your new book is so beautiful and eloquently written about britain's justice system. how difficult was it even to write a book at such a damning account of the judicial system here from the inside. to be honest with you, to spend a bit of time last year, just thinking about what a mess we've made of our justice, not just in the last few years, but books work from for centuries. we've spent time just, you know, looking people up for no reason trying to criminalize drugs with no good to really want and even put children in prisons, you know, from the police just insane. so we have a completely dysfunctional system, and i spent all these years with you on the side of the system. i just think it's about time the people on the outside notice not. you know, we covered the plight of julian, a songe, the weald famous journalist, the un special rapporteur, meals meltzer has been on this program at the edge and he was being tortured at belmont prison in london. you know, some people, i don't know, some mainstream media newspapers call it the holiday camps, these british presenc

making britain great again, will not be done under boris johnson. that is for sure, the man is ever more threadbare, constantly reinventing himself, going off on his hair brained schemes. now he's off. on a green card. he is going to in 9 years from now, just 9 years, make diesel and petrol cars illegal when we have absolutely no infrastructure to charge electric cars and electric cars are about 3 times the price that the average person in britain can afford. 'd this is his latest tweet, us, of course it's own look over there. it's to divert people's attention from the many and deep political and economic problems that britain now has imagined that if i keep britain together and you're against assassin, now what's going on in the world today is something fanaa. all that united been talking about now probably for 15 years. we've been friends, we've been talking about what i'm about to talk about here for 10 years. and that is something called bitcoin. and the reason i bring it up is that the u.s. comptroller of the currency says that the u.s. needs t

britain's power, that doesn't mean that i say that britain is going to drift off into the shadows. but i think it does mean that the government should come up with a program about projecting power about taking on new commitments about being a player in europe to make sure that it remains as as relevant and partner to the united states going forward as it has been in the past, well, as you make clear in the book, fronts a 0 oldest ally, and of course those are both brecht's that they say this is segregation. this is making it an international power when it comes to america 1st, i don't know how you've coped them with the way the trump presidency has been chronicled by so-called, mainstream media. you make it clear that this is much older than many of these journalists actually understand america. yeah, i mean, i am not a big fan of donald trump. i think his presidency has been very difficult for those of us who live here very difficult for the rest of the world. he's in some ways taken a wrecking ball to the world america made in cooperation with its allies after world war 2. but i

britain's power, that doesn't mean that i say that britain is going to drift off into the shadows. but i think it does mean that the government should come up with a program about projecting power about taking on new commitments about being a player in europe to make sure that it remains as, as relevant, a partner to the united states going forward as it has been in the past, well as you make clear in the book, francis 0 oldest. and of course those of all the bricks that they say, this is segregation. this is making it an international power when it comes to america 1st, i don't know how you've coped them with the way the trump presidency has been chronicled by so-called, mainstream media. you make it clear that this is much older than many of these journalists actually understand america. yeah, i mean, i am not a big fan of donald trump. i think his presidency has been very difficult for those of us who live here very difficult for the rest of the world. he's and some ways taken a wrecking ball to the world america made in cooperation with its allies after world war 2. but i do th

well, britain gives aid for those children. and regardless of the fact oxfam is alleging that the g 20 sales dwarf the actual aid being given, i think the oxfam report says of the g 20 arms sales to saudia 3 times the humanitarian aid money. surely you can criticize the british government for its response to the yemen, humanitarian catastrophe, because it gives so much aid. oh, absolutely, absolutely i'm. i'm very much on the, on, on the side of the, of the people and it gives of aid. and the agencies, of course, by legislators give more aid. but let us be very careful about south of our military exports. they have to be, they have, i think they should be, they should be stopped and to get international inquiry, which i think the united nations might might well carry out. this. i'm not for a moment criticising the amount of aid that we get. i am criticising our arms exports and the damage that they do the you've covered more as in your history of war reporting with the r.a.f. . i mean, how, how is it possible that if they are h

