the i features the former labour leader, tony blair, telling voters to put aside party loyalty for thest brexit deal. the daily telegraph questions labour's credibility on defence after they say jeremy corbyn ruled out ever using britain's nuclear deterrent. the daily express claims a foreign aid row broken out over claims taxpayers‘ cash was being given to a government which funds terrorists. —— has broken. and the daily mirror suggests madeleine mccann may have been snatched to order by slave traders and sold. :_<< begin with ”<4 begin with what has been happening in france tonight. in the first round of the french presidential election. they say here in the times that the french elite have been humiliated. we ought to be used to political upsets by now. after what we've seen in the last 12 certainly. although, as you put it this morning, this was the most likely result on polling. —— i2 months. given that there were four potential candidates to get through to the second round, and there now just the two candidates. there was a possibility a debt result. you have marine le g victorio

probably a lot of people think in the last thing we need now is tony blair.hinking, actually, quite fondly. he won three elections, three general elections, for labour. how keen jeremy corbyn would be on that, you wonder.m for labour. how keen jeremy corbyn would be on that, you wonder. it is one thing to think you might want to go back. as you say, where and doing what? when? and how soon. very quick look at the daily express. fresh calls forfunding look at the daily express. fresh calls for funding for authority that pays terrorists. this plays very much to those who want to reduce the amount that is given to foreign aid. theresa may immediately, very early on, came out and said she would support the .7% target of gdp that would go towards aid. many people thought she would go back from that. it was very much david cameron, fresh face of the tory party together with the green stuff that got dropped. what our aid money is going to is much more about building future markets for us. before it was not so much about that. she has committed very on to keeping it

i is a poodle, i didn't think tony blair was, to be honest.'s important in a situation like this, maybe they need to be co—ordinated and have one man do all the talking. the country that is taking the action, the united states, it seems it's only right its rex tillerson that does the speaking. you are often in a position to explain donald trump. it looks like a massive flip—flop in his approach to syria. what do you make of it? i think this is called leadership. yes, he had a position that was noninterventionist, i don't wa nt that was noninterventionist, i don't want to be the world's policeman and so on. want to be the world's policeman and so on. when you sit in the chair... a couple of times a significant, the first time when you get the first briefing when you've been elected and you are the president—elect and you get the first cia nsa briefing, that's a pretty heavy duty meeting. then you sit in the chair for the first time on the 20th ofjanuary. you are sitting there and you realise, this is in the national interests of the united stat

politics to tony blair returning to politics to help britain says the mirror in this exclusive., over the past several months he has spoken to newspapers - given promote centre—left ideas and centre—left promote centre—left ideas and ce ntre—left politicians, use promote centre—left ideas and centre—left politicians, use some of the money he has earned from after he was prime minister to fund that and help labour back to the centre ground. inside the story itself it talks about getting out into the country and reconnecting. he flatly says he won't stand for parliament, he's not going to reconnect with anybody and he's actually saying there are ideas out there that people will be interested in. he hasn't got long to get them out there and talked about and will they be accepted by the current parliamentary party? when we write about labour politics, certainly online with a younger audience, tony blair is the one term that sets off, he's more hated b most people off, he's more hated by most of the left wing readers we write for than figures on the tory right. it's a total turnaroun

you could put tony blair on trial, and that would give some people some sense of satisfaction, to sees to want to be, he has announced his political comeback. finishing with the sun, mission kimpossible. us cyber spooks destroyed missile five seconds after launch, some intervention, the sun would have us believe. sir malcolm rifkind believes there is a possibility, that the us has the capability to interrupt a nuclear test like this, and it is possible, who knows, but that might have happened again. it is a fantastic headline and in some ways it is slightly irrelevant. the point is that it failed, and what matters more is what america and china between the two of them are going to do about it. does it matter that it failed? if you didn't fail under its own uselessness, they couldn't fire their own test missile, and it had to be intercepted. incompetency, or something worse, idon't to be intercepted. incompetency, or something worse, i don't know. the us has said it it had been a nuclear test then i think trump would have taken action. i think that is the more important point. and that

