now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie.ek, five weeks to go till b day. some things fall apart, but can the centre hold? india looks to punish pakistan for the deadliest attack in a 30—year kashmir insurgency. and iran diagnoses "pathological obsession" as it shrugs off the latest broadside from the united states. with me today, ashis ray of ray media, david aaronovitch, columnist for the london times, nazenin ansari, managing editor of kayhan life, and american writer and broadcaster jeffrey kofman. welcome to you all. now, last week, brexit broke the mould again when 12 mps abandoned their parties, that is a life—changing thing to do among the tribes of westminster. so, what will get broken in british politics this week? david, you first, but before you answer the question, tell me, did we make anything new last week, or did we just break things? well, first, i was enjoying the idea of french people listening, saying it was 50 days to go till b day, and thinking that they might think it was appropriate. it's extraordinari

hello and welcome to dateline london. —— hello and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie.week: what is the emergency? the us president says it's an invasion of drugs and crime on the southern border. his critics say it's a constitutional crisis of his own making. in fact, some say he's the emergency. and six weeks to go till march 29th. we take a close look atjeremy corbyn‘s moves on the brexit board. my guests today, bronwen maddox, director of the institute for government, owenjones, columnist for the guardian newspaper, henry chu, international editor of variety, and thomas kielinger, author and long—time correspondent of die welt. welcome to you all. thanks forjoining us. now, do you want the good news or the bad news first? on the one hand, the united states avoided another government shutdown this weekend as the president signed a spending bill. on the other hand, he declared a national emergency, which democrats are condemning as an unconstitutional abuse of power, and which they vow to overturn. henry, let's start with you. did you fall off your chair when you hear

hello and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie.rliamentary backing for something? sort of. my guests today, eunice goes, the portugese writer. american broadcaster michael goldfarb.

hello and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie. this week, questions for the united states in venezuela and in yemen. and the british prime minister wins parliamentary backing for something? sort of. my guests today, eunice goes, the portugese writer. american broadcaster michael goldfarb. alex deane, who's a conservative commentator. and the french algerian journalist nabila ramdani. welcome to you all. alternative arrangements, sounds innocuous enough but with less than two months to go till b—day, what alternative can the british prime ministerfind to the troubled irish backstop that gets her an eu withdrawal agreement with brussels that she can also push through her own parliament? i think that this has been real progress, because the challenge from ourfriends in brussels, from the time we voted to leave the european union over two years ago has been not unreasonably, what do you want, britain? and for the first time, this is our parliament sort of exposing a majority view in favour of something. which is, very significant prog

now on bbc news, dateline london. hello and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie.for the deadliest attack in a 30—year kashmir insurgency. and iran diagnoses pathological obsession, as it shrugs off the latest broadside from the united states. with me today: ashis ray of ray media, david aaronovitch, columnist for the london times, nazenin ansari, managing editor of kayhan life, and broadcaster, jeffrey kofman. welcome to you all. last week, brexit broke the mould again, when 12 mps abandoned their parties,

now dateline london. with carrie gracie.e union address at last, but what did it tell us about president trump s next two years and plans on fighting for four more? and seven weeks to go till b day. is anyone going to blink and if so, who? with me today: polly toynbee, columnist for the guardian newspaper american writer and broadcaster jef mcallister, agnes poirier of weekly french news magazine marianne. and stefanie bolzen of german daily newspaper die welt. to fire and fury, locked and loaded we can now add greatness or gridlock?and revenge, resistance and retribution or co—operation, compromise and the common good. beyond the president s passion for alliteration, what did we learn from the state of the union? well, i think we learned that he actually does have speech writers. they must have been relieved that he read it. finally, it was competently done, it was a little too long, especially for him. presidents, which for donald trump is probably an impressive achievement. it seemed to me to be confrontational, he talked

hello and welcome to dateline london. i'm carrie gracie. this week: what is the emergency?s say its a constitutional crisis of his own making. and six weeks to go till march 29th. we take a close look atjeremy corbyn s moves on the brexit board. my guests today, bronwen maddox, director of the institute for government, 0wen jones, columnist for the guardian newspaper, henry chu, international editor of variety, and thomas kielinger, author and long—time correspondent of die welt. welcome to you all. thanks for joining us. do you want the good news or the bad news? 0n the one hand, the united states avoided another government shutdown this weekend as the president signed a spending bill. 0n the other, he declared a national emergency which democrats condemn as an unconstitutional abuse of power and vow to overturn. henry, let's start with you. did you fall off your chair when you heard there was going to be an emergency? the barfor a there was going to be an emergency? the bar for a following of one's chairduring the bar for a following of one's chair during this presidency

and coming up in half—an—hour — dateline london looks back on a week of mp resignations — and what this good morning and welcome to bbc news. three cabinet ministers have broken ranks to demand that brexit should be delayed if mps fail to approve the prime minister's deal in the coming days. writing in the daily mail, the work and pensions secretary, amber rudd, thejustice secretary, david gauke, and the business secretary, greg clark, said time was running out and leaving without a deal would be ‘disastrous'. downing street insists theresa may is working hard to secure a deal, as our political correspondent nick eardley reports. three ministers who have long had concerns about leaving without a deal, but their latest intervention is significant — upping the stakes ahead of the latest big week in parliament. amber rudd, david gauke, and greg clark write in the daily mail: the government hasn't even confirmed there will be a new deal to vote on next week. theresa may still needs to secure changes to her original plan. but this ups the pressure. it's also a warning to brexiteers in parlia

