my master's and so we're going underground, coming over the show is the issue of war crimes. black or white has newcastle f. c follows the british government and cozying up to saudi arabia. we speak to a barrister who wants to read the card. saudi arabia, which you k p m birth johnson enables i'm sales development site of the world's worst humanitarian crisis. and the scandal threatens the future of the taxpayer funded british crown ahead of a hearing in the sexual abuse case against prince andrew, who denies everything. we ask best selling biog hallowani about the traitor king fascism. and if the royal family has always been damage, good, all of them all coming up in today's going underground 1st to the world's worst humanitarian crisis, fueled by british weapons as bars. johnson's u. k. foreign secretary and his trust returns to britain for mom's customer saudi arabia. i'm join now from the hague by human rights to be cabman, co founder of going to $37.00 to thanks so much for coming on. so is this a, let's just go back now? you're raining on doris johnson's a parade. i'll ask you about 2 specific,

legible crimes in a minute. but what exactly have you filed with the british police? so this is an investigation that we've been working on for the best we've been looking at various different instance as part of the saudi coalition attacks in yemen. we have detailed a number of attacks both in the science and in the north, 2 different categories of crime. so no. talking primarily about an indiscriminate showing of civilian areas targeting civilians in the use of mass marines through an american company. are you a proxy to, to carry and talk to such nations, run secret prison, torture and execute civilians? so it is of snapshot summary of what the allegations concern and what we,

what we've done. we've named a number of senior military and political leaders from both salary and the way, the reason why we targeted them. because this follows on from a finding we made just over a month ago, we've been several criminal court, which is then alleging the involvement of other members of the solution. united kingdom, as you rightly pointed out, providing the weapons to which these crimes and been carried a but so we had filed with criminal court as well against those persons who are citizens of countries who are members of the i c. c. but obviously though, i mean, i should just add the you either a hand written over to deny any of indiscriminate bullying of children and crimes against humanity. the i, c. c. one doomed to failure because obviously are you able to, you know, members of the international criminal court, i mean, even the united states isn't. and obviously, usa is one of the biggest funded well,

the, the point being made is that the side of coalition is made up of the number of states far greater than, you know, our american sarabia. the reason why we assume this in the kingdom is so that we go off of those to, to have the greatest responsibility. but there are of course, other contributing states such as jordan seneca and sudan who have provided support, whether it's with aircraft, whether it's on the ground or whether it is technical assistance to the saudi led coalition. so whilst we are not assuming the case against morality officials or even american nationals, and we can come up to that in a moment. in the i c. c, we are pursuing those other individuals who are members or citizens of member states. so no, it's not doing a and we expect the i c. c to open

a proven preliminary examination into is, is sort of coming off the back of when the police were investigating pin a. shay, margaret thatcher is great friend. the dictator of chilly, who was in the ca, who in 9073, but it was because she was released. but is the point that the metropolitan police might do something here in london to a business. obviously, it was not intended to come off the back of the 17 years, but of course that is one of the legal financial bases for or the metropolitan police to, to launch investigation. this is not the 1st case. it's been brought. there are cases have been brought in the past actions. taylor as an example was rushed to charge rescue to the new k not successfully unfortunately. but that was a question of the evidence, not question with jurisdiction. so we've also seen cases in germany and france

around europe against sarah and officials and verse other crimes being investigated on the universal jurisdiction. so, so there is a legal basis or so ultimately it's more of a question of whether the evidence is strong enough rather than if there is actually an evidence or, or a legal barrier. of course, with this particular case the, the added difficulty or the political considerations. yeah. i mean, it's clearly a, some would say a political matter, not a, not a judicial matter at all, but i mean, i'll get on to that. let me, let me respond to that. i think i've said this before. so crimes allegations are generally by that nature are connected to political considerations . now, when i say there are political considerations in this case, because the saudi officials are our major trading

