Police officers will be deployed to enforce the rules belgium has reportedly joined the netherlands in banning travel from the uk as the first case of the new covid variant is detected in Continental Europe now its time for dateline with shaun ley. Hello, im shaun ley. Welcome to the programme that brings together leading columnists in the uk, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who send their stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. This week. The eu and uk agree to keep on talking, the Us Supreme Court declines to hear, and borisjohnson sees no covid crisis because of christmas provided its a little one. Joining us this week, ian martin whose columns appear in the times newpaper. Jeffrey kaufmann, a former network news anchor in the United States. Here in the studio with me is celia hatton, asia pacific editor for the bbc. It was the english puritans who cancelled christmas. Borisjohnson is no puritan. In the 17th century, the festival had become an excuse
With its issue. In some issues, germany, weve seen these pre Christmas Lockdown is being imposed, but other countries are really struggling, too. The philippines in particular, really what we are seeing borisjohnson struggling with, we are seeing the philippines leader struggling with this as well. The philippines is 94 christian, so christian is a really big deal. For weeks now, he has been pleading with the population to keep gathering small, to stop singing, so church choirs, but also karaoke. And he is trying to introduce the idea that christmas should include small, solemn gatherings. A lot of people are public going to ignore him. It is really interesting watching that play out in two Different Countries around the world. Martyn, how worried do think some of Boris Johnsons parliamentary colleagues and his conservative party are about this . About the decisions being taken . Very interesting, because of course at the time of talking there are meetings ongoing about what to do abou
London. Hello, im shaun ley. Welcome to the programme that brings together leading columnists in the uk, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who send their stories to audiences back home from the dateline london. This week the eu and uk agree to keep on talking. The Us Supreme Court declines to hear. And borisjohnson sees no covid crisis because of christmas provided its a little one. Joining us this week, iain martin, whose columns appear in the times newspaper. Jeffrey kaufmann, a former network news anchor in the United States. And here in the studio with me is celia hatton, asia pacific editor for the bbc. Welcome to you and to both of you twojoining us remote. It was the english puritans who cancelled christmas. Borisjohnson is no puritan. In the 17th century, the festival had become an excuse for licentiousness or to use the lingo of 2020 failing to observe social distancing. This week, the Welsh Government departed from the uk wide consensus brokered just a week ago
Theres a long history of civil rights imbedded in Economic Justice movement. From before Martin Luther king held the poor peoples march, back to the very ideals of our country. If he want to live in a country where everybody has an equal say and chance we have to take complaints like this seriouseye. What about people who just want to shop. People who want to shop have been doing a great job at it and im all for that. Its important for people to take a moment out of their daily lives to recognize when theres a real problem with the economic and political system and its our obligation as americans to call out those failures. Is this the way to do it, charles . Id say absolutely not. I think its orchestrated. The same gigantic liberal umbrella progressives. Reach people pulling the strings. I dont think the walmart is the reason for police brutality. But theyre doing it in apple stores. I read a piece about bill gates, made his money in prisons and slavery. Gets crazy out of hand and its
Multiple felonies. Friday, february 8th, next friday been on the docket forever turns out its good you only wrote it in in pencil because now you have to either erase it or messily x it out because the sentencing of the president s Campaign Chair was called off today by the famous judge that oversees manaforts case in virginia although that virginia trial is over and manafort was convicted at that trial of eight felonies, and now Virginia Court famously likes to get stuff done fast with no delays, thats the court, the socalled rocket docket despite all of that, the sentencing of the president s Campaign Chair that was sentenced for next week, next friday, that is now indefinitely on hiatus and delayed. The problem is that the whole sentencing process for Paul Manafort has now been complicated by these new allegations from special Counsel Robert Mueller that manafort breached his plea deal and lied to prosecutors after he agreed to cooperate with them. That specific issue, which manafor