died, aged 92. mrs bush, was the matriarchalfigure of a political dynasty as the only woman to have seen her husband and son sworn in as us president. she had been in failing health for some time and had declined further medical treatment. president trump says high level talks are already underway with pyongyang. mr trump did not specify who was involved in the talks, but there are unconfirmed reports that the director of the cia, mike pompeo met kimjong—un on a secret visit to north korea at easter. it's hoped a summit will take place by earlyjune. the syrian ambassador to the un says an inspection team from the chemical weapons watchdog will go to the site in douma where western countries say a chemical gas attack took place

nearly two weeks ago. earlier, american officials said the experts were being kept away from the site. now on bbc news — tuesday in parliament. hello there and help welcome to the programme. coming up, afterthe serial bombings, the labour leader sets out his case for parliament to have a say for any military action. parliament should have, as an absolute minimum, enshrined in law, the opportunity to ask questions before the government can order planned military action. jordan have been gassed in syria are not interested in in process, they are interested in in process, they are interested in in process, they are interested in action. a minister reveals he could terminate contracts of private rehabilitation companies which have failed to meet reoffending targets. any of these companies are facing intense financial penalties for failing to meet these targets. there is a call

for ten livingston to be thrown out at the labour party. as a labour mp accuses him of anti—semitism.m at the labour party. as a labour mp accuses him of anti-semitism. it is accuses him of anti-semitism. it is a disgrace, he should stand at that dispatch box and told a lever of the labour party that livingston must be booted out! but first, theresa may spent several hours at the dispatch box on monday, defending her decision to take action following the alleged chemical weapons attack in syria and to do so without recalling parliament. the labour leaderjeremy corbyn thinks mps should have had a debate and a say before military action. so on tuesday he led a debate called for that consultation to be put into law. a war powers act could specify at what point in decision—making processes mps should be involved, as well as retaining the right of ministers to act in an emergency or in the country's self defence. does the right honourable gentleman not agree that the protection of the

lives of uk servicemen and women will sometimes require surprise and that therefore prior parliamentary approval could, on occasions, be life—threatening? approval could, on occasions, be life-threatening? a woman on the doorstep in dealing said to me this weekend did we regain sovereignty of parliament to hand it over to a park —— prime minister with no sovereignty, or worse, to donald trump? i think my honourable friend ‘s constituent is quite right that parliamentary sovereignty does require that parliament holds government to account. i am clear that parliament should have, as an absolute minimum, enshrined in law, the opportunity to ask questions if all the government can order planned military action. the questions, is it necessary? is it legal? what will it necessary? is it legal? what will it achieve? and what is the long—term strategy? it is difficult to argue that requiring governments to argue that requiring governments to a nswer to argue that requiring governments

to answer those questions of matters over life and death would be anything other than a positive step. but as the debate continued, the speaker was forced to step in several times to tell off rowdy mps. mr shell brock, be quiet, i know you feel strongly and i respect that. i am not having you shouting out. you either undertake now to be quiet or write strongly advise you to leave the chamber for the rest of the debate. . ! he has laid out a test which he thinks could be met in emergency circumstances. does that mean you might have a situation where british forces me to be urgently committed, get court action would end up determining whether that could happen or not and wouldn't it be wrong thatjudges, rather than the cabinet, made those kind of decisions? i am not quite sure where the honourable gentleman gets that logic from, because it certainly doesn't come from anything that i have said. i am sorry to have

to keep interrupting, this debate must be conducted in a seemly manner. when the prime minister stood up to speak, a conservative intervene and attack the labour leader. children who have been gassed in syria are not interested in the process, they are interested in action. will she agree with me, since she refused to take interventions from me, can she re call interventions from me, can she recall in any time in the opposition leader's that five years in this house when he has supported any action to countenance a military action to countenance a military action or legislation to counter terrorism that sent a clear message that illegal aggression, the likes of what we saw, will not be tolerated and has consequences? can i set my honourable friend that the revolution —— the recollection of my opponent is that he has consistently opposed military action and has opposed military action and has opposed that our security services and our law enforcement agencies

