we all know what tony blair wants. yes, he doesn't wa nt tony blair wants.inancial times, we shouldn't really, but we should feel sorry for the americans because of tropical storm hobby, but we shouldn't feel sorry that their petrol will go up a few cents. a third of oil refineries are currently out of action because they are mainly centred in texas. there is a huge one that will be shut for two weeks, so it will be a huge knock—on effect. they won't go for emergency stocks hit, but i remember in 2000, when there was a petrol crisis in this country, and how close this country came to anarchy because we could not drive around where we wanted to on demand. that happened in america... we might need to rethink our attitude to cars. european traders are scrambling to send more gasoline, andl scrambling to send more gasoline, and i have booked 45 enormous ships to send it out there. and they are saying this is the worst event since hurricane katrina. i doubt the price will soar too much for them from such a low level anyway, but they do like to fill up as much as

the headlines well review some of the banking baloney when azeris a get out of jail free card for tony blair again the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first there's often violent uprisings in the east end of the british capital continue to protest the perceived injustice of the death of twenty year old black father russian charles at the hands of metropolitan police the city of london has been eagerly awaiting today's results from weapons dealer be a systems it's a taxpayer funded arms company tendering for contracts with london's police and the way the bailed out city of london's favorite channels have covered be systems goes something like this area searching for be a systems after the company find a three billion dollar deal with saudi arabia to supply thirty more hawk jets the deal which includes related to the poor and services along with the jets will reportedly help saudi arabian pilots learn to fly the euro fighter typhoon jet the country already ordered from the company more and more that b.a. systems contract meant for ordinary arabs in a moment but mainstream

labor party leader in recent times since tony blair was never in mandelson's plan it also means that we have moved on quite roundly from the new labor agenda to. very clear left wing agenda he can write the ticket now and he if you place this right in a funk correct about thinking this could be another general election soon if he can portray himself as the reasonable left leaning likable prime minister and waiting. the toys better watch out. thank you. hope you enjoyed that requested favorite show from the latest season of going underground will be back with another great season of going underground on saturday the second of september but till then keep in touch by social media will still be reading lol your communication with the team. playing in one million people. killed people even. now no one's going to wait a few that he's running and that's. not . yes we had book a good little place called the day police a key to keep. the lights out. so my mother won't get in you know who are going to commit there we're going to write. so. much for the ball club with such coffee i did open a

labor party leader in recent times since tony blair was never in mandelson's plan it also means that we have moved on quite roundly from the new labor agenda to. very clear left wing agenda he can write the ticket now and he if you place this right in a funk correct about thinking this could be another general election soon if he can portray himself as the reasonable left leaning likable prime minister and waiting. the. big thank you. hope you enjoyed that requested favorite from the latest season going on the ground will be back with another great season going on saturday the second of september but till then keep in touch by social media will still be reading lol your communication with the team. are already. there. here's what people have been saying about rejecting. the only show i go out of my way to. really packed a punch. john oliver a party america. we are apparently better than. to see people you've never heard of. jack tonight president of the world bank. sent us an email. breaking you suffer through a four day manhunt police dead the terrorist who carried out a. man was ki

over the iraq war yes folks we're talking about whether tony blair will ever end up in court as a result of calling that war and it looks like he won't is going to get out of jail free card here some specifics here the justice and senior judge mr justice who's the dismissed application of that it's not about whether he did it or not they just say no point in in part pressing this case because it's not going to go anywhere tens of millions of injured or dreading it's only millions. displace them ok i wasn't listening all that i was listening jerry corbin of course was always against the iraq war once tony blair to face justice he was under surveillance himself and i don't know what he's going to think of this story you got from the guardian media group newspaper jeremy called we might be even slightly surprised faces a bit of the observer which supported the iraq war by the way but anyway it. got a bit of a iraq war role today god is taking a different approach a got rid of it and there's some people do say that of compound the undercover police spied on more than a thousand political gro

both sides promised to accept the outcome, including tony blair and paddy ashton.e the other way, it is absurd. thinking one last time about what might happen next, i have talked about unpredictability. it is clear that the conservatives are deeply split on the european issue. as split as it's ever been. there are people in it who have said, openly, i would be betraying my principles if i didn't make it clear that country comes before party. one mp has said that, if the hard brexit option is pursued by her own government, she would leave the tory party. this could split your party? i hope all politicians would ultimately put country before party. if not, they need to ask some hard questions. all the parties were split by the referendum. the majority of conservative mps voted remain, and a minority voted leave. since the referendum, the mps who voted remain have behaved with exemplary democratic respect. they did not try to argue, they accepted the outcome. they said, if this is the instruction from the british people, let's try to make it successful. there is a leg

