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russia's opposition turns to the us for help or frequently gets the. chinese american leaders agree the two superpower still. growing influence in the u.s. is making. next the inquiry into why the u.k. went to war in iraq will not draw on the private correspondence between the former prime minister tony blair and the 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 party was in power at the time now gives his insight in an interview to r.t. . today i'm in london with jeremy corbin 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

cotton thanks 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 of what happened last time will 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 a pardon might we invaded iraq and then the latter part of the he 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 details of the decision to go to war with iraq and it turned into a totally of course 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 a 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 do you think 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 the role and their effectiveness in. 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 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 had the foreign office. committee inquiry we had the parliamentary process and then 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 coming back but i remain 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 meetings and all that sort of thing 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 iraqis have died as

a result of this and is the world a safer place no is the threat of terrorism there's 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 former head of government in the case of 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 of charles taylor from liberia and the past process on milosevic and the situation in

yugoslavia but the perpetrators of this war in iraq or 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 are going 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 in. 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 innings with the labor party because. we were desperate to win the ninety seven 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 economic transformation. yet his government at the same time did introduce quite important social legislation national minimum wage sure start children's centers and human rights activists and 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've 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 was labelled 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. absolute condemn what happened on nine eleven everybody else condemned it but blair went one step further with 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 i told you that the influence would would in which many of us is going to cause a lot of people blair is. politician who has very high regard for his own ability 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 prime minister is an obsessive touring around the world collecting very large fees for speaking gate and it's reported in the press last week that he's made twelve million pounds since he ceased to be prime minister some full time only. made it clear that he wouldn't allow iran to develop nuclear weapons do you think if you 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. i think we have to recognize 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 at the present time 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 its position the persian empire the derivatives of it they also have a sense of grievance against the west for the coup in one nine hundred fifty two for the exploitation of the oil for the imposition of the shar 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 up to 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 prosper . to iran working with the rest of the world and engage 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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major sport now. hello death thanks for watching the sport and these headlines. for russia if you're straight you know you can use main hopes of a movie over and usually bonds and grand. classics heavy truck driver valerie cherokee and he returns to russia after winning number seven at the dakar rally. and rude awakening can get in chechnya we cast our eye over the lake is for a manager to take a chance in russia. but start with the tennis they were still flying the flag for his country is the only russian left in the men's draw but made it through to the third round after a grueling five set of the ten seed was pushed although why by slovenia's a blast cabbage usually producing some magic to put himself through this one can

change coming from two sets down to the level of my usually two sided six one set of meeting with the last ryan. rafael nadal showed why he's a top seed once again he thought the american ryan sweeting wrapping up a straight sets win in just over an hour and a half to set up a meeting with bernard tomic in the next round. i think so with a few mistakes with the back and. the serve i sort of myself a lot since. the first day i was certainly well to all the. to the right. who it. was a very difficult moment. myself worked. so hard for the. top ten c. drop in so doing any mary and roger fair also advancing into the next round with

easy three sets when. you say david today that i'm sorry on the women's side. the t. seed of it is of only over is safely through to the next round after beating a boy and edge of an off skate she did have to come from a set down but the russian says this sort of match will make a sharper for her next match against czech lucie safarova. definitely get in better in that's what i wanted this kind of match you know where maybe you're not. perfect drug the whole match and maybe a little bit inconsistent he had but you still get him through this kind of match and i really think that it will really help me to improve for the next one and i'm very positive you know and. maybe you know maybe not as sharp yet as i want to be but different this kind of match will help me to be better next also progressing is by rushing out into traver who beat. the muscovite reaching the quarter finals at melbourne last year but was made to work in the first set winning

it six for the second was easy though she took it six one and that set up a meeting a third round meeting of fellow russian. kava beating just i think they're from ukraine also a good victory on a former two time or straight open junior champion and is to see a public chunk of that. but the russians did lose a lisa club and over the and kirilenko are all on their way home. meanwhile came clijsters who destroyed in our saffron a six love six love in round one was again in dominant form this time against carlos waters navarro the third seed didn't manage another double bagel but still big the spaniard six one six three next for the belgian has never won the strain open title says france's former. i went out there with the intention to to stay very aggressive and to you know not let my opponent come up their game and that is you know trying to really mix it up and. play with

a lot of spin and. know she can only do that when she has a lot of time and 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. the big shock in melbourne seven seeded lena yankovic's going out to be and see the share of paying the chinese winning when to set up after winning a tie break and then stroll through the next six three afterwards paying said her secret was keeping calm while yankee bitch was honest enough to admit she wasn't good enough on the day. you just tell myself it was a tragic loss miss selfie let's just look at the ball and chain every point it's. just. that the rule. is that only a. crucial part of the. top.

