Pragmatic, much more conciliatory, lots of language european values. Let me dust interrupted you, sorry to be so rude, but donald tusk is now speaking in brussels. Lets hear what he has got to say. For me. We would like to hear what he has got to say but we cannot hear him | he has got to say but we cannot hear him ithink he has got to say but we cannot hear him i think interrupting Laura Kuenssberg in full flight to listen toa Man Kuenssberg in full flight to listen to a man we cannot hear is unforgivable and i apologise there is the bold threat that no deal is better than a bad deal. What one senior mp was saying is the challenge for theresa may today is to seem resolute but also constructive, to be the iron fist in the velvet glove. I think the tone of this letter is very much velvet glove. We might now be able to hear donald tusk. This is the head of the Council Of Ministers in brussels. In essence, this is about damage control. Our goal is clear. To minimise the cost for the eu ci
And sometimes even confrontational. 0n the day that donald tusk laid out the eus negotiating guidelines, we look at the the road ahead for brexit. And will we all by cyborgs any century soon . The answer is yes, if the tranhumanists have their way. Good evening. Is or daeshs tentacles have spread across the globe, but tonight we focus our attention on where it all began. Iraqs second city, mosul, has, for the past three years, been under the vicious heel of is, who visited unimaginable horror on many of the citys inhabitants. It was in mosul where the is leader, abu bakr al bagdadi, declared an islamic caliphate, but now the iraqi army, aided by Coalition Forces, have liberated much of the city and backed is fighters into neighbourhoods in west mosuls old city, along with around 300,000 inhabitants. There is little doubt is will eventually be routed in mosul, but the human cost of the liberation is high, with accusations that Coalition Strikes involving uk and usjets called in by the i
To dateline london. Two examples of Power To The People for us this week, but with very different responses from those in charge. Russia saw some of the largest Street Protests of Vladimir Putins 17 years in power, which ended with more than 1,000 arrests and the organiser in jail. Nine months after the british voted to leave the European Union, Prime Minister theresa may sent a polite letter to brussels triggering divorce after 44 years. To discuss the weeks events in russia and the eu, the russian born writer Alexander Nekrassov, michael gove mp, who was a conservative Cabinet Minister until last summer, and is now a columnist with the times. Stephanie baker of bloomberg news. And Stefanie Bolzen, from germanys die welt. Welcome to you all. Lets begin with britains exit from the European Union. Last summer, by a margin of 52 to 48 , people here voted to leave. Theresa may wanted to stay in the eu, but now she has the task of negotiating notjust brexit, as its become known, but also a
this week we learned that the measure of consumer confidence fell for the fourth month in a row to its lowest levels since january. you may disagree with why it s down. but, again, the customer who in this case is the american consumer is always right when it comes to the economy. why? because if americans are worried about the economy, they delay making important purchases and a perceived economic slowdown can easily become a reality. okay. so it s happening. but why? well, probably the biggest reason is this jobs. 20 straight months of job growth. yes. but over the last five months, look at that trend. roughly corresponding to the drop in consumer confidence, hiring in america has slowed. a week from now we ll have the job creation numbers for june to see where this trend is going. but until we have a strong jobs recovery, americans are going to hold back. and that is going to hamper a wider recovery. frankly, there is good and real reason to be nervous. it s that economi