a fantasy growing is coming soon. this is al-jazeera. doha everyone i'm kemal santa maria and this is the news hour from al-jazeera. well from explosions and gunfire at an upscale hotel complex in nairobi. comes down to a vote in the british parliament later on tuesday that decides the future of to reason may's brags that plan. the prosecutor has failed to satisfy

the burden of proof on the international criminal court acquits the former president of ivory coast of war crimes and his release install of palestine keep their hopes of reaching the knockout rounds of the asian cup alive a draw with children giving them a chance of making it beyond the group stages for the first time in their history. an update first of all from the kenyan capital nairobi where a luxury hotel complex is under attack witnesses have reported both explosions and gunfire police say an operation is still ongoing and their main concern is that the attack is still in the building the armed group al-shabaab has told al jazeera its fighters are behind this attack and so far seven people are now confirmed dead. i've called my colleagues. manning everywhere everybody was just beginning every.

so i went through all of these i didn't go to these conditions i didn't was there in the future. you need to reach there was sudanese i grew up in new york when you're talking you know why do you swear not that guy but actually i swore i don't trust him from being in. al-jazeera is not robey producer. and we spoke to her a little bit earlier from nairobi. we're just two hundred meters away from the lots of places. and so far we see several red cross volunteers coming in and out of the location anything illegal going to be received several ambulances houses cars like everybody else has seen a. lot of the deployment strawn the security forces and also you know more and some of something less means this work that's been temporarily investors are sitting in the coming next blair that's what these are companies and we've also been the last

but these are not the misstatements even the complaint that they're seen and they still inside the building in the end need to lean towards a school civil but it's possible to even see it could the situation under control. to the big story of the day brags that san it is make or break time for theresa may and her governments in just over an hour also polman twelve votes on the prime minister's plan for leaving the european union most indicate is that the deal will be defeated meaning more uncertainty for the whole process and probably for prime minister may herself the support from paul brennan. oh outside the u.k. parliament is a sense of matters coming to a head the creasing be vocal camps of pro and anti bracks it campaign has a making their voices heard saying that a shabby. this is a constitutional crisis for the u.k.

bitching the government and parliament against each other and potentially pitting parliament against the people or at least against the narrow majority which voted for bracks in twenty sixteen there is disillusionment on all sides whether they betray it with this disastrous appalling withdrawal agreement which is really remain but without the parts of votes or whether they betrayed by cancelling brings it if this withdrawal agreement is voted down we expect them to find some way of making sure that the people of this country do not get what they voted for i'm a reaction i've been a bit of a supply and i'm tired at this once said to me oh no established was a bad night man i wish we could be a citizen can be left out of this negotiation. inside the parliament chamber the prime minister's brix it withdrawal deal is in its final the attorney general open the final session of debate with a warning that waiver is off playing with people's lives but there is no sign the

theresa may has done enough to muster the support she needs to win the closing votes this place can't decide we are polarized we're in gridlock if government is in gridlock you don't have to take it back to the people but the big question about . a second referendum is if the result was flipped fifty two forty eight does that taking into any better place defeat will lead to resubmit needing to produce a plan b. by monday of next week and those with threats of the opposition labor party hitting house with a vote of no confidence even before that there is a noisy almost mcconnell atmosphere here at westminster but when rival sides chance to get each other there's also an undercurrent of antagonism as well defeat for the prime minister the ceiling looks a certainty but the scale of the damage inflicted by that remains unclear will depend on just how many m.p.'s votes against her deal and the question that nobody here piers able to answer just yet is what comes after that full brennan al-jazeera

westminster six pm in london right now and here is lawrence leigh outside the houses of parliament lawrence. yes and just so out to pull brennan's final thoughts about no one knows is going up and next to that's the confusion about an hour from now it's not immediately the vote on three's a maze deal or a four separate amendments to hadfield soup opposition parties ensue from a fairly hard call rex it says you don't like it once it fiddled with but there will probably get a fail as well so we're back to this metaphor i was using before about a maze with no exits let's bring it in done from politics don't cut the u.k. . how much is going to lose by direct my estimates are about one hundred fifty it is a fairly that's terrible right it is start with a fairly conservative estimate at this point most of the book cost is just around two hundred to twenty i imagine she can shave a few of them or there's

a couple of amendments there now he said but burke says he might be able to get some breaks and sports is to support those and therefore be able to justify sporting i do mean looking at i think triple things but doesn't look like however much she loses by she's going to stand up all of that and say ok thanks very much um i'm going to not going to see younger against that. see what else they can do for us that's exactly right and that this is quite unprecedented behavior because they've already said there's nothing else they can do for the exactly so she has no where to go in terms of the numbers for a long time british prime ministers never behave this way if you put forward the policies on the to the commons especially this was the entirety of what your government has done and you lost especially the kind of level of defeat that we're expecting a prime minister would have resigned once reason may does not do that sort of thing she clings on to power by whatever it takes and it looks like she will stay or go back to europe the thing is there is no new deal to bring she has the only thing that she is going to get but it looks as you can keep on hammering away and have only because simply put she has no other i do so i mean everyone's asking them as well ask you what what's your best guess as to how they unlock the gridlock of the

