tony blair is donating the entire proceeds of his memoirs to war veterans.hina is now forced to take over as the world's no. 2 -- is now poised to take over as the world's no. 2 economy. welcome to bbc world news, broadcast in america and around the globe. coming up, he spent more than a decade in russian prisons, and now one man freed in the big spy swap tells us he is innocent and wants to go home. and the reports from years on, find out how life has changed for the israelis told to leave the settlements in gaza. >> pakistan is now suffering the second wave of a crisis that began almost a fortnight ago. with one fifth of the country under floodwater, almost 20 million people are affected. there are fears now that a severe malnutrition and academic of waterborne diseases. children are particularly at risk. the foreign secretary says millions could start an extremist could take advantage of the growing desperation of the survivors. the bbc is in one of the worst affected areas. >> and i say the mission, dropping food supplies in areas imprisoned by the flood

tony blair resisted pressure to apologize for the war. >> i have no regrets.esponsibility, but not a regret for doing that. >> tom keys was six of military policeman brutally murdered in 2003 by an iraqi moderate. his father stood against blair and remains an opponent today. >> we don't want his blood money. there are a lot of soldiers blinded, legless, armless, lives broken. this money is not good. it is not good money at all. >> since leaving downing street three years ago, he has made millions by advising banks, businesses and giving lectures. but he has taken an unpaid role as a middle east envoy and set up charitable foundations. the supporters have said that donating the money from his back is entirely in line with his character. others welcomed his gesture. >> i think this goes beyond politics. he has made it, and he has made a lot of money after politics, and if he is able to make this big donation to the british liege, he should be congratulated for it. >> he doesn't want his whole political journey to be defined by iraq. but this is unlikely to be hi

mr blair replied, it shoud be recorded, that the procedure committee should feel able to "review thenew system as time progresses" and "look at ways that it can be improved in the light of experience". that offer has never been fully taken up, which is a strange omission. the failure to embrace change in 1995 still haunts us today. a procedure committee report into parliamentary questions as a whole which was published in 2002 really only glanced at pmqs, conceding that the contest "tends to encourage 'tribal behaviour' on both sides which damages the public image of the house, while the hopping from one subject to another which is the consequence of open questions militates against sustained and serious scrutiny" but only one very minor procedural change was recommended and accepted. the only real reform of note in all that time was achieved by the liaison committee. in their report shifting the balance in 2002 they suggested

blair is entirely right. we have never got the whole truth, nor do i think it was necessary to get the whole truth. the interesting thing -- was iraq a danger in 2003? they were not a danger. they were practically prostrate and could not -- it would have taken a lot of time to reconstitute in selling oil. what they got instead was a long period of anarchy. i think one conclusion i am inclined to draw is that anarchy can be worse than tyranny. it was, at one time. >> thank you. >> i too would like to take both a retrospective and perhaps a counterfactual look at what -- it goes back to something you said very early in this session, about what iraq might have been able to do following the passage of resolution 1441 to comply fully. you had believed i think you said iraq had a highly developed bureaucratic set of structures, certainly in the 1980s and perhaps into the 1990s, but you had come to the view perhaps during your inspections that really the whole thing had crumbled as a governing structure and was perh

blair is entirely right. we have never got the whole truth, nor do i think it was necessary to get the whole truth. the interesting thing -- was iraq a danger in 2003? they were not a danger. they were practically prostrate and could not -- it would have taken a lot of time to reconstitute in selling oil. what they got instead was a long period of anarchy. i think one conclusion i am inclined to draw is that anarchy can be worse than tyranny. it was, at one time. >> thank you. >> i too would like to take both a retrospective and perhaps a counterfactual look at what -- it goes back to something you said very early in this session, about what iraq might have been able to do following the passage of resolution 1441 to comply fully. you had believed i think you said iraq had a highly developed bureaucratic set of structures, certainly in the 1980s and perhaps into the 1990s, but you had come to the view perhaps during your inspections that really the whole thing had crumbled as a governing structure and was perh

