these british the payouts were on the parliament rules. the agreement was that the audience would be made up of local people living in the area and that they would pose the questions. you re all so loud a handful of people who are asking questions. we go through thousands and thousands of questions that have been submitted and boiling them down. we hope to set an agenda for the debate. [unintelligible] our theme is international affairs, which will take the path of the 90 minutes. obviously, europe is interested in england s military participation more generally, the economy is probably the biggest issue in this campaign. the second issue is the behavior of our mp s. can you trust them? have they let them public? the set design gives me a central role, and a bit like jim lehrer in the united states, which is different from what happened last week. on a serious a subject as foreign affairs, where there are serious differences between the parties, it may be that they may
christopher mets were from the georgetown studies discusses diversity in america. washington journal live at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. miti top two prizewinners on the c-span and studentcam competition on monday and tuesday morning during c-span s washington journal. the british election is may 6. the three main party leaders held their debate in bristol, england. c-span was allowed to go behind the scenes. we talked to the moderator before the leaders arrived. [inaudible] good evening from bristol. welcome to the sky news debate. it round two of the first televised debate in the uk. please welcome david cameron, gordon brown and a crag and nick cregg. we are sitting here in the room where we will be debating. it is very exciting to not just have these debates changed the course of the general election campaign, but we know that there are lots of people abroad that are turning in abroad. of these first debates were agreed under party rules the agreemen