the tony blair years. were rumours and whispers, nothing about this at all however until ten o'clock yesterday, thatis however until ten o'clock yesterday, that is really something. then everybody went crazy. it is going to be an election, - obvious place be an election, the obvious place for papers to start is the shock. you can tell they are shocked, they don't even have election low goes. there is no planning for an election. nobody has done any planning. so, there is that. the timing, it is, there is a window. it makes sense when you think about it. now that's used on it. as you say, the election was going to be 2020, thenit the election was going to be 2020, then it was pushed back to 2021 or 2022. that will be once brexit is com pletely 2022. that will be once brexit is completely done. have you must have been about is —— been that the next election, she was worried about having to go to a campaign while worrying about the final elements of the brexit negotiations, which potentially could have weaken

chief, and la st blair's former policy chief, and last october made headlines when teresa may hide himausing problems. what he is proposing is that we introduce a premium on minimum wage, the people who actually do zero our work have our contracts. —— zero hour contracts. which would give employers less incentive to mark around, basically, and call them up at 7am and say they don't need to come into a shift. there are several problems here, first of all it will not sit well with employers because they have so many other pressures facing them at the moment, the rise in business rates, minimum wage has gone up, and on top of that we have a load of economic uncertainty coming into play as a result of brexit. it doesn't solve the problem, putting a premium on the pay rate is only going to be a very minimum amount per hour, whereas you have rules instead, perhaps to give them notice, you cannotjust cancel a shift on the day that the work is supposed to be done, perhaps fine the company instead. i don't think that adding another pound or two now will deter these things. —— pound or two and a

i did was brought in by tony blair. it is egomaniacal.do not like tv debates. —— ithink no. i personally do not like tv debates. —— i think she. nevertheless, the fact that she is not willing to do it speaks to two points. one, that she does not feel that she would be up to it, or her team does not, and secondly, that... you've got it. say it. ok, we will leader there. it has been -- it —— it has been great speaking to you. don't forget all the front pages online and on the website where you can read a detailed review of the paper seven days a week. go to either player as well if you want to either player as well if you want to see a recording of all this. but for shalk ruralfrusemide. watch shalk rural frusemide. watch out. your plants could be looking like this across the southern half of the british isles as we start the new day. —— sharp ruralfrost. this front living is not the strongest thing on two legs. there is enough a nyway of thing on two legs. there is enough anyway of breeze and cloud to keep the frost at bay for the most par

sirens blaired blaered tw to minute -- blaired for two minutes. the country came to a stand still to commemorate the 6 million jews killed during world war ii. the israel prime minister laid a brief at the country's holocaust memorial in engineer lemm -- jerusalem. >>> thousand ten -- tens of thousands of people marched through los angeles to mark the genocide. 1 preponderate -- 1.5 million people were killed by a cam -- campaign by the turkey government. they continue to doeny it -- to deny it. today president trump followed past administrations in noting the los angeles of so many of the most mass atrocities of the 20th century. the los angeles area is home to more than 200,00 people of armanian decent. >>> a car backed by google takes to the skies. >> one of the largest fires forces the cancelation o >>> in prince george's county firefighters still working to knockout this fire at an apartment building under construction in college park, maryland. flames broke out around 10:00 on berwyn house road right off route 1. nobody lived inside the buil

it's almost exactly the same as tony blair ended up exactly the same as tony blair ended up with in1997tony blair ended up with in 1997, when he had 179—seat majority. as professor curtis says, it won't happen quite like that. but you could see a three—figure majority. like that. but you could see a three-figure majority. what are the main issues in deciding which way people are going? it's leadership, who people trust with the economy. and in particular, now, brexit. brexit is tied up so much with economic success, the future of the country, those three issues, leadership, economy and brexit are the things people are most focussed on. the labour party has its work cut out if the polls are to be believed. that's a big if, but if we ta ke believed. that's a big if, but if we take those polls at face value, why is labour struggling? can we pin point particular issues it's facing? on leadership, you see theresa may polling at plus 33 in terms of views of her leadership. you seejeremy corbyn polling at minus a0. that's a big issue. in terms of who you trust on the economy, you have the cons

