1 00:00:09,130 --> 00:00:12,690 Good afternoon, it's just gone 1:00 on Wednesday the 8th of 2 00:00:12,690 --> 00:00:15,770 October 2025. Welcome to UK Column News. 3 00:00:16,090 --> 00:00:19,850 I'm your host Charles Mallett, and joining me by Livelink from 4 00:00:19,850 --> 00:00:24,290 Lebanon is Vanessa Bailey. Now amongst the things we'll be 5 00:00:24,290 --> 00:00:29,010 looking at in today's programme are the elections in Syria. 6 00:00:29,170 --> 00:00:32,530 The continuation, if we might describe it as that of the Gaza 7 00:00:32,850 --> 00:00:38,640 peace plan, the coincidence of renewable energy statistics and 8 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:44,080 indeed the steel industry, and what the Prime Minister of 9 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:48,640 Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu is doing, or at least thinking of 10 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:53,320 doing at the moment. And some news about the 11 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:56,440 censorship regime and the relationship with UK column that 12 00:00:56,440 --> 00:00:58,080 that will follow at the end of the programme. 13 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:02,480 We're going to start though with the appointment of the 106th 14 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:07,800 Archbishop of Canterbury, Dame Sarah Mullally, and the ripples 15 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:11,160 that that has caused. Now, bearing in mind the 16 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:15,720 ignominious nature of Justin Welby's departure, it may come 17 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,120 as something of a surprise to learn that there could have been 18 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:22,760 a greater degree of controversy from this appointment. 19 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:26,600 But that is exactly what has happened, and I will walk you 20 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,880 through some of the steps that give rise to this sort of 21 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,360 sentiment. But first, we'll listen to Sarah 22 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:36,440 Mullally after being appointed and what she said about her 23 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:42,040 forthcoming ministry. Washing feet has shaped my 24 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:47,200 Christian vocation as a nurse, then a priest, then a Bishop. 25 00:01:48,640 --> 00:01:52,440 In the apparent chaos which surrounds us in the midst of 26 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:57,160 such profound global uncertainty, the possibility of 27 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,040 healing lies in acts of kindness and love. 28 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:08,120 With humility and grace, we uphold and support those in need 29 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:11,520 of our help. We do this to the best of our 30 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:17,440 ability, in small ways and bigs according to our own very 31 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:22,200 particular gifts. That too, is the service which 32 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:29,240 ioffer the Church today. No, this might seem unfair, but 33 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:35,120 not necessarily the words or intonation to inspire a nation, 34 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:37,640 one might say. But she does make a point of 35 00:02:37,640 --> 00:02:40,960 referring to chaos and uncertainty, and whilst one may 36 00:02:40,960 --> 00:02:43,560 not be able to dispute that those are indeed present 37 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:48,000 elements, what is she going to do in order to change that? 38 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 And also, it was interesting to note her intonation of the words 39 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,440 healing lies, as though she might be suggesting something 40 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:01,040 other than she was apparently saying no. 41 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:10,480 It is again worth saying that in comparison with Justin Welby, 42 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:15,920 even she doesn't necessarily look like an outwardly muscular 43 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,880 Christian. She's unlikely to set the world 44 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:21,200 on fire. Or indeed those that consider 45 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:24,720 themselves part of the Anglican community at the moment. 46 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:29,280 Sorry, the Anglican Communion. Now what is very relevant, 47 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,760 seemingly even though it's relatively distant, is that in 48 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:37,920 1999 Sarah Mulally was appointed by the government as the Chief 49 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:41,640 Nursing Officer, a post which she held until 2004. 50 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:44,600 She was ordained in 2001, of course, the year of the 51 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:49,480 so-called foot and mouth crisis in the United Kingdom, and when 52 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:53,080 she was Bishop of London in 2021. 53 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:58,000 This is what she had to say about the COVID injections. 54 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:03,400 She said the relaxation of restrictions on Monday is only 55 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:06,080 possible because of the vaccination programme, which has 56 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,720 reduced the percentage of those with COVID who became seriously 57 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,280 ill or die. We're indebted to all who've 58 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,800 developed and administered vaccines and we encourage anyone 59 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,880 who has not yet done so to take advantage of the protection they 60 00:04:18,920 --> 00:04:22,520 offer. Now this of course is relevant 61 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:26,680 to the words used by Justin Welby, WHO I paraphrase said 62 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:30,000 that Jesus would have got jabbed, which seems incredibly 63 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:32,800 unlikely. Taking personal responsibility, 64 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,280 she went on to say, means responsibility for our neighbor, 65 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:38,480 not just for ourselves, and taking precautions to protect 66 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:41,240 those more vulnerable than we consider ourselves to be. 67 00:04:41,880 --> 00:04:46,280 So she went on in this sort of vein, effectively foretelling 68 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:48,680 exactly the direction. That's not to she, but the 69 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,400 Church of England is likely to continue to go in with regard to 70 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:56,440 toeing the line in so far as the official narrative concerning 71 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,440 frankly anything is is concerned. 72 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:04,960 Now in her capacity as a nurse, she also has served as a 73 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:10,040 director of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity and whilst there, 74 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,240 part of her remit was to facilitate funding of drug 75 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,400 development as well as Rapid Diagnostic Assessment Centre. 76 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,360 And of course, we've seen now in 2025 is exactly the direction 77 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:23,800 that things have have gone in, have have progressed in. 78 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:26,800 And I think something that's well worth drawing out is that 79 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:30,840 not only this, but in the full accounts of the charity from the 80 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:35,320 year ending 2007, which she's shown here as a as a director 81 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:39,600 of, there was a surplus in the accounts of 19.1 million and 82 00:05:39,600 --> 00:05:42,160 decided by the directors that they would invest such funds. 83 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,880 Now what I would like to point out is that they state 84 00:05:44,880 --> 00:05:49,000 explicitly there was no restriction on the use of those 85 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:51,920 funds or at least the way in which they may be invested, 86 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:55,720 except for a restriction on tobacco products. 87 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:59,520 Now it might be strange for an ordained priest, as she was by 88 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:03,480 that stage to put herself in such a position, except that it 89 00:06:03,480 --> 00:06:06,160 must be noted that this is absolutely consistent broadly at 90 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:10,480 least with the policies of the Church Commissioners and the 91 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:12,320 treatment of the Church of England funds. 92 00:06:12,320 --> 00:06:16,800 Now there are two articles on the UK column website which I've 93 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:21,080 written about exactly this issue, the so-called ethical 94 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,000 investment policies of the Church of England. 95 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:26,360 First of all, shown on screen here, one dealing with the very 96 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:29,080 limited restrictions concerning pornography, weapons and 97 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:32,600 embryonic stem cells. And then further, the Church of 98 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:36,520 England talking themselves up as being in the room with Big Tech, 99 00:06:36,520 --> 00:06:39,560 effectively saying that they need to be invested in these 100 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:43,720 sorts of companies which harvest data and all the rest of it in 101 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,920 order to be able to influence the decisions they make, whilst 102 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,760 providing no evidence that they have actually managed to have 103 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:53,240 that sort of an effect. Now again, very interesting to 104 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:55,560 note on this particular issue that I was in touch with the 105 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,200 Bishop of Bath and Wells earlier this year because at the General 106 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:01,360 Synod he'd raised issues about the way in which the Church 107 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:02,880 Commissioners do spend their money. 108 00:07:03,280 --> 00:07:07,000 And I had drawn his attention to these apparent inconsistencies 109 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:09,440 with the Church Commissioner's investment policies. 110 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,320 And he simply wrote back saying if you have concerns or 111 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,720 questions about the Church Commissioners, please can I 112 00:07:14,720 --> 00:07:18,000 suggest that you address these to the the First Church Estate 113 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:22,280 Commissioner rather than thanking me for what I presented 114 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,600 and committing to investigate the matter himself. 115 00:07:25,920 --> 00:07:29,560 So it's not just the Archbishop of Canterbury that needs to be 116 00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:33,800 scrutinised, it's frankly anyone within the Church hierarchy at a 117 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:39,520 time where the Church of England has in many respects entered 118 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:43,560 into a sort of a downward spiral which tells a lot about the way 119 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:47,240 in which British culture may be reviewed at this time. 120 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:51,480 Now going back to her Mullally's commitment and involvement with 121 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,480 the Royal Marsden, it shouldn't be any great surprise to see 122 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,640 that the Marsden is now of course referring to the power of 123 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:02,320 vaccines to prevent and treat cancer. 124 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:09,640 So it seems highly likely that the two disciplines of religion 125 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:15,040 and science, which of course used to be certainly in the 126 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:18,680 distant past, not necessarily separated from one another or 127 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:21,280 not in conflict with one another, but then have become. 