were killed and eight others injured when parts of a glacier collapsed, sending snow, ice and rock cascading down the slopes of marmolada. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello, and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this is our 1937 moment at least according to general sir patrick sanders, newly appointed head of the british army. his speech this week was a shot across the bows to the politicians attending two national international talking shops the nato summit in madrid and, before that, the g7 in the bavarian alps. both promised to support ukraine for as long as it takes. general sanders was arguing for muscular deterrents, the not very disguised message to presidents and prime ministers being, do you want history to remember you as it remembers neville chamberlain, who delayed war by appeasing hitler but
government and lift all sanctions on the country. the male only meeting also declared that any armed resistance against the militants would be considered a rebellion. now on bbc news, dateline london. hello, and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading uk commentators with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences back home from the dateline london. this is our 1937 moment at least according to general sir patrick sanders, newly appointed head of the british army. his speech this week was a shot across the bows to the politicians attending two national international talking shops the nato summit in madrid and, before that, the g7 in the bavarian alps. both promised to support ukraine for as long as it takes. general sanders was arguing for muscular deterrents, the not very disguised message to presidents and prime ministers being, do you want history to remember you as it remembers neville chamberlain, who delayed war by appeasin
the nato summit in madrid and, before that, the g7 in the bavarian alps. both promised to support ukraine for as long as it takes. general sanders was arguing for muscular deterrents, the not very disguised message to presidents and prime ministers being, do you want history to remember you as it remembers neville chamberlain, who delayed war by appeasing hitler but did not prevent it? liz truss, the uk s foreign minister, seemed to get the message, declaring, we are keen to protect the defence of taiwan against beijing. this in a week when china s president xi jinping visited hong kong 25 years after british control came to an end. he was celebrating its rebirth. the uk isjoint guarantor of hong kong s freedoms. well, that went well, didn t it? in the studio with me, suzanne lynch, an irishjournalist now based in brussels for politico. polly toynbee, who has been writing a weekly column for the guardian since 1988 which means she s seen off six prime ministers so far. an
more than it was tonight, which had some lines about reaching across the aisle by having republicans and democrats stand up and give an ovation that social security and medicare are off the table. that is a visual thing that republicans are not going to touch. and he acknowledged that that s not going to happen. but if it does, he s going to veto. it may take away some of his attack lines on the stump as he leaves around the country tomorrow. you talk about the stump, brad . you know, you were talking right after the speech about how the president said a few times, maybe more than a few times, let s finish the job. let s finish the job. and i m wondering, shannon, if you heard that as well, do you believe this is kind of transitioning into be a campaign speech of sorts? it s possible. i mean, we re all waiting here in washington to find out if he s actually going to run. and i had felt like i think we all had the conventional wisdom was within weeks of getting done with the speech
to mentioning the chinese president , and that at times it was difficult to understand exactly what he was saying trace. yeah, well, he you know, he touched on the subjects were not good for china and the border, and he just touched them and then brushed him aside. that s interesting. the other breaking news is that pbs and cnn hated sarah huckabee. sanders speech. watch this speech. i m trying not to levitate from my chair because there were so many. she leaned so hard into the culture wars that she just slid right into ignorance or as enemies. but as fellow americans, really what her speech was, was, no, let s treat each other as enemies. that was the tone and tenor of the beginning of her speech. tone and tenor of it. joe , your thoughts? yeah. you want to know why these networks have so much trouble attracting an audience? because they are wholly predictable. trace, when you tune in, you knew they would praise biden. you knew that they would bash