in the blair camp. i had, by this time, gone to brussels and was very happily working very hard as europe's trade commissioner. i actually didn't want to come back to britain, but when the crisis was there and he needed my help, i wanted to support both the government and my party. >> charlie: you actually fell in love with trade policy, didn't you? >> i did, strangely enough -- i know it would be amazing to your viewers. >> charlie: yes, it is. i have heard you speak about it passionately. >> it's about economic growth, it's about jobs, it's about living standards not only in our own country but around the world. >> charlie: a tension between major powers in the world. >> it is. since i'm talking to you and an american audience, i would say this. >> charlie: worldwide audience. >> and a worldwide audience, i would say that the international trade system and community needs a bit more leadership. >> charlie: really. >> we need america to lead the world back into the negotiations for the world trade arou

as well as tony blair and his memoirs. i'm pleased to have an old friend on this broadcast in london. welcome. >> rose:... >> pleasure. >> rose: there are wars going on around the world. do you miss being there badly? >> oh, yes. oh, yes. i do. everything has to come to an end. i've been in the wars in afghanistan and iraq continuously for seven or eight years. this was a great opportunity for me to in effect come home. i left this country when i was barely out of my teens and i thought what a wonderful opportunity to rediscover my homeland. i felt weighed down by not being in the wars for probably most of the first year i was back. and then i discovered something which is that this country a pretty damned interesting country. the "new york times" much to my surprise has proven to be one of the... i think i could say one of the most amplified news sources, if you will. in the "new york times" we get a lot of stuff. we get a lot of reasons for that. the special relationship you mentioned, the fact that americans find the cu

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no regrets from tony blair about his decision to send british troops to invade iraq. very warm welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers in the states on pbs and also around the globe, with me, peter dobbie. coming up later for you -- how your name and postcode can affect your chances of getting a job in france. and new pictures of the world's most famous ship wreck -- the titanic in 3-d. the u.s. president barack obama has urged israelis and palestinians not to let slip an opportunity for peace that he says may not soon return. he made the remark as he opened a landmark peace talks. our middle east editor jeremy bowen reports from washington. >> if it feels as though they have all been this way before. an american president, and israeli prime minister, launching a new attempt at middle east peace in fact -- -- these at the white house and condemning bloodshed. >> there are going to be those who do everything they can to undermine the peace talks. we will remain a stalwart. >> the talks we had were open, productive, serious in the quest for peace. but also

blair had broken his promise to resign. he says that is because brown broke his promise to back his policies. >> i was happy to go after two terms provided that a program that was intrinsic and essential to new labor success after the labor party capable of governing on a continual basis, provided that program was kept. >> and man who only drunk pirates for the camera he said he started to have -- only trunk pints for the camera. he described how he stopped taking calls from gordon brown and it turned to hear one person on whether he could sack a star player. he decided he was better inside and constrained than outside and loose. gordon brown threatened to highlight the allegations if he did not get his way on pension policy. >> this is tony blair's verdict, political feelings no. emotional intelligence, zero. he knew gordon brown would be a disaster if he abandoned the new labor project. >> i took the view that if we departed from new labor we were going to be in trouble. it might be what we needed to do. be the party that

yes i'll spend british money under wars yes i'm a little pooh he's disgusting blair is why is why blair not in front of the type you look like well he says it's not stupid cheney's view but let's look how stupid it is because the other thing the it's a scandal you forgot there was that cheney was the head of the scandal of nine eleven ok what america has lost it's clear we overreacted to nine eleven this is fareed zakaria at newsweek now and he's discussing this vast warfare state which is bigger than any sort of social welfare state one can imagine so he's talking since nine eleven that the amount of money so. bent on intelligence in the united states has increased by two hundred fifty percent to seventy five billion that they publicly admit to even this public admission of seventy five billion annually is more than the rest of the world combined on intelligence furthermore america's now built thirty three new building complexes just for the intelligence bureaucracies homeland security now has two hundred fifty thousand employees so when you see all those glenn beck and sarah palin peo

