In germany, the voters rewarded Angela Merkel with a term as chancellor weekend but also gave the far right their first seat in the parliament in more than 50 years, though the taboo against Holding Referendum in germany remains as strong as ever. To discuss all that im joined by henry chu, International Editor of variety, Polly Toynbee from the guardian, maria margaronis, who writes for the nation, and stephanie bozon from germanys der welt. Welcome to all of you, good to have you with us again. Lets talk first of all about this question of referendums. What do you make of the way that the government in iraq and spain have responded to the referendums proposed and held . Well, it makes you actually be more in favour of referendums then i would be normally inclined to be because i tend to think referendums put very complex questions in very simple terms which is something we saw with the brexit referendum, very vividly, where everybody was actually voting on a different topic and for D
Good morning. Welcome to dateline. Let the people decide. In kurdistan they have, and this weekend catalans wanted to do the same, by holding a referendum on independence in the uk, a referendum of course in the uk gave us brexit. Jeremy corbyn, leader of the opposition labour party, has announced he would give similar, decisive votes to people he says politicians ignore. In germany, the voters rewarded Angela Merkel with a term as chancellor last weekend but also gave the far right their first seat in the bundestag in more than 50 years, though the taboo against Holding Referendum in germany remains as strong as ever. To discuss all that im joined by henry chu, International Editor of variety, Polly Toynbee from the guardian, maria margaronis, who writes for the nation, and stephanie bozon from germanys der welt. Welcome to all of you, good to have you with us again. Lets talk first of all about this question of referendums. What do you make of the way that the government in iraq and
And london. This is bbc world news. It is newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 1am in Versailles Whether french president has been setting out his plans to reinvigorate the nation. As the 620 summit is in hamburg later this week, Emmanuel Macron promised a transformation of france and europe. The new leader made a passionate speech to a joint session of the National Assembly and senate but as we report, not eve ryo ne senate but as we report, not everyone was impressed. The dignity of the president ial office is something about which Emmanuel Macron feels very deeply. He came to versailles, a place of regal pomp and awe to talk to his legislators. He called and they came 900 deputies and senators in buses from paris. Newcomers to the assembly, like the mathematician and Macron Loyallist cedric villani, who saw nothing wrong with the president s unconventional summons. It is an exceptional, critical moment. The nation has gone through a terrible lack of trust recently.
And london. This is bbc world news. It is newsday. Its 7am in singapore, midnight in london and 1am in Versailles Whether french president has been setting out his plans to reinvigorate the nation. As the 620 summit is in hamburg later this week, Emmanuel Macron promised a transformation of france and europe. The new leader made a passionate speech to a joint session of the National Assembly and senate but as we report, not eve ryo ne senate but as we report, not everyone was impressed. The dignity of the president ial office is something about which Emmanuel Macron feels very deeply. He came to versailles, a place of regal pomp and awe to talk to his legislators. He called and they came 900 deputies and senators in buses from paris. Newcomers to the assembly, like the mathematician and Macron Loyallist cedric villani, who saw nothing wrong with the president s unconventional summons. It is an exceptional, critical moment. The nation has gone through a terrible lack of trust recently.
Asia. A brandnew trading year gets underway in hong kong and china in just under 30 minutes. Singapore and taiwan just starting theirs. For a look at what its going on, here is david. David the regional benchmark is flat. If you take japan out of the equation, of course. A positive start to 2017. That being said, australia is at the highest level so far this year. Tos goes all the way back june of 2015. That market momentum seems to be filtering through into 2017. We are not looking at any sort of volume there. At this time of the trading day. 2031 is the level for the south korean benchmark. Japan is closed, but futures ares ill trading. Still trading. Singapore 120 points to the upside here,. 9 . As soon as japan is open, we will be getting a decent bench for that market as well. Three markets opening today, malaysia, taiwan, singapore. Somen have a look at how of these benchmarks are trading early on. The tie index had a very good 2016. A lot of that comes down to the apple effect,