tony blair is no war criminal. that shouldn't be arrested and your defense was this war was illegal therefore you are right i find that extraordinary you know i mean there are a lot of questions so that haven't been oncet about why they dropped the case against me why they charge me in the 1st place you know if they were just going to turn around and drop it and the years they said it was 1st of all it was because. they couldn't. they weren't convinced of a conviction. so they didn't want to waste taxpayers' money subsequently they have said it was because i couldn't have a fair trial and you know it it begs the question why couldn't i have a fair trial what was what was their position did they actually think that what i what i did was the right thing to do. and in that case you know if you're logically thinking through those things it was the right thing for me to do and do they agree that the war was illegal that your took out the public interest defense yassar people and my fight was just next door people there

tony tony blair is a very different man from borisjohnson. tony blair wants us from borisjohnson.ris johnson wants us to stay in the european union for ever, borisjohnson wants us to leave the european union. that is why i voted for him to be the leader of the conservative party.” why i voted for him to be the leader of the conservative party. i will tell you what brussels has just said, bear with me, tell you what brussels has just said, bearwith me, iam reading it on my phone, it has been reported by reuters. the latest british proposal on brexit is fundamentally flawed and will not fly. as you say, we need to see the actual details. go on, respond to that. all i can say is, kelce —— quelle surpirse. -- quelle surpirse. do you want to borisjohnson to go around the law saying that there needs to be an extension, should that be necessary? i don‘t want the prime minister to d efy i don‘t want the prime minister to defy the law, i don‘t think he will d efy defy the law, i don‘t think he will defy the law, i don‘t think he will defy the law. the question is, what does the law mandate

well maybe you were on the red carpet with ralph with joe mcdonald shadow chancellor was saying tony blair is no war criminal. that shouldn't be arrested and your defense was this war was illegal therefore you were right i find that extraordinary you know i mean there are a lot of questions that haven't been onset about why they dropped the case against me why they charge me in the 1st place you know if they were just going to turn or . and and drop it and they use they said it was 1st of all it was because. they couldn't. they were convinced of a conviction. so they didn't want to waste taxpayers' money subsequently they've said it was because i couldn't have a fair trial and you know it it begs the question why couldn't i have a fair trial what was what was their position did they actually think that what i what i did was the right thing to do and in that case you know if you're logically thinking through those things it was the right thing for me.

underground so what's it like being played by keira knightley portraying the misery and pain as tony blair's allegedly. trying to destroy you for revealing that britain was part of a sinister plan to corrupt the un security council i never have to choose who pays me. and now it's amazing great actress and she portrayed it really well i think and now she actually caused me to sympathize with her when i watched that usually sympathize with you. surely i mean you believe the plan was just spine i all in the un security. and so members and then potentially blackmail them into voting for the war on iraq that these 2 guys supported yes that was and that is what happened i mean they did actually send out you know send out people to africa to african nations to south america to you know talk about withdrawing aid or giving aid and various things in the run up to the war there was a big campaign to get people on board to vote for this u.n. security council resolution over this is this really blackmail and that's what the memo yes the read there juicy h.q. said because david oberland the former head o

underground so what's it like being played by keira knightley portraying the misery and pain as tony blair's allegedly. trying to destroy you for revealing that britain was part of a sinister plan to corrupt the un security council wow i never have to choose who pays me. and now it's amazing she's a great actress and she portrayed it really well i think and you know she actually caused me to sympathize with her when i watched that usually sympathize with you. surely i mean you believe the plan was just spy a all in the u.n. security council members and then potentially blackmail them into voting for the war on iraq that these 2 guys supported yes that was and that is what happened i mean they did actually send out you know send out people to africa to african nations to south america to you know talk about withdrawing aid or giving aid and various things in the run up to the war there was a big campaign to get people on board to vote for this u.n. security council resolution over this is this really blackmail and that's what the memo yes the read there g.c. h.q. said because david obey the f

the rehabilitation of gadhafi took place under british prime minister tony blair. gordon brown to go over from blair in june 2007 the friendly momentum continues. the london based human rights organization reprieve has closely monitored rendition for many years. lawyer corey krieger specialized in cases involving libya. you remember and the deal in the desert in 2004 is that davi says oh wow i'm joining the community of nations everybody was right you know the war on i've looked at iraq and you know i don't want to go that way and all the rest of it so this president has given to him but the reality is of course what happened after that the sanctions were lifted british petroleum and other companies were able to come in and start doing business to the tune of millions in fact billions of dollars i'll just 0 made request to interview tony blair in $24.00 team but his office said he was not available. the producers also asked to interview former british foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for british intelligence 6 at the time of the rendition but his off

underground so what's it like being played by keira knightley portraying the misery and pain as tony blair's alleged had been dry and try to destroy you for. revealing that britain was part of a sinister plot corrupt the u.n. security council well i never have to choose who pays me. now it's amazing she's a great actress and she portrayed it really well i think and you know.

