Downing street has described the report as a significant contribution. I will be back at the top of the hour. Now its time for the week in parliament hello and welcome to the week in parliament. A setback for the government, as the lords gives the brexit bill its first defeat. Peers demand guarantees for eu nationals in britain. These people are not bargaining chips. Will we say, take your children out of the schools . Will we say to the elderly, please go away from our care homes . These amendments are at the wrong time on the wrong bill, on the wrong subject. Peers make their mark in a week when a Tv Documentary discloses what life is really like in the house of lords. Complete with its rather odd ceremonies. Visitors from overseas go to watch the changing of the guard or the beefeaters at the tower. I sometimes think people do like these quaintnesses. And if so, in whose interest is it to take them away . Snappy dresser and long served parliamentarian, tributes are paid to the late
Downing street has described the report as a significant contribution. I will be back at the top of the hour. Now its time for the week in parliament hello and welcome to the week in parliament. A setback for the government, as the lords gives the brexit bill its first defeat. Peers demand guarantees for eu nationals in britain. These people are not bargaining chips. Will we say, take your children out of the schools . Will we say to the elderly, please go away from our care homes . These amendments are at the wrong time on the wrong bill, on the wrong subject. Peers make their mark in a week when a Tv Documentary discloses what life is really like in the house of lords. Complete with its rather odd ceremonies. Visitors from overseas go to watch the changing of the guard or the beefeaters at the tower. I sometimes think people do like these quaintnesses. And if so, in whose interest is it to take them away . Snappy dresser and long served parliamentarian, tributes are paid to the late
Have been added to the governments watchlist of places with high rates of coronavirus theyll be closely monitored, and restrictions may be re imposed. President trump declines to condemn russia over the poisoning of the Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny, whos in a coma in a german hospital. Experts there say they have evidence he was attacked with a soviet era nerve agent. It is interesting that everybody is a lwa ys it is interesting that everybody is always mentioning russia and i dont mind you mentioning russia but i think china at this point is the nation that you should be talking about much more so than russia. India confirms more than four million cases of coronavirus, making it the third country in the world to surpass that mark, following the United States and brazil. Argentinas lionel messi agrees to stay at Barcelona Football Club ten days after insisting he wanted to leave, admitting its impossible for any club to meet his 700 million euro buyout clause. Hello and welcome if
Hello, im shaun ley. Welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who file their stories to audiences back home with the dateline london. In a week when Britains Foreign Office swallowed up a whitehall rival, well be discussing what lies behind borisjohnsons promise of a Global Britain. First test the poisoning of a putin critic. That should sound familiar to mrjohnson. And joe biden banks the booty, but donald trump narrows his lead. To discuss those stories, our Dateline Panel the british writer and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai brown, and henry chu from the los angeles times. And here in the studio with me, sanitised and safely distanced, the bbcs Diplomatic Correspondent james landale. Welcome to all of you, good to have you with us again. Theyve been changing the name plates in whitehall this week. Out goes dfid, which since the days of tony blair had administered the aid budget. In comes a beefed up foreign, c
Its the most visible sign so far that the health of the nation is once again at risk. Steve richards, a quarter of the uk population is either under additional restrictions will be by the end of this weekend. Is that a sense that the government has lost control of this virus, or was it a lwa ys control of this virus, or was it always that we were going to find ourselves in this situation, the turn of awesome and eventually the potential health risks in the winter . A bit of both. The autumn was always going to be a challenge and one of the more bizarre sequences of recent days was some officials and ministers expressing surprise that the autumn was going to be such a challenge. They have lost control in the sense that testing is still nowhere near as extensive as it should be to give one example. London is now, you know, obviously, the biggest Population Centre in the uk. Mas says he thinks its raging but we dont know for sure because there is inadequate testing for london. So theyve l