be compassionate we can offer a humanitarian safe legal rate for people who have fled unimaginable dangers and i think that you know i really hope that we can see this bill through to committee stage so that it does become a reality but certainly an impassioned plea almost as good as i am to spend to make you look like it cannot be just before we finish the situation at least in two unaccompanied children to have a sense of toll of of where they are and what numbers to be dealing with. well as we are reaching the summer months then with likely to see the number of votes crossing the mentoring in increase people leaving libya because you know war is still forcing huge numbers of people from sub-saharan africa conflicts in. in south sudan people are fleeing these conflicts and they will always try to seek a safer place from syria iraq afghanistan the boats will keep arriving and often

parents do have to make a very difficult choice to put their children to make to make these dangerous journeys so we are likely to see a numbers increase of unaccompanied children who are arriving in europe as as we reach the some one months but finally i just wanted to wind up to get an idea of where we are in the process we've got through one of the hurdles is going to committee stage so to get people watching a timeline what's next what will be meeting with them paves there will be a committee we hope to keep the public pressure on the government to keep this at the forefront and there will also be an immigration bill that we're expecting some time we don't know when in the autumn so we really hope that one way or the other either through the problem members or three of the immigration bill we will be able to make this law a reality a lot of i wish you all the very base of luck with all the work you do you know legion sees you doing. to get this across the final i think many people think it's

absolutely the right thing to do thank you for all the p.f.s. and thank you very much for joining us on the show coming up after the break we'll be hearing from the member of parliament behind the bill and disbanded mcneil. the far right. isn't just on the march it's taking violent my daughter's action i know you might need to hear that yes you know again i see these organizations which are usually split into which we feel we should take different names how do you view that.

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a few years of practice after that. you know you've had a substantial achievement already getting a bill of private member's bill for second reading when it's not supported by the government that doesn't happen very often what do you attribute that success so far well i think a number of people of come behind this i mean on the day we'd support from five political parties the beloved all the support of seven political parties but really this is a good samaritan bill in any member from any political party who's of goodwill could be piloting this bill through fortunately i've been the one who's got into the situation who can take the bill forward and we've got tremendous support from the u.n. refugee council the british red cross oxfam honesty and a number of other good intentioned organizations you started your speech by talking about example which i thought was very powerful this is your highness who you've met from from accountability tell us about how he's affected by this bill and what

his situation that you have is a very interesting back story he's a refugee he was scape from a tear in a tree or had been it would have been conscripted into a very brutal military we have refugees who have for themselves escaping and it's a because all of siblings have been passed down to nurtured so your highness went through saddam and then he went with people traffickers across the sahara two weeks in the back of a lot two weeks in the back of a pick up in the pick up of the war and if they fell out that was them the. would've been left in the they then they were so tightly jammed in the pick up of the can with arms by their side so i was with a table for two weeks and there was from tripoli in northern libya a boat across the mediterranean before they're picked up by the italian navy three hundred s. age sixteen and i think issue and remarkable determination in life which is standing in very good stead no but your highness if this bill came through who'd be

able to sponsor his sisters know in a camp and sudan to come and join him he gets to sponsor he's been granted refugee status and he would then get to bring a family member to this country as well so this would enable your highness to have the same rights and out of refugees to sponsor family members to come with him rather leave him alone and isolated incidentally another side of it. refused to bring children over the age of eighteen because they have cases where some people been able to bring the children under eighteen with them but not the children over eighteen so an adult has been granted asylum been classified as a few g. and feet of their life returning to the home country they would be able to to bring a child into this cause the law stands as a last chance but a child doesn't isn't able to bring an adult to accompany them into this country once they've been granted status that's absolutely the situation and if anybody needs the support of a family you would say more so the child than the adult and it is really strange

