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UK Column News Podcast 9th December 2024 · UK Column Radio

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon. Today is Monday, the ninth of December twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four, just after one o'clock. Welcome to UK column News.
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Speaker 1: I'm host Brian Gerrish. Delighted to have Mike Robinson with
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Speaker 1: me in the studio and we're also joined by Ben
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Speaker 1: Rubin who will be on a video link today, and
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Speaker 1: we're joined by Diane Rasmusen mcaddie from Scotland. Now, of
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Speaker 1: course here we are on Monday. Momentous events in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East over the weekend and we're going to go
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Speaker 1: into this in some detail. We had hoped to have
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Speaker 1: Vanessa Bealey with us, and I will say straight away
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Speaker 1: because we've got a lot of people asking Vanessa is safe.
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Speaker 1: She has been able to get out of Syria. She's
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Speaker 1: in a safe location. But although we've been able to
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Speaker 1: speak to her wet table to get a suitable link
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Speaker 1: in order to bring her on the news. So we
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Speaker 1: hope that perhaps that might happen on Wednesday. But a
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Speaker 1: huge thank you to all the people who sent us
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Speaker 1: c eemails. Very concerned about Vanessa, but we're pleased to
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Speaker 1: say that she is safe and well.
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Speaker 2: And having said that, though obviously events have moved very
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Speaker 2: very quickly over the weekend, and so you know, it
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Speaker 2: was not the easiest exit from the country, to say
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Speaker 2: the least. Now, of course, everything did happen very very quickly,
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Speaker 2: and the question is why did it happen very very quickly.
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Speaker 2: There was absolutely no resistance. It seemed Russia stood dying,
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Speaker 2: the Syrian army stood dying, Iran stood dying and ran around,
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Speaker 2: pulled their forces out of the country and so on.
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Speaker 2: So there had been rumors of deals going on for
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Speaker 2: a couple of days before the so called rebels actually
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Speaker 2: arrived in Damascus, and it seems that there were some
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Speaker 2: discussions which resulted in the withdrawal of Russia and Iran.
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Speaker 2: We'll talk about that a little bit later, but let's
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Speaker 2: have a look and see what our illustrious leader had
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Speaker 2: to say. So he had this to say, the developments
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Speaker 2: in Syria and recent hours and days are unprecedented, and
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Speaker 2: we're speaking to our partners in the region and monitoring
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Speaker 2: the situation closely. The Syrian people have suffered under a
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Speaker 2: sad barbaric regime for too long, and we welcome his departure.
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Speaker 2: He lied. The next thing was, our focus is now
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Speaker 2: on ensuring a political solution prevails and peace and stability
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Speaker 2: is restored, and finally we call on all sides to
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Speaker 2: protect civilians and minorities to ensure essentially it can reach
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Speaker 2: the most vulnerable in the coming hours and days. And
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Speaker 2: of course the question is first question from that is
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Speaker 2: why would there be a need to protect civilians if
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Speaker 2: he was confident that the people that had taken over
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Speaker 2: had removed this file dictatorship and replaced peace and security,
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Speaker 2: replaced that with peace and security, why would he need
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Speaker 2: to call on all sides to protect civilians.
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Speaker 1: Very good question, Mike, And of course if you watch
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Speaker 1: the BBC, I know that's a difficult thing to do.
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Speaker 1: But according to the BBC, these are all happy gunment.
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Speaker 1: They are nice people, they're celebrating in the streets and
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Speaker 1: they've only got the best intentions for people they encounter
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Speaker 1: in Syria. So the BBC's no worries about these people.
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Speaker 1: Some people might think they're terrorists, but not the BBC anymore.
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Speaker 1: These are just lovely people that have walked into Syria.
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to clarify the term the phrase anymore.
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Speaker 3: There.
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Speaker 2: Of course, the BBC has been in bed with the
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Speaker 2: terrorists from the beginning and in fact, we're going to
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Speaker 2: come on to that in a second, So let's bring
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Speaker 2: BBC journalist Lina Sinjab on screen and a couple of
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Speaker 2: seconds of what she said in her report.
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Speaker 3: But it took the Cipiens thirteen years of a bloody
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Speaker 3: civil war of more than six million displaced, and you know,
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Speaker 3: hundreds of thousands that have been killed and a lot
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Speaker 3: of violence.
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Speaker 2: So the first point to make here, of course, is
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Speaker 2: that this was never a civil war. This was an
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Speaker 2: insurgency generated by Western Pars, funded, armed and supported by
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Speaker 2: Western Pars, run by well some what might be described
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Speaker 2: as legitimate opposition, but the majority of the people with
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Speaker 2: the guns were al Qaeda affiliates, either al Qaeda directly
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Speaker 2: or organizations which had been rebranded as al Qaeda, as
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Speaker 2: al Nusra or as HTS and these other organizations in
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Speaker 2: an effort to sort of launder the reputations. So this
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Speaker 2: is not a civil war, never has been a civil war.
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Speaker 2: And so that's the first point to make. So she
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Speaker 2: then went on to say this.
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Speaker 3: And personally, this is the first time I drive through
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Speaker 3: the crossing and the border crossing without fear of detention,
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Speaker 3: without fear of error.
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Speaker 2: So this is the first time, she's being able to
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Speaker 2: drive through the border crossing without fear of detention or arrest.
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Speaker 2: And the first question we should be asking ourselves is
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Speaker 2: why would she be facing the potential of detention and arrest,
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Speaker 2: And of course the reason is because she and all
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Speaker 2: her BBC colleagues over the years have entered Syria illegally
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Speaker 2: through Idlib without the proper approval from the government. Whether
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Speaker 2: you like the government or not is neither here nor there.
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Speaker 2: They didn't go through Damascus Airport, they didn't go through
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Speaker 2: any of the other border crossings. They were embedded with
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Speaker 2: the terrorists in Idlib many most of the time in
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Speaker 2: Ghassy and tep on the Turkish side, But certainly when
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Speaker 2: they moved into Syria, when they were operating Assyria, they
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Speaker 2: went through Idlib and through the terrorist areas. Continued.
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Speaker 3: People are really just taken by the moment, you know,
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Speaker 3: taking to the streets, celebrating some of the rebels, you know,
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Speaker 3: firing in the air in happy moments.
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Speaker 2: So happy moments, as Brian just mentioned, let's just have
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Speaker 2: a look at one of those happy moments. So there's
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Speaker 2: a happy moment. So anybody that's listening on the podcast
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Speaker 2: rather than watching today, there was a car driving through
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Speaker 2: a square. The terrorists attempted to stop the car. As
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Speaker 2: the car was driving away, they were shooting well hundreds
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Speaker 2: of rynds, certainly dozens of runds into that car. And
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Speaker 2: you'll notice that the person who's taking the video of
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Speaker 2: that felt the need because of course they were safe
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Speaker 2: and secure in their place, so they felt the need
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Speaker 2: to switch the light off in the room to make
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Speaker 2: sure that weren't drawing attention to themselves and the fact
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Speaker 2: that they were filming, so clearly massive safety being felt
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Speaker 2: by the Syrian people. So let's look at the final
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Speaker 2: clip from Lena.
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Speaker 3: But we were also surprised with two explosions that we've
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Speaker 3: heard from our hotel that we couldn't confirm what the
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Speaker 3: reasons are. And actually you can see behind me one
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Speaker 3: of them is pointed to the messy airport and this
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Speaker 3: is the military airport.
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Speaker 2: So they just couldn't work out what the reason was,
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Speaker 2: what the problems were. And of course the reason is
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Speaker 2: very very simple. The reason Israel is bombing Syria the
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Speaker 2: bits at the moment, they are determined to clear out
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Speaker 2: any possibility of a Syrian defense capability. They're clearing out
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Speaker 2: all the missile defenses, they're bombing the airports, they're bombing
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Speaker 2: anything that has a potential military application, and so you know,
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Speaker 2: this is happening right across the country. And what's really fascinating,
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Speaker 2: as we'll see in a second, let's just have a
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Speaker 2: look at it. If I do a search on the
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Speaker 2: search engine, we love to hit on schoogle news for
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Speaker 2: Israel bombing Syria. We get the Israel seesar's land on
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Speaker 2: Syrian border and bombs Damascus and the telegraph. But actually,
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Speaker 2: very very little coverage of this as you go through
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Speaker 2: the through the certainly in the Western media, very little
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Speaker 2: coverage of it, indeed, and that seems to be all
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Speaker 2: that there is. Now you'll notice the first post there
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Speaker 2: has a headline saying Israel bombs a sad chemical weapons
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Speaker 2: and missiles to prevent Syrian rebels. I'm not sure what
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Speaker 2: the rest of the title is, and who cares anyway.
