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
industrialised g 7 countries. it was this tax cut simply like an emerging country where you launch policies but you don t say how you will finance it. borrow a etc about you don t say. it was astonishing even if some of the measures make sense, like the bonuses, why not to attract bankers back to london to compete with new york? you could say the freezing of the corporate tax will be good for small and medium companies. but really diminishing, not only is it very unsociable, unthinkable on the continent, and france you would have a revolution. it s terrible at a time of high deficit. and it will be even a bigger deficit. the mystery of it all is cores that the rate of barring of the uk is still a lot, almost like the us. but of france for that but it will come where the markets have shown on two already unhappiness. this plan is influenced by the chancellor being hedge fund man. he worked in the hedge fund, thanks to him have done a killing with betting against the pounds. in
a treat for stargazers as the perseid meteor shower lights up the night sky with hundreds of shooting stars. and coming up: a look back at the history of the supermarket self service check out machine.which is a lot older than you might think. find out in click at 15:30. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. a man has been charged with murder after a car was driven into a crowd in the american city of charlottesville killing one woman and injuring 19 people. the attack followed a day of violence in the city involving white nationalist protesters and anti racist demonstrators. president trump has been criticised for failing to explicitly condemn far right groups. a warning that you might find some of the images in caroline hawley‘s report distressing. late last night a vigil for the victims of what politicians are calling an act of domestic terror. there s been cross party condemnation, notjust of the attack but of the president s response to it. we condemn in the stronges
Let s talk in two years. - we will convene a special edition. we will. we will convenel a special edition. we will. that says that elections i are not won, they are lost. i think this is very much i setting up the possibility. i am completely aligned, it is the distant future. . you would not put any cash on it. - on eu membership, liz truss is a remainer turned enthusiastic brexiteer. as foreign secretary she wasn t sure whether emmanuel macron was friend orfoe. this week, there she was in prague during the grab and grin for the cameras with that suspect monsieur signing up to his project. a european community, of all things. absolutely fascinating. she has been rigid on everything else. really ideological, far to the right of boris johnson or most of the party. brexit was the main thing but suddenly we see her easing up.