one normally even but. it. was and. i profoundly the decision that this house has taken to. i continue to believe that by far the best outcome is the united kingdom believes the european union and orderly fashion with. a second blow in a row britain's parliament rejects tories amaze new divorce agreement from the e.u. with a no deal votes coming on wednesday. two decades after the violent conflicts named the troubles in northern ireland and it fears return that the irish republican army could be behind a string of bomb threats across the u.k. . u.s.

diplomats out of venezuela give you an american officials seven suau as to leave the country while the u.s. plant opposition leader why don't receive the authority to declare a state of emergency in the country from the national assembly in caracas. a very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me if you are in great to have you with us. we have breaking news this hour from london where m.p.'s have cast their ballots in westminster rejecting to resume a's adjusted divorce agreement from the e.u. by a margin of one hundred forty nine votes it marks another crushing defeat for the prime minister who saw her initial draft deal rejected just two months ago by an overwhelming majority of m.p.'s i prefer the decision. that this house has taken to

it i continue to believe that by far the best time is the united kingdom leaves the european union and orderly fashion with a deal. that 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 question you can really hear her physically suffering from a bad sore throat that metaphorically really did many 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 again 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 run run. maybe it's time instead we have a general election and the people. who think government should wait 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 breaks it but michel barnier has tweeted saying that the e's done everything it can to help get this withdrawal deal passed in parliament to get it over the line but the impasse can only be solved now in the u.k. so he's saying that the ball is in the you case court he says that the e.u. the no deal preparations and now more important than ever before so brussels saying really that sort. in the next few days it's up to the u.k.

to decide how all this is going to go and that certainly going to be a turbulent few days because the outcome now depends on a sequence of events in parliament that reason may set out today following the results 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 e.u. 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 the delay 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 altogether so new politics lecturer at the u.k. is lancaster university marc garneau says that british m.p.'s haven't considered the consequences of rejecting millions do. 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 wants bits of embedded in back 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 that 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 tiny bit in flexibility and still brings us at the heart of what the review has done however it does see the parliamentarians just haven't been able to really think through the consequences of the way in which they approached and who have visited charge of nominal charge of the government is faced with this i'm palatable 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 this chaos. breaks that countdown. 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 man allegedly representing

a republican organization calling itself the ira claimed responsibility for posting explosive devices across the u.k. has an associate check it out 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 iran 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 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 related activity. given the packages received last week bore similarities to divorces sent in the past which ruling to dissident groups associated with northern ireland to terrorism. 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. but as well as government says the electricity has been fully restored in the country after a mass blackout president madeira says the power cuts were the result of cyber attacks by the united states and he said to somebody ters were caught trying to damage a hydroelectric dam early this week the national assembly approved decree on a state of emergency while the us threatens venezuela with a new round of sanctions and president maduro has issued an ultimatum to u.s. diplomats telling them to leave within seventy two hours mean worldwide osaze outside help would be appreciated he's also called for protests across the country asking people to rally against the darkness. 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 of. us national security adviser john bolton says the u.s. military will take responsibility for protecting the venezuelan people this comes after several days of venezuelan workers being told to stay at home because of the blackout but washington had a different approach when a power outage struck closer to home the old course has not. 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 so i'm 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 bringing

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 new york times has posted a new article like and blaming the deer and his government for their recent

blackouts the article included a line accusing sanctions by the trumpet ministration of being a major calls for that blackouts by affecting venezuela's ability to import feel we are. co-founder of the website venezuelan analysis dot com for his thoughts. the sanctions are having a serious impact on venezuela's economy and life i think the very fact that for example sixteen members of the u.s. congress have complained to the trumpet administration sent a letter to the trumpet ministration about the sanctions saying that they should be stopped because they're costly irreparable damage to the economy and to the people of venezuela and that's of course very possible because there is a lot 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 that need 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 all recording crease and military spending got the details for you coming up after this short break. what holds us institutions a little. bit put themselves on the laws. to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to present injury. or something i want to press. the to the right to be cross was like the flag tree in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the gulf.

