We are back into a mixture of sunshine and blustery showers today. A different feel to the weather today. Most of the shallows will be in southern england, wales and could be heavy. Is the showers. Some blustery winds near the showers but not as windy as yesterday. Temperatures eight, nine. Through the early part of the night there will be more showers to come. As the night wears on, their showers become fewer and skies will clear. A bit colder in the north east of scotland. A few stray showers left over early in the morning tomorrow but they will not last long. Then all this lot coming in from the atlantic. Clouded outbreaks of rain, reaching eastern scotland. It also gets windy out later on in the temperature is around eight to 10 degrees. You have been waiting for this all morning, it is time for dateline london. Hello, and welcome again to the programme which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back hom
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Together leading commentators in the uk with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. 290 million children are missing school as parts of the world are in lock down. Just how big a challenge is coronavirus going to be to our way of life . A sultan and a tsar decree a ceasefire in syria. Is this the new power politics in the middle east . And why everybody lovesjoe including those who derided him a week ago. With me here are the belgian born journalist, marc roche, who writes for le point and le soir. Alexander nekrassov, a former kremlin advisor whose twitter handle is stirringtrouble. Stephanie baker, Senior Writer at Bloomberg News the company not the now defunct president ial campaign. Isabel hilton, founder and editor of china dialogue, which is that rare thing where an organisation has a name that describes exactly what it does. Welcome, it is lovely to have a holiday with us. I am very grateful we havent got to the stage
Out of that region. Now he has to make a case for going back in. Good afternoon. Today congress, tomorrow the American People. Thats president obamas stepbystep approach for outlining his strategy for confronting isis in iraq and syria. Right now congressional leaders are meeting, taking place one day before the president is scheduled to address the nation in primetime on his isis strategy. Although the answers to many questions on the u. S. Mission are still up in the air, what will our strategy look like . What is the goal . And how long will it take . The question today seems to be what role will Congress Play . House Speaker John Boehner offered little clarity on that frongt this morning. Still there is a strategy. Theres no reason to talk about the specifics because until we know what the strategy is we dont know what will be involved. A handful of the members of congress are calling for a vote to authorize the mission. Many members are skeptical of taking a vote on anything so co
At this hour the clocking ticking toward the ceasefire deadline in ukraine. With under seven hours to go reuters is reporting seven servicemen have been killed and 23 wounded in the past 24 hours. And the sounds of shelling and gunfire can be heard in the eastern cities of mariopal and donestk. Nick paton walsh is in live in donestk. You have a bit of a close call. You had to leave your post a while ago because shelling was getting too close to you. What are you hearing there now . The shelling has quieted in the area we were four or five shells that landed reasonably close, but emphasized frankly, how much of a horrific time so many civil jans have been having in donestk the past weeks or months. We see daily the damage done by shelling. We saw today ourselves what one local said was a rocket that landed near houses causing a huge amount of debris thrown in the air, large rocks crashing through the bedroom of a 12yearold girl in one house. This has wrecked civilian live for months her