Friday 4th January 2019

At six – discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After seven – straight talking and investigative reports with Kevin Cahill

BCfm’s weekly Politics Show presented by Tony Gosling

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

BCfm audio files usually available 1hr, Radio4All 3-4hrs, after TX
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuZrzwm6CJs

First hour news review: with LibDem councillor for Brislington West Jos Clark and former Sunday Times journalist Kevin Cahill. Jos becomes Lord Mayor in May 2019, what being Lord Mayor entails; what Council is like now under elected Mayor;  Bristol Arena;  Bristol transport; Rail fare increases: Charts explain passengers’ frustration ;  Paddy Ashdown dies – Paddy Ashdown: David Miliband killed off Lib/Lab coalition;  Opening old rail lines  – that Beeching closed – HS2 to cost £111bn if it happens;  New Brexit ferry firm Seaborne Freight ridiculed over ‘copy and paste’ website; Warnings of no-deal ports chaos are ‘misleading’, industry boss says: Tim Morris who runs UK Ports says everything is under control; various Brexit scenarios – which will it be? – gambling on financial disasters; Foot and Heath discuss joining the EEC in 1970s – when Labour was anti EEC; PMQs – demands on Council resources and health budgets;  Bristol’s We Care and Repair, now called We Care Home Improvements – helping elderly live at home: Previously known as WE Care & Repair – We Care Home Improvements is a not-for -profit independent Home Improvement Agency (HIA) with charitable status. Our organisation provides home improvement and repair services in the Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, Gloucestershire and South Gloucestershire.; cuts – all goes back to 2008 banking bailout; PMQs – Lloyds persecute whistleblower and small businesses – other banks have done the same; Italy health czar resigns and blames ‘anti-science’ government – big pharmaceuticals provide a quality service? – MMR, the late 1980s Autism explosion and the not-so-discredited Dr Andrew Wakefield.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmGCc65pfEk

Second hour Investigative reports: Stand off in US – who will win? JFK and the Mafia. JFK assassination – ITV: The Men Who Killed Kennedy film (1980). Lyndon Johnson’s girlfriend Madeleine Brown discusses why she thinks the government at the time killed JFK. James Files admitted to shooting JFK. Explosion in a block of flats in Russia: Magnitogorsk explosions likely to indicate wider terrorism threat from small Jihadist cells in major Russian cities; ‘Blowing Up Russia’ book by Poroshenko on how Beresovsky was responsible; Chechyn terrorism. 27 times the speed of sound: latest Russian hypersonic strategic missile makes US missile defenses ‘useless’. Putin’s New Year Address. Canada: 13 citizens held in China since Huawei executive arrest.  China shuts leading underground Christian church, third this winter.  Langfang, in northern Hebei Province bans Santa Claus. Ex China Intelligence  Chief jailed. Tech giants:  Google wins lawsuit, can continue to use facial recognition tech on users without consent; surveillance by big tech is illegal – Supreme Court in Ireland on 21st January;  Sergeant At Arms and Facebook arrest seizing Zuckerberg emails story. Were German neo-Nazis in BND BfV or other intelligence responsible for leak of one hundred German government officials details hacked and put online – by far right terrorists or revenge for sacked head of German Intelligence Massen who removed because he was a neo-Nazi? Secret neo-Nazi plot in German army to slaughter left-wing German politicians Day X – Vienna Airport attack: German lieutenant who posed as refugee in ‘false flag’ terror plot could be part of neo-Nazi army network – Alarm over talks to implant UK employees with microchips. Russo discussing New World Order plan to microchip population. Brazil’s Bolsonaro Says He Is Open To Hosting A US Military Base + police immune to prosecution. 1970s Israel and Iran nuclear deals. Will Israeli president Netanyahu win next election? Israel’s Netanyahu refuses to resign amid corruption allegations – First ever landing on the Dark side of the Moon – beginning the China ‘space race’.
Radio4All download pages
BCfm audio file
Radio4All audio file

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs7mcSYCWWM