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know that how one of the world's largest spying base is located in israel wrong on their chances for decades until i'm back on the spot. light. britain's inquiry into why it went into war in iraq will not look into the private correspondence between former prime minister tony blair and former american president george w. bush the letters were thought to be able to shed light on exactly why the u.k. got involved with the invasion one of the politicians whose politics was in power at the time now gives his insides in an interview with aussie. today i'm in london with jeremy corbyn he's a member of parliament with the labor party and also an antiwar campaigner we are here as tony blair appears before the chilcote inquiry for the second time jeremy cope in tax very much for talking to r.t.

now this as i've said is not the first time that blair is appearing before the iraq inquiry can you just remind us what happened last time while he was very nervous to begin with came into the room and was asked some questions of a moderately robust way about the evidence leading up to his decision to recommend to parliament but we know very few to rock and then the latter part of it turned into a sort of tony blair lecture in defense of his policies on what he calls humanitarian intervention and then went on to warn the whole world about what he perceived to be the danger from iran and i thought the whole thing was a travesty because this is meant to be an inquiry looking into the absolute finite details of the decision to go to war with iraq and it turned into from tony burke to the force and i'm quite pleased that he's been recalled to the inquiry and i hope this time the inquiry shows its mettle and goes through again with tony blair

. the legal advice he was given why he sought to second u.n. resolution if he thought the first one was efficient to authorize an invasion and why he then recommended to parliament that there was an overwhelming case of danger of weapons of mass destruction and why we should go to war and i think he's got a great deal to answer what are we expecting this time around to do it the question is going to be more robust i hope so and i think so because the chilcot inquiry feel quite nervous about public perceptions of their role and their effectiveness and. activity so i think this time around it probably will be quite tough and blair is really their key witness he must be he's absolutely essential to the whole process because he's the only one that was involved in every single one of the decisions in every single one of the meetings he's the one that saw the attorney general's apparently informal advice he's the one who decided what from the

attorney general would be put in front of the cabinet he's the one who discussed with jack straw and with jeremy greenstock what went before the un security council and he's the one that decided what he was going to say to parliament and what he didn't say to parliament so yes he's absolutely central to it but this is in a sense the last chance saloon for british public inquiries because we have the foreign office for the first committee inquiry we have the parliamentary process and them gordon brown agreed that this inquiry would be set up and indeed it has been set up. if we're to have any reasonable standing as an effective democracy then this inquiry has got to go into some fairly serious detail about it and recommendations about what's going to happen next no it's not a judicial inquiry which many of us wanted but i get the feeling that a legal process could emanate as a result of the evidence that's going to come out and how impressed are you with the inquiry say far even do you think its depth and usefulness has been what you

hoped it would be i have mixed feelings about it. i don't. denigrate it i think they have tried quite hard in many ways they have spoken to families they have taken a great deal of evidence families of soldiers who tragically lost their lives in iraq and they're now taking evidence would turn in coming back but i remain on the judgment slightly skeptical that it isn't going to just say there has to be improvements in the processes of government and there has to be better recording of meeting original source probably yes. maybe that's not the issue the issue is this country involved itself in what i believe to be an illegal invasion of another country we've lost a considerable number of british soldiers a much larger number of american soldiers and others have died and tens of thousands of iraqis probably half

a million the place no is the threat of terrorism there is no is this a good way forward for world international law no you mention that a legal process might result from the chill cos inquiry. do you think that if tony blair was prosecuted for war crimes as many people want that would result in the world in fact being a safe place i think if a european politician. tony blair was actually brought before the. international court in the hague and investigated the rest the world would have far more respect for the international process because the moment the most prominent people who have come before it have been. the attempts at arresting the president of sudan the current trial that's going on charles taylor from liberia and the pass process on milosevic and the situation in

yugoslavia but the perpetrators of this war. iraq war are in the united states and in in europe and i think it would do an awful lot for the standing of this because there is a bit of a feeling around that ok you go off to big guys in small countries you won't go after big guys in big countries what do you think blair's legacy is and how do you think it will impact position of the u.k. in terms of the rest of the world well in politics it's quite possible to go from hero to zero and back again. blair became leader of the labor party in the one nine hundred ninety s. change the whole structure of the labor party and had a very easy with a party because. we were desperate with an item of an election his government really had sort of three strange directions to it and they were actually sort of

