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so the world needs to continue the push to protect migrants and refugees world winds are at our life for us america thank you and we're not done covering it's very important issue let's go now to mexico to our correspondent hoda abdel-hamid she is in tijuana where she's been meeting asylum seekers and migrants many trying to reach the u.s. this this is obviously about people and sometimes i think we forget that when we talk about such huge numbers but they're actually people these are their lives yes absolutely they're actually people and they simply want to most of the time improve their own lives or maybe we offer something better than that what they have been living through judo children it's really quite a tragic situation i'm here in one of the at the moment makeshift encampments because the vast majority of the migrants have been moved to another shelter but these people do want to move from here simply because the border is just there they
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want to be in eyesight of the border because many of them will tell you that even if mexico offered them the opportunity to stay here either through a humanitarian visa that is renewable after a year or actually even asking for a silent here in mexico they want to go across into the united states because that's where they're going to get money not only for them but to send back home now we have been going along the border for the past few days and this fight all the efforts by the american authorities to stop people from crossing what we have witnessed is really when you are pushed by despair people with do whatever they can to cross that border. if anything mexico's northern border is a symbol of inequality on one side a world of privileges and on the other stories of people in search of an
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opportunity. this family from an salvador came first in the early morning to check to situation climbing is not easy. the boys are petrified and one shouts don't hurt my mama oh my papa. keep on trying in eyesight of the american border patrol who laugh loudly. as they failed and finally walk off exhausted. this part of the wall was built nearly twenty five years ago during the clinton years it's been fortified by several administrations since the razor wire was added a few weeks ago. if the heavy presence of the american border patrol is meant to be a deterrent it's not working these young men jumped over in a matter of minutes they have nothing to lose but about an hour later another group
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arrived killing maldonado left one douras with her twin daughters along the way she became friends with and her three children they're relying on each other to take the leap across the border killing was hesitating at first she told her daughter she was risking so much so they could get an education. but then. it goes very quickly the men first then one child another and yet another is now the turn of kenyan and. it's too difficult the border patrol has already surrounded those who jumped. right. it's too late for them one of kellin daughters sneaks back through the bars she pushes her back. knighted states a desperate anguish mother who has little to offer. i have to go to my children she keeps on repeating as
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a border guard carries them away the rest of the group is also led away but now they have the right to claim asylum. and wonders what will happen to her. she was still breastfeeding him. children spend the night i don't know. then it slowly sinks in the children and the us but killin are still in mexico separated by the wall they will try again and again this time in search of the children held somewhere in america. well you know when you're along that border it's quite clear that no matter how many wars you put on because that's not something new it's not really an idea from the wall has been a work in progress for the last twenty five years as you saw in that report. but also what's quite clear is that there are efforts i think by the u.s.
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authorities to push the border further south on the other side of the wall as we were yesterday filming that report. mexican private security contractors. where they said that they had been hired by a private company in charge of maintenance of the wall well even this fight all of that they were trying to the asylum seekers to cross and that didn't work as you saw in the report. i want to go to thank you. today marks the seventieth anniversary of the adoption of the united nations universal declaration of human rights by countries around the world the document outlines thirty fundamental rights which form the basis of democratic societies and the un says there are as relevant today as they have ever been and with multiple examples of genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity just how. is the
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document mike hanna reports borne out of recession the devastation of war and an act of genocide executed on industrial scale the declaration was passed by the un general assembly in one nine hundred forty eight with the us ambassador eleanor roosevelt a guiding force its intention to ensure that such tragedies did not occur again but in the decade since the declaration has been marked more by transgressions and example the key problem the lack of enforcement the body established to protect these rights is a un security council and often divided body in which national agendas rather than individual rights remain supremum. the syrian state that carries out chemical attacks against its own people is shielded from sanction by a russian veto which is joined by china in blocking any action against north korea
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and in threatening a veto to hold the myanmar military to account for what the us own investigators call a genocide. any attempt to take action against israel or even condemn a transgression is an occupied territory is routinely blocked by a u.s. veto and even former champions of the declaration do not live up to their promise the u.s. president insists the maintenance of trade is more important than seeking accountability for a murdered journalist. the killing of jamal khashoggi contravened a number of articles of the declaration yet despite what many including u.s. senators maintain is compelling evidence of guilt the crown prince of saudi arabia remains unsanctioned. she is one of those cases where you look at it and you go you know what is the point of fighting for human rights when you know a man can walk into an embassy and be cut up into pieces and tortured and there's
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no accountability i mean article thirteen states everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. but in what he describes as putting america first president trump is in daily transgression of the document a u.s. ambassador helped draft seventy years ago as you know mark lateralus my son that attack and and there are some pushback some human rights too it gives it gives me the impression that sometimes when some leaders of the world speak. relativizing human rights and say that or multilateralism other feel like that's a license to say it also seventy years on in the world may not be the better place the drafters envisaged and yet the universal declaration of human rights remains as testament to what should be a living realigned of the philosophy that individual rights are intrinsic and cannot be indulged or taken away mike hanna al-jazeera united nations
