to be one of the finest judges perhaps the greatest inquiry he did he unveil to us to the leap between israeli mercenaries and. to smuggle to to bring in guns from. the fights to the right wing factions in south america and kalou rifles and the submachine guns. developed through the little british island of n.t. got at least british common law right and we headed an inquiry which exposed. to glee gunrunning to right wing factions in south america from israel israel there of course getting on to the subject of the international criminal court and the trumpet ministration doesn't really affect israel. does because palestine has

signed up and there is a real question of investigating crimes against humanity by israeli forces against the palestinian people and this is one of the reasons why president trump and his national security advisor john bolton who he international or with a passion have acted to booby trap the international criminal court for fear they will make another rod for israel's back he rejects the national security adviser had rejected their booby trapping because john bolton was quite clear when he said that the international criminal court is dying before. has one hundred twenty three fully signed up members member states many of them american allies and water is a smack in the face for them is this a storm issue three despicable three. it strengthens. if they dare

to look at allegations that come from american human rights groups ironically enough that in two thousand and three and two thousand and four they ran torture and death squads. but john bolton has a long history back in one thousand nine hundred ninety nine when i published my book on crimes against humanity he reviewed it for the moonie paper the washington times and the fanatically right wing paper and said this guy's a threat is a danger to america because he's doing that america could should sign up to international justice which then was in its infancy but then the court was together in two thousand and two and by that time bolton who's never been in to do anything here has no electoral creedence was an advisor

to george w. bush and supported the. bill look both and jesse helms and jordan bolton got pasta enabling it were literally enabling the american president to reinvade. if they hold an american torture before the international court in the hague it was an absurd piece of legislation but each malice and the stupidity of the man. very distinguished. well. for us there from leading european countries from if you like the civilized world the democratic nations of the world that have hitherto look to american leadership the obama administration was very supportive they never joined as was the clinton admitted. now

how they're being threatened with arrest i think that this may in fact rebound on america it may in fact stiffen whiston result to stand up to trump and stand up to this destruction of a wall based. order of rules you mentioned obama and clinton some would say that actually when prosecutors. question britain and the united states' role in war crimes in afghanistan or the war crimes it's the clinton years it will also come into view more live and of course the blair years but britain has done the decent thing and signed up to the international criminal court as has france russia has not now let me say surely zome to the rooms that are pulled out when they're pulled out but here is a great opportunity for mr putin's russia america is not on

a collision course with international justice. it would be tough i think for russia if it really wants to do splay a degree of stability and acceptance of international rules to ratify the i.c.c. to show america up so that's a possible result ok well you can gradually did britain there for regulars absolutely i only wish that russia would do so and the least. people in britain but i mean that is the that's why russia or and china and america do not sign up to it and the ease and out reduce american attack on international justice that we've got to bear in mind in the background that much the same views may well be held in beijing and moscow but i want to get on to the

increasing currency of this kind of view because you congratulate britain or britain obviously once you get out of a globalist court. trumps fans may call it the international of the european court of justice in which there's just been an appeal victory that they may be able to stop bracks it using westminster. why do you think tourism a wants to get out of the european court of justice or do you think actually as some of her opponent. say secretly she's actually gone with the by ratifying laws previously agreed although you see jail maybe eight years after twenty twenty britain will still be subject to luis e j which is different from the european court of human rights which is hanging in there. is a very benign court it's basically in i've been there i've appeared before it they're extremely nice there's a british judge

a scottish judge from different countries of europe they have basically untangle even for us. all regulations they know what germany says that may's priority in backing them is to tie the european union to britain to evade laws permanently in force privatisation and have blocked support for industry that's what the european court of justice is like the european court of justice most notably has helped data privacy by its rulings against facebook various american firms sending british and european data to america where it can be intercepted so the european court of justice has been quite in my experience but nine and shouldn't really supportive of the rights of individual europeans they've been very good for example on pollution and on interpretation the euro euro

cruise a complicated law and so very all of the thousands dead from pollution in this country the volkswagen diesel scandal i mean. laws do provide some protection against what would otherwise be the outrageous pollution on. he didn't see it as the end of this kind of fashion for international justice we need international justice the people who demonstrate around the world call for justice that that's what the cry years of oppressed people and we are doing something against america's attempts to be relit to assist the charles taylor for example is in prison in britain. always african not always not always and why not if they're guilty if africans are guilty let's start with that

and then look to the people murdering the routing and of course when it comes to politics in this country the thing it was the word going after all maybe was the telegraph going after germany corbin's old friends and mentors michael food he used to run the labor party for being a russian agent here permit me to laugh because that's what britain did in one thousand nine hundred ninety five when the sunday times headed headed k g b colon photo was our agent now i acted for michael forte who was opposed to libel law he didn't he would always advise people not to suit news papers but when accused of treason obviously he had to sue and it was a very nerve wracking thing to take all the sunday times because michael. he