have the power that they need to be able to deal with terrorism. some in this place would not have authorised military action to retake the falkland islands in 1982, i am afraid some people wouldn't authorise military action to retake the isle of white if it were invaded. laughter. i think... the isle of white if it were invaded. laughter. ithink... i think my honourable friend has made his point very well be there are situations, not least major deployments like the iraq war, where the scale of the military buildup requires the movement of military assets over weeks and where it is absolutely right and appropriate fork, to debate military action in the event. but that does not mean it is always appropriate. it therefore cannot, i will make some progress, it therefore cannot and should not be codified into a parliamentary right to debate every possible overseas mission in events. i would quite understandably have faced questions about the legality of our action. the only way i could have

reassured the house would have been to set out in a defence, as i did yesterday, the limited targeted and proportionate nature of our proposed action. i would proportionate nature of our proposed action. iwould have proportionate nature of our proposed action. i would have faced questions about what aircraft and weapons we we re about what aircraft and weapons we were planning to use, when the operation was going to take place on how long it was going to last and what we were going to do. all of this would have provided invaluable information that would have put our armed forces at greater risk and greatly increased the likelihood of the regime being able to shoot down our missiles and get their chemical weapons away from our targets. the time and of events last week should have our prime minister check on the president 's timetable, rather than planning a recall. parliament should authorise military action, it is a disgrace that the prime minister appeared before them —— beholden to the us president instead of the parliament. what is the threshold on which we won, quants again

intervened? is it any use? is it a numberof intervened? is it any use? is it a number of deaths? is it the president of the united states being indignant as he saw something on television? what is the threshold for continuing involvement in this struggle? that is all the more reason why we need to have parliamentary authorisation for continuing action. there were tea rful continuing action. there were tearful contributions and rare applause as mps debated what could be done to tackle anti—semitism. opening the debate, the committee secretary described it as the world ‘s oldest hatred. secretary described it as the world 's oldest hatred. a century ago, the then us president described anti—semitism as a noxious weed. u nfortu nately, anti—semitism as a noxious weed. unfortunately, in recent yes, this week has found fertile corners in the corners of social media and political activism, especially those anti— israel and end his zionist sentiment. return to accusations of

anti—semitism levelled at labour in recent months. we cannot ignore that particular concern with elements within the labour party. nor can we ignore the fact that this increasing concern has correlated with the current leader of the opposition. there is no place for anti—semitism in the labour party, in the left of british politics, it in touche society at all. end of. a conservative turned to the former mayor of london, ken livingstone, who is current as has the labour party over comments he made. people know that in this game of politics that we sometimes played, actions will speakfar stronger that we sometimes played, actions will speak far stronger than words. mr livingstone remains a member of the honourable gentleman's party. the livingstone's comments in this issue had become evermore eccentric.

—— mr livingstone's i know he is not the decision maker, but i am sure he would take it from honourable members on both sides of that if the bold —— the body politic is serious, his expulsion is required. we all have a duty to call at anti—semitism and route it out, whether it is on the right the left. let's be really clear about this, really clear about it. ken livingstone comparing, claiming that hitler was a zionist, this is anti—semitism pure and simple. it happened more than two years ago, there has been ample time to deal with it, it is a disgrace that it hasn't been dealt with. kick him out immediately! it is a disgrace, he should stand at that dispatch box and told the leader of the labour party that livingstone must be booted out. boot him out! the honourable gentleman makes his views very clearly. mr livingstone's views very clearly. mr livingstone's views i do not share his views, i

think they are at horror and —— at horror and and the labour party will go to the processes that are well applied to every member of the labour party. that needs to be far more quickly. -- abhorrent. i have spent several years campaigning in politics, the last general election was the only one was someone stood up was the only one was someone stood up and told me i was israeli scum and named the leader of the opposition as the motivation. labourmp opposition as the motivation. labour mp noted the abuse that she had received. we have a duty to the next generation. denial is not an option. being a bystander who turns the other way is not an option. the time for action is now. enough really is enough and ijust want to conclude with the very eloquent words of the firm chief rabbi, doctorjonathan sacks. words of the firm chief rabbi, doctor jonathan sacks. he words of the firm chief rabbi, doctorjonathan sacks. he said an assault upon jews is

