toxic gas and lava flows from the mount kilauea volcano. at least two homes were destroyed when lava bubbled up through fissures in a residential area. several strong earthquakes have shaken the southeastern region of hawaii's big island. president trump has addressed the national rifle association and vowed not to tighten us firearms laws despite suggesting after the florida school shooting that he was prepared to take on the gun lobby. he again called for teachers to be armed, saying any gun—free zone was an invitation to shooters. chemical weapons inspectors say they have finished gathering samples at the site of an alleged chlorine attack in syria last month. a team from the organisation for the prohibition of chemical weapons spent almost two weeks in the city of douma. their samples will now be sent for analysis. now on bbc news, the week in parliament hello and welcome to the programme.

coming up: the health secretary says a computerfailure meant half a million women didn't get screened for breast cancer. tragically, there are likely to be some people in this group who would have been alive today if the failure had not happened. more defeats in the lords on brexit. peers say the government is behaving like a dictatorship. to act in such a manner would be to impose ministerial restrictions on parliament by coercion. and what's eating jamie oliver? right now, with statistics, not having it. but first, women in england between the ages of 50 and 70 are supposed to be screened for breast cancer every three years. but the health secretary told mps there'd been a "serious failure" in the cancer screening programme.

as a result of this, between 2009 and the start of 2018, an estimated a50 , 000 women, aged between 68 and a 71, were not invited to their final breast screening. at this stage, it is unclear whether any delay in diagnosis will have resulted in any avoidable harm or death. the health secretary said he'd ordered an independent review to understand the full impact. there may be between 135 and 270 women who had their lives shortened as a result. i am advised that it is unlikely to be more than this range, and may be considerably less. however, tragically, there are likely to be some people in this group who would have been alive today if the failure had not happened. jeremy hunt said the women affected who were still alive would be contacted by letter. there may be some who received a letter having had a recent terminal diagnosis.

for them and others, it is incredibly upsetting to note that you did not receive an invitation for screening at the correct time and totally devastating to hear of you may have lost or be about to lose a loved one because of administrative incompetence. so on behalf of the government, public health england and the nhs, i apologize wholeheartedly and unreservedly for the suffering caused. labour's shadow health secretary was one of several mps concerned about the extra resources the nhs would now need to deal with the backlog in screening. can he assure us that the nhs will have the staff to carry out this extra work? and can i suggest to him, ever so gently, that if the nhs does need extra international staff, he will ensure that the home office does not block their visas? those women now need a consistent, high—quality evidence based guidance so they can make an informed choice now as to whether they go forward to take up the offer of the screening at this stage.

the snp's health spokesperson is a breast surgeon. this issue is horrendous for women involved, but it will create anxiety for women who are simply not aware if they are involved and will be part of the draw. that is a challenge to try and reassure them. for far too many women in this country, where they live currently determines whether they live or die. so will he put in the additional resources that are needed to make sure that all women can get the screening they need when they need it? the first 65,000 letters are going out this week. what strikes me, mr speaker, is why are the letters not going out this afternoon to all 309,000? why are we having to wait until the end of may to put at rest these women and their families' minds? it's a very reasonable question to ask.

i want to reassure that we are sending these letters out as quickly as we possibly can. jeremy hunt. labour's shadow health secretary said the thoughts of everyone would be with those whose screening was missed. it's been a bumpy week for theresa may on the brexit front. the government's now notched up ten defeats in the house of lords on the eu withdrawal bill. that's the legislation to incorporate eu law into uk law. on monday, peers backed a proposal to give parliament a final say on what happens if there's no deal with the european union. the change would remove the prime minister's power to take the uk out of the eu if parliament voted down a final deal. the amendment was put forward by a former conservative cabinet minister. to act in such a manner, would be to impose ministerial restrictions on parliament by coercion. it would be, an example if i may say, of an elective dictatorship of a particularly flagrant kind. so determined are its members to thwart the will of the british people to leave the european union,

