minister laurence boone, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, zeinab. why have the authorities decided to ban the use of fireworks during the july 14th bastille day celebrations this year? so, you know, after the riots last week, things have calmed down. it has been a huge drama and obviously people were really moved. and there s also been some riot that are absolutely unacceptable. the tension has softened and it s gone away and we think the situation is under control. but usually bastille day is the opportunity of fireworks, celebration and sometimes obviously some incidents. so given how close we are to the time of the riots, it was better to calm things down and avoid this. as well, you know, in some areas of france, there has been drought, and with fireworks, we better be careful. all right. does the government have a clear strategy to deal with this latest crisis? yeah, very much so. i mean, as you know, this is not a french specificity. it happened here in the uk exactly a
yet. i don t think i will get invitation to go inside. probably not. the conversation here between the two leaders is supposed to be about climate finance and getting the private sector off the sidelines especially for the benefit of developing countries. looming large over this conversation is the president s decision to provide controversial cluster bombs to ukraine. the u.k. was among four nato allies which immediately voiced opposition to the move. and members of congress are split on this. you have got some republicans siding with president biden and some democrats opposing him. i have some real qualms about it. there is an international prediction prediction and the us here is a reason to do something different. green light to other nations to give green light. quite honestly, jake if as you look at the counteroffensive it has been slowed because this administration has been so slow to get the weapons in. the u.s. is not among the 120 countries that leaf unexplo
Or corky from the Night Manager, youll certainly recognsie this famous face. Tom hollander and his fellow actor will keen on stage, on putin and russias billionaires. And with me the real life logan roy. Actor brian cox is back after the huge success of the drama succession. Rain newton smith, the boss of the cbi battling to save it, and salma shah, tory insider and former adviser at the home office. Morning, morning. Promises, promises the conservatives made some huge ones in the past on imigration and they simply havent been kept. Before we talk about that lets take a look at some of the front pages. Theres no one story that dominates today. The sun looks ahead to holly willoughby s return to the Tv Sofa Tomorrrow after all that drama. The mirror suggests auntie holly, claiming the bbc is trying to poach her. Who knows . The sunday times features one of our Talking Points today whats going on at the cbi, suggesting the former boss tony danker is going to sue. And our main conversatio
do need to reflect, president erdogan can t make a decision on his own. he now refers it on to parliament, who has to then pass it. but he has agreed to work with parliament to make sure that does happen. it s interesting when you look at some of these issues that erdogan previously raised things like pkk, a group that he and many of you as a terrorist organisation, saying sweden wasn t doing enough many view. there s issues around things like fighterjets to resume herfinished resume purchase from the us. with the issue ofjoining the us. with the issue ofjoining the eu, it took a separate organisation, was thrown into the mix as well. all those issues feeding into the potential delay in accession, but we don t know the details of how exactly, but it seems sweden will go the way of finland. during those, both countries spoke at the same time. life spoke to the finnish foreign minister, and she told me she always viewed this very much as a joint process. it was sweden a
ping up goodbye to one area another one will ping up out of nowhere to move back across the uk. it is that repeating pattern we will see over the next few days and it s exactly why the weather is this damage was all so preventable. this programme continues on bbc one. for sexually explicit pictures. tonight, lawyers for the individual say the claims in the newspaper are rubbish . the bbc has been on the back foot for days, the sun is standing by its story, the high profile star remains unamed officially, and we don t know how the young person at the heart of this story is. where does all this leave the corporation and its bosses a question we have asked before in recent months and years, surely they have learned from previous scandals? tonight we ll talk to alison hastings, former chair of the bbc s editorial standards committee who s dealt with a number of bbc scandals, and top agentjonathan shallit. also tonight, as temperature records are broken around the world, we ll