well, in weston park in 2001, all the parties were gathered there, including tony blair, and mark durkanme, complained about the amount of attention that martin was getting and he told them, he says, "listen, mark, you've got no guns". the most famous quote that i rememberfrom mcguinness was, "the ballot box will never deliver our freedom, only the cutting—edge of the ira will bring our freedom." that's absolutely right. in 1982, when we were trying to get him elected, we used to put up posters, martin's photograph was on it, saying, "we will never achieve united ireland through stormont." yes, he continued to believe in the arms struggle. exactly. but listen, i want to bring it back to the personal. if martin mcguinness had known that you were a spy, you were informing to your british handlers on every move, every thought he had, you would have been killed. i'd have been dead. and in fact, many times, i thought that i'd been compromised. you had this thing in your head all the time. you lived with fear all the time. oh, i used to get phone calls at 1am in the morning — "can you come and

i only have to close my eyes and see tony blair, albert reynolds, in heasley, secretary of state forewhere along the road, if there is going to be a big boulder erected for that story, in the foundations there is a little willie carlin. the other thing to think about is you also, if you cite your eyes, can see so much of the bad stuff that happened in the name of the british state during that conflict and you, i mentioned at the beginning, where part of this dirty war, the secret war of informers and double agents and people who were in essence giving secret information which is deadly to the deaths of many people in northern ireland. there is now a call forfull accountability. example, the intelligence operative known as stea k intelligence operative known as steak knife, he was ultimately planted at the very top of the ira's internal security operation. he was working for the british but it seems he commanded the assassination of a number of other british informers. does the truth need to come out? absolutely. but here's the funny thing about steak knife, i'd been working with the

campbell tony blair as the iraq war linked communications director the he could be in the labor party and that tony blair should not be arrested well look my view is that the labor party doesn't belong to the parliament terence it doesn't belong to the party officials labor party belongs to its grassroots members and i think what john mcdonald was talking about was his opposition to auto expulsions you see i think he said brought in by by new labor my own view is that we should have a moratorium everybody has been suspended or expelled on these bogus charges should be brought back into the labor. we should be trying to build a a mass movement not be looking to find ways of throwing people out of the labor party and you know i'm hopeful that we can win through in this and i do believe the labor party is the best vehicle to deliver progressive social change in this country and as i've already said the party belongs to the hundreds of thousands of people who are in the country the grassroots members that do the whole work and it's on that basis. i'm proud to be a member of a labor party

tony blair responded that he would. is this a big deal? not really. is it nakedly political?s in an effort to use a foreign country to influence the outcome of an election in the presidential year? yes, it is. obviously. it didn't take long for us to find that transcript. we only had to dig through old clinton transcript for about 15 minutes. they are all caps, all online by the way. probably a lot more examples and if we find them we'll bring them to you. but the point is anybody commenting on this, anybody staring at the screen and countless people with this decision -- this is never happened before, it's outrageou! none of them took the time to check. whatever they are telling you that something is without precedent, you can be certain that it happens every day here. washington is, of course, totally addicted to impeachment over the ukraine scandal. on msnbc, a contributor spun a wild fantasy where in fact in the end, nancy pelosi could become president. >> you could impeach pence first. the problem is donald trump has to name his replacement. but i think that may be a dea

tony blair responded that he would. is this a big deal? not really. is it nakedly political?s in an effort to use a foreign country to influence the outcome of an election in a presidential year? yes, it is, obviously. incidentally, it did not take us long to find the transcript from will interdict her old clinton transcripts for about 15 minutes. they are all caps, they are all in line. probably a lot more examples and if we find that we will bring them to you but the point is anyone commenting on this, anyone staring at the screen, and there are countless people who fit the description and telling you this is never happened before, it's outrageou outrageous. none of them took the time to check because whatever they're telling you that something is without precedent, you can be certain, it happens every day here. washington is of course totally addicted to impeachment over the ukraine scandal. on msnbc, a contributor spun a wild fantasy where in fact in the end, nancy pelosi could become president. watch this. >> you could impeach pants first. the problem is that donald trum