moment so that the thing that has like it has the best chance to me is that there is an amendment this already been passed by the commons that would force the reason may come back on monday and explains of the comes which is going to do now at that point there's a chance that we can start putting amendments on sounds like sort of parliamentary geek rebut what it essentially allows us and peace to stop putting forward their ideas i should proceed and there is a chance that quite extraordinary constitution which runs for the british parliament to take over from the government for m.p.'s to suddenly start saying look fine we hear you would do this is what we think you should be doing and start testing out the options to see fine how do doesn't have a majority let's see if any other idea does have a majority at the moment they don't but we're living in a world before it's a reason maze deal has died after it is started there's a chance that m.p.'s will start drifting towards one option to prise apart the situation that we want to mess the u.k. has got itself into i mean this is a country that goes around the world telling other countries how to do similar

crissy how they are going to do that also this yeah exactly you know for known time britain whenever i speak might think about it had a reputation for stability for pragmatic judgment for doing things cafferty with press corps i did that reputation right now i think is just completely shut and it would take a generation really to put it back together just just. one final question to reason may said if there was no brakes it's all which is now a possibility it would destroy people's faith in democracy in this country do you do you agree with that assessment i don't really i've never really understood how getting people to have a vote on something destroys their faith in democracy it seems a counter-intuitive argument to me but also there is of course the counter option which is that britain needs with no deal and then no one during the referendum campaign was going around saying vote to leave the e.u. with no deal what they said was it would be the easiest in history britain would get great chance because it's so powerful in order that now that seems to me if you do that against what was promised to people that shatters confidence in the moxy as well so look it's a messy situation whatever you do none of those options seem to be off the table

thank you very much indeed as we say it's like giving birth to a runoff serous. well i don't know what to say to that loren flee and westminster thank you. all more than fifty seven percent of people in the city of darby voted in favor of brakes and twenty sixteen that is where i am haywood is now amah. try there tomorrow where inside the chattiest and gillett jubilee club perrin darby why have we come to darby will divert darby was pretty typical of a town or a city where this great big split during that twenty sixteen vote but the majority of people here did vote to leave the european union this is an important city economically for the u.k. because there are thousands of jobs in manufacturing here rolls royce has its big center in the u.k. here this one body at lots of big names well throughout the evening will be we will be talking to a group of people who to hear their views about what's been going on there are they

are could be to oberoi a business businesswoman kelvin simpson who is the secretary of the club here and worked for years barrel rolls royce and mikey crowe hurst a student at the university of darby let's start with you could be to i mean you voted to remain in the e.u. what do you make of all this that's been happening in westminster and what's been going on for the past two or more years i mean i though she to remain where we are all these months on it i think it's absolute shambles and where the situation once now i would rather we got at least a deal i think you know it's unlikely depends on what it looks like but the alternatives could be cut struck fixed so we're looking what we're looking at no deal or we're looking at potential change in government which is not what the country needs now and i think the politicians need to be thinking about that when they make the votes tonight and kelvin i think you voted to lay not if you want to think about you know all these months on could you have been basij turf it would end up like this i think everybody from don't just want it to resettle once and for

all and i voted for it on the strength of the money was going to go into the national health service and now we find that's not to be the case so. i think a lot people are still confused don't know what the deal is and they need to sort it do you think you were given the right information at the time and you're still not being given the adequate information about what's been going on a lack of information at the very start and i don't think a lot of people realize what the deal is other than the island part of it. i don't think anybody realizes what's going to happen whether we leave or that we don't like your twenty one history undergraduate here in darby what do you want to happen in the near future and longer term to. well i think whatever comes out of the deal is in the eyes going to be on satisfactory to either side where he supports it remain or leave because believe is a saying the duo keeps the ties to close of europe was the remain his would say.

