true. virtue of just. one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. speak. i think. the british prime minister still to keep a sense of humor just hours before a crucial vote. gathered today in parliament to debate trees a maze proposed deal. for the pm secure some assurances from europe at the eleventh hour. coming up on the program today. the troubles in northern ireland

ended fears return to the irish republican army could be behind a string of. u.s. diplomats. gives american officials seventy two hours to leave the country while the us backed opposition leader. receives authority to declare a state of emergency in the country from the national assembly and. around the clock across the world this is your r.t. international from the team and myself you don't know neal hello and welcome first this news hour let's bring you to westminster the prime minister of spain defending her divorce deal spots but what you're seeing now. is the s. and p.

leader in the bloc for the. national party the third largest for south for the conservatives a labor party in westminster. his say a few hours from now the reason why people are convened on choose the in the house of commons is that m.p.'s will vote on whether to approve trees in me as i just stated someone that just the divorce agreement from the european union well this will be the second vote on a deal with the first being rejected by a large majority on me amidst the skepticism criticism a somewhat hoarse reason may still manage to find time for humor to go for help to price and speak this is. i. may say. as a result. of what she was alluding to there the british prime minister has agreed several changes to her breaks

a deal with the president of the european commission trees in may travel of two straws for last ditch talks with this new head of tonight's crucial parliamentary vote on a green which incidentally will happen and in just under three hours time from opposition labor leader joined me earlier called the negotiations a failure. of commons to reject a deal apology boy has been looking through all the various goings on she filed this report. i did on tuesday night british politicians once again get to vote on some form of withdrawal agreement that the prime minister has negotiated with the european union so what happens next if the government wins the very the prime minister will have had a lucky escape the u.k. will be leaving the e.u. whether deal on march the twenty ninth but mattson are you looking increasingly on law. it's expected that politicians will reject terry's amazing beleaguered

withdrawal agreement just like they did in january tries to the right two hundred into. the nose to the last four hundred and thirty two. in that case there'll be more votes to decide what to do next on wednesday parliament would be arsed whether it would approve leaving the e.u. without a deal that's not likely to be approved by politicians either pretty much the only thing there appears to be a majority for in parliament is the option of excluding no deal and the potential calamity it might entailed priority is to stop no deal that would be hugely chaotic and because the. rule of law do you under any circumstances so by midweek the u.k. is likely to have ruled out to raise a maze deal and no deal as well and then politicians would face another vote on

whether to extend article fifty in other words delay britain's departure from the e.u. something that until recently to reason may had said wasn't an option with leaving the twenty ninth of march i'm clear that we will not extend article fifteen that we will leave the on the twenty ninth of march any delay is a delay it doesn't address the issue it doesn't resolve the issue to reason maes said that that would be a short and necessary delay just to keep talks going with the e.u. on a potential deal but critics say it would just put off a potential cliff edge brags that by another month or so it would be highly dangerous for our country to go cap in hand to the european union at the eleventh hour and beg for an extension it is not an answer to the situation we face. is merely being moved all of this would leave the field open for anti breaks that politician. to advance their parliamentary maneuvers to thwart britain's departure

from europe one thing is for certain it's going to be a busy week for politicians a week which could define the brags that process or even ground it to a halt. polly boyko will international relations professor gwilym blunt first sees more continental opposition ahead for treason by. the prime minister loses the vote by say fifty votes this might allow her to continue to push for a third meaningful vote on a slightly altered deal just before d.-day but it's you know this is hopeful thinking by the prime minister's office i think the europeans are going to agree to it it's a delay and they have to agree to it we can't do it unilaterally unless there is some substantive reason to do so a general election a new referendum but it can't simply be for theresa may to continue to kick the can down the line week on week day on day. because it's just return. to

