where we spoke to alan scott about this he's a professor of international history at the london school of economics and he does say that professor of international history at the london school of economics and he does say that past efforts by u.s. leaders to get their way in the u.k. half past efforts by u.s. leaders to get their way in the u.k. have. the last u.s. president to be in in any election was the last u.s. president to have been in an election was barack obama who intervened famously in brics a referendum he told iraq a bomber who intervened famously in brics a referendum he told people to vote remain they voted to leave sirte was counterproductive and the people to vote remain they voted to leave sirte was counterproductive and people resented it and people would resent trumps a diversion people resented it and people would resent trumps a diversion they don't like but most people don't like organized corben has probably don't like trump but most people don't like organized corben has popularity rating of a minus 60 percent he's a most disliked leader to elaborate your rating of a minus

where we spoke to and scared about this he's a professor of international history at the london school of economics and he says that the that base he's a professor of international history at the london school of economics and he says that the british public will resent donald trump's comments the last british public will resent donald trump's comments. the last u.s. president to be in in any election was barack obama us president to being in an election was barack obama who intervened famously in bricks of a referendum he told people to vote root intervene famously in brics a referendum he told people to vote remain the voted to leave cert was counterproductive and people resented the main they voted to leave cert was counterproductive and people resented it and people will resent trumps a diversion they don't like try it and people will resent trumps it doesn't they don't like trump but most people don't like organized corben has popularity but most people don't like organized corben has popularity rating of a minus 60 percent he said most disliked leader of the opposition acting of a minus 60 pe

former member of parliament in oxford in england raj binnacle associate professor of the london school of economics he's also the author of nationalism development and ethnic conflict in sri lanka and all skype from singapore russian a cup or research analyst at the institute of for south asian studies. of the national university of singapore or warm welcome to you or a receiver how was was a pax as credential as war time defense chief this size of in winning the presidential election well i think roger clark so obviously was very popular in this election because of his record if in street not least because it seemed that the security apparatus that broken down with the appalling attacks that we suffered in. april this year when it seemed that the current government really ignored the warning supplied by a lot of people including the indian government but i think it did more important that as he said if the chief is going to concentrate on efficient feet. and reduce corruption because one of the biggest problems this country has faced for a long time was the fame had to develop economically because

he is visiting professor at the london school of economics, a member of the metropolitan police independentntencing council. hejoins us now. thank you very much for being with us thank you very much for being with us again bbc news. we have spoken before about the complex issues of sentencing. this is a man he was sentenced in a part of what would have been a very serious terrorist activity actually taken place and the police had not intervened to prevent it. he was released because her sentence had reached the halfway stage, after the court of appeal said he should not be an indeterminate sentence, a substitute is one of 16 years and he served eight. that is routine, isn't it? for prisoners to nurse to be released at half time why a question mark what is the thinking behind that? there are two reasons, one born because the full—time sentence without hope of parole leaves present surge disappointed and depressed and they become literally impossible to handle. so, it is to manage present numbers are to give people a sense that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. it was originally desi

our guests joining us all from london we have tony travers fest a professor at the school of public policy in the department of government at the london school of economics we also have alan wager who is a research associate at the u.k. and changing europe policy think tank and we have sonia panelled author of just boris a tale of blonde ambition sonia was also the former deputy to parse johnson at the daily telegraph a warm welcome to you all now we've just outlined some of the major commitments in both parties manifestos but i did notice that the labor party's manifesto is about well nearly double the length of the tory party is manifest or and i always feel like boris johnson would have wanted to have just handed out leaflets that said bricks it get it done sonia how much of this election is about bricks it. well i think it's all about bret's it really i mean boris johnson has always wanted to be prime minister brit is his vehicle i happen to believe that he doesn't actually believe in it i was his deputy at the daily telegraph he used to write very critical pieces about the. community as it was then but he he is also very sympathetic towards the grea

our guests for today's discussion from london we're joined by joe what a member of the research committee of the middle east center at the london school of economics via skype from hartford ship salon hushing me legal advisor to the national council for iraqi opposition at a city a solicitor from turkey iran for what is already professor at the university of tehran in the faculty of world studies a warm welcome to you all gentlemen let's start with you it's clear that protesters are angry about what they see as iranian influence in iraq but are they right is iran i'm a lion actor influencing or meddling in iraq e politics religion and economic affairs. they are not only a right but that are very much example. very much. too much examples about this influence the iranian have the last one was then when this is the most racist the illustrations started and they were asking for the prime minister to resign and the e.u. . was ready to resign by the way then the iranian stepped in and influenced him to remain in power defying all the protests of the people the 2nd example is that says 2003 the iranian have been supporting corrupt sectarian affective fa

