british officers. [laughter] this goes on with the british doubling what the american had until all the officers and nco's were held prisoner by both sides and designated as hostages so if the british proceed to execute any of the original 23, it's going to set off a blood bath. now, in the end, the british decide nod to do this because they would like to get out of this war. they would not like it to last forever, and so they know that negotiating a peace with the united states would be very difficult if both sides have the blood of lots of prisoners on their hands, so and finally i just want to talk about native peoples which is an additional dimension of the war because native people side on both sides, and native nations are divided by the war because natives of the same nation lived on either side of the boundary which had been run against their will through their midst in the wake of the american revolution, and so you have people that we often call the irqua and shawnees living there. you find t

it's not the british army. but when that, when that -- just like what happened with tiffany's manuscript, the manuscript for jarvis' journal was found in a trash can and published in 1907. in 1907 we didn't want to think of the revolution as anything but the revolution, and we couldn't use the term civil war because we had had the north/south real civil war only a generation before. so the whole term civil war kind of goes away, and so does the idea of tories. well, anyway, jarvis goes to war. he fights in battles all the way from new jersey down to georgia and florida. he kills american and writes about it. well, he -- when the war ends, he's been in a torrey regiment and had seen plenty of battle for seven years. he comes back to danbury, connecticut, wearing his green loyalist uniform. the loyalists frequently when they get outfitted by whoever recruited them wore green uniform to distinguish themselves from the redcoats. so he walks into danbury, and he expects he's going to marry amelia. and then they'll s

because the british to the benefit of getting a group of british speaking british subjects up into canadato counteract those people in quÉbec who are catholic and speak french. so the area of what is now nova scotia and new brunswick becomes the homeland of the people who left america. and they are given axes, army rations, some tents in some cases, lumber and other cases, told to cut down the trees and start some communities, which they do. they're very proud of it today. if you're a descendent of one of the loyalists who cannot or, you can put a u. e. after your name as united empire that they help preserve the empire. and if you want to know what the tories wanted them that their intention was if they had one, just look at canada. that whole steadfast or that we talked about canada. the canadian study that came from the fact that they were founded by non-revolutionaries, people who really kept their heads about them and they had gone up there and started to kind of country they wish we had had here. parliament, constitutional monarchy and freedom of speech. all the little freedoms we h

and he was dismayed by the british effort. "they have made a mess of things in helmand." his son james was one of the first to be killed when british forces went in in 2006. he is dismayed by the sentiment in these cables. >> we went in there. we have done the best we could but some of the finest infantry in the world. we've taken terrible casualties. and yes, the place is still a hotbed of violence. but i think it always will be. >> much of this criticism has been heard before. british tactics, and also there are questions of the best approach to take. two years ago, british commanders made clear they wanted more troops, more resources to counter the insurgency in helmand. but some of the u.s. criticism might be more muted today. the american marines who took over have suffered some of their highest casualty's there, too. 16 men in a matter of weeks. bbc news. >> still to come for you on "bbc world news." stay with us, if you can. poorly paid and dangerous work. we report from georgia on in the christmas tree trade. first tho

british tactics were also questioned.wo years ago, british commanders themselves -- said they wanted more troops and more resources to counter the insurgents in helmand. some of the u.s. criticism might be more muted today. the u.s. marines that took over suffered some of their highest casualties and there, too, losing 16 men there and a matter of weeks. >> meanwhile, wikileaks founder julian assange has lost an appeal against a court order made in sweden for his arrest. police want to question him about allegations of rape and sexual assault. julian assange denies the charges. the military in ivory coast has announced the closure of the countries armed orders amid confusion over the results of sunday's presidential election. the opposition candidate, mr. ouattara, has been said to have one. the u.n. security council has urged restraint. >> this is the man who claimed president of ivory coast for the next five years. for the time being, it is not a face you can see on the state television. instead, the independent elector

