the british expected at the end of world war ii that the world to follow would be a british dominated world. why was that? because russia, the soviet union, soviet russia, was economically devastated and wasted. and because the americans were seen as so insular. unless we understand what truly occurred in the dozens years after world war ii, it's really hard to understand causes sources and foundations of current events today. such as the depths of u.s. insoilarity. the hesitations and the way we're treating allies. indeed the origins of vietnam the sources of destabilization in the middle east, all of that goes back to these early years. franklin roosevelt died in april. harry truman, succeeded as president. you can see how weary fdr looks and how shocked does harry truman. and even more profound upheaval occurred in july of that year, 1945, when winston churchill was booted out of office as the war-time prime minister. that was during negotiations with stalin, outside of berlin. what occurred was a shock to the americans as much as to the russians. because the replacement for winsto

its people had paid a high price for supporting the british. of the one point two million men deployed in different roles in world war one battle fields five hundred thousand perished. a few months after the war ended the egyptian politician and statesman sod's al ghul asked the british high commissioner if he could lead a delegation.

it cost about 1500 plus casualties for the british, a disaster for the british. but then that same fleet, the asiatic squadron makes its way into the south atlantic and they come in to contact with the british force of battle cruises or built around heavy cruisers and the germans get mauled and lose close to 2,000 people. so after that, dogger bank in january of 1915 and then jutland in 1916. that's pretty much it. if we look at jutland, what do we think of jutland? is it -- the germans like to hail it as a tactical success. you're laughing, mr. ryan. >> yes. >> why are you laughing? >> tactical success doesn't matter in the bigger picture so much as the strategic outcome. >> if you're the germans, what makes you think that you succeeded in this fight? >> you didn't get destroyed by the royal navy? >> you weren't completely destroyed? >> you actually scored some victories on a few british ships. >> the death toll stands in favor of the germans. the destruction and damage to ships stands in favor of the germans, but did they achieve the operational results that th

british government in london so mark sykes prepared for his negotiations with george pico he told british prime minister howard asked with i should like to draw a line from the easy in exile to the last k. in cold coke. and face to face with george pico that's precisely what he did. he called it practical politics. the psychs pekoe agreement was concluded in a tobar nine hundred sixteen russia supported it on condition that its own claims to autumn and territory were accepted by britain and france. sikes pico drew the map of the middle east in red and blue. the red zone mt the province of baghdad in which the british would have the right to establish such direct or in directed ministration or controlled as they desire. the blue zone covered silesia and the syrian coast where france would have the same rights britain also claimed informal control over an area of northern a rabia from kirkuk to gaza. the french claimed the same informal control over a triangle from mosul to aleppo and damascus. this deal was what the palestinian writer george antonius later called a startling piece of doubl

we gave a vote to the british people. parliament overwelmingly gave that vote to the british to decide whether or not to stay in the european union. i believe it is our duty as a government and believe it's our duty as members of parliament to deliver on that vote of the british people. and we will be leaving on the 29th of march 2019. yes -- reporter: i'm wondering to what extent this crisis is to what extent of your own making a failure of expectation management and not bringing at the d.p. and hard liners within your party along with you? obviously they weren't going to like what was this deal. should you not have brought them onboard quickly? prime minister may: we have been working on this deal where we've made clear to people what the approach that we're taking in relation to these issues that happened in december at the joint report. obviously, then there was furrer information to be put forward in the spring and in july our approach was clearly set out for people. we have been discussing with colleagues and with p

we gave the vote to the british people. parliament overwhelmingly gave that vote to the british people to decide whether or not to stay in. the people voted to leave. it is our duty as the government and members of parliament to deliver on that vote of the british people and will be leaving on the 29th of march, 2019. >> matthew thompson. what sfent is of your own making in the sense it is a failure of expectation management and not bringing out hard liners with you. obviously they were not going to like this deal. shouldn't you have brought this deal? >> we have been working on this where we made clear to people what the approach that we're taking in relation to these issues. happened in december at the joint report. obviously there was further information that we put forward in the spring and then in july. our approach was clearly set out. we have been discussing with colleagues and with people in the house of commons as we have been discussing the business and others as we progress through inputting this deal to together