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stick to enter gilmore his assistant secretary general of the u.n. human rights office we appreciate your time very much realizes a very broad question but how is the world currently doing in two thousand and eighteen living up to the promise of this document. well i just or a very good bit of footage from your your team there and it's that's an accurate picture i would say and as you pointed out this is a seventy that of us three of what in my view was the noblest document that britain now that has been on a whole host of those rights and those rights study articles cover basically everything that one can aspire for on civil and political but also like to food right to health right to shelter right to living wage on many of those fronts that has been almost dramatic progress i would say since this document was signed in one nine hundred forty eight the flourishing of rights happened in the from the late
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seventy's into the next perhaps thirty years after that but as your program is showed right now there is what i would say a backlash against human rights and that the progress that was made there's almost a resentment on the part of many governments that this progress was made and that when i was on a whole host of issues why why the backlash. it's very hard to find out what it was that that led to this i would say that nine eleven the fact that people suddenly decided that fighting terrorism was more important than promoting human rights and it wasn't as united states of course but many countries took that view and then when it was linked to the to the side effects in a way of the wars in syria and in iraq and the migrants that came into europe from from both sub-saharan africa but also from the wars in the arab world combined with
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the economic downturn and i think that is what led to the backlash and the fact that even though today we've had great progress but this event in not a question on migration the fact that it is migration that europe took a sudden eat its historic embrace if human rights got rather relaxed but it molly and i think throughout the world that this whole securitization of rights to the idea that somehow security is more important than human rights and a number of governments are using security as a reason to clamp down on human rights defenders and indeed the press and other defenders do you see a way for this this resentment that you're talking about to be tamp down to be reversed just sort of course correct i mean who who can and should lead on that. well the at the moment not that many governments i have to say. read the showing
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either by their actions or by that would say that that humanize is at the core of that elites but this i think will change and the situation there however will probably get worse before he is better and in the people that were to pick up the slack one just us to hope that that n.g.o.s and the press and human rights defenders even though we recognize that they are and massive pressure and it's growing in many parts of the world the restrictions on that activity the surveillance that is exercise on them is very worrying but we're going to need voices and therefore where there are free societies we need people to speak up more than they've been doing to stand up for their own rights but also for those of others i think while governments are having this restrictive reproach approach they need we're going to need citizens where they are able to without being under threat of imprisonment or worse then they need to do to do some of the what the
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governments are obviously not doing stranger gilmore thank you so much for joining us from united nations we appreciate it and un human rights day has really taken off online people around the world are tweeting about it or acknowledging it sorry what do you think well if the top trending hashtag in fact may have been safe and much of the day we've been tweeting about it as well as human rights of course and even the u.n. and many of those around the world. as a member here night the main. content of our own show up coming band came from thank you. joy in our death but in good faith to live up to the hype. for you and us put together this video prominent won't meet is reading out all sickles from the universal declaration of human rights it calls to people all around the world to be able to access education and be allowed freedom of
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expression of your own is also encouraging people to join the online conversation and the hashtag for that is stand up for human rights celebrity artist i way way has designed a flag exactly for all. people the last trip i want to move from the back i see it all hey are effortless hot and i see those people. are talking more than me but also bring you all the time. they all barefoot. and see people yeah also snow shoes. undone so we decided to. make some footprints of them so people. would be down about one hundred foot print. true to the old people as a concept so does human identity. as
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a dignified consume i think i think people can make their footprints into her materials i think people should see the how to stop the food it's about keeping the action defending the camera it's. and looking through these tweets we see that people are focused on different types of human rights in honor of the day now as i way way uses his are the highlights migration and refugees other are doing so to this hash tag just means migration is a writes and that was trending in chile and in this tweet here has been widely shared it says seeing migration as a right only for some is also racism so today let say strongly that say rather strongly no to racism and on saturday more than two thousand protesters marched through indonesia's capital jakarta it was parts of sixteen days of activism against gender based violence in the lead up to human rights day and in manila
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thousands protested against the pain president rodrigo to tell it's a burning pictures of him and accusing him of violating basic human rights that's the broader scale of this issue but on twitter we've also seen individual stories from rural farmers to business women as well as from the u.n. secretary general and sonia terus who says human rights day is particularly significant to him because of how he grew up in a dictatorship so why is human rights the important perhaps you do get in such a j news great is. so i thank you very much so human rights was at the center of this year's nobel peace prize awards the prize committee has shown the spotlight on the incredible work of two activists who both trying to put an end to sexual violence and conflict zones congolese going to colleges dennis mccuaig a n u z the human rights activist not a a mirage recognized for fighting against the use of rape as a weapon of war they've been speaking after the ceremony in norway's capital oslo.