when i was so small seemed wrong when all were all just all. yet to say proud disdain comes to educate and in gains from it because betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground the. truth. welcome back 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 caleb maupin has 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 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 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 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. together with president putin of russia will start talking about a meaningful. so what 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

. and now to discuss it discuss this issue that's cost lives a retired u.s. army major general poland mr. thanks for joining us on the program it's great to have you with us at the u.s. it is already number one in global defense spending so why another increase. well i think there's a number of reasons so we've had some interesting and very serious threats current matter of fact over the last twenty four hours you uncover major cyber attack against u.s. military by the chinese. the president is looking at the threats and not mentioned in those reporters comments was the threat to our ships are on the southern border from central america and others are trying to hit the soft underbelly of the united states that wasn't even mentioned so president drop his major goal is to protect

the american people against any threats that our national security team comes up with but before he knows that you know russia is moving forward with advanced weapons systems on the ground and in the air the chinese or the armed in orbit and then you've got the threat of iran in the middle east so you know president trump is balancing a lot of different threats here and you've got to put a budget together that's going to support a national security effort or national security forces going to counter those threats so that's the mind of the president and that's where he's at the course congress is going to fight every man's road in strengthening our military but that's. constant battle of the united states so how exactly do you think this extra money is going to be spent. well they're going to allocate. a number of dollars to what we call a contingency fund which is a standby fund just in case anything. in the world which would threaten our borders

or of the united states they're going to put understand some of the money maybe eighty million dollars for example into the space what we call a space we've established a new space command in the united states so they have to develop a force a structure organization for that then you have advanced in the world are really not advanced we're going to purchase a lot of the f. thirty five fighters there were recreating the naval fleet as well as supporting more special operations forces and so and again we're a counter cyber attacks of what we call cyber warfare so we're putting a lot more money into that as i said china just fact it's military all over or defense forces and that's been a serious breach much fish has just been announced in the last twenty four hours we're talking to u.s. army major general paul vali thank you so much for your time thank you. and

israeli politician on palestinian lawyer have clashed in a vicious they exchange ad on b.b.c. news than a boot sale a former spokesperson for the palestine liberation organization voiced has support for the boycotts divestments and sank divestment sanctions campaign against israel but israel's education minister nuff tony bennett's responded with this. the palestinians have spent the past seventy one years victimizing themselves the full fall in love with the what did you bring to the world beyond suicide terrorists what's your invention. well but it suggested that israel had brought a lot to the world however bootie hit back pointing out that all those inventions had come on palestinians thought well earlier my colleague daniel hawkins discussed this with martin sherman a founder and chief executive of the israel institute for strategic studies and

dimitri dillard the 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 jews 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 presidents subject have been subjected to such of such a policy so what i'm saying is that the media's is basically an anti semitic initiative b.d.'s is as 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 state of israel has proven day after day that it's committing human rights violations and we have recognized the state of israel the state of israel has not recognize the state of palestine when we're going there when this is. going to marry you have as a stimulus right as 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 three decades two decades. decade if you are not there by another seven or eight years or got killed thousands of palestinians you have this this place early in fasting is living in the absence of that you were on your i was given by right what i learned some of the people

about you it's not about that they are they chosen people i don't want to make about four thousand year also that you want to live. gentlemen let's just try to get 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 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 the achievements of people who have been here for thousands of years and tie it to what you concerned or he concerns as his problem which is not true at all much as characterized it's going to be that why do you. think of the people of 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 have me here after the existence of the. no no no no hold on hold on i don't finish

my answer i was. born closer than i was me born in south africa has no right to somebody who you want in south and you know it's not all right and muslims are there are loyal to my blogging about my haribo you know against nazism years you can share your thoughts on all of our stories by following us on social media and leaving your comments that way back in thirty minutes with the latest we'll see you that. whether you're for or against the venezuelan government for or against socialism it is obvious the mainstream media are committing a lot of journalistic malpractise once again mainstream media echo the policy preferences of those in power if it comes to still another military intervention to the media be held responsible. after the

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