i'm joined now by you know he is with chatham house that's a british think tank clinton spent decades reporting on post war europe the very europe that was created beginning on d.-day it's good to have you on the show these commemorations today they were meant to honor the heroism of the sacrifice 75 years ago which crypt helped to create our current world order and the peace that we enjoyed today you've covered previous anniversaries is that connection is that still being made as it once was. well i think it is i think this was actually a very moving a cation and i think it attracted a lot of attention certainly here in britain and i suspect in the other countries participating in turning the united states and indeed in germany because i'm going to america was that which was a very important gesture i think but. nevertheless i think the younger generation here in britain may feel that might still get around about the time sacrifices rather than we think about the future but they did actually get everyone who was there 16 heads of government and heads of state to agree on this declara

simone this being rolled why his so his fellow at the asia pacific program at chatham house well thanks for being with us this -- seems in many ways like the irresistible force. meets the immovable object and something clearly at some stage has to give. i think so and i have but it does l look as thohough the hong kong government is set on going through with this legislation and of course they have the numbers in that i just did you counsel to do so. that it doess seem all that they are unable to take account of the huge j jack outpouring calls and descent and worry as seen. by the people of hong kong and you would expect the government to be more responsive t to that. how reall a are the city is fulf freedom in hong kong and the like to this new low? i think it comes at the end when it comes. following a long process of i have what is seen as encroachment upon hong kong's at freedoms by and byy maiainland china and of course the the thee concerned really. about a possible lock extradition to people from hong kongng to mainland china do the very onset. gal system that is thatat i'm the

i'm joined now by dr leslie vinjamuri, head of the us and americas programme at chatham house.e you with us again on bbc news. the obvious proposition to put here is that donald trump has achieved his objective. he didn't really wa nt achieved his objective. he didn't really want these tariffs because of us trade, but now he has got mexico to work to reduce immigration. the aim is to keep those migrants that wa nt to aim is to keep those migrants that want to across the board and apply for asylum, while they are doing that, the agreement now is that they will remain in mexico, and mexico can takea will remain in mexico, and mexico can take a much harder line on its southern border with guatemala by employing an extra 6000 troops. the focus is on security, hard measures to control migration, and that is potentially, and we have to wait and see, potentially a really immediate fix to a very real problem. 133,000 migrants cross that border and were apprehended in the last month, but the long—term problem needs to be dealt with by development and addressing the very real problems th

for more on this we can speak to attics finds he's head of the africa program at the think tank chatham house joins me in the studio now and alex this is not the 1st challenge that prime minister met his face but how serious a threat with today's events to his rule this is much more serious than the previous attempt i mean there was a grenade for him but this was a serious challenge to his authority he's now some 15 months into a transition process and my fear is this was a transition process towards more democracy dismantling a thorough tear in system and this may will now divert his attention from the reform agenda. and of course as you say since taking office he has undertaken some important reforms in ethiopia you see this could 10 now as possibly slowing down those reforms that's my big fear this will be a warning to him and he's going to have to focus very much more on some of the domestic politics and that's going to really i think divert his attention from some of the very good things that he's been trying to achieve in terms of encouraging more political pluralism improving relations

amy under former president barack obama but now an associate with chatham house. joining us at this hour. glad to have you. >> thank you. >> so, from a big picture perspective, you have a u.s. president who seemed to be actually painted into a corner to act on this strike and risk war. or not to act, and signal to adversaries that the u.s. will blink. what do you make of this suggestion that president trump took this approach to effectively have it both ways and come off a hero for calling it off? >> it's hard to see these actions as heroic. what they've done is they've escalated tension with iran, but without any discernible end in sight. it's not clear what the bottom line strategy is here. and the fact is, the president triggered the action and then pulled off. that suggests chaos, that suggests confusion, that does not present a situation where americans are safer but it does point a breakdown of bureaucratics in the white house. tell appears that john bolten is consistently at odds with the president. time and time again he's out there advocating a course of

