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tennessee. it's great to have you here. >> i should have my passport stamped. we're about to see the biggest contrast you can a imagine, the president last night in montana, on his way to north dakota, and then of course barack obama in illinois, where he launched it all -- well, not that far from springfield, illinois, at least. what do we expect to hear from president obama? >> this is going to be a remarkable split screen, andrea, one that democrats and republicans have been anticipating, some of them dreaming about. what will we hear from former president obama? we're told no one is going to come away from his speech thinking that he held his punching. this is going to be a sharp, pointed speech about the state of democracy. he is going to be calling on democrats to get into the fray. i spoke with one of his advisers, who said, look, part of his message will be that democrats don't get engaged
exhibit after exhibit of what the trump era embodies. it's the rule of law, it's the cohen, the manafort, the mccain funeral, which was a very large bit of implication, and then you have barack obama who is arguably the most popular former president in democratic history. we should point out, as the president takes the stage, he is not the most popular democratic politician, that is michelle obama, who has her book coming out in november, and you'll have phil rucker, as we're about to go to the former president, this is the launch of the democratic campaign and there could not be a better spokesperson for the democrats right now, at least, than barack obama. let's listen. >> beans? i was trying to explain to somebody as we were flying in, that's corn.
the truth is after eight years in the white house, i needed to spend time one on one with michelle if i wanted to stay married. and she says hello, by the way. i also wanted to spend quality time with my daughters, who were suddenly young women on their way out the door. and i should add, by the way, now that i have a daughter in college, i can tell all the students here, your parents suffer. they cry privately. it is brutal. so please call. send a text. we need to hear from you, just alternates something. a little something form the truth was i was also intent on
following a wise american tradition of ex-presidents gracefully exiting the political stage and making room for new voices and new ideas. we have our first president, george washington, to thank for setting that example. after he led the colonies to victory as general washington, there were no constraints on him really. he was practically a god to those who had followed him into battle. there was no constitution. there were no democratic norms that guided what he should or could do, and he could have made himself all-powerful. he could have made himself potentially president for life. instead, he resigned as commander in chief and moved back to his country estate. six years later, he was elected
president, but after two terms, he resigned again and rode off into the sunset. the point washington made, the point that is essential to american democracy is that that in a government of and by and for the people there should be no permanent ruling class. there are only sit zents, who through their elected and temporary representatives determine or course and determine our character. i'm here today because this is one of those pivotal moments when every one of us as citizens of the united states need to determine just who it is that we are. just what it is that we stand
for. and as a fellow citizen, not as an ex-president, but as a fellow citizen, i'm here to deliver a simple message, and that is that you need to vote because our democracy depends on it. now, some of you may think i'm exaggerating when i say this november's elections are more important than any i can remember in my lifetime, and i know politicians say that all the time. i was guilty of saying it a few times, particularly when i was on the ballot, but just a glance at recent headlines should tell you that this moment really is different. the stakes really are higher. the consequences of any of is
sitting on the sidelines are more dire. it's not as if we haven't had big elections before or big choices to make in our history. the fact is democracy has never been easy, and our founding fathers argue ed about everythi. we waged a civil war. we overcame depression. we've lurched from eras of great progressive change to periods of retrenchment. still most americans alive today, certainly the students who are here, have operated under some common assumptions about who we are and what we stand for.
out of the turmoil of the industrial revelation and the great depression, america adapted a new economy, a 20th century economy, guiding our free market, with regulations to protect health and safety and fair competition. empowering workers with union movements. investing in science and infrastructure and educational institutions like u of i. strengthening or system of primary and secondary fed indication, and stitching together a social safety net. all of this led to unrivals prosperity and the rise of a broad and deep middle class, and the sense that if you worked hard, you could climb the ladder of successes. not everyone was included in this prosperity.