a united kingdom. so that will of course, be some attempt to influence or interfere with an independent investigation. and this will be a test for our north horseman and prosecuting authorities. and our team we would have in the global south are going to look at this. and since it is an international problem, i can walk in as a syrian citizen to record in damascus and say, i want to prosecute britain for i want to give birth johnson and to raise a may for war crimes for helping out either and isis in syria trying to overthrow the government or go into baghdad court over the 2003 iraq war. i mean, you know what, what difference is a way? well, i think it would be better suited for cursor and his regime for crimes committed concert. but that's, that's, that's another discussion of what i mean. we all know them, damascus citizen would clearly go in and say they bomb my country. well, if,

if, if syria has universal jurisdiction laws as part of the legal framework, then there's nothing that to prevent that reason it's, britons universal jurisdiction, or you're saying that women, all countries in many countries around the world have universal jurisdiction laws within, within the national rules. they differ from country to country. some countries require that to be a connection to, to that country in the u. k or jurisdiction in the whales. there's no requirement. the suspect is a british national. there's no requirement that the victim is a british national one. there's no requirement or crimes were committed on pretty soil. the reason why we have universal jurisdiction laws that's not for, for any crew. but these are the most serious nature, those crimes that are recognized under international humanitarian law as the most egregious war, crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide,

many countries around europe certainly have this in on the statute. but you can't file a case against a foreign national crimes committed outside of the jurisdiction. that is our responsibility to humanity. and that's something that our strongest of all i mean, your group is called gun ago. $9037.00 was only named after the painting by a lifelong communist. picasso, who hated the western policies. and even de facto back the u. s. z. a invasion of czechoslovakia. i don't, i don't know. the boy, a painting is significant because when he was in his studio in the notches and i looked at the painting and said, did you do this? and he said, no, you did. that's. that's canceling. the bombing of good britain was arming the fascists in spain at the time. i just on the specific 2 of these 20000 is of the attacks among the 20000 and strikes a school bus. you say is a war crime,

a bombing of a school bus and a funeral. there was a double cab strike on a funeral. so we have highlighted those $22.00 particular incidents. amongst many incidents, the sat there was a mistake, i think. well, there was investigation into it, nobody was held accountable. certainly that never actually issued any public filing response to that. but it was regrettable that it was a mistake that has no official investigation into those who are responsible for giving that or carrying out that if the, if the case goes forward the perfectly within their rights and she should be within their rights to be able to to go on to defense and says that it was a mistake. our evidence is that there was a strike carried out to protect strikes were carried out in which a large number of civilians are killed. of course,

it will have to be down to where the evidence is strong enough to show that those we say are responsible can be proven to be responsible. but that is the obligation to wear make you know, a former i x british foreign off his lawyer. molly mercedes said that mars johnson allegedly jokes about the saudi conflict with yemen. i think locking jerking about saturday conflict in yemen. unfortunately, i'm not able to parse johnson. it's frequently my foolish remarks like that because it's seen as part of global britain. i mean, couldn't the point be made that the court and the police that you went to file the complaint with their paid for by taxes from britain's largest companies, including weapons got bridge. aerospace is britain manufactured, company that you go to, you're going to police that are funded by the weapon sales in terms of tax cost.

again, we're talking about our institutions that are mandated by law to carry functions independently and partially. and that is what we are. we are if that doesn't happen infused investigation, we can take it to the high court. we can traditionally review the decision not open investigation. and if they are not, i think in the installation because of political considerations, then the high court will rule accordingly. i mean, it's the 76 anniversary of the un charter on it was on sunday. the you and voted to a bullish committee, investigating a legible grimes in yemen just ahead of the birthday. or even the un doesn't seem to be too interested in what you are. well, i think you also got to look at the states that voted for that to be terminated. i think that speaks for itself they were sadie arabia, the u. e and states like that involved. so states,

states no regard. all right. and what date should we be looking to work as this case proceeds in the latest case? what would people be looking at? well, i think in a case such as this is very complex. there's a lot of material that lease will have to consider what the approach which is generally taken is that they go through what's called a scoping exercise. so a preliminary investigation to see what the evidence is strong enough to take it to the next stage. they will have to seeking bias and crime prosecutor as to what they're sufficient information to charge individuals. so i don't think anybody should expect this to be decided overnight. the boris johnson won't be charged just to be clear. analyst trust was condemned for breaking a court order in terms of weapons exposed to saudi arabia, which was only temporary bathrooms. we were not thinking of our storms. we charge in this particular filing. no. all is truss all 9. deciding not. not