it's close but it's still not delivering on the results of the referendum. so i think based on the fact that the campaign was kind of founded on lies that was election overspending allegations of russian interference in the election i think the most poor things. for the future this country was beats a whole another whole another just to make sure that we really want to commit to go down this path so you would like to see a second referendum sec referendum yes or like party to come out in support of remain and come in general election on that manifesto given what it worry you die if there was to be another referendum or indeed a general election i think from a business perspective absolutely you know what business need to sit empty and if you don't have that certainty effects of your decision making and investment and

the identify acts general public has a it has a knock on effect so i'm don't think you know going to a second referendum in what happens if we go to a second referendum and we get the same result you know we have we're in the same position so i think where we are now we need to move forward rather than going backwards and does it worry you cal ben just how did buy did not just darby has been over this but the whole country on this issue does not worry you haven't seen anything like this in your lifetime never never in my life anything like this and there in the m.p.'s are all against both or against it then they're just things that can spawn is in the works and trying to get another referendum when we've already got the vote the votes been. let's get on with the let's let's move. ok well throughout the evening we'll be speaking to you will we'll also be watching to reserve may's speech and we'll come back to you after that but for now back to

you come out ok look forward to that thank you very much i would be here is the live shot from inside the house of parliament in westminster the benches filling up the debate on going current in the eighteen fifteen g.m.t. we're expecting to get interesting after nineteen hundred votes tonight. the meaningful votes as it is known on the gregs a plan for person leaving the full coverage to come on. and plenty more on this news hour was well there's a new wave of asylum seekers but a new destination this time also canada's prime minister justin trudeau condemns the death sentence of a canadian man by a court in china and in sports a dominant style for novak djokovic to win his seventh australian open title. so hundreds of hundred of nationals have begun mobilizing in what's expected to

become the first central american migrants caravan of this year we're going to live now to the northwest honduras and. there for us tell us more about this one. at this point we've moved to a town called. in honduras actually this road behind me is the only road that leads to western honduras the only road that leads to the border with. we don't know yet it's difficult to know exactly how many people at this point have joined this new caravan but they did start coming together last night and mobilizing in the early hours of this morning hitting the road making their way toward that border before the sun rose take a look. sitting in waiting near the side of the bus station hundreds of hundred nationals are preparing to leave the country by foot i don't today as is traveling with his two young children. and she has to hydro says he understands the

risks but says there's nothing left for him in his hometown. i have been told to these isn't easy but i have to take the risk what else can i do if i stay here my children cool stuff to death. under is one of the poorest countries in latin america with more than sixty percent of the population living below the poverty line apart from dire economic conditions many of the thousands of hondurans who fled the country in recent months cite gang violence as the reason for leaving and last for the medalists in the first fifteen days of the year violence has increased drastically so have the number of violent deaths of hundreds in poverty and people coming into the city in search of opportunities are also rising now for choosing to emigrate to get away from the violence. not their hissing in response to increased pressure from the united states one hundred government has launched a media campaign aimed at dissuading would be migrants from crossing illegally into

the u.s. these t.v. ads however don't appear to be convincing anyone to make you feel it. says he was part of the first micro caravan in two thousand and eighteen he wasn't able to enter the u.s. and it made the trip wasn't easy but he's eager to give it another go. i made it all the way to tijuana but now i'm back here because i didn't live in the u.s. now thanks to god i'm going to try a game god has a solution for all of us. finding safety in numbers many hundreds have answered a call in social media for the formation of a new caravan of asylum seekers we are at the main bus terminal and. this is the starting point for the next migrant caravan there's a. the expectation that thousands more honduran citizens will be joining this group along the month long journey outside of central america across mexico and ultimately the southern border of the united states. the trip from central america

to the united states is fraught with dangers and only a fraction of asylum applications are ever accepted but produce extreme poverty or a threat to their lives at home they don't see they have any other choice. at this point the caravan has split into smaller groups in fact just a few moments ago we learned about ten migrants that are that are that are stopped in the town that we're at right now looking to join the rest of the the group as they make their way to the border as we said before the main goal for today is for this larger group this larger caravan to make it to the bottom on border by the end of the day thank you joining us from honduras we're heading to the u.s. now john holeman is actually in atlanta georgia now as we talked about with manuel a lot of the people in this caravan actually just wanting to stop in mexico the others who want to get through to the united states what awaits them.

well i think there's going to be a long hard journey right from the start the family that we've actually cool it out with here in atlanta a really a prime example we started following them in october and they were covering in mexico about forty kilometers a day sometimes getting a ride off the walking on through the mother early was eight months pregnant the dad alvin we struggling with polio and they had at that point two very young children they were sleeping every night out in the open in town squares most of the time and then carrying on and they didn't have a lot of people that are saying off now for home douras are going to be in the same boat they couldn't carry lot of stuff with them so they were lying own people in mexico to supply them with food to supply them with and at times even clothing in southern mexico which is a very poor we actually saw a man just give the the family the show off his back as they went through quite a powerful moment they then arrived into quanah and that would be the same possibly

