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Special forces swiftly evacuate US embassy staff from Sudan
"The U.S. embassy and its personnel have been evacuated from war ravaged Sudan. As the warring military factions in Sudan continue fighting for control of the country. U.S. special operations forces swoop down into the capital, Khartoum, loading up some 70 embassy personnel into helicopters and flying them out. There were no shots fired. And the military was on the ground for less than an hour. British, deputy prime minister Oliver dowden did not want to discuss any operations involving his country's nationals. Make sure they stay indoors that they stay safe and that they get in contact with the foreign office. Once the American diplomatic staffers were safely out of Khartoum, President Biden called for an end to this unconscionable violence. I'm Jackie Quinn
Bloomberg Radio New York
"foreign office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"David Weston to keep you up to date with news from all around the world. We turn now to Mark crumpton here with the first word. David, thank you. President Biden says the U.S. economy is starting to see signs that inflation may be moderating after the consumer price index reading for July came in cooler than expected. Today we received news that our economy had 0% inflation in the month of July. 0%, here's what that means. Well, the price of some things go up went up last month, the price of other things went down, but the same amount. The result zero inflation last month. The people were still hurting. The latest numbers give the president a much needed boost ahead of the November midterm elections. The UK's foreign office has summoned the Chinese ambassador over Beijing's quote aggressive and wide ranging escalation against Taiwan. Meantime, China has ended those unprecedented military exercises near Taiwan, but says it plans to conduct regular patrols in the region. The Chinese began the drills last week after U.S. House speaker Nancy Pelosi defied Beijing and visited Taiwan. In Europe, another heat wave is sweeping the continent, threatening to disrupt travel and business and putting more pressure on the region's strained power infrastructure. Temperatures will be in the 90s in Paris and London, the bone dry conditions have prompted limits on water use. France last month suffered its dries July on record while England recorded the driest and almost 90 years. Several of Europe's major rivers are running dry disrupting $80 billion in trade routes. The Rhine has dried up to the point of becoming virtually impassable at a key waypoint that is slowing down vast flows of diesel and coal. Globally is 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. I'm Mark prompted this is Bloomberg, David. Thank you so much, Mark
Bloomberg Radio New York
"foreign office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"India is a major importer India is a major importer but fortunately in this case India is imports oil imports from Russia is minimal It's less than its less than 2% But nonetheless it does import And India stand has been and this is what we've been throwing at the ministry of external affairs of foreign office On India's standard purchasing oil And the sense that we get is that as long as Western countries continue to buy oil India sees no reason why it should not get access to cheaper oil when oil prices and inflation is a major factor for the government So it doesn't look like the India is going to change that position our until and unless there is a global bank complete ban on lifting Russian oil or energy Yeah okay very interesting Well let's see if India comes under more sustained pressure or not it is at the moment a bio of the Russian oil that has been shunned by a lot of other countries Sudhi thank you so much for being with us That is our Bloomberg reporter city ranjan sen there on the Indian component in terms of the Ukrainian war Okay now on to one of our interview highlights this morning It's from our conversation with nafta gas CEO Yuri vitrenko He says that the Russian natural gas transit to Europe via Ukraine is continuing as normal despite the war vitrenko spoke in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg's guy Johnson and Gupta he began by answering why Ukraine is allowing Russia to transit its gas through the country The collection of these trends through Ukraine.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"foreign office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Wouldn't do forecast tomorrow They're going to do forecasts tomorrow Kathy what happens with that dot plot in that summary of economic projections when we all open up that file What does it look like Yeah we think that the estimates have to go massively higher for this year and a bit higher for 2023 We would not be surprised to see go from three rate hikes So 75 basis points for this year to a 150 basis points So they may not go the full one 75 that we expect in the markets But certainly a big shift And we think that by next year they actually have to start to sing their gaining towards restrictive policy stance So closer to two and a half percent on the DACA Is that the peak in the right hike is cycle for you Kathy Well we have our neutral rate is a little lower at 2% So we think they go slightly above that And that would be the peak in 2023 And then it's growth that we worry about in the middle part of 2023 That's when we could get a little soft and fall below potential growth What is nominal GDP do to the mood of America If I take a bus John 6 three and I add 8 to it that's China like isn't it Well yeah There's no doubt that the way you add the inflation component It's very strong nominal GDP And these inflation numbers really look like something from another part of the world right Not here in the U.S. you'd have to go back to 1980s So now I'm going to GDP matters I would say from a corporate standpoint if corporations they need to maintain pricing power to take advantage of that For consumers wages have to continue to rise to them to keep spending But of course then there's the problem for the fed if wages start to rise then you have this risk of a wage price spiral which is more self sustaining and just adds to the problems that we see the supply chains which are being aggravated of course by the war Kathy before we let you go I'm curious about the situation in China that we're seeing The lockdowns and some of the supply chain response We've seen Walmart and Amazon come out and say that you're going to expect to see some sort of delays in shipping How significant is this in terms of a contributor contributor to inflation going forward Yeah it's just another headwind and a ripple through supply chains that already very stressed We had seen some nascent signs of improvement in the supply chain So maybe the PPI it was picking up some of that But you had seen that at yearend and going into early this year but I think all of this really gets reversed because of the war and now because of what's happening in China So I think this is a significant setback here on a supply chain It's only going to add to inflationary pressures Kathy thank you as always looking ahead to the Federal Reserve tomorrow Kathy Bosch and Oxford economics Speaking of pricing pads out see strong demand pricing offsetting the fuel price rise It was the trick of 2021 Margins powder through last year Tom Kennedy repeated the act in 22 How many times have we asked that for the first three months of this year Dovetail it right into what we heard from his best John sick And that is the animal spirit I get all the medium term long-term mumbo jumbo John on a short term basis the illusion of prosperity from inflation is tangible not to all but to some of the public And that's where you get that outsized demand and that spirit feeds on itself into high unit demand in selected industries among selected Americans The woman with thoughts on this Mike Wilson and Morgan Stanley at least for our catch out with him in about 20 minutes time Oh good It's a big question for him Yeah it is How much are the wealthy individuals going to keep going out there and spending And then what about the others who perhaps are not seeing the same kind of real wage growth even I really find his call interesting that basically he sees bonds to hedge again Yes Long bonds Essentially suggesting the fed's going to have a tough time engineering a soft landing Yeah And an inverted yield curve because they're going to have to hike and then it's going to just basically collapse on itself which is something other people are seeing too Fascinating cool from Morgan Stanley I said the team would do some work on this statement from the foreign office in the UK on extra sanctions on Russia 370 new sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine The sanctioning president Putin's key political allies Tom That includes the defense minister one and the former Russian prime minister a name that is familiar to many people Dmitry Medvedev I go to surgery with the defense minister He is occupied fully with a very difficult military campaign It's a special operation John and it's especially not going well Except for everyone else It's an invasion Futures up 6 tenths of 1% on the S&P on the NASDAQ up 9 cents of 1% This turnaround in crude will talk about it for you through the morning on TV and radio 96 33 on WTI We're down 6 or 7% through much of this morning This is Bloomberg.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"foreign office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"To 5 months would not be a good scenario Instead he's hoping for a yearly vaccine noting that would be an ideal situation He said this is because it's easier to convince people to get the shot and it's earlier for people to remember to do it He also added Pfizer could be ready to file to get a new vaccine to better fights the amaron variant approved by March New York City mayor Eric Adams is hosting a gun violence roundtable after two NYPD officers are shot including one fatally Adams was joined by community leaders at a public school in The Bronx Saturday in an effort to come up with strategies to combat spiking gun violence in the city at a press conference afterwards Adams said it's his job to keep the city safe I am personally responsible for the safety of New Yorkers Adams says he believes a small number of bad guys are responsible for all the shootings and he promised all city agencies would work in concert with crisis management teams in the fight against gun violence Moscow was firing back at the UK after it accused the Kremlin of trying to install a pro Russian leader in Ukraine the Russian foreign ministry told the Russian news agency the UK should stop spreading nonsense The spokesperson said the misinformation spread by the British foreign office is evidence that NATO was responsible for escalating tensions around Ukraine The Cincinnati Bengals are headed to their first AFC championship game since 1988 quarterback Joe burrow and company pulled out a dramatic 1916 victory against the top seeded Tennessee Titans in Tennessee with kicker Evan McPherson ending the game with the 52 yard field goal as time expired although burrow was sacked 9 times The Bengals defense intercepted Titans quarterback Ryan Tannehill three times the final one coming with just 20 seconds left to give Cincinnati the ball back with a chance to win it Borough connected with Jamar chase for 19 yards setting up McPherson to end the game The Bengals will now travel to face the winner of Sunday's matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and Buffalo Bills I'm Chris courage Arnold Schwarzenegger is reportedly okay after a car accident that left a woman injured the Los Angeles Times says the former California governor's SUV was involved in a crash in the Pacific palisades neighborhood just after four 30 p.m. on Friday A spokesperson for Schwarzenegger says the actor wasn't hurt but a woman in one of the other cars was being treated for minor injuries The LAPD said the cause of the crash remains under investigation The mega millions jackpot is approaching the $400 million mark following another drawing without a big winner Brad Siegel reports No ticket matched all 6 numbers drawn Friday night The white balls were 38 45 46 55 and 67 the gold mega ball was 18 That means Tuesday's estimated jackpot will be $396 million The cash option would be 273.6 million If one at that level it would be the 15th largest jackpot in the 20 year history of the mega millions game There hasn't been a big winner since October 22nd One ticket sold in Georgia did hit the 5 white balls Friday night for a payout of a million bucks I'm Brad Siegel A new dramatized version of the Tiger king saga is almost here Peacock released the first teaser for the new series Joe versus Carol this week The 62nd trailer gives a first look at Kate McKinnon as Carol Baskin and John Cameron Mitchell as Joe Exotic The series by the makers of shameless is set to premiere on March 3rd A Utah runner is now the new world record holder for fastest marathoner dressed as a vegetable Jordan Maddox completed The Rock and roll marathon and two hours 44 minutes and 12 seconds while wearing a carrot costume to obtain the obscure Guinness World Record Maddox used the run to raise money for substance abuse charity release recovery foundation He said the costume represented his efforts to make healthier life decisions This isn't the first costume world record for Maddox as he set the world record for fastest marathoner while dressed as a fruit back in 2020 I'm Chris courage And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom at her press briefing today governor Kathy hogel described extraordinary progress the state has seen in fighting the coronavirus Positivity statewide.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"foreign office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Leader in Ukraine The Russian foreign ministry told the Russian news agency the UK should stop spreading nonsense The spokesperson said the misinformation spread by the British foreign office is evidence that NATO was responsible for escalating tensions around Ukraine Billionaire Mark Cuban is looking to change the world of the pharmaceutical industry this week the Shark Tank investor launched an online pharmacy that offers more than 100 generic drugs However the drugs are at an affordable price as the company pledged to be radically transparent about price negotiations with drug companies Snoop Dogg and Martha Stewart are teaming up for this year's puppy bowl the duo is set to each coach a team for the 2022 puppy bowl 18 on Super Bowl Sunday over 115 adoptable puppies will take part in the event that will air on February 13th at 2 p.m. eastern on animal planet and discovery plus I'm Chris garageio And I'm susannah Palmer in the Bloomberg newsroom as we've been reporting with tough laws in the state of New York governor Kathy hoku is calling on Washington to do more to curb gun violence She says guns coming in from other states are flooding New York City where two officers were shot in Harlem Friday We have to do more to fight the scourge of illegal guns on our streets Hok says she's pledged the resources of the New York State police to become embedded with the New York City police department and others to help them Governor hoku signed a bill Friday allowing people to vote with an absentee ballot through the end of the year due to the COVID-19 pandemic Democrats in the state legislature recently passed the bill But expanding absentee voting has not been overwhelmingly popular with New York voters Back in November New Yorkers voted down a proposed constitutional amendment that would have allowed permanent absentee voting without any excuses We're hearing a group.
NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"foreign office" Discussed on NBA Front Office w/ Keith Smith & Trevor Lane
"So there's some truth in there to that for sure. Sure, it's like getting players out of the Adam Gase era jets, right? You get away from that suddenly they're great. Okay, I'm the same darnold, maybe not. But just about everybody else but you get them away from that location and maybe you do see a little bit of an improvement there. So I do think there's going to be a market for them, but like you said, the question is, the contract, then you have to be convinced that he's not the guy that we're seeing right now that he's actually at a different level. I do think it's interesting Harrison Barnes. I would feel like there's so many places he could fit. He's one of those guys where, I mean, just points about any team at the NBA, and you can go, oh, I could see how he could fit there. He's not a difficult fit in so many different places. I have to imagine he's going to have a fairly robust market. Yeah, and he's at 20 million this year and then that number drops down into around 18 million for next year. So those are yeah, that's not a number that's so big that it gets really hard to move. But when the contract gets hard to move is when you're north of 25 million in your nod a true max player because you're starting to close in on max territory with that number. But yeah, I mean, I said that yesterday, Harrison Barnes talking with a someone in a foreign office that said, if you need him to be your third guy will be your third guy, you need to be a 6 or 7th guy. He'll be your 6 or 7th guy. And everybody believes that in this guy. Around the league because he's just these very plug and plays productive, no matter where he is, no matter what his role is, he can scale up or down appropriately. So yeah, if they want to finally pull that trigger and say, we got to go, we got to do something with Harrison Barnes. Then this is the time, right? Because there's a lot of teams. Again, the league is pretty wide open. So there's a lot of teams, I think that are looking at this and saying, hey, yo, all right, let's go. Let's make the move. Let's push all in and try to win a championship. Now, if Sacramento, who there's been plenty of buzz about them and Ben Simmons, if it comes down to 76 or say, if you want this deal, you have to take Tobias Harris..
Bloomberg Radio New York
"foreign office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"To 12 p.m. Here in the England the omicron variant is now transmitting in the community There have been 336 confirmed cases in the UK some of which are not linked to international travel Bloomberg's Charles capel has the story Health secretary such of it said that from that they can conclude that there is community transmission across multiple regions in England Next week the government is due to update MPs again on the latest on the pandemic but javid said he can not guarantee the government will know much more about the omicron variant than they do now This morning tougher restrictions on travel came into force requiring everyone to test negative before they arrive in the UK regardless of vaccination status in London Charles cable Bloomberg daybreak Europe A whistleblower has accused the foreign office of a chaotic and dysfunctional response after the Taliban took over Afghanistan junior diplomat Rafael marshal told a parliamentary committee there were serious shortcomings in how the then foreign secretary Dominic rob handled evacuations from Kabul Marshall claims that just 5% of their 150,000 people who applied for evacuation received any assistance China has warned the U.S. will pay a price for a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games saying the move will damage ties Bloomberg's add Baxter has more on the decision White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki says the U.S. can not turn a blind eye at a human rights abuses U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the PRC's egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang And we simply can't do that Sake says it would not be fair to punish the athlete so the U.S. team will participate Beijing meanwhile has responded that it has no intention of inviting U.S. diplomats In San Francisco I'm at Baxter Bloomberg daybreak Europe Global news 24 hours a day on air and Don Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries I'm Hannah George This is Bloomberg Anna Thanks very much for that Hannah Now let's get an update on your sports news.
Bloomberg Radio New York
"foreign office" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Are investigating the company The stock fell more than 6% before closing about half a percent lower in U.S. trading That's after Reuters reported that the SEC has opened a probe into defective solar panels The New York Times separately also reported that Tesla engineers questioned the autopilot system which is being investigated by the national highway traffic safety administration So that on Tesla Right those are a few of our top stories that we're watching this morning Let's get over to Bloomberg's Hannah George who has the latest in world news and what's happening with the oma pond very good morning Good morning Caroline Yes here in England the overcome COVID variant is now transmitting in the community There have been 336 confirmed cases in the UK some of which are not linked to international travel Bloomberg's child's cable has the story Health secretary such a javid said that from that they can conclude that there is community transmission across multiple regions in England Next week the government is due to update MPs again on the latest on the pandemic but javert said he can not guarantee the government will know much more about the omicron variant than they do now This morning tougher restrictions on travel came into force requiring everyone to test negative before they arrive in the UK regardless of vaccination status in London Charles cable Bloomberg day very Europe A whistleblower has accused the foreign office of a chaotic and dysfunctional response after the Taliban took over Afghanistan Junior diplomat Raphael Marshall told a parliamentary committee there were serious shortcomings in how then foreign secretary Dominic rob handled evacuations from Kabul Marshall claims that just 5% of the 150,000 people who applied for evacuation received any assistance In the U.S. The White House has officially announced that it won't send diplomats to the Beijing Winter Olympics Bloomberg's at Baxter has more White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki says the U.S. can not turn a blind eye at a human rights abuses U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the PRC's egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang And we simply can't do that Sake says it would not be fair to punish the athlete so the U.S. team will participate Beijing meanwhile is responded that it has no intention of inviting U.S. diplomats In San Francisco I'm at Baxter Bloomberg daybreak Europe And China has issued another statement saying it applause the U.S. decision on the Olympics boycott Global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quick take powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries Hannah George this is Bloomberg Caroline Thanks so much janae for the latest in world news and we continue to track that Olympic story for you Well with the latest.
Woman's Hour
"foreign office" Discussed on Woman's Hour
"No doubt about it. She's been spamming Gastric and chas that boost tourism. That boris johnson. Also has. she's obviously going to be globe-trotting more. So than dominic variables being able to use the clone of virus pandemic. I think question about how much time she can. Devote the qualities. Brief is a very interesting one. Because prime ministers often appoint people to the foreign office they want to get out of the country and not be too much doing too much leadership plotting. But i think she has a particular view on qualities and she started off life as a liberal democrat as you mentioned campaigning. Greenham common but now she's libertarian. Conservative very different to say the dean who owns a social conservative list intensely relaxed on social issues. How people want to live their lives. Imagine that as she described an interview she has a very particular view of equality and how to achieve that she sees about empowering individuals not using the state to address some of the long stunning inequality. So i think she's a much more prominent role. Now it's going to be interesting to see how that pans out over the next couple of years. What may will issues about women in parliament women. In politics women in senior rose will become more prominent and how she tackles the campaign for the state to do more effectively. The country's chief chief feminists chief women's equality fights. Is that a all. You see list trust that she will focus on despite your concerns about where she'll be in the world i think certainly the thing about his trust to be fair to her is that she knows what she berries and she isn't afraid to express the video. I think you ms slightly sort of wishy washy era where hebrew brunson whether they prime minister is libertarian. Or north in indeed is a conservative or not when it comes to salvage fiscal policies of late bengal mistrust. Like does it says. I'm and we hosted company at the to before leadership race where we got number didn't candidates and rob mahan and trust jake's cleverly and trust played the best with the telegraph drug graph as when it made audience..
Crypto Voices
"foreign office" Discussed on Crypto Voices
"All right. So it's great to have the one and only mark fiber editor and publisher of the gloom boom and doing reports. Thank you very much for having for being other show. Mark writes an honor for me. Thank you very much for having me and thank you. Matthew has also be here with this so we can discuss all this monetary matters financial repercussions in the current investment world. As well be back on your show thank you so a doctor father. I think perhaps one of the things would like to discuss today is. It's almost a fifty year anniversary since richard nixon. Close the gold window. If i'm not mistaken that was lightning seventy one. You had just completed your in economics if you could share with us. What was your experience back. Dan should Should even remember that they when that was announced was also a shock for you or was mostly Expected events is a funny question. Because i remember it very well and I have to tell your viewers even don't stick or cheese very well a clearly understand the meaning. I finished my studies in sixty nine. I had the phd We tried to rate than about the financially for most robert steele who was prime minister of england in eighteen forty two and he gave the world very nice price and everybody loves and didn't come back pacific permanent measure we had in england an income tax That was introduced during the napa. Wars by william big but it was a temporary war tax and only fell on some rich people by robert deal. Eerie beeld the cone lows. Be on dinner but bill. England had a strongly protectionist system and that was recently on a program by their exit. Cobb institute bridge of cobb was. The free trader supported the academic Idea afraid trades through. England essentially a custom. Sorry and i wrote about this events in my season. Finish in sixty-nine at the london school of economics and then i had started to work for white Than company in nineteen seventy in january. And so when this happened the us leading the gold standard essentially closing the gold waiting dough. I was in new york working for white welts. And i remember it very well because i was working in a so called departments research. Leah's zone during surgery. His office was communicating. the foreign. office's of right well. We had an office in caracas and we had an office in montevideo and one in real and to communicate the ideas of wide dwelled the research departments to the foreign office job facing bait so in foreign offices had the question. The question came to me. I had to go to the analysts and speak to them or find out the details of questions and then raise funds and so i was already writing then kind of a weekly commentary about the us market. Of course it was simple. Because i just started to. That had work. Adam finished even on the air so what they came. It was funny. Because throughout nineteen seventy seventy one european investors and foreign investors were very concerned about the us dollar diminishing in value or gains foreign currencies. Because it was obvious to anyone that the us dollar was way. High relatives during the german. Mark destroys british filed aiding. And so i think the us went off the gold standard on august. Indeed i something like the weekend before. On a friday i send a cometary saying what stocks investors should own in case. The us devalued the currency of the weekends. So i've mentioned the domestic plays like rca that had been hurt by japanese competition raised. The dollar devalued that the stocks would jump in value anyway over the weekend. Nixon devalued the dollar and when the gold standard and i came to the office because in those days we didn't have mobile phones. We had didn't have fax machines. Communication was made friends foreign countries. That didn't get us stock quotes except the professionals Bloomber and up to the office. In the morning i see about five staplers I said i said you know for the hell why these people what do wrong. They were there because say i'm a currency expert. Having seen the dollar value on that particular weekend and so suddenly. I was like someone at white weld. Who knew something about currencies and yes. I studied because we had eaten zurich at the university professor. He was advocating for or and years and years flexible exchange rates. There's something before seventy one think. Exchange rates were fixed between different countries. Shrewd brenton's would agreement so hey suddenly hours. The currency expert that white than company. And so i remember that day very well and then this day was followed by very extended and significant weakness offs. The us dollar throughout the seventies so against a dam against assist frank the dollar lost essentially between nineteen seventy and nineteen eighty eighty one by over seventy percent of its value. And that's you know. Gold sword between nineteen seventy. They live states. The goal dwindle. Close the gold window. In seventy one official chrysler seventy dollars offers. The gold price went up to eight hundred fifty dollars seeing january nineteen eighty so we had a huge.
Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"foreign office" Discussed on Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"There's nobody in the finals. Besides the honest that's better than Luca Luca's better than any player on the Phoenix Suns team. So Hey, use this blueprint. Make some, you know, they made the right draft pick now Can you build around Lucca to get the right pieces? Christophe Sporting is is not that piece. We all know that. As of now, I mean, after the season, especially, uh, not not making fun of K p just, uh, not what the Mavericks I think need to get over that hump. Maybe a new coach and change. I feel like that's what the you know. It's just needed a new breath of fresh air up in the in the American Airlines. I don't know we're gonna find out. But the one thing I take away from this and this finals. Yes, I think it's a great finals for the NBA, at least for my perspective of the thing. Maybe not like a set for it. Ralph Office would probably disagree with me because it's not a major market. Especially not a top five market in either one of them in Phoenix and Milwaukee. Dallas, a bigger market himself, Houston, all this I can go on and on Philadelphia. But I think it's great for the game and we'll be. We'll see how that plays out. But the one thing I will take away from this and the tight end of the DFW rest directors. I really think You know, and I think like I said most would agree. There's plenty of things to take away from this Phoenix and bought Milwaukee Bucks situation on how to build a team around the superstar or whatever that might entail. The foreign office moves that you need to make To make a championship run. The Milwaukee Bucks understood that they made that trade for Ju holiday. Phoenix Suns understood their situation with their draft picks. So it goes hand in hand, and I look forward to see what the office the off season and entails, especially with the whole thing with Damien lowered. We don't know what's going to happen for him. He's keeping it in house because he's a true professional. I really appreciate Dame Lillard and I would love to see him on the Mavericks, uh or just out of Portland so he can win and and try to go a little bit further. We got to take a quick break here on The extra time with Matt gather. Lot to get into what was set the stage for the rest of the show. What set the stage for the rest of the show. Week will go. We gotta talk a little bit. A lot of regards to the soccer world Soccer football. Whatever you whatever tickles your fancy on that. Gold Cup starts this tonight today tonight Awesome stuff in that, So we'll talk about the Gold Cup here shortly. Euro 2020 final as England versus Italy, the new boys versus the Old Boys essentially old versus new. In my opinion, the youngsters versus the old heads. That will be tomorrow We'll talk about it. We'll preview that and talk about the Gold Cup shortly a little bit on Wilmington. As ash Barty. The Australian Came into what? As when I minute did I place a bet? I don't know. Maybe maybe I didn't put all in the same prior to that. If you're picking up what I'm putting down she was a minus 2 50 favorite. And props to her. She made my morning a little bit more enjoyable getting that win for me and I think she would agree with because of Wimbledon is about. I don't think it gets much bigger in the world of tennis. I think we would all agree, so we'll talk about the women. The Wimbledon finals. Just real quickly, not we can't spend too much time on it. We're going to talk about Olympics some big news out Olympics this week, and I'm not too happy about it for myself. I think it's ridiculous, but we'll talk about that. And then I don't know if you got you wanna talk about it right now, did you guys see Obviously the Scottish opens taking place and a lot of and because of that. A lot of the European golfers had stayed over and partisan. Instead of going on the P G, A and and doing the John Deere Classic this week, a lot of the European guys decided to do the Scottish Open for obvious reasons. That's a big deal over in Europe and just some of the best courses in the world or in Scotland and Ireland. Just Beautiful, lush green courses. I mean, I I can't wait for the open championship here coming up here soon because Well, I just I can't get enough of the UK's You didn't know the their golf courses Ireland, Scotland, Britain, But more So, Ireland, Scotland they have just some of them boast beautiful courses. Some of the most difficult courses or buckles or bunkers can be pretty awesome and very difficult. As you saw it always go back to the old DeVol when it was devolved versus Tiger Woods, and I'll never forget. Uh, you know that those bunkers on that British open that year and so we'll we'll talk about that. But the reason I was bringing that up is because Rory McIlroy decided to stay at this Do this guy is open and my goodness, I I don't know if you all saw the video, go check it out on YouTube or wherever it's at a fan there at the 10th tee box. I believe Jon Rahm was standing next to Rory. I believe that's what it was. And they're having a conversation for the tee off in some fan casually just walks up and pulls a club out of Rory's bagging acts like he's going to go up there, and T often have a practice. Sweeney even takes his driver head cover. And it's just a weird thing. It the funny part was just seeing roar. He didn't know how to react. I kind of go. I kind of want to give Rory McIlroy a little bit of crap. Because if somebody came up to my bag, it started taking a club out. I might take a club and just whack him with it. And that be the last time he probably ever did that in his life. But Rory just stood there kind of let him play with this club and then security eventually came, but, uh, I want to give a little bit crap to Roy. I think, uh uh, Some other golfers might have had a different response to that. And if you know, I hate to say this, but if there would have been, uh, some some hand somebody put their hands on somebody I mean, I can't. I don't. I can't imagine the golfer being in Iran in the wrong here. Where's the security? Where's especially for pairing like that? If you got John Robbie and Rory McIlroy, you figured there would be drawing quite the crowd with them. Quite a peanut gallery was probably following them, so I'm surprised they didn't have a little bit extra security. But that was You know, I will say it. Two things happened this week that were hilarious in the world of sports in regards of fans that one and then the whole thing that happens here in the DFW, the.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"foreign office" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Sure. The history of the Benin artifacts is quite precise. Simply because it's probably one of the most well documented act of colonial lutein. That took place in the winter of 18 97 when the British Navy Under the pretext of what they called a punitive expedition to the kingdom of Benin, which was the most powerful kingdom in what was called oil rivers. That is southern today's southern Nigeria. The attempt to seize control of the trade in the region from the kingdom. Made it necessary on the part of the British, too. Vanquish the other of the name. And they did that in a number of ways, signing a bogus treaties and so forth. But in 18 96 1 of their captains, British captain Phillips took and uh and entourage Into Benin at a time when he was one not to enter the kingdom was an holy period that he did anyway. He was attacked and some of these men were killed. The British, then use that as an opportunity to invade, burn down and loot the palace. But before they went on that, um, expedition They had already sent word to the foreign office in England, indicating that the palace had tremendous treasures, which if they were taken back to England and sold To pay for the cost of the expedition. In other words, they knew what they were going to do in the kingdom of Benin, which was to em back on the military expedition, actualize the goal of empire and still have the billion people pay for it by virtue of seizing their treasures and selling it, selling them off to Uh buyers, museums and so forth in Europe in 18 98, which was when the the government of Britain organized the first auction sale just a year after the expedition. And that's how these objects spread across Europe and eventually, the United States. So that history is so critical and valuable to know this idea that that there was a clear understanding about what that choice was and the ways that it was connected to a particular kind of fiscal, um, calculus. Karen, can you help us to then put that history into a contemporary context and say, Why then does it matter for these objects to be returned? Mhm. So I think it is a really important, um, really important point that was brought up. I mean, just about this history that even museums and many of these institutions were part of And and you're part of the colonizing project would send letters to militaries asking them to bring back um these these treasures and I think and not just treasures for for, you know, fiscal enrichment, but but really is as, uh Has basically trophies of the conquest under the pretext that we the victors.
WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"foreign office" Discussed on WFAN Sports Radio_FM
"He's gonna get like he's going to get like protected. That leaves not gonna let him get hurt. You're going to get like that. That is almost a veteran, even though he's been a couple years now. He's got a lot of statue already. So that helps a lot plus his skill. Plus the chief. I don't like them, but they're pretty well structured Foreign office. Even if the enemy leaves one day, But if they'll still get a good coach in there, they have great facilities that they're the best stand. Even on the chief guy. He will be back by time. He is 30, which is five years from now, you know, he's born in 95. My thing is, if his girlfriend or his girlfriend's pregnant right off. Your fiancee is pregnant. It's not your baby. Dave. It's not your baby, is it? I haven't been to Casey. Nah, I'm stating things. You know. They wanted him play in New York this year. I don't know. No. Okay. Good. Okay, just asking. You know, I don't have the money he has anyway, so, But the thing is, Yeah. Like he got a little heavy. Go a little pudgy, little that little girlfriend. Wait when you have a baby, you know, put on some weight. Well, if he doesn't put on, I thought his little pudgy looking to be honest. You his father had good genetics. His father was like, played so long. That plate is that we remember. I know you're from Queens. And thank you so much day for calling on. I got a lot of folks that want to hop on no doubt about it. We know we know his dad Pat. I believe he played for the Rangers. I certainly remember him playing for the New York Mets in he was a pitcher. And I don't know if I'd say that, Uh, Patrick, my Holmes's is tubby or chunky. And you know of his wife has the baby over the next several months of hell. Put on some weight. This dude is going to be recovering from a broken foot. Turf toe fixing a ligament. You'll be I I'm not worried about Patrick Mahomes in this physical fitness. Not at all. David is calling from Buffalo. David, you are CBS Sports radio. Do you think the Chiefs will be able to bounce back? A J. R. Thanks for taking my call tonight. Um, yeah, I think they'll come back. But I think the thing there's two things that we learned in the Super Bowl number one. The game is always one of the trenches. There's no doubt about that. Having a great quarterback is important, but you gotta win the game up front..
WHAS 840 AM
"foreign office" Discussed on WHAS 840 AM
"M P D drug investigation that brought them to Taylor's home in March. Whoever charges against him in that case were dismissed by a grand jury and judge not set in April trial date on some of his trafficking charges. We're headed to Frankfurt now on Governor Andy Bashir, where he brought a lot of good news about covert 19 to the podium, Governor Bashir reported 2500 new coronavirus cases, the lowest daily number in four weeks. Chases are too high. The trend is some of the best we have seen during the pandemic. The positivity rate is 8.37%, the lowest in over a month. There were 58 newly reported deaths. This is one of the higher numbers that we have had, the governor says. More than 400,000 Kentucky INS have received at least a first dose of covert 19 vaccine. Whole miles. News radio 8 40. Wh A. Yes. The U. S economy created 49,000 jobs last month, according to ABC s Aaron Khutor ski Labor market continued to reflect the impact of the corona virus pandemic and efforts to contain it. In January, there were job gains in professional and business services in both public and private education. But those were all set by losses in leisure and hospitality, retail trade Even in health care. The gain of 49,000 jobs may signal the worst of the viruses. Impact on the labor market is over. But there are still millions who have been out of work a long time. Unemployment rate dropped to 6.3% assigned those who permanently lost their jobs have given up the search. Aaron Carter Ski ABC NEWS New York President Biden is heading out of the nation's capital for the weekend. A B C's Karen Travers on where he's going, President Biden is heading back to his home in Wilmington, Delaware. This weekend, his first trip out of Washington since taking office last month, The president will fly from joint base Andrews to Delaware. His first trip on board Air Force one as vice president, Mr by the made frequent trips back home, and White House officials say that is likely to continue. Karen Travers ABC News, the White House And thousands of hotel rooms near airports are being booked by the British government is part of new quarantine rules for some international arrivals. Tom Rivers is in London travelers returning to the UK from nearly three dozen so called red list countries will have to self isolate in government approved hotels for 10 days. Come February, 15th. Foreign Office Minister James Cleverly anytime soon prepared, we need time to make sure that this works. That's why we've given the hotel industry and noticed give them time to repair to train staff and to get there to get their room's ready. Those staying a quarantine hotels will be asked to pay around $110 a night. Tom Rivers, ABC News London Your next news update is a 10 30. I'm Will Clark News radio. Wait, 40 wh s now your chance to win $1000.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"foreign office" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"That's what the talk included because the working group published a redacted copy of the Minutes, Professor McKee Eggs set out competing theories this time about what happened in the Duma chlorine attack, and he said he thinks the evidence favors a managed massacre in a gas chamber. And he's not alone in believing chemical attacks in Syria have been faked. Using these pictures you see in these pictures have been staged to you saying that people haven't died. Yes. Here's the former ambassador Peter Ford, in 2018, explaining to a presenter from BBC Radio Scotland why he thinks the videos of the chemical attack in Duma weren't real. Yes, In all probability, the incidents have been staged. Come on. We know how easy it is to fake images for the Internet. Look at the images. Anybody could stage those then then the second source. Is supposed to be so called first responders who are the first responders. In this case. There are the white helmet, which is another pro Islamist jihadi propaganda outfit. Who on this awful lot of effort to discredit, Please let me finish. We have a short period of time. I'm trying to prove what you're saying that the point is that surely that Assad's reputation is already dented. What would be in the interests of these people to stage these events? Is that not obvious a child concede that the intention was to produce the diphtheria and now the military action that we are on the point of taking. I wanted to ask Peter fordm or about why he thought the white helmets might be faking their videos. Just a cursory glance on their websites. I'm seeing them putting up posters about covert clearing rubble. They've been putting out bushfires. There's been a couple of traffic accidents that they've helped with locally on D. They've spent quite enough time filming a Children's marathon that they've organized as well. I just wonder why you think that they would go to the trouble of faking all of these things? Look, I used to work with the Foreign office. They are completely cold blooded and calculating. They see the white helmets as a useful tool. But although that'll exercises that you catalog just now Any PR operative would tell you that this is just what you want to sustain the narrative. We've had so many Syrians landing on our shores in Europe. To be honest, I haven't come across a single Syrian refugee who has spoken in support of Assad and feels that their country was hijacked. Chloe, we shouldn't be naive. Refugees have a vested interest in claiming that things have been terrible. Back home. This'll conflict has been incredibly.
