A few days ago brazil the worst a country in the region has over 5000000 people infected with the coronavirus 157000 people there have died. Across the world theres been Something Like 42000000 people infected 10000000 of those are in latin america so its got around about a quarter of all the cases in the world and the number of deaths approaching the 400000 marks a grim picture right across the region very few bright spots to be had anywhere the numbers only seem to be going up every everywhere you look a year or so ago the world bank predicted that the whole region economies in the region would grow by 1. 8 percent theyve now revised that talking about a 7. 2 percent drop across the region and were already seeing the consequences of businesses closing tens of thousands of people losing their jobs and many many people moving having to move out onto the streets. U. S. President donald trump has cast an early ballot near his private resort in florida he went to a polling station in West Palm Beach and once again called into question the legitimacy of mail and ballots without any evidence florida is a crucial battleground state more than 57000000 americans have already voted with 10 days to go until election day. It was a very secure vote much more secure than when you send in a ballot i could tell you that everything was perfect very strict right by the rules when you send in your ballots could never be like that youd never be secure like that theyve done a fantastic you have a great people its so but its an honor to be voting its an honor to be in this great area which i knew so well it was democratic president ial nominee joe biden is campaigning in the swing state of pennsylvania donald trump narrowly won in 2016 and many analysts say he must be biden in the state if he is to be reelected times are hard unemployment is way out folks are worried about making their next rent or mortgage payment whether their health care will be ripped away in the middle of a pandemic worried about sending their kids to school worried about not sending their kids to school. They see folks at the top doing much better all the rest are wondering whos were going to after me as Donald Trumps presidency at least 8 children have been killed and 13 others seriously injured in an attack on a Primary School in southwest cameroon some officials in the city of blaming anglo fein separatists for the attack but no group has claimed responsibility separatist boy cost of government schools 4 years ago in protests against president colby as government and discrimination by the french speaking majority a mosque in france is held present tribute to a teacher who was beheaded last week as heavy Police Presence self to threats of violence against worship is the matter has caused outrage across from. This growing opposition within saddam to a deal that would normalize toys with israel several prominent political groups have rejected the u. S. Brokered agreement. Thousands of people been protesting outside the official residence of israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu demanding that he resign police say a number of demonstrators were arrested and several were forcefully dragged away theyve been weekly protests there for the past 2 months. Your headlines shadow world is next. We. Were. Still. We are at war. Im responsible for the deployment of thousands of Young Americans to battle in a distant land. Somewhere. And some will be judged. And so i tell you what a cute sense of the costs of armed conflict. Filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace and our effort to replace one with the other. And we got. Him to feel good he said. This time wasnt something i had almost. You know i need to make it all. The most interesting. There were 5 months in a world war one both sides were in trenches they were just mass slaughter across the landscape men were standing up sleeping they were in their own feces and their dead comrades were sitting there no mans land they couldnt even get them and bring the bath area. It was Christmas Eve and a german high command sent them Christmas Trees it was like a stage shot all of a sudden across the german front you saw these little Christmas Trees lighting up and then the allies were silent night being sung by the germans and started applauding. And then all of a son a couple of guys on both sides get out of the trenches and start walking toward each other. And expected any minute to pull back with machine guns or you know and. And we didnt we were walking about and talking and it was nothing like. Hundreds get out of the trenches and thousands get out of the trenches and they embraced each other 100000 men. Oh you know man stands phosphoric see as graeme that a west memphis talking shaking hands exchanging names addresses after the war wrecked another. About it back in your trenches you know jumped the generals b. I mustve seen it and got a bit suspicious so well that day i gave all of those around about 3 of guns behind us to fire on officers so i had their involvement but the journey. Was not stopping there was again. The one question on that. This was a war to end all wars. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. At least 21000. 