The selection because of brexit. We wa nt the selection because of brexit. We want to be getting out and buying christmas presents. If anyone comes up christmas presents. If anyone comes up to you and says they know what is going to happen, cocked an eyebrow and, smile politely, and turn your back. Hello everyone, it is the end of the first full week of the general Election Campaign. The main news is that everyone who works in this programme has finally started calling it reflection cast because we re calling it reflection cast because were going to look back at what happened in the week. But it has not caught on with the public at all. So you can just call it electioncast. So, we have crammed this tiny studio with some big brains to talk about the weeks events. I will let them introduce themselves. Hello former special adviser to sajid javid. Stand up comedian and he used to work for the labour party. And i am the bbc pickle at her. Any airport based reports not meant for non scottish
Time now for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The worlds most pressing and potentially dangerous strategic confrontation is playing out in the narrow waterway between iran and arabia. The United States is leading efforts to isolate the government in tehran. Iran is responding with defiance, despite severe economic disruption. My guest, former British Foreign secretary jack straw, is a veteran of western diplomatic engagement with iran. How high is the risk of calamitous conflict . Jack straw, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Your diplomatic engagement with iran spans two decades, and through that period youve been an advocate for dialogue, for engagement, with tehran. But here we are today, with relations are between the us and the uk and tehran toxic. So is it a story of complete failure . Its not a story of complete failure at all, and indeed, the Nuclear Negotiations which the French Foreign ministers and i got going in the summer of 2003, by fits and starts, laid th
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The worlds most pressing and potentially dangerous strategic confrontation is playing out in the narrow waterway between iran and arabia. The United States is leading efforts to isolate the government in tehran. Iran is responding with defiance, despite severe economic disruption. My guest, former British Foreign secretary jack straw, is a veteran of western diplomatic engagement with iran. How high is the risk of calamitous conflict . Jack straw, welcome to hardtalk. Welcome. Your diplomatic engagement with iran spans two decades, and through that period youve been an advocate for dialogue, for engagement, with tehran. But here we are today, with relations are between the us and the uk and tehran toxic. So is it a story of complete failure . Its not a story of complete failure at all, and indeed, the Nuclear Negotiations which the French Foreign ministers and i got going in the summer of 2003, by fits and starts, laid the foundations for discuss
As is the parliament, subordinate to the Supreme Leader and the so called guardian council, in his own right and reports only you are up to date with the a preacher. So i dont accept that. Headlines. Im far from dewey eyed about it. Now on bbc news its hardtalk. To the hardline nearly octogenarian welcome to hardtalk, Supreme Leader khamenai. Im stephen sackur. 0ne specific point about britain. The worlds most pressing do you think britain needs and potentially dangerous strategic to consider releasing that oil confrontation is playing out my concern is the tanker detained in gibraltar, to defuse tensions, and then hope in the narrow waterway i think the way President Trump in a response measure is going about it will the iranians might release have the opposite effect the british flagged ship . Between iran and arabia. Of what he is proposing. The United States is leading efforts to isolate the government in tehran. Iran is responding with defiance, i wouldnt do it unilaterally. I wou
The London Underground and trying to do the same to another. Senior facebook executive nick clegg says the inquest into the London Bridge attack has heard that the man the company should play mature role who owned the gym used by all three killers has been asked to hand in advocating rather shunning regulation. Heavy rain and flash over his phone to be examined. Sajeel shahid ran the ummah fitness flooding have caused disruption centre in east london gcioss flooding have caused disruption across parts of edinburgh this where the attack ringleader khuram butt worked. Mr shahid denies he knew what the three men were plotting. Afternoon. From the old bailey, heres our correspondent richard lister. Just after midnight, a week before the carnage on London Bridge and borough market, the three attackers are outside the Ummah Fitness Centre in east london. Its a place they know well. Good evening. The race to become khuram butt, the ringleader, the new conservative leader and our next Prime Mi