westminster live images from the house of commons with just hours on till british lawmakers vote on whether or not to approve trees amaze me. divorce till she will be hoping other last minute talks with e.u. officials have the vote in her favor germany corben leader of the opposition not impressed he said not one single word of the deal has changed he will not be voting for and he of course has come out and not so long ago calling for a second vote the d. u.p.a. very influential northern irish party propping up the conservatives after the last election on a bloc of tory m.p.'s they say they will not back the deal there is a glimmer of hope though for treason may we have been hearing a number of interviews right throughout the day from conservative m.p.'s mainly who have voted against the deal in general saying that they have changed their minds so it's all to play for right now it seems although it's not looking good overall for trees in may she may come with a fast sure minority that she had back in the vote in january we vote in what

two and a half hours time we'll keep you right up to date again these are live pictures from the house of commons in westminster it stop. breaks. it has been twenty years since tensions between the irish republican army and british security forces subsided but u.k. police have now launched an investigation after a month allegedly representing a republican or organization calling itself the ira others are calling it the new iraq claimed responsibility for posting explosive devices across the u.k. here's the situation with more following four incidents in london and glasgow last week indeed the ira have reportedly claimed responsibility for planting the explosive devices now the ira of course stands for the irish republican army they

are a violent paramilitary group that have historically been seeking north arlen's departure from the united kingdom and these four incidents in question several of them happened on march fifth where packages have been found at london's waterloo station which is very central another in the vicinity of heathrow airport and another at london's in the london city airport area and on march sixth at the university of glasgow another package now to be clear all of those were handled by authorities nobody was injured and the police are now saying they are of course investigating these incidents but they're saying they have seen similarities to previous ira related activity. given the packages received last week bore similarities to devices sent him the past which ruling to dissident groups

associated with northern ireland relate to terrorism already this is the line of inquiry well these claims of responsibility were apparently received by a media outlet in northern ireland using a recognised code word and importantly the police have reiterated this is well those claiming responsibility have indicated that five devices were sent but of course as you see as we have just discussed there were four devices found last week so the public and businesses have been called on to remain village vigilant as police investigate this and they have said that no arrests have been made so far. u.s. diplomats have seventy two hours to leave venice wheel and that's according to the country's foreign ministry it comes as the political crisis deepens there following the national assembly stamp of approval essentially for opposition leader one why go to declare

a state of emergency mr going to insist that is necessary before he can request internationally well the country is really right now grappling with an ongoing mass power blackout on humanitarian crisis president maduro sais the power cuts are the result of cyber attacks by the united states on that his government is working to solve the issue that he claims to stop a true as were caught trying to damage a hydroelectric dam on monday an investigation into doubt is underway meanwhile mr why do i decide help for his country would be appreciated. because this catastrophe needs to be addressed immediately no we cannot turn our heads elsewhere no we cannot abandon our people and you are in the states you have the right to protest. you have the right to demand you have the right to raise your voice you have the right to protest for your relatives you have the right to go out

to the streets and demand our rights it's not true that there is normality in the streets in venezuela there is not. a lot of issues there let's try to go through some of them were francisco dominguez francisco is head of latin american studies at middlesex university welcome to the program francisco do you think washington's diplomats will heed venezuela's ultimatum to leave an essentially within three days american government presence in venezuela will be gone. they'll just confirm these in a tweet in the decent. thing the real situation is i'm a little uneasy control of it all about on oprah think well you know it is a side show the united states doesn't seem to be interested in even a more old goal if you try to open up and i think the. nitty gritty. as well these aren't. so solutions roge those suspected to be lead and.

where you go does the not soul you know just seems combat to rethink the whole a strategic about what to do regarding it's. a fanatic desire to overthrow the government. but other aspect of this it is quite interesting francisco because the u.s. earlier said it wanted its diplomats to leave the country as their present makes it harder to operate in the country so why haven't they left. well used impossible to apparently work conversations within the windows on government and the u.s. government regarding restoring some form. from the information that it's going through won't lose that. the line that apparently the united states making possible and completely unreasonable demands of the community and its own

government told him to go my thing now they have two options on the united states you know they've been totally listen to me say again and again and again that one course with government what method they use that even though they be very isolated national you know they wrote these even though he's against me jackson. tends to fade and this study let's go. to believe is the political results and some people or just the one thing it seems to me that i think all are a fool is a man who just possible but i like you though you know we don't know grounds he taught it with this continent it was italy or secondly their money over something similar where they could overnight and into the country. perhaps these seven letting an easily just system yes i mean it was just on that point for a single president maduro blames u.s.

