Going on the ground is off to crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon admits his country Washington Post john this Jamal Khashoggi one year ago today the u. S. And britain continue to sell billions of dollars of weapons to saudi arabia coming up in the show irans ambassador to the United Nations fights back against nato nations accusations that its drone attacks saudi arabia causing oil prices to spike 5 percent and he warns britain against following the United States into all out war with the Islamic Republic on the 150th anniversary of his birth what would former british detainee make of the current. Simmering between india and pakistan over kashmir the United Nations former general indian. And as a sex scandal hits a conservative conference and says its final day tories attack germany corporate sponsors scrap welfare changes accused of killing 17000 people we speak to a former minister voted for. Universal credit and ask what twitter has to do with the 77th brigade of the british army the civil war coming up in todays going on the ground 0 1st its a year to the day that one of britains closest allies allegedly killed a Washington Post journalist heres the uns extrajudicial executions investigator agnes kalamata on a channel owned by carter recently blockaded by saudi arabia who is responsible for the matter of Jamal Khashoggi distinct from saudi arabia 1st and foremost i support support from the point amount of Oil Superpower saudi arabia and its defacto watercraft mohamed bin solomon has long been in the sights of Britains Jeremy Corbyn the chief architect of the brutal war in yemen which has killed 56000 people and brought 14000000 to the brink of famine the crown prince is believed to have ordered the murder of john will. Rather than be robust as he promised we learned the Prime Minister told the dictator please dont use the weapons we are selling you in the war you are waging and asked him nicely to investigate the murder he allegedly ordered corbin today damns the new Prime Minister after to raise a man David CameronBoris Johnson what does he think of saudi arabia well within 10 weeks of becoming Prime Minister johnson was forced to send one of his ministers to parliament to apologize for illegal Deadly Weapon parts sales he supported. The apologize for the export licenses that my department issued in our 2015 conservative and liberal politicians have authorized 5300000000 pounds of weapons to saudi arabia even some mainstream journalists let alone n. G. O. S Like Amnesty International have alleged the use of banned u. K. Made cluster munitions joining me from geneva is irans ambassador to the United Nations as well by thank you so much ambassador for coming on the show well get to yemen in a moment 1st of all u. K. Media says that your country is isolated there are some reports of japan and from. Offering lines of credit to iran as donald trump ramps up the sanctions what exactly is the state of irans isolation i think its better to leave it to all the Public Opinion weve countries isolated president rouhani has traveled to new york we could go there he was there he met so many leaders and everyone is concerned about the extremist unilateralist approach by the United States administration i think are the truce which country is isolated and thats a very telling situation do you think the instep system of trying to avoid u. S. Sanctions is going to work i noticed more countries joined in russia this week many conversations in new york about the europeans have been trying to show that they have done what they read the quote to salvage the d. C. P. Way but unfortunately in practice our nothing has moved so far so we are still of a thing to see what would be concrete actions and measures by europeans of course the New York Times is are there doing that your president left strumpet hanging when a call was set up between between them through president of france why did he not come out of his room at the new yorker lemme tell last week they are talking about the new deal and thats what they are trying to achieve but you see the states do not conclude the out of where we more on any poles any agreement is supposed to be based on reliable partners to have a purpose if they are looking for a deal youre going to have a need there is an existing the which has been working well and only one country reneged on its obligation and pulled out but as ambassador you must be aware of the way trump does business apparently in the past 48 hours or be him. Sources close to the white house saying theres going to be new conversations with kim jong un of north korea did you think donald trump wanted to speak to rouhani and claim some kind of diplomatic victory making a deal hes not a fanciful or a statesman do not conclude agreements just for a shake shaking hands or a foot or so of we have been doing this. For more than 12 years right now i think everyone admits that they were not serious in their consent they simply try to find any excuse between a Nuclear Program to pressurise iran otherwise they were not happy left are these very kind of i would not say perfect but a very working. As a. Nuclear negotiator what do you think britains response has been to trumps decision how well do you think theyve responded to the violation of the Security Council resolution that mandates the nuclear