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Speaker 2: The point is, if you thought there were actually chemical
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Speaker 2: weapons in a store somewhere, is that the sort of
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Speaker 2: thing that you.
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Speaker 1: Would want to bomb Brian Well, Israel would, because of
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Speaker 1: course it would be completely the wrong thing to do
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Speaker 1: to spread chemical weapons far and wide, but Israel is
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Speaker 1: able to do whatever it likes, whenever it likes in
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Speaker 1: the Middle East. And this is a proof. And in
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Speaker 1: just a few minutes we're going to be having a
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Speaker 1: look at what we were told many years ago would
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Speaker 1: be happening in the Middle East. And of course the
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Speaker 1: key bid is that Israel can simply do as it likes.
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Speaker 2: And if anybody thinks that, you know, Israel is Jewish
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Speaker 2: and these Ithts and these other terrorists are Islamic and
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Speaker 2: therefore they're not friends. There are a number of interviews
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Speaker 2: going around from Israeli media. This is just one of
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Speaker 2: them where basically the terrorists are saying, we love Israel,
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Speaker 2: Israel's fantastic, We're really keen to work with Israel. And
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Speaker 2: as the new Syrian regime is established, Israel and we
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Speaker 2: are going to be working together in the future. So
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Speaker 2: clearly no problems with Israel at all. Let's come back
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Speaker 2: to the BBC again then, And from Syrian Jahads leader
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Speaker 2: to rebel politician, Abu Muhammad al Julani reinvented himself. He
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Speaker 2: did not reinvent himself. He is going through a process
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Speaker 2: of laundering his reputation by the Western media. At the moment,
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Speaker 2: he is being reinvented in front of our eyes. This
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Speaker 2: man had a price in his head for many, many years.
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Speaker 2: He is al Qaeda originally, and I do not believe
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Speaker 2: for one second that he is not al Qaeda now,
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Speaker 2: despite the fact that he's attempted to rebrand the organization
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Speaker 2: that he leads as HTS. But why would the BBC
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Speaker 2: be doing this? Well, we always have to remember that
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Speaker 2: go back twenty years ago and BBC were in Syria
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Speaker 2: making the effort regime change at that time. We've made
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Speaker 2: this point many many times that the BBC at the
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Speaker 2: center of this whole situation.
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Speaker 1: For regime change. Also stress for our viewers and listeners
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Speaker 1: that of course BBC Media Action calls itself for charity.
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Speaker 1: It's even worse than the BBC because it masquerades as
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Speaker 1: a charity. But what is it actually doing is it's
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Speaker 1: charitable objectives. It's helping to foment war and unrest and
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Speaker 1: regime change. I mean, this is so despicable. If we've
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Speaker 1: got viewers worldwide, well we know we've got viewers worldwide,
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Speaker 1: but particularly people in will say Asia who might have
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Speaker 1: a particular image of the UK and the West being
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Speaker 1: these upstanding moral democracies. What we are seeing demonstrated by
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Speaker 1: the BBC truly outrageous hypocrisy and the BBC absolutely needs
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Speaker 1: to be brought to account over this. So we hope
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Speaker 1: that today the BBC management team will be watching UK column,
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Speaker 1: as we strongly believe they always do. But this charity
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Speaker 1: absolutely disgusting and I think we've got to put it
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Speaker 1: in this sort of language. It is truly horrific.
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Speaker 2: Well, sticking with the BBC, Steve Rosenberg here saying the
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Speaker 2: fall of us AD is a blow to Russia's prestige
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Speaker 2: because as well, the implication here is at somehow Syria
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Speaker 2: was some kind of Russian vanity project and that they've
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Speaker 2: lost face as a result of this situation. It looks
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Speaker 2: much more like there's you know, international politic and going
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Speaker 2: on here. So for example, Lavrov was speaking, he was
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Speaker 2: in Doha, he has been in Doha the last couple
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Speaker 2: of days. Here's just one of the things he said.
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Speaker 2: It's unacceptable, he said, to allow terrorist groups to control
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Speaker 2: Syrian territory. HTS is a terrorist group, and indeed that
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Speaker 2: would be that should be the Russian kiss, because of
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Speaker 2: course Russia is running its special military operation in Ukraine
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Speaker 2: on the basis of clearing eyed what it described as
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Speaker 2: extremist neo Nazi terrorist organizations and influence there. Russia should
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Speaker 2: not be I don't believe, or at least it might
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Speaker 2: be somewhat hypocritical. Is that too strong to suggest it's possible.
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Speaker 2: But what we've got to see first of all is
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Speaker 2: what pressure has been brought to bear ware of course,
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Speaker 2: because Russia put on a huge pressure by what was
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Speaker 2: happening in Ukraine, and no sensible country would attempt to
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Speaker 2: fight on two major fronts, as was found out with
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Speaker 2: the Germans in the Second World War. So decisions clearly
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Speaker 2: had to be made. But we will see what emerges well.
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Speaker 2: And indeed those decisions seemed to be made at Doha,
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Speaker 2: because at DOA, this was on Saturday, I believe he
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Speaker 2: had met with Turkey and Iran, and I guess there
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Speaker 2: were some decisions made at that time. Other things that
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Speaker 2: he was saying was he was calling for resolution two
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Speaker 2: to five four and be very interested to get Vanessa's
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Speaker 2: comments on that on Wednesday, and he was talking about
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Speaker 2: what we're witnessing at the moment is the fight between
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Speaker 2: two worlds one phasing out, which is the West and
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Speaker 2: one emerging, which is the bricks countries, and that it's
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Speaker 2: not going to happen without clashes. He said, all this
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Speaker 2: is the repetition of the old, very old habit to
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Speaker 2: create some havoc, some mess and then fish in the
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Speaker 2: muddy waters and the Middle East and Europe is not
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Speaker 2: enough already, because he was absolutely making the point that
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Speaker 2: the effort is going to be to move on to
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Speaker 2: China in the not to distant future. So I just
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Speaker 2: want to mention to finish this off. The Syria podcast
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Speaker 2: that Vanessa and I have started. Episode one was out
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Speaker 2: a few days ago. We recorded it last Tuesday, so
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Speaker 2: events moved on between when we recorded it and it
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Speaker 2: was published. But non unless you know earlyen eighty percent
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Speaker 2: of this is still absolutely valid and we encourage everybody
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Speaker 2: to listen to that and share it. The next episode
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Speaker 2: will be I'd Tuesday a Wednesday this coming week.
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Speaker 1: Excellent, Mike, and that will be really good. Now, what
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Speaker 1: I would like to do is take our viewers and
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Speaker 1: listeners back in time. We're going to go back to
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen when the UK column was almost a lone
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Speaker 1: voice in warning and warning what was being planned for
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Speaker 1: the Middle East. So let's have a look at it,
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Speaker 1: and we'll start off with this Daily Mail article, which
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Speaker 1: was actually the ninth of June. I know us Sad,
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Speaker 1: and I know it's time to arm the Syrian rebels
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Speaker 1: and bring him down, says Tory MP, who visited the
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Speaker 1: dictator's house for Tea, and the Tory MP was Brookes Newmark.
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Speaker 1: He was quoted as saying, while I abhor the SAD
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Speaker 1: regime and its hostility towards Israel, I am Jewish, I
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Speaker 1: have a longstanding interest in Syria and the Middle East,
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Speaker 1: and I'm a firm believer in the adage diplomacy becomes
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Speaker 1: a little lazy if all you do is talk to
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Speaker 1: your friends. Well, we're now getting a demonstration of what
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Speaker 1: he means by taking action if you're not lazy. And
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Speaker 1: let's dig into this in a little bit more detail.