KCRW
"foreign office" Discussed on KCRW
"For example, it's begun to pay off. Big American companies like Goldman Sachs have shifted several 1000 jobs from London to the French capital. French policy makers have been quoted gloating that they are quote going to feed off the carcass of the city. And so what does the U. K government been doing to protect London's financial center against European predators? The government has not Prioritized financial services in the way that you would have expected society, and Fraser, former head of the UK Foreign office, who now runs the Flint Global consulting firm the voice off the city and does not appear to have been listened to as much as you would have expected. It should have, he says. The EU accounts for a third of the city's exports. The UK government is now negotiating for the city to be granted so called equivalent status so it can continue to trade freely with the EU. You two better succeeds has Fraser If there is ah long term uncertainty about the regulatory equivalents arrangements, then that could become Danger. Brexiteers shrug off the threat. Daniel Hudson, former head of the Life Futures Exchange, is not in the least bit alarmed by the Continental scramble for the city's share of international business. Yes, you've got good financial centers like Frankfurt. Like Paris, like Milan. But they are not a never will be certainly not in a generation the size of the city of London. The city job losses of 10,000 are minimal, he says, out of a total workforce of three quarters of a million. The city is literally too big to liquid to fail the U needs. It's fast pools of capital the next few months should reveal whether that confidence is justified in London name Stephen Beard for Marketplace. This final note on the way out today, Quikbook into the game stops story that we started with. It's not like that's the only company that's become mysteriously popular with retail investors of late Tootsie Roll Incorporated? Yes, Tootsie Roll up 53%. At one point today, AMC The movie theater chain in a whole world of hurt, as we have been telling you about is worth five times as much today as it was at the beginning of the pandemic. Blockbuster, which isn't even a company anymore. It's gone bankrupt. It's holding company B B Liquidating up 700% yesterday up as much as 300% today, remember, please What Jen Psaki and some other guys, says the stock market. Is not the economy. Marketplace is supported by personal capital, offering advice from fiduciary advisors and.
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"foreign office" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"Really Well, that you're a rare breed in the work. If you claim that, I'm glad to hear that. Did some time in the Marines. You know, I'm no slouch. Oh, thank you for your service, David. No, no. I have never never suggested. I thought you were a slouch. You played the game ably, and I'm sorry. It's so boring. Hopefully, now that the Democrats Foreign office down at the You know, in the executive branch. We're gonna start to reopen this. Governor Cuomo signaled yesterday and you won't be so bored. Doug. So thank you very much. Okay. It's all right, Dave. Nice job. Thank you for playing their use. David from New York did a very nice job. Nice guy, truck driver and real tough guy. We love guys like that. We'll take a short break. We will come back and our last segment of the day we'll open the bones 1 808 48 w A B C 1 808 48 92 22 been a really, really good show today and we hope you guys were here for all of it, and we'll close it out right after this Bernie, sponsored by Fearless boilers and Pavilion tankless Water heaters on 77 W A. B C I don't have NJ diet here. And of course I know it by heart because of our dear friend Pete Morgan. But I think you've got a burning Oh and J diet. I don't have it, You know? Welcome back. Let's come back and play a 30 Come back and get Pete Morgan his credit. But after this power of information at your fingertips, download this 77 w A. B C.
The Briefing
UK cuts overseas aid amid worst recession in over 300 years
"Warned the economic emergency caused by corona viruses. Only just begun as he set out his spending review in the commons. It comes as official forecasts showed. The uk economy is expected to shrink by eleven point three percent this year that puts the nation in the worst recession for more than three hundred years. We've got six graphs showing the bumper levels of borrowing plant and drastic plunge in gdp. The most controversial part of mr kinnock statement was his decision to cut the government's overseas aid budget foreign office. Minister baroness has resigned. In protest at the cut branding it. Fundamentally wrong and gallant has details of the backlash
The World
UK, Canada impose sanctions on Belarus president, officials
"Has imposed sanctions on Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, his son and six other government officials more from NPR's frank length in London. The UK will freeze Lukashenko's assets and institute a travel ban in coordination with Canada. The British government is responding to the apparent rigging of the August presidential election and suppression of the resulting street protests. Britain's Foreign office cited the torture and mistreatment of hundreds of peaceful demonstrators taken into custody. Vuk said Lukashenko has quote refused to engage in dialogue with the opposition, choosing instead to double down on his violent repression.
America First with Sebastian Gorka
Queen Elizabeth II joins virtual unveiling of portrait
"Washington Queen Elizabeth joined Saturday and the virtual unveiling of a new portrait commissioned by Britain's Foreign Office to honor her services to diplomacy. The portrait of the monarch by Mariam esque offense is pay tribute to the queen's work and promoting UK interests all over the world. The unveiling took place during a virtual visit in which the monarch was told about how the foreign office handle the shock wave of the Corona virus pandemic and brought thousands of British
Kap & Company
Chicago White Sox: Luis Robert continues to impress
"Game. It doesn't count the standings. But, boy Oh, boy, I watched Friday night the Inter squad on TV, Luis Robert Too long home runs. This guy looks like a monster. It reminds me of Felipe Alou is managing the Expos back in the I want to stay in the mid nineties, and somebody asked him about this young prospect named Vladimir Guerrero. And he had not played in the big leagues yet, and Felicia's answer Wass. When you just look at him, you think superstar and that's almost the same thing you get. When you look at Louie's Robert because time during spring training, you just look at him and he just looks. Like he's going to fill that part of a superstar he has. There's just a GN it factor. And then you watch him play and it solidifies every year. Everything you think about the guy and it's almost reminiscent of like I said what Philippe has said about a young unknown Vladimir Guerrero at the time when he was coming on the market. The White Sox and mean they didn't get him cheaply. It was think $26 million for a guy you don't know if he's going to turn out, but you didn't hear Yankees Dodgers. Cubs, red socks like the ones that have the highest payrolls. Why was that? I know the socks have done a magnificent job getting Cuban players going all way back to Minnie Minoso. Tha Jose of Bray you they've got Moncada. But why were some of the heavyweights not chasing this guy? You know what I wish I had a specific answer for you. I don't have one. But I will say what? You just reiterate what you just said, and amplify on it. The attacks have been a really good job of scouting the Cuban players. Now Moncada was signed by the Red Sox and came in the trade from from Michael Kopeck. But with Michael Kopeck, I should say For sale, but it's just one of those things where the White Sox I think maybe they do their homework better than anyone else. And that's why they were able to get a guy like Louise Robert, because He just looks like the really, really feel He does just looking at him, and then you see him in the box, but it's like, Oh, my God. How good can this guy be? Um You're right. It wasn't cheap. But it wasn't like out of this world money either. And, ah, kudos to the White Sox Foreign office and they're scouting. You know, this is the work of scouts. Thes air, not analytics driven. Data. You define a guy who has never left the island of Cuba, where you don't have a lot of information. This is scouting. And obviously you look, I'm a big proponent of scouting, and I'm a It's frustrating to see how it's being minimalized and Almost extinguished in some places, but there is still a place for scouting. And here's a prime example. We're talking to Pedro Gomez from ESPN. When you look at a team
Recorded Future - Inside Threat Intelligence for Cyber Security
Jonathan Luff on Co-Founding an Incubator for Early-Stage Cybersecurity Companies in the U.K.
"I'm not by background attack person I come from a liberal arts background I studied politics in languages at university, and I was fascinated in international affairs I was always interested in history and politics. And that developed into a into a study of international relations, so I I studied. To universities in the UK Newcastle, which is in the north of England, and a Master's degree at Bristol University in the south and it was really. While? I was at Bristol that I developed. An interest in joining the foreign, Service Exams for the for the Foreign Service while I was at university there and I joined the British Foreign Office in in one, thousand, nine, hundred eight, and that took me on a fascinating professional journey, had the opportunity to study Arabic while I was in the Foreign Office and that took me to the Middle East. where I I had a couple of postings. Including some time spent his adviser to UK and US military forces during the war in two thousand and three, and over the course of my my government career over the course of my Foreign Office career I increasingly focused on national security issues. So you know things like counterproliferation, counterterrorism and Cybersecurity, and so that that really took me sort of further towards the the work that I now do but really my my leap into startup space, and and the work that we now do with with cybersecurity companies that was that was triggered towards the end of my government service, I spent a couple of years as an adviser. Downing, street a prime. Minister's Office that was two thousand ten eleven twelve, and around that time there were number of reviews taking place into UK national security, and that flowed some very interesting work around cybersecurity as a as a tier, one, a national security threat, and and you know I I was involved in some of that work. And after leaving, government decided to to make it one of the things that I would focus on. And so, what are you involved with today? What is your day to day like these days? Well since two thousand fifteen with my co-founder grace, cassie, who was another friend of mine from Foreign Service Days A. WE wanted to put in place. A way to support entrepreneurs. In the! Early days of establishing a cybersecurity company we had seen in our time. In government that the this was one of the most important. Challenges and opportunities of of the of the of the decade and we felt that weren't really any. Systems or structures in place to provide the support that was needed. This is fascinating complex area of technology and business, and while there were united some fantastic institutions in the UK there were already a number of significant companies operating this space. We couldn't see the number of innovative new companies emerging that we that we expected to say on the E. found in in somewhat more mature ecosystems like the US, and and to some extent Israel, so we started, Ceylon and Ceylon was A. In early days and experimental accelerator modeled to some extent on programs like Y combinator, but dedicated to Cybersecurity, so we initially Ranna three month program in London, and it's really grown from there and over the last five years we've. We've run ten programs in London and four programs in Singapore and we've had with one hundred companies come through those programs, and so we we spend our. We spend our day odd as in running those programs finding and supporting those entrepreneurs, and then, and then continuing that that support once they leave the program. Can you give us some insights on the state of Cybersecurity and entrepreneurship there in the UK? Yeah well I think it's developed. significantly certainly over the the ten years. That we've been really focusing on this and. Definitely we've seen that. Over the five years we've been running ceylon there really wasn't a a community of of of cybersecurity startups here in the UK back in in the first part of the last decade. We we've helped to capitalize that community here, and there is now a thriving startup ecosystem right across the range of technologies, but definitely in cybersecurity. And I think there are now there are some really quite successful companies that have been set up and developed here over the past five years, and it's now very much part of a a broader technology system here in the UK. And part part of the reason for that is that? The UK has a good reputation in this space, but it's also a a good place to to set up a business if you'll from somewhere else It's been a draw for talent. globally and we certainly saw that in in cybersecurity. We could see the talent. In cybersecurity was was very much distributed around the world. It wasn't just an isolated pockets, and and we found in. Many people wanted to come and. Join our program and get the business started in the UK, and as a result there now you know tens, if not hundreds of of interesting small companies in this field. Is there, even a geographic advantage of of being where you are. I'm thinking you're sort of you. Know equidistant to S- to some of the other important centers of cybersecurity. There's no question. I think you know. Greenwich Meantime has been a competitive advantage for the UK in many different areas of a of business and finance. Over the centuries I think it gives us a genuine advantages being as you say, in time term sort of equidistant between. The economies of the of the of the Americas and those of The Middle East Asia, and that definitely that definitely helps you know having the the economies of Europe on on our doorstep, and you know the last forty years at least strong connections to those economies has been helpful. London has been a melting pot for anybody trying to start a business seek finance and I. Think you know the world the world does come to London or at least it did until we were hit by the pandemic I. Think it will nonetheless emerge from the current crisis is one of the world's great global cities, and and so you know geography masters in Business and certainly been helpful to the development of the cyber ecosystem here.
