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of widespread unrest. taiwan s president tsai ing wen has pledged to bolster the island s combat power and defences in a major speech on taiwan s national day. now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. there is one question which haunts the chancellor, haunts any chancellor of any political party stopping it is, what will the iss say? because the verdict of the institute for fiscal studies on whether the numbers add up, any budget or what we these days have to call fiscal event can be devastating for a politician. that verdict is treated like the word of god, not least by broadcasters like the bbc who have experts from the iss on our programmes all the time. our guest is the director of the institute for fiscal studies, the ifs, paul johnston, welcome to political thinking. if the ifs is the word of god, that makes you got. how does that feel? very stran . e! got. how does that feel? very strange! the got. how doe ....
Office is too elitist, as former diplomats call for radical reform to the department. Reform to the department. Good morning. Theres wet and windy weather on the way for many today, with rain and Wind Warnings in force. Find out all the details of me a little later. On. And before we get off and running, we just want to tell you that weve got a new way for you that weve got a new way for you to get involved in the show, which we started yesterday. And itll everybody itll take a while for everybody to get in touch with it. But you will. Gbnews. Com forward slash tuc. So thats a website gbnews. Com. And then forward slash your say to have your say on this very programme and throughout the programme. Thank you to all of you who had a go at the new system yesterday. Lots of you really enjoying the interactive tool in there. Another youve there. Have another go if youve already tried. You havent , already tried. If you havent, this is h ....
From germanys Turkish Community, and she is campaigning here in germany for his release. But shes increasingly worried that the conflicts we see in turkey right now are tipping over into germany. Thats because turkish ministers are campaigning here for a referendum that would grant the turkish president more powers. That would undermine turkeys democracy, says muervet. The activist and Green Party Politician murvet ozturk is hoping to convince the turkishgerman community in her hometown of wetzlar to vote against a constitutional amendment which would give the president more power. Ms. Ozturk if people are worried about freely expressing an opinion 3000 kilometers away from turkey, as an elected democrat, i cant look away. Im getting involved because i want to support people here whod rather vote no. Damien ozturk was born in germany. Her parents came here almost 5 ....
From germanys Turkish Community, and she is campaigning here in germany for his release. But shes increasingly worried that the conflicts we see in turkey right now are tipping over into germany. Thats because turkish ministers are campaigning here for a referendum that would grant the turkish president more powers. That would undermine turkeys democracy, says muervet. The activist and Green Party Politician murvet ozturk is hoping to convince the turkishgerman community in her hometown of wetzlar to vote against a constitutional amendment which would give the president more power. Ms. Ozturk if people are worried about freely expressing an opinion 3000 kilometers away from turkey, as an elected democrat, i cant look away. Im getting involved because i want to support people here whod rather vote no. Damien ozturk was born in germany. Her parents came here almost 5 ....
From germanys Turkish Community, and she is campaigning here in germany for his release. But shes increasingly worried that the conflicts we see in turkey right now are tipping over into germany. Thats because turkish ministers are campaigning here for a referendum that would grant the turkish president more powers. That would undermine turkeys democracy, says muervet. The activist and Green Party Politician murvet ozturk is hoping to convince the turkishgerman community in her hometown of wetzlar to vote against a constitutional amendment which would give the president more power. Ms. Ozturk if people are worried about freely expressing an opinion 3000 kilometers away from turkey, as an elected democrat, i cant look away. Im getting involved because i want to support people here whod rather vote no. Damien ozturk was born in germany. Her parents came here almost 5 ....