the changing monarchy to bind all the changing monarchy to bind all the divisions between the privy councildulyadej with the new king and new appointments. the king himself, he has been very a55ertive behind his scenes, making changes to the constitution which augment his constitutional powers and in that 5ense constitutional powers and in that sense i think we are seeing the birth of a new alliance between military and monarchy and this has taken place behind the scenes at the level of elite thailand politics. will have to leave it there, thank you very much for your insights. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme... a flavour of what it's like to be a member of the thai royal family. we'll bring you an exclusive interview with a relative of the late king bhumibol. gandhl gandhi, ruler of the world's largest democracy did today, only yesterday 5he democracy did today, only yesterday she had spoken of dying in the 5ervice she had spoken of dying in the service of her country and said i would be proud of it, everyjob of my blood will contribute to the growth of t

he is called before the privy council. unfortunately, he shows up before the privy council at the same time as they received news of the boston tea party. the british government is very unhappy. he is basically berated, humiliated for an hour in front of a public audience. he is called dishonorable. he is stripped of his positions and america. -- in america. he loses his way to advance. virtue have failed him in the british world. or at least, his concept. moving on, meanwhile, first continental congress, they are going to come to this conclusion. colonists are viewing themselves as bound in honor. honor that john adams is going to say is becoming more and more alike between north and south. the war breaks out. franklin was not there. but he is present at the discussions of the declaration of independence. now, it is not just franklin. there are other thinkers as well. montesquieu, mattel, they are all viewing british behavior as being dishonorable. because the king is dishonorable, he has broken his balance. for there is

lying for the past year attending that ceremony and members of the royal family members of the privy council as well and also senior members of the government but the public will take place on thursday. to the u.n. nikki haley is in south sudan to meet the president and hopes of finding a resolution to their civil war on tuesday visited south sudanese refugees in canberra western ethiopia she told a group of reporters that she was mad that's a quote that the international community had let the conflict go on for so long south sudan spiraled into civil war in two thousand and thirteen after a dispute between the president's healthcare and a former deputy only three hundred fifty thousand refugees have flooded into again bella almost ninety percent are women and children. this is an international crisis this is not just ethiopia is a problem this is an international crisis and when you look at the thousands of people here and you see that they're supposed to have one hundred clinics for ten thousand people and there's six thousand people in one clinic and it's from i mean they're they're tryin

administered once isis is defeated we hear about the iraqi civil council we hear maybe the government will go in and you know we're not really privy to those discussions i would just say reckless certainly not ready to have people whose back to it it's full of unexploded ordinances mines and bombs there was absolutely need to be cleared before anyone returns home homes have been destroyed public services aren't functioning you know it's going to be really critical that when people do go home when they all do want to go home that it's safe for them to do that and that sirius's are available so what happens to people so near until they can return home people are actually scattered all across northern iraq a governorate there are stem caps for displaced people they're completely stretched because there are new arrivals every day including now frontiers who are agencies on the ground are doing their best to provide some sort of temporary relief in the terms of water and sanitation in student temporary schools but that's not a really long term solution there are other people that have tribal relations and relatives in northern iraq and

know, small meetings with this president, so would have been privy to conversations that others were not. don megan, who was the white house council, this shows the investigation will continue to go into the most senior levels of the trump administration. >> i want to ask you politico is reporting spicer was fired for the questioning of the former fbi director comey and white house officials. where does this tell you where mueller is in his investigation right now? >> he's being thorough clearly. and i think spicer is a wonderful witness because we know he apparently made these notes contemporaneously, and those can be invaluable. they're really solid collaboration for a witness. >> we've heard about these copious notes, maybe a month or two that sean spicer kept copious notes. and these notes could either vindicate the president or get him into more trouble. but you said these things can be very important. >> they corroborate his memory, and they will stimulate his memory. and they old evdech chaer value because they were made contemporaneously. >> dana bash, i want to bring you in now. reince priebus was also interviewed. what d