prosody and i don't believe the british media is describing this as a british war i think what we see is some attention paid to arms sales in a few reports now and again on the media but not the systematic investigation of the fact that this is a direct british role in the war so i think it shows that we still have a real problem with the way that the media and the political system is holding is holding our leaders to account or rather failing to your groceries as an irrelevance of britain as one of the because aid donors on top of its complicity in the war as it were but i just want to ask you this when even when terrorism was brought home like the on the ground a bombing in manchester is information to show us that in effect britain is defacto involved in the bullying innocence that doesn't come out even when innocent lives are lost here in britain the manchester bombing is is an incredible story in a way because we know that the perpetrator of the trials atrocity killing twenty two people last year forty in a british backed war in libya a few years before in two thousand and eleven

british troops out of greece. where there was a raging civil war and greece was a long time british interest. but, as it's been demonstrated, the british were bluffing. they had no intention of leaving. the americans, as would often happen later, panicked. we rushed through the so-called truman doctrine, committed an enormous amount of money for the time to intervening in greece and turkey. and eastern mediterranean. and convinced ourselves that the british empire was turning away from global authority. that wouldn't happen for a long long time. in fact, it wouldn't happen until 1957, when the eisenhower administration just reelected offered what it called its declaration of independence from british authority. only then, when we declared our declaration of independence from british authority, with the british in the form of the economists, crowd the editor acknowledged that britain itself was no longer a superpower and only then as vice president nixon would say, with the american step forced to take over the lea

the british i mean this war in libya in two thousand and eleven which was very much a british war actually very much david cameron's war even though it was formally a nato conflict that has contributed to the rise of terrorism in in libya created ungoverned spaces and created the rise of islamic state in libya which never had a base in the country before. but what it also did was it empowered a generation of fighters to go on and fight elsewhere so b.d. fought in libya in two thousand and eleven. he then comes back a few years later and perpetrate an atrocity against british people many of the people that he fought with alongside in libya in two thousand and eleven then went on to fight in syria. they may well have been trained by british backed forces in libya in two thousand and eleven before they then went on to fight in syria with the al qaeda affiliate in syria. the other thing about the libya conflict is that as well as being a disaster for the people of libya i mean basically destroying a country we're living with the effects of that now but it did create. a training ground for terr

it was not a creature of the british government. is nothing created by the british government. the british government authorized its activities. but it was not owned by the government. the government was distrustful of it. thatact of the matter was east indiaf the company's stock was owned by the dutch. another percentage was owned by women. the rest owned by returning servants from india. or by merchants of the city of london. the trading of the shares of the east india company was done in london and amsterdam. the largest dealers earthy spanish and jewish communities that existed in london at the time. most of the traitors in the stock market were jewish firms. ricardo was probably the second greatest british economist. his family was dealers in the stock of the east india company. that is how they make their money. the company was a speculative entity. the government. trusted. third regarded it as a source of disaster. he was worried about its servants in india. -- in the 1770's, there is a series of scandals reported on in the british press. probably the second most senior

the british do fall. ludendorff then turns his ttention to the french and attacks down here where he begins in may pushing the french hard. initially, this is just seen as a diversion, to try to shift dwindling allied reserves down to the french sector so he can then renew the attack and push the british into the sea, but his success is overwhelming in this operation. he basically destroys an estimated half the strength of the french army in the western front, most of which dissolves and flees before this german onslaught. he american troops who are leaving their camps or the first time and marching to the front, such as the emergency that german -- they cross the end in this pocket here. they cross the end river. they get all the way down to the marne river where there are just 50 miles from paris. so the americans are forced to send several divisions out of their training camps. remember, american divisions are three times the size of the french divisions. so they are 28,000 men. when you say several am

government for example to investigate the muslim brothers and british government acceded to that demand they pressured them in particular by threatening to withhold b.p. contracts threatening possibility of three billion systems contracts so there was a lot of arm twisting and. bribery essentially and i think this is not standard lobbying i guess but this is what they did in order to get their political demands and the political among the particular to encourage the idea that the muslim brotherhood is a threat to democracy everywhere that it's a terrorist organization which is plainly absurd in terms of that they. should say that one should say. of course it was worth it in this day. and so there was an attempt then to try and marginalize to that encourage a whole lot of essentially islamophobia ideas about the role of muslims in public life try to marginalize muslims in public life but the thing which shocked me the most and i'm kind of used to neo conservatives being islamophobia then we turn it turns out that quite a lot of this is actually being pushed by the united i mean out of a.

