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a day after her divorce agreement was shot down by her fellow unpaid. pups amazing battle may not be over as opposition leaders lay out for negotiations. over moving article extending article fifty over people's fault and avoiding a new deal have to be one to teach. must remove must remove once and for all the prospect. of a no jail break simply. another news almost thirty people were killed by an explosion in the strategic syrian city of looting five american soldiers it has been claimed by islamic state. good evening thanks for joining us this is r.t. and. an understatement to say it's been

a week to remember and british politics minister to reason may has won that confidence votes for hug government just a day after her divorce agreement was overwhelmingly rejected. i is to the right. to the left three hundred twenty five so i mean. i i please at this house has expressed its confidence in the government to it i am always delighted when more of it is through the strength of the after hour rotation i do not take this responsibility likely in my government will continue its work to increase our prosperity all of us recognize the sponsibility that we have and on the back of the defeat of the government's mission last night and see our security and to strengthen our you and yes we will leave the european union as one country that has

worked in the coming days to achieve that objective yeah. waiting for is in london is correspondent she's been following events throughout the week of debates and votes in the houses of parliament was short in the vote. so many people won so many different things and that was the expected result the very close vote. you know when when but by golly that was pretty narrow a margin of just sixteen votes kept to reason may end her job and speaking after the vote she said she's keen to get on with the task at hand that is of course this brags that headache that she has and in order to get on with gregg's it she says she needs to start some cross party crisis talks on bragg's it immediately as early as this evening in fact in order to come to some sort of consensus on an alternative bragg's it plan now let's call it that after her brags it plan a tanked

in parliament last night to ease it may sustain an unprecedented defeat when she took her bags it pranay deal to parliament she wasn't able to push that through so tonight after winning the no confidence motion she was that sort of extending an olive branch to all the other political parties saying look let's work together it's not something she's known for really she hadn't spoken to other parties in the past she's known for not really talking to her political foes or anyone outside of her circle of trust but she said let's talk take a listen to what the other political party leaders had to say to her in response. before there can be any positive discussions about the way forward the government the government must remove must remove clearly one should through the prospect of the catastrophe of

a no dual direction the money that would come as a result of that from a little democratic position we are clear that we want to engage with talks with them actually government but it's very important that the government makes clear that no deal is not an option i commit the scottish national party to work constructively with the government however i do think it should be. because important is that regard that we make it clear to the prime minister in the spirit of openness in these talks that the issue of removing article extending article fifty of a people's fault and avoiding a new deal have to be on the table we have to take a basis that we can move forward and achieve a result which go unify all the nations and by the united kingdom. well there she is politically weakened being backed into

a corner by other political parties they're all holding to reason may's feet to the fire really jeremy corbin the leader of the labor party said he'll only talk to her if she rules out a no deal bragg's it which is actually something that the parliamentary machine was working towards anyway and it appears to be the only option is that there might be a consensus wanting to reject that something that everyone might agree that they don't want but blackford of the s.n.p. going one step further saying he'll only talk to resume a if he keeps the option of a second referendum on the table so it seems that the defeat last night is paving the way certainly for potentially a softening of bragg's this one of to resume a zone ministers said in an interview today that the government may have to look at the option of staying in the customs union which had been one of the prime ministers red lines when she was going into the negotiations with brussels in terms

of what she said she wouldn't change and what she wanted no matter what so that's out the window it looks like potentially what's taken place it does raise the specter not just of softening the braggs the process but potentially of reversing it altogether over seventy labor m.p.'s came out and pledge their support for a rerun of the e.u. referendum today and those that don't want to leave will certainly be encouraged by what they're hearing from brussels because the president of the european council donald tersely tweeted last night saying that if a deal is impossible and nobody wants no deal then who will have the courage to say what the overly positive option is well there are a lot of people with the courage to see. here in the u.k. and they seem to be lobbying for it rather strongly not only that but we're also

hearing murmurs from brussels that article fifty which is the date that britain is set to leave at the moment except for the twenty ninth of march this year it's coming out very shortly that could be extended not just for a couple of months as was previously thought but because of the scale of the political turmoil here in the u.k. over gregg's it that could be extended persons departure from the e.u. potentially until next year but you know this is the never ending story the chaos continues in the political confusion it with the briggs's and u.k. politics many things poorly with the latest from london. with reason is victory comes just twenty four hours remember the day of defeat a draft brigs that divorce agreement opposed by an overwhelming majority of fellow and p's including many conservative rebels. surprisingly have been a lot of interest in the events in westminster over the last few days particularly