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well the didn't much time how if no justice is done genocide will be repeated against all the vulnerable communities it's the only way to achieve peace if we don't want these rapes to be repeated we have to bring those perpetrators to justice those who resorted to sexual abuse against women. the challenges are clear and it is within our reach for all sorrow for all men women and children of congo i launch an urgent appeal to all of you which is not just to give the noble peace prize but to stand together and say in a loud voice that violence in the d.r. c is a nice enough is enough we want peace now. i mean you talk about peace and human rights we actually had a comment from one our viewers elizabeth who said it's sad that some people especially leaders have to be forced to recognize human rights but that pressure comes from activists like these two wonderful people who just won these wars follow
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but hero and james bays are in oslo for us they have been there for this momentous occasion in this gorgeous beautiful setting it's been quite a day too. n.d.s. welcome to our slow city hall rachelle on the seventieth anniversary of the universal declaration of human rights two of the world's leading human rights defenders have been awarded the nobel peace prize just a few hours ago dr denis mukwege. stood here to accept the nobel peace prize medal and this was for their efforts of course and the use of rape as a weapon of war dr mccuaig has dedicated decades of his life to help victims of sexual violence in the d.r. sees we current civil conflicts work that has come at a deep personal cost for him he survived several a tacit nation attempts and also kidnappings najem iraq for her part is a survivor of rape at the hands of i so almost her entire community the years it is
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one of the smallest and most persecuted minorities in the world was entirely wiped out almost when i saw swept into seemed in northern iraq in twenty fourteen demo ride was able to escape her eyesore captor went on to live in germany and work as an activist and has become a one voice a voice for the thousands of women and women who are still living either under captivity or in horrible conditions in iraq both najem rod and dennis. have come to represent the struggle against a global scourge that goes well beyond any single conflicts james absolutely will be here in these chairs with us in about half an hour's time from now live on al-jazeera to take your questions and questions here from the audience not think those questions are likely to include what do you do about this in terms of accountability and justice element and certainly dr mccuaig a says that's one of the most important things if you going to stall this rate of
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people in war zones that's happened down the centuries then you have to show people there's a punishment for doing it that's certainly his theory and we'll hear him expound on it a little war. well we hear both of these nobel laureates inspiring speech is already today and this is a standing ovation indeed and as you can see the hole here has filled up pretty quickly we've got with us activists students people who are very much interested in this very important topic we'll also be speaking to the head of the u.n. investigative team who is investigating the atrocities committed by eisel in iraq karim khan he'll be joining us here as well as go of course and not to murat in just about what half an hour from now off an hour from now we'll be taking questions on the audio of course and it just of course you're watching us right now which is here about anyone else you know we're also going to stream this on facebook we're going to be on twitter we're going to be on you tube any social media of your choice the harsh time he's
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a nobel prize to get your question battling with these people because they want to ask a question to to the nobel laureates the two nobel laureates that will have on stage should be part of the conversation hash tag ha nobel on also soul media proper forms michel thank you very much and absolutely i'd like to to reiterate that pushed to people to engage and get in the conversation with them and get in touch with us as well we would love to hear from you about that story about any of the stories we cover here you can send your comments to any of our online platforms on twitter the hash tag is a.j. news great our handle is a.j. english we are also as james said on facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or you can message us at whatsapp or telegram us nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine and if you are watching on facebook we have a story for you about indonesian start up tackling infant mortality also ahead in the program a landslide for nickel and our media voters gave him an emphatic mandate to continue as delving revolution.
