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Zoom in on British Prime Minister Tony Blair entering news conference2. Black 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\"The trial of Saddam gives us a chance to see again what the past in Iraq was, the brutality, the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Zoom in on British Prime Minister Tony Blair entering news conference\u003cbr/\u003e2. Black \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"The trial of Saddam gives us a chance to see again what the past in Iraq was, the brutality, the tyranny, the hundreds of thousands of people that he killed, the wars in which there were a million casualties. And it also then helps point the way to the only future, which for all the challenges is the one that Iraqi people want and is worth fighting for, which is a non-sectarian Iraq in which people from different communities live together and decide their future through democracy. And I don't under-estimate for a single instant the difficulties in achieving that, but I still say it is a battle worth fighting.\"\u003cbr/\u003e4. Black \u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"For the reasons given by Margaret (Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett) yesterday, as I have already said, we are against the death penalty. We are against the death penalty whether it is for Saddam or anybody else. However, what I think is important about this is to recognise that this trial of Saddam, which has been handled by the Iraqis themselves, and they will take the decision about this, it does give us a very clear reminder of the total and barbaric brutality of that regime.\"\u003cbr/\u003e6. Black\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We are prepared to talk to a national unity government, even if they have Hamas members in it, provided it is a government that is in accordance with the Quartet principles, in other words laid down by the United Nations. And that is the important thing. I don't want to dispute the mandate of Hamas, they won an election. But if they want us to negotiate with them, you can't negotiate a two-state solution, Israel and Palestine, if one part of the people you're negotiating with is saying 'Actually, we don't want Israel to exist'.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. Black\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"What is happening in Palestine at the moment, particularly in Gaza, is just terrible. It is terrible that people are living there in a situation of worsening poverty, violence, different militias and gangs.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Black \u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Tony Blair, British Prime Minister:\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is no desire whatever to have the UN force take over Sudan, to change the government, to pursue members of the government before the International Criminal Court. There is no desire to do any of those things. There is a simple desire to stop the displacement of people and the death of people in Darfur, and in order to do that, since the government of Sudan has been unable to do it, we need an external force.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Black\u003cbr/\u003e13. Blair leaves news conference\u003cbr/\u003eBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday said he opposed the death penalty for former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but that his trial had reminded the world of the deposed leader's brutality. \u003cbr/\u003eAsked about Saddam's sentence at his monthly press conference in London, Blair noted that Britain opposed the death penalty, \"whether it's Saddam or anyone else\".\u003cbr/\u003eBut he said the trial \"gives us a chance to see again what the past in Iraq was, the brutality, the tyranny, the hundreds of thousands of people he killed, the wars in which there were a million casualties.\"\u003cbr/\u003eBlair referred repeatedly to the statement issued by British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett after the verdict on Sunday. \u003cbr/\u003eShe welcomed that Saddam and the other defendants had faced justice but made no comment on the capital sentence for crimes against humanity.\u003cbr/\u003eSaddam was sentenced by the Iraqi High Tribunal for ordering the execution of nearly 150 Shiites from the city of Dujail following a 1982 attempt on his life.\u003cbr/\u003eBlair also said Britain would be willing to negotiate with a Hamas-led Palestinian government if it meets international demands that it renounce violence and recognise Israel.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't want to dispute the mandate of Hamas, they won an election. But if they want us to negotiate with them, you can't negotiate a two-state solution, Israel and Palestine, if one part of the people you're negotiating with is saying 'Actually, we don't want Israel to exist',\" he told reporters.\u003cbr/\u003eModerate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and negotiators from the Islamic militant Hamas have reached agreement in principle on forming a government of technocrats, a Hamas Cabinet minister said on Monday. \u003cbr/\u003eBlair said Britain would work with such a government if it met the demands the Quartet of would-be peacemakers has been making for months.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Foreign Office says it has no contact with Hamas, which is considered a \"terrorist group\" by Israel, the United States and the European Union.\u003cbr/\u003eA week-long Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, purportedly aimed at halting Palestinian rocket fire on Israeli communities near the coastal strip, has killed at least 48 Palestinians, most of them militants.\u003cbr/\u003eBlair said \"what is happening in Palestine at the moment, particularly in Gaza, is just terrible, the people are living there in a situation of worsening poverty, violence, different militias and gangs.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOn Sudan, Blair reiterated his call to exert \"maximum pressure\" on the Sudanese government to ease fighting in the violence-wracked Darfur region, where a three-year-old war has left some 200,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said that if the Sudan's government does not make progress in the next few weeks in stopping the violence and promoting peace talks, Britain, the European Union and the United States will have to find other ways to end the crisis.\u003cbr/\u003eSudanese President Omar al Bashir has refused to accept UN peacekeepers, one of the conditions the British government has said Sudan must accept.\u003cbr/\u003e\"There is a simple desire to stop the displacement of people and the death of people in Darfur, 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