the british were pensacola. so before admiral degrass could sail north to north america, the spanish he had to help the spanish get pensacola. they would do it in may 1781 and this would allow ultimately the french to sail north but there would be other competitions as well. particularly financial. this is before wire transfers and atms and the french navy needed money. they needed gold coins to pay for this war effort. the cross tried to get the money he needed to with the plan planters what's now haiti but they refused to come up with it. one of the unheralded heroes of this year is a spanish envoy named francisco saavedra. he suggested to degrass who at this point was saying i can't go with this.i'm going to have to give up on this attempt so baker said no if you go to cuba the spanish golden silver mines kept that island stocked with gold, if you go there he can probably get the loan you need. sure enough before they sailed north they sail to havana. they secure 500,000 spanish pesos from the citizens of cub

i'm here to speak about it on the british point of view and what place did it have on british politics it had at the time. we might start with the kind of comments made at the time by famous britains about the american columnists and of course where better to start than with dr. johnson speaking in 1769. sir, said samuel johnson, americans are a race of convicts, in order to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. he did mellow with age because n 1878 when expounding his christian fill off if i, i'm willing to love all mankind except in america. we also have for example, the admiral john montague, the admiral in command of the british naval squadron on the night of the boston tea party who described new englanders a set of paratical people whose whole business is defrauding the king. and the most eloquent, perhaps george, iii who put it as simply as this on june 22, 1774 when he adjourned particleth on the summer recess after having passed the legislation designed to punish the people of boston, he simply called the americans, my diluted subjects. i could spend the who

the british regulators. it is sometime around 1781 that delancey's light horse troops were supposed to be switching to scarlet coats. which is what we see him wearing here. it could be a tighter window of 17 -- 1781-82. it was painted during the war. which is a particularly rare thing to find for loyalists. it is attributed to john durand. who was a itinerant artist working in america during the revolutionary area era. there were a lot of uncertainties and what we knew about john durand. the best available at this point is he was probably born in london about 1746. his father jonas was a pewter partisan who died in 1775. john was probably an apprentice to the painter charles katin in london from 1760-67. the apprenticeship period was about seven years. he was no for landscaped animals and in particular coach painting. not so much on eagle paintings or portraits. this is how durand was trained. he arrived in america about 1767 after his apprenticeship ended. he settled in new york and began painting their imm

aiming your resistance towards the british government since they have people from the british military helping with targeting actually in the operation theaters with the saudis why are they targeting people people in yemen but yet it seems these people these charlatans the sycophants are merely mercenaries for the one percent they want to direct people's islamophobia in a horizontal direction rather than in a vertical direction of course there has been cause now for people to come together and you know and talk and cease fires and whatnot this is after the united states have made huge huge amounts of money in weapons deals you know that trump has been the main ambassador for and of course it's after you know the british policy which has continued from philip hammond you know tourism is there. and her position is well you know they they have made their money they've made their human blood money unfortunately blokey thank you loki guy and karim come on will play us out with their song refuse to kill this huge stick in. a few. of us you. know not. to be. a few soon and then. used to. use

i'm from welcome to the program the british prime minister is on a whirlwind the european tour trying to salvage a deal to raise the maze currently in ballet and for talks with german chancellor angela merkel says my hopes to win in use of force the changes that will make it to more acceptable to britain's parliament on monday she took the extraordinary step of canceling a pall of entry votes on the deal fearing it would be rejected. so what does she have to get let's see if we get some answers from j w's political correspondent simon young welcome simon what news has mrs may and left did she get what she wanted. yes phyllis seems server to leaders met for about an hour. there's no been no statement of the woods we just mentioned that mrs may took twenty minutes or so for a quick meeting with the new cd you leader who's elected at the weekend as well so that was probably more fruitful as a meeting perhaps but as far as the meeting with american is concerned you know i think the british prime minister's come trying to get some sort of concession or at least the appearance of a concessi