he started his career as a very honored to guest of the british government he was there on behalf of the tsar and that's our star me to buy arms. and then as the revolution took hold his fortunes fell he had they slowly worked through whatever money little money they had. and in fact my grandfather finished up being a taxi driver in london most most of the russian was a magazine and they drove taxes in paris his in paris absolutely right so my grandfather aren't on that noble tradition and became a taxi driver in london it was a cab or a mini cab it was a cab it was a london castle and this is the elite here where many caps didn't exist in those days actually many caps are post post second world war invention but anyway after the second world war my father also became a cab driver but he was a cab driver with you know a small a family of three children so i'm not saying we grew up in utter poverty but i grew up without you know heating or a car or television or a refrigerator or you know anything of the modern world. a listen i know. so that your father was sort of well left. leftist

wealthy british style is an expert on. the. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global economy cause a report on our. welcome back to spotlight i'm going up in just a reminder that my guest on the show today is helen mirren. well now let's talk about movies. show throw sound so it's time to talk about cinema well about the queen and is it true that you were really stressed when you knew that you that the play the queen the x.e. head of state and that you even contacts at the back of the palace in order to get sober. action from an a. i was nervous i was very nervous it's a hot potato as we say in england. you know anything to do with the royal family that they had the british have a very schizo phrenic relationship with their royal family they love them at the same time they sort of you know they have a tent attendance usually the first time in history that someone actually played the acting head of stuff and then you know not even first time there had been a television show are. and. not show but filmed for television and

too much with british and even english nor even a london london so so it was hard harder then to be a foreigner it's completely different now so he changed our name and he said you know what we have to let go of all of that and make a new life for ourselves but my grandfather was very very fixed to his past and his history. and what are you grandfather you know anything about your answers to say i i think of a couple of your interviews you said something about you or your world. you know a great great great great great great grandfather is mentioned in war and peace on both sides of my family i come from a czarist military class. on one side it was comey and ski and on the other side it was men on often my. my grandfather's father was in a sense to the common and he he married contests who was off to come in. that was my great grandmother. so already there was a mix going on and. so that was sort of their background i don't know the exact details of all of the family background far from it but i know a certain amount about my grandfather's background. in the recent interview to pear

and you continue this notion about about my being a dame yourself the british aristocracy well. it's annoying but it's nothing to do with the aristocracy anyway we were going to sit here and he said if you said don't call me dame just call me helen so you obviously don't like to be called dame but is it because you are mentioned like like labelled as as the fun for tao of the british cinema even some call you the one of the bad girls of the british cinema how does a correspond to the title or whatever. i think that was all of it in the past. sort of bad girl thing. you know i grew up and out of that and and into my dame hood i guess but you know i'm very very on. that i would have been recognized by my country for having contributed to the culture of the country. but you know i don't go around with my title on my chest now you for many people especially after you played you you played queen for many people yet you are the brit very british but on the same time you you mentioned many terms that you've been critical of me know of england even even you once said that that french hu

british generals complain just as much about british ones as americans do about the british. saudi arabia would like america to bomb iran. well, awkward maybe. but we guessed it already. north korea has been the solitary major surprise. seeing they wouldn't mind seeing north korea under south korea was a real eye-opener. >> it harms the principle of confidentiality of diplomatic relations, which is an essential element of our diplomacy and i'm sure there are some leaders seeing materials published about themselves who will think twice about how candidly they will speak to us on future occasions. >> so what's happening about the chief leaker, julianna, who appeared on the guardian website today? it will be ten days before any action can be taken about the remarkably coincidental extradition bid against him from sweden. in case he disappears from the scene, he says, he's past the rest of the material to thousands of other people. john simpson, bbc news. >> the bbc's aaron mckenzie is in washington and he says the wikileaks revelation reflected the special relationship between t

navy because they gave british to the press. the treaty didn't do it that issue at all. that was another of theicular ce particular charges that were laid against it.y but i would say that nine tenthn at least to those who ran out to readest and burn john jay either haven't read the treaty or othet top line by line through it.y i they just hated the idea that we were signing any kind of treaty with written. >> it has become my impression that in the time of thee o revolution could be there was a colony that was a hotbed of royal listen, it was new york.oi and the question i'd like to address is how did john jay,id coming from new york, deal with this? he obviously somehow made his peace with the people of new affect york. how did that affect him? how did he affect new york after the revolution?lls t >> okay, unfortunately we don't have any opinion polls for the 18th century. so it's a little difficult to or quantify, you know, revolutionary sentiment orny ori loyalist sentiment colony by colony or city by city. but most folks wh

