Blair institute for global change working with over a0 countries, the former prime minister is still searching for answers to the great challenges of our time. Labour s back in power after 14 years. Very, very few people know what it feels like to actually be the prime minister of a new government, to be a country s leader. What does. . . What did it feel like as you walked through that door and into power in 1997? well, for me, the feelings were less those of elation. I mean, everyone around me was. . . . . Was, you know, celebrating, but i was very conscious of the fact, first of all, i d never been a minister, let alone a prime minister, and secondly, there is an awesome sense of responsibility. So you realise you re going to be taking decisions, you know you re on the start of a journey, you know the journey is going to be really difficult, you know there s going to be a whole lot of events and circumstances you can t predict. And you re acutely conscious of the fact that there is
Just hours after World Leaders at the united nations called for a 21 day ceasefire. These are the latest pictures were getting from lebanon. The idf says strikes happened in beqqa, close to the syrian border, and Southern Lebanon, and targeted weapons depots, rocket launchers, and military buildings. Israel says it has struck more than 2000 hezbollah targets in lebanon over the past few days. The lebanese Health Ministry said more than 70 people were killed by israeli Air Strikes on wednesday 00v allies including the us, uk and eu issued a joint statement for a pause in the fighting for what they said would provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement and a ceasefire in gaza. It follows a meeting at the Un General Assembly in new york. Yair lapid, leader of Israels Opposition Party yesh atid, says israel should accept the ceasefire proposal, but only for seven days. But its a view not shared by bezalel smotrich, the far right minister of finance in Benj
The idf says strikes happened in beqaa, close to the syrian border and Southern Lebanon, and targeted weapons depots, rocket launchers, and military buildings. The lebanese Health Ministry said more than 70 People were killed by israeli airstrikes on wednesday. Allies, including the us, uk and eu, issued a joint statement for a pause in the fighting for what they said would provide space for diplomacy towards the conclusion of a diplomatic settlement and a ceasefire in gaza. It follows a meeting at the Un General Assembly in New York. Yair lapid, leader of Israels Opposition Party says israel should accept the Biden Macron Ceasefire proposal, but only for seven days. But its a not shared by bezalel smotrich, the far right minister of finance in Benjamin Neta nyahus government. He says the campagn should only end in one scenario crushing hezbollah. Our State Department Correspondent Tom Bateman looks at the diplomatic efforts to de escalate tensions. Apologies we will bring you that rep
New strikes by the New Strikes by the Israeli Military, the israeli air force, on southern areas of lebanon. And in particular a large escalation this morning where hezbollah has lodged a Ballistic Missile towards Tel Aviv, the most populous area in israel. Its the first time they have lodged a weapon of this scale towards Tel Aviv. Hezbollah says the attack was directed at the headquarters of Israeli Intelligence Agency mossad. They blame them for assassinating senior hezbollah commanders. Let me show this piece of footage. You can clearly hear the Air Raid sirens in this footage which shows the missile just after it was intercepted by israeli Air Defence systems. The Israeli Military says it detected the Missile Crossing from lebanon. Hezbollah said it fired at mossad holding them responsible for the assassination of senior hezbollah leaders and for blowing up pagers and wireless devices last week. Hezbollah confirmed its commander was killed in a raid in beirut, just a couple of kil
Sir tony, thank you for speaking to me. It s very good to see you. Let s start with some feelings before we get to plenty of facts. Labour s back in power after 14 years. Very, very few people know what it feels like to actually be the prime minister of a new government, to be a country s leader. What does. . . What did it feel like as you walked through that door and into power in 1997? well, for me, the feelings were less those of elation. I mean, everyone around me was. . . . . Was, you know, celebrating, but i was very conscious immense burden of responsibility that comes with power, or should do. One of the fundamental challenges that notjust britain but lots of western democracies face today is populism. And i would say, tell me if you think differently, i would say populism is broadly that mode of politics in which charismatic leaders claim to represent the will of the people against a ruling elite. In your view, should populism be, as george orwell said of saints, always consid