man himself. >> reporter: tony blair is a man both loved and loathed. as he arrived at a dublin bookstore, police had to fight to keep his protesters away from him, while nearby, devoted fans lined up for a signed copy of his book. >> tony blair has been a great man for this country. he's a great politician. >> well, don't go out, children, because the grinning ego maniac is back. >> reporter: this memoir is an insider's view of a decade in power. it offers a glimpse of royal tradition. about to be appointed prime minister, blair was told, "you don't actually kiss the queen's hands. you brush them gently with your lips." about princess diana, he tried to warn her off her boyfriend, dodi fayed, but she didn't like it, he writes. weeks later she was killed in a crash in fayed's car. but getting most of the attention is the is the section on george w. bush and the iraq war. in twoi 3-- in 2003, in spite of the biggest antiwar protest in a generation, blair decided to back the american invasion of iraq. >> would you welcome, please, mr. tony blair. ( applau

it was characterized as an issue of loyalty to tony blair. and yet i knew that the dossier i had read, the facts, ordinary members were against the war, i voted against it and i am proud that i took that decision. >> what he think of those answers? >> my own answer to the question would be on the six occasions i went to afghanistan as foreign secretary, eyeleted young people who were half my age, young enough to be my son and daughter, and ask myself about the sacrifice we are asking them to make. that is the human scale politics. and no one who goes in the politics will ever make a decision like that to ask our fellow citizens to put themselves in harm's way as if you are not absolutely convinced that they were making a difference and that was not solicited -- essential for our national security. >> this is about reconnecting labour with the voters. we've devised their written test. each is not going to write down the response to this question and after the commercial break we will tell you who batter right. we will do this five times. from

minister under prime ministers tony blair and gordon brown, a key architect of the labour campaign that helped his party rise to power in 1997. he served as secretary of state for trade and industry, secretary of state for northern ireland and secretary of state for business. he has now written a book about those years of public service. it is called "the third man, life at the heart of new labour," i am pleased to have peter mandelson back on this program. welcome. >> nice to be back. >> charlie: let me get to some of the controversy first. that tony blair is not happy that your book is coming out as it did, because -- and that somehow it's created a little tension between the two of you. >> no tension between the two of us. tension between our respective publishers. >> charlie: did you -- >> it would make a great deal more than a book to come between me and tony blair. >> charlie: i'll come to that later. were you intent on getting out first? >> i was intent on getting my book into the book shops as soon as i could mainly because, while it's fresh in my memory, i wanted to get it on t

blair. >> and certainly blair. my god. you can say that again. >> rose: and you think they should be brought up, the four, the international court of justice. >> yes, i do. >> rose: and charged with? >> mass murder. clearly. the invasion of iraq was not brought about the death of as many people as nazi germany did or stalin or maw. >> rose: or even the dmer rouge. >> but how many people do we have to kill before you can be described as a mass murderer? i believe we... the united states and the united kingdom, we're responsible for the deaths of at least 100,000 people in iraq before the insurgency actually began. now that whole thing has spiraled and there's still... they're still responsible for the deaths of further hundreds of thousands. >> at the risk of embarrassment, i would say that i'm very aware of a lot of his flaws, i'm quite a strong admirer of tony blair's. i think he was a man prepared to take risks for points of principle. i think he did two or three very important things on t

and no regrets from tony blair about his decision to invade iraq. very warm welcome to "bbc world news," broadcast to our viewers in the states on pbs and also around the globe, with me, peter dobbie. coming up later for you -- how your name and postcode can affect your chances of getting a job in france. and of film actors it talks about her work with an iranian director -- and a film actor talks about her work with an iranian director. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has described the palestinian residents as his partner for peace and says he is seeking to end the conflict for once and for all. but leaders have had preliminary discussions with president obama in washington before talks on thursday. mr. obama says the peace initiative is making progress. there have not been direct israeli-palestinian talks for 20 months. barack obama also condemned the killing of four israelis who were killed on the west bank yesterday. >> there are going to be extremists to, rather than seeking peace, are going to be seeking destruction. and the tr

