now on bbc news. it s time for the media show. hello. can a savvy media strategy save borisjohnson? headline grabbing policies are being rolled out this week in what s been dubbed operation red meat. but is there really such an operation? we re also looking at the apparently cosy relationship between those in government who set policy and the media, which is supposed to hold them to account. and we re asking what the new bbc licence fee deal means for the industry at large. let me introduce you to my guests. first, joeyjones was spokesman for theresa may when she was home secretary. before that, he was a deputy political editor at sky news. helen lewis writes for the atlantic. laura hughes is political correspondent for the financial times. and phil riley is the chief executive of boom radio and has had a long career in commercial radio, including running chrysalis and overseeing its sale to global. and, phil, we ll be talking a lot in the programme about the revolving door b
will be here with a full round up of the days news. first, it s newcast. hello, it is adam in the studio. and laura in the same studio. and chris in the same studio for now. until i vacate the spot for a guest in a bit. so, actually, we have got less covid rules, but we have still got some covid rules, which is actually quite a good summary of whether a plan b still exists or not, because some bits of plan b in england still exist, but some bits of plan b disappear next week. but, it has been quite a dramatic week, where the prime minister s fortunes have ebbed and flowed and then they have relatively flowed, compared to where they were ebbing before. it has all been quite up and down. it has been really up and down. you know, downing street is still in a pretty precarious position, no doubt about that. if i choose my normal metaphor of choice, thejenga tower is very wobbly, some big pieces have been taken out, a few more may be crammed back in, maybe a little bit of scaffold
of the best selling of all time, has died at the age of 7a. the us and russia remain at a diplomatic stand off with their military assets standing by. after months of escalating tensions, the two superpowers have been holding talks about ukraine, which nato fears is the next sovereign territory moscow wants to seize through force. remember, it s less than a decade since russia annexed crimea. russia says it s concerned nato is sending weapons and military expertise to ukraine and wants guarantees that the organisation will pull back from its borders. speaking after the talks in geneva, russia s foreign minister, sergei lavrov, said the dialogue would continue and his country had no plans to attack ukraine. russia is understood to have more than 100,000 troops currently near its border with ukraine. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale sent this report. more russian forces on the move, surface to air missiles in the country s far east, due to join what moscow says are mi
Have these people not come or go a dinner area where they do have resources. ainsley: people of arizona they have to say washington, you don t know what we want in our state. don t come in here and tell us this. brian: where is senator kelly? i thought he was so concerned about the border washington was so disconnected. that s how he got his new six years in office. i fear this katie hobbs is going to come in and do what mayor de blasio did here after mayor bloomberg and undo everything possible as relates to the border. he did it with law enforcement. so katie hobbs, you know she is probably going to say yeah, pull it out. go ahead. steve: we already know that she is going to say that because she has said, you know that is not working because i have seen people climbing over it. so she is not going to, you know. brian: what an idiot. ainsley: working for the majority. maybe there are one or two that have gotten over it. steve: she was just elected. she is the democrat. she