this year, hibbeln are students at montgomery blair high school. their documentary on undue to you and conversion therapy is entitled, "round peg, square hole." >> this is an issue close to all of our hearts. and it is something i feel a lot of people do not feel is much of an issue anymore. as we discovered doing our research, this is a huge problem for a lot of ldb tears -- lgbters. and it is only illegal in five states which is incredible in 2017. >> also, we have a vice president right now who has advocated national funds to be spent on conversion there are be -- therapy. >> that is what inclined us to do this. >> when i came out to my parents , there was physical abuse. they thought they could scare it out of me. >> i have had friends that have experienced electrocution. in my late 20's, i went through an exorcism. >> i spent countless occasions in prayer, begging the lord to make me straight. and he never did. >> when you try to slam a round peg into a square hole, something is going to give. >> conversion there up the -- tereaherapy. the pra

that is a massive contrast with the blair/bush relationship where blair played a subservient role butolved in iraq and afghanistan. was anyone told earlier? my understanding is a few minutes before, britain was told. russia might have been told. this is a different operation. the us didn't need britain for this operation and doesn't need it for what it says is planned. it is worth looking at this as a moment in the trump administration. we begin to see a bit of maturity not necessarily in the emotional reaction to pictures of dead babies, because there has been a lot of dead babies in syria. if you look at the campaign promises or the rhetoric trump had, everyone who understands international relationships and united states's role in it, rolling our eyes and dreading what was to come. this week, as this has been going on, we have had steve bannon pushed out of the highest levels of security. they are pushing this radical destruction. they are being sidelined and you have a more experienced security team getting a grip and explaining to donald trump that you do need a policy. can you e

amanda rutledge, amy krimm, and kiran kochar mccable are students at montgomery blair high school.y believe child labor in the tobacco industry is an urgent issue in their documentary titled, "sprouting in the fields." take a look. >> the people's stomach ache hit me. my mom was going to take me to the emergency room because i was feeling really bad. >> we feel dizzy, suffocated from the sun, tired, and weak. >> child labor is defined by the international world labor organization as work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity. and that is harmful to physical and mental development. while many agree that labor is harmful to the health of children, many migrant or immigrant families are forced to send their children into the work force for the additional income. the loose regulations of the tobacco industry create jobs for many undocumented workers. while children working with tobacco can suffer serious health consequences and educational drawbacks, many families have farming heritage or simply do not have enough money to support themselves. beca

we're not talking about tony blair. he said only one of the ce ntre—left blair.one of the centre—left plan, which is to create a movement across political party movement, which would change things. i've been there! this feels like 1981 all over again. winners, all those people out there got bored at the time, the centre—left broke away from the far left. we have an electoral system that absolutely crushes any new arrival. look at ukip getting 15% and no mps. we have an outrageous electoral system that does not allow innovation. if all the labour mps are againstjeremy corbyn, or the majority, why don't they create something? because they wouldn't get elected again. we did it last time. they have to then fight in each seat labour candidate. that puts forward. in the short—term, it would be good for the conservative party. i agree with your synopsis. the first is that many mps who are not household names to viewers, but westminster people know about the moderate supporters, the welterweights, the overall disappearing. it makes it much harder. an awful lot want to go

borisjohnson is following tony blair in that respect.e government wants to have parliamentary authority they should ask for parliamentary afforded to, not speculate wildly andjump to afforded to, not speculate wildly and jump to whatever president trump does. the porters" johnson said the situation has not changed. he has not ruled out a parliamentary vote. this is one of the dividing lines between the parties. the tories think it is a strength, trying to portrayjeremy corbyn as a threat to national security. borisjohnson launched a personal attack on the labour leader today calling him a mutton headed mugwump who would be calamitous in downing street. campaigning in downing streetjeremy corbyn said they were focused on serious debate, not name. ask the possibility of air strikes in syria he labour wanted a political solution. above all we need to bend ourselves totally to getting a political settlement in syria and allow the inspectors space to work, allow the inspectors space to work, allow them to make sure we know who committed that

this is a statement released by tony blair earlier. he says...teresting to talk to rob about that issue and whether some politicians might campaign for parties other than their own. we a lwa ys parties other than their own. we always pay attention whenever tony blair write something, he is quite a figure in british politics and on the world scene. here is the deal, british politics is immensely tribal. that is not to say there are not people in the conservative party who voted remain, most of the conservative party's who voted remain, most of the conservative pa rty‘s mps who voted remain, most of the conservative party's mps voted remain, but the idea that there will be cross—party co—operation on somehow opposing brexit or softening it, ijust don't somehow opposing brexit or softening it, i just don't think that is the weight british politics works. in the end, people will say i'm conservative, i'm labour, i'm liberal democrat or whatever, the very partisan system will continue. in recent years every election has had live tv debates featuring t

