed NGOs fuelling the Iran protest
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because it's not only the human rights activist group.
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And then finally, I just want to look at this.
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This is from New York Times inside the fight to keep Iran
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online. Now, what is interesting is that
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all of these BBC Channel 4 commentators are admitting that
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the protest died down as soon as Iran managed to shut down
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Starlink. And in this report from NYT,
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they talk about grassroots activists managing to smuggle in
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an entire Starling network which kept them in communication with
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their external handlers and controllers throughout the early
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days of the riots. When of course the worst murders
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of security forces and civilians were committed by these rioters
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as soon as they were cut off from Starling communication.
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But funnily enough, coincidentally, the riots died
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down completely. Of course, it's being spun
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otherwise by the BBC and Channel 4.
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And Mike, you will probably remember this was from 2012 in
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Syria. So while the NYT is pushing the
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narrative of smuggling hope into Iran through the use of staling
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A vase, again AUS State Department CIA linked
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organization had a fundraising campaign Smuggle hope in Syria.
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The group's website asked for contributions to continue the
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smuggling operation as embassies close, medical agencies withdraw
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and journalists pull out. AVAS has the only network that
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is both smuggling media equipment and journalists in and
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images and information out. Sound familiar?
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Absolutely, and we shouldn't forget that AVAS is also saw us
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back as well. So yeah, absolutely.
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So thank you very much for that. Vanessa.
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We'll be talking more about that and extra.
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on tonight. 7:00 PM. Jeremy's back with another
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German warfare, again, looking at the moon landings.
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That should be entertaining. And then Silk and Steel tonight.
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Why? Canada just did a 180 on China.
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That could be related to their understanding of what's going on
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with Trump, perhaps, but but we'll find out at 9:00 tonight.
26:02
And Charles, the blindfold briefing, perverse verdicts.
26:06
This article is now up in the UK column website.
26:10
Yeah, just very briefly, it follows exactly what Patrick was
26:12
talking about on Friday with the remarks made by Rajiv Menon in
26:16
the case the Filton 6. But it's essentially it covers
26:19
jury nullification and the extraordinarily strong campaign
26:23
by government to get rid of juries and to stop them being
26:26
able to acquit based on conscience.
26:29
And digital ID protest at the weekend.
26:32
Yeah, this is in Glasgow taking place on Saturday.
26:36
So if you can get along there at 1:00 on the green, then do go
26:40
along to that. Thank you for that.
26:43
OK, let's come on to then the Board of peace, because the
26:48
other major news from the Trump camp is the so-called Board of
26:52
Peace. Middle East Eye asks in their
26:55
headline, what is Trump's Board of Peace and who will govern
26:58
Gaza? And I'm going to ask, will it
27:00
end at Gaza? Because quite clearly it isn't
27:03
going to. And now Middle East Eye has also
27:05
published the full text of the charter and there's no mention
27:09
of Gaza in it. So it calls for a more nimble,
27:14
I'll quote, there's a more nimble and effective
27:16
international peace building body.
27:18
It says that the scope, its scope could be far broader.
27:21
The Board of Peace is an international organization that
27:24
seeks to promote stability, restore dependable and lawful
27:28
governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or
27:32
threatened by conflict. It's this is published without
27:35
any sense of release, No overt sense of irony anyway.
27:39
But it gives Trump wide-ranging powers as because he will become
27:43
the chair of the Board of Peace, he will appoint and remove
27:47
member States and his decisions can only be overturned by a 2/3
27:52
majority of members. Countries that join will serve a
27:57
limited 3 year term unless they contribute more than $1 billion
28:02
within the first year of operation.
28:04
So it's a as Ben said to me earlier, it's a pay to play
28:07
scheme. The charter itself seems to
28:12
revolve around Trump's self appointment as board chairman.
28:17
It says Donald J Trump shall serve as inaugural chairman of
28:20
the Board of Peace. It that doesn't refer to the
28:24
office of president or it doesn't refer to any length of
28:27
term. Membership of the Board of Peace
28:30
is limited to states invited to participate by the chairman and
28:33
commences upon notification that the state has consented to be
28:37
bound by its charter, it says. And it also says that the
28:40
chairman has the authority to remove members subject only to
28:43
veto. As I say, by 2/3 majority, the
28:45
Board of Peace, it says there's an international organization
28:48
that seeks to promote stability, restore dependable and lawful
28:51
governance and secure during enduring peace scenarios
28:54
threatened by conflict. It shall undertake such peace
28:58
building functions in accordance with international law.
