, john major and tony blair. here is the major and tony blair. here is the major general‘s procession. led by the chief of the defence staff. the first sea lord, chief of the general staff, the chief of the air staff. and the long line of high commissioners, 45 high commissioners, 45 high commissioners, what you might call the ambassadors from commonwealth countries. and they are joined by the new irish ambassador. as they line up we are waiting for the 15 different religious denominations who comes here to take part in this service. the roman catholic church, hebrew congregations, free churches, buddhist faith, methodists, islamic adviser and the imam of the armed forces, moderator of the reformed church, hindu chaplain to the armed forces. baptist union, network of secret organisations, three christian churches —— sikh organisations. and the church of scotla nd organisations. and the church of scotland all represented here. behind you saw the major general ‘s parades. church of scotland represented here. behind you just saw the major—generals parade, the household division,

between him and tony blair, the blairite umbrella. but you look up parliaments today and the true party tearing itself apart, jeremy corbyn. —— the tory party turn itself apart. gros it almost makes you started. they weren't that difference but we magnified it. there was at her in small differences. but the same thing. and iraq was one—stop gordon brown was the second most powerful person in government and by a further close margin. that was certainly the narrative. the whole idea that one report would have changed mind about invading, ifind report would have changed mind about invading, i find a bit questionable. it's fascinating he does not dump on tony blair. he could have... he says we we re tony blair. he could have... he says we were tricked and he says tony blair was trip. he is not saying, tony blair knew about this and lied to the government and led us all into work, he says, we ruled trick. he says, can't be certain but i believe this report contained this information that would have suggested that actually, the american intelligence was not absolutely rock—solid

mean that many countries. i just chuckled slightly when you mention tony blair and all explained now because michael just visited saudi arabia the region of course is in is in huge turmoil. and i suspect he's trying to play this kind of tony blair role i mean he's going to come in and he's going to be the great negotiator brings peace to of conflict i mean do you think that's what he's trying to do and if so easy doing it to try and bring peace or is he doing it to kind of build this is kind of his own reputation is trying to build its own reputation you've seen him with president putin invest you're not he knows how to world can people what in france france's wonderful buildings i mean trump and the idea for tower and over so for for president putin now. to dubai to meet the shaikh there in. dubai and i ease in in saudi arabia a very quick brief encounters to try to to organize the agreement of the europeans with saudi arabia not to start a all out war with iran he wants to play a role and i think since he is that young he's thirty nine he has a lot of energy he could be the tony bl

ministers in a week. have you to go back to the days of tony blair ini998 you to go back to the days of tony blair in 1998 for the last time that happened. tony blair was in a much more comfortable position. he had a huge parliamentary majority. he was riding high in the opinion polls. that, of course, is not the position theresa may is in. she has a lot on her plate. i'm sure she'd not want to be this evening, spending her time dealing with cabinet ministers who seem to have misbehaved. vicky, thank you. we'll keep a close on on develops. now it's time for sportsday. hello, and welcome to sportsday. i'm hugh woozencroft. here's what's coming up on the programme: northern ireland boss michael 0'neill stresses the importance of a place in next year's world cup. and tells his players not to be afraid ahead of their world cup play—off. we're in australia on the eve of the ashes test match between england's women and australia where the rivalry is heating up. they've got the ashes, we want the ashes. there's an air of revenge. they've got what we want. and we'll hear the astonishing story

physical damage done to the soldiers who are returning home of the fighting the tony blair and george bush jamal penn twenty is an iraqi kurdish artist peace looks at the legacy of saddam hussein and is this projected to show the war going to show their people there's a knot in by killing only forgot because the system and the. the ideology of saddam was inside the people and also in the psychology of the people i think after saddam there's money others who don't you can do scream project in around all the middle east which is in libya and syria and as a country you cannot like a change a country by just take all that that leader my project. in team. has one of my low level of the pro ticket because this project will show. the other side of we are with the league everyday hair house even when i was a very old city in india but on that i'm mara. she was only alone in the very be little and all palace but destroyed by war and used to it by all the war what's happening yet it's still now she told me one day this house that's full of the life on toulouse of hope. all of that beauti

look at tony blair. a former british prime minister doing an exclusive interview with le figaro in france. they grilled him about brexit. he is talking about the fact that perhaps something can be done in terms of the huge brexit bill. he is pointing out the fact that the bill is getting bigger, it means that the more money that was about to be —— promise to be ploughed into the nhs is not going to happen. the big insight mr blair is offering here is correct. people entered one question in the referendum last year, but that referendum raised a lot of questions about what the future relationship would look like in terms of the divorce bill or in terms of the divorce bill or in terms of the trading relationship. i think i is right that people are going to want to be, to have opportunities to rethink whether the outcome is something they had hoped for when they did vote in a referendum. this is similar to what we have heard from gordon brown in interview he did a few weeks ago, where he talks about the fact that we can reverse some of these things and maybe change the process. how