there is a lot more work to do. so in response to the state of slavery and segregation and the reality of racial discrimination, the civil rights movement not only opened new doors for african-americans, but also opened up the floodgates of opportunity for women and americans with disabilities, and lgbt americans. others to make their own claims to full and equal citizenship. although discrimination remained a pernicious force in our society and continues to this day, and although there are controversies about how to best ensure genuine equality of opportunity, there is been at least rough agreement
among.overwhelming majority of americans that our country is strongest when everybody is treated fairly. when people are judged on the merits and the content of their character, and not the color of their skin, or the way in which they worship god, or their last names. that consensus then extended beyond our borders, and from the wreckage of world war ii, we built a post-war web, architecture, systems of alliances, institutions to underwrite freedom and oppose soviet totalitarianism, and help poor countries develop. american leadership across the globe wasn't perfect. we made mistakes, at times we lost sight of our ideals, we had
fierce arguments about vietnam and we had fierce arguments about iraq. but thanks to our leadership, a bipartisan leadership and the efforts of diplomats and peace corps volunteers, and most of all thanks to the constant sacrifices of our men and women in uniform, we not only reduced the prospects of war between the world's great powers, we not only won the cold war, we helped spread a commitment to certain values and principles like the rule of law and human rights, and democracy, and the notion of the inherent dignity and worth of every individual. even those countries that didn't abide by those principles were still subject to shame and still
had to at least give lip service to the idea, and that provided a lever to continually improve the prospects for people around the world. that's the story of america. a story of progress fitful progress, incomplete progress, but progress. that progress wasn't achieved by just a handful of famous leaders making speeches. it was won because of countless quiet acts of heroism, and dedication, by citizens, by order, many of them not much older than you.
it was won because rather than be bystanders to history, ordinary people fought and marched, and mobilized and built, and yes, voted to make history. of course there's always been another darker aspect to america's story. progress doesn't just move in a straight line. there's a reason why progress hasn't been easy and why throughout our history every two steps forward seems to sometimes produce one step back. each time we painstakingly pull ourselves closer to our founding ideas, that all of us are
created equality, endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, the ideals that say every child should have opportunity, and every man and woman in this country who's willing to work hard should be able to find a job, support their family and pursue their small piece of the american dream. ideals that say we have a collective responsibility to care for the sick and the infirminfirm ed, and we have a responsibility to conserve the amazing bounty, the resources of this country and this planet for future generations. each time we get close to those ideals, somebody somewhere pushes back. the status quo pushes back. sometimes the backlash comes from people who are genuinely,
if wrongly, fearful of change. more often it's manufactured by the powerful and the privileged, who want to keep us divided, keep is angry and keep us cynical, because it helps them maintain the status quo and keep their power and keep their privilege. and you happen to be coming of age during one of those moments. it did not start with donald trump. he is a symptom, not the cause. he's just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years.
rooted in our past, but also born out of the enormous upheavals that have taken place in your brief lifetimes. by the way, it is brief. when i heard amari was 11 when i got elected and now he's, like, started a company, that was yesterday. but think about it. you've come of age in a smaller, more connected world, where demographic shifts and the winds of change have skraum abled nournl or commitments, but our civic institutions. most of you don't remember a
time before 9/11, when you didn't have to take off your shoes at an airport. most of you don't remember a time when america wasn't at war, or when money and images and information could travel instantly around the globe. or when the climate wasn't changing faster than our efforts to address it. this change has happened fast, faster than any time in human history. and it created a new economy that has unleashed incredible prosperity, but it's also upended people's lives in profound ways. for those with unique skills or access to telliknowledge and
technologies, it's presented the possibility for wealth. for those not so lucky, for the factory workers, office worker, even middle managers, those same forces may have wiped out your job, or at least put you in no position to ask for a raise. as wages slowed and inequality accelerated, those at the top of the economic pyramid have been able to influence government to skew things even more in their direction. cutting taxes on the wealthiest americans, unwinding regulations and weakening worker protections, shrinking the safety net. so you have come of age during a time of growing inequality, of
fracturing of economic opportunity. that growing economic divide compounded other divisions in our country. regional, racial, religious, cultural, made it harder to build consensus on issues. it made politicians less willing to compromise, which increased gridlock, which made people even more cynical about politics. then the reckless behavior of financial elease elites trigger massive financial crisis, ten years ago this week, that resulted in the worst recession in our lifetimes and caused years of hardships for the american people. for many of your parents, for many of your families. most of you weren't old enough