they wish to pervert a constitutional crisis, but that is the apparent in the outcome to which this new clause opens the door. what constitution do we have where a government bullies parliament and says take it or leave it? it is parliament that should be supreme in the best interests of the people and the country. there are also those in this house who have vowed to do everything they possibly can to destroy brexit, and that, my lords, is not a matter of principle, but a matter of abuse of privilege. leaving the european union without a clear and detailed agreement on the future relationship will be a disaster for our economy, our foreign policy, our relationship with ireland, and our internaland external security. this amendment guards against that unfortunate outcome. my lords, if we pass this amendment and if we pass some of the others on the order paper today, i fear that we should be getting too big for our constitutional boots, and many of our countrymen

feel the same. it would, i suggest, not be meaningful to vote either for to exit on the deal if we think it is a poor deal or else to crash out on no deal, ie, even worse terms. this is not innocuous, measured amendment. it contains a number of constitutional, practical, legal and political difficulties. all of which we should be seeking to avoid if we are to leave the eu with the best deal possible, which is what the government wants to achieve. and when it came to the vote, the government was defeated by 335 votes to 244, a majority of 91. on wednesday, ministers were defeated again, this time on a cross—party amendment designed to prevent theresa may striking any brexit deal which isn't compatible with the good friday agreement or which would create a hard border

between northern ireland and the republic. the amendment was carried by 67 votes. new week, new home secretary. on monday morning, we learned that sajid javid would be taking over after amber rudd's dramatic departure the night before. her resignation, of course, came in the wake of the windrush episode. and her successor was anxious to strike a new tone when he faced the commons. mr speaker, i am honored to have been asked early this morning to become home secretary. i want to start by making a pledge. a pledge to those from the windrush generation who have been in this country for decades, and yet have struggled to navigate through the immigration system. this never should have been the case, and i will do whatever it takes to put it right. so at prime minister's questions, there was no amber rudd squashed on the front bench.

she was three rows behind. this was the reaction as she rose to ask her first question from the backbenches. amber rudd. jeering can i rise to congratulate my right honourable friend for his appointment? theresa may said she was grateful for the opportunity to pay tribute and it was the issue of immigration that the labour leader addressed. did the prime minister feel the slightest pang of guilt when the home secretary was forced to resign due to the failures of her predecessor? my right honourable friend, the home secretary, will address this later today. we all share the ambition to make sure we do right by members of the windrush generation. that is why he will be announcing a package of measures to bring transparency on this issue, to make sure the house is informed, to reassure members of this house, but more importantly,

to reassure those people who have been directly affected. it is easy to change your secretary of state, she does it regularly. you need to change your policies. an hour and a half later, an entire debate about the windrush generation began. labour were demanding that the government provide the home affairs committee with all the papers concerning the windrush cases. and it was a bad—tempered afternoon. do members opposite understand how voting against this motion will look to the commonwealth and how it will look to the windrush generation here? the new home secretary described labour's request for all the windrush papers as a massive fishing expedition. it was... disproportionate and distracting. it would take help in a capacity away from where it is needed by reassigning more than 100 officials, and that would of course create significa nt cost for taxpayers. let freedom reign! it will only reign in this country turns back from the path it's on, ends the compliant environment

in which i know my place and starts along a humane path, that at its heart, has human rights! when it came to the vote, the government won comfortably by 316 votes to 221, a majority of 95. the chief executive of sainsbury‘s, mike coupe, said a deal to merge his supermarket chain with asda would not lead to shop closures orjob losses in stores. but the commons seemed sceptical. together, the two companies would have 2800 stores, and their combined share of the market would represent £1 pound in every £3 spent on groceries. the business minister said he'd been given assurances from both chief executives, but could they be trusted? this question was typical. although they say today there are no job losses, my concern is, once all this is forgotten about in a year or so's time, that then suddenly hundreds ofjobs will be lost,

notjust in the stores but in logistics and distribution centres and so on. please do not view this as a merger. it is not a merger, is a takeover by sainsbury's. having got that off his chest, mark menzies lobbied for another type of employee. please focus, particularly on the jobs in distribution centres. many of them are in working areas of the country and it's the distribution centres that will be hammered a year or two years down the line, if this measure goes ahead. supermarkets are powerful, as employers and along their supply chain. they must not be allowed to abuse that power. just so we are clear, mr speaker, suppliers will be squeezed, head offices will stay open and stores like that that in flynt will have an asda next to a sainsbury‘s will have both be open in two years time. is that what the minister is saying from the companies today? if they believe it is anti—competitive and will lead to a worse deal for the consumer for those two supermarkets to stay open.

