400000. 00 about but their focus on the economy was Financial Services we looked at it again ireland the irish tiger you remember this phrase that was used at the time and we were looking at what was the secret to how did ireland manage to transform its economy from that was basically very much agriculture based into a completely modern one so we had the benefit of having of looking at that what were your portuguese then decisions were taken to invest heavily in the technology in the infrastructure in the day the use of data and ideas as fundamental Building Blocks in the meantime investing in our you were resources to have the right people in the right place and there you have basically the formula of our success what nice man dr collins were particularly like a story about the libyan jets landing at the airport lets have a look at that. It was at my office in the member it was about 3 oclock in the afternoon or thereabouts anyway i got this telephone call from our airport officials there tell me Prime Minister weve got a problem i mean pretty unusual for somebody to phone directed the Prime Minister you know this is us jets have just blended in who are only did our single you are single airport this is the only airport where our tourists land all the time and said that i sent them to picture all these International Flights landing in malta and seeing these 2 mirage jets part of the in the middle of the truck. And i said well both got out of the way and i said no were not going to touch them because these things are armed to the teeth and the advice weve been given by the technician is that if we touch anything the screw the whole thing could break up. Oh my goodness today i laugh about it but at the time i remember. Of course it has to be said theres a darker side to malta sort of we economic success we took up that issue in a 2nd program on malta. Of course economic success brings with it its own challenges the 1st as well the economic expansion the sustainable in this crowded island with rapid growth and population expansion the 2nd is does economic progress. White have to spotty between the rich and the poor and thirdly the mother in 2017 of investigative judgment was daft the. Through into sharp relief whether flood of dr money was in danger of undermining the political fabric of the Maltese Islands the arguments from the opposition and from newspapers critics of boat corruption in government is that another. Byproduct effect anomic success of theres a lot of money sloshing around in the system would you put it dont look there are there are several sections of corruption which are very worrying and we keep hearing this on a daily basis in the Panama Papers exposed Certain Senior people involved in something dodgy business and what happens is you get to a stage where now people are saying ok fine those people are corrupt but i still have money in my pockets. Which is quite a warring thing to to to to to see in my own country having said will if you take a world in the civil liberties. Motor ranks very highly minoltas up the in the top 20 in terms of official sea of government in terms of pluralism of the system in terms of freedom of the press so perhaps. Many other countries now will be the envy of the group of freedom that is in there to a certain extent remember this is a definition i want to let see on the journalist was killed you know 2 years ago things have changed as oh yes there is the freedom of the press we are free to report whatever we want and i have no problem with that the censorship comes in different. The censorship comes and we are asking legitimate questions to the governments and not getting in replies and in the last 2 weeks this whole issue has provoked the dramatic vote for a Prime MinisterJoseph Muscat despite the economic success of motor however we also took the time to take a brief look at the turbulent history of these Maltese Islands. The moment while calling me up mad as though seeing the prostitute shows great changes on the food in these islands with these changes nothing after the child given the history of the Maltese Islands over the last 2000 years successively the finishes the graph the journey of love the woman the cellular automata is the french of man the british also all the strategic importance of these islands and fought over them as we sail into the ground harbor of the ancient 3 cities of malta which was good to great siege of 50 and 65 we can see from these battlements when the forces of sort of on the mainland of the rise they knew they had the numbers but i was told going to be ample to fight the high deeds fortifications and so it was to prove were back to pick up the story of the. Museum because the one constant and multisystem is the seed. Emanuel tell us about this wonderful specimen of. A lot of growth here and it has a really wonderful object quite big as you can see its a working model from the late 18th century and this would have been used by the cadets of the order of the knights of st just makes us enjoy the 300 years were basically in charge of the side of these islands and of course they are a matter of time power above Everything Else so they need to train their young once how to operate the real thing so this would have been their virtual but real model everything works you can pull the pull the strain the same move the cannons so that eventually when you get on board the real thing you would have had the sense of how its going to work and i think its a beautiful and wonderful object that has recklessly surviving come home to us. So of malta was my favorite about chanel shows what about yourself hers but i liked another one which has become very topical and thats a feature of the chic us islanders and in particular will that community her majestys subjects cleared from the islands in the 1960 s. To make way for an American Air Force base every get the right to return to their homeland this was how we introduce the issue. Today we take a well deserved break from brakes it to visit the sun kissed the beaches of the indian ocean that is one problem with this island paradise the people have been replaced by an air force base for that has been the fate of the ship or since her majestys subjects cleared from the homeland half a century ago to make way for American Service personnel we consider how this bitter legacy of colonialism still impacts tittie we look at the human cost of a people cleared from the islands. Would you say that court ruling against britain was a step forward yes it is a step forward to go on our island and for that to happen we need to make the Great Britain to realise that they need to horner the rule of the law because they might as well ignore it and we do not want that we want all the nations to back us back they should go and. We