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
Some of the world leaders were saying what a terrificj prime minister she is. one, it s a distraction - for her, it s probably a lot more fun . than sitting the house of commons. but it allows her to say, - look, i can be a statesman, i can do these things . giving some ground, maybe a bit of nixon in china. - it s also macron s. he had no majority, there would be strikes in france, national front stronger than ever, extreme left, stronger than ever. what does he do? he goes abroad. he did, he repeated his determination to do what he had attempted in his first term, get pension reform. he has raised to 62 to 64 or 65, isn t it? and voters deprived him of the majority in which to do it. is he a lame duck at home? no!
National front stronger than ever, extreme left, stronger than ever. what does he do? he goes abroad. he did, he repeated his determination to do what he had attempted in his first term, get pension reform. and voters deprived him of the majority in which to do it. is he a lame duck at home? no. at the end, he is finished, maximum terms. i think more than ever the people don t like them. they find him as a cold technocrat. the french are emotional people. the british are not. and so the french see themselves. said the belgian.