by alistair cooke in beirut he's director and founder of the conflicts forum in new york we go to tony battering he is a research fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies and in london we cross to patrick seale he is a british journalist and author of the new book the struggle for arab independence all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want there are differences of opinion on this panel and i want my viewers to see it alister year in beirut just an hour or two hours ago we word came out that indeed hezbollah hezbollah sponsored by minister will has been appointed by the president of lebanon and will be confirmed in a matter of hours probably to well within twenty four hours on wednesday they're calling it the day of rage but this is all been done constitutionally hasn't. it hires and you're wrong to call the prime minister designate hezbollah person and fact least to. those who are not on the hariri list in tripoli and he's in march the port so he's an independent businessman you can't describe him. the nominee so i think it's

on what tony had to say here because i hear this all the time in the mainstream as well is it has been is the most powerful most popular because it has the most force at that it can use it it's an armed group here that all the time how do you reply to that. well look it is the biggest party in lebanon perhaps the only real party if it is not only the strongest force in lebanon because the state is weak it also has a very volatile program it represents the oppressed people of the south and the who suffered terribly from israel's constant invasions and incursions so it's not surprising that they feel very bitter about this now what's happened today i think is a very very encouraging thing this government is much more representative than it's be. it is an alliance of half the christian community with hezbollah which represents forty percent of lebanon's population as. look there hasn't been a census since nine hundred thirty two but most people would say the figure is close to forty percent so with half the christians been on druze the way over the fifty five percent well you say not true

very volatile region tony if i can go to you i mean we haven't talked about the u.n. tribunal at all and a lot of people say this is why hezbollah pulled the plug on the government because it doesn't want to face what it believes what many people in the international media say is an indictment that could be. followed up against the members of hezbollah for the assassination of the former prime minister so. do you think that what do you how do you reflect upon that this political crisis in this political process and the international dimension. yes i mean i mean that was what that was what i was mentioning earlier i mean alistair mentioned that this is the government now which hasn't been yet formed is somehow more representative but in the past government has. and everybody was represented and hezbollah had veto power in that government which is why i managed to topple it so it wasn't an issue of representation very clearly it was an issue about abrogating lebanon's protocol of cooperation with the special tribunal for lebanon which was funded under chapter seven of t

why it went to war in iraq won't get to see the prophet correspondence between former prime minister tony for american president george w. bush it's thought it might shed light on exactly why the u.k. got dragged into the invasion when one of the politicians whose party was in power at the time now gives his insight to r.t. . today i'm in london with jeremy corbyn who's a member of parliament with the labor party and also an antiwar campaigner we are here as tony blair appears before the chilcote inquiry for the second time jeremy cotton thanks very much for talking to r.t. now this as i've said is not the first time that blair is appearing before the iraq inquiry can you just remind us what happened last time while he was very nervous to begin with came into the room and was asked some questions of a moderately robust way about the evidence leading up to his decision to recommend the power might we know very few to rock and then the latter part of. it turned into the sort of tony blair lecture in defense of his policies on some what he calls humanitarian intervention and then went on to

ok tony and i have to go to you because it's been kind of turned into a two against one thing here is i want to give you a little bit more time here to get your position out right gentlemen the first part of the program we talked about domestic politics and what's going on in lebanon now let's kind of widen this out right now because it it lebanon is i know very important it's a very small country but it's a very important country in a very volatile region tony if i can go to you i mean we haven't talked about the u.n. tribunal at all and a lot of people say this is why hezbollah pulled the plug on the government because it doesn't want to face what it believes what many people in international media say is an indictment it could be. followed up against members of hezbollah off of the assassination of the former prime minister so. do you think that what do you how do you reflect upon that this political crisis in this political process and the international dimension. yes i mean i mean that was what that was what i was mentioning earlier i mean alistair mentioned that this is the gove

we are here as tony blair appears before the chilcote inquiry for the second time jeremy cope in talks very much for talking to r.t. now this as i've said is not the first time that blair is appearing before the iraq inquiry can you just remind us of what happened last time while he was very nervous to begin with came into the room and was asked some questions of a moderately robust way about the evidence leading up to his decision to recommend to parliament but we know very few to rock and then the latter part of the year it turned into a sort of tony blair lecture in defense of his policies on what he calls humanitarian intervention and then went on to warn the whole world about what he perceived to be the danger from iran and i thought the whole thing was a travesty because this is meant to be an inquiry looking into the absolute finite details of the decision to go to war with iraq and it turned into tony put it of course and i'm quite pleased that he's been recalled to the inquiry and i hope this time the inquiry shows its mettle goes through again with tony blair. the legal advic

tony blair was actually brought before the. international court in the hague and investigated the rest the world would have far more respect for the international process because the moment the most prominent people who have come before it have been. the attempts at arresting the president of sudan the current trial that's going on charles taylor from liberia and the pass process on milosevic and the situation in yugoslavia but the perpetrators of this war. iraq war are in the united states and in in europe and i think it would do an awful lot for the standing of this because there is a bit of a feeling around that ok you go off to big guys in small countries you won't go after big guys in big countries what do you think blair's legacy is and how do you think it will impact position of the u.k. in terms of the rest of the world well in politics it's quite possible to go from hero to zero and back again. blair became leader of the labor party in the one nine hundred ninety s. change the whole structure of the labor party and had

