i think the benefits to northern ireland of the devolution of policing and justice will be very considerable indeed. i realize that there are very delegate issues that have got to be dealt with and i realize there are conversations to be had. but i do recognize that progress has been made with the commitment of the major parties to devolution and talks that take place that now will yield results and it will not be long before we complete the devolution of policing and justice under terms that will give security to every community in northern ireland. >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker, does the prime minister agree with the comments from his chancellor this morning when he blamed the bank's board rooms for the recession but refused to fundamentally change the way we regulate them? >> mr. speaker, we are changing fundamentally the way we regulate our banks. we are -- we are banning them from bonuses at the moment in areas where we've taken over these banks. we are changing the structures of the boards by the way by dealing with the problems by this recession and we are creating new financial regulat

all the political parties of northern ireland took huge risks in setting aside their long-held differences and, in doing so, worked with all the political parties in this house, achieving a peace which has brought harmony to northern ireland. it was a proud moment for me when i welcome to the irish to this house, in his welcome was that of that given to a friend. this was this parliament at its very best. there are those who are reminders of on wealthy moments, but i will tell of the goodness that exists in this house. i will leave this house with fond and moving memories. one of those memories is of meeting a holocaust survivor. she came to this country in 1946. after she indoor the horrors of auschwitz and a long, forced march to germany, she raised her family in britain. she would say about this parliament, "that building gave me my freedom." she held this house in high regard for perfectly justifiable reasons. the house must worked tirelessly -- the house must work tirelessly to restore the feisty and that she saw in it. knowing you all personally, i know you will do this so the people

he leads the dup, the democratic unionist party, in northern ireland. "say no. say no to" -- he's the -- he's the man who says no. and when the good friday agreement was being mooted around the table at stormont castle, ian paisley showed his opposition to it by going to cameroon to preach the -- preach to the sinners. that's what he did. and i -- and i went with him. so -- so that was an odd week in cameroon, where ian paisley basically bullied everybody to make us like him more. c-span: and when you traveled with him, how many others were with you? >> guest: there was -- there was, i think, three of us. there was his translator, joseph, his driver, david mcilvaine, who's kind of the smithers to ian paisley's mr. burns, and -- and me. and it was an interesting -- i think it's an interesting look at how a fiery leader remains at the top of his pile. it's -- you know, how he pulls us in, offers us affection and pushes us out again. it's -- it's -- it's an exercise in mind-play, which i think i've analyzed in the book. c-span: who is david icke? >> guest: it's act

i remember a couple of years ago i read in london of all places that they had found in northern ireland to remain with shovels and a little hot constructing a half ton bomb and when this fact was presented to the police department one senior officer said i think. wisely well, there is no way you can decommission shovels. you've got to decommission mines and like that is exactly what the dalai lama is doing which is the essentially to try to propagate the kind of revolution by going to the root of things out of which everything fall clothes and making the change but not even being distracted by the services and externals and i should probably say though i hesitate to say this in washington as a journalist i have met a lot of politicians and i think to my surprise i noticed some point that the dalai lama was the single most realistic politician i've ever met. i think of him as a hyper realist and so many politicians talk about the future which is a never never land and so many talk about the past which essentially can't be changed and this is one of the only ones i know looking almost lik

. >> elizabeth the second by the grace of god by the united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and of other religious terry -- relative territories queen, head of the commonwealth, a defender of the faith, to all to whom the shall come, greetings. there are pressing can brief -- pressing concerns. we ordained this our present parliament to begin and behold and that are city of westminster the 11th day of may in the 54th year of our rain, on which day the parliament was begun and is now hold on. as far as we have been informed that the lower house of our parliament have lately made a choice of our beloved and faithful john bercow esquire in the room of our beloved and faithful michael john martin, as far, to be speaker of the lower house of our parliament. we are graciously pleased to approve this choice and to allow and concern the same and for as much as the causes and considerations we cannot conveniently at this time be prevalent in our royal person in our said parliament. we come a trusting in the fidelity and care of the most reverent father and my god and our faithful cou

elizabeth ii, by the grace of god of the united kingdom of great brynn and northern ireland and other realms and territories queen, head of the commonwealth, defender of the faith, to all to whom these presents shall come, greetings. whereas we did lately -- difficult and pressing affairs concerning us, the state, and defense of our united kingdom and the church or detain this, our present parliament, to begin and beholden at our city of westminster, the 11th day of may in the 54th year of our reign on which day our said parliament was begun and holden and is there now holden and whereas we have been informed the lower house of our said parliament have lately made choice of our beloved and faithful john simon bercow, esquire, in the room of our beloved and faithful michael john martin, esquire, to be speaker of the said lower house of our said parliament of which choice we are graciously pleased to approve and to allow and confirm the same and for as much as the caused and considerations we cannot conveniently at this time be present in our royal person in our said parliament, know ye

which contains a text of a resolution by the republic of korea, united kingdom, great britain, northern ireland the united states and japan. i wish to draw the attention to the document containing a letter dated from the representative of mongolia, said -- addressed to the security council. it is my understanding that the council is ready to proceed to vote on the drive privilege -- resolution before it, unless i hear any objection, i will put the draft resolution to a vote. there is no objection. it is so decided. will those in favor of the draft resolution please raise their hands? thank you. the voting is as follows, the draft resolution received 16 votes in favor, the draft resolution has been adopted as resolution 1874 of 2009. i shall now give the floor to those members of the council who wish to make a statement after the voting. i now. a floor to the representative of the united states >> thinking. the united states welcomes unanimous adoption of resolution 81874. this provides a strong international response to north korea's test of a nuclear device. the message of this resolution is c

