Timing of this launch is no accident it was september the 3rd 1971 when cattle became an independent country having previously been a protectorate of britain and its now as an independent country the cats always bringing the world cup to the middle east for the very 1st time and after all the conversations and contrivances weve had since katz i was awarded the world cup in 2010 the Global Nature of the launch of this emblem is a reminder to everyone that sure enough a football tournament will be coming here in nov 2022 in terms of readiness to with the 8 stadiums are now finished one of them the khalifa stadium will be on show to the world later on this month when it hosts the world athletics championships and then in december we have the Club World Cup here in cats are the 1st big day for events be hosted by the country effectively a test event ahead of the world cup as cats already seeks to establish itself as a global hub for elite sports. Headlines on al jazeera this hour british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson is threatening to call for a snap election if m. P. s go against him on wednesday parliament is voting on emotion which would block the no deal broke set on october 31st and delay britains new divorce state by 3 months lawrence lee has more from london. Everybody is dissecting. How it came to be that if she will do so to them please good folks against their own governments and the answer seems to be that they were so absolutely disgusted by the threats that the bullying tactics from downing street say to them if you vote against the government in this bill then youre out of the conservative party you cant stand the election it will be selected after they voted against the government last night they were phoned up. To speak of the minister said he got it by text you know you know he selected and so this is absolutely hardline tactic from downing street to say youre either with us or you date. Iran says it will release 7 crew members who were detained when a british flag oil tanker was seized in the strait of hormuz in july meanwhile irans Deputy Foreign minister says the country would return to the Nuclear Deal Commitments but only if it receives 15000000000. 00 of oil sales the deal was proposed by france in a bid to salvage the agreements Hurricane Dorian is moving towards the southeast United States after hitting the bahamas as a category 5 storm at least 7 people were killed there local media in hong kong is reporting that the chief executive terry lamb will announce the formal withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill the proposal sparked months of mass demonstrations across the territory. Explosions have been reported in the syrian coastal city of latakia state television says the blasts were a result of antiaircraft guns intercepting drones that were launched towards an airbase from a socalled deescalation zone. Cats are has unveiled the official logo for its 2022 football world cup with a worldwide Media Campaign the image was beamed across the globe at the same time with unveilings and qatars capital doha those are the headlines the stream is coming up next right here on aljazeera stay with us. What guarantees will be given to the people will be attending the workshop we listen im supposed to explain apologize for someone its also terrorizing we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter just 0. Im a republican im a journalist and if youre the best Good Journalism and moore in this. Life any ok and im only going to what would you do if telling the truth defying your government today we meet the whistleblower who tried to stop the iraq war so share your thoughts on the matter you can tweet us and leave your comments and i live chat and you might be in the stream as well. In the lead up to the 2003 iraq war catherine uncovered a plot by the United States to spy on the United Nations the goal was to uncover information about holdout delegates of the u. N. Security council in an attempt to force their support for a war guns largely overlooked story is the subject of a new film official secrets have a look. Intelligence maybe you can take this country to. Let me take you turn to face value. Goodness you dont know if you believe this could use or. Do you want to risk it all. Every country biggest demonstration in human history. It would be. Extremely difficult when that document is long. And joining us to discuss this real life story in turkey Catherine Gunn the former British Intelligence specialist whose acts of bravery is the basis for the film in london journal small team bright the reports of him published catherine. I dont know sanjays california gavin hood hes a filmmaker and director of official secrets welcome after he got to have so much to talk about so lets get cracking many so many facets to this conversation so i want to share one from someone who knows what theyre talking about this is marcel reaches a whistleblower summit organizer and heres what she told the story who has reported waste and abuse thats abuse and says abusive parents. And abuse of power are whos who are the people who we who are and be early on to who. We who are. Societys dont know and can become more. People like us dont speak out. People like us so catherine take us back to 2003 when you got that memo did you see yourself as a whistleblower were you thinking of the ramifications of it. No not at all i mean i. I didnt join g. s h. Q. To leak anything i didnt you know i never will of ever sticking my head about of the parapet or anything but its you know that memo had really triggered me it was. A show of duplicity it was it showed what was going on behind the scenes at a time when war is imminent and i just you know it was so important for the world to know what was really going on that i have to bring it to the worlds attention then and i wasnt thinking how what would happen to me at all. The guardian is the sister paper to the observer and because its quite recent history i could look up and see that memo still online just going to go for it here and just selling it to you he was let tell it you when you 1st read it you remember what it felt like to see it. The thing about this matter is that. Those of us whove been working Investigative Journalism a number of years are used to receiving documents are after the Effect People often receive or often but. When people do receive documents they tend to be documents about things that have happened what was extraordinary about this was that i was receiving apparently a document a bias something that was ongoing you know that the war hadnt happened and we had almost like a light leak this was this was. Something that was showing us what was going on behind the scenes seem to be in total contradiction to what our politicians are telling us one and of course today in 21000. 