Is. In a sense this is bizarre why is this happening i havent even told you that the same time this you you mentioned about these the sky idea that she them bears old she actually bought of a Company Brought civil proceedings in the Kuwaiti Court saying this money is due in owing and the quaids the civil courts both at 1st instance and on appeal actually agreed and said yes this money is due and owing and should be paid thats part of the allegations against us and the right out if it doesnt know what the left hand is doing some people wages you think when you think about the Death Penalty which has just been reintroduced. What you expect them was justice from a middle east or talks in any way well 1st stock or wait whos just stepped out has as chair of the Security Council for this last month and who has signed all the un treaties particularly the basic rights of every. One should expect in relation to a fair trial should respect them secondly we have many many nonnationals in kuwait and indeed in the gulf states generally who are coming there to do business acting and behaving lawfully they need to have to expect and have the confidence that the judicial system will treat them fairly and not arbitrarily as this is happened in this case there was a big conference here about our british investments and there was a general ease about what was happening to Foreign Investors in the gulf in relation to the criminalize ation of what is essentially commercial disputes and essentially fights between commercial companies for lucrative gulf contracts and we believe that this is that marsh if you like is Collateral Damage in the wider by every between local firms for lucrative gulf contracts but i want to get on to International Economic pressure in a 2nd its quite noisy here very busy law firm it is i would ask 1st of all youve filed a petition of complaint to the u. N. Working group going over to detention would you expect from the working group that well we found out about a month ago now kuwait has 6 weeks to respond so were eagerly awaiting their response to see how they justify this bizarre behavior for some of their courts. And then following that kuwait has time to respond and then they are working group will then consider what has happened and give their opinion as to whether in fact this is a case of arbitrary detention or not we confidently expect that an impartial body like that will see the difficulties in justifying this particular aspect into the woodwork that is it partly depends of course on the response from kuwait. Because as i said they have 6 weeks they could ask for another month depends how big that long that response is so were not talking about imminently that we will we will wait and see at the same time weve also engaged with another procedure at the u. N. Which is called the special report on the independence of judges and prosecutors and that is just his role isnt just to look at the independence of judges its also to look at the. Standard of behavior and in this case for example there was an explicit are thing that happened just the other week because i mention that marcia has not been able to push her case and she has a very good. Support from including the former f. B. I. Head who has looked at the evidence against and weve produced a report when we produced that reports to the court the judge came out with the extraordinary question of him which was who played you in the channel 4 series homeland i was in the Kuwaiti Court that was in the Kuwaiti Court because it was 4 of. Louis freeh ok but what is the point of the u. N. Arbitration working committee because as you know well theyve criticized british authorities this came i think even before the un special rapporteur on torture accused the British Government of involving torture julian a search for under wiki leaks if the british authorities dont appear to care much about findings on arbitrary detention when it comes to the most famous publisher in the world what do you begin to think about your glimpse if you will well of the great government thing of course you know the un working groups the un special rapporteur dont have any teeth i mean they dont have any troops to send in they dont have a police force to send in however they do have. Opinion false and underweight of International Condemnation behind that its also the fact that as you may or may not be. Where that under the Un Human Rights Council there are 4 year leave reviews of countries compliance with human rights standards and kuwait is coming up in january and certainly we intend to make sure that this issue about the trial process and how there seems to be arbitrary justice a different sets of rules for one group of people from another and the dangers for International Business power persons coming to kuwait to carry out business invest. In the country that should be something that we intend hope will be raised very strongly and kuwait would have to answer for that in the in the court of the United Nations in the court of Public Opinion from you being human rights lawyer for you lara logan as a whole long i mean isnt this the problem with human rights that when the lead rich Russian National gets into problems in the middle eastern country they get protection from lawyers like you mr diversion of claims kuwait and julie restricts renu expression discriminates against the why is it. Not saying that marsh is the only person who may have suffered here. In kuwait overseas that would be ridiculous but you know 1st of all mushed isnt exactly a huge elite. Rich russian she is a businesswoman who has made her way in the world she has become very prominent in kuwait partly because so few women