this applies to so many institutions in england in this era. when the question cannot be coherently answered as to who is responsible for what, trouble ahead for any institution. around the world. steve richards, mina al 0raibi and ned temko, thank you very much for being with us on this week s dateline. that s it for dateline london for this week. i was reminded when ned mentioned helen glover, won gold in london and rio and came forth this time, set a lockdown project that s gone too far. from all of us, goodbye.
deep roots during the arab spring. president kais saied suspended the legislature and fired the prime minister sunday. his actions a coup, some said followed a day of mass street protests in defiance of the pandemic lockdown. mina, what s gone wrong in tunisia, and is the president s response proportionate, do you think? what s going on in tunisia has been going on for several- months now, and some people would say even years. - the covid 19 response has, in large part, been laggingl behind what peoplel had been expecting. you ve had deaths on average reaching 180 per day - of a population i of only 11 million. you ve hospitals turning people away because they have - suffered. and this has been happening primarily in the last three . of four months, i so it s not as soon as the pandemic hit, - when many countries around the world struggled - to deal with the pandemic, this is actually more than a year after the pandemic was declared, the country is still struggling. -
the frustration and defeat would ve been coming away and thinking we had more and we didn t give it. it s kind of put things in context and it reminds us that it s not all about winning, it s not all about the medals. absolutely. true 0lympian spirit, that. to train to your best and perform to your utmost and take part and accept defeat as with the same cheerfulness as victory. modesty from the irish rovers as well, their victory this week. mina? i want to say, please pay| attention to paralympics. for me, i think the story i don t think it s gettingl enough attention, they have been protesting in iran, - particularly there have been at least nine deaths - and 171 arrests. people are not.
hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading commentators in the uk with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline: london. this week the unvaccinated become the unloved, and is democracy bound to wither in the arid lands of north africa and the middle east? let me introduce our dateline panel. mina al 0raibi s family originated in iraq. she s editor in chief of the national in abu dhabi. ned temko, from the christian science monitor, was born in the united states but has spent much of his career reporting from the uk. with me in the studio, the british political commentator steve richards, who hosts the podcast rock n roll politics. welcome to you all. lovely to have you with us this evening. now, a pandemic of the unvaccinated
separate issues. the politics of it within the conservative party, and what needs to be done to vaccinate younger people who are reluctant. and what needs to be done and here, even the libertarianish boris johnson seems to be in agreement is they need to get those vaccinations. now, here the government is sort of doing it by saying, if you don t, you might have to show a vaccine passport in nightclubs and so on . there needs to be more of that, clearly as we are seeing elsewhere in france and other places, the united states with talk of $100 to get vaccinated to make sure we don t get an epidemic of the unvaccinated. so it seems to me he was making an absolutely straightforward observation. the question is now whether further measures are needed, irrespective of the mood of a percentage of the conservative parliamentary party. mina, i suppose one argument