And Manchester City close the gap at the top of the Premier League with a convincing win, away to brighton. On bbc london. On newsnight at 10 30 p m. This morning, the Surprise News that the snp and Green Coalition collapsing. At bedtime, what is left of homes thats coalition which are marked and what does it mean for the coalition . The snps Power Sharing arrangement, with the scottish greens. He now leads a Minority Government a predicament seized upon by scottish conservatives, whove called a vote of no confidence, which the scottish greens now say theyll back. If he loses the vote, due next week, his position could become untenable barely a year since taking over as First Minister from nicola sturgeon. So, how did it come to this, and could he still cling on . With the very latest, lets joinjames cook, our scotland editor, live in edinburgh. Well, its been a day here of harsh words and of recriminations, of allegations flung, of defences and indeed of some political drama, with the
collapse in the next few days. of course, when we talk about pakistan we talk about afghanistan. many pakistanis are deeply angry over the military presence in the region. here to help us wade through this mess and what it may mean for u.s./pakistan relations is cnn s own foreign affairs expert, fareed zakaria. fareed, thanks for joining us. pleasure. simple question, is pakistan s government going to fall? it might, but it doesn t matter. because what you re talking about is the civilian democratically elected government, which doesn t actually run the country. the pakistani military runs the country, particularly on the crucial issues of national security, internal issues relating to terrorism. on those issues, the structural authority and command remains pretty clear. even if you do have this parliamentary coalition collapsing, what will most likely happen is there will be a re-grouping of some form of you know, there will be a new set of alliances made, a new prime mini
for u.s./pakistan relations is cnn s own foreign affairs expert, fareed zakaria. fareed, thanks for joining us. pleasure. simple question, is pakistan s government going to fall? it might, but it doesn t matter. because what you re talking about is the civilian democratically elected government, which doesn t actually run the country. the pakistani military runs the country, particularly on the crucial issues of national security, internal issues relating to terrorism. on those issues, the structural authority and command remains pretty clear. even if you do have this parliamentary coalition collapsing, what will most likely happen is there will be a re-grouping of some form of you know, there will be a new set of alliances made, a new prime minister probably comes into office. but it won t change that much on the ground. that is the question that was central, every time i was reading these articles. the military controls the nukes. and there s a civilian government separate
pretty clear. even if you do have this parliamentary coalition collapsing, what will most likely happen is there will be a re-grouping of some form of you know, there will be a new set of alliances made, a new prime minister probably comes into office. but it won t change that much on the ground. that is the question that was central, every time i was reading these articles. the military controls the nukes. and there s a civilian government separate and apart from that. but when hillary clinton as secretary of state went over to talk to them about control of the nukes with whom did she deal? well, naturally, you have to deal with both. because there s the fiction that the government a fiction? it s largely a fiction related to nuclear weapons or the issue of whether they will go into the terrorist strongholds. the civilian government does have some authority. i mean, this is not a banana republic, but the truth of the matter is, without think of it as, you know, the turki
even if you do have this parliamentary coalition collapsing, what will most likely happen is there will be a re-grouping of some form of you know, there will be a new set of alliances made, a new prime minister probably comes into office. but it won t change that much on the ground. that is the question that was central, every time i was reading these articles. the military controls the nukes. and there s a civilian government separate and apart from that. but when hillary clinton as secretary of state went over to talk to them about control of the nukes with whom did she deal? well, naturally, you have to deal with both. because there s the fiction that the government a fiction? it s largely a fiction related to nuclear weapons or the issue of whether they will go into the terrorist strongholds. the civilian government does have some authority. i mean, this is not a banana republic, but the truth of the matter is, without think of it as, you know, the turkish military us