that tony blair's government, which you are pa rt blair's government, which you are part of, said open borders to the accession countries, all the those workers who came from countries that make you are arguing i would not have done that in government. actually, we did do that in government. we did have open access for the eight accession countries. the whole argument is about refugees. desperate migrants. these are not desperate migrants. they we re are not desperate migrants. they were people who, according to the rules of the eu, could come. i am a lwa ys rules of the eu, could come. i am always interested when a former politician confesses to the stakes. you think it was a fun mistake? absolutely. we didn't anticipate the number that would come in. you are right, though, to make the point that a refugee as distinct from an economic immigrant oran that a refugee as distinct from an economic immigrant or an economic migrant. a refugee as someone with a well founded fear of this fusion. the six 5 million figure that you quoted at the beginning of the programme, 25 million refugee

, his toxic relationship with tony blair and his view that he reneged on their deal induced a simmering rage that some say coloured his behaviour in office. by the time he finally moved one door along to number ten, he realised that he was a man out of kilter with the times, a leader who could not get his head round the need for communicating his feelings as well as his policies to the electorate. for newsnight, he sat down with the bbc‘s political editor, laura kuennsberg. first, she asked him about his current take on the brexit negotiations. i think what will happen is that we will come to a crisis point next summer. i can't tell you exactly how it will work itself out, but this is what will happen. by next summer, the public will have made up their mind that the four red lines that the government had set in place are not going to be achieved. there are going to be crossed. so we will not have proper control borders or our money. we will pay loads of money to the european union. we will not have control of our courts and law because we will still be governed by the europe

asked a lot more of tony blair's former attorney general why britain is often seen on the international court of justice for the first time in seventy one years and as he you breaks it negotiating we shall bonnie's in berlin for security talks today britain's justice select committee boss and former vice chair of the ruling u.k. conservative party neil tells going underground fixing a date to leave the you could be a big mistake from the headlines some optimal subtitles for jeremy called end of last orders for turing's on my shoulders and more coming up in today's going underground but first this week in one thousand nine hundred five a rich arms manufacturer staying in a club in paris affectively created a peace prize that is still revered by nato nation mainstream media notoriously the prize went to this man i think they would trip a new should not be thrown a wrench to get it to. reflect on the people who you would yes u.s. president says national security advisor henry kissinger won the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred seventy three and he says calling him out for being a war c

supporter of the state of israel and tony blair and gordon brown as prime ministers both were but tony blair partly had to do the same in two thousand and nine there was a lot of the harmony within the party but the tipping point was when you refused to criticize labor's bombing of lebanon in two thousand and seven when the two thousand and fourteen got your affair to win it was a two hundred sixty two majority labor had the whip and which meant that was all part of all m.p.'s were to vote the party line to recognise the state of palestine this is going against what christian blunt is a setting that the british government policy has no effect there's really a government at the time lobbied hard to stop labor holding a quip on that thought but labor debar defied them at a time and the labor leader was ed miliband who is a jewish british person as we all nor but with corbin coming to power i know jeremy corben has been a lifelong supporter of the a palestinian cause and in the twenty seventeen general election last june in the manifesto he stated that britain labor came to power ove

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the architects of the good friday agreement along with tony blair and served as the head of the irish government for over a decade. i began by asking him whether he thought a hard border between the republic of ireland and the north was now inevitable. well, i think the issue is fairly clear that it's impossible to have an invisible border, or a border that is controlled by technology, if you are not in the single market. the argument today is that the eu have come to the conclusion, after 12 months of looking at this, that they believe that to stay in the single market, and to stay in the customs union is the only way you can avoid totally a border. of course, the difficulty for that is that the british government don't agree with that and the dup don't agree with that. the irish government do. it is a difficult position and i'm afraid nobody has worked out how you can get the circle to work and cover everybody‘s point of view. but do you think the government in dublin is foursquare behind the other european countries‘ position on this? yes, there is no doubt about that. i

its night when tony blair comes out in the there's lots to sort of shoot the messenger but i think if you believe something as i often call you know you a nickel or by saying that you have not given up on the idea of scottish independence because you lost the referendum i have no started to agree with for raj and johnson go because we lost the referendum i actually think is a father of three kids in their twenty's that if this goes ahead as planned we are bringing our country they unite both know that politics is not just about numbers it's about psychology this moment over the last week where the government are struggling to stamp the date of leaving on the face of the brakes bill do you think that's an important psychological moment in your campaign. i do feel that the ground is shifting they've given up saying this is going to be great their only argument is we've voted for it we have to make it happen do people think the government is handling it well or badly nobody thinks the government's handling it well so we're as a country having voted for this the country is now i think get