00 we have the benefit of hindsight i want to show this and twitter from adam jabber who says the war could have been prevented if only good people rallied and the United Nations was up to its task because this war was based on past goods no weapons of mass destruction in iraq so of course we all know that now some people knew that back then the dad then what 1st attracted you to this story did you know Catherine Story. Oh i was i was called by my producer made a film called under sky with and he said get in if you have a catherine gun and you feel like you ought to and i had just googled and called me back and of course that led to you know the 3 years weve spent making the film i met with catherine and spent many many days with her with martin marty introduced me to other journalists on the story and to a very famous lawyer called bin emerson whos played by ray finds in the movie who defeated catherine and what i loved about Catherine Story and still pretty special is that catcher youll forgive me if i say this so feel free to jump in but i think catherine is an ordinary person whos done an extraordinary thing cats not. Someone you might generally think of as a high flying political person and shes an only person who went to her job as many of us do and in different fields and something landed on her desk that wasnt right and that could happen to any fuss now you dont have to be a spy for that to happen as your whistleblower leader says said the person said this can happen in a corporation it can happen in a studio at all for wherever and the question i think the film raises and what catherine thrusts in our face that i have bravery is what would you do what would you do if you discovered something wasnt right within the organization for which you work would you have the courage to say this isnt right at the risk of losing your job and cast of course to risk not it losing her job but her freedom so whatever you think politically theres no question in my mind but were looking at a very brave woman catherine let me just show people the moment think dabbing as a director we created when you went into. That school Intelligence Agency in the u. K. They found out that somebody a man must have a lot. Someone in this building has betrayed the government and their country now im sure it wasnt anyone in this division but starting today internal security will be conducting interviews with each and every one of you if you know anything will suspect anyone it is you will soon learn to speak if you do not and you want found to have withheld information of any kind you will be charged with a breach of the official secrets act. Catherine the film says it is based on actual events a we have. In the film this is your story how to gavin get this based on actual events how did he get it right what he did take. And i guess. He. Just. Well i mean he. He contacted or dead contacted. And said you know what when can i meet you how do we get started on this id like to talk to you and so they invited me to lunch and i i went and stayed for a few well where we are and we talked for about 5 days came to my. Staying with my family and we sat and we talked. Pretty much for 5 days i think was an hour and. And he just said is start from the beginning and have this massive love the book and he just kept writing and writing and writing page on page and. I was impressed martin. Majestic gave off one of their information but he did that we gathered how to how did he get that extract the truth out of it. The whole point about this this whole process is that were talking about the sanctity of truth. What we were trying to do and were breaking the story was find out what happened and hold those politicians to account so for me when this is being made into a hollywood movie it was extremely important to stick to the facts because when it when it comes to release we are inevitably going to be held to account ourselves for the way that weve told this story so i was i have to say huge relief there when i met gavin and he shared my determination to tell the story as it was and you have to realize that this this isnt a conventional hollywood narrative there isnt a single journalistic hero that runs through this is very much a collaborative effort. And also we as journalists as happens hounded over the joke we handed the bottle over to the lawyers a crucial part of the film as well so all ringback this was extremely important and i was. But i know its a good thing that he was prepared to fight for that version of the narrative because i can imagine they were also difficult pressuring to tell you in a completely different way right so i didnt mean to jump in but i just want to say thank you to mark the casting because im as a filmmaker you know here they are back to the movie thank you thank goodness because when you go to all this trouble and youre telling a story about people who are still very much alive you can clearly see your great fear is that you will finish the film and they will say thats not right and thats the end of the movie so it was important quite seriously to. Get the information from this source from these folks you would direct in bulk and continuously run the script by them to make sure that we were accurate of course its a film of course they are played by actors of course weve compressed time. A one year period of time in cancer and life into a 2 hour film but as martin said i mean the key thing here is to stick by the material facts and we have done