Now the government keeps to the law now theres a lot of press about diplomatic immunity case i want to get onto that in a 2nd but i know you would. For a while perhaps you cant talk about it but there have been revelations that you are bugged on well i havent read those reparations i will of course say julian is in jail with a lot of islamic terrorists and belmarsh prison likely to remain for a couple of years while his extradition case goes through so. His fate will depend on the British Government or the British Government as it is in a couple of years time maybe but i think the conservatives would be happy to extradite him it may be that mr coburns government would not ok but i mean you have such a little illustrious history. Of human rights cases have you ever previously been bugged by the cia as you read talking to cloud i suspect ive been bugged by the russians by the americans by the us. I suspect that the role of an independent lawyer acting in cases where dissidents are up aga
That dont have a written constitution a Great Britain and saudi arabia and in saudi arabia they dont have a Supreme Court that is capable of holding the ruler the government to account and i think we can be proud of the fact that our Supreme Court did stop the government from getting rid of parliament for 5 weeks that was an outrage and of course it was the Supreme Court who protected parliamentary democracy so i guess we dont know whether we live in a parliamentary democracy or usual morning but you know very little constitutional no mans land where you know very well we dont have a written constitution why not where the country that gave the world the english language shakespeare and we are incapable apparently of writing down and goes deeper because you know in the sixtys when we gave independence to all these other former colonies we gave them our constitution we wrote it down here is a westminster constitution. So it may have the way they have it every day yeah but you know very w
Boris johnson as he seeks to bypass legal obligations and leave the European Union in 1000 days time coming out of the show was world renowned Human Rights Watch Geoffrey Robertson q. C. Bugged by the cia in london we ask him whats legal and whats illegal when it comes to Boris Johnson lula u. S. Diplomat Scotland Yard and your innocence in u. K. Black History Month going underground speaks of the son of miles davis one of the greatest jazz artists of all time all the small growing up and todays going underground on the day of what u. K. Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn goals are fos the state opening of the British Parliament by the queen joining me is one of the worlds top human rights was Geoffrey Robinson q. C. A founder of daddy street chambers jeffrey welcome back to going undergrads are reports of the queen seeking advice on sacking Boris Johnson intimations routinely in the press the johnson wants to unlawfully avoid sending a letter to the European Union your queens councillors the
Were seeing around right now and it would be seen as a sign of weakness if the German Government wasnt able to stick with this selfproclaimed goal it is kind of the last hallmarks of stability that the magical government can demonstrate and all if so its the finance minister goes along with that lets just put it this way the leading photograph for wolfgang swipely who became infamous for being so tough on greece over that debt was all of his Staff Members forming the bloc 0 everybody behind yeah bend. And as a leaving present say actually one of the experts who work that out is now in a think tank and is questioning the very concept right now so thats where we are and i think the next weeks and months will tell how adamant he will stick to it come of back to you briefly last week even rumors that germany might invest more and provide some stimulus help lift it lifting stock markets around the world how important is this. Well youre right out of course many other factors are driving the
Done and reform but this is a very sensitive issue as we all know we have taxation thats high on the agenda so we might get some kind of minimum tax form which a National Corporations we have migration on the agenda we have to digitize ation how to educate people how to use digitisation as a source for economic froze so there are many issues that need to be tackled but actually everybody will look at how does Climate Change in trade come out of it so its will be a very critical summit ok climate. Climate politics and trade the 2 areas where we could see progress claudio thanks very much for coming in. Lets break down some of the other stories making the news this hour at least 5 people have been killed in a stampede at a packed raf concert in the old carrion capital of cheers thousands of gathered at a concert by a local rap artist. Video posted online shows medics attending to some of the us. The prominent kremlin critic alexy has been released from prison after serving 30 days a mosc