it comes just a day after a gunman killed ten people in a suspected racially motivated terror attack at a supermarket in the city of buffalo. now on bbc news, dateline. hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast for 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 0 connell, former bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, eunice goes, portuguese journalist and university lecturer and newly created british citizen, and jeffrey kofman, who s been both a war correspondent and news anc
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
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 0 connell, former bureau chief in london for the irish broadcaster rte, eunice goes, portuguese journalist 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 friday he s going to ring president putin and tell him that the situation has changed. how big a change is this, do you think? you know, i think if you d looked ten years ago and said this, it was impossible. this was a religion in these two countries, neutrality. the concept of.of being western, but not not glued at the hip or fused at the hip. and i think that this is really affirmation that, while ukraine is losing in the sense
With nato expansion. sweden and finland, finland s president, sauli niinisto, said on friday he s going to ring president putin and tell him that the situation has changed. how big a change is this, do you think? you know, i think if you d looked ten years ago and said this, it was impossible. this was a religion in these two countries. neutrality. the concept of.of being western, but not not glued at the hip or fused at the hip. and i think that this is really affirmation that, while ukraine is losing in the sense of the devastation to the country, russia can t win. and putin s legacy is exactly. when he looked in the mirror and said, let s do this, this is not what he saw. his view was occupy ukraine in three days and shatter nato.