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Appears to be ending. Thank you for joining us we begin with another momentous day in british politics just a few hours ago Prime Minister Boris Johnson lost his parliamentary majority when one of his m. P. s defected to the pro e. U. Liberal democrats johnson has vowed to leave the e. U. On october 31st even if it means crashing out without a deal but dozens of m. P. s including many from his own conservative party want to stop that theyve introduced a motion to prevent a no deal breaks it which will be voted on in a couple of hours if they are successful johnson has suggested he will then push for a snap election where were going to be live outside parliament in just a moment 1st though this report from needs bark. Britains democracy is at war. With itself. As protest as march to westminster. Returned from the summer recess used to seize control of Parliamentary Business and block forest. M. P. s including prominent figures in johnsons own conservative party have joined forces with o
become a self-taught historian. he s written books about his house as well as emancipation in the district of columbia. he has a collection of stories. he always wished he had time to tell when he does tours of the capitol one of the things you may not know is that he can do tours of the capital not only in english, but also in german. so today we re going to hear in english stories about the capital honeymoon fad of the late 19th century the at times fraught development of the capital infrastructure itself and an often overlooked violent episode on the senate subway so join us for an unusual tour robert. take us on your tour. i am indeed a tour guide. so i have a really odd relationship with the capital. i i mean there s a lot of people that work there. creating laws or changing laws or lobbying to change the laws or just the hundreds of people that that are responsible for keeping that the whole place going. um, and of course then the tour guides themselves, but my job is t
late 19th century the at times fraught development of the capital infrastructure itself and an often overlooked violent episode on the senate subway so join us for an unusual tour robert. take us on your tour. i am indeed a tour guide. so i have a really odd relationship with the capital. i i mean there s a lot of people that work there. creating laws or changing laws or lobbying to change the laws or just the hundreds of people that that are responsible for keeping that the whole place going. um, and of course then the tour guides themselves, but my job is to take people for whom this may be their only opportunity to see the capitol and get them on the tour and that gives me a chance to talk a little bit about about the capital as i get there. but of course the the major work is then done by the tour guides himself, by the way, this is olga rice. she was one of the very few female guides back in 1938 when the guide service was professionalized can t actually see what she is