at 6:00, the british open fire. and they sank a number of french ships, including a very large battleship, killed about 1300 french sailors. so it was a great tragedy. churchill understood it was a great tragedy. and it's not discussed very much when the battle of britain is discussed because the battle of britain, people think of the mesha schmitz and the spit fire, and the british don't we like to talk about it or the french like to talk about it. but it actually had a very important impact. the americans were solicited time and again to send arms to the british. churchill was very emphatic about this. he wanted the destroyers. he won all kinds of guns to make up for the guns of the british army had left in france. and the americans were skeptical. first, there were neutrality laws but there were also very strong isolationist sentiment in america. and even george marshall, who was chief military advisor to franklin roosevelt said, how can we send all these weapons to england if they're going to surrender to the br

they could find refuge and get the fleet of the british army. even stirred up the insurrection of indentured servants. not only did it look like he might succeed, but there were rumors that he would ascend the party in the area of alexandria, virginia. george washington is up there in massachusetts worried about his wife. even thomas jefferson worried about his wife at the same time. and i put that in. i did not dwell on it. i think it is a footnote or something like that. but washington had a personal concern there, too. >> lord dunmore, what was his position? >> he was the royal governor of virginia and he was also a guy with an incredible ego. an awful lot of inability to make decisions because he was so caught up in himself and his potential success. >> you called him combative, touchy and arrogant. >> well, arrogant like so many of the british aristocracy would have been. but he was an odd duck. when he captured and built some of the ports in the ohio valley, he named them after his subsidiary titles. he was the baron blair. it was fort dun

and that's all the business of course a day off to the right there british trade and investment minister lord stephen green tells us while the games by breaking down barriers between member states that in just a couple of minutes. which is slow often enough and knows that to ride a horse you've got to catch it first. for him it's a daily routine that you're soft as a horse breeder on the island of a horn at the heart of. his life on an isolated farm is about blue sky green grass and horses what sometimes it gets lonely here but horses have become part of me now i've fallen off so many times sometimes that bites as well it's part of my every day life. i home suburban home to it make brats like me just laugh for centuries most still live off the land of cattle and fish every evening local villagers place their nets and in the morning the catch is always good. we always have enough here. if by call is often called the pearl of siberia and horn i said to be the pearl of by call it's all end of fake forests. and vast staps. it's also a place of ancient traditions respected by locals and trave

british trade fell by 50%. the british merchants, the british exporters demanded that parliament repeal the stamp tax in america to restore trade relations. in 1765, parliament did just that and turned sam adams and james ottis into heros in boston and elsewhere in america. just who were the heros? well, both were from wealthy families, and, like, many sons of wealthy new englanders, they were harvard graduates. we all make mistakes. [laughter] if they had gone to yale, they would have behaved themselves, gone out and gotten decent jobs. [laughter] adams was the son of boston's largest brewer. you still see the name, but the current sam adams beer has nothing to do with the original brewery. his father died when sam was 36, and until then, sam was too lazy to earn a living on his own, so he it to take control of the brewery running it quickly into bankruptcy, and he allowed the family mansion to deteriorate. he was unconcerned with earning money. he married, fathered two children, and after his wife's death, th

look what the british did. no one points to that and what we did increase in the cold war or period, the early cold war period in the truman doctrine of 47 to 49. we had american advisers in early vietnam were over in this. the british goal is truly suez, get back the meta-training, get the oil regions and get i ran back, this conflict in iran in 1945. beyond that, it was india crucial to the empire and we show that in the beautiful maps and beyond that he gets to the far east. is the richest resources in the world that belonged to britain, not us. that becomes -- that's not a subplot. is a key plot so you can't talk about u.s. soviet relations without talking about the british empire. >> guest: three points, the cold war and the beginning and most americans have no idea and have no idea what role the british were playing but roosevelt did and roosevelt was very critical of the british empire as was his vice president from 41 to 45, henry wallace who dismantled the french empire, the portuguese in the dutch. th

proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's ok now you know the reason the things are getting. so bad almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like boots the chemist cadbury's chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son packed peanut butter over your morning toast you might b

the british, the -- british comedy "the best exotic mar igold hotel" also has buzz. nominations are great for renting of the hype in hollywood, where people care more than most, and are picking apart the best films of the year, to try to second-guess which movie, starke, or director is going to win big. >> i love them all. before we leave you, we have one more award-winning performance to show you. this is for lively political debate. we are not talking about fiscal cliff negotiations. watch this. this was the scene in ukraine's new parliament. for a second day, a mass brawl broke out. it is between the election of parliamentary officials. opposition lawmakers were very angry over the fact that some of their opponents continue to practice voting in place of their of some colleagues. boy did they show it. democracy, perhaps not at its finest, on display in the ukrainian parliament. quite extraordinary. of course, you can get up and any time on our website. you can find us at twitter. for all of us here, thanks for watching. >> makes sense of international news at bbc.

seamlessly across borders but it's not perfect yet and indeed one of the key preoccupations of the british government will be to press for full implementation of the single market in the coming years what are the downsides are there there must be some downsides as well we don't think drawing down sides of a single market because we do believe in open trade we believe that. the market is genuinely borderless more companies can trade across different markets access different pools of demand we believe that's beneficial to the economy we believe that we don't lock significant growth within the european union these so-called euro skeptics they would of course argue that. the brussels strips the e.u. countries not only of their economic independence but also their political sovereignty what's your what's your take on that well i think there's a very very intense to be. of course not because of the moment we just have the the the summit on the budget but actually the from my point of view this is looking at trade and investment and what creates jobs we need to focus on the five european union is

the british were driven out of here in 1882. the military presence of britain and helmand, with just over 4000 troops to leave next year, and all combat troops out by the end of 2014. this time they hope to leave behind a more lasting legacy. >> bagpipes are traditional part of new year celebration in scotland, of course, but what about in pakistan? there are a common sight, the biggest back tight -- and they're the biggest bagpipe producer outside of scotland. >> a bagpipe band setting the tone for a wedding in pakistan. this is not an unusual sight. there are a few hundred back pipe and drum bands across the country which play a formal ceremonies. but ollie back cuts in pakistan, it claims to be the biggest bagpipe producing country outside of scotland in the world. the city known for producing sports goods is home to a number of factors which manufacture the instruments. at one such country, it takes between just one and three days to produce a bagpipe, depending on its quality. each year, thousands of bagpipes are exported f

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the british monarchy, in various ways, they get on the nerves of the british people from time to time. we just see decide we want to see. i think both sides would be surprised at how it all worked out. >> you say in your book in the preface, something i want you to theate to the early days, - internet revolution worked its own magic. you called the internet revolution magic. what are you referring to? >> in the views historians have of the revolution, its causes, is to be possible to take a more simple-minded and simplistic approach. you could easily say everybody was fighting a war of ideas and they had great debates and discussions that everything. but, as the internet revolution has made it possible to access so much detail and so many records of so much minutia of what was going on during that time, it becomes clear that it was far more than a war of ideas and great discussions and things like that. there was an awful lot of pretty nasty midi gritty in places. as more that becomes clear and as people understand, as i really get a sense they do, especially in talking about 1775, th

look what the british did. but we did increase in the cold war period, the early cold war period we and the truman doctrine of 47 to 49, we had american advisers and early vietnam there were already over increase read the the british coal is truly to get back the mediterranean, along the region's coming get iran back in the conflict in iran in 1945. beyond that, it's crucial. we showed that in the beautiful maps. he gets to the far east and it is the richest resources around known to britain, not us. so then it isn't -- you can't dhaka the u.s. soviet relations without talking about the british empire. >> here are the three parts of the cold war in the beginning. most americans have no idea. and they have no idea what role the british are playing but roosevelt did, and roosevelt was very, very critical of the british empire has was his vice president from 41 to 45, henry wallace. they want to bring it to the could dismantle the british empire, the french empire, the portuguese, they were very anticolonial. they