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Speaker 1: This is another one of the comments that is in
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Speaker 1: the article. I told him, and he's referring to General Idris,
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Speaker 1: the leader of the Free Syrian Army. Hopefully air strikes
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Speaker 1: and missiles would soon be raining down on a Sad's
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Speaker 1: military infrastructure. And as you've just mentioned, Mike, that's exactly
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Speaker 1: what has happened. Now, so what is Israel doing at
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Speaker 1: this time of immense suffering and turmoil inside Syria. They
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Speaker 1: are coming in with the air strikes to absolutely decimate
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Speaker 1: for any infrastructure, particularly military infrastructure, that would allow Syria
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Speaker 1: to ever present a threat to the is Israeli project
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Speaker 1: for the Middle East. And Brooks Newmark absolutely gloating at
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Speaker 1: the idea that these straits, these strikes are going to
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Speaker 1: be raining down now if we reinforce the reporting at
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Speaker 1: the time, we've got the times of Israel here armed
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Speaker 1: rebels or risk genocide, British Jewish MP pleads. So there's
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Speaker 1: no misunderstanding what's going on here. Brooks Newmark, who met
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Speaker 1: with a Sad says president willing to destroy Syria completely.
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Speaker 1: That's what Brooks Newmark, Brooks Newmark had say, and he
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Speaker 1: said that Asad also admitted using his boller to hurt Israel.
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Speaker 1: So here we are in twenty thirteen. What have we
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Speaker 1: got Brooks Newmark, not just as an MP, but of
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Speaker 1: course he's a Jewish MP. So where does his priority lie?
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Speaker 1: I believe it has always been with Israel first, and
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Speaker 1: he wants to arm rebels, but of course those rebels
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Speaker 1: now according to the BBC are such nice, friendly people.
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Speaker 1: They just happened to have pumped that car full of rounds.
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Speaker 1: So as of today, the ninth December twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: Brooks Newmark dream has become reality. So we've got more
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Speaker 1: Israeli killing and carnage in Syria. It's happening around us
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Speaker 1: now if we get into the detail. This is a
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Speaker 1: slide from back in twenty thirteen from UK column. So
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Speaker 1: we just took people through some of the statements. So
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Speaker 1: here is Brooks Newmark at the time in that Daily
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Speaker 1: Mail article. He was saying, I was on the Syrian
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Speaker 1: border only last week where I met General Idris, the
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Speaker 1: leader of the Free of the Syrian Free Army. And
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Speaker 1: here is General Idris himself. You can see the picture there.
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Speaker 1: I told him hopefully airstrikes and missiles would soon be
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Speaker 1: raining down on a SADS military infrastructure. And Brooks Newmark
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Speaker 1: went on to say that about one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: thousand three Syrian Army fighters and this was the critical bit.
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Speaker 1: He also said, and seven five hundred Jabbat Alnusra fighters
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Speaker 1: which have links with al Qaeda. So there is no
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Speaker 1: doubt about what was going on. Brooks Newmark was out
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Speaker 1: in that border area. Nobody knows whether he was there
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Speaker 1: as a personal business or whether he was there on
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Speaker 1: official business. That was never declared. But he was happy
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Speaker 1: to mix with people who were declared by the West
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Speaker 1: to be terrorists, and moreover, he wanted those people armed.
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Speaker 1: So the links to al Quaeda were declared openly. We
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Speaker 1: had Cameron at the time talking about Syria attracting and
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Speaker 1: empowering a new cohort of al Quaeda linked extremists. This
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Speaker 1: was the exact opposite as to what was happening, because
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Speaker 1: it was the UK, the US and the West that
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Speaker 1: was making sure that these terror were being armed. And
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Speaker 1: of course UK's secret intelligence Services six were quoted at
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Speaker 1: that time of saying the most significant terrorist threat to
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Speaker 1: UK and its interest overseas comes from al queda senior leadership.
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Speaker 1: But we had a senior Conservative MP who was boasting
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Speaker 1: he was with these people or with people linked to
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Speaker 1: al Queda and he wanted them armed, to which I
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Speaker 1: look at the camera screen today and I say, it
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Speaker 1: is impossible to make this up. It was absolutely stated
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Speaker 1: what these people were planning to do. Now we challenged
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Speaker 1: Brooks Newmark. I actually spoke to him on the phone
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Speaker 1: at one occasion at the time, but I ended up challenging,
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Speaker 1: amongst other things, about information to do with the chemical attack.
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Speaker 1: So this is the actual email text from an email
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Speaker 1: I sent to him at sixteen thirty two on the
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Speaker 1: tenth of June twenty thirty. I thanked him for speaking
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Speaker 1: to me. I said, I was sorry if you felt
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Speaker 1: I was a bit hard, but the lives of the
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Speaker 1: men and women and children in Syria is highly important issue.
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Speaker 1: And although you dismiss my comments regarding Iraq and weapons
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Speaker 1: of mass destruction, the fact remains that the British government
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Speaker 1: has lied to the public before. You have said that
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Speaker 1: your comments in the Sunday mail rely on a United
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Speaker 1: Nations report. I've spent the afternoon looking at UN information
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Speaker 1: and can only find documents reporting allegations for example, and
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Speaker 1: the example is here. On the twenty first of March
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Speaker 1: twenty thirtyeen, ban Ki Moon received a letter from the
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Speaker 1: governments of France and the United Kingdom of Great Britain
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Speaker 1: and Northern Ireland requesting an investigation into the alleged use
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Speaker 1: of chemical weapons in the locations of carnal Assal in
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Speaker 1: Aleppo and Ataba in the Vicinity of Damascus as well
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Speaker 1: as in homes on the twenty thirty December twenty twelve.
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Speaker 1: Other men the States have also written to me, that's
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Speaker 1: to Banking Boon or Made's public statements calling for the
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Speaker 1: above mentioned investigation mission to look into all allegations of
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Speaker 1: the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Speaker 1: And I finished by Sayings Brooks Newmark, please can you
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Speaker 1: direct me to the UN report upon which you rely
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Speaker 1: as you suggested, I will also contact the FCO with
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Speaker 1: regard to William Hages's remarks thank you for your assistance. Well,
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Speaker 1: of course what happened absolutely no response, silence, And so
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Speaker 1: the questions I asked back in twenty thirteen of Brooks
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Speaker 1: Newmark stand in what capacity official or private did you
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Speaker 1: meet the Syrian Free Army General Idris? Who was present
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Speaker 1: in that meeting? Was this meeting sanctioned by David Cameron?
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Speaker 1: If not, who did? What exactly do you know about
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Speaker 1: links between the forces of General Idris and al Qaeda?
22:59
Speaker 1: Are you where that al Qaeda is a terrorist organization?
23:03
Speaker 1: And who paid for this trip and meeting? So none
23:07
Speaker 1: of those questions were answered by any member of the
23:11
Speaker 1: government at the time, and certainly Brooks Newmark was not
23:15
Speaker 1: going to tell us what he was actually doing and
23:18
Speaker 1: how he came to be out on the Syrian border
23:22
Speaker 1: encouraging people who were linked to terrorists. Now I tried
23:26
Speaker 1: to challenge my local MP, Gary Streeter. I thought this
23:30
Speaker 1: man might be straightforward because, amongst other things, he's supposedly
23:35
Speaker 1: a devout Christian. He's also been chair of the All
23:38
Speaker 1: Parliamentary Christian Group. However, when I sent Gary Streeter's emails
23:46
Speaker 1: asking him to find out answers to the questions I've
23:49
Speaker 1: put on screen in relation to Brooks Newmark, I got
23:53
Speaker 1: a very dismissive refusal by Gary Streeter as MP at
23:59
Speaker 1: the time, And of course I still have that email
24:02
Speaker 1: correspondence because it's extremely valuable. Now, if we also have
24:06
Speaker 1: a look at what was being reported in twenty thirteen,
24:10
Speaker 1: really excellent article by Global Research here which says that
24:15
Speaker 1: Western sponsored opposition forces in Turkey have started advance preparations
24:22
Speaker 1: for a major and irregular military surge. Now, I'm not
24:26
Speaker 1: going to go through all the detail of this, but
24:27
Speaker 1: I can tell you that if you read these reports,
24:31
Speaker 1: you will find they are describing exactly, in my opinion,
24:35
Speaker 1: what took place over the weekend, and what took place
24:39
Speaker 1: over the weekend had to have been planned and prepared
24:42
Speaker 1: over many months because of its scale and the number
24:45
Speaker 1: of people involved. That's the end of the key paragraphs
24:49
Speaker 1: in this article published by Global Research and the author
24:53
Speaker 1: was Josef Perdanski.
