margaret thatcher do not like this proposal. bush had to make a decision over thatcher's preference. so again, you can compare administrations, but within the first four or five months, you have the next family conventional initiative that changes the focus of the lines. i was involved in the central american negotiations, which baker starts in february. so it's the first month you this was a way of testing soviet , and frankly from a political point of view, i would be critical if you could help gorbachev and any financial way, if the soviets were to continue putting money into cuba or nicaragua. that was just a reality. in october, progress on the arms control in jackson hole. along the way, we start these discussions about economics. we had an economic reform discussion on the plane out. in addition, in the summer of 1989, bush visit poland in and hungary. in a way, through much of the cold war, the u.s.soviet relationship is around nuclear weapons. in a way, throughout much of the cold war, that was what they revolved around,

margaret thatcher didn't like this proposal. there was a conflict that was required to be resolved where bush had to make the decision over thatcher's preference. you can compare with administrations but within the first four or five months, you have an extremely bold conventional forces initiative that changes the focus of the alliance. in addition, i was very much involved with the central america negotiations, which baker starts in february. it is the first month. this was a way of also testing soviet seriousness and from a political point of view. it would be inconceivable that you could help gorbachev in any financial way if the soviets were seen as continuing to put money in cuba and nicaragua. in september, baker makes progress on the arms control at jackson hole. along the way, we start these discussions about economics. we had the economic reform discussion on the plane out. in addition, in the summer of '89, bush visits poland and hungary. where he has welcomed reform, but he is competing with gorbachev in terms of publ

did margaret thatcher have such an agenda? she did not. the contents of every meeting, n forum call -- phone call between reagan and thatcher. nor my sure that, when mcelderry chop was the toast of the world and george h.w. bush was a question mark, was the u.s. offering plans to gorbachev about how to remake his country. maybe there is something that should have been proposed, should have been done, should have been discussed. but accident thinking through what that was and what the soviets wished specifically, it is not an easy question to answer in 1989. closecond half of that out the cold war is really just a. margaret thatcher thought -- really interesting. -- margaret thatcher thought the cold war had been closed out. 8 andvember 1980 george schultz agreed with. think about that. germany divided. yet the cold war is over. it's been closed out. we stood up to them in the test of strength. we have the medicine vending to relax tensions at that level. let's put a bow on it and say cold war over. then the issue is, if you have a different

margaret thatcher did not like this proposal and a conflict that needed to be resolved and bush had to make the decision over thatcher's preference, so you can comparet with the administration, but within the first four r or five months you have extremely bold conventional initiatives that changes the focus of the alliance. in addition, i was very much involved in the central american negotiations which baker starts sort of in february and so it is the first month. this is a way of also testing seriousness of the soviets of whether, an frankly frd frankly the economic point of view if the soviets were going the continue to put money into cuba and move it away from nicaragua and how could you do that. so in september, baker and shefrnadzi makes progress. and we have the economic reform on the plane out. and then in is the summer, bush visits poland and he is welcomed, and competing with gorbachev in terms of public diplomacy, and in a way, throughout much of the cold war, the soviet agenda is moving from everything to conventional force forces to the division of europe, to sort of econo

little benefit of this that takes place is it clearly establishes bush as the alliance leader and margaret thatcher didn't like the proposal and there was a conflict that bush had to make the decision over thatcher's presence. so again, you can compare with administrations within the first four or five months wea've had conventional forces that changes the focus of the alliance. in addition, i was very much involved with the central american negotiations which baker starts about sort of in february and it's the first month and this was a way of also testing serious soviet seriousness about whether -- and frankly from a political point of view, it would be inconceivable that you could help gorbachev in any financial way if the soviets were seen as continuing to put money into cuba and nicaragua. it's a political reality. how do you move that away been in september, baker and srebrenica, and we start the discussions about economics. we had the economic reform discussion on the plane out. in addition it the summer of '89 bush visits poland and hungary where he's welcomed reform and he's competing with

