Because every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens. And well also go to bolivia for the latest on the crisis there as the president flees to mexico. Wa nt to want to begin the programme by playing this assessment from the Hong Kong Police. Hong kongs rule of law has been pushed to the brink of law has been pushed to the brink of total colla pse. Of law has been pushed to the brink of total collapse. As master writers recklessly, recklessly escalate their violence under the false hope that they can get away with it. The Key Development has been that the clashes have moved from the centre of hong kong onto some University Campuses. These are some of the pictures coming in from the severity of the clashes. Also see that some protesters formed barricades, blocking roads within the campuses and there were clashes between the police and the protesters. It has not ended the protests in the centre of the city. Around 1000 people turned out d
tonight with the context, anand menon, director of the thinktank, the uk in a changing europe and the former spokesperson for the republican national committee doug heye welcome to the programme. around a million health workers in england have been offered a new pay deal today, which could bring to an end months of damaging strikes in the nhs. the unions at the negotation, represent a wide variety of health staff from nurses, paramedics, and midwives, to emergency call handlers and cleaners. the deal now on the table comes in two parts. first a one off payment for the 22/23 financial year that the government will pay within weeks which rises from 1,600 pounds 1,900 dollars for the lowest paid, to around £3,700 for senior managers. and on top of that there s a 5% pay rise for next year. most of the unions involved in the talks says they will recommend their members accept the offer. here s the prime minister. we ve got a great plan in place to make improvements and yo
Seeking rapid eu membership. But could regional instability and outside meddling thwart his ambition . President jakov milatovic, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for having me. Its a great pleasure to have you. You have made it quite clear your overriding political ambition and aim is to get montenegro into the eu within the next five years. But its not going well, is it . Exactly. I think that that is why i have entered montenegrin politics a few years ago, to bring the country to the eu, and this is what i am doing on a daily basis, pushing for it. I think that all the good things are not easy. And in that way, we are trying our best. But pushing for it is one thing, promising your people that within a term a five year term you can deliver it is quite another. And surely you have made a promise that you cant keep. No, thats not really true. I think that we can keep the promise and i think that having montenegro into the eu within the next five years is a very realistic thing to do. I
But its not going well, is it . Exactly. I think that that is why i have entered montenegrin politics a few years ago, to bring the country to the eu, and this is what i am doing on a daily basis, pushing for it. I think that all the good things are not easy. And in that way, we are trying our best. But pushing for it is one thing, promising your people that within a term a five year term you can deliver it is quite another. And surely you have made a promise that you cant keep. No, thats not really true. I think that we can keep the promise and i think that having montenegro into the eu within the next five years is a very realistic thing to do. I think that montenegro has been negotiating with the eu for the last ten years. We have been, out of all the candidate countries, the frontrunner. Montenegro is the only country without any big problems with their neighbours in the western balkans, which is a rare thing in our region. As i understand it, right now, montenegro is negotiating a