prime minister of canada, prime minister of the united kingdom, great britain, and northern ireland, the french prime minister, the presidents of the french senate and national assembly, ladies and gentlemen. there were 135,000 of them in thousands of boats. they formed two armies. one was american and the other army a british canadian army. a few hours before, they had been wished well before they left. they were all silent. what were they thinking about, these young soldiers, as their eyes looked ahead, staring at the thin, black strip of coast that slowly merged out of the fog? what were they thinking of? were they thinking about their lives that had been so short? were they thinking about the kiss is their mothers had planted on their foreheads whenever young? were they thinking about the tears that their fathers held back when they left, or the tears that were waiting for them on the other side of the ocean? what were these young soldiers thinking of? the soldiers in whose hands history had placed the fate of so many people. what were they thinking of? other than the fact that a

how would some other people feel in the case of ira activity in northern ireland, if we only spoke about papast terrorism, catholic terrorism, roman catholic papacy and so forth? my guess is that the 60 million americans in this country would find that offensive. it would not be helpful in isolating the ira. that is what he did. it was foolishness, stupidity, mindless. it goes further than that. our previous president, in his last state of the union message , confidently predicted that the struggle against terrorism would be the defining it ideological challenge of the 21st century. when he delivered that speech it was february 2008. would anyone in 1908 predict that the 20th century would be dominated by the rise of hitlerism and communism? would anyone in 18 08 predict that the rise of nationalism would define the politics of europe? it took enormous intellectual courage on the part of our previous president to act as a historian of the future to make that statement. [laughter] but that was his official visit of the future. the president of the nine states. it is very optimistic that o

in fact, even more recently, if you look at what happened in the issue of northern ireland in recent decades, one thing that always raises my concern -- that is how the issue of israel /palestine has fed into a discourse that basically goes to say that you have jews and you have christians on the one hand and then you have muslims on the other hand. president obama did talk about this in his speech yesterday. there are a lot of christian minorities. throughout islamic history, the jews played a very important part in muslim culture and civilization that tends to be discarded. especially when we talk about israel and palestine. all we hear within that discourse is that muslims hate jews and judeo-christian heritage forces muslim heritage. the reality of it is much more complex than that. the reality is that is long, at various point in history, was a lot more accommodating to jews than christianity was, certainly in the 19th and the 20th century in europe, given the holocaust that actually took place there. host: our guest is the washington bureau chief for al jazeera arabic, abderrah

questions, gordon brown discusses public spending, northern ireland, and proposed changes. nick play criticizes the government's regulatory role in the financial crisis. this is the last session for speaker michael martin, who resigned today in the wake of mp expenses. that is tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. . >> it has not been scored because the legislative language is not complete. let me give you an example. i am quite sure, there will be a subsidy for small business. that could run billions of dollars. i doubt if the bill itself will go over a billion dollars a year. $100 billion a year. >> you have a generous subsidy program for [inaudible] >> we have a range. this is a plan that defines how we are going to get affordable, quality medical care to every american. the numbers i can tell you we have had is an outline, and there is a lot of change, it provides a 95% of americans coverage, up to 97%, which is what i am hoping for. i am not being coy, is just that all these things interact. until we agree on the final legislative language, we cannot get a final pric

how what other people feel if in the case of the activity of northern ireland we only spoke about catholic terrorism, roman catholic papacy as its objective and so forth? my guess is the 60 million americans in the country would find that offensive and it wouldn't be helpful in isolating the ira. and that is what we did. i think it was foolishness, stability, and negative durham and hearing. it goes further than that. our previous president in the last state of the union message, the last state of the union message confidently predicted the struggle against terrorism would be the defining ideological challenge of the 21st century. remember when he delivered the speech it was february, 2008. would anyone in 1908 predict the 20th century would be dominated by the rise of hitler, would anyone in 1808 predict the rise of nationalism would define the politics of europe? it took enormous courage on the part of the previous president to act as a historian of the future to make that statement. but that was the official vision of the future. by the president of the united states private i think it

a draft resolution by france, japan, republic of korea, united kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and the united states of america. was to draw the attention of the members to the came in esmat 2009/274 containing a letter dated 26 may, 2009 from a representative of on korea of the security council. it is my understanding that the council is ready to proceed towards the draft resolution before it unless i hear any objection. i shall put the draft letter resolution to the vote. there is no objection. it is so decided. will those in favor of the draft resolution contained in document

a different one in northern ireland, a different one in scotland and a different one for the european parliament which is proportional representation and a different one in the house of commons but i will -- i will deal with this issue in the constitutional statement in a few minutes. >> my apologies, i was too quick. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sure, mr. speaker -- i'm, mr. speaker, you would agree it's no good saying wait for the statement when he's briefed all the details out to the press. and i have to say in asking questions about personalities, what is there left to ask when so many members of the cabinet walked out 'cause they can't work with him? i want to ask the prime minister questions about the issue of electoral reform and also about the process he intends to follow. on the issue does he agree with me that a truly proportional system has massive drawbacks? didn't we see this on sunday night when the bnp, a bunch of partialist thugs got him elected to the european parliament. does he agree with me that is a very, very strong argument? >> mr. speaker, let the whole house

house will be aware of the proposals for the completion of devolution of policing and justice of northern ireland. next week the common commission will report with recommendations on the future of devolution in scotland within the united kingdom. the government's 2006 act permits further devolution in wales on which there are discussions. my right honorable friend the community's secretary will set out how we will strengthen the engagement of citizens in the democratic life of their own communities as we progress the next stage of devolution in england so we must consider whether we should offer stronger clearly defined policies to local government and city regions and strengthen their accountability to local people. mr. speaker, last year we published a review of the electoral system and there is a long-standing debate on this issue. i still believe the link between the mp and constituencies are essential and that it is the constituency that is best able to hold mps to account. we should only be prepared to impose change if there's a broad consensus in the country that it would strengthen our de