a humanitarian ceasefire in syria has now been postponed there's been deadlock since thursday because of objections from russia. more than 460 people have been killed in the past week. us investigators examining russian influence on the 2016 election have done a deal with donald trump's former campaign aide, rick gates. mr gates has admitted lying to the fbi and has pleaded guilty to conspiracy. the head of the european council says the uk is under ‘pure illusion‘ if it thinks it can pick and choose the terms of its future relationship with europe. donald tusk says he wants to get more clarity on britain's proposals from theresa may next week. hello and welcome to the week in parliament.

coming up: an uncomfortable morning of questioning for oxfam bosses. i am sorry, we are sorry for the damage that oxfam has done. more grilling for carillion — this time it's those responsible for pensions and auditing. they are staggering out onto the street thing, i thought it was surprised, you are paid to look after this. if you can stand the noise, get out of the chamber. we get the lowdown on volume. huge numbers of people outside this place disapprove, disapprove of this sort of behaviour. both sides stop it. but first, it was the feelings by oxfam which dominated the early part of the week. the sense of anger wasn'tjust

down to the wrongdoing, the fact that charity workers had paid woman for sex in earthquake ravaged haiti, it was also the wake the organisation dealt with it and so oxfam bosses steeled themselves for two uncomfortable hour of cross—examination by a committee of mp5. first it was the issue of the commons made by this charity chief executive. you appeared to be downplaying this scandal using the parallel with the murder of babies in their cots which many people regarded as grossly inappropriate. can i give you the opportunity to apologise? certainty chairman, i do apologise. i was thinking under stress, i'd given many interviews and given many decisions to try and beat oxfam's response to this, —— lead the response. i was thinking about amazing work i had seen oxfam do across the world most recently for refugees

coming from myanmar. i should not have said those things. it is not for oxfam tojudge issues of proportionality or motivation. i repeat oxfam's broader apology and my personal apology, i am sorry, we are sorry for the damage that oxfam has done. both to the people of haiti but also to wider efforts for aid and development by possibly undermining public support. people in a country behave well as citizens, not because they are policed, but because of their values. this is about aligning our people with the values of oxfam. some hideous men came into our organisation and abused to get away, to get a recommendation to leave. this was wrong. a conservative said she had been highlighting the problem of sexual

was actually attackingzit: that's shocking. it's really heartbreaking that we are in the situation but i want to assure you that you are not doing nothing. we were working on it but we have reached a point where the world has woken up to the abuse of women and girls in a very special way and we find ourselves not to have done enough but we did something. we have been improving every year

but we are not where we want to be. in the commons, the international development secretary gave a withering verdict on the previous leadership. accusing directors of putting the protection of oxfam's reputation ahead of those they were supposed to help. we must be able to trust organisations not only to do all they can to prevent harm but to report and follow—up incidents of wrongdoing when they occur. in this duty, oxfam failed, under the watch of barbara and penny. they did not provide a full report to the charity commission, they did not provide a full report to their donors. tees elli dee effifilfié any fééif in my view mr speaker, they misled quite possibly deliberately. the international development secretary. the exchanges between theresa may and jeremy corbyn at prime ministers questions are usually a brexit free zone. but the cabinet were convening at chequers the next day

to pin down the uk future relationship with the eu. and so, the opposition leader made an exception. he began with david davis's comforting reassurance that post brexit britain would not descend into a desert work —— where society had collapsed. yesterday, the brexit secretary assured the country that brexit will not plunge britain into a mad max style world borrowed from the dystopian fiction. doesnt the prime minister feels he could set the barjust a little bit higher? prime minister! as the right honourable gentleman knows, we are very clear we are going to ensure that when we leave the european union we will be able to take back control of our borders, our money, and our laws. and i have to say to him the only fiction around in relation to brexit

and the european union is the labour party front bench who can't even agree with themselves what their policy is. in december the foreign secretary and the environment secretary were briefing that the working time directive would be scrapped. the cbi and the unions are very clear that they are not looking for a bonfire of regulations, quite the opposite. the only party that wants to scrap work relation protections are the party opposite. i have been clear since i became prime minister. that this is a government that will not only protect workers‘ rights but enhance workers‘ rights. and let‘s just look at the conservatives record in government. who was it? which government was it that took action on zero—hours contracts? a conservative government. not labour. which government it it? that got matthew taylor to report on the new economy? a conservative government, not labour.

which government is it that is ensuring that workers voices are heard on the boards of companies a conservative government, not labour. i don‘t know if she‘s had a chance to read the daily telegraph today want to destroy workers‘ rights in this country. well as usual during pm questions, the commons was extremely noisy. and here is the point i think of peak rowdiness. will the prime ministerjoined me in urging with labour police and crime commissioner to put more police on the streets instead of increasing his budget for his staff by £10 million? minister! no, the microphones only pick up the sound around the person who‘s speaking, i was in the press gallery which looks over the green benches and the noise across the chamber is absolutely incredible, it‘s like a wall of sound. eventually the speaker had had enough.