joe words for is from the london school of economics he thinks parliament will act quickly on what is resignation. when the speech of the majority of no just came on friday which advised or told the parliament to correct the mistakes they have made in the past which means that they have chosen the wrong person and parliament was ready to vote to take a vote of no confidence as it seemed by the prime minister to preempt such a decision he said i send my there's a resignation to the parliament when one of the shortcomings of the constitution iraqi constitution which wasn't in by the united states mainly that it has no clothes that say's the power the prime minister should or could resign from his his office he could submit an apology or something like it is a commission to the or to leave him from his duty to the president of the republic or he could be sacked through. questioning in the parliament and then vote of no confidence now he done that i don't think that the parliament will delay such a thing i think they will take this is you know about it because they don't want to anger the

the queen famously said, "why didn't anybody see this coming" when she went to visit the london school of economicsainly not been a bright moment for economics. i think economists are not very good or even quite terrible at forecasting. the economist ran an article a few years ago, that the aim of projection are no better than taking the current rate of growth and keeping it at that and predicting a constant rate of growth so it is better than that. the problem is that are usually they are expected to do that because they are bad at it, that really harms the trust in economists so i think we need to also communicate to the public that that's not the only thing economics is about, and it's also about trying to understand behaviour in a slightly more detailed way, a more empirical way, more close—to—the—ground way and give practical solutions to concrete problem that people can understand, such as, you know, how do you get kids to learn in school or how do you most effectively help someone find a job after they've lost theirs? you can't be accused of kind of giving up on your profession because your

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he is an associate at a foreign policy think tank at the london school of economics and political science. good to have you with us. so do want to start with "the washington post" report, which indicates that there was an effort made to justify the withholding of this $400 million in military aid to ukraine after the fact. where does this take the whole impeachment inquiry? does it move the needle forward? >> well, i think it supports the narrative that's already been emerging through the depositions, through the public hearings, through the closed-door testimonies that preceded the public hearing, which is to say this was a decision taken by the president and then the legal justification, the attempt to fit it into a broader policy framework came after. that's needless to say not the way policy is normally made and it suggests there was an attempt to build in a rationale justification or a legal justification for these actions rather than those actions flowing from justification in the first place. i don't think in and of itself the revelations in "the post" necessarily change the fundam

that is a think tank at the london school of economics. thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> good morning. >> so how significant might gordon sondland's public testimony be, do you think, in light of these new details in "the wall street journal" that he apparently kept the trump administration apprised of efforts to get ukraine to investigate the bidens ahead of the president's infamous july 25th call? >> i think it's a little bit tricky to decide in advance how significant one thing or another might be. but there is some suggestion that sondland's testimony might be more significant than the testimonies we've seen so far because first of all, sondland had to revise his previous testimony given behind closed doors. he reversed his decision to not testify originally. sondland is caught in the middle of all this. he probably shouldn't have been involved in ukraine in the first place because he was ambassador to the european union and not to ukraine, and of course ukraine is not an eu member. but he was pushed into this and took part in the conversations and in

marshall loss to semi lincoln where he was awarded a masters of science and a comment metrics and mathematical economics from the london school of economics and philosophy and doctor of philosophy. from the university of oxford. markowitz then returned to yelp to study law and after for the honorable, he joined the faculty at yale. please help me welcome danielle markowitz. [applause] student thank you sharon for making it possible for me to be here. thank you to all of you for coming out on a really beautiful autumn night learned monday lovely things to do in this neighborhood are doubly grateful you are spinning the router here. i will spend the next half hour or so speaking and i hope we'll have a conversation. what i will see will to be be demoted to denouncing american hypocrisy. i'm going to use it of constructing a trap that is there is the rich and excludes the rest. and contributes substantially to the inequality discord and dysfunction that increasingly played in our society. and this might seem an eccentric and even a begotten mentor. the hypocrisy itself seems to us today a common sense. it is hard to object to th