128 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:25,880 So it looks like there is a a reunion of sorts, although for a 129 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,440 totally separate set of reasons. And then moving on to other 130 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:33,360 issues, we've got the continued failure of the church with 131 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,880 regard to safeguarding. And just to give an insight as 132 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:38,679 to the way in which Malali may have responded to any of this, 133 00:08:38,679 --> 00:08:41,840 we'll just look at a short video clip from 2023 of her being 134 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:46,520 asked the question about the issues raised by raised by some 135 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:51,080 Pride events. Chair, there is evidence of 136 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,240 sexualisation and grooming of children at some Pride events. 137 00:08:54,360 --> 00:08:57,520 What is the House of Bishops doing to protect children from 138 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:00,120 that sexualisation at Pride or from queer? 139 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:01,400 Theory. Thank you. 140 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,520 That does not relate to the question the original question. 141 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:09,560 It does. It's about the Bishop's position 142 00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:12,800 on Pride chair and whether they're protecting children from 143 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,760 pride. They should have a position and 144 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:17,160 be able to tell me. Because you don't want to 145 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:21,320 protect children and you dare not speak against pride or queer 146 00:09:21,320 --> 00:09:22,720 theory. Shame on you. 147 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,040 Please. Now, if you're just listening 148 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:31,720 and you couldn't see that the response should have come from 149 00:09:32,120 --> 00:09:34,720 Bishop as she was then Sarah Mullally, but she stood there 150 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,720 completely mute and didn't address the question or the 151 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,200 concerns at all. Now the articulation of all 152 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,600 these various issues has been put very succinctly by the 153 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:48,800 Global Anglican Conference, or Gaff Con, and they've written a 154 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:52,520 long statement in response to the appointment of Sarah 155 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:54,160 Mullally. And I will just read some of it 156 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:56,200 out because it does cover a number of the points. 157 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:59,000 They say that the news has finally arrived after months of 158 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,880 prayer and long waiting. But it is with sorrow that Gaff 159 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,840 Con receives the announcement today of the appointment of Dame 160 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,080 Sarah Mullally as the next Archbishop of Canterbury. 161 00:10:07,440 --> 00:10:10,440 This appointment abandons global Anglicans as the Church of 162 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:14,280 England has chosen the leader who will already further divide 163 00:10:14,680 --> 00:10:18,200 a split union. And at this point I should point 164 00:10:18,240 --> 00:10:22,320 out that the Church of Nigeria has publicly rejected Mulally's 165 00:10:22,680 --> 00:10:24,800 appointment for a host of reasons. 166 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,560 First of all that she is a woman and also that she supported the 167 00:10:28,560 --> 00:10:32,720 blessings of same sex unions. But to get back to the GAFCON 168 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:36,240 statement, they say due to the failure of successive 169 00:10:36,280 --> 00:10:39,880 Archbishops of Canterbury to guard the faith, the Office can 170 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:43,600 no longer function as a credible leader of Anglicans, let alone a 171 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,960 focus of unity. As we made clear in our Kigali 172 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:50,280 Commitment of 2023, we can no longer recognise the Archbishop 173 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,560 of Canterbury as an instrument of communion or the first among 174 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:57,960 equals of global primates. Now these are fairly damning 175 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:03,160 words, and they go on to talk about the specific failure of 176 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:05,520 her to uphold her consecration vows. 177 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:09,360 When she was consecrated in 2015, she took an oath to quote, 178 00:11:09,360 --> 00:11:12,600 banish, and drive away all strange and erroneous doctrine 179 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:16,080 contrary to God's Word. And yet, far from banishing such 180 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,200 doctrine, Bishop Mullally has repeatedly promoted unbiblical 181 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,520 and revisionist teachings regarding marriage and sexual 182 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,200 morality. Now they go on in the same vein. 183 00:11:25,200 --> 00:11:27,960 And the link to this will be in the show notes. 184 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,920 I would recommend not just reading it, but sending it on 185 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,800 because it does absolutely call into question the underlying 186 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:38,600 reasons for such an appointment. Apparently very much intended to 187 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:40,720 cause the division that we're seeing not just in the Church of 188 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,640 England, but of course across all of British society. 189 00:11:44,920 --> 00:11:48,200 And I would just finish off by pointing you towards a 190 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,320 discussion that I had with Alex Thompson entitled Question of 191 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:53,880 Faith. Why did the Church of England go 192 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:55,320 wrong? Of course, some of these and 193 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:58,040 other issues are addressed in this. 194 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:00,640 So so please do have a look at that. 195 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:04,040 Now that's that's all on the Archbishop of Canterbury. 196 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:08,320 We'll now go over to Vanessa. Now, of course, the mainstream 197 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:13,280 version of events in Syria has very much been at odds with 198 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:16,200 first of all, what you've seen there yourself, Vanessa, but 199 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:17,680 also what you're having reported to you. 200 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:21,280 What's your a feeling on the way things have been reported and 201 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:22,960 what has actually happened now? Oh. 202 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:29,400 Well, I'm sure in in the West you're saying the BBC and CNN 203 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:34,480 and so on declaring that democracy has finally landed in 204 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:39,800 Syria after the reign of the dictator's both father Hafiz 205 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:41,800 al-Assad and Bashar al-Assad, of course. 206 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:46,240 But in fact the opposite is the reality. 207 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:52,160 Whatever democracy did actually exist under both Assad 208 00:12:52,160 --> 00:12:55,600 presidents has now been completely dismantled and 209 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,280 disintegrated. This is a tweet put out by Syria 210 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,240 Justice Archive and I do recommend following them 211 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:07,360 actually because they monitor and archive all of the 212 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:12,400 atrocities committed by Jolani's or Takfiri gangs in Syria. 213 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,840 And what they point out is that the majority of the minorities 214 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,000 in Syria basically boycotted the elections. 215 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:22,720 In fact they were not allowed to vote. 216 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:27,680 And another article put out by the Cradle, which we use very 217 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:32,280 often just to follow the news in this region, the new Syrian 218 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:36,840 parliament overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim, male following a 219 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:41,560 controlled vote, So very few women, if any in the eventual 220 00:13:41,560 --> 00:13:44,040 parliament. And I would actually change from 221 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:48,640 Sunni to Takfiri because the majority of those in adverted 222 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:52,560 commas elected were actually approved and selected by Gilani 223 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:55,480 himself. This I covered in a recent 224 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:59,040 article which can be found in the Syria centric section on UK 225 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:04,200 column Syria, the looming Civil War war while external forces 226 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,840 Exploit the chaos. And this is the section in the 227 00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:10,920 article that we published actually before the election. 228 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:15,520 So the number of seats in the People's Assembly will be 210, 229 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:19,040 distributed among provinces according to their population. 230 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:23,480 70 members, even to begin with, will be appointed by Gilani, but 231 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:26,680 the remainder will be selected by various subcommittees 232 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:30,760 selected by the Supreme Election Committee, which is appointed by 233 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,600 Gilani. So that gives you a very good 234 00:14:32,600 --> 00:14:39,120 idea of of the sheer corruption and and ridiculousness of these 235 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,280 elections. Of course again being being 236 00:14:41,760 --> 00:14:46,040 heralded by the worst who who brought Jolani to power and 237 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,800 Israel as democratic elections. This little infographic which 238 00:14:49,800 --> 00:14:54,040 people can freeze frame and have a look at basically shows how 239 00:14:54,040 --> 00:14:58,080 dire the situation is. So effectively only 6000 people 240 00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:03,840 actually voted naughty .02% of the Syrian population and those 241 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:07,480 that were effectively banned from voting were in the areas of 242 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:09,840 so-called conflict as Jelani describes them. 243 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:12,640 Which actually means of course the areas where Jelani is 244 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:17,640 carrying out the the massacres and the ethnic cleansing of 245 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:21,000 Syrian minorities. And this map again is which is 246 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,560 rather sinister, but it shows there the black and grey, the 247 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:28,720 areas that are now under the control of all of Jelani's hench 248 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:32,360 men selected by him in the so-called elections. 249 00:15:32,360 --> 00:15:36,280 And and the Gray areas are basically tech fury factions 250 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:38,840 under his control. The rest of Syria, as you can 251 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:43,360 see, didn't partake in the actual vote. 252 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,120 Again, you can freeze frame it and and look at the key there. 253 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:49,360 This is interesting. This was actually in the Syrian 254 00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:53,440 Christian town of Al Skalbiya. If people who've been following 255 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,200 my work at UK column will remember that I reported from 256 00:15:56,200 --> 00:15:58,640 there many times. But if you can just leave it on 257 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,680 screen for a second. Gwen Skelby, a Christian town in 258 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,320 northern Hama, was under attack from the very tech fury factions 259 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,520 that are now in control. And this was the candidate of a 260 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:13,240 Syrian Christian town. Luckily she wasn't elected. 