. >>> former british prime minister tony blair tells us exclusively brexit will happen. >> everyone's politics is weird right now. everywhere you go in the world and leaders start talking, you get into a competition of whose politics are crazier a lot of people are competing to catch up with us >> welcome to "street signs. chinese president xi jinping has called for the world to stand firm against protectionism and standing firm to protect his country's environment. calling for more open trade while not mentioning the united states by name amid multiple reports the u.s. is considering chinese demands for tariffs to be halted amid a compromise of a phase one trade deal >> president xi jinping is hammering home a message that chinese consumer is critical in his speech this morning, he pledged china's door would only open more. >> translator: of the problems confronting the world economy, none can be resolved by a single country alone. we must all put the good of the common humanity first. you must have a more open mindset and take more open steps and work together to make the pie of the

just caught up with former uk prime minister tony blair. i began by asking if he was annoyed that the remaining parties had caved to the wishes to have a general election before a second referendum >> i think it was the wrong thing to do. i think it would of been bet tore have a normal election. anger is a bit redundant the problem you've got is once you muddle up the brexit question with who governs the country, which is a different question, the risk is you get a political conversation some people are passionate and others are passionately pro-brexit but want to vote for a labor government it is not a sensible thing to do but we've done it. >> if boris johnson wins the majority, do you accept he has a mandate to complete brexit >> he will claim that. you may end up one of the reasons this is so unsatisfactory, he may win a majority with 40% of the vote and the combined vote of the anti-brexit parties is more. he'll claim a mandate. >> you disagree he'll deliver a mandate? >> again, it doesn't matter whether i think it or not. he'll claim

tony blair's visit to libya and suggests to me 2 minutes 10. i don't know why the english fascinated by tense he writes the plain fact is that the journalist would love it and that's exactly how it happened . the man. had managed to get accepted into community. giving it. he was part of the team which in $2715.00. i think it's pretty clear that it was the under the table part of the deal that was made in 2003 in 2004 to sort of bring gadhafi back in from the called if you well welcome him into the community of nations get the oil flowing again. but there was a you know until now there is this part of this deal where he basically said can you deliver me these very very. sure no problem. but. they say that when they have libya. in intelligence. often enough. to. make. your. career from official. saudi claim that the british and americans knowingly delivered them into torture or worse they show us the courtyard and i was still in prison where the biggest massacre of qaddafi's rule took place a protest by inmates in 1906 led to a staggering respons

you see the similarities there but you will be heard from tony blair height of irresponsibility because lives were put in danger i mean does he have a point at. yeah i mean it's extraordinary to listen to him quite frankly because he took our country the best britain to war on a lie hey put hundreds of thousands of british military men and women's lives at risk in fact 179 british military personnel were killed in iraq. and many countless more were wounded. i mean and frankly as the heights of. now i mean to suggest that it's the height of irresponsibility to put people in harm's way and i think really turn the tables on himself and ask himself the same question if you turn yourself and you were charged with breaking the official sea secrets act we've got a clip here from the interrogation in the in the which is based on what you did let's take a look at that. with respect with. you're a spy. yes you get information from people's phones and computers and you feed that . c.s.u. eavesdrop on private conversations yes and how europe's into being has to do that to members of the security co

somewhat sort of not in tune with the tony blair agenda, so when tony blair succeeded in 1997, frank dobson, the then shadow health secretary became health secretary, andi secretary became health secretary, and i think that was a huge moment for him but he found himself out of kilter with the tony blair agenda and the plans for a greater role for the private sector and the consolidation of the internal market within the health service so he was manoeuvred out, i think, after a couple of years, and replaced by alan milburn, who was much more in line with tony blair's thinking. that always greeted with him a bit. and then, of course, he stood u nsuccessfully and then, of course, he stood unsuccessfully to be mayor of london, the post actually he would have enjoyed enormously as a londoner and a london mp, a former council leader. unfortunately, because, he came up against ken livingstone, who were standing as an independent and was then very much in his heyday and who bounced back, so he was unsuccessful in his bid to become london mayor, and then he was never really brought back into

