is facing the rest of his life in prison, after being found guilty at his drugs trial in the united states. guzman was convicted on numerous counts including the distribution of cocaine and heroin, illegal firearms possession and money laundering. thousands of supporters of the venezuelan opposition leader, juan guaido, have staged an anti—poverty rally in the centre of the capital, caracas. the president, nicolas maduro, has insisted there is no humanitarian crisis. he also promised to defend the nation against the threat of a us military invasion. the australian prime minister scott morrison says the government will reopen its christmas island detention centre after the lower house defied the government and passed a landmark bill giving doctors the power to recommend transfers for refugees. mr morrison argues that the new law will undermine border security. now on bbc news, tuesday in parliament. hello, and welcome to

tuesday in parliament. as the prime minister offers mps more time before asking them to back her brexit plan. the only way to solve a problem of having no deal is agree to a deal. she and jeremy corbyn are still talking, but are they listening to each other? she is playing with time, jobs and the future of our industries. and cross—party tributes to a sporting legend. a kind and generous man off the field. all that to come and more. but first... the prime minister has told mps to "hold their nerve" as britain's departure from the european union looms without a deal. she promised them another decisive vote on 27 february if she's not secured a deal by then. and she said she'd use a fast—track

procedure to ensure the uk is still able to leave on march 29th. theresa may said she was continuing to negotiate with brussels where she travelled last week for talks with leading eu figures. she said she'd told them clearly what parliament wanted before it would approve the deal legally binding changes to the backstop insurance policy designed to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. the talks are at a crucial stage. we all need to hold our nerve to get the changes this house requires and deliver brexit on time. by getting the changes that we need to do backstop, by protecting and enhancing workers‘ rights, and by enhancing the role of parliament and the next phase of negotiations, i believe we can reach a deal that the house can support. we deliver for the people and communities that voted for a change two and a half years ago, and the voices for too long have not been heard.

we can set this country on courts but the bright future that every part of this united kingdom desires. that is government's mission, we should not fit in our efforts to get it done. mr speaker, our country is facing the biggest crisis of our generation, and yet the prime minister continues to recklessly run down the clock. we were promised there will be a deal last october. that did not happen. we were promised a meaningful vote in december, it did not happen. we were told to prepare for a meaningful vote this week after the prime minister again promised secure binding changes for the backstop and that has not happened. the prime minister comes before the house with more excuses and more delays. in truth, mr speaker, it appears the prime minister has one real tactic, to run down the clock so the members

of the house are blackmailed into supporting a deeply flawed deal. this, mr speaker, is an irresponsible act. she is playing for time and playing with people'sjobs, economic security, and the future of our industries. the ongoing mess at this government never ceases to amaze me. will the prime minister to understand that eu leaders will refuse to budge? donald tusk said that the eu is not giving any other offer. what from that statement does the prime minister not understand 7 a former minister warned that any deal needed public support. isn't it time to recognise that the responsible thing to do is now go back to people and get their seal of approval? i have responded to questions

from my right honourable friend on a number of occasions, and i had not change my opinion. some senior mps suggested brexit may have to be delayed. if she has failed to by the middle of march to persuade this house to back a deal, a seat belt ruling out extending article 50, yes or no? can i say to the right honourable lady, at the extension of article 50 is not something that solves the problem. if you doubt that the only way to solve the problem of no deal is to agree a deal. critics of the deal focused on the changes the prime minister is seeking. can she confirm that there is no point of having a time limit on the backstop and that it is

written into the treaty itself? secondly, is the end date substantially before the general election? can i reassure my friend that i think as he already knows, i want to see the feature relationship coming in place, but it is beginning of 2021, that is well before the next general election. you can check out anything you like and you cannot leave... can the prime minister they give assurance that they can be no progress unless the backstop is removed or tabled? the honourable gentleman has made the point clearly, in fact, it is this house that has said that it requires changes to be made to the backstop, legally binding changes, and that what we are looking for. some conservatives from either side of the brexit debate have been

