3 years he says hell do it in 3 months with regards to break that how realistic is that. Well. There are a number of threes in the briggs it story did via Boris Johnson becomes the 3rd breaks it Prime Minister after David Cameron and to reason may hes promised as you say to take britain out of the e. U. Top of the 31st deal or no deal how realistic is that well look at the deal aspect of it 1st he would have to resurrect a reason mays deal passed through this house of commons unsuccessfully 3 times hed have to get rid of the hated Northern Ireland back stop that hes there to prevent a hard border on the island of ireland well thats the one thing that the European Union has vowed that he does not prepared to do it would mean putting the interests of an existing member of the us head of those of an existing member of the republic of ireland so that leaves no deal is a possibility already the opposition to no deal lining up is already a majority against it in the house of parliament the c
Sovereignty and that is an issue that is very close to the government here in beijing ok lets take a closer look at the white paper Andrew Thompson as a visiting Senior Research fellow at the National University of Singapore Still equine new school of Public Policy and joins us from singapore so as we heard our correspondent there he was talking about china now focusing on sovereignty as a huge part of its white paper can you explain why this has become the focus for chinas Defense Strategy now. Well i think if you look at the last paper in 2015 it really focused on chinas maritime interests and its security situation on its periphery and with its neighbors this paper much more is turning towards internal issues i mean its actually quite different than the 2015 paper in that it really reflects xi jinping has continued grasp of authority and his continued oversight of the p. L. O. So it also very much underscores the is a party army its the armed wing of the communist party and its very
That in the northern northwestern part of nigeria we hear of another protest there organ this time organize a counter protest organized by residents of kepe state asking the Nigerian Government not to release the leader of the mind. The chief of puerto ricos governor has resigned this follows 11 days of mass protests which began over leaked messages between the governor Ricardo Sello and his aides the online chats were widely condemned as being sexist and homophobic. On the reports from the capital san juan puerto rico is going to right now is no joke its not just a couple people out on the streets absolutely its everyone in rock hill south was at home until adelphia watching news reports of the protests in her native puerto rico it was contemplating coming back to take part but what finally pushed her over the edge was what happened to her mom pepper sprayed one of the 1st few days and i was not going to let my mother get. And. My mother being on the front line and participating in th
A potentially more realistic view about how possible all of this is look hes promised price johnson to take britain out of the e. U. By the 31st deal or no deal well on the deal side of things the only way to do it is by resuscitating somehow to raise a maize deal 3 times and failed to pass through parliament he would have to do away with the hated Northern Ireland backstop of what hes promised to do at least thats the one thing that European Union has absolutely said it will not do that leaves the idea of no deal there is an established majority in the house of commons against no deal assuming of course that given the opportunity to vote on it at all the opposition is marshalling itself senior cabinet ministers preparing to resign in the next couple of hours rather than be pushed by Boris Johnson people like for the common the chancellor david gold the justice secretary for rory stewart his former. Opponent in the leadership race the International Development secretary they will go to
A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here at our takes here in moscow drawing us this hour. The u. K. Home secretary has handed a u. S. Extradition request for joining us songs to the courts which will now consider the whistleblowers fate a hearing into the matter is scheduled for this friday edward stache he reports from london. Well its a dark day for doing a silent and his supporters as the u. K. s home secretary sajid javid has just signed an order paving the way for dear innocents to be extradited to the United States now he himself said that he was pleased that youre innocent just behind bars and that justice will prevail in this procedure were very pleased that the police were finally able to apprehend him and now hes right behind bars because he broke you cade law i want to see justice done all the time so weve got a legitimate extradition request so ive signed it but the final decision is now with the court well it must be noted that the final decision is for the