made requests to interview tony blair in 24 team but his office said he was not available. the producers also asked to interview former british foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for british intelligence 6 at the time of the rendition but his office said he didn't have time. neither was therefore able to shed light on when dishan cases like that of. shaikh libby was returned in 2 to maybe in custody and. you know we met him 2 weeks before he supposedly kit committed suicide in his cell. and when that happened we raised concerns about the circumstances surrounding his death. we were concerned that it was not actually a suicide libby was allowed a single visit from his family in april 2009 while in libyan detention this video shows him opponent lee comfortable and his family had. no reason to suspect he might soon take his own life if you should injured injured in the desert and need no. honey it may. work until our liquor nicol will enter limit or con is only had by then the one i'm sure i'd like to hear. and. then mr darrow this we at america another whom i let

he had previously been quite generous and he was most famous probably for tony blair's biography but critical of theresa may and says that she was not... she needed a full—time minder in the 2017 election and there are a lot in the tory party who thought he could have beena tory party who thought he could have been a walk in the park completely collapse because of theresa may. she still won. but if she had not held the election they would have been in a better position. again she backed all the way and decided to come with us all the way and decided to come with us and make tempe a chief of staff over and now they have one mega brand. and she began to crumble and she said she needed this minder but yes, i think we saw what she was like through the end and she seems to enjoy herself on the back bench and more. she isjust kicking back and more. she isjust kicking back and watching how boris is that mac is more interesting when you look at a lot of what reports in this biography it seems to be a forewarning to boris johnson of what not to do. if there is going to be a general election a

the rehabilitation of gadhafi took place under british prime minister tony blair. 20 gordon brown to go over from blair in june 2007 the friendly momentum continues. the london based human rights organization reprieve has closely monitored rendition for many years. lawyer corey creator specialized in cases involving libya. you remember and the deal in the desert in 2004 is that davi says oh wow i'm joining the community of nations everybody was right you know the war on i've looked at iraq and you know i don't want to go that way and all the rest of it so this president has given to him but the reality is of course what happened after that the sanctions were lifted british petroleum and other companies were able to come in and start doing business to the tune of millions in fact billions of dollars i'll just 0 made request to interview tony blair in $24.00 team but his office said he was not available. the producers also asked to interview former british foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for british intelligence 6 at the time of the rendition but his office said he didn

invasion coming up in the show a piece of british soldiers were wounded or killed since tony blair's invasion coming up in the show 18 years ago britain and the united states began aerial bombardment of one of the poorest countries on enough i mean years ago britain and the united states began aerial bombardment of one of the poorest countries on up afghanistan we offer the man who could be the country's president in 10 days time. we offer the man who could be the country's president in 10 days time. it's time for u.k. and u.s. soldiers to come home plus in u.k. black. it's time for u.k. and u.s. soldiers to come home plus a new. black history month we speak to the editor of legendary 20th century marxist magazine race today 3 months we speak to the editor of legendary 20th century marxist magazine race today they left how who inspired some of britain's most influential politicians including the 1st lady left how who inspired some of britain's most influential politicians including the 1st black female m.p. and music from a race today inspired poet benjamin's a female m.p. and music

from westminster is lord hain, who served as northern ireland secretary from 2005 to 2007 under tony blairis comment from the prime minister about the fact they must be customs check on the island of ireland, is that something new and significant by way of a acknowledgement of the reality of the situation? it is new and significant, yes, but it is a serious departure from the good friday agreement and the agreement thatis friday agreement and the agreement that is a international agreement that is a international agreement that the british government struck with the european union, including the irish government, back at the end of 2017, namely that it would uphold the situation where there is an open invisible border with no checks and controls. also, and this is another important point, boris johnson has a record of breaking the law and i believe that if he recedes with these checks, whether they are a couple of miles from the border or some kind of technological arrangement or both, he will be contravening his own government 2018 withdrawal from the european act and section ten which st