involved in talks to try to find a compromise using "alternative arrangements" to the backstop. is going to be that week i got that they have majority of the house and labour mps? but the response today shows that working on a cross—party basis will not likely vote by the agreement adults by necessary legislation. it's the reality, isn't it? the fact is that the eu has made clear that it will not reopen that withdrawal agreement. the fact is the rolling over is not going well. the fact is that businesses are spending millions of pounds and pulling their hair out because they fear the prospect of the note dealt

brexit on 29th march. i do not believe that the prime minister did that to her country. i do not think that ministers will allow her to do it. why does she continue to pretend that she might? i have consistently said that i want to what the government wants, a deal with the european union. there is only one way to assure that we avoid no deal. i know i say it a lot and i know my honourable friends shout out and so forth, if you want a no deal, you have to agree to a deal. now, there may not be an agreed deal, but last month, the government scrapped its planned £65 pound for eu nationals to apply for ‘settled status‘ in the uk after brexit. the scheme to register for settled status is now open and closes at the end ofjune 2021. mps on the home affairs committee have been trying to find out how the scheme is working.

one of the issues is that people have to prove and provide evidence have to provide multiple evidence that they are a part of the uk. i think you would see in the government‘s report that they say that 85% did not have to provide additional residence. i would have to say that does not reflect the experience of our clients. at that 12 main applicants, 10 out of 12 of them have to provide additional evidence of the residence. the only two that did not wear blank by another status. those who are applying for the full status had set up additional evidence of residents. even though people had not completed the settlement scheme by the time we had reached the deadline, the time of the deadline, they will be entitled to title

status if they went into the scheme. if they do not complete the application process by the end of the deadline, they will be here unlawfully, potentially unable to enter the country if they leave to visit family, potentially committing criminal offences is by breaking, potentially told by their landlord that they can no longer rent a property, potentially told by the nhs that they are no longer entitled to urgent treatment they might need despite the fact that they have been paid to access by contributions for many years. is that accurate? yes, that could be hundreds of thousands of people in that position if they do not upload all the things they need.

and how would you regularize your position past the deadline? slightly early days for that, we are talking about a few years down the line. you would be good be sent to not having applied, and we do not know any more stop lights, so given that we had raised concerns about the windrush crisis and people who ended up falling into serious problems with nhs and break and so on, but they have had historic rights, basically will not be recognised. we are talking about people who have no of historic rights and also having the same challenges from aspects of the hostile environment and so on. effectively, the system that the government is putting in place is windrush on steroids. yes.

which is deeply damaging. with the windrush, he did not have the document to prove that. but with the system that the government is producing, you will be unlawfully resident. which we do not know how to deal with this at the point. that had life on the committee will be windrush on steroids. at that is picked up the papers, if people think that up, it will be a disincentive to apply to this scheme and, ultimately, because of comments like that, people could fail to apply to the ski ballot actually be today benefits. you‘re watching tuesday

in parliament with me, david cornock. don‘t forget that if you miss our daily programme or just want to watch it again, you can find it on the bbc iplayer. mps have urged the ministry of justice to push on with implementing measures to make it easier forfamilies in england and wales to manage the affairs of a missing relative. opening a debate in westminster hall, a labour mp recounted the experience of one of his constituents. imagine this, out of the blue, someone you love goes missing. imagine the anxiety, shock, and sadness. then i imagine not being able to select out any of their affairs in the absence. this frustration, confusion, and hurt is exactly what my constituent experience. in may of last year, a constituent came to surgery after telling me about her brother. he was an experienced traveller and is used to travelling alone. and he vanished.

he was last sighted on 11th march, 2017 and never returned to his hotel room. he was a photographer at his last photograph was taken island. despite searches, he was never found. he set out the problems his constituent faced when trying to deal with his finances. she discovered that banks were not interested because she could not prove that her brother was dead. debits continued to be withdrawn the bank account, she found the situation incredibly frustrating, and it cost her even more anguish to come to typeset the fact that her brother was missing and likely dead. the mp was staggered to discover that parliament had passed legislation to tackle such circumstances, but it hadn‘t been implemented yet.

