Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. In ireland, all of the talk earlier this year was of a political earthquake. The radical nationalist Party Sinn Fein won the most votes in irelands general election. They promised to smash the status quo. Well, so much for that. In fact, irelands two Old Established parties formed a grand coalition, and they are guiding the country through the covid i9 pandemic and brexit. My guest today is Mary Lou Mcdonald, the leader of sinn fein. Has her party missed its moment . Mary lou mcdonald in dublin, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. After the february election, when you and your party did remarkably well you won the most first preference votes in irelands general election you talked about a revolution at the ballot box. Well, five months on, whats happened to that revolution . Well, five months on, we are into really uncharted and unprecedented times, no more than yourselves, with a global pandemic, with the Public Health eme
In sochi and signed the a deliberate dream and and there we supported that agreement hoping that the terrorists would be eventually driven out of the region and the Syrian Government would be able to store as control over the terrorists held territories one of the key goals for the astronaut process guarantors as signed. In the treaty is to prevent a large scale communitarian crisis in the region. However. This agreement was not implemented as planned and unfortunately it has been a little time since it was signed. And already today we see that the territories controlled by territories have become larger by a huge. And that only goes to show that terrorists should not be permitted any opportunity to be used the conditions and terms of these agreements we. Gathered together for the 5th time to take stock of our previous efforts and adopt necessary measures to the. Brain about a Brighter Future for the Syrian People so that they will be able to decide. On their future without any foreign
8 oclock here in moscow and youre watching out International Live from last year with me. Into the program. Leaders of russia turkey and iran are in the turkish capital discussing the future and the Current Situation in syria our correspondent mary with an option or has been following the summit for us in ankara. The leaders of turkey iran and russia have gathered here again and for a fee the trilateral summit on syria at the ghana han and putin are to discuss ways to bring long awaited peace and stability to war torn country and i have to tell you that these points almost everybody agrees that this forum on this platform is the most effective in terms of and in the Syrian Crisis not only those involved in this process believe that but also the outside players this time the talks will mainly focus on 3 things 1st the situation in syria is northern province of idlib its a huge area home to up to 3000000 people of it is believed to be the last remaining stronghold of all kind of Anti Gov
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Now Economic News in a nutshell the ministry of industry and trade does not see any prerequisites for rising food prices , deputy minister Viktor Yevtukhov said this on the air of our tv channel. According to him , the cost of some goods. Maybe even a decrease will be caused by a seasonal decline in demand, in particular , Meat Products may become cheaper by autumn. In the near future. We dont see any. Indicators that food prices in our country can go uphill. On the contrary, we believe that being, again, seasonal factors for the end of the vacation season of the summer period, prices, we believe, by the fall will be for some types of goods has trends. The fall of the euro. At the beginning of trading, he crossed the mark of 107 rubles. For the First Time Since march last year. Now the rate is correcting down for the dollar give more than 97, and the yun is traded above 13. 5 the russian currency is weakening against the backdrop of reduced exports in july , oil and gas revenues were l