00 new millionaires were made in the u. S. With billions and billions of dollars would be piled up a few. In addition a fish shipbuilders meat packers. And let us not forget the bankers who finance the great war. To turn blood into gold. And their profits were secret as they were. All of them are looking ahead to war. I stand before you tonight in my red star chiffon evening god. Based off. My fair gently way. This extraordinary deal between the United Kingdom and saudi arabia in which Ronald Reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment these reading stopped it and congress wouldnt approve it because they feared saudi would threaten israel. Reagan handed the deal with are effectively to his political soulmate Margaret Thatcher un soon nothing there its. A very tough act to follow. When we stumbled on the saudi arms. Deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years. Has been at the heart of many of the great people to vent. I was always pleased to see him when i was Prime Minister because he brought me extraordinary insight. She considers strong friends and would be willing to support taking them with whatever the king they meet and the discussion from there on Everything Else was going to get he explained to mr thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and therefore things were done differently. They wanted 43000000000. 00 worth of weapons that was 6000000000. 00 in commission. The false majority what most people understand as bribes. Well continue to Work Together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life of pacifists. One day i thought right and it was a mad cool edit coming im actually he said ive been working for a travel company and we had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute to saudis and other arabs when they came to britain to be all to help the path of arms deals. And he told the sex workers stories that when saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut through that was something that they liked the other thing they liked was girls so he would take about the town and get them girls. To be honest it seemed like quite small beer payments made some of them from rather on as manic activities and aiming chips to the talks about cooldowns that sort of thing theres only 2 things that count in business my friend money and sex the rest you can write as much as you like is absolute garbage you can measure weapon beautiful the president s secretary. Because theyre more destructibility the secretary of the what the hell you are talking about. And that is sometimes old as you need. To use and i scored a just see cold war kids because of the specialties of the chief of staff of the army who like blowing bits of them. We had the secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i won this one i won this one i win this one i win this one i had the girls i arrived one day before and i said girls i know you will be paid handsomely for this but do me a favor if you get any people talk to this relevant please bring your cross because i could use it in for you judge interesting information i will give another 2000 euro bonus so with 60 grand i signed the contract with 3000000 so it wasnt bad deal. I met my phone rang again. It was another whistle and he said you have no idea what it is that youre getting into here. And he said this slush fund is much much bigger than you realize our job was to look after the really high level people those who used to come to england who were being bribed essentially be a people of the level of the head of the Saudi Air Force who was a royal prince. We would fly the 2 of us angelica and they would buy cars and dress just it wasnt shopping like you would i would think in the end when they gather together all the shopping we would charter an entire jumbo jet to fly it all back to saudi arabia it was in the attempt to try and trace through the Bank Accounts who the ultimate beneficiary saw that the case became really very serious is the trail appeared to lead towards senior members of Society Royal family. The most outrageous example was that maybe 80 id order to smooth the way with prince bandar at one point i made him a present of a huge commercial airliner all of his various which he promptly have painted in the gray and silver colors of the Dallas Cowboys and rays favorites a very good team i mean is the fly around in that quite cheerfully. The case centered on establishing the ultimate beneficiary of exceptionally large amounts of money paid by the sharing space for Consultancy Services now. Theres evidence that mark fashion of this is that your son got 12000000 in cash for his work as a fixer. This started i know. This is who dont want it its a really beautiful weapon its also made if you want to sell on the market and youre looking probably about 3500 euros and why you keep it in the heart because it is longer. And you can do that legally. But no more words you care as long as its in the house. It is oh sure the cut of the neighbor. Ive got nothing is money i dont mind paying bribes to politicians its part of the deal the thing about politicians is that theyre very much like prostitutes but only more expensive. Polities is it dated by the whims of the arms industry politicians are nothing more than sales reps by their friends to have as much power as a middle ranking executive in Walton Martin ident of the day did with the tolls. When an executive goes to bribe a foreign official he says to himself look ive taken a lot of risk to take this 5000000. 00 that im paying to the Prime Minister of x. Y. Z. Who makes an arrangement with Prime Minister of x. Y. Z. Ill hand over the 5000000 could you take half of that 5000000 and you send it to the following bank account in churchill and wilshere in the floor. The 1st time an executive does that and he collects 2500000. 