rather different he was always and remains a market politician he believes in a market economy he's not a socialist in the sense of any kind of the economic transformation. yet his government at the same time did introduce quite important social legislation national minimum wage sure start children's centers and the human rights act it isn't quite good things on that and quite libertarian in the sense of age of consent and issues like that then in foreign policy starting out from an ethical foreign policy and the robin cook we rapidly descended into being a total poodle of the bush administration in the usa and blair's legacy what ever else he says or does in his life is always going to be iraq blair was labeled bush's spoilt puppy by the british media do you think that the u.k.'s relationship with the us has changed at all since he left power blair associate himself totally with bush and the strange thing was after nine eleven which was

a dreadful event like absolute condemn what happened on nine eleven everybody else condemned it but blair when. one stage further you made a very strange speech about we have to pay the blood price for the relationship with the usa it's went to war with afghanistan he associate himself with bush more than anybody else and i do remember at one parliamentary labor party meeting i asked him said well where's the benefits of our special relationship with the usa how much employees do you really have a bush and his reply was very child you that the influence would form which. is great because a lot of people blair is a politician who has very high regard for his own abilities has very limited respect for international law hence he would not have promulgated this idea of humanitarian intervention instead he would have worked through the un and international law i think that's his legacy the other thing is his behavior since

he ceased to be a prime minister is an obsessive touring around the world collecting very large fees for speaking engagements it's reported in the press last week that he's made twelve million pounds since he ceased to be prime minister some awful tamale. that made it clear that he wouldn't allow iran to develop nuclear weapons do you think if he were still in charge we'd already be at war with iran he seemed to me to be building up a case for action against iran from very early on and i think we have to recognise there's a terrible danger in all of this i absolutely condemn human rights abuses anywhere in the world are condemned under saddam hussein i condemn them what's going on in the present for the purpose of intervention in iran is not about human rights in iran the whole thing is about iran's position in the world iran is a powerful country has a great deal of oil it has a great deal of military it also has

a great sense of position the persian empire the through the tubes of it they also have a sense of grievance against the west for the coup in one nine hundred fifty two for the. protection of the oil for the imposition bashar and also the behavior towards the islamic republic and so i think we have to have a dialogue with iran they don't have nuclear weapons at the moment they are signatories to nuclear nonproliferation treaty they have withdrawn from the voluntary supplementary protocol i think we should be upping in gauge with iran rather than the sanctions policy and the isolation of iran engagement is likely to bring about improvements in human rights engagement is likely to bring about the prospect of iran working with the rest of the world and engagement would actually strengthen the hands of civil society in iran as well. thank you very much you very welcome thank you.

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a life sentence. i think i may have next to ever go to but i just schools that the rich had to go away. welcome to. have you with us. one. second so you get us one of the over the third round sole remaining youzhny wins a day for bill straight in opening. up against a russian football once a mob and it's believed wolfowitz has a tough task ahead of him as the new manager terry gross me. the dakar rally with his. triumph and welcomed by the celebrates winning the event time. start with tennis in russia still has one representative left in the men's draw the

australian open of the mccall youzhny blash church and a grueling five six encounter things seem to be going well for the tenth seed as he raced into a two cents to lob lead however in slovenia opponent hit back to send the match into a decider usually managed to hold his nerve in the faith taking at six one a first round meeting with ryan h. world number one rafael nadal was hardly troubled in his match top seed was up against ryan sweeting the american was powerless to stop the dow a reduced into a two cents to love lead to be no stopping the spine you see ramps up the tree in just over an hour and a half to set up a meeting with bernard tomic in the third round. i think. you missed a good american. i said of myself. the first day i was seven well today all the. to the right of the chair

umpire. and the sign it was that was very difficult for moments but in general i think of myself works for good with the world today so happy for the. staying with tennis it was a day of contrasting holes for russia's women at the australian open which got off to a pretty awful start was just goals for them by a winner early on with a sickly advantage losing out to simona halep and straight sense from townsend kirilenko both lost out to check opponents. things however did start to pick up former two time australian open junior champion understood c.-a publishing about the germany's christine nobody else in straight said second see that as one of the over was going to stay in her marriage but if they actually prevailed in free to. beat an advantage in the opening round it's also through. the show my face not a patrol was far too good for the home favorite at least one like the russian who reached the quarter finals at melbourne last year was made to work in the first

saints when she took six for the muscovite finally going much easier in a second and she took a six one record victory in an hour in ten minutes and set up a third round meeting with a fellow russian. in la kim clijsters who destroyed in our six love six loft in round one was in just as dominant form against carlos was novato didn't manage another double bagel she still managed to beat the spaniard six one six three up next for the belgian he's never won the australian open title is from says at least part of me. and went out there with the intention to to stay very aggressive and to you know not let my opponent kind of player game and that is you know try to really mix it up then. play with a lot of spin and. know she can only do that when she has a lot of time i think it was really up to me to try and kind of limit that from. really be aggressive when i was out there and i did. but on the football now the