would griffith a very porter who has been raising the issue in britain 2nd chamber the house of lords thank so much not given for coming on using a seat in the house of lords to campaign for the expansion of free school meals what is it like to live on them. well when i was a small child i did little nym and the memory hasn't faded i was raised in a one parent family in poor circumstances and my mother was on benefits and the only money she had was the pittance that came from that benefit so she counted on this the preschool me at the. yard of the schools they went to and i know that when it came to the holidays sheba's fearful that she would not have the sort of budget that would allow it to put food on the table in a world of growing boys needs i remember the pentagon remember the fear right members haggard face a member of the anxieties just as much to do with a sense of impending doom as it is a part of what i ate and what i did the now of course you know that british prime minster of our strengths and says money has been given to local councils to help children universal credit t

here in britain either. not, no, no, i know, but they're all, they're all following this again, her up items women coming in and it's going to be, you know, back to back to the office chair. but i think that actually what's happening with iran is that biden is over, baby is asking for too much from the us. and he's saying he wants to bring in all of the gulf states, saudi arabia. israel must be, must be in agreement with that. the israeli ambassador said the combi an agreement, unless israel is at the table, they want to get rid of the sunset cross'. they want to change other aspects of it . i'm not sure that iran will do that, so they've made it very clear. they don't want to and what's changed is iran has new options as russia and china. more that the american administration of mr. trump attacked china and russia. so the closer that has brought them to iraq. iran has a pivotal in the planning both of russia and of china. and china has been investing large resources in europe in iran, quietly, but substanti

in town culture industry in britain we speak to enter shikari 0 reynolds about why he has written to u.k. john for the recent about saving the arts or was more coming up in today's going on the ground a 1st while the united states comes to terms with election 2020 nato partner britain is facing a coronavirus crisis england is on the eve of a national lockdown with the threat of a new me konami depression spiraling homelessness and suicide rates and children going hungry you give us johnson has refused to extend a free school meals program to over a 1000000 children which has sparked outrage across the political spectrum joining me now from london is labor lord griffiths of bari port who has been raising the issue in britain 2nd chamber the house of lords thanks so much not given for coming on using your seat in the house of lords to campaign for the expansion of free school meals what is it like to live on them. well when i was a small child i did little know him and the memory hasn't faded i was raised in a one parent family in poor circumstances and my mother was on benefits and th

well, let's just move over to britain. now of course, i should just say we want to talk about health. but jeremy coleman's been in the news here, an ally and supporter of your brother in the united states. what do you make of his attempts to get back into the british labor party on the sakia starmer? he's a cause to been accused of anti semitism here. similar to your brother being accused of anti semitism, arguably in the united states for wishing to support a resolution was on palestine. they didn't get away with it as it was just so far meant to suspend fowle at every point. and probably politically, we made a mistake in 03. around out. he said, well, why don't we do it already supported? strongly and certainly very important to the country. and colbert is an essential element. and i don't understand, marc farmer took shots are. 'd risky, politically, much less morally wrong. this is stammer, oversea, you know, is he has anything to do with the suspension of jeremy coleman from the labor party and that it was old to do w

we've not seen that here in britain because we have an ongoing inquiry. tell me about how action came to happen in the wake of the fire and the uncovering of corruption. the only way it happened is that there were the minister of house that was appointed after the journalist got a wonder that was trying to cover the company. was of a lot harder when the political party, so he was nonpolitical and that's why he had the courage to start before. now what you described in the beginning, what happened was the hospital and go with patients fighting a fire in a hospital. that hospital had had 8 managers in the last 10 months. so the political parties basically just erase everything that this young man had done as a muse or oath. and you know, they just appoint the managers into the hospitals to steal the money. and right now, for example, this young minister of health is part of a reformatory party that exists to use your media and they do whatever they can to block him out of the media. so that he doesn't cannot, you know, talk about anti-corruption and reformi

tell me what you wrote to health secretary here in britain, matt hancock. well, so we've been talking to the government for some time about, you know, how can we both mitigate some of the issues that are emerging in response to the pandemic. but also i think about investment that we need now and ask her of the government is really to make sure that mental health aren't sized as we go forwards . we've previously our space, i think a summer for them to consider across government approach so that you know, we're not just talking about health, we're talking about social care, how seeing welfare. so we've asked to do that. and now we're asking them to prioritise mental health of the nation. so i've joined 18 others chief executives to make that ask clear and central to policy making going forward. so mental health service is one prioritizing, the fast wave of coronavirus. here in britain, when i think it's fair to say that, you know, i am the pandemic in the 1st wave was, you know, a crisis, you know, this is a natural disaster. and so the response was very much

