america, america is a nation of immigrants, europe, provincial places, particularly in europe, where people's families have lived for ten generations, the idea of an influx of outsiders and migrants does have a significant impact on communities and to treat that with contempt or derision, to imply people are bigoted because their communities are being disrupted in this way, is unfair, and it is a very important political lesson for europe to take in, it seems incapable of taking it in. at the brussels commission level, national governments are having to take it in because they are elected and accountable. we will move on for now. we could fill many hours with this topic alone, so we will see, imminently, whether thomas is right when he says not much may be achieved by this mini summit in brussels this weekend. here in the uk, let's talk a little bit about events here, no sooner did prime minister theresa may survive a parliamentary vote about brexit, after a torrid time discussed last week, several major companies including the aerospace giant airbus started ringing very loud and very public alarm bells this week about the risk of britain leaving the eu without a transition deal. airbus directly implies 14,000 people in this country, said it may stop manufacturing here in the event of no deal. they said no deal would be catastrophic for their business. months from now. janet, goodness, we are meant to leave the eu nine months from now. can i say a word about airbus. they said, if we didn't join the euro, that was back in the day, they would pull out of the uk, then they said, if the leave vote won, then they would go out, it is getting a bit boring. their relationship with europe is dubious, they get an awful lot of money and subsidy. what they are saying is consistent with what the majority of companies have been saying. business hates uncertainty, we all hate it but in a free—market economy and particularly a world that is going towards free trade, flexibility and adaptability are name of the game, if you can't adapt, business always does adapt, you cannot survive, that is the whole point of the capitalist economy as opposed to a totalitarian communist economy. getting onto the political question of theresa may, and surviving, this has been an extraordinarily exasperating period, people who write to me, who write, almost any commentator, are saying, why can't we just get on with it and the problem for theresa may, she has been presiding over a divided party. the significance of those defeats, those successes for her, the defeats of the remainers, the gaggle of remainers in the house of commons, was very important, it means that in future, she can actually, and i think, from my private soundings, the war is over, i think the commons lobby for remain as finally given up the ghost. war is over within her party. yes, within her party, the remain, the significance of that climb—down was much greater even than it appeared, because i think there was tremendous pressure being put by those mps constituency parties and the party in general and so on, and public opinion, public opinion is getting fed up with obstructionism, even people who voted remain apparentlyjust want this to be over, they want to get on with this. the polling varies. the country is still divided. it is notjust people complaining about obstructionism. obstructionism by a particular coordinated campaign which seems to be in league with brussels, in fact, there is not going to be no deal... there is going to be a deal. how do you know that? the biggest point is, we still don't know what it is. with nine months to go. the need to threaten to walk away, the need to say, no deal... "no deal is better than a bad deal"... is still, logically, absolutely imperative, as soon as she sets down your minimum requirements, they become maximum requirements. does theresa may need to just bluntly, with this area to go, just say that? she has been trying to say that since the beginning, we can see the results are not very good because the british government has conceded throughout this 18 months or so, they have conceded every demand made by brussels. as a bluffing strategy, it has not worked very well. brussels know very well that they have far more cards to play, than britain has. as a negotiating strategy, it has not worked very well. going back to the point where capitalism being good to adapt and should adapt, that is exactly what airbus is doing, they are saying, they are saying that, they are saying, this is what a capitalist company says, you do not offer us the conditions in which we want to do business, we go elsewhere. that is a threat, the problem is, thousands ofjobs on the line. i wasjust saying, they have made that threat three times now, and once you make a threat and do not carry it through, it is less convincing when you make it a second time and even less convincing the third time! your point is other companies are saying this as well. this is fundamentally different than the previous examples you cite, this is a major change in the trading relationship and their concerns echo countless other companies lobbying the government both in public and in private, a no deal scenario would be catastrophic for business and forjobs. and i think what you will see in the coming months is companies with gloves off, they have been quiet, they have been diplomatic up until now, and it is crunch time now. that will focus minds on what brexit will really cost the country. on top of that, news this week that the eu is considering imposing visa requirements on eu citizens. visa requirements on uk citizens. these are the negative views that will come out in the run—up to the withdrawal treaty being presented before parliament, if it ever gets to that point, and then parliament, mps will have to look at this and think, we are going to spend 40 billion for this? what does this mean! is this really worth it? look at the political