i feel completely british because i belong to a generation of home serving was a british -- for whom serving was an entirely british thing to do. i feel entirely british, but i did not know england very well. i have been learning ever since. >> winded to serve in parliament as a member of the house of commons? >> i was elected, the third youngest, at the age of 29 in 1979. i served for seven years before resigning my seat between elections to take a job in television and doing what you do now. my job bombed to >> why did it -- belong? but not so well, i may say. my job bombed. >> why did bomb? >> in british television, you need to be a little bit of a and all of those people who anybody have heard of it that description. they may be bright, i was bright enough. they may be articulate,i was articulate enough and bright and tough, but there is something memorable about them. i let my program to an early grave. >> larry king has been on our television screens for years and is about to beat retired, he is about to be replaced by pierce morgan. >> that is what appears is going to do. prof

the british had this thing to just carry-on. >> mrs.hatcher was more popular than in the nine states. what about that? >> [unintelligible] >> what about the current excitement about the sweating? they expect a billion pounds to come to the city. >> i wonder. the government is cutting back and wonder if they will have a more modest wedding. i am not sure that the country is in the mood for something very extravagant. >> what do your constituents think of loyalty? >> they have a lot of respect for the queen. she has been there for over half a century. the younger world is probably less respectful. [unintelligible] in the 21st century, does it encourage an egalitarian society? >> yue ran for leadership in your party and did not get it. any plans in the future to go back for any other job in great britain? >> i love the job i am doing. my campaign had been tested response all around the country. we want to meet the expectations. >> who is your favorite historical figure of all time? >> so many. family tanker. mily.s. -- fami-- >> we are out

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that the british people should be allowed to vote on whether they want to remain members of the european union john conte thanks very much for talking to r.t. now first of all tell me a bit about the e.u. referendum campaign is this is purely about getting our democratic right to have a vote because three leaders of promises that it was a labor party manifesto commitment by tony blair then gordon brown of course and then david cameron famously in oppositions gave a cast iron guarantee that he would have a referendum on the subject so once i realized it was vance i thought yeah hold on this is wrong and i do believe we've been denied our democratic right so that's why i'm involved in the you referendum company it would be costly to implementing a referendum on being in e.u. i mean the u.k. is already a member of the european union isn't it better just to let sleeping dogs lie yes he would be costly to leave but it's costly to be in it it's costing the british taxpayer forty eight million pound a day to be in the e.u. we've just given the island another seven billion pounds of our money sa

fight against british forces. very soon after the war in afghanistan, british citizens like these were seeing joining the insurgency. agencies have been working together to keep this from happening. there are still people slip into the camps and intelligence. >> , we will give you the latest headlines for you on bbc world this. the founder of wikileaks has been freed from prison on bail. julian assange will be electronically tagged and he will stay at the home of a friend. president obama has said the coalition forces are disrupting, dismantling, and defeating al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan. now, the world's two most heavily populated countries, china and india, have agreed to an ambitious trade target of $100 billion per year by 2015. there also addressing the trade imbalance is currently in the favor of the chinese. they also signed a deal on green technology and they agreed to resolve their long-running border dispute. we have a report from delhi. >> india ruled out the red carpet for their chinese visito

line and the british people are waking up to this in the british people are saying no we can't afford we can't pay we won't pay that's what the student protests are about and we're going to see more protests too in this winter of discontent because ordinary folk who say why should we lose forty thousand police officers why should public sector workers be losing their jobs why should meal on wheels on wheels be cut why should help for the elderly why should the arts budget because why should we not have enough money in our coffers but we certainly can find seven billion pounds there'd be no need for these cuts what's the economists argue if we weren't in the year so there'll be no need for the students to be protesting and that's what needs to be discussed and we are seeing lots of protests they started off in continental europe and they've now undoubtedly spreads the k. do you see this as the sort of beginning of the end of the e.u. i certainly think the euro is crashing and burning our belief portugal will go spain were dollars in spending just true three weeks ago to do a lot of rad

