:00:07. > :00:08.Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source.
:00:09. > :00:11.After seven years, the Chilcot report into the UK's
:00:12. > :00:18.involvement in the Iraq War has finally been published.
:00:19. > :00:27.We have concluded that the UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before
:00:28. > :00:30.the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action
:00:31. > :00:34.at that time was not a last resort. Tony Blair was the Prime
:00:35. > :00:36.Minister at the time. He defended some of his decisions,
:00:37. > :00:53.but admitted he had made mistakes. For all of this I expressed more
:00:54. > :01:01.sorrow, regret and apology down you may ever know or can believe.
:01:02. > :01:07.And still the consequences are felt by those in Iraq.
:01:08. > :01:16.We've Jeremy Bowen's latest report on this Baghdad.
:01:17. > :01:20.And I will be joined by John Simpson. If you have any questions
:01:21. > :01:35.on the Chilcot report, tweet us. The UK's official inquiry
:01:36. > :01:38.into the Iraq War has It has looked at the events before,
:01:39. > :01:49.during and after the UK and the US Seven years is how long it's taken
:01:50. > :02:04.Sir John Chilcot and his colleagues. There are many, many elements to it,
:02:05. > :02:17.but Laura Kuenssberg is right when she says that the "key quote
:02:18. > :02:21.is that the circumstances in which it was decided
:02:22. > :02:23.that there was a legal basis for military action were far
:02:24. > :02:37.from satisfactory". And the man who took longer
:02:38. > :02:57.than the Iraq War itself to judge Then, not a sound in
:02:58. > :03:10.the Westminster Conference Centre, where the Chilcot evidence
:03:11. > :03:13.was heard, and where the families waited for a final few seconds
:03:14. > :03:18.for the verdict that has We have concluded that the UK chose
:03:19. > :03:29.to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament
:03:30. > :03:34.had been exhausted. Military action at that time
:03:35. > :03:39.was not a last resort. The judgments about the severity
:03:40. > :03:46.of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction,
:03:47. > :03:51.WMD, were presented Despite explicit warnings,
:03:52. > :03:59.the consequences of the invasion The planning and preparations
:04:00. > :04:06.for Iraq after Saddam Hussein The Government failed
:04:07. > :04:14.to achieve its stated objectives. He found no evidence of deceit,
:04:15. > :04:17.but simply the case The report says it is now clear that
:04:18. > :04:23.policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed
:04:24. > :04:30.intelligence and assessments. And he found a woeful lack
:04:31. > :04:33.of forethought for British But were troops sent
:04:34. > :04:54.into an illegal war? Nowhere in the 2.5 million
:04:55. > :04:58.words of this report But the report suggests the conflict
:04:59. > :05:07.may have broken the law. The circumstances in which it was
:05:08. > :05:11.decided there was a legal basis for UK military action
:05:12. > :05:16.were far from satisfactory. The report catalogued the growing
:05:17. > :05:32.determination of Tony Blair and George Bush to take
:05:33. > :05:36.on Saddam Hussein. At the Bush ranch in 2002,
:05:37. > :05:41.a strategy for a UN ultimatum or A couple of months later,
:05:42. > :05:48.in a previously-unseen note, Blair wrote, "I will be with you,
:05:49. > :05:52.whatever," still urging him By September, flawed
:05:53. > :05:59.intelligence led to this claim. Which could be activated
:06:00. > :06:05.within 45 minutes... But his determination
:06:06. > :06:09.was stronger than diplomacy. Tonight, British servicemen
:06:10. > :06:17.and women are engaged Their mission, to remove Saddam
:06:18. > :06:24.Hussein from power and disarm Iraq. A rapid toppling of the regime that
:06:25. > :06:27.quickly turned to failure. Hopes of an easy transition
:06:28. > :06:32.were turned to dust. British forces without the basics
:06:33. > :06:35.they needed, humiliated, But Tony Blair, who made
:06:36. > :06:46.the decisions, was full of sorrow and regret,
