Community wake up to the challenges presented by chinas manipulation of the longstanding International Rules based order that has benefited all of us for many decades john holl as our correspondent at that conference in munich. You know they say that the Munich Security Conference doesnt provide solutions but it provides platforms for competing narratives to play out weve certainly seen that here in the last hour under the same roof youve got the United States effectively firing the starting gun and missile to a new era of foreign and defense policy naming china as the number one threat to the world and then swiftly followed by the Chinese Foreign minister waving the flag seemingly for multilateralism a concept that seems to be under increasing strain and threat in the west we have the headlines europe has recorded its 1st death from corona virus after an elderly Chinese Tourists died in france the 4th person to die outside of Mainland China and south break has now killed more than 150
Minister is revving up for a major speech on the exit. We dont know when it will be, probably before the Tory Party Conference in the first week of october. It makes the negotiations more difficult on the one hand because it will upset the eu side is even during the transition period for two years after march 2019, even in that time the clamps will come down and low skilled workers will not be able to come to the uk and there will be freedom of movement being curtailed. On the other hand it will please some restive tory mps who want brexit, some labour mps who want it despite the position of their front bench and it will do something to say that even though we have these problems with the eu, we are getting on with it and there is a major after brexit legislation coming in during the autumn and we are determined to get it through parliament. That is what it feels like to most observers i would suggest. And i think it also shows that the tories or certainly some of them think that if th