didn't have a great deal of money he had a little house in it. and he's not just his money that he had but his reputation and his loyalty and integrity was up for grabs he would have to go into the witness box and face anything that the murdoch press could throw at him. and i sued rupert murdoch personally because i discovered that. who said we approve this piece of demonize ation all of a left wing hero i couldn't stand up the story it was based on hearsay i know he says it's true and now they've got no new evidence whatsoever. but michael foot he's dead so he can't sue for libel any longer in those get back in nine hundred ninety five the sunday times collapse they didn't couldn't stand up the

story and they apologized and paid michael for six figure damages. from jeffrey off to the break as well as a review of the week's papers. don't accept the salute. to the law. it's. like.

well i'm somebody. that's a mess you never know what's happening and whether there should. be i just think you know that in your view but i'm going to do the said. in the most. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for

watching closely watching the hawks. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be new in the death penalty just because i think that's the pair think the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying there's just no really hasn't been that we hear even many of the dems families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victim's families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't their way.

welcome back i'm still with geoffrey robertson q.c. jeffrey you represented the brazilian contend for sunday's election in jail right now will it be a fair election now no is improperly in jail and improper and contrary to international role convicted of corruption wait a minute is still got an appeal is final appeal has not been heard and. contrary to principle i was ruled by the united nations human rights committee he was entitle until finally could be good to stand in that election and he would have won it because he was miles ahead in the polls as per the constitution he can't run if he fails that one of the appeals which he did it he's final appeal. is yet

to be heard and the u.n. rules need that under the human rights international human rights covenant which has a provision for democracy under that right to democracy he was entitled until his prime goal appeal was dismissed. and to campaign and then to stand instead with judges who are part of a cost on up a cost which was determined to destroy him i'm convinced i sat through part of the trial that he was improperly convicted that he was not guilty of the allegations that he they were determined that he should not be stand for election in deputy leader of britain's largest labor movement or the labor movement in

europe obviously he's writing about poverty presumedly four million children once of course this is tom watson deputy leader of the labor party tweeted to die all over it and to jeremy hunt to ask what investigations are talking politics into russian attempts to influence the e.u. referendum it's time we followed the money under laws and how the stall inquiry into the supporting of about democracy so this is all about the ongoing allegations that russian have been hacking people left right and center is a fascinating story that's unfolding actually is on the accusations is that these russian hackers working for the g.r.u. even hacked russia said. bank which appears to be slightly odd but so tolerance of the. bank so essentially saying the government isn't doing enough but what tom is also doing is applying pressure to jeremy corbyn on this because jeremy corbyn stance on this is fairly mute he doesn't really get involved with the whole debacle between russia and the west he takes a step back from it it seems to be obsessed may evidence it will shock and i'll

tell you that we have a job former security official from the british army coming on the show next week and he's saying that also do we have to investigate russian influence over corbin mcdonald these people are clearly they won the labor leadership because of that we need a moon resignation against corbett as well it must be yes i surely will be that is serious. sure it is very serious in his mind it's kind of flimsy from a and if you don't think this is a key element of what we should be talking about with putin caused bricks and. i'd say if we're talking about people subverting democracy i think three hundred fifty million on the side of a bus probably had more of an influence maybe than russia's dodgy place facebook ads let's hope the russians don't hack that on the global door of mcgregor fight today full employment though it's been a big theme with drazen made a speech to the supporters and the freedom to work where one once some people don't like the freedom to work where they want well they don't know this is

a story which is laid out backs look strike as mcdonald's t.g.i. friday's and wetherspoon stuff joint delivery careers well walk out over. this is a great movement what's happening is there's a lot of young low paid workers coming together at the minute sounds of the bikers and food at work as union they're striking over over ten pounds an hour but it's also about working conditions it started with mcdonald's where a group of people got together saying they weren't happy about zero hours contracts mcdonald's did give some movements that. all the stuff in the company is slightly more but this still isn't enough and obviously mcdonnell has come out in full support of this it was at the rally john mcdonald came out in full support of this it was at a rally in leicester square yesterday it's quite an interesting story because i know i'm not being cynical about like him not being cynical but this also applies very much in the same of labor's policy conference which is i mean that the kind of eighteen to thirty four year old working class you'd forgotten if you like the