support hussein thought that the british promised to include palestine in his kingdom and the british later denied that their promise team palestine they denied it outright but. all the every does is that they have probably seen palestine double their wad bureau. with only a certain image maria let's show you for saying i don't mind the level. of all the thing these mild for and so we. filmed a little more how to belittle the men in the world in the in these very that i'd either feel that. yeah you can leave out also they're going to require a liberal number of. significantly in the three months that the british promised parts of greater syria to sharif are saying they told the french that any agreement relating to the borders of an arab kingdom would not be finalized without their consent. they knew how strong the french interest in syria was. on the first of october nine hundred fifteen the french ambassador to britain paul campbell wrote to his prime minister beyond me to tell him that london had requested a french representative to draw the borders of an arab kingdom with syria. i

we gave a vote to the british people. parliament overwelmingly gave that vote to the british to decide whether or not to stay in the european union. the people voted to leave. i believe it is our duty as a government and believe it's our duty as members of parliament to deliver on that vote of the british people. and we will be leaving on the 29th of march 2019. >> matthew thompson from albee c. i'm wondering to what extent this crisis is to some extent of your own making, and the sense that it is a failure of expectation management and not bringing hardliners within your own party with you. obviously, they were not going to like this deal. should you not have brought them onboard quickly? pm may: we have been working on this deal and negotiating. there has been various staging posts where we made clear the approach we are taking in relation to these issues. that happened in december at the joint report. obviously that there was further information we put forward in the spring. in july, the approach was clearly set out fo

trade for room your take on the russian troops firing on british backed you green in forces not about the i mean the problems of ukraine this is the problems of everybody because ukraine has the form of the international law but isn't it difficult to have a forum trying to increase trade ties when if you open a newspaper in britain you're more likely to be exporting assassins general. of former residents offers an end to the british army says your government has a greater threat to this country than i says. well i think it is going to responsible statement if you look at the britain and the security of britain you'll find when russia and syria. eliminated the threat of the isis in syria we wish you could improve the security of the. i think in them and it's quite a funny story but still this is the fact of what and if you look at the no budget neutral budget though the united kingdom it's fifty four billion and the russian oodgeroo budget this is this essence of the of the i. says it's only forty six billion dollars and russia has nothing to do with its troops i mean mostly brought wh

parliament. happens if the deal does not get through the british parliamentm isa through the british parliamentm is a good point because in one sense you could copy and paste the comments, remarks from the leaders of the doorstepping reporters today on the irish prime ministers said that they had agreed by consensus not to talk about the what ifs. just in case they end up doing something that inadvertently could affect the vote goes they first of all do not wa nt to vote goes they first of all do not want to see this withdrawal agreement reopened again or we negotiated. only one leader seem to have stepped out of line today, the president of lithuania who said it things did not go to plan in the british parliament then either there would be no deal or they would have to re—negotiate. so i think the other leaders have been told to step back. the feeling if theresa may came knocking, perhaps they would at first pretend they were not in. because they do not want to have that question again, they believed this was the important bit today and they are all aware how it is going to be dif

basra and baghdad were put under direct british control. and damascus were put under french protection and were called area a. the rest of mr petain mia and the south of greater syria were put under british protection and called area b. . but palestine including jerusalem was designated as an international zone in brown. all those like speaker was never implemented it formed the basis of future negotiations and the post autumn in middle east resembled the areas of influence it created so the map has different colors different letters but ultimately what really matters is the line in the sand that runs from the coast to the persian from here. in this yes. the national. fates x. people. while they're not quite as mean. don't really need to know the arab men. called for most of the. mining is. done is. a shabby larby from the who let it. be funny in a funny way the british felt that the system that the arabs so viewed as a betrayal. was in keeping with the terms of what they've agreed with the hashemites because they were still considering the

its people had paid a high price for supporting the british. of the one point two million men deployed in different roles in world war one battle fields five hundred thousand perished. a few months after the war ended the egyptian politician and statesman sod's are google asked the british high commissioner if he could lead a delegation to the paris peace conference he wanted to negotiate egyptian independence that will and his supporters try to put pressure on the king to taint the relationship with the bridge the king has respect within hours the ordinary egyptians but at that stage that respect has disappeared why because of the. lost of egyptians in the war with the economy come if occasion on the people's life all of this actually created a wider gap between. the king and the egyptian people which faceted their efforts of sad salute to why do they got more and more with that with a king and with a bitch because they wanted to make sure that bitch has no place in egypt after what happened in the first world war. the british arrested some gl

we gave the vote to the british people. parliament overwhelmingly gave that vote to the british people to decide whether or not to stay in. -- stay in the european union. the people voted to leave. i believe it is our duty as the government and members of parliament to deliver on that vote of the british people and we will be leaving on the 29th f march, 2019. >> thank you, prime minister. matthew thompson from lbc. what extent is of your own making in the sense it is a failure of expectation management and not bringing out -- people out and hardliners within your own party along with you? obviously they weren't going to like what was in this deal. should you not have brought them on board a little bit more quickly? prime minister may: we have been working on this deal, ere have been various stages where we made clear to people what the approach that we're taking in relation to these issues. happened in december at the joint report. obviously there was further information that we put forward in the spring and then in july.