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hello there we've got yet more rain working its way towards parts of the middle east at the moment we take a look at the satellite picture we can see one area of cloud that's edging its way across parts of turkey but then there's more making its way in from the west and matt is giving us some fairly heavy downpours and some pretty strong winds too so there's the area of low pressure as we head through the day on tuesday all the wind circulating around that plenty of rain here plenty of strong winds and then we've got this dangling area of cloud making its way down through parts of lebanon giving us some wet weather here to so generally speaking this whole region looking pretty unsettled as we head through chews day and on wednesday that system just pushes a bit further eastward so more rain more snow and more strong winds to deal with here further east a lot quieter here tehran up a pleasant sixty of course into marty will be just for that here in doha
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temperatures are really quite nice at the moment getting to around twenty six no major problems for us in solar is a little bit warmer where she'd get to around thirty degrees and a major changes even as we head through wednesday but the southern parts of africa though the weather is far more disturbing. prime minister theresa may addressing parliament let's listen at this time i set out in my speech opening the debate last week the reasons why the back story is a necessary guarantee to the people of northern ireland and why whatever future relationship you want there is no deal available that does not include the back story. behind all those arguments are some in a skate will also in a skate people facts the fact that more than a modern she has a land border with another sovereign state the fact. the fact that the heart of one piece. the fact that the hot one piece that has been built in northern ireland over
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the last two decades has been built around a seam this border on the front to the bricks it will create a wholly new situation on the thirtieth of march. the northern ireland arland border will for the first time become the external front tier of the european union's single market and customs union. the challenge. the challenge this poses must be met not with the rhetoric but with real and workable solutions businesses operate across that border people live their lives crossing and recrossing it every day i've been there and spoken to some of those people they do not want their every day lives to change as a result of the decision we have taken they do not want a return to our border. and if this house cares about preserving our union it must listen to those people because our union will only end with the consent.
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we had hoped that the changes we've secured to the backstop would reassure members that we could never be trapped in it indefinitely i hope the house will forgive me if i take a moment to remind it of those changes the customs argument or the backstop is no u.k. wide it no longer splits our country into two customs territories this also means that the backstop is now an uncomfortable arrangement for the e.u. so they won't want it to come into use or persist for long if it does both sides are now legally committed to using best endeavors to have a new relationship in place before the end of the implementation period ensuring the backstop is never used if a new relationship isn't ready we can now choose to extend the implementation period further reducing the likelihood of the backstop coming into use if the backstop ever does come into use we now don't have to get the new relationship in
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place to get out of it alternative arrangements that make use of technology could be put in place instead the treaty the treaty is now clear that the backstop can only ever be temporary and there is now. terminations roles. but i but i am clear what i am what i have heard in this place and from my own conversations that these elements do not offer a sufficient number of colleagues the reassurance that they need. i spoke to a number of e.u. leaders over the weekend and in advance of the european council i will go to see my counterparts in other member states and the leadership of the council in the commission i will discuss with them the clear concerns that this house has expressed we are also looking closely at new ways of empowering the house of commons to ensure that any provision for a backstop has democratic legitimacy and to enable the house to place its own obligations on the government. to enable the house to place its own obligations on
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the government to ensure that the backstop cannot be in place indefinitely mr speaker having spent the best part of two years poring over the details of brecht's it listening to the public's ambitions and yes their fears too and testing the limits of what the other side is prepared to accept i mean absolutely no doubt that this deal is the right one it's on as the result of the referendum. the remainder of the statement must be heard and i invite the house to hear it with courtesy and for the avoidance of doubt and also the benefit of those attending to our proceedings are not members of the house i emphasize that as per usual i will call everyone who wants to question the prime minister but meanwhile these here the prime minister. it's owners the result of the referendum it protects job security and our union but it also represents the very best deal that is actually negotiable
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with the e.u. i believe in it as do many members of this house and i still believe there is a majority to be won in this house in support of it if i can secure additional reassurance on the question of the backstop and that is what my focus will be in the days ahead. but mr speaker if you take a step back it is clear that this house faces a much more fundamental question does this house want to deliver grex it. i. clear a clear message from the s.n.p. but if the house does does it want to do so through reaching an agreement with the e.u. if the answer is yes and i believe that is the answer of the majority of this house then we all have to ask ourselves whether we're prepared to make