generation of party politics on the particular school board is very much in that think it's a tactical move by supporting this but i'm not going to you know a lot of stories say that this is kind of a strike against flexible working the modern age is about don't get me wrong i mean i'm not one of these people are going to say it goes zero hours contracts are terrible people like them students especially they're good for but a lot of people don't and the choice forced on zero hours contracts which leaves them in precarity which reason in loving comes in stories of people not going out to not going out to pay their rent when work at mcdonald's and of course this is a multi-billion pound multinational corporation i should just. says it does everything by the book as do all these other companies and as you said you believe this was followed up internationally and there's a large movement there is right around the world out there america actually has it's also a minimum minimum ten pounds an hour fifteen dollars in america. well very little

coverage relative little coverage of that in the mainstream media lots of coverage about how successful the minority government leader theresa may has been at a conference much better than last year done saying these are the important facts but your. side seems to be suggesting things aren't quite so rosy simply not yes. promises to end austerity again but this time with dancing i should point out at this point this was a satire pace over so it's reason i didn't promise to end austerity while doing that some rendition of from the film big nights or anything. like last year she did say we can all agree. really yeah the point is course george osborne announced in twenty fifteen that austerity was going to end and then david cameron echoed that and tried to sixteen and tories and i said it last year and she said it again this year this climate is kept being repeated and a lot of the left wing made especially points out the fact that well austerity isn't over because two days before philip hammond announced that some councils were seeing one point two billion more cut from their budgets over the next two years i

mean it's classic so manipulative if you like from the tory party but of course austerity isn't i've as i said the still more welfare cuts we've had the big story this week on the education claims by two ministers at the conservative party conference which the u.k. statistics authority looking into is being followed saying spending has gone up by this much and we've got the spending in the o.e.c.d. which isn't actually the case. so we have this rhetoric from stories in may with the reality is actually very very very different well she also said it in a speech noticeably that identity politics was no blow to the conservative thing saying good things about saying that they are the party of inclusive of this from the guardian about. a kind of blows that there was really so the u.k. threatens to deport grandchildren of it to choke off the ins so this is a story for background obviously nine hundred seventy one britain booted everyone out of the child also islands and sentences say shows because they wanted to turn

it into what is now known as say it which of course the us military base which has been associated with rendition torture scandal over that's on the labor government consequently what we're now saying is this family example in the picture is the grandchildren of a woman who was deported and whose mother has legal right to be british they're not in charge of the british citizenship and suddenly it's kind of no way that they have to leave the country now overseas has echoes of the wind rushed scandal and it kind of from a nullifies anything the conservative party and government has to say about. their wonderful stance on immigration but has apologized for the windrush scandal though they're not for the hostile environment but she has apologized for winter so you're being a bit of she hasn't always as witness can of course but it doesn't it doesn't detract from the fact that all these stories are one and the same if you like that we have this hangover within not only the conservative policy but also the civil service because it was i was by a big part in this and this is in this attitude if you like to wards anyone they

consider less than them and with things like that when rush i'm announcing this story as well thank you that's it for the show will be back on monday when we discuss u.s. presidential trump trade balancing act with a former clinton white house director and a man once held by the f.b.i. under special counsel robert rule is investigation until that. monday fifty years to the day it's all the end of the washington d.c. riots and killed twelve people in the wake of the death of martin luther king jr. cooked additional note of what was and gets up there to look at some of these it's just a good usual condition from the. simple

yes when i'm with you to know a show person. look at with a showing of the where. do you think it will show. your proceeds going to. vote of shipping. you up and most of the book is the work of the person you will still miss you know i do know what the move. was the latest news in the for us. boys and the rights to yet of public. officials through some really stupid. it doesn't. matter guys are financial survival guide liquid assets are those that you can convert music as quite easily. to keep in mind no acid for me into a pleasure to watch guys are bored.

the way to the united states is dangerous for most of the illegal immigrants. crossing the hammers just as they would a simple they want to become lost and i want to ask some just about what if many of them look for refuge in the so-called sentry sides of the drifter used to share information about undocumented migrants with federal authorities the best person to ask than call mom. was you know no i've ever met my son i guess i'm in a lot of class and i want that. they have water they all choose to stay in the country with donald trump in the white house all over for the travels of both of you who have to be about. i said see somebody. took the puts the political. will to appear with all the stuff.

was. was the. police and friends were angered by plans to arm private security officers of the country wrestles with improving its security situation. here is a real risk with these agents not having you know training having a weapon in your hand means the possibility of taking a life is out of the question. the outrage over brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination which has divided america shows no sign of dying down with some

supporters of his candidacy even being made to apologize. and saturday night sees the most anticipated mixed martial arts fight of the year irish star conor mcgregor takes on russia undefeated. and las vegas we spoke exclusively to habeas father.