and then the absurdity of what's happening today having as you said ruled out stories amaze daley's be unacceptable for the hard coal policy is that it's a day they will almost inevitably rule out leaving the european union without a deal but it won't mean anything because they will still leave without a deal unless they can think of something else to do instead in the next fortnight or just over and they can't think of what else that that thing is and so it's just absolutely absurd and you can hear m.p.'s on the radio and places like that describing themselves as being in a failing parliaments eight is a flood crisis now for democracy in this country let's talk to i mean but it's who's head of politics at c.c.a. and newspaper fighting parliament you think so absolutely i mean i think your analogy about them putting their time in i was out and i wonder why it has to walk racially because the thing with these no you do votes they can no you know at the table they called deed i lest the e.u. agreed to the other extending it the e.u.

just so i guess what's the point exactly the e.u. are going to greece and they be they said they don't see the point of an extension unless it's going to be material change in the you change the shape of a position do you see any sense that you know the rest of parliament what you assume is a majority who don't want mase deal but don't want no deal either of finding anything else that they can coalesce around that they could take to the european council next week and say look we've got a new idea give us some more time to have a go with this one instead i think there was a slight hint today in the choice of spring statement when he talked about the consensus in parliament and we think there's a consensus around the parliament customs union things that break the tory party you get laid the votes on board for the governing party it's where policy would be broken by that you would use paper deals in business and finance. i mean i mean you had these from this very senior figures from the confederation of british industry in society motor manufacturers all that's all i'm saying tell us what she's going to do. what was the sense like among these people when you told she isn't to

despair because what they want is certainty and they throw the conservatives first be the friends of business a new suit of the day when trees my thought she got that too would you introduce into your sterling became stronger than immediately fell again when it became clear that it wasn't going to get through so they just desperate for certainty on the tour with a friend persistently to the friends of the moon what was your projection what what what was the sense in the world of business that the what would happen if there's no deal to you know the money the city of london jobs in the car factories that sort of thing but in the call factories where the rule of the single market will be mostly in the city down the debts of other stuff going for just over bust legal system is going to change and already so i think that might not be as bad but it would seem to suggest this country down three point six percent the a.b.l. said today so we're seeing a very the people moving their money away ok i mean thank you very much for that so the vote is in transfer now almost certainly they'll vote to rule out no deal but it won't mean anything but you have will definitely add talk again and then

lawrence to analyze it further whatever there is the analysts lawrence lee live in westminster thank you and still to come in this half hour we're going to have more on that breaking news for you a little earlier the second sentencing of president trump's former campaign manager all nine of all this time the seventy three. and we speak to relatives of the victims of sunday's ethiopian airlines just on the phone steve tire of. the tragedy . hello the rain is not particularly dramatic in china it's steady in the night shanghai might be fairly wet to see temperatures restricted to about ten degrees but you'll see that improve as the rain disappears in the sun comes out hong kong and shanghai are not that far apart temperature wise more cloud is building further

west on the higher ground in some parts of sichuan you see the rain we have recently seen significant rain in pakistan once again fifty millimeters involved stan easter quite a by some way but the clouds moved away now it's on the indian side of the border is running up through northern india it's almost finished dropping its rain or snow and this is the position for thursday up in the high grounds you can see rest of india and pakistan quite weather returns attempts are slowly rising but only slowly showers are still possible down in sri lanka are actually quite possibly the increase significantly in the next week and once more we've got cloud coming down through the gulf the head of it it's of southerly quite a strong southerly you know as to bits of green the hints in kuwait and around the red sea coast that's a proper trial flood to run this general direction so i would mean says you night and friday thunderstorms seem likely eastern soddy and answer the gulf nations including cata leaving a quiet day afterwards. a

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welcome back here's a reminder of our top stories on al-jazeera rescuers in nigeria are searching for survivors after an apartment block housing a primary school on the top four collapsed in lagos dozens of children are feared dead at least eight people six of them children have been killed in a school shooting in the brazilian city of south paolo and us president on from former campaign chairman paul man of ford has just been sentenced to seventy three months on conspiracy cry let's get more on that story we're joined now by a practical haney's she is just outside the courthouse in washington d.c. at that you know you've just come out of court and tell us a little bit more about the sentence and how it's come about. i have and i can tell you if you hear someone screaming in the background there's just a protester behind us yelling fake news we're making that comment we often hear from the president i'm sure he'll be moved along shortly but in the meantime i was in the courtroom paul metaphor expressionless as the judge really been rated him in

her. sentence in your report basically saying he's. basically said this whole time with his actions that he's just trying to spin this make it a p.r. campaign make himself the victim that he is not she said that he committed these crimes over several years millions of dollars to fraud in the taxpayers and she was pretty tough on him in her sentencing painting a very damning picture of him and basically his defense team the way they've handled this case but at the end of the day he could have been sentenced to ten years in prison and her courtroom that would have been on top of the forty seven months that he got in virginia she didn't do that she said some of his time that she's going to give him is going to be able to run concurrently with his virginia sentence some of it is going to come after so basically he'll serve certain amount of time for his virginia then add on that extra time that she's given him in total about seven and a half years but he's going to be given credit for the time you spent in jail that's about nine months so this turning seventy in just

