remember tony blair's closest adviser at number ten, alastair campbell?o help swing labour behind another referendum. now, he has been expelled. i don't feel i've left the labour party. i'm still in the labour party, as far as i'm concerned. and i will always be labour. and i suspect that i will be in and around the labour party longer than some of the people who are in and around jeremy corbyn at the moment. the prime minister in office, but not in power — no longer a taunt, just how it is. and for theresa may, the time for tears and pain are over. we can guess the questions that will come next, but not a single answer at a defining time in british politics and the country. in the past hour, we have been hearing from leaders at that eu summit as it came to end in brussels. our europe editor katya adler is there. all of those leaders who were in a room with theresa may are of course well aware of the leadership contest under way for those who want her job, but when i asked her earlier, they didn't seem very keen on a new brexit negotiation after mrs may's

the front pages of all the newspapers in the next 24 hours they will be thinking that not since tony blair arguably have we had a prime minister in this country who has been who's faced allegations of such seriousness of such human rights abuses of such a legit war crimes let's not forget that as she now weeps behind that door at number 10 we had a landmark british medical journal you see all report suggesting that 120000 people were killed in this country by the austerity policies that she she implemented in this country. and the people who benefited were people like her husband who is presumably comforting her behind the door of number 10 there because she helped the bank because she helped the the money changes and we must remember this after a city of london that was accused of for deal and interest rate setting meaning the illegality of the city of london was rewarded and she paid for it allegedly in the

like his former boss tony blair today interviewed about their views on bracks it the u.k. continues to engage in economic warfare against venezuela and syria as for nuclear confrontation u.k. foreign secretary and prime minister contender jeremy hunt has claimed britain is mediating between india and pakistan we are urging restraint on all sides neither side wants to see this escalate further well pakistan's prime minister imran khan hasn't been invited to tomorrow's inauguration of the render modi in india in our coverage of the largest democratic vote in history but the indian congress and victorious b j p party has made allegations against their nuclear neighbors pakistan the high commission in london has since got back to going underground to counter claims in our interviews pakistan itself. as a victim of terrorism and suffered both in terms of losses to human lives and its economy we have lost more than 70000 citizens including over 6000 soldiers and economic losses to the chuen of 100 $20000000000.00 us dollars buckstone also has its concern with regard to terrorism

remember tony blair's closest adviser at number ten, alastair campbell?dem to help swing labour behind another referendum, a now he's been expelled. i don't feel i have left the labour party. i'm still in the labour party as far as i'm concerned. and i will always be labour. and i will always be labour. and i suspect that i will be in and around the labour party longer than some of the people who are in and around jeremy corbyn at the moment. the prime minister in office but not in power. no longer a taunt, just how it is. and for theresa may, the time for tears and pain are over. we can guess the questions that will come next, but not a single answer at a defining time in british politics and the country. well, in the past hour we've been hearing from leaders at that eu summit. our europe editor katya adler is in brussels for us tonight. clive, the summit ended a few moments ago and then his closing statement donald tusk the president of the european council described brexit as the best vaccine, he said, against anti—eu propaganda. brexit as the best vac

remember tony blair's closest adviser at number ten, alastair campbell?swing labour behind another referendum, now he's been expelled. i voted for the labour party. i'm still in the labour party as far as i'm concerned. and i will always be labour. and i suspect that i will be in and around the labour party longer than some of the people who are in and around jeremy corbyn at the moment. the prime minister in office but not in power. no longer a taunt, just how it is. and for teresa may, the time for tears and pain are over. we can guess the questions that will face ever comes next, but not a single answer at a defining time in british politics and the country. let's go to westminster and talk to our political correspondent ben wright. for the moment, the key person who would determine brexit policies the next tory leader, what are the numbers shaping up like in terms of support for all of the candidates, we do not know all of the potential names are going to in there? we are at ten now, more expected in the next few days, launching their campaigns in the

