meet for them and their families were given no such bailouts this from a chancellor whose boss gordon brown had lavished u.k. taxpayers' money on an arguably illegal war it's something alluded to by jeremy corbyn interviewed on r.t. as brown testified at the inquiry into iraq what we should be talking about is the principles behind the iraq war the process that led up to the invasion and the political as well as financial consequences eight point five billion pounds. british money has been spent in iraq already the policies of u.k. labor bailout pm gordon brown they're being downed by jeremy corbyn speaking to this channel in twenty ten and if anyone thinks austerity is over soon into part two of the show one thing is certain though the u.k. has decided to slash spending on law enforcement officers with twenty thousand fewer police officers in twenty ten this is britain according to theresa may and main stream media has come under concerted attack from the biggest country on earth russia after u.k. failure to overthrow assad of syria russia stands accused of attempting assassinations ahead

colleague jane hill spoke to sir david king former chief scientific advisor under both tony blair and gordon brown. he said that achieving the lower target was critical to the future of the planet. there is no doubt in my mind, there was one of those pushing very hard at the agreement to get the 1.5, if possible. i think if we wander up towards two and above, it becomes extraordinarily challenging to see how we can manage the risks to humanity going forward. i think the ip cc report that is shortly coming out is going to set out, i'm sure, how we can achieve this target, the 1.5 degrees target. it is critically important that we do but let me say, we are not even close to achieving that now. in other words, our burning fossil fuels continues and greenhouse gasses are still

caroline, this is gordon brown having a go at universal credit.m start to become prevalent. we had about the six—week gap that benefit claimants were having to wait to get benefits, there were reports about people falling down cracks and not being able to feed their children. what gordon brown as saying today, of course he is a significant voice, given that he was as jane pointed out earlier, the architect of some of the really key benefit support system changes that work to support children and families. he is saying this is going to be a poll—tax moment, it is actually going to precipitate really huge backlash. it is interesting to note that this comes not long after the work and pensions secretary was admitting to members of the cabinet that a large number, in fact half of all single pa rents number, in fact half of all single parents and two thirds of couples with children were going to lose £2400 a year, which is a huge amount, if you consider that their incomes are probably quite small, it is £200 a week. i do not think this story is going t

the guardian reports on comments from the former prime minister gordon brown — who says britain is onr universal credit. the daily express says soaring property prices have forced more than a quarter of young adults to live with their parents. and the times reports that a third of young people abstain from alcohol — and the proportion of them who have never tried it has almost doubled in the past decade. so, lots of different stories on the front pages today. let's start here with the male. mental health checks for all peoples, including primary i think this is really welcome, actually. at the moment, there's not actually. at the moment, there's not a lot of detail of what they're talking about here. the daily mail talks about mental health well—being assessments being at primary school, i think that it also talks about them publishing some sort of happiness index. but at the heart of the story, but it is a kind of the mental health ticking time bomb within the schools. and one of the horrifying statistics that is on the front page of the daily mail is that obviously girls are at more

and as gordon brown would say today, the greatest injustice of all is little children going to school he's really going to know this point. and it is really difficult, we have school meals is an issue as well. and on the chair of governors and local primary school, the number of people who can access that benefit have gone down to a really small in number, even though we are in an inner—city. very deprived london borough. the government seems determined to stand by universal credit and before we go, one of the story, on the front page of the new european, someone story, on the front page of the new european, someone notes jay marek, going on how the picture was shredded in front of the audience. a very vivid image here. the story is yours. i declare an interest in writing it and the artwork itself is so striking and i think the banks the thing of the weekend is going to become iconic, ari ben copied —— already been copied. a on the report, we have 12 years left to be able to revert this tipping point on climate change under control and under1.5 climate change under control and under 1