british. system is such that it can actually react pretty quickly so they could probably have it they could probably put put it up at least twice in december. the real point is not about the e.u. waiting it's about the e.u. being a bit realistic i mean they've imposed these this carthaginian peace they've created a sort of a new a new versailles treaty on the u.k. and it isn't going to stick. sorry either she won't get through the house of commons and even if it did it won't stick for any probable period of time. so says you're pretty and have kind of outsmarted themselves i mean i'll just say the important point about it not getting through the house of commons there are fifty six conservative m.p.'s who have already publicly stated that they're going to vote against it now they might whittle it down a bit to about forty but it's not the considering piece are going to vote against it which is the point the point is the labor party is going to vote against it it looks at the democratic unionis

the british government and the british establishment and mrs bush and mrs mrs may have looks themselves up into his studio about so-called no deal just so she is incredibly mislead as i just said in so doing they've allowed the european union to impose completely draco union terms on the u.k. which would last anyway. welcome to worlds apart among the many differences that russia and the west have on the ukrainian crisis the most stark is what it signifies and our own relations for many in the west was a sudden unprovoked breakup with an ungrateful and violent partner for many russia it marks the end of the day kid of slides and this treatment and this side small and agree on the definition of the problem can they ever find their way out well to discuss that i'm now joined by william hale global fellow at the wilson. and the author off no place for russia mr hill it's good to talk to you thank you very much for coming on thank you for having me now you recently published a book no place for russia and what's striking to me about that book is that fundamentally you agree with the russians

democracy and i you know there are many problems of british democracy but this is an extraordinary range and depth of activity which had concrete influence you know the setting up of an inquiry into the muslim brotherhood came as a result only if he was a specific outcome which they got by threatening economic bribery essentially we'll get the government's view on that i'm sure they'll say that they had other accusations but as you say the subversion of democracy then the wider geopolitical scale connects directly. world peace itself the context being the u.a.e. is pro trump blind i should say the emirates are different policies arguably to be which is the capital. in the violation of un resolutions they're lying is the same as the israelis lying. brotherhood to qatar and their anteroom and they've encouraged and continued to encourage along with their neighbors the saudis . hatred of those countries in an attempt to move against those countries of which you know that the trump decision to reintroduce sanctions in iran is part of the agenda because the world's worst humanitarian crisis i

british feel and ties submitting. 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 man assured. of the brittany would let on to. her call me out to be yeah i love it as the and bad i should've done away one takoma article out of the philistine. summer list i'm an artificially who beautiful skinny model comes on a wild card team who cared a lot to be another actor and because of that i mean to say me out of it i will be able to turn into my man will of the i then out of look at i will be up to run and how to. well in all capable of your

have you spoken to any british politicians about it? yes, i think many people — you know, i've had hundreds of meetings over the last two years... forgive me, but i mean in the last week. it is now — it is d—day, it's the moment of truth in britain. ijust wonder if british politicians are talking to you about different scenarios right now. i didn't meet anybody with this request who is responsible for decision—making on the uk side, this i can say. but of course, there are many citizens, many organisations, that are coming to us. many also probably — we could think of politicians coming also from more devolved territories than from london. but of course, nobody talks officially to us, nobody who is in power to make this type of decision on behalf of the british government. right, the more we talk, and the more i hear you use words like flexibility, and trying to make this work for both sides, the more i realise that jean—claude juncker‘s statement this is the only deal has to be taken with a grain of salt. and it strikes m

of british citizens. right full freight him in a hearing without a lawyer matthew hedges was sentenced to life in prison on wednesday accused of spying for the u.k. he's already spent five months in solitary confinement is a ph d. student who went to the u.a.e. to research the twenty. bring up rising. now abu dhabi says it hopes to find a solution to the case and has denied all claims of unfair treatment however the case has prompted a wave of criticism with calls for re-evaluation of britain's relationship with her all rich gulf. hedges was focused incarcerated in abu dhabi the u.k. government was at the time trying to new trade deals with the u.a.e. our correspondent and i see a truck in a picks up the story. accused of spying and jailed for life that's now the fate of a british academic researcher in the united arab emirates an ally and friend of the u.k. but how much trouble is this case likely to stir up between the two given what's at stake we are incredibly disappointed that the u.s. should do this