tony blair sets up mayfair bank to act as deal maker in investments for the super rich dony war crimes blair he's not allowed in france either i don't think well you know willing to black who we interviewed on the show just recently he wrote a book called the best way to steal money is to own a bank the best way to rob a bank is to own up to something like that so tony blair obviously is i think taking that message to heart and he'll be joining the other club to craft a global cryptic kratz the new tayo the new kleptocratic order the other thing about this is as the top of the show pointed out is that this war racket is the last ponzi scheme standing it's the only thing holding together anything in the u.k. or the u.s. at this point and when a ponzi scheme is about to implode and you saw this with bernie made off they get a little bit crazy or they get reckless and they abandon ship and they protect whatever wealth they have so the next headline concerns rise over colonel spicer's private army now this is colonel tim spicer who is a very famous british mercenary who has run many britis

she was elected in 1997, the same time as tony blair won the election, in she just retired, so she was 13 years a member of parliament -- and she just retired. tavis: you obviously are more than tangentially connected to politics. your sense to mr. cameron and what is happening in the u.k.? >> well, i belong to the other side, so i was disappointed that andon, that' cameron won, the electric and the other side did not light brown. we are waiting to see what happens. the coalition, nick clegg, it is a little early to say. they have taken a different line on the economy. they have decided to pay back debt instead of stimulating the economy. tavis: was that the right decision? >> i think it was the wrong decision. tavis: we are having that debate now. >> i guess it was the wrong decision, but we will find out. tavis: what is your sense of, and i am asking you specifically be good your wife was there and was a part of it, how will history regard the tony blair years? >> well, i feel, my big thing, my the enthusiasm during that period, it was the teaching of reading in schools, because befo

. >> rose: you know what he said to me, he like blair, admires blair a great deal. does that surprise you? >> it does rather, yeah. >> rose: he says in the the interview. >> well, i travel with blair, i went to washington, ireland, iraq with him. and he was... what he is is tremendously able. he's rather ignorant. >> rose: of what? >> politics and history. history. i mean, he's a tremendous... he has great antenna, but he doesn't have a deep feeling for history and there was one extraordinary moment in basra where we'd been to baghdad and we'd... he was giving a speech and he gave a good speech. >> rose: basra's in southern iraq, is it? >> southern iraq. and then we went into the room where there was a padre and these young soldiers and they were having a very bad time. they'd lost a lot of comrades and a lot of serious injuries and it was the only time in the whole series of trips i took with him and his entourage where i wanted to say "tony, let me deal with this." >> rose: (laughs). >> because what he had to do was find words of comfort and of decorum for these b

happen certainly not in britain because the opposition our government supported the war in any case blair himself in britain has succeeded in keeping the debate on the question on the issue of weapons of mass destruction he has managed to focus all the debate on whether or not he lied and while everybody believes that he is a liar he has managed by this device to distract attention from the much more important fact which as i say was that the purpose of the war was to overthrow saddam hussein to get rid of the man and therefore to get quite cleverly really to deflect criticism even though of course he is hated for that war so no there won't be any prosecutions and in any case the legal basis for such prosecutions is rather difficult to find because the only way that one could really prosecute that war would be prosecute would be by prosecuting a crime of aggression a crime against peace and that crime while international crime. does not generally speaking exist in national jurisdictions and it doesn't exist for example in the british or the american jurisdiction so no as usual the victors

well tony blair made a very interesting prediction only eve of the war he said that many more people would be killed by saddam than in any conflicts well we know that the number of people dying under saddam in the couple of years leading up to inflation were in the hundreds a year so far more people have paid the ultimate price now and for every one of those people and their families they couldn't be saying that this was a success what do you think the future of the country will be now that there is this official end although the fact that we have still fifty thousand american troops there do you think though that the country will eventually achieve stability the fact that there are less american troops there which some perceive as an antagonistic can actually cause a lot of the recent violence do you think that things will perhaps settle down and we could see a gradual transition to some sort of democratic government well whatever the solution is it's a solution the presence of western forces and influences in the country is very problematical and i would certainly take the future b

