Hello. Welcome to dateline london, im carrie gracie. This week borisjohnsons promise that he would do or die to deliver brexit by october the 31st has become do or die in a ditch. Despite a full house of parliamentary defeats, nothing else changed in his message stop either doing or dying is still defiantly scheduled for october the 31st, so our question today is the british Prime Minister digging himself a ditch in which to die or demonstrating exactly the determination that will do in the end . My guests, italian writer and filmmaker annalisa piras. Iain martin of the times. Marc roche from le point newspaper. And Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news. Thanks, all, for coming in. The palace of westminster has seen some extraordinary political dramas over the past 1,000 years, but there current one is right up there. In fact, the last time a british Prime Minister lost his first vote in the house of commons was 1783, and thats not the only thing that went wrong for Boris Johnson last week
Nothing else changed in his message. The doing or dying is still defiantly scheduled for october 31st. So our question today is the british Prime Minister digging himself a ditch in which to die . Or demonstrating exactly the determination that will do in the end . My guests italian writer and film maker annalisa piras. Iain martin of the times. Marc roche of le point newspaper. Stephanie baker of bloomberg news. Thanks for coming in. The palace of westminster has seen many extraordinary political dramas over the past thousand years. But the current one is right up there. In fact, the last time a british Prime Minister lost his first vote in the house of commons was 1783 and thats not the only thing that went wrong for Boris Johnson last week. So a quick recap. On monday, downing street warned tory mps that if theyjoined an attempt to push through a bill seeking to block a no deal brexit they would be expelled from the Parliamentary Party and if the blocking attempt succeeded the Prime
On decency and democracy. President trump has cancelled peace talks with the taliban after a deadly attack in kabul, revealing that hed been due to hold a secret meeting with leaders of the group at camp david on sunday. A us envoy to afghanistan had reached a draft peace deal with the militant group last week. The canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu has beaten Serena Williams to win us open womens singles title. The 19 year old won her maiden grand slam title after beating williams 6 3, 7 5. She becomes canadas first grand slam champion. Now on bbc news, dateline. Hello. Welcome to dateline london, im carrie gracie. This week Boris Johnsons promise that he would do oi johnsons promise that he would do ordie to johnsons promise that he would do or die to deliver brexit by october the 31st has become do or die in a ditch. Despite a full house of parliamentary defeats, nothing else changed in his message stop either doing or dying is still defiantly scheduled for october the 31st, so oui
And film maker annalisa piras. Iain martin of the times. Marc roche from le point newspaper. And Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news. Thanks, all, for coming in. The palace of westminster has seen some extraordinary political dramas over the past 1,000 years, but there current one is right up there. In fact, the last time a british Prime Minister lost his first vote in the house of commons was 1783, and thats not the only thing that went wrong for Boris Johnson last week. So, lets do a quick recap. On monday, downing street warned tory mps that if theyjoined an attempt to push through a bill seeking to block a no deal brexit, they would be expelled from the parliamentary party, and if the blocking attempts succeeded, the Prime Minister would call for a general election. On tuesday, 21 tories defied those threats and were promptly thrown out. On wednesday, the house of commons past the offending blocking bill and rejected the Prime Ministers attempt to call a snap election. On thursday, j
Especially springlike with lots of cloud and outbreaks of rain and i will have more details throughout the programme. Its sunday the 10th of march. Our main story the us military ship is on its way to the middle east, carrying the first equipment to construct a temporary peer off the coast of gaza. It is hoped this will help more aid into the territory as deliveries by land and air have proved difficult and dangerous. And while a ship holding 200 tons of food is making final preparations to set sail from cyprus, food is making final preparations to set sailfrom cyprus, as food is making final preparations to set sail from cyprus, as zoe conley reports. Us Army Logistics ship, already on its way. The United States hopes to get a lot more aid in by sea. But it could take several weeks. In the meantime, in cyprus, efforts are under way by a charity to move supplies across the mediterranean. It may not look like much but on this barge sits 200 tons of food. It will be towed by a Spanish Ch