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hello and welcome to unspun world. thank you forjoining us. britain heads into a snap election. will its position in the world change? international politics is becoming far more fluid, and in that context, the uk potentially has advantages to gain because of its unique relationship set around the world. iran will soon hold an election too, but is there any possibility its rulers can win back popular support? the majority of the people have been disillusioned with this regime. they have taken to the streets time and again asking for regime change. and we look at the new shape of the middle east with security correspondent frank gardner. there have been discussions about how to share the middle east, essentially. it s pretty tenuous. the saudis have been fighting a five, six, seven year war in yemen against the iranian backed houthis, without success. british politics, which has always seemed so stable, even predictable compared with the politics of the rest of europe, appeare
hello. i m nicky schiller. welcome to the programme. we start this hour with the latest on the uk general election. in the last hour the scottish national party leader, john swinney has launched his party s campaign for the vote onjuly the 4th. at an election rally mr swinney pushed for independence, celebrated his party s record on fighting the cost of living as well as attacking both the conservatives and labour. he said people in scotland wanted rid of a disastrous tory government, and he accusing labour of giving an awfully good impression of them. let s take a listen to some of what the snp leader said. there are some people telling me to forget about this election, but after looking at sir keir starmer s series of u turns, i think people are crying out for political leadership. for leaders who argue for what they actually believe in. and i passionately believe independence is the best opportunity we have to build a more prosperous and fairer country. snp leaderjohn
Journey, which is that all parties will have 14 weeks before they have to sit in parliament, and that is when parliament will have its first sitting. and during that first sitting, mps will then elect the next president of south africa. 0f next president of south africa. of course, the anc as the biggest party still in a country expected to get around 14% of the vote and will be looking to lead those negotiations and for its leader, cyril ramaphosa, to carry on as president of south africa. but even as they are expected to make this announcement, there are still challenges from some of the opposition parties in south africa. they think they need to be given more time to raise objections about these results, but the electoral commission says it is going to go ahead. going to go ahead. catherine byaruhanga. going to go ahead. catherine byaruhanga, thank going to go ahead. catherine byaruhanga, thank you - going to go ahead. catherine byaruhanga, thank you very | going to go ahead. c
Celsius across southern areas, but temperatures down by a degree or so compared to today. and really for the rest of the week, low pressure in charge. we ve got this north westerly wind which will bring in some showers, longer spells of rain for a time across parts of scotland and northern ireland. and that s probably where we will see the wettest of the weather as we go through the week. further south across england and wales, not too wet, one or two showers, but equally some decent sunny spells and temperatures here still about 16 to 20 celsius. that s it from me. bye bye. byaruhanga live from london, this is bbc news. in the uk, the electoral campaign goes on, with labour pledging to reduce legal migration. we would expect to see the numbers