dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme that brings together international correspondents, some of the uk s leading commentators and those who file their stories for the folks back home under the headline dateline london. this week lobbying in all its forms. lobbying against and for the royalfamily, lobbying to liberate a woman imprisoned in iran, and whether those who lobby on behalf of repressive governments around the world are sufficiently regulated in the uk. joining us for dateline this week. polly toynbee, a long serving columnist for the guardian in the uk, and henry chu, deputy news editor for the la times, which means he s up when la sleeps, making sure that national news in the states is well reported. and then, when the uk is sleeping, he s probably also trying to file stories from back here, too. he never rests! with me in the studio, mark urban, diplomatic editor with the bbc s newsnight programme. welcome. let s start with the royal family. sunday
hello and welcome to the programme that brings together international correspondents, some of the uk s leading commentators and those who file their stories for the folks back home under the headline dateline london. this week lobbying in all its forms. lobbying against and for the royal family, lobbying to liberate a woman imprisoned in iran, and whether those who lobby on behalf of repressive governments around the world are sufficiently regulated in the uk. joining us for dateline this week polly toynbee, a long serving columnist for the guardian in the uk, and henry chu, deputy news editor for the la times, which means he s up when la sleeps, making sure that national news in the states is well reported. and then, when the uk is sleeping, he s probably also trying to file stories from back here, too. he never rests! with me in the studio, mark urban, diplomatic editor with the bbc s newsnight programme. welcome. let s start with the royal family. sunday was commonweal
Groundbreaking events 100 years ago. And you cant get green. Bicycles with friends. Today is the 30th Anniversary of the crackdown in beijing one of the most prominent critics of the Chinese Government since that time is the chinese artist ai wei wei whos lived here in germany since 2015 he creates works on a monumental scale and right now a museum is staging a monumental exhibition of his works. Its the biggest retrospective of ever seen in europe the new exhibition and dusseldorf shows his most important works of recent years. Including 60000000. 00 Sunflower Seeds out of porcelain each one handmade an individual but they all seem to
dissolve into one mass an emblem for Chinese Society everything is art everything is politics is an exhibition that delivers on its name. In the last years i way way has gone from a dissident chinese artist to an International Celebrity the cameras crowd in to get his picture but he counters with his own lens his own view when i moved to germany many exp
Today in beijing in the shine of 1949 china turned 70 on Tiananmen Square there were no stains from the past as a soon to be superpower paraded its military might for the world to see but today in hong kong in the shadow of 989. 00 violence own the streets and a policeman fired a bullet into a protester tonight chinas split screen reality is one country 2 systems condemned to a future with one more massacre im bored golf in berlin this is the day. When your good news there is no you fool speck and shake the foundation of peace great nation. People in the free world strongly support people to continue our fight it is important to come out to show. The humble government as well as paging god we
are not afraid to put me down no fools can stop the Chinese People. And the chinese nation from forging ahead. We cant continue to allow china to break our country killing us and thats what theyre doing but as far as americas concern those days are over. Long live the Peoples Republic of china and