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
So, we have to be very careful about encouraging people doing things really dangerous. iagree. i think the best hope i we ve seen this before. the ayatollah is - unbelievably conservative and harsh, brutaland he s 83. i think the best hope is that when he diesl there s an opportunity. but even then i covered cuba, castro was not - like the ayatollah, but castro died and the regime stayed. i 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 world we re living in, it s impossible not to have an agreement on nuclear with tehran. because the hardliner won t want it, the opinion