for some of the people in this current time because if they go to the other part of the border it's really going written and there really is a ball to make they could be there for a matter of months while they've are apply for asylum at the port of entry or simply jump the fence hand themselves into law and order and fool sman officials and then try and get asylum that way will simply disappear now the family that we've been following all this time that was how they did it they jumped the fence and then immediately handed themselves in and they've now got to atlanta in seem very improbable especially the first time that we met them you can see the suits of the city skyline behind me that might have been what they feel they were going to find here the reality for them has been a little bit different as you'll see in our report. this is the promise land and a trailer on the outskirts of atlanta the rays alliance family have crossed three

cunts. to get here in october they started out from honduras in a caravan trying to reach the us on the way they slept on pavements was sprayed with tear gas to trust the kindness of strangers and they even had a baby now they finally got to the united states in winter where. it's very strange for me because one hundred you can walk and run in the street here you have to stay inside because of the cold but i'm happy and i wouldn't want to go back after a month stuck in t one or they jump the border fence on christmas day and ask for asylum they were held in the detention center for six days eleven junior got sick. he went purple and couldn't breathe so they asked for the ambulance and we went to the hospital their dad did all of the tests but he was ok i think he was just got some plan to get us out of there. then did up in atlanta two weeks ago where alvin

has friends they've helped him to get a room in a shared trailer and some working construction the family desperately need the money they're already in there and food is scarce this is sunday dinner but there's no going back alvin had always told us that was because of the poverty at home now he gives us what he says is the rest of the story that they killed a policeman in front of our house we heard the shots and went outside and then the man who did it saw us then we got a note under our door saying if we said anything that they'd kill us. i ask him why didn't tell us this before on the caravan in mexico. you just can't throw that out there on the road because you put your life in danger now the family feel safer they're on their third short since their right to church early believes their faith got them through the long journey. i think about how

god gave me the strength to go on with that great valley with that son in the cold in the night sleeping on the floor with just a towel and now i see my son that god has given me there were many girls who lost their baby son the way and i think god my son it's ok for the moment they were known the first steps of an uncertain asylum process but at least it's a beginning so there is now a record number of families that are crossing over into the united states many of them looking for asylum as with the raise a family but only about twenty percent of those asylum requests were granted last year but because of the huge backlog in cases it could be years before those hearings before they get to know in the case of this family if they've been granted asylum or not. they're trying to make a life for themselves in the united states john hallman in atlanta with that story

thank you john and sara paris p.s. with us now from washington d.c. a policy analyst at the migration policy institute nice to have you with us are the stories which you could hear them there they are painting a picture of these people wanting to come to the united states this has been a picture for a very long time in your view what is the reality of the actual numbers of what donald trump would call an invasion so we actually have an unprecedented number of asylum seekers arriving at our southern border when you're just looking at families during december we had twenty seven thousand family members alone arriving at the southern border applying for asylum so we're dealing with a bit of an asylum crisis rather than the border crisis that the president is framing and a border wall presumably doesn't fix status which. absolutely

individuals who are applying for this that for asylum have the right to do so at ports of entry but they also have the right to do so in between ports of entry if they're able to cross in between ports of entry even though that's an illegal crossing they have the right to go up to a border patrol agent and apply for asylum the wall does not make a difference. so what about legal immigration i'm interested just to compare it so that people understand because it is important to know the difference between the two and how the numbers differ particularly two years into this administration. so this administration is the first in modern times that's actually against immigration both legal and illegal immigration president trump has been very vocal about the fact that he views all immigration to be a threat to the united states both a security threat and an economic threat the president however can't unilaterally change the number of legal immigrants coming into the united states what his administration has done instead is slow down the processing of illegal immigration

we've seen increased security vetting of legal immigrants and that has decreased the number or it's had the effect of decreasing the number of immigrants coming into the united states so this administration is really doing everything it can to decrease both the legal immigrants coming into the united states the illegal immigrants and these asylum seekers who many say are actually following a very legal process to try to come into the country so all the facts you've given to us and to our international audience how do you think that could best make it out into the public sphere in the united states don't know trump has his twitter account and he has his supporters who are very vocal and it seems that those calls for a wall and demands for change and all these sorts of things drown out the facts. right that's been a really unfortunate thing in this shutdown fight the president gave a primetime address which is a very big deal in the united states it was his first speech from the oval office

and unfortunately he used that time to to repeat themes we've already heard from him and really these are essentially lies about immigration saying that illegal immigrants are pouring across our southern border and coming in here to to commit crimes when in reality what we have is a humanitarian and asylum crisis going on to our southern border and how we can educate the public about that i don't know because we constantly have this administration putting out these falsities and really painting a very different picture than the reality that currently exists sara pierce from the migration policy institute in washington lovely talking to you thank you the international criminal court has acquitted the former president of ivory coast of charges of war crimes the i.c.c. ruled the prosecution did not prove its case against the run who's been in jail for seven years three thousand people were killed in post-election violence and twenty ten went back but refused to leave office the court says he will be released on

