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
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We don t know what s coming next? , ., ., next? just the war that never noes next? just the war that never goes away next? just the war that never goes away in next? just the war that never goes away in that next? just the war that never goes away in that poor - goes away in that poor benighted zone. that s a terrible thought if you have to live in it. we mentioned opec. we will talk more about the states next week looking towards midterms, we ll talk more about china looking towards xi s probable third term. embarrassment for biden with that fist bump with saudi arabia, bin salman. thank you very much for coming, mr president and no we were not going to do. we know that mbs, as he s called, we know his recordl with khashoggi the dissident journalist who was literally - hacked up with a buzz saw - in the saudi embassy in turkey it was uncomfortable enough that biden went and actually. bumped fists with him but now, it is a very. uncomfortable moment, to say the least. - i
Under those circumstances. of course, he could say, i had a victory when they diminished oil production. russia is not a member of the opec organisation. itan it an associate member. they were in vienna. why does it help putin? it gives him money. because the oil price will.? to finance the war effort. it s a short term thing because the west is going into recession, so there will be less oil. there is already a big discount of russian oil because europe and buyers are reluctant because of public opinion for them. on the whole, the eu and us are deciding to put a cap of the price of russian oil. so, short term victory but again, he has lost on the oil thing. of course, he has this big thing which is gas, which is completely different.