After Boris Johnson replied to his plea for government information about the assassination by saying i have carefully considered your request and do not believe it is necessary to offer a briefing with little specific information called and then tried asking johnson after dispatch walks about trump killing soleimani the government has said that it was sympathetic to the assassination of general sure the money whatever you didnt as the Prime Minister got to suggest that this attack on him and his death was not an illegal act by the United States johnson said legality was not a u. K. Issue the strict legality is not for the u. K. To determine since it was not our operation so whether the us commits illegal violations of International Law is not a matter for the Un Security Council permanent member britain Jeremy Corbyn meanwhile failed to highlight so lame on his role in defeating isis and saving british lives so johnson came back at him justifying. Thats the nation of the arabian soldier lionized by even major nation media not too long ago for his victories against isis cason a supermarket he was not only is was not in your sponsor for many years amongst other things arming these with missiles with which they attacked innocent civilians arming his blog with missiles which again they use to attack innocent civilians sustaining the assad regime in syria one of the most brutal and barbaric regime to the world and of course supplying improvised explosive devices to terrorists who are im afraid killed and maimed british troops well joining me to respond to that in this weeks events from geneva is irans ambassador to the united nations. How many thanks so much for coming on the show well the according to the british authorities Boris Johnson was on the phone with president rouhani rang him and said iran must not resume hostilities is that what happened perhaps you have also heard that president rouhani was very fair and you know advice they are johnson and other europeans not to follow that you wanted the states pass because it would simply lead to another disaster you know region i think we have you know all of that. Well arguably he backed down on that but i want to get to that theres just 1st start with who really money was because nature nation politicians from all around the world even jeremy call been shut of foreign secretary theyve been calling him a menace the people should not shed a tear for his murder people are calling him a terrorist even those who do not agree with the assassination and even the media of not long ago is saying he was one of the greatest fighters against isis day and al qaeda i think for a start that john cousins from any money who was of every a hero just look at the millions of people in the streets of iraq and iran who poured into the streets to pay tribute to him does it mean that 7 with 10 millions of people who created this huge sea of crowd in the streets of tehran on our corm care monon mashad the pay tribute to a terrorist thats bizarre to say that our the antiterrorist fighter who was instrumental he was a key figure in defeating isis in syria and iraq people in europe should be really very of the sacrifices so they money and hes friends his colleagues in iraq and syria did are for the thick of thick european safety of europeans even well in fairness to nato nation Mainstream Media they were a few months back celebrating him for indeed defectors saving countless lives in britain and the United States i understand theres a picture behind you of government money did you ever meet the iranian general yourself yes of course of our we met him i mean personally because. He had he used to have. Meetings minister zarif on a regular basis and basically ministers that if was a close friend of generously money and please do not forget that he was an official guest of the Iraqi Government he was a myth injure of peace. In the region and hes contributed to the cause of Regional Peace and security is something that no one can deny tell me what you know about his last hours then because why on earth was he traveling in a civilian channelings flight from damascus to baghdad that doesnt seem very secure and was he carrying perhaps documents that could have paved the way for peace between saudi arabia and iran i think this is what has been said by Prime Minister blair mad the of iraq and they told you he was an official guest of Iraqi Government he was received by Protocol Department of. Iraq in Baghdad International airport so he didnt need to travel to iraq in a secret the way he used commercial aircraft and simply because he will he had a message from the government of iran through government of iraq to our their partners it was an act of cowardice to anthony such a brilliant person whose role has been very instrumental in defeating valuation of. Syria and iraq there are of course some in the west to believe. Nato lots of different vested interests would not want peace between saudi arabia and iran there was no real cover mation of any law planned by soleimani coming from riyadh are you going to meet your saudi counterparts maybe discuss it what is certain. Is that he. Had a message from the government of iraq iran through the government of iraq and that has been confirmed by the Prime Minister of iraq iraq but i think thats not that important the important seeing is that he was an official lead there an official commander of the republic of iran and assessing eating. The representative of a sovereign nation insults of a cowardly manner is something beyond imagination and i think by that author nation the United States has already surpassed the written lines distinguished from better bury them from civilized rules of engagement he was a 38. 