and bizarre situation the u.k. has got this and i think it laid a light to the arguments that were made by some in the debate that this would be a pull factor because of it means that people some people are worried that there were just to take your example some of the from if your bill would smuggle a child into into the this country and then use that as a means of getting that mithun stem cells isn't anything in the i don't know i thing firstly if it was something that argument i think. adults would be going on mass themselves but there's no not seen this in any other european countries that children are coming just to be an anchor childless i think tennis i think was best summed up by lord cared of can look aired in the house of lords when he said it was some swifty in joke do magine that you would gamble your child's life for a month across the sahara in support ever sort of boat across the mediterranean in the very hope that you might find yourself in

a european country but it's not an argument that some people might put forward the fate of li rewarding people for illegally getting themselves into this country i think you've got to remember these are refugees granted refugee status and surely we've all got the right to family life and if somebody said refugee then that here very legitimately for fear of their lives and being here and the feel of your life on the field of board whatever damage it could possibly occur to you you deserve to have rights you don't deserve to be treated like a social leper why can adult refugees have rights to family to sponsor family members to come but child refugees of all people child refugees can't do that when it's just a case as some people seem to suggest in the in the debate that this might open up open up all the floodgates is the usual term used and we've also got to remember that once we take the label refugees away from people they're only refugees for a short period of their lives you've got welders good teachers you've got nurses

you've got everything society needs and i've been at any age when they're just beginning their productive lives so you know if you want to be really messed me but this we should actually be looking for more people like this with the drive and the determination to cross the sahara to cross the mediterranean i said they would have done that when i was nineteen years old and didn't know. so people like that i think a great asset once they start to be a once they start to interact with society and interact with work and interact with people and about them there's a lot of support for your bill to be to get it through but that was opposite. as well and moments of passion in the debate which is quite surprising often in a private member's legislation which often is totally non-controversial were you surprised at that interchange during your bill and was and i think what surprised me most was the sort of the tabloid nature of some of it from people should know better and people didn't address the point about it a child refugee getting the same rights as adult refugees but it generally smeared

and feared of the the raising of of one day fiji committing some mocked in some european cities when there are sixty five million refugees across the world i mean if a scots person did something bad some are u.k. passionate but some are european and some something bad someone has that smeared all europeans all u.k. people all scots know why my dredge up an example of that and i think i think at the end of the day that was seen for what it was know your flu that triumphantly through a second reading vote but just many obstacles still to come so what happens no two to your legislation having got it through second today will there's still a fair distance to travel looking like it'll be six months time before my ill get to committee and then of course we've got another couple stages in the house of commons and got to go to those of lords as well famously lot dops to free us but had a huge success against the government's wishes himself a child refugee from nazi germany in

a can to transport program that's the sort of member who you hope will come in behind your bill absolutely and sort of em but i expect we'll combine the bill and it's been a round of some of the gatherings we've had run this battle and the moment you bring refugees and people seem to be all angsty about it but then after a while when people have integrated after a few months in a few years and contributed to society people are glad they've brought them in whether they be welders or shopkeepers or doctors or whatever. there's been a huge societal dividend in just about every society in the west has taken refugees from canada because you tip everyone is quite. interesting a special holocaust memorial day edition of the sure and if you'd fairly normal or a survivor of the concentration camps just had an amazing in ninety plus year old living in a conservative west country for so long for the most extraordinary life story. you're late to thing. if your bill is successful or if the government makes

a concession towards your bill some appropriate stage. the measure of the limited in nature might actually be successful in saving someone from them or from a pesach you shouldn't or even death yeah i think it i think it will do that and you know your highness's story and having crossed as a high with people traffickers knowing what the law in that empty desert as an end of the people traffickers guns to put it delicately secondly doesn't want his sister to be travelling on that journey so that stops him sleeping at night. so if you could change that situation and she could just travel safely just get in an aircraft short papers and come over and she do that in a few hours problem solved and people's lives have been changed and you know what goes around comes out and this is a piece of legislation that's also a campaign and you've been campaigning with these organizations supporting your bill weight range of organizations how important is their actions outside parliament to helping the progress of your legislation inside but hugely i mean i