24:55
Speaker 2: And the one key difference, of course is the fact
24:59
Speaker 2: Ofian training in the meantime since the ceas far in
25:03
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, Ukrainians have been training people in in Lib
25:07
Speaker 2: and the use of Ukrainian.
25:08
Speaker 1: Drones absolutely, Mike, absolutely so high tech weapons and technology
25:14
Speaker 1: coming straight off the Ukrainian battlefield. Now, let's remember it
25:17
Speaker 1: wasn't just Brooks Newmark back in twenty thirteen. Here's David
25:22
Speaker 1: Cameron the Syrian crisis. He could make a Commons plea
25:26
Speaker 1: to provide rebel forces. What we are talking about here,
25:31
Speaker 1: rebel forces, brackets, terrorists with weapons. And in addition, of course,
25:36
Speaker 1: Cameron had already said that his belief in Israel was unshakable.
25:41
Speaker 1: And my point has always been that if his belief
25:44
Speaker 1: in Israel is unshakable, then the people of the United
25:48
Speaker 1: Kingdom must come second. There's no other way that that
25:52
Speaker 1: can play out. And also it is time we stop
25:56
Speaker 1: being squeamish about those who appear to have dual loyal
26:00
Speaker 1: within our political system. Back in twenty thirteen UK column
26:05
Speaker 1: warning and warning about politicians who were tied into conservative
26:11
Speaker 1: friends of Israel, so we had no idea where their
26:15
Speaker 1: allegiance lay. And I'm going to ask the question today,
26:19
Speaker 1: does a friend of Israel mean that that person is
26:23
Speaker 1: no friend of the United Kingdom. We are in perilous
26:27
Speaker 1: times and it appears to me, at least my personal opinion,
26:31
Speaker 1: that we have individuals who do not know whether their
26:34
Speaker 1: allegiance is to Israel because they are Jewish or highly
26:39
Speaker 1: supportive of the Zionist cause. And essentially the population of
26:44
Speaker 1: UK is taking a second place position while these horrors
26:50
Speaker 1: unfold in the Middle East. So I'll let our audience
26:55
Speaker 1: reflect over that.
26:56
Speaker 2: Ben, let's come back to the UK and the question
26:59
Speaker 2: is demos is it allegiance towards the UK or something else?
27:09
Speaker 4: Thank you Mudered, Ben, Sorry about that.
27:16
Speaker 5: That's a very good question, Mike, and thank you Brian
27:19
Speaker 5: for that exceptional report from twenty thirteen. Are relevant today
27:25
Speaker 5: and you've talked a lot about Tory corruption.
27:28
Speaker 4: We're going to focus it a.
27:29
Speaker 5: Bit on the current government and the people who are
27:34
Speaker 5: formulating the policy agenda for the current government, and they're
27:38
Speaker 5: worrying links to human trafficking and satanic ritual abuse. And
27:45
Speaker 5: as Mike's pointed out, we're going to talk about this organization.
27:49
Speaker 5: Demos be familiar to regular viewers. It's a very powerful
27:55
Speaker 5: and influential think tank that is really calling the shots
27:58
Speaker 5: at the moment in terms of defining government policy. They
28:02
Speaker 5: describe themselves as a champion of people, ideas and democracy.
28:08
Speaker 5: You can see that they've underlined the word democracy on
28:11
Speaker 5: the homepage of their website. And for me, that means
28:14
Speaker 5: whatever we can convince people to go along with. I
28:16
Speaker 5: think that's what democracy means for these people, completely divorced
28:20
Speaker 5: from any kind of principles. For that matter, it's a
28:25
Speaker 5: non partisan organization, so for me, that means uniparty. You
28:30
Speaker 5: can see here this task force that they put together
28:33
Speaker 5: to focus on public service reform.
28:35
Speaker 4: And I won't go through all the names.
28:37
Speaker 5: But we've got representatives here from the NHS, from charity sector,
28:41
Speaker 5: from the Tory Cabinet, from top level people in the
28:45
Speaker 5: Labor and Liberal Democrat Party, from corporate consulting, the charity sector,
28:50
Speaker 5: all over the place. If you look at their trustees,
28:52
Speaker 5: it's very much the same. Lots of people very close
28:54
Speaker 5: to Tony Blair, Peter Manblson. You get the picture. They're
28:58
Speaker 5: all united by a common purpose. I think it's fair
29:01
Speaker 5: to say. And actually Demos is very closely aligned to
29:05
Speaker 5: Common Purpose.
29:06
Speaker 4: They used to share an office back.
29:08
Speaker 5: In the early nineties, and they certainly share an ideological perspective,
29:13
Speaker 5: not least because of this man. This is Jeff Mulgan
29:16
Speaker 5: who founded Demos in the early nineties. He run it
29:19
Speaker 5: until nineteen ninety eight, and he's a very close friend
29:22
Speaker 5: and collaborator of Julia Middleton, who was the founder of
29:26
Speaker 5: Common Purpose. And Demos, where Mulgan was the founder, is
29:31
Speaker 5: now run.
29:32
Speaker 4: By this lady, Polly Curtis. She's the chief executive.
29:36
Speaker 5: He's a former journalist, as we'll come back to a
29:40
Speaker 5: little bit later on, and she is extraordinarily influential right
29:44
Speaker 5: now in the current progressive liberal paradigm that we're in
29:49
Speaker 5: running our country, and a lot of that is driven
29:53
Speaker 5: out of their thought leadership, the policy statements that the
29:56
Speaker 5: Demos issues. I'm just going to flag up three reports
29:59
Speaker 5: that they put out since the Labor government came to
30:03
Speaker 5: power in the summer. Actually, the first one you can
30:06
Speaker 5: see that Only we Can Save the State, that came
30:08
Speaker 5: out in June, so that was just before the election.
30:11
Speaker 5: And these are really important to get to grips with,
30:14
Speaker 5: right because Demos is essentially setting out the policy agenda
30:17
Speaker 5: that is driving the country forward. So this first report,
30:20
Speaker 5: Only we Can Save the State, operates on the principle
30:23
Speaker 5: that the state can fund itself by making friends with
30:27
Speaker 5: international investment capital and flogging off national assets.
30:31
Speaker 1: Right.
30:31
Speaker 5: It's a key tenet of their economic policy. The second
30:36
Speaker 5: report that they put out that I'm going to draw
30:38
Speaker 5: your attention to is this one, which is the Future
30:41
Speaker 5: of Inheritance Tax, which came out in July, the premise
30:45
Speaker 5: of which is that the state can fund itself by
30:47
Speaker 5: increasing the amount of wealth it steals from families when
30:50
Speaker 5: people die. And that includes in that document, by the way,
30:52
Speaker 5: a reference to increasing inheritance tax on farms. I'm not
30:56
Speaker 5: saying that's the only place that that came from. Who
31:00
Speaker 5: certainly would have been influential in the recent government announcements
31:03
Speaker 5: about increasing inheritance tax on farmers and in the final report.
31:07
Speaker 5: This is a crucial one. This came out last week
31:10
Speaker 5: This is called the Reform Dividend, a roadmap to liberate
31:15
Speaker 5: public services. That word liberate is going to come up
31:19
Speaker 5: again and again, right, So it's in this report, and
31:21
Speaker 5: I started to see this pop up absolutely everywhere. They
31:24
Speaker 5: want to liberate public services. They want to free public
31:27
Speaker 5: services from the shackles that have been placed upon them, right.
31:31
Speaker 5: And the premise of that report is the state can
31:33
Speaker 5: massively increase its power by breaking down internal silos, cutting
31:39
Speaker 5: across departments, implementing new rules, and importantly investing huge amounts
31:44
Speaker 5: of money in building digital surveillance and control systems, a
31:48
Speaker 5: lot of that being centrally coordinated out of the Cabinet Office.