doctorjonathan sacks. he said an assault uponjews is an assault on difference and a world that has no roof a difference has no room for humanity itself. applause. another labourmp humanity itself. applause. another labour mp read out some of the graphic abuse she had received online. what is so heartbreaking is the concerted effort in some quarters to downplay the problem. every comment like those you have just heard, you can find ten people ready to dismiss it, to price in the out and say we are weaponising anti—semitism. weaponising anti—semitism. weaponising anti—semitism. my family came to this country in the 19th century. of our relatives in europe who stayed, none survived. we know what anti—semitism is, we know where it leads, how dare these people suggest that we would try to weaponising. something so dangerous, so toxic and formative to our lives and those of ourfamilies, how formative to our lives and those of our families, how dare they dismiss something so heinous. to reduce it

to political pointscoring. how dare they. i stand here today to say that we will not be bullied out of political engagement, we are going nowhere and will stand and keep fighting up to the evils of anti— season bash at anti—semitism have been removed. —— anti—semitism. season bash at anti—semitism have been removed. -- anti-semitism. the justice minister says the government is considering terminating the contracts is considering terminating the co ntra cts of is considering terminating the contracts of private rehabilitation companies which have failed to meet reoffending targets. the firms known as cic‘s over part of the work of the probation service. it was set up by chris grayling when he was just secretary. racing questions from the justice committee, the current minister said failing to meet the targets ha d minister said failing to meet the targets had consequences of. many of these companies are facing very significant penalties for failing to meet these targets. and how long are you going to give them to improve these and is terminating them an

option? terminating the contract is 100%, option? terminating the contract is ioo%, absolutely an option. we are in very active negotiators —— negotiations with them now. we are not waiting. we are making very clear that isco ‘s have failed to meet the frequency targets. they are already suffering any stomach a very significant punishments for failing to meet them, so much so that instead of waiting longer we are currently at this moment, renegotiating those contracts are looking at the possibility of termination. some maybe terminate before 20 two? -- twiggy 22? absolutely. you think it is salvageable as a system? yes i do. i do believe it is salvageable and in fa ct, do believe it is salvageable and in fact, it is a question ofjudgement, that i would be personally cautious about going through yet another

massive transformation or reinvention. i think some of the problems that we are facing are problems that we are facing are problems of managing radical change. soi problems of managing radical change. so i can understand why people think that the current system has serious flaws, but i would emphasise that there would be considerable costs in trying to reinvent the system yet again in terms of staff morale and re— offenders. without prejudging it, we are renegotiating with these companies at the moment. some of this is commercially sensitive. i am going into those renegotiations with the gut instinct that we need to be pretty cautious about turning the whole system on its head yet again ina whole system on its head yet again in a belief that somehow we will come up with a perfect system. earlier, the chief inspector faced the committee. are you very worried about the future ? the committee. are you very worried about the future? yes. i produced an

annual report in december, setting out the evidence that we had which looks to us to be showing and demonstrating a 2—tiered system. there is nothing since then that has given the assurance that things are going to change. namespace he was grilled about taking on the task of leading a review into farming alongside her probation role. would you like to reflect as to where it is really appropriate for you to be attending, kept having to do both of these jobs at once? certainly i would reflect on that. what is your thoughts so far? at the moment we are utterly unconvinced about what you have said. thank you. at the moment i think i am doing twojobs reasonably well and indeed a lot of the work on the review is undertaken bya the work on the review is undertaken by a project and i am chairing it, but i will reflect on what you have said. but her answer had upset and committee member. i want to pick on

something that you said in relation to perhaps having more time because you are not a younger woman, presumably the implication is that you don't have younger family. i would like you to reflect on that. asa memberof would like you to reflect on that. as a member of parliament and a mother of a three—year—old and suddenly they spent a part of their career suddenly they spent a part of their career representing women in relation to maternity discrimination, i can give the wrong message that women who young families may not have as much work andl families may not have as much work and i think those comments should very much be reflected upon the. a down the dame stacey. you're watching tuesday in parliament with alicia mccarthy. —— addressing down for. a former employee of cambridge analytica has told mps that miss use of data was rife among the businesses and campaigns of leave.eu chairman arron banks. brittany kaiser, who has worked for barack