more now on the first weekend of the general election campaign, and the former prime minister tony blairt to support candidates who ‘back brexit at any cost‘, regardless of political party. he said that brexit was a bigger issue than party allegiance in this election. speaking to radio 4's world this weekend, he said that voters need to know where candidates stand on brexit and that theresa may was pursuing an "unreasonable policy" that was driven by the right of her party. at least, it's up to them what they want to do. i'm not going to advocate people want to vote tactically. what i'm saying is, they should know, they should vote on an informed basis on this issue. how will you vote? i mean, i'll vote labour. i always vote labour. but the fact is, and there are many excellent labour candidates throughout the country. but that's not the point for me. the point for me is whether i'm labour or i'm not labour, even if there are conservatives and liberal democrats, i will work with anyone to get this argument across in the country. what does that practically mean? how will you work with any

either nicky necessarily wants to be associated with tony blair. but he does look very european.get this pass the left of his party. and he is not a political party, but a movement. he needs support in the national senate to get his progress through, if he is elected. does he have enough people in the parliament to wa nt to enough people in the parliament to want to see his programme enacted? the real test will be the legislative elections in june. whoever wins the election has to get a majority one month later. he does not have any standing mp in the outgoing parliament. so he starts with nothing. there is a tradition in this country that the president normally should win the legislative election. the voters are coherent. they choose a man or a woman, and then they will give him or her the means to... if the candidates are not brought forward, then they can't be elected. yes, but he looks to change the personnel of the elite. half this candidates will be from the civil society. people with no political experience or roots in local constituencies. so it is a big challenge to get

tony blair on the world this weekend.so passionately about brexit that he is almost tempted to make a return to british politics.|j that he is almost tempted to make a return to british politics. i feel to the first time since i first came into politics, i look at the british political scene at the moment is and i actually almost feel motivated to go right back into at! really? yes, because i feel we are just allowing ourselves to be hijacked by what is actually quite a small group of people with a very strong ideology, he will i accept they managed to win a referendum last year, but they don't seriously, they shouldn't seriously be allowed to just take this country where they will. i agree that someone like theresa may, she is very sensible, very solid, a privately decent person, i agree with a lot of what she says, about energy costs today, most people would say fair enough, but on this issue, the biggest issue of our time, and which will have a direct impact on ourfuture, our time, and which will have a direct impact o

in europe you do see some world leaders standing up so tony blair is one example i will name where hedoesn't want to come back into politics as such but just started to say you see it in other places where people are saying we need to restore the bill center, something has gone wrong and i know blair makes the point that when liberalism gets reduced to bathroom and pronoun obsessions it doesn't win so i don't look at parties so much as establishment figures starting to rethink but there is much more to be done. >> judge miller with his hand up right there. plenty of time. >> thank you for stimulating a talk. would it be fair to say that major factors in the ascendancy of illiberalism is due to the tremendous influx of muslims? >> i don't think that is the case in the us. the us has historically fantastic ability to make people assimilate and partly because our welfare net is so loose of europe. the refugee crisis in particular was probably the biggest boom to these parties when angela merkel threw open europe app stores and started taking them in in vast numbers. i traveled with the r

a tory chicken stalked tony blair in1997 media.alked tony blair in 1997 when he was accused of ducking tadic —— tv debate. labour supporting took busy david cameron as he tried to negotiate terms for the debate in 2010. today, the daily mail reported that in has come out of retirement. mark easton, bbc news. the former chancellor, george osborne, has announced he's standing down as an mp to concentrate on his newjob as editor of the london evening standard. he'd faced intense criticism after taking on the newspaperjob alongside several otherjobs plus his role in parliament, as our deputy political editor john pienaar reports. from political big beast to big city editor, and the greenest hack in the newsroom. the new boss in fleet street chooses to see his future as moving on, not coming down. george osborne told me today he will use his new role to fight for his liberal conservative views against any harsher vision of brexit. myjob as editor of the evening standard is to speak for london, speak for my readers, speak for this countr