261 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:16,080 But I'd also like to point out that when there are claims that 262 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:21,360 Iran is enforcing veiling in Iran, this is actually what is 263 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,960 happening inside Syria itself. And then, of course, in the 264 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:28,280 midst of elections, who turns up? 265 00:16:28,280 --> 00:16:34,080 None other than the commander of CENTCOM, Admiral Brad Cooper and 266 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:39,720 Tom Barrack, Trump's economic hitman in the region here. 267 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:43,400 There's they're they're congratulating Gilani on the 268 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,480 success of the elections. And at the same time, of course, 269 00:16:46,480 --> 00:16:50,240 they met with the Kurdish separatist factions in the North 270 00:16:50,240 --> 00:16:53,320 East of Syria. And what they're pushing for, of 271 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,440 course, is the integration of the Kurdish factions that 272 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:02,200 control Syria's oil and agricultural resources in the 273 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,359 northeast under Jolani's umbrella. 274 00:17:06,760 --> 00:17:10,240 Now, of course the the Kurds themselves, who do they 275 00:17:10,839 --> 00:17:15,599 basically represent inside Syria the interests of Washington, Tel 276 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:20,119 Aviv, and to some degree Russia. Because of course the Kurds will 277 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:24,680 be seen as the final link in the chain that will be David's 278 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:30,560 corridor that will go from the South of Syria to the northeast, 279 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:34,960 using the Kurds as as basically a link in that chain. 280 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:39,480 And the final picture is the Kurdish factions meeting with 281 00:17:39,480 --> 00:17:43,840 the various CENTCOM officials. Now, of course, the Kurds will 282 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,960 be used and weaponized against Turkey and against Erdogan's 283 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,200 near Ottoman expansionist schemes. 284 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,280 So very much they are a tool of empire, but particularly a tool 285 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:57,000 of Israel and Washington in Syria. 286 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,880 And what this demonstrates, because there have been clashes 287 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,960 between the two factions, HTS, the Turkish backed factions and 288 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:08,560 the Kurds, is that Washington is very much in control of events 289 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:12,840 on the ground in Syria and that of course is in favour of 290 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,080 Israel. Absolutely, Vanessa. 291 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,280 Also, I think pertinent to this is the recent discussion that 292 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,360 you had with Mike concerning sectarianism. 293 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:25,520 Will you just give a sort of snapshot insight into that and 294 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:26,800 encourage people to listen to it? 295 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:31,160 Yeah, very much so. I mean, we discussed the 296 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:35,720 similarities between what is now being engineered in the West. 297 00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,960 That follows on from what has been engineered in the region, 298 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:43,880 in particular in Syria that prior to the coup of December 299 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,080 last year was a secular, inclusive country. 300 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,880 Now, of course, the sectarian divides are being not only 301 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:53,840 orchestrated, but exacerbated by the West. 302 00:18:55,800 --> 00:18:59,000 Vanessa, thanks very much indeed so much for bringing democracy 303 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,920 to the Middle East. Now we move on to a persistent 304 00:19:04,200 --> 00:19:07,560 well, reinforcing A persistent point, which is that renewable 305 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:13,400 energy is absolutely here and it is to be praised and indeed it 306 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:18,000 is to triumph. And the BBC are busy giving us 307 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,200 the impression that it's now taken over from traditional or 308 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:29,200 fossil fuel sources of energy. But I'm going to introduce a UKC 309 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,920 verify button here because the BBC headline saying renewables 310 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:38,760 overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity is not 311 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:43,400 exactly founded in fact, and the devil, as always, is to be found 312 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,960 amongst the detail. So the first thing to point out, 313 00:19:46,960 --> 00:19:51,400 of course, is that this claim does actually include nuclear 314 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:56,720 power, which hides the inherent instability of the forms of 315 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:59,880 renewable energy. This comes from a report. 316 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:05,120 Printed by Ember, which concerns only the six month period at the 317 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:11,160 beginning of this year, but also and very specifically we see it 318 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:13,480 on screen now the Global Electricity Mid Year Insights 319 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,360 2025. Now this graph, confusing as it 320 00:20:16,360 --> 00:20:18,400 may be, and I'm not necessarily going to go through the, the 321 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:21,800 detail of it, but but basically the green bit on the left is 322 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,880 concerning solar and wind and the demand on the right, the 323 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:30,520 increase in demand is shown to be outstripped by the increases 324 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,200 in soil and wind. So the, the, the main point to 325 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:38,000 fall out of this is that we're talking about the increase in 326 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:39,720 demand. We're not talking about total 327 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:43,400 demand or total supply. So the way in which this has 328 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:46,800 been spun, not necessarily by the BBC article shown on screen, 329 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,800 but certainly by the the way in which it's being reported 330 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:53,640 verbally and in a in a broadcast news sense, is not, strictly 331 00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:56,760 speaking, an accurate reflection of what Ember is putting out. 332 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,560 And of course, it is also worth bearing in mind that with 333 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,160 statistical analysis, one can create the impression that 334 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,840 almost anything is actually happening if you happen to 335 00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:09,160 select the right time and the right things to look at. 336 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:13,680 Now, that's not to dismiss entirely what has happened, but 337 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:16,560 just to set the context, I will show you the energy dashboard 338 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:21,160 from 9:00 this morning, which gives you the generation mix 339 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:24,720 from the United Kingdom. And this is very much at odds 340 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,320 with what's being reported because of course, we see on 341 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,680 the, the right of the diagram shown here that over half of the 342 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:37,480 energy supplies being provided by gas with only 17.8 coming 343 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,760 from wind and an absolute fraction from solar. 344 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:44,120 And of course, the point to drop out of this, bearing in mind 345 00:21:44,120 --> 00:21:46,680 that the whole point of renewable energy, so we're told, 346 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,000 is to reduce carbon when they say of course mean carbon 347 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,160 dioxide. But the, the carbon intensity 348 00:21:53,320 --> 00:21:56,360 here is described as being very, very high. 349 00:21:56,360 --> 00:22:01,000 So in actual fact, the way this is reported is, is is fairly 350 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:03,600 disingenuous. Now to move on to something that 351 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,480 might seem unrelated, but it's in fact very much connected. 352 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,480 We're going to go to the European Commission and they've 353 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:12,840 made an announcement on what should really be described as 354 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:15,160 protectionist steel tariffs. So I should just point out that 355 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:18,200 their front page for their website at the moment can't 356 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:23,640 resist but refer to the speeding up of AI uptake in industry and 357 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,440 science. But that's slightly by the by so 358 00:22:25,440 --> 00:22:28,360 they say the Commission proposes a plan to protect EU steel 359 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:33,040 industry from unfair impacts of global overcapacity. 360 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,720 Now, in their statement, they speak about presenting a 361 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:40,440 proposal to protect the EU steel sector from unfair impacts of 362 00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,960 global overcapacity, A vital step towards ensuring the long 363 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,760 term viability of a strategically crucial industry. 364 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:48,880 And they carry on in that tone now. 365 00:22:49,400 --> 00:22:52,400 All well and good, but it's somewhat at odds with the way in 366 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:55,960 which they reported the tariffs introduced by the US 367 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,720 administration back in March when they said the Commission 368 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:04,080 regrets the US decision to impose such tariffs, considering 369 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:07,720 them unjustified, disruptive to transatlantic trade and harmful 370 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,920 to businesses and consumers, often resulting in higher 371 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,080 prices. Now we go to the trade 372 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:16,800 publication UK Steel and they point out that one of the many 373 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:20,320 handicaps to UK steel production is of course energy. 374 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,960 And in their report, Closing the Power Gap, you can see the bar 375 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,720 on the right showing that the price of energy in this company 376 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:29,040 as compared with Germany and France is far, far outstripping 377 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,480 it. And of course that set alongside 378 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:35,800 the the lack of availability of home produced cooking coal and 379 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:39,240 the nationalisation and many other factors which have been 380 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,200 reported on by UK column over this year. 381 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,280 It suggests that that UK steel of course has many, many 382 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,920 challenges set against it. But the main point to draw out 383 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:56,240 of this really with regard to the balance of trade is the 384 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:58,560 difference between import and export. 385 00:23:58,560 --> 00:24:03,000 Now from the UK Steel report, they say outside of China, 38% 386 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:06,760 of steel produced travels across borders, with the UK importing 387 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:12,400 70% of its requirements and exporting 39% of its production. 388 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:17,240 So in effect, the statistics don't really tally with the 389 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,640 sense of outrage that there would be tariffs on steel being 390 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:25,160 imported into the EU, where of course the UK is very, very much 391 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:28,640 a net importer of steel in the 1st place. 