what does success look like for margaret thatcher in 1988? and then forward to pose that question in the present day? i need to give james and go a -- and bill a chance to answer that before we throw this open to the audience. >> i do for my time to bill. efer -- defer my time to bill. [applause] i guess i could say when it came to soviet american relationships, it wasn't a matter of checking all the boxes, it was the overall atmosphere, the sense he had in washington a partner. that's what he was trying to create. he thought he was creating it. you may say that what is said in in his memoirs is not decisive. the notion that gorbachev is more dangerous than his predecessors and is smothering us with kindness doesn't sound like the end of the cold war to me. >> he is personally ambivalent. and uncertain as to how to read this and is uncertain whether to say it is all done, we are all set, this is good. he is suspicious. i understand that. i guess what gorbachev would have liked what has been a summit sooner than december 1989. he expected one

and defy her chancellor over brexit. —— of margaret thatcher and defy her chancellor over brexitcuses jeremy corbyn of environmental hypocrisy, claiming he left a diesel car waiting outside his house for a0 minutes before getting in for a 6 mile trip to westminster. meanwhile, the mirror has an image of the health secretary, jeremy hunt, taking a nap in a hotel, which the paper claims was taken while thousands marched through london calling for more nhs support. a lot of brexit but a lot of other stories so let's start today with the sunday times. this is a story about the doping scandal hitting the winter olympics which are about to kick off in south korea, this is a story that the sunday times have done a lot of these expose is about alleged drugs cheating in sport, this one says secret data has exposed the extent of the doping for insurance skiers at the winter olympics. —— interrupts. —— endurance. this is exactly the kind of scrutiny they don't need. it sta rts of scrutiny they don't need. it starts on friday, i believe, the opening ceremony, and 10,000 blood test, the sunda

the sunday telegraph leads on the prime minister being urged to invoke the example of margaret thatcherfy her chancellor over brexit. the express accusesjeremy corbyn of environmental hypocrisy, claiming he left a diesel car waiting outside his house for a0 minutes before getting in for a six—mile trip to westminster. meanwhile, the mirror has an image of the health secretary, jeremy hunt, taking a nap in a hotel, which the paper claims was taken while thousands marched through london calling for more nhs support. let's start with the times. as you would expect, an awful lot of brexit stories going on. not a massive surprise considering what is happening next week. we might get to a crunch moment when members of the cabinet have to decide what form of relationship they want with e you afterwards. let's start with the sunday times story. depending on how you look at it, the dream team are set to go into number ten. boris johnson, michael gove and jacob read more. what you make of that. interesting, a lovely mock—up picture of them as the three musketeers. it is looking like all—out war.

people saying it will be a new margaret thatcher, these people are off within 30 seconds. temperament? maybe. but there are so many theresa mays that i do not recognise which one... if you look at the times, when you read the secret plan to end tory turmoil on trade talks according to the times, they say she has a plan to divide and rule. there is a suggestion that she is starting to grab hold of this. can you talk us through this story in the times? it is about splitting up players causing her headaches. the suggestion is that the customs union is a huge area of concern for many politicians of all colours. the suggestion is that there is some kind of time limited extension to elements of the existing customs union that will be proposed. the briefing here in the times is that there is a belief that this will prove to be more attractive to michael gove than borisjohnson and attractive to michael gove than boris johnson and it will start to break up two of the so called musketeers. it is a poor plan. those to have been at it and hating each other, loving each other, hating i

and the story goes, he was helped by sirjeffrey howell, who was then foreign secretary under margaret thatcherdiplomatic telegrams marked restricted to the diplomatic editor in grenade, ever questing that maximum assistance be given to the left—wing mp. maximum assistance be given to the left-wing mp. so what is this all mean? the discovery of mr corbyn's discreet allowance —— alliance with the foreign office at the height of the foreign office at the height of the cold war indicates that the authorities trusted him and it raises the prospect that mr corbyn, stay with me, who has met representatives from violent revolutionary groups, might have continued to be helpful to the british state as an intermediary for stop so rather being a revolutionary... 007 colvin. undercover for the home office, maybe. the possibilities are endless! —— 007 corbyn. oxfam, and their continuing trials and tribulations over all the sex abuse allegations in 80. this time the chief of oxfam in the dock potentially. the fact that oxfam's handling of this story, which the times broke two weeks ago now, the extent to whi