think the help of the un had c.r. the biggest red cross in particular oxfam misty the refugee council of massive impact and the huge push amongst the members which gets you down to the public and the been the public in turn push m.p.'s and make things happen there the support of actresses such as juliet stevenson that's an inborn the id. the kaiser chiefs a number of people have come on board and have used their privileged position in a way to help others acknowledge privileged position has been very pleasing but we do need and we have to push further than the government so one of the most got to find things at the end of the bill was a young twenty researcher came up to me and put him in their corner sensor comments after his m.p. had voted against me to see his office and all the stuff went on side with me and would retain. doing everybody else so your legacy and your campaign lost father as

a sudden the maton experience which has persuaded you you've got to drive on with this bill with this legislation yeah absolutely one after the the vote on on the on the bill in the house of commons in the gallery people started celebrating clapping their hands and you know there's a bit of a who how that's unusual to have the speaker low that i think the load of a two three seconds before they said we have to move on but you know there was no put in of genuine relief and happiness but i met your highness's girlfriend a young lady from sudan and had to explain her under harness that there's only one of the stages of the bill because you could have been misled for thinking at the moment of celebration that that was it it was sorted and deceit face to say you can't yet bring your family in from sudan. you can't yet move on as we hope because there are so many other stages he said lee felt the pressure of we must deliver on this because then i know a lot of people whose hopes are been raised you know want to dash those hopes and they just got hopes of normal people to be with their loved ones and especially

neal thank you so much for joining us in l.a. some of the pleasure thanks a lot alec thank you and my time in the house of commons i saw many a great idea shot down in flames when it was introduced as a private member's bill according to the conventional law of politics the only way to have a good chance of a private is to make it so i'm contentious that the government offered to shepherd it for themselves even some measures which of the tacit support of government could still be vulnerable to underhand parliamentary tactics like filibustering from a few last debt chills in the back benches the effort to get a bill not supported by the government through its second reading is no small matter. that was i guess mill except he's very far from the home straight government opposition will likely still sink his bill and committee. where there's life that is hope and the campaign outside parliament will be crucial in persuading the government to adopt a humanitarian course to let right. from thousand me and all without excitement

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have used water cannon to get stone throwing protests this nationwide strike against president reforms. u.k.'s prime minister says that russia is a threat that doesn't respect borders again accusing moscow of poisoning a former double agent arrives in brussels for the european council summit. the son of libya's former leader moammar gadhafi runs for president we speak exclusively to. the situation we have. is the result of the destruction of the state's institutions.

become a democratic state. you're watching. france ground to a hoax today amid a nationwide strike public sector workers. students and railway employees of been out protesting a range of issues from low wages to job losses thirty percent of flights to and from paris with council burning schools were closed and in major cities like marcell leon around ten thousand people took to the streets while in paris there were twice as many in the capital and elsewhere there were violent clashes between protesters and police. was. that.

we are not here to be violent we are here to protest democratically against the liberal politics of macron wanted by the candidate without m.r. we disagree with the governments we can accept this reference that's why we are always here the dusk which is the most like of course the promises he made i think it's absolutely not been fulfilled. in the clashes between police and protesters in paris have been getting more violent as the days gone on protesters threw rocks at officers who responded with water cannon artists devinsky was at one of the sites. thousands of people have been marching in paris on this day over national strikes they converge ing here now at the fast steel where they're trying to make their voices heard to the government of president marcos saying they're unhappy with many

of the ideas of his e ministration including that she too much one hundred and twenty thousand jobs in the five years if he's the president see people say they're unhappy with the working conditions and they want to make sure they're poor he says heard loud and clear there haven't been this some violent confrontations during this day and strike in paris now where police clashed with the protesters some suggesting that the police had used extreme violence and some of the protesters had been injured this is a nationwide day strike through the many parts of the country getting both from the civil servants to the right where you start to students who are here to voice their concerns with this current administration this is actually only so the first over thirty seven days of strikes by the railways these strikes you take place over the next few months until the end of june right where work is saying this is the only

