general would be put in front of the cabinet he's the one who discussed with jack straw and with jeremy greenstock what went before the un security council and he's the one look decided what he was going to say to parliament and what he didn't say to prom so yes he's absolutely central to it but this is in a sense the last chance saloon for british public inquiries because we had the foreign office for the first committee inquiry we had the parliamentary process and then gordon brown agreed that this inquiry would be set up and indeed it has been set up if we're to have any reasonable standing as an effective democracy then this inquiry has got to go into some fairly serious detail about it and recommendations about what's going to happen next no it's not a traditional inquiry which many of us wanted but i get the feeling that a legal process could emanate as a result of the evidence that's going to come out. and take a look now at some other headlines from around the world thirty three members of the opposed to using president's family have been arrested while trying to run for country they're co

general would be put in front of the cabinet he's the one who discussed with jack straw and with jeremy greenstock what went before the un security council and he's the one that decided what he was going to say to parliament and what he didn't say to parliament so yes he's absolutely central to it but this is in a sense the last chance saloon for british public inquiries because we have the foreign office for the first committee inquiry we have the parliamentary process and them gordon brown agreed that this inquiry would be set up and indeed it has been set up. if we're to have any reasonable standing as an effective democracy then this inquiry has got to go into some fairly serious detail about it and recommendations about what's going to happen next no it's not a judicial inquiry which many of us wanted but i get the feeling that a legal process could emanate as a result of the evidence that's going to come out and how impressed are you with the inquiry say far even do you think its depth and usefulness has been what you hoped it would be i have mixed feelings about it. i don't. denigrate it i

he saw jeremy greenstock which moved him somewhat because he was aware of the u.k.side of the negotiation. then when he saw the americans it moved him over to the line to the position where he said on balance it is a lawful. malae was not going to be in a position where i was went put the problem before the president of the united states until i was in a position where i knew definitively i had to. >> all the when the period in question, your senior advisor in his conversations with president bush's national security adviser presumably was conveying the message that this was pretty difficult for you. >> i mean, that wouldn't have been a revelation. >> you didn't want to say that to the president? >> he knew it was pretty difficult all the politics. if i started reading to the car raising legal issues at that point with the president, i think it would have started to become concerned as to whether we were really going to be there or not and what was really going to happen. i would have had to have done that by the way because in the end whatever i thought about the l

we spoke with jeremy greenstock, the former british ambassador to the u.n., last week and asked him what he thought was the best approach to these talks. >> there's still a huge amount of diplomacy to do on iran. the downside is the use of force, which i think can't be excluded in terms of prediction, but the downsides are very great. and the scope for diplomacy is very large. there's a lot to talk about. but the western parts have got to remember that in the region it's not just about, or all about the nuclear issue, which is large, but it's also about iran's role in the region. >> reporter: iran's nuclear program has obviously raised alarm bells in the region. over the past year, max, we've been looking at uae, saudi arabia, kuwait, egypt, and jordan who are all exploring nuclear energy purely for electricity generation, but, of course, any nuclear program in the middle east raises concerns because of the fear technology could get into the wrong hands, max. >> leone, thank you very much indeed. >>> the middle east increasingly known for its tall buildings as well. >>> up next, are some

negotiations and they continued be on the 13th, effectively i think the following monday that jeremy greenstock finally withdrew a draft resolution? was it because you didn't really believe that chirac is statement signaled the end of the process? or were we continuing negotiations at this point that a particular good faith? >> no. it was effectively this, that obviously this was the second best thing now because france had made clear, you're right, on the 10th of march, i think it was dominic that with a statement out on the 13th of march, but what we decided was look, even if you can't get the resolution because they said they will would veto, nonetheless you'd have some greater, if you like, political authority if you could at least get the majority numbers on the security council to say they would agree such a resolution if they don't. so in other words, it wasn't -- >> you mean by voting for? >> yes by voting for it. you would have a veto that resolution. >> that would undermine the authority of in 1441? >> no, it would have undermined that because we believe we have authority anyway in 14

jeremy greenstock and john negroponte wrote the president of the city council on behalf of of the u.s., u.k., and coalition partners, confirming that the states participating in coalition with strickler abide by the obligation under international law. now we have seen advice from legal advisers dated eighth of may, 2003 stating that wording is important to be consistent with our position that u.k. is not an occupying power throughout iraq. through the coalition but only in the areas where u.k. forces have established authority. now, was at the uk's position as of eighth of may that u.k. was only an occupying power in the area of iraq, on which it exercise fiscal authority, i.e., the south? >> i was taking on the eighth of may, baroness, but more specific notice about that. what was my starting point of all this was a was -- authority over that content area which we controlled and not more widely. in the event, you will be aware, be aware, we legal advice and the attorney general. he said you occupied for the whole of iraq. so that was the end of it. he was the government's legal advis