those being named in the civil suit objects the foreign secretary under tony blair mark allen former head of m i 6 his counterterrorism unit as well as branches of the government and security services these what individuals who were treated unjustly in some cases for several years and they want to they want. we have a range for our stay in tripoli to coincide with that of the lawyers who are prosecuting the cases. legal director of the human rights n.g.o.s reprieve and they are getting ready to meet for the last time before preliminary hearings start in the u.k. . says he's bringing his case not to get financial compensation but to expose british hypocrisy of everything. to cuba. instead of the. us. back in the ninety's both britain and the. as the enemy accusations of the bombing of a plane over lockerbie and other acts of terror had made the dictator an international pariah and his opponents were welcomed in the u.k. but with the rise of al qaeda the situation changed and the regrouped in afghanistan although the removal of gadhafi remained their only goal by their close proximity

when tony blair started talking about national security interests that supposed to be a card that trumps all of those i don't believe the investigation is that it would have led anywhere except to the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship for our country in terms of fighting terrorism in terms of the middle east in terms of british interests there. so these things absolutely stunning it seems to be a very expensive way of organizing payment. the minute you put. the money. to. imagine. 635 if you have a career and career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office. perhaps you sort of getting to it circular. you could have to stop doing all this and this is tell you lou that here it's mostly freight my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up running it in a box. around it a very strong magnetic field. you know in my head. it's like a real hard pressure on my skin and that wireless access point and it's just continuous. on a day when there are students in a school. we are just continually are citizens in this microwave

when tony blair started talking about national security interests that supposed to be a card that trumps all of that i don't believe the investigation is that it would have lead anywhere except to the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship for our country in terms of fighting terrorism in terms of the middle east in terms of british interests that. say these things absolutely stunning it seems to be a very expensive way going izing payment. money . in my iphone i have a 1000 times the capability of that of the computers we had on board the spacecraft at that time i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability then we had in the hood in the entire apollo program. seemed wrong. roles just don't hold. any beliefs yet to shape our disdain for the conflict as a kid and indeed from an equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. choose to look for common ground. imagine being a 635 and you have a career and a career involves using your eyes filling your computer and things like that in an office and perhaps you sort of getting headach

when tony blair started talking about national security interests that supposed to be a card that trumps all of those i don't believe the investigation is that it would have led anywhere except to the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship for our country in terms of fighting terrorism in terms of the middle east in terms of british interests there. so these things absolutely stunning it seems to be a very expensive way of organizing payment. money . the good news if you like and use the term deep state you are no longer deemed a conspiracy theorist the bad news is very real and powerful and a danger to the democratic process the deep state as the 4th branch of government is it counts. blair came to south africa specifically to lobby the b. the british weapons manufacturers one of the biggest contract on our arms deal. and the option that they presented was 2 and a half times more expensive than the plane but the south african air force actually wanted to be a systems real performance real advantage. as monday was about to step down from public life its successor tabone bett

when tony blair started talking about national security interests that's supposed to be a card that trumps all of those i don't believe the investigation is that it would have led anywhere except to the complete wreckage of a vital strategic relationship for our country in terms of fighting terrorism in terms of the middle east in terms of british interests that. say these things absolutely stunning it seems to be a very expensive way of organizing a broad payment. the military equipment is time now money. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm show business i'll see you then. imagine again 635 and you have a career and career involves using your i phone in your computer and things like that in an office. perhaps you start getting headaches circular fatigue you could have to stop doing all this and this is how you live here it must be frightening my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up learning it in a pox. around it a very strong magnetic field held in my head. think of it like you. hard pre

absolutely, phil wilson, the labour mp here, former adviser to tony blair, a very strong remainer mp. as you said, this is a seat where 60% of people more 01’ this is a seat where 60% of people more or less voted to leave. yet it is for tile territory for the brexit party, no denying that. but this is also a labour heartland deceit. very significant majority for phil wilson here. and down the road in hartlepool, where they were earlier today, that is a seat where 70% of the electorate voted to leave in 2016. the brexit party were 55% of the vote earlier this year at the eu elections. the labour party have a 7000 majority — that is a seat where the briggs at party's chairman is standing, which they see is their number one target seat in the uk —— brea ks number one target seat in the uk —— breaks it party. they hope to do very well, and yet at the election in 2017, the conservatives came second. conservatives have said today that they feel being a candidate there in this election. so nigel farage has made a potentially big concession to nigel farage, his request for a brexi

he worked with tony blair, the most successful legal that meant labour leader ever. and, u nfortu nately, labour leader ever. and, unfortunately, the way in which this particular labour party is drifting towards the hard left is potentially locking it out of power for a generation. the deputy leader resigned this week, four senior mps have said you should not vote for jeremy corbyn. it seems the wheels are falling off the campaign and this intervention will only undermine that stop quite a history lesson as well. 1983, margaret thatcher increased the majority from 43 to 144. and it is the same thing. you had a labour party who insisted oi'i you had a labour party who insisted on moving to the hard left and despite what people at the heart of the party thought, they made themselves and elect ball. i think jeremy corbyn and his core team have vitriolic hatred for centrism of new labour as they did for the conservatives. certainly in the way they talk about some of these blair writes as if they never had a place in the party anyway. that's fine. you can have ideological