the conservatives who revived the east end of london with the canary wharf project and it was margaret thatcherdge to france, it could yet happen. is too much money being spent on sports? that too few of us actually play? several mps have claimed up basketball is a popular sport that has been unfairly deprived of funds by the uk sport government body which helps recruit promote. a london labour mps said basketball is very important for inner—city youngsters. almost 60% of adults in this sport are from black, asian or minority ethnic backgrounds. 75% if you look at the figure for adult men particularly. that is staggering. what that is in reality is role models i desperately need. you cannot have role models if there is no prospect of making it elite. and so i say to the minister, when i look at the figures, i have to ask for this urban sport and this sport which attracts black, asian and minority ethnic members in the number that it does, why is it that hockey received 28.1 million and the rugby league received 51.6 million? why is it that canoeing, equestrian, cycling, rowing all do so much be

the the sunday telegraph which says the prime minister is being urged to invoke the example of margaret thatcherjeremy corbyn of environmental hypocrisy, claiming he left a diesel car waiting outside his house for a0 minutes before getting in for a six mile trip to westminster. meanwhile the mirror has an image of the health secretary, jeremy hunt, taking a nap in a hotel, which the paper claims was taken while thousands marched through london, calling for more nhs support. there we are, a snapshot of the newspaper front pages. katy, there we are, a snapshot of the newspaperfront pages. katy, let's kick off with brexit, brexit, brexit on the front pages. don't let hammond ruin brexit.|j on the front pages. don't let hammond ruin brexit. i think it is an understatement to say tensions are running high over brexit. we have the two big meetings next week. the cabinet are meant to be thrashing out a position. i'd then think it's hugely surprising that bernard jenkins has said that the chancellor is frustrating the process. the head of waitrose... the head of waitrose. .. we are still quite away down

are increasingly wild and entirely false he seems to believe i kept him informed about what margaret thatcher had for breakfast. and says he was responsible for either live aid or the mandela concert or maybe bugs it's easy to laugh but something more serious is happening publishing these ridiculous smears that have been refuted by czech officials shows just how worried the media bosses are by the prospect of a labor government their right to big labor will stand up to the powerful and corrupt and take the side of the many not the few a free press is essential to democracy and we don't want to close it down we want to open it up at the moment much of our press isn't very free at all in fact it's controlled by billionaire tax exiles who are determined to dodge paying their fair share for our vital public services the general election showed the media barons a losing their influence and social media means their bad old habits are becoming less and less relevant. but instead of learning these lessons they continuing to resort to lies and smears their readers you all of us deserve so much better

it might surprise people to know that the margaret thatcher cabinet was looking at asking nato to adoptwe have to do the same nuclear weapons which affects all states and this is why the treaty is important, not just to states and this is why the treaty is important, notjust to address the short—term situation, but longer term to make the world safe from these weapons. elizabeth, thank you for coming in. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come. we'll have the latest on today's vital premier league clash between liverpool and spurs — along with all the rest of the day's sport. this is the moment is that millions in iran have been waiting for. after his long years in ex—aisle, the first steps of president khmeni on iranians soil. the ban on the african national congress is lifted immediately and the anc leader, nelson mandela, after 27 years in jail is to be set free unconditionally. the aircraft is returning from belgrade where manchester united had entered the semifinal of the european cup. two americans have become the first humans to walk in space without any lifeline to their s

we did not quite get mrs may's no, no, no moment like margaret thatcher but she did pretty much todayan commission, saying that no british prime ministers could accept these proposals on northern ireland and she would make that crystal clear to the european commission. be that as it may, mrs may certainly cannot compromise. why not? because she is entirely dependent on the dup for the blood and gore survival. and they made clear today that this package could not fly. —— for her political survival. the deputy leader described it as offensive. so they have one of mrs may's arms behind her back. the tory brexiteers are trying to grab her other arm, one describing the eu proposals on northern ireland as amounting to annexation of northern ireland. so the prime minister has no room to give. the hope is that eu leaders in brussels, in berlin, in paris, will adopt a more compromising approach than the european commission itself. but they will in effect say mr juncker and michel barnier, look, mrs may really cannot give ground on this because of the domestic political situation. you'll have t