:06:47. > :06:51.but still thinks he was right. The decision to go to war
:06:52. > :06:54.in Iraq and to remove Saddam Hussein from power,
:06:55. > :06:58.in a coalition of more than 40 countries, led by the United States
:06:59. > :07:04.of America, was the hardest, most momentous, most agonising
:07:05. > :07:08.decision I took in my ten years For that decision today,
:07:09. > :07:23.I accept full responsibility. Without exception
:07:24. > :07:27.and without excuse. The intelligence assessments made
:07:28. > :07:30.at the time of going into war The aftermath turned
:07:31. > :07:38.out to be more hostile, protracted and bloody
:07:39. > :07:42.than ever we imagined. The coalition planned
:07:43. > :07:46.for one set of ground facts And a nation whose people we wanted
:07:47. > :07:53.to set free and secure from the evil of Saddam became instead a victim
:07:54. > :08:05.to sectarian terrorism. For all of this, I express more
:08:06. > :08:15.sorrow, regret and apology than you may ever
:08:16. > :08:20.know or can believe. There were no lies, there was no
:08:21. > :08:23.deceit, there was no deception. But there was a decision,
:08:24. > :08:26.and it was a controversial decision, a decision to remove Saddam
:08:27. > :08:31.and a decision to be with America. The point about being Prime Minister
:08:32. > :08:35.is that you are a decision maker. You sit in the seat
:08:36. > :08:37.and take the decision. Your obligation to the country is to
:08:38. > :08:41.take it as you believe it to be. This report is a devastating
:08:42. > :08:44.catalogue of the failures of your Government and paints a very
:08:45. > :08:48.clear picture of a Prime Minister who was determined to act
:08:49. > :08:52.with the United States Do you understand the sentiments
:08:53. > :08:58.of some of the families who believe you ought not just to have said
:08:59. > :09:01.sorry a long time ago, but now you should face
:09:02. > :09:04.some kind of punishment? It is true, I took the decision
:09:05. > :09:07.after 9/11 we should be In the end, what more can
:09:08. > :09:17.I do than say to people, this is why I took
:09:18. > :09:19.the decision I did? But please stop saying
:09:20. > :09:24.I was lying or had some kind I had the motives
:09:25. > :09:29.I explained. Some moments of decision,
:09:30. > :09:39.moments of protest barely last. Some stir anger and anguish
:09:40. > :09:43.and will never be forgotten. The Iraq inquiry may suggest
:09:44. > :10:01.once and for all this Watching the report is John Simpson.
:10:02. > :10:11.I wonder what your thoughts are as you see today unfold? It seems to
:10:12. > :10:17.have been a catastrophic failure of decision-making.
:10:18. > :10:27.Why did the Americans do it? They did it because 9/11 had made them
:10:28. > :10:34.seem weak and they wanted to show they were still the prime military
:10:35. > :10:37.power in the world. That was a failure, because in the end they had
:10:38. > :10:41.to declare that they could not fight two wars at once, something they had
:10:42. > :10:46.always claimed to be able to do. They were badly diminished. Why
:10:47. > :10:56.should Britain get mixed up in it? It was always the notion in British
:10:57. > :11:01.decision-making that we were stronger Wembley Stadium closer to
:11:02. > :11:05.the United States. Tony Blair, for whatever reason, wanted to be really
:11:06. > :11:11.close to the United States, closer than any body else. The problem with
:11:12. > :11:15.this was that Britain ought to have brought along with it the immense
:11:16. > :11:22.experience it has got in Iraq itself, apart from anything else,
:11:23. > :11:27.many diplomats and administrators knew perfectly well what had to
:11:28. > :11:33.happen in Iraq after the invasion, and it was completely ignored,
:11:34. > :11:39.everything the British said should happen was just ignored by the
:11:40. > :11:44.Americans. With the result, I go to Iraq quite often, it is a devastated
:11:45. > :11:48.country, it has not even begun to pick itself up properly as a result