dimension, the kind of business, the being corporate businesses, making these threats, the public is already alienated, many politicians already alienate it, because they feel that the interests of that kind of big global corporate industrial structure is not sympathetic to the needs of the communities that i was just talking about, the real people. and it is amazing, the consistency with which public opinion manages to say, first of all, "project fear", then "project fear" part two, now "project fear" part three, they say, these people are not interested in my future, they are interested in their profits, as viewed... they provide thejobs. brinkman is is very nice to talk about, "no deal is better than a bad deal", but results in a situation where i call up your argument of flexibility, britain has to be flexible... to the hilt! flexible, britain has been entirely to flexible. entirely too flexible. so far, so far that has not happened. we have discussed the trade element, more on that to come. janet, while you are here, you talk about soundings taken from people very much inside westminster, your view, this week map as to theresa may herself, how long she will hold this out, we are always interested to ask for inside news on this on dateline? she will carry through with the negotiation period because they could not switch horses in midstream but i don't think she will carry on to the next election. if you want my tip as to who will be the leader of the conservative party, i would say, sajid javid, who has played a blinder, he has moved this week to make extraordinarily open and generous offer to the eu citizens, now home secretary, interior minister. he has made an offer to eu citizens, which has wrong—footed brussels, really, they have made no competitors offer, , compensitory no similar offer to british citizens, that was not only very civil and generous, but also tactically brilliant, because of the effect, it is now morally obliging to brussels, to make this offer, to british citizens living in the eu, and if they don't, that will be a really seriously bad mark. never a question that offer would be made. people used to say that about britain and yet she was criticised, the government criticised for not having made the specific officer. the specific office. the specific offer. he has made it clear, answer three questions, criminal offence, have you moved here for five years, are you settle, permanent address, that is it, you will have the right to live here. absolutely brilliant political move, i think the feeling is, he looks like and is the future of the conservative party. would be a brilliant personnel decision to have sajid javid governing this country, he would tick all of these jeremy corbyn boxes, generous to europe, while britain is out, he is from a coloured, immigrant community, so he would be a british barack obama, as it were... working—class background. his father was a pakistani bus driver, he has a back story to die for, forgive the cynicism, and that is, that would have enormous electoral appeal. and he has very good judgment, politically. far better than boris johnson, for instance, he is too much of a divisive character, sajid javid would unite. he looks like the future, boris johnson looks like the past. we still have two exit the eu first! with a deal, or not... i wonder whether i have time very quickly, your quick thoughts, we talk so much about a no deal, walking away, what would a no deal look like for the rest of europe? well, it would be pretty catastrophic in a sense because, europe has trade relations with britain, she is a major trading partner, and i don't think we could easily see her leaving the fold, as it were, and threaten as a result the business. more than that, it would threaten the kiddies and of the eu, ——— cohesion, when a major power like britain leaves the club map and two germans it would be terrible, left alone with the french(!) and have to manage them. already, six years ago, they said, please don't leave us with the french, they are complaining all the time, they are not the partner we want. britain is a natural partnerfor germany, she is into free—trade, she has democratic institutions which rival and mirror our own. we would be terribly upset if it can do that. imagine for them being alone, a government at the forefront ——— angela merkel of trying to make it possible for britain to continue to have a working relationship with the eu. on that thought... possibly a degree of positivity... i hesitate to use that word... much more to discuss this time next week, i hope you canjoin us then. we felt like we didn't have enough time to get through all of that this week, thank you for being with us, hope to see you next time. goodbye. hello. let's get you up to date to how we see it sunday. starting dry, fine sunny the exception to the royal perhaps the northern and western isles. much of scotland, a much improved day compared to saturday and temperatures are responding as a consequence. around about the coast little bit cooler but inland areas of many seeing at least 20 degrees celsius. a lovely evening in prospect overnight. the sky staying clear save for this north—western area of scotland. temperatures up a degree or two and that is a trend we will see the first half of the forthcoming week. fine and dry for most places. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america for saudi women who've hit the roads after the controversial ban on driving is finally lifted. a blast rocks an election rally held by zimbabwe's president mnangagwa. he's unhurt but says it was an attempt to kill him. president trump calls america's immigration laws a laughing stock and says his tough approach will make the us stronger. women in saudi arabia are finally taking to the roads after the authorities lifted the world's only ban on women driving. it's part of a programme of modernisation under
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