the british government and the british establishment and mrs brook and mrs mrs may have looks themselves up into his studio about so called no deal just so he is incredibly misleading as i just said in so doing a lot of the european union to impose completely draco union terms on the u.k. which would last anyway. seemed wrong. rowles just don't call. me old but you get to shape out these days comes to educate and in games from it equals a trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. thank you welcome back now tourists in the cattle and capital barcelona are no longer safe apparently because that's the message on leaflets being handed out by local police amid a spike in the city's crime rate over the last year in fact some three thousand leaflets have now been given to tourists in seven languages including english french and also italian the leaflets include tips on how to avoid becoming a victim of crime or currently there are some sixteen and a half thousand offices in the area that the force says it needs around another two thousand police perso

democracy and i you know there are many problems of british democracy but this is an extraordinary range and depth of activity which had concrete influence you know the setting up of an inquiry into the muslim brotherhood came as a result only if he was a specific outcome which they got by threatening economic bribery essentially we'll get the government's view on that i'm sure they'll say that they had other accusations but as you say the subversion of democracy then all a wider geopolitical scale connects directly. world peace itself the wider context being the u.a.e. is pro trump blind i should say the emirates are different policies arguably to be which is the capital. and the violation of un resolutions they're lying is the same as the israelis lying. brotherhood to qatar and there until iran and they've encouraged and continued to encourage along with their neighbors the saudis . hatred of those countries in an attempt to move against those countries of which you know that the trump decision to reintroduce sanctions in iran is part of the agenda because the world's worst humanitari

i do not know, it's up to the british people, up to the british government, not our problem. in terms of the future relationship, what role will the european parliament taken what role will the european parliament ta ken that? what role will the european parliament taken that? we want to have a constructive, good relationship. we are very united on that. we want to keep the damage and therefore we will try to be very helpful. i think there should also bea helpful. i think there should also be a joint committee between the uk parliament and european parliament, that we could jointly control the process of the negotiation. great -- grateful for your time, process of the negotiation. great -- gratefulfor your time, thank process of the negotiation. great -- grateful for your time, thank you. that is the thoughts of the european parliament. a short time ago, we heard from jean—claude juncker, the european commission president. he urged the british lawmakers and mps to ratify the brexit deal. theresa may has negotiated that with european nude leaders rue warning it won't be modi

and you would agree that russia has prevented british support and british help. thrown out and went into damascus. that. you meant that the input is. not to support c. ninety five and then i think that is politically financially in tennis sometimes but for the life of civilian and weapons. he's thirty is it accordingly it was not more kind of the war it was and then showing that of course a lot of christian communities feel threatened by the assad government i am not see it yet but they even see the. nineteen ninety four. and. of course the. conquer the opposition and the very tense is. that i. read. see. it kind of imagine what he. most people in the egypt in the government of. the united nations because this is go up at length. in britain had says it had to bomb syria because the government was using chemical weapons if you want to punish the government if you will do not. see the notice unless we destroy evil incarnate the old you only know one country to be spit on and they released many because of the use of most of the sort of these tools does not go and ag

dollars and russia has nothing to do with its troops i mean mostly brought why because this is the british troops who are not far from the russian borders especially in the stone ear and the generals there and the british is sending the troops to ukraine in order to train the ukrainian soldiers to fight with the done boss in lieu guns so basically i see the military policy of the united kingdom quite aggressive you see the russian business trade for isn't going to be the headlines of the newspapers even though breaks it and post breaks the trade deals are only agenda nor these alleged chemical attacks in syria surprised there's no more attention paid to what russia is alleging is a chemical attack by rebels de facto i suppose supported by brit well first of all about the chemical attacks it's it's quite clear you know for for quite a number of years we're telling that the the rebels they have chemical weapons especially chlorine and unfortunately our british colleagues you know were not ready to support this thesis moreover they were supporting the white helmets and the ideas so the terror

