c-span three, he will answer questions during a joint senate judiciary and commerce committee. he will also appear before the house energy and commerce committee. watch live coverage on c-span 3, and live on www.c-span.org, and listen live with the free c-span radio app. >> the british parliament is in recess, so prime minister's questions will not be seen this week. bbc parliament looks back at the major events that have happened over the last few months, including brexit negotiations and the nerve agent attack against a former russian spy and his daughter on british soil. this is 30 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to westminster in

review. our look back at all the big events in parliament since christmas. coming up, as the u.k. inches closer to leaving the european union, there is agreement between the two sides on the next phase of brexit. but there are still sticking points. not least over fishing rights. you are treating this industry as expendable. >> i completely understand how communities feel about the situation at the moment and share their disappointment. >> tough questions for the bosses of collapsed construction afterarelian -- carillion it collapsed. do you take to show that? it is just words. >> and, after the poisoning of a spy and his daughter with a rare nerve agent, the prime minister expels 23 russian diplomats. >> the government has concluded that it is highly likely that

russia was responsible for the act against sergei and yulia sk ripal. >> the u.k. is set to leave the eu in less than a year. theresa may's big achievement in the last few months has been to secure an interim deal, meaning that will be a transitional period from our leaving until the end of 2020. during that time the u.k. will be able to negotiate its own trade deals, and eu citizens moving to the u.k. will enjoy the same rights as those arrive before brexit. but, there is still no agreement on how to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the irish republic, and anger that the deal will see that u.k. controversialeu's common fishery policy until the end of 2020, a concession which led to the leader of the u.k. independence party facing a staging a rather unusual protest

throwing dead haddock into the thames. >> palpable anger. this is not what we were promised. if they can let us down like this over the deal for the transitional period, how do we know they will not do it again when it comes to the final deal? >> i will happily acknowledge there is disappointment in fishing communities. i know as someone whose father was a fish merchant and whose grandparents went to sea to fish. i understand how fishing communities feel about the situation and share their disappointment. there is no way i can sell this the fishing communities in scotland or the u.k. they will never be trusted again by the scottish fishermen. tell us what a fisherman can expect from his government? >> they are treating the

industry as expendable. the secretary of state talked about revival. but industry cannot revive based on the status quo that the government has delivered. my constituents in great britain will see this as a total sellout. >> what did we get in return? >> the big prize, an implementation period that allows us as a country to prepare for the benefits that brexit will bring. >> michael gove in hot water over the incident fishing deal. down the corridor, the lords also getting into brexit. the eu withdraw bill, which puts all eu law into u.k. law to stop a legislative black hole from opening up, past. they begin their detailed scrutiny of the plans. at the end of january they held a two-day debate on the principles of the bill. >> the duty of your lordship's

house is very clear. that duty, i should mention, is to assert our rights, scrutinize, to amend, and if need be, to reject unacceptable pats of this bill. >> the more we argue here the weaker we make the government's negotiating position. should we not be implementing the people's vote, falling together and present a united front? by all means improve the bill before us, but let us not frustrate it. >> a government can expect no let up in our efforts to make this bill somehow against all of work in the interest of the british people as we leave europe. as we leave europe, an act of extraordinary political self harm that our grandchildren, and their children will not forgive us for. >> this sovereign parliament,

once the terms of any british exit are known and the reality comes clear, is entitled to choose if it wants to seek the opinion of the british people as to whether this is what they want. >> we could have made a success of the united kingdom in the european union. and we can make a success of with some cost and upheaval of being outside the european but union. but we cannot possibly make a success of being in a national state of bewilderment about when we will have another referendum and which direction we are going in. >> former conservative leader william hague discussing mountain scrutiny on the bill. they have not voted on the detail of the bill, but all that is set to change after easter when they move on to their final stage of highly detailed scrutiny. expect plenty of late-night high tight votes and potential government defeats. and as if brexit are pretty

enough, just before easter, debates to air allegations that the vote leave campaign had exceeded spending limits in the 2016 referendum. vote leave strongly denied accusations that it used a different program exit -- pro-brexit group to get around strict controls. for the time being theresa may , will be relieved that she has a deal on a transitional period. with provisions on citizens rights and trade. as we heard earlier, that controversial section on fishing. on the last monday before the easter break, she updated mp's on her latest summit meeting with eu leaders. >> i recognize not everyone will welcome continuation of current trading terms for another 21 months. such an implementation has been widely welcomed by the british business. it is necessary if we are to minimize uncertainty and deliver smooth and successful brexit. >> jeremy corbyn. >> we are pleased some progress

seems to have been made on the transition period, especially given that the agreement is a labourcal to what was calling for last summer. the only real question is why it took the government so long to realize that a transition on the same term is vital to protect jobs and our economy. given the government having more positions on brexit than the kama sutra, isn't this time the government ensure that her constituents be protected from the disastrous economic consequences of brexit? >> i think the honorable lady. the picture she paints is not one i recognize. e interima may on th deal. i am joined now by chris mason.