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ah, ah, welcome back with the taxpayer from the british royal family embroiled in yet another scandal ahead of a hearing in the sexual abuse case against the queen's son, prince andrew next week. we now look at another scandal that was actually responsible for putting elizabeth the 2nd on the throne. in 9052, a new book reveals the extent and cover up of fascism within the royal family. with me is andrew lounge, best selling biographer, an author of the new book, traitor, king, the scandalous exile of the duke and duchess of windsor. after. thanks so much for going back, go on the show. but i mean, the accusing the queen's uncle of her being a traitor, worthy of execution. no comment from the palace in the book, relatively little publicity for andrew lounge book. why? yes. well, i mean it's, it's, it's interesting that, i mean, it's been reviewed a couple of books to tear less started and, and said a and was not really made my case. and i thought all the papers were pauline, but it's clearly a subject. they don't really want to touch so, so all the papers, as you say, were fighting to serialize my last book. have gone quite on it. why would,

why would there's no, this is what they call dean, who does this is, was of the and then besides, it happened long ago. why is it 0? we're? so was it, it's still a very sensitive subject. ah, but i think, you know, we've, we've known what the stories about the duke and indeed even the official life of edward the 8th, talked about some of them. but i don't think anyone joined the dots and actually drew the obvious conclusion that he wasn't the innocent youth, that they've tried to pers, projects that he actually was inactive and trigo. i mean, view is all round the world will know the story as a great romance between the king who abdicated and gave his thrown up for the love of a woman. and that's the story that damages television writers. we've had, in fact, in the book you talk about the taming of journalists time and time again, is that taming of journalists continuing to day in covering up the reality of? well, maybe people just want to buy into the myth and is a myth, is the says that she was emotionally blackmailed into marrying him or he threatened

to kill himself if she didn't. she felt chain to this man throughout her life, which is why she eventually bought on various bears, and the worst that she was more unpleasant. she was to him, the more he liked it was extraordinary. so object, object and pathetic character. so i think that that's a myth, not sending me rethink the application because i think that what happened is people realize how unsuitable he would be asking how much he wanted to fear and constitutional matters and how pro german he was. and as a result, they use the pretext of wallace to basically maneuver him into 2 abdicating. and we know we're about, i mean more recently, prince harry in a nazi uniform. maybe the breast will love that given that they've taken against megan markelle and prince harry. but when you speak of the nazi sympathies, the connections with the nurse is the secret services next door to this building the studio. they had him on the radar, even before, i mean there was an assassination attempt before he was king. i'm not sure the

cessation attempt in 9036 when he was king. but the dumpster services had been bugging him on the back at the behest of his father. he's the only monarch who had to have balked. but he was also, we don't know. we didn't know that's true, those are the papers been released, you're up to right. but i can't think of any others. that would be a but what's extraordinary is the f b. i were also monitoring him. the french secret service were monitoring him later . his police protection officers were, were reporting back to the commissioner of police. so everyone was watching him and his associates and waltz associates because they were pretty georgia people all the way through his life, particularly in the spirit 3536 and he was, he was very close to. reuben dropped the german ambassador. there were jazz of german agent to be sent to, to actually live beside wallison bronson court. and he was taking germs down to, to the fort valvor, the whole country home. and leading dot is red box is open and time and time again,

