hundred million dollars to secure an iraqi base they allegedly turned a blind eye to a hospital billing bafta security for elections and allegations of sex trafficking unfaired investigators who uncovered wrongdoing according to an associated press some suggestion the list. goes on yet private street firms are doing just fine and filling their coffers with the spoils of war ducking the question to d.c. . believes that. for its own forces for mercenaries. well if it's part of a broader move by the west especially in britain and the usa to really make it absolutely clear to the rest of the world that they have impunity. that is really the. tree of the show that british u.s. forces have impunity and extends to the innocent as well remember this really interesting this this trial in the u.s. is it was from two thousand and seven when the u.s. forces on the iraqi government an agreement that their troops there must. be able to be of course some semblance of some kind of show that they were going to try soldiers and u.s. courts and now even that seems to be being rolled back to very very troubling

her career spanned more than 50 years, and included awards for best actress at cannes and a bafta inam on twitter. i'm @bbcmikeembley. hello, good morning, and welcome to august. but, if you were hoping the new month would bring a new type of weather, well, actually, we're just going to continue with the sort of theme we had at the end ofjuly. a mixture of sunshine and showers. the earlier satellite picture shows clumps of cloud circulating around an area of low pressure, and with that, we will continue to see some showers as we go through the day. some places starting off dry, particularly for northern scotland and towards the south and east of england, but for wales, certainly not starting off dry. in fact, here, through the first part of the morning, showers likely to gang up into a longer spell of rain. that then extending across merseyside, up into northern england and southern scotland, so could be a soggy start to the day in edinburgh and glasgow. brightening up for a time, though, in northern ireland, and the north of scotland actually getting off to a fairly decent start, wi

to get someone playing him again and again and he won a bafta award for it, getting someone where youat's the mark of a great actor and robert hardy could do that, the gentle roles in things like all creatures great and small, broad comedy, a truly wonderful actor, a great british character actor. for well 0ver half a century. that is a career to be proud of. people will be looking back on it fondly today. indeed, what his family will be saying today. i remember him in u psta i rs saying today. i remember him in upstairs downstairs, i'm showing my age now. robert hardy, who has died aged 91. italian naval ships are being deployed in libya's territorial waters to try to stop migrants crossing the mediterranean to the southern coast of italy. the italian government have also imposed new rules on charities which have been helping rescue thousands of people trying to make the dangerous crossing in flimsy boats. richard galpin reports. the italian navy used to play a key role rescuing those caught in stormy seas. but now its mission is to enter libyan territorial waters to help the libyan

at won him a bafta. what a difficult role to play.ou can get somebody on screen that can actually do that, without making you think, that somebody trying to impersonate him, or he doesn't look like him, it's a really fantastic move. robert hardy managed to do that. you really believed you were watching churchill. that was his great gift. a gruff englishman, but a lwa ys great gift. a gruff englishman, but always an elegance and trundle about him? that aristocratic generation, personified in all creatures great and small and those kind of roles. tweed wearing. that is why he was a natural choice for the harry potter movies, cornelius fudge, who first appears in the fourth film. i was very lucky, i was on set and i watched him filming one of his scenes for that. it was just great, seeing the way that the other members of the cast treated him with this great reverence. this was a harry potter cast but have so many fabulous names, not just harry potter cast but have so many fabulous names, notjust british and irish, but names from oversea