labor surely a fair point given tony blair's party appeared infamous the relaxed about people getting very rich presumably off the poor. just the labor party. teeny bit tax avoidance and tax evasion one hundred and sixty billion pounds more take. action taken by conservatives in government but given their own a legit billion pound bunker formerly paramilitary link to politicians just staying in power some of one that has sent him to drazen may really is ironically media even before a budget giveaway to young people who want to buy half a million pound homes in central london has focused on reports of her planning to consider animals not sentience beings it was. the animal welfare. the animal welfare act two thousand and six provides protection for animals people experiencing pain are suffering budget day the question for jeremy corbin's u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell appeared to be with the theresa may was sentiment did the government have exactly what we've been saying if you don't invest in our economy the growth will go down products of it will not rise and as a result of th

things i'm proudest of in terms of the work that tony blair did as prime minister was the good friday agreement of the peace process they're putting at risk they are putting at risk the building the coalition with the do you pay in my view puts at risk so i think the economic and political risks for ireland are massive i think scotland. are i've been surprised actually by two things i've been surprised that the s.n.p. is not more active on this because i think scots despite the fact that some of your voters did work for a city as i think actually scotland does feel that this is the wrong thing for scotland of the wrong thing for the u.k. so i'd like to see the s.n.p. government much more active on this and but but i think for the whole of the u.k. this is this is in my view opting for our own decline many many people watching this program all of voted for it so what's your message to them. they're entitled to change their mind if they think that actually what they thought they were voting for is not being delivered they were told it was going to be easy they were told that these trade

by this government to criticize tony blair and gordon brown and this is an all new jersey call been labor party why is it that labor could never even thought of introducing the grind of a hundred percent council premium tax on empty properties that has been mooted by chancellor philip hammond with surrounded by empty flats here no doubt investment vehicles for foreign owners but i think the fiscal measures these are technical measures that you can you can introduce the key to this is that you can tax those houses as much as you want and that's ok people are going to move into them the key to this is to start at the bottom make the houses make the flats. provide the accommodation he said every hundred thousand a year house building program well well if he can do the code look to the bottom line is that the rate huge shortages in the whole range of trades from quantity surveying right the way through to join is to brickies plumbers electricians that's where you start the housing market's renascence when you trained and skilled people to do those jobs not just making announcements whic

of ministerial codes. this was embarrassing to tony blair at the time. but it was unimportant in the grand scheme of the tony blair government. ancient history, but i would rather continue discussing what is happening in your government today. it is not mine, it is her majesty's. the key to this is whether there is something unusual about the problems this gamut is facing, and whether they come, as you propose, from weakness, or if these are something that happens to governments not just of these are something that happens to governments notjust of recent decades, but over centuries. if you wa nt to decades, but over centuries. if you want to go back to the stonehouse affair... i would prefer to focus on whether this government can continue. we know that a significant batch bench mp these days called for theresa may to leave and called for a campaign to topple her. he got a significant number of mps to back m, significant number of mps to back in, but not enough. hold on. i don't think we found out who any of these cabinet ministers... no, i think that when names up bandied about

uk edges closer to brexit. scotland is unstable and he says all of the rows with tony blair were about policy and not ambition. good evening and welcome to bbc news. for the second time in a week, theresa may has been forced into a mini—reshuffle of her cabinet. penny mourdaunt has been appointed as the new international development secretary replacing priti patel. she resigned last night, admitting she had not been transparent enough about high level meetings with israeli politicians while on holiday. like her predecessor, penny mourdaunt backed the leave campaign in the eu referendum. it's my first day here and i'm delighted to be here. i've already met some of the staff and they're doing a terrificjob building a more safe, more secure and more prosperous world for us all, and i want to continue doing that, but also to give the british public confidence and pride in what we're doing. you might recognise her from a rather unlikely she raniolparliamenl 25+ sag-ad!” segnsixzzrl 57... le“... the woman she replaced. in terms of brexit, whilst i hope everyone is united behind t

again during an exclusive interview with the former british prime minister, tony blair, who the paper says is convinced there's still time to stop brexit, if the divorce bill means the uk won't get more money for the health service as promised by the out camp, during the referendum campaign. following north korea's latest test of a missile that could hit the continent of america, the straits times says president trump is proposing "additional major sanctions" — as he tries to find a non—military solution to the threat from pyongyang. president trump also features in the financial times which covers the criticism aimed at him after he re—tweeted anti muslim posts, from a uk far—right group. the telegraph features a claim that online media giants such as google and facebook could pose a "clear and present danger to civil society", as algorithms cloud ourjudgement over ethics. and now that the details of the royal wedding have been announced, gulf news asks whether it will be good for business, with estimates that harry and meghan‘s big day could bring

is never got over them, and issues between tony blair and bill clinton over gerry adams. babies that was granted to him before the peace process, i think for the —— a viz that was granted to him. there have been issues before. this will be at the back of the minds of politicians, the trade deal, although they have got to speak out about things like these, the anti—muslim videos, but they will be thinking after brexit, we have said our relationship with america is going to be brilliant portable and they are going to give us portable and they are going to give usa portable and they are going to give us a great trade deal. —— brilliant and they are going to give us. well, are they? donald trump's whole thing was protectionist and america first, we we re was protectionist and america first, we were going to get much from him anyway, but you want to maintain the relationship at the official level —— we weren't. these things take a long time to negotiate a maybe donald trump won't be there for very long. the daily telegraph also has the kop story, he will not visit the uk in