hold her sort of position but she made that position herself she came to kuwait as a Foreign National and because of her work and her skills. Put herself in that position secondly of course there are other Human Rights Violations that we can we can all see around the world but one of the question surely is human rights is for everyone and rich or poor to have your liberty arbitrarily taken away from you. Should not be done it out to process and a proper system of law you mentioned the former head of the f. B. I. Louis freeh people have remarked on the very high profile defenders of the liberty of bush. River neil bush the sort of george or walker bush. The dont trump has been briefed before me a lawyer and the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov why do you think this case is attracting such a high profile support because i think as we know people are concerned about the ability of International Trade to operate in the in the right manner and this question about can Business People who are going about their lawful business complying with the laws of the state can they be sure that if there is some sort of dispute it wont be turned against them in a way that leads to what happened to marsha 472. 00 days in a kuwaiti prison confined in a room with 6 other women which was actually a cell phone to deprive in prison she was quite described as the russian woman in fact in court in some of the earlier hearings the judge described as the russian woman this does not show. An equality before the law and just finally were in the same building as the Cherie Blair Foundation what is it given a controversial surname you have what is the validation and what does it do around the world the at the sharif. Foundation for its 10 years old now and those 10 years weve reached a 150000 women in lower middle Income Countries im providing them with trading mentoring networks and. Use of technology to grow and expand the small medium and growing businesses about women taking control of their future and we helping them to realize their dreams. Thank you thank you after the break advise a Prince CharlesJonathon Porritt on his make checking by mark wright minutes when he put the World Shakespeare Company over being p. All of them all coming up but through of going underground. During the Great Depression which old mr remember there was most of the family were working class there wasnt it was bed you know much worse objective listen today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness there isnt today todays america was shaped by the turn principles of concentration of wealth and power. Reduced democracy attack solo down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principle holds according to no im chomsky one set of rules for the rich opposite. Thats what happens when you put her into the. Narrow sector of will switch will is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as youd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. They were in paris you know so many people reference. Let them eat cake and then you know historians have gone back and they said you know its actually like a brioche brioche you know but so i brought in actually my god what a mess we brought in actual brioche this is a brioche slice there at the patisserie and so this is what she suggested that the peasants should be eating because they had run out of the say this is a brioche is a slightly nicer version of theres a few in the cupboard lets throw that to the peasants the maybe thatll shut them up. She stressed to. Be sure that the british edible a bunch of that was to. Stop the show so here she then the statistic shes a cia which cut off. Which she dumped and now look what youve seen in the states get your car moment and what you. Want to go to the source of your might youre going to be. Its a mistake so its a quarter until welcome to the spirit of all this interview are you going to teach the student actually the person the person has to be wrong or should stop them spinning. Welcome back to the u. N. In geneva today presented with a report into british racism exacerbated by conservative and liberal democrat politicians after the 28 western economic crisis u. N. Special report you eat and yet you may have even suggested that the u. K. Government should not be surprised by allegations of racism presumably she was referring to outgoing Prime Minister to raise a may infamous hostile environments and deportation advertisement fans but will things get better here because may has self said the Boris Johnson uses the wrong words when it comes to discrimination its very clear that the language that Boris Johnson used to describe peoples appearance has caused offense its not language i would have used it i dont i think its wrong to use that language boris of course could be Prime Minister in june of weeks or it could be this man the defacto former boss of the u. K. s universal Health Care System when doctors went out on. Strike here is questioning the right of foreigners to get free healthcare is it right that someone can come from overseas perhaps a tourist coming from america or japan and actually pay nothing towards their health care some might argue it is especially if it deterred a tourist with a contagious disease from seeking medical help while visiting britain but have both contenders to be Prime Minister by august have anything in common it is their interest in say fracking jeremy hunt was in slovenia lobbying for fracking in february and johnson has argued that households should have a commercial interest in fracking thats not something that would be supported by dry end of green politics in britain for decades joining me