remember tony blair's closest adviser alistair campbell? swing labour behind another referendum and 110w labour behind another referendum and now he's been expelled.” labour behind another referendum and now he's been expelled. i have not left labour party, i am still in the labour party as far as i am concerned and i will always be labourer. i suspect i will be in and around the labour party longer than some of the people who are in and around jeremy corbyn at the moment. our prime minister in office but not in power, no longer a taunt, just how it is. for theresa may at the time for tears and pain are over. we can guess the question is facing whoever comes next but not a single a nswer whoever comes next but not a single answer at a defining time for british politics and the country. catcher adler, while theresa may is in brussels one of the people who wa nts to in brussels one of the people who wants to succeed her, jeremy hunt, talks about renegotiating the withdrawal deal, how is that going down? all the eu leaders gathered here are no

am certain that a large percentage of those people if not all would support the prosecuting of tony blair and of course would not want soldiers to just go scot free but we have a journey where on the program you're going to play us out with a kind of response to your vision ok yes that's it for the show but before we go in response to your vision 20000000 loci will play us out with his song long live palestine you can see the performing tonight would like right just add wolf alice at the not to your vision party for palestine and for velo london in camden we're back on monday to talk to dr strangelove with the daughter of stanley kubrick and till then keep in touch with social media so your monday here is lowkey with long live palestine. this is for palestine. it's an issue submission this is my shit this is the. gaza palestine. suppression it's a question this is so. this is what i hope to still break if we are still here it's all about the limits if you are. going to see that she. went. so to see him in this made it feel secure when you visit some issues by age but it's you who says thi

the regulations who is tony blair. i think. i think he's taiwan he's the charles dance character here 1st does your and i were thank you and that's of the show will be back on saturday with an exclusive interview performance of long live palestine with activist and hip hop artist loki to commemorate israel's eurovision contest i feel that. the on topic. international economic forum is a unique event in today's business world. over the last 21 years the forum has become a leading global platform for discussing the key economic issues facing russia emerging markets and the world thousands of business community members attend the forum to address today's vital issues. watch our special forum coverage on r.t. . not. a. good. way. but there is. a lot of. emotion a lot of people's opinions are a lot. of. pushing to nor does u.s. officials in iraq to evacuate as soon as possible to raise the alarm on the international stage over a supposed increased threat coming from neighboring iran. security in the future of russia's relat

war crimes because it's working with the israeli military i think she should resign and i think tony blair should be prosecuted. for war crimes i do not think it should just be aimed at soldiers obviously but i think we should really look at our understanding of the corbin phenomena his vindication by standing against the iraq war is what has propelled him to the position he is in and there needs to be loyalty to those that stood against the iraq war we are talking about the largest civil taney of smoke billows ation of human beings in recorded history what that was the demonstration against the iraq war i am certain that a large percentage of those people if not all would support the prosecuting of tony blair and of course would not want soldiers to just go scot free but we have a journey where on the program you're going to play us out with a kind of response to your vision ok yes that's it for the show but before we go in response to your vision 20000000 loci will play us out with his song long live palestine you can see the performing tonight would like right just add wolf alice at the

he was kicked out for tony blair.st week's european parliament elections. this row is far from over. the london bridge inquests have heard that there were "opportunities galore" to spot that the attackers were planning a rampage before it happened. gareth patterson, who's representing several victims‘ families, outlined a number of instances where the three extremists were together and suggested there may have been potential clues to indicate they were plotting an attack. here's our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford. dumping a mobile phone to avoid any surveillance, just days before the attack. meeting in the street in the small hours of the morning. re—fuelling a hire van as they head toward central london on the night itself. this is what mi5 surveillance officers might have seen if they had been following the three men. representing the families of six of the eight people killed, gareth patterson qc said today, there were opportunities galore for this attack are planning to be picked up prior to the beginn