29:01
And like I say, no, there is no irony in this at all apparently.
29:07
But then last Friday, the White House, well, they said this was
29:11
before the charter was published.
29:13
I think the White House announced 2 executive boards.
29:15
We talked about this last week. They will sit, so they will sit
29:20
below the peace board itself. So Gaza is mentioned this time,
29:25
but only because the Gaza Executive Board is one of the
29:28
two boards. The other executive board is
29:30
just called the Executive Board and it will have Marco Rubio
29:34
state with Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner, Sir Tony Blair, Mark
29:38
Rowan, Ajay Banga and Robert Gabriel.
29:42
And the the the board of sorry, the executive committee for
29:45
Gaza, we'll have those people plus two or three others on
29:49
there as well. Now invitations have been made
29:51
to countries including Russia and China, but France has
29:54
apparently declined. Hungary, Belarus, Morocco,
29:58
Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Argentina and the UAE so far I believe,
30:03
have accepted the invitation. Trump was pretty upset about
30:10
France saying no. And he said that if that were
30:13
true, he would just threaten to impose a 200% tariff on wine and
30:17
champagne from France. And he also said, well, nobody
30:20
wants him to speaking about Macron because he's going to be
30:24
out of office very soon anyway. So if you can keep a straight
30:28
face on that, Charles and Vanessa, actually, I'd be very
30:32
interested in your thoughts, because obviously this is being
30:37
at least originally framed as being something to deal with
30:41
Gaza. But actually it's quite clear
30:43
from the charter that he's got much bigger ideas, that he's
30:46
looking at some kind of technocratic infrastructure
30:49
which is going to replace the United Nations, As if that
30:51
wasn't bad enough. Yeah, I suppose I have to open
30:55
by wondering if therefore it was Trump that punched Macron in the
30:57
face. But maybe we'll we'll not find
30:59
out. Yeah, I think, you know, on Gaza
31:02
specifically, the two things that that immediately spring to
31:04
mind are the utter failure of the state of Israel in
31:08
particular to adhere to the Geneva Conventions and and also
31:13
the fact that the International Criminal Court set up over 25
31:18
years ago has not been signed to by either Israel or the United
31:22
States. So, so this seems to be just yet
31:24
another layer of sort of pick and choose and do what you like,
31:29
I think would be would be my view on it.
31:30
And I'm sure we can talk more about this in Extra.
31:32
We will. Vanessa, what are your thoughts?
31:36
But I find it more interesting to see the countries that were
31:38
not invited to the peace board. And of course they include all
31:42
the countries that would have the best interests of Palestine
31:45
at heart, and particularly Gaza. And that includes Iran,
31:48
Venezuela, Cuba, Algeria, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon and and even
31:54
Syria. Although of course Syria is a
31:56
little bit more complex and Gelani is is basically doing
32:00
what Israel and the US wants at the moment.
32:02
But I would find that more interesting.
32:05
Indeed. So, Vanessa, let's come on to an
32:08
update on Venezuela and particularly what's going on
32:11
with oil. Yes.
32:14
Well, I mean, last week we talked about the Paul Singer
32:18
purchase of the Venezuelan subsidiary in the US, Citgo, of
32:22
course, at half the market price due to dear old insider trading
32:27
and the fact that he's very connected to the Zionist
32:30
movement and is pushing their agenda, particularly in the US
32:33
and to the Trump administration. And on it goes, of course.
32:36
So this was reported a couple of days ago, unchecked corruption.
32:40
The first US sale of Venezuelan oil goes to the company of Trump
32:44
mega donor. And this was at an oil execs
32:49
meeting on January the 9th. Interesting to see Tucker
32:52
Carlson there in the background. But this guy that I've circled,
32:55
uh, John Addison is a trader for a company called Vittal.
33:00
And let's just see what they say about that in the article.
33:04
Umm. So Addison attended a recent
33:06
White House meeting with other top oil execs, donated 6,000,000
33:10
total to Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, uh, via
33:15
several super PAC's, including five million to Mega Inc.
