a nationwide security crisis. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading british commentators with journalists from overseas who write, blog, podcast and broadcast to audiences in their home countries from the dateline: london. this week liz the disruptor, emmanuel the moderniser, vlad the invader. the first has a comfortable majority but has already had to wave the white flag. the second vowed to reform, and the voters promptly deprived him of his majority. the third can ignore his parliament, but perhaps not the people, who are voting with their feet. leadership who wants it? in the studio to discuss that triumvirate, a dateline triumvirate. jeffrey kofman, who s anchored news programmes in both his native canada and the united states, and reported from the frontline. marc roche, a belgian born economist who writes for the french news magazine le point. polly toynbee, weekly columnist with the guardian for almost
that is lighter winds in place and a chilly night to come for wales and parts of england. there could be a touch of frost, temperatures down to 2 degrees. the breeze picks up in the west and that is ahead of cloud and rain spilling its way in. temperatures in stornoway, glasgow, 10 degrees. a dry enough to start for early risers but rain spilling in. we may have heavy rain in cumbria and north wales late in the day. dry and sunny again for the south and east. hello this is bbc news. the headlines. a massive fire has severely damaged the strategically important road and rail bridge connecting occupied crimea to russia. ukrainian officials say they ve found two mass burial sites in the recently liberated town of lyman one with around 200 graves. funerals are being held in thailand for the children and teachers killed in a massacre at a nursery school. police say seven people have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in county donegal, in the republic of ireland. no
industrialised g 7 countries. it was this tax cut simply like an emerging country where you launch policies but you don t say how you will finance it. borrow a etc about you don t say. it was astonishing even if some of the measures make sense, like the bonuses, why not to attract bankers back to london to compete with new york? you could say the freezing of the corporate tax will be good for small and medium companies. but really diminishing, not only is it very unsociable, unthinkable on the continent, and france you would have a revolution. it s terrible at a time of high deficit. and it will be even a bigger deficit. the mystery of it all is cores that the rate of barring of the uk is still a lot, almost like the us. but of france for that but it will come where the markets have shown on two already unhappiness. this plan is influenced by the chancellor being hedge fund man. he worked in the hedge fund, thanks to him have done a killing with betting against the pounds. in
Whose side are we on? what are our values, really? i think macron has brought that together very well. even if it s a strange mix we have turkey who refuse sanctions, you have azerbaijan at war, you have serbia can t stand each other, nevertheless i agree with you, it s important. it might be the only macron legacy because in africa, he has failed. and truss also needs macron to solve - the immigration issue across the channel. . she can t do this without bilateral cooperation. i they did issue a statement to say we will renew our efforts to do that. they ve got more money than the french to try and keep that very large coastline. that s not going to help with the public spending cuts! you mentioned africa we ll park that for now, the intervention in the sahel, which he get out soon afterwards.
But marc, is his legacy to leave behind this multi state europe, to pull a much bigger brotherhood, sisterhood of states together at a time when we were back into a cold war state of mind, that will have been a great thing to do. a real sense that europe shares democratic ideals. around the edges, poland, hungary a bit worried about some of the democratic ideals but nevertheless, it is democracy and that s helpful for america, for the strengthening of nato. i think that ukraine has suddenly concentrated everybody s mind, who are we, whose side are we on, what are our values, really? i think emmanuel macron has brought together very well. it s strange, we have turkey who refuse sanctions, you have azerbaijan at war, you have serbia can t stand each other, nevertheless i agree with you, it s important. it might be the only emmanuel macron legacy because in africa he has failed. and liz truss also needs i emmanuel macron to solve the immigration as an issue across the channel. - she can t