off to. the. if you really. really believe i can do the why am i doing but it. was to. keep working. now away from the australian open because brutal it will be arriving in russia on saturday to take over as manager of russian premier league side ted a garage and the club's president could do it off is targeting a top five finish for the dutchman's season in charge and wants the club to win the champions league in future but what are the chances of that happening russian for war item art bennett says while it will be up against it at the chechen club. i think you have a lot of problems in chechnya because. basically he doesn't speak russian but i feel a massive culture shock when it comes to that and all the terrible promising they're

going to attract world class players in the side i think any amount of money will be very difficult toward players even to russia a little church there which has been the site of the brutal fighting in the recent recent years there in tears my we more just on the publish the side the p.r. side of things or i actually support the side because russian the russian foreign minister really do very well for the exceptions he did not because i think he said he wants them next year to get in the way of the top of their getting europa league place or trying to stop five which would be a major achievement if it can get into the i think it's a good one some toward the champions and it's going to put a little bit surprising much pressure on the guy as it was for the job it. would be a miracle if they win it but anything's possible of course. he will be interesting now the former manchester united star it can snow has joined new york cosmos as that director of football as a side note tries to become major league soccer's twentieth team because most recently bought the name of the old north american softly which had the likes of

pele playing for this side can the rest of the club's management hoping to quickly build a strong academy which will be useful for the u.s. national team as well. the last. week of. you know just it. could be because. when these are. six or seven players. come from me of course. it could be great for everybody. and wonderful for football champions again with a tenth rally title in hand and a bunch of records set that came out struck to have arrived back in moscow a flight from madrid bringing home the victorious creasy managed to occupy the entire i would be in the truck. i think very clearly we shall again claim this seven title to set the record for the nice pictures at the event meanwhile their doors can peer off and what make

a live finish second respectively with. their watching his teammates back and forth position of the team junk hopeful micallef confessed that his initial priority was just to make the finish line but he was gaining confidence stage by stage. yes i did see before the road that we would first just complete the route although i added that we were not going to hold back and soon as that piece was good enough to make it to the podium it worked. also celebrating his russian snowboarder alina's of xena victory at the world championships in spain ending the country's four year medal interact it was a battle of the ages in the women's parallel giant slalom one slides over a twenty one year old from or the creators of the other austrian veteran clearly regular as having producing a flawless performance regular didn't die fall in fire at the course. and it gave russia only their second ever world championship gold they cut that in. stride in

two thousand and seven. time really i really still really happy well 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 happy and today it's like you know it's amazing. the hard wood ny and in the n.b.a. new jersey nets only make our profit of says his club won't be continuing their pursuit of camillo anthony star forward meanwhile scored thirty five points last night to help them a giant oklahoma there is still some clubs looking to recruit come out and he might be playing his last three games. but he seems to give it all for the club and he was shining in the first quarter as the host won it by three points oklahoma star general russell westbrook and kevin durant looked sharp as well duran scoring twenty two and westbrook adding twenty eight and the thunder were down by a point is to the point guard but chauncey billups clutch shows to

stretch the nuggets lead to seven points and another gets a vengeance topped oklahoma and the thunder straight second no cease. fire we've got more action for mistrial but this time is cycling on the top down and it did look at beautiful day didn't it but this is really breakaway eventually suffering in the hate lance armstrong among the ride is working hard at the front of the pellets and to bring them back but hitting wilted as temperatures hit thirty seven. degree centigrade and he finished back in eighty fourth place at this stage again came down to a bunch brain and twenty year old australian michael matthews took these chance to play in the closing stages known to catch him defending champion and he couldn't pull the second one at the place finish the always inactive course was enough to him to take the lead on this jersey. so that brings up to date more sport in a cup of our stuff.

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