hello there. let s start with news that has broken in the last hour the formerjapanese prime minister, shinzo abe, has been taken to hospital after apparently being shot while delivering a speech in the city of nara in western japan. he s said to be unconscious. local media reports say a sound like a gunshot was heard at the time. a male suspect has been detained. there is a press conference that will happen very shortly and when we get any new lines on this story, will bring them to you immediately. local reports say shinzo abe, former prime minister ofjapan, prime minister of japan, longest serving prime minister ofjapan, longest serving prime minister ofjapan, has been shot as in a state of cardiac and respiratory arrest. uk business groups fear the country could face weeks or months of political paralysis amid a deepening cost of living crisis, if boris johnson remains as britain s caretaker prime minister while a successor is found. the confederation of british industr
it likely to happen, do you think? ~ ~ , think? well, i think the reset idea will be think? well, i think the reset idea will be a think? well, i think the reset idea will be a hell think? well, i think the reset idea will be a hell of- think? well, i think the reset idea will be a hell of a - think? well, i think the reset idea will be a hell of a good l idea will be a hell of a good idea. what should it consist of? there should be no reopening of the brexit question itself. no renewed application for membership. however, for the time being, the ongoing legislation on the northern ireland protocol should be put on hold until a new government has got going and considered its options. there should be, surely, within the uk and with the eu are really open minded dialogue on what best to do because the status quo is very bad. all options should be considered consistent with brexit and just
i m not sure how all of those things line up together. what do you say about that? i think they re making the necessary adjustments. i think this great reset mentality is now they feel possible with the biden administration. they re all competing and rushing in to say we re for gender neutral pronouns and green new deal and we re going to tax all the corporations 15%. we re going to have a globalized elite. sort of a reset idea. the irony very quickly is, martha, maybe that s good, but they have always had this relationship where the united states was their defense of last resort. they better be careful what they wish for. if they get a neutralized united states, they might rue it when they re in trouble. martha: yeah. somewhere winston churchill is probably rolling around with that comment. thanks very much, victor. good to see you. thank you. martha: thanks nor being
states and says i can help you solve your problem, just happens to be the problem that i created. so i think trump has some idea about putin that s not grounded in reality. very similar to the reset idea. paul: obama s reset. obama s reset. i m more interested in the policy. there s a lot more i would like to see president trump do vis-a-vis putin. i don t think john bolton has any scales on his eyes about russia and so forth. i m more interested in what the policy direction will be. paul: when loo you look at te policy record on russia in the first year of the trump administration, it s tougher than obama s. there s lethal weapons sales to ukraine. the statement last week from the white house joining the leaders of europe in condemning the chemical attack in london. but there is this issue people raise which is why can t donald trump himself seem to say a
then he goes to the united states and says i can help you solve your problem, just happens to be the problem that i created. so i think trump has some idea about putin that s not grounded in reality. very similar to the reset idea. paul: obama s reset. obama s reset. i m more interested in the policy. there s a lot more i would like to see president trump do vis-a-vis putin. i don t think john bolton has any scales on his eyes about russia and so forth. i m more interested in what the policy direction will be. paul: when loo you look at te policy record on russia in the first year of the trump administration, it s tougher than obama s. there s lethal weapons sales to ukraine. the statement last week from the white house joining the leaders of europe in condemning the chemical attack in london. but there is this issue people raise which is why can t donald trump himself seem to say a