Nothing else changed in his message. The doing or dying is still defiantly scheduled for october 31st. So our question today is the british Prime Minister digging himself a ditch in which to die . Or demonstrating exactly the determination that will do in the end . My guests italian writer and film maker annalisa piras. Iain martin of the times. Marc roche of le point newspaper. Stephanie baker of bloomberg news. Thanks for coming in. The palace of westminster has seen many extraordinary political dramas over the past thousand years. But the 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 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 attempt succeeded the Prime
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 the us are called off President Trump blames a deadly attack in the afghan capital, kabul. Ships and aircraft evacuate thousands of people from islands in the bahamas worst hit by Hurricane Dorian aid agencies say the situation is desperate. British Airways Pilots prepare to go on strike for the first time in the airlines history. And coming up at 11. 30am Carrie Gracie discusses this weeks events in westminster with uk based foreign correspondents on dateline london. Good morning. Amber rudd has been giving more details about why shes resigned from the government. She told the Bbcs Andrew Marr she hasnt seen enough evidence that downing street is doing enough to get a brexit deal. And shes angry about the expulsion of what she called good and moderate conservative mps. The chancellor sajid javid said he was saddened by her resignation and he did not agree that the government wasnt putting serious effort into getting a new deal. Heres what amber rudd had to say on the Andrew Marr S
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
In the next hour held under five star hotel arrest we get exclusive access to riyadhs ritz Carlton Holding 200 of saudi arabias most powerful people. As far as detention centres go, this is beyond compare. Luxury Swimming Pool is beyond compare. Luxury Swimming Pool, restaurants, a gym, everything is glittering. And a bitter blow to britain after brussels ruled it cant now host the 2023 European Capital of culture. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The uk is in danger of losing almost 20 years of growth in earnings thats the stark warning from the institute of fiscal studies after yesterdays budget. The independent think tank says the squeeze on Living Standards in the past ten years is unprecedented and warns that the Economic Outlook is grim. It says theres no imminent end to austerity and government borrowing is now expected to rise for decades. The chancellor, Philip Hammond, said he hoped to prove the forecasts wrong and insisted his budget was a package for families feeling t