33:19
Addison pledged to Trump at the White House event that Vittal
33:23
would attain the best price possible for Venezuela and oil
33:26
for the US so that the influence you have over the Venezuelans
33:30
will ensure that you get what you want according to the
33:33
Financial Times. Now, of course, there has been a
33:35
degree of uproar about this, particularly from Democrats.
33:39
And I'm not supporting either Democrat or Republican before
33:43
people jump in with that commentary.
33:47
But this is Senator Chris Murphy after the oil exec meeting,
33:53
talking about what he thought about the deal.
33:57
Well, the bottom line is that the administration is planning
34:00
to take Venezuelan oil indefinitely and sell it on the
34:07
secondary market, use that money to run the Venezuelan economy.
34:12
The Venezuelan people don't get a say.
34:14
We're going to sell that. Oil.
34:16
We're going to get that money, and then the United States of
34:18
America is going to decide who gets paid and who doesn't get
34:20
paid inside Venezuela. We're going to micromanage
34:23
Venezuela and we're going to use your taxpayer dollars to do it
34:26
because this is going to be a multi billion dollar effort,
34:31
right, which is going to take money, your money, but also
34:35
enormous time. Donald Trump, the White House,
34:39
everybody there is going to be spending just as much time
34:43
running Venezuela as they are running America.
34:49
He makes quite a few interesting points actually in his statement
34:53
after the oil exec meeting. But I wanted to show again how
34:58
Vital and John Addison are yet again connected into Israel.
35:03
So this was a report in very recently, in the last couple of
35:09
weeks from the Palestinian Institute of Climate Strategy,
35:13
and they're talking about fuelling apartheid, how
35:16
Brazilian oil and Italian ports sustain Israel's war machine.
35:20
Now remember that both Brazil and Italy made statements, the
35:24
governments made statements to say that they were going to end
35:28
supply or boycott Israel because of the genocide it had been
35:33
committing or intensified since October the 7th.
35:38
Let's have a look at what they say in the article.
35:40
However, in 2024, so this is the year after October the 7th,
35:47
Brazil's exports to Israel amounted to a total of
35:50
725,000,000. Around 30% consisted of mineral
35:56
fuels, oils and distillation products, representing 2.1% of
36:02
all the Zionist regime's deals, making it the second biggest
36:05
partner in the American continent after the United
36:08
States and Israel's 12th biggest commercial partner.
36:12
While the Zionist entities main sources for Creed oil from
36:15
Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan via the port of Sihan in Turkey and
36:21
the Russian port of Nova Resk, more than 2.7 billion barrels of
36:26
Brazils crude oil, 260,000 tons have been extracted and eight
36:31
shipments delivered to Israel since December 2023.
36:36
Okay, so now we know that Brazil is involved, a BRICS member
36:41
country, as is Russia, in the supply of oil to a genocidal
36:45
entity. But then let's see who was
36:48
helping them circumvent the embargoes by using
36:52
intermediaries. The Italian connection vital
36:55
Saras Spa and Petrobras, Israel's total imports of oil
37:00
and refined products, are supplied in large part by two
37:03
refineries, the Valero E Bill refinery in Texas, a key
37:07
provider of military fuel, and the Saras Spa refinery in Sarak,
37:11
Sardinia, each accounting for approximately 17%, representing
37:16
a combined total of 34%. Cyrus Refinery is owned by the
37:21
Swiss giant Fit All, the world's largest oil and petroleum
37:24
product distribution conglomerate and a direct
37:27
commercial partner of the genocidal state.
37:29
So yet again, we see the roots of the operation in Venezuela
37:36
reaching back into Israel. And I just wanted to point out
37:41
that we're going to be publishing at UK Column an
37:45
ongoing series of articles written by Jose Biomorgi, the
37:49
Venezuelan ambassador to Syria and Lebanon.
37:52
This is his latest one, which hopefully will be up at UK
37:56
Column shortly. Is Venezuela a victim of the
37:59
Trump Epstein labyrinth? You can also follow Biomorgi on
38:05
X. And I just want to remind
38:06
everyone, but Mike interviewed Beer Morgue Venezuela under
38:11
attack. I think that was back in October
38:13
last year. And hopefully we'll be arranging
38:17
another interview in the future to run through exactly what's
38:20
happening in Venezuela. Thanks, Vanessa.
38:26
Thanks for that. Now, let's move on then to
38:29
Chatham House. Chatham House, for those who
38:31
don't know, is otherwise known as the Royal Institute for
38:34
International Affairs. It's a major think tank.