that and and im very thankful for the dedication and support and information that martin and catherine and the other journalists and the lawyer and emerson about this case to us and when we talk about sticking to the material facts it leads people to say things like this this is on you tube someone just writing in that she is a hero and she deserves a nobel prize and of course theyre talking about you catherine so there are parts of this movie where youre protrade by here and nightly so what they did lee and so beautifully where clearly youre having to make a barry tough choice but because its a movie and its drama ties the viewer doesnt always see how tough that choice was and im talking specifically about your family life your yard your husband at the time who was put in a precarious situation to talk to us about what was going through your mind when you decided to blow the whistle keeping in mind your husbands status as immigration status. Well i have to be honest i didnt actually think of anybody else at the time. I had the sort of i dont know bling kid like a horse you know bling bling because on. Which kind of prevented me from even thinking about the consequences i mean. I dont really know how to describe it except that i was very very concerned about. What was going to. Inevitably happen it seems in iraq i mean campaign peoples lives being destroyed you know a whole you know devastation across the country and. That was like the most pressing thing in my mind at the time it was only later when you know when i might position seemed to be untenable that i felt like i had to come forward and confess that i had baked it. Thats when everything starts. And i realized that you know i was suddenly going to be in a whole lot of trouble. After having to have to say we had a long discussion about you. Can we were thinking but i was what i thought a husband why would she thought as been done to the boss he was at the site and see didnt she really love him that we what we she we went back im full why would somebody do that that hes such a huge sacrifice and he said he didnt even it didnt even occur to. Yeah i made. A psycho. And. Ive added and i was just so caught up in the moment i was so caught up in the fact that war was imminent and yeah and i was trying to remember and i on air i mean i was trying to be an anonymous and i didnt i didnt think that. Even for real husband still remaining anonymous get in take have a what caffeine fix not address what was the truth can i think you know whats interesting about catherines point is we mustnt we mustnt forget that as she described to me what at the moment she leaked it she wasnt planning on confession i mean she was you were rather hoping that this would you would leak and that someone would investigate further right that you so you describe and we said that in the film is that right and that you would never have you say it was you it was only when you saw your friends being interrogated so and other peoples lives you could not ruin i come in here just felt you had to step in and say so but i dont speak for folks will go it might not catch im sorry my god and i said i mean yeah i mean i think you have to remember. Lou was a terror. She really. Activists or she simply wanted to get something out and how do we be able to work with her a more conventional way how do you been able to. To work in the way that we light so with our sources we would advise to completely differently we would have to trust starts told her to keep her mouth shut. But shes such an honest person that she she just felt she couldnt do that so one thing that the film is clear but it is i think unusual by these kinds of cases is that. Question wasnt. Castrating did not work with us it later became i think quite important i was on the case but you know the time we had no idea. And. Lets just remember that shes not someone whos trained to do this kind of thing she was just acting coach im so glad you spoke up there martin because so much of this conversation surrounds the role of the media and earlier were talking about handing the baton over to the lawyers because there is the melt multipronged process but some people online accurately are saying it was the media that dropped the baton in the 1st place i want to share a comment from Reuters National security correspondent Jonathan Landay and heres what he told the story whistleblowers play absolutely vital role in helping to hold governments accountable they expose corruption they exposed malfeasance the expose abuse of power and they become whistleblowers because there is no mechanism within government at least in their opinion that allows them to report these abuses so they come to the media and in that regard whistleblowers play absolutely vital roles in helping the media do their job in Holding Governments accountable martin so many people recognize out now that newspapers organizations television stations were dropping the ball when it came to this story. You know they werent alone i mean i completely agree that its large swathes of the media excepted the government narrative. And shame on them for doing that thats not the job of journalists the job of journalist sister to go out stories and report them. So its not the job of journalists or take the side of the Antiwar Movement was to try to find out what was happening and report it and id like to think that had i found evidence that there was. A cache of weapons of mass destruction in iraq i would have printed that thats what thats what journalists do. But it was not just the journalists that. Dropped the ball. It was parliamentarians it was the legal system it was the diplomatic service. People who failed a lot of people failed in that in the run up to the war in iraq and were still feeling the consequences not. I completely appreciate. Whats correspondent saying that. But i think that what happened is that because we allowed politicians to play fast and loose with the truth during the iraq war weve ended up in the situation where we are now where politicians really dont care whether theyre telling the truth or not and we have that problem again in person and in america let me just p