. >>> let's talk about these developments with professor at the london school of economics. good morning to you. thanks for being with us. >> good morning. very happy to be here. >> well, first up, republicans requested the whistle-blower and joe biden's son hunter to testify in public hearings this week. any surprise that democrats pushed back on that. >> not really. each side is trying to paint a picture, project an image. and i think the republicans's kind of last throw of the dice is to muddy the waters, switch it onto the democrats. maybe the line in some way is the whistle-blower. i think it is not a surprise. given that we are moving toward a tv show in the middle of the week, i think this kind of ploy is probably going to be practiced a lot more. >> right. well, early on when the whistle-blower first made the complaint, the testimony was seen as paramount. weeks into the inquiry, democrats don't think so. what does that say about the strength of evidence they believe they have a massed against president trump? >> i think it's clear that they believe that the overall

he taught at the london school of economics and political science and at the university of cambridge. i'm feeling like an underachiever, i have to say. in addition to leading the pritzker military museum & library, he is an accomplished scholar and teacher. his ba in politics was from queen mary college university of london and his ma and he has an ma and phd from cambridge. to say a few words for pritzker military museum & library, kiji join me in welcoming the doctor. >> thank you for the wonderful introduction. i'm here with the loyalist accent this evening. i hope you will forgive me. it's great to be here. as you heard, the library is located in lovely chicago. when the colonel founded the museum and library in 2003, she envisioned an institution that would work with other organizations like those icy see represented here today. work toward a better understanding of the military, is past, present, and future, and impact on the world we live in today. our mission at the pritzker museum and library is to further this understanding, to do so through programs, exhibit shins, but also

ones we spoke to and instead about this he's a professor of international history at the london school of economics and says ethical spy u.s. leaders to get their way in the school of economics and says efforts by u.s. leaders to get their way in the $10.00 to $5.00 the last u.s. president. tend to fail. the last u.s. president to be in in any election was barack obama who intervened famously in the 200 in an election was barack obama who intervened famously in the 216 brix of a referendum he told people to vote remain and 16 bricks of a referendum he told people to vote remain they voted to leave sirte was counterproductive and people resented it. diverted to leave sir it was counterproductive and people resented it 'd and people will resent trump sort of and they don't like trump but more and people will resent trump sort of and they don't like trump but most people don't like organized corben has popularity rating of reminds people don't like organize corben has popularity rating of a minus 60 percent he said most disliked leader of the opposition for his 60 percent he said most disliked leader

the center for africa london school of economics joining us via skype from kent that's in the u.k. hi there thanks for joining us on the al-jazeera news hour how do you explain the ability of the armed groups and particularly the the a.d.f. to continue to carry out attacks despite the presence of thousands of un troops in the region. thanks for having me that's the very hospital which the citizens are actually asking you know they just do not understand how you have so many peacekeepers around the capability of our lives and yet you know the a.d.f. and the my mind and other militant groups those cause and hard work and using machines to kill people they just do not understand so are un troops failing the congolese. we don't want to the u.n. chief software he can wear these but then the congolese have come to conclusion that the un chiefs have failed them i mean we do understand that the have a peacekeeping role and perhaps there's an expectation on the can delete the army to actually do the peace enforcement. so there's that kind of collaboration going on but then if you have anybod

shirley yu is with me, she's a political economist and senior fellow at london school of economics. e chinese ambassador today, the press conference yesterday, i think there are two very clear messages of what is likely to happen to hong kong. he has used words like violence, illegal, challenged the bottom—line of one country two systems at as described the hong kong people today living in terror even though a while back, president himself said anybody who tries to break china will be met with shattered bones and crushed bodies so i think those are very, very harsh warnings so i think when china started using words including terrorism to define the character of the situation in hong kong, it justifies essentially any sort of action including very heavy—handed crackdown to end the violence and bring peace to hong kong. the second message he delivered yesterday in the press conference is a warning against foreign interference, particularly highlighted the us and uk. hong kong has been a part of china since 1997, territorially administratively, economically and militarily. so we can rea

jack had taken classes at the london school of economics in 1935, and his time with his family in england exposed him to important world issues that were to be significant in his career. initially sympathetic to appeasement, jack's views gradually evolved. his harvard thesis, with some string pulling from joe, was turned into a book entitled, why england slept. the reference to an inspiration from winston churchill's own collection of speeches titled, while england slept, could not have been more obvious. 20 years later, john fitzgerald kennedy, having replaced his fallen brother, became america's first and to this day only catholic president. his desire to detente with the soviet union echoed winston churchill. new frontier phrases such as, let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate, as well as, ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country, in my mind show churchillian inspiration. the proclamation signed by the president that day cited churchill's accomplishments, but it began with a reference to his american roots. it said, w