00 it along we of 4 of his iranian colleagues plus and number of our iraqi highly revered commanders so that means that the iraqi trust to americans was betrayed because the American Forces are supposed to be protecting iraq against. Other extremist forces but it is a sad irony that the key anti isis fighters are assassinated by the same armed forces that are supposed to protect iraqi people against extremism irans retaliate with a shoe in for the assassination of their money was just to have a few Ballistic Missiles into some empty buildings that theyre laying there with their ugh why why was that considered a normal response of course this is their narrative as our leaders said this was a fair the slap in their face and this was of simply our dead measuredly took in selfdefense against them or we can attack against iran sovereignty. And what does it mean that we are even not for sure but i think thats the beginning of a kind of wake up call for the people and for the governments in the region because everyone is fed up the cant disastrous presence in the region they have been in iran from 2003 they invaded the country and they are saying that they have to spend trillions of dollars just to turn the Us Armed Forces into an armed bandit to assess an 8 or their leaders i think thats really a disgrace and thats why we believe that thats the beginning of the us. X. Politician from. The me that is from the best asia. Always said he wanted the soldiers to come home from iraq where do you think drum blink blink 1st zarif of course said that the iranian action was under article 51. 00 but it was after those initial raids on the airbase in iraq that iran warned the United States and its proxies in the region that the cities of dubai tel aviv and haifa would be destroyed do you believe the trump blinked when iran threatened our i think everyone got his or her message we have said many times and you have proven beyond any doubt that the or law abiding nation they have no bill warriors view or not as the scenes and thats why we inform the government of iraq because at the end of the day it was the iraqi base beach was abused by the United States to target our heroes thats why we had to inform Iraqi Government in advance to make sure that no iraqis are injured in that attack and it was an act of a state terrorism amounting to a crime of aggression and to an act of aggression so we did what we are entitle to do under the International Law well britain was immediately implicated because b. 52 jets were being used in the occupy jagers islands in diego garcia there was refueling reports from our a. F. Milde in all in britain and in fact Boris Johnson said h. M. S. Montrose and the h. M. S. Defender to iran shores there were reports here of the capability of britain to bomb iran what happens if britain does Something Like it did a while back and hijackers reported the oil supplies for the poor of syria which were aided by the iranian government i think everyone is familiar that it was a disgrace for those who initiated that kind of interception of our best then and im sure everyone is familiar every day outcome but apart from that. I think again we have made it very clear that whoever provided bases or their territory to the u. S. Forces for their malevolent attacks for their. Acts of aggression against iran would be held accountable apart from arms Company Shares doing well you believe this is a very dangerous week indeed trump did say that apart from wanting the help of nato now it wasnt clear about that he wants more sanctions on iran will there be any more revenge now from iran for the trump assassination of customs for their money this is the beginning of a very. I guess exciting episode. It was a quick cold for the people in the region and beyond. This was. An action defense by forces against us but i think for your i think this is the beginning of a i hope not too long process that the people of our region would be gets read all of. The american presence in the region because they presence in our region has brought nothing except. Means every war and hatred and thank you thank you after the break. 48 hours ahead of the announcement of this years Oscar Nominations we examine the breathless u. S. Government propaganda that led to the death of legendary actor jean seberg with the director of a new film about these angels Kristen Stewart all of them all coming up about 2 and going on the ground. Seemed wrong but. Just dont hold. Me. To shape out just the consequences. And it gains from it because betrayal. When some find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. In the United States president ial candidates debates the future of the u. S. And the world. Max kaiser and. To get into the burning questions of this election cycle. Every week. Student trade was money. Welcome back within 48 hours of knowing this years oscar nominees with hundreds of millions of dollars just some of the worlds biggest media conglomerates lets let scrutinised by Corporate Media will be the influence of the u. S. Government in hollywood for military support and influence on the latest blockbusters to go in to prove the relentless surveillance of this Information Campaign run by j. Edgar hoovers f. B. I. Against political activists in hollywood throughout the 20th century a new film about the iconic breathless actor jean seberg who was arguably hounded to her death by the f. B. I. Program has just been released and star says our Award Winning actor Kristen Stewart going on the grounds Deputy Editor charlie cook caught up with the films director and started by asking him about sieberg. Breathless made you a star of the new. Do you think the french film in love with you know i love the character they get me and so looks at a window in the life of the american actress jean seberg between around 968 and 971. 