across the channel in europe spain austria in the czech republic said their governments are prepared for any type of brigs it some of the european leaders also expressed readiness for anything. regarding the future relations the reserve course the possibility of further defining certain points if this helps to avoid a hard break that scenario will of course do everything to find an orderly solution but you are also prepared if there is no orderly solution we still have time to negotiate but we are now waiting to see what the british prime minister proposes we always the u.k. work to remove from its red lines of the costumes union in the single market the position could evolve even leaders of long lamented that result from the two thousand and sixteen referendum but now that that deal that was on the table has been outright rejected by parliamentarians in the u.k. it seems that they think that the only option now is for the u.k. to remain possibly via

a second referendum anglin merkel the german chancellor said there was still times for talks and clarification there was also clarification from claude the president of the european commission who said he regretted that decision by the u.k. parliament meanwhile the president of the european council donald went even further saying that there was only one positive solution and that of course it seems to be a day in the year now other e.u. leaders have pretty much had it to the back of their teeth with the decision from the u.k. with leaders from italy and france trying to put their own country's interests first rather than k. president michael is even to some degree started to give the u.k. the cold shoulder. the u.k. is heading towards a no deal despite there being no agreement it scares everybody the first losers of

this are the british people maybe we can improve on one or two points i don't really believe that because we went to so far as we could in the existing agreements and just in. order to try and solve a problem of british internal politics we want not defend the interests of europeans the plenary session is taking place currently in the european union parliament it's being led by people of course talking about breaks it might have been hoping that they could have been dotting the i's and crossing the t.'s on this deal today but not so it looks like it's back to the drawing board and in fact there are warnings now that are high risk new deal is a very likely outcome. of a no deal has never seemed so high our goal is to avoid such a scenario but we also have a responsibility to remain cool which is why i wouldn't turn. to this possibility

and many voices are now suggesting that a second referendum is a very realistic possibility but briggs it is a warning that if a second referendum takes place it might produce the same result but actually with a larger majority for leave if the trial becomes complete and we are forced to vote the second referendum you may be in for a big surprise the british may be a very placid people very laid back but i promise you they get pushed too far it's a law that will roll or we will be even more defiant if we have to fight a second referendum i will win it by a majority. or the conservative government may have survived the vote of no confidence but let's take a look at the journey that led to this point and david cameron quit after put in voted to leave the european union to resume won the race to replace him elated she triggered article fifteen officially started the brig's in negotiations that last

july she proposed the so-called checkers deal opposition to which sparked the resignation of key ministers including foreign secretary boris johnson returning to talks with the e.u. her deal was reached in the pm. at a december date for parliament to vote but then fearing defeat may postpone that vote triggering a no confidence motion within their own party she survived on that occasion early last night may's deal as predicted was overwhelmingly rejected by pace lots to talk about let's get analysis now from mark almond who's director of the crisis research institute in oxford it was bought widely being reported that the pundit experts were saying that the government would survive and they did but it's hardly inspiring the margin of victory just nineteen the majority. well it's the majority that they have the conservative party members of the democratic unionist party and that is an essential part of this dilemma that ever since mrs merrett called last to certain action and reduced her majority she's been a weak

a position on the other hand the opposition can't defeat her because as we saw today if you have a vote of no confidence in the tory government tory m.p.'s including very prominent remain those rally to the tribal identity and it's quite striking that m.p.'s like on a subaru who are all pains in the neck to mrs may as leading remain a tourist nonetheless with the most aggressive towards germany corbin in their interventions when he was speaking so you have this problem that we have the european issue which divides parties and then there's the party political issue which tends to draw them together. oh and just to clarify for anybody watching this maybe not sure what was it that employees didn't like about briggs it deal why did they vote it down is it c. soft to hard what do they want changing. well for well over four hundred had a variety of reasons there were some who felt it was too soft and that included the ulster unionist side and also the so-called tory or your people search group who want to essentially a. no deal brigs it then there were

a lot of remainders twenty or thirty in the conservative party and then predominately of other side who would like either soft or briggs it or mo briggs a tall as you've been reporting at least seventy possibly more labor m.p.'s have come out publicly for a second referendum which implies of course reversing the original decision so you have in this huge majority against mrs may the thing that unites them is a dislike of her deal the problem is to find some kind of the rule that is acceptable to a majority at its variable but essential for majority which also happens to have the prime minister in it because as the clock ticks down to the twenty ninth of march if article fifty is to be suspended or revoked if there's to be any new election or new referendum that requires an act of parliament and it moves the government to sponsor it to get through in the time available so this is may is an incredibly weak position she can still put a spanner in the works or two from the point of view of those who want to stop the