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blair for stoking hatred with the disastrous foreign interventions such as, for example, and he says he warned against the invasion and occupation of iraq saying it would set off a spiral of conflict hate and desperation. it is very political. a shocked paul and we have a few weeks to go. there is a video going around on social media, an amazing video, of people in dominic ra's constituency. apparently he is in trouble because his constituents, and they are not millenniums, they are really, really upset. these people are saying that the fact that michael has alternate is sitting find a liberal democrat sign is upsetting to them. they do not recognise the party, they are lifelong conservatives and they are not voting conservative. he only has a five point lead according to one poll over the liberal democrats with less than two weeks to go before voting. when you compare this to the massive over 23,000 majority at the last election, could, it is asked, could dominicjack merritt have his moment. it could be a big surprise. we are, probably, into some shocks. who knows. let's leave it th

i was starting with tony blair in 97 and thenjohn major and then david cameron, theresa may and borisjohnson, all of them they are to some extent, although nobody believes that, good friends because all of them, mainly theresa may and boris johnson, they were giving me the impression that they were trying to do the best for their country. i did very often disagree with what they've thought would be in the national interest of britain but it was their responsibility and not mine. i had good relations with all of them. do you think it is possible, because borisjohnson described the eu as our european friends and partners... i am not surprised that he is always referred to his european partners and friends. that is a good wording, not to be forgotten for the future. you describe the uk as a good friend and he said in luxembourg that europe, because of the second world war, owes a lot to the uk but angela merkel pointed out that after brexit the uk will be a competitor on the eu's doorstep. how will it be possible to keep these good relations which are described in words with facts on the ground

the frankfuerter allgemeine says that since the days of tony blair and gordon brown's moderate policies labour has not been able to win an election anymore. now, the paper says, the slogan is forwards to the past, with the most radical socialist programme since the early 1980s. israel's ha'aretz reports for the first time in israel's history, a sitting prime minister is accused of bribery. the attorney—general has announced prime minister benjamin netanyahu would be charged with bribery, fraud and breach in three corruption in technology news, tech giant google says it would start limiting the abilities of political advertisers to target their messaging in the coming months. google's vice president of product management and advertising scott spencer, said that the company would begin to ban political advertisers from targeting consumers based on their political affiliation or public voter records. and finally ‘against all odds' a church in mexico has revealed a huge statue of babyjesus that bears an uncanny resemblance to the british singer phil collins. the sculpture stands at 6.7m

blair could have appeared before the judges in there but you got it right it's not something such a high at least seemed former u.k. v.i.p. would go through they get a bit more into history and you'll find out america's response to the very foundation of the i.c.c. was pay attention to this one a law that authorizes the use of military force to liberate any american or a citizen of a u.s. allied country being held by the court in the hague the message is clear if you don't want u.s. marines storming the shores stick to the africans that someone say there's been a clear signal for the untouchable i believe that there are certain continents like africa and countries within that continent that are looked at with more scrutiny perhaps because they are less developed nations and have less power when it comes to their economies in the ability to shape grow. policy and so it's very easy to target those countries and to ignore some of the larger countries that might also be guilty of some of these things as well but have more influence and more slip sway globally the united states sits in a

blair seat. however, the mp there has said he is remain. you know, that is one to lose, isn't it, for the brexit party? yes, it's an interesting one, because yes, philip wilson and peter, you know, those labour mps have been very vocal, com pletely labour mps have been very vocal, completely unashamed in their support for another referendum, and for remaining in that referendum. unlikejeremy for remaining in that referendum. unlike jeremy corbyn, for remaining in that referendum. unlikejeremy corbyn, they're very to say now, i will campaign for remain, but actually they would argue that the labour code in their seats perhaps overrule their leave voting in 2016. but they would argue that some of that has changed, and actually the labour voters mostly voted remain, so perhaps it wont have so much of an effect as you might think. ok, stay with the telegraph. formersoldier might think. ok, stay with the telegraph. former soldier had been under un—imaginal pressure over worked in syria. we are talki

