Brighter with a few showers and it is still going to be worn this weekend. Its wednesday the 4th of october. After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister is expected to use his leaders speech at the conservative Party Conference to confirm that hes scrapping the second leg of h52 from birmingham to manchester. Labours andy burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of treating people in the north as Second Class Citizens, while the West Midlands mayor andy street, a conservative, was said to be distraught. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from the conference in manchester. Pushing his way through the late night conference crowds, rishi sunak, relaxed and smiling. He has, it seems, made his mind up. Its the end of h52 to manchester. This was what the pm was saying 2a hours ago. What i want to do is make the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of peoples money, taxpayers money, everybody watching, billions and billions
his state visit to japan. joining me now, retired admiral, former nato supreme allied commander and msnbc national security analyst. i guess the question is begging to be asked. how s that for diplomacy? at least for an optics perspective, you have shinzo abe and japan appear to be catering to the president exactly the way he would want to be catered to. why would they be doing that? they deeply, deeply value this relationship. you have to chuckle at a picture of the president getting in a sumo ring. this could be his career post presidency. you never know. i think more likely kind of a better optic would have been to go to a baseball game. both the japanese and the americans are crazy about baseball. we both have professional leagues. go throw out the first pitch at a baseball game. this just is unusually jarring. hey, bottom line, though, we have a strong relationship with
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and the emperess. there will be a ceremony and also a banquet where they will be the guests of honor there. it couldn t be more japanese than the plan for him to attend the championships of sumo wrestling here in tokyo on sunday where he will sit ringside and hand the trump cup to the champions there. one of the things that i learned while visiting the stadium today is that sometimes the rowdy japanese fans when there is an upset in the sumo ring, they they the cushions around the stadium which might be a concern secret service for the u.s. president s safety. he will also be dining with the japanese prime minister and his wife in famous night life district here in tokyo. the u.s. president is famous for