cyber attacks for the country's deepening blackout crisis a large swathes of the country without any power at all for quite some time now is it feasible that washington could be behind such such a large act in another sovereign nation. well they're only going to let you know and yet that little there was literally hundreds of that. the actual computerized reign of the system was the one that was that and the owner's blue will be. very hard a little of the knowledge you call development country could do this you know the truth will come out i'm sure and i will mr rise the united states. have you some runs in jod world to styling gaging work my locals correctly this is the first militarization of these in the sense their moments come from you know there's an extremely worried and concerned well thanks very much for your expertise this hour

francisco domingo is head of latin american studies at the u.k.'s middlesex university good to have you on the program. there is here in russia after a deaf woman had her two children abruptly taken off her and put into care she's accused by tenants in her shared apartment of being an alcoholic who is incapable of taking care of her children she denies that young claims her neighbor simply want to seize control of the entire apartment. bizarre then why their decision. to go on yet of. a room in a shared apartment raided by custody officials children gone that's how a single mother of two learned that her kids were taken away from her less has lived her life with the hearing impairment and it is so bad that without a hearing aid she's deaf one day she called

a doctor for her daughter but didn't open the door when they showed up she says a broke and she didn't hear her call residents claiming she had passed out after a few too many custody officials took the flatmates word ordinary russians though took the side of the mother thousands of vocally outraged by the snap decision to separate alyssa from her children there's an online petition to elysees shocked by the accusations to be a raging alcoholic as she's being portrayed she has simply no time she says taking care of two children alone moreover her son has a serious medical condition and his life depends on the daily early morning inhalations facilitated by his mother alyssa supporters say if it wasn't for her treatment and care the boy would have died a drunk woman could not do as much as a message did for her children that would be simply impossible activists say alyssa

went through complete examinations with an archaeologist and they say car tryst and they determined she was stable and didn't have a drinking problem the custody service seems to brush off all of the above the law and now. these children are already turned into to lot c. in an online database for those seeking to adopt and as if taking the children away from the mother wasn't bad enough now they've been taken away from each other they've been placed in two different children homes not you need it seems as if nobody had thought about what's best for the children when they decided to separate the siblings alyssa's mother has submitted an application to force to her grandchildren and has started renovating whole flat to get it up to standards. then she blacks this approach to the white. i didn't go to that sloman ok good luck. and while the dispute has already been taken to court it doesn't really see the

urgency. of the. good in the search. to do one of those work for. us but it's going to. hold it with you until the government must meet earth you need to lose your. utility in the legal system the digits look president trump reverses his pledge to cut pentagon spending in a rather spectacular way we go live to the us after the break stay with us. join me every thursday on the elec simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy one from day shouldn't let it be an arms race based on off and spearing dramatic development only personally i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't call. me old yet to shape out these days become educated and in detroit equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

hello again the white house has unveiled plans for a record high military budget next year and that's just months after president trump vollard to cut the pentagon spending come about and joins me live now from new york city with details deep pockets. indeed now we do have the proposed budget for the physical year of twenty twenty from the white house and it includes a seven hundred fifty billion dollars for defense now the budget specifically talks this is the budget proposal we have from the white house about prioritising strategic competition with russia and china as well as efforts to deter and counter what it refers to as rogue regimes in north korea and iran and also references the

