Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. In ireland, all of the talk earlier this year was of a political earthquake. The radical nationalist Party Sinn Fein won the most votes in irelands general election. They promised to smash the status quo. Well, so much for that. In fact, irelands two Old Established parties formed a grand coalition, and they are guiding the country through the covid i9 pandemic and brexit. My guest today is Mary Lou Mcdonald, the leader of sinn fein. Has her party missed its moment . Mary lou mcdonald in dublin, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. After the february election, when you and your party did remarkably well you won the most first preference votes in irelands general election you talked about a revolution at the ballot box. Well, five months on, whats happened to that revolution . Well, five months on, we are into really uncharted and unprecedented times, no more than yourselves, with a global pandemic, with the Public Health eme
Administration. Each of them will have information to share about the charges made by the house. Information that no one has heard at this point. And well hear how arsenal has distanced itself from its star midfielder, mesut ozil, after he criticised chinas treatment of uighur muslims. We will talk uk politics in a minute. There are widespread protests in india over new migrant laws. These law allow people from pakistan, bangladesh and afghanistan to become indian citizens if they claim religious persecution but not if theyre muslim. Bearin bear in mind these three countries are muslim majority. That has upset an awful lot of people here. This is in uttar pradesh. Students clashed with police, schools have been shut and the internets been switched off. These are also students this time in lucknow in the north of india. They threw stones at Security Forces, and the Security Forces threw stones back. Next, kolkata. This was refered to by organisers as a mega march. And in delhi, police s
Reveals nigerias army detained thousands of children without charge suspecting them of links to the armed groups are wrong. And in school kosovo score 3 times but still end up losing day European Championship qualifier against england because of fans a saw their teammate take the lead to before they slipped to 53 defeat. One of the most powerful people in the white house has suddenly left his Job National Security advisor john bolton says he resigned but the president says he was fired over disagreements about Foreign Policy bolton was known as a hawk he wanted the u. S. To take a hard line stance against countries like iran venezuela and north korea his departure follows reports of. Serious divisions within Donald Trumps cabinet over his decision to invite the taliban to the u. S. The peace talks talks that would like to cancel the president says a new advisor his 4th in 2 and a half years but will be appointed next week mike hanna reports we think the sanctions are biting john bolton
A war crime. More than 30 pilgrims are killed during a stampede at one of the most sacred sites in shia islam. And the haunting beauty of Francis Bacon we get a sneak preview of a major new retrospective of one of the worlds greatest painters. One of the most powerful people in the white house has suddenly left his Job National Security adviser john bolton says he resigned but the president says he was fired over disagreements about Foreign Policy bolton was known as a hawk he wanted the u. S. To take a hard line stance against countries like iran venezuela and north korea the president says a new adviser hes forced into a half years will be appointed next week on official has more from the white house. You are going to do a fantastic job and i appreciate you joining i think there had been growing divisions between john bolton that his boss but the end was brutal even by the standards of this white house donald trump tweeting i informed john bolton last night that his services are no l
Doing very well, up by. 4 . Will play out. Is thiso think it means. 7 . An see pound down by would a trade truce make you happier or a more aggressive investor or do you think this is if we look at the sectors doing something that is going to take uncertainty around global trade well. Even though we see longer, possibly past the 2020 and trade policy is going to persist. It is not just between the u. S. Elections . Truce would a trade and china. Markets up, we shouldnt we still have overhanging europe riskon. That as too at the margin make us more the potential for auto tariffs and we have gotten quiet on aggressive as investors if it that. I do not think that should be was a real truce and not just completely taken off the table. We have other uncertainty some agreement to talk. So that is a look at some of the associated with things like that the tariffs are moving brexit. Markets. Lets look at the other side of is isuggests to me the markets, dollar index. The dollar just a touch to