it a secret information was finding its way to the germans. so we don't know whether or not is by or not. but there are reports in the book or that you relate, that there was on the table, the possibility that churchill would do or do the fascination of the truth of windsor and his wife. i mean the various stages, but i mean he can, he was very similar to the germans. what he was king, he in fact tried to, to, to do, to send to, to interfere with the ryan lamb was demilitarised, trying to soften the blow and talked to politicians. but then, you know, during the war i think this is the important thing he trusted for peace party in january 1940. and then there's the famous operation, willy in the summer of 1940 were he is actually going in and out of the german embassy, talking to them about becoming a sort of british pet, are figure, go lighter. this is what he hopes to be. as he sits it out in portugal, and this key moment in the summer of 1940 when we're about to be invaded in the hope that perhaps lord george be prime minister and he'll be king. and churchill,

in georgia, 6 will be sent to canada or excuse your present or whatever. and yet the media is so odd that you depict arguably maybe as a, maybe as a change. i'll get out to that. but at the wedding of edward, amidst gibbs, there's them, there's bouquets from churchill and hitler or their presence for both of them. you say yeah, he was close. you know, he was, it became friendly with hitler. of course he met him in october 1937 along with other nazi leaders when he did his tour of germany and towards her assess training camps. church, of course, of his great a protector of the application. he sort of was for the king's party. but i think his church began to realize really what, what the winter was like. his sympathies waned. and as you say, he had someone puts of you to russell in spain to assassinate him. if required, if, if, if he did go across the germans, he threatened to court martial him, and the reason he was sent the bahamas as governor was basically to get him out of the way is in so he couldn't get up to any mischief. but of course,

even in the bahamas, he was up to mischief with german agents. i mean, today there's a class of oligarchy tech, no oligarchy, who talks about ayn rand and all sorts of strange political ideas. i mean, we're not necessarily, but all these people that have walk on parts in this book called puerto summers at more money. the g t regretted garbo elizabeth taylor, maria callas, and it's hemingway, they're all hanging out at different times over lunch, with professed neo nazis, of people who are suspect. but we don't know what they talked about. i mean, i think they love the glamour of being associated with the former king and, and vice versa. i mean, he, they ran a very good table this, you know, wallace was a fantastic hostess. one night wait, she said to butler, he said, there are any 6 for dinner. she said yes, but they are all kings paid by the british taxpayer or by the monarchy. babe, by the british tags, had money. exactly. he had money, you know, from the civil list or from the family didn't come from civil list,

but he had huge investments. he'd saved a lot of money. when he was prince of wales, he had plenty of money. he mixed with, with people like clint murchison, who was of course, connect with the kennedy assassination rich texas oil barons who basically bankrolled him. and he sponged off these people and he got thing. he paid his staff not very well. he got, he was got cheated free stuff so he was able to since live very well on, perhaps slightly less expensive than others. i mean general motors for doing this, right? you drove a b. m. why would the rothschilds bankrolled them given the famous jewish family, of course, well, certainly the rothschilds game accommodation, when he 1st abdicated for do they would do it again, whose awful to them, and in fact, kitty rothschild left off for a few weeks. she just couldn't stand him use, he was running up huge t telephone bills and expected them to pay. he was very rude to her. and so in some ways a he might scaly well. i mean he's, yes, exactly, he's even to,

it was life. he thought hitler was a good chap and he wasn't a symmetric and he remained very friendly with people. i also mostly, but he knew about the holocaust and he knew what the lady was on. yeah. yeah. i mean, they were open about it. i mean, and then as regards the cover up the great labor, $945.00 government, clement atlee hot off the heels of the malaria insurgency. which guild, i'm told a hundreds of thousands of people are people genocide, they the athlete government works together to cover up papers to save the monarchy as it were. yes, i mean, this is extremely episode that these german documents, which are the telegrams of took place in the lighting for in 1940, which were supposed to been destroyed by the germans actually weren't. and they were found by the americans. that was the lucky thing. they were found, the american sector and american stores decided they would use these documents. and of course, it was a big fight. the americans put pressure on the british. sorry,