been in since tony blair was in. indeed. it has been a long time. they are putting everything into get the coalition working, the grand coalition, as they call it. and for some stability they don't want another election. she doesn't want the uncertainty of another election. and i think duestche that is probably good. it is interesting because the german press are reporting on how this is going, basically duestche welle says angela merkel katusha barked at the spd and they set a grand coalition would come at a price and they feel like they are in a position of strength right now, don't they? absolutely. the spd moving towards supporting coalition, which is good. let's move on to cyber monday. we apologise to viewers, we can't illustrate it today, we are battling with the graphics. in the gulf news, record yearfor graphics. in the gulf news, record year for online graphics. in the gulf news, record yearfor online sales, graphics. in the gulf news, record year for online sales, following black friday, and we had singles day not long ago in china, incredible, record—breaking, black f

brown tells us britain may be headed for brexit crisis. scotland is unstable. and tony blair, the rows were all about policy and not ambition. join me now on bbc two. here on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday, the headlines this evening. halfway through their world cup tie northern ireland trail i—o halfway through their world cup tie northern ireland trail 1—0 after a controversial penalty was awarded. there is a defeat for scotland as well as the netherlands beat them in a friendly. and we will have the action from the women's ashes test in sydney where england have work to do going into day two. we will start with that disappointing night for northern ireland. michael o'neill's side was beaten. our sports correspondence is at windsor park. it was a hugely frustrating night given the way the goal came about? i think that is absolutely right. there were 18,000 fa ns absolutely right. there were 18,000 fans in the stadium behind me. you may be able to see the floodlights still on that still is referred to as windsor park and they made a t

wouldn't take lessons from labor surely a fair point given tony blair's party appeared infamously relaxed about people getting very rich presumably off the poor. just the labor party. to be a bit shocked at lloyd's situation one hundred and six. billion pounds more take the resulting action taken by conservatives in government but given their own alleged billion pound bunker formerly paramilitary linked politicians just stay in power some of one that has sentience drazen may really is ironically media even before a budget giveaway to young people who want to buy half a million pound homes in central london has focused on reports of her planning to consider animals not sentience beings it was something she felt the need to deny we also recognize and respect that animals are sentient beings and should be treated accordingly. the animal well. the animal welfare act two thousand and six provides protection for animals people experiencing pain or suffering which are under the control of man but in the scrum outside parliament on budget day the question for jeremy corbin's u.k. shadow c

theresa may and jeremy corbyn. leader of the snp on the left, the former prime minister behind, john major and tony blair.

johnson on the iraq war we asked a lot more as tony blair's former jenny general why britain has lost a seat on the international court of justice for the first time in seventy one years and as he breaks it negotiated michelle bunny's in berlin for security talks today britain's justice select committee boss and former vice chair of the ruling u.k. conservative party neil tells going underground fixing a date to leave the you could be a big mistake from the headlines sub optimal subtitles for jeremy called and i'm glad stuart has put the reason my goal this and more coming up in today's going underground but first this week in one thousand nine hundred five a rich arms manufacturers saying in a club in paris affectively created a peace prize that is still revered by nato nation mainstream media notoriously the prize went to this. trip into should not be thrown. it. could reflect on the people who you would guess u.s. president says national security advisor henry kissinger won the nobel peace prize in one nine hundred seventy three and he says calling him out for being a war criminal

surely a fair point given tony blair's party appeared infamously relaxed about people getting very rich presumably off the poor are saying no not just the labor party. teeny bit the boy. one hundred and sixty billion pounds more tape that we should take and by conservative saying government but given our own a legit billion pound bunker formerly paramilitary linked politicians just stay in power some of wondered how sentience drazen may really is ironically media even before a budget giveaway to young people who want to buy half a million pound homes in central london has focused on reports of her planning to consider animals not sentience beings it was something she felt the need to deny we also recognize and respect that animals are sentient beings and should be treated accordingly. the animal welfare. the animal welfare act two thousand and six before it's protection for animals capable of experiencing. suffering which under the control of man but in the scrum outside parliament on budget day the question for jeremy corbin's u.k. shadow chancellor john mcdonnell appeared to be with t

