good. will is to increase virtue of just. one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. i profoundly the decision that this has to take and. i continue to buy from all the best. leaves the european union and orderly fashion with. the second blow in a row britain's parliament rejects the reason may's new divorce agreement from the e.u. with a no deal vote coming on wednesday. also coming up this hour naughty international two decades after the violent conflict

the troubles in northern ireland ended fears that the irish republican army could be behind a string of bomb threats across the united kingdom. and the us diplomats out venezuela gives american officials seventy two to seventy two hours to leave the country while the us backed opposition leader receives authority to declare a state of emergency in venezuela from the national assembly and paragraphs. international live from moscow. thanks for joining us on the rundown this hour. them. news this hour coming in from london where m.p.'s have cast their ballots in

westminster they've rejected to reason maser just a 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 initial draft deal rejected just two months ago by an overwhelming majority of m.p.'s these were the scenes in the u.k. parliament. profoundly the decision that this house has taken to it i continue to believe that by far the best outcome is the united kingdom leaves the european union and orderly fashion with the yeah and the deal we've negotiated is the best and indeed the only 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 the government has been defeated again by an enormous majority and they must now accept their deal their proposal the one the

prime minister's put is clearly dead and does not have the support of this house. the prime minister's run down the clock and their caucus rain run out on a maybe it's time instead we have a general election and the people get to anybody who their government should be. seen in a politics lecturer at the u.k.'s lancaster university garnett says that british m.p.'s haven't considered the consequences of rejecting may's deal. one could easily say that the e.u. has been flexible this refused to change its position. i think in some ways so you could say that the e.u. obviously wasn't spitzer remember and i suppose all the way through it's had two goals the first one is if possible to persuade britain to go back on the vote but secondly if there is going to be abraxas that they don't want to censor the example of being easy for any other man and so there is

a kind of inflexibility service at the heart of what the review is done however does see the parliament areas just haven't been able to really think through the consequences of the way in which they approached and whoever's in charge of nominal charge of the government is faced with this of a palace full of difficult situation for the foreseeable future something is going to have to be done in the next two days to make politicians start to really genuinely work together to get some kind of decency out of most of this chaos. breaks that countdown. are staying with the u.k. it's been twenty years since tensions between the irish republican army and british security forces subsided u.k. police have now launched an investigation after a man allegedly representing a republican organization calling itself the ira claimed responsibility for posting

explosive devices across the u.k. is unnecessary 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 i really. 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 thirty 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 divorce sent in the past which willing to destroy. northern ireland related terrorism. 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.

welcome back to our top story tonight the reason why losing that key breaks a vote for a second time since january further votes taking place this week on the prospect of a no deal on an extension to those negotiations to get more let's cross live to witness this you. can give us more polly thanks for staying across this obviously been a busy night a tough month for the reason my and it's about to get tougher this week. yeah a week where really going into it now we don't know how everything will end up a day later brags there is now much more likely prospect because to resume a has suffered another really crushing defeat in the houses of parliament with all agreement lost by its one hundred forty nine votes which is really at the more severe end of the scale than even had been predicted going into the votes and two reason may had said that this was the best deal that she could have got and take

a listen to what she had to say in the wake of this really quite spectacular second defeat by her in parliament with her. profile and the decision that this house has taken to heart i continue to believe that by far the best time is united kingdom believes the european union and orderly fashion with the deal. that the deal we've negotiated is the best and indeed the deal of. that for 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. question you can really hear her physically suffering from a bad sore throat but metaphorically really diminished a limping politician after this and the leader of the opposition labor party jeremy corbyn he was pretty scathing of in his criticism of the prime minister's handling

of the break that process and of the withdrawal deal in particular take a listen. the government has been defeated by an 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. maybe it's time instead. we have a general election and the people. who think government should agree with. of course what happens next is anybody's guess but there has already been a pretty steady and prompt response from brussels probably a collective sigh of frustration from the quarters what is happening here with the parliamentary process and brags but michelle bodying has treated saying that the e's done everything it can to help get this withdrawal deal in parliament to get it

over the line but the impasse can only be solved now in the u.k. so you saying that the ball is in the you case court he says that the e.u. has no deal preparations and now more important than ever before so brussels saying really that for the next few days it's up to the u.k. to decide how all this is going to go and yes i'm going to be a turbulent few days because the outcome now depends on a sequence of events in parliament the reason they set out today following the result of that vote first of all to reason is going to be holding a debate and then a vote tomorrow in parliament on whether or not the house supports leaving the you without a deal a tool and then if as expected politicians exclude that option because pretty much the only thing the politicians in the house of commons right now can agree on or can get a majority on is the fact that they do not like the idea broadly of