more money is going to policing. order! order! please. the questions and the answers must be heard and i make no apology for repeating that the discussions here at prime ministers questions should bear some resemblance to what the house is saying in relation to culture. let's try to behave properly in the session. well, one person who has heard many prime ministers questions is our parliamentary correspondent. i hope it‘s not affected your hearing? it was a wall of sound when you‘re in there, what you don‘t quite get from the television coverage jabbing their fingers and shutting out at whoever is speaking whether it is the prime minister orjeremy corbyn or somebody else and the speaker‘s point

there i was simply that you can‘t isolate that from the rest of what goes on in parliament and if there is a bullying culture at prime ministers question time that‘s going to filter through into a lot else that goes on in parliament and he does not want that to happen he does not want people to get that impression of the place. why do they do it? in the newsroom we don‘t yell at each other, why do mps do that? it‘s partly a bit of political theatre, don‘t forget a lot of this is quite calculated behind the scenes. people actually sort of look through the batting order of pmq and someone we don‘t want to shout at him but that person is going to be saying a blatantly political point and we want to try and disrupt them and they know there are some mps who can be knocked off their stride by a really good heckle and a lot of conservatives think that jeremy corbyn can be goaded and can get very angry and you suddenly hear

that back of the throat voice he gets when he‘s a bit under pressure. and they like to get him into that situation. and theresa may also? yes, she tends to sort of carry on fairly serenely but you can see occasionally that she gets a little bit rattled in the body language which changes a bit and anyonercan comment on anyone‘s character it can be a horrible place when you‘re at the centre of attention. we had this report about harassment at westminster, do you think that of the parliamentary week from the rest of what parliament does. and this kind of leakage from one part of parliamentary life to all the rest and can contaminate everything if they‘re not careful in terms of how the public sees it. pmqs is the moment in parliament that is most seen so that is the moment when they make a public impression and the speaker in particular is very conscious of the dangers of that being some kind of bear pit.

he‘s always saying the public hate this, is that true? do the public hate it? well, sometimes i think people can condemn violent tv and violent about pmqs it‘s the most entertaining bit of the week. whether it actually matters or really changes peoples perceptions except on a few very dramatic occasions i think is another question. it does liven up the week for us. it certainly does. you can get it marks for technical merit every time. thank you. for words in the face of questions from a joint committee, investigating why the company failed. on thursday it was the pensions regulator and auditors who face carillion provided services for schools, hospitals and prisons. it went into liquidation at the beginning of the year leaving suppliers unpaid and a hole in the company‘s pension scheme

of hundreds of millions of pounds. more than a thousand people lost their jobs and there was widespread disruption amongst subcontractors and suppliers. first to face the music was the pensions regulator. how many other schemes came before you pleading poverty, we did all these extra years, but paying dividends? how many in that position, could you tell? i cannot answer that question either, this is complicated, to send the committee on notes on how many schemes are in that situation. that should be your daily diet, every week you should meet your staff and say here is the most vulnerable, still paying huge dividends, what action are we taking? i can assure you that we take forward these issues you have

identified there with our very committed staff down in brighton. we doubt your actions. next it was the turn of the auditors. i would not hire you to do an audit of the contents of my fridge in my fridge or not. and that‘s the point of auditing isn‘t it? to tell us what exists and what‘s there or not. we'll tell you what was there for the company records which is 73.9. that‘s like an audit of the fridge done by showing you the receipts from the supermarket. that‘s enough, i mean you have to open the fridge and have a look what‘s in there. his reply was to the effect that the fridge had been opened in 2014 and 15 but not in 2016. now, let‘s take a look at some of the news from around with minister in brief. —— westminster in brief. up to 500 lives a year could be saved if the laws on organ donation in england were changed

mps were told. they were debating altering the rules on consensus of people would expressly have to opt out if they did not want their organs used after that. —— death. a conservative told the story of a nine—year—old girl who was killed in a car accident. one of her kidneys was given to a man in his 30s who had been on the waiting list for an organ for 25 years. ——2.5 years. the other kidney was given to a woman in her 50s who had been on the waiting list for nine and a half years. the young boy received her pancreas and liver. and her heart, her heart was given to a ten—year—old boy. the health secretary admitted the response to the way medical problems caused by three nhs treatments have not always been good enough. priomodos, a hormone based pregnancy test claimed that the miscarriages and birth defects. sodium valproate used to treat epilepsy was linked to autism and learning difficulties when taken in pregnancy. and vaginal mesh implants used

after complications in childbirth caused some patients crippling side effects. sometimes the reactions felt overly focused on defending the status quo rather than addressing the needs of patients. and as a result, patients and their families spent too long feeling they were not being listened to, making agony of a complex medical situation even worse. so today, in addition to practical steps, for each of these three cases, i‘m also setting up plans to establish a fairer, quicker and more compassionate way of addressing issues when they arise. quicker and more compassionate way of addressing issues when they arise. the home office minister said the government will explore every option to try to help a boy who has a rare form of epilepsy. he suffers as many as 30 seizures a day.