The Leader
Britons will be able to holiday in France, Spain and Italy from NEXT WEEK
"The UK could get foreign holidays back to selected destinations, but travel John the Simon Calder, his not impressed. And Bournemouth beach they partied in thirty degree heat like social distancing didn't exist. Be Two meters, or what with mitigation? It's like the Mediterranean, said the weather to remind us of what we're missing out on. At least for now it's report. The government's being busy signing up deals with countries like Spain and Italy that a let British people travel there without having to go through quarantine. Perhaps as soon as July fourth, it could be a lifeline, an industry that feared it could lose up to twenty billion pounds, but travel John Simon calder. His not convinced joins me now this as the so-called air bridges, just a rumor. What do we actually know about what's happening? We know that this is an extraordinary episode in government by League. It's now I think eight weeks since dominic. Cummings came back from his to <hes> Dharam and saw that the judgment was in some disarray and unpopularity over the number of. Deaths and decided that. It was time for an eye catching <hes> policy and he decided that quarantine would be the right way to go, even though of course at that stage, the rate in the UK, thank goodness was declining and only international medical is. There's no point. In current in on a blanket basis. When you're in decline and Sarah lots the other countries around the world, and set the around Europe, since we've just had neak after leak after leak, and some of them almost comedic say that we got the Communist announcement on the tenth of May and then immediately we got to kind of the CAN. It's actually an official government announcement. Saying well, of course, this doesn't apply to France and then that was quietly withdrawn. And then we have on this morning and I make it six days to July millions of <hes> policymakers and hundreds of thousands of the travel industry work workers simply do not know if foreign holidays will take place this summer. It is an extraordinary state of affairs and. All I know is what I'm hearing from various rumors in the industry, some of them when employees some of them pure guesswork, but not. Is that on Monday the? Department of. Transport will announce. A list of. Eight or ten destinations that you can travel to probably starting on the fourth of July, and probably the Foreign Office will change of guards against Auburn. Essential Travel, but we know that from older lakes we have been given a very very difficult guidance, so the countries that are on this list include places like France Spain. Italy! Greece, all popular tourist destinations for dealing anymore actually go Simon de think that the fears over Luna virus abated so much that people will willingly Kevin Aeroplane and head off to a tourist hotspot. Far Safer Agree Thailand in the zoos of Portugal which has nil rate at the moment sauce safer than you would in them, and while the government's insists that policy is informed by the science. The scientists aren't spoken to say this is the most Balmy thing. We've ever heard of the best way to get the rates down in the UK a get. The prevalence in the UK is for millions of people to go on holiday veto, less dangerous places, and so the government's move. Who's actually had counterproductive? Silently will increase the number of cases inside the gifts in the UK, but since it's a political stunt rather than serious policy. That's just I was gonNA say seeing consequences it was. Pretty foreseeable or anybody, he sorted through. There will serve NEPEAN and I. It will be much minister people going abroad. I, think trump ripley. <hes> the majority of people thinking just leave it so twenty twenty. And the still a very substantial minority who would love to go abroad and are simply. Profoundly frustrated at the way that the government has had will eight weeks decided to bring this dominate. Cummings decided to bring in and. We still apparently going to see a weekend of frantic phone calls between different governments you. You really couldn't make it up, it is. Often covering travel for a thousand years and have never ever seen. Government causing so much grievous. To the industry, most time traveled to skits only. It's <hes> did a great holidays. Fantastic value make lots of money creates loss of jobs and the government. Let's. Let's say Bieber at the moment. The government is <hes>. If sex out to to as much damage as possible to the UK traveler district, it's difficult. See how they could have done any more than I do now it's. It's it's. Shameful but secondly just tragic for the people in the travel industry <hes> desperately trying to rebuild and say jobs and assigned thing for the people who will die they county councillor in more responsible for tourism tells me. He's really worried that it will call us home because people will stay out they'll. Take, an infection oval the boldly government. Decisions during this crisis, this is. Probably the most damage
The Leader
Britons will be able to holiday in France, Spain and Italy from NEXT WEEK
"The UK could get foreign holidays back to selected destinations, but travel John the Simon Calder, his not impressed. And Bournemouth beach they partied in thirty degree heat like social distancing didn't exist. Be Two meters, or what with mitigation? It's like the Mediterranean, said the weather to remind us of what we're missing out on. At least for now it's report. The government's being busy signing up deals with countries like Spain and Italy that a let British people travel there without having to go through quarantine. Perhaps as soon as July fourth, it could be a lifeline, an industry that feared it could lose up to twenty billion pounds, but travel John Simon calder. His not convinced joins me now this as the so-called air bridges, just a rumor. What do we actually know about what's happening? We know that this is an extraordinary episode in government by League. It's now I think eight weeks since dominic. Cummings came back from his to <hes> Dharam and saw that the judgment was in some disarray and unpopularity over the number of. Deaths and decided that. It was time for an eye catching <hes> policy and he decided that quarantine would be the right way to go, even though of course at that stage, the rate in the UK, thank goodness was declining and only international medical is. There's no point. In current in on a blanket basis. When you're in decline and Sarah lots the other countries around the world, and set the around Europe, since we've just had neak after leak after leak, and some of them almost comedic say that we got the Communist announcement on the tenth of May and then immediately we got to kind of the CAN. It's actually an official government announcement. Saying well, of course, this doesn't apply to France and then that was quietly withdrawn. And then we have on this morning and I make it six days to July millions of <hes> policymakers and hundreds of thousands of the travel industry work workers simply do not know if foreign holidays will take place this summer. It is an extraordinary state of affairs and. All I know is what I'm hearing from various rumors in the industry, some of them when employees some of them pure guesswork, but not. Is that on Monday the? Department of. Transport will announce. A list of. Eight or ten destinations that you can travel to probably starting on the fourth of July, and probably the Foreign Office will change of guards against Auburn. Essential Travel, but we know that from older lakes we have been given a very very difficult guidance, so the countries that are on this list include places like France Spain. Italy! Greece, all popular tourist destinations for dealing anymore actually go Simon de think that the fears over Luna virus abated so much that people will willingly Kevin Aeroplane and head off to a tourist hotspot. Far Safer Agree Thailand in the zoos of Portugal which has nil rate at the moment sauce safer than you would in them, and while the government's insists that policy is informed by the science. The scientists aren't spoken to say this is the most Balmy thing. We've ever heard of the best way to get the rates down in the UK a get. The prevalence in the UK is for millions of people to go on holiday veto, less dangerous places, and so the government's move. Who's actually had counterproductive? Silently will increase the number of cases inside the gifts in the UK, but since it's a political stunt rather than serious policy. That's just I was gonNA say seeing consequences it was. Pretty foreseeable or anybody, he sorted through. There will serve NEPEAN and I. It will be much minister people going abroad. I, think trump ripley. <hes> the majority of people thinking just leave it so twenty twenty. And the still a very substantial minority who would love to go abroad and are simply. Profoundly frustrated at the way that the government has had will eight weeks decided to bring this dominate. Cummings decided to bring in and. We still apparently going to see a weekend of frantic phone calls between different governments you. You really couldn't make it up, it is. Often covering travel for a thousand years and have never ever seen. Government causing so much grievous. To the industry, most time traveled to skits only. It's <hes> did a great holidays. Fantastic value make lots of money creates loss of jobs and the government. Let's. Let's say Bieber at the moment. The government is <hes>. If sex out to to as much damage as possible to the UK traveler district, it's difficult. See how they could have done any more than I do now it's. It's it's. Shameful but secondly just tragic for the people in the travel industry <hes> desperately trying to rebuild and say jobs and assigned thing for the people who will die they county councillor in more responsible for tourism tells me. He's really worried that it will call us home because people will stay out they'll. Take, an infection oval the boldly government. Decisions during this crisis, this is. Probably the most damage
Morning Edition
Germany confronts Russian ambassador over cyberattack
"Germany has called in the Russian ambassador to officially condemn a twenty fifteen cyber attack on Germany's federal parliament and fears rob Schmitz reports from Berlin Germany's state secretary of the federal foreign office Miguel Berger told Russian ambassador to Germany Sir again and check if that he strongly condemned the hacker attack he also told the chair of the E. U. is candy is a cyber sanctions regime against those responsible for the attack Berlin has struggled with increasingly bold activities by Russian spies on German soil NPR's rob Schmitz
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British Airways suspends all China flights due to coronavirus outbreak
"British Airways says its suspending all flights to and from mainland China with the corona virus continuing to spread in that country the virus is blamed for at least one hundred thirty two deaths in China in nearly six thousand confirmed cases NPR's Frank Lange fit is in London British Airways said the cancellations are in effect until Friday is it assesses the situation be a dot com the airline's website is not offering any direct flights to mainland China for the rest of January or February the allied flights to Hong Kong are affected the decision comes after the UK's foreign office warred against all but essential travel to China with a corona virus continues to spread other airlines have also alter their flight schedules to
Reveal
White House sends Congress formal notification of Soleimani strike
"The White House has formally notified Congress of a US strike that killed a top Iranian military general NPR's colleague or solace reports congressional leaders received a formal classified document notifying them of the drone strike that killed the dance Major General Qassem Soleimani house speaker Nancy Pelosi said the notification quote raises more questions than it answers hello she went on to say that the document props Yuri synergen questions about the timing manner in justification of the administration's decision the president is required to notify Congress of foreign military action within forty eight hours so the money was killed early Friday in Baghdad by a U. S. drone strike he don has vowed revenge for the killing all president trump has said the US will respond to any retaliation cloudy Seles NPR news Washington the president elaborated on possible US actions in a series of tweets last night he said if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets his administration has targeted fifty two Aronian sites representing the fifty two Americans taken hostage by Iran many years ago he wrote we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before the body of solo money was returned to Iran today thousands of mourners were there for its arrival in Iraq the parliament there is holding an emergency session to discuss the killing security concerns are heightened throughout the Middle East Britain is issuing new travel warnings for Iraq and Iran the marker has more Britain's foreign office is advising UK nationals to avoid all travel to Iraq outside of the Kurdistan region and to avoid all but essential travel to Iran following the death of silly money the BBC reports the US didn't give prime minister Boris Johnson advance warning of the air strike that killed Iran's top military man former Foreign Secretary Jeremy hot calls that regrettable but he also says the US may have wanted to avoid putting the UK in the difficult position of having to weigh in on the decision taken by its closest
FT News
New UK government brings change and uncertainty
"Week's UK general election saw. Boris Johnson. Lead the Conservative Party to its biggest victory in over thirty years instantly the value of the pound and UK case stocks jumped now that election excitement has died down. We take a look at what to expect from the new government here to discuss this with me on George Polka political editor and Adam. Sampson had a foster. Let's start with brexit given them get brexit done John was the Tory campaign slogan will the UK believing the E. U. at the end of January. And what will that actually mean George. Well certainly expectation is that person will leave on the thirty first of January and the brexit done slogan Surf Bars Johnson extremely well in the campaign captured. I think the mood of the country that whether you're on the remain all the leave side of the debate. There was a bit of a sense that the three and a half years of Political Guinea since the referendum result how to redrawn an end and he's now gone native seat majority which squirrel allow him to deliver his withdrawal bill and to complete the first stage. And it's important to stress the first stage of Brexit on the thirty first of January then of course becomes much more uncomplicated and the real negotiation which is about the future relationship with future trading relationship between Britain and the EU and some people predict that will be even harder and potentially messier and the first part so when will Britain finally leave the EU. In that case well we legally leave on the thirty first of January but then the question is at at. What point do we leave the so-called transition period the standstill arrangement where effectively Britain remains part the same issue trading system under the European Court of Justice? And all the rest of it until a final final agreement is in place now. Boris Johnson has said this week that he will leave on the thirty first of December. Twenty twenty come. What May and indeed he's GonNa put legislation or claws into his withdrawal bill? The will make illegal him to seek an extension of the transition period beyond December. Twenty twenty now. Lots of people doubt whether a really serious trade deal negotiated in such a short space of time. I suspect if there is a trade deal in place by that point it will be very thin one mainly covering goods mainly covering things tariffs and quotas but not fully fledged future relationship that we've been promised and then the second question is if boss Johnson's determined have this new relationship in place on the first of January twenty twenty one. Is it practically possible to have all the systems in place including a new custom system. New checks new border posts a new immigration system potentially all within the space of twelve months. I think that makes an heroic assumption about the ability of white small businesses to make that kind of big adaptations short space of time. And could this also be a rocky time for British unity. The SMP in Scotland is pushing for a second referendum on Scottish independence and Northern Ireland's highlands position could become more precarious as it becomes the border between the EU and the UK. Will indeed. I mean that's one of the ironies of this whole brexit process. Assessed that in taking out of the European Union is Boris Johnson unst itching the United Kingdom of course Scotland and Northern Ireland both very strongly to remain part of the European Union. The fact that there's a resentment north of the border in Scotland about Brexit has created a situation where forty eighth out of the fifty nine seats in Scotland went to the Scottish National Party which wants a second independence referendum in Scotland. Boris Johnson said no so far. But it doesn't take that much. Imagination to concede that Scotland