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capitalism, and he thinks there should be a socialist solution which is of course very different than tony blairth parties are very different than from what voters were traditionally used you. our colleagues in bbc trending have been looking at reactions to the snap election on social media, carousel specifically in facebook groups, both for and against brexit marianna spring is one of the journalists who has been looking into this 1+1 we talked with his close facebook groups before and look at them regularly come funnier in this case. it's very interesting because we are able to tap in the conversation that's going on and could not before. did not know what people we re before. did not know what people were talking about in their kitchen ta bles were talking about in their kitchen tables or family groups. of these both closed and public groups which have thousands of members were able to see with the kind of conversation that's going on with regards to their decision—making and a lot of people reacting to the election being called and also reacting to how they can vote tactically which is reall

the rehabilitation of gadhafi took place under british prime minister tony blair. 20 gordon brown to go over from blair in june 2007 the friendly momentum continues and. the london based human rights organization reprieve has closely monitored rendition for many years. lawyer corey creator specialized in cases involving libya. you remember and the deal in the desert in 2004 is that davi says oh wow i'm joining the community of nations everybody was right you know the war on i've looked at iraq and you know i don't want to go that way and all the rest of it so this president has given to him but the reality is of course what happened after that the sanctions were lifted british petroleum and other companies were able to come in and start doing business to the tune of millions in fact billions of dollars i'll just 0 made request to interview tony blair in $24.00 team but his office said he was not available. the producers also asked to interview former british foreign minister jack straw who was responsible for british intelligence 6 at the time of the rendition but his office said he

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local births are all well i'm not sure where all the money is trusting called lisa rice trusting tony blair trusting you know across the khadafi wanted to. make . the front of fighting front with the west quiet so you could win on the african front he knew libya is a small country of 6000000 he cannot have wars all over so he made the decision in the 2 thousands to open up the western embassies in tripoli and to have some limited economic deals with some european and american was limited. i don't think it was a mistake or such i think it was a clever idea. to quite to make the western front quiet and to pay attention to the african context but as i said we had some internal weaknesses and we had some african weaknesses and we were not able we did not have enough time to build our strength up you know if the 2011 conspiracy was delayed a little bit like for 5 years we would have been much stronger and we would have built some african and institutions like the african union fight force military force that would have helped us to be protected and to stop any such conspiracy the west understood

actually presumably the fraud even benefit claimants or will remember that in reading about it tony blair bonding the investigation into saudi arabia you know maybe they were just following president i should ask actually it's just too much to put in the film that they would have been watching because while this is good it's just too much to put in the film that they would have been watching because while this is going on here obviously the government is involved in all sorts of money spending going on here obviously the government is involved in all sorts of money spending plans whether it be foreign wars or whatever you didn't want to just plants whether it be foreign wars or whatever. and you didn't want to just clip that or it would it would hurt the narrative and you have to be very careful that things are now on the nose the you know we clipped that or it would it would have hurt the narrative i mean you have to be very careful that things are now on the nose the you know when you're talking about a story you're going to believe this family as watching what it would and you're talki

and there are many people tony blair and and john major form for mrs right this evening saying they thinkthis is the deal so just as we've seen before we you know we've got you know 30600 m.p.'s and a few 1000 opinions you know so it's like lawyers it's really impossible to see where it's going to go there's amendments coming up tomorrow that could put several cats among the pigeons so it could really so do anyway and it could be a very long day they're talking about a vote or in 230 local time i imagine it's going to be quite a bit longer ok do you think that. the french president has said no to an extension at this stage you think that he's posturing or do you think that he's you know. is a real no. if a minor micro wants to be the person who calls the no deal break that far away emanuel i mean he's known as being quite impulsive and everyone else chancellor american other people in brussels of said if they come back with a sensible idea for another extension it's for instance have a good general election and trying to tidy up the house of commons it's a bit of a heads of. of idiots at

new that's why we have dominic cummings that's why we had alastair campbell yes good friend other tony blair is yes and that's why that's why the answer is 1st of all our diverse press so the doctor much power in a few hands and secondly the freedom of information act improperly so you can follow what's going on then the answers and the safeguards for that situation now there's nothing more with the british army potentially putting out messages there's nothing won't be covertly this is it has to be well i know i know but it's always we could find out about them he's been tweeting if it is indeed this guy against jeremy corbett yes massively hands are leading politician well i don't know that but if he has been nuts don't write and quite clearly there's a potential conflict of interest between his position. working for the british army and what might be happening on twitter and that's why situation with the army should not be allowed to occur you don't think this means that there needs to be some going to review well i do think you need to be repeated i do think that needs to be examined and