00 also. When she was she was living a life between. The French Left Bank where she was married to the writer mongery and the kind of hollywood career and kind of straddling those those 2 worlds and she comes back to los angeles in the spring of 1968 and she she meets. Civil rights activist hakim jamal and she becomes involved in supporting supporting his work and making donations and starts also making donations to the black Panther Party and through that she gets the attention of the f. B. I. Cointelpro Surveillance Program and they start. Observing watching her life listening in on it and she gets kind of pulled into what. Hakeem jamal in the movie because you know what americans want black america the movie tracks both sides of this surveillance operation intimately with jean and the kind of collapse of her life over this period. Of her sense of or reality and then. A young f. B. I. Agent. Who is tom with watching her and its not traditional by nick i know that when she was 14 shoes donating to the end only c. P. What made you choose just kind of 3 years of my life to cover i wasnt really interested in in a kind of you know tell tale all told biography and this this period of her. Live on one hand is just extraordinary injustice the people dont know about of her life this is kind of necessarily a kind of shadowy period when this kind of state machinery was was was turned against so violently. Also i think theres some think deeply cinematic in this this. Overlapping of the exploring both sides of this violence oppression and we wanted to condense it down so it really concentrates in entirely on that yet you mention cointelpro just give us a bit more detail about what that was because i mean i dont know what brought you want to the project but you said that not many people know about cointelpro was it polly to kind of almost blow the whistle on on this project that shadowy period the nominee if you will now i mean certainly for me the shadow period is in terms of gee genes life or just the. How extraordinary and violent that overreach was and how much she was caught in the crossfire of this state effort to crush and destroy black activism countries and more we did some impression of black people in america to the same disgusting racism so cointelpro pro was a Counterintelligence Program secret Counterintelligence Program. Under j. Edgar hoovers f. B. I. That was turned against. American activists. The left feminist groups but particularly africanamerican civil Rights Groups and the black Panther Party they published lies about people. Dr Martin Luther king and they include traded and ran surveillance operations on groups like the black panthers and spread misinformation and those same tactics applied to gene in the film and they destroyed their relationships with the with the with the activist community shes working with. We talked before about kind of how vital the movie feels now like whether with the kind of revelations from someone like Edward Snowden or like the way the film theyre f. B. I. Agents in the film is a kind of Media Outlets to pump somehow doing this is still this kind of thing still goes on today as much they did then or show i mean i think what we see in the movies in like a kind of d. N. A. Form of the culture we live in the else you have an analog surveillance culture where we now live in a kind of mass mass surveillance coach away where in the movie jack needs to kind of break into a house in order to open up a phone in order to put a bug inside we all carry the bugs around complicit in our own surveillance with with 0 smartphones and so on. Then. Captain downes Listen Community still clicks online i think the government the movie shows how. The state uses that surveillance uses that invasion of private space in order to kind of mine private information that can be used as a weapon and to create lies that can be used used as weapons and i think when now we live in the kind of. Crossfire of that constant constant barack barricades of that media war and here we see it in a way by we see both sides of it we see it by getting very close to the human cost of that in someone like like like jane we see in the movie as well the particular the vince vaughn character as a kind of mechanic of a kind of fake news and a kind of a writer of a kind of fake news making stories about jim but instead of fake news being just this appropriate a political term as a as it currently is by the current american regime you actually say no its a weapon its a conservative weapon being big being being used and and i think its kind of just a reminder of if were seeing it in a kind of infancy in the movie of just how how terrifying and powerful that that is one of the many characters laid at the office our job is to cheapen or image of the arch of the public. In order to do the sort of deal weve made with the veil ability of information accessibility of information that and the drug of that its very easy for us to get just how absolutely transparent and the kind of. Things that 1520 years ago the kind of private space that we wouldve wanted to protect has just been blown right blown open and what happens as as countries and. European states move further and further to the right what happens is that that information becomes when that information is is weapon weaponized again and in in jeans story is kind of one tip of the iceberg of of that that story within the Civil Rights Movement in america right i think we see we see the terrible human cost of that theres a kind of push and pull in the movie kind of by agent played by stephen ro