tony blair is intimately related ever to have 13 elections. —— is the only labour leader ever. he knew that when the centre ground and the lack of realisation that you have to embrace why —— groups of people in order to when the despair. ronald reagan used to when the reagan democrats and you cannot win them down a street that the centre ground. incredible what you do read this he looked back at the 1983 in the comparisons are similar. talking here about alliances. there was the sdp alliance and the divisions in the labour party so the vote was very much water down. and also sort ofa time very much water down. and also sort of a time when extremes and people we re of a time when extremes and people were moving towards the extremes and that was why labour had that crushing defeat then. what i want to know from that year is did they have so know from that year is did they have so many gaffes and own goals with new candidates because that if something else that is happening. they did not have social media. something else that they know is that 11 labour campaigns have come und

blair was prime minister, was the idea that we could maintain the nhs but also improve it while not raising taxes to pay for it. i think politicians are far too timid about this issue. you don't necessarily win elections by saying we will spend more, and you will have to stump up. that is counterintuitive, if you voters we are going to raise income tax by 1p, but that will be ring—fenced for the nhs, people wouldn't regard that is such a terrible thing. the thing is, there is a little bit of an federalisation of voters, this idea that people only think about brexit 01’ that people only think about brexit or that people are only motivated by that. people are sophisticated enough to understand that the cost of healthcare continue to rise, and that we are going to have to find a way to pay for it. looking at the daily telegraph, nigel farage could ruin the uk's hope of brexit, coming from some conservative eurosceptics. it sounds a bit counterintuitive. that is not a headline you would have expected to read two or three years ago, however it has all become a bit strangely realigned

blair certainly didn't so this so this suspicion of them english leaders coming over the border for a quick suit is has got of very checkered history. but i have a joyous one son i mean previously when there's been scottish leaders of the liberal democrats one thinks of the late charles kennedy there's been quite a liberal bone so as a result of that is that any sign of a swenson balance i don't really think so you know i'm trying to be fair here but charlie kennedy as so we both know was an enormously popular figure. of the border i mean he was a he to greet their personal charisma and charm juice winson i don't think can emily that and also she's i mean she's still very much a tyrell party leader and i think people are recalling from the suggestion that she's put yourself forward as an alternative for prime minister after 2 minutes in the job and have been in the green halls and in the but i accept party as i am is saying that they're going to cut the mustard in any seat in scotland i can't see or certainly in the case of the of the breaks that park here there is absolutely nor we

those being named in the civil suit project school the foreign secretary under tony blair mark allen head of m i 6 his counterterrorism unit as well as branches of the government and security services these what individuals who were treated unjustly in some cases for several years and they want to they want to know. how. did this. we have a range for our stay in tripoli to coincide with that of the lawyers who are prosecuting the cases. legal director of the human rights n.g.o.s reprieve and they are getting ready to meet for the last time before preliminary hearings start in the u.k. . says he's bringing his case not to get financial compensation but to expose british hypocrisy of everything. to cuba. and instead of the way. back in the ninety's both britain and the. as the enemy accusations of the bombing of a plane over lockerbie and other acts of terror had made the dictator an international pariah and his opponents were welcomed in the u.k. but with the rise of al qaeda the situation changed and the regrouped in afghanistan although the removal of gadhafi remains their only goal

blair personally because you don't sell as many which ever there was a dispute ever in government he always found that. the serious fraud office go to the brink of uncovering the secret swiss bank accounts by which he was from owning money to the saudi royal family the swiss said we're going to notify the back to tell folders. that blessed swung into action. or to the serious fraud office to close down their investigation. things said if the investigation continued they would withdraw all national security cooperation which would lead in the words of prince bandar to blood on the streets of london. the story we've been banging away out for more than 5 years something every day woke up to it because everybody could see was a huge cover up scandal the spectacle of a british prime minister closing ballad a criminal investigation. were you aware that you'll government was approving pavements to a friend of president bush's british aerospace is back system is that why you suspended a fraud inquiry. that went out talking about national security interests that's supposed to be a calm that t