british feel and ties semitic. feelings at the same time because this fantasy of presenting the jews in america as the key to whether or not america would participant in the war and by presenting exaggerating the power of the jews worldwide. in the coming years palestinians would fight several campaigns from demanding independence from britain to trying to stem the tide of jewish immigration to palestine. the movement culminated in the revolt of one nine hundred thirty six which took the form of strikes and armed resistance. data from a lot of build. up the latine mannish or. double of the of the brittany with little to. her call me out to be yeah i love it as the i'm bad i should've done away one tackle radical out of the philistine. list i'm an artificially who beautiful skinny model comes on a workout in there the law to be in a vacuum because i mean the seine out of that you could have a lovely little bit on it a moment well of the eye then out a look at our blog of the run and how to. we are all capable of you

will walk board of the british the ministry to promote bilateral trade but as an envoy you have to be very aware that sanctions new sanctions come up every other day frightening investment and bilateral trade yes. political climate is all of this is. very disappointing but. the business relations they are talking about very create things about goods about services about payments. these dialogue bit in business of all of the countries is not politicized and you see trading increasing with britain and the european union at the same to you. show with the whole world so do you see kind of irony that a british business trying to invest in say a russian chinese corporate corporation business somehow sanctions going to affect british business through that way and it's bad for british business and the sanctions are very clear if you see at this fear. in store. if you walk in the digital economy reveal business medicine education everything is. not only a lot but it is supported by a british government and the russian trade over thank you thank you very much well of russia's trade on voice of

for christmas we're screening some of your favorite episodes of the season coming up in this show is british ahmed saudi arabia's partner in the yemen war the u.a.e. subverting the u.k. democracy doesn't run cons nuclear pakistan continues i.m.f. negotiations with the look east or west what did yesterday's remembered sunday sermon you really mean hip hop artist and activist know to be on the demise of nato power amidst the hundred year anniversary of all this just day full of them all coming up in today's going on the ground the first time with david miller of lobbyist investigated spin watch david thanks so much for going on with all being a legal activity here in britain what's in your new report concerning the united arab emirates when we look at the loping in this country which really starts as a result of the out of spring where the moving slowly perhaps towards democracy they see the arab spring which promises democracy and they don't like it so they just say that they're going to set the face against that and to try and undermine the possibility of democracy in their country or they w

there has a been and underestimated its fortitude buying the british. absolutely that is one of the major mistakes many commentators now in britain sort of taken knowledge and also it is one reproach that they are making against the ministers of course david davis first because they say the british side thought we have to leave the leverage here we just walk in there and we tell them oh you want to trade with us you want to sell us your cars germany you want us to you want to use you know sell us you and she is france you want to sell us your prosecco it's only that was a famous row about that and in the end it didn't come down to that that was not decisive bonte what breaks it did was really forge a new unity with in the european union because everybody realized if we don't stick together will last and they stick together till the very last moment as we see now and that is maybe the main miss after hanchen the main mistake that was made on the british side when starting these negotiations ok and barbara said theresa may she's coming home from the conti

it notes that it is a major investor in the british economy. but it says that that dialogue has to be based on that that dialogue has to be based o n fa cts that that dialogue has to be based on facts and demonstrate up evidence. the extent to which this isa evidence. the extent to which this is a statement designed to offer reassurance or is is a statement designed to offer reassurance or is there just the hint there of a potential threat? it does underscore a problem, but china is now both a major economic player, a major economic part of the many countries, as well as a potential strategic competitor. and that dichotomy, the balance of those two aspects, is going to become more and more difficult, particularly for britain once it is on its own and it has left the european union. jonathan marcus, thank you very much. the headlines on bbc news... in iceland, three british tourists including a child have died after their vehicle crashed while crossing a bridge. four others are critically injured. new data suggests four in ten nhs hospitals in e

