pale he's an associate fellow with a europe program at the international affairs think tank at chatham house welcome to d w. let's start with the those announcements out out of dublin what have we learned today about the 2 latest positions you know it's a huge well that we didn't already know they say they found some common ground but i think they've actually probably just had to explain to each other from live the red cross point of view explaining to boris johnson just how disastrous he thinks no deal on bret's would be. and for the peace process as well as the united kingdom and boris johnson has perhaps had a chance to float some of the rather vague ideas he seems to have about how it might be possible to replace this insurance policy the irish backstop with something else that would mean there wouldn't have to be a border the. right. next thing this snap election m.p.'s have voted against a quick election before this is being brought back to them they will vote again today it is likely to go against the government again why does bars johnson want this so much and why m.p.'s are so again

commons here with me in the city and now is quitting peel a senior analyst with the think tank chatham house in london good to have you here in person extraordinary times in the u.k. i mean we're glued to our screens and every move in westminster how precedented is what we're witnessing right now just a few it's it's completely uncharted territory this would it really is dramatic i think what we're seeing fundamentally there and that's what's so important about yesterday's decision in the supremes court is that apology but that should go way. and weak over the last 40 or 50 years and the prime minister got stronger and stronger suddenly the balance of power is tipping back again and punishment is being put into a much stronger position to hold the government to account so you have boris johnson with no majority flailing around trying to find a way through and we've just seen on geoffrey cox that. calling parliament to dispraise the dead parliament well the many parliamentarians who turn around and say exactly the same but the government but it still begs the question i mean mr johnson's posi

pale he's an associate fellow with the europe program at the international affairs think tank at chatham house welcome to day w. . let's start with the those announcements out out of dublin what have we learned today about the 2 leaders positions notes a huge well we didn't already know they say they found some common ground but i think they've actually probably just had to explain to each other from near veronica's point of view explain to boris johnson just how disastrous he thinks a new deal on bret's it would be. and for the peace process as well as the united kingdom and boris johnson has perhaps had a chance to float some of the rather vague ideas he seems to have about how it might be possible to replace this insurance policy the rich. with something else that would mean that wouldn't have to be a board of quite a lot going on today so we'll take a fall list and move on to the speaker of the house of commons john bercow who's been adding to a day of drama here he is announcing that he has to step down at the end of october . 8th but house tonight for an early general election my tenure

pale he's an associate fellow with the europe program at the international affairs think tank at chatham house welcome to d.w. . let's start with the those announcements out out of dublin what have we learned today about the 2 leaders positions notes a huge well we didn't already know they say they found some common ground but i think they've actually probably just had to explain to each other from the over at this point of view explained to boris johnson just how disastrous he thinks a no deal would be for iowans and for the peace process as well as the united kingdom and boris johnson has perhaps had a chance to float some of the rather vague ideas he seems to have about how it might be possible to replace this insurance policy the irish backstop with something else that would mean there wouldn't have to be a board of the. right. next thing this snap election m.p.'s have voted against a quick election before this is being brought back to them they will vote again today it is likely to go against the government again why does paris johnson want this so much and why m.p.'s are so against it th

have an election and nobody will win a majority clinton peel senior alice with the think tank chatham house or good to have you here with us in person that's. right when i bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world the death toll has risen to at least $37.00 people after our fall earthquake struck pakistan administered kashmir the 5.8 magnitude quake injured more than 700 people in the mountainous region where it leveled homes and split open roads. chinese president xi jinping has officially opened the new and may god airport the airport cost a whopping $16000000000.00 and has the world's biggest terminal building a starfish like structure designed by the late to renowned architect saw who did it will eventually handle 100000000 passengers. a black panther that was seen roaming the rooftops of a northern french town a few days ago has been stolen from a zoo where it was being kept on zoo employees discovered the animals pen had been broken into overnight the panther was due to be really honed at a year when you build a titian center for domesticated wi

the spring road wife alone the asia pacific program at chatham house for more on this good evening to you. wrought in terms of what we're seeing now. where do you think it's going to go for me because the mole the people in hong kong show that that they're against. what's happening the more one suspects china might act. well i it'ss very difficult to see where it where we are going to go for now other than to say it looks as though these protests are going to continue for the foreseeable future. your right to wonder what that china will. the noises coming out beijing on more and more threatening i and it does seem that china's patience is running out. but quite what that action would be is still to me very. because it seems to me that it would be a very big risk. beijing to send in its forces in some way or another. carrie lam i hear speaking earlier sounds in some ways like a broken woman the whole crisis really scott but her career and- - put it into minds of what she did. it sounds very very sad and- but she has an awful lot of responsibility for this position had thought that trad

