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Assess0. The United States . Guest well, thanks for having me. Thats a wonderful by broad question to open with and challengen weeing. We are living a moment of crisis, lard to deny. Weve been through a spring dominated by Public Health crisis that with us. Were facing now also so el crisis that is as old as our country, the struggle for racial equality and for human equality. But then also is very much of this moment, and forces us to confront challenges in our society that had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions will perform to be, how well rise to a challenge like this. Think you cant help but see it as a team of crisis but because it as time of testing its also a time to think about what americas strengths are, walt we are good at and how we can bill on that to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Guest well, thats an awful complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between th
Christiano ronaldo has been named the worlds best player. He pips messi and neymar to the ballon dor. And the winner is. Coventry a night of celebration for the city, after its awarded the next uk city of culture. And snow has been falling overnight. Warnings of disruption later in the day. Carol has the full forecast. Snow has been falling in the north and west of the uk and in the midlands. That will continue through today. Some snow showers getting into eastern areas and there is ice to watch out for first thing. A cold day as well and windy, but not as windy as yesterday. A full forecast in15 windy as yesterday. A full forecast in 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Theresa may has just arrived in brussels after intense negotiations which continued throughout the night to try to break the deadlock over the irish border in brexit negotiations. We can talk now to our Political Correspondent chris mason whos in westminster. You are really where the story began ina you are
Other things. Welcome. David good to be back at this table. Nowlie you spend your time trying to make sense of this campaign. What sense if you made of it . David donald trump has given me a reason to live. Dovetailing away from politics for a few years but he brings it right back. I spent the first part of this year writing 6 million columns on why he would not get the republican nomination. Inaugurated,ll be coming up pennsylvania avenue, i will be writing a column somewhere so, then the last five months out in america tried to figure out why i got it wrong. There is a lot of dislocation. There is a lot of loss of dignity and opiate use. There is so much out there. Charlie so much opiate use to somehow relieve the pain of economic discontent, of broken families. David everything is indivisible. There is a lot of economic loss, but it is indivisible from a loss of pride. It used to be possible to say i may not be the richest or most famous person, but people could count on me. I have