, matching the british regulars. and so it's some time around 1781 that de lancey's light horse troops were supposed to be squitching to scarlet coat which is is what we see him wearing here. it could be a tighter window of 1781, 1782 when this portrait was painted. it was painted during the war which is a particularly rare thing to find for loyalists. it's attributed to john durant who is an artist working in america during the revolutionary area. there are a lot of gaps or uncertainty about what we know about john durand. but the best available information was that he was probably born in london around 1746 to parents with french roots. pewter r, jonas was a artisan who died in 1775. he was an apprentice to charles london to 1767 as the apprenticeship was about even years. and he feels best known for landscapes, animals and coach painting. not so much on eagle paintings portraits. he arrived in 1767. after his apprenticeship ended he began painting there immediately with trips to connecticut and to virginia and tha

the british navy learned these lessons. the french navy was not going to defeat the royal navy and drive them from the sea, but at the same time french warships could fan out and make a lot of trouble for british commerce. commerce that britain needed these to keep the worldwide empire. it forgot by the first world war, it was determined almost to forget the lessons. it had to relearn at great cost to british merchant traffic. in fact, this is where i always bring it up to the president. i think it was about two weeks ago, the head of the united states maritime administration came out and reported being told by our senior navy leadership that we are not going to do convoys if we get into a scrap with china or russia. we're basically saying our fleet is too lean in numbers. these are the things you read about in the newspapers every day. nonetheless, we simply do not have enough frigates, destroyers or whatever to escort merchant ships across the sea. if feels like we are having to learn that lesson again. we had to do that

also coming up tonight doesn't have to be britain swansong in europe a boy is serenading the british with a ballot is entitled britain come back. a we begin the day with one hundred days until bragg says the biggest economic and political divorce in modern history britain's exit from the european union is scheduled to begin on march twenty ninth of next year that is the plan but for both the u.k. and the european union breaks it is looking much more like a crash off a cliff than just a parting of ways the u.k. parliament hasn't even voted on the brics a deal and yet in parliament today all makers debated the country's immigration policy post brecht's it and in brussels leaders have announced preparations for the worst a break sit with no deal a nightmare scenario that in just one hundred days could be the reality britain and europe wake up to. the clock is ticking down to bragg says it's still unclear exactly how the u.k. plans to leave the european union in march prime minister theresa may reached a divorce deal with the e.u. in november but it's far from certain it will receive the

partners but look what happened since then all the british. big companies brands in the russian they all invested during or since ninety's to russia russian people i hear everywhere i mean that they educate their children here they come with investment and restate they they live here so and now again twenty years past now where you get the much at the macro level you think if the i.m.f. was still running russia or they would be nicer to you in the press. to some extent yes but what happens is i am f a still an english don't you think that we don't need their credit because we are quite wealthy and we don't have any debt anymore to anybody in the world but the economical policies high interest rate hard financial policies the world changed from that i mean he wanted to easing is the main word and economical policies of britain united states you are china or japan but russia is still very hard on the financial policy and they love it and international monetary fund in the world bank they love it not usually good usually when they ever have there

political system it is the british politike. system itself that has steered a situation that you know not only a majority of the people in the north of ireland having voted to remain find themselves you know been forced to face a brags at that they don't want the people in scotland under many other places too when you're based in london look at the votes across the whole of the electorate and i think that perhaps if that question was posed once again now that people realise exactly what is unfolding before their eyes they might take a very very different view. i'm sure a senior politicians here are saying is it is learned and not sure how westminster m.p.'s will react to a irish politician like yourself telling the bridge electorate about bricks of but surely you must be cheered on by the legal advice that there is a may was forced to publish that says ireland will forever have a veto on the u.k. border control of the six counties. well let me say at the outset that you know you make the point about british politicians not findi

the end of british imperialism was. how does viewing the war from the perspective of an indian change how we see ourselves in the ?rsm before i address this, i want to the first give you a little background on the economic impact of the war on india. later, i'll try and capture the lived experience, but i promise i'll only show one graph. [laughter] first of all, for six years india was forced to advance to great britain a good part of the cost of its wartime needs. this included the defense of its colonial territories, the policing of civil unrest and the wages of two and a half million indian soldiers and support personnel. exported to fronts in europe and elsewhere. india also supplied boots, uniforms, balloon kepts, parachutes, ammunitions to fronts in north africa, the middle east and china. later it supplied fighter planes. the understanding was that india would recoup these monies after the war. what did this mean for india? it meant, first, that india became a japanese military target. more important but less dr