>> well, i don't know tony blair very well. but i-- we are very different people. so i'm not sure ther's that alike. you i think partly what i-- what i would say-- . >> rose: they came in with a mandate and with a vision to change government, tony blair did and david cameron did. >> we are shaped by the political education we have and the world we grew up in. david, myself, other members of this government. and part of the world we grew up in and part of the world that we matured in politically was a world in which tony blair was the prime minister for a decade. and we have certainly learned lessons from what worked but also what didn't work for him. and one of the strongest lessons from that period, i think something tony blair himself acknowledges, is that he was too slow to have brought change. >> he does say this. >> and we have certainly learned from that. and that is why we are determined to hit the ground running to undertake these big projects-of-education reform, welfare reform and so on. rather than waiting for some other point to put it off to some futur

in 2003 in spite of the protest, blair decided to black the invasion of iraq. a decision he is now having to defend constantly on his book tour whether on late night tv or in top political interviews. >> how you can not feel sorry about people who have died. you wouldn't have been human but when i'm asked if i regret the decision, you don't -- i take responsibility for it but i can't regret it. >> reporter: mindful this book is his legacy in more ways than one blair will give all the proceeds including his 7 million-dollar advance to a charity that helps wounded british soldiers. elizabeth palmer. >> are you able to avoid the controversy this weekend with your weather forecast sniffle lot of pressure. folks want to see sun. we fog ruined the bay area today. you know, we are still seeing a couple patches tonight. most of the inside of the bay looking good. there is still patchy fog out toward the coastline. latest satellite image picking it up. you see it moving along the monterey bay down to salinas valley. clear skies inland. clear on the north coast. you get

"book tv" saturday night, bill clinton joins former british prime minister tony blair for a discussion of the years and office. tony blair has a new memoir, on c-span2. >> warren brown writes the weekly car column for the washington post. >> it is arguable, justifiable i think to say that we would not have a black middle class had we not had general motors and ford and chrysler. >> in 2008, he supported the government bailout of the automobile industry. sunday, he will talk about his life and what is ahead for carmakers, on c-span. >> the c-span network, providing coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history. it is all available on television, radio, online, and social media networking sites.

blair what is the race coming down to? >> we should be honest, this race is not about conviction rates, it is not about competenne, this race is about race. you have the white establishment of backing greg bernstein, ou have the black establishment ii the ciiy,,backing patriiia jes me. %-union, senator dilla all3lice enddrsed bernstein. blackkministers and black establishment all eedorsed jes this is basically aaout a dividdd attitude toward law and order. the white establishmmnt wants law and rder. lock them up. aad african-americans in the city, view the police, sometimes, as harassiig, and as city. it is a racial divide attitudinal diiide and cultural divide, and that's the ffull line along w which the election falls. >> how about poor voter turnout in the city. would that benefit bernstein in your opinion? >> absolutely. benefits bernntein because low turnout means that the more organized election, especially wwth thh public employee unions, are behind somebody, ppovides the turnout you need, low turnout definitely is

. >>> then my interview with former british prime minister tony blair. the private difficulty of his decision to invade iraq and political struggles. >>> plus, controversial director with a distinct point of view. now oliver stone has his sights set on wall street once again. "the wall street journal report" right now. >> this is america's number one financial news program, "the wall street journal report." now maria bartiromo. >> here is a look at what is making news as we head into a new week on wall street. on the second anniversary of the bankruptcy of lehman brothers and the near collapse of the american financial system, an important new agreement to help shore up the banking system worldwide. international regulators in basel, switzerland reached a compromise on new rules that will governor banks. it will force them to double the minimum amount of capital that they will hold as a cushion against unexpected losses. but it gives them eight years to comply with the results. new regulations can limit the amounts banks can lend and could drive up costs

