To Dateline London. Im shaun ley. In south africa, leadership confirmed. In kenya, leadership disputed. And as for north korea, is it kimjong un or donald trump who holds all the cards . With me to discuss this weeks displays of leadership are vincent magombe, director of the African Journalists network, africa inform international, Thomas Kielingerfrom germanys die welt, the sudanese writer nesrine malik, and the us born, london based Political Commentator ned temko. Ned, how much of this is a horrible bluster, and how much of it reflect a real change in the atmosphere of this relationship that has really been frozen in time for 60 years . The danger is we dont know. I will start by making a safe prediction. Safe if only because i am wrong, no one will be around to know. And that is, i am fairly confident we are not on the brink of nuclear war. But should we be worried . Absolutely yes. On the korean peninsular, even a conventional war could kill hundreds of thousands of people within
To dateline london. The state were in is there a vacuum at the heart of British Politics . How far does the future of the European Union rest on the next president of france . And,the fight against the Group Calling itself islamic state. Who will be doing the fighting . My guests today are agnes poirier, who is uk editor of frances marianne, Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, mina al oraibi, the arab affairs commentator, and ned temko, who is an author and journalist. The tradition in britain is for Opposition Parties to do well in by elections since they can often be used as a protest vote against the sitting government. This week, the conservatives actually won a seat in copeland held by labour for several generations, and ukips leader lost in the seat his party claimed was Britains Brexit capital stoke. As we move towards brexit, we clearly have a government. Do we have anything which looks like an opposition . Perhaps the Scottish National party . Yes, perhaps the unelected Hous
To dateline london. The state were in is there a vacuum at the heart of British Politics . How far does the future of the European Union rest on the next president of france . And,the fight against the Group Calling itself islamic state. Who will be doing the fighting . My guests today are agnes poirier, who is uk editor of frances marianne, Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, mina al oraibi, the arab affairs commentator, and ned temko, who is an author and journalist. The tradition in britain is for Opposition Parties to do well in by elections since they can often be used as a protest vote against the sitting government. This week, the conservatives actually won a seat in copeland held by labour for several generations, and ukips leader lost in the seat his party claimed was Britains Brexit capital stoke. As we move towards brexit, we clearly have a government. Do we have anything which looks like an opposition . Perhaps the Scottish National party . Yes, perhaps the unelected Hous
To dateline london. The state were in is there a vacuum at the heart of British Politics . How far does the future of the European Union rest on the next president of france . And the fight against the Group Calling itself islamic state. Who will be doing the fighting . My guests today are agnes poirier, who is uk editor of frances marianne, Stryker Mcguire of bloomberg markets, mina al oraibi, the arab affairs commentator, and ned temko, who is an author and journalist. The tradition in britain is for Opposition Parties to do well in by elections since they can often be used as a protest vote against the sitting government. This week, the conservatives actually won a seat in copeland held by labour for several generations, 33. hes; 257 2542 capital stoke. As we move towards brexit, we clearly have a government. Do we have anything which looks like an opposition . Perhaps the Scottish National party . Yes, perhaps the unelected house of lords. The short answer, do we have an opposition
Theyve told the truth to their own people. And as a result, by and large, they have brought people along with them. Hello, and welcome and thats what governments, to dateline london. In theory, in this pre populist this week new us sanctions age, werejudged on. On chinese telecoms giant, huawei death sentence or chance to shine . And the competence or otherwise and whats going to be of your ruling class the truth according fascinating now is whether this to coronavirus. Renewed sense that my guests on socially government actually matters, and that distanced screen when youre faced with Isobel Hilton of the website, china dialogue, ned temko a crisis, particularly a crisis of the Christian Science monitor. Like covid, which cant be tweeted away, which doesnt listen to rhetoric, and here in the studio doesnt follow vincent ni of the bbc world a particular ideology what you need a government service. Victorious warriors win to do is do itsjob. First and then go to war, defeated warriors g