On this episode of Going Underground, we review the news with former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone: he discusses US sanctions being responsible for 40,000+ deaths in Venezuela, recommendations that the UK govt should shift support from the arms trade to renewables, the death toll in Yemen passing 230,000 by the end of 2019 and reports that Julian Assange was spied-on by Ecuador’s diplomatic staff at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Next, we speak to MIT Professor Kate Brown, 33 years on from the Chernobyl disaster, about ongoing attempts by nuclear powers to cover up the effects of their nuclear weapons tests and disasters.