need to go home and cannot sense of belonging only be satisfied with the community return to your own people of course but sense of belonging is not here at all for slow sense of belonging its like we are in a way weve been in it for 50 years weve been in a waiting room for 50 years weve been waiting weve been waiting for our local you wait this is a prison so this is a life sentence this is a life long wait. So the show silence a very long running of course continuing issue but whats coming up after the break well after the break well talk to that famous campaigner Medea Benjamin about the politics of protest internationally we also find out what is the most contented society on earth and by this gentleman had one of his favorite days on our show. Telling. Friends and i dont know maybe what a lot. Of about mikes they want to. Each simulating civilization would be able to using a tiny fraction of its resources. Hundreds of thousands millions of around the stall of Human History almost all. Beings without kinds of experiences with them to simulate that box rather than none simulated ones a conditional that arguably should think were probably one of the simulated ones. When there is only johnson. And i just got out of prison for. 41 has. 73 and so. I got arrested somebody. You know like this everything was taken out of. My work and. I think it was. Meant to snow man it looks a little bit like me. About. Homicide. Now. Were tough through this. So. They dont have to go. On the front try to try to. Do something about. Welcome back thats not discussing some of the highlights of the International Issues we featured the last years see these in our mini series on the politics of protest i didnt know most pleasure the speaking to one of the most celebrated company in those on the planet but dia benjamin asked medea if the social media had made this the new age of protest. Are we living through an of protest are we back in 1968 was it just to the social media everything that was happening across the world i think the protests around the climate are new and are global and are huge and are only going to grow as this is a planetary issue that affects us all but then in some other areas i think were seeing less for example we saw in the middle east all of the uprisings around the arab spring and that spread from one country to another but now that it looks like the results of those were not so positive i think thats put it damper on some other protests in the middle east for example so i think were constantly seeing ups and downs in protests but around the climate this is enormous and will only grow Medea Benjamin youre one of americas most celebrated activists across a range of causes in human rights how has your campaigning been affected by the social media age do you do things differently as a result of social media actually the issues that i am most involved in which is trying to stop wars have been harder to organize not critically because of the social media age but just because the wars have become so buzzy theyve gone on for the last 20 years its harder to get people out on the streets so i think social media can be a key to mobilizing like we see in hong kong but they also think that before social media we had enormous protests we had mass protests around civil rights issues in the United States when there was no facebook no twitter no instagram. What a remarkable leader however i pushed uk when judging our chapels we discovered the worlds most contented country was in fact denmark former maid of culture of copenhagen alice live told us why and how it won that accolade. You spent 6 years as a smear of cultural leisure here in copenhagen how important is a cultural aspect to the vibrancy of a great city like this well i think the cultural life in copenhagen is one of the reasons why we have been ranked as one of the best cities in the world of course you need they care centers you need great infrastructure and all that but its the cultural life is the lesser life its all the fun things that are important to a city the size of copenhagen at least maybe the city for the world cup it was the skyline much of the the architecture most of the time. Difficult for you to do well it was actually one of my 1st political decisions when i became mayor of cultural lesher back in 2008 and a former lord mayor she didnt want to keep the skyline she wanted to make it possible if the right project came that we could just put up a big building right in the center of the city but a majority of parties decided that no way we want to keep the skyline we want to keep what is very important and very special to copenhagen but we also wanted to make sure that of course we can build high buildings and spectacular New Buildings in the surroundings of the city but the old city has to remain the old city structure the pier for a visitor to the city like myself those wonderful as were the 1st into you noticed distinctively copenhagen but of course with the number of people coming and wanting to come to copenhagen to still be as a result the city success of must be quite a tension between not being able to build an accommodating the growing number of people well but i think that most people they prefer copenhagen like this because were building new fantastic areas in copenhagen with new very modern buildings i think a lot of people they were actually not like to live in the old city because you have all the past you have all the restaurants you have all the people in built cities so the people coming to copenhagen to live here they actually want to stay just a kilometer or 2 away from the from the center but still be able to go there and enjoy the life there so as were building i dont know really many many many apartments right now for for the new copenhagen. Seems like a year ago. You mentioned who would be the very special very serious of the link. As well doesnt cast you as a chip chip the last of brittany and the early stages of the war it is the largest market disaster in british history with more lives lost in the titanic and. The great naval and. With the loss of life. Is barely remembered. Just a few miles off the. Road on the 17th of june 1950. Minimum loss for. A military. Program for a member. Of the. Few remaining survivors who speak the relatives of those those who survived. Long struggle. And we try to the question of why the greatest naval. To the. You know the say of the sea is true. Not quite as cruel. Remember many. Long years. And shop and. Received. It told them to load as many men as possible without regard to the limits laid down by. More than 6000 people exhausted soldiers confused refugees on to the ship more than 3 times as established the limit at that point captain shah. Made a fateful decision to stay at anchor and not to make a