to sexual health services. at least 90 infections have been confirmed in a dozen countries. now on bbc news dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading uk columnists, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a week either of sequels or of re runs. in the uk, we?re waiting for sue gray again and her reporting on partying in government whilst the country was in covid lockdown. borisjohnson and the european commission are wrestling over northern ireland post brexit again. covid surges and an authoritarian government in asia locks down again and polling made australia?s politicians nervous about the outcome of this weekend?s election yes, you guessed it again. in the studio are janet daley american by birth, british by choice whose weekly column appears in the sunday telegraph, the irish journalist suzanne lynch, who writes fo
street lockdown parties. joe biden discusses security and north korea s nuclear programme with south korea s president in seoul. as monkeypox spreads worldwide, uk doctors say it could have a massive impact on access to sexual health services. polls close in parts of australia as two political veterans battle it out for the country s top job. now on bbc news.dateline london with shaun ley hello and welcome to the programme that brings together leading uk columnists, bbc specialists and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a week either of sequels or of re runs. in the uk, we re waiting for sue grey again and her reporting on partying in government whilst the country was in covid lockdown. borisjohnson and the european commission are wrestling over northern ireland post brest again. post brexit again. covid surges and an authoritarian government in asia locks down again and polling
absolutely. i think that is an ongoing issue~ it s really we re i going to have to see how this unfolds. as the uk starts to talk- to more countries and starts to try to hash deals. with more countries, of course it s going to be a big issue. i i think the long term, it is a conundrum of this border issue for the people have been telling me this week why they are particularly annoyed is because it s not like there s a new government in britain, it s who signed the deal. their view is that the prime minister was cynical, he wanted to deal, wanted brexit done and knew that these problems are there and he just put his head in the sand. crosstalk. it wasn t so much a head in the sand. the alternative was a no deal leaving without a deal. that was the impossible choice that this kind of remainder eu alliance presented him with. so he took what he did regard as an unsatisfactory deal, hoping that it could be renegotiated afterwards and that may yet come to pass.
that was the impossible choice that this kind of remainder eu alliance presented him with. so he took what he did regard as an unsatisfactory deal, hoping that it could be renegotiated afterwards with them and that may yet come to pass. teresa may had another proposal. there was another option but the people are saying we cannot sign an agreement if somebody says actually, in a few years we don t agree with us. who knows maybe it will be third time lucky. let s talk about covid. it s back with a vengeance in north korea. absolutely. this is only one of two countries in the world that has no - vaccination program. it s also the first country in the world that closed its borders completely when china first - announced that it had had eight announced that it had had a mysterious flu virus - spreading across the country. so it went through this course . were trying to shut down almost all trade, shut its borders and then it relaxed. -