kind of leaving of the e.u. that she has sponsored or even to reverse it. some people looking at all them from abroad might say you've had two and a half years mrs may and your colleagues to sort this this briggs deal out it's certainly shambolic that you haven't done this and you've left it to the last minute in fact not even the last minute you need more minutes you need to go over the deadline why wasn't this done sooner. i have to say even before the referendum i remember talking to some of the people organizing the leave campaign and i had imagined that they would have a whole show. drew all of parts of the european legislation they had to go all the parts they could quite happily live with them so they would come out of the traps after the referendum if they wanted to and say this is what we're offering instead it took them a year to even begin to make that process and that's partly because the conservative party is very divided on what to do there are certain very prominent remains as well as very prominent leaders and mrs may somewhere in the middle but it's also true the opposition is very divided i didn't see any great secret from his past

voting record but generally corbin has never been a great friend or. because he sees it as an obstacle to the kind of social economic play will sue says he would like to have because in the various e.u. regulations and difficult their key things like nationalization of the railways and so on i'm optimistic on the other hand you have very likely members of the tory party who think capitalist enough so we have of these deep divisions as they cut across parties and they cut across the country too so in the south east of england where we are roughly speaking from where i'm in oxford to london is a major stronghold but if you go eighty one hundred miles north you have quite the opposite result you have two thirds of the i favor of leaving so the deep divisions in the population and we're still a regional so in scotland you have a clear majority to stay in the north of england you have a clear majority to leave and so people don't necessarily meet people with a different point of view in there if you there are so because they tend to live in

regions which are highly probable do you think we can understand where the politicians are voting here to represent their constituents cause they know whether the people where they are working want to leave all are they voting in favor of what the the constituents want or are they voting in terms of party politics what they're told to do what they personally think and we understand. well it's a mixture but it's always been a criticism if you like of the parliamentary system that run up to an election and all the voting the politicians curry favor with the voters. and promise to do what they want for one third act at a particular if they're in a safe seat they are independent of the voters until the next election five years later and we particular have the problem the referendum didn't coincide with the general election so you had a vote for or against the european union but it didn't affect the sitting members of parliament and this is carried on even after the last general election so you do have a problem that people will say well it's

a representative democracy i'm elected to do what i think is best and then people say sung in some places say of south wales labor m.p.'s want to remain but the voters didn't in some parts of the south of england conservative m.p.'s may want to leave but their voters won't stay and so it's a very difficult situation and i think there is a great danger of people being alienated from the political class feeling that the politicians if they look at some particular politicians are ignoring their wishes and not necessarily noticing that somewhere down the road. other voters feel that the politician is ignoring their wishes to call a different line in the sense of being for or against and you talked about jeremy corbyn earlier and his feelings on europe one would think at this point the leader of the opposition would be making his stance very clear that this is what i want to do and i've heard a lot of experts say that he hasn't really done that he is not really expressed an opinion either way if you think there's a chance that he's actually just sitting back and looking to feed off the chaos by not giving a stance of any kind. where he would rather

a general election the conservative party perhaps divides and trying to conserve refused to sort of actually to get rid of mrs may and there's a collapse of the government because if there's a referendum and the revote were to remain it would cause a huge dilemma because people say well what about another a friend best of three but also he will be pressed to pursue policies that he's never really liked to party or opinion in there are some things of course that he likes but i think it's fair to say that he's lou queen to put it mildly so here's a better chance of becoming a prime minister able to implement the kind of policy agenda that he would like if rick. wasn't circumscribe a key european by those six principles of how you would our society the economy of the tax system saw which individual states have to abide by. so you have this i was able to see it in the debate in the house of commons today mrs may didn't get too many cheers from the soldiers would recall but hardly any from the reporter and his deputy who spoke at the end of the be very cool for people to get rid of mrs may but didn't say and britain germany called it striking that when he didn't mention

his friend sitting. so this is probably look both main party leaders may have supported general public who support the parties but the professional politicians of parliament are of the dubious about both in my view and just time for one more question mark have to know and it's probably impossible to answer at this point there's so much confusion i mean people are a it seems like grabbing for power at times during this briggs it fiasco is there any clear way forward at this point or are we looking at six or seven options and really no clear which a solution that whether that. will only if the people call the government the prime minister whether it's mrs may or somebody else decide to put an alternative back down from article fifty or so you want to leave your opinion or we want to have extra time because as i say the rules of poland mean this even if a majority of backbenchers wanted to do that they wouldn't be able to get a lot through on time because the opposition could talk it out you could have