38:37
Now, Bronwyn Maddox is the director of Chatham House, and
38:41
she gave her annual lecture on the state of the world last
38:44
week. And in her evaluation, the US
38:48
has never had a rival like China.
38:51
It's equal or more in technology, trade and military
38:53
power. So let's just have a listen to a
38:56
short excerpt from what she said.
38:59
So this year has clarified what we face.
39:02
We are in a world of two superpowers in rising
39:06
competition with each other. Each says it does not want a war
39:10
with the other, but the possibility is not zero, and it
39:14
would be catastrophic for the world.
39:16
Even without that, though, their competition for power is a
39:19
threat to the peace and prosperity of others.
39:22
In the case of EU s s allies, they must now contemplate what
39:26
was unthinkable to have to defend themselves against the US
39:30
itself in trade and perhaps security.
39:34
This messy world does offer opportunities, I should say, for
39:38
countries that are not super powers.
39:39
There is a chance to play both sides, a reason to make new
39:43
alliances. So Vanessa, your thoughts first,
39:49
because obviously that's probably may well have been the
39:51
first time you've heard that, but but it just, I find it
39:54
fascinating that the the main British policy think tank or at
39:58
least international policy think tank is suggesting that the
40:02
current situation allows smaller countries, we obviously mean
40:05
Britain here to play both sides. Britain would never do that.
40:10
No, as if. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of
40:13
fascinating, as you said, that Chatham House is focusing on the
40:16
potential of conflict between US and China.
40:21
And, and yes, I think Britain now, their policy is changing in
40:26
the sense that they are being squeezed out of much of the
40:29
sphere of influence that is rising, that is controlled very
40:33
much by China and Trump, I won't even say by the United States
40:37
necessarily. Yeah.
40:38
And Charles, she went on to say that that she wants to play both
40:43
ways with Europe. And she said that was to
40:45
strengthen Europe's hand with both the US and China.
40:48
And that she also said that the UK needs a closer relationship
40:52
with Europe. And she also said that we need
40:53
to play play both sides with the Global South in order to advance
40:58
some kind of order in private talks and mediation and policy
41:01
proposals and with many countries involved.
41:04
That's the heart of what Chatham House is now doing.
41:07
So is this a think tank or is it something different?
41:13
Well, it depends what it is we expect a think tank should do,
41:18
should be and the effect that it should have.
41:21
And I think it's perfectly clear that there are many think tanks
41:24
that do an awful lot more than just think.
41:27
I think to go back a little bit to her point about countries
41:31
finding themselves in a position of in effect, being attacked
41:35
economically by America. I think either she's
41:39
misrepresenting the situation or she's talking about extreme
41:43
naivety on the part of any country that doesn't think that
41:45
America would turn around and stab it in the back.
41:49
But then again, I think that descriptor would would apply to
41:52
very many countries, not least this one.
41:54
And on the sort of playing both sides, yes, OK, that may have
41:58
been something that has been done very, very effectively many
42:02
years ago. Now it looks specifically with
42:06
with China and the United States, I would say it looks
42:09
like we are being played by both sides, United Kingdom being
42:13
played by both sides. And I would say at least the
42:16
political level, it looks like the same, same situation with
42:19
the with the European Union and the Global South as well.
42:21
I don't really see that the United Kingdom comes out of this
42:24
very well. OK, we can talk.
42:26
We can definitely talk about that.
42:27
An extra for sure, Charles. Let's move on back to the UK,
42:31
Well, to the UK I suppose, and the Schools Bill just introduce
42:35
this. Thanks, Mike.
42:41
Yes, the the schools Bill or is the children's well-being and
42:45
schools Bill very little to do with children's well-being as
42:48
will be articulated in this recording.
42:51
But it's, it's now at the report stage in the House of Lords.
42:55
And among the sticking points are this consistent identifier,
42:59
effectively a digital ID tool, which has a very, very low
43:03
threshold for data sharing, and the predication of the whole
43:08
Bill, which is really that children are a problem, parents
43:13
are irresponsible. And this will deal with both of
43:16
those things rather than allowing any suggestion that
43:19
parents might be responsible and indeed might be looking out for
43:23
their children in protecting them from what they see as a
43:28
form of education. That's not appropriate.
43:30
But this is Will Coleshill, reporting from a recent protest
43:34
against this bill. People are are really petrified
43:39
that they're literally gonna lose their way of life.
