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Hello, I'm Ros Atkins, this is Outside Source. | :00:07. | :00:08. | |
After seven years, the Chilcot report into the UK's | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
involvement in the Iraq War has finally been published. | :00:12. | :00:18. | |
We have concluded that the UK chose to join the invasion of Iraq before | :00:19. | :00:27. | |
the peaceful options for disarmament had been exhausted. Military action | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
at that time was not a last resort. Tony Blair was the Prime | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Minister at the time. He defended some of his decisions, | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
but admitted he had made mistakes. For all of this I expressed more | :00:37. | :00:53. | |
sorrow, regret and apology down you may ever know or can believe. | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
And still the consequences are felt by those in Iraq. | :01:02. | :01:07. | |
We've Jeremy Bowen's latest report on this Baghdad. | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
And I will be joined by John Simpson. If you have any questions | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
on the Chilcot report, tweet us. The UK's official inquiry | :01:21. | :01:35. | |
into the Iraq War has It has looked at the events before, | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
during and after the UK and the US Seven years is how long it's taken | :01:39. | :01:49. | |
Sir John Chilcot and his colleagues. There are many, many elements to it, | :01:50. | :02:04. | |
but Laura Kuenssberg is right when she says that the "key quote | :02:05. | :02:17. | |
is that the circumstances in which it was decided | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
that there was a legal basis for military action were far | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
from satisfactory". And the man who took longer | :02:24. | :02:37. | |
than the Iraq War itself to judge Then, not a sound in | :02:38. | :02:57. | |
the Westminster Conference Centre, where the Chilcot evidence | :02:58. | :03:10. | |
was heard, and where the families waited for a final few seconds | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
for the verdict that has We have concluded that the UK chose | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
to join the invasion of Iraq before the peaceful options for disarmament | :03:19. | :03:29. | |
had been exhausted. Military action at that time | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
was not a last resort. The judgments about the severity | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
of the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, | :03:40. | :03:46. | |
WMD, were presented Despite explicit warnings, | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
the consequences of the invasion The planning and preparations | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
for Iraq after Saddam Hussein The Government failed | :04:00. | :04:06. | |
to achieve its stated objectives. He found no evidence of deceit, | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
but simply the case The report says it is now clear that | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
policy on Iraq was made on the basis of flawed | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
intelligence and assessments. And he found a woeful lack | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
of forethought for British But were troops sent | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
into an illegal war? Nowhere in the 2.5 million | :04:34. | :04:54. | |
words of this report But the report suggests the conflict | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
may have broken the law. The circumstances in which it was | :04:59. | :05:07. | |
decided there was a legal basis for UK military action | :05:08. | :05:11. | |
were far from satisfactory. The report catalogued the growing | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
determination of Tony Blair and George Bush to take | :05:17. | :05:32. | |
on Saddam Hussein. At the Bush ranch in 2002, | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
a strategy for a UN ultimatum or A couple of months later, | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
in a previously-unseen note, Blair wrote, "I will be with you, | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
whatever," still urging him By September, flawed | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
intelligence led to this claim. Which could be activated | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
within 45 minutes... But his determination | :06:00. | :06:05. | |
was stronger than diplomacy. Tonight, British servicemen | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
and women are engaged Their mission, to remove Saddam | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
Hussein from power and disarm Iraq. A rapid toppling of the regime that | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
quickly turned to failure. Hopes of an easy transition | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
were turned to dust. British forces without the basics | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
they needed, humiliated, But Tony Blair, who made | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
the decisions, was full of sorrow and regret, | :06:36. | :06:46. | |
but still thinks he was right. The decision to go to war | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
in Iraq and to remove Saddam Hussein from power, | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
in a coalition of more than 40 countries, led by the United States | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
of America, was the hardest, most momentous, most agonising | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
decision I took in my ten years For that decision today, | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
I accept full responsibility. Without exception | :07:09. | :07:23. | |
and without excuse. The intelligence assessments made | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
at the time of going into war The aftermath turned | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
out to be more hostile, protracted and bloody | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
than ever we imagined. The coalition planned | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
for one set of ground facts And a nation whose people we wanted | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
to set free and secure from the evil of Saddam became instead a victim | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
to sectarian terrorism. For all of this, I express more | :07:54. | :08:05. | |
sorrow, regret and apology than you may ever | :08:06. | :08:15. | |
know or can believe. There were no lies, there was no | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
