By democrat led committees. Also on the programme. China has been celebrating 70 years of communist rule but in hong kong more violent demonstrations. The police have been using tear gas, pepper spray and live rounds to quell the protests. And what to do when your name is facing extinction . 0ne nigel brought together 400 nigels, for a night of nigel nostalgia. Hello and welcome im Christian Fraser in london, Michelle Fleury is in washington. When the European Commission president Jean Claude Junker met with borisjohnson a few weeks ago, he said hed discovered something new; that this Prime Minister wanted more of a border on the island of ireland than his predecessor. And today mrjohnson confirmed it. The reality of brexit, he said, means that there must be customs checks of some description in Northern Ireland, after the uk leaves the eu. The Prime Minister has rejected briefings from the irish side that that will effectively mean a hard border, in the form of a series of customs pos
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I call the madison avenue you those. You had a time when it was more intuitive command was more principled. Principal and philosophical than what you see today. We see today is techno politics, and it operates on the right and left. It even gets down to people running for office filtering out in the formula voters that dont show up to the polls. You know what, i dont even want to count them because they are not going to have an impact. What i am saying is that you are making an excellent. There is a reality, and i am not defending it. But i am describing it, was sometimes makes it difficult absent a tremendous crisis. I would concede that. We need to understand democracy. Small the ambience two and four year elections. Understand democracy is being much more vibrant. Who we elect office and how we hold them accountable. Grassroots organizing. So whatever has been going on in politics, we saw the ground from. On the ground organizing is taking place which gives me hope. Imagine democrac
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And by bnsf railway. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york. A foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill republican paul ryan became the 54th speaker of the house of representatives today. Hes 45, and was the partys Vice President ial nominee in 2012. Now, he faces perhaps his biggest test yet. Mr. Speaker, the speakerelect, paul d. Ryan of wisconsin. Ifill the bipartisan cheers, handshakes and hugs all made clear the new speaker is popular with republicans and democrats. And, after taking the gavel from democratic leader nancy pelosi, ryan called for