being treated with cannabis oil, which is illegal in the uk, his epilepsy improved when he took the drug abroad. there are thousands of people who have the choice of suffering terrible pain and seizures every day, or of criminalizing themselves by breaking the law. i would urge them to break the law, because the law in this case is cruel and lacks compassion. karen bradley said northern ireland cannot remain in a state of limbo, and promised to provide clarity for civil service, as soon as possible. there has been no functioning government for more than a year after the coalition collapsed in a bitter row. i have just come from a meeting with a group of charities and others who want somebody to lobby and a minister to argue

with about mental health in northern ireland. there had been the ministers, that there have been no ministers, let them continue, yes we want to see the evolution. but it is a dereliction of duty to continue without a budget, without ministerial decisions. it‘s time to get on with it. and when borisjohnson proposed a 22 mile—long bridge connect kent with france last month, experts were quick to point out having a bridge in one of the busiest shipping lanes. but he would not let that put them off. the existing channel tunnel is likely, at the present rate, to be full within the next seven years, in a short time and the lifetime, it is a curiosity! that two of the most powerful economies in the world, separated by barely 21 miles of water, are connected by only one railway line.

minsters have been accused of iverseeing an emergency after the high court ruled its current plan to tackle air pollution was unlawful. in a court victory for campaigners, the judge said that the current approach was not sufficient. he said that steps must be taken to comply with the law as soon as possible. in the commons, there was clear anger from mps. the fact is that this is a national health emergency, a million people could probably die, by recent estimates, by 20110, this is not good enough. she must act now. the uk is currently exceeding legal limits of pollution set out in 2008 eu ambient air quality directive. it poses a serious question as to whether this conservative government can be trusted with our environment and dealing with illegal air

pollution after they leave the eu, if this is the ducking and diving we are witnessing now. frankly, i am fed up with the opposition simply not accepting their responsibility. to incentivize, up to 2010, nearly half of all vehicles sold, i am not saying that previous labour ministers did not do things in good faith. but as we have found out, labour ignored advice diesel fumes were toxic. there were moving scenes in england, many politicians have been affected by cancer. and one of them was labour‘s karen lee. she was diagnosed with breast cancer there were two foreign secretaries when, she was treated at nottingham city hospital, she had chemotherapy,

and her treatment was just amazing. they just could not have been better. as well as that, she came home for the final weeks of her life to die. and the unqualified team that came were just amazing. i cannot thank them enough. i 53.9312, 25-318 bégfié = i wish it could be no one. and i just think that as parliamentarians, to influence and change, and maybe can join together of breast cancer.

mps went to comfort karen lee, on the right of the picture. something the health minister noticed. there‘s always does one person that does not leave a dry eye in the house. she is not her place now, and i don‘t blame her. i think the whole house wanted to give her a hug, and many of them did and bless them for that. the incoming head of the financial industry regulator had to repay tax after using an unapproved tax break scheme. the news emerged as charles randall appeared before the treasury committee, mr randall put money into a scheme that made use of tax breaks to promote film productions, he said it had been an error ofjudgement. i was reassured that this partnership had been discussed with senior policy officials who had indicated that they

approved of it. it‘s clear to me now that, far from taking any comfort from that, i should have seen it as a warning signal because the mere fact that an informa; assurance was said to be necessary, should have been telling me that this was an investment for which there was not a specific statutory framework. can you see how to ordinary people, not those who are seeking to be a chair, but it would look like, how the scheme works, it could well look like some tax break so people can, not open to the consumers, regulated by the ncaa. ng ht

of the sca in april. what has been happening in the wider world of westminster, i hear you asking. it got off to a bouncy start, from basketball and the uk. and mp referenced us hip—hop artist ice cube to make his point about the benefits of the game. it is an olympic sport. the house of lords has its first female, she is to be known as the lady usher of the black rod, and she was given a rousing reception as she attended to her duties. we have all been glued to our television, watching our best every winter 0lympics performance. winning three medals in one day. with lizzie successfully

defending her gold in the skeleton. but what is the skeleton? basically, it is finding yourself down a frozen track on a bobsled at 80 miles an hour. lying facedown! maybe the government will adopt a hard brexit perspective now? in hot water after making disparaging remarks at a gig in glasgow. a tory mp used it to discredit the scottish government‘s budget. when he said, of the first minister, those hands will be in anybody‘s pockets! and finally, parliamentary procedure

can be a little baffling, but the government business managers are expected to know all the rules. kelly was promoted to the job last month, but she may not have quite got grips with what‘s what. as amended in the public bill committee, now. now. there we go. she won‘t do that again. and that is it for now, so for me, goodbye. here‘s a quick check on your weekend

forecast. a fine weekend to get out and about if you are dressed appropriately because it is going to be very cold. the woman shaving you see on the map, that shading effect, that sees a warm frost. temperatures are going to slowly climb. it will feel cold, a little extra power to the south—west, also fought in northern ireland and scotland, although a lot of it should break up as we go through the day. clear skies, it is going to turn very cold again. temperatures may just skies, it is going to turn very cold again. temperatures mayjust hold up above freezing but many places will drop below and then we get on into sunday again, widespread frost to start the day and again, we will see a good deal of sunshine to take is to to the afternoon. a good deal of cloud and scotland, north—east england, it‘s still a biting wind

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