the headlines: president trump has said it's not clear if his planned summit with the north korean leader kim jong un will still go ahead, but he's still hopeful. pyongyang has threatened to cancel the talks if washington continues to press for its unilateral nuclear disarmament. police in malaysia have searched the home of the former malaysian prime minister, najib razak, as part of a money laundering investigation. meanwhile the reformist malaysian politician, anwar ibrahim, celebrated a "new dawn" for his country on his release from prison following the opposition alliance‘s victory at the polls last week. michigan state university has agreed to pay $500 million in compensation to female gymnasts sexually abused by the american sports doctor, larry nassar, who worked there. now on bbc news, wednesday in parliament. hello and welcome to

wednesday in parliament. on this programme: jeremy corbyn tells theresa may to step aside if she can't get a good brexit deal. the reality is the cabinet is more interested in negotiating with each other than it is with the european union. it is the conservative party that can be trusted by the british people to deliver a brexit that is in the interests of the british people. meanwhile, the govenrment suffers yet another defeat to its flagship brexit bill, but one peer is furious about the way the lords have behaved. without any doubt, my lords, these days will go down in history as the house of lords at its worst. members of the windrush generation tell of their experiences of being detained and threatened with deportation. and after the transport secretary

steps in to take over the east coast mainline, a labour mp has some advice. look behind him perhaps and say, "my name is chris grayling and i have just nationalised a rail line." but first, jeremy corbyn has called on the prime minister to "step aside" if she cannot negotiate a good dealfor britain in the brexit talks. his call came as the cabinet continues to debate how to manage the uk's future customs arrangements that deal with trade. there are two options on the table. the one preferred by the pm would see the uk collect tariffs on behalf of the eu, an option the foreign secretary borisjohnson has dismissed as "crazy". the alternative relies on trusted trader status and high technology, and is known in the jargon as max fac. but which way will the government go? at pmqs, jeremy corbyn referred to a piece theresa may had written for the times newspaper at the weekend. when the prime minister wrote

at the weekend that she wanted as little friction as possible, was she talking about eu trade or the next cabinet meeting? labour mps laughed and shouted "behind you" at the prime minster. and it took some time for the din to die down enough to theresa may to be heard. i think the right honourable gentleman knows full well that this government has a policy of... of leaving the customs union... of leaving the customs union and of ensuring that as we do so, we have as frictionless trade as possible with the eu. that we have a solution that ensures we have no hard border between northern ireland and ireland, and also that we have an independent trade policy. mr speaker, the divisions in the cabinet mean there has been no progress in negotiations for five months.

the reality is the cabinet is more interested in negotiating with each other then it is with the european union. he said, the "uncertainty and recklessness of government was putting jobs and investment" at risk. mr speaker, if the prime minister cannot even convince her own cabinet of a strategy, what chance does she have of convincing 27 other european countries? can i say to the right honourable gentleman that he has taken this view of our position in negotiations before. before december he said we would not get a joint report and we did. before march, he said we would not get an implementation period and we did. and we continue to negotiate, but if he is asking what british businesses are doing, i will tell them what british businesses are doing. they are creating more jobs in this country. so, we now have record levels of employment in this country. what did we see under labour? half a billion more people unemployed. the government is so busy, so busy

negotiating with itself it cannot negotiate with anybody else! mr speaker, if the prime minister cannot negotiate a good deal for britain, why doesn't she step aside and let labour negotiate a comprehensive new customs union and living standards backed by trade unions and business in this country? step aside and make way for those who will. this is not what we will see from the labour party because labour you simply cannot trust a word that they say. they said they would strike new trade dealsm but what do they want? they want to be in a customs union that ensures that they could not strike new trade deals. promise broken. they said that they would scrap student debt and yet

after the election, they went back on that. promise broken. they said they would tackle anti—semitism. promise broken. it is only be conservative party that can be trusted by the british people to deliver a brexit that is in the interest of british people, to deliver opportunity for all, and a that is fit for the future. the snp's westminster leader turned to a vote in the scottish parliament, where msps had refused to consent to the eu withdrawal bill. the scottish and uk governments are at odds over the legisltion and what it could mean for devolved powers. mr speaker, it is very simple. the tories are seeking to veto the democratic wishes of the scottish parliament. this is absolutely unprecedented. if this government forces through the legislation, without the consent of the scottish parliament, the prime minister will be doing so in the full knowledge that they are breaking the 20—year—old devolution settlement. will the prime minister reassure the house that the withdrawl bill

will not go through without the consent of the scottish parliament? can i say to the right honourable gentleman, of course, we are disappointed the scottish parliament has not granted its consent. we have been working hard in recent months to find a way through on this particular issue and on this clause. i think the effort that has been put into it is being showed by the fact that the welsh government and welsh assembly have given their consent to this bill. and can ijust say to the right honourable gentleman, we want to ensure the integrity of the united kingdom's common market and he might wish to recall the fact, when he talks about the democratic will, it was the democratic will of the scottish people to remain in the united kingdom. theresa may.

