i. speak. i. always as a result i. the british prime minister still manages to keep a sense of humor just hours before a crucial vote. today in parliament to the recent proposed deal that the pm secures some assurances from europe at the eleventh hour. two decades after the violent conflict named the troubles in northern ireland then

fears return that the irish republican army could be behind a string of bomb threats across the u.k. . u.s. diplomats venezuela gives american officials seventy two hours to leave the country on the u.s. backed opposition leader received declare a state of emergency in the country from the national assembly. thanks for joining us. live from moscow. you are tonight thanks for joining us on the program. let's take you live to westminster the prime minister's been defending her divorce the dispatch box just a few hours from now m.p.'s will vote on whether to approve to resign may's new adjusted divorce agreement from the european union this will be the second vote on the. exit interview with the first being rejected for large majority that was back

in january amidst the skepticism and criticism somewhat hoarse the reason why is the monitor to find some time for humor caught but need not be a membership list to speak to speak i think smooth but. ok. as a result. let's cross live to put to work in london paula it's been another tough day for a reason my judgment was the voice what can we expect tonight you know how voice really sharing i think the strain that she's under you saw her standing up in parliament then making a last ditch attempt to sell the last minute changes to her withdrawal agreement that she managed to secure last night at the eleventh hour following that late night trip over to strasburg to meet with junk and try as she might for the

politicians she's trying to sell it to this all appears to be a case of too little too late one of many in parliament dead set against the deal dead set on voting against it or dead set against it is jeremy corbyn the leader of the opposition labor party take a listen to what he had to say about it. this is this was a bad deal in december when labor decided to vote against it it was a bad deal in january when it was rejected by the largest parliamentary history and mr speaker it is the same deal now we will be voting against this deal tonight for the reason that we search for that in december it is a bad deal it will damage our economy undermine our industries irreparably harm our manufacturing sector risk our national health service damage our public services

and harm our living standards. when the deal was made public late last night i think the reason mays teen the downing street team were clearly hoping that they pulled a sort of bragg's a rabbit out of an e.u. hat but those hopes were dashed pretty quickly throughout the course of the day specially after the government's own top lawyer the attorney general geoffrey coxed published his legal advice off the back of the deal and it basically stated that the extra documents those extra pieces of paper that to reason may be brought back from strasburg last night well they didn't really mean very much and they didn't really change the legal issues surrounding that dreaded northern irish backstop that everybody is in such a fuss and over the back of that legal advice from the attorney general the party that props up to reason may's minority government the d u p the democratic unionist

party of northern ireland they've also had a think and now announced that they will be voting against to resign may's deal tonight so they've to torpedo debt as well and it looks like the hard line drags it is into reason may's own party also refusing to back boris johnson the for. foreign secretary who resigned last year over the disagreement with to resume a over the way she's been handling brags that he's also been criticizing her deal he's just been talking in parliament quite recently he's been using typically flowery language saying that no one the fig leaf that's been shown isn't enough to hide the ukase in paris cement over this deal and that a no deal brags it is the only way to go so all in the night i think two reason may was hoping she was going to be had having not the one she'd planned so she's set

for an epic loss in parliament but the stakes this time are desperately high we are so close now to the twenty ninth of march when the u.k. is set to leave the e.u. and e.u. officials have been stressing all day that this is really the last chance saloon that will be no chance it's there so nothing in fact the e.u. commission's vice president yaquis could tynan has just run of the ominously said that if parliament votes this deal down tonight well then a hard brags it is closer than ever and in that case his advice to the u.k. is keep your hands on the wheel look forward and fasten your seat belt. 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 vote the prime minister will have had a lucky escape the u.k. will be leaving the e.u.

with a deal on march the twenty ninth but not scenario is looking increasingly unlikely is expected the politicians will reject to resume a's beleaguered withdrawal agreement just like they did in january is 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 because the. rule of law do you under any circumstances so by midweek the u.k.

is likely to have ruled out to resign may's 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 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. and beg for an extension he does not turn. to the situation we face. as merely

being moved all of this would leave the field open for anti breaks that politicians 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. international relations professor gooden blunt forces more continental opposition ahead for to reason may 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 this is hopeful thinking by the prime minister's office i think the europeans are going to agree to it at 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 get back to those live pictures now from westminster with just hours to go until british lawmakers vote on whether to approve the reason why is the new divorce deal to reopen that last minute talks with e.u. officials with will swing the vote in her favor we'll bring you all latest throughout the evening. it's been twenty years since tensions between the irish republican army and british security for representing a republican organization calling itself the. claimed responsibility for posting explosive devices across the u.k. with more here's a nice to see issue to cuba. following four incidents in london and glasgow last week indeed the ira have reportedly claimed responsibility for planting the explosive devices now the iran of course stands for the irish republican army they

are a violent paramilitary group that have historically been seeking north ireland'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 the 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 in the past which ruling to dissident groups

associated with northern ireland relate to terrorism officers were already looking at this as a 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 venezuela president or duros government has announced this coming as the political crisis deepens there following the national assembly stamp of approval for u.s. backed opposition leader one going door to declare