asset chatham house for more on this one he getting to you donald trump. saying that as far asas he's concerned these peace talks of debt. good evening yes. now were you aware that you are asking me to talk about russia this evening i'm not gonna stop. i'm confused certainly let's talk about the situation in russia russia and france witith that to do y you r as a topic. russia and francnce would do me fifine. that's going to that one i apologize sound that agency. okay so be clarified. russia and france the meeting today because it is only the drill and does a lot for all this the first meeting since the twenty fourteen annexation of crimea can i ask you what is friends trying to do here we talk about sort of. threree stocking t though thirtn the internatational agenda is that it. it seems to be an attempt to do so in an n attempt to guide t the international agagenda to was brininging rusaa ckck and now in doing so o of course. francisis s stepping o f line w with all those that think russia should actually bearr the conseqequences f f it's- appallining a

she is an associate mellow at chatham house and former deputy security adviser at the white house. amy, good to see you. thanks for coming in. what do you make of the measured responses we heard from ukraine to local news and our matthew chance saying it is impossible to get official comments from ukraine at this time. what kind of situation could you imagine ukraine is in with this? >> well, i don't really think it is fair to be putting the ukrainian president or their government into this position, frankly. especially because there are transcripts of their conversations. there are people who heard and witnessed the conversations. there are answers to this that don't involve them. they are in a no-win situation. they can't put themselves into the u.s. domestic politics. that doesn't end well for them. they do in fact, rely on support from the united states. and as we know, russia has been an aggressor in ukraine in the past, and they have not taken their eyes off ukraine. so ukraine needs to leave this within the united states and i think walk the line they have been walking. >> w

there i'm joined here at the big table by quentin feel he's a senior analyst with the think tank chatham house in london he is here in berlin tonight it's good to see you quentin when i see that and listen to that i get the impression that boris johnson is acting like yesterday the supreme court parochial that just didn't happen is business as usual can he can he get away with it i don't know he's gone straight on the attack he's just ignoring anything not there were coals right through this debate that he should resign and he should realise what a complete he was accused of being a liar you have to cheat it was a very angry angry and rumbustious debate. and he just ignored it totally and just said i carry on what i think is clearly was his strategy before is even more instruction either is i'm the man of the people who's going to take on this dreadful parliament and earlier in the day we heard his attorney general describe the parliament is a disgrace is a dead parliament this is the parliament there was only elected 2 years ago and it's a parliament that has actually been pretty strong in st

there i'm joined here at the big table by quentin feel he's a senior analyst with the think think chatham house in london he is here in berlin tonight it's good to see you quentin when i see that and listen to that i get the impression that boris johnson is acting like yesterday the supreme court provoking all of that just didn't happen it's business as usual can he can he get away with that i don't know he's gone straight on the attack he's just ignoring anything not there were calls right through this debate for he should resign and he should realize what a complete he was accused of being a liar cheat it was a very angry angry and rumbustious debate and he just ignored it totally and just said i carry on what i think is clearly was his strategy before is even more his strategy and i raise i'm the man of the people who's going to take on this dreadful parliament and earlier in the day we heard his attorney general describe the parliament is a disgrace is a dead parliament this is the parliament there was only elected 2 years ago and it's a parliament that has actually been pretty strong in st

a totally private exclusive session, which is a lunch, actually, which clearly the subject to chatham houseble. so, to further suggest that myself the government have any road —— role to play in this thing, is absolutely unfounded. make your ownjudgement this thing, is absolutely unfounded. make your own judgement on that. carrie lam at the press conference rector. —— right now. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: a century of migration, in images. we walk through a moving new exhibition in washington. thisjoke she received a nobel peace prize for her work with the poor and the dying in india's slums. the head of the catholic church said mother teresa was "a wonderful example of how to help people in need." we have to identify the bodies, then arrange the coffins and take them back home. parents are waiting and wives are waiting. hostages appeared, some carried, some running, britain lost a princess today, described by all to whom she reached out as irreplaceable. an early morning car crash in a paris underpass ended a life with more than its share of pain and courage, warmth and compa

a totally private, exclusive session, which is a lunch, actually, which clearly is subject to chatham housecorded and then passed to the media. i think this is quite unacceptable. so, to further suggest or allege that myself or the government have any role to play in this thing, is absolutely unfounded. so that point has to be made extremely clear. i have said on several occasions and reaffirmed by people in my chief executive's of this in the enquiry that throughout this period, from the very beginning until now, i have never, i have never attended a resignation to the central people's government. i have not even contemplated to discuss a resignation with the central people's government. the choice of not resigning is my own choice, ok? but if you want to understand, because in a private session, ijust attempted to explain that as an individual, given the very difficult circumstances, maybe it was an easy choice to leave. but i told myself repeatedly in the last three months that i am my team should stay on to help hong kong and to help hong kong ina very help hong kong and to help hong ko