very difficult is tony blair's phrase. he thought of sacking gordon brown as chancellor but feared he would be let loose or become a far more damaging flores. according to one version of the book, they say tony blair took to the bottle in his last years, relying on drink as a support to deal with the pressure from gordon brown. >> as efforts continue to rescue thee's trapped miners, owners asked for forgiveness. the european union's unemployment rate is at a record high. 16 million people still don't have a job. spain is still the worst place to look for work, but germany and austria and saw a slight fall. >> unemployment has eased very slightly in the euro zone, but the number is waiting in line for work remain high. for the fifth month in a row spain remains one of the largest countries where the total is soaring. the other end of the spectrum, the netherlands with an unemployment at a modest 3.8%. somewhere between the two is italy. a rate -- industry has managed to hold on to more workers. >> high unemployment is putti

we've seen tony blair on the world stage for a long time. but we never quite have seen the way he spoke with you, in such personal terms about the pressures of leadership. and really opening up, as well, about princess diana and how he came to cope with the difficulty she was facing, as well. i was just blown away that he actually spoke with her about her relationship with dodi fayed? >> i know. it's incredible. you think this is above a prime minister. but in fact, he decided he needed to talk to her about this. and this is what he told us about it. shortly after you became prime minister, you met princess diana. what did you think of her? >> she was an extraordinary, engaging, amazing, beautiful iconic figure. >> reporter: she was a royal who seemed at ease, blair writes in his new memoir, "a journey." which might be why the prime minister felt he could broach the most personal of subjects with the princess, her relationship with dodi fayed. she had divorced prince charles. she had the two children, obviously. and she was going out with do

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tony blair, rightly or wrongly, was a bit of a pariah in his own country. do use that old expression, he was a profit without honor in his own land. he has even become quite wealthy earning huge amounts of money speaking in the united states and acting as a consultant to american banks, and this is in the british newspapers about $30 million of the wealth of tony blair. he has a huge portfolio and so on. and many people would say, "why not?" bill clinton made a lot of money when he came out of office, and so did a lot of american presidents. tony blair is a widely disparaged man in this country, and i think the publishers probably believe that the prospects of that book are rather better in the united states than they are here in england. tavis: back to the united states, what is your sense about what happens next since the president has given his speech? focusing on the domestic agenda -- and yet, we see him now, and that is the white house, and i think rightly, but certainly engaging itself aggressively in these peace talks between israel and palestine, a

in an exclusive interview, former british prime minister tony blair tells all, touching on everything from clint top and obama to those trappings of power, alcohol and sex. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," september 2nd, 2010. >> good evening, everyone. hurricane earl is the biggest storm to threaten america's east coast in almost 20 years. and right off the bat, to get a sense if the punch matches the promise, let's go right to nags head, north carolina, that's where abc's steve osunsami is watching earl barrel ashore. steve? >> reporter: bill, we are now 120 miles away from the center of the storm as it continues to move to the northeast. still a very powerful category 2 storm with wind speeds upwards of 105 miles an hour. we're seeing gusts up to 40 and 50 miles an hour here. the wind is certainly started the rain has started. but our big concern tonight is the storm surge. we are very, very worried about it. as the wind moves the water from the ocean and the sound, right on

also, tony blair brought up iran and its nuclear program. i thought with a quite hard line on what it would take to confront and prevent iran from the worst case scenario. people seemed to me, both the white house and elsewhere, sort of pedaling back from any military solution -- do you think that -- >> it was an interesting debate in iran this week where the president -- there was all quds day. a celebration about solidarity and whatnot. and there was a whole movement inside of iran and said, knock it off. let's talk about our country. what's broken here. stop trying to distract the iranian people. this was inside iran. this was loud. . i believe they're a regime like the soviet union. totalitarian regimes like this, they break from the top. this one won't be broken from the outside. if it breaks, it will break from the top. >> this is not 2003. people in this country, the public no longer believes that drop a few bombs, shock and awe, and we can remake the world in our image. people are just not willing to see this. >> i think the race is