31:54
Speaker 6: Right.
31:54
Speaker 5: And actually this was launched last week by Georgia Gold,
31:58
Speaker 5: who is the Cabinet Office Minister. Spoken about her, I
32:01
Speaker 5: think for the past two or three weeks on the
32:03
Speaker 5: trot now.
32:04
Speaker 4: Actually he's a very very important lady.
32:06
Speaker 5: You can see her here on stage at the launch
32:09
Speaker 5: event alongside poly Curtis, side by side. And one of
32:13
Speaker 5: the things that she said was that when the rules
32:15
Speaker 5: at the center are blocking services from delivering for people,
32:19
Speaker 5: we need to change those rules. Georgia Gold is there
32:22
Speaker 5: to change the rules that our country runs by it
32:27
Speaker 5: all right. This is a total transformation off central, regional
32:31
Speaker 5: and local governance defined by Demos and poly Curtis and
32:36
Speaker 5: being implemented by Georgia Gold and her colleagues at the
32:40
Speaker 5: Cabinet Office. As I mentioned, we've spoken about George Gold
32:43
Speaker 5: a lot recently, and we.
32:45
Speaker 4: Can see this still.
32:46
Speaker 5: If you're a regular viewer, you will remember this because
32:49
Speaker 5: this is still taken from another Demos event which happened.
32:52
Speaker 4: At the end of last year. We can see here
32:54
Speaker 4: Gold sitting.
32:55
Speaker 5: Directly next to Lisa Witter, the chief executive of a
32:59
Speaker 5: political foundation, who've just been engaged by the Cabinet Office
33:02
Speaker 5: to completely rethink the entire future vision, the long term
33:06
Speaker 5: vision for the country, and they're going to use democratic innovation,
33:11
Speaker 5: these pseudo democratic techniques to run through all of this stuff.
33:15
Speaker 5: They're going to do that working with people like Claudia
33:18
Speaker 5: Challis there from Democracy Next right, And all of this
33:22
Speaker 5: is funded through similar networks, so Open Society's Foundation, Rockefeller Foundations,
33:27
Speaker 5: where a lot of this stuff is being handed down
33:29
Speaker 5: from now just back to poly Curtis.
33:32
Speaker 4: This is really important, right.
33:33
Speaker 5: So, as I said, she was a journalist and she
33:35
Speaker 5: actually used to work for the Tortoise Media, where she focused,
33:38
Speaker 5: amongst other things, on issues such as child abuse, child
33:42
Speaker 5: abduction by the family court system, including this eight past
33:45
Speaker 5: series that she did called Separated, which is worth going
33:50
Speaker 5: to take a look at, and also importantly this podcast
33:55
Speaker 5: which was released in twenty twenty two about the supposed
34:01
Speaker 5: Satanic ritual abuse hoax as they call it in Hampstead,
34:06
Speaker 5: North London, which I think Brian, you've got a few
34:09
Speaker 5: words that you'd like to say about now.
34:11
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Thanks very much for that, Ben. So we
34:15
Speaker 1: got this very very powerful media setup going on. They
34:21
Speaker 1: focused on Hampstead and this was the series itself. It
34:26
Speaker 1: was six audio episodes. I'm going to say I found
34:31
Speaker 1: the whole thing very very offensive, not least because it
34:35
Speaker 1: was delivered as a docu drama. You weren't too sure
34:39
Speaker 1: what was true and what was not. But several times,
34:43
Speaker 1: when this thing is about the abuse of children, it
34:47
Speaker 1: had a salacious feel to it. There was almost a
34:50
Speaker 1: mocking of the subject. Now, let's not forget it wasn't
34:54
Speaker 1: Tortoise Media in the first instance. It was Channel four
34:58
Speaker 1: commissioning a queue use the Hampstead pedophile hoax from Story Films,
35:03
Speaker 1: So we've got Tortoise Media, we've got Story Films, and
35:07
Speaker 1: in it they deliberately smear a variety of people, but
35:12
Speaker 1: two I found very offensive as to what they'd done
35:16
Speaker 1: was to attack two perfectly good police officers, Ray Savage
35:20
Speaker 1: and John Wedger's, both of which John Wedger taking the lead,
35:25
Speaker 1: had stood up to speak out for children being abused
35:29
Speaker 1: and the cover up of child abuse by the state.
35:32
Speaker 1: But Channel four and its agents of Tortoise and Story
35:38
Speaker 1: Films decided to smear them in the delivery of the audio.
35:45
Speaker 1: And of course they also gave me a mention, and
35:48
Speaker 1: I have to say that they weren't brave enough to
35:50
Speaker 1: come and talk to me or interview me. I simply
35:54
Speaker 1: have my name dropped into this poisonous challenge Chalice produced
35:59
Speaker 1: by Tortoise Media. So this is how it appears actually
36:05
Speaker 1: on their channel. So six docudrama episodes, audio episodes, but
36:12
Speaker 1: not one mention of the key medical evidence that both
36:16
Speaker 1: children had been sexually abused. This was completely left out,
36:21
Speaker 1: and therefore we have lies in this production by a
36:25
Speaker 1: mission and I can only believe that this was deliberately
36:29
Speaker 1: done to once again cover up the fact that children
36:33
Speaker 1: are being sexually abused and the authorities who should protect
36:37
Speaker 1: the children cover up. Ben I think you've got one
36:41
Speaker 1: more last slide to cover here.
36:45
Speaker 5: Absolutely yes, so hoaxed. We've mentioned Tortoise Media, We've mentioned
36:50
Speaker 5: in a Channel four. It was also selected as the
36:54
Speaker 5: top podcast of twenty twenty two by The Guardian, who
36:59
Speaker 5: said it was just.
37:00
Speaker 4: Clever, compelling and measured.
37:01
Speaker 5: It was also frankly terrifying and taught US media have
37:06
Speaker 5: very close links to The Guardian, not least because poly
37:09
Speaker 5: Curtis used to work there, but also because of a
37:11
Speaker 5: commercial relationship that they've just entered into, which we're going
37:14
Speaker 5: to talk about a little bit later in the show.
37:16
Speaker 5: But just to summarize what we're looking at here is
37:19
Speaker 5: a clandestine network of extremely high powered media and political
37:23
Speaker 5: figures investing huge amounts of time and energy and covering
37:27
Speaker 5: up satanic ritual abuse, who were also at the same
37:31
Speaker 5: time writing the policy agenda that's being implemented by the
37:34
Speaker 5: people currently running the country.
37:36
Speaker 4: Absolutely astonishing, well, that's the correct description.
37:41
Speaker 1: Worrying and astonishing. Thank you for that, Ben, Well. What
37:45
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So Sunday evening, beginning six pm, the second annual
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Speaker 7: Yes, hello, Mike, Brian Ben everyone, thanks for having me
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think a little bit of UK column dark
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Speaker 7: humor sarcasm is potentially appropriate for today's So I've got
41:00
Speaker 7: a little bit for you from our own Dictator. He's
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Speaker 7: got two new parts to his Sustainable Development Goals videos
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Speaker 7: that he's been very busy creating down there in Plymouth.
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Speaker 7: So let's watch part three and part four and then
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Speaker 7: I'll give you some other reasons to be optimistic about
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Speaker 7: Agenda twenty thirty.
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Speaker 8: Sorry the Dictator, UK Columns, the UN seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, Industry,
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Speaker 8: Innovation and Infrastructure.
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Speaker 4: Time to level up.
41:31
Speaker 8: If Old Granny's can't figure out the self service checkouts.
41:33
Speaker 8: They get lethally electrocuted to make way for the kids
41:35
Speaker 8: who order a Nigerian Uberys drive a drive from London
41:38
Speaker 8: back to Nigeria to deliver Attacko reduced inequalities. If you're
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Speaker 8: a straight white devil, we'll get paid in ebook tokens os,
41:44
Speaker 8: Ethnic minorities and queer folk get reparations in the form
41:47
Speaker 8: of colorful badges and stays at Hilton because everyone deserves
41:50
Speaker 8: to drink of my tie.