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a compromise because there will be no enduring and successful grex it without some compromise on both sides of the debate. many of the most controversial aspects of this dealing kluge in the backstop are simply inescapable facts of having a negotiated brix it those members who continue to disagree need to shoulder the responsibility of advocating an alternative solution that can be delivered. and do so and do so without ducking its implications so if you want a second referendum to overturn the results of the first be honest that this risks dividing the country again. to a. be honest that this risks dividing the country again when it's a house we should be striving to bring it back together. if you if you want to
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remain part of the single market in the customs union be open that this would require free movement rule taking across the economy and ongoing financial contributions none of which are in my view compatible with the result of the referendum. if you. if you want to leave without a deal be upfront that in the short term this would cause significant economic damage to parts of our country who can least afford to bear the burden i do not believe that any of those courses of action command a majority in this house but notwithstanding that fact for as long as we fail to agree a deal the risk of an accidental no deal increases so the government so the government will step up its work in preparation for that potential outcome and the cabinet will hold further discussions on it this week. the move fast majority of us mr
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speaker set the result of the referendum and wants to leave with a deal we have a responsibility to discharge if we will the ends we must also will the means and i know that members across the house appreciate how important that responsibility is and i'm very grateful to all members on this side of the house and a few on the other side to back this deal and spoken up for it many many others many others i know have been wrestling with their consciences particularly over the question of the backstop seized of the need to face up to the challenge posed by the irish border but genuinely concerned about the consequences i have listened i have heard those concerns and i will now do everything i possibly can to secure further assurances if i may conclude. mr speaker on a personal note on the morning after the referendum two and a half years ago i knew that we had witnessed
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a defining moment for our democracy places that didn't get a lot of attention that elections and which did not get much coverage on the news were making their voices heard and saying that they wanted things to change i knew in that moment that parliament had to deliver for them but of course that doesn't just mean delivering bricks it it means working across all areas building a stronger economy improving public services. tackling tackling tackling social injustices to make this a country that truly works for everyone. and the prime minister must be heard the prime minister. tackling social injustices to make this a country that truly works for everyone a country where no where and nobody is left behind and these matters are too important to be after thoughts in our politics they deserve to be at the center of
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our thinking but that can only happen if we get bricks it done and get it done right and even though i voted for may and from the moment i took up the responsibility of being prime minister of this great country i've known that my duty is to honor the results of that vote here and i think just as determined to protect the jobs that put food on the tables of working families and the security partnerships. and the security partnerships of keeping each one of us safe and that's what this deal does it gives us control of our borders our money and on the rules it protects job security and our union it is the right deal for britain i am determined to do all i can to secure all the reassurances this house requires to get this deal over the line and deliver for the british people and i commend this statement to the house. and i.
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thank you thank you mr speaker and i thank the prime minister for a copy of the statement before we hear those afternoon we're in an extremely serious and unprecedented situation the government has lost control of invents and is in complete disarray yeah it's been evident for weeks that the prime minister's deal did not have the confidence of this house yet she ploughed on regardless reiterating this is the only deal available can she be clear with the house is she she seeking changes to the deal or mia reassurances does she therefore accept the statement from the european commission at lunch time saying that it was. the only deal possible we will not renegotiate opposition has not changed on and veronica has said it is not possible to renegotiate the irish border backstop stating that it was the prime minister's own red lines that made the backstop
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necessary. so can the prime minister be clear is she now ready to drop further red lines in order to make progress mr speaker can the prime minister confirm that the deal presented to this house is not off the table but will be reprinted with a few assurances bringing back the same botched deal either next week or in january and can she be clear on the timing will not change its fundamental flaws and deeply held objections right across this house which go far wider than the backstop alone here mr speaker this is a bad deal for britain a bad deal for our economy and a bad deal for our democracy our country deserves better than this. the real damage the deal the deal damages our economy and it isn't just the opposition saying that
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the government's own analysis shows this deal would make us worse off if the prime minister cannot be clear that she can and will mcgreevey negotiate a deal then she must make way. and if she is and mr speaker if she's going back to brussels then she needs to build a consensus in this house and since it appears business is change for the next two days then it seems not only possible but necessary that. this house debates the negotiating mandate that the prime minister takes to brussels there is no point no point at all in this prime minister bringing back the same deal again which clearly does not support the government not supported by this house mr speaker we've been
