there will always be urgentl situations where parliament can't be consulted beforehand. but the principle that if there's to be a sustained campaign, i if we're going to deploy our troops on the ground, that parliament. should be informed, there should be a debate, the case should be made i and there should be a vote, i do stand by that. i mean, yeah, let's be real. the promise was about signalling and it was about signalling that he was anti—war. this was during his leadership campaign where he was trying to portray himself as someone who could offer sort of corbynism without some of the rough edges. he was trying to sort of fuse the politics of his predecessor, jeremy corbyn, the man... he was still running to succeed him, but his predecessor, jeremy corbyn, with something a bit more electable. and this was one of a number of pledges which was designed to signal that he was really quite left wing. and for that, you just need to look at what he said. to look at what he said
historic victory for william lai? absolutely. proto, the man that beijing has described as the troublemaker, the separatist has now been elected as taiwan's new president and he has vowed to maintain the status quo. he has vowed to safeguard taiwan from any intimidation coming from china. so essentially we are looking at similar policies, really, from the soon—to—be predecessor on moving away or asserting there are self—governing stands on moving away from china's orbit, close ties with the united states. in the past hour we have been getting reports from the representation of taiwan in the us, former national security advisor and the former deputy secretary of state will arrive in taipei on the 14th of january. what they didn't
removed under any circumstances in public receive benefits from the government, housing and food stamps, those incentives have to be removed but a large swath of the democratic party see the moves as cool so joe biden doesn't have a lot of room to maneuver around this. >> he's pumped up to congress and said congress has to pass new laws but if you look at his predecessor, numbers of migrants were much lower under donald trump so whatever you think of donald trump, something he was doing had the problem in a place the biden administration has not figured out. >> right and the reality is it's not necessarily new laws needed, is the enforcement of the existing laws. there are laws already on the books donald trump instructed dhs to enforce while presidency that joe biden has not been using to get rid of migrants already here or deter new ones
supplying hamas and all their missiles. a.m. it's working and, "b" we have to modulate our responses to make sure we don't fight too much into it. >> yeah, it's a scary situation that could easily escalate. john miller, ronan bergman, thank you both for your expertise on this. also in washington tonight not even three months into the job tonight house speaker mike johnson is being threatened by some of his own members with potentially the same fate as his predecessor, kevin mccarthy. a republican insider and former freedom caucus member will join us next with that question.
tonight, not even three months onto the job, tonight house speaker mike johnson is being threatened by some of his members with potentially the same fate as his predecessor, kevin mccarthy. is the house gop unleadable? republican insider and former freedom caucus member will join us next t with that t question..
speaker mike johnson to keep the government running while keeping the far right of his conference happy. >> our top line agreement remains we are getting our next steps together. >> johnson who's been speaker for just 80 days being asked by hardliners to back off his deal with democrats for a $1.6 trillion budget. >> i'm vehemently opposed publicly and privately and will continue to do so. >> basically the same deal that took down johnson's predecessor, kevin mccarthy, last fall. >> are you worried that one of these guys is going to make a move on you? >> no. not worried at all. >> in the senate leaders on both sides already gave occupy making a deal by -- gave up on making a deal by next week's deadline and plan to pass another continuing resolution. >> you know, the senate -- the simplest thing, a week in the senate. >> now that mike johnson has said i'm going to ignore the hardliners, i'm going to stick to the deal i made with chuck schumer and the democrats in the senate, how long will he last as
we have shown the world how much we cherish our democracy. this is our unwavering commitment. as one of the first and most highly anticipated elections of 2024, taiwan has achieved a victory for the community of democracies. i am joined now by prof steve tsang, who is the director of the china institute at the school of oriental and african studies in london. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. what difference do you think william lai will make when it comes to governing taiwan, first of all? in terms of governing taiwan, he will not be able to do what his predecessor, the current president, is doing, for the simple reason that his party has failed to win a majority of seats in the legislature, and therefore even
he has used that phrase before — if china were to attack it, he has also made it clear, as has secretary of state antony blinken, that formal independence is not something they would support, so the limbo status quo that we have today is really what is likely to remain. it's been shown that it's probably supported by about 80% of taiwan's own voters. china was worried about william lai and they've said they have concerns about the result, but william lai has actually softened his rhetoric when it comes to formal independence. yes, i think that's more what beijing was hoping for, they were pretty sure that he was going to win. he was odds—on favourite to do so and he has, in fact, won by a pretty clear margin. what they wanted to do was make sure he didn't feel any temptation to push his rhetoric beyond what he had said before and what his predecessor
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>> the pressure is on house speaker mike johnson to keep the government running while keeping the far right of his conference happy. >> our top line agreement remains. we are getting our next steps together. >> johnson, who has been speaker for just 80 days, being asked by hardliners to back off his deal with democrats for a $1.6 trillion budget. >> i vehemently opposed it, publicly and privately. >> it's basically the same deal that took down johnson's predecessor, kevin mccarthy, last fall. >> are you worried that one of these guys is going to make a move on you? >> no, i'm not worried at all. >> in the senate, leaders of both sides already gave up by making a deal by next week's deadline and plan to pass another continuing resolution. >> you know, the senate -- the simplest things take a week in the senate. >> reihan, now that mike johnson has said i'm going to ignore the hardliner, i'm going to stick to the deal i made with chuck schumer and the democrats in the