only the one percent. we can all middle of the room see. the real news is. the family the decision that this house has taken to. i continue to believe that by far the best is the united kingdom least the european union and orderly fashion with. the second blow in a row britain's parliament rejects the reason maze new divorce agreement from the e.u. with a no deal vote coming on wednesday. two decades after the violent conflict named the troubles in northern ireland ended fears of return of the irish republican army could leave behind a string of bomb for across the united kingdom. u.s.

diplomats out of venezuela gives american officials seventy two hours to leave the country while the u.s. backed opposition leader one receives all forty to declare a state of emergency in the ukraine the country from the national assembly and caracas. and so our teams are asked to live from moscow on down or hawkins wherever you are tonight thanks for joining us this hour. of breaking news this hour coming in from london where m.p.'s have cast their ballots in westminster rejecting the to reason maser just didn't divorce agreement from the e.u. by a margin of one hundred forty nine votes this marks another crushing defeat for the prime minister who saw draft deal rejected just two months ago by an overwhelming majority of m.p.'s. well let's go live now to mark barnett senior politics lecturer

at the u.k.'s lancaster university thanks for joining us on the program so good to have you on today just how vulnerable is the prime minister looking after his second big defeat in a row on such a crucial issue. well this is an unprecedented. prime minister. to have registered i think this is the fourth largest ever suffered by a government she's already got the record of the worst defeat suffered by governments and really she states what was left of reputation. her all thought see on this deal by going to stress of last night's rather dramatic fashion and then really trying her best to make people think that the deal in change for the last time and it was defeated in normal circumstances this would be a fatal blow for prime minister that this is no this rather unusual politician and even though she's suffering from a sore throat part of the all the bill in the house of commons this evening this is

no sign that she wants to lay down her duties and not the way complicates things because i think there are probably a growing number of doubt and feel that she really can't offer anything to begin with and there were of course a couple of issues which which proved decisive for the issue of the irish border that something that was addressed the current deal on the table and did time the u.k. to e.u. laws for an indefinite period do you think that was one of those thinking points for those hardline brought to tears on the part of the tory rebels which ultimately defeated the prime minister. well you know the thousand bucks stop has been the sticking point for the hardline parts it is not just conservative ones but also on the democratic unionist party whose votes have previously propped up this government these are the people who sound that this was an issue which they thought to they were arguing anyway it threatened to keep everything within the senate a customs union indefinitely and the other alternative was to obstruct to the

integrity of the united kingdom so that in there for this this is always been the sticking point but i think leaving the big question really is about the labor party i think in the end the labor party and this in the divided itself this deal contagion will feel less in it which if labor really was content with perhaps it's all then they could have perhaps found a way of the with a little bit more negotiation of agreeing with this particular deal i would think that they secretly agree with mrs may that if there is going to be a practice that this was the best withdrawal agreement that was likely to be offered so really the latest being i think trying to find ways to disagree with this early on and publicist may who started off as a compromise candidate in the answer various reasons that doesn't seem to be at the moment any kind of compromise on offer so the situation is really quite desperate the only thing that is interesting most interesting was that mrs may said in her croaky voice that she was going to give

a free vote to conservative m.p.'s tomorrow when there's a vote on whether britain would leave without a deal whether or no deal perhaps it is going to be taken off the table or not now what that's doing is liberating people in her cabinets who i think are becoming increasingly worried about the situation and they can now vote however they want and think you'll find tomorrow night the people who voted for mrs mace government others and please polarize different views on this particular key subjects' and for not points on really british politics. it's already been uncharted waters for so long that the phrase uncharted waters has become a bit of a cliche but this really would be completely unprecedented that the cabinet will be able to openly show that it all with itself and in those circumstances voices will grow for a general election there are some conservative m.p.'s who see a general election as unavoidable and then we're going to have to persuade the european union to delay this process because as things stand at the moment we're

heading for a no deal which nobody in parliament well the majority in parliament rejects and that's the kind of situation that somehow has to be stopped the parliament needs more time to repeal the legislation which says that we are leaving on the twenty ninth of march so that is a kind of thing that normally people think that politicians are a bit corrupt but in the end are a bit competent well this is a disaster happening in slow motion and it does seem that parliamentarians just haven't been able to really think through the consequences of the way in which they vote and whoever's in charge of nominal charge of government is faced with this and palatable and difficult situation for the foreseeable future something is going to have to be done that we in the next two days to make politicians start to really genuinely work together to get some kind of decent out there most of this chaos he can present all right thanks armont bennett seen in politics at lancaster

university thanks for your take today certainly unchartered waters as you say for the u.k. with this vote all for more on that let's cross live to point book open heart and westminster studio it's a tough start of the year for the reason why is that a defeat that a second time by another very serious majority and what more can you tell us what's next. wow a temporary executive now looking much more likely to resume a has suffered and now that he knew just defeat in parliament how with charles taylor rejected by paul. titian's in the house of commons for the second time it's pretty epic rejection as well she lost by one hundred forty nine votes that's at the higher end of the scale than was even anticipated and the reason he said that she profoundly were gretz the decision taken by politicians in parliament she said that the deal on the table was the best deal take a listen to her response in the wake of that crushing defeat once again.

