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suffering from a type of dementia. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the prime minister rishi sunak is holding talks with northern ireland s political leaders in belfast today with hopes that a deal between the uk and the eu on northern ireland s brexit arrangement could be reached as early as next week. the current trading arrangement know as the northern ireland protocol was negotiated during brexit talks. it was put in place to deal with the fact that northern ireland is in the uk and the republic of ireland is in the eu. some goods passing from england, scotland and wales into northern ireland are getting checked when they cross the irish sea, as the current deal prevents checkpoints on the island of ireland. unionist parties argue that this places an effective border across the irish sea which undermines northern ireland s place within the uk. the largest unionist party, the dup, is currently refusing to take part in the countr ....
a total of thirty seven people including 23 children were killed in an attack that has shocked the nation. those are the headlines. now on bbc news it s time for hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. lebanon is experiencing one of the most disastrous economic collapses of the last 100 years. the national economy is less than half the size it was just three years ago. one powerful symbol of the catastrophe, people are holding up banks in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanon s minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, we re delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your government are levelling with the lebanes ....
in a desperate attempt to get their money out, amid rampant inflation and a currency crisis. my guest is lebanon s minister of economy and trade, amin salam. politicians have failed lebanon for decades. will that change before the meltdown is complete? minister amin salam, currently in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. thank you, stephen, glad to be with you. well, we re delighted to have you in our washington studio. let me ask you, minister, do you think you and your government are levelling with the lebanese people, and indeed with the international community as well, about the scale of the economic catastrophe that your country is currently living through? absolutely. stephen, let me tell you, it has been quite a challenging year since our government took office and we started really working on a very tough mission to recover the economy in lebanon and to fix all the mess that the past two decades have left lebanon in. our government came with a big ti ....
In the area of the social conservatism which, will chime with some parts of the Conservative Party, but others very unhappy with that. There is an awful lot to do in terms of penning that deal down, i suspect, in the next couple of days. In last minutes, we have also heard that theresa may has got herself a new Chief Of Staff which will be central in trying to sort those things out before the queen s speech on monday. Monday week. There was a lot of scrutiny over Jeremy Corbyns dealings with figures in the ira and there have also been questions over the dups dealings with loyalist extremists and then sinn fein saying this is not acceptable under the terms of the good friday agreement for the westminster government to be getting into bed with one of the parties in ....
In the area of the social conservatism which, will chime with some parts of the Conservative Party, but others very unhappy with that. There is an awful lot to do in terms of penning that deal down, i suspect, in the next couple of days. In last minutes, we have also heard that theresa may has got herself a new Chief Of Staff which will be central in trying to sort those things out before the queen s speech on monday. Monday week. There was a lot of scrutiny over Jeremy Corbyns dealings with figures in the ira and there have also been questions over the dups dealings with loyalist extremists and then sinn fein saying this is not acceptable under the terms of the good friday agreement for the westminster government to be getting into bed with one of the parties in ....