the bridge put pressure on the americans to suppress the zak documents to destroy them. some indeed were destroyed, but the american historians and it was a fight track that freedom said no, this is important bit of history and we need to preserve this. and eventually though churchill and others managed to delay publication till 957, many of these documents were published. but they were then just ridiculed and said that you know, these, these people reporting back about his activities were just making it up. which, you know, it was ridiculous, but that was the story that was bought. and you can see how much work you've done to try and assemble what we do do have. but then the big irony is the moral of the tail as it were, is the reason britain still has a monarchy? could well be because of edward. yes, i think the ironies and hollister's great service, you know, because because if he didn't become king, because if he did, we might want them to deal with that before the war. we would certainly then a deal in 1940 if he'd be come back. so we wouldn't have gone down the path we went

on. so it's all the secret service, it would have killed him, or there would be something going on. but it's very interesting. all the, the fictions written about him is all about what would happen if he'd been this go lighter figure. but yeah, the story is there the story isn't in the british or cause i had to go to the bahamas, that there were the mirror files where he was governor, governor to get and where they haven't, we did the fall. so there's quite a lot of stuff there that's not in the british archives and then the stuff in america, the stuff in france, portugal in spain, russia. but you won't find it in these in here because those, those are cause having read it. and of course, the queen still would have been the queen eventually because they couldn't have children but, but ironically, mrs. simpson, who is always cost as the evil in many of the dramas and so on, comes off quite well. she helps in women's health care, food banks, in the bahama purpose and the bahamas as

a governor's wife. and she tried to do her bit. she served in the canteen every day on the base cooking up making an egg office for sanders and soldiers. and she, she, as you say, worked in these clinics with young black children. she did try to improve their lot because he was a racist. yeah. they were both funny racists and in many way she course, she grew up, you know, she came from baltimore. she grew up in the south. so, you know, her view of black people was, was very different to what we would feel now. but he frankly had given up any, any intention of doing anything there. he realised that bahamas was run by local business from the bay street boys, and he just went and played golf. very important also to avoid taxes. that seems to be a really major currency, isn't it over to save money even? well, london was being bombed there, trying to work out how to get more money out of the british accent. yeah, yeah, yeah, but also, i mean, i think they lived very or station ostentatiously at a time with austerity, both during the war and off the war. so i mean they actually had p r people to

advise them that taking you to pieces of luggage to new york and, and, and to hear of a huge hotels. floors wasn't a good idea when people were suffering, but they had, they had a 10 year. you know, even when they got the bahamas, the 1st request was to refurbish government house, even though that was the cost of several spitfires at the height of the battle. britain, you know, he was a petulance. no spoiled child who had just have his own way. so, so just finally, why the cover up and why the continuing cover up and why would buckingham palace not reply to any of your requests for information? well, i think it is still embarrassing. the queen's uncle, you know, was a traitor during the war. this isn't the narrative that was meant for church tray with the royal family during the war, you know, and though the distance himself from that and they froze him out. the fact is, he's the former king. you know, people work to your far less than he did. i mean, he should have been, you know, he should have been at nuremberg and that is an embarrassing story. it's still

embarrassing story. hence, no one really wants to go there. and so do you think that strategy continues today? we know that the prince, andrew, who denies all accusations against him, obviously in trouble now are linked to epstein. and so what is that kind of the palace is a defacto policy to is to her, to delay things in the hope that the problem will go away or people will give up and to deny, deny, deny, and course you did it yourself and deeper and deeper and i think it's, you know, they've learned nothing from windsor with. hello, prince harry's not a nazi, even though he's married, a divorcee this inverse in parallel. of course, with her megan, you know, the same fight over, find out security, the same of suing of journalists who didn't agree with the same curation to the story, to tame book righteous sibling rivalry. and this is not falling out to me. again,

the playbook is the same. well, you know the same book right, andrew, that you watch like 3 bucks that's over the show will be back on wednesday, the neighboring announces its budget, and 27 years. he was a stock market crashes in southeast asia trigger to global economic crisis until then keep in touch with social media and tell us whether you think the british monarchy should continue to be funded by taxpayers to what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have, it's crazy, even foundation, let it be an arms race is often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successfully, very difficult time. time to sit down and talk with

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