could become a bit like Catalonia with with a grievance festering people demanding the right to have another say on their future and in the case of Northern Ireland. Is You mentioned. Schoener the deal that Boris Johnson struck will leave Northern Ireland effectively within the economic space of the European Union in the customs union but name and the single market therefore the border between the mainland of Great Britain and Northern Island. For the first time and again you know people in Northern Ireland we'll be looking to Dublin or Brussels to protect their interests. SARS the economy's concerned rather than London. It's obvious obvious. That's unraveling the unions certain extent. Boris Johnson calls himself the Minister of the Union that so tightly gave himself after became prime minister. But that's going to be a big job for him and number ten to try to keep the Union of the UK together. Also the same even European Union now the conservative manifesto sketched out plans for constitutional institutional change. So what differences. Can we expect to see well a slightly strange page forty eight which is quite slight infamy in In politics where it talks about a whole range of constitutional changes whether it's the future of the House of Lords or the relationship between parliament and the Supreme Court which of of course famously became very heavily involved in British politics in the autumn and stop Boris Johnson closing down parliament's at a crucial moment in the brexit process. So there's lots of unspoken unspoken intent there about doing something about changing the system. If you like and Boris Johnson's chief advisor Dominic Cummings is basically a revolutionary who thinks the British. The system is bust. He thinks that the Brexit vote illustrated the distance that a grown up between many parts of the UK left behind person if you like 'em the elites that run the country whether it's in the media or the courts or the politicians and he wants to turn it on its head now part gets in. This mission is an open question. That's going to be a review of constitutional setup up in the country which will take at least a year. It'll be interesting to see how far postal prepared to go down that route. But certainly there's a real energy and almost revolutionary zeal about the people around Boris Johnson number ten and within government. A new business department and changes to foreign aid are on the cards. What are these going to look like well? That's the other thing that's Dominic Cummings. Mister Johnson's advisor wants to do. He previously worked as an adviser in whites-only thinks that basically the British civil services Pretty hopeless he thinks they they tolerate failure. There's lots of blame passing no reward for imaginative thinking and he wants to turn the British system on its head as well and one of the things that traditionally percents proud of his value has a permanent civil service which carries on doing the job. Even when there's a change of government very different of course to the American system where you have a complete sea change in Washington every four years potentially but Dominic Cummings said in the past. He thinks that's civil. Servants should be fight if they do about Joplin generally for life at the moment and he's also talking about a a big change in the number of government departments. So you mentioned that two of the most interesting ones. One is the idea of folding into the Foreign Office the Department of International Development which has a very big budget thirteen in billion pounds burst Johnson. Things could be better deployed inside. The Foreign Office is part of a wider global Britain foreign policy and business policy on the other one is the idea of turning the business department much bigger department covering international trade for example almost like a department of economic affairs pushing this agenda. That boss Johnson has trying finds a push wealth out of the prosper southeast of the UK out to the North and the Midlands. Now if I can turn to you Adam how has the business community reacted into this conservative. Victory sure so business. Confidence was very very subdued for a while for a year and a half in the run-up to this election over brexit over the gridlock. So I I think. The community breathed a collective sigh of relief. I least that Boris Johnson has a decisive victory. He has a majority he can push things through a lot of business. Leaders leaders reason the phrase clarity on policy that kind of thing it also averts a no deal outcome at least in the short term over the next several months. I think that was all seen as as a positive however I think there are many longer term doubts as far as what this is going to look like George. You mentioned earlier that it's very unclear as to whether there's going to be another cliff edge brexit in in a few months from now so I think well people are cautiously optimistic in the business community at the moment. There's a lot of doubts about what this looks like in the long run. So so what will the new government mean for business. Can we expect to see a tidal wave of investment after Brexit as Boris Johnson has promised so kind of said there there may be a short-term boost in investment. That just been like you said pent up. You know in the months of gridlock and over brexit concerns and it may be that boost growth in the short run as well. Maybe over the next few quarters early next year but again there's a lot of doubt as to what exactly the economy looks like go into the end of next year whether we have a rerun of exactly this drama that we saw over the past few months taking place again and there's just the economic forecast is shrouded in doubt at the moment I would say and what has been the reaction to the election in the markets so the mercury actions been quite interesting sterling. Shot up more than two percent after the exit poll on Thursday. They night a really big rise for a currency like the pound. The next day you K- markets were up substantially especially domestic facing stock so homebuilders her certain banks companies. That were at risk of nationalization from Jeremy Corbin's plans but what we've seen after that is a significant fall back in the pound found in fact the pounds now given up all of its gains from after the election outcome over those doubts about what exactly brexit's going to look like and I think specifically this I did there may be a cliff. Edge Breaks Leumi now at the end of two thousand twenty and Just you know these persistent doubts about what Boris Johnson's political plans will be. We still have uncertainty going forward. It looks like it seems like there's deep uncertainty among investors and business executives. Well thanks George and thank you Adam and thank you for
Balance of Power
Trump: 'Ahead of schedule' on China trade deal
"President trump is in Chicago meeting with police chiefs today but on his way he told reporters that things are looking up for US China trade deal we're about I would say a little bit ahead of schedule maybe a lot ahead of schedule probably will sign it still this is Ian Bremmer he's founder and president of the Eurasia group so we're ahead of schedule it says Ian do we believe him in the sense that he's moving quickly to something he can announce sure we believe them in the sense that it's an actual deal that will bring the country's closer together on trade or technology or Hong Kong or South China Sea the answer is no the the Chinese recognize that the United States and from a particular under much more pressure than they were a few months ago given the economy softening given elections coming up and giving the growing impact of the trade war they're prepared to wait this guy out so what they have on offer is really exactly where they were several months ago it's buying limited amount of American AG in return for no escalation of of further terrorist and I don't think we are much more than that why would the Chinese be willing to wait and see what's behind door number two given what some of the democratic candidates for president and saying I haven't heard a lot of warm noises about China coming out any no that's true but they they do feel that trump is not to be trusted they feel them she is Jim paying has felt that he's given away a fair amount of political capital try to get a deal done particularly the Osaka G. twenty meeting this summer and it didn't work out for him and secondarily the fact that they don't believe that trump has a lot of ammunition left so it doesn't hurt the Chinese to play a waiting game it doesn't mean that the next president whether it's trump or whether it's a damn is going to be easy to work with but they do hope that they'll be more regularized more normalized relationship between the two and that's something the Chinese to prepare to wait on so we've been really consumed with things from all but Daddy's death in the raid to what's going on Argentine things like that so this may have missed the fact that China is having a little bit of a meeting right now going on the most import they have of the year the plan is going on how does present she go into that meeting what is his political support as it were with his own teeth between team I would say it looks like of the not very controversial I mean although a lot of people that are saying oh my god the Chinese economy is slowing that means we should expect to see big noises to see them stimulate the economy more insure this growth redouble efforts to expand employment they're not doing that they they feel comfortable going below six percent growth they feel comfortable with their present levels of corporate debt the allowing of some small number of organizations to go bankrupt but in a very regularized way this is not a country that feels like it is in any way in crisis mode if what what they're doing I would say is simply making sure that there's a conversation between those that want to have a harder line directly towards the Americans and those that want to see more reconciliation but this is not the kind of schism we've seen historically towards is it reform or is it you know retrenchment of state capitals in the torture an ism Shizhen pains way which is we're not politically reforming and by the way we're going to go our own way one technology it won't be aligned with the Americans we have our own way on architecture won't be alone with Americans that is a consolidated consensus view in China right now we will see that coming out of this planet part of president she's way which differs from the way of his predecessors really has been being much more bold in his language about the role of China in the world for many years we heard old we're not that big a country and yes this is a big prison she has a very different approach to were reports that some people with his own party were very concerned about that thought he'd gone too far too fast yeah I mean I like I remember when I was speaking at the Chinese embassy to the entire staff with the ambassador there in Washington and I was making the point that I thought your respective of what the Chinese government was doing on artificial intelligence that Shizhen pangs effort to say that we will lead the world by twenty thirty was a bad idea that that just P. R. perspective like why would you suddenly want that target on your back and get all these other countries including Americans focused on the fact that we've got a nascent real competitor that wants to knock us off in China and the funny thing was in that group and they were you know a hundred hundred fifty people there there were people actively I mean permanent staffers high level staffers of the Chinese foreign office vigorously nodding with that take so that there is a disagreement internally on how much the Chinese want to be assertive around this new found power in in in an environment where there's more of a power vacuum with Americans don't want to do as much when no one else is capable do the Chinese want to step up or do they want to still say no we're not ready for leadership we're still poor I think that the patriotism that she's in pain has been ginning up that we were a leading global economy until the nineteenth century the west took us over for a hundred fifty years and now it's our time again it works on the streets but it makes a lot of the leads in China deeply uncomfortable this is a president trump has been drawing back in various parts around the world and he's been very sort of a China when it comes to trade but he's made no secret the fact he doesn't want our troops in as many places doesn't wanna be asserting ourselves and say does that leave something of vacuum were encouraged prison G. in his direction well a bomb is done the same when we talk about how much Obama wanted a footprint in the Middle East and he was the guy that did the pivot to Asia didn't work out very well he's the guy that said I want to you know will surge in Afghanistan but we want the troops out we want to end the war in Iraq I think the thing that trump ads on top of that is his assertive indifference to long term American alliances and architecture that he believes those relationships are transactional and that provides a lot more space for the Chinese where they say you see this is the way it works you can't trust the Americans more than you can trust us all countries come out this only in terms of they're more limited national interest that provides more space for the Chinese to operate and it allows it makes other countries hard pressed not to hedge away from the Arab Americans in towards the Chinese who of course are writing the very big checks prison truck needs to get reelected next year he wanted very badly to what extent will he trim his sails and declare victory in retreat and what comes to US China trade he's already doing it I think that if you look at the and now instrument that he made a couple of weeks ago that you know fees a of the D. O. was already there when there was no such thing there was nothing sign comes because he feels a level of urgency why did he suddenly want to pull out the troops in Syria with such urgency what's he doing with the north Koreans looking for a third you know summit all around the world that's what you see from the president
Between The Lines
Boris' battle for Brexit
"Brexit circus continues in the UK and it's been more than threes since the biggest ever democratic vote in British history threes since more than thirty three million people went to the polls in a referendum threes since that vote authorize Britain's departure from the EU and yet Britain has filed to leave why I remember Boris Johnson's Dude manifesto deliver unite and defeat was the perfect acronym for election campaign since unfortunately it spills done but they forgot the final e my friends either energize. I say I say to all the dodgers dude food. We are going to the country. We're GONNA get Brits. It does deliver. WE'LL BREXIT is likely to be delayed again. Unite well as Britain conservatives who are divided more than ever defeat will. It's Boris who suffered several parliamentary defeats in the past week and energize is well. It's the reminders at least those in Westminster who are in so what on earth is going on so I'm in heaven is a high profile British commentator Haida and historian of more than three decades. He writes a regular column in the daily and Sunday Telegraph as well as the New Statesman. He's also a professor of history at the university city of Buckingham his new book staring at God version nineteen fourteen two nine hundred nineteen. That's published by Random House this month salmon. Welcome back to Irun. Thank you very much tom now. Give us a sense of where things stand with brexit well. We're supposed to believe in the European Union on the thirty first of October but apartment passed a law last week which was nothing to do with the government. It was the day that the opposition seize control of business in parliament of the law was to force Boris Johnson as prime minister to go to Brussels to ask for an extension until the thirty first of January he has said since then he won't do it if he doesn't do it he's breaking the law and he could be held in contempt of court and sent to prison so we're waiting to see what happens of course if he does go ask for the the extension. His credibility is completely torpedoed because ever since he started to fight his campaign for the Tory leadership in the summer it was on the basis that we would be leaving as he said do all die on the thirty first of October and if he does Austrian extension there's no guarantee also that the European Union will grant it it has it has to be grounded by unanimity of the other twenty seven members and they've been briefings over the last weekend from France that President Mackerel thinks we're just wasting wasting our time and the two where taking the Mickey out of the European Union. We leave immediately. We'll get to that in a moment but back to boras use side that he's credibility they will be damaged if he supports deadline of past the Halloween deadline of toby thirty one but surely some blog you'd that he's credibility is damaged because he has is expelled from the party twenty. One reminder rebels yeah. He's had a very difficult couple of weeks because he's strategist school dominic cummings who isn't isn't a member of the Conservative Party and isn't elected by anybody who has taken a scorched earth approach to those in the Conservative Party who oppose the idea that we might