dash for poor he was understandably frightened a destroyer escort his ship would be easy prey to your boats in the english channel. And never to believe as each month passes there are fewer of the like last year survivors alive to give witness to what actually happened on that fateful day of june the 17th 1940 even since we started filming we have lost 97 year old red blood in a stalwart of lancaster commemorations over the years and therefore today im privileged to be here not split to interview like last year survivor Royal Engineer basically 101 years young. Tom. In fact and 9 did not know me well a lot can. Walk. Over by about 60 when you know its a little less and less take you back to when you were on board the lancastrian the bombs went down the funnel the ship was packed to the gunnels with people well the old soldiers or world of civilians refugees other people nearly nearly all. Shoulders and nurses and there are 3. Everything on repaying owen and i. Some of my children will but i think the key thing to survival was was it just your luck was a fight you were the straw swell of was to your advantage of course but it was but some people would stay some people would jump because they didnt know what to do on the ship shank and are so ill sure was about to remember why i shower for our baggage jump in when why how could swim quite a bit past one provider 20 minutes then this row now is the cove where i come around and he said in striped poor me i know how charedi. A nice store down the barrel an issue on a rubber raft i know when or why. Are trying to enter the rubber roll and harm satan and nobodys barge covered in or will i hope comes from another about shiksha being god im with mayor what can the others was hanging on the saw its and our god crunch in my legs and now i have to stand up are and are stored up. Know i push me in the say i was a bit much you were not our 1st so you go well i dont like them because they thought you were going to destabilize the rough yes well so always start to swim towards a hill or cock south for y. And there was a row about come from show and hes coming towards my help and it comes sanely cause he calls back to me in a bit and he comes out and money go bit cross our shire are there oh were over here and you know only say me and he come over he said can you route all said yeah and then are now were coming this rope roller nivel corvette. I took a solemn board and i washed all the old off of us and then the other vehicle on. Their own saying and this cove that we was on he put us all on to the wrong say he hasnt. And. Then we set sail for england we want up implement. And we were always slightly from other people because they didnt want to talk about what happened when our grand how no one talked my parents about or said one of. Urgently thing about our. Because now you are from the begin to put it and a practice piper the for years afterwards if you said to some the i was on the lancastrian you very few people would know they were now now when can i talk about your medal so the serious medals here well good because you said right through the water i could see the control of metal you have is saying none of them has to do with the long catch all of a this was what happened to me after that would you like to have a medal signifies to learn our overtaking options are well it just so happens so the one with me and with great pleasure oh i see you have spirit and the spirit with has for in the low engineers my privilege to present a legend that is really nice or i certainly appreciate. Your 7 now on very pleased tom im here to talk to a paper by are taken talking so well our left the home shall please to spread. Well they sadly we have to put ernest passed away in november this year but we know for sure that we made a wonderful man very happy to see his Service Record recognized after all of these years. Makes we somewhat the Election Results of a prestigious part of the political pundits but no for the short this is how we summed up the story of the lancaster i was here on the banks of that of a played that our story has its beginning and it said this is where the past year was born as a time here in 1922 the name was changed to a few years later because american gas found it difficult to pronounce and just a few yards from here is where theyre like custer families finally achieved their Hearts Desire and 2011 by having a memorial built to those who died. Its difficult not to contrast the open hearted remembrance of the people brittany with the coverage in that mission of the authorities in these islands and by denying remembrance the rest to things. If you dont remember. Then you run the risk of repeating the mistake and secondly remember. For the loss of the loved ones. Well denied both. And in 2011 when the requiem for the finally arrived it was the people. Said it best. Dig the grave and let me lie. Did i live and gladly die and i will. Be the grain for me he lies we long to be home as a sailor home from the sea and. Home from the hill. Facebook and google started with a great idea and great ideals unfortunately it was also a very dark. They are constructing a profile of you and that profile is real its detailed and it never goes away turns out that google is manipulating your opinions from the very 1st character that you type into the search bar it will always favor one dog food over another. One comparative Shopping Service over another and one candidate over another they can suppress certain types of results geist on what they think you should be seen if they have this kind of power in democracy is it an illusion the free and Fair Election doesnt exist the more rote we give them the sooner we are all. Thats in the individual i think very much i have to do what i think is right i have to friend to defend my values i have to defend my principles and if i feel the state is not doing it according to what i think is the right thing them i have to stand up and say its not good enough and if i as a humanitarian feel that the next to me is not respected and treated in a dignified way then i have to also stand up in this regard so yes we have to do it despite that it is maybe a very long term fight and we are not necessarily winning that theres. A little bit of let me. Ask i wouldnt want to pick i could. Not have a meeting. Can you let loose the middle not. Tend to make it a secret dont want to. Do what they do have all of the kook on the standards of that not as you. Know most of the difficult. New of those damone. Much of this news tonight in 92 for not. So would you hire. U. K. Prime minister Boyce Johnson is on course for a landslide election victory according to exit poll. A dispute over a murder investigation. Time magazines person of the year 2000. Of the 16 year old climate change