they said it was more like what tony blair was talking about here just a week or two back, where he wasing let's get rid of the brexit. let stand pat. that might not be workable, but bour that switched over. andeported in the press certainly my inference on this, it does look like the u.k. government is not really well prepared for this. head as i seeg my that here you have the prime japaner headed over to after abe has made it really clear that no, no, he wants to negotiate with the european union first. there may be a strategy behind it. i don't see it. i don't feel it. so i am hopeful that things will quiet down. , i hopeful that, in my case will like to see tony blair's idea come all the way through. intermediaten step, it would cause me to change my thinking a little bit. if you said we are going to string it out over four years. we don't want disruption that takes longer than that. strong a threat once it is out of the european is in the european union. so i take that into account. mark: dan, thanks for your time today. great to have you on is always. ahead, we are going to get mo

there is a whole and of history now resting on this, the legacies ofjohn major and tony blair and thefriday agreement and all of the rest of it. if they had gone down, or were considering going down the road of a ha rd considering going down the road of a hard border and all the checkpoints that some of us remember driving through, which were awful, then you would be quite fearful of the direction of travel. the difficulty is the and practicality of this was the technology means you could drive a lorry through and you could sweep it with a radar gun and know what products were in there and whether ever thing was being properly declared. but then you have got to a nswer declared. but then you have got to answer that with free movements, which is supposed to end for the uk. there is talk of free movement within the island of ireland. i don't agree third any senior conservative politicians seriously talk about the possibility of there having to be a land border. this would appear to confirm that that is the case. we look forward to the detail of that. what we don't have is the detail of

the grief at the loss of a woman that tony blair, prime minister ofjust four months, a woman that tonyibed as the people's princess. and then anger, initially directed at the paparazzi and the press, and then directed towards the monarchy itself. here is our royal correspondent, nicholas whittle. paris, in the early moments of the 31st of august, 1997. the car carrying diana, princess of wales, has crashed in an underpass. the driver, and her companion, dodi fayed, are dead. diana has suffered serious internal injuries. by the time she reached hospital, she'd suffered several heart attacks. at aam, paris time, diana is declared dead. this is bbc television from london. a short while ago, buckingham palace confirmed the death of diana, princess of wales. the princess died following a car accident... the first flowers are placed at the palace gates. in the hours and days that were to follow, many thousands of people added their tributes. we are today a nation in britain in a state of shock. at balmoral, the royal family go to church. among them are 15—year—old william and 12—year—old har

because if you name your departure date as tony blair and david cameron can tell you, there is a dangere a lame duck. whether that means that she really will lead the tory party into the 2022 election i am not too sure. and i think what she was trying to do was chart this very difficult course between not doing a tony blair and david cameron, naming that state but equally not getting into the thatcher territory, who famously said before the 1987 election that she would go on and on and on. it is a perilous and difficult path and we saw that today. we haven't had this out in public for long, she said it to journalists a bit earlier than it was put into the public domain, how has it gone down? as we know the brexiteers, peter bone very happy if she takes the tories into the 2022 election but one grandee told me the party was agreed on two things, no general election for the next five years and anything that causes that is a bad thing and must be avoided but one that election comes, theresa may must not lead the tory party. this person said to me, there is disagreement about when she shoul

firmly urged the queen to come to london. >> tony blair had to basically say, look at your people.hose flowers outside of kensington palace. think about this and say something appropriate. so she did. >> first, i want to pay tribute to diana myself. she was an exceptional and gifted human being. in good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and love, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. >> it was a pivotal moment for not only the monarchy but the entire uk. soon the funeral followed. again, the world watched. the most touching moment for me at least and i think for millions of people was that card that said mummy. >> yeah. it was heartbreaking, wasn't it? written by william and placed on top of the coffin. and that sight of william and harry walking behind the gun carriage was incredibly moving. and people who never knew her were sobbing their hearts out. it told you something about diana that she reached out to ordinary people in a unique way. >> the young princes, william and harry, still remember that day, of course. and the pain of losing their moth