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do it two years of shambolic negotiations at red lines which been boldly announced and cast aside when now on our third brics it secretary and it appears each one of them has been excluded from these vital negotiations we were promised a precise and substantive document and got a very twenty six page wish list and they become the first government ever in british history to be held in contempt of parliament. the government is in disarray uncertainty is building for business people are in despair at the state of these failed negotiations i'm concerned about what it means about their jobs their livelihood and their communities and the fault for that lie solely at the door of this shambolic government. the prime minister is trying to
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buy herself one last chance to save this deal if she doesn't take on board the fundamental changes required then she must make way for those who can. and i think. a quick response then the briefly to the right on the gentleman russian one gentleman appeared to argue one hand but it was impossible to change the deal because the e.u. had said this was the only deal and on the other hand the only thing he would accept was until renegotiation. the right honorable gentleman quoted the european union. saying this was the only deal and then goes on to say that the whole deal needs to be renegotiated this is that the fundamental question that members of this house have to ask themselves is whether they wish to deliver grex it and honor the results of the referendum if you wish to deliver all the analysis shows that if you
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wish to deliver bricks if you wish to honor the result of the referendum then the deal that does that the best protects jobs and our economy is the deal that is on. forward that. everybody will have his or her charms but the questions have been put and the must similarly be heard the prime minister. that is the fundamental question for members of this house to deliver on and on are the results of the referendum but to do it in a way that protects jobs and our economy and that is what this deal does the right honorable gentleman talks about a number of issues he wants to be in the customs union such that free movement would have to under single market and free movement would have to be accepted he refuses to accept that any deal requires a backstop because that's our commitment to the people of northern ireland he
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claims he wants to negotiate trade deals it wants to be in the customs union fully in the customs union that will not enable us to negotiate those trade deals and finally he says about the uncertainty he says about an certainty for british business i can tell the right honorable gentleman the biggest on certainty for british business guys not in this deal but on the front bench of the labor. ok you've been listening to prime minister theresa may address a very hostile house and the response from labor leader jeremy corbyn members have actually been reprimanded multiple times to take a breath and to quiet down so that the prime minister can be heard one of our viewers i think puts it the best way les says with all due respect i would not want to be into recent days shoes right now let's turn it over to warren slade who is covering all of us live from the hot seat in london lawrence. she just sounded so fed up i thought that was you know she's she's often accuse of
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being a bit robotic but she was talking to them like you know there are a bunch of children who thought they were going to get a racing car for christmas and instead of going to rusty bicycle you know them until we had this is what you get you got to go ride around the playground for a bit and then say we don't want to do it and basically her entire pitch was look you know model does actually leave the european union but it but it keeps the trade going through the irish border which is which is the has to happen and it restricts route freedom of movement and on some level you've got to try and find a way of compromising and not just keep digging your heels in and say we can't do it she said of the bab's exasperated as i've ever actually heard her i'm ready to listen to the view from from a waiter who's from the campaign group ukraine a changing europe where does she go with this now to. buy time going to wait and probably bring back the deal in january with a bit less time for n.p.c. to say well what another option says basically the same i might actually change if the european commission has said no no changes the deal can't be substantially
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changed really that the legal text the european tour's i'm not going to reopen that so we're looking at a situation where maybe they could be some tweaks to the declaration but again i don't really see there being a big appetite for that within the. i mean i think she's been using time using the idea that there won't be any other option left and she's saying to m.p.'s look if this or nothing. you do a lot with european politicians as well what you think their view is of all this i mean i think often in britain people forget that there is twenty six of twenty seven other leaders with twenty seven other domestic politics and live right care is ours leader can politically do anything to that backstop it's only impossible that they can be sympathetic they understand that she has her own domestic constraints but there's nothing that can be done now in terms of the irish the irish domestic politics to stop this from something to change this back so i mean in terms of been some of the reputation of the u.k.'s on the un security council for goodness sake it tells a country how to behave in the tune of years and all the taxpayers' money in the