british feel and enticing to take. feelings at the same time because this fantasy of presenting the jews in america as the key to whether or not america would participant in the war and by presenting exaggerating the power of the jews worldwide. in the coming years palestinians would fight several campaigns from demanding independence from britain to trying to stem the tide of jewish immigration to palestine. the movement culminated in the revolt of one nine hundred thirty six which took the form of strikes and armed resistance. data from a lot of build up to such a lateen man assured. of the brittany would lit on a. warm her cool miata be yeah i love it as the i'm bad i should've. won taco medical out of the philistine. list i'm not officially who beautiful steam of the comes in a word called him a lot of another can because that i mean the seine out of it i will be able to turn into my man will of the eye then out a look at our blog of the run and how to. where in all get double of your reply me you must feel about t

out in the atla ntic we the british isles. out in the atlantic we are waiting a weather front that will make its way no one into northern ireland than west of scotla nd into northern ireland than west of scotland as we get towards midnight, then will continue its journey eastwards through the night. at the same time, the fog which may not have got away from one or two spots in the south—west, will be more expensive extensive by dawn. further north, we need to wait for the passage of this weather front, which will move away smartly from the main lines of the british isles, leaving a brighter prospect. friday, better prospect of seeing some sunshine, temperatures getting up to about 11 or 12 degrees. watch out for the fog, it may linger on in the southern counties. from friday on into the weekend, the high pressure still doing its staff in the southern half of the british isles, but a different story further north. rolling around its northern and western flanks there will be cloud and it better chance of rain in northern irela

from the british to the british the saudi dorcas how distant the world would be kilometers how would this i didn't do anything i'm not political i only wanted the money i created myself so in in. this norn that justice is. being it and then killing it is noon i mean it's just great just. at like so why would he put himself and then he's looked at that he wasn't a good option also made his money without the lying all that stuff and we don't know. much only percent then you know his as i say this idea what. that would be and this came to be is advice. so i guess not fair. to be it's not. as if he didn't get that. and. i think in my opinion he shouldn't have been critical and b s well that's it for this year will continue to show your favorite episodes and you will be back for a brand new season on wednesday january bill then you can talk to us on a show show media you should. know a lot of crazy things people tell. twitter icing and occasionally somebody pops up with something really really interesting. was. that country called russia no one has ever known one has ever heard of a count

in the levant so they realised the british were playing a double game. their british also recognised france's right to determine the future of large parts of the area that should be for same had expected to control. for that i'm sorry the offer of some of them for after i shop i did forget that keep. in the in the homeland yeah so. if you are are going to show what if your skull is on the whole feel about burst out of the other get up on the earlier so that. will be a phase or certainty about on top and not have here along the you're here a little more for your commute i'm. here for the. unit and as along the a c. other abio. i was a man called the other let me up now like if. you was little missy that little soul or the thought of a pot or shot but we have. the louder. in one nine hundred seventeen the allies made significant military gains on several fronts. the british pushed into iraq and general edmund allonby led the forces that ultimately ousted the ottomans from palestine. but alan peace continued advance towards the must has caused the french se

support yes ok but now on the eve of the crucial breakfast vote british ex-pats living in the e.u. face an uncertain future. he said that should be an option it's an opportunity that soffits and me out saddam will for example and i want it's news that after march transit on the scene it's still possible but i need to piece a bit but it's not just the paperwork that poses a question of identity on the cards you fail very you still but also being here you know people when people ask me why i fall and i say for the u.k. and then the next question will be something about practice it always as they all. do you still feel you have to go out you're coming out of europe soon. in politics many of the britons in brussels work for european institutions. briggs it is obviously something that we talk about specially with my other british friends the ones that work inside the institutions and outside the institutions it affects us all and it's a bit of a worry is that johnson is one of one point three million british ex-pats in the e.u. many say they're being used. as a bargaining chip in the ne

but on the snow, more british silverware would glow. they'd do it freestyle. izzy atkin nailed the rails and avoided the bumps on thejumps to win britain's first medal on skis. her bronze was added to by billy morgan. billy morgan, yes! but what goes up must come down. just ask elise christie. crashed, crushed. i know it's short track, and i know i'm supposed to be prepared for this. but it still hurts, you know? as the world united in pyeongchang, two countries came closer than ever before, north and south korea under one flag, with perfect timing. just one hundredth of a second was enough to give ester ledecka super—g gold. remarkable, given she had already won snowboard title, too. and no half measures on the half pipe for the usa. chloe king at 17, shaun white at 31, proving age is no obstacle. a couple of weeks later, menna fitzpatrick and guidejen kehoe won slalom gold at the paralympics. together with millie knight, they won all seven of britain's medals from pyeongchang. australia's cricketers felt the heat against south africa. cameron bancroft took