it is reminiscent of tony blair and gordon brown, remember when they said, when tony blair was asked to tell what he was stepping down, to step aside? yeah, ifeel sorry for her, it is incredibly unhelpful, because right now she should really concentrate on brexit. this whole brouha ha should really concentrate on brexit. this whole brouhaha in the conservative party, with the brexiteers, jacob rees—mogg, boris johnson, you know, conjuring up all the dissent, it is not helpful because she has to negotiate now with europe, not within her own party. she is, and that is the reality and today she delivers her speech at the tory party conference. last year there were all sorts going on, letters falling down behind her, she lost her voice, a protest ran in with his p45, it was chaos. it was chaos but i am sure that people learn and she has a good machine behind her, after all, downing street, so i am sure she will be fine and it will be interesting to see what she says beyond brexit. remember when she came into power she said she wanted to have the country for everybody and she wanted to be

a lot of course saying that needs more money too, about £2 billion, people from john major to gordon brownmoney for that so saying they need more money for that so essentially philip hammond is under pressure from every corner saying give us more money. that is what it is to be a chancellor, the times says if you raise taxes or block the budget —— we will block the budget and it happened to philip hammond in the past when he tried to twea k hammond in the past when he tried to tweak taxes. tori save it when i do that during practice. the chancellor is that a real bind. he wants to raise taxes, you cannot go through parliament and it's another headache for theresa may's government. the budget will be interesting to watch because philip hammond what to do little but there is huge pressure on spending at the moment. they try to be clever and drive forward and one who was in at the meeting, presumably cabinet ministers said i think the treasury thought it would be clever to have the budget now rather than december, close to the vote on any brexit deal, but it turned out that we just reschedule

there are campaigns being launched, gordon brown the former labour prime minister and john major the prime minister book came out and said it is a bad thing, and of course the pressure is mounting on esther mcvey right in the middle of this reform, was of course one by iain duncan smith who resigned as it result of george 0sborne withdrawing some of the money that paid for a. that is the problem, whether they can't smoothed over that transition as people are moving over at that they then are not worse off, whether they can find the money to do that. it's a big problem for the conservative party. interesting john major said this could be like poltergeist. a big problem for them and one that starting to be a problem in front of their own backbenchers. if you have ben's unspoken about it before but there seems to be mounting concern about a particularly as next year it'll be rolled over to millions more people, therefore once it starts to creep into the constituency of more conservative mps, and they start getting people coming into their surgery saying we are really concerned about it,

it wasn't the debt the crooked banks alistair darling gordon brown's chancellor forked out five hundred billion pounds effectively gave it to the banks i'm sorry if i'm a few billion out there but it was an epic amount of the country's treasure it was a hard choice and you gave a choice and that was good the approved news was that it was good but the choice of the crooked banks and the crooked bankers then disappeared from the media instead the wood that was just lying in the news from time to time during the second world war a stereotype. was hold out and we now have something called a stereotype and the stereotype means that all the civilized premises of life in this country have to be attacked have to be on to mine the hospitals have to be starved to farms the. the the poor people have to remain poor people and then he'd get poorer everything has to be cut back councils have to lose something like up to forty percent of the money they have available to do normal things for people in it that is their responsibility that when overnight the debt became how did it it became peoples day t

remaining inside the european union i think the real fault lies with new labor and tony blair and gordon brown who didn't have a coherent or any industrial strategy to address the precarious employment that you know the housing crisis the difficulties that people are facing in the coal field communities in the old mill towns and textile towns and manufacturing towns and cities up and down the country and i think had we done that and given people a real stake then nothing we want to see in a very different outcome because you think they didn't do in my opinion was a sufficiently promote opposed to benefits have been is not your opinion but we have a seem to hear about in the media only from politicians with the negative elements of the opinion i think that was the real difficult and that's why we're going to in the situation that we're in today. for checkers like myself a keeper close political betting another phenomenon of the liverpool conference your odds of being the next labor leader went from one hundred to one to twenty. to no one if called would you don't don't don't but don't vote i wi