eam? can we gl >> in the short term there will be a difference between the legal moment of brexit at the end of march next year and the point at which there is fundamental change, which will come at the end of 2020. the government will fulfill obligations to take us out of the european union at the end of march of next year, but the transition deal means pretty much very little actually changes. the government's argument allows business more time to adjust and give them more negotiating time in securing the longer-term deal. their hope is that those who agitated for brexit can look at -- live with effectively the status quo for the best part of two years, because it allows them to secure their prize in the end. >> one of the things that does not change is the common fisheries policy.

that has caused a lot of anger. the government must have seen that coming. >> there is a curiosity around fishing. it is symbolically hugely important in the context of brexit, whilst economically relatively important. a small sliver of the overall u.k. economy. concentrated in particular areas. the fishing communities have seen their industry decimated over a generation. many of them hugely critical's of the eu common fisheries policy. they had hoped that there might be some transition, but they would only have to stay within the confines of eu fishing regulation for perhaps nine months or a year after the point of brexit. they now know it will be nearly two years and they are deeply, deeply angry. they are certainly using this point to flex their political muscle, to try and ensure that in the long term, after the transition, implementation period they get an arrangement that is from their perspective a

notable improvement on what happens now. >> we talked about what the transition deal means in the u.k.. what about in the eu. are they united? >> up until now, the 27 of the eu have been united. there is a prospect this might change as we get into the nitty-gritty of how a trade to a deal might work, how security cooperation might work, but at the point the eu is proud publicly and privately that they have kept together. >> we will hear more from you a little later in the program. now, let's take a look at some other news in brief. nine months on from the grenfell tower fire, just 62 out of 204 households have been found permanent homes. 71 people died from the fire up that tour through the west london tower in june. the housing secretary said some of those made homeless were still living in hotels. >> this is totally unacceptable. the suffering that these

families have already in do word -- endured is unimaginable. living for this long in hotels can only make the process of grieving and recovery even harder. what has been lacking is the that should have been delivered both by the state's office and local authorities. >> a memorial service was held march the second, marking one year since the westminster terror attack that left five dead and others injured. drove into extremist pedestrians on westminster bridge before heading to houses of parliament. a police officer, who was on guard outside was stabbed and killed before the attacker was shot dead. a few days later, mp's said lessons must be learned on a report following the suicide bombing at manchester arena two months after the westminster attack. they detonated a homemade device at an ariana grande concert

killing 22 people. the review revealed it took nearly two hours for firefighters to be deployed that , there were communication problems between the emergency services and a complete failure of a helpline for relatives. mp's praised the emergency services and the city's residents, but urged the government to learn from what has happened. just before easter the high court overturned its decision to free the serial sex offender known as the black cab rapist. the head of the parole board resigned. >> these decisions often involved difficult judgments, and they are not always necessarily going to get it right. but it is not the role of politicians to interfere. >> we cannot have a system whereby we rely upon victims of predatory sex offender

to keep us safe. the primary role of government is to keep the people safe. >> will be minister take this opportunity to apologize to the victims for the many failures that have left them having to pursue justice, because no one else will for them? for there the anger victims who had to go through this process. i am sorry that that happened. >> it used to be a big parliamentary moment, but with the budget firmly shifted to the spring philip hammond's statement on the economy was low-key. the chancellor declared that he was feeling light about the economic future as he reported more optimistic forecasts on debt and borrowing. labour accused him of complacency. there was a budget that did have an impact. the power-sharing assembly and in northern ireland collapsed at the start of 2017. with talks failing to bridge the gap between the dup and sinn fein, it remains mothballed.