deceit, there was no deception. But there was a decision, | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
and it was a controversial decision, a decision to remove Saddam | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
and a decision to be with America. The point about being Prime Minister | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
is that you are a decision maker. You sit in the seat | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
and take the decision. Your obligation to the country is to | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
take it as you believe it to be. This report is a devastating | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
catalogue of the failures of your Government and paints a very | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
clear picture of a Prime Minister who was determined to act | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
with the United States Do you understand the sentiments | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
of some of the families who believe you ought not just to have said | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
sorry a long time ago, but now you should face | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
some kind of punishment? It is true, I took the decision | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
after 9/11 we should be In the end, what more can | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
I do than say to people, this is why I took | :09:08. | :09:17. | |
the decision I did? But please stop saying | :09:18. | :09:19. | |
I was lying or had some kind I had the motives | :09:20. | :09:24. | |
I explained. Some moments of decision, | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
moments of protest barely last. Some stir anger and anguish | :09:30. | :09:39. | |
and will never be forgotten. The Iraq inquiry may suggest | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
once and for all this Watching the report is John Simpson. | :09:44. | :10:01. | |
I wonder what your thoughts are as you see today unfold? It seems to | :10:02. | :10:11. | |
have been a catastrophic failure of decision-making. | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
Why did the Americans do it? They did it because 9/11 had made them | :10:18. | :10:27. | |
seem weak and they wanted to show they were still the prime military | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
power in the world. That was a failure, because in the end they had | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
to declare that they could not fight two wars at once, something they had | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
always claimed to be able to do. They were badly diminished. Why | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
should Britain get mixed up in it? It was always the notion in British | :10:47. | :10:56. | |
decision-making that we were stronger Wembley Stadium closer to | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
the United States. Tony Blair, for whatever reason, wanted to be really | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
close to the United States, closer than any body else. The problem with | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
this was that Britain ought to have brought along with it the immense | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
experience it has got in Iraq itself, apart from anything else, | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
many diplomats and administrators knew perfectly well what had to | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
happen in Iraq after the invasion, and it was completely ignored, | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
everything the British said should happen was just ignored by the | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
Americans. With the result, I go to Iraq quite often, it is a devastated | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
country, it has not even begun to pick itself up properly as a result | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
of what was done to it in 2003. Although Tony Blair and George Bush | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
have reiterated their belief that, despite the fact mistakes were made, | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Iraq is better off without Saddam Hussein. A lot of people don't | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
necessarily agree with that. It is a comparison of two very unpleasant | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
realities. One under Saddam Hussein, who was probably the nastiest leader | :12:12. | :12:19. | |
in the world at that time, and now complete anarchy, with Isis going | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
around bombing people on a fairly regular basis, as we have seen in | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
the last few days. It is difficult to say which is worse, but what you | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
can say is that the basic structure of a country which used to hold | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
together has been pulled out from underneath it. Yes, it Saddam | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
Hussein had continued in power, there would have been trouble, he | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
was spoiling for a fight with the West, it would have happened, but it | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
would have happened in a different way. Tony Blair gave a long | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
statement today, he took questions for a long period of time, it was a | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
chance for all of us to listen to his side of things, he remained | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
somebody who can access many leaders around the world, his stature on the | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
world stage has not been diminished by the Iraq war, not entirely, but | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
nonetheless this has been a devastating critique of how he ran | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
the richest Government. It really has. It will be difficult for him to | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
maintain that same kind of influence that he has had in between times. | :13:34. | :13:41. | |
It was an absolutely devastating judgment on him. Some people said | :13:42. | :13:53. | |
the break in his voice was phoney, I don't think it was in the slightest. | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
I think he has taken it very much to heart. I think he is a greatly | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
diminished figure as a result. A word about Britain's standing in the | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