a no deal bragg's it so in that case if as expected that no deal breakers that option is taken off the table well then on thursday there is going to be another vote on whether or not parliament supports delaying britain's departure from the european union of course it was set to leave on the twenty ninth of march but if that delay is approved by politicians in the u.k. well then to resume is going to have to go back to brussels again cap in hand requesting a deal. a and from there we don't know what the e.u.'s response might be or what the conditions brussels might set to a delay is going to have to be a short delay and it may called a short unnecessary delay. the end of may is really the cutoff point any later than that and as to reason may and brussels pointed out earlier this week any later than the end of may in the u.k. is going to have to take part in the e.u. is upcoming parliamentary elections which would be rather an or could situation for

everyone involved given that the u.k. wants to leave the e.u. and so nobody really wants to be in that situation where the u.k. taking part in them the delay that is now looking like this much more realistic prospect at the end of this sequence of parliamentary vote is going to leave the u.k. at the mercy of both brussels but also it's going to leave the field open for all sorts of parliamentary and political maneuvering here in the u.k. especially by politicians who are dead set against brags that it's going to give them more time to plan and try and instigate all sorts of plans to try to thwart bragg's it all together. and sort of the waters for the political very interesting to see what does happen over the next two days paula work with that summary of today's events in the u.k. house of commons. u.s. diplomats have seventy two hours to leave venezuela the president will duros

government has announced as washington warns that all options for venezuela 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. sparked opposition leader one globo to declare a state of emergency mr gordo insists that's necessary before he can request international aid or the country was hit with a must power blackout and humanitarian crisis present. duro says the power cuts are the result of cyber attacks by the united states it claims to saboteurs were caught trying to damage a hydroelectric dam on monday an investigation is now underway meanwhile as 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. let's cross live to gregory we'll put the co-founder of the website of venezuela on our sister com thanks for joining us good to have you on the line today just want to ask you about a new york times article they published the piece what's again blaming duro and his government for the recent power blackouts but they've also included a message in there stating that it accuses the trouble ministration and the sanctions of being the major cause or one of the causes for though that crisis the country cannot import any fuel is that just a slip of the tongue i mean how major an impact do you think those sanctions are having. yes it's gradually emerging more and more that the sanctions are having a serious impact on venezuela's economy and life and of course i mean i don't not

sure exactly what's going on in the new york times but i think the very fact that for example sixteen members of the u.s. congress have complained to the trumpet ministers and sent a letter to the trumpet ministration about the sanctions saying that they should be stopped because they're causing irreparable damage to the economy and to the people of venezuela and that's of course very possible because then as well it depends on almost everything on it for imports and it's become extremely difficult to import anything especially if it's coming from the united states and it needs replacement parts for its electrical equipment it needs for the backup generators and the backup power plants and special fuel that comes from the united states so if if it hadn't been for these sanctions the power outage would almost definitely have not last as long or not been a serious but because they have the sanctions it ended up being much worse which of course also leaves aside the whole issue of whether or not the united states was itself involved in

a converted way to organize the the power outage in the united states is also saying it's very it's impose new sanctions against iran is why it's also stating that they want someone as well as to leave the united states they suggest that they could find asylum in cuba old russia or indeed what do you think the u.s. is trying to shift the blame to venezuela's allies like russia for what's happening in the country cues in them of you know being part of the problem of what's happening with venezuela. well i think there are two reasons really i mean one of the very closely related reasons one is that it's trying to get russia and cuba to distance itself those two countries to distance themselves from venezuela in order to isolate trade and in this way that you have more and more fact elliott abrams the special special envoy i'm going to sweden has even said that told the russian government the russia is unlikely to receive. the repayment of its loans which it

sticks to maduro implying that the only way it would ever get repaid is the shits which is allegiances to the opposition and then of course there's just a general kind of animosity to especially in this applies especially to a country such as cuba where the trumpet ministrations basically reliving the cold war era and trying to are trying to lump of venezuela and cuba into the same pot in order to put pressure on cuba as well and as a warning to cuba that it might be next wrong once there is a change of regime and. just want to ask about this latest event of u.s. diplomats leaving when as well a current has obviously given them seventy two hours or less than that to leave the country do you think they're going to comply and is this largely some sort of symbolic gesture do you think or could the be more behind this washington saying that in the way of its operations in venezuela whatever that could mean what do you make of that latest development. you know so most at the same time that mike peo