and american program at chatham house.n the market today, with the top movers. dani burger has those for us. dani: one of the most well-known hargreavesmanagers, pulling thew offering from their platform. their offerings, causing shares to move lower. one of the biggest losers on the stoxx 600. the only share losing more than it currently is ubisoft, the videogame maker. the ceo and deputy ceo, who happen to be brothers, have sold 20,000 shares of the company. we're seeing the price drop below the sale price now, at about 69 euros. finally, the biggest mover to the upside today is royal mail after an upside from j.p. morgan after their recent strategy update. jp morgan says that update sees a route to better margins. but a big part of the case is the valuation story. matt: thanks very much. dani burger with some individual movers. next we will talk about the 30 year anniversary of the tiananmen square crackdown. china is playing the victim card. find out why next. this is bloomberg. ♪ anna: welcome back to the european mar

to roslan marston she's an associate fellow of the africa program at chatham house is also the former e.u. special representative for sudan and south sudan and the former british ambassador to sudan's joining us from london thanks very much for speaking to us does the statement on sudan go far enough. well i mean i think it's obviously the 1st thing is that the european union the the u.k. the united states the u.n. and everyone has condemned the very serious shocking use of violence this morning by the transitional military council they've also all called for current ability and the military council fully responsible for what has happened i think the question is whether these statements will then be followed by concrete action for example will there be a u.n. security council now discussion on the subject in the next few days i think many people expect that that would be the case of the plotting out of those things they always was just reporting from the united nations in fact saying that so far there has not been a u.n. security council meeting are you surprised by that. well i think

finds is the head of the africa program at london's chatham house and he says the situation and horace state could slow the pace of reforms in the country. this will be a warning to him and he's going to have to focus very much more on some of the domestic politics and that's going to really i think divert his attention from some of the very good things that he's been trying to achieve in terms of encouraging more political pluralism improving relations with the neighbors i mean he has recognized eritrea for example is a very good example of eritrea and ethiopia having a repression want so this will divert some of that intention and ethiopia is a super strategic country for the horn of africa and even farther neighbors power state is the 2nd largest definite group in theo pia it has had significant protests against the really p r d f and this one of the things that i think was happening was that the president of an horace state was looking at the growth of local militias which are causing problems and we think that that was probably the reason that he was taken out and that was the pos

alex scientists head of the africa program at london's chatham house he says a situation and tomorrow state could slow the pace of reforms in the country this will be a warning to him and he's going to have to focus very much more on some of the domestic politics and that's going to really i think divert his attention from some of the very good things that he's been trying to achieve in terms of encouraging more political pluralism improving relations with the neighbors i mean he has recognized every trafford example is a very good example of eritrea and ethiopia having a repression want so this will divert some of that intention and ethiopia is a super strategic country think of horn of africa and even farther neighbors power states is the 2nd largest ethnic group in theo p.-a it has had significant protests against the really and this.

oxford is dr william blyth, an associate fellow on energy, environment and resources from the chatham housealso the director of the independent energy research company, oxford energy associates. . thanks forjoining us. it seems almost unthinkable, almost the entire country without power. what may have happened? it's extraordinary, i've seen reports that it was a technical failure on one particular line coming down from the major hydro plant in the north of the country. this is sometimes the cause of some of these rolling blackouts, and we saw a similar eventin blackouts, and we saw a similar event in the north—east us for example, where a blackout in one area can cascade through the system and cause huge areas to be blacked out. it has gone across national borders, so there's no concept of a national grid here. it's really across the whole region. yes, there is regional interconnection. if one pa rt is regional interconnection. if one part of the system goes down, it can lea p a cross part of the system goes down, it can leap across into other countries. if it is the fault in the north of t

consulting analyst with the international crisis group in london paul mellie a consulting fellow at chatham housean international affairs think tank and in all slow the norwegian capital we have tall binyam incense a professor of political ecology at the norwegian university of life sciences thank you to you all let me come to you 1st ibrahim in the m.e. this is a complex come conflict is that as we've just alluded to tensions between the different ethnic groups have been have been there for as long as there have been settlements why are we experiencing an upsurge in violence now in recent years. well thank you very much this is a killer good question there are there have been tension between the gone thunder line is. since 1000 years ago the dissent this. evolved over time exacerbated because of. the tension over natural resources more control over natural resources but particularly in the last 5 to 6 years because of the upsurge of jihadists and certainty in the region. doggone most of the jihadists are associated with pearl flannels and their jihad did the. job that they needed to protect them