but it can also help reduce our carbon emissions that's for u.k. pm drazen may want to criticize trump's environmental credentials after all the hands with him she backs a bomber support for fracking shale gas does have the potential to power economic growth is. thousands of jobs in the oil and gas industries and in other sectors and if i did new domestic energy so the jobs in energy for who will there be any humans left to use the energy that is the scientific truth of climate change really helped by news like this a newly released federal climate report suggests it's extremely unlikely that rising temperatures are caused by humans a federal report is in us federal report that iraq had weapons of mass destruction as in nato nations should support al qaeda are nice little militants to overthrow the government of syria as in backing death squads to kill gadhafi in libya as in one us federal report the thought it proved this very t.v. show is able to destroy us democracy and put trump into the white house against the wishes of the american people perhaps got twenty three delegates in bonn germany would do better in saving the world from climate change if they attack the root causes not fossil fuels not fossil fuel companies not federal reports but the entire new liberal system itself a neoliberal system arguably supported by nato warfare which was referenced at the senator off in london by this group of u.k. veterans in the past twenty four hours i was brought up to believe that britain was a good country and we were involved in just wars serving in afghanistan really hammered home to me the futility of armed conflict i was. annoyed with the truth of the british television i think it's important that we counter the mess and propaganda that the military push out about these wars the myth. that anything which the military participates in is a noble cause well one thousand nine hundred four year old world war two veteran who has not been wearing his red poppy in this month because of what he sees as the co-option of remembrance by neo liberalism. is harry leslie smith he's been internationally praised for his memoirs and just work and don't let my past be your future it's a passionate denunciation of neo liberal values which u.k. labor leader jeremy corbyn says shows him to be a vital and powerful voice speaking across the generations about the struggle for a just society he joins me now harry welcome back to going underground before we go to the book we have a new defense secretary was remembered sunday you're a veteran how important is the military covenant between the state and protecting former servicemen and servicewomen the most important thing in the life of a service man it has to be i want to go. to the people where it's been a friend in the country for is. where. rich and he takes only a few years and years it must be taken care of when he comes back to asia home country i remember. soldiers after the end of the first world war we're now going really dumb pollution around. in the. there were so many men who had been in the first world war or long legs and they didn't have a penny from their government no care whatsoever is this what we want to happen to our men is what you say to our defense secretary you voted against strengthening that government our share just get off the pot realize maybe one day you will have to be out there and face about. where you like to come back and. no protection at home tell me about the title of the book first wife feel it's so important to water as it were not to have the future be your past it's really. my life from the very beginning and the sense. that my early life of course was brutal you know extend we. had not no food in most cases my father was injured in the mines. and he had no jobs and there was no jobs even if you were healthy so consequently my sister and i really wound up around the back of hotel or got goblets cabin. trying to find some scraps of food we could. silence the painter in our stomach with. remember going to school in the morning when i was about five. my stomach was growing so loudly america had heard no sharpener and there got no breakfast so all i could think of was that little class of the government suddenly realize my god to give indigent children school ok well obviously this is that you took that away but people who support capitalism this government they would say you can't compare those stories to today we shouldn't be able to compare than those who unfortunately see them returning and rechanneling very quickly. we have or pork children going to bed hungry in britain today then we had that time to go to the population of. it it's really a crime and it's not just a church dollar and you only have to look in the said institutions the. men and women lined up on the sidewalks because they can't afford a place to put their head down. the country is going to the dogs you know one of the new appointments after the resignation of the disgraced defense secretary said we should celebrate food banks because they show and we have a conservative minister on this program saying that it shows the big society. could trade silently. because there are increasing every year in number. and it's a downer. insult to to the country and to send him to build your the rest of us especially. having to get other people to feed our citizens. and it's belittling for those people it makes them feel you are not part of a country himym or they're simply. vibrant and shot they're surviving it was a journey corbin talks about class a lot which hasn't been talked about for a few generations obviously people are going to say what class divisions are worse in your childhood than they are today we shouldn't be talking about class i think we should be talking about class because classes more strip magenta the situation i think we're. in such dire shape because of our one percent of our population who are. millions. of tourists room foreman and they sure that they're getting near what they call their due but in the meantime all our small cities and towns are not getting the taxes which have been diverted from the government which would use those taxes to build new schools and roadways and everything else which is necessary for a stable society but arguably the bottom of that pyramid are refugees from nature wars around the world are there any echoes of the nine hundred thirty is when blame for austerity and for poverty was deflected against the forum of the refugees i don't know where on this fear of refugees came from. i wish i thought just as intelligent justice demanding of fair play and anyone else and not. overlayed demand that they knew what they had and what they could. and they had a thought that maybe even forget that this is something which pains me greatly to her wish it were got the idea that because the coil of someone skin is different to ours they don't need the same tension that we need. don't need food to survive don't need a cover shelter over their head we have to realize we are or people or individual we should be able to live in peace and harmony and leg know all the color of our skin. that's become one of the biggest barriers towards civilization that's ever been know her think well i know you visit a catholic where they were refugees from these nature wars in the middle east what's your next book going to be about. planning on another venture. you probably know i'm going to trip the end of january housley end of january and visit all the hot spots of europe. just to find out what was happening there how political they had become how cities were faring if the people were content or. becoming obnoxious rebellious. and then i want to come back and write a book. after the book to go to the government and tell them what this country leads to make sure that we don't get involved in another war because it is just around the corner. it's become more more and. fiber since it would trump into power. no is no joke even age eighteen could be next. and when he does no page anyone in the well being shot in. the smith thank you after the break can labor finally shake off its blairite shackles and win back to scottish people we speak to wiser award nominated comic book pledge of democracy or about his support for richard leonard m.s.p. and the so-called radical policies of jeremy coleman and we speak to the councillor of edinburgh fourth ward canidae about why he would rather support of us all want to leave the scottish the western europe's largest socialist movement run by jeremy called and told us of all coming up about to have going underground. apply for many clubs over the years so i know the gang and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch put a funnel school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money. to spend spend each other to twenty million up one player. it's an experience like nothing else on here because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy my great so well paul chance for. six it's going to. yeah. l. o l. o l. yeah well this is how the food. here's what people have been saying about rejected and this is just full of the only show i go out of my way to. really pack them. all over a party americans do the same we are apparently better than. the c. people you've never heard of. jack tonight president of the world bank ok. send us an e-mail. welcome back in a week when sex scandals and secret offshore accounts