of potential security risks from classified materials recovered from donald trump s home in florida earlier this month. a spokesman for mr trump accused the democrats of weaponising the intelligence community. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the best known british commentators and correspondents who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this week, britain s elusive prime minister turns up in ukraine, as the country marks six months since the war began. we now know in the uk how much energy bills will rise from october, but not what the new prime minister will do when they take over. where has power gone in the uk? where s it going in the united states? and in australia, how come much of it ended up in the hands ofjust one man? and even his his friends aren t happy about it. to discuss all of that, in the studio, we have latika bourke, a corresponde
where s it going in the united states? and in australia, how come much of it ended up in the hands ofjust one man? and even his his friends aren t happy about it. to discuss all of that, in the studio, we have latika bourke, a correspondent for the australian newspapers the age and the sydney morning herald, a writer who has been writing a weekly column for the guardian since 1987, polly toynbee, and michael goldfarb, who was a foreign correspondent for national public radio in the united states, his podcast is called the first rough draft of history. lovely to have you all back in the dateline studio. this is ourfinal month on air, so we ll make it a good one. polly, let me start with you, with a week left of voting, how confident are liz truss s supporters that she will be in downing street at the beginning of september? absolutely. every poll puts her further and further ahead. it is a funny little electorate just 160,000 people choosing a prime minister for all of the r
we did not make the rules: nature did. we can choose to ignore them, but these rules will never change. thankfully for americans, he lived in a country that s remarkably abundant in all three of those things. we have more potable fresh water virtually anyone, and america has the largest recoverable oil reserves on the planet, number one in that category, which matters may be more than anything. so-called renewable energy solar panels, they are about to power world corrects them, somebody should because a lot is at stake. if your 9-year-old tells you i m like superman, you have to correct them before he jumped out of the garage. the stakes are high. it s incumbent on the rest of us to point out to people that they have no idea what they are talking about. we are not remotely close to a green energy power grid or anything even approaching it. as of today, the world is powered by fossil fuels. that s where more than 80% of global energy comes from, not from windows and sol
how did we get here? well, the war in iraq went sideways and there were never any wmds. katrina exposed how unprepared we were for natural disasters. and then a great recession cooked up by bankers left the country in a huge hole. and not a single one of these crooks went to jail for it. we re losing faith in our institutions because they keep failing us. and in other cases these institutions are being destroyed on purpose. a new gallup poll shows less than half the country has confidence in the police. this started in ferguson. they told us an unarmed black man was killed by a police officer while he had his hands up. remember? the riots over hands up, don t shoot? turns out it was a hoax. then george floyd s death created the defund the police movement that caused the a crime wave. even less, americans trust the medical system. people don t like getting billed by insurance monopolies and we don t like being drugs we don t need by doctors who are compensated by drug companie
australia, how, much of it ended up injust the australia, how, much of it ended up in just the hands of one man and injust the hands of one man and his friends? to discuss all of that in the studio, we have a correspondent for the australian newspapers, the age and the sydney morning herald, a writer who has been writing a weekly column for the guardian since 19 87, as a foreign correspondent in the united states, his podcast is called the first draft. lovely to have you all in the dateline studio. this is ourfinal month on air, so all in the dateline studio. this is our final month on air, so we ll make it a good one. polly, let me start with you, with one lick dashed when we left of the voting, how confident and at liz truss s supporters, that she will be in at downing street at the beginning of september? downing street at the beginning of se tember? , ,., downing street at the beginning of setember? , , , september? every poll puts her further and september? every poll