Hello, and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week its almost christmas a moment to examine religion and politics across the globe, starting with the citizenship bill thats triggering huge demonstrations in india. Its also the week donald trump became only the third american president in history to be impeached. Does that energise or damage his campaign for re election . My guests catherine pepinster, commentator on religion and politics. French algerian journalist nabila ramdani. Stephanie baker of bloomberg news. And Political Writer and broadcaster, jonathan sacerdoti. Welcome to you all. So, on 25th december, christians celebrate a life story that began with the birth of a baby in a stable and ended with his execution as a common criminal. The point being that god is often closer to the weak than to the mighty, and christianity, like the worlds other great faiths, preaches compassion and tolerance. But for 2,000 years, politicians have often preferred to politicise
Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week. We devote most of the programme to discussing europe, since the fall of the berlin wall. But well leave a few minutes at the end, to distil week one of a British Election campaign. My guests today, Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news. Italian journalist, annalisa piras. Author and long time correspondent for die welt, thomas kielinger. Political commentator alexander nekrassov. 9th november 1989. The day the berlin wall came down. Those who poured across it made history, others watched and wept. Europe whole and free proclaimed the United States. Some observers heralded the end of history, a conclusive victory for western liberal democracy. But three decades on, is europe still celebrating . That is the question we will consider but before we do that, thomas start us off by giving your recollection of that day, because of course you were already halfway through your adult life and indeed the wall had been there for all of
Rescue operations continue after some of the worst flooding in the north of england in recent years residents in parts of Northern England and the midlands, are still being rescued from areas inundated with water. There are seven severe flood warnings still in place on the river don in South Yorkshire which burst its banks. Youre up to date with the headlines. Now on bbc news, its dateline london. Hello and welcome to dateline london. Im carrie gracie. This week. We devote most of the programme to discussing europe, since the fall of the berlin wall. But well leave a few minutes at the end, to distil week one of a British Election campaign. My guests today, Stephanie Baker of bloomberg news. Italian journalist, annalisa piras. Author and long time correspondent for die welt, thomas kielinger. Political commentator alexander nekrassov. 9th november 1989. The day the berlin wall came down. Those who poured across it made history, others watched and wept. Europe whole and free proclaimed
Music last post. The first wreath will be made by the prince of wales on behalf of her majesty the queen. And now a wreath is laid on behalf of the duke of edinburgh, who doesnt undertake Public Engagement any more, by captainjames aubrey. And now the prince of wales lays his own wreath with the distinctive prince of wales feathers. And now the three dukes of cambridge, sussex, and york. The earl of wessex, the princess royal, and the duke of kent. Hurray stand at ease and now the politicians who lay their reefs led by the Prime Minister borisjohnson. Jeremy corbyn, leader of the labour party. Ian blackford on behalf of the Scottish National party and plaid cymru, the welsh nationalist party. The new leader of the liberal democrats, jo swinson. Nigel dodds for the Democratic Unionist Party of northern ireland. The newly elected speaker of the house of commons, sir lindsay hoyle. The speaker of the house of lords, lord fowler. And now, side by side, the foreign secretary dominic raab an
For the imf meetings but lets get a check on the markets as investors digested the data out of china earnings will be coming through in europe. We struggle a little bit and stoxx 600. Cable is coming off a fivemonth high. A lot of concern going into this weekend and what parliament will vote on in terms of the brexit deal. We are talking about potential rate hikes. Coming up, we hear from the Vice President of the european atmission that 1130 time 11 30 a. M. London time. And still to come, we speak to bank of England Governor Mark carney at 5 30 p. M. London time. Definitely not want to miss. All of those conversations from the Imf World Bank annual meeting. Lets get first word news in new york. We begin with the ceasefire in syria. The u. S. And turkey agreeing to a break in hostilities to allow kurdish fighters to withdraw. Once the ceasefire takes affect them a donald will remove this weeks sanctions, but u. S. Senators from both sides say the deal does not go far enough. Reluctant