the british were very worried. that the rest putin would pursue would persuade the czarina to persuade the tsar to pull out of the on taunt and to. become neutral in a war or worse join germany in a war that would have released about sixty more than sixty german army divisions that were on the eastern front to fight on the western front and that was a major problem obviously for the british so that's why they were so keen to be involved in this incident they wanted to know what recipe to mr ng so so so are you sure that all may we be sure that this wouldn't have happened without the british involvement and i mean the the attempted arrest wouldn't life. no it's not clear whether it wouldn't have happened whether prince used the paf and his accomplices whose whose role has been widely of course reported not least by you suppose himself would have had the courage to go ahead it is an entirely clear but they certainly had the anger and the hatred of respite in that drove them forward what happened was the use of power

british programs for children for british children shown without for example is one of the things the bbc really concentrates on. we know parents love that. they love the absence -- they love that the child has something alongside those cartoons which are educational and valuable. so yes, there is a shift towards a more distinctive offering if i can use that word, something which feels more different from the rest of the market. but i have to say it's also a way in which the bbc plays to its strength. this is giving the public what they say they most want from the bbc which is quality and something, things, programs, ideas, talent, they couldn't encounter anywhere else. >> charlie: but john simpson for example, take one example, he worries the bbc is getting out of the habit of documentaries. >> well, i mean john's worked with in the square, i've stood in tiennamen square with him covering events there. john is actually entitled to worry. we are a colossal supporter of documentary. we're not a british documentary, we have a strong story though which puts money into documentary, americ

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british business a bit more competitive. and that was something we were free to do which greece and portugal and spain weren't free to do if they were part of europe of course we're not part of the same but we do have a close relationship with you how do you characterize that relationship and how would you like it change the you has taken more and more power from the united kingdom often against the wishes of the british people who were asked about it and sometimes with the reluctant or tacit acceptance of the politicians but not with the enthusiastic support with the politicians that's why i welcome the coalition government statement to the new government statement that it doesn't intend to transfer any more to the european union and of course my party the conservative party the biggest party in the coalition has said that it wishes to get powers back now some of us can't wait for the day when we start to get power back because we think the european union has too many powers we don't think it exercises them very well for ex

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died from multiple injuries while in the custody of british troops in two thousand and three staff on the inquiry have had difficulties locating official documents which could confirm commanders of the orders or who was in a position at a certain time and then modi statement into the inquiry said there are gaps that information because i t systems are routinely wiped when returned from operational deployments jim brann from the stop the war coalition says that so-called cover ups for mishandled and for mishandled operations in afghanistan maybe even worse than those in iraq. but i don't think that the military would deny that there was this propaganda war waged and certainly in this country it consisted of presenting british soldiers in especially in the early years off the off the invasion and the occupation in two thousand and three two thousand and four presenting british soldiers as being the ones who do things differently from the americans who go around in soft and sort of . helmets and body armor and so on. and who win the hearts and minds of the people all this sort of thing a

died from multiple injuries while the custody of british soldiers in two thousand and three staff on the inquiry have had difficulties in locating official documents that could confirm commanders or orders or who was in the position at a certain time i demoed the statement of the inquiry said that there are gaps in information because i.t. systems are routinely wiped clean when returning from operational deployments phil shiner from public interest lawyers represents more than one hundred iraqis who accused british soldiers of abuse. the minister of defense have tried everything in their power to cover all of this up in every in every way they could including just refusing to disclose any relevant material and to court cases. it's coming to light now because those efforts of the most defense to cover these are are being covered themselves and we're now beginning to find that we are getting hold of key documents my practices are acting for hundreds of iraqi ministers and there are an untold number of iraqis who've been killed just one of our most was whilst inside military facilities

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the british. it is one of the difficulties of writing a biography of george washington, that there are large stretches where in terms of battles, nothing is happening to reagan what happens later in the war is that the warships to the south. it is pretty much a distant spectator in the north. only when the french alliances started in 1778 that american land power combined with french seapower and french army finally battle in yorktown, and that becomes the climactic battle. >> why did the french come in? >> they came in to harass the british, pure and simple. john adams had a wonderful image that they were keeping their head above water. they would keep the water -- the head out of the waters of the they would not drown but not so much that they could survive. that was the french attitude. i guess you could say they lived to regret it because so many of the french officers with the ideals of the american revolution, they went back to france and became leading figures in the french revolution. >> i