companies operating in russia british petroleum b.p. for example but relations for now a dead then presumably not a lot of desire to improve relations on the other side is for brics itself and how it will affect russia well not so much believes vladimir putin but it will have a knock on effect so it will affect other countries in the european union it will face. affect other countries in asia in the americas and eventually the waves of consequences will reach russia and that good for anyone but he says brakes it is a british affair and that it is up to the british and to raise a major to solve it. that was one of the main topics be in the same. there are fourteen q. and a with hootin with their russian foreign journalists thank you very much for that just some background about what we're seeing here with vladimir putin it's is what two hours let me see let me work it i two hours ten minutes so far let's take a listen to this latest question you know the caucasus region which has always been the case and i hope it will be the case in the

day and daily basis for three cards to work on with all the european states printed pressure on the british government as our ammi are t.t.'s and their houses rail her fate on a day and daily basis if you look at the press statements from what's has been relationship over the last here i mean many of them have been on projects not only on certain dates but also what we have done and that's about engaging with european states as input and teaching with the british government has been gauging at their home and kids and the static and i think that's where we're trading our wage rate three all those different issues to ensure that number one is that the good friday agreement is for tax packet we are on the packet we are in the end we believe that actually comes in and it has a dark consequence for these agents republicans hammered as a republican i'm opposed to portrush i don't support it and i see i don't study to want to see one on the environment good friday agreement say that if polls show the dream vacation. would be a likely outcome of a referendum then it must be taken absolutely and tha

it used to be that if you were born in britain, you were automatically british, and in 1981 the british nationality act removed that right. parliament, though, said it would ensure that children who were born or grew up in the uk would still be recognised as british citizens. but in 2006, the good character test was extended to include children. it meant if anyone aged ten or older came into contact with the criminal justice system, their citizenship rights could be blocked. this programme is being told the school fights, petty theft and a caution have all been reasons for refusal. if you're a british citizen you have the right to study, work and live in the uk. you can also access state services and benefits. if you're denied it, you risk deportation. we've come to meet a lawyer who began looking into this area in her spare time in 2012. she expected it would last a couple of months but six years on and the cases keep coming. clients are always vulnerable and often have spent time in care or learning difficulties. we had an 11—year—old, for instance, who took a card, at his foster

let me ask about the british one. the rivers of blood and the conservative monday club, the conservative party distance itself from all of that. in -- distanced itself from all of that. in my opinion, and i want to know your opinion, the referendum was a vote on immigration, but it was the wrong vote. it was the only time we were asked we want this immigration? so people went against the recommendation of the government, because they want to change immigration. so the problem is people are disenfranchised, and that is why they voted for exit. and for the french, i wanted to ask, in 2005, the mathematical olympiad's were taking place for schoolchildren, and france, the laplacef descartes and came in 13th place. moneyent huge amount of on education, and you are now 35th place. some people are blaming that on immigration and the fact you are not integrated enough with your children. host: thank you. why not start with that question? guest: it was very precise. there is a broader question about education. as a candidate,

so i talk we're certainly to this british m.e.p. william that more and he actually told me that the irish border issue is a trap set up by the e.u. for incompetent u.k. negotiators to trick them into a better deal for the e.u. do you share that view. no i don't share that view at all the border issue is a very very real issue is he is the only left it would be the only land border between the united kingdom and the european union after a break such it's obviously special in that sense but it is also special in the sense that resolving the border issue was a key part of the good friday agreement which was negotiated twenty years ago between our land and the united kingdom it's an international agreement which provided for the relationships between northern ireland darl and provided also for the totality of the relationships between the united kingdom and ireland and this was always going to be an issue that was going to have to be resolved as part of. the united kingdom leaving the european union there are lots of complex issues invo

