Its time for dateline london. Hello, and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week, the peoples republic of china marks its 70th anniversary. Who is celebrating, who is not . And britains Top Court Rules against the british government, triggering another torrid week in westminster. My guests today David Aaronovitch of the london times, Vincent Magombe of africa international, chinese writer diane wei liang, and john fisher burns, veteran of the new york times. So, let us look first at china. Communist china is 70 this week. Beijing is decked in red flags, all rehearsed and ready for a giant military parade. But because the communist party does not like spontaneity at big moments, many things have been banned, including kites, balloons and pigeons. At 70, there is much for the peoples republic to celebrate. Under xi jinping, its outlived and outperformed the predictions of many and now looks more united and invincible than at any point in its history. Or does it . Diane, t
Have, i have to run the country the way were running the country, we are doing very well, respected all over the world again. Also on the programme. The republicans hold two house seats in North Carolina, while President Trump took credit for the victory, is he the reason these safe seats are in play . And the perfect way to mark the founding of your city, walking the tightrope between the two tallest buildings. Hello and welcome, im Christian Fraser in london, Michelle Fleury is in washington. Scotlands highest civil court has ruled borisjohnsons prorogation of parliament was unlawful. A panel of 3 judges found in favour of a Cross Party Group who were challenging the Prime Ministers move. The court of session judges said they were unanimous that mrjohnsons decision to suspend, was for the improper purpose of stymieing parliament; that he had misled the queen, and therefore the decision was null and of no effect. However, in a separate ruling published today regarding the challenge in
Think religion should play in politics and public life . We want to hear from you. Go ahead and start calling in now. If you are in the eastern or central time zone, we want you to call us at 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zone, your number is 202 7488001. You can send us a text message at 202 7488003. Please include your name and where you live. You can find us on facebook. Com cspan and on x cspanwj. New House Speaker mike johnson has really made religion a central role of his political career. I want to read to you a little bit from an article in the hill from last month that talks aut speaker johnsons political philosophy and his thohts on the separation of church and state. Here is an excerpt from that article. It says, johnson argued that faith, our deep religious heritage and tradition, is a big part of what it means to be an american in his comments tuesday. He further argued that morality must be kept among americans so that we have accountability. Her
Humanitarian assistance. Amy gaza is being strangled. That is the latest warning from United Nations about the dire humanitarian crisis in gaza as palestinian Authorities Say at least 7000 people have been killed in israels 21day bombardment. We will speak to a top official at unrwa, the u. N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees which is sheltering over 600,000 displaced gazans. Then we will speak to an israeli man who helped negotiate a prisoner swap with hamas in 2011 that freed the israeli soldier gilad shalit. We will also speak to New York University Law School Student law student ryna workman, who lost a job at a Prestigious Law Firm after speaking up for palestinian rights. The biggest message i want to tell everyone right now is no one should be punished for speaking up for palestinian human rights and the backlash we are against me is creating much larger and intense Chilling Effect for other students, i think in this moment, we need to be able to feel empowered to speak up and ca
Against him, then she did. Mika, hold on. Hold on. I have a list. Im so shocked. Im so shocked. Okay. We want to hear your list. Its a list. Im checking it off. Okay. She wouldnt run against him, then she did. Three months ago, he was too unhinged to get a drivers license. Now yeah. Now, nikki haley will vote for donald trump for president of the United States. Good morning, everybody. Willie, this is one of those, im shocked, shocked. Shes done this over and over again, right . Yeah. I will say, lets just say it off the top, this happens in politics. I mean, you know, people say nasty things about other people when theyre running against them for president. In the primary. Then they come together. I do think, though, everybody has to make a choice. In 2024, you know, nikki haley could have made the choice that a lot of conservative republicans have made. Im going to be talking to Charlie Sykes about that in a little bit. That is, you know what, stay conservative. Dont go along with th