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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Thursday, August 29th. Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Thursday, August 29th, and this is your FT news briefing.

Italy could be headed towards a new government.

Apple apologizes for listening in on Syria conversations, and Japan's

biggest online auction site bans trading an ivory.

But first, the F.T.'s Jim Pickard explains the move by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to

suspend the UK Parliament. And what may happen next? I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

So on Wednesday morning Britain woke up to the news that Boris Johnson, the new Prime Minister,

is seeking to suspend Parliament

through a process known as pro-rogging Parliament for five weeks in order to prevent

his enemies from blocking him from doing a no-deal Brexit.

Now it's not that the Prime Minister wants Britain to lead the European Union with no-deal

but he wants to hold that threat against Brussels in order in his view to get a better deal but

there's been outrage for obvious reasons lots of critics of the government believe

that this is a very undemocratic thing to do.

Yes, in fact, yesterday protesters gathered outside parliament blocking traffic to protest Mr. Johnson's suspension. They're saying save our democracy,

they're saying save our democracy stop the coup.

Now the Prime Minister decided to suspend Parliament

because in part of what opposition leaders

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