this month that universal credit hat at a carpeting by critics, interventions byjohn major and gordon browne critical as well. now this report acting as a political prods on the government ahead of the budget on monday. there are plenty of mps, including conservatives, demanding change. the thing that myself and about 30—35 colleagues, we have written to be chancellor and asked the court amount of money you get to keep in universal credit when you start working before benefits are taken and we want those boosting back to the levels they were at before the money was taken out of the system in 2015. the focus is next on this man, the chancellor. police in the united states have searched a postal sorting office near miami as they try to identify who sent ten suspected pipe bombs to prominent critics of donald trump. officials say they believed some of the packages originated in florida. 0ur correspondent gary 0'donoghue is in washington. gary, what is the latest on the investigation? they have been searching that facility in south florida just outside miami since yesterday and they think one o

labour's gordon brown warned the roll—out with another 2 million claimants next year could lead to pollle chaos, in what he called "the summer of discontent". the work and pensions secretary estimate admitted that some people could be worse off because of the switch. she said there will be protection for those affected. and the former conservative prime minister, john major, also compared the changes to the poll tax that helped in margaret thatcher's time and downing street. —— in downing. in the questions, labour mps queued up to condemn the change. it is causing real hardship to people. we've now got the intervention of two former prime ministers, half of all lone parents and two thirds of couples with children stand to lose £200 each month. is that correct? that is what the secretary of state allegedly said to the cabinet. we want to know, in this house, whether that is true. i would encourage her not to believe everything she sees in the press. as my right honourable friend the secretary of state has made clear, we're making sure no one sees a reduction in their benefits when we mov

the rehabilitation of gadhafi took place under british prime minister tony blair and when gordon brown to go over from blair in june two thousand and seven the friendly momentum continues and. the london based human rights organization reprieve has closely monitored rendition for many years. lawyer corey krieger specialized in cases involving libya. you remember and the deal in the desert in two thousand and four is that duffy says oh well i'm joining the community of nations everybody was right you know the war on i've looked at iraq and you know i don't want to go that way and all the rest of it said this president has given to him but the reality is of course what happened after that the sanctions were lifted british petroleum and other companies were able to come in and start doing business to the tune of millions in fact billions of dollars i'll just zero made requests to interview tony blair in twenty four but his office said he was not available. the producers also asked to interview former british foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for british intelligence six the

campaign we ran with the british property federation around empty business rates, which is when gordon brownelief for empty buildings, and that caused a stink because people started knocking buildings down. it was only other time when we had bomb site bridgend littered around us, to quote the headline from the mail on sunday, that people paid attention. we have government briefings talking about the toothless high street and i would call this a toothless solution. what is the solution? we have got to take a wholesale look at the system and the planning system and really think about the sorts of communities that we want in terms of the financial structures and physical structures, and the challenges that obviously lots of buildings that we have in the high street or owned by different people so there is no singular interest in punching them together and creating some sort of vehicle, financial vehicle, that can raise investment. that is a challenge because you end up that is a challenge because you end up having court cases for years because councils want to cpa lots of buildings. we want rep

gordon brown, didn't he count twice or three times the figures?ill have to count even more times! if there is a no—deal brexit, that is what we all want... there is a no—deal brexit, that is what we all want. .. that would be a com plete what we all want. .. that would be a complete disaster. we have already had an indication of what is coming up had an indication of what is coming up with a budget with the us this rates cut. just acting upon what you said about infrastructure. cutting business rate and then there is another 650 million, i believe, going to help transport links. we have to do something to revive the infrastructure in the economy. we are quitea infrastructure in the economy. we are quite a way behind other countries. but let's see what happens tomorrow. maybe you will have a surprise. if he has got one it will be a good one, i can't imagine there will be any negative surprises, it would be crazy politically to do that. the prime ministers said it is the end of austerity, so we have to see that, haven't we ? austerity, so we have to

gordon brown have the same situation, losing senior figures, deserting him, trying to find somebody ready loaded at the last minute. i suspect this time there will be one or twojumping above the parapet, saying, come on then, i fa ncy parapet, saying, come on then, i fancy some of this. the consequences are so fancy some of this. the consequences are so stark. defining moment for the country. lets stop with brexit... !... the country. lets stop with brexit. .. !... laughter. the country. lets stop with brexit... !... laughter. and move on to something quite different. strictly shame... have you been following this who hasn't been! the only story in the country this week. they survived the cut, despite controversy over their kiss last week. did not even get into the dance—off, they easily cleared the hurdle. this is what the shows are all about. all public city is good publicity. in the week, it all went off... rebecca humphries painted him as the worst lover in the history of love rats, very long whiskers and tail by the sound of things, and long hair, as well, as you can see from the pho

