To world news today. Britains Prime Minister has tried to inject new energy into the brexit talks, with a distinctly warmer tone in a key speech in italy. Theresa may says she wants the uk to be the eus strongest friend and partner and has called for a two year transition deal after britain officially leaves the eu, saying the uk will pay its financial obligations though no sum was mentioned. The mayor of london has called for greater clarity from the Prime Minister. Mrs may choose to set out her plans in the city of florence, our Political Editor Laura Keunssberg sent this report. Waiting, waiting, and waiting. Its months since the Prime Minister gave anything away on brexit. And if you are in a hurry to disentangle completely, you might just have to wait some more. She came to florence to confirm that for as long as two years after we are technically out, not that much might change. A period of implementation would be in our mutual interest. That is why i am proposing there should be
Launs chief economic advisor, Mohamed Elerian told Us Technology is disrupting opecs plans to raise rices. Eddie. T the qatari there was a deadline. Now the deadline has come and gone, and they havent really made a call about are they going to lift the sanctions, accept qatars letter in response to them, or are they going to add to sanctions . They did say they reserve the right to add to sanctions going forward, but it is really unclear about what next. It just seems to be we are going to stick with the sanctions, we are going to keep going the way we are going until qatar gives in. And there is talk that they will be meeting in bahrain. Do we know when they are going to meet . We dont. They just said the next meeting will be in bahrain. We dont know when that is or what will trigger a meeting, if they are waiting for another response from qatar, if there is more mediation going on. We dont really know. What they did say is they did call on the International Community to step in to ma
Mohamed elerian told Us Technology is disrupting opecs plans to raise prices. But first, the qatari isolation. There was a deadline. Now the deadline has come and gone, and they havent really made a call about are they going to lift the sanctions, accept qatars letter in response to them, or are they going to add to sanctions . They did say they reserve the right to add to sanctions going forward, but it is really unclear about what next. It just seems to be we are going to stick with the sanctions, we are going to keep going the way we are going until qatar gives in. And there is talk that they will be meeting in bahrain. Do we know when they are going to meet . We dont. They did not say. They just said the next meeting will be in bahrain. We dont know when that is or what will trigger a meeting, if they are waiting for another response from qatar, if there is more mediation going on. We dont really know. What they did say is they did call on the International Community to step in to
President trump has announced that he is cancelling the main gathering of the Republican National convention in florida in august following a spike in coronavirus cases there. Speaking at a White House Press briefing, mr trump said he would give a speech ahead of us elections as planned, but in a different form. Have a listen. The timing for this event is not right. Its just not right, with whats happened recently, the flareup in florida, to have a big convention. Its not the right time. Its really something that, for me, i have to protect the american people. Thats what i have always done. Thats what i always will do. Thats what i am about. Susan macmanus is emeritus Political Science professor from the university of south florida. Thanks for your time. No big surprise, then, from the sound of it. Absolutely not. There was a lot of pressure being put on the mayor of jacksonville, and of course the governor as well, to really decide whether oi well, to really decide whether or not they
President trump has announced that hes cancelling the main gathering of the Republican National convention in florida in august, following a spike in coronavirus cases there. Speaking at a White House Press briefing, mr trump said he would give a speech ahead of us elections as planned, but in a different form. Have a listen. The timing for this event is not right. Its just not right with whats happened recently, the flare up in florida, to have a big convention. Its not the right time. Its really something that, for me, i have to protect the american people. Thats what ive always done. Thats what i always will do. Thats what im about. Some announcement about this was anticipated. I asked susan macmanus, emeritus Political Science professor from the university of south florida, if this was no big surprise. Absolutely not. There was a lot of pressure being put on the mayor ofjacksonville, and of course the governor as well, to really decide whether or not they should have it, because of