>> tony had his first play got picked up by him. they commissioned a second play on any subject and that became "anyone gems." -- "angels." it went beyond that. but it grew and grew and became this other epic. >> let us talk about the exhibit. this has gone from very long play to two plays, seven hours long in total, to hbo film, to an opera, and now it is an exhibit. what are we going to see here? is it just costumes? >> it is a collection, as you can see, in these images, that is his writing desk. that is the table he wrote the play. we have original wings, this is from a.c.t., beautiful production they did after broadway. and the pulitzer, his tony. it goes on and on. we need exhibition for those. this is magnificent prop for the two plays in san francisco. those are the original wings from the eureka production. it is incredible array of material. we worked closely with tony. >> is there enough stuff you would be in there for hours? >> you could easily be there for hours. there is audio, there is video, tons of material. you cou

tony blair walked in through the main entrance. it was two hours before the hearing started and there were a dozen protesters. at 9:30 he took his place at the witness table. foremost among the matters were the private letters mr. belair sent to george w. bush. what exactly had he committed britain to? >> what i was saying to president bush was simple. you can count on was -- count on us but here are the difficulties. i was persuading him to take a few radically different from any people in his administration. i was saying i will be with you in handling it this way. i will not push you down this path and back out with a gets too hot. because it will get hot politically. i did this because i believe in this. i thought it was the right thing to do, but all the time he was making promises to george bush the legality of an invasion was being questioned by his own attorney general. >> on -- no, but i was in the situation where he was giving this advice and there was a debate going on. >> he said he was uncomfortable with the language mr

tony blair and mr. christopher hitchens. hot back [applause] [applause] [applause] >> tony blair with the prime minister of the united kingdom from 1997 to 2007. among its many international rules today, he is the quartet representatives in the middle east, working with the u.n., the u.s., russia and e.u. to try and secure a lasting peace in the region. after leaving politics, mr. blair converted to catholicism and he launched to tony blair face foundation, a global initiative to promote respect and understanding among the world's major religions. many of us in this room have read his recent si memoir, a journey, my political life. christopher hitchens is a author, journalist and atheist. his regular "vanity fair" column as prolific speeches and essays are essential reading for anyone and everyone can learn about global affairs. christer has a number of best-selling books, too. obviously "god is not great," how religion poisons everything. as his recently published memoir, hitch 22. christopher was recently diagnosed with a

electors between tony blair and george bush. then take. the creative whiskey that has been buried in the south pole for more than 100 years but t. >> prosecutors have charged the former leader with misappropriation of funds from his 15-year rule which ended in 1986. he was obtained two days following his surprise return to haiti. a judge will decide if they should go ahead. we have the report. >> he is known as baby doc. he is no younger a young man. he is reminded of a darker past. he ruled haiti with an iron fist. he is accused of torturing and killing political opponents. he spent a quarter of a century and exile. he may finally face justice. he has been formally charged with corruption, theft, and other crimes. it will be reported by cuban rights groups across the world. his son returns now. >> if i look at the list of challenges that haiti faces today, there is still time to work for a political crisis it is still painfully slow. though some analysts say it has showing solidarity to the people. . markoff >> our correspondent joins us.

sanchez-corea iii, kevin wallace, tony lau, and robert wong. seats to expire august 18, 2013. before we nominate or whatever, there are a few new people. most of the people on here are people who reapplied or were reappointed. we got very few applications -- i believe we got a total of five -- and if you would like, maybe we could introduce those new people, or if you want to go one by one. >> why don't i say a little bit about what happened at the nomination committee? the nomination committee met just a week ago, a little over a week ago, and we were surprised that there was not very many public members -- in fact, there were no public members at the meeting, and we usually get a handful to a dozen people talking to us about the applicants and who applied and the merits of everybody. so what the commissioner -- what commissioner hechanova and i did -- we were the team at the meeting -- we looked at the applicant's and asked what the new applicants requested, and we looked to see if they fit into our categories and what seek would fit them. we

ladies and gentlemen, the national league championship series mvp, here is toni ross. -- tony ross. [applause] an important pick up midseason, late-season from the chicago cubs, he started four different post-season games for the giants, infielder. will the recovery once hunted for a double. travis ishikawa -- we saw this, but we never thought we would see a bunt later, but there it was in the clinching game, aubrey huff. [applause] how about this next giant -- so young to be the longest tenured member of the world championship giants, 2-0 in the postseason. he did not give up a run all post-season long. his cap is in cooperstown as we speak. starting pitcher, matt cain. [applause] this guy knows how to make an entrance. first world series, he hit a double. his first at bat, second, third, giants second baseman freddie sanchez. how about the giants' backup catcher, had a memorable home run against none other than roy holiday, eli white size. [applause] in game four, he hit a home run, and that pretty much did the rangers in. he is the capture of the giants. buster posey. [applause]