43:41
And it's literally putting the state between the parent and
43:44
their child. It's like they've forgotten how
43:45
to trust the parent. Hello, this is Wilco reporting
43:47
for UK column. Today I'm down here in
43:49
Westminster covering the Schools and Children's Well-being Bill,
43:52
a bill which looks like it could end home education in this
43:56
country as we know it. So I'm Michelle Zahir and we're
43:59
part of a campaign group of parents, educators, child
44:02
advocates, social workers in amongst our campaign as well,
44:07
who are a campaign group against the children's well-being a
44:09
schools bill because basically we absolutely say yes to
44:12
children's well-being. Unfortunately, they forgot to
44:14
put that in the substance of this bill.
44:15
Well, I've been home educating Anya for about four years now
44:19
and we don't want other other families to have the rights to
44:23
do what we've done taken away. Stand very strongly against the
44:26
children's well-being in the schools bill and all of the
44:28
things within it which are actually going to cause harm to
44:30
young people. From the unique identifier,
44:32
which is digital ID for kids by stealth and the home education
44:35
register, which is actually really there to restrict the
44:38
access access to educational options for young people.
44:41
Most people have only heard about the breakfasts.
44:43
They haven't heard about the fact that it's changing the
44:46
position of data so it effectively makes it effectively
44:51
makes children have no data privacy because now no consents
44:54
needed by parents to share for as low as may promote welfare.
44:58
At the moment current position is safeguarding.
44:59
Absolutely you should share information if a child's at risk
45:02
for safeguarding but to drop it to may promote welfare.
45:06
They don't need consent of the parents don't need the consent
45:08
of the child. Children from birth will be
45:10
ascribed a digital identifier. There's been no discussion, no
45:13
consent. Whilst the government say that
45:15
they've done AU turn on mandatory digital ID.
45:18
What this shows is like with one login and the directors and the
45:21
encroaching infrastructure everywhere that this is carrying
45:24
on. And the government kindly have
45:25
added some extra amendments in last week.
45:28
They now have added in from the point of deregistration within
45:31
15 days. The local authority must
45:34
consider where the child lives. So we're adding home visits in
45:37
for no reason of suspicion, not because of safeguarding risk,
45:39
just because you happen to choose a non mainstream option
45:43
for education, perfectly lawful option, which just is the wrong
45:47
position for it to be out. And they're also going to do a
45:50
pilot program where now you have to have a monetary meeting
45:52
before you can deregister, even if it's a mainstream school and
45:55
the parent must attend and there's an expectation that the
45:58
child will attend. What's the biggest problem for
46:00
you? Problem with the bill?
46:02
Yeah, the home visits at the moment with the legislation, we
46:07
can say no, we're going to do all of our communication in
46:09
writing. We're going to provide a report,
46:11
but with the children's bill, they could insist on coming to
46:15
our home and they're not even looking at people who are
46:17
qualified social workers. They're not something that's
46:18
actually been trained how to assess.
46:20
It's just the A and if you look at well, you can look at what
46:22
your actually qualification officers are.
46:25
Some barely have a, don't even need GSE.
46:27
At local authority level there is a huge risk of a bias of any
46:32
policy coming through being not a dare to possible properly.
46:35
We've heard so many stories from across the country of people
46:39
demanding information that that they're not legally the local
46:42
authorities are not legally entitled to.
46:43
What are the? Charges that can be laid against
46:46
you if you do not comply and you say that you wish to educate
46:49
your own children. Right, see this is where it gets
46:51
really interesting because the government keep trying to twist
46:52
it and go, well no, it's not really criminalising you, you'll
46:56
just get school intense order. Now if you fundamentally believe
46:58
in electively home educating, you're not sending your child to
47:01
school. So you're not going to comply
47:02
with the school defence order because the school defence order
47:04
requires you to enrol your child in school.
47:06
But if you actually think, no, actually we are educating, then
47:10
they can prosecute you and that's a criminal prosecution to
47:12
the courts. And at the moment, obviously, if
47:16
you prove that it's a suitable education, you're acquitted and
47:18
it's all all fine. But at the moment, the maximum
47:21
is a fine, but they're introducing a fine and or
47:24
prison. So really, is it appropriate
47:27
because I didn't fill in a bit of information?