tony blair's first visit to the united states, we took him there. laura decided to have a movie there. they have a nice movie theater there. it was called "meet the parents." i was asleep. [laughter] if you like to exercise, is a great place to exercise. we had mountain bike trails. a wonderful gym. i think the thing that i remember the most about camp david was christmases. it's big enough that everyone has their own cabin. mother and dad would come. and his family. marvin, camp marvin and his family would come. it was a spectacular time. the reason i emphasize the family aspect is that during the presidency, sometimes it's hard to count on certain people, but you can always count on your family to bring you comfort and love. that's what we're going to hear about tonight. a true shangri-la. holly is going to interview michael george lyons who was the base commander when we first got to camp david. she will also interview stephen -- stuart mclaren the president , of the white house historical association. finally, my chief of staff, josh bolten, one

alastair campbell, tony blair's former spin doctor, is expelled from the labour party for voting liborted him to the anti—terror hotline, two years before the killing spree. more trouble for the high street, as boots considers shutting up to 200 stores to cut costs. torn apart by the islamic state group, the yazidi families

yesterday, tony blair's former adviser, alastair campbell, was kicked out of the party after revealing more senior members have also admitted to voting for other parties. labour's former home secretary charles clarke and ex—mp fiona mactaggart confirmed they voted lib dem. while defence secretary bob ainsworth said he voted green. labour's deputy leader has called mr campbell's expulsion "spiteful" saying the party should be "listening rather than punishing". mr campbell has said: "remains to be seen whether all who have said they did not vote labour will now be expelled." ben wright is in westminster. how much of a problem is this becoming for the labour party? it's really interesting. i think the way alastair campbell was kicked out so way alastair campbell was kicked out so abruptly has crystallised a lot of questions facing the labour party and labour leadership right now about the nature of its control over the party, about how it resolves the dilemma around another referendum and how it responds to the electoral hammering it received in the european elections. i think the clear m

meanwhile, labour expels tony blair's former spin doctor alastair campbell for voting lib dem in the

that further is alistair campbell he's a prominent campaigner for a 2nd brics the vote as well as tony blair'sformer director of human communications now really doesn't know deal look more likely now in this event. parliament over there is rejected the parliamentary arithmetic is not going. and it's true that you could if you decided to do the ability to get the hung around for a long time. i did too which i always think the likelihood is that before the. election i don't know the returners going to be and i think one of the would.

labour's deputy leader says his party's decision to expel alastair campbell, tony blair's former spinst week, was "spiteful". tom watson said hundreds of thousands of labour party members voted against their party over its stance on brexit and there should be an amnesty against further expulsions. several other senior labour figures have also backed mr campbell. the scottish government has published legislation that could pave the way for a new vote on scottish independence, if the westminster government allows it. the bill contains no details on when a referendum could be held or what the question would be, but first minister nicola sturgeon says the legislation would give people in scotland the "opportunity to choose a better future". 0ur scotland editor, sarah smith, reports. most of these young people couldn't vote in the last scottish referendum five years ago. nicola sturgeon wants to give them and the rest of scotland a say on independence again next year. her problem is she needs the authorisation of the uk government in westminster. what is the point of trying to legislate fo

but since no one even thinks the journey was labor i'm not breaking the regulations who is tony blair the game with. me. i think. it's like. i think he's tired when he's the charles dance character here 1st. thank you and that's of the show will be back on saturday with an exclusive interview performance of long live palestine with activists from people. to commemorate israel's your vision contest until then you forgot to add social media he owns up to. the. u.s. withdraws its embassy and calls from iraq fighting and alleged threats from iran forcing. president putin thinks a more cautious approach to iran is 3 days of high profile talks wrapped up in southern russia with keith global conflicts. the us department of commerce puts the chinese take china while away on the trade blacklist the president signed an executive order banning the use of equipment that poses an alleged security risk. and the u.s. attorney general investigate the legality of evidence used to be rushed.