british. system is such that it can actually react pretty quickly so they could probably have it they could probably put put it up at least twice in december. the real point is not about the e.u. waiting it's about the e.u. being a bit realistic i mean they've imposed these these this carthaginian peace they've created a sort of a new a new versailles treaty on the u.k. and it isn't going to stick. sorry either she won't get through the house of commons and even if it did it won't stick for any probable period of time. so says you're pretty and have kind of small themselves i mean i'll just say the important point about it getting through the house of commons there are fifty six conservative m.p.'s who have already publicly stated that they're going to vote against it now they might whittle it down a bit to about forty but it's not the consider impeach we're going to vote against it which is the point the point is the labor party is going to vote against it it looks at the democratic unionist

basra and baghdad were put under direct british control. and the muskets were put under french protection and were called area a. the rest of mr potato and the south of greater syria were put under british protection and called area b. . what's palestine including jerusalem was designated as an international zone in brown. all those like speaker was never implemented it formed the basis of future negotiations and the post autumn in middle east resembled the areas of influence it created so the map has different colors different letters but ultimately what really matters is the line in the sand that runs from the coast to the persian from their local state in this yes. the national . faith six people. while they're not quite i mean. don't really need. men. called for most of the. mining is. done. shall be from the who let it. be funny in a funny way the british felt that the system that the arabs so viewed as a betrayal. was in keeping with the terms of what they'd agreed with the hashemites because they were still considering the territorie

foreign steps in to help a british academic jailed by the united arab emirates on spying charges plus the british museum has agreed to give back a collection of bromstad cheese to nigeria but only on like. hello welcome just going to pm here in moscow you watching. donald trump has suggested that the whole world should be held accountable for the murder of the journalist. he also told reporters that u.s. intelligence had not officially concluded that the saudi prince had ordered the killing. maybe the world should be held accountable cause the world is a vicious bush world it's a very very vicious blowfish statement indicates a change in trump's rhetoric guarding the case when the news about the missing journalists first broke out a harsh response and even threatened to sanction saudi arabia and while the us did sanction several saudi nationals so far that's been washington's only punitive measure claims he does not want to risk thousands of jobs because of the incident they are vehemently denying. we have hundreds of thousands of jews. do people really want me to give up hundreds of

his departure in march next year they also sent a clear message that the british parliament also needs to accept the deal. for more i'm joined in the studio by john murtha political advisor and in brussels is our correspondent mark says the other i'd like to begin. do you first the e.u. have endorsed the break that agreement it's pretty predictable what is the mood in brussels right now. certainly not relief or celebration here because it was pretty much expected this that this would be signed off today a lot of praise for michel barnier the chief negotiator who has prepared this over the period of the of the past years he has done the extraordinary work yes there was a short moment whether it was a storm in the teacup. but the ministers today made clear the number of the sticky points remain but we'll have to talk about them in the future for now the ball is in the british side of the court the ball is in the british side of the court drawn by what we do with this agreement the real challenges are just about to begin on their absolutely certain reason may now have got this deal in bru

the british was going to always out build them. the germans had taken the initiative, and the scarborough raid gives me the idea, and if they had put out there battleship force, they could've probably knocked it out. they also had the opportunity with the pacific fleet is to keep it in the south atlantic is a single unit, they could've spread it around and calls the british again to have less force and it had to be spread out a lot more. by taking the initiative, they would've had more ships ready to sell in good shape than the british who had half of their ships in dry dock being maintained not going with the germans was coming out. like i said, i call it use it or lose it, and they in effect, lost it. >> exactly, and after jutland, they sat at the pier rusting away. the crew efficiency went way down, and ultimately when they did try to use it with a suicide run if you will, the sailor said they was not going to do it. you mentioned the scarborough raid, and be aware that was probably the most successful, but again, the idea was t

government for example to investigate the muslim brothers and british government exceeded to that amount 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 to in terms of the party it should say one should say. of course it was worded 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 that shocked me the most and i'm kind of used to conservatives being islamophobia but then we turn it turns out that quite a lot of this is actually being pushed by the united arab emirates in a

the red zone mt the province of baghdad in which the british would have. the right to establish such direct or in directed ministration or controlled as they desire. the blue zone covered. and the syrian coast where france would have the same rights britain also claimed informal control over an area of northern a rabia from kirkuk to gaza. the french claimed the same informal control over a triangle from mosul to aleppo and damascus this deal was what the palestinian writer george antonius later called a startling piece of double dealing. in june one nine hundred sixty shareef was saying started the arab revolt against the ultimate fulfilling his part of his deal with the british. only four months later sykes pekoe was signed contradicting the british pledge to the arab people. what we have to realize though is that what we see is just play city was actually explained by their ideas of the people of the region the time and it roots of this was their racial outlook at the british policy making nearly at the time of the first one they assumed that these peop