47:29
Oh yeah. Because also there's bits about
47:30
not having accurate information because I didn't give you the
47:32
right information you wanted that I could, that your parent
47:35
could, you know, face prison time.
47:37
It's not going to make the problem go away by putting the
47:39
parent in prison. The airport security philosophy
47:53
there applied to education and there's no indication really at
47:57
the any stage, certainly not the report stage that the concerns
48:00
that are being aired there are in fact being dealt with.
48:03
So thanks to Will Colthill for that report.
48:05
Now I'm going to go on and talk about what are being put out as
48:11
threats to democracy and indeed how the response is being dealt
48:14
with. And so I'm going to start with
48:16
the statistic provided by Unlock Democracy, talking about the
48:20
number of local elections which are under threat as of this
48:25
year. Looking ahead to May, where 63
48:27
local authorities may not conduct local elections.
48:30
And of course we must remember that the Reform Party has
48:34
managed to generate an enormous groundswell of support via
48:37
exactly this tool. So they would have a very keen
48:41
interest in democracy, one might think.
48:43
It's already been mentioned, of course, that Nigel Farage has
48:45
gone to Davos. So we're just going to wind the
48:48
clock back and listen to which way the wind was blowing back in
48:52
2020. It's Davos time, the World
48:57
Economic Forum, set up by people years ago who wanted big
49:02
politics and big business to work together.
49:06
And they had this little gathering in in a ski resort in
49:09
Switzerland. And now thousands of people go
49:11
every year. And of course it reached its
49:13
absolute peak under people like Tony Blair and Clinton and
49:19
Obama. And really?
49:22
All. The arguments for globalism have
49:24
been there at Davos for the last 50 years and more.
49:28
No space for the little man, no space for the nation state,
49:32
really no space certainly for the small entrepreneur.
49:35
And what I thought was so delightful this year was that
49:38
Donald Trump went along and it blew the whole thing up.
49:40
Just told them, look, hey, you know what you all said?
49:44
My America First policy would be a disaster.
49:46
We're doing really well. We've got the lowest
49:48
unemployment in 50 years. We've got good growth.
49:51
We've actually got more black and Hispanic people now working
49:53
than ever before and poverty in their sectors being reduced.
49:57
And they all sat there in complete Stony silence.
50:02
And I think it's really interesting to think that what's
50:05
happened to us over the course of the last 50 years is we've
50:08
decided nation states don't matter.
50:10
We've decided national democracy doesn't really matter because we
50:13
can decide all of this in ski resorts in Switzerland.
50:15
Isn't it wonderful? It's called globalism.
50:18
And then we can bow down to the European Union or perhaps give
50:21
the United Nations some more power.
50:23
And this is the importance, I think, of what Trump has done.
50:26
It's the importance of what Brexit symbolizes.
50:29
Most of us, people with common sense, believe that the nation
50:33
state-run on democratic lines is much better than people deciding
50:38
our futures in Swiss ski resorts, on their annual John to
50:42
Davos or wherever else it may. So Nigel Farage there attempting
50:50
to invoke the spirit of Trump, or at least that's what he's
50:52
trying to do this year. He's put out a short statement
50:54
today about going there in order to effect change, but critically
50:59
to suggest that he doesn't want there to be any undue influence
51:03
in the politics of the United Kingdom, the sovereignty of the
51:06
United Kingdom. And this is something of a
51:08
sticking point. We spoke about defections to
51:11
reform last week. And in the intervening period,
51:14
we have yet another. We talked about Nadeem Zahawi
51:17
last week. And here we have Robert Genrick.
51:20
They're committing criminal damage, putting a flag up onto a
51:23
flagpole. Of course, Palestine Action have
51:25
been prescribed as a terrorist organization for criminal
51:27
damage, but no comeback for Genrick and also Andrew
51:32
Rossendale there with Boris the destroyer Johnson.
51:37
So all of this which I will come on to explain why looking very
51:41
much like the interests of Reform are not going to serve
51:46
the United Kingdom, but instead now a confluence of the
51:50
globalist and corporate entities contained by the World Economic
51:54
Forum and the State of Israel. Now Genrick and Rossendale, both
52:00
Friends of Israel, Conservative Friends of Israel.
52:03
With thanks to Declassified UK for their thorough data on all
52:08
of that. Robert Genrick, of course, also
52:10
reported by the Byline Times from 2024, having accepted
52:14
donations from a family friend who also turns out through
52:18
Quantum Pacific Corporation to be a supplier of arms to Israel.