car companies like nissan were encouraged by margaret thatcher to come and build in britain.h car industry and made the uk an exporting machine. the eventual plan is to export cars to europe, bypassing the import controls and acting as a springboard into this market. it worked. japanese firms now make half the cars made in the uk, and most of them are exported to the eu. executives from many industries filed into number ten today to find out how much that will change when we leave the eu. the prime minister conceded there were challenges. as we look ahead, of course, i recognise that the uk's forthcoming exit from the european union is no small undertaking. but importantly it does present the opportunity to strike free trade deals around the world and build on ourdirect... already very strong relationship that we have with japan. it is already strong. there are in fact 1000 japanese companies with operations in the uk. together they invested £46 billion during 2016 in manufacturing, finance technology and pharmaceuticals, which supported 140,000 jobs. for regions like the nor

i think any leader, including margaret thatcher would have struggled with this.union. i have heard and read there has been different views along there has been different views along the way, different statements made. i think now she has to hold her ground and get with it, do it and stand firm. you cannot keep messing around and playing both sides of your party. where do we go now? we know it is a critical week, michel barnier is having meetings with david davis and also theresa may. craig, how do you think generally, the brexit negotiations are going?|j the brexit negotiations are going?” think they could have gone better. theresa may doesn't have the authority so even after today when she said we will be staying in, mps will be going on tv saying, i think we should do this, i think we should do that because she doesn't have a grip of hermps do that because she doesn't have a grip of her mps to say, this is what we are doing. they still think they can sway her opinion because she keeps changing her mind. you are nodding? i want to go back when david davis was be

he was a dynamic prime minister and reminds me in many ways of margaret thatcher by sheer intellectual mastery was going to be a war but the french did. ended ended nevertheless earli earlier. three quarters of a million as word relatively small country chamberlain saw that there was a spiritual breakdown where people didn't see the minister or the leaders doing everything possible to try to avoid another war so one of things you realize is there are characters who are dynamic in a novel and really drive the action and then there are characters who are reacted and with no doubt the driving dominant force, hitler is curiously passive, endlessly being put on the back foot by chamberlain come he didn't want to go to munich or signed this wretched agreement. he was infuriated about the whole thing and that is something most people don't know that it is almost inescapable from the historical record. >> [inaudible] >> essentially, he decided to embark on a diplomacy that no one had seen before. it is the only means of finding out what it was he wanted and whether the war could be avoided so

. >> you don't need a big parade to prove your strength or as former british prime minister margaret thatchersaid, being powerful is like being a lady. if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. well, president trump is no lady. but he is the kind of man who says please clap. that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> president trump's depend for a military parade has some including members of his own party saying it's more of a sign of insecurity than strength. perhaps it was as a sense of insecurity that led the presidents to complain that democrats didn't sufficiently clap for him during the state of the union. >> you're up there, you've got half the room going totally crazy wild, they loved everything. they want to do something great for our country. and you have the other side even on positive news, really positive news like that, they were like, death. and un-american. un-american. somebody said treasonous. i mean, yeah, i guess why not. you look at that and it's really very, very sad. >> now, the white house says trump was joking about the whole treason thing. there's no doubt if you watch

. >> why isn't she acting like the margaret thatcher conservative party in the 70s and 80s?y: she doesn't have a mandate. >> you can't get a mandate when you have nothing to say. >> margaret thatcher has substantial majorities in the house of commons. she could withstand 10 or 20 conservative rebels. theresa may is not in that position. conservatives don't have an outright majority. only takes a handful of conservatives to rebel and her government falls. they have not articulated the division. mary: with all this waffling businesses have to make decisions. if you are j.p. morgan or a big employer in london you are not going to wait around. you have to move people to germany and make decisions and she is waffling. >> we hear a lot of these stories. the apocalypse we were warned would happen if we voted for brexit has not come to pass. some companies will always change their operations and uncertainty is bad for business but the underlying growth figures in the uk are not bad and they were supposed to be negative. we were told if we voted for the e.u. we would be in recession.

