david miliband, what do you make of the tillerson firing? have you ever seen anything like it in all your years in diploma diplomacy? >> no. rex tillerson was inexplicably abusive toward his own department. he tried to take on the state department rather than with the state department. but the manner of his dismissal and more important, what that portends for the future of american foreign policy, is a grave concern. i can't think of a more dangerous moment when you have crises around the world, not just north korea and iran, but the tragedy in yemen, the man-made tragedy, and dysfunction in washington of the kind of the tillerson demotion and firing represents, and a new belligerence on the part of the president that portends some very, very major decisions coming up. i think that the rising fear is on the part of the administration because until now, the combination of tillerson and mattis has helped keep things in check. >> zani, when you look at it, what does the personnel change mean in policy terms? >> well, i think you have gone from

we have the ex—mp tristram hunt calling for the london mayor and david miliband to launch a new party in his view this could be the end of jeremy corbyn and the labour party as we know it. but set against that as we know it. but set against that a poll in the times said 80% of labour party supporters backjeremy corbyn and think he has handled the situation well. eddie izzard is a great supporter ofjeremy corbyn, i was looking back to comments he made on the today programme in on, at the time that the nec were voting, he saidi time that the nec were voting, he said i would urge the labour party to keep their eyes on the general election. he is not a huge supporter ofjeremy corbyn. that is why he wasn't elected, because he was on the the momentum slate, which organised jeremy corbyn‘s supporters to get them on to the nec. so so jeremy corbyn didn't want him. and now they have got him. now, the next story, i was looking atjeremy corbyn‘s twitter feed tonight seeing if there was any reaction to the news today... he never mentions bad news. his comment relates to this, the sunday mirror an

. >>> and we are back with david miliband, and ropefully richard if we can get him back. foreign policy challenge in your country. what to do about russia? we all know the circumstances, but i want to get your take has theresa may been tough enough in their response to what they believe was vladimir putin personally ordering a murder on british soil? >> i think she has made the right start, but it can only be the start because this is an attack not just on the uk, but it's the first use of chemical nerve agent since the second world war on european soil, and that is an attack on the western alliance. the absolute key going forward will be two sets of allies that she needs to bring into play. the first are the obvious allies in the u.s. and around europe where they need to work together for targeted financial sanctions that really address people around putin as well as putin himself. the second thing is that we have to understand how russia has been building alliances elsewhere in the world. it has been reaching out to saudi arabia, and israel. those countries too who like

david gerard himself. i thought he was a supporter and a donor in tony blair's time, but actually, he did give half £1 million to the labour party in 2014 when ed milibandiband was the leader. he is a recent labour party supporter and he feels he can't be a member anymore. you expect to see more names added to that list? yes, especially if you look at the other headlines in the papers. this anti—semitism row is rumbling on an jeremy corbyn, he gave that big interview tojewish news, a long interview tojewish news, a long interview in which he set a lot of the right thing is that he had to say, but the issue is not going to go away. you know i have say, but the issue is not going to go away. you knowl have interviewed him over the years, you know him far better than me. you think he's anti—semitic? better than me. you think he's anti-semitic? no, i don't. butl think he's careless about anti—semitism. he thinks, he agrees with abbott and christine shore craft has just resigned with abbott and christine shore craft hasjust resigned and he agrees with them that the charters of anti—semitism are being used against him in order to undermine him, which is compl

david grossman. we're joined now by ayesha hazarika. she is a writer, commentator and broadcaster who has previously been a special advisor to both harriet harman and ed milibandris williamson. a cheerleader for the corbyn leadership who won back his derby north seat in 2017 after losing it in the 2015 general election. he said his campaign in derby north was "a shining example of how labour can win broad support in marginal constituencies whilst maintaining socialist principles to its core". a long introduction, but it gives you a little of hinterland here. i'm going to start with you, chris. jeremy corbyn does seem to have firmed up his response today. well. in bellicose rhetoric that was unhelpful and jeremy was clear and statesman—like in what he said. clearly, it looks like the evidence points to russia and he made that clear. before we leap into action, we need to make sure, it seems to me, that we do get the facts right. we know that the kind of crony capitalism in russia and the kind of oligarchy... i think the difference is he wasn't unequivocal and his front bench were, we heard from neil griffiths and emily thornberry — who were in stark contrast to