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Speaker 4: On a balcony.
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Speaker 8: Even new sustainable cities and communities smart cities will transform
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Speaker 8: your lives and movements into viciously police one hundred yard
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Speaker 8: square in a delightfuly symmetric ecomikeable, neat and tidy box
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Speaker 8: of or why would you ever want to leave paradise?
42:06
Speaker 4: Eh?
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Speaker 7: And then I believe we have a part for as
42:12
Speaker 7: well that explains exactly what's going to be so good
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Speaker 7: for us.
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Speaker 8: The Dictator UK columns the u N seventeen Sustainable Development Goals,
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Speaker 8: responsible consumption and production carbon credit cards will come in,
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Speaker 8: meaning that if you so much as buy a penny
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Speaker 8: sweet over your hourly allowance and color of your electric
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Speaker 8: supply for a month, not so griedy Now climate action
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Speaker 8: Mucky commoners will store everything, even baked beans, in reusable
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Speaker 8: head satchels and pay for a minute by minute air
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Speaker 8: supply as we've fat controllers, cuift shampas and our manches,
42:41
Speaker 8: fueling our vein bonfires with your repossessed furniture. Life below
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Speaker 8: water synergy. No more push and chips view sunshine. The
42:48
Speaker 8: new national dish will be locusts and chickpeas. Coastal uturbflications
42:51
Speaker 8: cause crustacean walkouts. We can't have these crabs on strike
42:54
Speaker 8: and disrupts my chakras synergy.
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Speaker 7: So what I'd like to do now is to take
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Speaker 7: us into a UN video that covers the twenty twenty
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Speaker 7: four Sustainable Development Goal updates. And it's a little bit longer,
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Speaker 7: but I would like to keep that same spirit in
43:14
Speaker 7: your mind that dictator gives to us when you watch
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Speaker 7: this video, and we'll see how pathetic you and actually
43:19
Speaker 7: look because they are way be high where they want
43:21
Speaker 7: to be for gender twenty thirty.
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Speaker 9: The Sustainable Development Goals Report twenty twenty four a moment
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Speaker 9: of choice and consequence. With just six years remaining, current
43:38
Speaker 9: progress falls far short of what is required to meet
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Speaker 9: the SDGs. The report reveals that only seventeen percent of
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Speaker 9: the SDG targets are on track, with nearly half showing
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Speaker 9: minimal or moderate progress and over one third stalled or regressing.
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Speaker 9: The Convergence of multiple global crisis has severely hindered progress.
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Speaker 9: The lingering impacts of the COVID nineteen pandemic, escalating conflicts,
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Speaker 9: geopolitical tensions, and growing climate chaos have severely hindered progress.
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Speaker 9: We must expand on successes to drive accelerated action. We're
44:33
Speaker 9: seeing significant progress in reducing child mortality, HIV prevention, and
44:40
Speaker 9: access to water, sanitation, and energy. We are at a
44:48
Speaker 9: critical moment of choice and consequence. We need bold action.
44:52
Speaker 9: Four Peace, resolving conflicts through dialogue and diplomacy, Financial support,
45:02
Speaker 9: reforming a global financial system to support developing countries, implementation surge,
45:09
Speaker 9: investing in critical areas like food, energy, social protection, digital connectivity,
45:15
Speaker 9: and the law. We must empower women and gos.
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Speaker 7: So as we can see here they're getting a bit desperate.
45:25
Speaker 7: I'm afraid of the one hundred and sixty nine targets.
45:28
Speaker 7: One hundred and thirty five can be assessed from twenty
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Speaker 7: fifteen to now. But if you read the details that
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Speaker 7: are in this fifty page report. It actually says that
45:35
Speaker 7: due to new data and revised methodologies, the year's progress
45:39
Speaker 7: assessment is not comparable to those of previous years. So
45:42
Speaker 7: if they've changed their methodologies and we're still behind and
45:45
Speaker 7: we've only accomplished seventeen percent of these seventeen sustainable development
45:50
Speaker 7: goals leading up to Agenda twenty thirty, I think they're
45:52
Speaker 7: starting to panic just a little bit. And I think
45:55
Speaker 7: that's good news for all of us, and I think
45:57
Speaker 7: we should continue this particular direction. And the idea of
46:01
Speaker 7: where the progress is just really isn't there. If we
46:04
Speaker 7: look at this next little graph here, This was showed
46:07
Speaker 7: pre a little bit of the video, So we have
46:10
Speaker 7: seventeen percent on track, seventeen percent, regression, eighteen percent, eighteen percent,
46:15
Speaker 7: thirty percent. It looks like a nice little half I
46:18
Speaker 7: don't know, half donut. Doesn't really look like anything scientific
46:22
Speaker 7: or statistical, So I'm not quite sure where they're getting
46:25
Speaker 7: this from. If we look through the report itself, what
46:28
Speaker 7: I did is I looked at everything about so called
46:32
Speaker 7: COVID being a problem. So there's our favorite Coroni, our
46:35
Speaker 7: mask Karni there to help us out a little bit,
46:38
Speaker 7: and we see here that you know, literally billions of
46:41
Speaker 7: dollars since twenty twenty to twenty twenty two has gone
46:44
Speaker 7: to what they are calling COVID nineteen control. But if
46:47
Speaker 7: you look throughout the report there'll be linked in the
46:50
Speaker 7: show notes, you can see several examples of how COVID
46:53
Speaker 7: has caused world hunger, how it's caused starvation, It's caused
46:57
Speaker 7: everyone to be miserable generally speaking. It's caused children not
47:01
Speaker 7: to be able to be educated because COVID's gotten the
47:04
Speaker 7: way of that as well. And again, just once again,
47:06
Speaker 7: as we keep doing to emphasize the importance on the
47:09
Speaker 7: climate finance in this whole situation. An important quote from
47:13
Speaker 7: this particular report says that mobilizing financial resources is crucial
47:18
Speaker 7: for driving global recovery and achieving the SDGs. In twenty
47:22
Speaker 7: twenty three, the annual SDG investment gap in developing countries
47:25
Speaker 7: was estimated at about four trillion dollars, with over half
47:29
Speaker 7: or two point two trillion dollars needed for the energy
47:32
Speaker 7: transition alone. The current investment gap is sixty percent higher
47:36
Speaker 7: is on the two point five trillion estimated in twenty nineteen,
47:40
Speaker 7: so a lot has happened there in five years. As
47:43
Speaker 7: we see here, it's telling us twenty twenty three was
47:45
Speaker 7: the hottest year on record. I'm sure that the statistics
47:48
Speaker 7: in the graph has been seriously skewed based on the
47:51
Speaker 7: data they've chosen, on the time period that they've chosen
47:53
Speaker 7: as well, so they're very selective. And what they're showing
47:56
Speaker 7: us number thirteen, which is climate action, we're seeing here
47:59
Speaker 7: that according to their legend, none of them are on track.
48:02
Speaker 7: And of course this is the most important one out
48:04
Speaker 7: of our seventeen because we know that's where the finances
48:07
Speaker 7: are coming from. So if you want a little bit more,
48:11
Speaker 7: if you want to learn more, thanks to Kenny for
48:13
Speaker 7: pointing this out. If you get a Samsung phone, it
48:16
Speaker 7: now comes pre loaded with a Global Balls apps you
48:19
Speaker 7: can see exactly what they're doing, and I've got some
48:22
Speaker 7: other links to the show notes for you if you
48:23
Speaker 7: want to do your own research into these indicators and
48:26
Speaker 7: targets and to see where they are, and you might
48:28
Speaker 7: feel little bit.
48:28
Speaker 4: Better once you look at them.
48:31
Speaker 1: Daine, thank you for that. I shall be ditching my
48:33
Speaker 1: phone immediately. Scrap the app, I think, scrap the app,
48:38
Speaker 1: Scrap the phone. Ben welcome back, and you've got more
48:43
Speaker 1: on Tortoise Media. The sheer power of this organization phenomenal.
48:48
Speaker 4: Isn't it.