obama's presidential campaign in 2007joined obama's presidential campaign in 2007 joined cambridge analytica obama's presidential campaign in 2007joined cambridge analytica in 2014. the firm was at the centre of a controversy 2014. the firm was at the centre of a co ntrove rsy over 2014. the firm was at the centre of a controversy over misuse of data harvested from facebook. cambridge analytica has denied using personal information improperly. nikkei is who left the firm in january, described her first meeting with alexander nix, he was chief executive at the time. alexander nix, he was chief executive at the timelj alexander nix, he was chief executive at the time. i first met alexander nix and i was working for democrats abroad in london, i think it was 2013. friends of ours thought it was 2013. friends of ours thought it would be a good joke to introduce us because he was conservative working for the republican party and i was working for the republican party and iwasa working for the republican party and i was a registered democrat. he was interested in learning about my experience for the democrats as he was running at the time a very well—known political consultancy. he said at the time let me get you drunk and still your secrets, i did not call him at the time that we met

coincidentally a few more times after that and in december 2014, he offered me a job. after that and in december 2014, he offered me ajob. she pitched after that and in december 2014, he offered me a job. she pitched to work with the unofficial brexit campaign, leave. eu, founded work with the unofficial brexit campaign, leave.eu, founded by insurance company owner arron banks. she said she had a few concerns about legality. firstly was in relation to breaches of electoral law for chargeable work, some of which i did which was never paid for, and reporting to the electoral commission. secondly, i have evidence for my own eyes of possible breaches of the data protection act concerning the usage of commercial and personal data of individuals and the eldon insurance database, and possibly the uk database being used for the benefit. i'm just going to expand on that slightly which is that when i did visit the eldon insurance headquarters, which was the same building with the same staff, that scientists and myself

spent time with their phonebank, i was told by the people using the phone bank that individuals that they were calling were out at the insurance data base. now, they were calling were out at the insurance database. now, thirdly, there is the question of whether personal data of british citizens was sent abroad, specifically the mississippi for processing by arron banks's firm, in contravention to the data protection act and advice given by phillip coppel qc. she said that she produced a plan on combining data from different sources. in january, this proposal was presented by alexander nix to i believe arron banks and andy wigmore. thank you, and you said i think earlier that this actual proposal, although you did not do this work for them, it has

subsequently been done for them, but do you know who has done that work? so, both arron banks and andy wigmore have told individuals that they took my proposal and copied it, they took my proposal and copied it, they have recruited their own cambridge analytica firm, in conjunction with data scientists at ole miss university, the university of mississippi. so presumably, correct me if i am wrong, cambridge analytic has been taking data from customers of eldon insurance, and ukip members and vote leave dater... leave.eu. sorry, leave.eu. the eu has rejected the claims made by

brittany kaiser and denies that cambridge analytica worked for the campaign. the firm's for —— former chief executive was due to make a second appearance before the committee that damian collins announced that he will no longer be coming. his legal representation has said that he is no longer able to give evidence to the commission tomorrow as consequence of him having been set an information notice had been the subject of a criminal investigation. bat he said there was no legal barrier to alexander nix appearing so the committee would be considering a summons. now in the lords, pearce spoke out against housing laws brought in in 2016, which provides a list of bad landlords. lord kennedy said the list can only be accessed by councils and public bodies and is not available for prospective tenant. so a good idea, a good initiative, at the action of the government, are failing tenant, are

failing to help them make informed choices and to protect themselves. lib dem argued that the government had plenty of opportunities to change the bill when it was going through parliament was only now writing to piers. so when the minister explained in his letter that now, it now, the department of housing, communities and local government are exploring options, when there were so many chances before, it does seem extraordinary. the database was developed as a tool to enable local housing authorities to enable local housing authorities to identify roads and target enforcement action accordingly. to identify roads and target enforcement action accordinglym isa enforcement action accordinglym is a shared resorts across all housing authorities and allows them to pool their knowledge and information will stop my lords, we are unable underthe information will stop my lords, we are unable under the present legislation, as i think my noble lords appreciate, to extend that. it will require a fresh look and possibly, probably fresh legislation. finally, time to talk a