i prefer the decision that this house has taken to. i continue to believe that by far the best time. to leave the european union and orderly fashion with the deal. and the deal we've negotiated is the best and indeed the deal yeah therefore tonight we will table a motion for debate tomorrow to test whether the house supports leaving the european union without a deal on the twenty ninth of march where she is i mean metaphorically speaking really a limping prime minister you can hear her you know but she lost her voice really an illustration of just how bad things for her as a politician are a diminished figure in the leader of the opposition labor party he was pretty scathing about to resign may's handling of this bragg's it process and of her withdrawal deal take a listen to what jeremy corbyn had to say. the government has been defeated again

in enormous majority and they must now accept their deal their proposal the one the prime minister's port is clearly dead and does not have the support of this house. the prime minister's run down the clock on the caucus room right now maybe it's time instead we have a general election and the people. who think government should be. there's already been a response from brussels as well probably a collective sigh of frustration in quarters but michel barnier has tweeted saying that the e.u. is done everything it can to help get the withdrawal agreement over the line the impasse can only be solved in the u.k. now he says that the e.u. has no deal preparations are now more important than ever before so really things

going down to the wire with the braggs that date set for the twenty ninth of march brussels is saying that the ball is now firmly in the u.k.'s court and to reason may off the back of the defeat has announced a plan for the next few days they're certainly going to be turbulent but the outcome of this all now depends on a sequence of events that sequence of events starts tomorrow first of all with a nother debate and then a vote in parliament on whether the house will support leaving the e.u. with a deal and then if as expected politicians in the house of commons reject that option because that's pretty much the only thing we know that there is a majority for in the house of commons that is excluding the option of a no deal gregg's it will then stay there will be another vote and that will be on where the parliament supports delaying britain's departure from the now if that

delay is approved then to reason they will have to go back to brussels once again and request that delay it'll have to be a short delay because as to reason mays said in the run up to the vote in brussels as pointed out the end of may is really the cut off point for a potential delay any later than that and the u.k. will have to take part in the e.u. parliamentary elections which really would be rather silly for the u.k. as a country that so. that it wants to leave the e.u. to take part in the next round of the parliamentary elections so this delay looking as an ever. more realistic prospect it will leave potentially the muscly of what of whatever conditions the e.u. set. as a condition of the lazy don't know what brussels response will be releasing me as a back to brussels app and asking for an extension to article fifty and it really

opens up a can of worms allowing there is dead set against britain's departure from the e.u. to start all sorts of political and policy mentioning uvas to try and thwart bragg's it all together. with the latest on a crucial second defeat for the reason ways for. staying with the united kingdom it's been twenty years since tensions between the irish republican army and british security forces subsided but now police have launched an investigation after a man allegedly representing a republican organization calling itself the really claim responsibility for posting explosive devices across the u.k. is an associate with more. bowling for 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 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. london's waterloo station which is very central another in the vicinity of heathrow airport and another london 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 in the past which willing to discuss. with northern ireland related terrorism already this is one 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 duros government has

announced as washington mourns that all options are on the table including a new round of sanctions to be imposed shortly this comes as the political crisis deepens following the national assembly stamp of approval for u.s. backed opposition leader one to declare a state of emergency. that's necessary before you can request international aid. because she was hit with a massive power blackout on humanitarian crisis president says the power the result of cyber attacks by the united states he claims to sever target. court trying to damage their hydroelectric dam on monday an investigation is underway meanwhile one dose says outside help would be appreciated. if they got them going to bring 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. the united states itself says it wants its diplomats out claiming that their presence hinders washington's operations in venezuela political analyst chris bambery explains america's tactics americans have recognized as the government in. venezuela are in no way are they are going to do everything they can there's no point in keeping them busy open if they're not prepared to recognize a durable what the americans and their eyes in brazil and colombia want to do and in turn we want to do is create a strategy of tension a situation becomes unbearable but the whole section of the military which operates in our back in the dura will break or break away break support from a do and launch a coup so what we're seeing here is i think is an attempt to build up of what was going to be a prolonged period