we gave a vote to the british people. parliament overwhelmingly gave that will to the british people to decide whether or not to stay in the european union. the people voted to leave. i believe it is our duty to deliver on that vote up the british people, and we will be leaving on the 29th of march, 2019. thank you, prime minister. matthew thompson, lbc. to what extent is this a failure of expectation management and not bringing people out of the u.p. and hardliners of your party with you? should you not have brought them on board a little more quickly? pm may: the deal has been very posts, the approach that we are taking in a result of the issues, happening december, further information we look forward in the spring, then in july, our approach was clearly set out to people. we have of course been discussing with colleagues and with people in the house of commons, as we have been discussing with business and others, as we progress through inputting this deal together. what has been the focus, as i said earlier, is making

its people had paid a high price for supporting the british. of the one point two million men deployed in different roles in world war one battlefields five hundred thousand perished. a few months after the war ended the egyptian politician and statesman sod's are cool asked the british high commissioner if he could lead a delegation to the paris peace conference he wanted to negotiate egyptian independence the rule and his supporters tried to put pressure on the king to taint the relationship with the bridge the king has a respect within the ordinary egyptians but at that stage that respect has disappeared why because of the. lost of egyptians in the war with the economy come if occasion on the people of the life all of this actually created a wider gap between. the king and the egyptian people which faceted their efforts of sad salute to why do they got more and more with that with a king and with the brits because they wanted to make sure that british has no place in egypt after what happened in the first world war. the british arrested some

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 b. 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 to in terms of the party it should say one should say. of course it was worded 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 that shocked me the most and i'm kind of used to that neo conservative being islamophobia then we turn it turns out that quite a lot of this is actually being pushed by the united arab emirate

we rely on british credit, british insurance, british shipping. what it means to my mind is the early on in the war, where america's wallet and heart wanted to go were in the same direction. that is important. i will talk about that a little bit more as we go forward. i want to introduce you to another american. someone i had not heard of. i may have heard her name. this is mary roberts reinhardt who was an american writer. her book the circular staircase and she became known as the american agatha christie. she was known for her social commentary she had been writing mostly for the saturday evening post. she was a republican progressive in the theodore roosevelt tradition. in late 1914, she was invited to new york city to attend an event at the saturday evening post. the editor made her an extraordinary offer. he had arranged for her to go to europe to meet the kaiser and his wife, to meet the king and queen of britain and to go to france and meet the president of france and his wife along with other vips. and then give her the first month -- mom

above it british citizens. rightful free to them and hearing without a lawyer matthew hedges was sentenced to life in prison on wednesday accused of spying for the u.k. he has already spent five months in solitary confinement he is a ph d. student who went to the u.a.e. to associate the twenty year life and our spring uprising. says it hopes to find a solution to the case and has denied all claims of unfair treatment the case has prompted a wave of criticism with colds for a reevaluation of britain's relationship with our oil rich gulf ally and when hedges was first incarcerated in abu dhabi the u.k. government was trying to ink new trade deals with the u.a.e. a correspondent and i see a truck and picks up the story. accused of spying and jailed for life that's now the fate of a british academic researcher in the united arab emirates an ally and friend of the u.k. but how much trouble is this case likely to stir up between the two given what's at stake we are incredibly disappointed that the u.s. should do this

british. system is such that it can actually react pretty quickly so they could probably have it they could probably put put it up at least twice in december. the real point is not about the e.u. waiting it's about the e.u. being a bit realistic i mean they've imposed these this carthaginian peace they've created a sort of a new a new versailles treaty on the u.k. and it isn't going to stick. sorry either she won't get through the house of commons and even if it did it won't stick for any probable period of time. so says you're pretty and have kind of outsmarted themselves i mean i just made the important point about it not getting through the house of commons there are fifty six conservative m.p.'s who have already publicly stated that they're going to vote against it now they might whittle it down a bit to about forty but it's not the considering piece we're going to vote against it which is the point the point is the labor party is going to vote against it it looks at the democratic unionis

