Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. What is going on in poland . Injuly, the European Union began legal action against the polish government, over controversial proposed reforms, that critics say will politicise the legal system. Its threatening to withdraw funding and suspend polands Voting Rights in eu. My guest today is the polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. It is poland, that was a country held up as a model of post soviet transition, turning away from Liberal Democracy . And what does this mean for its people and its place in europe and the world . Foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. 20 months ago, your law and Justice Party won the elections, now it is facing a lot of criticisms. What has gone wrong . I dont think anything is wrong in poland. We are running the country for the last 21 months. Weve got a very strong democratic mandate from our people in poland. And we are trying still to modernise the country, develop the count
Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. What is going on in poland . Injuly, the European Union began legal action against the polish government, over controversial proposed reforms, that critics say will politicise the legal system. Its threatening to withdraw funding and suspend polands Voting Rights in eu. My guest today is the polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. It is poland, that was a country held up as a model of post soviet transition, turning away from Liberal Democracy . And what does this mean for its people and its place in europe and the world . Foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. 20 months ago, your law and Justice Party won the elections, now it is facing a lot of criticisms. What has gone wrong . I dont think anything is wrong in poland. We are running the country for the last 21 months. Weve got a very strong democratic mandate from our people in poland. And we are trying still to modernise the country, develop the count
Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. What is going on in poland . Injuly, the European Union began legal action against the polish government, over controversial proposed reforms, that critics say will politicise the legal system. Its threatening to withdraw funding and suspend polands Voting Rights in eu. My guest today is the polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. It is poland, that was a country held up as a model of post soviet transition, turning away from Liberal Democracy . And what does this mean for its people and its place in europe and the world . Foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski, in warsaw, welcome to hardtalk. 20 months ago, your law and Justice Party won the elections, now it is facing a lot of criticisms. What has gone wrong . I dont think anything is wrong in poland. We are running the country for the last 21 months. Weve got a very strong democratic mandate from our people in poland. And we are trying still to modernise the country, develop the count
In singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, iam in london and 8 30am in the morning in pyongyang, where north korean state media says the military is developing a plan to fire four missiles at the us island of guam. The details will be presented to the north korean leader, kim jong un, for a decision. It comes after the us Defence Secretary issued a warning to north korea saying they should stop any actions that would lead to the end of its regime and the destruction of its people. Our north america correspondent, nick bryant, reports. A far off american outpost in the tropical waters of the Western Pacific now finds itself at the centre of a dangerous stand off. This is guam, the site this summer of us military exercises, American Territory that north korea says could now be in the firing line. From north korean state tv came this chilling headline, that guam could be targeted by medium to long range rockets. And it came just hours after Preside