though there's no direct proven link to the scandalous britain report. some say perceptions of collective blame are damaging veterans' mental health. basically branded, every soldier sees all of the 3000 as murderers, and it's just not right. and it will have an awful impact on these people who are very vulnerable. afghanistan is not a normal war, it's not between it's a guerrilla warfare. the reality is they can't sending back these soldiers time and time again. and i think that was quite wrong. and that explains, i think it was happened. and you know, the politicians have a lot to answer for this and, and everyone's ducking for cover on the leadership has also made clear that responsibility must go up the ranks for what happened in afghanistan. accountability ris with those who allegedly broke the law. and with the chain of command responsible for the systemic failures involved. ironically, general campbell himself was in command of australian troops in the country from 2011 to 2012. when most of the killings in a broken report took place. even receivi

would be you and his colleagues why have you been unable to get that message across to people here in britain let alone to those crucial states that presumably trump will lose on the night the president went so i didn't want to surprise him victory and one of the reasons we can't get across is because 80 percent of the media is maniacally and i jumped to the point of tough the pathology i mean look at the censorship imposed on the hard drives with 80000 e-mails and text messages that was left behind by hunter biden and there's another one in boston they spent describing they also left behind now these these hard drives contain massive evidence of bribes espionage money laundering. i mean i can count to countries that joe biden was taking bribes from just from the just from the hard drive his son it makes it describes that. there's a complete censorship. done on that big check by the big networks by . by one of the big companies that do business with china is a real fear of offending china ok then for the 1st time in american history we have some kind of mess censorship done on behalf of the d

this is what happens to pensions in britain. you watch kaiser report. during the vietnam war, u.s. forces also bombed neighboring laos. it was a secret war. and for years the american people did not know how much it is the case. mouth can rebound country per capita. all human history. millions of unexploded bombs still in danger lives in this small agricultural country. jordyn wieber went on a canal, tap that then even today, kids in laos, full victim to bombs dropped decades ago. is the us making amends for that tragedy in laos? what helped to the people need in that little land on the world is driven by the dares thinks we dare to ask and it's been decades since the fall of spain's fascist regime, but old wounds still haven't healed me from a no go feed a market economy to me in the us at us as mean older than us and they seem thousands of newborn babies were torn from their mothers and given away and forced adoption. i don't really feel that i don't grow up as a fellow mentor to this day. mothers still search for grown children. adults look in hope for their birth parents. viole

and here in britain on b.b.c. 2 tomorrow focuses on the lives of bright graduates who enter the bailed out city of london for money their behavior in just acting with geopolitics like a potential u.s. china was.

what is your chill britain's back, amanda? she caved 1000 francs seen all morning to a government poll. the answer is yes. well one senior. the ones on 2 faxes could be banned from offices on public transport. we discuss whether forcing a back seat on a nation is the right way to go. speeding things of ensuring that people who choose to go to school. and if you are trying to would be draconian. what would be too difficult on the wild country lost the us for a double standard. soft to the sound of banks, a bill to change all those behind paying and support except in america's domestically just going to love him here in the russian capital for myself and the whole team at all to his age cue. a very warm welcome to the program. good to see you. well, to start us off this, our job money has adopted a new law allowing its authorities to impose tougher coronavirus related restrictions. but it didn't pass without incident, as you can see behind me inside the bundestag, m.p.'s 20 child to walk outside. the situation that protest is ag

so wanting great britain, the idea is still being bounced around. some nations in europe are already putting a road map in place to make the vaccination compulsory and denmark. a new academic rule could become a pumpkin and feature and allow police to administer the job by force for certain people groups. well, that's triggered widespread protests with reports now suggesting that copenhagen catch in fact, chalk on the plan. we took the idea of mandatory vaccinations, top panel of tax on sunday was against vaccinations on one city. my son was partly the situation since we should hold these parts. nations were necessary, but since cheney is still human, heart should be approved yet. so this law is being fast tracked and also great bizzare are the same governments ensuring that people cannot sue them, or we've actually gotten school anything which happens more. and he's as a result of this foxy. i think that we're in a real situation and that, you know, 56 years ago when you make a choice of whether or not you have actually in rio raised a major threat