and ruth was in london this week giving a talk to a business audience, it was chatham house rules, buton if boris johnson gets in, and i think on a newsnight interview tonight, she talks about the butterfly effect. you have no deal brexit, who knows what will happen? and this is a fellow conservative saying this. what will happen? and this is a fellow conservative saying thism is. she said it is not brexit, do—or—die raid, it is the union, do—or—die raid, it is the union, do—or—die raid, it is the union, do—or—die raid, this week. but appalled at the weekend showed 53% of scots would act independence if borisjohnson got in. so she perhaps has the wind behind her. boris johnson for his part is still saying they have a good relationship, of course. the majority of tory msps in the scottish parliament, scottish tory mps have 50—50... not 50—50, evenif tory mps have 50—50... not 50—50, even if you remainers are backing boris because they see him as the election winner. we have to call him borisjohnson. election winner. we have to call him boris johnson. of course, mr johnson. the telegraph

emily taylor, a cybersecurity expert at chatham house. said he's received a personal letter from donald trump. kim jong—un said he would seriously contemplate the "excellent" and "interesting" content and he saluted the "extraordinary" courage of the american president, according to reports on state media. talks to stop north korea's nuclear programme remain stalled after the failure of the hanoi summit in february. the ethiopian prime minister's chief of staff has been shot dead during an attempted coup. he was killed by an attempted coup. he was killed by a bodyguard at his home in the capital. three other officials were killed in two separate attacks. five people have been arrested as part of a fraud investigation following the colla pse a fraud investigation following the collapse of patisserie valerie. it folded in january. collapse of patisserie valerie. it folded injanuary. with the loss of 900 jobs after a £91; million black hole was discovered in the accounts. earlier, i spoke to our business correspondence. back in october last

emily taylor there, security expert at chatham house.news: the neighbour of boris johnson and his partner defends calling the police and giving a recording to a newspaper after apparently hearing a row — mrjohnson refused to answer apparently hearing a row. mrjohnson refused to answer questions about the incident yesterday. tackling the tensions between iran and the us — a senior foreign office minister heads to tehran to appeal for calm. north korea's kim jong—un says he's received a personal letter from donald trump, which he describes as "excellent". england take on cameroon later on. phil neville says cameroon will pose a threat his england team "has not experienced" in their first knock out match of the women's world cup in france this afternoon. it's live on bbc1 and radio 5 live at 11.30. if we are talking about england stars, aaron white has been the top scorer “— stars, aaron white has been the top scorer —— ellen white. that is something to watch out for. they have also been amazing down the left—hand side, keira welch has been

editor of the daily star newspaper from london fadi a quarter manager of the turkey project at chatham house and from ankara yusuf conley formerly the editor of the how to get newspaper welcome to you all in istanbul let's go back to march and start our discussion there those claims of irregularities there was only $13000.00 votes in it but those claims how was that received by the voters. well i think there is there is 2 side of the story there is those voters who say that this small margin should be analyzed and should the claim should be taken seriously and the fact that the party side took it to supreme election council should be taken serious the fact that there is more than 10000000 voters in a stumble this small margin should be taken into consideration but on the other hand there is the opposition voter base who says that you know this small margin and irregularities are seen as. you know like an escape from the losing side but at the end of the day it is the supreme election counsel who is eligible who is able to make that decision whether or not the claims were you know worthy of t

i'm on a cronies company disses an academy says he is at the international think tank chatham house specializing in maritime security he joins us from oxycontin for being with us so we had to pump a squarely laying the blame but iran's door for this. do you think we will get the evidence eventually that that is what happened. why do we need to be cautious about it the assumption and what we are getting so hard with a intelligence that they were collecting gives us a color glady guess if i can say it seems that this edition of the attack in the methods used in the weapons used in big aid that the nation state allegedly iran was responsible for about but maybe it was not actually that was in use something that was initiated by iran itself but something that may be silly david and carried out by a proxy so it's these remains to be seen but all the indications leads us to words of that assumption and what about the possibility that there might be further attacks that was one of the official pushes from the want to say one more time because tanker ties could if you don't think this is. well it's very

alex scientists head of the africa program at london's chatham house it says the situation and him are a state could slow the pace of reforms in the country this will be a warning to him and he's going to have to focus very much more on some of the domestic politics and that's going to really i think divert his attention from some of the very good things that he's been trying to achieve in terms of encouraging more political pluralism improving relations with the neighbors i mean he has recognized every trafford example is a very good example of eritrea and ethiopia having a repression want so this will divert some of that intention and ethiopia is a super strategic country fair to horn of africa and even farther neighbors power states is the 2nd largest ethnic group in theo p.-a it has had significant protests against the ruling the p.r. d.s. and this one of the things that i think was happening was that the president of yemen horace state was looking at the growth of local militias which were causing problems and we think that that was probably the reason that he was taken out and th