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he blamed tony blair for invading iraq. >> we were wrong to take britain to war. we need to be honest about it. >> watching, stony faced, the leaders of the war, including brother david. he appears to answer angrily, "you voted for it. why are you clapping?" >> if we did not build up sufficient alliances, which undermined the united nations. >> a policy that has earned in the nickname "be rejects -- the reject." >> , on. let's have of grown-up debate in this country about the we are, what we believe. >> the next challenge -- the country. bbc news, manchester. >> stay with us, if he can, and "bbc world news." still to come -- a new heart treatment. first though, it is a piece of technology that is indispensable to many in the big commercial opportunity. the latest blackberry device is called the play book. >> introducing the world's first professional tablet. the blackberry playbook. >> they may be billing it as the first of its kind, but it is curiously familiar. this is research in motion's challenge to the ike had -- ipad. toshiba, too, has unveiled an ipad look

more with tony blair. right after the break. >> sean: we continue with former british prime minister tony blair. in europe, they seem to be rejecting, you know, the state. if you will, the idea that the state is capable. the national health service, rationing of government health care. you're cutting back america is moving full forward towards government run health care. as you watch this president spend money, accumulate debt, deficits, are you concerned? >> first of all, i have a great respect for president obama and i don't want to get into your politics. >> sean: i'm trying to drag you right in. >> i know you. he's someone i work closely with and have great respect for. >> sean: i'll use your term about the cuyamaca model which you -- about the key thesian model which you don't think works. >> the fact is today a ma >> of people are taxpayers, and yes, you need to have a stimulus to the economy when you have been through a sharp economic crisis. you need to make sure you've got a deficit reduction plan

they met in new york, where blair is promoting his political memoir, "a journey." >> warner: tony blair, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure, margaret, thank you. >> warner: i want to talk about your book which is going to debut on number three on the "new york times" best seller list this sunday. first the news of the day. the middle east peace talks resuming. after these years of false starts and dashed expectations do you think these talks have any better chance of succeeding? >> yes, i do, in fact. and sometimes what happens in these processes, as with northern ireland, is that you can struggle for decades, not quite achieving it. and then it can come together. i think the reason it can come together here in the middle east is because we have a opportunity frankly with a region that is more concerned about iran really , that wants to take this poison that is generated by the israeli- palestine dispute out of the politics of the middle east. we've got to leaders and two peoples that want peace. now whether they can get there is the tough question. but they both want it. and ther

blair's memoir a journey about his political career is in bookstores now. i spoke with him about his most difficult decisions in office. >> i think the most difficult war and peace decisions, if you like, so iraq obviously, afghanistan to an extent, sierra leone, probably the northern ireland peace protests also had really, really difficult points of decision making, because those are the ones where the sense of responsibilities is so acute and where you actually know people's lives literally will be affected by your decision. >> do you have a difference in terms of how you feel today having been able to take a step back? >> i think yes in a way. in the sense that particularly now i've spent a lot of time out in the middle east as the quartet representative for the middle east peace process. so my take on what is happening with this extremism within the world i think is slightly different, probably a little deeper than it was back then, which is not to say i think i would have made different decisions. but i think particularly when september 11th happened,

blair's best-seller upset opponents, specifically those angered about britain joining in the u.s.-led invasion of iraq. after the signing, he was whisked away in a car, while protesters threw eggs and shoes. >>> blowout preventer on the bp oil well was hoisted to the surface, giving investigators their first look at the failed equipment. now if it had been working properly, the preventer would have sealed the well at the sea bottom after an eruption. engineers have since put in he operation a new blowout priester to stop any further leakage. >>> in his weekly adirection president obama took credit for an economy he says would have been far worse if not for his recovery plan. this comes as the white house plans a major push of economic initiatives after the labor day holiday. our julie kirst with details. >> reporter: calling this the worst resection of our lifetime, president obama says the middle-class has been squeezed the most and he promised to work hard to turn that around. he spends the weekend at camp david, but obama used his labor day weekend address to talk about those,

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