remember prince bandar his office told tony blair that unless you call off the investigation by the serious fraud office into this last fall between be a prince bandar of saudi arabia you can't guarantee there won't be the seven seven bus bombing in london tony blair sitting prime minister threatened by a terrorist act bent over for the saudi prince he bent over any a minute some plotless bombs which was then worth twenty billion dollars going to goldman sachs well as the numbers show there was a forty percent increase in his income but there's no way to actually get into the details because there are so many shell companies and offshore companies and various it's very complex which just seems very bizarre coming from a former prime minister who led an illegal invasion of an oil rich country that there should be some sort of oversight this this sort of blatant kickbacks that he's receiving is pretty remarkable and is the accountant. the lloyd and douche of day the cones how come they're not coming forward with the real numbers oh because they've been involved in all these scandals a

advanced russian studies blair. sociologists and one of russia's worst problems is the concentration of people in a few metropolitan areas people from all over the country pouring in and out west apply wages and better life for the big cities suffer as the gap between the rich and the pool grows and tensions between the immigrants and locals it gets worse when ethnic communities clash giving rise to nationalism and affecting public safety. welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for being with us while you wrote the book on the silver age moscow and so i think it should be easier for you than for many other people maybe even easier for us muscovites to register the change that moscow has experienced during the last twenty fifteen years what's your opinion on the way moscow was changing is it changing for the better for the worse are there more mistakes or much more progress made well you know i actually think it's so complicated a city this size is so complex it's hard hard to say in some ways you mention.

a fake rock to spy on russia six years ago the chief of staff to then british prime minister tony blair has made the revelation in an interview in two thousand and six the u.k. dismissed the allegations that appeared in the russian media let's not now let's now cross live to london marty is ivor bennett has more details for us live or what exactly did jonathan powell have to say. all these comments of come from jonathan powell as you mentioned he was the former chief of staff of the then prime minister tony blair so it's not like they've come from some anonymous operative very senior figure who's practically at the top and all of the powers certainly someone who is in the knows so i think what they do is really confirm what many suspect to be true anyway which is that the british government was spying in russia using a transmitting device concealed as a rock to pass and receive data to agents out in the field. and now these allegations actually first came to light back in two thousand and six when a russian television report and they were always fiercely denied by the british government

can no longer deny tony blair's former chief of staff come clean admitting british spies were caught red handed the spy rock was embarrassing they had us bang to rights clearly they had known about it for some time and had been saving it up for a political purpose. the embarrassing revelations confirmed the findings of a russian television report in two thousand and six it showed this video of a man slowing down and looking at the rock as he passed apparently an agent beaming top secret intelligence from a mobile computer to a digital drop point concealed in the stone another man was filmed picking up the rock and collecting the data. the moment was the one behind the exposé and left no stone unturned but. at first i had to be dealt i thought it might be a fake story or a political game but we cross checked everything with multiple sources and it turned out to be true some footage we didn't include in the film was particularly convincing for example there was a video of a british spy you're a knitting in front of the camera that carols hidden under a tree in the song was lying nearby

people what are you doing gadhafi to doesn't know that the mack daddy is tony blair and j.p. morgan they're the terrorists speaking of bank stores big bank c.e.o.'s walk away with big bucks in two thousand and eleven. so remember at the end of the year we covered the fact that bank shares were down hugely up to sixty five percent well according to data from rochdale securities and. dick bove the heads of major banking groups including j.p. morgan chase goldman sachs and bank of america are outearning their employees and shareholders even as shares of bank stocks as a group lost about twenty six percent and twenty eleven take bank of america c.e.o. brian moynihan who we talked about well he's getting two point two six million despite his shares falling by sixty percent j.p. morgan chase c.e.o. jamie dimon will earn forty one point nine million though his shares are down twenty three percent then well if you take barack out gadhafi out you take the syrian guy out and you have all that business yourself accordingly and people don't take them on because they don't want to end up