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he's a writer for the british paper, "the observer," and recently completed a book on british politics. and here in washington, zanny minton beddoes is economics editor at "the economist" magazine. ned temko, to you first, the new coalition government had said it was going to take strong action but did the size and scope still jar people there? >> i think it was incredibly dramatic even though a lot of it had been trailed ahead of time simply because of the scale of it. it amounted to something like 83 billion pounds in total of spending cuts. the equivalent of something like 135 or $140 billion which by some distance is the largest such package since the second world war. so it made a huge impact. and it has predictably set off a fairly huge political debate. >> brown: just staying with you, ned, what jumps out at you in terms of the... where the impact will be felt most? or is this just across the t board for british society? >> well, it's a great question because on the surface the main target is welfare payments, local government. crucially areas where poorer families stand to be h

puts these other questions to well known british and john redwood just ahead. today i'm talking to the right honorable john edwards he's a member of parliament and also of the conservative policy group on economic competitiveness he was also someone who was instrumental in keeping britain out of the euro zone john redwood thank you very much for talking to r.t. now you're a euro skeptic explain to me your reasons for that well i'm skeptical about how much european government we need and want. as a british democrat i believe that most of the big decisions should be taken by an elected parliament in the united kingdom as many decisions as possible should be dedicated to individuals farmers and low levels of government within the united kingdom so i am skeptical about the need and purpose of a lot of european government at the meza nine level if something requires global agreement more than the systems for global treaties and global agreement global government if something needs a national government we have the institutions it's quite difficult i think identifyin

represents one of the most significant threats to british freedom and british privacy for that matter some thirteen hundred people were sent to europe but even extradited there's no judicial process sent to europe to face charges in europe without a british judge looking at it under the european arrest warrant and i think that's wrong and in fact many countries in the european union ought to dowse if that in the u.k. . could only apply for certain specified time. she wants to make. a water of a political color never seems to want to make a fuss in europe even they were. in fact william hague the new foreign secretary he specifically said that he would stop the transfer of power or opinion and yet he's opted further into the european investigation order i would urge the coalition government to really look very hard at the european arrest warrant which so far they've failed to do it seems to me this is one of the most important issues on their agenda and everyone expected them to do so so really i think they have to act and let's talk about c.c.t.v. cameras as well which is one of your

>> i would think the nonpartisanship of the speaker. -- in the british? >> in the british. his role as a true non-partisan although he comes from a party. that day to day selection of amendments, and in comparison to the evolution of the speaker's role, which has always been a hybrid role. , the nomination of an institutional non-partisan speaker together with party fund raiser leads to characteristics of the speaker here to overcome the initial notion that the speaker shall be above the fray. it is difficult for a speaker here in the united states now from time to time to play the institutional role that he or she needs to. there is much more of a delegation to people who are not so qualified. >> how much money as a member of the house of commons make? >> and think it is difficult to say. the salary is about 70,000 pounds. >> would that be about $100,000? " the rest of that? >> all sorts of things which brings them under criticism. you need the existence of allowances. [unintelligible] about 18 months ago, the routine of a lot of information about members claims came to si

as a british democrat i believe that most of the big decisions should be taken by an elected parliament in the united kingdom and as many decisions as possible should be dedicated to individuals families and lower levels of government within the united kingdom so i am skeptical about the need and purpose of a lot of european government at the measure nine level if something requires global agreement with and our systems for global treaties and global agreement global government if something needs a national government we have the institutions it's quite difficult i think identifying those things that really require a european level of government as well the debt crisis and resulting unrest that we're seeing in the eurozone at the moment do you think that's a precursor to a total collapse of the what those countries in western europe that wish to create a bigger country called europe are obviously right to try and create a single currency as well as other single governing institutions my country doesn't want to do that it is very clearly not the view of the british people they wish to be

pounds sterling and a high commission in the british army. as far as i know, the british made good on their end of the deal. >> so what happened at the end? where did he end up? >> he goes down to virginia. he ends up fighting against lafayette and other american generals in the south. >> the revolutionary war started when and ended when? >> well, the war really starts on april 1775 at lexington and concord, shots fired around the world. and then on november 25, 1783, evacuation day in new york -- actually it used to be celebrated throughout the 19th century by george washington and governor george clinton -- at the head of 800 men ride into manhattan. and as they're riding south into the city, the british are leaving onboard ships and washington is greeted by these delirious crowds. i guess that in terms of what was happening on the ground, that was the official end of the revolution. of course, washington submits his resignation to the congress in annapolis in december 1783, a moment immortalized by john trumbull in a great painting. and ac

we are told abdul had a british wife and was living in punjab. three months ago he traveled 40 miles kilometers west of waziristan. there he attended a meeting of 300 militants from the taliban and al qaeda. >> i was told at the meeting abdul was being lined up to lead the new terrorist group to attack targets in the u.k. apparently he was relatively new to the group. it was decided to meet again to finalize the leadership role. before that next meeting, the drone attacks killed him and three others in north waziristan. the names of the other men include an alleged yemeni explosives expert. the fbi says a 36-year-old yemeni was one of those who died alongside the british suspect. he appears on the fbi's most wanted list after he was released from prison in yemen. for the americans, he was a big prize. there was a $5 million reward. this suspect was never to see a court. the drone attack saw to that. >> he was a key member of al qaeda's operations in yemen. he continued to remain a very prominent within al qaeda operations in africa, and was opera