48:49
Speaker 5: Just yeah, And they've basically come out of nowhere. I
48:51
Speaker 5: first came across them in August I think last year,
48:54
Speaker 5: and they're now essentially entering into a strategic partnership with
48:58
Speaker 5: Gardian Media. All right, their interests have merged right For me,
49:03
Speaker 5: this feels like a reverse takeover of one of the
49:06
Speaker 5: most powerful media groups in the UK and by extension
49:09
Speaker 5: of that on Earth by Tortoise Media, who've basically come
49:12
Speaker 5: out of nowhere. Let's just quickly remind ourselves who taught
49:16
Speaker 5: us are so they are a new media organization founded
49:19
Speaker 5: in twenty eighteen by that fella on stage there on
49:22
Speaker 5: the left hand side. That's James Harding, former BBC, former Times,
49:26
Speaker 5: very powerful gentleman and you can see him there at
49:30
Speaker 5: the Tortoise Responsible AI Forum at Waterston House near Aylesbury.
49:36
Speaker 5: Waterston House is owned by the Rothchild family. That takes
49:40
Speaker 5: us to the Rothchild Foundation, the ballfour Declaration to Israel
49:44
Speaker 5: Yashan anddiv which is the Israeli iteration of the Rothchild Foundation,
49:51
Speaker 5: which built the Supreme Court and the Kinesset right, and
49:54
Speaker 5: you can see where this is all going to. And
49:56
Speaker 5: it's funded by a huge number of corporate in interest
50:00
Speaker 5: So Tortoise this is not Yad Hannahdeeve. So Tortoise is
50:04
Speaker 5: backed by BCG e Y, Deloitte, Edelman, the Church of England.
50:09
Speaker 5: Obviously we need to get them in the mix. McDonald's, Unilever,
50:12
Speaker 5: the Rockefeller Foundation. So this is prime corporate and establishment
50:17
Speaker 5: money being put into this new media organization. And it
50:22
Speaker 5: has come out of nowhere, as I said, in a
50:24
Speaker 5: very short amount of time, and it's popped its head
50:26
Speaker 5: up very recently into the potential acquisition of The Observer,
50:32
Speaker 5: which is the world's oldest Sunday paper, which is two
50:36
Speaker 5: hundred and thirty three years old, and it's been owned
50:38
Speaker 5: by the Guardian Guardian Media Group since nineteen ninety three,
50:43
Speaker 5: and they announced that they'd entered into negotiations for Tortoise
50:48
Speaker 5: to buy The Observer. The staff at the Guardian were
50:51
Speaker 5: absolutely up in arms about this, so they actually voted
50:55
Speaker 5: for a forty eight hour walkout over the sale to
50:58
Speaker 5: Tortoise Media. So there were five hundred journalists at the
51:01
Speaker 5: Guardian who were members of the National Union of Journalists
51:05
Speaker 5: and about four hundred of them took part in this
51:07
Speaker 5: stripe ballot and ninety three percent of those voted for
51:11
Speaker 5: strike action. Right, so there's overwhelming opposition amongst staff for
51:15
Speaker 5: this takeover beer that actually led to strikes last week.
51:19
Speaker 5: So this was happening on Thursday and Friday outside of
51:22
Speaker 5: the Guardian office there on Newark Way in central London.
51:26
Speaker 5: Did it achieve anything, No, we didn't achieve anything at all,
51:29
Speaker 5: because on Friday, while the strike was still happening, the
51:32
Speaker 5: Guardian announced that the sale of the Observati at Taltis
51:36
Speaker 5: Media has been agreed in principle and the article actually
51:40
Speaker 5: does state in the last line that the timing of
51:42
Speaker 5: the decision before the end of two extremely well supported
51:45
Speaker 5: days of action is particularly shabby. Yes, it is shabby.
51:48
Speaker 4: The Guardian.
51:50
Speaker 5: Then on Saturday we had this statement again published via
51:53
Speaker 5: The Guardian, which is from Ollie Jacob Sunder, who was
51:57
Speaker 5: the Norwegian chairman of the Scotch Trust who owned Guardian
52:01
Speaker 5: media groups. Quite a complicated ownership structures, a lot of
52:05
Speaker 5: people involved here, but he went on to say that
52:08
Speaker 5: we want what's best for the Observer and the Guardian.
52:10
Speaker 5: That's what the deal with Tortoise makes sense, and importantly
52:16
Speaker 5: though the devil, as they say, is in the detail.
52:19
Speaker 4: He goes on to say that.
52:20
Speaker 5: That decision was based on several non negotiable conditions for
52:24
Speaker 5: the Scott Trust. We would stay on as a part
52:27
Speaker 5: owner of The Observer with a seat on editorial and
52:32
Speaker 5: commercial boards.
52:33
Speaker 3: Right.
52:33
Speaker 5: So this isn't a clear cut sale of the Observer
52:36
Speaker 5: to Torsis Media, which was what was originally been proposed.
52:40
Speaker 5: We've actually now got a situation where the Scott Trust,
52:43
Speaker 5: Guardian Media Group and Tortoise Media have in effect merged
52:48
Speaker 5: with each other. Right, So all of those vested corporate interests,
52:51
Speaker 5: the Rothchild family, all of the people circulating around Tortoise
52:56
Speaker 5: now actually directly connected to rategic and the commercial and
53:02
Speaker 5: the editorial direction of one of the most powerful media
53:05
Speaker 5: organizations on earth.
53:07
Speaker 4: Absolutely astonishing development.
53:10
Speaker 1: Ben, You're doing some really great work pointing this out.
53:13
Speaker 1: And if the media is out of control, which it
53:16
Speaker 1: certainly is in UK, of course truth is out of
53:18
Speaker 1: control and it's beholden on all of us to call
53:21
Speaker 1: these people or bring them to book. I just wanted
53:25
Speaker 1: to say that an astute person in the chat box
53:27
Speaker 1: said that they hope Tartus Media becomes a shell of
53:31
Speaker 1: its former self, which I thought was quite an astute comment. Diane,
53:35
Speaker 1: Let's bring you back in because at the end of
53:37
Speaker 1: the day, the future is about our children and are
53:43
Speaker 1: our children safe?
53:49
Speaker 4: You're mureed Dan, I'm.
53:53
Speaker 7: Not sure they're safe in Scotland, Bryant. I wanted to
53:57
Speaker 7: go a little bit back to the report that you
53:58
Speaker 7: did a couple of weeks ago on LGBT Youth Scotland,
54:02
Speaker 7: when you were talking about Rosie Millard stepping down as
54:05
Speaker 7: the chair of BBC's Children that Need charity as she
54:09
Speaker 7: was investigating what was going on with LGBTU Scotland. And
54:12
Speaker 7: so I have a short clip from her from an
54:14
Speaker 7: interview from last week talking about the charity, and then
54:18
Speaker 7: I have some additional reports to give on this.
54:22
Speaker 6: If that is being a tough then I'm proud to
54:24
Speaker 6: be one. I discovered that BBC Children Need was funding
54:29
Speaker 6: LGBT Youth Scotland, which is a Scottish wide medium sized
54:36
Speaker 6: charity which has had a lot of problems which I
54:42
Speaker 6: felt would bring Children Need into reputational damage. It was
54:48
Speaker 6: founded by a convicted pedophile. After that, it had historic
54:54
Speaker 6: accuations of child abuse. And then this summer it was
54:59
Speaker 6: found that another convicted pedophile had been working for it
55:03
Speaker 6: recently as a volunteer and had written a guide, a
55:07
Speaker 6: coming out guide for it. I also felt that it
55:11
Speaker 6: was in its official statements for the Charity Commission, this
55:18
Speaker 6: charity LGBTU Scotland is meant to focus on well specifically
55:25
Speaker 6: for young people age from thirteen to twenty five, and
55:28
Speaker 6: yet I discovered that it was working in forty primary
55:33
Speaker 6: schools across Scotland.
55:40
Speaker 7: So quite concerning that they're in the primary schools, and
55:43
Speaker 7: so I wanted to do a little bit more research
55:45
Speaker 7: to sort of justify what she said and see what's
55:47
Speaker 7: actually going on. So first of all, I want to
55:49
Speaker 7: talk about the accounts.
55:50
Speaker 4: The funding.