and the row over the government's handling of brexit continued later when labour wanted ministers to reveal all the papers and documents relating to the kind of customs arrangement it might try to negotiate with the eu. labour's spokesman, said parliament needed to know what was going on, because time was running out to come to any kind of agreement with brussels. this is frankly a desperate state of affairs. we are two years on from the referendum, five months away from the deadline on the withdrawal deal, and the government still can't agree on the most basic of issues in relation to brexit, our future customs arrangements. each week we see a new attempt. and each week we see it fail. but theresa may's de facto deputy, david lidington, argued that it would be a mistake to have everything out in the open. the candour of everybody involved, whether ministers or officials, would be affected if they thought the content of their discussions would be disclosed prematurely. and frankly if details of discussions are routinely made public...

no, i'm not giving way at the moment. then ministers would be inhibited from being frank and candid with one another. as a result, the quality of the debate that underlies collective decision making would decline significantly. that is not in the interest of any government, of any political party, and it is not in the interest of our constitutional democracy. at the end of that debate, mps rejected labour's call for the papers to be released. well, a little later in the lords, the government suffered its 15th defeat by peers over its flagship brexit bill. they backed a cross party amendment to the eu withdrawal bill which would make sure eu environmental principles continued to apply after brexit. the defeat came as peers debated the third reading of the bill, the last chance for them to propose changes to the legislation. but the decision to move further amendments at this stage provoked a furious reaction from a conservative and former commons deputy speaker. sometimes when we successively

scrutinise a piece of legislation in the past, it has been described as the house at its best. without any doubt, my lords, these days will go down in history as the house of lords at its worst. noble lords, some of whom have been elected to or worked in parliament for many years, have used and abused the gentle forgiving system in your lordship‘s house to further their own end, to stop us leaving the eu. i have watched and listened with growing concern and incredulity, as people who should know better have put down and spoken to amendments most of which have been technically out of order, and have nothing to do with the bill before them the house. it is interesting to note, and i speak as an ex—deputy speaker of the other place, that if we had a speaker and that day may now be much nearer than we think,

none of the amendments put down by rectors of the bill would have been called and the bill would have been back in the commons long—ago. does he not feel that important though the future of this house may be, the future of future generations is very important indeed, to our children and grandchildren and to civilization after us? indeed i do and i think in many ways this house recently has been demonstrating its attachment from that. moving on to the substance of the debate labour argued the government hadn't offered enough protection for environmental principles. this version is a pale imitation of what we had been led to believe that the document would say and for whatever reason it has clearly been watered down and i agree with the noble lord when he says it has been written by two hands. as noble lords have said, we were promised a world leading environmental watchdog and enhanced environmental standards after brexit, but this document gives

the environment less protection. as i've set out, this is neither helpful nor necessary as the text of the amendment mirrors all of the issues we are consulting on before introducing legislation, that this house and other places will be able to scrutinise. i hope noble lords acknowledge that voting for this amendment would prejudge a significant period of consultation, which would go against the principles of good policy making and be ultimately detrimental to the future protection of environmental law. i hope therefore, without much optimism, that the noble lord will see fit to withdraw the amendment. but the amendment was put to the vote and the government was defeated by a majority of 50. you're watching wednesday in parliament, with me, alicia mccarthy. members of the windrush generation have been telling a group of mps and peers about the "nightmare" of being detained.

paulette wilson and anthony bryan have spent their lives in the uk — but they were both locked up and threatened with deportation. mr bryan — who arrived here in 1965 — described the moment immigration officials came to his home: and then sunday they come and knock on the door. about seven police, they're knocking the window and they're knocking the door at the same time to try to confuse... i don't know what they were trying to do, but it was kind of, what are they banging down my doorfor? anyway, i opened the door. they asked me my name i said my name is anthony bryan. they said they were going to arrest me. i said what? they said they were going to arrest me. i said who are you guys? they said immigration. they said get some clothes together because you're not going back, you're not staying here. they're going to take me to the detention. so i said can i make a phone call? they said no.