luckily, i do not have to give out reminders about chatham house rules. we are on the record. thank you for joining us about the discussion of future u.s.-africa relations. i'm delighted to be joined by a really outstanding panel. i'll just go ahead and introduce them and dive into questions. we have about 40 minutes. i'll try to reserve 10 to 15 of those for questions from the audience. we have ambassador, nonresident senior fellow and teacher of african affairs. she had a very distinguished career in public service in france including as deputy minister for foreign affairs and human rights and ambassador of france to unesco. we are happy to have her in washington and sharing insights with us. next to her, joshua is a senior policy analyst on africa and the middle east at the heritage found egg. he was previously at the africa center and spent several years on the ground in africa including with the peace corps. last but not least we have a lecturer in african studies and a nonresident senior associate and a veteran of the u.s. marine corps. thank you for joining us. maybe i

is robin niblett of chatham house and neil shearing of capital economics.he show without talking about the united kingdom or brexit but i have to talk about it. what a mess, how should listeners worldwide or viewers worldwide get to october 31? do we shut it off and wait for the second week of october? >> you will have to watch very closely into who wins the conservative party leadership. boris johnson is putting a clear mark, the u.k. must under all circumstances leave the eu on october 31. if he were to win the leadership by the end of july you would have a frantic summer of him trying to renegotiate a deal that would prevent britain from crashing out. >> any indication of an ability to renegotiate? >> boris johnson is absolutely single-minded on becoming prime minister of this country but is probably going to find a way to be flexible in how he does it which means he will try to get a deal. he doesn't want to go to a general election without delivering brexit. tom: what is the cost of no deal? opinions of what no deal actually means to business. >> part

tom: it has been extraordinary, much.brown, thank you so brown is with chatham house.etter time. gideon rose of foreign affairs magazine on what we are observing in hong kong, and on what happened to the american century. ♪ ♪ tom: this morning, it is late afternoon, early evening in hong kong. tear gas andsed have moved in formation against hundreds of thousands of protesters. "a police chief called it riot situation." june 19 beckons with placing and the bond market says at some point the fed will cut rates. what happened to the american century washington squandered? everyone, this is bloomberg "surveillance." with nejra cehic this morning, francine lacqua speaking with the chancellor of the exchequer. a wonderful news flow, and one of the backdrops with hong kong is the right situation in conservative politics in the united kingdom. what have you learned in the last 24 hours about brexit, prime minister johnson or prime minister raab? nejra: it is not clear exactly where we will go with brexit. we have got our eyes trained on those protests, extraordinary pictures w

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and now more context with the senior consulting research fellow for the middle east at chatham house and joining us this hour from london. good to have you with us. >> thank you for having me. >> so you heard the reaction there from the region with sam kiley's reporting. what message would you say this sends to iran, what message does it send to adversaries around the world? >> well, i think the message coming from washington is that the president does not wish to engage directly with iran. and they should be interpreting the signalling and the president's lack of military response as an effort of deeither cade eith escalation. this has been are the soed b ee supported from repeated calls from the president. and from the regional allies, this is of course discerning because they are hoping that the u.s. president is going to defend their interests and defend the red line and they are very worried that an american president might make another deal with the islamic republic. >> so from the big picture perspective though, you have a u.s. president who seemed to be painted into a corner

. >>> let's bring in the senior research fellow from chatham house. great to have you with us. there's been multiple events over the last month between iran and saudi tankers off the coast of the gulf of oman, most eventually the attack on the u.s. drone if iran is behind these attacks, what is their incentive here what are they trying to do >> ultimately the iranian government is pushing back after a year of president trump's maximum pressure campaign. they waited out a year to see if there would be any response from the remaining signatories to the iran nuclear agreement to meet iran's economic commitments and requirements as part of the deal that's yet to transpire. so there was a shift in strategy in tehran where it was time to push back, particularly after the trump administration did not renew iran's oil waivers on may 8th. we've seen subsequent series of events where iran is pushing the red lines here >> would you say ultimately what they're trying to achieve is sanctions relief >> they would like sanctions relief as part of a wider negotiating outcome. what we are seein