leave without a deal and Cummings Senator Johnson ten days ago have a force of Eight on this. If you lose the vote then throw out anybody who from your inside inside events against you and he is thrown out twenty one people including several former cabinet minister to X. Chancellors of the Exchequer an excellent translator and Nicholas serves Winston Churchill's grandson this caused tremendous outrage in in the Conservative Party in the country scorched earth tactics worthy of Donald Trump and that play will in a parliamentary. It's read democracy. It's very difficult and particularly in our parliamentary democracy add in Arkansas Seventy party whether there's always been ided individual constituency associations associations who choose candidates to become. MP's are independent of the center and can do more or less what they want and this is a very centralist almost dictatorship issue style way to run a political party which doesn't what one of the democracy okay well. The Commons has essentially overridden the prime minister by extending this deadline three months past October October thirty one but as you said before and as the support of all of the European Union governments what's the French likely to do well. France is is a problem and the European Union is not happy ship that the its adherence lighter percentages whenever there's an opinion poll in France it's neck and neck about whether French themselves ought to stay in the EU really yeah because they feel that this national sovereignty and their identity is French. People has been compromised by this also. They didn't like the fact act that they like the Germans are subsidizing other poorer countries who des necessary share all values in the suddenly anywhere near economically successful missile defenses in France the sixth biggest economy in the world we in Britain to the fifth so there's a lot of unrest about the European Union about interference in French live but President Macron Macron who of course his enemies early forties aspires to be the leader of Europe Anglo muckleshoot twenty five years older than him hasn't been well recently. She's twice while almost fainted in public appearances is standing down at the next election and she may not last much longer and it'd be a vacancy for the key player in Europe and macrumors to be that keyplayer he has a program he has a an idea of greater integration an almost federalization of Europe and he knows that written. If it were to stay in your opinion it will be completely opposed to that and so he wants personnel descriptors from your perspective from the perspective of other Conservative brexit tease you think the French could rescue rescue you by rejecting the the extension of the deadline yeah quite conceivable. They've changed their tune two or three times on this but then as recent word to come out of you've Paris last weekend was the British if granted a three-month extension would simply wasted. They've got no plan. There's negotiations getting on they haven't got a strategy to solve the problems that were in the deal that tourism April at Parliament in which was defeated three times because of its inadequacies and so the French are saying that foreign minister only real who spoke Sunday they're saying through him. We think the British had enough and we want to get them out so just say the French do due indeed reject this feel now that means that Britain will leave on October thirty one but still it just seems a fire that the only thing the British government is is doing at the moment and has been doing the lotteries is brexit. That's right. Actually it's an advertisement for what a wonderful thing that is not have government thing about the Belgium's about ten years ago and they didn't have government. That's right for about a year. I think we've we've we have passed laws in our country that I can remember. We've taken this different initiatives chiefs. We've just let people get on with this. Unemployment in Britain is about four and a half percent now. people frankly are unemployed in Britain. People whose health is cy battle junkies kids who just haven't called the brain power to get work. Everybody else go to job We've got very low inflation. We've got low interest rates. We're doing really well as a country economically and we are reasonably happy ship. It's really really brexit. It's appropriate. Maga Salmon Hefford the distinguished British columnist and historian. Let's turn to Boris Johnson. Someone you've known reasonably well over the last the best part of three decades in journalism now the Tory grassroots they love him. They voted for him to be their leader by warming the numbers you're leading conservative but you not like Boris Johnson. Why I Boris Johnson is a person. Who is you say I've known for years? A He is someone who has a very casual relationship with the truth he's known in the Labor Party. They put up tweets about him. Where they call Lavar Johnson I would get on Saturday but he certainly you finds the truth of difficult concept at times and I didn't think he's probity or the attention to detail all seriousness to be prime minister and the fact that he came into this office immediately cle- employed Mister Cummings as strategist and appeared to hand over the whole policy to him to do as immediately followed the as I say the scorched earth strategy suggest that Cummings Cummings his opponents rather than seeking to persuade the more reasonable him he just says because you're opposed to me you are clearly a worthless human being and I'm going. We're going to talk like Steve Bannon in the United States signed playbook but he's got more power than Steve Bounded had so this is this is very when Johnson was mayor of London. He had eight pitchy matters because he was notoriously idle. I'd had the attention to detail so he had to other people Lynton crosby officer Lynton of course was a former liberal rule and conservative party strategists seen all these well. Linson ran Boris Johnson's leadership election campaign and Boris Johnson wanted silence and when he collected his check which is a large one compact himself on the back of having a very successful job I didn't they with a Linson is still a a guiding Boris. There's been a word that he is but I presume has a general election and Boris Johnson has been trying to call on become get a majority sufficient in parliament eleven to approve that decision. Linda will be back in Blighty helping to run the election cabinet the many conservative voters and members of the Tory party the longtime readers of the Daily Telegraph often cruelly called the Tory graph they would read you and they might ask you does your hostility towards awards Boris out. Why your support for Brexit. No I really the thing I want most in life at the moment as an Englishman is for my country to be independent of European Union again I am hostile to Boris Johnson because I think he's very good record as a politician he was really second rate mayor of London where he wasted almost money the money and he was a truly bad foreign secretary he was a really I mean his officials at the Foreign Office absolutely detested him and he couldn't be trusted with any serious foreign policy. Theresa may continue to deal with the European policy with the policy towards America. He was allowed to go just places like darkest Africa unimportant to the Far East and shake hands there so he's he's not a capable politician. He hasn't got a grasp of detail and he's not serious and his response if you ask him a question he can't answer is to tell a joke. That's not good enough. I can't but he's defenders say he can unite the Party and in fairness opinion polls do show support for the conservative surging from twenty percent on the horizon May to thirty five percent under Boris add to that this is a point that phrase and Nelson the editor of the spectator. Mike's at two that the twelve percent support for the Briggs potty and you've got basically half the nation backing either Boris or Nausea Farraj saw even if the polls were to be tomorrow's election results you'd end up more or less with a fifty the strong majority for the Conservatives many people would say that's the best conservative results since Margaret Thatcher's third election victory in ninety seven well. There's a crucial assumption in which is an assumption rather than the facts in Fraser Nelson has jumped the gun on this and that this depends on there being a coalition between the Brexit Party and the Conservative Party is no oh such coalition at this stage at this stage but Nigel Farrell said the other day when Johnson went to see a variety of the Irish prime minister that he would regard leaving the European European Union without the deals offended of statecraft the minute that far out her that he said he's not serious about leaving without a deal therefore we can't do a deal with him. Okay Okay but just as soon there is a deal between Boris and Nargile Farraj between the Conservatives and the Brexit party this doing pretty good position because more than four hundred parliamentary entry states voted late in two thousand sixteen correct which is a lot more levers. That's true you must forget that there is a tribal determination of Labor Party vote. It is to fight for Labor Party even if it doesn't properly stand for Brexit so although Farrell she's very good at persuading working class former Labor voters to join the Brexit bandwagon had wagon we call it assume that they will also it's quite the puzzle says show a massive resurgence and support for the Liberal Democrats who are any two points behind the Labour party who basically written off when Cameron majority in two Thousand Fifteen yes and in twenty seven. I think they only had about twelve. MP's seventeen they WANNA by-election and they've had defections actions to them and I would confidently predict the Liberal Democrats win a lot of seats remain a tourism probably third of ill Tory party remains will vote for awesome in large quantities a lot of right wing. Labor people will them and quantities and the other problem that Johnson has got is it. He's loses his seats in Scotland because he's alienated. The Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson who retired at the age of about thirty eight last week saying that she'd had enough well. How vulnerable is Boris. I mean he has a majority in the Commons and I think you've argued elsewhere that he's hauled on his own. Marginal seat Ish Shakira era is what a majority of five thousand outs bridge which is a very mixed seat demographically in the West of London too high immigrant population many of whom are working working class middle class and not necessarily natural Conservative Party supporters of the Labor Party already flooding activists since oxbridge to to canvas and to try to defeat him so he could struggle to hold his seat but I think more than that the some of the things that he's Don John have really aggrieved people who supported him the early prorogation people thought the Queen in an embarrassing position the he's called call six votes on things such as calling a general election twice and other questions. He's lost all six of them. I don't see necessarily he's certain either to win the election far from it or even to hold his own seed. Well I mean this is a moving story and we clearly are in uncharted waters a back. Is it possible that brexit might not even happen. I've got about obviously if it doesn't happen it will be because he is. GonNa ask for an extension on what is being granted in those seconds as I say he's finished. He's in Party will turn on him. They that's not what they put him in there to do. Also it means that we will talk Frenchman so if we stay in until the study FESTA January. There's got to be some rapid footwork to get a deal together with the probably will be no extension after that. If we get a general election at a new party come in a policy of government then they might well call a second referendum the Labor Party at talking about doing that but the Labor Party is as divided if not more divided than the Conservative Party so we concentrate towards the party of government is a moment but Corbyn's is Labor Party isn't a real mess and they're far from shore to call the second referendum so we woke feticide the most lineup parliamentarians are reminders but a pretty significant segment
THE NEWS with Anthony Davis
Boris Johnson loses his majority.
"Coming up on the News Boris the Johnsons Conservative Party loses its majority in parliament. UK currency volatile as investors try to gauge Brexit exit risks and cancer is now the biggest middle aged killer in rich nations. It's Tuesday September three three. I'm Anthony Davis British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and suffered key defections from his party today losing a working majority in parliament and weakening his position as he tried to prevent him piece from blocking his brexit plans plans claiming that rebels would diminishing his chances of negotiating a deal with the EU on the day of high drama in the House of Commons politicians return from the summer break to confront Johnson over his insistence that the UK leave the e U on October thirty first even without withdrawal agreement to cushion the economic blow many shouted resign. Johnson's tenuous position became clear even as he spoke in parliament for the first time since it reconvened gened Philip Liam P rose from his chair on the conservative benches and sat down with a Liberal Democrats defection that meant Johnson lost his slim working majority of one that makes Johnson vulnerable should. MP's opt to try to oust him in a vote of no confidence and will complicate the passage of legislation. Leah today to other prominent conservative signalled their intention not to seek reelection rather than bend to Johnson's will all former cabinet minister justine greening and former Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt also signalled their intentions to stand down Jeremy. I mean Coleman leader of the main opposition. Labor party lambasted the weekends Johnson accusing him of riding roughshod over the constitution in order to crash Britain out of the EU without a deal widely considered to be Johnson's preferred outcome changing the government would not be simple a no confidence vote would would spark a fourteen day period in which Johnson could try to overturn the result. If he failed there would be a general election The pounds today touched its lowest level against the dollar since one thousand nine hundred eighty five as international investors fret over a political showdown over brexit this week the British currency fellas low as one dollar and nineteen cents down almost ascent on the day before aw recovering somewhat to one dollars twenty the pound has become the main indicator of international investors confidence in Britain's economy. It's effectively makes British people poorer as they can spend less on travel and foreign goods which become pricier but it also helps British exporters as well as the many multinationals nationals that are based in the country but most of them money in other countries and currencies oil companies like Shell and BP make them money in Dulles around the world converting that back two pounds when they report earnings so the pounds drop is generally a boost to them. That's why the main stock index the footsie one hundred and has actually held up well in the face of the brexit chaos while the pound is down almost seven percent this year the stock index is up eight percent stocks focused based on Britton's own economy however fared more poorly leaving the European Union without a trade deal would cost Britain at least sixteen billion dollars in in lost eighty you sales and probably far more after accounting for indirect effects and other markets. This represents an approximate seven percent loss of overall. UK UK exports to the EU that would include five billion dollars in motor vehicle exports two billion dollars in animal products and a further two billion in in apparel and textiles cancer now causes more deaths among the middle middle aged in higher income countries than cardiovascular disease study suggests globally heart problems and stroke is the leading cause of death at this age but the researchers say people in rich nations a two and a half times more likely to die of cancer than cardiovascular disease in the middle years is in poorer nations. The reverse is true with cardiovascular disease three times more likely to claim the lives. The study published in the Lancet is he's drawn from a global research program following the lives of thousands of people from across twenty. One countries research is led by a team from Canada's McMaster university looked at the fate of one hundred sixty thousand people enrolled in the program between two thousand five and two thousand sixteen cardiovascular disease caused more within forty percent of deaths in middle and low income countries but less than a quarter in high income countries. The researchers say this could be because rich countries trees provide more medication and treat more people in hospital. You can subscribe hi to the news with your favorite podcast APP or ask. Your Smart Speaker to play the news with Anthony Davis podcast leave us a review on I tunes and follow us on twitter attack. At the news underscore podcast for daily updates. The news is an independent production covering politics inequality health and climate delivering honest verified and truthful World News daily.