has nothing compared the british empire. we are cutting power, so does russia because they grow during the war. they arm themselves and remake themselves. it's an extraordinary story. migration and deconstruction and the losses of the soviets, whether it's 22 or 20 million, doesn't matter. the idea of the whole nation plunged into this thing. it was a crucible for them. a great war. but the british -- churchill has a different motive. once the british islands are saved by the -- in the battle of britain, is goal seems to be to regain the empire. he said i did not become prime minister to dismember the british empire, and the whole consent of going into north africa, sending troops to the belly of the nazi empire, regaining greece, which is a tremendous story -- everyone talks about eastern europe. what bet the british when they went back into greece in 1944 and started dive-bombing the streets of athen and killing'm residents who fought against the nazis and that's never pointed out. look at what stalin did in poland. he bro

measurement intervention sometime next year and one has to ask the question who the germans to the british to the americans who don't think it's a point in syria they're not supporting groups that are committed to democracy they're not supporting groups that committed to a political transition they're not curse supporting groups that are committed to in any way the formation of an open transparent state. where we've got further insight into the various opposition groups in syria as well as how the deployment of nato weapons in turkey may change the balance of power in the region. on our website none of them has managed to keep economic decision making power in the e.u. after the blocks leaders agreed the european central bank should become the main supervisor for banks in the euro zone britain which sticks to its own currency has fared moving to a banking union could make it financially powerless steven wall from the u.k. independence party says the deal won't bring any benefits to his country. but there is a certain code of politicians and advisors in this country who are petrified that t

british government doesn't accept that the british courts do not but it couldn't be more as a factor i mean it isn't evidence it is a fact and the fact couldn't be ignored i think it would be obviously the two week on because i think that britain would have to be for britain is a country where such strong evidence could not be ignored ok it's on the crockery leave it there for now russian i thank you very much for joining us to you r.t. thank you. for un atomic experts back in iran to try and make headway over tension surrounding its controversial nuclear program is the first visit since talks in a deadlock in august and the i.a.e.a. team is hoping to get access to some sites suspected of carrying out nuclear activities but they are lucky to get inside the parchin military facility which tehran insists is a non nuclear site and inspectors have no right to inspect it iran also consistently denies its uranium enrichment has military aims despite lack of evidence proving otherwise israel has repeatedly threatened military action if diplomacy fails for national and now reports into mistr

so an agency like the british council, looking to promote british culture and a new view of britain as a great power but coming to terms with the aftermath of the second world war, would listen to these voices telling them that moore is the great artist around at the moment. (narrator) that international stature permitted moore to work on a larger scale, a dream since the early '30s. he could now afford to hire assistants, including anthony caro, who would go on to a successful career of his own, with works like the national gallery ledge piece, installed in 1978. i thought he was the most interesting sculptor around. and really, i went to ask him if i could work with him, work for him, because i'd had too traditional a studentship. a studentship, really, where we were taught by people who thought that art was about nymphs and fawns and generals on horses and that. i used to drive him into london from much hadham and we'd talk about art. we'd have little conversations about, you know, "did you go to the national gallery today?" "what did you see?" "what did you like?" "why did you like

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the british economy, however, is profoundly stuck. the u.k. has been put on negative watch on three largest credit rating agencies. the european union is britain's largest trading partner, europe's economy remains on prepares you footing despite several months of relative calm and there's a growing debate about whether the u.k. should lead the e.u. earlier this month we covered the "economist" magazine read "good-bye europe, look what happened when britain left the e.u. " i'm pleased to have george osborne back on this program and back at this table. >> thank you very much. >> rose: you're in new york city for a speech at the manhattan institute. >> i did that last night and had some meetings on wall street, seeing them there later. >> rose: so what's your message about the british economy to manhattan institute as well as the mayor and wall street? >> well, the basic message is britain is open for business. if you want to come and invest in a country that is dealing with its problems, cutting its business taxes, providing opportunities for co