paulette wilson moved to the uk in 1968, and has worked as a house of commons cook. she described being taken to yarl‘s wood immigration removals centre. it's really far from birmingham to bedfordshire. like, you are in this dark van and it was night anyway, so it was far. it took hours to get there. but when you said when you were looking out the windows all you could see was... was trees and never saw any houses or motorway. you know what i mean? it was just pure trees. they bring you 160 odd miles from your house. yes. it was. and what is that all about? this is probably not something, but have you thought about at the end of all of this about taking any legal action against the home office, the detention centre? most definitely. you can't keep treating people like that. it's not right. i mean, everyone has got human rights and it's not right how they treated them.

i never believed that me as a british person would see someone treat somebody like that. it's absolutely wrong. paulette wilson was then taken to heathrow airport — and finally released. the day i was released, they put me outside the airport. the man that let me out said there's a cab that's going to pick you up and take you to the station. i was outside the airport. i was in tears crying because the planes were just taking off over my head, so ijust stand and squeezed my head, and ijust prayed for this taxi man to come and pick me up. so, it was like they sought me out. no one stayed outside with her. no one stayed with me. i waited for the cab. the cab man came and said are you paulette wilson? i said yes. he put me in the cab and took me to the station, and then from the station they gave me travel warrants to get from here back to wolverhampton. they gave me my travel warrant and that was it. the committee chair, harriet harman, summed up: thank you,

very much indeed you four, for explaining that experience, and obviously it really should not have happened, and we will get more insight when we look at your files, but it's been very heart—wrenching hearing what you've experienced and how frightening and shocking that must have been for you. but really, janet and natalie, what would have happened to paulette and anthony had janet and natalie not been on the outside. i mean, what do you think anthony would have happened if janet hadn't been. . . ? seriously because if it wasn't for her i would have given up a long time. i would have given up. it was too... it was too hard. too hard.

i would have given up. i was willing to go back to jamaica, although i don't knowjamaica, i was willing to go back because i was just fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting and i wasn't getting anywhere. immigration weren't believing me, and who needed to believe me didn't believe me. and what, paulette, would have happened do you think if you hadn't had natalie there? mouthing off the home office and telling them what was going on. iwould be injamaica all alone, no one to... i didn't know anybody over there so it was like are they sending me to die or...? my mind was like up and down 24/7, going this way, going that way. i give thanks for her, having a daughter like the one i've got. if it weren't for her i wouldn't be here. paulette wilson, talking to thejoint committee on human rights. the transport secretary chris grayling has announced that the east coast main line will be brought under temporary

government control — paving the way for a new operator to take over. stagecoach and virgin started running the london to edinburgh line in 2015 but ran into financial trouble. in february, mr grayling decided that the franchise would end early because the companies "got their bid wrong". i'm therefore informing the house that i will terminate virgin trains east coast contract on the 24th ofjune 2018. i plan to use a period of operator of last resort control to shape the new partnership. so on the same day we will start with a launch of the new long—term brand for the east coast main line through the recreation of one of britain's iconic rail brands, the london and north eastern railway, the lner. labour's andy mcdonald was furious about the release of mr grayling's statement. as i sit here right now i've still not been provided with a copy of the statement. i consider this to be absolutely reprehensible and this secretary of state does every single time, he asks and relies upon confidentiality and market sensitivity, every single time. he treats me with contempt, her majesty's opposition with contempt and this house of commons with contempt.

it's about time he changed his ways. he said that — three times in the last decade — private companies had failed on the east coast main line. franchising remains at the heart of the alleged partnership. no amount of tinkering can solve the failings of a broken privatised system where the public takes the risk and the train companies take the profit, aided and abetted by the transport secretary. the snp wondered who would be involved in any new partnership. will stage coach be allowed to bid for that? because that really would be a rubbing salt into the wounds of this process. as part of this, richard branson has blamed network rail. it is not our fault,it's network rail. what is the truth in this, how much these problems have been caused by network rail and is that going to be sorted out? i suspect the secretary of state is of similar age to me and can therefore remember the last time our railways were nationalised. is he therefore bemused by the somewhat romantic image

the labour party portray of what the railways were like? my recollection if they were dirty, inefficient, nearly always late and that is not to mention the terrible sandwiches. is this a far cry from the modern and efficient railway we have today thanks to private investment and where most of our challenges are actually as a result of rapid growth in passenger numbers? franchising on this line has failed repeatedly. he could make himself incredibly popular in my constituency which is the birthplace of the railways, if he'd just stand up, look behind him perhaps and say my name is chris grayling and i've just nationalised a rail line. well, mr speaker, i havejust explained to her why i don't think nationalisation of our railways is the long—term answer for our railways because you just have to look across the channel

