Hello this is bbc news with shaun ley. The headlines. As the final few days of campaigning get underway, the conservatives promise to introduce an australian style points based immigration system to control unskilled migration. Meanwhile, labour has set out its plans for social care if it wins the election by offering more funding and free personal care for older people in england. A factory fire in the indian capital, delhi, which broke out in the early hours of the morning has killed at least 43 people. Now time for dateline london. Hello, and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week. Something we didnt expect President Trump defending nato against attack from a european leader. Something we did expect a teenager shaking up a Global Climate change conference. And something where no side dares trust its expectations a british election. My guests this week are abdel bari atwan, an analyst on arab affairs, portuguese writer eunice goes, henry chu, International Editor of
My guests this week are abdel bari atwan, writer on arab affairs, portuguese writer eunice goes, henry chu, International Editor of variety, marc roche of french news weekly le point. Welcome to you all. Is it too easy to knock nato . At a fractious summit to mark the alliances 70th birthday, the french president stood by his assessment that it was brain dead, the american president said such comments were disrespectful, the turkish president retorted that it was the french president who was brain dead and the canadian Prime Minister got caught on camera gossiping about the american president , who then said the canadian was two faced. But natos secretary Generaljens Stoltenberg shrugged all this off as surface stuff and insisted the substance of the alliance was strong at 70. On the evidence of last weeks summit, is it . Marc, you start us off, you were there. It was quite messy, but on there. It was quite messy, but on the whole they managed, like they do at these meetings, a declara
Hello, and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week. Something we didnt expect President Trump defending nato against attack from a european leader. Something we did expect a teenager shaking up a Global Climate change conference. And something where no side dares trust its expectations a british election. My guests this week are abdel bari atwan, an analyst on arab affairs, portuguese writer eunice goes, henry chu, International Editor of variety, and marc roche of french news weekly le point. Welcome to you all. Now, is it too easy to knock nato . At a fractious summit to mark the alliances 70th birthday, the french president stood by his assessment that it was brain dead, the american president said such comments were disrespectful, the turkish president retorted that it was the french president who was brain dead and the canadian Prime Minister got caught on camera gossiping about the american president , who then said the canadian was two faced. But natos secretary
Many of his European Partners in the alliance certainly dont agree though they call is words drastic and dangerous in an interview with the economist magazine the french president blamed the us saying its commitment to nato is weakening micro cited the u. S. Failure to consult it before pulling its forces out of Northern Syria he also questioned whether the alliance is still committed to collective defense and he called on europe to think of itself as a geopolitical power and ensure its in control of its destiny microns remarks come ahead of a summit in the u. K. Early next month to mark nato 70th anniversary u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or says nato must change or risk irrelevance. They dont run is always the risk that it will become obsolete now because the partnership now because the political commitments for ever become i dont think is between in the transit and those commitments between our countries will ever become obsolete. But it does run that risk if it doesnt do the
French president raises eyebrows by describing nato is brain dead is the airlines weakening can europe create an alternative this is inside story. Hello welcome to the show i am sam is a than nato is experiencing brain death so says french president emanuel microloan many of his European Partners in the alliance certainly dont agree though they call is words drastic and dangerous in an interview with the economist magazine the french president blamed the us saying its commitment to nato is weakening microns cited the us failure to consult it before pulling its forces out of Northern Syria he also questioned whether the alliance is still committed to collective defense and he called on europe to think of itself as a geopolitical power and ensure its in control of its destiny microns remarks come ahead of a summit in the u. K. Early next month to mark nato 70th anniversary u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or says nato must change or risk irrelevance. They dont run is always the risk