abigail is a student at montgomery blair high school.er documentary on islamaphobia is entitled "the crisis and the fear." >> i selected this topic of syrian refugees and islamophobia because the syrian refugee crisis has been in the news for a really long time. and my cousins are refugees from iraq. and i have heard their stories. i know that if they had their wish, they would be home, not here. it is not your choice when you are a refugee. with the new presidential administration's recent actions, it is causing a lot of hate , which is causing islamophobia. i knew that i had to do something. i did not know what to do. i thought this video would be a good subject. >> [speaking foreign language] ♪ >> it is imperative that in 2017, congress and the new president work on bringing more syrian refugees into the united states. most people are aware there is a syrian refugee crisis in the world, but what is the crisis? >> the syrian refugee crisis has been called the worst humanitarian crisis since world war ii. >> the syrian civil war has had

. >> if it had been david cameron or tony blair calling for a snap election, it would have been leaked out and they have so many friends that it would have been hard to keep a secret. threesa may is a very different kind of character sz. >> glor: we conclude with a discussion about the arkansas death penalty with david boies, lorri davis and damien echols. >> i went from solitaire confinement to the streets of manhattan literally overnight. i walked into a world where everyone uses computers, debit card readers and machines that i had no idea how to use. so it was like me being an alien dropped off in a new world without any help or anything. i needed someone with me 24 hours a day, seven days a week almost as if i were an invalid. >> brexit and the death penalty in arkansas when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> glor: good evening. i'm jeff glor f

but in europe, you do see some world leaders standing up so tony blair is one example i'll name wherehe clearly doesn't want to come back into politics as such, but he is just started to say -- you see it in the op-eds and other places where these people are saying, we need to restore the liberal sense or something has gone wrong and i note that blair also makes the point that when liberalism is reduced to bathroom and pronoun obsessions, it doesn't win. so, i look at -- i don't look at parties so much as what are some establishment figures starting to do and to rethink. there's much more to be done. >> let see. judge miller with his hand up right there. >> thank you for stimulating talk. would it be fair to say that a major factor in the ascendancy of irliberallism is due to the influx of muslims? >> i don't think that's the case in the u.s. think the u.s. has had historically fax ability to make people assimilate and it's partly because our welfare net is so loose that -- of europe. i think that the refugee crisis in particular is -- was probably the biggest boon to these parties. w

broken the party's peace with the third way market-friendly liberal model that was champion by tony blair, and he is making -- he is staking the party increasingly on opposition to markets, on hostility to nato. also in britain obviously you had brexit, which by the way i don't necessarily suggest that every brexit voter and the leadership of the movement fits in with all of this. think it is a more complicated case, but at least one strand of brexit drew on this kind of p populism and illiberalism. across europe various movements are energized. in northern ire land there are movements watching. on the left the e.u. is seen as a neoliberal vehicle for imposing austerity and tearing back worker's rights in favor of corporations including foreign corporations, but on the right brussels is blamed for blurring national borders and boundaries, flooding europe with immigrants, an substituting a bloodless multi-culturism for the continent's authentic natural cultures. let's turn to turkey on the bridge between europe and asia. the country has transitioned to authoritarianism and a new sultanate

there are examples of david cameron beating gordon brown, tony blair beating john major.s on some key questions around capability and judgment. briefly, how important will brexit bns? it will be one of the most important issues. the public say it is the most important but not the only one. the economy and education will also play a part. let's take a look at the weather now. good evening. we had some beautiful sunshine across the north east. the east coast of scotland have the highest temperature. it was cloudy in staffordshire but relatively bright. we had some showers from the lumpy clouds moving southwards and this line of cloud across all that scotla nd this line of cloud across all that scotland is developing as well. that will take centre stage in the next 48 hours, it is behind that that we does introduce the chilly air. it will be cold overnight but most towns and cities will hold double figures and it could turn misty with fog by morning. further north we have the weather front through the day, not just have the weather front through the day, notjust rain but pot