of rock u.k. prime minister cabinet schools and m.p.'s on their autumn recess now returned today to arguably a shaken not stirred house of commons and it said it was around the world the sequel film kings won the golden circle ugly rejuvenate something all of james ball and it's creating the president of the world mark miller is actively supporting the so-called hard left. candidate in saturday's elections to decide who leads the scottish arm of western europe's largest socialist movement the scottish labor party joining me now is mark miller creator of the comic about and blockbuster had to kick ass and kings about who is lending his support to scottish labour's richard leonard m.s.p. mark thanks so much for coming on going underground just before we start what do you make of this trump regulatory affairs it was a call i couldn't being subpoenaed by prosecutors he had some role in marvell comics bankrupt in you of course used to work for marvel comics yes he certainly is before maintained i think yeah i commend read about summer two thousand that i was there for decades i was like him are all and it was a mess with every two men my whole was on the bench a bankruptcy you know they were failing through chapter eleven and i was part of that scene cleaned up but it was incredible i mean how you got marlon you know in this guy was just one of those people that unfortunately it was it was there as well your work has amassed popular appeal obviously bestseller lists and so on and now jumping into the political arena and what i hear you supporting richard leonard as a leader of the scottish labor party i think is the most exciting thing to happen up here in lots of the decades that genuinely deck it's your whole and scotland didn't start want to thank you specially querulously in country and yet at the last election it was the only part of the country that since moved to the rate that the left was very you know it's you say over the last forty years to be a better last one country. and you know we were represented you know we had this a little succession of people in charge of the labor party so when we actually had a labor party that was to the rank of the land which is unthinkable in scotland you know actually it is like glass that we represent to the rate of london which is a strip process so i've always kind of had to have just always had this order listen. to the point but i couldn't and that watched the glee in excess as i couldn't vote for labor and it was an s.n.p. a couple of cents after the. or are you going to talk to a supporter of leonard's opponent in a second to both supporters of mr sauer say that we should ignore the fact that he voted for wars like that on libya and syria and that he too would support jeremy corbyn now yes interesting you know that after the fact a lot of people are saying that i was but yeah you know later the past as they've gotten loans because it was recently said it was kind of. a fight it was going on with a little intelligence i think it's been it was going on as well the not stupid man then who with us was going to lead in the disasters that were going on for all that was the whole region so i don't know i mean i would guess that the principals out it can do this that believes in things i didn't let alone i was as close as i've seen to that certainly in my adult life yeah but on the other hand he'll be leading a scottish labor party's policy is to continue to support weapons of mass destruction on the clay trident so how is that going to outflank the s.n.p. well. realistically it is not much of a national you know at the moment of a conservative government's us not we're not like we can do anything about i don't know what they don't get probably not let's and then start unpacking ness that's most of the time for that it's the s.n.p. how do you know how do you like them and as you know i love the idea the guts of the past that things are plentiful you know but in reality we haven't seen a lot of the stuff carried through it you know for example scotland after you know the promise of education you know has tumbled in the chops internationally and sends a lead let scotland just the one of the best places in the world knows little place as you can imagine it's number eighteen or something in the shops so i don't know i mean i think doesn't it lend to the s.n.p. bit the reality isn't always that i mean let me have scotland i can see it the cities that you know and look at council for years has been a complete disaster to the point where more often than not the public get acid and it means that any more you know the police started as of course nuclear fuel that you see leonard says he's too long in the tooth to be a good. binny's dad can we trust where they doesn't flip flop and never forget that tony blair first met with tony benn for advice about becoming the leader of the labor party. i don't know i mean i thought that was the road along. the union got it my brother actually was a friend. brother was educational so that i think much of that was actually to please my mother my father left and you know he's the real the let me know what i believe it was a fantastic p.r. mind you know but i think that's what led us to in the years and even taken sports and lifted sticks and sand but though i think much of learned if you are comfortable well you mentioned a bit earlier but we have a lot of as and people additions that come on this program who seem so confident about labor north of the border never outflanking them on the left how did you come to be that the scottish labor body would have the right of labor down south in london. i think it was just that we were a little bit behind the times you know we were still dancing to ninety's chirpy or really have been done so that i think it moved on you know later stuff that certain elements of those nine ten live shots to the left a little but scotland just take time you know and that that sort of right wing group and the scottish labor party that they're taking up on the pocket and it's completely urgent to pass a membership so there's an awful lot of people who just don't listen franchise that voters were just going along i don't believe in what these guys are talking to today wind farm initiatives and the today wind farm initiatives the s. and p. which i am as as you know as actually betty at their tractor if i'm going to set a couple of elections i would suggest ante up with the disappearance of local elections that so many people in the s.n.p. took but just when you look up close of what's going on yes i mean even in legacy a council level that's what that actually was there with the d.l.c. back in the eighty's as a fleet you know there's a public services have been slashed here you know we're we've seen so had i think stuff but it's kind of ten with some fantastic p.r. but there's really awful things going on in the background and sense of quality electives and just tell me very briefly about how you are individually drained it is of the save certainly one community the community you originally grew up in down there and i want you don't be ambitious but be realistic as well you know some focus in this one the area that i love and all that about mandela there out of my life that sort of i want to focus on the hazing us that i grew up in and my plan is to basically take pieces of land that are out there are limits and draw seal it and so on with an estate that nobody's used for thirty years and else try to hose and it with the profits from the private houses and this that and the local schools and churches and playgroups and all that's going to stop you know the pensioners of the church and such things of normality and so forth and then reinvest banished capsule and more houses so what i do is you know migration of young families from the area in the last year for the skill numbers of more than half and trying to go in families back into the area they know the money back into the area lose a lot. myself and use all the old money to invest in the area so the local cops you know the local pensioners all he's going to go all treat surely you wouldn't believe it will be three sentiment for the children you know they'll be three pensioners lunches all are going to suffer just what me the areas they score school and if it works as well as i think it will be five years i'm going to move on to their next step and it isn't about miller thank you well that was comic book legend mark millar and why the new leader of the scottish labor party should be richard leonard now i'm joined from the scottish capital by a supporter of the other candidate and the thought they have a councillor cammy day that number group leader of the scottish labor party cammy thanks so much for coming on to why did alice b. the labor leader in scotland i think honest things i'm challenge for people in scotland a commitment to their right to their foreign interests and six fifty thousand young children no poverty source to the premium games and pleasures out of these well before an honest fellow leaders coach their body and obviously first minister scotland when we come to the subject of poverty pay you've heard about the allegations that his family company didn't even pay the living wage there are they not start mr sanders over the hope that every employer in scotland at least basically every weekend i think i miss the summer i need to make up to that as far