labour's gordon brown warned the roll—out next year could lead to poll tax style chaos.also compared the changes to the poll tax that helped end margaret thatcher's time in downing street. work and pensions secretary esther mcvey admitted some people could be worse off because of the switch, but said there would be protection for those affected. at business questions, labour mps queued up to condemn the change. the damage that is going on now, let alone next year, cannot be underestimated. the government is determined to continue with the roll—out of universal credit, because it is helping more people back into work. the government has also, however, been determined to improve the system as we roll it out which is why it has been piloted, and that we're making sure no one sees a reduction in benefits when they moved onto universal credit. my constituent has been in and out of work and has exhausted the number of universal credit advance payments he can receive. he's out of work now and received his last pay cheque two weeks ago. he has even exhausted all his food bank vo

you, under tony blair and gordon brown, were given ministerial posts.y. go and ask them, don‘t come to me and ask me. ask them why they chose who they have chosen. is there still an undercurrent of discrimination even inside your own party? of course the labour party is not immune to issues of discrimination and prejudice, but that was not what i was indicating. the truth is, i am one of britain‘s most prominent politicians, and i do it from the backbenches. that‘s why you‘ve invited me on to this show. i‘m hugely privileged and fortunate to have gone to harvard, to have had ministerial roles. i am able to do what i do on behalf of the people i represent, and others in this country, from the backbenches. but, in the end, i don‘t run the labour party. jeremy corbyn runs the labour party. and so, if you want to ask why david lammy isn‘t in the shadow position, then the question is best directed at him, not at me. but am i comfortable with where i am? am i able to effect change from where i am? do i find colleagues from other parties, like david cameron, a

labourformer prime minister gordon brown has warned it could create poll tax style chaos.vative former prime ministerjohn major also likened it to the policy that helped and margaret thatcher's time in power. millions of people are due to be switched over to universal credit in the coming months. experts say that while there will be winners, others will be worse off. the chair of the work and pensions committee said it was already forcing women onto the streets. it is not going as well as we are being told in the house of commons, were some women have taken to the red light district for the first time. my she come to birkenhead and meet those women's organisations and the police, who are worried about when in process security been pushing to this position? we need to work with those ladies and seek what help we can give them from the work coaches, write the way through to the various charities and organisations. in the meantime, and i add that perhaps he could tell these ladies that now we have got record job vacancies. 830,000 job vacancies and perhaps there are otherjobs

bit you know shouldn't have you had a prime minister tell you the chancellor what to do i mean gordon brown wouldn't put up with this for tony blair george also would have had david cameron telling him but he's announced fuel duty about austerity he has to go along in unfold ok well maybe maybe because breaks it is on his mind that's going to financial times and the great success the government is having over these complex yes ideas yes the irony of that for those of you with a view was we were sort of the pressure our innate how u.k. has ruled over only fourteen of two hundred thirty six e.u. international treaties well this is mean this is calamitous this is this is everything not this isn't the thoughts of the tripe it loudly might spare croft it's it's about nuclear arrangements this is terrible but it was they're doing it they want to scrap the two hundred thirty six liberal treaties or did i mean they've been lazy or does it mean everything's really bush actually got to they've got to really go see everything will be a choice a conscious decision not to have been really negotiate i do

gordon brown under bailey. joining the old party group for action against the bankers who cost the uk taxpayers trillions during the crisis. none of whom have been fined, banned or prosecuted despite clear evidence and guilt of fraud and malpractice. what my friend do what she can to urge and regulate educators to hold those responsible to account. >> if i can give my honorable friend the assurance -- we have been looking at that system. we designed that it will be built on the most robust regulatory system in the world. it is designed to restore financial stability and protect taxpayers. a number in relation to the responsibility of organization. senior management into the education regime. legislation was also introduced alongside this regime. the reckless misconduct causes the institution to fail. these forms are very recent. it will take further time before we see the full impact. last year we did see them issuing total fines of 229 million pounds. if i can reassure my honorable friend that we would continu