we are not going to import any british goods. when your merchants start complaining then you will change these laws that are making a so unhappy. the trick was that these agreements had to be universal in order to be successful. so by 1770 new york city and philadelphia had gotten their legal tea imports down to about zero. that's not to said they were still drinking tea. it is just that they were drinking smuggled tea from the dutch, danish, the german principalities. so in boston all smugglers were doing some of the tea importing plenty of legal team was still entering the the market. when the nonimportation agreement collapsed in the summer of 1770 many of the radical patriots blamed boston for failing to keep up its end of the bargain. these resentments were still lingering. now under the tea act of 1773 passed by parliament the east india company received a tax break on t shipped to america. now there would have the ability to ship its t directly to america rather than go through a british or american merchant house as s

and on programs like this you know the pros and cons of europe so that the british public can decide whether they want to be in the and i must stress i'm not and certainly this campaign isn't until european it's it is just saying let's have a vote let's have a democrat who are and i think democracy no matter what it costs it's a price worth paying but you say you're not telling people how to vote but surely the very fact that you want a referendum suggests that you're not happy with the status quo and therefore want out more or clearly clearly. the reason we want a referendum is because we want the british public to decide and i would i of course i personally will probably end up voting to come out but what i want more than that i don't want to have the big grownup debate about it i want the b.b.c. to fulfil its role to have both sides the argument properly discussed rather than just peddle as they have done for so many years the pro e.u. line we need to have an honest grown up debate who knows i might change i may change my views i may begin to think the forty eight million pound a

and the british people who follow british politics think that they're comparable.our president is like our prime minister. -- is not like our prime minister. you have two houses of your parliament and we have two of ours. no. our prime minister has much more power than your president. he has a complete power over the lower house of commons. and the house of lords has very limited power. it has no power over anything that costs money or raises money at all. it has no power in the revenue department. even the powers and the rest of legislation are only the power to delay. it can keep sending bills back that it does not like until a year has passed and then the parliament act can be invoked and it'll go through. our house of lords is not democratically elected. it is appointed. they are plans to reform that, and whether it comes about, no one knows. it has no real democratic legitimacy. it has expertise. it has not been set up to be an opposition to the house of commons. it often looks to us, british, looking to you, that you have two arms of government set up to oppo

british the stock. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with. the global financial headlines kaiser report. for the full story we've focused on the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with. more news today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. today. welcome back here with here is a look at the top stories former russian tycoon. is awaiting sentence after being convicted of embezzling oil and profits this is the second trial of the ex head of the oil giant hugo's was already in prison for tax evasion and fraud. moscow's freezing rain grounds hundreds of flights leaving thousands stranded frustrated passengers have reportedly been staging protests and even tried to break through passport control at one hundred. two years after israel's deadly offensive people in gaza are still struggling to cope with life under siege gazans say the blockade is not being eased and manage people can get basic necessary supplies. while next how bank of america's trying to buy its way out of being cold names and other financial big shots falls

i appreciate this. >> in august, gyan signed a deal worth $20 million for a british club. it was also keen in helping ghana to become the third african country to make the world cup. he would have gone further if he had scored a penalty against uruguay. this was enough to catch the eyes of the black hats. >> he is an individual player, he can do something different. he works hard, he plays hard, and he has a tremendous enthusiasm. i was originally engage to his overall enthusiasm to play up front for his own -- on his own. i've been chasing him now for two or three years but could never have enough money to buy him. >> gyan says it was his dream to play in the british premier league and has a lot to learn. >> some seasonal pictures from rome. below freezing temperatures have turned many of the city's landmark fountains into dice. snow and sleet is forecast to the capital. other parts of italy are feeling the brunt of the frosty weather with snowfall in the southern regions. this is a reflection of the new tensions in one of the world's pressure points, the recent military