when the british imposed the currency act of 1764 preventing the issuance, it teetered upon class. parliament, desperate to recoup some of the vast sums expended past the stamp act stamp act in 1765, imposing the tax of varying sizes on every business license and legal document in the colonies, as well as every copy of every magazine and newspaper, not to mention every deck of playing cards in play by those to see them through hard times. the cries of outrage were heard across the atlantic. americans were already out of work in cash and no hope. burdened by sugar and molasses taxes and sick and tired of it on wheels of bureaucracy right with overpaid incompetent functionaries who have no interest in the shoveling. columnist were taxed out and fed up and demanding a change. now, if this sounds like a recap of some of the rhetoric that has been flying across temporary airwaves, that is little surprise. tough times have always made for tough politics. but there is one significant difference to keep in mind. in fact, columnist had no hope. however illusory, that the next election or th

nice sold to the highest bidder they look british i say british but they really what they seen coming out we discover the fate of business is. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorists skull finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection said to the t.s.a. agents can put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist when you call security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyr

the british your out of here in 1882. with just under 4000 troops due to leave next year and all combat troops out by the end of 2014, this time they hope to leave behind a more lasting legacy. >> the united nations is ending its peacekeeping mission in east timor. officials are taking responsibility for maintaining law and order. the un played a vital role in independence. organizing a referendum that ended the 24 year occupation by indonesia. nine people have been killed and oregon after a school bus crashed on an icy road. the bus was carrying 40 passengers lost control and dropped more than 30 meters down a steep embankment. a chinese fishing boat has been detained by a japanese coastguard for fishing in japanese water. the boat could be seen here. china has sent a consul to the region. a former australian fast bowler will be inducted into the hall of fame during his country's third test against she lenca this week. heals the highest number for test wickets, 563. the first tennis' grand slammer of the year is almost u

how big at that stage is the british empire? guest: well, it covered gee graphicically about a quarter of the left-hand mass and -- land mass and population. the population was about a quarter of the earth. india, subcontinent. commonwealth and dominion, canada, new zealand, ulster, northern ireland. host: hong kong, singapore? guest: oh, yes. host: how about africa? guest: they had a relationship with egypt. i thought going into this that they sort of controlled egypt. but the treaty allowed them to go in and administer the country or safeguard the suez canal and they did that. they had in south africa jan smuts and the republic of south africa. they had some somali land, some territories there that the italians just plucked from them. they were completely unprepared everywhere for war. and i think the british army plus the australian army of five or six divisions, new zealand and the canadians, all of them put together, even if they could all get it england were outnumbered by lhitler's army or eight to one. but they were not

the got more than 200,000 british troops out. i found it interesting that several thousand french troops chose not to go. they thought, the war is over. we lost. we are home. back to the farm. how they fare, no one knows. >> what was the reaction in great britain to dunkirk? but churchill -- and churchill did this. he made a defeat into a victory. it was the most heroic -- and he said, the evacuation retreats are not victories. he was clear on that. but the way he said it made dunkirk sound like a heroic victory. the british people came away saying, well, if we can do that, we can bloody well win. they completely had it backwards. they were running, swimming home without their weapons, without their tanks, trucks, and they came back soaking wet with no weapons. and churchill is telling the people by june 18 or june 20 "we are now building up what will be the finest army in europe and we will go back." >> in 1939, 1940, he is prime minister. how big is the british power at that point? >> it was about a quarter of the world's popul

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precipitation coming in across the western british aisisles ann towards france and spain. this is going to be rain rather than snow getting warmer here. the frigid air to the east. tomorrow on your thursday, 2 degrees in london. 1 degree in paris but in to friday the temperatures rebound to averages. about 11 degrees for you in london so it's feeling warmer i should say. out towards the east, we have plenty of sub zero temperatures for the highs. minus 5 in stockholm. minus 5 in warsaw and minus 3 in vienna. i'll leave you now with your extended forecast. >>> we're back in 30 minutes with more of the latest. i'm gene otani in tokyo.

