he's editor of the diplomatic handbook south wales diplomatic practice he joins us now via skype from oxford survivor thank you so much for joining us here on out now many years ago you were involved perhaps in a similar spat where you ended up being quoted as saying that president george bush was his best recruiting sergeant just tell us a little bit more about that and the differences between what happened to you and what we're seeing happen right now. well my comments about george w. bush were meant to be an entirely accurate portrayal of of who. the al-qaeda would most like to see in the white house and i thought that faced with the choice of john kerry or george w. bush they preferred to see george w. bush who would be more like teacher prosecutes the war on terror but i made the mistake of making my comments conference with that was a strict rule but you could quote people ready but you couldn't attribute it and someone of that content broke that comment but broke that confidence and began headline news with them fairly comfortable results from a difference with him and eric is that wh

now says that just like the oxford party that was to be has declined a visit later what if the guy knows what an office assistant of the border looks at if the government is doing and i find it very very interesting and parcel of video dealing agree with that assessment and that people now will be sympathizing with a whole gone gandhi in your opinion how significant is his resignation in the context of the state of indian politics right now. actually nina in the new speech had a lot of respect always for noonan ph d. and in the minutes he was here nonces that position be kind of. a big gun because you don't drop a distance and then you know he's in the cockpit and the same thing happens with sonia gandhi's or me as i am he has an opportunity to the brand that is still weak . and that's happened with gary condit and most of the congressman's because you give the longest space and that has a battery established that she is model to follow. and i think around the beazley something very similar in the sense that all the see them are 3 to. bike but he's moving a really it's not all for him th

thing i mean these are quite ambitious objectives in the context of a chinese state run by a very very oxford area leader in president xi xing to me. still ahead on the bottom but not enough hospitals to treat the wounded syrian government airstrikes on the rebel held in the province destroying much needed healthcare facilities and supporters of kremlin critic lexan obama say he was poisoned during his latest stay in prison. helo's a little front of colder air coming down across the caspian that you just about see it running through turkmenistan and ahead of it the air is to quite warm in touch qantas to 38 degrees and maybe showers developing if you're lucky but most likely stay dry since sort of temperature regime down towards terra and of the sea otter down the rock temperatures very thing start to rise in once more the next day or so and always cool for the west you are at least it close to the coast now there are changes afoot for the science the show will disappear on tuesday you've got a strengthening southwesterly so therefore if it's in certainly the clouds pretty extensive through a

leaders he's an associate fellow at chatham house and maritime security analyst joining us live from oxford thanks very much for being with us on the al-jazeera news hour just to pick up on what our correspondent crystal was saying from washington that the u.s. has now announced this formation of a maritime force sentinel a base ace to provide to its merchant oil vessels. so is this plan on risk increasing tensions in the strait of hormuz in the region or does it help to diffuse the. well whenever we have increased military presence in such a small area there's or was the risk of. accident so we need to be very cautious from the sipping perspective it would be very good to have the formation of an international coalition that will protect the convoys of soups it will make it much safer for them but if we try to look at the general stability of the region then certainly there are. such a decision and the british foreign minister meanwhile are saying this the iran seizure of that british flag tanker on friday according to him raises very serious questions for british and international shippin

of the council on energy environment and water in oxford we have sharon george she's electric kill university who specializes in green technology and in hong kong via skype we have chia he is the director of the institute of public policy at the hong kong university of science and technology welcome to you all let me start with you are not what we've just seen there in his report how widespread is the lack of waste processing in india and one of the biggest challenges that the government faces in trying to addresses. india is one of the fastest urbanizing countries in the world just its urban population would be the world's 3rd largest country by population so against this kind of massive push of people to the cities there is certainly a major challenge of managing solid waste. and most of the whizzed cities don't doesn't get processed so what that does is it has an impact on the local environment in terms of the landfill and the bethany and missions etc it also has an impact in terms of the last economic opportunity that they could get if we decided to use ways does a resource rather than on

here at the listening post i 1st set eyes on boris johnson in the autumn of 1983 when we went up to oxford at the same time. with his huge mop of blonde hair his tire skew and his shirt escaping from his trousers he looked like an overgrown schoolboy yet with his imposing physical build his thick neck and his broad germanic forehead there was also something of nature's about him you could imagine him in later hose and wandering through the black forest with an axe over his shoulder looking for opus to kill this same combination a state of advanced a shovel mountain a sense of coiled strength of an almost tangible will to power was even more pronounced in his way of speaking in boris i finally encountered the real platonic ideal britain's veteran political commentators are for the most part pessimistic about boris's premiership the rational part of my brain is still full of doubts and uncertainties but it a more primitive level a level impervious to reason i cannot help but believe from the 1st moment i saw him i felt i was in the presence of someone special. the next 3 months will reveal w

england is vili lead invertor associate professor and senior research fellow at the oxford internet institute part of the university of oxford thanks so much for being with us so can google and apple change the gaming industry then well 1st of all i'd i'd say that they already have once op or app store and google play store popularized mobile gaming on the microtones action and advertising revenue models for games. and today something close to half of all the revenues in the global games industry come from mobile gaming sites say that they already have revolutionized the games industry once. now as for google stadia. and apple arcade i'd say that it appears to me that apple arcade is. more of a sort of complement to their existing offerings a subscription service perhaps for parents who are concerned about letting their kids in a marketplace with my concerns actions where they might end up spending too much money or for professionals who want to just play some games every month without spending too much time browsing the marketplace. whereas google sadia appears to be a much more am

the iranian ministry of done and maybe that needs to be finalized and if they if they work over the oxford commas in the semi-colons it will take forever if they get a global deal that is agreeable and enforceable with some assurances for the parties that the oil will not be delivered to syria it may happen right here and i just can't answer in what the the status of the parties agreements right we'll have to wait and see both the time being lawrence brennan we thank you very much for speaking to us from new york. amnesty international is calling on russia to ease what it says is the harsh treatment of civilians living along disputed border lines with georgia it accuses the moscow back to administration's in south. stopping free movement and illegally detaining people for crossing the boundaries understands visited the georgian side one of many communities split into he's 85 he's frail and david byrne is really feels like a prisoner in his own home russia sees his small patch of land as an international border georgia calls it the line of occupation on a map it's a dotted line on the groun

the iranian ministry of done and maybe that needs to be finalized and if they if they work over the oxford commas in the semi-colons it will take forever if they get a global deal that is agreeable and enforceable with some assurances for the parties that the oil will not be delivered to syria it may happen well france britain and germany have issued a joint statement calling for a resumption of talks to ease with tensions with iran and the iranian president hassan rouhani has reiterated his offer of talks with washington if the u.s. lift sanctions and returns to the 2050 nuclear deal the u.s. withdrew from the agreement last year. they were being cautious in hong kong police tried to clear protesters who were holding out in the city's district of shock turn for hours. i. demonstrated told police who wanted them out of a shopping center the violence came after thousands took part in a demonstration against what bases beijing's growing political influence in the territories of fans to move on dog and housing leaders from hong kong. protesters here tell us they are driven by deep seated ange