so far, polls show that 60% of the british public, many more than who voted for mr. kamen and his partners in government -- mr. cameron and his partners in government, support it. that is a good sign. but then, the medicine has not been administered. it has been announced, but it has not been taken. we will have to see. just as likely, it will get through this. people will look at what is happening in ireland, in greece, spain, portugal, and italy, and say that it was not a -- that was it not our good fortune that we got a government just-in-time to steer us away from a sovereign debt crisis? and the liberal democrats can march on for another 10 years or 15 years in power. >> you went to school if mcgill university in china. >> i did. you were born here and now you're back here in great britain. is your kit american? >> he was born in the united states. >> i want you to define the difference between a canadian, a brit, and an american. >> the easiest way to address it is to say what it is that i admire most about the united states. tremendous optimism, a tremendous k

the british authorities, she is a spy at the heart of british politics. bbc news. >> still in the intelligence world, or not, egyptian suggestions that's the israeli intelligence was behind shark attacks is being dismissed by israeli intelligence as a " ludicrous and." -- of a " ludicrous and." an israeli spokesman has said that the egyptian minister must have seen "jaws" one to many times. for fans of the beatles, tomorrow is the anniversary of when john lennon was shot and killed outside his home. we have this. >> and john lennon first set foot in new york as a member of the beatles in 1964. >> ♪ help me >> he commented on the freedom he enjoyed in his new dwelling. >> i am just known on/off, but on known enough to get around, which is nice. >> but his peace was about to be shattered. >> on december 8, 1980, mark david chapman it shot john lennon. drummond was taken to the nearby roosevelt hospital. -- john lennon was taken to the nearby roosevelt hospital. >> i tried to massage the heart. we knew there was no way we could restore circulation. >> back i

but the british government overruled them because the treasury was dependent on revenue from the british slave traders. at the time there were only 25,000 sleeves of virginia. all of them had been shipped to the sugar islands of the caribbean to grow sugarcane. then add that i might have prevented most of all of this leaves here to sail home to africa and avoid the growth of slavery in america. in the next half century, he va mehdi appeals to end sleeve importations brought nothing but rejections by the three successive king george's by 1770, more africans crossed the of cleantech than europeans calf cash flow for albeit voluntarily and they grew almost eightfold to nearly 200,000. the slavery issue that our founding fathers inherited had grown in soluble. as henry himself lamented to re-export them now was impracticable. ironically, the increase in the slave population proved more of a burden to tobacco's planters. sleeves' couldn't speak english when they arrived. they were delivered. most of them were not skilled. slaves have fewer incentives to work than peace workers of north. and a

there is a planned to take a majority shareholding in british and other foreign firms. if they fail to lift targeted sanctions against the president and those close to him. >> we must read them the riot act. i say to them, this is only 51% we are taking. unless you remove sanctions, we will go 100%. >> outside of the conference call, the president is up for elections next year. >> we are ready. there is nothing to stop us. we don't want to know about it anymore. >> they're ready for the elections. they would like an inclusive government. >> the president has fired the starting pistol for an election campaign and his main aim will be to try to recover the lost ground from last time around. this is an unstoppable mission. for some people, that my start like a threat. >> the recent military buildup in north korea and china has raised such alarm over security that japan has announced a major reconfiguration of their defense forces. the government in tokyo described p'yongyang as a great source of instability. the chinese foreign ministry has a responded and they say that ch

policies because how far can the government cut in the way that the british government is and survive that trend of those pictures of russian rule round the world well the cuts really haven't hit yet tell us a little bit about how the cuts. well the fact britain's i think cut certainly in basic services whether it be cleaning and road sweeping utilities or local government spending people who really should suffer then we have. of course the government here to continue its privatization approach as gustaf for more money for the exchequer but there will be strikes again in all services here because of these because these cuts as profit is ation worked and it seems that they privatized hospitals and are failing their privatized rail system and they're failing they privatized education what they top up fees that game is failing privatization and the fatter era was a failure why don't they just realize that that has been a colossal failure as a coalition government right ready to try something else now maybe we'll all be just from britain making the news all around the world and even the a