52:23
And Genrick, again, just to make sure there's no doubt in
52:25
anybody's minds as to where his loyalties might lie, talking
52:29
about Star of David being displayed at every point of
52:33
entry into the United Kingdom. So I think this gives a good
52:37
idea of the interests of the Reform Party as they are now.
52:43
And again, with thanks to Alex Creel, I referred to Richard
52:47
Tice's visit to Israel back in October.
52:50
And it turns out this was paid for by the Reform Friends of
52:53
Israel, incorporated in June last year and described as being
52:59
for public relations and communications activities.
53:03
Now all of this leads to, as I say, sort of the suggestion of
53:09
undue influence. And this is where we come on to
53:12
the very much related issue of the resignation of Craig
53:15
Guildford, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police until
53:18
recently, and the man at the centre of the Maccabee Tel Aviv
53:21
Aston Villa scandal or debacle, or however one wants to describe
53:25
it. The Inspector of Constabulary
53:28
put out a statement recently describing this as being a
53:32
disaster of confirmation bias, having influenced the police
53:37
recommendation to ban the fans. And in particular they
53:43
highlighted the fact that the force failed to engage with
53:45
representatives of the local Jewish community early enough.
53:50
And they went on to say that in its communications, West Midland
53:54
Police placed too much emphasis on the potential and previous
53:58
behaviour of Maccabee Tel Aviv fans, and didn't reflect wider
54:01
concerns about public order and sorry, public disorder and
54:06
protests. So quite staggering to see how
54:08
this cuts both ways with regard to potential and previous
54:12
behaviour and the way in which many of the tangles that people
54:18
are finding themselves in the criminal justice system at the
54:20
moment are based exactly on potential and previous
54:24
behaviour. And so much legislation in the
54:25
pipeline pertaining to exactly that thing.
54:29
But now we'll have a quick look at the video at the start of the
54:33
second meeting of the Home Affairs Committee into into
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this. Order.
54:42
Order. Can I welcome our first panel
54:45
today to our follow up session following the session we held at
54:49
beginning of December on the policing of the Aston Villa
54:54
Maccabee Tel Aviv football game. Before we start, if members of
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the committee could declare any relevant interests and I will
55:02
declare that I am a member and officer of Conservative Friends
55:05
of Israel. I'm a member.
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Of Labour Friends of Israel, Labour Friends of Palestine.
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But I'm also, for 40 years, the spouse of Lord Man, who's the
55:17
government's independent unpaid advisor on anti-Semitism.
55:21
And I'm the all party parliamentary.
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Group chair or against anti-Semitism?
55:26
Sorry, the chair of the All Party parliamentary Group
55:29
against anti-Semitism. I'm a member of Labour Friends
55:33
of Israel. I travelled with Labour Friends
55:36
of Israel to Israel in May of last year.
55:39
I also attempted to travel to Israel with the Centre for the
55:44
Advancement of Arab British Understanding and was banned
55:47
from. Entry into Israel later in the
55:49
year, so I've been twice but only got in once.
55:53
I'm also a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews and
55:56
I received a donation from the Lib Dem Friends of Israel before
55:59
the last election. So on the subject of undue
56:04
influence, something of a of a theme there.
56:07
And of course, this has articulated very well the way in
56:11
which the language is manipulated in order that it
56:14
seems like it's a campaign against people of Jewish faith
56:18
rather than against football hooligans who subsequently went
56:23
on to conduct violent behaviour in Derby and Tel Aviv just after
56:28
that decision was making. Now, that is not at all to
56:31
excuse the very, very poor performance off W Midlands
56:34
Police in arriving at the decision that they did, but that
56:37
is in this circumstance, somewhat beside the point.
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I just want to round off with a clip from Nick Timothy MP who of
56:47
course was Aston Villa in the Europa League tonight played
56:49
Maccabee Tel Aviv and after a very nasty campaign by Islamist
56:54
thugs and Maccabee Tel Aviv supporters have been banned from
56:57
attending the game. Our activist councillors like
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Wasim Zafar and Mumtaz Hussain got to ban Israeli Jewish
57:04
football fans from the city and West Midlands Police went along
57:08
with it. They said it was for safety
57:10
reasons but it was an admission that they can't protect Jews in
57:14
Britain from Islamist rabble rousers and thugs on our
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streams. Do you think you have a right to
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chaplain side test in Birmingham.