to fully focus on what was going on at the time, but when i came into office in 2009, we were losing 800,000 jobs a month. 800,000. millions of people were losing their homes. many were worried we were entering into a second great depression. so we worked hard to end that crisis, but also to break some of these longer-term trends. the actions we took returned the economy to healthy growth and initiated the longest streak of job creation on record. we covered another 20 million americans with health insurance. we cut or deficits by more than half, partly by making sure that people like me, who have been given such amazing opportunities by this country, pay our fair share of taxes to help folks
coming up behind us. and by the time i left office, household income washington near its all-time high, and the uninsured rate had hit an all-time low, wages were rising, poverty rates were falling. i mention all this just so when you hear how great the economy is doing right now, let's just remember when this recovery started t. i mean, i'm glad it's continued, but when you hear about this economic miracle that's been going on when the job numbers come out, monthly job numbers and suddenly republicans are
saying, it's americ-- i actuall to remind them the job number are the same as in 2015 and 2016. anyway, i digress. so we made progress but -- and this is the truth -- my administration couldn't reduce 40-year trends in only eight years, eexceptly once the republicans took over the house of representatives in 2010 and decided to block everything we did. even things they used to support so we pulled the economy out of the crisis, but to this day too many people who once felt solidly middle class still feel
very real and very personal economic insecurity. even though we took out bin laden and wound down the wars in iraq and our combat role in afghanistan, and got iran to halt its nuclear program, the world is still full of threats and disorder. it comes streaming through people's televisions every single day. these challenges get people worried, and it frays our civic trust, and it makes a lot of people feel like the fix is in and the game is rigged, and nobody's looking out for them. especially those communities outside our big urban centers. even though your generation is the most diverse in history,
with a greater acceptance and celebration of our differences than ever before, those are the kinds of conditions that are ripe for exploitation by politicians who have no compunction and no shame about tapping into america's dark history of racial and ethnic and religious division. appealing to tribe, appealing to fear, pitting one group against another, telling people that order and security will be restored if it weren't for those who don't look like us, or don't sound like us, or don't pray like we do. that's an old playbook. it's as old as time. and in a healthy democracy, it doesn't work. our antibodies kick in, and
people of goodwill from across the political spectrum call out the bigots and the fearmongers and work to compromise as get things done and promote the better angels of our nature. but when there's a vacuum in our democracy, when we don't vote, we take our basket rights and freedom for granted, when we turn away and stop paying attention and stop engaging and stop believing, and look for the newest diversion, the electronic versions of bread and circuses, then other voices fill the void. a politics of fear and resentment and retrenchment takes hold.
demagogues promise simple fixes to complex promises. no promise to fight for the little guy as they cater to the wealthiest and most powerful. they'll promise to clean up corruption, and then plunder away. they start undermining norms that ensure accountability. and try to change the rules to entrench their power further. they appeal to racial nationalism that's barely veiled, if veiled at all. sound familiar? i understand this is not just a matter of democrats versus republican or liberals versus conservatives. at various times in our history, this kind of politics has
inducted both parties. southern democrats were the bigger defenders of slavery. it took a republican president, abraham lincoln, to end it. dixi-crats filibustered opposed expanding rights. though it was a democratic congress spurred on by young marchers and protesters that got the civil rights and voting rights act over the finish line, those historic laws also got passed because of the leadership of republicans like illinois' own everett dirksen. so neither party has had a monopoly on wisdom. neither party has been exclusively responsible for us
going backwards inspected deed forwards, but i have to say this, because sometimes we hear a plague on both your houses. over the past few decades -- it wasn't true when jim egger was a governor here in illinois, or jim thompson was governor. got a lot of good republican friends here in illinois, but over the past few decades, the politics of division, resentment and paranoia has unfortunately found a home in the republican party. this congress has championed the unwinding of campaign finance laws to give billionaires outside influence over or politics, systematically attack voting rights to make it harder
for young people and minorities and the poor to vote. handed out tax cuts without war to deficits. slashed the safety net wherever it could, cast dozens of votes to take away health insurance from ordinary americans, embraced wild conspiracy theories like those surrounding benghazi. or my birth certificate. rejected science, rejected facts on things like climate change. embraced a rising absolutism from a willingness to default on america's debt by not paying our bills, to a refusal to even meet, much less consider, a
qualified nominee for the supreme court because he happened to be nominated by a democratic president. none of this is conservativcons. i don't mean to champion abraham linging noun, i don't think when he helped to form the republican party. it's not conservative. it sure isn't normal. it's radical. it's a vision that says the protection of our power and those who back us is all that matters even when it hurts the country. it's a vision who says the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and campaign finance,
set the agenda, and now this vision is nearing its logical conclusion, so with republicans in control of congress and the white house, without any checks or balances whatsoever, they have provided another 1.5 trillion in tax cuts to people like me who i promise don't need it. and don't even pretend to pay for them. it's supposed to be the party of fiscal conservatism. suddenly deficits do not matter. even though just two years ago, when the deficit was lower, they said i couldn't afford to help working families or seniors on medicare, because the deficit was an existential crisis. what changed? what changed?