a strategy of tension in the hope that section of military will be one or two this way to say the door and the one. with the blackout key reason for us back to quote a call for a state of emergency the government says that electricity has been fully restored in the country washington's approach though was rather different to another spanish speaking country which suffered a similar issue little 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 nation wide power failure in venezuela no go in known as twenty fifth hours comes in devastating long term economic damage in the blink of an eye the counter is entirely 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 were 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 bring nothing but darkness. and when the u.s. 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

points rico hurricane wasn't good but not because federal government didn't care the u.s. 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. the white house has unveiled plans for a record high military budget next year just months off the president trying to cut the pentagon spending kaleb opens go up the details. 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 this is such and certain species in throat and why not because he's. because he's the commander in chief and he thinks it's important to secure the country is 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 from there we heard quite an interesting reaction 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 . u.k. police are investigating the viral video of a black man apparently being beaten up by police officers footage which has been

shared thousands of times online appears to show unidentified officers repeatedly hitting the man warning you may find the video distressing. and after reviewing 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 one video of the response shows the man attacked the officers with his walking stick 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. we spoke to waymon bennett

a leading figure in the 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 of a particular people suffering from mental illness particularly disproportionately he's promised to try to change their training but unfortunately this is an indication of it doesn't look like nobody will see their abilities or anybody treated like that in terms of the prevalence of mental illness and 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 they are there are those methods which are of a little so i understand that no one wants to be injured what i do say is that those practices could 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 an easy solution.

and israeli politician and palestinian lawyer have clashed in a vicious exchange there on the b.b.c. news. a former spokesperson for the palestine liberation organization voiced support for the boycott divestment sanctions campaigning in israel israel's education minister enough to leave bennett's responded with this. the palestinians have spent the past seventy one years victimized will themselves they fall in love with it what did you bring to the world beyond suicide terrorists what's your invention bennett suggested that israel had brought a lot to the world however to hit back pointing out that all those inventions had come on palestinian soil earlier i discussed this with martin sherman a founder and chief executive of the israel institute for strategic studies at the retreat villany a member of palestine's fatah revolutionary council. the boy court is a means to try to deal with the demise of israel to try to deal with just

a miser the jewish people's right to self-determination and it's a double standard which is applied only to israel no other country with policies far more discriminating and far and fall under democratic israel subject have been subjected to such a such a policy so what i'm saying is that the media's is basically an anti semitic initiative b.d.'s is a form of nonviolent resistance it's a statement against the only lasting colonial occupying power in the world today they are not the jewish people they do not represent the jewish people the government is not elected by the jewish people they are elected by the people of the state of israel so you know that this is how they are going to present this. so now you take an advantage like here you are used to your seller so you used to taking advantage of people's last minute trying to talk to my right to talk well

i'm not going to let you have that now the state of israel has proven day after day that it's committing human rights violations and crimes against palestinian people it is an occupying power this occupation started to end and we have recognized the state of israel the said israel has not recognize the state of palestine where we're going to win this is. really you have to as a stimulus he is trying to impose his. ideology which he brought from his home country south africa in one thousand seven one what is going to want to do and we are all trying to stop two decades for through their trades two decades. again if you are not there by another seven or eight years or you have killed thousands of palestinians you have this this place barely in fasting is living is the answer exactly one year i was given by right what i learned some of the people that you. it's not about that they are they chosen people out of our lives to make about one thousand year old so they actually want to live today gentlemen let's

just stick to the question here martin if i can just get back to you with a question here which was the on the b.b.c. specifically to deal with the boycott israel campaign which is initially how this whole controversy started if we could just get back to that we can talk a bit about history late about speaking not just simply put the heritage and they achieve mintz of people who have been here for thousands of years and tie it to what you concerned or the concerns as his problem which is not true at all much as characterized by that why do you. fear the people the major portion of the population their population in the land of israel was the result of no no no no no no no no no no hold on for somebody to happen to me here after the existence of. no no no no hold on hold on i don't finish my answer i was. bored so so there was me born in south africa has and the right to somebody who was born in south africa

yet is no knight and must love their own lawyer demonic but that one thing about my haribo you know again thousands of years those are the headlines for the south from the team i myself thanks for staying through and all things national join us again in thirty minutes for the latest global news updates. on.

your thought it was odd that boy that. so we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race off and spearing dramatic to follow only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. with no make just manufacture consent to step into the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the crime and merry go round the sun. the woman. with more middle of the room sick.

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