labor bailout pm gordon brown they're being damned by jeremy corbyn speaking to this channel in twenty ten and if anyone thinks austerity is over soon into part two of the show one thing is certain though the u.k. has decided to slash spending on law enforcement officers with twenty thousand fewer police officers in twenty ten this is britain according to theresa may and main stream media has come under concerted attack from the biggest country on earth russia after u.k. failure to overthrow assad of syria russia now stands accused of attempting assassinations ahead of its world cup and hacking everything from the n.h.s. to bricks joining me is what a senior british army intelligence officer philip ingram m.b.e. philip thanks for coming back on first of all straight through the naming by the spelling cat organization of an attempted assassin using our team information unless well yes i understand the culture using r.t. as one of their intelligence sources so well done for working for them but you know i think the betting can best again is a fantastic piece of good journalism they've ma

the rehabilitation of gadhafi took place under british prime minister tony blair and when gordon brown to go over from blair in june two thousand and seven the friendly momentum continues and. the london based human rights organization reprieve has closely monitored rendition for many years. lawyer corey krieger specialized in cases involving libya. you remember and the deal in the desert in two thousand and four is that duffy says oh well i'm joining the community of nations everybody was right you know the war on i've looked at iraq and you know i don't want to go that way and all the rest of it said this president has given to him but the reality is of course what happened after that the sanctions were lifted british petroleum and other companies were able to come in and start doing business to the tune of millions in fact billions of dollars i'll just zero made requests to interview tony blair in twenty four but his office said he was not available. the producers also asked to interview former british foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for british intelligence six the

universal credit has had a carpeting by critics, there were the interventions byjohn major and gordon brownd then 30 bishops were critical as well. now this report acting as a political prod on the government ahead of the budget on monday. there are plenty of mps, including conservatives, demanding change. the thing that myself and about 30—35 colleagues have written to the chancellor and asked, is the work allowances, the core amount of money you get to keep in universal credit when you start working before benefits are taken, we want those boosting back to the levels they were at before the money was taken out of the system in 2015. so the focus is next on this man, the chancellor. the headlines on bbc news... sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour". meanwhile, a former attorney general has criticised lord hain for identifying sir philip using parliamentary privilege. a suspect has been arrrested in connection with the suspicious packages being sent to public figures. two more were found today, one of them addressed t

we had to former prime ministers in sirjohn major and gordon brown being critical and now the reportts committee suggesting a culture of indifference within the department for work and pensions. they say in the summary to the extensive reports that this is the extensive reports that this is the same criticism, about the same department five years ago when the benefit was first introduced and since then there have been persistent delays. it is not com plete persistent delays. it is not complete in terms of roll—out for another five years. we can hear from the chairman of the committee, a labourmp. the chairman of the committee, a labour mp. they have attempted to change the roll—out but it has had money taken out of it so it has had an impact on half of universal credit claims are getting less money than they were on the benefits of these are things the department should have thought about. these are people who if they claim to the first time would not have any food, money in the purse, having to pay re nt money in the purse, having to pay rent and if they wait five weeks for money to

this month that universal credit hat at a carpeting by critics, interventions byjohn major and gordon brown critical as well. now this report acting as a political prods on the government ahead of the budget on monday. there are plenty of mps, including conservatives, demanding change. the thing that myself and about 30—35 colleagues, we have written to be chancellor and asked the court amount of money you get to keep in universal credit when you start working before benefits are taken and we want those boosting back to the levels they were at before the money was taken out of the system in 2015. the focus is next on this man, the chancellor. you're watching afternoon live, these are our headlines sir philip green says he "categorically and wholly" denies allegations of "unlawful sexual or racist behaviour",— meanwhile as lord hain defends naming him as the man behind a court injunction. police investigating the pipe bombs in the united states focus on a sorting office in miami, there are reports coming in of more suspicious packages universal credit is causing ‘unacceptable hardship' to ma