392 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:31,960 Now, just to get to the issue of energy, I thought it'd be 393 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:39,200 interesting to point out the IEEE spectrum data on AI because 394 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:44,360 we hear that AI is absolutely everywhere and from figures 395 00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:49,520 given by ChatGPT or open AI, but which has created ChatGPT. 396 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:53,840 These stats are basically an extrapolation of the imagined 397 00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:58,720 situation leading to 2030, which basically says that 44 nuclear 398 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,040 reactors would be required just to power artificial 399 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:07,360 intelligence. Now, of course, that is 1 of 400 00:25:07,360 --> 00:25:09,880 many concerns. First of all, the renewable 401 00:25:09,880 --> 00:25:12,000 issue as discussed at the beginning of this, which is why 402 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,800 it is all pertinent and relevant to the production of steel, but 403 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,080 also the matter of water. And indeed, in a year in the 404 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,520 United Kingdom where we're told that we are very short of water, 405 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:23,880 indeed in certain regions, we absolutely are. 406 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:27,880 But the relentless push towards AI has huge environmental 407 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:30,320 impact, which again seems to be something that the energy 408 00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:34,200 industry does not have an answer for in any shape or form. 409 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:39,280 Now moving on to what it is that the UK column does. 410 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:43,920 And one of those things is to provide a massive resource of 411 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,600 research spanning almost 2 decades now. 412 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,360 So if there are any topics that you are curious about, please 413 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:52,960 don't do go to UK columns your first port of call and indeed 414 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,120 encourage others to do so because we hope of course that 415 00:25:56,120 --> 00:25:58,200 will encourage you to join as a member. 416 00:25:58,200 --> 00:26:00,600 And if you would like to support, then there is a button 417 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,040 on in front of the website to show you how you can make a 418 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:07,560 donation or join and support what we do do because it's very 419 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:13,480 important that we do have that continued financial support 420 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:16,160 keeps going. The shop of course does sell a 421 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:21,600 variety of items shown on screen now the very popular hoodies. 422 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,040 So there for you, should you choose to walk around and 423 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,760 promote the UK column, which we'd love you to do now on 424 00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:33,000 Tuesday, yesterday, Sandy Adams put out a very good interview 425 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:36,760 with Neil McRae, the title of which is the lie of cataclysmic 426 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:39,120 Anthropogenic climate change, very pertinent to what I've just 427 00:26:39,120 --> 00:26:41,000 been talking about. Of course, now that's gone back 428 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,160 down very well, so I would recommend listening to that if 429 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,240 you haven't done so already. And last night on the Germ 430 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:51,840 Warfare Podcast, we had Ian Davis talking about digital ID 431 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,320 and that of course, very such a subject of the moment. 432 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,520 So again, absolutely worth listening back to. 433 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:05,880 Now tonight Germ has more with Carl Zarr and he's talking about 434 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,360 the more nuanced history of Chairman Mao. 435 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:11,840 So that's going out at 7:00 tonight. 436 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:17,080 Germ now back from China and there'll be more coming out in 437 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,520 relation to what he saw and did there. 438 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,800 And then tomorrow we have Patrick Hennington's talk from 439 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,480 the Hope Freedom Festival over the August bank holiday weekend. 440 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:31,440 And that goes out at 1:00. And that takes us to our 441 00:27:31,520 --> 00:27:35,160 upcoming event in York, UK column on location. 442 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:39,440 As you well know by now, it's sold out in person, but there is 443 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:45,160 a live stream and it is really important to make the point that 444 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:47,760 if you do buy a ticket for the live stream, you don't need to 445 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,840 watch it at the time. You do get access to Andrew 446 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:52,720 Wakefield. Phenomenal film, Protocol 7. 447 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,760 And just to a quick reminder of who we've got there and why. 448 00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,720 We've got Andrew Wakefield who will be talking about his career 449 00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,600 being derailed after questioning the efficacy and safety of 450 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,560 vaccines, but also his subsequent filmmaking career, 451 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:10,000 especially Protocol 7 of course, which you will have access to. 452 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,000 We've got Liz Evans talking about the murky world of medical 453 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:17,680 ethics, as well as Julian Rose on the relationship between 454 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,760 human health and the soil. And he's got 2 very impactful 455 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,800 interviews on UK column if you want to get a flavour of what he 456 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,640 is all about. We've then got Tess Lorry on her 457 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,040 journey through establishing and running World Council for Health 458 00:28:32,120 --> 00:28:35,440 and Ben Rubin on the history and the impact of the National 459 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:39,240 Health Service. Now on an admin note, if you do 460 00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:42,800 have a ticket, an in person ticket, we're encouraging you to 461 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:46,000 register on the Friday evening before the event. 462 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,320 Now you will get an e-mail, so don't worry, you don't have to 463 00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:50,360 scribble all this down, but there will be registration 464 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:55,400 possible from 6:00 until 8:30 in the evening in the room that the 465 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,320 conference will be held. So please do consider doing that 466 00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:02,000 because it will make life easier and give you a bit more time on 467 00:29:02,000 --> 00:29:04,280 the Saturday morning. But as I say, an e-mail will 468 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,160 follow about that. Right Now, Will Coleshill has 469 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:13,600 been reporting for us on several issues over the past few months, 470 00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:17,960 but in a way none more crucial or critical or indeed 471 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:22,480 emotionally charged than the inquest into the death of Paloma 472 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:27,120 Shemerani. And he has now a report, a 473 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:31,920 concluding report into that inquest, but also the the very 474 00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,480 aggressive and oppressive treatment of her mother, Kate 475 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:36,720 Chameroni by the mainstream media. 476 00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,760 So we'll just have a listen now to Will's concluding report on 477 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:47,120 this matter. On Thursday last week, I again 478 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,000 headed down to main term Coroner's Court to cover the 479 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,400 verdict in the inquest of the death of Bloemi Shamrani, 480 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,400 daughter of Kate. Of the course of the trial, I've 481 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:55,520 been the sole independent journalist in attendance each 482 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,680 day and this time we've heard from Palmer's family, including 483 00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,360 her mother Kate AGP. The main Doctor Who treated her 484 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,240 in the incident in December 2023. 485 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,880 A psychologist to assess her capacity to make a medical 486 00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,080 decisions and gave her supportive therapy. 487 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,760 A number of alternative medical practitioners who treated her at 488 00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:13,640 various times between early and mid 2024. 489 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:16,640 The paramedics who treated her when she collapsed, the Doctor 490 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,480 Who took the decision to end her life shortly after the incident 491 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:21,320 and the pathologist to examine her body. 492 00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:23,680 This is my last report. We've also heard the testimony 493 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:27,080 of another pathologist who spoke on the post mortem in question. 494 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,400 The lack of further testing which would she said, have 495 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,920 enabled A clearer picture of alternative therapies available. 496 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:35,600 The coroner set out to cover a number of fundamental questions. 497 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,520 The relevant medical history, diagnosis and proposed 498 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:40,320 treatment. Capacity to make decisions. 499 00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:42,920 What treatment and therapies were available. 500 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,080 Her collapse. Any delay in ambulance arrival. 501 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:48,000 The actions of the ambulance service. 502 00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,240 Further treatment at the end of her life and the cause of death 503 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:57,760 raised by Kate, though also the issues of the actions of the 504 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,720 Maidstone and the ambulance medications, as well as issues 505 00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,120 with the post mortem. And finally raised by Gabriel, 506 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,760 Paloma's brother. There is the allegation that 507 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,680 Kate had killed her daughter through curse of control. 508 00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,400 In the case of the cause of Paloma's death, the coroner 509 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,720 ruled that it was caused by a number of cumulative factors. 510 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:17,800 Hypoxicosemic brain injury caused by cardiac arrest caused 511 00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,880 by a primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma mass. 512 00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:24,240 The coroner went on to explain that the Gerson and other 513 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:27,320 alternative therapies could not and did not help Paloma with 514 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,640 cancer. This was not a surprising result 515 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,600 given the general consensus than medical practitioners who gave 516 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:34,360 testimony. The coroner found that the 517 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,520 application of adrenaline will most likely have kept her alive, 518 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:39,160 dismissing concerns by Kate. It could have caused brain 519 00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:40,920 damage. Without much discussion. 