the short answer is the foreign office suppressed much of the intelligence coming out of the station in the us which is why off to the war the foreign office lost the power to distribute secret intelligence to that it went straight to the joint intelligence committee how much did the issue of the for the islands and that ownership feature in this policy were going to balance that certainly the british government was more concerned about human rights than it was about the fulcrums but that's the political level. prime minister callahan in the foreign office came up to try and sell him the idea of selling out the island those he said i'm not handing over two thousand britons to a bunch of bleeping fascists. and that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop them you see because the bureaucracy has its own way of doing things and so when a new government came in which is what they always do when officials the permanent officials whenever there's a new government they rush in to sell the new ministers the policies but the older and more experienced ministers have told to stuff it

prime minister callaghan when the foreign office came up to try and sell him the idea of selling out the island he said i'm not handing over two thousand britons to a bunch of bleeping fascists. i'm that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop them you see because the bureaucracy has its own way of doing things and so when a new government came in which is what they always do when officials the permanent officials whenever there's a new government they rush in to sell the new ministers the policies but the old old and more experienced ministers would tell to stuff it and that's what they did with the facts or government and they revived old plans to sell out the islands with a bunch of inexperienced ministers who didn't realise that the previous essence of smell that one and knew it was a bad one so they're essentially turning a blind eye to what was happening in argentina because they wanted to. that was the foreign office that's the permanent officials politicians were desperate to be conscious of human rights why did they want to set out there and is why do they want. the

that was the foreign office yes that's the permanent officials politicians were desperately conscious of human rights why did they want to set out the island is why did they want to. lease back the territory to argentina because of the conceit of the british public sector. and don't forget we're living that was an era when people thought the national health service was the envy of the world and they commonly thought of the british civil service as being a rolls royce service and the foreign office is by far the most conceited of them all and they said well more to politicians we know better. mag hastened to say that i was part of that mindset at the time i'm looking back on it this is what history is about it's. history isn't hindsight what the hell is it but yeah they were going islands were regarded as an inconvenience why was that when they see costly you know how trendy this country is and every charge is off in one direction at one time. you know off to being all for the empire and all the rest and it was all we all we must get rid of all traces of the empire to prove what a mode

tell us what's been learned if anything from the falklands war well they did learn one about the foreign office control foreign intelligence that was one. the other one they briefly learned was that if you're going to operate overseas british very very very poor at learning the lessons of anything the politicians if they can will draw the wrong conclusions from everything i'm glad got us involved in war after war after war beyond british capabilities we were put into whole bad so we did not have the combat power to do that we were put into hell memory did not have the combat power to do that one rages inveighing against this. not because of any censorship not because of any oppression or the fact that i will walk out of here and get beaten over the head for my opinions because very simply my opinions and my statements of fact will be ignored because they're too inconvenient. thank you. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe and the shadow is i'm approaching a whole different. in the early twenty f

much of the intelligence coming out of the station when the us which is why after the war the foreign office lost the power to distribute secret intelligence after that it went straight to the joint intelligence committee how much to the issue of the falkland islands and their ownership feature in this policy we're going to balance that

syria's top diplomat in london was summoned to the foreign office to be told the massacre was an evil and sickening crime , and threatened against robust action against syria if the regime does not cease its violence. >> being summoned to the foreign office is a well understood part of the diplomatic ritual, a way to express anger and urged better behavior. the trouble is, the syrian government has so far shown itself and death to almost all diplomacy and most government run the world are finding it difficult to agree on other options. >> so what are some of the options to increase pressure on the assad regime? some call for international military intervention. it is clear the major powers have no intention of getting drawn in. what about arming opposition groups? qatar and saudi arabia actively supporting, but other countries reject that approach. diplomacy has so far failed to end the bloodshed. the foreign secretary in moscow today is a blunt and leak in his assessment. the kofi annan cease-fire plan is the only hope for syria. >> the alternatives is a the kofi annan plan or ever i