bit of rubbish because fly tipping of some familiar and unfamiliar household items is on the rise in large parts of the uk. both rural and urban areas are affected, so can anything be done to stop at? mps have been looking at the options. the midlands mp said her constituency was particularly badly affected. their alleyways locked with old mattresses, shopping trolleys, even bathtubs, streets scattered with litter and bags of rubbish, and our parks are blighted by abandoned sofas and old electrical goods. i have seen the effects of this fly tipping and witness the effect it has on my local communities in coventry, it is a scar on the local environment that causes misery to law—abiding residents and affects the way they feel about the place that they call home. so in south staffordshire, it

increase in civic amenity charges, the entire area was blighted by fly tipping, including dumping of rubbish in woodlands, lanes and ditches. councils, if they were to scrap the charges, the waste disposal types of bringing traders to reduce charges for commercial waste disposal, i think again it would encourage people to do it the right way. local authorities should also look at making waste recycling centres more accessible to everyone and the point has been made, these sites are not always open and so therefore, it is not everybody who can get there is perhaps on a saturday morning or whatever the wayside might be open. we have strengthened the ability to search and seize the vehicles of suspected fly tippers, we have introduced a new penalty notice for suspected by tipping, and an additional £6,000 of fly tipping notices were issued in 2016 to 2017. there is more that can be done. again, next week, the

government is hosting a fly tipping on private land roundtable and we will consider what we can further do. we need to know the extent of theissue do. we need to know the extent of the issue and currently, we cannot qualify the extent of fly tipping on private land because there is no easy way for people to report it. we are changing that, we are learning from wales, and we will shortly be rolling out a similar programme for england. therese coffey. and that's it from me for now. but dojoin me on bbc parliament on wednesday night at 11pm for a round—up of the day, including the highlights of prime minister's questions. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello there, good morning. the temperature on tuesday was just over 20 celsius in dorset but temperatures are going to rise higher than that over the next few days.

this was the scene in cambridgeshire, where we enjoyed a good deal of sunshine and warmth as well but with more sunshine, and the winds becoming lighter and pushing away the rain, the temperatures will be rising even higher. and talking of rain, there was some of that on tuesday across some western parts of the uk. wales was quite cloudy, some rain from time to time. it came from that band of cloud there. that has been weakening, and the rain petering out as the cloud has thinned. but this is the thicker area of cloud and that is heading its way northwards and taking rain back across ireland, some heavier rain in northern ireland early in the morning, spots of rain through the irish sea. it all clears up towards the north—west of scotland, allowing more and more sunshine to develop widely. the winds still southerly, not as strong. it will feel warmer and temperatures will be a shade higher. 18 in the central belt. 24 or even 25 now in the south—east of england. still that rain towards the north—west of scotland, could come back into northern ireland, western scotland for a while overnight,

then that tends to peter out. we're left with cloud through the irish sea, a little bit misty here as well. otherwise further east, clearer skies, lows of 9 or ten degrees. that band of cloud there is a very weak weather front. it is more a band of cloud but even across northern ireland and scotland, that cloud should break up. still rather misty and cool around some of these western coasts, so not quite the sunny skies here. widely getting into the high teens in scotland and northern ireland. inland england and wales, low 20s. 26 possible in the south—east of england. that's probably the peak of the heat on thursday. the really high temperatures get pushed away into central europe. we start to get more of an influence from the atlantic. so instead of the southerly, we're picking up more of a west to south—westerly. still a warm day, though, on friday. and a lot of dry weather too. maybe some showers coming into the north—west of scotland but otherwise some good spells of sunshine around and those temperatures, just a little bit lower than they're likely to be on thursday but still pleasant in the sunshine. this time, it could be rather misty around the coasts in the english channel and around some north sea coasts as well.

high pressure building in across the uk. going to keep these weather fronts at bay for the time being. so the fine weather continues into saturday. again, some areas of misty low cloud in the morning perhaps. that should tend to break up more in the afternoon, allowing the sunshine to develop more widely. temperatures a little bit lower by this stage, mind you. the air‘s not quite as warm, but it's still going to be a warm one for the london marathon on sunday. welcome to bbc news. broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: wife of one president, mother to another. the former first lady of the united states, barbara bush has died. she was 92. president trump admits high level talks are already underway with pyongyang, there are unconfirmed reports that a senior us official met the north korean leader over easter. syria says international weapons inspectors are at the scene of the suspected chemical attack in douma. american officials say the experts are still being kept away

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