my lords, with great respect, some of what has been said by the council of europe and its resolution law in england and wales. and in particular, the reference to simply registering a marriage is inept, it does not reflect the true position of our law in england and wales. civil registration, per se, is not a route to a lawful marriage. lord keen. well, brexit has seen something of a re—emergence in the house of commons this week. kick—started by the two tory leadership candidates and the chancellor — who expressed deep concern about leaving the eu without a deal. the snp were keen to talk about it, too. coming to the debate about brexit, you know that thing we were giving all the extra time to actually try and resolve, maybe we should actually debate it then occasionally, because we have heard from both of the parliamentary, both of the candidates for the tory leadership, and they are both saying that they are prepared to take this country out of the eu without a deal. we have got to start to prepare the parliamentary fight back, there is a huge moment coming, where there will be no

small signal of risk story in the russian within the council of europe that maybe this is the 1st step to arts every consideration of the russian rollie and the sanctions in the european context. do you think that other e.u. states offer secretly wish to have better relations with moscow. well you know all debt historically and culturally and not only economical also the german countries but also other countries a little late to have been too stressed in the garage with a rash that there are as it was said before there are obligations so there are european levels so this is the 1st obstacle political obstacle and the political struggle within the european context in the short term of that would be me based on the signals of improvement such kind of a collaboration so we will see if these are will happen to live under new. premiership and the new role of the european commission or of. was recently in egypt and we will see if it will be elected in argument marm or any of the protests are planned acts of eastern europe at the university of genoa i thank you for your time and your comments

we are putin in italy meeting the pope in talian leaders of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe not that i'm a big fan of the organization has finally given the russian delegation. voting rights back and other. elements that have to do with their membership germany is determined that the north stream too will be finished the gas pipeline we have president mccrone speaking very bluntly that. europe needs a better relationship with russia i mean add this all up it is a thaw of some sorts isn't it go ahead marcus. well peter i believe that there is a distinct possibility that once britain exits the european year then brussels and moscow could improve that relationship now why is that well firstly britain has long been saved by many in paris and berlin as america's trojan horse brinson relays sensitive information from what is discussed in the european union to washington and secondly it was the efforts it was the last being on behalf of america by britain in 2014 that push that puts enormous enormous stress pressure on the germans and the french to put a new sanctions on russia the

mere putin in italy meeting the pope and talian leaders of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe not that i'm a big fan of the organization and as far.

about the ties between the 2 countries russia's also just been readmitted readmitted to the council of europe are these sort of things an indicator that ties with europe generally and hence with the u.k. in particular are on the mend i think they are to a point everything to a point i think they are. you know the dialogue is important and readmission paces is a positive step. as really the dialogue i mean that's the point of dialogue you can disagree with with the with the content of the discussion but you still need to have that calm discussion so it's important russia has been readmitted and absolutely i think the relationships of coming more functional you know becoming very practical there are certain topics of the real policy and the country still need to be to move forward. as chair of the westminster russia forum what sort of activities did you engage in whilst here in russia well i attended the forum. summit part of the week we've since and gauged with some. relations with members of the state duma and others. also we met today with me the. foreign affairs university and a host of oth

tide of taking economic losses over there sanctions against russia recently you'll remember the council of europe readmitted russia to its parliamentary assembly despite the fact that russia had done nothing to change its behavior nothing to get rid of the reasons for those sanctions being initially brought in so there was real fear here that. the europeans were basically in a hurry to do a deal with russia and get rid of this problem i spoke to. in friday this is what he had to say. i really hope that going forward we'll see real deeds and not just words of support for ukraine but. what else can we do. if we want to end this war by diplomatic means which we really want to do we have no other options. i hope that the other side will not undermine the measures we've already agreed to. russia of course president announced today that he's willing to meet russian president vladimir putin what should we make of the. well not only that phil he. literally said to vladimir putin this video message we need to have a chat it was a casual is that another example of. breaking with a diplomatic convention tha

amir putin in italy meeting the pope in italian leaders of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe not that i'm a big fan of the organization has finally given the russian delegation. voting rights back and other. elements that have to do with their membership germany is determined that the north stream too will be finished the gas pipeline we have president mccrone speaking very bluntly that he.