one this separate ical alister michael emergence minister he's from the london school of economics thanks for coming in to talk to us so just initially this latest attack it sounds really that it was quite horrific yes it sounds like rugby actually was horrific because when i see some markets 14 people have been hacked to death using machetes and does it do we are expecting this was the same group that was responsible for previous attacks and you're also today yes exactly reports in the same boat exactly the a.d.f. . i mean. in the recent past the islamic state will have also sort of actually come up to say make ownership of it. but this time no one is likely to see anything in the offing the fingers are pointing to the a.d.f. so what i mean we had heard originally from the government that they were going to try and beef up security after the previous attacks and many what did did you know was there any change in the way security was set up with the u.n. and the army or not in the last few days i mean. basically is i mean the u.n. to keep this by you actually need peace enforcement to be

new constitution in big is a professorial research fellow for the europeans jude at the london school of economicsand political science he joins us now from london so if these protests have begun because people are concerned politically in some cases concerned economically is that now starting to work against their interests as the economies of these countries july for instance lebannon hong kong start to worse. well you're so into it's always going to be the case that if you're a disruption on the streets it's going to detract from economic prospects one thing it does is to tend to slow down investment in general and particularly foreign investment because of foreign investors going to look at a country that's undergoing some kind of crisis and say no we don't want to go there but i think there's also a wider and deeper challenge going on here to globalization which lies behind some of the protests we're seeing the people who are protesting often feel that they're not benefiting from globalization all the money's going to the elites and societies and their and their creaming off what ought to be

he obtained his masters degree at the london school of economics and doctorate at oxford. he worked with churchill to write the definitive biography of his father, winston churchill. a -- in 1974, he left washington to california aboard air force one following the early resignation on president nixon's best-selling memoir. nixon.rviewed president they are all available in digital format. we will see some of these videos in the presentation tonight. hewitt visited in new york city, knowing that --assador work thatked for us to note winston lord is a really good friend. it is my pleasure to introduce dr. frank gannon. [applause] >> thank you all for coming and for being here. it is a great pleasure and an to be here. i found one of several references in the various memoirs. i will not be the one about him being a terrible punster. it became one of my best collaborators, conscience and close. he was familiar with my lou -- my views. of course, after the association , he went onsinger to a very distinguished career, which could be the subject of another talk. ,ou have an excell

and see subjoined was he's a member of the research mysie at the middle east center of london school of economics and joins us now live from london good to have you with us on the program sir let's start with food the political element to this the ball is now in the parliament's courts they have this letter of resignation what do you think they'll do with that what happens next. the thing is that until thursday neither the prime minister know the parliament. were ready to to to change things neither the prime minister was not ready to resign and the parliament was not ready to change him or to sack him but when the speech of the mary j. of no geoff came on friday which advised or told the parliament to correct the mistakes they have made in the past which means that they have chosen the wrong person and the parliament was ready to vote to take a vote of no confidence as cheap but the prime minister to preempt such such at the scene he said i send my there's a resignation to the parliament when one of the shortcomings of the constitution iraqi constitution which was written by the united states it

the london school of economics and political science, later, modern british history and phd from pembroke college and the university of cambridge. wordsy -- to say a few about pritzker military museum and library, join me in welcoming dr. rob havers. [applause] havers: thank you for that introduction. yes, i am here with the loyalist accent. i hope you will forgive me. i am the president ceo at the pritzker military museum and library located in chicago. atn colonel pritzker found the museum back in 2003, she envisioned an institution that would work with other organizations like those i see represented here today. work towards a better understanding of the military, its past, present and future, and its impact on the world we live in today. our mission at the pritzker military museum and library is to further this understanding. to do so through programs and exhibitions, but also through partnerships and support of conferences such as this. we hope that we can be a resource to all of you in this our museum and library on-site in chicago, but also through our online importance. i would li

with me now is christopher hughes, professor of international relations at the the london school of economicsign policy. we should pick up with the comments from the chinese ambassador these images undermine the idea there is stability in the country and it is all one country so you can see why they are starting to run our patients? you described it, the future is unimaginable. it is already unimaginably bad and he has to ask why? who is causing this? what is the root cause? the chinese government and the hong kong government and the hong kong government immediate strategy is to try and frame this as violence by a small group of protesters, which is a symptom of an underlying issue which is a political problem that they have caused, and they are trying to divert attention away from that and onto the issue of violence. of course you get violence when you create this kind of crisis situation which has now become out of control and people are just desperate and scared and resorting to any methods they can to try to protect themselves. are the demands of the protesters, i know where it started, i

