Good morning and welcome to the wilson center. I hope you liked our movie and i think you will really like this event. Chicago council engage or retreat. Im jane harmon, the president and ceo of the wilson center. Im a rm toer nineterm member of congress. And happy to be here, a place where we engage in bipartisan, civil conversation. Deep research and active thinking about the future of our world. In that spirit, let me introduce the fifth time that evo dalder and the Chicago Council is here. Its a Great Partnership that we have with the Chicago Council and in this report and prior reports its an enduring alliance. Its also reassuring to me to learn the good news in this report. That by huge bipartisan margins continue to support an active u. S. Role in Foreign Policy and world affairs. Much of the vision for that role, a little brag here started with Woodrow Wilson. Who served as president a century ago. Wilsons words are on the wall. Part of the quotes say this. It is a fearful thin
and welcome to liverpool, eurovision arrives for its official launch as the city that brought us the beatles stands in for ukraine. hello and welcome. hundreds of thousands of workers here in the uk are going on strike for what will be the biggest day of industrial action in more than a decade. more than 100,000 teachers in england, wales and parts of scotland are taking part in a dispute over pay. unions say more than 23,000 schools could be disrupted. university lecturers, train drivers, civil servants, bus drivers and security guards are also on strike. the government has described the walk outs as deeply disappointing. 0ur education reporter vanessa clarke has more. it has been a familiar site got from the first time in seven years, teachers in england and teachers and support staff and whales arejoining the teachers and support staff and whales are joining the action. they want a pay rise that is above nation and is funded by the government, not school budgets. the gover
That really disrupted and perturbed the Prime Minister at the start of Prime Ministers questions. I mean, tom, youve just been on for the last, hour or so, covering pmqs. And im seeing here that lots of reaction already coming in, lots of people not very impressed with the fact that a conservative mp would cross the floor and citing immigration in particular, as one of the reasons, which is curious. Its very, very odd seeing as Natalie Elphicke has been one of the most vocal members of parliament, being the member of parliament, being the member of parliament for dover. Of course, shes on the front line of the small boats crisis, but shes not only been critical of the small boats and the evil gangs that send them , shes also been that send them, shes also been critical of keir starmer and Yvette Cooper, and the lack of policy from the labour party to deal with it. I just wonder what keir starmer has promised her, to do this. Keep your views coming in gbnews. Com yoursay were going to g
I amjane hill. This week, we will discuss theresa mays speech in florence. We look at the prospect for the german elections and discuss what, if anything, was achieved at the Un General Assembly in new new york. A warm welcome to all of you. Theresa may made that keynote speech in florence this week. She set out, she hoped, more details of the british governments plans and desires for the brexit negotiations. It included talk of a two year transition period after the formal living date of march 2000 and 19. Theresa may now gets to see if her speech is sufficient to end in brussels and enable talks to move to stage two, discussing future relations with the eu and a trade deal. Lets start with you, janet. You impressed 7 deal. Lets start with you, janet. You impressed . Iwas deal. Lets start with you, janet. You impressed . I was impressed by the speech. It was the miracle of political and diplomatic rhetoric. It was fantastic. She did notjust heel resting her party and cabinet, but wron
Here today. Thank you for joining us. Thank you so much for the Dallas Morning News for hosting this event. If you were up earlier today, questions of diversity in the newsroom, diversity on the panel, it is not always easy to embrace all kind of diversity in any given event, but i want to celebrate this event having done such a remarkable job of embracing ideological diversity. Eventterrific to be at an cosponsored by the george bush library, the george w. Bush president ial center. I want to put you out of your suspense. Can democracy survive . Yes. [laughter] the question were all wondering and talking about today, how . How bad is it actually. . What we do about the issue. We all know a couple basic facts. Much is a shift in how embers of each party to each other unfavorably. 1984, 60 of democrats beat on 16 democrat youd open unfavorably. Now itng percent of 43 . Perhaps, the more Interesting Data point, the one that suggests that issues are no longer ideological, but have become