50,000 civilians are trapped in the city and a human catastrophe looms. Who do the people fear more — Daesh or the United States and its Iraqi allies? Joining Becker to discuss the latest assault on Fallujah in western Iraq is Nicolas J.S. Davies, author of Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, as well as Ryan Endicott, a US Marine veteran who took part in the ioccupation of Ramadi in 2003, and is now an anti-war activist.
Tensions flare between the European Union and the United States over the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP. John Hilary, executive director of War on Want, joins Becker to talk about if the latest revelations reveal that world's largest free trade deal is being derailed by a growing mass movement.
France bracing for a wave of strikes this week as the streets have been aflame with anger over the government’s new labour reform law. As the country is running low on fuel, will the country completely grind to a halt? Will President Hollande give in to the protesters’ demands? Becker is joined by Steve Hedley, the assistant general secretary of the RMT Union in Britain who was in France last week in solidarity with the protests.