a few weeks it is likely it is possible even paul metaphor will not die in prison. how does any of this affect donald trump. well you know there's been a lot of talk in the american media that he's going to be under pressure to pardon men afford it he has that ability the president can preemptively pardon anyone or post pardon someone for any federal crime now the way that this would hurt the president though if you were to do that man a fortnight you wouldn't necessarily get out of this he could possibly face crimes but let's say the state attorney general said they were going to prosecute him well then he loses his right to basically plead the fifth to avoid self incrimination if that was the case if the president pardoned man afore. he had lost that ability that would mean he would have to testify against the president against everybody if you didn't do it truthfully or if you refuse to testify then he goes back to jail now the judge was very careful and say this isn't a case of saying anything about collusion that wasn't in this court where she said

we don't know if there was collusion because we haven't heard from the special counsel yet she said this isn't about russia this is about his dealings with ukraine but she said it doesn't mean there isn't any collusion and she said to him in laughter in the courtroom you can't say the investigations found nothing when you in fact lied to the investigators to try and stop the investigation she made the point of saying this doesn't rule out that there was collusion this isn't a reflection on special counsel robert muller this is about paul manna for crimes committed over a decade to which he will spend just under seven years in prison. particle hang outside the courthouse there patti thank you. well staying in the u.s. the state department has changed its description of the golan heights from israeli occupied to israeli controlled in an annual global human rights report a separate section on the west bank and the gaza strip also doesn't refer to the territories as being occupied or under occupation while scammell from jordan in

a washington d.c. obviously rosen and we have seen in previous years since they've come in this new administration changing the way that the u.s. relates to these really palestinian conflict of course you know the move of the of these really embassy to jerusalem being the most obvious point but is this them officially effectively giving up on any pretense of a two state solution. well it's not just that there's also been the long running criticism of the state department under both republican and democratic administrations including the trump ministration that the reports are being manipulated for political purposes when their purpose is to really assess the status of human rights practices in countries around the world and to be a neutral arbiter really the gold standard for determining what is bad behavior what isn't bad behavior and certainly this is raising more criticism of the state

department now under the trumpet ministration that it is trying to advance its political objectives through a report that is supposed to be objective that is supposed to be neutral that is supposed to be reflective of international law and standards of course noting that the west bank is occupied is language devised at the united nations and this is a language which is pretty much respected by almost every other country in the world there's also a lot of consternation barbara about the fact that once again reproductive rights for women are not being mentioned as an area of vulnerability for the world's women and girls there's also a concern that the description of a golan heights as being israeli controlled is perhaps an effort to try to change the facts on the ground and certainly the briefing is still underway there are a lot of questions about the language you can't even really get to the substance of

what is being done in this country or that country when certainly language that reflects some political aspirations is seemingly front and center in this new set of reports join in with the latest on that from washington d.c. thank you. again he sounds divided ruling party has won a majority of seats in the country's long awaited parliamentary elect. the african party for the independence of guinea in cape verde forty seven one hundred seats in the national assembly arrivals fifty in a party formed by former. members took twenty seven seats despite the win for his party president joseph boiled in a power struggle with the cns fired six prime ministers since coming into power in two thousand and fourteen. relatives of the victims of sunday's ethiopia's airlines crash are being flown to

the scene of the tragedy one hundred fifty seven people from thirty five different nations were on board that flight but the highest number of fatalities were from kenya catherine soy spoke to some of the families of those who died. it's hard to imagine the pain john cwindows is going through relatives and friends have been coming to his home in the rift valley to console him since they had news that his wife. and three grandchildren had died in the crash on sunday his wife was a retired school teacher who had gone to canada to visit there due to carole and her children brian kelly and nine month old ruby are coming back to kenya for a visit. relatives of those who died and now waiting for information from the government in

ethiopia adeline's on when they'll be traveling to ethiopia their d.n.a. may be needed to identify the remains of windows and his family have started burial . but they'll have to wait for the remains of their loved ones to be brought home if you can airlines officials say the identification process is delegate and will take time the plane went down just minutes after takeoff killing all a hundred fifty seven people on board most of those who died are kenyans. these mourners are grieving for yet another victim a priest. who was returning home from rome where he was working with i don't even want to see his sister ruth did not even know he was coming he wanted to surprise her my brother was very social and he was a very close friend to me who was not only a brother but the for it we would talk so many things. as they moan their laughter

the little information they're getting is i did to their ordeal we talked to say they're patient but also want this whole process over quickly so they can bury their loved ones and then perhaps begin to heal catherine soy oil jazeera kenya syrian government forces fighting rebels an adlib are being accused of using incendiary phosphorus a banned substance in civilian area areas under international law white helmet activists say was used in rocket propelled grenades which were bombarding rebel held town towns attacks have escalated in recent days as the government seeks to increase pressure on the last remaining rebel enclaves camps in it live house more than one hundred ninety thousand people displaced by the felting fighting. now the female saudi activist who led the campaign to end the battle on women driving in the kingdom has appeared in court in riyadh and lulu has been in the