wednesday morning to allow time for the prosecution to respond. the chamber by majority here by decides. that the prosecutor has failed to such as. the burden of proof to the requisite standard as for seen in article sixty six of the rome statute grants the defense motions for acquittal from all charges against mr bloomberg will mr childs liquid or does the ija drill ease of both accused more from nicolas sarkozy in rb john says this decision will just divide opinion. for the victims of the the atrocities and the torture and the killing of the two thousand and if you count in levin contested election they do not want to see them back go back into the country they say that justice has not been served but if you speak to the supporters of long background there are many in

this country is in this neighborhood in particular where where i stand the neighborhood the pub the neighborhood if you provoke a folk hero or a hero. if you judge but what we've seen this morning after the announcement of the judge where we thought people were going on the street screaming isn't a damn thing it is celebration continues right here where i stand then he rallied different points of the capital he would have a hero's welcome me back to the country tomorrow china has hit back at criticism by canada's prime minister after the death penalty was imposed on a canadian for drug smuggling trade you has that story from beijing. canadian robert schellenberg looked stunned as he was handed a death sentence by judges in china. the cold said the thirty six year old was attempting to smuggle more than two hundred kilograms of methamphetamines from china to a stray when he was arrested in twenty fourteen. he was jailed for fifteen years in november and was in the person of appealing that sentence when

a retrial was suddenly announced last month canadian prime minister justin trudeau has pledged to intervene on schellenberg behalf it is of extreme concern to us as a government as it should be to all our international friends and allies that china has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply death penalty in cases facing me as in this case facing a canadian chinese foreign ministry has rejected trudeau's comments calling them irresponsible and saying in china all people are equal before the law jeffrey you want to show the other remarks that the most basic awareness of the legal system is the canadian side to respect the rule of law respect china's legal sovereignty correct its mistakes and stop making irresponsible remarks. the court sentence has further intensified a dispute between the two countries which began when chinese executive one job was detained in canada in december the heiress and chief financial officer of

technology company chua wake was arrested at the request of washington for allegedly violating u.s. trade sanctions this infuriated beijing analysts believe shelling there could be spared the death penalty if mum was released there is a lot of room for compromise says if the situation caused the tiny so far it is can always choose to expel the port the canadian citizens diffusing the controversy since the rest thirteen canadians have been detained in china most have been released but former diplomat michael convert and business consultant michael spat will remain in custody on suspicion of endangering china's national security canada says these cases and robert shilling big step penalty are retaliations by beijing on monday canada updated a travel warning to its citizens in china saying that they should exercise

a high degree of caution in the face of albatros in full support of local laws schellenberg lawyer says he will appeal the death sentence arguing that the harsher penalty cannot be valid as no new evidence was introduced in his case. here's what's coming up for you on this news hour. in this from. the man who could influence the rusher investigation hearings underway for donald trump's nominee for attorney general. also the center of attention in canada we will hear from the saudi teenager who says she expects more women to flee homeland. the defending champions leave it late at the asian cup teams make their move for a place in the knockout it's.

hello there for some of us in turkey it's pretty wet at the moment we look at the satellite picture we can see the cloud that's making its way across us that's giving some of us a very heavy rain and also a lot of snow as well and there's some strong winds mixed in with that so we are seeing blizzard conditions at times the whole system is working its way eastwards we're still seeing a lot of snow over turkey there for wednesday and then it's gradually going to make its way of a further south on wednesday too so across lebanon there's likely to be some more heavy rain could be around fifty millimeters in places so that could give us a bit more of a problem with flooding meanwhile for the east largely fine and dry for many of us here but if you look through parts of iraq and into iran there's more in the way of rain here and then the system works its way eastwards but it's still bringing plenty more in the way of snow behind it even further south as some of that system it's just dragging its feet over parts of saudi arabia and so we are likely to see a fair amount of cloud here that swings its way southwards as we head through thursday and it's behind that that the weather in doha will change so it's fairly

mild out for thursday but then on friday the winds will pick up and it will feel quite cold particularly at night the temperatures are likely to drop down to around thirteen degrees for the southern parts of africa plenty of wet weather across us at the moment and they'll be more over the next few days. portrays one of the. city's seen through the eyes of those who know it best they see. proof to show you the real. al-jazeera world goes on the road with palestinian taxi drivers living and working at the heart of one of the most hockey contested locations. jerusalem's a palestinian cabbies on how jazeera. the latest news as it breaks in a poll just out sixty five percent of people said that they think it will do

a great or a good job with details coverage is the second time this year doctors walked out on strike the government is funded by issuing suspension. from the around the world increased warning level colleagues as a blow to the thousands of people displaced by the tsunami of wanting to return home. the news out here at al-jazeera and these are up top stories at least seven people killed during an attack on an upscale hotel complex in the kenyan capital nairobi somali based on the group al-shabaab says it carried out the right. decision day in

