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
Are so in favour of labour, it s two years away, . the world will change, but maybe this country is ready for someone who is boring - and just an earnest doer, like keir starmer. - but it s a long way - between now and then. it s a long way, and you d advise them not to count any chickens, given the history of this country. absolutely. i have lived through so many times when labour was about to win. but this time really is exceptional, and all the pollsters say so. they ve never seen anything like this. the move has been faster and deeperthan ever before towards labour. but the fear for people on that side of the policy is it could be shallow. if it goes one way, it could equally go back. but on the other hand, that level of popularity, you don t recover from. but on the other hand, that level of unpopularity, you don t recover from. you go into a black hole from which the pollsters say no leader has ever returned. it s hard to imagine - after 30 something days that they would change l
L in may, a narcissistic and vacuousl prime minister injohnson, and now this ideologue. i i think the people of this country. | it s interesting, the polls. are so in favour of labour, it s two years away, . the world will change, but maybe this country is ready- for someone who is boring and just an earnest doer, like keir starmer. but it s a long way - between now and then. it s a long way, and you d advise them not to count any chickens given the history of this country. absolutely. i have lived through so many times when labour was about to win. but this time really is exceptional, and all the pollsters say so. they ve never seen anything like this. the move has been faster and deeper than ever before towards labour. but the fear for people on that side of the policy is it could be shallow. if it goes one way, it could equally go back. but on the other hand, that level of popularity, you don t recover from. you go into a black hole from which the pollsters say no leader has ever re