. >> and reflecting blair growth is growing faster than we measure it also leads to productivity do you agree with that correct. >> productivity growth is less than half a percent per year. nothing that makes productivity harder to measure with that enormous amount. so where i come from the thing is that there is of problem if you look at those underlying sources with capital investment per worker in is in decline during this period so it is a surprising. and if we are going to get higher growth because the unemployment rate is already quite low that is part of the arithmetic. it is hard concept and how the changes over time that is why regulatory reform so that should be geared towards. >> with uh technological revolution alike the weather but also the energy of the ecosystem and the guess reduce the debt in places like austin, texas. so talk about the smart phones and other technological devices but it hasn't gotten that much worse recently. so it only goes half a percent that is then suddenly because they have the i phone it is much deeper than that. so with capital investment we don

tony blair pitch rolled to use the jargon in the world at one yesterday. people who are anti—brexit to tactically vote and try and throw out the brexit mp. it is launching tomorrow. this is a guardian exclusive. they say they will hit 20 seats held by big names like iain duncan smith, theresa villiers and kate hoey. this is a real chance to use kate hoey. this is a real chance to use their numbers to reshape parliament and take away the brexit mps. we will move on because there is quite a lot of papers to get through. let's go to the telegraph. pictures of smiling marine le pen. she is stepping down as the leader of the front national to say she is the candidate for all citizens and not just representing the candidate for all citizens and notjust representing this one political outfit. marine le pen is the daughter ofjohn marine le pen. so the name might be tricky to distance herself. she has been trying to leave the party behind. the origins of this party were with the vichy collaborators, or with the nazi regime. they have a past which is anti—semitic an

illegal intervention would be counter—productive and it seems to me borisjohnson is following tony blairovernment wants to have parliamentary authority they should ask for it, not speculate wildly and jump to whatever president trump does. that speculation followed the prime minister to leeds tonight on the trail. asked again and again, she would not repeat boris johnson's admission. this is a hypothetical question because there are no proposals on the table for a further strike against syria. yet the tories believe wholeheartedlyjeremy corbyn is vulnerable. thank you very much. and they plan to make it hurt. laura kuenssberg, bbc news, westminster. the prime minister has accused the eu of lining up to oppose the uk in brexit negotiations. she was responding to comments by the german chancellor angela merkel, who said the uk had illusions about how tough the talks would be. the eu says it has agreed its negotiating guidelines for the brexit talks and that the 27 other countries are united on their strategy, which will be adopted by eu leaders on saturday. from brussels, our europe editor

a tory chicken stalked tony blair in 1997 when he was accused of ducking tv debates.r supporting chicken criticised david cameron as he tried to negotiate terms for the debate in 2010. today, the daily mail reported their chicken had come out of retirement. the former chancellor, george osborne, has announced he's standing down as an mp to concentrate on his newjob as editor of the london evening standard. he'd faced intense criticism after taking on the newspaperjob alongside several other posts, despite his role in parliament. he spoke to our deputy political editorjohn pienaar about his new role. myjob as editor of the evening standard is to speak for london, speakfor standard is to speak for london, speak for my readers, speak for this country and its future. our country has some big decisions to make about the kind of britain we want to be and those values, openness, tolerance, i hold them dear, they are the ones i fought for as chancellor, fought for in parliament as an mp, and now i am going to fight for them in that editor's chair at the evening standard. do y

the most is the most popular leader, 61% of voters judge is the most capable candidate ahead of tony blair had 52%. margaret thatcher 40% and now this is the most capable of the leaders who are available so i suppose you might posit that against jeremy corbyn who is not well rated i suppose. you measure it against that's where the other leaders are measured against... clearly the comparison between thatcher and major something people have made so this will be delightful reading to tory essential officers who were playing on theresa may's strengths as the leader. they will be happy. we heard in the house of commons today and she was repeating this line and we can see why she is, strong and stable leadership and she repeated i don't know 12 times. we we re repeated i don't know 12 times. we were talking about the repeating of lines earlier and how much it gets to the point when people do get thoroughly sick. they'd do but a home that cuts through and i think people only take away one line and that will be what they have done today as well as her coalition of chaos. i suppose if you think bac

tony blair changed the relationship between the nhs and you, fundamentally paid a lot more money and then worked in a harder. a lot are working incredibly ha rd harder. a lot are working incredibly hard but quite a few but like the screws being twisted. if you think about it, a lot of figures on this story, let's go through one north two. 57 gp surgeries shut last year. doesn't sound like much but it affects a quarter of a million patients because that is the average. the number of practices closing up 15% on 2015 and 100% on 2014. i will take a different tack. it is because of stress, it is because of underfunding. we the great british public expect more and more out of the nhs and who is on the front line? gp surgeries, even talk of a seven day a week service and you saw how angry they were. it sounds great on paper but it is the human beings in the end. the private sector is very difficult as donald trump is finding from the public sector. he made a point about public sector. he made a point about public sector pensions compared to private ones, do you agree? just looking at the f