the u.k. as parliament prepares to vote on prime minister teresa mayes braggs that deal speaker of the house jumper there but you've also got the opposition leader jeremy corbin addressing parliament saying is he will be voting against may's braids of steel. an international criminal court has acquitted the former president of ivory coast of charges of war crimes. ruled the prosecution did not prove its case against iran but he's actually been in jail for seven years three thousand people were killed in post-election violence twenty ten when he refused to leave office. the southern african development community sadik has called an emergency meeting to discuss democratic republic of congo's disputed presidential election felix to secure there was declared the winner on thursday but runner up often for eunice challenging the outcome in the country's highest court. had previously called for a recount but no longer takes that position more from how to retire. she says the

court hearing could carry on well into next week. people have been in court all day tuesday and first you heard from lawyers representing the opposition marching for union they seem to suggest that they feel that the whole process was rushed they say because of the so many logistical challenges facing this election the fact that a lot of people voted in remote areas they can understand how the initial commission managed to conquer results so fast they feel the process should take him a little bit longer so that it's more credible it seems to be credible after that we expect them to hear from lawyers representing the electoral commission that may not happen today wednesday and thursday a public holiday siesta which means they could only present their evidence on friday if they don't finish on friday could drag on into minding which is why some people are saying the inauguration which is meant to take place in january eighteenth may not happen and january eighteenth can only happen maybe on the twenty third or the twenty fourth of january is now lot of pressure from african leaders to try to solve this political crisis some the business great lakes region

have asked for a recount but we have conflicting reports from the reason the body said it earlier they say they want to recount or government of national unity formed by the inside africa issued a statement saying that any decision made leaving that report from. the prime minister of the u.k. to reason may address in the house of credits this debate has now asked in some eight days over fifty four hours with speeches of powerful sincerity from over two hundred honorable and try to honorable members it has been historic for all paloma and for our country. we have heard contributions from every perspective looking at all aspects of this complex and vital question we've seen this house at its most passionate and vigorous and i think everyone who has contributed no one watching this debate can be in any doubt about the strength of this house of commons is the fulcrum of our democracy this is a debate. this is

a debate about our economy and security the livelihoods of our constituents and the future for our children and for generations to come it goes to the heart of our constitution and no one should forget that it is a democratic process that has gotten us to where we are today in twenty fifteen my party stored on an election manifesto that had as a centerpiece the promise of an in out referendum on the u.k.'s membership of the european union the british people responded by electing a conservative government to follow through on that promise that is what we did when this house voted overwhelmingly to hold the referendum and put the choice in the hands of the british people indeed four hundred seventy current members voted in favor of it and only thirty two opposed it and that campaign was keenly for to call the public imagination like few campaigns before it turned out was seventy two

percent higher than for any national poll for a quarter of a century and while not overwhelming the result was clear and it was decisive something this house except it when we voted overwhelmingly to trigger article fifty four hundred thirty six current members voted to do so only eighty five opposed parliament gave the people of choice we set the clock ticking on our departure and tonight we will determine whether we move forward with the. drawl agreement that honors the vote and sets us on course for a better future the responsibility of each and every one of us at this moment is profound for this is an historic decision that will set the future of our country for generations so want only alternatives that present themselves first we could decide it's all too difficult and give our either by revoking article fifty

or passing the baton rouge british. in a second referendum but i believe we have a duty to deliver on the democratic decision of the british. and to do so in a way that brings our country together a second referendum would lead instead to further division would be no agreement to the question let alone the answer it would say to the people we were elected to serve but we are not willing to do what they had instructed to. now the second possible outcome is that we leave on the twenty ninth of march without a deal but i don't believe that's what the british people voted for because they were told that if they voted to leave they could still expect a good trading relationship with the european union. and neither would it be the best outcome our deal delivers certainty for businesses for the time limited

information taishan very different their right to. do you know means no intervention nation period our deal protects the rights of the citizens living in the u.k. and few cases living in the e.u. so they can carry on their lives as before no deal means no reciprocal agreements to protect those citizens' rights our deal delivers the deepest pockets security partnership in the e.u. is history. so our police and security services can continue to work together with their european partners to keep all our people safe no deal means no such security partnership. and our deal delivers the foundations for an unprecedented economic relationship with the e.u. that is more ambitious that is. becoming really rather

a noisy and unseemly atmosphere that has now resumed the prime minister must be heard by minister here our deal to live is the foundations for an unprecedented economic relationship with the e.u. but it's more ambitious than anything they have ever entered into with the country it will give us the benefits of trading with the european union and the ability to forge new trade deals in our own right no deal means those new trade deals come at the expense of a trade deal with europe not in addition to it so while it is categorically wrong to suggest that our country could not all to make ultimately make a success of no deal it is equally wrong to suggest that this is the best outcome. now sir there is the past advocated by the leader of the opposition and we've heard it again of calling a general election but today's vote is not about what's best for the leader of the opposition. it is about what is best for the country.

