On decency and democracy. President trump has cancelled peace talks with the taliban after a deadly attack in kabul, revealing that hed been due to hold a secret meeting with leaders of the group at camp david on sunday. A us envoy to afghanistan had reached a draft peace deal with the militant group last week. The canadian teenager Bianca Andreescu has beaten Serena Williams to win us open womens singles title. The 19 year old won her maiden grand slam title after beating williams 6 3, 7 5. She becomes canadas first grand slam champion. Now on bbc news, dateline. Hello. Welcome to dateline london, im carrie gracie. This week Boris Johnsons promise that he would do oi johnsons promise that he would do ordie to johnsons promise that he would do or die to deliver brexit by october the 31st has become do or die in a ditch. Despite a full house of parliamentary defeats, nothing else changed in his message stop either doing or dying is still defiantly scheduled for october the 31st, so oui
And film maker annalisa piras. Iain martin of the times. Marc roche from le point newspaper. And Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news. Thanks, all, for coming in. The palace of westminster has seen some extraordinary political dramas over the past 1,000 years, but there current one is right up there. In fact, the last time a british Prime Minister lost his first vote in the house of commons was 1783, and thats not the only thing that went wrong for Boris Johnson last week. So, lets do a quick recap. On monday, downing street warned tory mps that if theyjoined an attempt to push through a bill seeking to block a no deal brexit, they would be expelled from the parliamentary party, and if the blocking attempts succeeded, the Prime Minister would call for a general election. On tuesday, 21 tories defied those threats and were promptly thrown out. On wednesday, the house of commons past the offending blocking bill and rejected the Prime Ministers attempt to call a snap election. On thursday, j
Crucial vote later today we want rules based order because we know it is better for all of us. We have to do it the european way. The european Financial System marks the 75th a anniversary as one of its keystone institutions looks ahead to transition. Well speak to david lipton in his first broadcast interview since assuming the acting managing director role good morning ursula van der leyen has told meps that the continent must stick to its free market rulebased traditions in the face of a changing Global Economy. In her pitch before the European Parliament in strasburg, she said the eu must be able to hold its own with the likes of the u. S. And china with that, lets get out to david lipton who joins us from paris where the bank of france is marking its 75th anniversary. Last time we spoke was a couple month months ago since then theres been a few developments on your side, namely your former colleague, madam regard lagarde will be moving to the presidency of the ecb. Can we give an
Affected 11 cities of this province, especially the southern regions. The minister of the interior also wants to continue the process providing services to these areas, especially in chabahar cities, dashtiari informed. Mr. Vahidi has traveled to the flooded areas of sistan baluchistan with the special order of the president to conduct field investigations and monitor the operation of the aid system. In the meeting of the Crisis Management headquarters of the province, with the presence of the interior minister , the amount of flood damage was examined and according to mr. Vahidi, the major part of the flood damage is in the field of communication routes, where the responsible agencies are working with all their might to reopen the routes and provide services. Despite the fact that the honorable governor was closely following all the time in vesa region and other agencies i also preferred to serve the dear people of the province today after the opportunity that i have now. I want to ex
Dog, pom. Pictures here of him out with his dog, poppy, in the early hours near Downing Street. Some nice pictures. The chancellor has promised his plans will stimulate the flagging economy and help family with permanent tax breaks. Labour will argue that any reductions will still leave people worse off because of the freezing of Tax Thresholds. So what could be expected in todays budget . Ben king takes a look. The background to todays budget has been gloomy, with the economy in recession. But it looks like the chancellor will still find room to cut taxes. The conservatives are trailing labour in the polls, and looking Forjeremy Hunt to give them some cheer in places like this, winchester, a seat the Lib Dems Hope to win. So what do people here think about tax cuts . I think it would be a good idea because it gives people more money to spend on what they want to buy. Realistically, people arent going to save that much money from a tax cut, whereas more money in Public Services means B