:11:49. > :11:54.of what was done to it in 2003. Although Tony Blair and George Bush
:11:55. > :11:58.have reiterated their belief that, despite the fact mistakes were made,
:11:59. > :12:05.Iraq is better off without Saddam Hussein. A lot of people don't
:12:06. > :12:11.necessarily agree with that. It is a comparison of two very unpleasant
:12:12. > :12:19.realities. One under Saddam Hussein, who was probably the nastiest leader
:12:20. > :12:26.in the world at that time, and now complete anarchy, with Isis going
:12:27. > :12:32.around bombing people on a fairly regular basis, as we have seen in
:12:33. > :12:38.the last few days. It is difficult to say which is worse, but what you
:12:39. > :12:45.can say is that the basic structure of a country which used to hold
:12:46. > :12:52.together has been pulled out from underneath it. Yes, it Saddam
:12:53. > :12:57.Hussein had continued in power, there would have been trouble, he
:12:58. > :13:00.was spoiling for a fight with the West, it would have happened, but it
:13:01. > :13:04.would have happened in a different way. Tony Blair gave a long
:13:05. > :13:09.statement today, he took questions for a long period of time, it was a
:13:10. > :13:13.chance for all of us to listen to his side of things, he remained
:13:14. > :13:19.somebody who can access many leaders around the world, his stature on the
:13:20. > :13:24.world stage has not been diminished by the Iraq war, not entirely, but
:13:25. > :13:29.nonetheless this has been a devastating critique of how he ran
:13:30. > :13:33.the richest Government. It really has. It will be difficult for him to
:13:34. > :13:41.maintain that same kind of influence that he has had in between times.
:13:42. > :13:53.It was an absolutely devastating judgment on him. Some people said
:13:54. > :13:57.the break in his voice was phoney, I don't think it was in the slightest.
:13:58. > :14:03.I think he has taken it very much to heart. I think he is a greatly
:14:04. > :14:10.diminished figure as a result. A word about Britain's standing in the
:14:11. > :14:14.world, this is what you spend your time analysing, how we fit into the
:14:15. > :14:19.globe we exist in, do you think the report will impact on that? It is a
:14:20. > :14:23.combination of things that have diminished Britain.
:14:24. > :14:31.The decision to leave the European Union is something which in other
:14:32. > :14:35.countries around the world is regarded as diminishing Britain. You
:14:36. > :14:40.might think there is nothing whatsoever to do that connects what
:14:41. > :14:47.happened in Iraq with what happened two weeks ago in the referendum. I
:14:48. > :14:55.think there was something that connected. People in Britain became
:14:56. > :14:59.thoroughly disillusioned with politics and the promises and offers
:15:00. > :15:05.and statements of politicians and we saw the final was all of that with
:15:06. > :15:10.the vote to pull out from the European Union. People are sick of
:15:11. > :15:11.politicians and what they were saying, they did not want to take
:15:12. > :15:23.any notice. In the UK John will also be on the
:15:24. > :15:29.ten PMQs after us. If you are interested in football,
:15:30. > :15:32.this is what is happening between Wales and Portugal, the biggest
:15:33. > :15:40.match in Welsh football history, but it is not going to plan. Cristiano
:15:41. > :15:44.Ronaldo and Nani scoring goals in quick succession, it is a long way
:15:45. > :15:45.back for Wales, but the game is still going, you can follow it
:15:46. > :15:48.online. In OS business shortly we'll be live
:15:49. > :15:51.in New York to talk about another poor day for global stock markets,
:15:52. > :15:54.and the pound has fallen to its lowest level
:15:55. > :16:16.against the dollar since 1985. Central London has been rocked by
:16:17. > :16:17.terrorist attacks, there is growing speculation that Al-Qaeda was
:16:18. > :16:26.responsible. The winner is... Germany.
:16:27. > :16:29.The possibility of losing had not even been contemplated in South
:16:30. > :16:33.Africa. Celebration parties were cancelled.