mood was appointed the new manager of russian premier league side terry gross earlier this week will be arriving in russia on saturday the club's president did of a set of top five finish as a goal for the dutch first season in charge of the club's win the champions league in the future russian football right imo ben it's this whole it's will be up against the czech chan club for thinking of a lot of problems in chechnya because. basically he doesn't speak russian and i don't i feel a massive culture shock when it comes to that a military coup promising they're going to attract world class players to the side i think that any amount of money will be very difficult to war plays even to russia chechnya which has been the site of the brutal fighting in recent recent years and in terry my we more just on the publicized side the p.r. side of things are actually football inside because russian the russian foreign trade is that really do very well with the exception of having an advocate and i

think he said he wants them next year to get in the top. and get in europa league place which means top five which would be a major achievement if we can get him to do it i think saying that he wants them to win the champions and increase or maybe put a little bit too much pressure on the guy has even started the job it. may be a miracle if they win but anything is possible of course. well the asian cup defending champions in iraq managed to make it fruits of a quarter finals a one zero win for them over most career author place in the last page of play australia around made sure they went through as group winners of the three no drubbing the united arab emirates news for australia both beverage of a quarter might have to make do with the very goal scoring they feel tim cahill injured his knee in their one nil win over bahrain and did not train on wednesday teammate harry kill is optimistic he'll be fit enough to play on saturday. i'm sure. should be or should be from going to great medical stuff here and there

working around the prop to make sure. the kids is playing the principle they know how to ride challenges and all that of course sure. is being held in qatar which was recently chosen by. twenty twenty two world cup and one of the ambassadors for their bids and it seems that dan has been explaining why he backed their campaign he was speaking at a promotional event in geneva and he explained it was a fine time the middle east was given a chance to stage a world cup. the opposite quite simply because it's a region that deserved to have the world cup just like all the others in the world for the middle east i thought this was the year when it could be awarded the world cup i believe that's why i did it so. you know before my mansion and i had to star in cannes and join the new york cosmos as their director of football as a side now tries to become major league soccer's twenty have side calls most recently bought the name of the old north american soccer league team which

happened once pele playing for them comes in all the rest of the clubs managements are hoping to quickly build a strong economy be useful for the u.s. national team as well. plus a mission. is to help you noticed it when the broke up in the because improved. if one can win the world cup was just six or seven players. come from the academy of course. it would be great for everybody. and wonderful food for football jump in again with a ten tackle rally title in hand and a new bunch of records sent a come out strong team arrived back in moscow on wednesday night's a flight from madrid bringing home the victorious cruise which managed to occupy the entire podium and which truck category light him a chair again claims his seven times all to set the record for the most victories of events in all three of the beer of and it was nikolai of finish second and third

respectively. of the of watching his teammates back and forth position in the team's young hopeful nick alive confessed that his initial priority was just to make it to the finishing line he was gaining confidence stage by stage. with. his i didn't see before the really that we would first aim to just complete the route although i added that we were not going to hold back and soon realized that our old piece was good enough to make it to the podium it worked. well the latest from cage show where i'm going to still hanging on to top sports for two we have enough to give them a single point ahead of the comfortably also wins on wednesday for often not the least and some of your lives are in for me to see the rest of results bear on your screen. russian snowboarder. celebrating victory at the world championships in spain getting a country's first gold in four years sport was a battle of the ages in the women's apparel john small them all in one signs of

ours another twenty one year old from memphis appears kind of the other austrian veteran quality over south korea joost a flawless performance really didn't want to try out in the course of the marina gave russia only best second ever championship gold to be enough to the gears of his triumph in two thousand and seven. time really i'm really still really happy but it's not the first one for russia the second one in fact it's first first one for me so i'm really really have three and today it's like you know it's amazing. i'm going to be a new jersey nets owner mikhail prokhorov said his club won't be continuing their pursuit of carmelo anthony a star forward meanwhile scored thirty five points last night to help then oklahoma there is still some clubs looking to recruit carmelo vote right playing as last game in. jersey he seems to be giving it all for the club once he was in shining form in the first quarter was close by three points oklahoma's star drew russell

westbrook and kevin durant's sharp as well ground scoring twenty two westbrook and the twenty eight under-funded were down by a point despite its on the point guard the chance of billups shots destruction among its lead to seven points in the markets then surely topped oklahoma and wonders hopes of victory. right we're up to date more sport coming up in around two hours time but to r.t. weather is coming up next. hungry for the full story we've got it first the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news make us. very first verses of the bible that all human beings are created but set of it all came in god's image and it doesn't say just jews or non jews. sixty to

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