Those are your headlines. Now on bbc news, dateline london looks forward to the year ahead. Hello, and welcome to dateline london, the programme that brings together some of the uks leading columnists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. It being a reflective time of the year, were looking back on 2019 when britain backed boris to get brexit done, when donald trump was impeached, when street protests felled one north african dictator and shook governments from western europe to hong kong. With me are david aaronovitch, columnist with the times, janet daley from the sunday telegraph, the russian broadcaster alexander nekrassov, and michael goldfarb, host of the podcast the first rough draft of history. Very good to have you all with us. With one electoral bound, he was free. Borisjohnson spent his first few months as uk Prime Minister at the mercy of a house of commons he could not command, making promises he couldnt an
The parliament had a couple more years to run. His strategy of saying it is me orJeremy Corbyn, and his cut through of get brexit done both succeeded excellently. Both did very well. The consequences, the one that you see around that, the British Electoral system is pretty good at producing results like this from time to time, and it now sets up a whole series of problems, but the one thing it does resolve is whether or not there will be a brexit. That will happen. It doesnt tell you what kind of brexit it will be or the consequences, but were almost certainly like the rest of the world heading for an economic slowdown and the election from all sides was a cornucopia of promises of what would happen. We are now going into unpromising circumstances to deliver that. Meanwhile, for 18 months there is no opposition in britain to speak of, except that offered by the scottish nationalists who have only one opposition point which is independence for scotland. Janet, what does he do with this
The second debate in september, right here on abc. Mary bruce live at the white house tonight. Both biden and trump convinced they can outperform the other. Also tonight, the troubling images. The attempted assassination of the Prime Minister of slovakia. The leader shot multiple times at close range. He is now in what authorities are calling a lifethreatening condition. His Security Detail pushing him into the car. Here in the u. S. Tonight, another bridge accident. A massive barge hitting a bridge near galveston, texas, causing partial collapse and an oil spill in that bay. Crew members pulled from the water. The harrowing Dash Cam Video revealed in Court Showing a Semitruck Crashing on a bridge. The truck hit by another vehicle. The driver losing control. Her truck then dangling 100 feet above the ohio river. Tonight, the fighting intensifying in Northern Gaza. Israeli troops also positioned near the Southern City of rafah. Matt gutman with late reporting from israel. The war in ukr
Kids ingested. Many are speculating that it was marijuana. One girl saw her friend become ill. I come to school, like, on something they come to school, like on something. They smelled like weed a couple times. Administrators sent an alert to parents describing what happened. They assured students if they came forward to ask for medical help, they would not be punished. Reporting live in San Francisco, Amy Hollyfield, abc 7 news. Thank you, amy. The white house story is shifting over who knew what and when regarding the Domestic Abuse allegations against president president s former staff secretary. The white house said the fbi was conducting rob porters background check when his exwives alleged abuse. However, in a stunning twist, the president s own fbi director told senators his agents actually gave the white house reports on porter four times starting nearly a year ago. Press secretary Sarah Sanders shifted the blame to a little known office in the white house. The white house pers
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