hello and welcome to the programme that brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a convention busting week, this one a queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen. two countries strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides. in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland topped the poll for the first time in the centuries since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and more, in the studio are brian o connell, former bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, eunice goes, portuguesejournalist and university lecturer and newly created british citizen, and jeffrey kofman, who s been both a war correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. good to have you back with us. jeffrey, let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland, finland s president, sauli niinisto, said on f
now it s time for a look at the weather. good afternoon. what a difference a day makes. today, we ve lost all that sunshine we had yesterday, instead we have that rain around, let s have a look at the radar of the last few hours. the screen heads up the last few hours. the screen heads up the western side of scotland, is an off somewhat. we have seen rain pushing and across more southern england, continuing to work its way into the midlands and across east anglia. not that heavy, but cooler thanit anglia. not that heavy, but cooler than it was yesterday. these are the temperatures, a few showers dotted around elsewhere. we were expecting the rain to move northwards overnight tonight, but then we are going to fine another cluster of thunderstorms actually milling and across more southern parts of england, if you re hoping to see the super blood moon, it is really across northern scotland you will have the clearest skies. a warm, muqqy have the clearest skies. a warm, muggy not
now on bbc news.. dateline london with shaun ley hello and welcome to the programme which brings together the foreign correspondence for audience back home from the dateline london. it has been a convention busting week, this one. the queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen, two countries strictly neutral for 80 years repairing to take sides for, in northern ireland a party in favour of reuniting ireland top the poll for the first time in the century since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and work in the studio are brian o connell, a portuguesejournalist and university lecturer, newly created british citizen, and jeffrey coffman who has been a royal correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. could have you back with us. let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland. finland s president said on friday he is going to ring president putin and tell him that the situation has changed. how a big a
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