they're subsidizing corporate polluters with taxpayer dollars, allowing dishonest lenders to take advantage of veterans, students and consumers again. they have made it so that the only nation on earth to pull out of the global climate agreement. it's not north korea, it's not syria, it's not russia or saudi arabia. it's us, the only country. there are a lot of countries in the world. we're the only ones. they're undermining our alliances, cozying up to russia. what happened to the republican party?
it's central organizing principle in foreign policy was the fight against communism, and now they're cozying up to the former head of the kgb. actively blocking legislation that would defend our elections from russian attack. what happened? they're sabotaging the affordable care act, has already cost more than millions of people. and if they're still in power next fall, you better believe they're going to go after it again. they have said to. in a democracy there's checks and balances on this kind of behavior, this inconsistency, but right now there's nothing. republicans who know better in
congress and they're there. they're quoted saying, yeah, we know this is kind of crazy. they are still bending over backwards to shield this behavior from scrutiny, or accountability or consequence. they seem utterly unwilling to safeguard the backbone that makes democracy works. the claim that it will turn out okay, because they are people inside who secretly aren't following the president's orders? that is not a check. i'm being serious. that's now how our democracy is supposed to work. these people aren't elected. they're not accountable. they're not doing us a service by actively promoting 90% of the crazy stuff that's coming out of
this white house and saying don't worry, we're preventing the other 10%. that's not how things are supposed to work. this is not normal. these are extraordinary times. and they're dangerous times. but here's the good news. in two months, we have the chance -- not the certainty, but the chance to restore some semblance of some sanity to our politics. because there is it willy only one real check on bad policy and abuses of power. that's you. you and your vote.
look, americans will always have disagreements on policy. this is a big country, it is a raucous country. people have different points of view. i happen to be a democrat. i support democratic candidates. i believe our policies are better and that we have a bigger, bolder vision of opportunity and equality and justice and inclusive democracy. we know there are a lot of jobs young people aren't getting a chance to occupy or aren't getting paid enough or aren't get benefits like insurance. it's harder for young people to save for ainy day, let alone retirement. democrats aren't running on good old ideas like a higher minimum
wage, gives seats on corporate boards, reversing the most egregious tax cuts to make sure that college students graduate debt free. we know that people are tired of toxic corruption and that democracy depends on transparency, accountability, so democrats aren't just running on good old ideas like requiring presidential candidates to release their tax returns and barring lobbyists from making campaign contributions, but new ideas, but barring lobbyists from getting paid by foreign governments. we know that climate change isn't just coming, it is here. so democrats aren't just running on good old ideas like increasing gas mileage in our
cars, which i did and which republicans are trying to reverse, but on good news ideas like put ago price on carbon pollution. we know that in a smaller, more connected world we can't put technology back in a box. we can't put walls up all along america. walls don't keep out threats like terrorism or disease. that is why we propose leading our alliances, helping other countries develop, pushing back against t again tyrants, and the yes our system continuing to have
dreamers from all over the world. that's a set of ideas that i believe in. but imahere to tell you that even if you don't agree with me or democrats on policy, even if you believe in more libertarian economic theories, even if you are an evangelical and our position on certainly social issues is a bridge too far. even if you think tha that immigration enforcement. i'm here to tell you, thatsh still be concerned with our current course, and should still want to see a restoration of honesty and decency and lawfulness in our government.
