distract. lawmakers instagram after damning reports on the site s impact on children. you are the new tobacco whether you like it or not. you have got to stop. hillary clinton launched a master class. this was supposed to be the victory speech that i would have delivered. looks like self-pity and how to lose an election. it s beginning to look a lot like christmas everywhere you go ainsley: that is one of our trees inside studio m. brian: that s not on fire. ainsley: right. the one outside has been taken down, the remains of it, and we are going to light another tree during the five tonight and we ll all be here for the tree lighting ceremony. steve: it will be great. cardinal dolan will be here. members of the fire department of new york and the police department who helped apprehend the guy. we will all be there. and it is a big story. it is the cover of the new york post, treeson. grinch sets fire to fox s y all display he is free on bail despite a long rap
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
industrialised g 7 countries. it was this tax cut simply like an emerging country where you launch policies but you don t say how you will finance it. borrow a etc about you don t say. it was astonishing even if some of the measures make sense, like the bonuses, why not to attract bankers back to london to compete with new york? you could say the freezing of the corporate tax will be good for small and medium companies. but really diminishing, not only is it very unsociable, unthinkable on the continent, and france you would have a revolution. it s terrible at a time of high deficit. and it will be even a bigger deficit. the mystery of it all is cores that the rate of barring of the uk is still a lot, almost like the us. but of france for that but it will come where the markets have shown on two already unhappiness. this plan is influenced by the chancellor being hedge fund man. he worked in the hedge fund, thanks to him have done a killing with betting against the pounds. in
David: commissioner, finally, short of violent crime, we have this horrible problem of stealing, of theft, particularly from stores that we re seeing an example of it out in california and it s happening all over the country where they lowered the penalties for shoplifting and lowered the penalties for the kind of thievery we re seeing in broad daylight, very brazen stuff. that has to be changed on a local level as well. you just can t allow people to get away with this? it s incredible, really, when you see it, as you said, how brazen they are. but this is really a problem for the district attorney because they re not charging people. police arrest somebody, and even, there s no process, that follows that. they just let them go. so, certainly here in new york city, we need to change that and one district attorney, alvin bragg, who is so responsible for sort of neglecting this area. it is horrendous, and the