and see the chaos there to understand that a trek back to the days of british rail is not right for the future of travel in this country. chris grayling. theresa may has announced that the government will pay for the removal of dangerous cladding from some tower blocks in the wake of the deadly fire at grenfell tower. buildings owned by councils and housing associations will qualify for funding. the fire in the west london tower block broke out injune last year and killed 71 people. an inquiry is being held into what went wrong. the fire and rescue services have visited over 1,250 high rise buildings and immediate action has been taken to ensure the safety of every resident. councils and housing associations must remove dangerous cladding quickly. but paying for these works must not undermine their ability to do important maintenance and repair work. and i've worked closely

with my right honourable friends the chancellor and the housing secretary and i can today confirm that the government will fully fund the removal and replacement of dangerous cladding by councils and housing associations estimated at £400 million, and the housing secretary will set out further details later this week. mps later discussed the tragedy in a labour led debate. directly after the fire on the 17th ofjune. the prime minister caught the mood of the country and promised, "my government will do whatever it takes "to keep people safe." but 11 months on, over 300 other tower blocks have this same dangerous gre nfell—style cladding, butjust seven have had it removed and replaced. then things aren't working. so, we've got thousands of families that are living in homes with unsafe materials tacked to the side. thousands of people buying and renting homes in these towers, others trying to sell their flats and finding they're worthless or finding their landlord turns round to them as leaseholders and says you've got to pay for all the costs. the reality is is that this

government has let its pals in the royal borough of kensington and chelsea get away with breaking their promises about rehousing three times in a row and it's an absolute disgrace. i too am very concerned especially to see people who accepted an offer of a permanent home still living in an emergency accommodation. i am therefore establishing at pace further action could be done by the government or by the council to speed up this process. the council now has over 300 properties available to those who need them and my department will continue to work with the council to ensure that people are given whatever support they need... whatever support they need to be rehoused as swiftly as possible. finally, there was sustained applause in the commons at the start of prime minsiter's questions as the two police officers who apprehended the killer

of murdered labour mpjo cox visited the commons. today, the two extremely brave police officers who apprehended the killer of our late friend and colleague jo cox are in the side gallery for prime minister's questions. i am referring to pcjonathan wright and pc craig nichols, both of the west yorkshire police. gentlemen, we honour your public service. we thank you for it, and we offer you the warmest of welcomes here to the house of commons. well, that rare and prolonged round of applause came just at the start of pmqs, where theresa may began by sending the commons best wishes ahead of prince harry's wedding this weekend. mr speaker, i'm sure the whole house will wish tojoin me in offering our best wishes

to his royal highness prince harry and meghan markle, and the very best for their future lives together. and mr speaker, it is also mental health awareness week and i think it is fitting that we mark prince harry's tireless work to raise awareness of the ongoing challenges faced by service personnel making the transition to civilian life, including support for their mental health. mr speaker, may i say how appropriate it is for this house to have recognized the bravery and hard work of pcjonathan wright and pc craig nichols in apprehending the killer ofjo cox. when jo cox was killed, this house lost one of its best. thank you very much, mr speaker. the labour leader too thanked the speaker for welcoming the two police officers to the commons. thank you for welcoming the officers joining chamber today. they did great work as do police officers... as indeed police officers do

all over the country and it's right that you should recognize them on behalf of all of us. it is mental health awareness week this week, mr speaker, and ijoin the prime minister in wishing harry and meghan all the best and thank harry for the work that he's done in highlighting the need to challenge the stigma surrounding mental health and the ability of all of us to talk about mental health to ensure that people don't suffer in silence on their own. particularly young people who are often so grievously affected by this. jeremy corbyn. and that's it from me for now, but do join me at the same time tomorrow for another round up of all the news from the commons and the lords. but for now, from me, goodbye. julia baird but lots of clear skies

with the web looking promising on thursday. lots of sunshine on the way up to that to be start and to the weekend, the weather is looking good across most of the uk. let's look at the forecast over the next few hours. the lime greens in the south, that means the air is not so cold. temperatures only two or three degrees above freezing in some areas thursday morning. as i say, lots of sunshine around. he is the forecaster thursday morning and afternoon, just a a little bit of there were the cloud here and there but that is pretty much it. after a chilly morning, the temperatures aren't going to get spectacularly high. it takes a little while for those temperatures to rise, 18 in newcastle, the midteens in belfast. it promises to be fine on thursday evening as well. there is deepening looking good too. and in windsor, the weather is looking fine as well. goodbye. welcome to bbc news,

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