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one to soak in a free flight wealthy british stock. market . can. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred global financial headlines kaiser report. claims . and. welcome back to our all star time to remind you we're talking about the prospects for the e.u. and the year. but before let's see what currency russians prefer to save their money in. two decades ago when the euro was conceived nobody expected it to go through anything like the current financial crisis now many wonder what the prospects are for the currency and the entire european experiment even they deal breaking up the currency zone has been mentioned with the euro viability question the currency is weakening the other center has asked russians which currency they prefer four to six percent of those polled say the russian ruble nineteen percent opt for several currency is eleven percent cited the euro and only a six percent us dollar that's the trust in ruble is growing while the euro's role is diminishing peter. john i'd like to go t

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prime minister david cameron focused on the state of the british economy. ed milliband challenge prime minister on forecasts. on monday, the obr the british economy on track and public- sector job losses to be lower than previously forecast. >> order, questions to the prime minister. >> >> this morning i returned from zurich, where i have been meeting decision makers, aiming to convince them of what a brilliant world cup england could host in 2018. on my return, i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others. in addition to my duties in the house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> may i give the prime minister glasgow's best wishes in the bid for england? in this house i shall have further such meetings today. >> can i thank the prime minister for that answer and can i give him best wishes and i mean that most sincerely. [laughter] >> prime minister, in a recent -- in a recent article, there are fees to the poll as it. prime minister it, acceptable for the business secretary to say one thing in the house and campaigning for votes in

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then on the premonitions questions, british prime mr. national captioning you national captioning institute] cable satellite corp. 2010] >> this week, our guest is john f. burns, london bureau chief of "the new york times." he joins us from the studios of westminster live, located across the thames river from the house of parliament. >> john burns, the last time we chatted, i ask you about a book, would you write your memoirs? >> i thought about it. there are a few agents in new york who can tell you that i am remiss. i came back from iraq after quite a few years a couple of years ago. i really did not relish the idea of the solitude of writing the book. i would have told you that when i was in iraq and afghanistan that i was relishing the assignment. i hated leaving. i had not anticipated was the difficulty of readjustment. coming off of a very big story, partly, it is because of the camaraderie, the exhilaration. but part of it, too, it is being in a place which is beyond, in some respects, the consciousness or imaginings of people, no

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would this british -- the swedish prosecutors demand an appeal against the decision?finally, we have heard that the swedes will not abide by the umpire's decision. they want to put mr. assange through get more trouble, more expensive, more hurdles. they clearly will not spare any expense but to keep mr. assange in jail. >> and there is another hitch. assange still need his growing list of well-heeleda=szz1k baco find a total of 200,000 pounds to pay the court a security against the possibility of him fleeing. his mother is one of the few people who have spoken to him in prison. >> it has been very difficult for him to help prepare a case. he has requested a computer so we can help research the case -- he can help research the case and that was denied. he has only allowed -- been allowed three visits and three phone calls. >> his lawyers need access to him so they can build a case against extradition to sweden. a hearing is expected in february in which they are likely to claim that the pursuit of him is politically motivated. but there also were there will be able --

to french companies yes and it's all right so british airport authority one of the first enterprises to be privatized by margaret thatcher it becomes controlled by private interests a lot of people are saying well the reason why there aren't enough plain d.i.i. serves and there is no ability to deal with this crisis because the private cheryl has effectively have bankrupted the b.a.a. so that is just working on a subsistence basis and isn't this one of the problems of privatisation is that you've got a and an entrenched oligarchs just skimming the cream off the top and leaving institutions like the airports not being able to function outside of an absolute very narrow set of you know climate conditions isn't this true basically after that they're being skimmed off the top or the in the coalition going to respond by saying oh but the pension funds are invested in these protests companies who are all in this together and which will suffer together and we should invest and i says through is because it hits all of our profits and those tensions that would be there oh you know we are the