Britains Prime Minister has agreed to demands from parliament for more time to scrutinise his brexit deal but only if mps agree to an early general election, in december. Effectively, it means borisjohnson has conceded for the first time that he cant keep his promise to take britain out of the European Union by the end of october. But its not clear if even this move will work out for him he needs a two thirds majority in parliament to call an election and the Opposition Labour Party are not certain to support it. Heres our political editor, laura kuenssberg. Is there any clear way out of the storm . Downing street wants a route to a general election. After weeks of negotiation with brussels, number 10 did strike a deal but mps rejected the Prime Ministers plan to force it through at top speed, so now he wants to force them to go to the country. The way to get brexit done is, i think, to be reasonable with parliament and say, if they genuinely want more time to study this excellent deal
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From the conflict zones and sometimes from gold mining areas are the main reason of troubles. Theres been some unrest between herders and farmers in other african states including mali and nigeria. Drought and population growth aggravate the conflict while the influx of weapons and a rise in armed groups across the region have made the cycle of violence more deadly. Chared soldiers are part of a Regional Force thats fighting back on her arm and i select groups but some analysts suggest that strange the military and the unable to counter the recent violence. Shows one of the hottest says hes on the planet with most days over 30 degrees and with Climate Change expected to turn more of this region to desert battles over resources are likely far from over elixir brian al jazeera. To venezuela now the country has the Worlds Largest oil reserves and for decades the government used its oil revenues to Fund Social Programs but poor funding corruption and u. S. Sanctions have crippled the count
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Dialogue with the u. S. On how we can develop our cooperation and deal with the many common challenges we are facing. Well for more on this lets bring in the White House Correspondent Kimberly Hall could kimberly our julie this is quite a measured response both from donald trump and from the Prime Minister as a self herself in terms of a diplomatic incident is this really a big thing are we making more of it than than actually is. I think the initial shock led many people to believe this was perhaps a larger diplomatic spat but the bottom line remains that this is an important strategic relationship for the United States as well as denmark and so as a result given their partnership particularly when it comes to nato that this is something that i think the 2 sides will be able to weather through but it certainly did catch a number of staff at the white house off guard including the u. S. Ambassador because this was a scheduled meeting set to take place september 2nd a 3rd of the prepara