announced there will actually that the venezuelan government announced that the diplomats had to leave. as secretary of state might compel announce that they would be leaving so there seems to be a unanimity to at least on that issue between venezuela and the united states that they will withdraw the diplomats and it's in a way a little bit of an ominous move because the justifications that point piro gave for the departure was that as you said that at least. amounts are standing in the way of us. measure is basically of the things that the united states could be doing to venezuela and there couldn't of course anything from further sanctions to actual military intervention. crucial time for venezuela gregory will put co-founder of the website. dot com thanks for your take today on the story my pleasure. with the blackout was a key reason for us backed to call for

a state of emergency the government says electricity has been fully restored in the country however washington's approach was rather different to another spanish speaking country which suffered a similar issue donald quarter as the details. 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 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 puerto 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 minutes you budget next year just months off the president trying to cut the pentagon spending. 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 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 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 concern space in trillions why not cut these each in three 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 to 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 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. sometime in the future prison and together with president putin of russia will start talking about a meaningful who has become a major. 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 in. creasing if the white house gets its way. and israeli politician and palestinian lawyer have clashed in a vicious exchange aired on b.b.c. news diana buttu a former spokesperson for the palestine liberation organization voiced her support

for the boycott divestment sanctions campaign against israel israel's education minister naftali bennett responded with this comment the palestinians have spent the past seventy one years victimizing themselves they fall in love with the what did you bring to the world beyond terrorist what's your invention and i'll burn it suggests that israel had brought a lot to the world however blue 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 and dimitri dani a member of palestine's fattah 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 far more under democratic israel subject has

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 gonna let you have that now the set 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 and we have recognized the state of

israel the state of israel has not recognize a state of palestine where we're going to win this. scenario you have 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 do and we are all trying to stop two decades for three decades two decades. decade if you are not there by another seven or eight years or you have killed thousands of palestinians you have this this place early in fasting is living is the answer exactly one year i was given by right what i learned some of the people that you. that's not in belgrade and shows him people are allowed to make about one thousand euros or that you 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 i know there's a lot of history here a lot of emotions on both sides but let's just get to the point at hand here which was the tone 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 the achievements 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 with that why do you. think of the people of the major portion of the population or population in the land of israel was the result of no no no no no no was no no no no hold on for somebody to have me here after the exile you said he's a. no no no no hold on hold on i don't finish my answer i was. born closer he was me born in south africa has no right to somebody who you want in south and you know is not all right and muslims are there are loyal to my blogging about my hero you know against thousands of years. in australia

a former defense lawyer is facing jail after he blew the whistle on alleged war crimes by australian special forces in afghanistan david mcbride who's been living in spain for the past few years was arrested at sydney airport last september when he came to visit the daughter appeared in court on thursday and was charged with leaking classified information mr mcbride didn't enter a plea to any of the five charges he's facing speaking after hearing he said he wasn't afraid of prison. blew through me all along with going to jail if i was afraid of going to jail why would have been a soldier of the documents leaked to the media by david mcbride was the basis of a t.v. documentary series called the afghan files a claim to expose misconduct including unlawful killings committed by australian special forces in afghanistan now among the incidents reported the killing of a civilian man and his son while he slept during the raid in twenty thirteen it

alleges that australian s.a.'s troopers shot the two by mistake they later apologized for the relatives but avoided prosecution in another case an afghan detainee was shot dead while he was alone with an australian soldier david mcbride again insists that before leaking the information to the media he had tried to draw officials attention but to no avail. i think it was swept under the co-pilot's i visually saw the police they didn't do anything about it for only us all the press and it was published on a.b.c. and walty austria's trained in defense forces for comment on david mcbride's allegations and why his request wasn't given the green light meanwhile we spoke to a former f.b.i. agent and a whistle blower colleen rowley who told us that even in times of war soldiers should uphold the rule of law. we have been at war since nine eleven for eighteen plus years i think when times of war that leaders lose sight of the law the rule of law is a victim there's an interesting thing because david mcbride you know when he was

a soldier he swore an oath to to follow his duty as a soldier and of course he's fighting for the rule of law same thing in the united states when when you know chelsea manning in other soldiers and even people like myself former formerly f.b.i. in the intelligence we swore an oath to the constitution to sustain the constitution which is the rule of law and yet in times of war it seems we revert back to this notion that there are kings and no matter even if they commit murder and crimes agree just crimes of war crimes that everyone has to stay quiet just come up to help us welfare and moscow thanks for things you know all the international of biking thought the minutes with more global news updates.