>> i received messages from number 10, number 11, home office, foreign office. >> so you're talking about secretary of state, prime minister, -- >> and also people who worked in those offices as well. >> and politicians, how about them? >> like i said, there was very few labor politicians that sought commiseration. >> mr. blair, did he send you one? >> yes. >> probably not mr. brown? >> no. probably -- >> rebekah brooks' close relationship with politicians goes to the heart of this inquiry and media ethics. >> you passed on material evidence, call it what you will gained from your few dinners with gordon brown. you passed that on to tony blair. is that true or not? >> he suggested that, sir? >> in the same way you're not telling me your sources i will not tell you mine. >> ok. we'll play this game all day. i think your source may be john prescott, and it's not true. >> the questioning turned to rebekah brooks' contacts with the current prime minister, david cameron and the meeting with the murdoch family in greece in 2008. >> whose idea was it that mr. david cameron meet with the murdoche

and that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop the city because the bureaucracy has its own way of doing things you know how trendy this country is and every charge is off in one direction at one time and it's tedious as hell but it continues you know right now where we are on the. we're just commonwealth where we must stick to uncle. bleep. and you can see the full interview with the story and author are here but you know in about ten minutes here on our team. israel is taking new steps to shield itself from its arab neighbors meeting further isolation and having already walled off the palestinians the jewish state is now seeking to do the same with a lebanese artist probably your reports from israel while the israeli army says it is building this seven meter high cement wall between israel and lebanon to prevent firing from a ban on into northern israel now over the past year and a half there have been and number of incidents just last week a man crossed over the border with his two children from lebanon but a much more deadly example was last year when a number of people

but most diplomatic efforts go on behind the scenes, carried out by foreign service officers. "to the contrary" traveled to china and to the us training facility to learn how these women and men serve their country. >> do you just call -- >> we depend on the foreign service officers and they are the heart and soul of any embassy. they really represent the face of america and are really true ambassadors. >> mission, china, recently in the news when a chinese activist sought asylum. but visit the u.s. embassy in beijing on any typical work day and it's bustling for different reasons. nearly every day, 2,000 chinese citizens pass through the doors seeking visas to the united states. >> we had a million applications last year. we expect to have probably closer to 1.3 million this year but it's a vast untapped population in terms of folks who might be interested in going to study in the united states, might be going to vacation in the united states, might be going to do business in the united states. >> on average they spend over $6,000 per visit. renting rooms in a hotel, going to

maybe not personally, but with the foreign office. it would be their decision ultimately. what is the government's decision as to whether or not someone should be uninvited? >> buckingham palace is keen to stress, but this isn't a guest list that has been kwan you up by the queen this. guest list has been worked out very carefully in conjunction with the british foreign office, the british government. all sovereign leaders from around the world have been invited also. so, with no picking and choosing, that is really because the queen has always seen herself as stand ago part from any political or diplomatic row. so, on the advice of the government, everybody was invited, and there was no picking and choosing. buckingham palace has been very keen to stress that. >> ok, thank you very much indeed. i'm going to take you to athens live, because greece's newly sworn-in parliament, remember those pictures from the presidential palace only yesterday, as they were all taking the oath of office? well, the parliament is filled now, so an election will be called. that's likely to be

the dirty war prime minister calla in the foreign office to try and sell the idea of selling out the island those he said. to a bunch of bleeping fascists. and that was the foreign office told but that didn't stop because the bureaucracy has its own way of doing things you know how trendy this country is and every charge is off in one direction at that time the big thing was oh well we must share our imperial past and then everyone is going to like us again. and you can see the full interview with the historian and author hubert in five minutes here on t but for now look i promise i'm going to go to the arena now i live in the aussie business that's good to see you as usual you don't have very good news for me i understand some unemployment rates in europe suddenly making the news what can you tell us which country is the worst hire henri i know i don't really have many positive news talk about but when it comes to the worst that's actually spain but that's not the latest news the latest news that came out was in fact about it's silly and that employment right there that's well for y

speaker, the foreign office, we're a bit per teshed about this. they started briefing, and said, all the chip the on one card, it turned out not to be the eighth, it was an error of judgment and not what was advised. you can tell whether he was advised to see perfect hollande. i think we can all concur after today, the prime minister has a habit of shooting from the hip. i think that's certainly true. the reality is, the reason why we didn't get the conclusions of this summit and the action we needed is that the international community is divided, not united as the prime minister said. it's divided between those who believe we must have a decisive shift toward growth, president obama now joined by president hollande, and those who believe the answer lies in more of the same. the german chancellor and this prime minister. for two years he's been the high priest of austerity. he's been telling the world that austerity alone is the answer. now, of course the recognition has dawned that it isn't working. he finds himself on the wrong side of the argum

. >> assistant secretary hammer explained that foreign service officers are also called diplomats. they're assigned to work at one of the more than 250 embassies, consulates, or diplomatic missions the u.s. maintains in foreign countries. what's the difference between an embassy, consulate, and a mission? >> they all seem to do the same kinds of things, but an embassy usually is in the capital of that country. it's our main representation to a foreign country. consulates are usually in the smaller cities. with regards to missions, missions are more sort of delegations that we have to a particular international organization. for example, in geneva, where there are a lot of u.n. agencies represented, we have what is called a mission. >> what's the role of the ambassador? >> as u.s. ambassador, that person is the representative of the country as the highest-ranking u.s. authority in the country that they are serving. so it really is quite an important job with tremendous responsibility. >> besides working with governments around the world, foreign service officers also help americans t