the rehabilitation of gadhafi took place under british prime minister tony blair and when gordon brown to go over from blair in june two thousand and seven the friendly momentum continues and. the london based human rights organization reprieve has closely monitored rendition for many years. lawyer corey krieger specialized in cases involving libya. you remember and the deal in the desert in two thousand and four is that darfur says oh well i'm joining the community of nations everybody was right you know the war on i've looked at iraq and you know i don't want to go that way and all the rest of it said this president has given to him but the reality is of course what happened after that the sanctions were lifted british petroleum and other companies were able to come in and start doing business to the tune of millions in fact billions of dollars i'll just zero made requests to interview tony blair in twenty four team but his office said he was not available. the producers also asked to interview former british foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for british intelligence si

the rehabilitation of gadhafi took place under british prime minister tony blair and when gordon brown to go over from blair in june two thousand and seven the friendly momentum continues and. the london based human rights organization reprieve has closely monitored rendition for many years. lawyer corey krieger specialized in cases involving libya. you remember and the deal in the desert in two thousand and four is that daffy says oh well i'm joining the community of nations everybody was right you know the war on i've looked at iraq and you know i don't want to go that way and all the rest of it said this president has given to him but the reality is of course what happened after that the sanctions were lifted british petroleum and other companies were able to come in and start doing business to the tune of millions in fact billions of dollars i'll just zero made requests to interview tony blair in twenty four team but his office said he was not available. the producers also asked to interview former british foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for british intelligence six

sir david king is with me, former chief scientific advisor under both tony blair and gordon brown.e change, we think about temperatures and flooding. it is so fundamental, it is food? it is food and it is important to understand the delta region has the biggest rice paddy fields in the world and the rice paddy fields in indonesia are also at risk from flooding. once they are solid native, you will not grow rice that again. rising temperatures in china could destroy china's ability to produce rice. if you look out to 2050 with a temperature rise above two celsius, it is possible food production is simply not going to come close to demand. when we are talking today about the difference between 2%, should it be 2%,1.5%, about the difference between 2%, should it be 2%, 1.5%, what is your belief? no doubt in my mind, and i was one of those pushing hard at the paris agreement, to get the 1.5 and it says if possible. if we wander up towards two and above it becomes extraordinarily challenging to see how we can manage the risks to humanity going forward. i think the ipcc report that is sh

it's notjust sirjohn major, you probably remember gordon brown also raised concerns about this.ll, the charities that i have spoken to over the last week also said that those actually work. we are asking the government to really think again. first of all, to poll the regulations, this is due for implementation from january and will affect 2 million people. and we know that after they have a deadline, which they have to reply for universal credit, if they don't meet the deadline, or their money will be stopped. this is for people who are out of work, but people who are in work as well. you know, long—term labour want to do something different. we want to stop this and have something new. at this moment in time, the regulations should be poles, and we should revert back to existing legacy benefits. how significant do you think it is when you've got sirjohn major comparing this to the poll tax, and what happened for margaret thatcher's government. i am hopeful, there are many, government. i am hopeful, there are any government. i am hopeful, there are many, many tory mps who have s

former prime ministers tony blair, gordon brown and david cameron joined hundreds of people at a memorialriving forced behind the 2012 london olympics. she died earlier this year after being diagnosed with brain cancer. tim donovan reports. three prime ministers came to today's service at southern cathedral, and one reminded everyone how persuasive tessa jowell had been about that olympic idea she had. i recall the meeting, it was typical tessa, setting out the case, i raised all the objections, she listened. i have seen the potential downside, she was focused on the upside. she began talking to me like my mother. laughter. "i'm not angry," she said, "just disappointed." london. cheering. such a big moment for her and for the city, and now there will be a permanent memorial in the olympic park she was so proud of. it's a lovely thing to have done. i'm absolutely thrilled about it, we all are and it's a very fitting memorial to her but it's absolutely true that without her the olympics would never have taken place here in 2012. tony blair is the first to acknowledge that. and to have somet