Welcome to dateline london. This week, Aung San Suu Kyi and donald trump, two leaders surprising and confounding their supporters. Is it politics or principle . In iraq and syria, how is the fight really going against the group that calls itself Islamic State . My guests this week, the founder of the first rough draft of history podcast, michael goldfarb, dr vincent magombe, director of the african journalist network, Nesrine Malik the sudanese writer, and bronwen maddox, director of the think tank the institute for government. Welcome to you all. Good to have you with us again Aung San Suu Kyi, prisoner of conscience for years, the gently persuasive campaigner who helped bring a peaceful end to myanmars decades of military dictatorship. Why is she so reluctant to speak out against a military operation seen by many as bordering on ethnic cleansing . Tens of thousands of Myanmars Rohingya minority population, who practise islam, have fled to neighbouring bangladesh. The Nobel Peace Priz
This week, Aung San Suu Kyi and donald trump, two leaders surprising and confounding their supporters. Is it politics or principle . In iraq and syria, how is the fight really going against the group that calls itself Islamic State . My guests this week, the founder of the first rough draft of history podcast, michael goldfarb, dr vincent magombe, director of the african journalist network, Nesrine Malik the sudanese writer, and bronwen maddox, director of the think tank the institute for government. Welcome to you all. Good to have you with us again. Aung san suu kyi, prisoner of conscience for years, the gently persuasive campaigner who helped bring a peaceful end to myanmars decades of military dictatorship. Why is she so reluctant to speak out against a military operation seen by many as bordering on ethnic cleansing . Tens of thousands of Myanmars Rohingya minority population, who practise islam, have fled to neighbouring bangladesh. The Nobel Peace Prize winner and de facto leade
Are being planned for people who are repeatedly caught carrying acid or other corrosive substances. The government wants to introduce a minimum six month jail term in england, wales and scotland. This comes after the number of acid attacks across the uk more than doubled in the past five years. Heres our Home Affairs Correspondent danny shaw. Convicted this week, two robbers who sprayed a chemical on their victims. Joshua jordan and sadik kamara were part of a gang that attacked a shop assistant in east london. The woman, in her 50s, was squirted, with ammonia at least three times. Herface burning, she bravely fought back. Later, jordan and kamara sprayed another woman with ammonia. They will be sentenced next month. The government wants to give police greater powers to prevent attacks with substances like ammonia. In future it will be an offence to carry harmful chemicals in public, unless theres a reasonable explanation. Its really important that we send out a very strong message tha
England and wales, quite a cloudy start for many but things brightening up, especially in central and eastern areas, where we get the best of the sunshine. Temperatures could possibly get as high as 22 23 degrees. But for the start of the new week, we are looking at this. Hurricane ophelia, currently in the atlantic, it wont be a hurricane as it reaches our shores but could still bring some very windy weather indeed, particularly in the west. Hello, and welcome to dateline london. Im shaun ley. President donald trump denounces iran, but leaves it to congress to decide the future of the nuclear deal. Theresa may tells the eus brexit negotiators the balls in your court only to see it bounce back again. And will the Spanish Government or the catalans blink first . To discuss those three examples of what you might call buck passing, celia matha de pablo of la razon newspaper in spain, Agnes Poirier of the french magazine marianne, the columnist Yasmin Alibhai brown and broadcaster michael
To dateline london. Im shaun ley. President donald trump denounces iran, but leaves it to congress to decide the future of the nuclear deal. Theresa may tells the eus brexit negotiators the balls in your court only to see it bounce back again. And will the Spanish Government or the catalans blink first . To discuss those three examples of what you might call buck passing are celia matha de pablo of la razon newspaper in spain. Agnes poirier of the french magazine marianne. The columnist Yasmin Alibhai brown. And broadcaster michael goldfarb. Welcome to you all. Thank you for being with us again. Michael, let me start with you on the question of iran. Why the hostile to this nuclear deal, after all the years of negotiation, the apparent achievement and what prospect congress will follow the lead donald trump set . Let us unpack that. Theres always been resistance, particularly on the republican side, and there is the added level of the trump thing of wanting to undo the obama presidency