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
Of schoolgirls apparently berating a member of the para military, i think phrase was get lost, basiji . how serious a threat to the 43 year old islamic republic is it with these protesters that people might want it to be but is it? i think we all suffer from wishful thinking when we see rebellions in countries that we don t where we despise the leadership. i mean, those girls are unbelievably brave. and it s hard to believe that there won t be revenge against them and their families in one way or the other. never mind the ones that have already been shot down. we ve seen uprisings before and iran. we know what a lot of people in iran want and feel. each time, they get put down. think of what we ve seen in belarus. we thought for a moment there was going to be freedom in belarus. utterly crushed. it is very, very difficult to rebel against monstrous dictators who have all of the weapons and all of the force on their side. each time, we hoped this might be. i mean, think about the g
And all of the force on their side. each time we hoped this might be. think about the great spring rebellions that we all hoped for so much from. now even tunisia has lost. all these places. we have to be very careful about encouraging people doing things really dangerous. iagree. i think the best, the ayatollah is unbelievably conservative . and harsh, brutaland he s 83. i think the best hope is that- when he dies there s an opportunity. but even then, i covered cuba, castro was not. like the ayatollah, but castro died and the regime stayed. i agree with you. we can wish and we can know- what we think should be the outcome but the world doesn t work that way. and we should be careful not to offer people encouragement without giving them any actual help. what s really worrying on top of it all in the unsecure