world, this is what you spend your time analysing, how we fit into the | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
globe we exist in, do you think the report will impact on that? It is a | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
combination of things that have diminished Britain. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
The decision to leave the European Union is something which in other | :14:24. | :14:31. | |
countries around the world is regarded as diminishing Britain. You | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
might think there is nothing whatsoever to do that connects what | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
happened in Iraq with what happened two weeks ago in the referendum. I | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
think there was something that connected. People in Britain became | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
thoroughly disillusioned with politics and the promises and offers | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
and statements of politicians and we saw the final was all of that with | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
the vote to pull out from the European Union. People are sick of | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
politicians and what they were saying, they did not want to take | :15:11. | :15:11. | |
any notice. In the UK John will also be on the | :15:12. | :15:23. | |
ten PMQs after us. If you are interested in football, | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
this is what is happening between Wales and Portugal, the biggest | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
match in Welsh football history, but it is not going to plan. Cristiano | :15:33. | :15:40. | |
Ronaldo and Nani scoring goals in quick succession, it is a long way | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
back for Wales, but the game is still going, you can follow it | :15:45. | :15:45. | |
online. In OS business shortly we'll be live | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
in New York to talk about another poor day for global stock markets, | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
and the pound has fallen to its lowest level | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
against the dollar since 1985. Central London has been rocked by | :15:55. | :16:16. | |
terrorist attacks, there is growing speculation that Al-Qaeda was | :16:17. | :16:17. | |
responsible. The winner is... Germany. | :16:18. | :16:26. | |
The possibility of losing had not even been contemplated in South | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
Africa. Celebration parties were cancelled. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
A man entered through a downstairs window and made his way to the | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
Queen's Private bedroom, then he asked her for a cigarette. She | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
summoned a footman on duty, who took the man away. | :16:43. | :16:51. | |
One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. | :16:52. | :17:02. | |
Education is the only solution. This is Outside Source live | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
from the BBC newsroom. A long-awaited British inquiry | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
into the Iraq War has heavily criticised the British Government | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
for helping the US to invade before all peaceful options | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
had been exhausted. It also criticised planning for the | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
aftermath. Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
to six years in jail. He'd already been convicted | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
of murdering his girlfriend He had faced a minimum of 15 years, | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
but the judge said there were mitigating factors. | :17:55. | :17:56. | |
BBC Pashto reports on President Obama's announcement today | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
that the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan would slow down, | :17:59. | :18:00. | |
meaning more soldiers than originally planned will be | :18:01. | :18:02. | |
Lionel Messi will appeal against his conviction for tax fraud. | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Earlier he was sentenced to 21 months in prison by a Spanish court. | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
He's also fined over 2 million dollars. | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
Neither, though, are expected to serve any time in jail | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
as short sentences in Spain are usually suspended. | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
Lots of people reading about that on the BBC News App. | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
We have the first semifinal at Euro 2016, Portugal leading Wales 2-0, | :18:33. | :18:42. | |
and Wimbledon, it the men's quarterfinals, it was a thriller, | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
but Andy Murray got through in the end. He gave us a scare. Yes, he | :18:47. | :18:58. | |
did, he gave the fans that have been flocking in their thousands, they | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
have gone home now, you should have seen some of the facial expressions | :19:04. | :19:11. | |
they were making, as he was leading 2-0 in sets, then Jo-Wilfried Tsonga | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
made an incredible comeback. It was Andy Murray's experience that shone | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
through. He has been so efficient and clinical, and he has a good | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
record against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, but in the third and fourth set he | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
had a wobble. His experience came through. Now that he has been raving | :19:28. | :19:34. | |
smug reunited with his coach Ivan Lendl, the has found his edge again, | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
he came through in the final set to take the match. He marches onto the | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
semifinal. This was his ninth straight quarterfinal in a row, he | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
is in the last four again, looking to add to the title that he won in | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
2013. Also, Roger Federer is through, but only just. Yes, again, | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
he gave the fans a scare, he is a very popular player, and he was | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
playing earlier, the first match of the day, on Centre Court, he was up | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