blair in september 2002 privately, but not publicly because i think there is a big difference between your role as a trustee of the security council, "investigate this and report to us", and the role of a politician. individual governments here could prosecute and say, "we are accusing you, you have this", but that was not my role. the security council did not assume it and therefore i didn't say anything about it publicly. privately, yes, i thought so. there was one particular type of weapons of mass destruction of which i was suspicious and that was the anthrax. we had an inspector in australia, rod barton, who later wrote a book about the whole thing. he came to me and said, "here is the evidence we have on anthrax." it seemed to me to be very convincing. it had one element that was worrying me. that was that it relied on some cia document, finding. they were not willing to show it to us. i was not willing to say or affirm then that, "yes, we assert that there is anthrax", but we were very suspicious. i came out right from september 2002 on to the very end when i said, "yes, there

so whether it was tony blair or carter or gorbechov or de klerk we have in the movie.there were others. i tried to get nazirbeyev who agreed to from kazakhstan and we ran out of money. i couldn't afford to go over there. but, you know, how interesting it is. what no one can understand when it comes down to that decision that you're going to potentially blow up the world, so what does that feel like? so that was important to have all those people and to start exploring all over the world where the problem spots are in the former soviet union states so lucy went to georgia, and through a lot of interesting discussions and drinking ended up having an amazing conversation-- >> rose: in prison in georgia say former russian official who was trying to sell-- >> there was actually-- he's a car thief. >> rose: he wasn't a russian official? he was just a russian? >> yeah. and he-- this crazy conversation you end up having with him because he was like a car mechanic and they started talking about cars and really all he wanted to do was buy a ned lamont bor geney and he was steali

leading the march, the former rebel soldier, now president, hailed as a visionary by tony blair, britain continues to pour millions into the cause. but the president's reputation is under fire. opposition groups talk about a climate of fear and attacks against the government's critic. some of them are violent. this is their record, a former member of the alliance to was killed. are you scared? >> of course. everyone is worried. it does not go hand-in-hand with the democratic process. >> the president is now up for reelection and serious opponents have been allowed to stand. he insists the murders have nothing to do with his government and argues that the district of discipline is necessary given the history of ethnic cleansing that led to genocide. those who say bad things about us and want to destabilize our country should take a rope to hang themselves. many rwandans, at least in public, agree with the tough line. if you have a bad leader, he could take this back to genocide. my children go to school now because of this president. rwanda has achieved so much so quickly that it has beco

british prime minister gordon brown agreed with his predecessor, tony blair. giving testimony in an inquiry, they insisted the intervention had been necessary and justified. but their labour party paid a high price. it is now an opposition party. >> that was our in-depth look at the iraq war as american troops drawdown. stay tuned.

correspondent published what i thought was a very helpful piece about the sexing up of the data from the blair administration, error by and saying that it was perfect information that was perfectly frigid purposely issued, the governor general and chairman of directors at the board of the bbc were forced to resign, a very telling moment meaning the government, even in a country like britain, we are not used to it in the united states and it raises the question of if we're going to a more publicly funded system, how do we make sure that the ultimate -- autonomy of journalists is maintained. >> so, let's stay on that note a little bit. "the oakland tribune" fell on hard times. how you think about the government stepping in? >> i agree with my colleague, but let's talk about how we get there. we have come together tonight against the backdrop of national discourse that has plundered into racial epithets, homophobia, threats to the lives of elected officials, their families, and my former colleagues being spat upon. that is how the conversation has deteriorated. by starting point is that a thrivin

he succeeds retired admiral dennis blair, who stepped down under pressure after clashing with other intelligence officials. >>> christina romer, one of president obama's top economic advisers, is resigning. the white house announced yesterday that romer is leaving her position at the beginning of september to return to her teaching job at u.c. berkeley. she is the second high-level aide to leave the obama administration this summer after the resignation of budget director peter orszag. >>> bp is now one step closer to permanently sealing its blown out well in the gulf of mexico. engineers have finished plugging the well with cement from the top. thad allen, who's overseeing the response, says while this is not the end, this virtually assures that no more oil will be leaking. the next step will be to cement the well from the bottom. that could start as early as next week. >>> a horrific school bus crash in missouri has left two people dead and dozens more injured. two school buses were carrying high school band members to an amusement park yesterday when they slammed into a freeway wreck in front