the fact remains that the current state of affairs is not good enough. the guardianship missing persons act 2017 followed a campaign by peter lawrence, whose daughter claudia went missing nearly ten years ago. the law allows families to take over a missing person‘s affairs without having to testify that they believe that person to be dead. mr lawrence was watching the debate. this is an issue that came across my desk early on in my parliamentary career because i host the lawrence family with my honourable friend from your cancer. we share that families in our constituencies. this year, this tragic and mysterious disappearance. to show that the issue is much needed, mr lawrence says that they need this legislation today despite it is ten years on, that they need it today.

this legislation will probably help about 50 that they had to people and yet, an estimate of 100 people a year. those 100 cases affect thousands of people, their loved ones, theirfriends. so a vital piece of legislation. this issue came to me when i met with the manic street preachers who are missing in 1995. one of my favourite bands, as imad in envy fan as a kid, one of my favourite bands, as a mad indie fan as a kid,

you forget these people are real. i discovered when i met with rachel is that devastation that his disappearance left behind. some think like a no man‘s land. the minister noted the frustration expressed by mps. the honourable member from southgate asked what happened and if there were any delays. first thing, i have to say when they are limitless belly and find, it is important that we get this act operating injuly earlier this year. edward argar. now, politicians and policymakers have been accused of failing to grasp the gravity

of the environmental crisis facing the earth. a report from the centre left institute for public policy and research has said the impact humans are having on the planet is threatening to destabilise society and the global economy. its findings came hard on the heels of another report that warned of a dramatic decline in insect numbers. mps looking at what‘s called "planetary health" asked experts for their response. what do you consider to be the most likely changes in the uk up at the next 50 years in times of biodiversity? what impacts would those changes bring? instead of there being a snowstorm of moths that hits your car at night, or in this wasp and that guided when you have a picnic, that is sort of the last of abandonments. there are many studies that indicate that it is a real effect. much of the responsibility for that was intensive agriculture. there is a choice.

if they do more intensive agricultural pathways, we can expect that client to continue and to all the vulnerable invertebrates and persistent areas but those thoughts are. that would have direct impact for example on what people were able to eat and countering that would have a cost. the loss of invertebrates in the loss of species generally beats that we do not have a lots of other kinds of services. natural pest control, decomposition of pollutants, natural nutrients and without those, we are increasingly going to have to intervene in the ecosystem to provide those services. achieving the right balance between agricultural

naturla areas, and ecosystem. and all the other ecosystem we depend upon. so you are talking about biological approach to finding? having a much more biological approach to agriculture. we are probably behind the curve and some of those areas in our own agriculture and aquaculture and some of the aids. now where do you go to for your news? more and more of us, especially young people, are going online rather than picking up a newspaper. but how do you know what you read online is true?

the cairncross review into the future of uk news has suggested that a regulator should oversee tech giants like google and facebook to ensure their news content is trustworthy. the review also said the regulator 0fcom should assess the bbc‘s impact on online news on other providers. in response, the culture secretary jeremy wright announced a review of how online advertising is regulated. but he told mps he couldn‘t turn back the clock and there was no magic formula to address the systemic changes faced by the news industry. at the height of any diving society is a free and i think price. the government is agreed to supporting it through changing times and ensuring it can‘t continue to do its job. times and ensuring it can continue to do its job. mergers and acquisitions from digital giants have meant that over half of all digital revenues in the uk are now hoop it up by two companies,

google and facebook. this is a duopoly. this has hit print press so hard. tom watson. now, how much food do you waste? according to an environment minister, many households waste "an extraordinarily high" amount of food. lord gardiner said cutting back on food waste could help reduce the carbon footprint from farming. in the lords, peers were told that the government was working on a plan to reduce emissions from agriculture, with new environmentally friendly schemes introduced after brexit. but there was concern that the scale of the issue was not fully appreciated. that the nfu website states that the challenges of brexit as a drop in the ocean compared to the climate emergency on our planet. aquaculture is a large producer of greenhouse gases, and farmers are going

to find it expensive to move to zero emmission. so what is the government planning to offer? we clearly need to make with the farming industry, the production of food, that are so many reasons why the need to wake with the farming community, and with the environment bill and agriculture bill, we will be bringing all the ideas where adaptation to climate change where specific schemes will reduce mania. —— ammonia. i say it is very important not to impose on british farmers that obligations not met by competitive countries. life is already going to be hard with brexit.