it should not be democratic or republican, it should not be a partisan issue so say we do not pressure of attorney general or the fbi to use the criminal justice system as a kudgel to punish or political opponents. or to explicitly call on the attorney general to protect members of our own party from prosecution because an election happening to be coming up. i'm not making that up. that's not hypothetical. it shouldn't be democratic or republican to say we don't threaten the freedom of the press because they say things or publish stories that we don't like.
i complained plenty about fox news, but you never heard me threaten to shut them down or call them enemies of the people. it shouldn't be democratic or republican to say we don't target certain groups of people based on what they look like or how they pray. we are americans. we're supposed to stand up to bullies. not follow them. we're supposed to stand up to discrimination, and we're sure as heck supposed to stand up and unequivocally to nazi sympathizers. how hard can that be? saying that nazis are bad?
i'll be honest, sometimes i get into arguments with progressive friends about what the current political movement requires. there are well-meaning folks, passionate about social justice, who think things have gotten so bad, the lines have been so starkly drawn that we have to fight fire with fire. we have to do the same things to the republicans that they do to us, adopt their tactics. say whatever works, make up stuff about the other side. i don't agree with that. it's not because i'm soft, it's not because i'm interested in promoting an empty
bipartisansh bipartisanship. i don't agree with it, because eroding our civic institutions and our civic trusts, making people angrier, yelling at each other, making people cynical about government, that always works better for those who don't believe in the power of collective action. you don't need it to work when all you're concerned about is in maintaining power. the more dispirited they are about the prospects for change, more likely the powerful are able to maintain their power. but we believe that in order to move this country forward, to actually solve problems and make people's lives bers, we need a well-functioning government.
we need or civic institutions to work. we need cooperation among people of different political persuasions. and to make that work. we have to restore our faith in democracy. persuasions and to need that work, we need to restore our democracy and bring people together -- not tear them apart. we need majorities and congress and state legislatures who are serious about governing and want to bring about real change and improvements in people's lives. we won't win people over by calling them names or dismissing the entire chunks of the country as racist or sexist or homophobic. when i say bring people together, i mean all of our
people. this notion sprung up of democrats needing to choose between trying to appeal the white working class voters or voters of color and women of lgbtq women. that's nonsense. i got votes for them in every demographic. we won by reaching out and fighting for every vote. that's what we got to do in this election and every election after that. we can't do that if we immediately disregard of what others have to say from the start because they are not like us because they're white or black or men or women or gay or straight. if we think that somehow there is no way they can understand how i am feeling and therefore don't have any standing to speak on certain matters because we
are only defined by certain characteristics. that does not work. we can't do that if we traffic absolutes when it comes to po polici policies. to make democracy work, we have to be able to get inside the reality of people who are different and have different experiences and come from different backgrounds and we have to engage them even when it is frustrating. we have to listen to them even when we don't like what they have to say. we have to hope that we can change their minds and we have to remain open to them changing ours. that does not mean by the way abandoning our principles or caving to bad policies in the interest of maintaining some phony version of civility. that seems to be the definition
of civility offered by too many congressional republicans right now. we'll be polite so as long as we get 100% of what we want and you don't call us out on the various ways we are sticking it to people. we'll click our tongue and issues of disappointment when the president does something outrageous but we don't do anything about it. that's not civility. that's advocating responsibilities. again, i digress. making democracy work means holding onto our principles and having clarity about our principles and having the confidence to get the arena and have a serious debate. it also means appreciating that progress does not happen all at once but when put your shoulder to the wheel, if you are willing to fight for it, things do get
better. and let me tell you something particularly young people here. better is good. i used to have to tell my young staff this all time in the white house. better is good. that's the history of progress in this country, not perfect, better. the civil rights did not end racism but it made things better. social security did not eliminate all poverty for seniors but it made things better for millions of people. do not let people tell you the fight is not worth it because you won't get everything you want. the idea that well, there is racism in america so -- i am not going to bother voting -- no
point. that makes no sense. you can make it better. better is always worth fighting for. that's how our founders expected the system of self-government to work. through the testing of ideas and applications of reasons and evidence and proofs. we can sort through our differences. and nobody would get exactly what they wanted but it would be possible to find a basis for common ground. that common ground exists. maybe it is not fashionable to say that right now. it is hard to see it with all the nonsense in washington and