the british army has issued a top level security alert over a russian t.v. journalist you came in a tree and media accuse him of spying ofter he was said to have been acting suspiciously outside an army facility. this is how the jealous himself explained what happened. i would very much want to know what exactly happened we're being accused of espionage while we were just doing our job that we didn't break in the u.k. last november the twenty second and i remember that day perfectly well has been mentioned in the mail on sunday article we went to the military base which is one hundred kilometers from london that's location of brigade seventy seven we did a package about it and we drove by the base stopped approached the security guards i introduced myself presented my id they took pictures of my documents my car then we recorded my piece to camera we recorded it on a professional video camera we did try to get inside the base something claimed by the mail on sunday we made our intentions clear that we wanted to film outside and that's exactly what we did ins

the british two are dwindling. by 1917, the british have 2 million casualties. there is growing civil military tension between the prime minister david lloyd george and the commander of the british expander for the british army on the western front. even though unlike the french have literally no reserve manpower they are totally reliant on the 200 or so teenagers that have become military age every year they do not have anyone else to sort of scrape up or anyone who has been passed over an earlier draft they're all dead or wounded. the british have 9 million able- bodied people they can still get, but louis george will not draft them because he calls hate the military mullet. being the god that consumed his enemies with fire. hate had smothered the british army in mud and blood is what he said so they have this reserve manpower but they won't use it. they won't give it to them because they think they will lose it. where there were other instances where a lot of men were lost. so the british, are either not reinforcing troops on the west division, they've 62 div

for the members of parliament who've been elected by the british people to make this decision and for instance democratic unionist party has already pledged to down the draft deal and they're also threatening to pull up from the coalition with tourists if may doesn't come up with a suitable solution of the irish border issue can that happen with or what will that mean for me as government i'm directed as a whole i think we're i think we're heading into the unknown. this country leaving the european union has never happened before so this is unprecedented in that sense i think the degree to which there is political uncertainty in london certainly and in my memory i cannot recall any previous occasion when there seem to be the same degree of divisions and indeed divisions within the main political parties so i think the political outcome of this this decision. westminster is uncertain there has been a lot of speculation as to what might happen if parliament votes votes this stone is a possible that prime minister might talk again with brussels and some. clarifications are sold for the a

the british too were dwindling. by 1917, the british have, you know, 2 million casualties. and there's growing civil military tension between the prime minister david lloyd george, and the commander of the bef, the british expeditionary force, the british army on the western front, as, you know, lloyd george, even though he has, unlike the french, who literally have no reserve man power, they are totally reliant on the 200 or so teenagers that become military age every year. they don't have anybody scraped up. they're all dead or wounded. the british have 9 million able-bodied people they can still draft, but lloyd george won't draft them. because he calls hague the military mollic. mollic being the canaanite god who consumed his enemies with fire. hague, lloyd george says has smothered the british army in blood and mud. and they have this reserve man power but they won't use it. they won't give it to the bef, for fear that hague will lose it, in offensives like the sum, where he lost half a million men in 1916, or passiondale where he loses 400,000 men in 1917. so the brit

the british prime minister is now in for a meeting. but what exactly is she looking for. me to get it was a coming up. with some four hundred thousand children that risk of dying from starvation . issues of. in the country. and berries. this is the bees. have become somewhat of a menace in this disease so much so that a. monkey. welcome to you. than e. british prime minister is a me is on a wild and european tour to try and salvage her brakes a deal she's just arrived in berlin for talks with german chancellor angela merkel tourism is hoping to win support for changes to the brics a deal that will make it easier to sell to m.p.'s back home on monday she took the extraordinary measure of cancelling a parliamentary vote for today. joining me now is e.w. skate brady she is standing outside the chancery i'm afraid we don't seem to have got kate brady as yet ok so ok great it now tell us you're standing in the building a rare chance to machall and to raise on me holding talks what does tourism mean one from the german chancellor. so basically i'm rita to reason may is here in

hard—wired i wonder if the british system isn't more ha rd—wired towards i wonder if the british system isn't more hard—wired towards that outcome. sam, finally, what did you make of the interaction we had to lip read between theresa may and jean—claude juncker over these particular words, nebulous. jean—claude juncker over these particularwords, nebulous. she looked quite animated when she was talking to him. yes, i don't think i have ever seen theresa may look quite as cross as that, although she has been pretty cross with me on a few occasions. i think it reflects the utter fury at what were an unexpected set of comments from jean—claude juncker last night and a disappointing summit and conclusions after the exchange that the eu 27 had with her last night. you asked anne mcelvoy who has to compromise the most at the moment and i think it's the prime minister. i think she has to wake up to the fact her deal is heading to certain defeat. she has to start exploring plan bs despite her determination up to and she has to start compromising on her own red lines, otherwise known as