520 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,280 The most shocking ruling came in relation to the issue of 521 00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,720 Paloma's competency. Although the coroner, as 522 00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,280 expected, will Paloma to be competent to make decisions 523 00:31:49,280 --> 00:31:51,760 legally, having been provided comprehensive evidence that 524 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:53,520 Paloma was able to make her own decision. 525 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,720 She had posited that Kate still held a role in her daughter's 526 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,680 death, citing that other people collaborated with Paloma. 527 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,600 In her testimony to the High Court, she essentially threw all 528 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:04,640 of the signed documents out as invalid. 529 00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,120 This is particularly controversial for multiple 530 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:08,600 reasons. Firstly, these are the most 531 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,680 clear statements of Paloma's intention and signed by her. 532 00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,520 Secondly, because it is common practice to collaborate on the 533 00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:17,360 wording of legal documents, and thirdly, because these line up 534 00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:19,560 with sentiments expressed in Paloma's diary in her own 535 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,360 handwriting. The coroner has alleged that 536 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:24,720 Kate, who cared for her daughter during this time, preparing food 537 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:27,600 and driving her to appointments, acted as a medical practitioner. 538 00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:30,920 In particular, she cited that Kate directed Paloma to various 539 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,560 medical practitioners or alternative therapies. 540 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:37,560 As such, she said that Kate by this role, acquired a duty of 541 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,600 care which was derogated by the fact that she did not counsel 542 00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,960 Paloma to engage with conventional medical therapy. 543 00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:46,000 This is particularly unexpected considering Paloma continued to 544 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,240 meet with her GP, for example, and with other medical 545 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,440 practitioners such as a cardiologist seeking a referral. 546 00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:54,680 As such, Paloma had the opportunity to engage with 547 00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,600 conventional medical practitioners, as was evidence 548 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:01,040 in court, which, should she be competent as evidence and ruled, 549 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,200 would seem to enable her to be able to make her own decision 550 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,840 against conventional medicine. With regards to Paloma's ability 551 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,560 to form a clear picture and have informed consent, one of the 552 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,120 most significant factors appears to be the decision to reject the 553 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,480 scan to indicate progression or regression of the mass. 554 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,120 I was privately told by friends and family. 555 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,880 Paloma wanted this delayed until after she had defeated her 556 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,080 brother in the High Court, something which she did not live 557 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,680 to see. Further, the coroner has ruled 558 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,480 that Paloma was convinced by Kate, again, despite Paloma's 559 00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,080 competence, that she had been poisoned against her consent 560 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,120 from almost the moment she was first given drugs at the 561 00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:34,520 Mainstone Hospital in December 2023. 562 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,600 The coroner accepted, seemingly wholesale, the testimony of 563 00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,760 Doctor Mohan, who of course left the country subsequently after 564 00:33:40,760 --> 00:33:42,600 her day in court, seemingly never to return. 565 00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,040 In contrast, she divided the testimony of Kate. 566 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,080 Very little, if anything, was made of the lack of a consent 567 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:52,240 form for the drugs, to which we heard Paloma had an extremely 568 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:55,480 bad reaction and sickness and which hardened her against 569 00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,360 conventional medicine. This ruling appears the place of 570 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,720 trust in the NHS, which contrasts with the systematic 571 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,000 and commonplace NHS malpractice most darkly exhibited in recent 572 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,680 years. As such, in a controversial 573 00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,239 ruling, the coroner has accepted nearly every piece of evidence 574 00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,440 against Kate and ruled the Kate in essence contributed to 575 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,800 Paloma's death whilst dismissing nearly everything in her favour. 576 00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,080 However, the coroner stopped short of declaring Kate guilty 577 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,120 of unlawful killings, citing the involvement of other people who 578 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,880 she could not deliberate. This has been a protracted 579 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:26,520 inquest filtered almost entirely through the lens of mainstream 580 00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,960 media. As mainstream propagandists such 581 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:31,199 as Marianna Spring capitalized on this judgement to pursue 582 00:34:31,199 --> 00:34:33,960 their political agendas. Unanswered questions remain as 583 00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:36,600 to elements of the ruling which will certainly cast doubt upon 584 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,760 its veracity as the full picture in the eyes of many. 585 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,800 This is Will Coltel report it for UK column. 586 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,199 Well, harrowing. A very concise report there from 587 00:34:52,199 --> 00:34:57,000 Will Gulshill might seem overly cynical to suggest that it was 588 00:34:57,040 --> 00:35:00,400 probably never going to go any way other than that. 589 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,720 But Vanessa, I'd be interested to know your thoughts on it, 590 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:06,440 either on the verdict itself or the OR the way in which Kate 591 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,240 Chemerani has been treated and indeed what what sort of what 592 00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:13,960 would be next for her? Well, I mean, the first thing 593 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,960 that that comes to my mind is that this seems to be part of 594 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,160 the operation to separate families, in other words, to 595 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:25,160 take away the parental supervision or involvement in 596 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,240 their Children's Health and and education and so on. 597 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:35,440 I mean, when a mother is going to be prosecuted on, on, on for 598 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:40,440 effectively providing advice and consultation for her daughter, 599 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,640 who they're saying basically was of sound mind and could make her 600 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:48,400 own decisions, I don't know. It seems to me to be a sort of 601 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:54,920 horrific verdict. I think horrific is is exactly 602 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:58,480 the right word and it it looks like an extreme case of cherry 603 00:35:58,480 --> 00:35:59,800 picking. We will have the chance to talk 604 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,680 about this more in Extra because I'm glad to say that Will 605 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:04,600 Coleshill will be joining us in Extra and not only will we have 606 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,760 the opportunity to talk about this, but also his recent 607 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:11,240 reporting on the protest concerning the prescribed group 608 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,240 Palestine Action. So please do hang around for 609 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,680 Extra if you are a member. If you're not, you have got time 610 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,760 to sign up after the main news programme. 611 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,680 Now we're going to go back to Vanessa, because last week you 612 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,920 were speaking about the so-called Gaza peace talks, and 613 00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:28,440 you've got more for us on exactly that issue. 614 00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,880 Yeah, I mean, basically we're heading for the big finale, but 615 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,200 I just wanted to put it in a bit of context. 616 00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:46,040 So of course the the big issue for Israeli commentators or pro 617 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:48,360 genocide commentators, particularly like Benjamin 618 00:36:48,360 --> 00:36:51,920 Netanyahu is of course the return of the hostages. 619 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,000 But I just wanted to bring this up on screen. 620 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,880 This was from the Times of Israel, shortly after the 7th of 621 00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:02,200 October, in a conversation with families of the hostages, where 622 00:37:02,200 --> 00:37:05,320 it was stated by one of the family members. 623 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,480 We later found out that Hamas had offered on October the 9th 624 00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:13,080 or 10th, so a few days after the 7th of October to release all 625 00:37:13,080 --> 00:37:17,600 the civilian hostages in exchange for the Israeli forces 626 00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:21,000 not entering the Gaza Strip. But the government rejected the 627 00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:22,720 offer. And of course, we know that that 628 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:25,960 this has been the pattern since the 7th of October. 629 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,640 And it's very clear that Netanyahu is not interested in 630 00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:32,200 the return of hostages. He's interested in the final 631 00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:34,440 solution in Gaza and the West Bank. 632 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,680 And then of course, the fact that the claims that are being 633 00:37:37,680 --> 00:37:41,360 reignited right now that 7th of October was the two year 634 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,280 genocide date yesterday that there are in fact, in the show 635 00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:50,080 notes, there's a 9 minute video showing all of the testimonies 636 00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,960 from various Israeli forces and officials directing to the fact 637 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,000 that that they carried out the Hannibal directive, which was 638 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:01,280 effectively to kill their own civilians and soldiers on the 639 00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:08,240 7th of October to prevent them being taken hostage by Hamas and 640 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:13,840 the various resistance factions. So basically that's the scenario 641 00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:18,360 that these peace talks or so-called peace talks, I see it 642 00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:23,120 again as a bit of a charade are going to be conducted in in 643 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,600 Egypt right now. This is something that was 644 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:29,960 published in Axios by Barack Ravid. 