cabinet ministers have told the telegraph that they believe these rules need to be spit, tony blair broughter in 2007, that happened, and that means liz truss is not only the justice happened, and that means liz truss is not only thejustice secretary but the lord chancellor and those rules are different, they sit in the same department and has been criticism of the fact that from very seniorjudges, the most senior in the country, that this lord chancellor will, liz truss is not doing a good enoughjob. she was heavily criticised a week ago for not coming out strongly enough and standing for the judiciary, particularly in the wake of some attacks in the newspapers on them after the brexit court case and there have been other businesses are concerned about the way the department is running and while the present policy is managed. there have been other incidents recently but things have not gone to plan. these are sources talking to the telegraph about how that role needs to be spit and they are appealing to the prime minister to say we need to look again at how this works. this is something th

and matthew taylor — he was a special adviser to tony blair and media manager for the labour party. )ew of many? i suspect that she does. your question to her is there an appetite for general election, i do not think there is. but that said i think people will generally agree that it is better for theresa may to have a mandate. she is a conservative leader who curiously did not get a mandate either from the country or from her own party. so this will strengthen her hand. she probably wa nts a strengthen her hand. she probably wants a mandate for brexit negotiations from her own party as well. this is a way of neutering those who perhaps could hold her ransom later on in her own party?” think it gives a stronger platform in the party, assuming the election goes well which all the opinion polls suggests it will. matthew, the labour party are in a mess, many people would suggest. and indeed some of their own mps are suggesting that this is going to be incredibly difficult. it is no secret that my view is that having jeremy corbyn as leader of the labour party will make this election hard

so this is a story in the ft, it is an interview that they did with matthew taylor who was tony blair'spolicy chief, and he was basically given the job by theresa may back in november to look a the changing face of the labour market and specifically the rise of what we call the gig economy, the zero hour contract, people being on working in jobs where they don't know in the morning whether they will be called up morning whether they will be called up and say yes, we need you to come into work, no we don't need you. what he is saying or proposing is that temperature minimum wage is topped up for these kind ofjobs to provide a premium, and the idea is that this would discourage employers from taking advantage of the gig economy workers, from taking advantage of the gig economy workers, and yes, so it would be provide the best of two world, provide flexibility for people in the jobs and it would ei'isui'e people in the jobs and it would ensure that employers can keep zero hours contrajts on their books.|j ensure that employers can keep zero hours contrajts on their books. i am not sure tha

if it had been david cameron or tony blair, it would have been leaked out. it would have been hard to keep . secret theresa may is a different kind of character. it is not surprising in another sense. she had her hone mandate. she did campaign for remain. she was probably where many or out people in the eu of it. out of the eu with heads and hearts. mandate and her own increases the slim conservative majority. if she can claim her own authority to pursue brexit negotiations her own way. it gives her independent standing. in that sense, it is not a surprise. but it was a brilliantly kept secret. jeff: fundamentally, which is why she's doing this. >> there is a strong element of self-interest. she will characterize this on behalf of the country and the country needs to back some version of brexit but she is doing it with that in mind. she has a slim majority. the thing that is unclear as if she ends up with a bigger tory majority which is what we all think will happen. we could all be wrong. , itming that does happen should be good for her. to get things throu

look, it didn't do tony blair many favours, did it, politically?et the focus of the debate in the election on strong and stable leadership. did you hear that, it's basically, the strong and sta ble sta ble that, it's basically, the strong and stable stable leadership they want to talk about. you will hear a lot about the strong and stable leadership in the coming weeks. you are not a mugwump. this is a double headed programme. are not a mugwump. this is a double headed programmelj are not a mugwump. this is a double headed programme. i can't be aloft and detached. it's impossible. i can push you to one side in the screen anyway. now, when it comes to love it's often said opposites attract. that's certainly true for one couple in pennsylvania whose politics couldn't be more divided. before the election we met democrat gretchen wisehart and herfiance tom ellis, who supported donald trump. since then they have tied the knot, but they still disagree on the president and his policies. rajini vaidyanathan's been catching up with them to see how they've b