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that's it for dateline london for this week. we're back next week at the same time. goodbye. hello.a bright start. earlier, we saw beautiful sunrise in argyll and bute, the rising sun illuminating the cloud. to the west, a weak weather front has been working across northern ireland into western scotland. in the south, dense patches of fog causing a few problems on the road. some cancellations for flights at london city airport. the milky weather is taking the time to clear and lift across south—eastern england. the sun comes up across south—eastern england. the sun comes up for most of us. the weather clearing in northern ireland, but a bit of rain for scotland. for most of us, dry and bright day, with sunshine, and one for the time of year. temperatures could reach 18 celsius in the south. to put it in context, that is around nine or 10 degrees above normalfor the time of year. it is the kind of temperatures we would normally expect in late may, not late february. the six nations rugby is on, france hosting scotland in france, and while hosting england in cardiff. the weather looks

and in half an hour here on bbc news, dateline london discusses labour leader, jeremy corbyn s movesbrexit. good afternoon. thejustice secretary, david gauke, says the government's main priority has to be the safety of the public when considering the case of shamima begum. the family of the pregnant teenager, who left britain to join the islamic state group, say they'd welcome a police investigation into her actions, but want the government to help bring her home. sophie long reports. this is the al—hawl camp in northern syria where the 19—year—old from east london is living as she awaits the birth of her third child. shamima begum says both her son and daughter died, and she wants to come back to britain so her unborn baby does not the same fate. herfamily, who had feared they would never see her again, have asked the government to help them get her home. but the justice secretary says there are risks to allowing people like shamima begum to return to britain, and they would look at her case very closely. what has to be the priority of the british government is ensuring the protecti

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and dateline london here on bbc news in half an hour, discusses the labour leader jeremy corbyn s movesn brexit. that's at 11:30. good morning and welcome to bbc news. president trump has said britain and other european allies should "take back" more than 800 islamic state fighters captured in syria and put them on trial. mr trump said the united states would be forced to release the jihadists unless they are taken into custody. the comments come as islamic state is facing the loss of its last stronghold in syria. just four years ago, is controlled vast areas of syria and northern iraq. it had taken control of raqqa and mosul. but the group's so—called caliphate has continued to shrink since then, and is now less than one small square kilometre on the euphrates river. militants are reportedly retreating and hiding among the local population as the battle for the village of baghuz enters its final stages. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. in a series of tweets, president trump said the caliphate was ready to fall and that american forces were pulling back after a 100%

that's it for dateline london for this week. we're back next week at the same time. goodbye.there, but the winds are easing down and that is because our storm, storm erik, which was earlier to the north of scotland, is heading towards scandinavia to take the worst of the winds away with it as well. the next weather system is pushing in the cloud and turning the sunshine hazy across the south of the uk. sunshine around elsewhere and some showers as well and gusty winds this afternoon, gusts of 50 miles an hour or more in northern england, especially on the pennines but those should ease down a little. strong to gale force winds and plenty of sunshine and showers, mainly northern ireland, wales, south—west through the english channel, the showers in scotland becoming fewer but we have rain in the far north of the country. decent temperatures today, 9—12 degrees, mild, but we still have those gusty winds. the cloud continues to thicken in the south—west, turning wet here and the rain develops more widely, pushing north to north wales and across towards the wash. north of that, t

and coming up in half—an—hour — dateline london looks back on a week of mp resignations and what thisor brexit. labour's deputy leader, tom watson, has warned jeremy corbyn he has to act urgently if the party is to stay together. mr watson said labour was facing a crisis of the soul and needed to address antisemitism and what he called the hard left in the party. he also said the party was moving towards the possibility of supporting a second eu refendum. the prime minister has told a gathering of grassroots conservative party activists that she won't allow the result of the brexit referendum to be frustrated after three cabinet ministers warned brexit may have to be delayed. our politcal correspondent jonathan blake is here. very strong warning from tom watson after a difficult week for the labour party, he says mr corbyn has to act urgently? yes, quite an extraordinary interview really on the andrew marr programme this morning, at the end of a torrid week for labour, when nine mps have quit the party and many of them on the issue of anti—semitism, explaining that in their viewjeremy

and coming up on dateline london — we'll discuss what the state of the union address told us about presidentt intentions. the department for transport has cancelled a controversial contract awarded to a firm with no ships to provide ferry services in the event of a no—deal brexit. the deal has been torn—up because one of seaborne ferries‘ main backers has pulled out. labour has described the situation as a ‘national embarrassment‘ and demanded the transport secretary, chris grayling, resigns. the government says it is already in advanced talks with a number of companies to secure additional freight capacity in the event of a no—deal. with me now is our news correspondent simonjones. simon, seaborne no more? simon, seaborne no more7m simon, seaborne no more? it was a company that had no fairies and had never operated any, operating out of ramsgate, which did not operate as a port for several years. they were going to sail to ostend, who said they weren't ready to receive ferries. the government insisted this service would be ready by brexit, and the idea was this could be used if there were p