hard to hear it with all the noise. common ground exists -- i have seen it and lived it. i know there are white people who care deeply about black people being treated unfairly. i have talked to them and loved them. i know there are black people who care deeply of the struggles of one rural america, i am one of them and have a track record to prove it. i know there are evangelicals who are deeply committed to doing something of climate change. i have seen them do the work. i know there are conservatives who think there is nothing compassionate about separating immigrant children from their mothers. i know there are republicans who believe government should only perform a few minimal functions
but one of those functions should be making sure nearly 3,000 americans don't die in a hurricane and its after math. common grounds are out there. i see it everyday. just how people interact and how people treat each other. you see it on the ball field and at work. you see it in place of worship. to say that common ground exists, does not mean it will n
inevitably went out. >> the closer we get to election day, we'll work and do anything to hang onto their recent gains. fortunately, i am hopeful because out of this political darkness, i am seeing a great awakening of citizenship all across the country. i can't tell you how encouraged i have been by watching so many people getting involved for the first time or the first time in a long time. they're marching and organizing and registering people to vote and they're running for office themselves. look at this democratic candidate running for congress and the district attorney and school board. it is a movement of citizens who happen to be younger and more
diverse and more females than ever before and that's really useful. we need more women in charge. but, we got first time candidate and we got veterans from iraq and afghanistan, record number of women. americans who did not have an interest in politics as career but laced up their shoes and rolled up their sleeves and grab a clipboard because they too believe this time is different. this moment is too enforcement sit out. and if you listen to what these candidates are talking about in individual races across the country. you will find they are not just running against something, they are running for something. to expand opportunities and
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from the congo he's fleeing to europe to search for his lost brother. rich kid guillen on vacation has stolen his stepfather's caravan and is heading to france to visit his birth father so now it's my treatment abidance he has come to any and when they 1st meet it's like 2 aliens greeting each other for william from the congo gillan is an absolute extraterrestrial he can't understand how he has this car which he obviously doesn't know how to drive it's all very strange for them at the beginning as a family. but together the 2 set off on what they themselves call a crazy stupid risky adventure this is a refugee story but one told with a glimmer of hope friendship not trauma at the center of the tale near the end the film becomes more documentary as the pair try to sneak over to britain by a color. that they couldn't get through to booking prison. ship or work with real refugee helpers people whose work he admires having so many
problems as pleased. as it is. there is being pain and tragedy but there are also these committed people people who say if you're hungry we'll give you food. and many women hold them in them assess and. the european road seen through the eyes of 2 boys is a cold and ruthless one the grown ups are says have long lost sight of their values and decency. that's a feeling that's very widespread obviously amongst today's youth and with good reasons my views moving and my movie that's got rough going to join me in the studio scott this isn't the 1st film that we've seen seen if you look at the migration crisis in a drama what does this one add to the story yeah i mean you're right there bill a quite a few since the migration crisis started a number of years ago there were a lot of filmmakers who looked at the issue. what shippers do done
a bit differently is he's combined the story that maybe we know from the news of the migration crisis with a very personal sort of coming of age tale and he focuses very much on these 2 young boys and their sort of journey of self discovery and that i think is quite interesting is it does put more of a human face on on the headlines that we're used to seeing and so does that work for you yeah it does and it's a good film and it's a solid movie the very important subject i just persons expect a bit more something more radical from well i'm not disappointed but shipper his last film the tory i was so impressed by this is a one shot drama set in the berlin night night live famously he did the whole thing without a single edit. that was so radically different and it was such an impressive. presentation of directorial talent i was really hoping for this story he would go for something as radical rhodes is an incredibly good well made movie it's a very important subject as i said the acting is very good very strong but it
definitely is around ok so you've got another film that you brought for us the documentary this time the duck which is called push and it's also a very important social topic that's in the news a lot here and around the world the issue of rising housing prices and rising rents and how people are being driven being pushed out of their homes and out of the cities so let's have a couple of look at a couple of excerpts from the documentary push. it's a global problem rents are soaring in cities worldwide but housing is a human right. fighting for that right is les lani haha the united nations special rapporteur on adequate housing swedish director for the following. years for his documentary push the result is a picture of a global social cast over the past 10 years real estate prices have exploded but salaries have stagnated climbs people are priced out of their homes and forced out