. >> in london, the foreign office has confirmed the arrest and says that it is in touch with officials in the central african republic. the british government says there are credible reports of periodic incursions into the southeastern areas of the area by the lord's resistance army. also detained has been his boss, and 10 local employees of the company. the men have appeared in court this week, but as yet, no formal charges have been laid by the authorities. >> at it is a tiny electronic chip roughly the size of a match head but it could change the life of a blind person. once implanted, the device helps them regain some measure of useful vision tend to be met with the first patients in england to receive this kind of implant. -- once implanted, the device helped them regain some measure of useful vision. we met with one of the first patients in england to receive this kind of implant. >> to six weeks ago, this man was totally blind. now, he can perceive light. this box powerses implant, but it is what is under his scalp which is amazing. -- this box power is his implant. the cit is j

. >> i received some indirect messages from number 10, no. 11, home office, foreign office. >> tony blair? >> yes. >> mr. gramm? >> no. >> it has been reported in relation to mr. cameron that you receive the message of support along the lines, "keep your head up." >> i do not think it was those exact words, but along those lines. >> did you also receive a message along the lines, "sorry i could not have been as loyal to you as i have been, but mr. millard and had me on the run." or words to that effect. >> similar, but not directly. >> she denied that she and mr. cameron texting each other up to a dozen times a day, which would have been a relief to downing street, but not this. >> occasionally he would sign them off lol, lots of love, intel i told him it meant laugh out loud, and then he did not sign off that way anymore. >> that is mildly embarrassing. this is politically troublesome. the inquiry heard how jeremy hunt and his office had asked news international to guide the government's position over phone hacking. counsel read from an e-mail mrs. brooks had received from news corp. exe

i have served a total of 48 months in the middle east as both a combat arms officer and a foreign officer. throughout my career, i have leveraged my arabic language training to build partnerships as a tactical, operational, and strategic levels with our partners in the region. i have studied arabic in a variety of venues to include the foreign field service, in my alma matter washington university in st. louis. however, it was a semester i spent in cairo as a fellow where i laid the groundwork for a high degree of spoken arabic proficiency. i first put my language skills to work in 2003 when i served with the third armored cavalry regimen. understood the valuable role with local iraqi officials and placed me in charge of the government support team. the rapport i built in cities such as fallujah saved american and iraqi lives and helped my unit develop the successful counterinsurgency strategy. in 2004, i took command of a tank company in the third armored cavalry and trained my men for a second tour beginning in april 2005. because i could speak arabic partnered with an iraqi army of bat

i received some indirect messages from number 10, number 11, foreign office. >> you're talking about secretarys of state, prime minister. >> and also people who worked in those offices as well. >> labour politicians, how about them? >> like i say, there was very few labour politicians. mr. blair, did he send you one? >> yes. >> probably want mr. blair? >> no. probably getting the bunting out. >> and it has been reported in relation to mr. cameron that whonse whether it's true, that you received a message of support along the lines, keep your head up. >> from? >> from mr. cameron indirectly? >> yes, i did, along those lines. it was more, i don't think they were the exact words, but along those lines. >> is the gist right at least? >> yes. but it wasn't a direct text. >> did you also receive a message along these lines, sorry, i could not have been as loyal to you as i have been, but i have had on the run, or words to that effect. >> again, very indirectly. >> broadly speaking, that message was submitted to you? do you happen to know how these messages do enter the public domain? >> we

in the foreign office there's one -- there's an old building one area so thers just out and the same is true in minister of justice. and i was thinking about this, when if there'd ever been a moment where they acted inappropriately, then somebody else in this very open environment close ring of confidentiality, but very open environment itself would have told me, the private secretary, a press officer. he just would have found out immediately. >> okay. at pekts now mr. straw, of your own individual practice is paragraph 30 of your statement following our page 02550. will you explain in paragraph 30 you've known a number of the senior journalist, editors for years. we each have each other's contact numbers. the correspondents would often call for issues how forthcoming i was would depend on a number of factors. understanding the underlying reasons for that. can i ask you please about mr. day coe who you identify. you've known him since university many the late 1960s. and but since then, how frequently do you meet him? >> not that often. as i say it's a respectful acquaintship. it's no