blair sherwood women's basketball, 5-2 blair versus 4- 3 sherwood, highlights tonight at 11:00, good to see the girls getting into our highlight. >>> you can't say the word penn state without thinking. it will be a long time before the university gets out from the loud of the sandusky scandal. new england offensive coordinator bill o'brien agreed to take over the program. this is his first season as coordinator. lavar arrington, former redskins linebacker and penn state alum, now he's a local radio host at 106.7 the fan. he went on a rant today describing what's going auto at his alma mater. p -- on at his alma mater. psu is hiding something. they're way more beyond that. they have made in their minds joe paterno and the team a scapegoat. until there's a new board and leadership they can have their corrupt disgusting school that they've created. >>> david wilson has decided he's going fro, rushed for more than 1,700 -- row, rushed for more than 1,700 yards. of course, they got beat by michigan. i'm making fun of one of our former interns in the mouse. she went to virginia tech. natal

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tony blair. his nose gets big. tony blair. rock, paper, scissors. velociraptor! come on! ben, can you just please...? it's paper, it's rock, or it's scissors. that's it. three things in the repertoire-- rock, paper, scissors. ...paper, scissors. nuclear bomb! right. karen wins. no! please, both of you, stop. okay, shall we play something else? so, what's this game you want to play? it's called dinosaur-teddy-robot. dad: what do we do? mum: what are the rules? well... robot kills dinosaur, dinosaur kills teddy, and teddy kills robot, because the dinosaur can eat the teddy, the teddy can deactivate the robot, and the robot can laser the dinosaur. sounds so complicated. but it's good. good, mind. you hide them under the table, and then we say, "teddy, robot, dino," and then you lift up either a teddy, a dinosaur, or a robot. quite an exciting game, isn't it? okay, dinosaur, teddy, robot! um... zambia? is the right answer. well done, jake. can i be the question-asker? please, please? mum: go ahead. how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? it's a

has selves more criminals running free i mean george bush and tony blair there is ample evidence that they have committed war crimes and some of the run free. absurd . they want takes on a serious from that from the council if you have the syrian government that is being. thrown on them you're going to put someone in place that's going to further the western interest and i was and i was russia was an ally and then of course the next step would be regime change in iran. sudan's president omar al bashir wanted on genocide charges by the international criminal court is in libya for a two day state visit it is his first trip to tripoli after the fall of his bitter opponent colonel gadhafi human rights groups have condemned the visit and question of the priorities of libya's new government but patrick ace from spike magazine believes it is the west that has set the example for libya when it comes to strengthening ties with controversial regimes in the face of human rights concerns . gordon brown shaking hands with muhammad get their feet in two thousand and nine at the g eight summit in it

hands with get their feet in two thousand and nine at the g eight summit in italy or for example tony blair shaking hands with gadhafi in two thousand and seven just outside of his hometown where he was killed inserted in two thousand and seven so i mean i think yes there are double standards here but at the same time western leaders are very open to doing this and do this themselves as well did support the libyan rebels who are fighting against gadhafi and have good material reasons to do so for a long time sit down in libya gadhafi libya. heads and you can understand why bashir wanted gadhafi out and why now having supported speech the rebel uprising there would be some attempt to kind of welcome him. into libya no i must say that so many found of the national transitional council most of the time they weren't even in libya to the people on the council themselves so off cozying up and getting the approval of western governments to lead libya rather than orienting themselves for the libyan people and actually fighting for democracy there i find it very striking that you have no question. c

using a fake rock to help spy on russia six years ago the chief of staff to the then british pm tony blair has revealed in an interview that it was highly embarrassing when the secret was exposed and two thousand and six in the january of that year report on russian television claimed british spies hit electronic equipment inside a fake wrong they then used paul computers to transmit and receive information at the time russian security service described it as an absolutely new spy technology but tony blair laughed off the organizations while the u.k. foreign office deny the claims. of the. war scarred leiby is slowly rebuilding its cities and its economy western companies and entrepreneurs are a buzz at the profit making opportunities the country now presents and as excited boy the reports it's the same powers to help destroy the regime there are now lining up for a chance to cash. they may have how bring down the house. but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of civil war the countries that poured the oil into the fire and now lining to cash seen undoi