a state of emergency mr insists that's necessary before he can request international aid officially the country was hit with a massive power blackout and humanitarian crisis president maduro says the power cuts are the result of cyber attacks by the united states it claims to suffer ters were caught trying to damage a hydroelectric dam on monday an investigation is underway meanwhile. outside help would be appreciated. if 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 none. now the u.s. itself says it wants the diplomats out claiming that their presence hinders

washington's operations in venezuela a political analyst chris bambery explains america's tactics. americans have recognized the government in. venezuela in a very as way or they are going to do everything in the car and there's no point in keeping an embassy open if they're not prepared to recognize the doura what the americans and their eyes of brazil and colombia want to do and we want to do is create a strategy of tension situation becomes unbearable but the whole it breaks support from a do a launch a coup so what we're seeing here is i think is an attempt to build up of what's going to be a prolonged period a strategy of tension in the hope that section the military will be one or four to dissuade us. with a blackout a key reason for us back to calling for a state of emergency the government says that atrocity has been fully restored in the country over washington's approach was rather different to another spanish

speaking nation which suffered a similar issue for the quarter has more. u.s. senator marco rubio has been openly expressing his extreme concern over the situation in venezuela and when the blackout took place he just could not ignore it the nationwide power failure in venezuela now going on his twenty fifth hour is causing devastating long term economic damage in the blink of an eye the county's entire hour many improved auction capacity was destroyed by damage caused by the blackout but he was soon reminded about another much longer blackout one a bit closer to home puerto rico's eleven month long crisis became the longest blackout in u.s. history and the second longest worldwide at the time unlike in venezuela it was caused by a hurricane named maria and back then rubio went to puerto rico and had this to say i shouldn't say surprised but certainly encouraged to see so many of my colleagues in the republican conference express a real desire to be helpful both for the short term for the long term.

unfortunately nice words weren't enough to bring the lights back on months after the hurricane devastated the caribbean island an explosion took the grid down yet again now of course nobody blamed it on a plan by washington to sabotage puerto rico's electricity but when the same thing happened in venezuela guess who was to blame but was sure to juice and starvation are the result of the majeure regimes incompetence i do respond this is bringing nothing but darkness and when the us government was called out for its poor handling of the puerto rican relief efforts well come on that was different it was a deepening humanitarian crisis where the feds were the good guys early response to puerto rico how we can wasn't good but not because federal government didn't care the us government does seem to care a lot about venezuela check out those u.s. aid trucks as for washington's aid packages for puerto rico.

a couple months ago donald trump tweeted he wants to end the little aid that is left for puerto rico it seems that crises abroad are much easier to solve than those at home either that or maybe despite all the appeal to emotions for some politicians it's just not really about solving the crisis in the first place president trump reverses his pledge to cut pentagon spending in a rather spectacular way we'll bring you the details after this short break.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. and spearing dramatic probably the only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. the u.k. wants its sovereignty so with that sovereignty comes chlorinated chicken you know with the good comes the bad you know you can get loaded you're going to get the clonaid it should.

be international white house has unveiled plans for a record high military budget next year just months off of president trump vile to cut the pentagon spending and i'm open has more. 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 prioritizing 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 it also references the defeat of terrorism and consolidating gains in iraq and afghanistan now at this point the why. 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 cut in

for him 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 for 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 from there we heard quite an interesting reaction as many people were expecting the opposite it appears trump had promised a five percent cut in military spending and this is what we then heard from trump on social media i'm certain that sometime in the future prison. together with president putin of russia will start talking about a meaningful who has become a major and uncontrollable arms race the u.s. 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 . this outrage in russia are off for deaf woman had her two children abruptly taken off or import into care she's accused by tenants in a shed apartment of being an alcoholic using capable of taking care of her children she denies that and claims her neighbors simply want to seize control of the whole apartment there's a lot of my for that. one yet though. her 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 alyse is 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 here are these children already turned into two lot see 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 me 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. like the way. but today it's lemon and a lock. and while the dispute has already been taken to court it doesn't really see the urgency. to. get in the saddle.

to do the work is what. they're doing. in. the. u.k. police are investigating a viral video of a black man apparently being beaten up by police officers the footage which has been shared thousands of times online appears to show on identified officers repeatedly hitting the man as the warning to viewers you may find the video distressing. after reviewing dash camera footage west midlands police have now issued 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. or spoke to waymon bennett leading figure in a stand up to racism organization he says that regardless of the circumstances there are other ways for police to respond. it's the case that many deaths in custody have occurred particularly people suffering from mental illness particularly black disproportionately police who promised to try to change their training but unfortunately this is an indication of doesn't look like nobody would want to see villages or anybody treated like that in terms of the prevalence of

mental in the same 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 beating you or treating you in that way is a nice solution. that there's the headlines for this hour thanks for staying tuned and all the international from the team and myself join us again in about thirty minutes for latest global news update. you know world of big. law and conspiracy it's time to wake up

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