of a once in a generation chrysler. santa or the white house with a clear authorization for the president to push ahead with unambitious legislative agenda but a major obstacle stands on his way, a right-wing reactionary supreme court with very little public legitimacy. some familiar? this week discipline court wrapped up an immense most controversial terms in american history. scaling back decades of progress in the matter of mere weeks. we ve actually been here before. following a landslide victory in 1936, president franklin d. roosevelt was elected to a second term in office. securing what was, at the time, the largest popular vote tally in american history. fdr s victory sold out of not only a personal win, but a decisive victory for his signature legislative agenda, the new deal. despite the program s popularity amongst the american people, it faced some serious opposition at the nation s highest court, over the years, fdr watched as the supreme court, led by a group
swimming s world governing body votes to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women s events. and judo for peace why the ancient martial art could bring harmony to the townships to south africa. hello, thanks very much for joining us. from left wing guerilla to colombia s first ever left wing president. the former rebel, gustavo petro, once jailed for his role with the m i9 rebel movement, has won 51% of the vote, compared to 47% for his right wing anti establishment opponent, rodolfo hernandez. this was his third presidential campaign and victory comes some 20 years after he was first elected to congress. with more here s the bbc s south america correspondent, katy watson, in the capital, bogota. the atmosphere here in gustavo petro s h0 is electric. people here almost didn t believe it. it was a nailbiter until the very end. this is a historic vote in so many ways that s often used as a real cliche but it s really true he is the first leftist pr
federation, fina, has voted to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women s events. now on bbc news, it s time for political thinking with nick robinson. hello. welcome to political thinking, a conversation with rather than interrogation of someone whose political thinking helps to shape ours. once again, london and brussels are at loggerheads. once again, the row between the uk and the eu is about the status of northern ireland. once again, politics in belfast is deadlocked, with unionists refusing to share power with sinn fein. my guest this week is someone whose life and career is based on a refusal to take sides in that political battle. it is a decision that has paid dividends for naomi long, who leads the alliance party, which won a record number of seats in the recent elections. brought up in one of the most fiercely loyalist parts of east belfast, she insisted that politics should not be defined by whether you want northern ireland to stay in th
competitive furnace. on the road to a republic. we report from jamaica, the latest commonwealth country to lose the queen as head of state. from left wing guerilla to colombia s first ever left wing president. the former rebel, gustavo petro, once jailed for his role with the m 19 rebel movement, has won 51% of the vote, compared to 47% for his right wing anti establishment opponent, rodolfo hernandez. this was his third presidential campaign. with more, here s the bbc s south america correspondent katy watson in the capital bogota. the atmosphere here in gustavo petro s h0 is electric. people here almost didn t believe it. it was a nail biter until the very end. this is a historic vote in so many ways that s often used as a real cliche but it s really true he is the first leftist president that colombia has ever had. and francia marquez will be the first black vice president colombia has ever had, and it s testament to the changes colombians wanted. rodolfo hernandez, h
his coalition, ensemble , lost around a hundred seats, with major gains for both marine le pen s far right party and a new alliance led by far left leaderjean luc melenchon. now on bbc news, it s time for dateline london, with sean ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their own countries from the dateline london. this week, what does international law amount to? on tuesday, judges in british courts decided it was permissible to fly would be asylum seekers to rwanda in east africa because, if the policy is subsequently ruled unlawful, the british government can be relied upon to bring them back again. it was a judge on the european court of human rights whose intervention prevented the flight taking off at all. a day later, lord geidt became the second independent ethics adviser in succession to the prime minister to resign. the government was conside