deal concerning iran thats the central point. Unfortunately our show is the response to unilaterally breach of the deal by the Us Administration has been at best totally in effect short and at worst i should say. Their approach has been wholly submissive the and even i dared to say very acquiesce and that has emboldened the Us Administration to go ahead with their radical real laterally them be to respect to not only the respect to j. C. T. Way but also with respect to many other International Agreements well the u. K. Foreign secretary dominic rab says hes confident that iran was responsible for increasing oil supply prices by 5 percent because it drone bombed the around co facilities in saudi arabia pointing fingers has been unfortunately a pattern going to call habit by. Statement by the east want change of realities the realities on the ground is that 5 years into this conflict which has been fueled by suppliers of or principally u. S. And u. K. The people have been killed in main then a start to this on a daily basis now there has been simply a defense by these poor people after 5 years and there is no evidence of iran having anything to do with this that i can dance or facilities well its not only dominic of course the arabias mama been told or an interviewer in the United States that it shows iranian stupidity that it even did carried out this drone attack on iran go and might bump a u. S. Secretary of state called the actions of iran an act of war this is an outrageous distortion of facts and i think they should big. Not accusing iran of killing. I guess but have they tried their best to do the same you just speak to the heinous act so where do you think the British Foreign office is getting his information obviously the saudi spokesperson conal maliki stopped short of directly blaming iran but showed the Iranian Missile parts when it came to the attack on saudi arabia which youre saying was actually by a yemeni who the Community Forces are officials of being very clear that iran had nothing to do with. But you see they have to recognize that people under such a very difficult circumstances in yemen after 5 years of bombardment and relentless attack by the very few are supplied by u. S. And u. K. They simply reacted and these has been their weapons of. Britain of course continues as you say to sell arms to saudi arabia for use in yemen thats just by a year ago this Washington Post journalist shoji being killed by saudi arabia thats admitted by mom had been 7 do you think there is an information war about iran today that has been a kind of or really young pattern of misinformation disinformation distortion of facts about iran and we have had to deal with that for a long time so this is not new just distorting the naked truth about iran and about what is going on in our in our region has now been proven beyond doubt but of course the sanctions are in place israel just in the past few weeks is bombed gaza lebanon syria iraq can iran really defend itself from israel there have been assassinations on the streets of your capital after all and of course israel allegedly has Nuclear Weapons on fortunately this regime has been left on unfettered in our atrocities against palestinians for more than 7 decades against. The neighbor neighboring countries even beyond that thats really beyond disgraceful that these entity using or rather im using that if you take the money developed of our one of the biggest countries in the born to simply export terrorism thats the thing nation or all kinds of sabotage in our region well the i. R. G. C. Commanders and salami claims israel can be wiped off the map in the face of that kind of action but isnt it the case that there must be voices in your country who say why did you personally ambassador why were you involved in negotiating a j c p o a with these powers who had no interest in world peace why are you talking to neighbors that are folding one by one as regards trade with your country why are you dealing with these countries if they are truthful beyond leaving. We the community or in the community of us states and we have to deal with all the countries in the board there are only 2 countries or rather one country plus one entity that we have no deal are quite. Clear which countries we are not talking to a point from that i think iran has always been for talks then dialogue and through that we have been trying to remove a misunderstanding because there have been certain countries trying to sow division. Among countries in the region and we know we truly believe that it is our region be our future neighbors and we have to result any dispute or any misunderstanding among ourselves there rather than giving any excuse to others to interfere and to simply. Form and conflict or fuel the situation just finally and briefly is the real reason why president rouhani kept donald trump waiting there in his room with on the phone is the real reason because rouhani is responding to the iranian people and his popularity back at home in that he just doesnt want to talk to the United States i think prisoner harney. To speak. For him man and the actions he took have been just a photo op or shaking hands without any purpose i think it would be simply. Something that no one no responsibility statement can really agree to ambassador thank you thank you so much after the break as it emerges that a top twitter executive is an Information Warfare soldier in the british army we talked this information with one of David Camerons ministers in the conservative liberal democrats go allision norman baker and can Boris Johnson for just. Trade deal with india destroyed by british colonialism indian m. P. And former u. N. Secretary general shushu through iran johnsons hero Winston Churchill one thing Mahatma Gandhi dead is the Worlds Largest democracy today celebrates the 150th anniversary of the book of the civil rights icon. Coming up but to a going underground. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. Welcome back join me now to go through some the weeks top stories former liberal democrat m. P. And former minister of state for Crime Prevention norman bank of nova welcome back to the show thank you new book out again i can differ among themselves of the 15th of october its cold and what do you do its about the royal family will have you on about that thank you serialized in a National Newspaper we can talk about it here anyway lets talk about the Tory Party Conference which actually is related to the queen and the monarchy room is that the queen has been asking advice about how to remove Boris Johnson as Prime Minister how do you think the conference has gone well i think its a bit bizarre to be perfectly frank with you weve had 10 years of austerity and George Osbornes colleagues times will have been telling us we counsel for to spend money we have to save money out for the system here we are with a forest of money for us to suddenly appear to money everywhere buses Police Offices roads because of the previous Tory Administration the administration. Isnt allowed britain to do this. No i think i think it looks to me like a classic preelection bribe the. Lets go to this story from the express yes the express coburns plot to actually develop a credit would be devastating says Ian Duncan Smith the quiet man of politics is now turning up the volume no doubt a different universe of credit which most people arguably say has killed people in this country well i took it seriously and thats that allegation and undoubtedly 17000 is not well i dont believe 817000 undoubtedly is not being well handled and there are issues with the structure of it need to be replaced but the concept of it seems to me to be correct the concept being that you should never be worse off in work the new when youre on benefits is for majority leader seems to be saying yes the under blair and brown it was terrible these anomalies showed up but i mean while people might accept that you cant possibly say that it was a credit to un special rapporteur as in poverty have said the introduction of this is been a catastrophe for these doctors has not been well handled but the principle is right this is why you voted for it well i was a coach it was part of the Coalition Agreement ok lets go to the japanese owned Financial Times yes interesting story twitter executives british army Information Warfare unit reservist and people dont know so you know that the british army has had a policy of having information put out in a way that influences Public Opinion did you know about it when i got home i was a minister im a member of the 77 brigade the british army out there and we just didnt know a freemason so i mean i knew about this from my days an opposition and i found fault with doing that and what did they do in these using british Army Techniques but look i think i think every government in the world whether its the british or the americans of the russians or the chinese have got people who are pumping out messages and information to social media or through friends in the press that they want to have communicated something new thats why we have Dominic Cummings thats why we had Alastair Campbell yes good friend other tony blair is yes and thats why the. Why the answer is 1st of all are Diverse Press so the doctor much power in a few hands and secondly the freedom of information act improperly so you can follow whats going on down the answers on the safeguards for that situation now theres nothing more with the british army potentially putting out messages theres nothing wont be worked leave this is it has to be well i know i know but its all in the can find out about them hes been tweeting if it is indeed this guy against Jeremy Corbett yes massively hands are leading politician well i dont know that but if he has been lost all right and quite clear theres a potential conflict of interest between his position working for the british army and what might be happening on twitter and thats not why situation with the army should not be allowed to occur you dont think this means that there needs to be some going to review well i do think you need to be reviewed i do think that needs to be examined and i think its unwise when somebody could be seen to have a potential conflict of interest loan back thank you well as india celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi a global icon for civil rights the people of the disputed Jammu And Kashmir region continue to have their rights denied him its an ongoing Indian Military enforced shut down joining me now is former u. N. Undersecretary general and Indian NationalCongress Lok Sabha m. P. Thanks for coming on the show before we get into any of that do y