now is the chancellor of kill university an environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt thanks so much older for coming on so lets go straight there marg rowlands one of britains greatest actors name checking you directly as one of the reasons he has decided to sever ties with the royal Shakespeare Company is because of its sponsorship by b. P. To be fair this is. All marks decision really and he asked me what i felt about it knowing that i have over the years done some work with oil and Gas Companies including b. P. And shell and had to come to a judgment for myself about the degree to which they are serious now about thriving in a low carbon World Without further investments in oil and gas so we talked about that at length and i feel very strongly that when someone like mark feels a moral imperative that is wrong for a company like b. P. To be spending some of its what he would call ill gotten gains on supporting young people through the assisted ticket scheme you have to we have to listen to him hes thought about this really carefully its a very deep moral decisions but i mean he quoted you as saying that b. P. Has downplayed its role in causing the Climate Emergency now you just said you advise b. P. Moon where they downplay it back then or the time that i was working with b. P. Was when lord brown was chief exec has been on this show i should say good. There was a whole length of time for 5 years where b. P. Was really serious about trying to think its way out of being a pure oil and gas Company Becoming what john brown described as an integrated Energy Company in fact he would quite often say were not an oil and gas company were going to be an integrated Energy Company drummer i was very driven in his determination to change b. P. Around it didnt happen and once they lost that opportunity then so this is sort of 2000 at the time that he was chief exec once that happened then they reverted to a much more traditional conventional roe which is we have to keep rolling out the investments in new and gas every year to replace the stuff we bring out of the ground every year and theyve never theyve never got back seriously into now. Police plea. Is against what youre saying bob dudley the current american c. E. O. Says b. P. Continues to make bold changes continues to me bold changes across the group as part of our commitment to advancing a low carbon future you know this is getting a bit outrageous that these companies will still talk about the fact were going to be burning huge amounts of oil and gas through 220402050 etc etc and the next moment theyll turn around and say were being really serious now about our economy consistent with the climate goals of the bears agreement is what they say but but you have to look at the pattern of investment the amount of money theyre spending on Renewable Energy now in comparison to the amount of money theyre putting into brand new oil and gas projects as are 4000000000. 00 half a 1000000000 on renewables 16000000000. 00 on oil and gas and thats the pattern that goes on year after year after year and they have to get smart about this before their investors get smart about it because once the investors say were not going to put any more money into projects that are never going to be able to deliver the revenues for us as investors given the world has to decarbonise. During that time the investors eventually going to say to bob dudley and his board youve got this wrong youre calling this wrong theres no way around this of course the investors can be politicians regulations actually mean that not diversifying into renewables is still profitable not diversity firing into radios is like signing your own death warrant we have to have massive new investments in Renewables Every Year i mean at the moment investments in renewable is run at about about 300000000000. 00 a year globally which isnt bad its quite a lot of money going into it as you can imagine but we need somewhere between 800000000000. 00 and a. Trillion dollars of new investment in Renewables Every Year so politicians are getting smarter about this to be fair a middling performance on this world leader on offshore wind power put a lot of resource and thinking into that and thats the one area where were still a world leader but every country in the world now is going to have to step up the speed and the depth of the investment it makes in renewables when you mention armageddon there just stepping back from this when you were talking with people at shell and people at b. P. Some people say this is the 1st generation of people in history that of. Trying to argue over something that their own children may be affected by against the interests of their own children and talking about ruling elites in dealing you make of what do you make of that resume we had conversations with people who said what youre saying is not well to pick a word sustainable financially. It was always the most fascinating moment whenever we were doing this in gauge when work with b. P. Or show we did i did a lot of advisory work as well. And after the end of the formal process as it were and we were having a drink or dinner or whatever it would be. Time after time they would say im really more worried about this than you can imagine because my kids are on my back already theyre telling me this is something that we have to sort out in this company now that was 1015 years ago you can imagine what its like now with Extinction Rebellion with the school strikes with gratitude with David Attenborough out there saying to everybody that this is now a challenge to the very nature of our civilization you can imagine what the kids of these chief exacts a