but it was his word against his britain fiercely denied the allegations with tony blair laughing themoff as russian propaganda the truth was buried inside the u.k. secret service headquarters supposedly never to be seen again so after six years of dodging the bullet why admit it now they're very embarrassing but i think that the british government has decided. to have bygones are bygones and say ok we made a mistake. up and we want better relations from now on so i would see this as a first step on the road to improve relations with russia this is the home of britain's spooks m i six the government is a broad their job may not be secret but how they do it is or at least should be so the embarrassment of these revelations is not so much the spying itself but the fact they were caught doing it a post cold war. the agreement supposedly forbids britain and russia from spying on each other no doubt they'll be more careful from now on all of the bennett. on take a look at some other stories from around the world deadly roadside bomb explosion targeting a police car has killed one civilian i

at the time the russian security services described it as an absolutely new spy technology but tony blair laughed off the accusations while the u.k. foreign office denying the claims. of morris carr didn't leave slowly rebuilding its cities and its economy western companies and entrepreneurs are a profit may. opportunities the country now presents and asics on a boy who reports it's the same powers to help destroy the regime that are now lining up for a chance to cash in. they may have how to bring down the house. but they were very careful not to burn bridges as libya rises from the ashes of civil war become trees the poor boy into the fire and now lining to gas sheen undoing the damage the believe that russia benefited more than all others from trading with get out his regime is very widespread here in tripoli and it's simply not true in two thousand and ten most call was number seventeen on the least of leave this main trading partners accounting for just zero point four percent of its international trade the countries that had the largest trading volumes would get off as a place size

welcome back to spotlight i'm now going up in just a reminder that my guest on the show today is blair rubel director of canon. institute for advanced studies that we talk about the problems of moscow the capital city of russia one of the greatest problems is driving out the traffic jam as we will betty mentioned that well the only alternative that anyone would mention for for for for the jabs and from crazy number of one of the bills is public transportation but you said russians love the duchesse russians also love their cars. their cars that's absolutely right will we will we be able to to put russians back into the buses well if i said earlier the government can't tell people where to live maybe if maybe the government can tell people how to get to work no i don't think there's any simple answer to this part because of the way just moscow's built in circles it promotes congestion but i think what's important is your already have a pretty story the subway system is one of the best in the world you need to have a public transport alternative you can have people work at home you can c

more criminals running free i mean george bush and tony blair there is ample evidence they have committed crimes of the sort of the run free. so. they want to have serious from that from there if you have. is being in. the throne going to put someone in place to further the western interests and one of those and i want russia was an ally and then of course the next step would be regime change in iran. sudan's president omar al bashir who is wanted for genocide charges by the international criminal court has arrived on a state visit to libya al bashir was a bitter opponent of gadhafi who armed civilians in darfur to defend themselves against russia's army's human rights groups voiced outrage at the visit in question the n.t. sees priorities but patrick hayes a reporter for the online magazine spight told me earlier that he sees double standards. gordon brown shaking hands with get their feet in two thousand and nine at the g eight summit in italy or for example tony blair shaking hands with gadhafi in two thousand and seven just outside of his hometown where he was killed in certain two th

and certainly tony blair i think believed it still existed and was very much wanting to perpetuate it. president obama gave the churchill bust that george bush had back to gordon brown. for americans, so what, but in britain that was enormous news. so these things are undergoing transformations and changes and yet, somehow many times they come back to where they were before. and in terms of military affairs of course, president roosevelt's decisions and decision to go with operation torch the invasion of north africa in 1942 in many ways is kind of similar to president obama's decision to go with the surge in afghanistan. it was his decision that he largely took on his own. probably his military advisers in this case wanted him to do more, but it is a decision that was very much his and very much one that he took that had some political risks. roosevelt also was thinking of political reasons when he decided to go with operation torch. because he had to figure out a way to get the american people involved in the war in europe. they were obsessed with what had happened at pearl harbor.