in 1986, margaret thatcher had the vision to heal the ru ptu re thatcher had the vision to heal the ruptures now calling for both sides of the channel to prepare for a second fixed link. it seems incredible to me that the fifth and six most incredible powerful economies in the world should be connected by one railway line. i accept the solution isa railway line. i accept the solution is a few years. we need will be upon as fast. i say this to signal something about the attitudes that should inform brexit. it is not about shutting ourselves off, it is about shutting ourselves off, it is about going global. it is not about returning to some 1950s menu of spam and cabbage and liver, is about continuing the astonishing revolution in tastes and styles and the arts, music, restaurants, sports that has taken place in this country, in my lifetime, not so much because of eu membership, but as a result of art history and our global links. art openness to people and ideas that has brought 300 languages onto the streets of london, probably the most diverse capital on earth. brexit is about re—engaging

when john was a government in the 19805, we were negotiating trade deals galore, and it was margaret thatcherthis is a myth. we will. the trade deals are made with us as members of the eu and other members of the eu as members of the eu, and i don't know of a single country that has one of those trade deals at once. but trade dealfor the one of those trade deals at once. but trade deal for the uk one of those trade deals at once. but trade dealfor the uk because when you break up your union, both sides have to make sure the other parties want you to carry on with the agreement, it is notjust us who have that issue, the rest of the eu has it. no one has left the eu before, so we don't know what is going to happen. please don't be so aggressive and silly. can you name a single other country... nobody has left the eu, so i can't name another country. can you name another country. can you name another country that has a trade deal with the eu that doesn't want to roll it over? nobody else has ever left the eu, so we don't know. can you guarantee that the 75 other nations besides the eu with which

a lot of rich people are beginning to leave the state as margaret thatcher pointed out the problem with lot of ceo's still rate california as the worst state of all 50 in which to do business. sooner or later people are going to wake up and realize that there's an iceberg and take evasive action. stuart: you still have the problem of voter registration, and illegal can get himself or herself, they can get a license to drive and as soon as they get -- coming with that license, they have reghted to vote, registered to vote. you can mot police the system, they're not supposed to vote but you can't police it, can you? >> and illegal al line is not supposed to get automatic registration to vote but the concern is whether or not they'll be cracks that that can fall through. but in theory, anyway, and illegal al line is not suppose today get a registration to vote, in theory. stuart: right, if they do vote, by the way, the proposal in california says there's no penalty, so this is encouragement to get out there and vote illegally. >> that is true, if your name ends up on voting rolls and you'r

. >> margaret thatcher said it's really great until you run out of other peoples money, which is what always happens. i do think it is kind of their short-term strategy. you have a couple smart people like chuck schumer and the party who realize there might be a limit to that. the democratic party has become the party of free stuff, racial division and class warfare. again, it feels good for them to hit all of those buttons. they still have to go through that. the reason republicans are where they are is because republicans allowed donald trump. donald trump one and took over. when bernie sanders crashed the gates of the democratic party come the democratic party coalesced around hillary clinton and they rebuffed bernie sanders and they basically the election to give it to hillary clinton because they didn't want to deal with it. they still have to face up to that. trade to have a sneaking suspicion that bernie sanders, had he been the democratic candidate could have beaten donald trump. >> i think in the end, donald trump would have won. i think bernie sanders would've run a much bet

prime minister after prime minister, margaret thatcher, john major, theresa may, david cameron hopedk to stay in the eu, she has to manage those views. then she has the wider party, and we were hearing from people that we re and we were hearing from people that were avid supporters brexit for some time, like jacob rees—mogg, the chairman of the european research group, saying that there to be a clea n group, saying that there to be a clean brexit, a clean breakfrom the european union. there are others in the conservative party that wanted the conservative party that wanted the prime minister to stay. the best prime minister and hope for today is some big philosophical agreements about the of travel. if she can at least get senior minister stephen sign off on something, she is heading in the right direction. —— senior ministers to sign off. next week we may get more clarity, that the key point is that whatever they are great, that is what the uk government hopes to achieve. then they have got to go and negotiate with brussels. there are 27 other countries involved. this is the start o