looked at lionel blair.e has done ok. >> true. >> i am getting high-quality photos taken for might be launched. i cannot wait to see the results. -- for miny relaunch. i have had to take my image seriously after a warning from, of all people, the boss of google. >> i am not sure people understand. we really have to think about these things as a society. people sometimes say they have nothing to fear, nothing to hide, why should they worry about it? but actually everybody has something they would rather not catch up with them later, and this can be shown quite clearly by flashing someone up photograph of when they were young. they are embarrassed and a blush and they say, oh, put it away. this will be played to us all the time if we could it online. >> it back at my focus session, they say the camera never lies, but what about the internet? can you get a new image online? it is good to see you again, after what? how many hours that's about five hours. what have you managed to do? >> a completely new image. we

we have over 30 blocks, that's a lot of bonni blairings starting neighborhood watch. thank god for safe and una because that organization is really helping us kick started. that's a great way to build communality. what's a neighborhood watch a block by block level not on a territory. you have to go get to know your neighbors. how many of you know your immediate neighbors or people that live 2 doors down from you. you would be surprised how many in your neighborhood don't. through a neighborhood watch program we are making neighbors get to meet each other it's a great way to build communality. our news letter we have a yahoo group over 600 people. we make it easy to join. we have a website where you type in your e mail address to the website and you sign yourself up. i don't have to sign you up you can do it quickly and easily through the website. we also just launched a wiky. how many of you guys know wik pedia? not that many of you. wiky is i'm excited about this tool. it's an imagine a website that everybody in your community could contribute to. that's a wiky. i we

summer of two thousand and four i was present at and one of the organizers of a meeting between tony blair's counselor david king and under a learn to distinguish councillors of two distinguished leaders one of them was arguing that there was no global warming while the other was saying it exists and that it is man made all this is political climatology both points of view there is global warming because temperatures have risen over the past one hundred and fifty years of observations and over the past decade they have been increasing quicker than during the first one hundred years of observations it is a fact we cannot deny that it's. extracting black. dangerous. why demand pushes the limits to catastrophe. is the price. is it possible to prevent such disasters. and can the aftermath be dealt with quickly time defectively. oil spills and thrills on auti. face things to this is not a prohibition but more of the. very fortunate that we should see just everybody is short of supreme retraced because they have no idea about the hardships to face. plate one it's business is it of them to new syst

roddick the american who turned twenty eight on monday says he's feeling better about his preparation blair said i was probably i was very concerned about life rushed by. playing point five times and i am planning on going for a really big form so i'm not as concerned. about a match point and i want to come up with. and in the women's draw rushes you elena dementieva is the twelfth seed and faces all got guts of valerie's venus williams and defending champion kim clijsters also start their campaigns against unseeded opposition is classed as relishing the chance to retain her crown. financially it is not any different from friends of last year also once you have a few more probably unanswered questions but i think the sister. and i know what i have to do if i want to not try and do is one of the last years on long. island more pressure from oppression pressures you know the sign on and off. putting you into the spotlight one of the few or so. i tried to imagine and to have. moving on to football now there's one game in the russian premier league on monday west a bit we'll be looking to move

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summer of two thousand and four i was present at and one of the organizers of a meeting between tony blair's counselor david king and under a larry one of two distinguished counselors of two distinguished leaders one of them was arguing that there was no global warming while the other was saying it exists and that it is man made all this is political climatology both points of view there is global warming because temperatures have risen over the past one hundred and fifty years of observations and over the past decade they have been increasing quicker than during the first one hundred years of observations it is a fact we cannot deny that it's. the close up team has been to the kaluga missions where the car industry is rapidly developing. mount argy goes to the area where the first russian fleet was born. where the indigenous people were the first are dixie's navigators and where russia's glorious history is still visible. welcome to the kind of. russia close up on our cheek. the united states of america is waging war within its own army. joe now.