A failure of statecraft for which we would be responsible for the behind the smiles there is tension irish Prime Minister veronica says there will be no concessions on the irish border issue and ireland would support an extension to the brics that deadline. The backstop continues to be a critical component of the Withdrawal Agreement unless and until alternatives are found. But we are open to alternatives but they must be realistic ones legally binding unworkable and we havent received such opposes todays meanwhile in westminster Jeremy Corbett and other opposition leaders met to plan their next steps. On monday a bill designed to block an exit deal becomes law m. P. s will then vote on government plans to trigger an early election but that vote is expected to fail Boris Johnson is then obliged to write to the e. U. Asking for an extension if he can present an acceptable deal to parliament by october 19th but the government says he will not request that extension. The Prime Minister is
Between europe and the u. K. But that idea was was really pushed out when david frost the government because it went to brussels last friday and it looks as if it was a lot of calls for not so much law but pushed out of coal in a very brusque way by his counterparts in dublin like today friday. The suspension of Parliament Andrew the programming as they officially call it didnt actually have to start until thursday and yet here we are as i said monday and the government is pushing it through early why is that. Oh its a simple without going into the fine detail its simple because this isnt in Boris Johnsons control could he get back control whats broken actually starts well technically yes as Prime Minister he has control of it as gordon brown the former labor prime min. Said a few hours but the media Boris Johnson does not have control right now hes not able to follow what he wants to do now that a lot of people might breathe a sigh of relief that but and some might be excited by some
Peril here. These has be the greatest privilege on all of my professional life thank you limited ability from the conservatives he believes hes being biased against them but even he cannot distract from the fact that the Prime Minister has just full 2 days to come up with a new bridge to deal with a deal that brussels is yet to see charlie and how does the man didnt. Make it take you live now to our series china hall hes outside parliament in westminster say where jonah just a couple of hours left of this current parliamentary session and then parliament itself has shot for 5 weeks at such a crucial time. More than a couple of hours i fear for list it could be a very late night and yes it is quite astonishing that at this as many m. P. s have pointed out a moment of National Crisis m. P. s are being sent away rather than as some have suggested sitting day and night to try and deal with this briggs it mess let me bring in my guest jack simpson kiddies here hes a parliamentary procedure
This is the clinic in goma where the man sought help before he died he fell sick days after returning home from an infected area where he was working in a mining area the clinic is now closed some clinicians have been vaccinated and Health Workers are trying to trace people the victim made contact with. More than a 1000000 people live in this city on the border with rwanda. And we did not know what was happening we just saw people looking at doctors carrying him away they said they will come back to vaccinate us. She says we have gone my resident because we have seen how people are dying it would temper and benny night and day. The 2nd outbreak in the countrys history was declared a year ago and has since claimed the lives of 1700 people its 2nd only to the outbreak in west africa that killed 11000 people 5 years ago Health Workers trying to combat the outbreak are having to deal with militia groups and communities both hostile to them as well as poor infrastructure in vast regions whe
A major space that figured into our sense of the globe really wasnt there in the middle ages the world was thought to be a single large landmass a veritable mega continent without ocean. So the ocean really plays no role at all except to show a limit the ocean shows the limit of society and shows the limits of actually of gods kingdom of the kingdom on earth to the east beyond the Ocean Clay Eden lay that the Promised Land lay heaven beyond that there was really nothing baptist. For most of Human History the oceans were projection screens for the imagination unexplored and irrepressible loves a mighty barrier the place of terror. Despite its dangers the ocean became more and more important over the so. Injuries. As global trade developed merchant fleet strengths formed the oceans into vast shipping lanes people from past centuries would never have dreamed of laying claim to the ocean for them it was a blue expanse formed with dangers an obstacle that needed to be overcome a sailors jou