Its pm in london, 7am in singapore and 6pm in washington, where President Trump is dealing with a major setback to his agenda. His Republican Party has lost a key election in deeply conservative alabama. Mr trump backed the losing candidate, roy moore, despite claims of Sexual Misconduct against him. It leaves the president weakened as he tries to drive through key policies at home and abroad. Our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. Amidst all the noise and rage of american politics, its worth remembering elections are often decided in quiet suburbs. That was true in alabama, where moderate republicans didnt turn out for their partys radical, scandal hit candidate, and where many dont much like donald trump either. Its a rejection of donald trump. Tracy james is a lifelong republican, who yesterday went democrat. It was also a protest vote against the president. I do think donald trump has a problem in the republican suburbs. You dont know whats going to come out of his mo
Its iam in london, 9am in singapore and 8pm in washington, where President Trump is dealing with a major setback to his agenda. His Republican Party has lost a key election in deeply conservative alabama. Mr trump backed the losing candidate, roy moore, despite claims of Sexual Misconduct against him. It leaves the president weakened as he tries to drive through key policies at home and abroad. Our north america correspondent nick bryant reports. Amidst all the noise and rage of american politics, its worth remembering elections are often decided in quiet suburbs. That was true in alabama, where moderate republicans didnt turn out for their partys radical, scandal hit candidate, and where many dont much like donald trump either. Its a rejection of donald trump. Tracy james is a lifelong republican, who yesterday went democrat. It was also a protest vote against the president. I do think donald trump has a problem in the republican suburbs. You dont know whats going to come out of his m
Brexiteer . She is not the only one. She is the prime minister. She is consta ntly she is the prime minister. She is constantly under pressure from this other lot. She should not be the only one making these decisions. Other lot. She should not be the only one making these decisionsm there an appetite among labour backbenchers to get involved with the government . I would be very surprised. I think there is such a strong. I really admire the ii tories who did what they did last time with the vote, it could not have been easy for any of them. We know what is happening with them. There are labour mps. Know what is happening with them. There are labour mps. Like know what is happening with them. There are labour mps. Like to . Chuka umunna. There is one example. This has got to be bigger than a political party. What is going to happen and what is happening is so important two it is very important. Political allegiances could dissolve for the greater good. It would be great to have more vo
Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 6. 30am in myanmar where the countrys leaders could face charges of genocide over the persecution of the rohingya ethnic group. Thats the warning from uns high commissionerfor human rights. Its estimated that more than 650,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled from myanmar to neighbouring bangladesh since august, when attacks on police posts prompted a military crackdown. 0ur south asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports. This boy is 11 years old. He draws pictures of the horrors he has witnessed. Translation older women were stamped on, and then the military grabbed them by the hair and slaughtered them. Because i saw that, i am drawing this. He is one of 650,000 Rohingya Refugees who fled myanmar after a military assault that began in late august. They are coming to kill us, says the man, they are coming to kill us. The widespread and systematic nature of the violence has persuaded the un chief to say that it could am
Im zeinab badawi. Is the Sudanese Government coming in from the cold and moving towards becoming a fully integrated member of the International Community . The us lifted economic sanctions on sudan in october, ending two decades of its financial isolation. Washington says sudan has made progress on human rights, democratic reforms and ending ethnic tensions in the country. But critics argue it has not done enough, theres still no peace in darfur and other conflict areas and Human Rights Violations continue. My my guest is 0mar al bashirs, sudans foreign minister. Has the government really made a fresh start . Theme music foreign minister ibrahim ghandour, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. It is a pleasure to be here. How far do you see the lifting of us sanctions as a fresh start for sudan . It is an inclusion into the International Economy and finance systems will not put quite sometime sudan has been bad from dealing with banks, transferring money, investors we re banks, tran