Friday 6th March 2016

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

At five – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six – straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers

Listen live http://www.bcfmradio.com/player or http://stream.bcfmradio.com:7017/live.mp3

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First hour: News review: and discussion of the conduct of mayoral and local elections with Bristol’s LibDem leader Gary Hopkins. UK Elections:  count taking place, open to fraud?; interference with ballot boxes filmed in US; PCCs a good idea? Sadiq Khan has won London Mayor – Zac Goldsmith’s comments accusing Sadiq of supporting ISIS libellous. PMQs Corbyn and Cameron – is he friends with Hamas and Hezbollah? – Explanation of Hamas in Palestine and Hezbollah in Lebanon – British culpability in Middle East, you have to stick to promises in difficult situations. Joseph Rowntree Foundation report found 1.25m people in UK ‘unable to afford food, heat or toiletries’ – Tory austerity ideological agenda, banking fraud, Roberto Saviano’s book ‘Zero Zero Zero’ says today’s multinational corporations and banks model themselves on drug dealing narco-cartels, John McDonnell dream team of economists.  Suspension of Ken Livingstone – clip of PM of Israel, Netanyahu, saying Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews – Norman Finkelstein on the Haavara Agreement between Zionists and Nazis,  Jonathon Pollard a spy who sold Israelis US secrets.  Barnet Council boss, Andrew Travers, will not resign over election fiasco – outsourcing to Capita, Bristol postal votes to Gosport.  Tory election fraud from last election in Gloucestershire – police investigation, Michael Crick’s reports, Christina Cooper discusses safety and security of e-balloting.  History of sell off of Bristol Port for around £50m – but it could be worth £1.3 billion?
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Second hour: investigative reports: announcement that Sue Mountstevens has been re-elected as Avon & Somerset police and crime commissioner – Seymour Hersh – Hillary Clinton approved sending Sarin gas to Syrian rebels for 2013 Ghouta chemical weapons attack – Sarin gas deal set up with Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar – The Red Lines and the Rat Lines by Seymour Hersh. BBC Question Time discusses EU referendum – audience member discusses TTIP, EU and Bilderberg – with a view to Brexit. Bilderberg 2016 in Dresden – home to the German far right, criminal gangster oligarchs. Dresden home to Germany’s Pegida chief Lutz Bachmann, and German far-right leader Frauke Petry Analysing failures of BBC documentary Conspiracy Files about downing of MH17 in Ukraine: who is Bellingcat? – https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bellingcat Bellingcat, Eliot Higgins, about his fake video analysis; various points about what BBC Conspiracy Files MH17 documentary got wrong: witnesses seeing a fighter jet attack the airliner, satellite reports of US not released, Air Traffic Control tapes not released by Ukrainian govt, far right defence minister Andriy Parubiy mysteriously sacked immediately afterwards, Black Boxes held by the British, Dutch referendum against Ukraine EU ‘Understanding’, SU-25 didn’t need to reach high altitude to fire missile, Air Traffic Control ordered MH17 to turn on northern flightpath toward warzone, many planes had been shot down in the war so what was 777 airliner doing over Ukraine airspace? No normal procedure to investigation, no post-mortem allowed on pilot as part of deal to deliver his body back to Malaysia. Russian view: Balanced Viewpoint? BBC Snubs Moscow During Making of MH17 Documentary. Interview with John Hendy QC, a Trade Union barrister, about the Tory Trade Union Bill. Proposed changes to union ballots, making them less democratic and setting higher standards for union ballots than his own general election, latest on blacklisting court cases. Interview with Nahella Ashraf stand up to racism Manchester – she discusses the Prevent strategy and how it’s mainly aimed at Muslims, secret police spying on schoolchildren, targeting Muslims like Hitler targeted Jews, finance for the programme targeted at Muslim areas and how Muslims feel threatened.
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