Friday 14th April 2017

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

BCfm audio files usually available 30mins, Radio4All 3/4hrs, after TX
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First hour: News review: with LibDem leader Gary Hopkins. Jeremy Corbyn accuses big business of ‘killing jobs’ by refusing to pay bills on time – the Labour leader says big firms hold back £26billion in payments, forcing 50,000 businesses out of work each year; Google Puts CNN, Washington Post, NYT In Charge Of Fact-Checking News;  FIVE new automated fact-checking projects underway;  Full Fact wants to automate fact checking to fight fake news; The Bristolian: Park Raving Mad – cuts to litter collection in parks; Canada unveils plans to legalise recreational marijuana; nurses, postal workers & Virgin Trains East Coast staff strikes;  800 GPs in South West could be set to leave profession as morale at all-time low;  Chancellor refuses to rule out extra funding on top of West’s £1bn devolution deal – Philip Hammond wants the region to embrace the new Metro Mayor and West of England authority with an ‘open mind’;  Metrobus;  Bristol Port sell off under Mayor Ferguson;  Bank of England implicated in Libor rigging scandal by secret recording, BBC reports – clip from Panorama programme ‘The Big Bank Fix’ – Dearlove family, MI6, Banks and Bilderberg;  928 carers in England quit a day as social care system ‘starts to collapse’;  cellphones, wifi and cancer: will Trump’s budget cuts zap vital ‘electrosmog’ research?
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Assad statement on chemical weapons attack and The Coming War on China. Syria:  this week’s interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad who says his government didn’t order chemical attack, had no motive to, and thinks some of it may be staged; G7 meeting; Donald Trump Is An International Law Breaker by retired U.S. Army Colonel W. Patrick Lang. 43 killed and 100 wounded in bomb attacks on churches in Egypt – Arab Spring, Muslim Brotherhood, controlling oil and resources, Iran, Chinese ‘new silk road’ rail project, Israel. Trump says US will act alone on North Korea if China fails to help.  Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been arrested and jailed. China Deploys 150,000 Troops to North Korean Border. Trump’s proposed increase in US military spending is almost as big as Russia’s entire defence budget.  Clip from John Pilger’s film ‘The Coming War on China’  [nb. complete version of ‘The Coming War on China’ at YouTube may only be available for a short time]  Beslan school siege: European court condemns Russia for role in 2004 massacre. British Army agent in the IRA, Stakeknife, linked to 18 murders, Northern Ireland police’s Operation Kenova: Murders linked to IRA spy Stakeknife ‘not properly investigated’ – The Spy In The IRA: Panorama film by John Ware.
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Friday 7th April 2017

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

BCfm audio files usually available 3/4 hours after TX
Any probs mp3s should be on alternative links below by then

First hour: News review: with Labour Councillor Estella Ticknell. Film studies; Lockleaze issues – Metrobus and deer stuck between fences – Bristol traffic problems and public transport; Bristol named best place to live for 2017 by The Times; Ryanair threatening to halt flights after Brexit – can Brexit be stopped? – exploitation of migrant labour, macro-economics;  firms can BAN workers from wearing headscarves and other religious symbols under EU ruling; documentary reveals how nothing has changed for city’s housing crisis since Cathy Come Home – today’s families are facing same situations that shocked the nation revealed in Ken Loach’s landmark 1966 drama – local housing problems, history of British housing policy; UK house price growth weakest since 2013;  Ken Loach’s Bafta acceptance speech for ‘I, Daniel Blake’; the 5 Tory benefit cuts taking force this week that could affect YOU  – Labour in-fighting;  John Platt will never plead guilty to taking his child on holiday in term time – free schools and academies;  funding cuts due far all schools – www.schoolcuts.org.uk website funding cuts schools;  Trump bombing Syrian base after chemical attack; EU says Murdoch can own 100% of SKY TV; media consolidation both sides of the Atlantic under Trump, FCC relaxing rules of owning TV companies in US.
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Second hour: Investigative reports: Syria chemical weapons attack in Idlib province and last month’s Westminster Attack. Syria:  Trump sends missiles to Syrian Shayrat airbase and shortly after ISIS invades base – coordinated? Sarin gas attack blamed on Assad without any investigation; various evidence attack could be deliberately staged by the West; MSF says two different types of gas – chlorine and sarin were there; boundaries of Syria to be redrawn? Theresa May’s husband works for Capital Group that invests in arms companies; Defence Secretary Michael Fallon on BBC Radio 5 Live discussing Syria; UN peace talks beginning in Geneva – suspicious timing for chemical attack? Goutha chemical attack by rebels; Does Assad have support of most of Syrian population? NATO report; Israeli foreign policy;  geopolitics of oil and money.  Westminster Bridge Attack:  Alan Buttle discusses his film he made for You Tube about attack; Daniel Sandford’s report on day of attack – two suspects? Shoot to kill policy;  clip from Alan’s film about photographers at scene;  terror groups run by intelligence services;  armed police outside Houses of Parliament stopped two months ago and CCTV there stopped June last year;  NATO and false flag terrorism; attacker Khalid Masood had connections to Saudi Arabia;  Tommy Robinson, former leader of EDL, was at the scene; picture of two clean knives at scene with no blood on them. Ravi Zacharias, discusses post-modernism, and changing the meaning of words overnight.
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