disappointed that her remarks of being leaked because this was held at a private lunch where she said chatham house rules applied which means in those circumstances nothing gets leaked to the media and she said what happened was completely inappropriate rasho so what is the latest adrian with the 2 day strike well i'm in a place called time our park which is right in the heart of hong kong very close actually to the local headquarters of the people's liberation army it was here yesterday that organizers say some 40000 people took part on the 1st day of a 2 day boy called those people by the way represented more than 20 different sectors here in hong kong people from the finance sector banking insurance as well as chefs well today the organizers say they are expecting an even bigger turnout remember people who take part in this protest risk retribution from their employers because many of them work for sort of chinese owned companies who have warned that if they take part in action like this they could face disciplinary action or even be dismissed so just by turning up here is in many ways a sort of

doctor leslie vinjamuri, head of the us and americas programme at the foreign relations think—tank, chatham houseg with some pace in the united states, now the democrats have decided to begin this impeachment process. what do you make of that decision? think nancy pelosi has been under pressure from certain parts of her party to begin impeachment hearings for quite some time and she has been very pragmatic. she has let the muller report run its course, watched findings be released, it has allowed a number of investigations. remember there are investigations ongoing in multiple committees. she has resisted, until this point, turning this into a formal impeachment. so i think the news of the whistle—blower report, the initial refusal of the executive branch to turn that over to the house, the transcripts such as we saw, i think nancy pelosi made as we saw, i think nancy pelosi made a very clearjudgment that there was no other path than to actually begin it. and you have a sense, because in the past have been lots of enquiries by congress against the president, almost seems as if it has been dragged

unit and berthed on the afghan peace process in london hamid hacky me a research associate at chatham house and former international policy adviser to the afghan ministry of foreign affairs and in alexandria virginia in the u.s. john you watch syria expert in afghanistan of the united states institute of peace welcome to your wish how significant was that tweet about trump who was willing to meet with other and with us the afghani at camp david. significant given because apparently everything was seemingly sorted out between the polygon and. when he came to kabul he even showed a copy of the peace agreement that was about to be signed between the sides and then president of money was all prepared to fly out to the united states so this these the seabees of the tweets that came last night i think it tests court absolute heart at least for the time being with the ongoing peace process and there has been significant level of mistrust now created between the palestine and the americans which was garnered generated by. the course of the last 12 months in 9 rounds of peace negotiations with the p

leslie, chatham house think tank in the uk joining this how live in london. good to have you with us. >> thank you, george. >> so this left/right binary, there are two issues that you'll hear on the conservative talk shows that are the right's boogeyman. first, the suggestion that the democratic party is shifting further and further to the left with no room for moderates and that democrats will take america's guns. so that frank and candid comment from beto o'rourke checked off both those boxes for the right and now it has some lawmakers concerned that the conversation, the debate on gun control, will be a lot harder to have. listen. >> and i frankly think that clip will be played for years at second amendment rallies with organizations that try to scare people that say democrats are coming for your guns. i'm a gun owner. my sons and i have gone skeet shooting and hunting and, quite frankly, i don't think having our presidential candidates like congressman o'rourke did say that we're going to try and take people's guns against their will is a wise either poli

the afghan ministry of foreign affairs in kabul is now a research associate at the think tank chatham house thanks very much for coming in to talk a little bit about the afghan u.s. relations in a 2nd offense wanted to just chill down a little bit on the actual there for years i remember being in kabul and it was ballot stuffing and they were fake it's we've got this biometric voter registration system can we trust the spelling is certainly seen as an improvement to just referenced but obviously as a. as a country that is not just exercising democracy is a new new new new phenomenon but the idea of literacy with these systems and capacity to run these particular administrative and management of such big undertakings i think that's still holding. you know it's building i think the other element that we have to remember is that just a few weeks ago there was a lot of doubt whether this election would go ahead indeed because of the dialogue with the taliban it has been delayed many times it was delayed before twice and. the only with the exception of prison honeys at the incumbent presidents c

. >> let's put all of this into focus with amy pope at chatham house, a think tank in the uk joininglive in our london bureau. good to have you with us. >> good morning. >> the u.s. president continues to sigh the economy is strong. this is important to donald trump, despite indicators we have seen in recent months, well, a hint of trouble that could be coming. he also continues to press ahead with the trade war with china. does holding the line here help him come 2020 or put the economy in jeopardy effectively putting his candidacy in jeopardy? >> well, he's really put himself into a bad place. he has backed himself into a corner. and he basically has to choose now between appearing to be weak in terms of negotiating with china, or protecting the american economy. it doesn't look like he can have it both ways. as we all know, when it comes to an election, the incumbent is most like there i to win if the economy is strong. now the signs are suggesting that the economy is slowing. but the bottom line is consumers aren't feeling it yet. i think that will be a key issue. if at christmas