operation to save a british hostage in afghanistan. the first human trials based on the stem cells of embryos. inside the rescue of the trapped miners in chile, it could begin as early as tomorrow. welcome to "bbc world news." coming up later, taking a bite out of apple and all of the others. microsoft unveils its latest bid to dominate the mobile world. >> ♪ [singing] >> joan sutherland dies at age 83, we take a look back at her life. hello. to the commander and leader of the nato forces in afghanistan, they have ordered an inquiry on the aid worker that was killed that they were sent to rescue. u.s. officials had brief that she was killed by her afghan captors. the british prime minister has now told her family that the cause of death may have been a grenade detonated by rescuers. our security correspondent has the report. >> was her death last friday preventable? initial claims that she was killed by her captors may be wrong. today david cameron took an awkward a phone call from the nato commander in afghanistan, breaking the news t

wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports. so we can review here on r t hidden civilian deaths and torture emerge in the biggest leak in u.s. military history as an online exposé suggests washington turns a blind eye to a violent iraq. terror strikes the north caucuses as militants stormed the chechen parliament prompting calls for tighter security measures. europe is hit with protests and promises of fresh demonstrations against government reforms after france raises the retirement age to pay cuts social benefits and jobs. and moscow has a new boss who is already laid out plans to fight congestion and corruption we take a closer look at the new mayor and his promises. at seven pm in moscow welcome to the weekly here in our cheney we begin with the latest wiki leaks the online whistleblower has lifted the veil on fifteen thousand iraqi war dead previously unaccounted for the websites published over a third of a million secret u.s. documents on ir

it would be important to have as much information which was officially recorded by the british army by the ministry of defense personnel in this case because the whole purpose of this inquiry ofter all is to try and establish the facts of what happened in september two thousand and three when mr musso was killed in custody and other civilian detainees were. tortured to be had been serious breaches of these person's rights at the very least cruel inhuman or degrading if not tortured take place. there was no denial that somebody had actually been killed in custody certainly there were. many abuses. in effect the torturing to death of mr moose and there's been no denial that other detainees were also severely ill treated they've been several trials civil acquittals and a number of convictions it's hard to say what what the rate is but i think i think what the concern is is there. is certainly more then has just happened in this one incident that effectively this incident which the by a moose inquiry is looking at this certainly have been several incidents and in fact. where there. is some

promised a full investigation on the british aid worker killed.igh hopes in chile as a trial run goes through without a hitch. and plans for a third and final strike [unintelligible] welcome to bbc news. coming up later on, palestinian officials refuse to recognize israel as a jewish state. the world's first human embryonic stem cell research trial begins. ♪ president obama and the british prime minister will cooperate closely to establish how a kidnapped british aid worker died during a false rescued by american special forces. u.s. officials were briefing over the weekend saying she was killed by her own afghan captives. a fragmentation grenade may have been the cause of death. here is this report. >> initial claims that she was killed by her afghan captives may not be wrong. today david cameron took an awkward phone call from a neighbor in afghanistan and broke the news to the public. >> a review has revealed evidence to indicate that linda may not have died at the hands of her captives as originally believed. subsequent interviews with the per

>> i would again look to british columbia as a model. their stewardship organization has suggested they would be willing to come down and implement hear what they do there. with the paint bill, that is exactly what is happening. oregon passed an amendment last year. a canadian organization will be coming down to implement that. they have knowledge on what to do. >> if this passes, we may have to seriously consider proposition 26. i do not think that applies to british columbia. trying to impose a fee could cause problems. just using british columbia as an example probably will not be enough. you will have to do more. we are talking generally about producers of drugs. but the legislation, as written, is fairly generic. as i read it, it could be applied to the prescription of medicinal marijuana. are we going to require the producers of marijuana out to participate in this program? >> i cannot answer that. >> there is not language here that says if you produce prescription drugs, you need to present it. i am wondering how we are going to t

government has a long history of ignoring protesters and british people really are kind of people who want to get on with it and get back to work business as usual you might say and really the protests are quite a tradition of france whenever there's a government cut of some kind it doesn't happen in the u.k. and people really here are interested in getting on with their lives and getting back to work and hopefully that's what these cultural people to do now on the same day the british government made these two scots i should say they asked the u.k. to contribute another nine hundred million pounds to its budget how is this going to affect britain and other member states were going to have to pay similar amounts to be part of the club. i think it's going to separate quite badly the cuts were eighty one billion this is an increase of of one billion so this is over one percent of the whole cuts that were made and i think that the british government really needs to take a hard look at itself in the way it deals with the european union and think about whether it should be making these inc