i don't ever remember anybody talking about tony blair being close to tears or in tears, or david cameronind of a classic thing, isn't it, the emotional woman, they can't keep track of their emotions. but who knows, we weren't in the room. certainly one of the briefings has been that she was tearful. whether she was tearful or not, it will certainly be a real crushing thing for her to face these suits who are telling her she has to go, it is over. and whoever had been prime minister at this point, an exhausting round of negotiations. yes, it hasjust taken exhausting round of negotiations. yes, it has just taken a exhausting round of negotiations. yes, it hasjust taken a huge toll on the prime minister. it will be exhausting, we are exhausted as journalist covering it, so lord knows how she is feeling as prime minister. talking about the emotions of it, it is disputed whether or not she was in tears, i do remember when cameron resigned the morning after the referendum, his voice did crack, i think it was i love my country, and you could hear his voice cracking, ok, nearly in tears. she has

power from the people and they're now ignoring the people and we don't really need any lessons from tony blair do we who many people regard as a war criminal this is what for our job and the brics a party latching on to and i'm sure they're going to absolutely hammer the main parties in the euro elections and we come thursday how concerned will the conservative leadership be by this. where is the conservative conservative leadership as rumors today that they're going to push trees or may out but i think it may be too little too late they should be very concerned about it the last thing that most m.p.'s will want to the moment whether the labor or conservative is another election say no they're going to lose seats now let's not overplay the breaks a party they didn't stand in the council elections and euro elections are often used as a protest but not all for our jeweled do very well he now says he wants to put people up for the general election and i think an awful lot of people in leave constituencies will be extremely worried about it so i think he's going to do very well the best in the con

countries in the european union were involved in quite an effective deal with iran and i think tony blairy involved. that formed the basis of some of the work that obama did with iran. and now, where will britain be? under huge pressure to back the united states, no matter what it does — the old default position — and yet not fully part of the european union, which i think will not back any kind of military adventure if it goes ahead. but i also agree that trump doesn't want it, all the evidence when he speaks and acts is that he doesn't want it. but when you surround yourself with hawks, even a president as macho as him can lose control of the process. that is the danger. and presumably, bari, one last question on this topic, what is our off—ramp here? obviously we think back to the efforts to get the nuclear accord under way, and that was conducted with 0man as a bridge for secret talks. are we going to see the sultan of oman playing that kind of role to help iran and us climb down here? i hope so, because no one wants war in the middle east because we have had enough. trump used the ma

mysterious because he's he's an old biddy with a snaggletooth and he's staring right at it whereas tony blair had a staring left out of this there's not much sci fi. we have a thing about staring eyes oh yeah it definitely is very important if. every because that's a thatcher had the staring left eye and it was an element there was always an element of madness about thoughts which i think i caught on to. the on in the eighty's early eighty's i was doing it every prime minister depicted by you as an air of madness there we. were definitely definitely the two that it was blair but the main the rafat it was there was definitely an element of believing her own kind of propaganda she finally went off the rails when she introduced the poll tax and against all advice pushed and pushed and it drove a party nearly off the rose of julie go rid of her i was i was grew up where the vietnam war was on and the coverage the footage the documentary footage on the news every day was horrifying and it was constant the it was really graphic stuff about what was going on in vietnam which of course turn people ag

i'm not breaking the regulations who is tony blair. i think. i think he's. right here 1st. thank you joe we'll be back with an exclusive interview performance of long live palestine with activists. to commemorate israel's eurovision contest but. if we ever needed an anti-war movement. hyper aggressive foreign policy faces little resistance from the mainstream media in fact numerous liberal news outlets function. for the president where. people. moscow and washington have opposing views on key global issues but agree to reset ties and try to overcome their differences that's the take home message from the u.s. secretary of state. visit to russia. meanwhile the u.s. attorney general investigates the legality of evidence used in the russia trump collusion probe but doesn't question the finding of the report and russian interference or so it's a soft thing cody's latest campaign in norway to coincide with ramadan features the crescent moon.