tension since last may claims that she's been kept in solitary confinement and tortured mohamed vaal has her story. is a young guy activist who's been fighting for saudi women decide to drive among other demands she's a graduate of the university of british columbia in canada and was ranked by arabian business magazine third on the list of top most powerful women in two thousand and fifteen in recognition of her felicity. but routine and other female campaigners paid a hefty price you clued in constant touch us mint and even detention at the hands of saudi authorities. last may she was arrested after releasing a video showing her behind the wheel on a highway between the united arab emirates and saudi arabia in defiance of the ban on women driving. and even though the ban was lifted a month later jane remained in detention without charge or access to

a lawyer she only found out the accusations against her via social media she was moved from one jail to another and the times her family couldn't visit her in an article in the new york times her sister alia said jane told her family and rights groups that she was held in solitary confinement and tortured in the presence of saudi the former advisor to crown prince mohammed bin said. she said bonnie attend a torture sessions in person and threaten to rape her and throw her body into the sewage system during a you and human rights council session in geneva last week nearly forty countries including member states condemn saudi arabia over the way in which a head lewd and her co activists are being treated not only because their basic rights have been violated but also because of the way in which they are purely humanitarian activism is being construed as terrorism saudi authorities also said

had lou and others were active as foreign agents spying on their own country which joined the high commissioner on this question opportunity on the call on this all to authorities to release all individuals including russia in our household the man i love you on our seas are yourself in a similar saga some are about r.v. abdullah says the tone of us it mohammed out by at the. hobby and children are detained for exercising their fundamental freedoms. the saudi authorities deny the allegations of torture and sexual harassment against that have you but they've so far failed to agree to demands by the un to release any of the activists mohammed fired. and now a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera rescuers in the area are searching for survivors after a block housing how

a primary school collapsed in lagos several children a feared dead the tower was made up of apartment blocks with a primary school on the top floor as many as one hundred pupils were studying when the structure came down the journalist on the coming on is at the scene of the collapse. people are free at moments we've seen many outgoing lake of that governor arrive in the ranks with that happen that it's going to be a full investigation people remain angry both i've spoken to have been saying that somebody needs to be held accountable that they believe there were many many children and it is cool of the building they've been telling me is about thirty years old and they simply want maintain at least eight people including six children have been killed in a school shooting in brazil police say that two hooded teenagers entered the school in a suburb in sao paolo and opened fire before turning the guns on themselves more people are being treated in hospital for serious injuries he was president donald trump's

former campaign chairman paul mann a ford has been sentenced to seventy three months on conspiracy crimes last week another judge gave him a surprisingly lenient sentence of under four years in a separate tax evasion case. china is offering its assistance to help end the blackouts in venezuela which have now lasted almost a week electricity is back on in many parts of the country but is not fully operational in the western state of zulia china's backing president claims that the nationwide blackouts are a result of u.s. sabotage. the u.k. parliament has use a vote again on breaks in a day after prime minister to resign may be leaving deal was once again overwhelmingly rejected this time they're voting on a motion which includes rejecting britain leaving the e.u. without a deal and we're going to have more on that vote of course at nineteen a g.m. t. here from london with those other top stories stay with us witnesses next with the

story of the syrian american surgeon bismark one of the medical heroes of syria's war. for the next morning for you doing our duty. when you hear.

of the third chance. in nervous all war but. for a little finger ten years i haven't been to syria for probably thirty years i'm fortunate that i was able to come over here and to going to medical field i think it was footage of a father carrying his son with his arm completely empty to that's what they actually instigated me to contact the syrian american medical society and they put me in touch with the soldier in turkey. what did your wife say she said she's on earth don't cross the border. i'm really nervous about it i try not to talk about it too much but pam and i try to think about it too much but i'm nervous about everything about him we haven't talked about the trip yet with our younger daughter

with my older son we just tried to explain where dad's calling in what he'll be doing while he's there we've talked a little bit about you know how. children had to leave their homes or some families had to leave their homes and go someplace else. it's probably going to be difficult i don't know what exactly healthy so i don't know what to expect and i don't know what how it will and i don't think what i'm doing is really anything special in particle or but i think every little butt helps i know if i was in that situation the whole would. like to have somebody who would be able to provide care for me. these are mainly external fixed herbs devices which goes on the outside of the body

if there is an open fracture. in the soldier here are males which causes inside the born these are joined so i have a couple shoulder joints and a hip joint my understanding is they don't have any joints when we have various plates some for the shoulders some just for long warms. which have pleasant times.

i can see syria with them. fifty feet from where i'm standing. speaking to the hospital law administrator today usually they are closed tomorrow. because they have couple doctors who came in from out of town they are opening the hospital and they want us to start seeing patients first thing tomorrow morning. bill.

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