645 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,360 Trump huddles with Jared Kushner, of course, his 646 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:38,360 son-in-law and and the Gaza waterfront property mogul and 647 00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,760 Steve Witkoff ahead of crucial Gaza talks. 648 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:46,440 They've arrived today alongside the Qatari emir, the head of 649 00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:51,120 Turkish intelligence and President Sisi has actually 650 00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:55,080 invited Trump to the signing of the ceasefire agreement. 651 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:59,640 So there's a lot of pressure on the resistance factions right 652 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,600 now to to basically complete this deal. 653 00:39:02,840 --> 00:39:08,320 But of course, there are a lot of points within that plan from 654 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,840 Trump that simply are not going to be accepted by Hamas. 655 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:18,800 So in my opinion, we're heading for the same degree of fall from 656 00:39:18,840 --> 00:39:22,440 these peace talks. But of course, it's being raised 657 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,160 up much higher than before, which in my opinion, again, 658 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:29,000 means that the final aggression is going to be far more 659 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,800 substantial than has been to date, which is saying a lot. 660 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,400 So this is Trump basically bigging up his our own peace 661 00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,920 plan. If we can just roll this video, 662 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:45,720 we're in very serious negotiations to, I guess you 663 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:49,080 could say, depending on the way you count 3000 years, you could 664 00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,720 say 500 years you could say, but that it's been raging for a long 665 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:55,560 time. And I think there's a 666 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,920 possibility that we could have peace in the Middle East. 667 00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:01,600 It's something even beyond the Gaza situation. 668 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,040 We want a release of the hostages immediately. 669 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,000 Et cetera. And so our team is over there 670 00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:10,800 now. Another team just left and other 671 00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,200 countries, literally every country in the world has 672 00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:16,360 supported the plan. I don't think there's anybody 673 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,720 that hasn't actually, not that I've seen. 674 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,880 I mean, just Trump at his best again, 3000 or maybe 500 years. 675 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:31,280 I mean, the the lack of accuracy is quite mind boggling, but this 676 00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:33,920 is one of the points, this was reported by Al Jazeera. 677 00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,640 This is one of the points that is going to be a sticking point 678 00:40:36,640 --> 00:40:41,480 in in the entire agreement, an umbrella of Palestinian 679 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:44,000 factions. The PFLP is now the the 680 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:48,440 Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine and 681 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,480 Islamic Jihad have joined the meeting today issued a statement 682 00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,440 promising resistance stance by all means, stressing that no one 683 00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:57,760 has the right to cede the weapons of the Palestinian 684 00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,240 people. And I do find this quite 685 00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:01,880 extraordinary that those that are being asked to cede their 686 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:04,720 weapons are those that are effectively defending their 687 00:41:04,720 --> 00:41:08,560 homeland against an aggressive occupation force that is 688 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:11,640 committing genocide. Surely it is Israel that should 689 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:18,200 be disarmed and deradicalised. And this is IL Zamir who made a 690 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:20,720 statement yesterday. There is no ceasefire but a 691 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:22,840 change in the operational situation. 692 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,200 If the political effort does not succeed, we will return to 693 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,240 fight. We will not allow Hamas to 694 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:31,440 remain undefeated as the governing and military system in 695 00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,840 Gaza. This is General Aisle Zamir, the 696 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,160 the chief of staff of the Israeli forces now. 697 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,360 Interesting. There's been a lot of criticism 698 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:45,360 of President Putin's reaction to the Trump plan from many within 699 00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,320 independent media. Of course, China and Russia have 700 00:41:48,320 --> 00:41:53,360 until now, failed to impose any kind of economic boycott on the 701 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,200 Zionist entity. In fact, China is increasing 702 00:41:56,240 --> 00:41:59,720 trade with Israel, not only with Israel, but also with Arab 703 00:41:59,720 --> 00:42:02,280 nations that have normalized relations with Israel. 704 00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:03,880 So let's just have a look at this. 705 00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:06,160 This was just a statement from RT. 706 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:09,520 Putin and Israel's Netanyahu just held a phone call. 707 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:14,280 They discussed Trump's Gaza plan, store sorry, talked 708 00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,880 stabilizing Syria and finding solutions to Iran's nuclear 709 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:23,520 program, and Netanyahu wished Putin happy birthday. 710 00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:27,600 Now, what's interesting, at Valdai Club, Putin was asked 711 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,360 about the plan. He not only basically approved 712 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,800 it despite not having received approval from either Hamas or 713 00:42:33,800 --> 00:42:37,440 the Palestinian Authority, who of course, according to the plan 714 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,160 are going to be sidelined alongside Hamas. 715 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:44,720 He pushed again the two state solution that we know is is 716 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,960 meaningless right now. And not only that, he praised 717 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:52,200 Tony Blair as an, as a very good statesman and talked about the 718 00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:55,240 times that they had shared coffee together at Blair's 719 00:42:55,240 --> 00:42:59,840 residence, sitting in their pajamas discussing the the state 720 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,680 of world affairs. And of course, you know, I, I 721 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:05,960 don't think anybody would approve of of any kind of 722 00:43:06,920 --> 00:43:10,040 recommendation of Blair as a peace envoy in the Middle East. 723 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:13,040 And finally, of course, one of the issues that is not being 724 00:43:13,040 --> 00:43:17,760 touched on by the peace plan is the existence of ISIS agents 725 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,480 that have been weaponized by Israel against the resistance 726 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:25,360 factions and who may raise their head in in the future to to 727 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:29,840 basically target both civilians and resistance on behalf of 728 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:31,440 Israel. And of course, the fact that 729 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:37,600 Trump is using this as a rather gruesome and grotesque ladder to 730 00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,840 a potential of a Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that he's been 731 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:44,880 recommended for it by the hostages families. 732 00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:49,280 Quite horrific. It is indeed. 733 00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,120 So I think we'll we'll come back to that in extra for sure. 734 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:53,280 There's there's a lot to talk about there. 735 00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,360 But thank you very much indeed. Now we'll come back to the 736 00:43:56,360 --> 00:44:00,600 United Kingdom and indeed, we will have a look at part of the 737 00:44:00,600 --> 00:44:03,080 government website, which you may not necessarily be familiar 738 00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,760 with. And that is the Accelerated 739 00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:08,920 capability environment ACE, which describes itself as 740 00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:13,560 solving rapidly changing digital and data challenges facing law 741 00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:15,840 enforcement and national security agencies. 742 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,640 And they bring together expertise from industry and 743 00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:21,680 academia to innovate collaboratively and create 744 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,920 mission impact at pace. You can imagine the tone with 745 00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,760 which it continues. All of which could be entirely 746 00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:30,520 meaningless now. This goes back some years in 747 00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:33,080 fact, but the reason I mention it today is because the 748 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:38,840 government website is awash with documents saying how the ACE has 749 00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,760 dealt with various departmental initiatives, innovations and how 750 00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:46,440 it's going to streamline all sorts of processes and deliver 751 00:44:47,200 --> 00:44:50,120 things that may not have been possible before. 752 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:51,200 Now. Of course, the inference to be 753 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,960 drawn is there aren't very many human beings involved in all of 754 00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:56,160 this and indeed you would be right to come to that 755 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:58,360 conclusion. It's a Home Office capability 756 00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:02,960 and it was at least it's not coincidental at all to consider 757 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:05,840 that it was founded by what was then the Office for Security and 758 00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,120 Counterterrorism, the OSCT, back in 2017. 759 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,680 It's been reported on by UK column in the past. 760 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:16,800 Now as it's grown, it's applied its approach to a lot of, again, 761 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:20,600 what's described as being innovation and Co creation and 762 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,920 dealing with public safety and security and and all that kind 763 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,280 of thing. Now the point to make here is 764 00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,000 that it's being made to look like it's owned and controlled 765 00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:32,560 by the Home Office, but of course that's not so. 766 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:35,800 It says that it's powered by Vivace, a community of 767 00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:40,040 multidisciplinary organisations and experts drawn from industry 768 00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:43,160 and academia who collaborate to deliver highly innovative 769 00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:47,400 solutions at pace. In other words, corporations 770 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,560 involved in data harvesting and all sorts of technological 771 00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:54,120 innovations and advancements which are going to be 772 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:58,920 controlling on behalf of the Home Office, things that pertain 773 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:03,080 to all aspects of government. Now we listen to Ben and Brian 774 00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:06,320 talking about Tony Blair's sort of intervention, suggesting how 775 00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:10,120 AI can improve every aspect of government, really being able to 776 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,400 articulate how during Monday's news programme. 