Its dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week. One of the worlds most wanted men blows himself up in a suicide vest to evade us capture, but where does that leave the terror group he led . And yet another brexit deadline has passed without brexit. Can a general election now resolve this crisis . My guests today abdel bari atwan, writer on arab affairs. The veteran New York Times reporterjohn fisher burns. Broadcaster, maria margaronis, and political commentator adam raphael. Welcome to you all and thank you forjoining us. How much does one death disrupt a Terror Movement . In 2014, abu bakr al baghdadi, the leader of thejihadi Group Islamic state, declared a caliphate in iraq and syria. By the time of his death last weekend, the territory had been lost, his caliphate had crumbled. But is has already declared a new leader and vowed revenge. So, bari, you start us off. Tell us what we know about this new leader. The new leader, Abu Ibrahim Al hash
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A recent agreement of an african free trade area is sim by some as an incentive enough for regional leaders to finally launch it after 3 failed attempts. While businesses say a common currency will ease regional trade not everyone is hopeful that all 15 members nations of the covered bloc of course have the political will to see it through next year. By degrees. Still ahead on the bulletin a defiant donald trump issues an executive order to determine who is living in the u. S. Legally and who isnt. Hello there its been a very unsettled picture polls across much of Southern Europe this some improvement the weather picture as we head through the next couple of days subjects out on the satellite and actually quite a bit of activity across Central Regions of western europe but what about the rain just yet but the good news is a sigh is that much of the south in the southeast those strong thunderstorms that really are clearing through certainly by friday the rain pushing the across much of
This meeting it was a working level but it was a very small working level meeting just 2 south korean officials met with 2 counterparts from the Japanese Trade Ministry so picture says it all its a very small meeting and they explained to south korea that the country is now out of what so called white countries least this allows japan to export its high Tech Technologies to countries on this list without any restrictions and now south korea is on its way to be exempted from this list so from now on Japanese Companies are not allowed to export their eye to products south Korean Companies without certain rules on said certain procedures the weather is next and then. Oysters die and the shrimp are moving out we have wildlife mammals you know dolphins are past you know dying extreme weather and the u. S. Pushes the Mississippi River to record levels taking a heavy toll on wildlife costs. East meets west chinese shalyn mines make an entrance into an american style restaurant very. Hollow to
United states is the next Prime Minister the United Kingdom and he just i think rather wisely chose in these circumstances not so very publicly engage right i think hes made to the right choices but that other people who have who have other reasons are not an accident or a drawing to a made the wrong choice let our other 2 guests come in i know that but i think this is now out of here and say now he has to you then to mount you nancy what did you have to say. By not saying anything he could he was not endorsing one of britains finest diplomats and i think its important that thats why you have the rockets and i think thats a fair criticism but the bigger issue here is that the special relationship is going to be just fine and what happened is that. Kim said what everyone in washington is saying talking to all the other diplomats in washington theyve all written back exactly the same thing so the bigger question is does this hamper how a diplomat can do his job he has to be able to give