it falls to the westminster government to set the budget. mp's approved a bill to give civil servants the legal power to carry out day-to-day spending. theory following revelations about an annual charity fund-raising dinner where guests were sexually harassed. the club announced it was following claims that women were groped at the men's only event. >> organizers chose to make this a men only event, chose to treat the hostesses in this way. >> women have the right to feel safe, wherever they work, and allegations of this type of behavior are completely unacceptable. >> celebrations across parliament to celebrate 100 years of women getting the right to vote. although it did not apply to all, it was a historic step forward. the house of lords held a special event to mark the anniversary, and one pm recalled

her conversations with a former suffragette. >> more than once, she would love to carry those big laundry baskets into meetings. the police would say, what is in that basket? and they would carry it as if it contained what they said it contained, bunting. >> a prolonged standing ovation labourlord's as the former minister called for greater corporation to beat cancer. she was speaking after her diagnosis of a severe brain tumor in may last year. >> i hope this debate will give hope to other cancer patients, like me. together,live, well with cancer. not just dying of it. all of us. for longer. thank you.

>> mp's have finally backed a call for parliament to move out of the palace of westminster as billions of pounds of repairs are carried out, but they are not packing bags just yet. the move is not due to start until 2025 at the earliest. tough questions for senior executives from the collapsed construction company carillion when they appeared in front of mp's. they were involved in building schools, hospitals and prisons. they went into liquidation, leaving suppliers unpaid and a one billion pound hole in their pension scheme. senior executives gave their side of the story, but the joint committees were unimpressed, saying afterwards the directors were delusional characters.

>> do you feel perhaps you were asleep at the wheel, you were surprised? >> i don't believe i was asleep at the wheel. time in thes in my role was to bring net debt down. >> words cannot describe the depth of my despair. i am devastated by the impact that the collapse has had. as i said, on the pensioners, on customers, on suppliers, on staff. >> you're sitting there with millions of pounds from the company over the years. you say how sad and disappointed you are, but what action do you take to show that? it is just words, isn't it? i am just, i am saddened and disappointed, i wish i could've done things differently. >> pensioners are taking cuts. large numbers of people will not get paid for their contracts. a lot of people have lost their

jobs. and you are still all right. aren't you? does anybody want to say anything before i close the meeting? we will be doing a report. thank you for coming today. >> executives at carillion, lost for words. relationship with russia hit a new low after the poisoning of a former russian double agent and his daughter. skribal werelia found some on a bench in salisbury. it was later revealed they had been poisoned using a military grade nerve agent and the u.k. believes russia was to blame. commons shortly after the attack, theresa may set out the evidence. >> based on the positive identification of this chemical agent, by world leading experts of defense science and

technology laboratory, our knowledge that russia has produced this agent, and would still be capable of doing so, russia's records of conduct ting state-sponsored assassinations and our , assessment that russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assessing nations the government has concluded , that it is highly likely that russia was responsible for the act against sergei and yulia skripal. >> jeremy corbyn began by condemning the attack. he called for continued dialogue, not cutting off all contact. but his later comments drew heckling and criticism. >> we are all familiar with the huge fortunes often acquired in the most dubious circumstances in russia. sometimes connected with criminal elements, sheltering in london and trying to buy political influence in british party politics.

there has been over 800,000 pounds worth of donations to the conservative party, to the conservative party from russian oligarchs and their associates. >> there are certain circumstances where we have political differences of opinion. but when our country is intentionally under attack, that is not appropriate. >> does the prime minister not agree that one of the most effective ways of punishing russia for these appalling activities would be to seize the private property assets of members of the putin regime and their associates. >> theresa may came back to the commons 48 hours later after the russian government failed to respond to a midnight deadline to explain how a nerve agent came to be used in the poison attack. she said she would be expelling 23 russian diplomats. there was a final update just before the easter break. >> 18 countries have announced their intentions to expel more than 100 russian intelligence

officers from their country. this includes 15 eu member states, as well as the united states, canada and the ukraine. this is the largest collective expulsion of russian officers in -- intelligence officers in history. >> there is clear evidence the russian state has a case to answer, and that they have failed to do so, and we can draw no other conclusion other than russia has direct or indirect responsibility for this. >> russia, with a state-sponsored act of terrorism, has crossed the line. should be gratified by the response of our friends and allies across the world that recognize the seriousness and the importance of the events that took place two weekends ago. >> i am delighted to say that our political correspondent chris mason is still with me to talk about all things russia. chris, do you think the government sees this as a short-term spat or something