, the tony blair dry where everyone was going to university.ttitude. they wonder if they should go straight to the work placem strikes me that there are more options. when i was leaving university, apprenticeships were a dirty word. that wasn't seen as something you should do. more firms say they are going to offer them now. they say, we can train you to do what you want. i think it is fantastic that people have that choice. i was the first person in my family to go to university, the thought of people being put off by the financial element is really upsetting. for the a-level students who are going through these exams for the first time, we have the first set of results. for them it means more choice. if there are fewer places available, if the universities are lowering their requirements for getting in, it gives them a better choice and more chance of getting in. clearing has been very significant this year. it is very good for those students. i worry about people having the choice. but as long as the choice is there that is fantastic. this i

what followed were a mixture of emotions from the shock at losing the woman described by tony blair asin paris. then the anger transferred onto the royal family itself and on to the queen. it was a remarkable week. let‘s have a look back at how it was covered 20 years ago. we are getting reports that diana, princess of wales has been badly injured ina princess of wales has been badly injured in a car crash in france. short while ago, buckingham palace confirmed the death of diana, princess of wales. the princess died following a car accident in paris. she was 36. they regarded her as one of the people. she was the people‘s princess. and that‘s how she will stay, how she will remain. in our hearts and in our memories, for ever. at 2:20 this afternoon, the one basic thing people in the crowds here had been calling for all week took place. the queen came back to buckingham palace. as the queen and the duke of edinburgh came out to meet the crowds soon afterwards, it must have been one of the most difficult moments of her entire reign. silence from the mourners watching, the million who ha

some headlines well review some of the banking baloney when azeris a get out of jail free card for tony blair again the civil war coming up in today's going underground but first there's often violent uprisings in the east end of the british capital continue to protest the perceived injustice of the death of twenty year old black father rush on charles at the hands of metropolitan police the city of london has been eagerly awaiting today's results from weapons dealer be a systems it's a taxpayer funded arms company tendering for contracts with london's police and the way the bailed out city of london's favorite channels have covered be a systems goes something like this area searching for b.a.'s this stems after the company find out three billion dollar deal with saudi arabia to supply thirty more hawk jets the deal which includes related to the poor and services along with the jets will reportedly help saudi arabian pilots learn to fly the.

then the british prime minister tony blair described as being. the people's princess. prince charles and lady diana spencer announced their engagement. but i i'm marries the cheeses. being brave enough to take me on. and i suppose in love. i was just nineteen fisheye aristocrat was thrust into the limelight. months later she would marry the activist during. she quickly became an international icon. that might that shin and for our extensive charity walk. but her life was cut short at the young age of thirty six. the princess of wales died in a car crash in a parisian tunnel. a mercedes was speeding to evade the paparazzi. and the drive its blood alcohol levels over the legal limit. lady di's boyfriend and that drive by with pronounced dead at the sight. she would die from her injuries alice later. a family tragedy for us on this then aged twelve and fifteen. that an event that also shocked the world. one million people descended on the streets of london to pay their respects. and millions more watched on television. i don't see the role from that's the realize how much

be prosecuted for any of these war crimes or past crimes don't be silly that never happens ask tony blair just this week the high court in the u.k. blocked the prosecution of the former prime minister for his role in the war crimes in iraq you know it's really not fair it takes a white guy five times as long to get convicted of as many war crimes as black guys we wise guys are discriminated against. we are. in fact since the inception of the international criminal court more than a decade ago only africans have been brought to trial why guys gender. pretty damn quick right but i was comedy shows coming up in seattle and washington d.c. just email redacted tonight at r.t. america dot tv pretty tales and guess what did i back. up. i'm tom hartman and i'll give you what the mainstream media can't so big picture we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture of. what you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put the focus is your wife or the dog why did they learn that. what's your biggest fear a little bit on the hay ride when the last medical board you say if

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be prosecuted for any of these war crimes or past crimes don't be silly that never happens ask tony blair just this week the high court in the u.k. blocked the prosecution of the former prime minister for his role in the war crimes in iraq you know it's really not fair it takes a white guy five times as long to get convicted of as many war crimes as black guys we wise guys are discriminated against. we are. in fact since the inception of the international criminal court more than a decade ago only africans have been brought to trial why guys gender are. pretty damn quick right but i am a comedy shows coming up in seattle and washington d.c. just email redacted tonight or to america dot tv pretty tales and guess what did i back. kaiser for my guide to financial survival this is a device used by professional scallywags to earn money. that's right these hedge funds are simply not accountable and we're just. totally destabilize the global economy you need to protect yourself and get in for god skies are filled. with this manufactured consent instinctive public wells. when the room in closest

over all that was an overwhelming feeling of greece, grief at the loss of a woman who tony blair, you'dny blair, you'd only been in office for four months, described as the people's princess. this report from nicholas witchell. the news had come in the early hours of the morning. diana, princess of wales had been involved in a serious car accident in paris. as the world waited for news, the then british ambassador to france, lord michaeljay, was at the hospital with france's interior minister, jean—pierre chevenement. as time moved on, it became clear it was more serious than we thought, and then chevenement was taken out by one of the nurses and he came back in tears, really. he came up to me and said, "i'm afraid she's dead." later in the day, the prince of wales arrived at the hospital to bring diana's body back to britain. it had been charles who'd had to break the news to william and harry that their mother had been killed. 20 years on, lord jay recalls the conversations with charles very clearly. he was clearly deeply moved by what had happened and talked a little bit about what i