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the british sent troops and warships to overtake it, but behind the scenes there was conflict with mr. reagan urging her to negotiate a truce which she angrily rejected and her asking for his support. you are the only person who will understand. she was not always happy with his responses describing one of his late night messages regarding the falklands invasion as so vague i didn't think it was worth reading, but one letter shows the woman the british nicknamed the iron lady could have a velvet side adding a p.s. to the president who was a bit under the weather. warm personal regards and a rapid recovery to full health and strength. the world needs you. yours sincerely margaret thatcher. the doubts released by britain's national archives also show the president's advisors asking their british counterparts for fashion advice about what mr. reagan should wear for a horseback ride with the queen during a june, 1982 visit. the answer, smart but casual, not formal riding attire, advice the president took. picnic. and we >> smart but casual. that was barry peterson reporting by the way. >>

the british got ahold of these documents and to publish them. the john adams letters are just so rude about the continental congress that they didn't have to change anything in them. prepare some others change it to make it look as if george washington was having an affair with a maid at a tavern. so yes, both sides were using propaganda within the newspapers. >> interestedly in the middle minolta were sold upon a few london, pools to report george washington had died in battle. normally these are also kind of the room are hearsay and their way of adding disclaimer was to print the the more gossipy news from less credible sources at the back of the newspaper. when the chronicle was any page newspaper ad that uses most commonly commonly found on page eight. >> these publishers are also in competition with each other, so they will challenge but each other say. .. >> how prevalent was organized efforts of propaganda in the newspapers grex inhibits have the newspapers are pretty obvious that then we had a broadside and i am curious who is funding. a

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indeed yes seventeen billion pounds the british government has just revealed that that's been the cost of that so far eleven year war in afghanistan now it was a very deal at the same time as a clear timetable was announced for troop withdrawal from the region we're going to have u.k. troops slashed by about a half by the end of next year down to five thousand two hundred and then another large chunks of troops are leaving by the end of twenty fourteen but it's those seventeen billion pounds that are being spent that have been spent on it for the war on top of the existing defense budget which means the estimates for the final price tag for the afghan war might be something around twenty billion pounds and of course the u.k. is going to keep sending money to afghanistan after twenty fourteen they're going to be sending something like seventeen million pounds for aid towards the afghan national security forces after twenty fourteen and this is all at the same time as the government announcing prolonged or sarah here at home that's going to continue until at least twenty seventeen twenty

it was the britisher offered the free. people forget the new york was a slave on a state until 1827. that's not a part of the popular consciousness. why did in every single african-american desert to the british? >> in know, i have read a couple of books on that. >> but you have african-americans fighting in the revolutionary. >> yes. in the first washington does not want them to fight mcconnell army. then he is one over. at the end of the war his -- washington's generals, many generals, lafayette especially says you have to freedom. he is reluctant to. you know. it is a long story, but they're is a kind of amazing moment of buy it nyack, wherever they were negotiating, when washington was negotiating the evacuation of new york which would later become thanksgiving, for a writ will be celebrated, this giant parade, the evacuation day parade celebrated for years and years until it became the macy's the parade. >> my father went to st. bridget's. evacuation there was still celebrated. >> in that think boston celebrants -- we

the british come out once in the british come out again. and then they take a third run and pretty much all of them are dead. and even more sad is the way i write, sometimes i write about how people think about the past or have thought about it, but an amazing guy named jamie kelly, who wrote, who became famous because he was on the subway gang and he -- and when he was on the gang they hit a dutch ship. what is called, the agent? >> is this a recent one? >> it's like, they built in the teens. >> believe it or not i was not born yet. >> but you know everything about new york city even though you are here just 43 years ago. so this guy, jamie kelly, they had a dutch ship when they are taking the subway, dutch ship from the 1600's, the adrian block and kelly who just came from island, just an immigrant. he is an immigrant and he takes in the says hey everybody whoa, they're some kind of ship and there is just a guy marveling at this. he pulls it out and saves it and it's in the papers for a couple of days. what are we going to do with this? w

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