. >>> let's bring in lawrence blair on the phone with us.ne of your most recent tweets said it looked like a war zone. you told us things have calmed down a bit but you were concerned that protests could pick up again. what's the situation there right now? >> reporter: yeah. i think it's still hard to say what will happen today. i think right now, the time here is 25 past 5:00. as paraguayans wake up and take a look what happened last night we could see more anger. i just mentioned to you right now the death of a young member of the opposition party in the party's headquarters seemingly at the hands of police a few hours ago and that, in particular, will really put fuel on the fire with public outrage right now. i think a lot will depend on how the opposition party, in particular the liberal party chooses to manage this situation. i think if there's a degree of coordination, if the liberal party calls off its supporters and tries to have a cohesive elective movement we could be seeing some fairly large protests. it's the weekend which means

if it had been david cameron or tony blair planning to call a snap election, it would have been leakedut. they have so many friends. it would've been hard to keep a secret. theresa may is a very different kind of character, does not , has executed a complete surprised almost everybody except for a small group of around her. it is no surprise in another sense, and that she does not have her own mandate, she became prime minister having been a relative to remain up. she did campaign for remain. head,s in the eu with her but out of it with her heart. for -- she was therefore not seen as the true brexiters. if she now gets her own big mandate, big maturity -- big majority and increases the slim majority, she can then claim her own a authority to pursue brexit negotiations her own way. that gives her independent standings. it is not a surprise, but it was a brilliant knee cap -- brilliantly kept secret. >> there is a strong element of self interest or she will say it is on behalf of the country and the country needs to back some version of brexit, but she is doing it with us in mind. out,ss

several engines blaired their sirens as they descending upon the quiet neighborhood. >> my husband said it was something big and when i came up it was shooting up into the air. it was really bad. when the firefighters arrived the fire was burning through the upper floors of the two story home and embers were flying to nearby homes and rails. it briefly interupted light rail service. >> everything they have is gone. >> the two families living inside was able to evacuate safely, one neighbor says it's thanks to his dogs that woke him up in time. >> we went and got coats and blankets all the neighbors were helping them. >> it's a close call for a firefighter who was briefly trapped in the upper floor and he managed to get out and another suffered a broken ankle as for the resident's dog the dog that woke him up. he is not connected or found, his dog just yet. >> thank you. >>> former nfl star, and convicted murderer, aaron hernandez, apparently took his own life in prison. that the expatriot's player hung himself with a bed sheet in his cell. he was pronounced dead at the hospital about an

and famously tony blair and the next george bush in iraq later on.made clear that the uk forces willjoin that if miss airey. a key word, a key phrase, the government would be open to join the strike about parliamentary approval. that would be a big like across, wouldn‘t it? that would be a big like across, wouldn't it? famously in 2013, pilot had a big debate about whether uk military forces should strike syrian in placements after a similar chemical attack. parliament voted not to take part. it enforced an existing stance, that the uk should not take that decision without parliamentary consent, unless it was an emergency. he said that in this circumstance whether or not parliament would have to be consulted would have to be tested. what was interesting was he was allowing for the fact that mps would not be consulted, which is controversial, and he was opening the way for some kind of military action in the next six weeks, when there is no parliament. we often talk about borisjohnson‘s colourful language. beyond the headline, how kettle was he in his

i go like, blair witch. >> it's blair witch.] >> jimmy: going to find a hand somewhere? no you won't. >> yeah. just like a blue -- there's always a dead woman. always. >> jimmy: no, no, no, no, no, no. >> yes. >> jimmy: the woods are beautiful here. >> no, because they're spindly. in england, they're like hobbit-y. it's slightly more like middle earth, or whatever it's called. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: hobbit-y. >> big old trees and here they're sort of spiny. it's lovely in the summer, but where i am right now, honestly -- >> jimmy: but this film "the lost city of z", i mean your scenes are more in like an english, like a countryside. >> yeah. in belfast. >> jimmy: beautiful. >> beautiful. >> jimmy: gorgeous. >> yeah. >> jimmy: where'd you stay there? >> the boys were supposed to be -- i stayed in a place -- actually most of the people were staying in belfast city, which is quite cosmopolitan. i was staying in a place called bangor, which is by the sea. and i say i was there because it was, my character was lonely, and i wanted to