policy based on most valid and came close to succeeding in some ways but was of course stymied by by tony blair and others the campbell in many ways and in fact within a couple of weeks of his taking office he was over goold at cabinet on the sale of pork jets to indonesia were being you know used for bombing against to more so he was always fighting in an uphill battle against the. forces of evil i think is not too strong a term but that would dominating new labor was the feeling in the foreign office from rob and became forms that here's something new different the may be a chance to pursue a different approach to things or was it just trepidation that a lot of people but it has to behave out of date i think the majority view in the foreign office was hostile to robin cook and to the idea of a more moral foreign policy the people in the form office like to see themselves as practicing they'll polity can being the masters of dark arts of diplomacy and be the balance of opinion in. in the inside the fun of it is actually quite nightwing contrary to popular myth there were a few of us who were e

whereas tony blair had to stare left out of those there's not much significance we have to think about staring daring eyes so yeah. it was very important to emphasize is that every because that's a thought i had the staring left and it was an element there was always an element of madness about thoughts which i think i caught on to fairly early on in the eighty's early eighty's and i was doing it every. a prime minister depicted by you has an air of madness there we. were definitely definitely the two that it was blair but the main here a fact it was that was definitely an element of believing her own kind of propaganda she finally went off the rails when she introduced the poll tax and against all advice pushed and pushed and it drove a party really off the rose of julie coverage of iraq i was grew up where the vietnam war was on and the coverage the footage the documentary footage on the news every day was horrifying and it was constant it was really graphic stuff about what was going on in vietnam which of course turn people against the war by the time the pope was capable i think t

early 2000s, anyone who worked at westminster would know him as the man who came out to bat for tony blairhas been thrown out of the party for admitting on the bbc that he backed the lib dems in the european elections last week, for the simple reason that he is completely in favour of another referendum. he has been explaining what happened in the last how far, let's have a listen. so much i believe i voted in the interests of the labour party.” think it is particularly sad and disappointing that this comes on a day when actually, finally, the labour party seems to be trying to move to what i would define as a sensible position on brexit. and so... sensible position on brexit. and so...| sensible position on brexit. and so... ithink sensible position on brexit. and so... i think there are people in jeremy corbyn's office who have recommended voting against the labour party. jeremy corbyn himself, for reasons best known to himself, brought in... i think you can interpret the rules and also is of different ways but one thing i know is, i'm not going to leave the party just because some rando

there was no syrian chemical weapons attack what if it was a fabrication as catastrophic as that by tony blair in iraq u.k. journalists arguably have short memories and didn't question more here is one suggesting that the labor m.p.'s support for war was a leadership bid to presumably because war is popular democracy at the moment over this issue is certain is far as the labor party is concerned is a complete shambles as i suggested to the labor party leader do you still genuinely have total confidence in him and in the end is all this about nursing your own leadership positions it certainly is not that and i do have total confidence in jeremy and i threatened him mentally disagree with what you've just said about the labor party because jeremy decided i really welcome it that we would have a free vote why did you do that that takes strength and courage as a leader you know yes that was a labor m.p. selling war on syria and celebrating jeremy corbin's decision to give a free vote and here is the woman whose policy hillary been supported justifying aria bombing let me set out why we have taken

have, since 1995, and i think they lost 2000 counsellors and that was seen as the kind of surge of tony blair labour to take power in 1997. the cool britannia period. in 1995, 0asis' some might say went to number one and it was seen as this big resurgent mood in the country, getting behind this new political project and i don't get the sense that there is that at the moment. talking about protests, aren't we. the labour vote is quite, it's quite an interesting vote they've lost counsellors in wirral. but they picked up some in the south. there isa picked up some in the south. there is a definite different picture happening within our northern so—called heartlands struggling sometimes to convince voters. whether that is exit, sunderland where they also took a hit. the labour leader there blames the brexit position. it also other issues. not just brexit position. it also other issues. notjust exit, it's jeremy corbyn's leadership. it seems this is something that is not really talked about but on the 2017 general election, labour was able to say, vote for me because jeremy corbyn won't be in a s

