ahead of monday s expected announcement she s to lead britain s governing conservative party and become prime minister the foreign secretary, liz truss, has said the country faces serious challenges requiring immediate government action. now on bbc news dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together distinguished british commentators and foreign correspondents who write, blog, podcast, and broadcast from the dateline: london. it s been a week for recalling the world s unfinished business. sectarian violence on city streets in iraq, a country which has endured nearly 20 years of instability. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union, is being buried this weekend, in a country still struggling with his legacy. the british are still waiting for a new prime minister. in the studio to discuss all that are bronwen maddox, director and chief executive of chatham house, an independent organisation, which under its royal char
residence. those are your world headlines. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together distinguished british commentators and foreign correspondents who write, blog, podcast, and broadcast from the dateline: london. it s been a week for recalling the world s unfinished business sectarian violence on city streets in iraq as one of its most influential figures bows out in a country which has endured nearly 20 years of instability. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union is being buried this weekend, in a country still struggling with his legacy. the british are still waiting for a new prime minister. in the studio to discuss all that are bronwen maddox, director and chief executive of chatham house, an independent organisation, which under its royal charter exists to advance the sciences of international politics, economics, andjurisprudence . the charter dates from 1926, bronwen maddox from last
the programme that brings together distinguished british commentators and foreign correspondents who write, blog, podcast, and broadcast from the dateline: london. it s been a week for recalling the world s unfinished business sectarian violence on city streets in iraq, a country which has endured nearly 20 years of instability. mikhail gorbachev, the last leader of the soviet union is being buried this weekend, in a country still struggling with his legacy. the british are still waiting for a new prime minister. in the studio to discuss all that are bronwen maddox, director and chief executive of chatham house, an independent organisation, which under its royal charter exists to advance the sciences of international politics, economics, andjurisprudence . the charter dates from 1926, bronwen maddox from last month, but her appointment is the culmination of a distinguished career reporting the world. michael goldfarb has been a foreign correspondent for npr, national p
are bronwen maddox, director and chief executive of chatham house, an independent organisation, which under its royal charter exists to advance the sciences of international politics, economics, and jurisprudence . the charter dates from 1926, bronwen maddox from last month, but her appointment is the culmination of a distinguished career reporting the world. michael goldfarb has been a foreign correspondent for npr, national public radio, in the united states. his podcast is the first rough draft of history. the rough draft of history. latest episode features the story the latest episode features the story of mikhail gorbachev. stefanie bolzen is uk and ireland correspondent for the german media group, die welt, including for its newspaper of the same name a paper established in hamburg by the british army of occupation, one month after winston churchill delivered his speech warning that an iron curtain was descending and dividing europe. let s talk about the unfinish
see the overthrow of the saddam hussein regime, which had been quite a repressive regime, particularly for the shia community, for iraqi kurds and a number of minority communities, many iraqis applauded the overthrow of saddam hussein. i also think they expected united states and the uk and others involved in the invasion to set iraq right, to make iraq look like the west in a short period of time. and as i said, there was really no concrete plan to do that, and frankly, imposing a western style parliamentary democracy on the political system left by saddam hussein was a very difficult task to begin with. now, i think what has gone right, is that all iraqis are a bit more empowered than they were before, and in particular, iraqi youth, who are facing great pressure from climate change,