large rallies have taken place in houston, new york, washington, los angeles and chicago. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to the programme. it brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline in london. it has been a convention busting week, this one. a queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen, two countries, strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides, in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland, topping the poll for the first time in the century since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all of that we have brian o connell, a bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, a portuguese journalist and university lecturer and newly british citizen, and jeffrey goffman, who has been able corresponding and new news anchor in canada and the united states. good to have you with us. we start with nato expansi
hello and welcome to the programme that brings together the foreign journalists who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. it s been a convention busting week, this one a queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen. two countries strictly neutral for 80 years, preparing to take sides. in northern ireland, a party in favour of reuniting the island of ireland topped the poll for the first time in the centuries since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and more, in the studio are brian o connell, former bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, eunice goes, portuguesejournalist and university lecturer and newly created british citizen, and jeffrey kofman, who s been both a war correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. good to have you back with us. jeffrey, let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland, finland s president, sauli niinisto, said on f
now on bbc news.. dateline london with shaun ley hello and welcome to the programme which brings together the foreign correspondence for audience back home from the dateline london. it has been a convention busting week, this one. the queen s speech delivered for the first time in 70 years by a royal other than the queen, two countries strictly neutral for 80 years repairing to take sides for, in northern ireland a party in favour of reuniting ireland top the poll for the first time in the century since ireland was partitioned. to discuss all that and work in the studio are brian o connell, a portuguesejournalist and university lecturer, newly created british citizen, and jeffrey coffman who has been a royal correspondent and news anchor in canada and the united states. could have you back with us. let s start with nato expansion. sweden and finland. finland s president said on friday he is going to ring president putin and tell him that the situation has changed. how a big a
partitioned. to discuss all of that we have brian o connell, a fury bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, a portuguese journalist and university lecturer and newly british citizen, and jeffrey goffman, who has been able corresponding and new news anchor in canada and the letter states. good to have you with us. generally, we start with nato expansion. sweden and finland. the sweden president said he is going on friday, to wring president putin and tell him that the situation has changed. how big a change of this? i the situation has changed. how big a change of this? change of this? i think if you had looked ten change of this? i think if you had looked ten years change of this? i think if you had looked ten years ago change of this? i think if you had looked ten years ago and - change of this? i think if you had looked ten years ago and said i change of this? i think if you had i looked ten years ago and said this, it was impossible. this was a religio
Obviously has massive support in this country. Now on bbc news dateline london. Hello. Thursday was supposed to be mays day in the british Prime Ministers plan to strengthen her hand by holding and winning a general election. Instead, she was left calling out mayday to a party in Northern Ireland, asking it to keep her Conservative Party in power, after her parliamentary majority evaporated. As forJeremy Corbyn, the previously beleaguered leader of the labour party, he lost the election but won plaudits for his campaign and inspired a new generation of young voters. With me to discuss where this leaves british politics, and the imminent negotiations to get out of europe, are the biographer and long standing contributor to germanys die welt newspaper, thomas kielinger, from ireland, the writer and broadcaster brian oconnell, janet daley, columnist with britains sunday telegraph newspaper, and owenjones, columnist with the Guardian Newspaper here in the uk. Welcome to you all. Janet dale