00 he says wow this is a Good Business to be and within moments of that realisation he is now no longer in the business of selling airplanes hes in the business of selling bribes and he is now scouring the world for somebody to find to bribe. We. Had to feed. The city can. Treat them. I. Had to do. Them see what its from. This out exception. I play. Each child to clean. Each careful city. Formed by. More. Eightys. When. Im in the phone rang again. This was somebody who said you have no idea what youre getting into he said this whole be a thing is much much bigger it goes right to the very top what he had was something that you never see as a germ of this swiss bank records of International Cover payments going all over the world he showed me how be a set of a whole system with lloyds bank under which they channeled secret payments into a British Virgin islands offshore Company Called red diamond and from red diamond the money went into this guys Swiss Bank Account and he then used it to distribute to the local politicians taking a big chunk of himself of course you know i can assure you we dont we and i believe most companies all to the business of labors policy as you suggest a lot of selfsupport they do employees of government it is just dont the way the business is done. We were actually able to publish what was the most dangerous story that prince bandar had been given not just the plane but over the years a total of 1000000000 pounds we did not invent. Corruption i mean i doubt many would have been and they had hanky panky and they had to go down to at it so i mean this is this is. I salute you prince of state run and a friend. How do you agree. Of course none of us are greedy its only the other fellow whose grief. This the world runs on individuals pursuing their circulators. All those people who believe that greed violence etc these primal socalled primal instincts other religions things and Everything Else is a social construction theyve lost their mind and for the last 50 years at least policy has been made based on the assumption of greed and its ruined the wouldnt. Catch a nights believe there is no nature of society so you have to nurture individual is i dont accept that at all i think there are very many good policy initiatives for creating societies. And the beirut there is a little do you know theres a comment isnt a good 47 kalashnikov. A society that decides that the bulk of its budget is going to go to arms manufacturing building of a military eccentric this is made a moral decision that militarism is more important then the creation of wellbeing for the population. Thats not the world i want to live in i want to live in the real world and the real world is peopled by real emotions including love and generosity. My god if you want is freedom the freedom of human beings of individuals to pursue their own say is i think what they term freedom means is economic license and the economic license of those who control property and those who control capital has in fact been a threat not only to equality but a threat to the freedom of peoples all over the world and not only in europe and the United States but nafta in asia and in latin america i want you to name me any society in which you have any large measure of that freedom where capitalism and Free Enterprise has not been the predominant mechanism of the Free Enterprise system has spread through the force of on some notes on through wielded by governments that was Government Intervention under the name of the Free Enterprise system but a Government Intervention which destroyed the cretins of many people not least of which are the people of chile. From the 1950 s. All the way through the 1970 s. The cia and the u. S. Military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right Wing Military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion 316. 00 and under us and and there were these spate of assassinations across the globe. In countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time youre going to be killed you dont know how but its coming. We were fighting in the league and still we are fighting you know body guards mines that dont want to work going inclusiveness they just take a. The action is not only about taking from india but taking from the people. Even to dreams take the next. To last half of what is called the cold war i dont know to be a very hard war for many parts of the wood. From the standpoint of want it badly and cause the victims or what i think of really as of people trying to make their own futures. There was an attempt in the global south to create an alternative imagination for people. But in the early 1970 s. This attempt was destroyed and it was stopped through a real genuine attempt by the global lot to take over the institutions of the world including the world bank the i. M. F. Souls not simply that the bible of the south was incapable of carrying forward their dreams. It was a very strong word these dreams were assassinated. Its not just the one off killings that corey other cool there. Its the entire dream that had to be killed. To be sure to do less than to be a book. But arent going to or much else. To live by a symbol are any mere. Holy orders true or a loser will be because on the the end. Looksee who was or was he not one test got a plus imo you must have a me by these. When i said kind of time is here. Is holy your men t. You who leave your god to what are the salmon. You know be your command be. Decent and fit you have them and eat. Each up then go to micio. A joint hearings of the House Select Committee to investigate covert arms transaction with iran. And the select committee on secret military assistance to iran in the neck iraq when opposition will come to order. When the fukushima tsunami hit japans coastline in 2011 it destroyed everything in its path in the aftermath the forces began building a massive new seawall along 400 kilometers of the coastline its hard construction will be completed by 2021 and a continuous line of walls will close off every riba along the splintered northeast coast of japan. The project also includes a plug in to left open to allow the river to flow into the sea. To run the close to me a bit. But the mega project has raised questions out must we go to protect ourselves from natural disasters. And how effectively