the british they faced. i think that's one of the reasons why monte wasn't actually, there were a number of british commanders. his misunderstanding and misreading of the way things were. the way he handled the battle there. >> did you say a word or two about dental model and his performance during the battle? >> yes. he was a very effective one. authority like hitler. because of his way of sorting out problems. he made a phenomenal mistake. in the course of the battle. he refused to block the bridge. the bridge was in a way, a justice just as important. felt that hitler had accused him of, he was one of the few generals who got away with disagreeing with hitler. he was confused even though they treat the command and all of the other generals with desperate to have it blown up. this is was one of the reason why the operation should never have been allowed to go ahead. if he hadn't blown it up, there is no way that the british guards could have or have gotten there on time. that's one of the other reasons why

army, to rand and british -- poland and british army jumped into poland, lithuania and latvia. and any historian can rook at that and kind of draw a parallel between that and the operation market garden. my question is what kind of advice would you offer to multi-national planners as they look at those kind of operations moving forward? >> well, i think that the main lesson coming out of market garden, it's an interesting point you make, is that the idea of dropping paratroop or airborne forces well in advance of the main bulk of ground too troops is wildly risky, to put it mildly. general bradley was horrified by the whole idea of market garden as he'd been horrified when people had suggested in normandy that they should drop parachute forces well north of operation cobra. he knew that affects your end tactics as far as the ground force is concerned, and it also but9s the airborne -- puts the airborne force at risk. so there was a double reason not to do it. now, i can understand in the present situation of the baltics and the threat there that one needs to have a trip wire, a

the british people want us people safe. the british people want us to get on with the deal. this is the deal but the livers for the british people. mr speaker, i have spent nearly two years in negotiating this deal. i have lost valued colleagues along the way, i have faced... no, i am concluding. valued colleagues along the way, i have faced... no, iam concluding. i have faced... no, iam concluding. i have faced... no, iam concluding. i have faced fierce criticism, if i had banged the table, walked out of the room and at the end of the process delivered the very same deal thatis process delivered the very same deal that is the forum is to take some might say that i had done a better job. i didn't play to the gallery, i focus on getting a deal that honours the referendum, sets us on course and a bright future and i did so through painstaking hard work. i have never thought that politics was simply about broadcasting alone opinions on the matter at hand. it is as much about listening to people from all sides... order, order. mr mcneil, i am concerned. you work noisy. i heard y

with the british discovered is what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. -- what's the british discovered is what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. [applause] mr. drury: i am backing up. to let mevin $100 talk about the baron. the baron von steuben arrives at valley forge at the end of as ostentatiously as he could. he was in a sleigh adorned with 24 jingle bells. team of forces he had purchased in france to make a good entrance into valley forge. money borrowed the because he was dead flat broke. tom mentioned john lawrence, the founding father you never heard of. because he died too young. there is mad anthony wayne. i have so many favorite characters in this book. but the baron von steuben is my favorite. when he arrived at valley forge not only in a sleigh with the horses and jingle bells, he had a greyhound in his lap. he was decked out in a silk uniform with two big horses. --his wake was a written new a retineu of service and assistance and even a french chef, who by the way, quit after 48 hours. he said no way am i staying here. as tom alluded to, this guy arrived to valley for

boston had the most robust maritime economy in british north america. only london and bristol ranked ahead of boston in the number of vessels registered in part. townspeople pe participated in enterprises not only as laborers but also as investors to a surprising degree. in the early 18th century, 544 perhapsn's adult males, 1800 overall, owned a share of at least one vessel. these images highlight boston's maritime orientation. ais first map illustrates fact well-known to you all, that boston with a peninsula that was almost an island thrust into the waters of the boston harbor and more connected to the sea than to the land. the second image shows john boehner's famous map of boston, engraved and printed in 1722 for the first time. it illustrates the way the waterfront dominated the town. by its mercantile activity, boston's population grew by 30% in the 1720's and 1730's, despite devastating waves of smallpox in 1721 and again in 1730. by 1740, boston had some 17,000 residents, and appeared to be entering an era of sustained population and growth, but