way that they can get a voice and they will speak directly with the government about changes that are proposed in their line of work they've also been must cancellations in terms of planes today and of course many schools have been closed as have been affected. service because of this strike charlotte. r.t. paris. paris isn't the only french city the major clashes between protesters and police. for example water come in and tear gas demonstrators. at the offices. u.k. defense ministry has now found itself drawn into the scandal surrounding cambridge analytic just to remind you the firm allegedly harvested the personal data of millions of facebook users and exploited it for political gain now it's been

revealed cambridge analytical parent company the a c l group used to be on the payroll of the u.k. defense ministry there provided that ministry with psycho social research all of the cost of around two hundred thousand pounds and it was even granted access to secret government files chris nine i'm from the stop the war coalition says that the revelations are alarming. i don't really believe the ministry of defense should be involved in a company one arm of which at least is in gage's in a series of campaigns around the world of propaganda manipulation apparently and political interference secondly i don't really see why the ministry of defense is in any case spending huge amounts of money on the. kind of propaganda work and finally the question of secrecy i mean apparently this company was given

access to top secret information this seems to me to be an extremely. worrying revelation. facebook chief executive mark zuckerberg has for the first time commented on the scandal surrounding the social network it was revealed personal details of millions of its customers were used to influence elections in a lengthy facebook apology so details exactly what went wrong with privacy policies and what steps have been taken to solve the problem he added that the company quote will learn from this experience to make the community safer for everybody going forward and despite the fact the scandal concerns an american tech giant and a data mining company with offices in new york london and washington there have still been attempts in the media to tie this story to russia. explains. imagine being a liberal a democrat and being stuck in a trump presidency for a year is it must be horrible waking up every day guessing that what russia

is songe boughts or hackers have cooked up today came original that i had powerful connections to candidate trump including one time top adviser steve bannon and billionaire donor robert mercer so presidential son in law jared cushion or and consultant brad parr scale brought in the company which is now accused of utilizing data from fifty million facebook users without permission facebook was how donald trump was going to win wait a sec something's wrong where's the bad guy who do we blame this on but there it is questions are also swirling about a possible link to russian metals cambridge c.e.o. reached out to julian a songs of wiki leaks seeking access to e-mails from hillary clinton's private server there's no evidence ricky leaks had such information but wiki leaks was releasing e-mails from the computers of other democrats which

authorities say were hacked by russians and another trump advisor roger stone great innings i actually communicated with what how do you even make the connection what's your logic if someone speaks to a songe their russian agent there is zero connection here other than the word russia being in every other sentence there is only one explanation cnn's report must have been put together by a random generator literally this explanation makes more sense than cnn's report at savage the dia and see oil trump the russians cambridge had because we've got the keywords just fill this. basis with whatever he also directly message the russian hacker he says he did nothing wrong and despite another claim that cambridge had ties to

a russian oil company the campaign insists there were never any links to russia are you comfortable that the trunk campaign through their cameras analytical had a connection to wiki leaks. they did have a connection or wiki leaks let me demonstrate if you are of average height and your birthday is in july you are closely tied to. see how easy it is let's do this again if you like snow and the russians like snow you are aligned with russia or if you want lots of money and all the guards have lots of money you are susceptible to russian influence it's all nonsense but who cares it's about getting the key words out there about confusing and confounding not explaining or investigating he words people key words

the russians everywhere. britain's prime minister has granted russia a threat that doesn't respect borders she is in brussels for an e.u. council summit where the poisoning of a former russian agent in the u.k. is expected to be high on the agenda let's find out let's cross live to our teams peter always been following this event for us good evening peter so what's been said so far. well brags that taking a backseat for to reason may at least in the opening exchanges of this european council summit in brussels she was all about drumming up support for a united e.u. message against russia she spoke entering the conference entering the summit she was very strong in what she had to say certainly pulling no punches she has put her cards firmly on the table. russia staged a phrase.