:16:34. > :16:38.A man entered through a downstairs window and made his way to the
:16:39. > :16:42.Queen's Private bedroom, then he asked her for a cigarette. She
:16:43. > :16:51.summoned a footman on duty, who took the man away.
:16:52. > :17:02.One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.
:17:03. > :17:10.Education is the only solution. This is Outside Source live
:17:11. > :17:13.from the BBC newsroom. A long-awaited British inquiry
:17:14. > :17:20.into the Iraq War has heavily criticised the British Government
:17:21. > :17:27.for helping the US to invade before all peaceful options
:17:28. > :17:34.had been exhausted. It also criticised planning for the
:17:35. > :17:41.aftermath. Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced
:17:42. > :17:44.to six years in jail. He'd already been convicted
:17:45. > :17:54.of murdering his girlfriend He had faced a minimum of 15 years,
:17:55. > :17:56.but the judge said there were mitigating factors.
:17:57. > :17:58.BBC Pashto reports on President Obama's announcement today
:17:59. > :18:00.that the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan would slow down,
:18:01. > :18:02.meaning more soldiers than originally planned will be
:18:03. > :18:08.Lionel Messi will appeal against his conviction for tax fraud.
:18:09. > :18:11.Earlier he was sentenced to 21 months in prison by a Spanish court.
:18:12. > :18:16.He's also fined over 2 million dollars.
:18:17. > :18:20.Neither, though, are expected to serve any time in jail
:18:21. > :18:23.as short sentences in Spain are usually suspended.
:18:24. > :18:32.Lots of people reading about that on the BBC News App.
:18:33. > :18:42.We have the first semifinal at Euro 2016, Portugal leading Wales 2-0,
:18:43. > :18:46.and Wimbledon, it the men's quarterfinals, it was a thriller,
:18:47. > :18:58.but Andy Murray got through in the end. He gave us a scare. Yes, he
:18:59. > :19:03.did, he gave the fans that have been flocking in their thousands, they
:19:04. > :19:11.have gone home now, you should have seen some of the facial expressions
:19:12. > :19:16.they were making, as he was leading 2-0 in sets, then Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
:19:17. > :19:21.made an incredible comeback. It was Andy Murray's experience that shone
:19:22. > :19:24.through. He has been so efficient and clinical, and he has a good
:19:25. > :19:27.record against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, but in the third and fourth set he
:19:28. > :19:34.had a wobble. His experience came through. Now that he has been raving
:19:35. > :19:39.smug reunited with his coach Ivan Lendl, the has found his edge again,
:19:40. > :19:43.he came through in the final set to take the match. He marches onto the
:19:44. > :19:48.semifinal. This was his ninth straight quarterfinal in a row, he
:19:49. > :19:55.is in the last four again, looking to add to the title that he won in
:19:56. > :20:03.2013. Also, Roger Federer is through, but only just. Yes, again,
:20:04. > :20:08.he gave the fans a scare, he is a very popular player, and he was
:20:09. > :20:12.playing earlier, the first match of the day, on Centre Court, he was up
:20:13. > :20:21.against Marin Cilic, a massive serve by him. He went 2-0 down in sets,
:20:22. > :20:26.and at 34 you perhaps thought he was going to fail to come back, but
:20:27. > :20:31.Centre Court saw something so special, he came back, he took the
:20:32. > :20:33.third, fourth and fifth sets, and he is also through to the last four,
:20:34. > :20:47.where he will play Thomas Burdick. Here is a fact, Cristiano Ronaldo
:20:48. > :20:51.has never scored for -- from a free kick in 34 attempts in a major
:20:52. > :20:58.international tournament, but he has just gone close against Wales. It
:20:59. > :21:00.remains to- Sea Road to Portugal. -- 2-0.
:21:01. > :21:02.Global stock markets have fallen and the pound has hit another
:21:03. > :21:07.31-year low as Brexit worries continue to rattle markets.