filibusters and so you would have to change mrs may's mind or change who is the prime minister and the conservatives at the moment seem to be saying many of us are happy about what you want to do about europe but we're even more unhappy about changing the prime minister as a narrow party interest is trumping coming to a resolution of this big national issue yet lets people know what they don't want and still no closer to what people people do what it must be i would say this is getting close to a crisis in u.k. politics which is why it's perfect that we have the director of the crisis research institute that's mark ullman locks. great to speak to you mark boy it's a deal with the blues nobody any good. yet wise words or the words like no deal hard briggs's second referendum they're still being bandied about i think you getting the point now in fact seventy one labor m.p.'s wrote to jeremy corbett urging him to back a so-called people's vote we've been taking a look at some of the doomsday predictions that have been made is britain's bragg since august spiralling out of control we've decided to press the pause button and

get some perspective on how justified the apparent mass hysteria is from both leavers and remain is first up we have the rejected deal with jeremy corbyn being its most outspoken critic the prime minister has negotiated a boxed worst of all worlds deal which is bad for britain leaving the country in the indefinite halfway house without a real say some journalists echo the disappointment of the labor party leader one of the reasons that the u.k. will still have to conform to the rules in one way or another. yet michel barnier the man behind the deal himself clarified the rules from the very beginning the tradition last for twenty one months during this limited period of time do. we continue to apply to do you.

the divorce bill now this one is a big remember when most of the u.k. papers were dominated by headlines like these it gives us potential in the customs union without and date divides up the united kingdom between northern ireland and great britain and pays thirty nine billion for nothing in return the likelihood is that the u.k. would probably have to pay out a similar amount if they were to remain in the. on the other hand will also stick to commitments made before that happened the united kingdom should pay its share of the commitments taken during its membership all e.u. projects and programs will be financed as forseen under the current multi annual financial framework. no deals that with other countries that it's the fear right this deal will deny the u.k. an independent trade policy while potentially keeping us out of existing e.u. trade policy we would be cut off from the world with our trade and economy regulated from brussels but there's another side to this story as the world trade

organization director general puts it himself it's not the end of the world trade will not stop it will continue. as will be negotiating with the u.k. illegal braces under which that trade is going to happen it doesn't mean that you have a disruption in terms of trade flows or if it will become in the model automatically so now that may's deal has been shelled for the time being surely some people should be happy wrong brace yourselves for the worst or at least that's the narrative that the media has been pushing right from the start playing to be unable to fly from the u.k. to the e.u. and vice versa creating chaos in ports though before this is not an apocalypse movie or is it. could britain be isolated overnight will all planes be grounded after brags that well the easyjet chief executive your hand

doesn't quite mirror that sentiment. deal soon or you. confident it will continue to march with if you're not frightened yet in this guardian article will send shivers down your spine but the reality is only thirty percent of all important projects is provided by the. but what about the meds forty five million packs of medicines leave the u.k. every month ago she europe and thirty seven million packs of medicines come to the u.k. it will still be able to trade with the e.u. on the basis of a zero time with full pharmaceutical products it would be difficult to imagine that the e.u. officials would allow her to citizens to be without essential medication just because they decided to leave the union wouldn't it well maybe they should have been clearer with their messaging it turns out that the feeling of uncertainty due to bribes it has been pushing some nationals in the u.k.

over the edge i want to the british government has somehow address this very issue you citizens and their family members living in the u.k. but twenty nine it's march twenty ninth see will be able to continue receiving u.k. benefits gridley the same terms as now it's no wonder that the brags that saga is troubling the minds of both u.k. and e.u. citizens with the instability of a country in turn law and who can blame them especially if you're fed fear in the papers on a daily basis more or less screaming and the world is nigh in a day or two. ok we're going to take short break them of back to wrap up some of the days of the major stories. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us is over one trillion

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seven fatalities from the attack this is all according to the turkish president efficient us army twitter account confirmed casualties but didn't specify the number. of published a video of c.c.t.v. footage that said to capture the moment of the attack we'll show you but i must warn you may find these images upsetting. enough to. really you didn't see. the mc states has claimed responsibility shortly after the attack us military vehicles were filmed close to the scene by outies video agency ruptly roughly source on the ground also confirmed u.s. troops have now placed the entire city on lockdown the pentagon military helicopter said two were flown in to evacuate those injured with more details here's artie's paulus leon it's seven years a significant development we've heard from the spokesperson.