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"I'm joined by cables and James for safe while James. We're expecting a number of resignations this week. We've already on from Sarah Duncan which we will talk about shortly but yesterday Philip Hammond went on the mall showing confirmed that he was going to resign after Theresa May's final Prime Minister's questions he's jumping before he's pushed isn't he in the whiteboard in Boris Johnson's campaign and during the cabinet is it oh no we had Hammond down for John Throw now. He said he won't serve raises. A more serious points about how he has behaved. I mean there's a very difficult question to answer which is which is he was the chancellor when trees I said no deal is better than a bad deal. He was the chance to win all school. Fifty one votes injuries may kept saying that so it does raise a question about whether he was ever actually committed to the policy of a day of government element of which he was a member where he actually meant it. I also think he's behaving in a deeply irresponsible manner because it is quite clear that whatever you think of it Theresa May's with Griffin is not going to Paul sounds comments so you need to ease off rob some kind of concessional compromise to get this thing through and by what he's doing and the interviews he's giving in the European press on his shenanigans in parliament he is basically saying to you. You do is compromise or for any concession because parliament's elements can stop no deal but as rebel dominic grieve says the only way we see Sir stopping ideal is to bring down and it is not clear yet for they have the numbers so he is paradox the actually making no deal more likely I mean the question you need to think about which is which do you think is worse for the British economy in the short even in the short to medium-term. No deal oracle been government. I think it's a fairly strong case that it is a Corbin government. He's also making that more likely I e P regrettable about the way that moment is paving the moment and it is kind of hard not to think that he is goes into his head that he wants to go down in history for something and and he also is driven. I think bar a personal dislike of Boris Johnson I mean they all they are about as different as characters. Come be and I think there is kind of I think you see it's going to be this is undoubtedly going to be a problem for. I want someone Jeez people for them. How does more technocratic mind almost find offensive and so they feel bound by the normal ties of Lords obligation that people would find to a former cabinet according to become Prime Minister K._t.? Philip Hammond is joining the Google could score. Does it become nine on the back benches of <hes> Torian Dominic grieve like David Goal obviously who are very worried about the consequences of no deal exit. Do you think sees himself as being the ringleader of this new group and if not who else I think he seasons I was having a pivotal role play and certainly to people who are involved. Perhaps on various this what's up groups for being proactive and interesting have those speculation but world theresa may might play but that is not seen as a row where you have some really leading from the front at all you might be able to bring them in a backward way whereas I I think when it comes to Philip Hammond he is someone who's very happy to go and bat for it and you see that has multiple media appearances. I think when you look the with squad and is going to be a wide ranging faction in the sense that perhaps you have ron thirty figures who are sympathetic to the coors the coups being to prevent a no deal brexit but they will have different points of high father willing to go so you mentioned Dominic Grieve Dominic Grieve is in a very small number of the squad in the sense he is willing to vote down the government or at least he has said he is in a will to stop. No deal brexit happened has suggested he might be willing to do that. He hasn't said Faucheux but he could laugh will be in the more hardline element say the bulk of the awkward squad so whether <unk> actually property matters most in the day to day running of Boris Johnson's government before you get to what we think he might be that ultimate showdown but you might have a confidence vote is what can they team up on. Now figures like David Gook I think he uh of azan we expect for example Greg Clark. We don't expect him to resign anticipation but will likely not be in the Boris Johnson Cabinet and fluker join this great when it comes to confidence as its deputy FAA supply SA- cutting off supply seems to be a step too far when it comes to finances so the things that they can team up on would be when you look to what Ambrose described as an activist speaker Joe Becker and he saw that last week with their Perot Gang Amendment Dominic grieve came up with that is. Something people feel much more comfortable going for because it feels like a less drastic mechanism so I think that's where this team can come together and when you look within that you also have a Muharan reports you could as as soon as Boris Johnson is appointed as prime minister barring a big shock for you could have Torri M._p.'s defect to the Liberal Democrats. Now that's different element here. Those people here very pro second referendum the anti no deal shoe but it it goes well beyond and I would say the bulk of the Gook squad have voted for Brexit deal many times free times so there is one way for Boris Johnson to almost end his his problem there which is if he can get change if he can get a due to Vatan this group that the not so hard line in their ears majority that they're not gonNA vote for anything. Boris Johnson comes up with but they do need it to be a deal. I've been the Golden Association from those cases right and then which is if you are working. WE'VE DOMINIC GRIEVE STEVE DOMINATE GREAVES AIM is not to prevent no deal is to have a second referendum into how the U._K.. Remain in the European Union and I mean this is actually a real problem for some members of this group which is essentially when when you choose your political allies here it becomes your message risk getting lost. It risks looking what you're joining move dominant grieve in his attempt to stay in the E._U.. Raleigh than trying to prevent is leaving without a deal and that is going to be a major kind of questionable how his group coheres when varies of stress intention put on that will be put on it when a deal okay for example if a deal does come back do the same gamers and then just ingredients as well still vote against the deal because they want a second referendum and remain all always have as spent so arguing that no deal would would be catastrophic that they would feel obliged to vote for a deal. I mean I think this is their difficulties and contradictions within this group Katie. Tell us about Sir Allen Dunkin's resignation so remiss as of this morning the minister was going to resign today expecting the bulk as for Hamilton the anti nausea to as opposed to have the minimum amount of time between the new prime minister taking over and the being a vacancy in your department. Perhaps a vacancy theresa may try and fill it. It seems now we're getting to the shorter time may just be the vacant so Annan Dunkin decided not wait until Wednesday's. He has gone on Monday morning now. I think this is attracted. Criticism for a number of reasons fest off some have suggested. The Alan Duncan hasn't always been the principal character when it comes to the cools attached himself to sue people point to the referendum when he was in talks about joining the board and then in the end decided apparently because he cannot get a certain position by his name to go for remain and that's what people think he's insincere. I think there is a more practical note here which is it may not be specific brief but clearly what's happening right now. In Iran the crisis in the factories May as haven't have Cobra meetings to to be a Foreign Office minister. Dan Ready have one. He was suspended in field -Unding who's quite busy doing the leadership contest exactly the Foreign Secretary Hughes O._T.. Trying to walk away he is getting Steve if he doesn't have his upset tomorrow. It doesn't really paint this picture of government that is taking a situation completely serious. They and I think it was just absence. Idea which is very easy right now. I tried to haunt you paint the Tory party as warring factions when if you want to be the party of you would think that there is a sense that you need to look at your on top of this I thought it was quite interesting as we've seen Greg Hands Jeremy Hunt supporter today take to social media and and say that he does not support preemptive ramp to resignations and he thinks does play into the hands of Jeremy Kuban so I think it's just Boris Johnson supporters who questioning some of the time yeah we've had some comments from people like Hugh Merryman who's Philip Hammons P. P. S. on Westminster unstrap last night saying that the government basically dropped the ball on the Iran Crisis James. Is it the case that this is about how the government relates to trump will try not to relate to trump in closely. I read this government moment was as it so often has been on the trump. Administration was caught between two stools which is once the U._K.. Via Gibraltar had impounded that Iranian tanker it was point clear for there was going to be Iranian retaliatory action of some sort when you consider the soy's of the Royal Navy at the moment is quickly if British flag shipping wants to be protected against retaliation that was going to need to be active cooperation with the U._S. and what appears to have been the case is that there was a hesitancy about going down that route even though the Americans were suggesting it because they didn't want to look like they were signing up to the full gamut of U._S.. Close John Roberts obviously against the Iran nuclear deal which the U._K.. is in favor of home not having that this is a big strategic confusion on the government's behalf which is once you take a decision to impound that tanker then you had to act to protect your own shipping in the most comprehensive way possible and the seizure of his ship on Friday shows that the Royal Navy simply doesn't clearly is not adequate soy's to do that right now and F. was going to need assistance from the U._S.. Which is the largest navy in the world and so I've been there is there is a question here of of how this was handled and I think if it wasn't for the fact that was storage contest ongoing? This will be a big story. Also the other issue is the Jeremy Corbyn is not exactly Joe. Jeremy Corbyn is taking predictable approach which is everyone should deescalate. What why are we upset? Iranians in the first place approach of his question here I mean there is there is a I mean the government is very vulnerable. Were more focused right on time. which is you made the decision to impound the ship because he believed it was going to Syria and breaking sanctions? You've failed to Defend U._K.. Shipping why and finally we get the result of the LIB DEM leadership contest test the softening Katie expecting Jo Swinson to win or we or is it much closer than it appeared start the contest but I think when it comes to leadership contests mistakes ulcer in the Tory leadership is very hard for the polling often into Western. What is exactly going on is interesting difficult? Speaking to Redemption Bove's is the sense. I think that Jason is more likely to get this biting. The margin is going to be interesting to the case that perhaps it didn't mean every time you speak to lived M._p.. They will tell you how friendly the contest is and how they're absolutely delighted rather not at David J Simpson even basements in will say that should be delighted if adcose obviously has so it definitely has a slightly different dynamic when it comes to and clearly has got attention in the past few weeks while the Tour de contests has been on but it is good to be a very important decision you think about the fact that we could be having an election anytime seeing that he looked Lib. Dem's are in the polls. The EH leader in contrast to re Party is actually inheriting a very positive situation where the party has got to whether or not that's pretty Vince cable assets or luck intangibles having the party until about gay sex. Eh Eh we've got the media fakers which is going to be hard before these leaders than what happened Tim Farron and the general election so I think it would be a surprise of Jo. Swinson didn't get it but ultimately do you get the the sense that whatever happens is not going to be as big upset as tomorrow. If Jeremy Hunt Somehow wins James Davey and Jo Swinson do differ in terms of how they get what they want in a hung parliament scenario scenario you say at Davy for instance would vote for Jeremy Corbyn Queen's speech of a hard legislation for a second referendum in it. Jo Swinson is much less clear on that but it's very uneasy about since she doesn't think you can trust Jeremy Corbyn too so the outcome of this contest is really important isn't it. I was very struck by in your writer for a debate that you took part on quizzing the Swinson and Davey on Friday night of this difficulty for the still skull by coach of what they say and also how they position themselves on the one hand they want to say to remain voters. You can't trust Jeremy Corbyn an inch on the other hand they want to try and create this brewed remain alliance and suggests that they'll they'll do whatever they need to do to stop brexit. They're not worried about their own party. I mean but he's going to be attention. I mean one of the things about general election is but even if general elections before breakfast it won't be for solely on Brexit and it'll be a difficult question former Lib dem's which is the Lib Dem's pro remain position is trucks into them a certain kind of middle class prosperous demographic but are probably probably you but not pro all of the taxes that Jeremy Corbyn with I'd like to place on them and how Lib Dem's navigate that question what was going to unconvincing in your blog. You're saying they were saying oh we'd vote for the Queen speed for them. Vote Down the budget. I kind of that way so I think that as a kind of tricky question also fascinating question which is we'll talk a lot on this bogas about Boris Johnson the polls how him getting a poll bounce with affects things I think is also worth noting gene to see whether the Lib Dem's got any kind of bounce service extra not where they're going to get that much but there's extra coverage a Nudie will get because I think if you look at the decline and support Jeremy Corbyn among Labour members if a new more energetically dome and leader you live in homes Po position is maintained. If Labour's can all regularly coming second in the polls because Boris Johnson is brought back some voices from the BREXIT party.