long-term? >> definitely a long-term problem. not least with the reelection of president putin, the challenge is not likely to go away. how do they go about facing a country like russia that appears, as they would see it, to be acting so brazenly on foreign soil. there is talk of something of a diplomatic victory from the expulsion of diplomats that we allies offrom western the u.k. in the last couple of days. the central challenge remains, and there has been a lot of discussion about this privately and publicly, which is, what can be done, and what can be done in and be noticed in the kremlin? >> you touched on the fact that other countries have expelled their russian diplomats. what does that tell us about the eu's reaction to this and the u.k.'s reaction with the eu. >> there was a frustration that while the u.k. went out of its way not to congratulate him on his reelection, jean-claude

yunker published a letter on twitter he sent to the kremlin, saying congratulations, presiden t putin, and he defended that by saying angela merkel of germany did the same thing. yes, at the same time, bilateral conversations going one-on-one between the u.k. and members of the eu and others, the british government has managed to secure the arrangement with other countries that they would see the expulsion of russian diplomats as well as those that the u.k. has expelled from london. to that extent, they can point to how that can work after brexit regardless of our membership of the eu. >> we can't talk about russia without talking about jeremy corbyn's response to this. following from the general election, the labour party seems to be marching together and moving forward. and this his response to the , russian crisis, seems to have completely reopened all of the divisions in his party? theit felt like prising open

paint can of labour disagreement, particularly within the parliamentary party. we were reporting the discomfort before thes election. he seemed to prove some and he people wrong, so was allowed to get on with the job. his reaction and repeated reaction to the government's response to the salisbury attack irritated to a huge degree a lot of labour mp's. message, it conveyed a whose side are you on. clearly mr. corbyn's perspective was much more subtle than that, but it really angered labour mp's, some of whom feel that ofle the domestic platform

corbyn shows some signs of being popular, perhaps his foreign affairs incidents are much less so. >> thank you very much. of regularthousands donors after it emerged some of its staff paid women for sex in haiti in 2011. this sparked accusations and renovations about a host of other charities. mps on the international develop development committee grilled them. >> everybody knew. all theses people abusing women and girls, regularly, and all countries, and nobody, not one organization was doing a thing about it. that is shocking. you are supposed to be trying to help the world, but it would appear you are not as good as you should be. >> it is heartbreaking, in this situation, but i want to assure

on it, bute working worldd a point where the has woken up to the abuse of women and girls, and we find ourselves to have not done enough. but we did something. we have been improving every year, but we are not where we want to be. >> finally, there has been much controversy over the role of social media in our lives over the recent months. and secretary of state of culture, media and sport has embraced the digital part by launching his very own smartphone app. the matt hancock app features pictures and videos of him and allows users to sign up as friends and chat with each other. there have been concerns about the app's privacy policy and whether it complies with the data protection act. the shadow culture minister wanted action.

>> the general public needs protection from their privacy being invaded by matt hancock, personal information being shared with third parties by matt hancock, and private photos being seen by matt hancock. will they undertake to make sure matt hancock complies with privacy regulations, and expand why he things other people should abide by legal protections with regard to legal protection if matt hancock doesn't? i think weortantly, should use digital communications, mr. speaker, to communicate with our constituency in all modern forms, and i am frankly delighted by the response, far better than i could have possibly imagined. i look forward to communicating with my constituents over matt hancock for years. hancock taking his job too hard. that is it for now.

on march 29, exactly one year before the u.k. leaves the eu. but plenty more politics between now and then, so join us on bbc peersment when mp's and return for easter break on we april 16. will be with you every weeknight at 11:00 with a full round up of the day in westminster. but for now, from me, goodbye. ♪ isthe british parliament currently in recess. prime minister's questions return on april 18. you can go to c-span. oregon five video of past prime minister questions and other british public affairs programs.

monday, in interfaith alliance holds a briefing -- briefing about the nomination of mike pompeo to be secretary of state, citing what they call his anti- muslim rhetoric. that is live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> monday on landmark cases. cats versus the united states. charles katz was tape recorded by the fbi while transmitting illegal bets from a telephone booth on sunset in los angeles. the supreme courts decision expanded americans rights to privacy under the fourth amendment and forever change the way law enforcement officers conduct their investigations. guests are jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center in philadelphia and the founder of the national security institute and director of law and policy program. --h that george nation

george mason university. watch landmark cases monday and try not conversation. our #his landmark cases. follow us at c-span. we have resources on our website and background on each case. landmark cases companion book, a link to the constitution center's interactive constitution, and the landmark cases podcast at c-span.org/landmark cases. andormer secretary of state presidential candidate talks about her experience in the election, the russian interference in the election and america's role in the world, as well as the future of politics. from rutgers, university this is an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> hello, scarlet knights.