defeat of terrorism and consolidating gains in iraq and afghanistan now at this point the white house also is emphasizing budget problems and the issue of spending in the united states and in response to this budget that was put forward we had questions raised about why the defense budget has increased this is some of what went on at the white house briefing. the deficit is such concerns be introduced why not just these weekend because he's the commander in chief and he thinks it's important to secure the country as one of his most basic constitutional responsibilities the military put forward a five year defense plan and it was done over a series of years we're going along with that five year defense plan in addition we're putting additional dollars towards the military construction funds that we have tapped right. now from there we heard quite an interesting

reaction as many people were expecting the opposite it appears had promise a five percent cut in military spending and this is what we then heard from trump on social media. ok. i'm certain that sometime in the future president g. and i together with president putin of russia will start talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major and uncontrollable arms race the us spent seven hundred sixteen billion dollars this year crazy now the united states already has the largest military budget of any country in the world by far but it seems that this year that budget will be increasing if the white house gets its way. ok about and bring us right up to date on that live from new york thanks gallop. you can police are investigating a viral video of a black man apparently being beaten up by officers thought it which has been shared

thousands of times online appears to show all identified officers repeatedly hitting at the man i want some of you may find the video disturbing. you. know you don't want the feeling that you are or are they just part of a lengthy dash cam video of course and after reviewing the footage west midlands police about they should an update insisting that the man attacked officers first. on the twenty fifth of february of says were called by a doctor who was conducting a mental health assessment in sandwell during the assessment the thirty eight year old man became violent and assaulted the doctor with a metal crutch so police were called the full body worn video of the response shows the man attacked the officers with his walking sticks injuring three of them in capacitance spray was used and one officer appears to be using a distraction tactic and a full review of the circumstances will take place to decide whether the use of

force was proportionate. you have lots of reaction to this story as you might a margin we spoke today to women bennett women is a leading figure in the stand up to racism organization he's of the belief that regardless of the circumstances there are other ways for police to respond. it's the case that many deaths in custody of a particular people suffering from mental illness particularly if they are black disproportionately police and police to try to change their training but unfortunately this is an indication of doesn't look like nobody will see villages or anybody treated like that in terms of prevalence of mental illness in britain at the moment people are supposed to be highly trained and there's many of them to find a way of restraining people without simply beating them. which there are those methods which are favorable so i understand that no one wants to be injured why do you say is that those practices can lead to the death of the people they're supposed to be

looking after because you're mentally ill which is documented in this case it doesn't mean simply b.t.n. all teaching you in that way is an easy solution. here we await the response of all investigating not story if you would like to delve deeper into any of the news you've heard in the program or website as you coverage plenty of interviews opinion news go lower there are more great progress right ahead here though on r t c s n. l l.

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thanks max we finally found a market for our chlorinated american chicken yes it's going to be the brits in this post break so world they have a new trade deal and it's the chlorinated chicken here's the headline u.s. ambassador to u.k. under fire over defense of chlorinated chicken critics a process woody johnson called a no brainer is actually harmful to the nation's health jay rayner the b.b.c. presenter observer columnist and master chef critic said the u.k. should tell johnson where he can stick chlorinated chicken the us is preferred approach for protecting consumers from pathogens such as salmonella and capital backed or. look you sir well can i wish that issue you can talk about chicken without bringing plucky on because plucky is a monetary policy expert and this whole story does remind me of cheap money and cheap products you know you want to reduce the price of everything reduce the price

of money and what was the actual cost. plus you want to know where he got the jacket. this is one of his cohorts on the farm which was a he thought he looked familiar. jerry jerry jerry the cow it is leather i have to say but jay rayner the b.b.c. presenter said about this chlorinated chicken that we know that breaks it is all downsize it is often called an act of national self harm but letting in chlorine wash chicken as well as woody demands will be literally harmful to the health of the nation it makes me sick in so many bloody ways so plucky you want to do a chlorinated chicken. myself clear and do shit every morning is a right done any harm oh ok. good i'll yeah i noticed he lifted weights you know you have to do everything every day every day. who apparently doesn't really hurt chickens corina plucky well according to plucky but according to nick dearden

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