i don't think of a general election whatever the result the choices facing us will not have changed and it will still be it will still be no breaks it leaving with no deal or leaving with a deal and there's no guarantee that an election would make the parliamentary arithmetic any easier all it would gain is two more months of uncertainty and division. in two thousand and seventeen the two main parties both stored on manifestos but pledged to deliver the result of the referendum they got over eighty percent of the vote people had the opportunity to vote for a second referendum by supporting the liberal agenda kratz in two out. of. seven. just seven percent of voters did

so. it is the job of parliament to deliver on the promises made out the last election not to be seeking a new one now some suggest some suggest there's a fourth option to agree that we should leave with a deal on the twenty ninth of march but to vote this deal down in the hope of going back to cross was again a negotiating an alternative deal but no such alternative deal exists the political director ration sets the framework for the future relationship and the next phase of negotiations will be our chance to shape that relationship but we cannot begin those talks unless or until we agree the terms of our withdrawal and the european union will not agree to any other deal for that withdrawal so. having ruled out all of these options we're left with why are to vote for this deal tonight was. one that delivers on the core tenets of brecht's it taking back control of our borders malls money trade and fisheries but in

a way that protects jobs ensures our security and honesty integrity of our united kingdom one that strikes a fair balance between the hopes and desires of all our fellow citizens those who voted to leave and those who voted to stay here and if we leave with the do you mind proposing i believe we can lay the foundations on which to build a better person and as prime minister i would not stand at this dispatch box and recommend a course of action that i do not believe is in the best interests of our country and all. and there are there are differences in this house today but i believe we can come together as we go forwards and let me reassure anyone who's in any doubt whatsoever the government will work harder at taking parliament with us and i was. as we move on to the next phase of negotiations we will be looking to. parliament

to see that consensus but mr speaker let me turn to the most contentious element hardtail the northern ireland protocol i said. i will go. my right now noble friend the prime minister knows that what concerns many of us is the possibility of the permanent nature of the northern ireland back stop may i refer to my amendment be on the order paper which says such a deadline of stop and my asking what is he asked to do of the government to my members. can i thank my own a profitable friend. as for the question he's asked and for the work the team has been doing to try to find a way through on this particular issue and i know he spent a long time consulting with international lawyers on this issue the government isn't able to accept the amendment that it's been selected that my right on offense

has put down has been selected tonight because we have a different opinion and a different interpretation of the vienna convention but i note that my right arm a friend has put out an alternative proposal is in relation to this issue the government is willing to look at creative solutions and will be happy to carry on. in relation to the issue i said i would. advise. i said i vote to go of our order. or order those of us combet so. i'm sure ange. heard the prime minister. i set out the government's position in detail on my state and yet in my statement yesterday so i'm not going to go over it again but the key thing to remember is this isn't a commitment we're making to the european union it's a commitment to the people of northern ireland and ireland that they will be able to carry on living their lives as they do today it's about saying that whatever

happens when we leave the e.u. we will honor the belfast agreement its success has been built on allowing people from both communities in northern ireland to feel that their identity is a respected under the principle of consent for many people in northern ireland that means having a seamless land border between the u.k. and ireland which is also essential for their economy for others that remains fully respecting the fact that northern ireland is an intrinsic part of the united kingdom no one wants to see the return of a hard border and as a proud unionist i share the concerns of members who are determined that we do not undermine the strength of our united. but it is is it. not enough simply to make these assertions we have to put in place arrangements that deliver those ends and it's not just a simple as some would like it to be so as prime minister for the whole u.k. it's my duty to provide a solution that works for the people of northern ireland the answer lies in

agreeing after economic relationship but we need an insurance policy to guarantee there will be no hard border if that future relationship is not in place by the end of the implementation period i'll give way to the age of the democratic and very grateful to the prime minister for giving way and which you agree that whatever warns view on this withdrawal agreement whatever argument the people deploy that we should not be using the peace or the political process should northern ireland as arguments for voting for this do you or voting against a good cheer agree about is completely and utterly out of order make that clear to all of our cabinet colleagues as well. to the right on a bridge and i think everybody everybody across this house is committed to ensuring that we maintain the arrangements of the belfast good friday agreement that we also ensure that we maintain the many benefits that have come from the peace process in

northern ireland and that should not be disrupted and that not should be should not be affected in any sense but i also say that whatever future relationship is going to be negotiated or people want to see being negotiated that insurance policy is essential any of the other proposals canada or norway or any number of variations of those models all of them require the insurance policy and that is the so-called backstop and no no backstop simply means no deal now and for the foreseeable future and i don't want to see anybody being able to exploit no deal bringing doubt about the future of our union as a result of that. and let's remember if i may say to this house what the withdrawal agreement does deliver for the people of northern ireland an implementation period certainty for businesses protection of citizens' rights so as a teacher thousands of families no hard border unfettered access to produce an e.u.