777 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:16,280 And this seems to be exactly what's being referred to here. 778 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:18,800 There should be a number of concerns falling out of it, but 779 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,720 specifically with regard to policing, because they're 780 00:46:21,720 --> 00:46:25,600 talking about creating an AI lab for policing. 781 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,680 Now it almost seems like it would be made-up because this is 782 00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:34,000 the deal with the crime that has resulted from generative AI in 783 00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:35,360 the 1st place. But they say it'll play a 784 00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:38,520 significant role in shaping the police service of the future, 785 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:42,000 bolstering capabilities by making investigations more 786 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,520 sophisticated and efficient, as well as freeing up officers 787 00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,000 time. Now going back to who controls 788 00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:53,080 or owns this capability. And with the police operational, 789 00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:58,000 a very important criteria of operational independence in 790 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:01,600 mind, it is again hugely concerning. 791 00:47:01,800 --> 00:47:05,720 This looks like an investigation process would not only be owned 792 00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:09,600 in effect, perhaps in name by the Home Office, but in actual 793 00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:13,400 fact by private corporations, which would have an 794 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,160 extraordinary amount of influence over the outcome of an 795 00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,680 investigation considering all the sorts of biases that may be 796 00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:24,120 introduced into artificial intelligence in the 1st place. 797 00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,560 Now there are plenty of things to look at behind the scenes 798 00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:30,360 here. The government have also put out 799 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:34,120 a document talking about keeping police one step ahead of 800 00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:37,840 criminals using AI1 wonders why it's only one step ahead. 801 00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,920 It doesn't really reinforce the point that AI is indeed the 802 00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:45,080 salvation to all these problems. But of course, as I mentioned 803 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:50,680 earlier, these are in large part creations of generative AI in 804 00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,240 the 1st place. And so we are told on the one 805 00:47:52,240 --> 00:47:54,080 hand by the government that it is the answer to absolutely 806 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:57,040 everything, but it seems to be the answer for criminals who are 807 00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,880 of course exploiting it to great effect. 808 00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:03,320 Now the other thing to draw your attention to is that the 809 00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,600 oversight of this is from the Public Safety Group, which is 810 00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,720 headed up by Richard Clarke who sits within the Home Office. 811 00:48:09,720 --> 00:48:14,200 And indeed he attended the Digital Policing Summit earlier 812 00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,400 this year. And I've just showing you the 813 00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:20,280 text which refers to the sponsors, principal sponsors 814 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:25,680 being Palantir, BT and Amazon Web Services course among many 815 00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,040 others. But it demonstrates the ever 816 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,760 closer relationship between the government and in particular 817 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,960 tech corporations. Now from the report itself, they 818 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,360 describe Amazon Web Services as working with public safety 819 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,440 organisations to build the next generation of national security, 820 00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,520 justice, police, Fire and Rescue solutions. 821 00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:50,400 And they in particular quote sort of Palantir and talk about 822 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,720 how they're partnering police forces in the UK in support of 823 00:48:54,720 --> 00:48:57,960 challenges ranging from helping City of London police fight 824 00:48:57,960 --> 00:49:01,200 economic crime and and so on and so forth. 825 00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:05,720 But again, considering the tender notice for this, they 826 00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:10,440 talk about the private sector partner requirement is for a 827 00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:15,160 supplier to work closely with the authority to act as a 828 00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,640 flexible commissioning and delivery partner with the 829 00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:21,680 responsibility for the dynamic ecosystem and collaboration 830 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:26,040 platform to deliver commissioned ACE customer requirements. 831 00:49:27,240 --> 00:49:29,600 This is gobbledygook. But the point is the tender that 832 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:33,040 was put out to the organizations that were going to be competing 833 00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:37,040 for this is also suggesting with the concluding remark that it is 834 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,520 to jointly protect His Majesty's government interest. 835 00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:44,160 Now it's very hard to see how that particular circle can be 836 00:49:44,160 --> 00:49:46,160 squared. And I think gives enormous 837 00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:51,040 concerns, not just with the way in which AI is being rolled out 838 00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,440 across governments, but specifically with with regard to 839 00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,280 the companies that are going to be given the very contracts with 840 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,480 which to do that and how they may exert their influence in 841 00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:08,560 this instance via policing and and the terrible results that 842 00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,680 could lead to. Now, AI, of course, suggested to 843 00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,280 be the answer to everything. Is it? 844 00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,000 Well, I would direct you towards the UK column website where 845 00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:20,080 you'll find an interview there. German warfare talking to Jobs 846 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:24,960 Langrebi and Barry Smith will why machines will never rule the 847 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,400 world. And there's a lot to learn about 848 00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:31,800 the what's described, the sort of sentience of, of AI and 849 00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:36,120 indeed whether such a thing does actually exist or not. 850 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,440 So that concludes that particular report on AI and 851 00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:42,000 policing. And we're going to go back to 852 00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,720 Vanessa now. Of course we talked specifically 853 00:50:43,720 --> 00:50:46,400 about Gaza, but you're going to to tell us a bit more about 854 00:50:46,720 --> 00:50:50,120 about Netanyahu and what what he's been doing? 855 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:55,800 Yes, I apologise for the various videos of of his recent 856 00:50:55,800 --> 00:51:00,520 conversation with Ben Shapiro. It's not pleasant viewing. 857 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:05,200 The first of all he talks about, he's of course speaking about 858 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:10,880 two years of the Holocaust against the Israeli Jews. 859 00:51:11,720 --> 00:51:14,880 So anyway, let's just play this first video. 860 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:20,160 First section of the video. Worst atrocities committed on 861 00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:22,880 Jews since the Holocaust and everybody thought Israel was 862 00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:28,280 doomed. 2 years later we've smashed the Iran axis, smashed 863 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:33,040 most of its proxies. Hamas not finished yet but we'll 864 00:51:33,040 --> 00:51:37,560 get there. Hezbollah, Syria is gone, 865 00:51:39,160 --> 00:51:41,360 smashed. Also, Iran's nuclear and 866 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,680 ballistic missile program still there, but it rolled it really 867 00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,800 back with President Trump's help and the Houthis. 868 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:55,120 Now, of course, this is these are not the words of someone 869 00:51:55,120 --> 00:51:58,520 that is working on a on a peace deal and of course they never 870 00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:01,200 have been. But having said that, they've 871 00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,680 basically smashed the entire, as he describes it, Iranian 872 00:52:05,080 --> 00:52:09,440 Resistance axis. He then goes on to mention the 873 00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:12,680 threats from Iran that still exist. 874 00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:17,360 So let's just roll this. Shared the you know, the, the, 875 00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:20,520 the labor and we achieved this neutralization of Iran, which 876 00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:22,360 could blackmail every American city. 877 00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:24,400 People probably don't believe it, right? 878 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,840 No, we're far away, right? No, you're not. 879 00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:33,200 Iran is developing now ballistic missiles that are 880 00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:36,680 intercontinental ballistic missiles for 8000 kilometer 881 00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,200 range. What does that mean? 882 00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:43,040 They add another 3000 kilometers and they've got under their gun, 883 00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:48,120 under their atomic guns, the New York City in target, Washington, 884 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:58,200 Boston, Miami, Mar a Lago. So what this does appear to be 885 00:52:58,200 --> 00:53:01,680 doing, of course, is lining up for a potential false flag to 886 00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:07,080 reignite war against Iran. And then as part of what he's 887 00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,120 talking about, you'll remember that we reported on UK column 888 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:14,080 that back in 2022 there was a report based on documents that 889 00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:19,320 had just been released talking about placing poison or in the 890 00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:21,760 wells. Documents point to the Israeli 891 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:27,320 army's 1948 biological warfare known as play bread. 892 00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,480 And of course that's nothing but well rather that has been 893 00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:34,600 continued with the use of white phosphorus, with settlers 894 00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,760 continuing to poison the wells and the occupied territories and 895 00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:42,040 the West Bank, the dumping of sewage into the Sea of Gaza, 896 00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,160 etcetera. But let's hear what how 897 00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:49,960 Netanyahu talks about the rise in anti-Semitism and what it's 898 00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:55,840 all based upon. Lies perpetrated about Jews and 899 00:53:55,840 --> 00:53:58,800 these vilifications. You know, we poison the wells. 900 00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:02,360 We, I don't know, we, we drink the children that the blood of 901 00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,080 children and all sorts of crazy things. 902 00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,000 And that's repeated today. That's not new. 903 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:14,120 Well, no, it's not new. Perhaps because you do actually 904 00:54:14,120 --> 00:54:16,520 do the things that you're accused of. 905 00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:20,800 And very interesting. I took this just from Wikipedia. 