consulting analyst with the international crisis group in london paul mellie a consulting fellow at chatham house an international affairs think tank and in all slow the norwegian capital we have tall binyam incertain a professor of political ecology at the norwegian university of life sciences thank you to you all let me come to you 1st ibrahim in the m.e. this is a complex come conflict is that as we've just alluded to tensions between the different ethnic groups have been have been there for as long as there have been settlements why are we experiencing an upsurge in violence now in recent years. well thank you very much this is a killer good question there are there have been tension between doggone thunder line is. since 1000 years ago the dissent this. tension evolved over time exacerbated because of. the tension over natural resources more control over natural resources but particularly in the last 5 to 6 years because of the upsurge of you had a sense urgency in the region. doggone most of the jihadists are associated with pearl felonies and they had did that. that they needed to protect

consulting analyst with the international crisis group in london paul mellie a consulting fellow at chatham house an international affairs think tank and in all slow the norwegian capital we have tall binyam incertain a professor of political ecology at the norwegian university of life sciences thank you to you all let me come to you 1st ibrahim in the m.e. this is a complex come conflict is that as we've just alluded to tensions between the different ethnic groups have been have been there for as long as there have been settlements why are we experiencing an upsurge in violence now in recent years. thank you very much this is a killer good question there are there have been tension between the gone thunder line is. since 1000 years ago the descent this. tension of world over time exacerbated because of. the tension over natural resources more control over natural resources but particularly in the last 5 to 6 years because of the upsurge of you had a sense urgency in the region. the doggone most of the jihadists are associated with pearl felonies and they had did that. all but they needed to prot

editor of the daily star newspaper from london fadi a quarter manager of the turkey project at chatham house and from ankara yusuf conley formerly the editor of the how to get newspaper welcome to you all in istanbul let's go back to march and start our discussion there those claims of irregularities there was only $13000.00 votes in it but those claims how was that received by the voters. well i think there is there is 2 side of the story there is those voters who say that this small margin should be analyzed and should the claim should be taken seriously and the fact that the party side took it to supreme election council should be taken serious the fact that there is more than 10000000 voters in a stumble this small margin should be taken into consideration but on the other hand there is the opposition voter base who says that you know this small margin and irregularities are seen as. you know like an escape from the losing side but at the end of the day it is the supreme election counsel who is eligible who is able to make that decision whether or not the claims were you know worthy of t

editor of the daily star newspaper from london fadi a quarter manager of the turkey project at chatham house and from ankara yusuf conley formerly the editor of the how to get newspaper welcome to you all met in istanbul let's go back to march and start our discussion there those claims of irregularities there was only $13000.00 votes in it but those claims how was that received by the voters. well i think there is there is 2 side of the story there is those voters who say that this small margin should be analyzed and should the claim should be taken seriously and the fact that the party side took it to supreme election council should be taken serious the fact that there is more than 10000000 voters in a stumble this small margin should be taken into consideration but on the other hand there is the opposition voter base who says that you know this small margin and irregularities are seen as. you know like an escape from the losing side but at the end of the day it is the supreme election counsel who is eligible who is able to make that decision whether or not the claims were you know worthy

well ali we spoke to alex vines he is the head of the africa program at london's chatham house and he says the situation in the how in and horace state could slow the pace of reforms in the country this will be a warning to him and he's going to have to focus very much more on some of the domestic politics and that's going to really i think divert his attention from some of the very good things that he's been trying to achieve in terms of encouraging more political pluralism improving relations with the neighbors i mean he has recognized eritrea for example is a very good example of eritrea and ethiopia having a repression want so this will divert some of that intention and ethiopia is a super strategic country for the horn of africa and even farther neighbors power state is the 2nd largest f.-dic group in theo p.-a it has had significant protests against the ruling the p.r. and this one of the things that i think was happening was that the president of an horace state was looking at the growth of local militias which were causing problems and we think that that was probably the reaso

we're joined now by a senior research fellow on the middle east at chatham house. thanks so much for talking with us. you just heard the back and forth charge, countercharge. i want to begin with what you think about iran's statement that it thinks the united states as far as sanctions goes is committing economic terrorism. >> this is the iranian response very much playing into domestic sentiments both at the political elite level but to the popular level as well, where ordinary iranians are really suffering from the pressure of sanctions. all foreign companies that were in iran since the iran nuclear agreement was signed in 2015 have withdrawn and daily life is becoming harder and harder for iranians. so economic terrorism kind of elevates even further the issue, nationalizes the issue and creates a greater sentiment and an affinity between people who might be frustrated with the government and the iranian regime. >> what are your most concerned about right now? we had a president who was going to strike but he didn't. we heard bolton say don't -- don't think prud