a extradition treaty with the united states of america agreed by all disastrous prime minister tony blair which allows you to be extradited to america even if you have not never been to america in your life for crimes that the american say you've committed that violates some basic rules of international law as far as i'm concerned in terms julian assange himself we all saw him being dragged out looking like an angry badger from the ecuadorian embassy but remember the resupplies health declined within the ecuadorian embassy was his own personal cowardice and i think that's probably much by his own personal narcissism because he was in the for 7 years to avoid facing trial in sweden for an offense that would have given him 5 years in prison i think it's ludicrous what he's done and i think many of the problems he's heaped upon himself now in terms of journalistic on press freedom i do not believe that the espionage act is going to be something that you can fit convict jew in the psalms with i'm not an expert on american law but it does seem to me that the rights of journalists enshrined in

there was no syrian chemical weapons attack what if it was a fabrication as catastrophic as that by tony blair in iraq u.k. journalists arguably have short memories and didn't question more here is one suggesting that the labor m.p.'s support for war was a leadership bid to presumably because war is popular democracy at the moment over this is who is certain is far as the labor party is concerned is a complete shambles as i suggested to the labor party leader do you still genuinely have total confidence in him and in the end is all this about nursing your own leadership positions it certainly is not that and i do have total confidence in jeremy and i threatened to mentally disagree with what you've just said about the labor party because jeremy decided i really welcome it that we would have a free vote why did you do that that takes strength and courage as a leader you know yes that was a labor m.p. selling war on syria and celebrating jeremy corbin's decision to give a free vote and here is the woman whose policy hillary been supported justifying aria bombing let me set out why we have taken

for the former prime minister tony blair alastair campbell you can see him getting high five here from the digital vladimir putin. and but the trailer has been released by the b. b. c. it has gone down to well take a look. it's t the united kiningdom i have won many great victory. but none of them made me truly happy. because until now the greatest victory has eluded me. that's i mean for you. unbelievable response online tweets like this what kind of weird western propaganda is thi- on my favorite comments at once he voice as a flamboyant freaks because he actually is first to bob interestingly though the russians on happy only that's a question for you is -- he looked about trailer not impressed rush at night that they think that this is anti russian propaganda the print and complaining that the bbc did also permission to use his image. there have only been to pilot shows made at twelve minutes long at but given the reaction will they ever see the light of day. we found this to come during taking part in that it's going to be very upsetting to see i'm intrigued you would like. to the

good deal more pragmatic and what's made him more as you well please quickly well the views of tony blair but there's there's a bit of me in there yes there is a bit of me there. i came to the view by died in 97 having suffered for successive election defeats we couldn't afford to take even a little punt on the outcome of the 5th election i think fred thompson which is a similar conclusion after a long period in the wilderness such was your desperation to alleviate the gross inequality in poverty yes i mean the i've represented some blood south which is. one of the poorer areas of the country an old industrial town where a lot of the traditional industries have collapsed and i would say that the situation there was fairly desperate after 18 years of tory rules that me a decade of misses that. and there will of the. aspiration is for there to be a labor government and actually the labor government which was in office for 13 years i can say with my hand on my heart made a serious difference to the lives of my least well off constituents but the britain you describe your of course has as foo

alastair campbell — tony blair's former communications chief — is expelled from the labour party — aftero deal brexit would be political suicide for his party. the only way you can get over parliament blocking a no deal exit is to change parliament and that would be a general election, that would be catastrophic. the equality and human rights commission launches a formal investigation into the labour party over claims of anti—semitism. the london bridge inquests — new details about how one

years ago, scotland, wales and northern ireland gained a greater say over their own affairs when tony blair'sc experts to assess what impact devolution has had. in wales, it got off to a shaky start after voters only narrowly backed the idea of a national assembly. daniel davies reports from cardiff bay. if i had been standing here 20 years ago, i'd be standing in a car park. this building, the senedd, the home of the assembly, didn't exist. in the early days they met around the corner and had very limited lawmaking powers. what's more, the institution could only spend money, it could not raise it through taxes. that and much else besides has changed. last month it acquired the ability to raise or lower income taxes. now there are plans to change its name to the senedd or parliament, meant as a sign of the assembly's growing maturity as a legislature. but in other ways things have stayed the same. despite the growing workload, there are still 60 assembly members. is that enough? it's a topic of ongoing debate. and labour has retained its grip on power. there have been four labour first minist