:21:08. > :21:14.The Ftse 100 share index closed 1.25% lower, while earlier
:21:15. > :21:25.the pound dropped to $1.2798, its lowest since 1985,
:21:26. > :21:41.How long do you think this can go on? I feel like I have said it has
:21:42. > :21:47.hit a new low quite a few times in the last two weeks. If you believe
:21:48. > :21:51.what some analysts have to say, like Goldman Sachs, you are going to say
:21:52. > :21:55.it a few more times in the coming days and weeks. Goldman Sachs
:21:56. > :22:03.believes the pound could fall even lower. All of this has to do with
:22:04. > :22:10.Brexit, investors are losing some confidence, based on some comments
:22:11. > :22:17.from Mark Carney, when he said that some of those fears of Brexit are
:22:18. > :22:22.starting to crystallise. It had an impact on the value of the pound.
:22:23. > :22:31.Quite often I say it is a 31 year low, what happened in 1985 that
:22:32. > :22:36.caused it to be so weak's --? It did not have as much do with the pound
:22:37. > :22:40.as it did with the American dollar. The US was coming out of a
:22:41. > :22:46.recession. Ronald Reagan was the president, and he had a policy of a
:22:47. > :22:52.strong dollar. You saw the value of the American dollar really shoot up.
:22:53. > :22:56.That put pressure on other currencies. It was not that the
:22:57. > :23:02.pound was weak, the dollar was strong. We will talk again very
:23:03. > :23:07.soon. There is a huge rescue and relief
:23:08. > :23:11.operation under way in China because of a week of severe rain along the
:23:12. > :23:17.Yangtze River in Central and southern China. 120 people have lost
:23:18. > :23:22.their lives, more than a million have been forced to leave their
:23:23. > :23:26.homes. Two thirds of the country has been affected. This report comes
:23:27. > :23:39.from Wuhan in the east of China. Just after 7pm in the evening, this
:23:40. > :23:46.intersection should be bustling with people heading home from work. Aside
:23:47. > :23:50.from a few brave ones, there is nobody getting through this water
:23:51. > :23:53.tonight. It is almost up to my knees, because they have had a
:23:54. > :23:59.record amount of rainfall in the city of Wuhan in the last six days,
:24:00. > :24:03.the most in their recorded history. Tens of thousands of people, mostly
:24:04. > :24:08.in the suburbs, have been moved out of their homes, thousands of homes
:24:09. > :24:14.have been destroyed. What we are seeing is infrastructure, roads,
:24:15. > :24:19.telecommunications affected, and farmland across swathes of the
:24:20. > :24:25.country has been flooded. This is an idea of the scale of the relief and
:24:26. > :24:32.rescue operation in the two thirds of China that has been affected by
:24:33. > :24:36.these storms. This city is five or six hours away, it shows the scale
:24:37. > :24:42.of the devastation and the task that lies ahead for the emergency
:24:43. > :24:47.services. China's premiere was in Wuhan today, he is overseeing the
:24:48. > :24:50.effort, the president of China has deployed more members of the
:24:51. > :24:55.military to join in the rescue operation. For now there is some
:24:56. > :25:00.respite. There is no rain tonight, it gives them a chance to continue
:25:01. > :25:04.the clear up operation, but the city remains on red alert, the most
:25:05. > :25:09.severe alert. What they are most worried about is what is to come.
:25:10. > :25:12.The forecasters know there is a typhoon currently around the
:25:13. > :25:17.Philippines are heading towards the south-east coast of China, due to
:25:18. > :25:22.hit into three days, and they worry it will cause severe wind, and even
:25:23. > :25:28.more rain. The big concern is all of those dams on the River hold the
:25:29. > :25:32.water. Can they hold back the torrent of water they have seen in
:25:33. > :25:39.the last six days? What they fear is a repeat of what they had 18 years
:25:40. > :25:45.ago. The dams and tributaries failed and they had a disaster on a much
:25:46. > :25:50.more significant scale. Few have seen our coverage of the
:25:51. > :25:53.Chilcot report, there is extensive information about it online as well
:25:54. > :25:57.as here on the television, you can get it through the BBC News at.
:25:58. > :26:00.Speak to you in a couple of minutes.