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best jobs in government for these people to organize away leaving the european the conduit and you know if you look at if you look at the politics of britain today and your in the twenty seven you think we need this backstop because you look at the domestic certainty of person you get the political certainty of political stability and births and it's not bad and that's why they want the backstop to say if another government gets in they have this legal certainty about the border and that was what may was really really really pushing on today saying look we can't have a deal without this backstop so get used to it and try and work out a way of negotiating around this is just it's just a matter of if if if you comes back and says ok this is the deal they still say no we don't like it. because it's a risky bicycle then and then the default position is no deal we're not going to vote in parliament and you can't get through because nobody forces you no deal then you're into potentially not leaving the european union it's all launching yeah and then she got big and she said for the first time in politics see what this is explicitly about a further referendum on bricks and i think that's really really important is that
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she's now saying to all of those supporting conservative m.p.'s look this is the only bracks you're going to get otherwise we're looking at a second referendum i think she's right i think now the put the politics of it is evolving and changing such that a further referendum looks like it's increasingly possible and that that will die saying that they've high stakes from bricks it supporters here a lot of these people who you may or may not notice in the back of our show. they're calling for a second referendum do you get the sense of the mood changing and people are thinking you know maybe maybe staying in might be better than the less well i mean the public mood hasn't shifted all that much but it might change again when you look at the whether there's any know what no other option in westminster up it might look at and say well we have to that's the logic the polls still haven't moved enough to say definitively the country wants a further vote but they have moved a little bit and i think that's that's the sense is if there's no other solution political logic says more about you the logic in westminster than the country really is is where we are i think we need to see these arguments breaking out all
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over the place but really a metaphor for you know if the if the one the mood in the country isn't that people don't seem to know where the u.k. is heading anymore when it's in for a post by the mother of parliament i mean in terms of reputation it's terrible isn't it really yeah i think we're looking at a period of instability it is going to go on beyond now i think i think i think it's hard to see how we end up leaving in any sort of stable way as they wanted before the civilities probably going to continue thank you very much for all that is not a very happy place parliament at the moment. no it's not lawrence laid alive for us in london lawrence thank you so one of the most consequential votes and the history of parliament in recent history delayed all right so we will continue to cover all of that for you here on al-jazeera and here on the newsgroup you want to know what you think about this whenever we talk about rex it'll make it tons and tons of comments these are all the ways you can reach us it's a news crew at our twitter as a.j. english facebook dot com slash al-jazeera and that's our whatsapp number as well so
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fled to protect his life but denied asylum a congolese activist must return home facing an uncertain future he once again finds himself at the forefront of a political revolution to try to put democracy can come at a heavy personal cost. back to kinshasa i witnessed documentary on al-jazeera. how about i'm going to see paul in london with the top stories on al-jazeera britain's prime minister has delayed a crucial parliamentary vote that was due on tuesday on her deals with all the country from the european union to reason may says she'll go back to e.u. leaders to try to win more concessions but war dempsey's on the need to compromise
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. does this house want to deliver bricks it was. in the house does does it want to do so through reaching an agreement with the e.u. if the answer is yes and i believe that is the answer of the majority of this house and we all have to ask ourselves whether we are prepared to make a compromise because there will be no enduring and successful grex it without some compromise on both sides of the debate. lawrence lee is live for us outside the houses of parliament in london the prime minister laurent still speaking in the house of commons what else is spain saying about this. well you know she's she sounded so exasperated she's very often accused of becoming a bit being a bit robotic but you know she was she was openly mocked for a start by politicians from all sides when she said they were going to have to delay the vote should listen to people and they all started laughing at her but effectively she was she was saying to them look you know you can't have everything
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you want you home have all the christmas presents at the same time expect everyone to be absolutely fantastic and that's that clip that you just played of which are you going to have to compromise was the absolutely crucial moment because in her term she's taken an interpretation of the brics a vote which was leave the european union stop freedom of movement of immigration but try to keep trade flowing so that all economic problems bring back laws insolvency to the u.k. and she would say that her deal has delivered that and i think she's really really really frustrates seats that parliaments and people from all sides of sides this christmas present is really no good it isn't it isn't what you promised us and so effectively she's saying to them i will go back to the european union else than once again but don't expect me to come back with anything completely different because the european commission has made it entirely clear that this is the deal and that's and that's how it's how it's going to be her options though are really limited because you can't come up with anything better and they get thrown out than you are they got a no deal which there's no majority for in parliament or potentially