we have been joined by leslie vinjamuri, head of the us and the americas programme at chatham house.t day was ceremonial, it was lovely. i was struck when i walked down to buckingham palace that, yes, there were people there but not as many as i would have imagined. it wasn't that hard to make my way through. today is a more significant day from the point of view of policy. yesterday was affirmative, it put common values forward , affirmative, it put common values forward, the queen and donald trump spoke quite well and stayed largely to script. today, we are going to see that breakfast with the uk's leading business leaders, a meeting with theresa may and jeremy hunt and others, and those tough issues that have divided the us from the uk and europe over the last two years are going to be on the table. we will see probably quite a tough press conference, i would see probably quite a tough press conference, iwould imagine. whether it's about the us uk free trade deal which is the uk's primary aspiration but a long way off. i think the president will take a tough line on china, he want

look back at mr trump's visit with dr leslie vinjamuri, head of the us and americas programme, at chatham housee know this is nothing that will happen any time soon. the major reason being that the uk needs to execute on brexit before that is even possible. of course, the president can't deliver that trade deal on his own. he has to work with congress. there are a large number of negotiations that will need to ta ke of negotiations that will need to take place. it is not entirely clear whether the president, whether trump will still be in office by the time we get to that point so there are all sorts of things that are open but it has been important nevertheless for the uk government and theresa may and whoever her successor is, as well as donald to keep that conversation going. we saw some backtracking. his ambassador said on sunday that the nhs and every other sector of the british economy would be open. trump walked back to back a bit. he agreed with it first of all, didn't he? who got to him? was it potentially the brexiteers that he ended up meeting yesterday afternoon before he made the a

it was clearly at the front of president salih‘s mind when i met him at chatham house earlier today.? what's hope no one goes to war. war is the last thing this neighbourhood needs. we have had too many wars in our recent memory. the present war has yet to be finished definitively. let's consolidate the victory against isis and focus on what is important. the important thing for iraq and for the neighbourhood is peace, is prosperity, and is also the priority for us will have to be eradicating extremism which is played us for so many years and we can't afford to be complacent. our audience might not understand that you are in the middle here. we are right in the middle. erroneously be embedded in your economy. you have american troops, 5000 of them in the country. what happens if the americans call on you to pick a side? the americans are tight micro and our neighbours are tight micro and our neighbours are acknowledging to us of keeping iraq away from this comfort. we have set from our own point of view the party is iraq's stability. we have been embroiled into many wars over the pas

julis — an international economist and the former chairperson of international affairs think tank chatham house is two or three times bigger than the one they have at the moment. is that possible? i doubt it. it could be a very important deal. the us is a major trading partner with the uk already. the uk is constrained with what it can agree because it is the eu that the sides and trade for us. i think the sides and trade for us. i think the most important element of the economic relationship is direct investment. the us is the biggest foreign investor in this country in the uk is the biggest foreign investor in the us. that does depend a little bit on trade deals but actually were quite good at it even without a trade deal. when we talk about the special relationship maybe we should talk about it as the special economic relationship?” think economics is the foundation of the relationship today but the security aspects are also extremely important. the focus of this visit ina way important. the focus of this visit in a way is about memorial day and the d—day landings in the security relationshi

we'rejoined here in london by leslie vinjamuri from the international affairs think tank chatham housetle, a professor of american history at cambridge university. we were just talking about the value of today's events. what do you think it means in diplomatic terms given we have a prime minister who is on her way out and a power vacuum here at the moment. we do but remember it asa at the moment. we do but remember it as a state visit. it is about the united states and the united kingdom. it's not really meant to be about donald trump and theresa may which is a good thing seeing as theresa may won't be there very long and donald trump has a 21% approval rating in the uk. this visit, especially today which is so much about the ceremony, it's really meant to frame the us and the uk as important partners over a long period of time and that is not an easy thing to do because in the entire context of his presidency it has been very troubled between the united states and its european partners not least the uk. what do states visits do in terms of making sure the special relationship is still