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I'm glad they got banned because if they came here, they would
58:05
have 100% caught problems. And if they caught problems, we
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would have had to defend ourselves.
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What he's doing here. I'm very sincere.
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Sorry. I'm very sincere.
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I'm good for you. Yeah.
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You don't need. You don't need.
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You don't need to defend your views.
58:20
I don't need to defend my views. I have my views.
58:22
You have your views. So why do I need to defend my
58:24
views? Why would you want to defend
58:25
your views? Can you?
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You're having my Facebook. Can you not say you're having my
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Facebook? No, it's OK.
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Do you actually accept that Israelis doing the genocide?
58:33
No, I don't. They're not doing it.
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They're not doing it. Sorry, Sorry.
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Let me ask a question. Do you believe that they are not
58:40
doing a genocide? Yeah.
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Is that? Why?
58:41
Right. OK, thank you.
58:42
And the. Story Why do you want to chat
58:44
with somebody like that? So the manipulation of the
58:49
language there perfectly astonishing.
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And I know I've gone over slightly on time.
58:53
So just hang the question in the air, which is how long till
58:56
Nick, Nick Timothy defects to reform.
58:59
That's a very good question. Yes.
59:01
Well, look, we're going to, we're going to finish on a
59:04
slightly different note and we'll talk a little bit about
59:06
Greenland here just for one minute.
59:09
So first of all, one, let everybody know.
59:12
You may have seen it on social media that on the 4th of August
59:14
1916, the US government issued a declaration to the Danish
59:19
government that would saying that it would not raise
59:23
objections that Denmark extended its interest to Greenland to
59:26
include the entire island. This was surprising, according
59:30
to this article in Nordics Info, based on the 1832 Monroe
59:36
Doctrine that we talked about in previous news programs, which of
59:39
course was intended to limit European colonialism.
59:43
But this this declaration absolutely paved the way for
59:46
Denmark to take control of of Greenland.
59:48
And this is problematic for Trump because a declaration,
59:52
although would not normally have the force of law.
59:54
In this case, the declaration was added as an addendum to a
59:57
treaty, and the treaty was for the sale of the Danish W Indies,
1:00:01
now the Virgin Islands, the US Virgin Islands, to the United
1:00:05
States. And the declaration went through
1:00:07
the full ratification process. It was approved by the Senate on
1:00:11
the 7th of September 1916, was ratified by the President on the
1:00:16
16th of January 1917, and proclaimed on the 25th of
1:00:21
January 1917. So although under normal
1:00:24
circumstances A unilateral declaration by the United States
1:00:27
would not be binding, in this case, it is binding because it
1:00:31
was part of that treaty which was ratified, went through the
1:00:33
full ratification process, and it's therefore constitutional.
1:00:37
So it's domestic law we're talking about here, not
1:00:40
international law. And it's much, much harder for
1:00:41
Trump to to to breach that. But in the meantime, of course,
1:00:46
we've had the European invasion force there to scare Trump into
1:00:50
staying away. At least that's if the Western
1:00:55
press is to be believed. We had 15 French, three German,
1:01:00
sorry, 15 French, 13 German, 2 Norwegian, three Swedish, 2
1:01:04
Finnish, 1 British and 1 Dutch military personnel turning up
1:01:09
from the Arctic Endurance Group. But then the Germans immediately
1:01:13
turned around and went home again, as we can see here.
1:01:17
And this Reddit post highlight headlined Britzkrieg Blitzkrieg
1:01:23
on Ice. German soldiers came, conquered
1:01:25
Greenland, and left the next day.
1:01:28
So the question is, why did they leave?
1:01:29
Well, apparently it was because it was just too cold.
1:01:33
So German Germany had cold feet in Greenland.
1:01:36
Berlin says early departure took place according to plan and was
1:01:39
driven by adverse weather conditions.
1:01:41
I'm not quite sure how it can be to plan, but driven by weather
1:01:45
conditions. There you go.
1:01:46
It's all very strange. We'll talk about that an extra.
1:01:49
I've no doubt we'll leave it there for today.
1:01:51
So thank you very much to Vanessa and Charles for joining
1:01:54
me and for everybody that's been watching.
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1:02:13
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Bye bye.