back at the inquishey, tony blair faces his -- inquiry, tony blair faces his toughest questions yet aboutoing to war. >> welcome to "bbc news." >> coming up later, pope benedict makes an appearance. and shock in the netherlands over pictures of a teenager tethered to a wall in a psychiatric hospital. >> the american congresswoman, gabrielle giffords, who was shot in the head outside a supermarket has been transferred to a rehabilitation center in texas. six people died in the attack two weeks ago. people lined the streets of tucson in arizona as she have driven to the airport. her am ambulance was. >> few thought she would leave this hospital so soon, less than two weeks since she was hot in the head. congresswoman gabrielle giffords departed to cheer crowds. her office had made the route public. inside the ambulance she was tearful and smiled when she heard them. from the ambulance, she was carried on to a waiting plane, a specially equipped medical flight. members of her family, a medical team and staff on board for the two-hour journey, on her way, her husband said, to the next phase o

so tony blair has admitted there isn't a giving up private assurance to george w. bush that he can count on us over iraq but refuses to make that correspondence public how significant is it that he's not there for i guess being fully open i think it is probably the main significance that's come out of the inquiry this week that the inquiry wanted to publish extracts of the correspondence between tony blair and george bush and some of the records of the conversations but the cabinet secretary here blocked it after consulting with blair it does come time to blair blair didn't try to hide behind the officials and what it does is to give blair the right to the ability to hear him to define what he said his own terms rather not actually seeing the very words that he used some of them have been reported some of them have been leaked to some extent it was confirmed today but it is very important we see exactly the terms in which tony blair made a commitment to george bush in the run up to the war and so john chilcot inquiry chairman has made that very clear that we need t

delaware, tom ross, the district of columbia, tony parker, robert cable, paul, sharon, john thrasher, linda, sue, guam, peter, donna, jesus torres, hawaii, proxy, thank you, jonah. i hope the next secretary does better with these names that i do. idaho, norm, illinois, richard

del concierne todo pinza paz, tony. >>> luego de la pausa hablamos con espinoza paz, hoy en noticias. hablaremos de expertos. ---restauran los fondos a un programa estatal para cuidado infantil que habia eliminado el ex- gobernador "arnold schwarzenegger".---extienden la fecha limite para que los estudiantes soliciten ayuda financiera para ir a la universidad.lo esperamos en noticias univision 14 a las 6. todo listo para la primera prin tax de espinoza paz en el auditorio de méxico. . >>> de verdad es un gran escenario tony viajó a la capital mexicana para entrevistar al artista cómo están las cosas allá . >>> tras de mi el auditorio nacional de méxico con capital kwi skwi dado para so mil para personas en sólo hora espinoza paz pisará te escenario pero antes habló con nosotros. >>> le llaman el cantautor del pueblo su ascenso meteórico en sólo tres años de carrera ha lanzado 5 discos recibido premios de la música y logró llenar el nokia de los Ángeles. ahora va por un nuevo récord el auditorio nacional espinoza paz, auditorio nacional qué se siente. >>> emoción, muchas cosas raras,

y tony nos cuenta todo. >>> así es, logró abarrotar el auditoria nacional de méxico. >>> le llaman elcapital mexicana y no cualquiera lo llena. ♪ >>> el pasado viernes espinoza paz lo logró, fuimos testigo de la euforia que provoca. ♪ >>> 10 mil personas corearon sus éxitos, quien nos permitió estar junto a él hasta en los ensayos, y esto nos dijo. >>> siento nervios, y cuando esté la gente a lo mejor siento mareos. >>> el concierto fue una oportunidad para la hermana menor de ana bárbara. >>> nerviosa? >>> claro, imagínate de presentarte aquí y con el gran espinoza. >>> y uni mi voz a la de espinoza. y fui en busca de la joven que ganó concurso de univisión que viajó desde texas. >>> qué tal la experiencia? >>> muy bonita. >>> pero dices... >>> fue un placer. >>> es que no había visto a su artista. y aquí tienen el esperado encuentro. >>> un momento mágico, la platica continuó en el elevador. >>> cómo te llamas? >>> diana cervin. >>> y no le perdió ni pie ni pisada. >>> sabes en el compromiso que estás? >>> no lo sé. >>> del hotel nos fuimos al auditorio. entramos a su camerino y así

. >> reporter: some of the accused mobsters have colorful nicknames like benny car wash, tony bagels and johnnie pizza. but agents also nabbed top members including the reputed head of new england's crime family, luigi manoccio, accused of collectioning protection payments from strip club owners. high ranking good morning bean known and colombo -- high ranking gambino and colombo associates were charged of hits on their own members. >> two were shot in a public