markets protection of the single tricity market across the island of ireland securing energy supply in northern ireland continued security cooperation with our european allies but the police service of northern ireland say is essential and above all the protection of the historic belfast good friday agreement the deal we have puts our union first now let me turn to the contribution of the leader of the opposition characteristic a characteristic speech characteristic his whole approach to brecht's it normal which of system and short on coherence. he's claimed that you'll be able to renegotiate the deal in a matter of weeks get a drastic a different outcome and despite the european union making clear that's impossible but everything he does is designed to avoid taking any difficult decisions saying one thing to one group and another thing to another. in the general election he

said his manifesto in his manifesto freedom of movement will end on sunday he said i'm not against the free movement of people when asked about cracks in a german newspaper he said we can't stop it the referendum took place article fifty it's been triggered. it is speech at wakefield last week and again this evening he said a second referendum was an option on the table he says labor would run an independent trade policy but he wants to join the customs union he says he's opposed to no deal but he says he is opposed to withdrawal agreement on the backstop without which there is no deal so the question is what is his position because he has failed in his. response. responsibility to provide a credible alternative to the government of the day by pursuing from the start a cynical course designed to serve is. not in the national

interest is forfeited the right to demand more from those of his m.p.'s who take a more pragmatic view because he doesn't care whether we leave or not with a deal or not as long as he can maximize disruption and uncertainty in the likelihood of the general election. and i hope that members opposite to faithfully pledge to their constituents that they would respect the results of the referendum so they think carefully before voting against a deal which delivers bret's it and i hope that those who fear leaving with out who do you whose constituents rely on manufacturing jobs think very carefully about rejecting the deal that is the only guaranteed way to take no deal of the table. mr speaker. mr speaker this is the most significant folks that any of us will ever be part of in our political careers.

after. after all the debates all the disagreement all the division the time has now come for all of us in this house to make a decision. a decision that will define our country for decades to come a decision that will determine the future for our constituents their children and their grandchildren. a decision that each of us will have to justify and live with for many years to come. we know the consequences of. voting for this deal they are laid out in black and white in the pages of the withdrawal agreement. but no one who votes against this deal will be able to tell their constituents what will world outcome they voted for because a vote against this deal is

a vote for nothing more all the uncertainty to fission and very real. i'm very i'm very grateful for the five minutes of forgivingly prime minister any of the analysis of direct search economic growth will be lower than staying in the united in the in the evening union he told the prime minister not relying on the basis of the knowledge of the facts to people are going to lose opportunities as a consequence of bricks or the alternative is to extend optical fifteen. people to see let's try to emphasize on the basis of the information that we know. right on the whole gentleman. parliament case the british people a choice parliament the government of the time all passes all those campaigning in that referendum well absolutely clear that whatever the decision of that referendum

would be respected by government and by problem. i believe that we have a duty to deliver that referendum. and to do so in a way that does protect people's jobs and protects our security and protects our union. against this deal is a vote for nothing more than uncertainty. and the very real risk of no deal or no brakes it actually. just doesn't have to be that way tonight we can choose certainty. uncertainty we can choose unity over division. we can choose we couldn't choose. we can choose to deliver on our promise to the british people not break that promise and in danger trust in politics for

a generation because as members of parliament we have a duty to serve not our own self interest nor that of our party is but the people we were elected to represent it. it is the people of this country that we were sent here to serve the people of this country if you queue jumping polling stations to cast their ballots so they might put their faith in us it is the people of this country who intrusted us with the sacred right to build for them and their children and grandchildren the brighter future they expect. and if we act in the national interest and by this deal tonight venter morrow we can begin to build that future together if we act in the national interest and back this deal tonight we can build a country that works for everyone together we can show the people we saw that their voices have been heard that their trust was not misplaced that our politics can and

does deliver but politicians can rise above our differences and come together to do what the people are asked of us that is the test history has set for us today it will determine the future of our country for generations we each have a solemn responsibility to deliver bricks it and take this country forward i with my whole heart i call on this house to discharge that responsibility together and i commend this motion. in order to. be all the river house of the fall of december ninth journey i must know a very warm welcome from the piles around eight snyman hundred g.m.t. your watching al-jazeera live from london just been hearing from the u.k. prime minister to resume a making a final plea to parliament to support her breaks that deal but to.