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to the rest of the world that they have impunity with so recent rulings in british courts that tony blair could not be put on trial for war crimes could not be put on trial for wars of aggression the international criminal court consistently refused to touch anyone from from from europe or north america for their crimes and we're we've seen also the collapse of trials against british army soldiers and overturned similar to the recent case in the us overturning of sentences in convictions of british soldiers for war crimes so i think this is really the kind of. like i say a broad a broad trajectory of. proving to the world showing to the world that british us forces have impunity and them and that extends to their mercenaries as well unless it was really interesting this trial in the us is it was from two thousand and seven when the u.s. forced on the iraqi government an agreement that their troops and their mercenaries would not have would not be able to be tried in iraqi courts so they had to make some semblance of some kind of show that they were going to try soldiers in u.s. courts and

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it's got shades of tony blair in 2003 when the iraq war, he was under a lot of pressure and he did whatrelatives of those who had been killed or injured in the iraq war to try and show his sorrow about what had happened. there is a feeling there isa happened. there is a feeling there is a little bit of that and what theresa may was planning to do and she has to go through that because there is no doubt this conference will set the tone for ever she goes next. isn't this a statement of the obvious? obviously she's going to have to apologise, she really messed up have to apologise, she really messed up and she cannot keep pulling the wool over this, i know she keeps going on walking holidays, i note that you went on one. i don't know what exciting... but you know... for goodness' sake, this is october, what will happen between now and october? after the election people said she could maybe only last a few days, she is still there. she will last a feud months. she's only there because they want to be there, nobody who wants the wants to take over the entry that she has at the moment. they

but you know we've been here before we hear tony blair talking about forty minutes thank you for it and that's where we are but russia and china have both made i think a terrible mistake and agreeing to these sanctions now russia and china both recognize that north korea is being needlessly provocative here but they also recognize that they have a very good reason for wanting a strategic deterrent with the united states massing in conducting constant war games on north korea's borders we have did that down this path before with iran at the u.s. you sanctions against iran to punish them for years russia is now being sanctioned for the third time the united states has in iraq you know this because going to these sanctions is china and russia iran north korea's borders they have to be very very careful they're just going to have one peaceful solution to the north korean crisis. that will stop provocative exercises constantly on north korea's border anybody who knows my son can sign up so he's saying and he has nuclear program i mean we're going to have security right security there and her

. ♪ good-bye england's rose ♪ ♪ may you ever grow in our hearts ♪ >> reporter: tony blair was right topeople's princess. 20 years later she still is. ♪ your candle's burned out long before your legend ever will ♪ >> reporter: cynthia mcfadden, nbc news, new york. >> tragic loss still impacting the world 20 years later. >>> we appreciate you that is "nightly news" for this thursday night. i'm lester holt. and for all of us at nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. nbc news, thank you for watching and good night. >> three preseason games in the books. the starters have done their work to prep for a new season and week one tonight one more look at a group of hungry young men trying to make lasting impressions for one of the final 53 roster spots

tony blair insists that weapons of mass destruction will eventually be found in iraq.o see them... audience shouts back: nice! the other thing you are doing is come dancing is coming back? it's going to be pro am come dancing! so professional dancers...? professional dancing with celebrities learning how to dance. my headmaster said, i can't give you a very good report because you've had so little schooling. i said don't worry, sir, i'm going into a business where they go by what they see you can do. not by what you've done. so he said, what business is that? i said, show business, sir. and he went, well lord help you! and that was it. applause we're joined by arlene phillips who — of course — worked with sir bruce on strictly come dancing and by his friend the actor christopher biggins. can i start with you, arlene, people talked about a triple threat, somebody who can sing, dance, he could do everything, sing, dance, tell jokes, present, how did he do it? i think he is a consummate showman. he started when he was 11 years old, but before that he was doing his thing,

