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

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

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

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

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

car and others, similarly like him, tony blairand others, similarly like him, tony blair and gordon brown who have weighed in with their interventions on this, what does number ten thing? it is pretty scornful. they say, politically, the government is not changing course thank you very much. mairead mcguinness is vice—president of the european parliament and mep for the ruling fine gael party in ireland. we can talk to her now. thank you for being with us. let's talk first of all about that key question of the irish border and the need which both sides agree, to avoid a hard order. it seemed like at the moment, thatis order. it seemed like at the moment, that is still sticking point to you? —— does it seem like? that is still sticking point to you? -- does it seem like? it is certainly not resolved, therefore it is still a sticking point. i come from just south of the border some i know this area well. i was speaking to young people at a concert riek machar conference today and their concerns are many around the difficulties with the border, free movement, access, we know ever

tony blair and gordon brown, the relationship between ten and 11 downing st, there are tensions around economic policy, specifically around brexit, and this is another chapter. they are seeing she is elected it —— illiterate. the accusation from the treasury is that number ten... david cameron was involved in the burlington club, you were drawing attention to the pet club in cambridge. batters the equivalent of the bullingdon club, and they have changed the rules so women can join the club. what do you do in the club? ithink the club. what do you do in the club? i think you drink, basically. does it seem extraordinary to you? to some people it is a tradition, and for some people they are worth upholding for the —— their own sake. i know universities are worried about the sort of thing because it goes against ethics to have rules for participation. some people say politics is like a pub. this is the story from the mail about theresa may. yes, this goes back to the first thing. are people like me who are possessed about politics and tracking priti patel‘s flight back to

foreign and commonwealth affairs in tony blair's labour government, and met president mugabe on several occasions. earlier he spoke to our correspondent richard galpin, who started by asking what his reaction was to today's events in zimbabwe. a coup is normally when a general ta kes a coup is normally when a general takes over. this is the vice president, emmerson mnangagwa, taking over, and i think that is a good thing because mugabe was trying to install his wife, grace, who is corrupt, along with corrupt ministers who have been looting the country, and basically the rest of the elite in zimbabwe in the ruling party have said, we are not tolerating this, and they have staged a power change, where the vice president was forced to flee the country and is now going to come back and take over as president. the country and is now going to come back and take over as presidentlj know back and take over as president.” know you say it is not a coup but the fact is the military are out in the fact is the military are out in the streets, in the capital, harare. the whole push out in g

ministers gone in one week over alleged wrongdoing. you have to go back a long way to tony blair in 1998 for the last time that happened. and he was ina the last time that happened. and he was in a much stronger position having just won a huge landslide as a general election. theresa may does not have that luxury and i'm sure that she's digging that she has far more important things to get on with rather than dealing with cabinet ministers who have gone astray. rather than dealing with cabinet ministers who have gone astraylj know you will keep us up to date but for now thank you very much. and at 5:30pml for now thank you very much. and at 5:30pm i will speak about the broader issues thrown up by all of this. that is coming up later. the head of the nhs in england, simon stevens, has warned that the budget for the health service next year is well short of what's needed. he told a conference in london that the public expects the government to honour promises made by the vote leave campaign on health spending during the eu referendum — such as an extra £350 million a week for the

scene. >> we all love tony here and nadia and blair have been taking very good care of him. thank you so much in tony has endured my bad english accent for about 18 years. >> tony has been here forever with us. tony get well soon. partly cloudy, light south winds if you're going to the tree lighting on thursday. high temperatures yesterday yeah we hit 70 degrees. 68 dulles, 67 at bwi marshall. normal daytime high is 52 degrees, 52, so we were 18 degrees above normal yesterday. all right, we'll be a little about 10 degrees this afternoon. you can see overnight we have fallen back into the mid 30's so bring your jacket early. 34 dulles. 35 in manassas. freezing now culpeper. winchester's 32 degrees so temperatures are very chilly overnight here. nice warmup in store. we'll be up near 60 about eight to 10 degrees above normal but not quite as warm as yesterday. we'll get more clouds later this afternoon with this cold front which might bring us a shower but again, scattered showers with this front which will just kind of reinforce the cool air for the weekend. so, high pressure to ou

into a tax haven may said she 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 are certain they're not just the labor party didn't teeny bit shocked the boy. won a hundred and sixty billion pounds more take. action taken by conservatives in government but given their own a legit billion by.