spoke to and scared about macy's as a professor a faintest matter of national interest not only london's been schooled in one of the economics and he says one thing in the school of economics and he says the british public will resent the comments that were made public but it was then and the lives lost were made by trump. the last u.s. president to be in in an election was but you are a stark provided to be in in an election was barack obama who intervened famously in into provoking since that room is a friend in it to build people sort of the referendum he told people to remain devoted to limit it was a bond activity and people repairs it and to voted to leave so it was counterproductive and people resented it. and people and people is a wouldn't trump trump since to. that lighted don't run like trump but most people like local because people are not allied the local old woman on her lies could probably learn how to use the real popularity rating of committee minus seeing like 70 percent of an innocent 2 percent went to him he said most was just a slight slight lead leader of the op is the opposition's issue program got ab

of energy economics at the c.p.a. you're a business school and visiting professor of energy economics at the c.p.a. you're a business school and londonnow what can washington do with syria's oil having slap sanctions on anyone and london now what can washington do with syria's oil having slap sanctions on anyone dealing it. feeling it. in fact what is stealing oil and it has in fact what is stealing oil and it has no reason to be in syria it's ok is a legal reason to be in syria. is illegal. and the occupation of the oil. and the occupation of the oil and oil fields is intended to deprive the. owing field is intended to deprive the government of see any at this year and people of their own or government of syria at this year and people of their own oil and when anything out of american general. when anything out of american general tells his combat in chief president of drum that he is standing amid tends his combat in chief president from that he is being american troops in syria and dorian pirates it speaks voter groups in syria and dorian pirates in. speaks volumes about would be a more ality of. about would be a more ality of. sy

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but bob is an international oil economist a visiting professor of energy economics at c.p. europe business school london he says the saudi oil giant could face future risks. in my opinion the advent of national ip all of saudi arabia saudi armco will never see the light of day for 2 reasons one pair system question marks about diprivan of the service of saudi arabia the 2nd one is that is of. american litigation and anything to a $911.00 of course you can add now another factor which is the fact that the saudi oil in the us that he has become a horse stage to the whole earth is of yemen these are allies of iran and they have proven their reach when they are at that in the divestiture of way some of the oil infrastructure of saudi any real there is nothing to stop them at that king at galle and inflecting the same damage unless saudi arabia and the kids out for them and end the war in yemen and to build bridges of trust between them and iran these are the factors which have been affecting the ip or as a horn and will affect it now and in the future business has been forced to close a box square in the ci

is an international oil economist and visiting professor of energy economics at e s c p your business school and in london he joins us from there nice to have you on the program let me get a thought from you 1st of all about this valuation i know that some would put it as low as a trillion not as high as 2 trillion but around 1.7 is that still too high. i think even the evaluation of $1.00 to $1.00 trillion dollars is is quite big or exaggerated my own calculations is that the evaluation could it be more than $1.00 to $1.00 trillion dollars the original valuation of put into someone but been selling man and the banks are that it is a bit out of based on saudi clear him of 267000000000 barrels of oil my research sure is that the proven reserves of saudi arabia are around $55000000000.00 barrels consequently the value issue should be far less than that so my estimate is a $1.00 to $1.00 point to an eternity and still a huge sum of money per hour if global oil companies but never did this is a. business this is a very highly valued very hardy profitable company what is weighing them on that is to move in you

london in the southeast. there will be new hospitals, schools, railways, better broadband, new connections, and opportunities for every part of our great nation. as the uk election campaigns kicks into gear — both parties set out their economic today — and we'll talk about that in a minute. but first —the opposition labour party has again faced allegations of anti—semitism — even a former labour cabinet minister calling for voters to back boris johnson. but labour leaderjeremy corbyn has sought to keep his campaign on track. he gave a speech in manchester a short time ago. because if we don't do that and get that investment, what kind of future and what kind of hope is there for people in areas that have been totally left behind ever since the ravages of margaret thatcher and the tories in the nineteen eighties? if we are to give hope to communities that have had nothing for so long, then we have to invest in them, and thatis then we have to invest in them, and that is the absolute priority that we will go forward. the labour party has been dogged by accusations by anti—semitism for several years — and the issue is centre stage again in the past hour this has come into the newsroom from our scotland political correspondent g