concentrating on that, tony blair, an opponent of yours who believes britain is better off inside thethey actually don't want to leave on the terms set out. there has to be some way, either through parliament or an election, possibly another referendum, in which people are able to express their view. as a democrat, who sees this as fundamentally about an argument in the uk, would you agree? there is no evidence that what he has said has happened. we have had a general election... the democratic case general election... the democratic case for letting the british people, either in a parliamentary vote or in a direct referendum, have a say when the outline of the deal is done? the only justification for another referendum would be if it were on a different question. if there were substantively different deals from the one that they've read cameron negotiated in february last year. if that were to happen, if a looser arrangement... that would be different. but you know as well as i that that is not happening. it is quite surprising it hasn't happened. i expected that, but i don't know wh

tony blair insists that weapons of mass destruction will eventually be found in iraq.e nice to see them, to see them... nice! on havel it would be nice to see them, to see them... nice! on have i got news for you he reminded tv what a pro he was. he had a regret, it was not making it in america. in films, and his main love, as a song and dance man. this could save the whole show. just do as i do. it'll be like the generation game, all right? you're never quite prepared for it in the end, are you? he was such a remarkable, iconic figure. in all of television history in this country, thatis television history in this country, that is the kind of man we're talking about. sir bruce forsyth. he first appeared on the bbc in 70 yea rs first appeared on the bbc in 70 years later,... sir bruce forsyth first appeared on the bbc in 1939. 70 years later, he was still there, still the king of saturday night. sir bruce forsyth who has died today at the age of 89. david sillito, our arts correspondent is with me now. a career of more than 70 years, he really will have his place in te

who later on this day 20 years ago the new prime minister, who had been in office forfour months, tony blairabout a legacy here, it's summed up as william and harry. indeed, simon mcquoid at kensington palace and hugh schofield in paris —— simon mccoy. a special court in pakistan has cleared five men of conspiring to murder the former prime minister benazir bhutto, after a trial lasting nine years. she was assassinated shortly after returning to pakistan from a self—imposed exile ten years ago. two senior police officers were convicted of negligence in failing to prevent her killing. the former pakistani president, pervez musharraf, who's also facing murder charges, was declared a fugitive for his failure to attend the trial. the online gambling company 888 has been fined a record £7.8 million forfailing to protect vulnerable customers. the gambling commission found that more than 7000 customers, despite opting out of playing, were still able to access their accounts. it says there were "significant flaws" in the firm's procedures to protect people from gambling—related harm. today is the de

or they love your work for something like this as a tony blair you decided to pick. somebody assassinate him with a he was draped in the u.s. flag stores and straight with a missile through his whole don't know how true that and came out the other way such as right or whether what he did we have a well i exactly what he also has in the back of his head when he was in ninety seven almost a two thousand and six seven level thinking disappeared i didn't disappear he's come back again i think he's actually thinking he's missing it and he wants to he'd like to be able to make an order to bombs you know and i think this new york sound machine staying at home go from north korea. on we all know it was over graham said you revive him he's on just after a. plate because he would be but you put the fear of armageddon is through your work yeah i think it will of done that sort of idea that bankers scum of the song scum scum scum it's not about bankers but we'll talk about that we haven't been doing a lot of this you're showing not to the big multinational force of your companie

country for years and years that working class people that poor people really just don't matter tony blair introduced private public partnership and social history to what the doesn't seem so much debate about that partnership in response to the ground for bringing the private sector into something so important as how is it in without him why there's no point spending money on the n.h.s. or social justice or criminal justice if you don't have a roof over your had none of this works without there were visits by german government or is may certainly neither corbin alone may advocate or what you appear to be advocating which is that empty blocks in central london luxury housing should be used to house those of surviving we have got this this city has got enough and i use their language units i call them homes they call them units this city has got enough units to hounds probably every single person that needs a home in the city not just the people have got nowhere or nothing in their lives and how complicit. is jeremy corbyn leading a party labor party where london get out of the city being a

meanwhile, great britain's high court ruled monday that former prime minister tony blair should not facerosecution for leading britain into the 2003 invasion of iraq. the court's chief justice declared there was no crime of aggression in english law under which blair could be charged. the ruling came despite a 2016 report that found blair deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by saddam hussein in the lead-up to war, and that intelligence agencies warned blair that the invasion would increase the threat posed by al-qaeda and other militant groups. in saudi arabia, authorities have freed prominent women's rights activist mariam al-otaibi from prison after she was held 104 days without trial. al-otaibi was arrested in april after she accused one of her brothers of domestic abuse, prompting her father to have her locked up on accusations of disobedience. at the time of her arrest, otaibi was protesting the monarchy's harsh laws prohibiting women from participating in civic life and requiring women to travel with a male guardian outside of the home. she was released sunday without the per