and they have concerns about that, then they will force the sale to a competitor. the business minister, andrew griffiths. and now for a look at some of the other news from westminster in brief. a senior barrister has condemned the system for disclosing evidence in criminal cases in england and wales. before a trial, police and prosecutors are required to hand over relevant material to the other side. thejustice committee is looking into the system after recent high profile cases where defendants facing rape allegations had the charges against them dropped when critical material emerged at the last minute. the recent highly publicized cases have all come to light because of the work of the independent barristers at the last minute. and we consider that if the situation is not remedied, is getting very close to cracking. it was vital to collect and pass on as much evidence as possible, and younger clients had not so much a digitalfootprint as a digital crater. some of these kids on their phones, their phone will tell you what time

they woke up because they have an alarm app. it will tell you what they had for breakfast because they have a health app. it says what they put on, where they went, what time they got there, potentially how fast they drove, where the parked, what they had for lunch. if they got out in a bar, which might be relevant to some allegations we have seen in the press, their taxi app may show what time they left. the rating in that taxi app might tell you if they were drunk or sick in the back. all information you can see that might be relevant to different types of defending. from one tiny phone in your pocket, if you print out all the information from all of those apps, that needs money and resources, it need human beings to go through it. sajid javid wasn't the only minister starting a newjob this week. his old office at the housing department was taken over by the former northern ireland secretary james brokenshire. he didn't have much settling in time. literally within hours of his appointment, he was at the despatch box. in some ways the local government

is in the blood with me, as my father was a former chief executive of a local council and so, some of the debates about the counsellors were ones that i had as a boy, believe it or not. the bank that once liked to say yes has very much been saying no. nearly 2 million tsb customers had trouble using the bank's services, online and in branches, since the company's attempt to move data between systems. tsb executives were given a rough ride by the treasury committee. i keep being told it's a kind of problem that every bank has. i've been on this committee a long time. i can only think of one shamble that compares with it, and that's the call—bank. they lost their chairman, they lost the chief executive, are you going to lose either of those? no. we are here and we're going to fix this. can ijust very quickly... let mejust, mention this bonus. is he going to lose his bonus because of this? i was going to offer paul

the opportunity to say, which he has, that he is not going to be taking the bonus for this integration. do not underestimate the scale and concern, with which costumers are watching this, and are now worrying that it could happen to them. and that is an unacceptable to happen in banking in the 215t century. heathrow airport has been condemned for its treatment of disabled passengers. the bbcjournalist frank gardner received an apology from the airport after he was stranded on a plane for nearly two hours in march. staff had apparently lost his wheelchair. labour weren't impressed with the government's talk of improvement programmes. surely there's just lots of good words here. you don't need innovative solutions, or great essays of good work, you need resources. this is heathrow penny—pinching. what is the government going to do to force heathrow to put the right resources in?

mps paid tribute to the former commons speaker, michael martin, who has died at the age of 72. lord martin, politician, trade unionist, public servant, born on 3rd ofjuly, 1945 and died at the age of 72. on the 29th of april. we salute yourjourney from poverty, to the speakers chair. from anderston to westminster. may he rest in peace. on tuesday, the government changed its mind and said it wouldn't oppose a move to force british overseas territories to have greater financial transparency in tax affairs, so averting the measure 9994.51.57 “£5'af‘lfg'???‘ 999999: and the british virgin islands to introduce a register revealing the beneficial owners of assets held in thosejurisdictions. the government accepted an amendment to the sanctions and anti—money laundering bill.

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