dealing with and are very happy about the way things are going i must say but french president emanuel mccrum view isn't so rosy do you consider. kate what has happened over the last few days in the region news a serious mistake by the west and by nato it looked on as you. there has been fighting during this pose i don't choose day the so-called cease fire will end. the u.k. is in for a dramatic day in a rare saturday session the u.k. parliament will debate its government's new deal for leaving the european union it's boris johnson's last chance to deliver on his promise to leave the e.u. by october 31st by getting enough m.p.'s to either support his deal or agree to going without one if he can't or if opposing m.p.'s can block him the prime minister will be forced to ask the e.u. for another extension new legislation or a new election could then follow. saturday could be the day a majority of british parliamentarians accept terms of a divorce from the e.u. or maybe it won't be it's anything but certain that the deal will pass the house of commons the house remains as divided as ever on the i

dealing with and are very happy about the way things are going i must say but french president emanuel mccrum view isn't so rosy to. skate what has happened over the last few days in the region news a serious mistake by the west do and by nato it looked on his. has been fighting during this pause i don't choose day the so-called cease fire will end. now to some other stories making news around the world. protests in the lebanese capital beirut have turned violent with police firing tear gas into crowds of demonstrators earlier tens of thousands of people marched to demand the government halt its plans to impose new taxes they're also calling for the demise of a political elite they accuse of looting the economy. an explosion at a mosque in eastern afghanistan has killed over 60 people and injured dozens more the blast which caused the roof to collapse occurred during friday prayers no group immediately claimed responsibility but the government accused taliban insurgents the so-called islamic state is also active in the region. here in germany and the morial has been held for a victim in last

dealing with are not very happy about the way things are going i must say but french president emanuel mccrum view isn't so rosy talk you can see there. kate what has happened over the last few days in the region food news a serious mistake by the west and by nato it looked on on an issue. there has been fighting during this pause i don't choose day the so-called ceasefire will end. so there's been an increase in tensions between the china and taiwan one side of the story is taiwan's ties with other countries united nations recognizes beijing as the government of china i'm not of taiwan this means that only a handful of countries have official diplomatic ties with taiwan and the moment that list is very short and the 15 countries including vatican city recognize taiwan as a country since 2060 its last 5 allies to china the most recent ones being the pacific nations of combating and solomon islands so here's what the prime minister of the solomon islands said on his 1st state visit to chime after his country established a diplomatic relations with beijing. my government and people have chosen

yes they will i mean we've heard this during the summit emanuel mccrum the french president has said it did the dutch prime minister has said it and we heard junko junkers say they all said no we don't want another delay they're fed up with this and also they wanted to encourage johnson to do his best to sort of push this through but if really the british government comes 2nd is forced to come back by parliament to brussels and say ok we do need a bit more time it will be granted there is no question about that huge numbers of people took to the streets of london today to press protest against threats that how did they react to today's vote. how we saw those early and we heard this big rar off satisfaction and jubilation when this vote had gone through because of course for them this is the last glimmer of hope and one man i talked to you said my head says no they really isn't any hope and you more for a 2nd referendum but my heart said yes and many people feel this very emotionally because they had fought for so long against brics it and again sort of being really pushed out of this

dealing with are not very happy about the way things are going i must say but french president emanuel mccrumview isn't so rosy do you consider. kate what has happened over the last few days in the region is a serious mistake by the west and by nato it looked on on occasion. there has been fighting during this pause i don't choose day the so-called ceasefire will end. and protesters in the lebanese capital beirut have been holding a 2nd day of rallies against government plans to impose new taxes tens of thousands of join the demonstrations and making the protest the biggest for many years people are also demanding the resignation of the political elite queues of looting the economy to the point of collapse the prime minister has accused rivals in his own government of blocking economic reforms. wellness from a daniel gala whose middle east analyst and editor in chief of the sami magazine he joins us from beirut welcome don how serious is the situation. the situation is actually quite serious i was surprised myself i have. attended many demonstrations in beirut been out on the streets quite of

mean a you sum it up pretty well phil i mean it's quite true that from the french perspective emanuel mccrum brought forward a while back now some pretty clear ideas of how he would like to to change the european union in particular deepening the relationships and bringing in more political decision making at european level and so on and i think the french feel that the german response to that has been muted shall we say at least that hasn't really been so much coming back sometimes you hear german officials getting a bit annoyed actually about mark role he's put a lot of the spot. on himself some talk about an ego show coming from his side so i think when i go to medical meet same and she's incidentally had a meeting with him already on sunday so it's not as if they they were that coffee geniuses to top but when she's there today she'll be wanting of course to focus on responses to the united states president trumps trade and tariff offensive if i can put it like that but also i think they'll be talking about other things one of america's pet projects for instance is data so frontier this i