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politics in the uk at the moment, do you still have confidence in the prime minister, is he the right person to lead the uk? i have absolute confidence in the prime minister. he s doing a fantasticjob. he has led on. ..delivering on brexit, helping britain recoverfrom covid, we were the first country to fully develop the vaccine and get it rolled out and now he s doing a brilliantjob of supporting ukraine in the appalling war against russia. and the conservatives have just lost two important by elections. should he be considering his position? his role? incumbent governments do tend to lose by elections. that s not a predictor of the future. what we are making sure is that we are getting the economy going, we re helping the economy grow so people have more opportunities, morejobs in the future and that is what will help us secure the next election. and the migrants deal, which has been signed between the uk and the rwandan government has come under a lot of scrutiny, ev ....
vote to go on strike. in afghanistan, the taliban say the search for survivors has been called off, just a day after a devastating earthquake which is thought to have killed more than a thousand people. the earthquake struck early on wednesday about 44 kilometres from the city of khost. heavy rain and the destruction of road and communication network have hampered relief efforts in paktika province the worst hit area. our kabul correspondent secunder kirmani is there, and sent this report. homes reduced to rubble, lives reduced to memories. these were my son s shoes, says agha jan. his three young children were killed in the earthquake as they slept, as well as his two wives. when the roof fell down, what did you do? translation: i ran toward my family, but everything was under the rubble, even my shovel, so i couldn t do anything. i shouted to my cousins, but when we took my family out, they were already dead. it s a three hour drive to the nearest big city from t ....
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the author and journalist yasmin alibhai brown, and kate maltby, columnist for the i newspaper. good evening to you both. the headlines. the financial times which leads with finland and sweden announcing they will bid tojoin nato. it says the move would cause a geopolitical shift in europe. and lots of focus on the belfast telegraph, which boasts an exclusive essay by borisjohnson where he sets out his northern ireland policy. the telegraph, too, covers the ongoing discussions over the northern ireland protocol also featuring a picture of the margaret thatcher statue which was egged after being unveiled in grantham. and it s the same lead story for the independent, which quotes government sources urging the eu to help resolve the protocol standoff. it also shows a picture from protests after the shooting in buffalo in the us. the mirror takes the us massacre as its ....
provoking should worry about whether you re provoking russia too far frankly, we are provoking russia but that we think it s are provoking russia but that we think it s a are provoking russia but that we think it s a wry thing or not, america think it s a wry thing or not, america is think it s a wry thing or not, america is very close to open war with russia. that means what nato is very close with russia. that means what nato is very close to with russia. that means what nato is very close to open war with russia. the time very close to open war with russia. the time for very close to open war with russia. the time for treading carefully is gone the time for treading carefully is gone i the time for treading carefully is gone. i think it s fascinating that sweden gone. i think it s fascinating that sweden has got this far, we expected finland sweden has got this far, we expected finland. ~ ., ., ., finland. we ve got to leave it there. ithink ....
It s 5a member states that believe in sovereignty and belief in self determination. and we re very determined to work with all of our commonwealth partners to have closer economic ties, closer security ties to keep us all safe. and talking about the commonwealth, it s also about values and questions have been raised about whether some of the members uphold those values, including those who have applied tojoin. gabon is to be admitted during this meeting to the organisation but it s not the best example of democracy, for instance. the questions that have been raised about rwanda, as well. how important, still, are those values? those values are important and the commonwealth is committed to democracy, it s committed to sovereignty and self determination. and this is why i think it s such an important force in the world, at present, where we are seeing authoritarian regimes, like russia, and its appalling invasion of ukraine. this is why we do need to build this network that is the commo ....