Those are your headlines. Now on bbc news, dateline london looks forward to the year ahead. Hello, and welcome to dateline london, the programme that brings together some of the uks leading columnists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. It being a reflective time of the year, were looking back on 2019 when britain backed boris to get brexit done, when donald trump was impeached, when street protests felled one north african dictator and shook governments from western europe to hong kong. With me are david aaronovitch, columnist with the times, janet daley from the sunday telegraph, the russian broadcaster alexander nekrassov, and michael goldfarb, host of the podcast the first rough draft of history. Very good to have you all with us. With one electoral bound, he was free. Borisjohnson spent his first few months as uk Prime Minister at the mercy of a house of commons he could not command, making promises he couldnt an
Children drowned on Christmas Eve in a Swimming Pool at a resort in spain says all three could swim. She blames a fault with the pool concerns for australias wildlife as an extreme heatwave hits the country, putting increasing pressure on authorities battling the bushfires. A crisis for englands cricket team on day 3 as hosts south africa lead by 300 runs in the second innings and in half an hour dateline london looks back at the political events of 2019 including reflecting on the election of borisjohnson, the impeachement of donald trump, and global street protests. To previously unsung volunteers, have been recognised good morning. Over a thousand people, from household names to previously unsung volunteers, have been recognised in the new year honours list. Sir elton john receives the highest accolade hes been made a companion of honour. Other singers feature Olivia Newtonjohn becomes a dame, and billy ocean is made an mbe. The film directors sam mendes and Steve Mcqueen are knight
Hello, and welcome to dateline london, the programme that brings together some of the uks leading columnists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. It being a reflective time of the year, were looking back on 2019 when britain backed boris to get brexit done, when donald trump was impeached, when street protests felled one north african dictator and shook governments from western europe to hong kong. With me are david aaronovitch, columnist with the times janet daley, from the sunday telegraph the russian broadcaster alexander nekrassov, and michael goldfarb, host of the podcast the first rough draft of history. Very good to have you all with us. With one electoral bound, he was free. Borisjohnson spent his first few months as uk Prime Minister at the mercy of a house of commons he could not command, making promises he couldnt and didnt keep. The first december election in nearly a century was a bitter one for labour, ex
Missing next months Australian Open after pulling out because of injury. And at 11. 30 dateline london takes a look at whats in store for the year ahead. There are calls for an independent inquiry after a data breach which saw the addresses of more than a thousand people on the new year honours list made publicly available online. The files included the details of celebrities, Senior Police officers and politicians one of those affected, iain duncan smith, called the leak a complete disaster. Katharine da costa reports. More than 1000 people will be honoured, among them celebrities, sport sports, and politicians, including musician sir eltonjohn, cricketer ben stokes, former Tory Party Leader iain duncan smith, and former director of Public Prosecutions alison saunders. There are also security, counter terror, and justice personnel, as well as chief co nsta bles. But a list containing their home addresses was accidentally published by the government on friday evening. Iain duncan smith
The parliament had a couple more years to run. His strategy of saying it is me orJeremy Corbyn, and his cut through of get brexit done both succeeded excellently. Both did very well. The consequences, the one that you see around that, the British Electoral system is pretty good at producing results like this from time to time, and it now sets up a whole series of problems, but the one thing it does resolve is whether or not there will be a brexit. That will happen. It doesnt tell you what kind of brexit it will be or the consequences, but were almost certainly like the rest of the world heading for an economic slowdown and the election from all sides was a cornucopia of promises of what would happen. We are now going into unpromising circumstances to deliver that. Meanwhile, for 18 months there is no opposition in britain to speak of, except that offered by the scottish nationalists who have only one opposition point which is independence for scotland. Janet, what does he do with this