the tony blair government and other experts experts in the region including saudi arabian opposition figures and essentially they're focusing on what they believe to be a sensitive. crossroads that the kingdom finds itself in with regards to how it is being governed how it is being pushed in terms of following a specific agenda which they view to be stabilizing stabilizing rather the region one of those who is at the conference is the right honorable is the former minister for international development in the labor government under former prime minister tony blair and i want to start by asking you in terms of how you assess the concentration in saudi arabia why do you think this conference is so significant and why should people care about what's going on inside arabia. there's a lot of people living in saudi arabia is a lot of repression and. the whole region and the suffering in the region is getting. with the palestinians for a very long time but now widening up to the iraq war and syria and the whole thing he's dangerous and human suffering so any development in the re

wrong, you have to go back to 1998 under tony blair for the last time it happened. theresa may does not have the luxury that tony blair had of a huge parliamentary majority, and riding high in the opinion polls. she now has to look at how she has another cabinet reshuffle. and she will have, in priti patel, a forthright and ambitious politician, a very strong campaigner for brexit on the backbenches, and a pose that she has to try to fill while retaining that very delicate balance in the cabinet over brexit? there are many who were on the leave side of the referendum who really saw priti patel as a voice speaking up for their views in the cabinet, and it is very finely balanced. i think with the replacement they will have to bring in either position in the department for international development or by moving someone around, she will probably had to bring in somebody with similar views to priti patel. that is always the problem, this balancing act trying to assert higher authority. would she go further into a wider reshuffle ? she go further into a wider reshuffle? there was specula

under tony blair in 1988 and then he had a huge parliamentary majority, riding high in the opinion polls. theresa may does not have that luxury so anything like this which would destabilise the cabinet is a problem because they have so much else to get on with. if you are theresa may, we spend most of her time talk about brexit and that is still going on but we have not been discussing that because of these other things. that is not a good position for any government to be in and especially weakened by the general election result and now struggling to progress with brexit. the bill coming back to the houses of parliament and having to get all that through and she is having to deal with wayward ministers. while we do not know exactly what her future is and what the decision is if one has been made. but if she was to go is —— is there a difference for theresa may over whether she resigns or is sacked? insiders to know about these things say often this is the wrangle but goes on, whether you are allowed to resign or whether you are allowed to resign or whether you are sacked. you