906 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,360 I can hear a sharp intake of breath from everyone. 907 00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:27,320 Yes, I did use Wikipedia as a resource, but let's have a look 908 00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:29,920 at what it says. So, so very generic. 909 00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:31,800 Israel and weapons of mass destruction. 910 00:54:32,240 --> 00:54:34,960 They're of course believed to possess weapons of mass 911 00:54:34,960 --> 00:54:38,000 destruction and to be one of four nuclear armed countries, 912 00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:41,480 the only one in the Middle East because of course they they have 913 00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,760 under the Bacon doctrine, not allowed any Arab nation to 914 00:54:45,760 --> 00:54:49,000 defend itself by developing nuclear weapons. 915 00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:53,480 It's not recognised as a nuclear weapon state by the Treaty on 916 00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:55,800 non proliferation of nuclear weapons. 917 00:54:56,520 --> 00:55:00,200 But the US Congress Office of Technology Assessment has also 918 00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,480 recorded Israel as a country. Country sorry, generally 919 00:55:03,480 --> 00:55:07,720 reported as having undeclared chemical warfare capabilities 920 00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:11,680 and an offensive biological warfare programme. 921 00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:15,680 Officially, Israel neither confirms nor denies possessing 922 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,800 nuclear. It happens, but this is actually 923 00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:26,160 taken from a paper written by Doctor Avner Cohen back in 2001. 924 00:55:26,160 --> 00:55:28,480 Very interesting. I recommend reading the whole 925 00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,960 paper. In April 1948, David Ben Gurion, 926 00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:35,680 Israel's founding father and 1st Prime Minister, wrote a letter 927 00:55:35,680 --> 00:55:39,760 to Ehud Avril, one of the Jewish Agency's operatives in Europe, 928 00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:43,520 ordering him to seek out and recruit E European Jewish 929 00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,080 scientists who could either increase the capacity to kill 930 00:55:47,080 --> 00:55:50,480 mass or to cure masses. Both are important. 931 00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,240 One of the scientists Avril recruited was a 30 year old 932 00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:57,560 epidemiologist and Colonel in the Red Army named Avraham 933 00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:01,520 Marcus Klingberg. In the time Klinger Klingberg 934 00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,960 became one of Israel's leading scientists in the area of 935 00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:08,080 chemical and biological weapons, he was among the founding 936 00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:11,200 members and subsequently the deputy director of the Israel 937 00:56:11,200 --> 00:56:13,440 Institute of Biological Research. 938 00:56:13,440 --> 00:56:18,560 So they clearly have offensive weapons of mass destruction, and 939 00:56:18,560 --> 00:56:20,560 let's hear Netanyahu talk about that. 940 00:56:22,440 --> 00:56:25,640 That's a defensive weapons. What about offensive weapons? 941 00:56:26,240 --> 00:56:29,240 Well, I can tell you we shared it with America, but I can't 942 00:56:29,240 --> 00:56:33,760 share it with you. OK, The most advanced offensive 943 00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:36,960 weapons on the planet, things that none of the superpowers 944 00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:40,440 have developed by Israel shared with America. 945 00:56:40,720 --> 00:56:43,280 That's very important because you know, you have to be strong. 946 00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,560 Everybody understands that. That's what President Trump 947 00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:48,920 says, and he says it correctly. Peace through strength. 948 00:56:49,240 --> 00:56:51,360 You got to be strong in order to get the peace. 949 00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:55,040 So Israel helps with offensive and defensive technologies, but 950 00:56:55,040 --> 00:57:02,360 also Israel helps with Intel. So if I have to make a 951 00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:05,080 prediction every time there is some kind of ceasefire, it 952 00:57:05,080 --> 00:57:09,040 generally means, as we saw with the ceasefire with Hezbollah 953 00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:13,400 back in November 2024, which led to of course the fall of Syria, 954 00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:18,240 we see Israel effectively pivot towards another area in the 955 00:57:18,240 --> 00:57:20,760 region. And in my opinion, it's going to 956 00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:23,600 be Iraq also potentially Yemen and Iran. 957 00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,720 But what is interesting, there has been a push to disarm the 958 00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:30,600 resistance in Iraq, as this report States and we've talked 959 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:34,320 about regularly. There's also, according to this 960 00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:38,320 report in Stars and Stripes, the US are withdrawing their troops 961 00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:40,640 from Iraq. So it begins reducing its 962 00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:44,440 mission in Iraq. And we've been hearing about the 963 00:57:44,680 --> 00:57:49,480 the Super offensive weapons. There is potential for use of 964 00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:53,280 bio weapons, in my opinion, with the withdrawal of the US troops 965 00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:56,360 against the Iraqi resistance factions. 966 00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:01,640 I hope not, but I don't believe that Israel is going to hold 967 00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:03,720 back on anything in the coming months, no. 968 00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,200 I would absolutely have to agree with you, Vanessa. 969 00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:10,120 And certainly from what Netanyahu says, holding back 970 00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,040 seems like the the least likely course of action. 971 00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:16,040 And of course the talk about, you know, peace through strength 972 00:58:16,040 --> 00:58:18,600 seems completely discordant with his language about smashing 973 00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:21,960 absolutely everybody insight. But yeah, of course we'll 974 00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:23,760 continue to keep an eye on that. But thank you very much indeed 975 00:58:23,760 --> 00:58:25,560 for that. And we'll we'll come back to it 976 00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:28,720 in extra. Now there is a slim chance that 977 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:33,000 you may be watching this programme on YouTube and that 978 00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:37,160 might not be such a surprise because we do have a YouTube 979 00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:40,080 channel that's been set up at some point this year. 980 00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:44,720 But in 2021 the original YouTube channel that belonged to UK 981 00:58:44,720 --> 00:58:48,080 column was removed for a host of reasons. 982 00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,280 It's been a long running battle and this morning Mike Robinson 983 00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:54,000 discovered that it has been reinstated. 984 00:58:54,400 --> 00:59:00,160 And this is in many ways a very significant moment. 985 00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:03,520 We're not absolutely sure why it has happened and there doesn't 986 00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:08,720 seem to have been any sense of fanfare or responsibility upon 987 00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:11,160 YouTube to explain the the reasons why. 988 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:14,960 And of course, if you have followed this, you will be 989 00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:17,960 considering the question that I put on screen now, which is of 990 00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:22,640 course but for how long? Because the track record with 991 00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:26,360 YouTube in particular has been extraordinarily bumpy and 992 00:59:26,360 --> 00:59:28,360 inconsistent, but also terrifically oppressive. 993 00:59:28,360 --> 00:59:31,360 And again, this is something that Mike has illustrated very 994 00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:33,880 well in the past, which is that not only has YouTube sought to 995 00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:39,360 censor UK column, but also those that have introduced UK column 996 00:59:39,360 --> 00:59:41,680 content into their own broadcasting. 997 00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:45,680 So the, the way in which this regime continues, it is 998 00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:47,760 absolutely phenomenal. But we're, we're putting this 999 00:59:47,760 --> 00:59:49,520 across as a very, as a, you know, obviously a positive 1000 00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:51,160 story. We have nearly 100,000 followers 1001 00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:55,200 on subscribers on that Channel. And the idea that this will be 1002 00:59:55,200 --> 01:00:01,520 brought back into the. Think of the word, my apologies, 1003 01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,280 but people will be able to view it in a way that they couldn't 1004 01:00:04,280 --> 01:00:06,440 before. It is is great news. 1005 01:00:06,440 --> 01:00:09,400 Now, if this strikes you as sort of slightly out of context, 1006 01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,600 you're not quite sure what it's all about, then I would 1007 01:00:11,600 --> 01:00:14,200 encourage you to go to the UK column website and look at the 1008 01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:18,720 censored section which charts a course throughout all of this. 1009 01:00:18,720 --> 01:00:21,680 I'll just, just before we close, I'll just ask Vanessa for a 1010 01:00:21,680 --> 01:00:24,760 quick comment on the relationship with YouTube in 1011 01:00:24,760 --> 01:00:27,000 particular and this extraordinary era of censorship 1012 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,840 in which we now are forced to operate. 1013 01:00:30,800 --> 01:00:35,520 Yeah, well, even uploading UK column news excerpts was subject 1014 01:00:35,520 --> 01:00:38,840 to censorship quite often. My channel wasn't closed down, 1015 01:00:38,840 --> 01:00:40,680 but those excerpts were taken down. 1016 01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:45,200 And as Mike pointed out before we came on today, the Syria 1017 01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:48,520 podcasts, which were formally up on YouTube, have not been 1018 01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,640 restored to their former glory. They're still missing. 1019 01:00:52,040 --> 01:00:56,400 So hopefully they they will come back if YouTube's feeling 1020 01:00:56,480 --> 01:00:59,680 generous. I'm not sure about that, but 1021 01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,200 still we what we will concentrate on the Positives UK 1022 01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:05,560 column is back on the main YouTube channel and long may 1023 01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:08,120 that continue because of course there is insufficient 1024 01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:11,400 justification for taking material that we do put out down 1025 01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:14,360 because it is absolutely well researched, as you will know if 1026 01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:15,880 you've been following this for any length of time. 1027 01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:20,000 And if you doubt me, please do verify as best you can. 1028 01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:22,600 Everything that we do put out. It is very important that we 1029 01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,760 that we are seen to be doing so correctly now. 1030 01:01:25,760 --> 01:01:28,240 Thank you very much for joining us on this programme. 1031 01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:31,320 Vanessa, thanks for coming in on the live link. 1032 01:01:31,760 --> 01:01:35,200 Please, if you are AUK column member, hold on for a few 1033 01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:38,840 minutes and we will rejoin in at about 4:10. 1034 01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:42,320 UK column news extra. And also just a reminder that 1035 01:01:42,320 --> 01:01:46,480 going out tonight, we have Germ talking to Carl Zarr on the 1036 01:01:47,160 --> 01:01:49,560 nuances surrounding the history concerning Chairman Mao. 1037 01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:53,680 And then going out tomorrow at 1:00 is Patrick Henderson's talk 1038 01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:57,440 from the Hope Freedom event back in August. 1039 01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:01,560 Otherwise, we hope you will join us for the news programme at 1040 01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:03,440 1:00 on Friday. Goodbye.