The powerful abhor a vacuum, in this case, in Northern Syria, could there be a second arab spring as the power less resist . With me are the french algerian journalist nabila ramdani. Catherine pepinster, the former editor of the catholic weekly, the tablet. Agnes poirier who writes for the french news magazine marianne. The broadcaster michael goldfarb, whose podcast is the first rough draft of history. But first, brexit, forjournalists the story that keeps on giving. It has been a very strange week because ms day we had this rather gloomy phone call saying a deal was essentially impossible. Then Leo Varadkhar and borisjohnson went for a walk in the park and suddenly things were back on and now we are in a tunnel. Should be pleased or baffled . It depends if there is light out of the tunnel. We will see. It looks like borisjohnson gave a concession or rather had a glimpse of the real world and suddenly thought this is it. It looks as if we are back to something that the eu actually pr
And coming up the new cardinals appointed by pope francis and the military action in syria are two of the topics of dicussion on dateline london. Thats in half an hour here on bbc news. Hello. Good morning. The kenyan Long Distance runner, Eliud Kipchoge has made history in vienna this morning, becoming the first athlete to run a marathon in under two hours. Becoming the first athlete to run the 34 year old covered the 26. 2 miles course in one hour 59 minutes and a0 seconds. But that time will not be recognised as the official marathon world record because it was not in open competition. Another reason for it not being recgonised, is the team of rotating pacemakers that he used, who were guided by a laser in the road, which kept them within the two hour time limit. Heres the closing moments of the run. 300 metres to go, he can see the finish line here Neil Armstrong we had on the moon in 1969. Roger bannister, the four minute mile 65 years ago. Edward hillary, the first man to climb e
The democrats say the phone call to wear a high fashion travel companies, could be tantamount to promoting putting thousands ofjobs at risk. Take on a straight jacket stages also on the programme foreign interference a protest at Milan Fashion Week. In the 2020 election. Thats all coming up and a gucci model who was made to wear a high fashion take on a straightjacket stages a protest here on outside source. At Milan Fashion Week. Thats all coming up here on outside source. Delegates at the Labour Party Conference in brighton havejust voted to back their leader, the warnings on climate Jeremy Corbyn on Brexit Change are stark. It means the party Wont Campaign Global Temperatures are up, to remain in the eu in the next sea levels are rising and scientists general election. Say the signs and impacts of global the decision comes after a fierce debate over labours brexit policy. Warming are speeding up. Our Political Editor the un secretary general, antonio guterres, has gathered world Lau
Says hes sorry after a picture of him wearing brown face makeup was published by Time Magazine but in the midst of an Election Campaign will he survive. Waiter welcome to the program. A Japanese Court has acquitted 3 former officials who were in charge of the Fukushima Nuclear plant that went into meltdown after the tsunami in 2011 it was the only criminal trial to stem from the disaster the former executives of the Tokyo Electric Power company or tepco faced up to 5 years in prison if found guilty of professional negligence. First an earthquake then a tsunami and finally and Nuclear Disaster after 3 of the plants reactor cores melted down hundreds of thousands of people fled from their homes to escape the radiation the granted water and fukushima remain contamination even today many homeowners arent allowed to return the clean up work by operator tepco is expected to last decades. Those whose lives have been affected continue to take to the streets an independent commission concluded
Now on bbc news its dateline london. Hello, welcome to dateline london. This week, the rocky trump bolton relationship is over, but where does that leave American Foreign policy . And the british Prime Minister who called the brexit referendum in 2016 breaks his silence on the current crisis. With friends like this, who needs enemies . My guests today Agnes Poirier of french news weekly marianne. Janet daley of the sunday telegraph. Mina al oraibi, editor of the national a news service for the middle east. And irish broadcaster brian oconnell. Thank you to you all for being here. President trump says he sacked his National Security adviser. John bolton said he resigned. Twitter wars go with the territory but these two had much bigger disagreements in the 17 months in whichjohn bolton served in the trump administration. Iran, russia, north korea, afghanistan. So lets take stock of American Foreign policy three years into the trump administration. Mina, why dont you start off with the su