you can natalia tell of neva is a historian and lecture, an international history of the university of strathclyde. and i asked her, asked her, what present improvement was hoping to achieve from this summer? well, i think president clinton here is of course, grasping at straws because he is running really short on international allies and the idea of the summit african. so i'm at the, the way it was the original admission. what's the cost of the just that, but you know, you can see, especially in comparison to the summit the few years ago. just how much with the last 2 and a but l a. c has now in comparison to the $1019.00 event in africa, where usually a russia has a lot of input, will start to claim that food in announced some major commitments at the summit from free grain at to free weapons. but kind of the actual russian economy affords a to make these uh promises it's very, it's very hard to, to know all the details, of course, because a lot of these pronouncements quite restore it. cool. and the meant to kind of short off is alliances and bring in some of this countries to remain friends a

isolated, that it probably still has international allies, dr. natalia phillip neva from the university of strathclyde. thank you for joining us here on dw. thank you. let's bring you up to date now on some other stories. this type soon, doc, sorry, is battering china with heavy rain anti winds. it's one of the strongest storms to hit. in years, more than 400000 people have been evacuated in southeastern fuji on province. no trouble, there has been disrupted schools and businesses closed. people have been advised to stay indoors. police in the peruvian capital, lima have clashed with protesters demanding the resignation of entering president dana board while she's now seeking expanded legislative power. after months of antique government demonstrations, demanding the release of jail, former president pedro castillo the un security council has condemned the military to in the chair, african leaders of also expressed their concern canyon president william rudo called it a serious setback for africa. meanwhile, general abdul rock 98 johnny has named himself president of a new transitional counsel and the

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earlier i spoke to the political analyst and professor of politics at strathclyde university, professors. the principal headline from this is despite the fact the conservatives narrowly managed to hang on to the uxbridge constituency, boris johnson's former seat, the results more broadly confirm that the conservatives are in a supernatural hole as the opinion polls have been suggesting. if you take all three of the by—elections including the one in uxbridge, on average the conservatives show the vote is 25 points down on what they achieved in the seats back in 2019 and that is all with the national opinion polls showing support for the conservatives to be 18 points down on what it achieved in 2019. so the truth is therefore that these elections don't mean the conservatives position looks any worse than it did before yesterday morning but it certainly does not look any better despite that seemingly encouraging average. 50 obvious difficulties for rishi sunak. does it suggest that uxbridge is of any kind of fragility around the labour vote, the border point where keir starmer has an effec

university of liverpool, thank you. we can cross now to another professor of politics at strathclyde university, sirjohn curtice. ct at least that there will be another by—election in what we might normally think of as a safe conservative seat but the question is how safe will it be in current circumstances. i think first of all there is a big picture point to make about this. perhaps not everybody has remembered. it was the events surrounding chris pincher that was the subject of this report that was the subject of this report that eventually led to the downfall of borisjohnson. because boris johnson failed to admit that in fact he had previously been advised when he had previously been advised when he was foreign secretary of previous allegations against mr pincher and his behaviour. and the fact mr johnson hadn't been upfront about this, that was eventually the straw that broke the camel's back with conservative mps not allowing him to remain in office. jon tonge has been saying that he doesn't think it will be the subject of controversy in the house of commons. i think it may not even be the subject of a vote

live now to the political analyst and professor of politics at strathclyde university, professor sirjohn the fact that the conservatives narrowly managed to hang on the uxbridge constituency, borisjohnson's former hang on the uxbridge constituency, boris johnson's former seat, the results more broadly confirm that the conservatives are indeed in a deep electoral hole as the opinion polls have been suggesting. if you take them all including one in uxbridge, on average, the conservatives shall 20 points down on what the body achieved in these seats back in 2019. that is with the fact that the polls are currently showing support to beat 18 point double conservatives. so the truth is therefore that these elections don't necessarily mean the conservative position looks any worse than it did before yesterday morning but it certainly does not look any better despite that seemingly encouraging result in uxbridge. 50 seemingly encouraging result in uxbridue. :, , , . , uxbridge. so obvious difficulties were rishi sunak. _ uxbridge. so obvious difficulties were rishi sunak. does - uxbridge. so obv

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