and you would agree that russia has prevented british support and british help to throw them into damascus. that. if. you meant that the input. to support c. . ninety four and for that intent is politically and financially intent is sometimes for the lives of civilians and weapons. he's thirty is it accordingly it was not more the kind of war it was and then showing that the core of a lot of hard christian communities feel threatened by the assad government i am not see it yet but they even see the. nineteen ninety four. and. of course the. conquer the opposition and the very tense is. that i but i didn't see. it kind of imagine what he. most people in the government of the. united nations because this is up at length. in britain had says it had to bomb syria because the government was using chemical weapons if you want to punish the government if you do not. see the notice unless you destroy your own current the old you only know one country to be spit on and then you could use the most so it. does not go and against the national and you let me finish why do you think russia and yourself

british. system is such that it can actually react pretty quickly so they could probably have it they could probably put put it up at least twice in december. the real point is not about the e.u. waiting it's about the e.u. being a bit realistic i mean they've imposed these this carthaginian peace they've created a sort of a new a new versailles treaty on the u.k. and it isn't going to stick. sorry either she won't get through the house of commons and even if it did it won't stick for any probable period of time. so says you're pretty and have kind of small themselves i mean i'll just say the important point about it getting through the house of commons there are fifty six conservative m.p.'s who have already publicly stated that they've got a very against it now they might whittle it down a bit to about forty but it's not the considering piece are going to vote against it which is the point the point is the labor party is going to vote against it it looks at the democratic unionist will vote

i was under the impression that they were putting their interests with a ball of british citizens. right for free to them in a hearing without a lawyer matthew hedges was sentenced to life in prison on wednesday accused of spying for the u.k. he's already spent five months in solitary confinement use a ph d. student who went to the u.a.e. to research the twenty eleven hour spring uprising abu dhabi says it hopes to find a solution to the case and has denied all claims of unfair treatment of the case has prompted a wave of criticism calls for a reevaluation of britain's relationship with her all of which gulf. when hedgers was first incarcerated in abu dhabi the u.k. government was trying to ink new trade deals with the u.a.e. our correspondent and i see a truck and i picked up the story. accused of spying and jailed for life that's now the fate of a british academic researcher in the united arab emirates an ally and friend of the u.k. but how much trouble is this case likely to stir up between the two given what's at stake we are incredibly disappointed that the u.s. should do this

the british got really bent out of shape. he german ships were doing so much better than the british ships. for one reason, they did not give running into icebergs and sinking. >> and yet, as the armistice is put in place, you quote one historian that it led to the age of catastrophe. can you explain? know, i think as we know, wilson says this would be a war to end all wars, he thought the united nations was going to be this innovation that would stop wars before they got large enough to involve the whole world. in fact, what happened instead was as we talked about before, world war ii. revolutions, the beginning of the cold war, with the united states sending troops into siberia. to rescue check troops who were also to rally but the revolutionary armies against the bolsheviks. 1945 was morentil bloodshed, revolutions. the greatest depression in world history. americans reasons why soured on world war i by the 1830's -- 1930's and was it to do anything to avoid another war including testing neutrality is because the aftermath

the british museum have too many works of art. anyone who wants to see the great benin bronzes will have to go to nigeria. and that i think will be very important in the development if you do not give it back you also help this country to create a museum and kuate. the status of art stolen during european empires as part of a new ongoing process of decolonisation. decomposition does not just happened with a declaration, it goes on for decades and these are part of it all. the main difficulty in dealing with colonial art as it is worth millions and nobody likes to give up assets that are worth millions. another important aspect is that gallery owners in the west believe that works are displayed in museums such as the louvre and will be seen by far more people and be safer than as opposed to be displayed and relatively isolated places in africa. louvre has opened up in abu dhabi and is going to build even more tourism, the rich get richer. it is the story of the gulf states. i do not think you can come up with a single view about re

and you would agree that russia has prevented british support and british help. thrown out and went into damascus. that believe that if the. if. you meant that the input is. not to support c. . ninety four and for that i think that is politically the plane then should be in tennis sometimes but for the life of civilians and what happened. he's thirty is it accordingly it was not more kind of the war it was and then showing that as a core of christian communities feel threatened by the assad government i am not see it yet but they even see the. nineteen ninety four. and. of course the. conquer the opposition and the very tense is. i but i didn't see. it kind of imagine what he. most people in the government of. the united nations because this is up at length is the. britain had says it had to bomb syria because the government was using chemical weapons if you want to punish the government if you will do not. see the notice unless we destroy evil incarnate the old you know any one country to be spit on and then because of the use of so it. does not go and against t