against Marin Cilic, a massive serve by him. He went 2-0 down in sets, | :20:13. | :20:21. | |
and at 34 you perhaps thought he was going to fail to come back, but | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
Centre Court saw something so special, he came back, he took the | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
third, fourth and fifth sets, and he is also through to the last four, | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
where he will play Thomas Burdick. Here is a fact, Cristiano Ronaldo | :20:34. | :20:47. | |
has never scored for -- from a free kick in 34 attempts in a major | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
international tournament, but he has just gone close against Wales. It | :20:52. | :20:58. | |
remains to- Sea Road to Portugal. -- 2-0. | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
Global stock markets have fallen and the pound has hit another | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
31-year low as Brexit worries continue to rattle markets. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
The Ftse 100 share index closed 1.25% lower, while earlier | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
the pound dropped to $1.2798, its lowest since 1985, | :21:15. | :21:25. | |
How long do you think this can go on? I feel like I have said it has | :21:26. | :21:41. | |
hit a new low quite a few times in the last two weeks. If you believe | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
what some analysts have to say, like Goldman Sachs, you are going to say | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
it a few more times in the coming days and weeks. Goldman Sachs | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
believes the pound could fall even lower. All of this has to do with | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
Brexit, investors are losing some confidence, based on some comments | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
from Mark Carney, when he said that some of those fears of Brexit are | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
starting to crystallise. It had an impact on the value of the pound. | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
Quite often I say it is a 31 year low, what happened in 1985 that | :22:23. | :22:31. | |
caused it to be so weak's --? It did not have as much do with the pound | :22:32. | :22:36. | |
as it did with the American dollar. The US was coming out of a | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
recession. Ronald Reagan was the president, and he had a policy of a | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
strong dollar. You saw the value of the American dollar really shoot up. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
That put pressure on other currencies. It was not that the | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
pound was weak, the dollar was strong. We will talk again very | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
soon. There is a huge rescue and relief | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
operation under way in China because of a week of severe rain along the | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
Yangtze River in Central and southern China. 120 people have lost | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
their lives, more than a million have been forced to leave their | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
homes. Two thirds of the country has been affected. This report comes | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
from Wuhan in the east of China. Just after 7pm in the evening, this | :23:27. | :23:39. | |
intersection should be bustling with people heading home from work. Aside | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
from a few brave ones, there is nobody getting through this water | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
tonight. It is almost up to my knees, because they have had a | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
record amount of rainfall in the city of Wuhan in the last six days, | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
the most in their recorded history. Tens of thousands of people, mostly | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
in the suburbs, have been moved out of their homes, thousands of homes | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
have been destroyed. What we are seeing is infrastructure, roads, | :24:09. | :24:14. | |
telecommunications affected, and farmland across swathes of the | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
country has been flooded. This is an idea of the scale of the relief and | :24:20. | :24:25. | |
rescue operation in the two thirds of China that has been affected by | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
these storms. This city is five or six hours away, it shows the scale | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
of the devastation and the task that lies ahead for the emergency | :24:37. | :24:42. | |
services. China's premiere was in Wuhan today, he is overseeing the | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
effort, the president of China has deployed more members of the | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
military to join in the rescue operation. For now there is some | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
respite. There is no rain tonight, it gives them a chance to continue | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
the clear up operation, but the city remains on red alert, the most | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
severe alert. What they are most worried about is what is to come. | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
The forecasters know there is a typhoon currently around the | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
Philippines are heading towards the south-east coast of China, due to | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
hit into three days, and they worry it will cause severe wind, and even | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
more rain. The big concern is all of those dams on the River hold the | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
water. Can they hold back the torrent of water they have seen in | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
the last six days? What they fear is a repeat of what they had 18 years | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
ago. The dams and tributaries failed and they had a disaster on a much | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
more significant scale. Few have seen our coverage of the | :25:46. | :25:50. | |
Chilcot report, there is extensive information about it online as well | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
as here on the television, you can get it through the BBC News at. | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
Speak to you in a couple of minutes. | :25:58. | :26:00. |