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Broadcast in 2007: Neither Washington nor Tehran. A war against Iran would be another disastrous neo-imperial adventure, which would strengthen the Tehran dictatorship. The overthrow of the clerical regime by the Iranian people - not US military intervention - is the best way to resolve the nuclear crisis and prevent a needless, unjustified war. Peter Tatchell interviews Mark Fischer of Hands Off the People of Iran and Yassamine Mather of Workers Left Unity Iran.

First Broadcast in 2007: Gordon Brown should not be welcoming the Saudi dictator, King Abdullah, to Britain. Peter Tatchell interviews protest organiser Owen Jones of the Socialist Youth Network and Simon Hill of the Campaign Against the Arms Trade. The Saudi regime is one of the most corrupt and barbaric in the world. It is guilty of detention without trial, torture and public beheadings. Yet Britain sells arms, pays bribes and welcomes the "Killer King" to Downing Street. Gordon Brown refuses to meet the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe. He says he wants to take a stand against tyranny. Yet Gordon Brown is willing to meet the Saudi dictator, the "Killer King" Abdullah. The oil-rich despot will be hosted by the Prime Minister at Downing Street and he will stay with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. The blood-stained "Killer King" presides over a regime that is guilty of detention without trial, torture and the public beheading of unchaste women, gay people and Muslims who turn away from their faith. His government bans political parties, trade unions and suppresses not only non-Muslim religions but even Muslims who do not adhere to the Saudi state's hardline interpretation of Islam. Women are prohibited from voting or driving and must cover themselves from head to toe. The country is a theocratic police state. These abuses provoke not a murmur of criticism from the British and US governments. Instead, we prop up the "Killer King's" regime; selling him arms and buying his oil. King Abdullah should be arrested and put on trial for torture, not embraced and feted.

First broadcast in 2007: As Labour slides to the right, the Green Party is shifting to the left. Are the Greens destined to displace Labour as the main left party of democracy, social justice, human rights, peace and environmental protection? Opinion polls reveal growing public support for the Green Party. Labour membership is down and the Labour vote is down. Many people who are disillusioned with Blairism and Brownism are joining the Greens. The Green Party is the fastest growing and most effective progressive party in British politics. It already has nearly 100 local councillors, two MEPs, seven Members of the Scottish Parliament and two members of the London Assembly. On his weekly TV programme, Talking With Tatchell, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell interviews Derek Wall, Principal Male Speaker of the Green Party.

First broadcast in 2007: Iraqi human rights activist, Ali Hili, reveals that for most ordinary Iraqis, life is now worse than under Saddam Hussein's brutal misrule. Saddam was a tyrant. It is good that he is gone. But since the American and British-led invasion in 2003, a once prosperous nation has been reduced to chaos, impoverishment and terror. Despite the country's immense oil wealth, mass unemployment and poverty are now the norm. In many regions, public utilities and welfare provision have collapsed. Although many Iraqis are attempting to forge a peaceful, democratic future, much of the country is blighted by war, mob rule and sectarian violence. Most people live in a state of permanent insecurity and fear. Suicide bombings, assassinations and death squad killings are daily occurrences. Some of this indiscriminate violence is perpetrated by foreign al-Qaida terrorists and by Sunni insurgents, including loyalists to Saddam's now defunct Baathist regime. But many of the killers are linked to leading Shia parties in the western-backed Iraqi government, in particular to the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and its armed wing, the Badr militia. Other killers belong to the Mahdi Army, the militia loyal to firebrand fundamentalist cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr. Both these Shia militias have instituted a reign of terror, often aided and abetted by Iran. Despite their differences, Sadr and Badr share the common goal of establishing an Islamist dictatorship. Under their brutal, perverse interpretation of Islam, Sunni Muslims and other religious minorities face harsh persecution; as do women who refuse to wear the veil and who refuse to submit to male domination. Also targeted by the Sadr and Badr killers are lesbian and gay people, women who have sex outside of marriage, and anyone who wears jeans or shorts or who listens to western music. Having a stylish haircut, drinking alcohol or wearing jewellery can get you branded as an 'infidel' and result in a bullet in the back of the head. Saddam was evil. But even under his savage regime everyday life and personal relationships were never subjected to such extreme moral policing and violent repression. For women and gay people, and for Muslims who follow the "wrong" interpretation of Islam, the clock is being turned back to the Dark Ages.

First broadcast in 2007: Peter Tatchell interviews Nikolai Alekseev, the Russian gay human rights campaigner who is organiser of Moscow Gay Pride and head of the LGBT Human Rights Project of Gay Russia. Russia's transition to pluralist democracy is at best shaky and at worst being reversed. The relatively liberal Yeltsin era has been eclipsed by a new wave of authoritarianism under Putin. The electoral system is fixed to block the emergence of new parties and anti-establishment candidates. Press freedom is constrained by threats, intimidation and the murder of journalists. Human rights violations are widespread and often unchecked. Symptomatic of these many abuses is the banning of the Moscow Gay Pride march by the city's Mayor, Yuri Luzhkov. He has denounced the march as "satanic." Last year's Moscow Gay Pride march was the first ever in the Russian capital. It defied Mayor Luzhkov's ban and was violently set upon by riot police, far right extremists, ultra-nationalists and Russian Orthodox fundamentalists. Following last year's ban, the march organiser, Nikolai Alekseev, is filing an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. He is also suing Mayor Luzhkov for libel over allegations of satanism. Alekseev sees the gay rights battle as part of the wider struggle for Russian democracy and human rights.