55:51
Speaker 7: I'm not sure why they needed money from the BBC
55:54
Speaker 7: in the first place, because already, if you look at
55:56
Speaker 7: their accounts and Companies House up to thirty first of
55:58
Speaker 7: March twenty twenty four, they had over two one million
56:02
Speaker 7: pounds of income and over two million pounds of expenditure.
56:07
Speaker 7: Four hundred and eighty five thousand of that approximately came
56:10
Speaker 7: from grants directly from the SMP Scottish government. One point
56:15
Speaker 7: four million almost came from other grants including Scottish local authorities,
56:19
Speaker 7: which would be coming from the schools that are paying
56:22
Speaker 7: for them to come in with their charter, which i'll
56:23
Speaker 7: talk about.
56:24
Speaker 4: In just a minute.
56:25
Speaker 7: A six hundred and eighty six thousand from various trust
56:28
Speaker 7: and foundations and three hundred and thirty three thousand from
56:32
Speaker 7: NHS related to organizations. And I want to say that
56:35
Speaker 7: I have some people that I know personally on the
56:41
Speaker 7: Scottish Unions for Education, for example doctor Jenny Cunningham, who
56:44
Speaker 7: have done an interview with previously about the CAT Review.
56:47
Speaker 7: She's an expert as a retired pediatrician talking about the
56:51
Speaker 7: dangers of h rey blockers medically that there's no evidence
56:55
Speaker 7: for them, that the CAT Review confirmed this, that there's
56:57
Speaker 7: no evidence for them. But LGBTs Scotland are still going
57:01
Speaker 7: ahead and pushing with this agenda, saying it's the right
57:04
Speaker 7: thing to do, it's inclusive for trans kids, we have
57:07
Speaker 7: to do it, and supporting the breast binders, the puberty blockers,
57:11
Speaker 7: the surgical interventions, the Sandyford Clinic which is the equivalent
57:15
Speaker 7: to the tabstock that's up here in Scotland, and so
57:19
Speaker 7: looking at the information around the primary schools there have
57:24
Speaker 7: been these might have been the report from the Sunday Post.
57:26
Speaker 7: A couple of weeks ago. Eastern Barkshire Council, which is
57:29
Speaker 7: outside of Glasgow, did report that two primary schools, milk
57:32
Speaker 7: Gai Primary School and Creigde Primary School outside of Glasgow,
57:36
Speaker 7: had signed up to this LGBT charter. So I decided
57:40
Speaker 7: to look a little bit further into other primary schools
57:43
Speaker 7: that might be doing this. I will say to the
57:45
Speaker 7: credit of Eastern Barkshire Pam Ghostl who is an MSP
57:49
Speaker 7: in that area. She was spoken She's from Glasgow, but
57:53
Speaker 7: she was speaking out in terms of we need to
57:55
Speaker 7: stop this. Why are we putting this into the primary schools.
58:00
Speaker 7: Just a short video clip that LGBT Youth Scotland posted
58:03
Speaker 7: on its YouTube channel six years ago of primary school
58:07
Speaker 7: children creating a rainbow flag. We also have from twenty
58:27
Speaker 7: twenty Glynn Coates Primary School which is in Paisley. They
58:32
Speaker 7: were signed up to the LGBT Charter as of twenty
58:34
Speaker 7: twenty and in twenty twenty they had a drake show
58:37
Speaker 7: at the school by a drake performer called flow Job
58:41
Speaker 7: and they eventually had to issue an apology that the
58:44
Speaker 7: VBC published at the Daily Mail and other mainstream sources
58:47
Speaker 7: because that particular Drake performer had been shown doing very
58:51
Speaker 7: very explicit sexual things on social media. We have on
58:56
Speaker 7: the next one we have from Edinburgh twenty twenty three.
58:59
Speaker 7: We have a primary school called Castle View which was
59:03
Speaker 7: where skirt to school day, so we see boys there
59:05
Speaker 7: in skirts saying clothing has no gender, and that's taken
59:09
Speaker 7: directly from again once again tweeted out on social media
59:12
Speaker 7: with the children's faces everywhere. They have information on their
59:16
Speaker 7: YouTube channel new to BT Scotland about endorsing a diversity,
59:20
Speaker 7: talking about LGBT identities in early years and primary school
59:24
Speaker 7: and a whole video on how to do that. If
59:26
Speaker 7: we look at some of the pricing structures this is
59:28
Speaker 7: to sign up to the charter. You can see the
59:31
Speaker 7: prices here for primary and for secondary schools. So once
59:34
Speaker 7: again more evidence that they are going to children I'm
59:37
Speaker 7: sure below age thirteen, which already is still underage and
59:40
Speaker 7: too young anyway. The LGB Charter itself is supposed to
59:44
Speaker 7: help safeguard these children, but really what it gets down
59:49
Speaker 7: to is their use of the United Nations Convention on
59:52
Speaker 7: the Rights of the Child, which is now actually in
59:55
Speaker 7: Scottish law, there is a Scottish law from twenty twenty
59:57
Speaker 7: four now that basically says that this be part of
1:00:01
Speaker 7: our agenda through the Scottish government and LGBTU Scotland mentions
1:00:04
Speaker 7: privacy which includes children's right to change their gender without
1:00:08
Speaker 7: telling their parents. It talks about article and Arcle two
1:00:11
Speaker 7: and three of even CRC, which basically means the right
1:00:15
Speaker 7: to have the child above anything else and it basically
1:00:19
Speaker 7: circumvents the parents right to be able to say much
1:00:23
Speaker 7: of anything about it. And again we see this here.
1:00:26
Speaker 7: This is from the LGBTU Scotland about the rights including
1:00:29
Speaker 7: the right to privacy. You have the right to a
1:00:32
Speaker 7: private life as long as it is safe for you.
1:00:35
Speaker 7: And it emphasizes to these young people that they cannot
1:00:38
Speaker 7: have their rights taken away from them whatsoever. So I
1:00:43
Speaker 7: just want to say that, you know, we need to
1:00:45
Speaker 7: keep watching this particular organization. They are under investigation now
1:00:49
Speaker 7: by the Scottish Charity Regulator due to an anonymous complaint
1:00:53
Speaker 7: that was made about their recommendations going against the recommendations
1:00:57
Speaker 7: of the cast Review. And I am in content act
1:01:00
Speaker 7: with very informant people on the situation, so I will
1:01:03
Speaker 7: continue to report on this as I learned more.
1:01:05
Speaker 1: Thanks Diane, thank you very much. It's a tough subject,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: but it's a very important one. Somebody's just asked, why
1:01:13
Speaker 1: don't parents take their children out of these schools? And
1:01:16
Speaker 1: my response to that would be because many many parents
1:01:20
Speaker 1: simply trust the schools and they have no idea what
1:01:23
Speaker 1: happens to their children on a day to day basis.
1:01:26
Speaker 1: So if you're a parent with a young child, think
1:01:29
Speaker 1: about what we've just been telling you and make sure
1:01:31
Speaker 1: that your child is safe. That brings us to the
1:01:35
Speaker 1: end of today's news. As I say, momentus events in
1:01:38
Speaker 1: the world. We're going to do our best to cover
1:01:40
Speaker 1: what we think are the important issues, and hopefully on
1:01:44
Speaker 1: Wednesday we'll be able to get Vanessa on with Us
1:01:46
Speaker 1: Live to give some real detail to the events that
1:01:49
Speaker 1: have happened in Syria, but of course lots else happening
1:01:53
Speaker 1: as well, So big thank you Diane and also Ben,
1:01:57
Speaker 1: and a big thank you to our audience and supporters.
1:02:00
Speaker 1: We will be back with extra in a few minutes.
1:02:03
Speaker 1: Apart from that UKA column news on Wednesday, and I
1:02:08
Speaker 1: realized that I've for gotten say tomorrow at one o'clock
1:02:12
Speaker 1: will be live streaming an interview that I did with
1:02:17
Speaker 1: Sam Hill, and this is talking in very relaxed terms
1:02:21
Speaker 1: about why this pernicious, horrible news society is building around us,
1:02:27
Speaker 1: so look out for that. But thank you for joining
1:02:30
Speaker 1: us for the news today.
1:02:31
Speaker 2: Bye bye