affairs unit and worked on the afghan peace process in london hamid hacky me a research associate at chatham house and former international policy advisor to the afghan ministry of foreign affairs and in alexandria virginia in the u.s. john you watch syria expert in afghanistan of the united states institute of peace welcome to your wish how significant was that tweet about trump who was willing to meet with other and with us the afghani at camp david. significant given because apparently everything was seemingly sorted out between the polygon and. when he came to kabul he even showed a copy of the peace agreement that was about to be signed between the sides and then president of money was all prepared to fly out to the united states so this these the seabees of the tweets that came last night i think it tests busy sort absolute heart at least for the time being with the ongoing peace process and there has been significant level of mistrust now created between the palestine and the americans which was garnered demitted by. the course of the last 12 months in 9 rounds of peace negotiations with th

that conversation have been leaked she said that this lunch was a lunch where what she called chatham house rules applied which means that it was confidential the contents were not supposed to be given to the media she also said that her department she her for her officials played up story no role in the leaking of that recording just to recap in that recording kerry lamb is heard to say that you know that what has happened in hong kong was unforgivable she said was unforgivable and she used that word unthinkable twice and she said that you know she wanted to stand down but she had no room for maneuver no scope for maneuver because in her words i serve 2 masters also been that recording she said that she didn't believe that the central government would send in the people's liberation army because that would destroy once and for all hong kong standing as a major financial center she said though that. i have never attended my resignation to the central government and i've never even contemplated my resignation so her remarks at this media conference very much in stark contrast to those privat

affairs unit and worked on the afghan peace process in london hamid hacky me a research associate at chatham house and former international policy advisor to the afghan ministry of foreign affairs and in alexandria virginia in the u.s. john you watch syria expert in afghanistan of the united states institute of peace welcome to your wish how significant was that tweet about trump who was willing to meet with other and with us the afghani at camp david. significant given because apparently everything was seemingly sorted out between the polygon and. when he came to kabul he even showed a copy of the peace agreement that was about to be signed between the sides and then president of money was all prepared to fly out to the united states so this these the seabees of the tweets that came last night i think it tests court absolute hard at least for the time being with the ongoing peace process and there has been significant level of mistrust now created between the palestine and the americans which was garnered generated by. the course of the last 12 months in 9 rounds of peace negotiations with the pa

well you'll see michael burgi is a senior consultant at the think tank chatham house here in london and he joins me in a studio now welcome and you'll see i mean it looks like you're electioneering the idea of appealing to the far right values is is this something they do we think that netanyahu would go through if he was elected well 1st and foremost it would do anything to be elected because it's not only about his political career is also of voiding facing calls for corruption allegations so this for between now and next tuesday we probably will all sorts of promises and statements and more aggression coming form form from the prime you so but it's also a provocation and it provokes the palestinians anytos all if we think that actually it coordinated it with washington john bolton left today it's called the next it's we've done tamp that this is actually acceptable even we felt negotiation to annex parts of the west bank which goes against international law because it's occupied territories the message you send to the palestinians there is not going to be in on is working in washingt

i go back to your work at chatham house on u.s. foreign policy. use of representatives but also a hallmark moment for mr. zelinski in ukraine. how urgent is it that ukraine attach normal relations with the white house and washington? jacob: it is pretty urgent. several hundred million dollars of security assistance which has been released because of the public scrutiny and political pressure on the white house from congress and the wider public. that is in things like antitank missiles which ukraine has been asking for, for years. while the level of violence is not as high as it has been at various points, the ukrainians are eager to have as normal relations as possible, given the recent transition of power, to make sure they have good relationships with the united states. they are walking and almost impossible tight rope. tom: what is the domestic military realities of ukraine? what is theof kiev, defense urgency for the leadership? jacob: the urgency is that you have several provinces of the country that since early 2014 are not under the governm

let's bring in our next guest, tom raines with chatham house. do the conservatives do in their conference in a couple of days, and what does prime minister johnson do in manhattan? tom r.: p may have to fly home early to deal with the political outlook -- he may have to fly home early to deal with the result around the prorogation, which has only served to unite their political opponents and lead to a damming judgment. issue. tricky parliament has not been prorogued. i imagine they will be sitting as soon as possible. in effect, many of the other parties have enjoyed their party conferences one normally parliament would be in recess -- when normally parliament would be in recess. they will have to persuade their colleagues in parliament to have a brief recess to allow them to hold their conference, or they will be caught between manchester and london. tom: you have written about the political tribes of europe. tell me about the linkage of --nson, disaffected lorries tories, and this brexit party of mr. farage. tom r.: what has happened in u.k. p

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