the british museum have too many works of art. anyone who wants to see the great benin bronzes will have to go to nigeria. and that i think will be very important in the development if you do not give it back you also help this country to create a museum and create curators. the status of art stolen during european empires as part of a new ongoing process of decolonisation. it does notjust happened with a declaration, it goes on for decades and these are part of it all. the main difficulty in dealing with colonial art as it is worth millions and nobody likes to give up assets that are worth millions. another important aspect is that gallery owners in the west believe that works are displayed in museums such as the louvre and will be seen by far more people and be safer than as opposed to be displayed and relatively isolated places in africa. louvre has opened up in abu dhabi and is going to build even more tourism, the rich get richer. it is the story of the gulf states. i do not think you can come up with a single view about retu

result the case of a british academic jailed for life in the u.s. on charges of spying that after claims london has been putting trade above justice in the british museum agrees to give back a collection of historic bronze sculptures and decorations to nigeria but only temporarily we look at how museums are at risk of losing collections as the number of disputed treasure is. just gone six pm here in moscow you're watching international. i don't trump a suggested that the world should perhaps be held accountable for the murder of the journalist. he also insisted u.s. intelligence not. fishley concluded that the saudi crown prince had ordered the killing despite media reports the contrary the us president was asked by reporters on thursday who should be held responsible. held accountable. maybe the world should be held accountable cause the world is a vicious blows world it's a very very vicious blows the last statement is perhaps indicate a change in trump's rhetoric regarding the khashoggi case where the news about the missing journalist first broke

british. system is such that it can actually react pretty quickly so they could probably have it they could probably put put it up at least twice in december. the real point is not about the e.u. waiting it's about the e.u. being a bit realistic i mean they've imposed these this carthaginian peace they've created a sort of a new a new versailles treaty on the u.k. and it isn't going to stick. sorry either she won't get through the house of commons and even if it did it won't stick for any probable period of time. so says you're pretty and have kind of outsmarted themselves i mean i'll just say the important point about it not getting through the house of commons there are fifty six conservative m.p.'s who have already publicly stated that they're going to vote against it now they might whittle it down a bit to about forty but it's not the considering piece we're going to vote against it which is the point the point is the labor party is going to vote against it it looks at the democratic union

dollars and russia has nothing to do with its troops i mean mostly brought why because this is the british troops who are not far from the russian borders especially in the stone ear and the generals there and the british is sending the troops to the ukraine in order to train the ukrainian soldiers to fight with the done boss in the guns so basically i see the military policy of the united kingdom quite aggressive you see the russian business trade for isn't going to be the headlines of the newspapers even though breaks it and post breaks a trade deals are only agenda nor these alleged chemical attacks in syria surprise there's no more attention paid to what russia is alleging is a chemical attack by rebels de facto i suppose supported by brit well first of all about the chemical attacks it's it's quite clear you know for for quite a number of years we were telling that the the rebels they have chemical weapons especially chlorine and unfortunately our british colleagues you know were not ready to support this thesis moreover they were supporting the white helmets and the jihadists or the

the british got been out of shape because the german ships were doing so much better than the british ships. for one reason, they didn't keep running into icebergs. host: you quote one historian that it led to the age of catastrophe. explain. as we know, wilson said it would be a war to end all wars beforeld stop they got large enough to involve the whole world. but in fact, what happened instead was, as we talked about before, a much worse war in world war ii, revolutions, the beginning of the cold war began in 1919 in the united states since troops into siberia to rescue check troops who were stranded there but to help against the bolsheviks. till 1945 is more bloodshed, revolutions, the greatest depression in world history. one of the reasons why americans soured on world war i and wanted to do anything to avoid another war, including passing the trail of the acts is because the aftermath of world war i was so horrible for many people in the world. so it was just the reverse of what wilson wanted. >> he believed that by force of will he could convince not just americans but europea

so i do think that the british parliament, because this isa the british parliament, because this is a wise parliament, while ratify this deal. this is the deal and it will not change, that will be used to the ears change, that will be used to the ea rs of change, that will be used to the ears of leo varadkar who had this to say. obviously still regret the fact that the uk is leaving the european union, i believe the best course of action would be for the uk to stay in the european union, the single market and the customs union but we respect the decisions not to do that so we respect the decisions not to do that so we spent two like you're trying to negotiate an agreement that protects our interests, our citizens and our economy and i believe we have that. an agreement which allows foran have that. an agreement which allows for an orderly withdrawal by the uk from the european union. an agreement which protects the freedom and rights of citizens particularly the common travel area and which provide a transition period during which we can negotiate a future relationship and if that's n