of cities. poor people really. like never before. the middle class i'm able to afford to live in cities and provide services that are necessary. in london's notting hill district it soon becomes clear that the business of real estate has changed radically if you could get one of these it would be 30 or 40000000. and nobody lives here nothing is happening there was news agencies there were pubs there were a couple of restaurants i could stand in the middle of the street with empty car parking spaces all around me and no traffic coming this place is now a bit of a dead zone we're very little indication of who the owners are. each red dot on this london map is a property owned by
a foreign company. 80 percent of them stand empty. when i hear people today saying it's change if occasion wondering action an ironic reaction is if only. real estate is no longer about living space. as the scabbard that apartments are now becoming speculative commodity on the global financial market for these sort of investors renters are more trouble than they're worth. housing is being treated like a commodity. like gold but gold is not a human right housing however is a human right and you will find it in human rights law and that's the difference so you can't trade housing michael. the market value of all real estate is now more than double that of the gross national product of the entire world john investment companies like blackstone have bought up tens of thousands of properties worldwide
but people are fighting back in berlin politicians have begun to react buying back thousands of apartments for use of social housing and there's even talk of evicting owners and seizing property for the people. who own in those dark investigative pieces scott this is obviously such a huge social issue can films like this actually help to shape the debate i hope so i mean the important thing close this is an issue that's been talked about a lot but having a film like this where it really lays out what the issues are and shows quite clearly it's not a problem of gentrification you know people coming in hip hip stars coming in and open big building big cafes and driving up prices but that it's a change in the way financial investors are working with their traditionally a property to actually it's a structural issue and there's also provide solutions about how you can go about it particulars idea that housing is a human right western countries which western countries have it as one of their human rights that they have to defend so that's a way of legally challenging what's happening and i think a film like this is coming out of just the right time to to address the situation
particularly because politicians now will wire start to pay attention who obviously a bit late for some people is there is there hope in this scenario there is because there are solutions that. present legal solutions but also solutions going after investors who invest in these type of properties and say what are you doing look at the social damage that you're doing so the film is quite dark but it has a lot of hope at the end and driving home the message of housing is a fundamental human right so that's roads just opened in germany last week push hits theaters next week scott rush for thanks very much for bringing us that back story. well something old something new something borrowed something blue that's the traditional checklist for an english bride in france she might auction off her garter to start a nest egg and in germany they're still very fond of smashing crockery well here on arts and culture where crashing weddings all across europe to see how couples exchange their vows and in 2015 ireland became the 1st country to legalize gay
marriage by a popular vote which made it possible for wayne and hay tour to tie the knot in stuff. once upon a time not far from the irish capital dublin 2 grooms found out their 2 were made suits wouldn't be ready in time for the big day so when a hater went shopping. for a wedding and it's kind of an emergency last minute so the ones on the. once they have their outfits sorted out the 2 could concentrate on more important. like practicing their wedding dance in the kitchen. nightmares for me. everything it's something that. just to be. out chimera the person that you love i'm sure it's
special for anyone who is going to marriage. for us is just so. an achievement for. their wedding location was set a certain century country estate. the guests were all there waiting to see the grooms walk down the aisle. and. my. it's such a delight to welcome you here today. to perform the wedding ceremony of patron wayne what i now os is for the family and wedding party i want these strings by passing them just down the 1st 2 rows.
so they. appreciate your. perspective and support your. does your best friends also as your host with. we've come to some challenge and ask them times together. what the man is that we want to see go through these things together. it was a traditional irish wedding at least in some ways after the vows of the rings came back and fasting ceremony each ribbon signifying a different aspect of the couple's life and well being as this not just is tie so your lives now. that. when i hate her and there are 200 guests will always remember the david to be tam husband. and i have to admit i needed my hank you for that 1 may have many happy years
together well that brings us to the end of the show but we've got lots more for you on the w dot com slash culture anytime and of course you can always find us alone. facebook and twitter so for me and the crew here in berlin thanks very much from washington here's wishing you a great weekend if he doesn't and by. eco
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