blair the former prime minister in great britain was the portal of george w. bush in us and it seems that johnson as the new pool of u.s. president donald trump do you think your views a shared obviously by dealing the group of the link your buddies but is it shared by other elements of. the political system here in germany well the majority of the people in germany is against the war against iran they are totally against it and they are in favor of deescalation and diplomacy rather than to. send troops or warships to the region we have to prevent and do everything to prevent a war against iran because we. assume that it will be worse than the war against iraq if it will start against iran she having prime minister johnson would say he doesn't want a war either and here we are in berlin germany has the largest overseas united states army base in the world there are tens of thousands of american soldiers germany is germany you know approval well i never said it's not but we had a no decision of the parliament and the government regarding the war against iraq we

blair personally because you don't sell as many which ever there was a dispute ever in government he always found the onset of the serious fraud office go to the brink of uncovering the secret swiss bank accounts by which he was from owning money to the saudi royal family the swiss said we're going to notify the back to tell holders randolph that blessed swung into action. or to the serious fraud office to close down their investigation. since bond said if the investigation continued they would withdraw all national security cooperation which would lead in the words of prince bandar to blood on the streets of london. the story we've been banging away out for more than 5 years really woke up to it because everybody could see was a huge cover up the spectacle of british prime minister closing bell of a criminal investigation. were you aware that your government was approving pavements to a friend of president bush's british aerospace is back system is that why you suspended a fraud inquiry. that went out talking about national security interests supposed to be a cop that trumps all of

blair's visit to libya where he was going to to meet gadhafi and bring him back in the cold and there was an arrangement and there were talking to each other about having having this reunion in a desert attend and then there was a little line saying yes because the journalist would love it so you can see this sort of camaraderie in those exchanges when really the world hate to be just a few brief moments before well there was an apology in 2018 from former british prime minister. theresa may. does that does that serve as as justice or is that just a government paying lip service and saying a wee bit of a apologize for that. no i think it is meaningful and i think it's important to bear in mind that. i always said he did not want money what was important for him and what was just as a what is justice for him is that he got this. apology and what he wanted to expose he said was british hypocrisy and all that so all of this taken together there wasn't just the apology from 2 recent may but there was also the payment that had gone to without an admission of guilt but the payment had gone

on the front of the observer does say that labour are actually criticising tony blair and jeremy corbyn is a saying that "i told you 16 years ago about this..." it is really mature in a very different way, in a similar way about the nhs and social care. it's not about throwing numbers. there's a famous saying of a french politician that set up a politician's promises if you're silly enough and says to believe them." i heard silly enough and says to believe them. " i heard just silly enough and says to believe them." i heardjust summoning people say to me from all walks of life "you know politicians lie." and i find myself bizarrely in the position as an international journalist travelling and meeting all kinds of people which is the way all kinds of people which is the way a journal should be in touch, normal stuff with real people. this is not a good situation to be and where there is that kind of scepticism. i think it is true about custodial sentences. if somebody is found guilty on the one hand of something very serious, they need to do the time. but equally, i do hear what you are

tony blair's doctor dossiers. lies barmes an official denial sounds like a very very good time to start watching the honks. getting. good looks like. this would. be the bottom if you. like you that i got. with that we. would. like. to welcome him on the watching the hawks i try to roll for joining us now to discuss this this latest leaked email the o.p.c. this whistleblower is our to america correspondent rachel blevins who's been on this story all day and all week and i assume. what could you tell us about the whistleblower who is this mysterious person that suddenly kind of throwing a wrench into the game of chemical strikes in syria or was this whistleblower is believed to be an investigator who was part of the 1st fact finding mission that the o.p.c. w. sent into syria after there were reports of a chemical attack back in april 28th seen now this is a guy who is speaking out in the documents that he released was an e-mail that he sent his superiors where he was really expressing his frustration and he was sayi

so this is the equivalent of tony blair's alastair campbell, or dominic cummings, the right—hand man of the prime minister now has the finger pointed at him, along with another quy pointed at him, along with another guy who was arrested earlier this week. neither cummings nor campbell have been arrested, for those just turning in. but in a european union country, she was killed two years ago, now we have finger—pointing going right to the heart of the government. we have this absolutely appalling day of news of 3—man, in british public life with huge followings, huge talents, all of them who all have passed away this week. the times has a photo of clive james and jonathan miller, i confess, two zeros in my household and my husband and children sort of idolise them, really. it'sjust extraordinary. huge losses. when the news broke of clive james' death this afternoon some people in the office, younger people, asked who he was which is incredibly heartbreaking for those of us who remember the amazing tv they made. the ride, dried humour, these japanese torture programmes. he is a br