my lords, clearly we believe that it is evidently compatible. this is essential and all that we want to deal. we work with the farming industry because they look at that 70% of the land and we want them to help us produce food and enhance the environment. does the energy efficiency is the best way to reduce efficiency? can ask that minister what action is that government is taking to reduce the somewhat third food waste that is and supply chains, particularly when we have food banks who are looking for food for all the reasons that we know? he is right about it is absolutely key, it is producing the extraordinary amount of food

waste that households are wasting. this is through the retailers, and ourselves, we need to change the way that we conduct ourselves when it comes to food waste and this is a highly inefficient way of unnecessarily producing food. the environment minister, lord gardiner. and finally, tributes have been paid in the commons to gordon banks, england‘s 1966 world cup winning goalkeeper, who has died at the age of 81. banks was named fifa goalkeeper of the year six times and earned 73 caps for england. he is perhaps best known for his save from pele during the 1970 world cup against brazil. tributes were led by the secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. this is also testament of his personal life.

he was a true gentleman. not everyone will know this about the contributions for civic life that he made in the community. from supports and veterans to dimension cac, it was notjust a sporting hero, he was a community hero that will be missed. and those tributes to gordon banks bring us to the end hello there. on tuesday the temperature reached

1a degrees in northern ireland, actually at giant‘s causeway. and over the next few days, the rest of this week it is going to stay very mild everywhere. with high—pressure essentially in charge, there will not be much rain around at all. the high is centred towards the south—east of the uk. so this is where our air is coming from around the high, from a long way south, which is why it is so mild. those winds are tending to push away most of the rain although, having said that, we do have more cloud around at the moment so it is not as cold. the cloud continues to be thick enough to bring some rain and drizzle across scotland, pushing its way northwards. these are the temperatures we‘re looking at towards the end of the night, so typically 6 or 7 degrees. on wednesday, most places will start rather cloudy. there‘ll be some further rain and drizzle, mainly for scotland, heading away from the northern isles. still a bit damp for a while in the north—west of scotland. with the cloud breaking and some sunshine arriving in the moray firth, aberdeenshire and more widely across east wales, the midlands, southern england and east anglia. here the winds are lighter. towards the north—west of the uk where we‘ve got more cloud, the winds are stronger.

for all of us it is a south or south—westerly wind so for all of us it‘s mild. those temperatures very similar to what we had on tuesday. overnight, we will probably see some stronger winds for the northern half of the uk and a bit more cloud around too. another weak weather front topples into the north—west of scotland. more breaks in the cloud, more widely across england and wales. it will be a little cooler, temperatures around 3—4 degrees. as we head into thursday, we are going to find those strong south, south—west winds pushing away that weather front. and we‘re actually going to draw in our airfrom the near continent, and this is drier air as well so that means more sunshine, more widely on thursday. there‘ll still be some cloud to greet the day across northern scotland. any rain soon gets pushed away. then the cloud breaks up. some pockets of cloud through the irish sea, but a lot of sunshine around on thursday. still quite breezy, very mild. temperatures could get 15 degrees around the moray firth. and easily 13 or 1a in many other areas as well. so an exceptionally mild day —

it should be around 7 or 8 degrees at this time of the year. towards the end of the week, we‘ve still got high—pressure close by. these weather fronts are trying to move in to that but, as they arrive, they are weakening and they‘re slowing down as well. so it‘s really the far north—west of scotland, perhaps northern ireland, that could see some rain later on in the day, but otherwise there‘s going to be plenty of sunshine around. we‘ve still got those south to south—west winds so another very mild day with temperatures of 11 or 12 celsius. goodbye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: one of the most powerful drug cartel leaders in history, joaquin ‘el chapo‘ guzman, is found guilty on all counts at a trial in the us. opposition protesters take to the streets of venezuela, but president maduro tells the bbc there‘s no humanitarian crisis in his country, and takes aim at america. translation: i believe

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