tony blair morris welcome back to going on the grounds of what is the international court of justice and why should we care the britain along as a judge on it well it's a very old court going back to one thousand nine hundred five or thereabouts it's a very distinguished court and it settles international disputes a lot of dealing with the law of the sea where the boundary should be in the case that i was in it was regarding trying to get special measures to stop the bombing in yugoslavia and i appeared as counsel there quite a few years ago when i was attorney general of the bombing of yugoslavia of start stop the bombing of yugoslavia because we were bombing it night after night in order to save the cost of us there was ethnic cleansing on the scale of the hundreds of thousands of people who'd been turfed out of their homes in in the yugoslavia the cause of others and that we had to do something to avoid another call accost and i didn't want another holocaust on my conscience so we were parties ten countries to trying to bring yugoslavia to heal to stop the ethnic cleansing

focus since that whole third way tony blair bill clinton sort of politics where everything is about this notion of human rights and our perception of what human rights are our perception of how people should run their culture and blah blah blah but in the meantime i want to turn to this chart from the economist and perhaps this might actually ultimately be more important because what about the respect and dignity in of your own population long live and prosper the economists thirty five rich countries u.s. versus south korea but all these little blue lines are other rich developed nations and what it shows that orange line is the u.s. the blue dark blue line is south korea female male and what you see is that the u.s. for women women's life expectancy by twenty thirty will be the lowest of these thirty five like the second to lowest of these thirty five nations richest nations south korea is eating our lunch that's these people are prospering and living longer why are we when we're the ones banging on over and over about all these everything but . the economy and that's what people

to tony blair whether he could answer the same question today, what percentage recruited in the past 12 months are working full time? >> secretary? >> i can't remember asking the question then, and the prime minister answered then. i am happy to assure the right honorable lady we have more nurses, more midwives, in the health services, 17 years ago and the budget, the right honorable friend the chancellor was able to announce 6 billion pounds extra on health funding which will make the health service even stronger in the future and it is now. >> since you failed to answer the original question, according to the government's latest figures more than 40% of newly recruited nurses with full-time employment in the next year. not just the new recruits that are quitting but the number of nurses is down by 1500 this year and the numbers are lower than when this government. so many nurses leaving. >> there are as i say, more operations being done, more midwives, expanding, we have 14,900 more doctors, 1500 more medical school places each year, and 10,000 more nurses on board, increasing

lent the politicians decided to. britain would have let the tony blair wright decide who was going to be the next prime minister and now they're letting the hillary and obama decide which means wall street the military industrial complex so when they're going on effect findings tour what they really want to find out is how much you're going to donate to our cause where's the money and how much you're going to give us that's the only fact that they're really interested in because the other factors to why the the working class the middle class. the women the black vote and the hispanics are turning against them is no secret at all. it is the result basically of obama knowing obama's policies the giveaway to the banks the give away to the real estate interests the refusal to apply any of the anti monopoly legislation that we have in this country and people finally realize they're getting screwed and the result i think is going to be. not only the split in the republican party that is now being talked about a trump but the democratic party the democrats are so convinced that they are goin

minister's questions almost 17 years ago, when john prescott stood in for tony blair, and whether he could answer the same question today. so, what's the question? the question was this — what percentage of new nurses recruited in the past 12 months are now working full—time? ican't remember... i can't remember asking the question then, and i'd love to know what the then deputy prime minister answered then. what i'm happy to assure the right honourable lady is that we have more nurses, more midwives, more doctors... working in the health service now, the health service is performing more operations now, certainly than it was 17 years ago. and in particular, in the budget last week, my right honourable friend the chancellor was able to announce more than £6 billion extra on health spending, which will make the health service even stronger in the future than it is now. we have an nhs in the grip of a chronic funding and staffing crisis. gps are quitting in record numbers, junior doctors are running a&es without supervision, our nurses are at breaking point and all this is before the win

foreign secretary under the premiership or tony blair there was very close ties between london and riyadh the problem is and this is where human rights activists come in as well as saudi opposition figures is they understand that there is this political realism world governments are willing to turn a blind eye when it comes to human rights in favor of these deals particularly the united kingdom's instance where it needs the cash injection because of what's going on in brazil but they're having this conference to trample pressure on the british government say well you really need to start looking at your values and putting pressure on to stop what they perceive as destructive measures many thanks. from that conference presidents of new delhi are enjoying a bit of rest bite from the toxic air fungus to a night of rain india's capital has been covered in a fix for almost two weeks causing severe health problems despite the rain pollution levels are still about five times over the recommended limit. new york's financial district house is some of the world's most famous structures but a