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a second referendum and potentially not leaving the european union it's all so on every level it she's very very very boxed in. their country and just like parliament remains extremely divided our lawrence lee live there outside the houses of parliament in london where the pm is still speaking thank you. well for a fourth week of violent antigovernment protests france's president and his cabinet have met union and business leaders to hear their concerns the manual marco is due to address the nation later in response to the process which started over an environmental tax levied on fuel he's being criticized for not responding sooner despite some of the worst violence in paris for decades. turkey's president says the world should seek justice for the murdered journalist under international law. also called saudi arabia's decision not to extradite the eighteen suspects for trial in ankara disappointing riyadh insists it will not extradite its own citizens
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ashaji was killed two months ago at the saudi consulate in istanbul while collecting documents for his upcoming marriage ward leaders have adopted a pacts aimed at improving cooperation on migration at a un conference in morocco the global compact for safe orderly and regular migration is the result of eighteen months of negotiations but it's non-binding and twenty nine of the one hundred ninety three un members have yet to sign up australia the united states poland hungary and austria are among the countries refusing to support its nobel peace laureates that is mccuaig a our nadia murat have called for greater international action to stop sexual violence being used as weapons of war the pair made the plea is there except for that peace prize at an emotional ceremony in oslo congolese gun ecologist mccuaig has become a global expert on breaking profit you see the activist mourad surviving kidnapped and sexually abused by acid it's. and coming up now is our al-jazeera special
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is a crime that has been. carried out for generations with impunity this year race as a weapon of war has been forced into the spotlight hello and welcome to the no bones of you i'm james and i'm fully back welcome to this al-jazeera special live from oslo just a couple of hours ago here in oslo city hall you see the activists nadim arad and the congolese dr denis mukwege or awarded the twenty eighteen nobel peace prize in recognition for their efforts to end sexual violence in conflicts both have worked tirelessly to defend the rights of survivors work that has come at a deep personal cost ladies and gentlemen please welcome the twenty eighteen nobel peace prize laureates dr dennis mccuaig a and niger murat thank
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. you both and thank you for joining us a great deal applause applause here earlier on during the ceremony that was standing ovations for you too so congratulations if i can start with you. anyone who's heard your story or deal of the last four years it's very hard for most of us to imagine those things that you've been through when you were here today receiving the nobel peace prize who were you thinking of. betty how my diagram there first of all my mother. that was the first thing that
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came to my mind. i thought about myself and my body. just more. i did everything for people not for myself and i think about that prize to have yes that violence that her burning and that still work out and doing and the shame of the dye i have shown to everybody it's for humanity so that everybody see what has happened i'm not just saying it all myself it was just for me of course i wouldn't be doing all the work we are all one people are what we are that people that up until today have been faced with these difficulties dr mccuaig a you've treated thousands of women over the years at panzi hospital in becoming what does this nobel peace price mean for those women and for the people of the
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democratic republic of congo as a whole. in fact i think sexual violence has. always been tonight in our society and if we follow this continues it's simply because there is a law or silence and to booze which mean that we ask women to bear and to keep quiet and it's something terrible to love some women because society imposes it on you and i think that for me. it is a recognition. so it was more the translation that it. mustn't be the pick tim it falls says the suffering of having been raped must be quick whistles through this recognition that we must be able to change to this suffering of the victim. and turn it towards the aggressors under torture is
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not yet you said that you felt the world abandoned your community. on the smallest and most persecuted minorities in the world and they were almost wiped out by iso in twenty fourteen do you feel that this nobel peace prize will bring back the focus on the plight of your people do you think it can achieve justice for the. charge. and here for years. we see that the rights of easy to people have not been given to them but we have not stopped our efforts. the number of peace prize say is helping us yes we are talking here but up until now three thousand women and girls of the cd of my village of other vision of the villages around my village are still in the hands of isis are
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sold raped and we don't know what their situation is and what it's going to be until now we see what has happened to them and we have seen that haven't received the right yet i hope that with the aim and with the price of the nobel peace. may because we will shed the light to this issue that we will hopefully see justice and we are doing it tireless work i get no question we have seen a lot of awful things and difficulties and ice is itself showed what has happened precisely to all these girls and women but we were far away from justice and therefore up until now. and we hope that very soon we will be able to see justice taking its place don't assume heard no idea tell her story you heard it again today you've heard thousands.

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