sense to face justice so this is why in my mother's case we are calling for a public inquiry the council of europe has back to the school in arizona 2 weeks ago it's called on the modi's governments to start a public inquiry in 3 months now we need the u.k. government and the other governments out of prison to back this school. and to pressure the maltese government into following the law because the assholes who were asking for and starting this why their investigation in the case solved. the debate is about what similar mechanisms can be created that saudi arabia will then have to be have to respect. this from science right dave and how do you see here any of us could actually make a difference in the. i mean jeremy hunt in his speech talked about corruption doesn't really feature in there but in the pledges because it's impossible to talk of all these murders are 2 separate with alts talking about liberal democracy the rule of law the fight against corruption there where attacks on the rule of law that preceded my mother's murder. is murder that preceded the murder of young christiane. they wer

discriminatory against teenagers and makes us feel like animals so back in 2010 interesting enough the council of europe a human rights monitoring organization that oversees all of the european court of human rights declared the mosquito this exact device violated international law and they banned it because they considered it inhumane and degrading treatment. so maybe we'll have it here. i mean look we all know because we all were teenagers we all know the teenagers are borderline sociopaths we get it. but i guess you know what ted i guess we shouldn't be surprised because when we have governor when we when we're dealing with the u.s. government the bill's fine with putting families in cages along the border i guess you know hey what's with shooting the sonic sound weapon at kids after dark i guess that's ok in the new united states that we live in today of course i mean that's the strange thing is that you know we're always sort of it's always us like we're trying to keep graffiti away we're trying to you know lower gun violence and all they can think of to get rid of violence as a weapon are violent

they'd open the door for the council not consider any of the other so-called lead candidates but that's a pretty cheap political. point isn't it the idea that the council of europe took its lead from the attitude of germany's s.p.d. is ludicrous isn't it no i try to be very very honest and very clear about it it was obvious from the very 1st moment that on monday after the election the council wanted to make the 1st meeting to overturn in a certain way the parliament's bill this wasn't that easy as some in the council have sought but it was many i miss your macro and others and there are going to accept and others not only him so not only s.p.d. and others but issues in the parliament and that was the point i was referring to in that interview that you are citing if very strong enough in the parliament to say at the very 1st moment that the lead candidate from the group who has the most votes will be our lead candidate also for the council we could have won and you can't unity has been missed when the candidates you didn't end up choosing had any glittering qualifications that you were asked in the newspaper interview what the lion stood for and you replied for

of european when when when break this happens where the old to joy is a also part of at the council of europe which has forty seven member states state. there was some i saw her as well news comp which is a british prevent of the onion breaks apart in the pieces to give you time to wait. i structure waitresses begin serving the checks it's a reference to niger frosting showered in a milkshake on the street will be closed which isisn't big innocent planetary milkshake operation. and then there were those of course you want to stop exited liberals and liberal democrats meps apps as sporting their particular sort of symbolic where as well mark's option. i believe it is and if in fact that was even his twitter account so. making this a he he e was happy. to to to i still supports stop particular sentiment case of knowledge of faraj in the gang turn theheir backs on the to joy exactly. right funny cartoons to caricature donald trump has been fired in canada. that's right no this is the cartoon in question -- you can see here that it depicted to him on a golf course famously of course he likes and

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call it because no results were found i think this is a very bad picture that we give of the council and of europe so no one can be happy with what has just taken so many al was i think that this is an extremely serious problem that will have to settle in the long 10 i will come back to it. let's try to be back at it on tuesday we understand all right let's pull in our brussels correspondent gary schultz again so terry this is definitely i guess you could say one of those mondays that the european union would like to quickly forget the iran crisis and now no decision on who gets the key jobs in the european union i mean what's happening here. well brant it can't all be blamed on a monday because they started it on sunday but yeah it definitely was a day that nobody is proud of you heard president mcclung calling it an embarrassment and the portuguese prime minister came out and said everything went wrong and we are very frustrated so basically this agreement that chancellor merkel and president mccollum thought might work when they were speaking on the margins of the g 20 in osaka came back and pr

is what's happening now because everything in europe is up for grabs because the euro the council of europe can decide who is nomination is then the european parliament thinking well look if you can make your mind up then when we come to elect sol european parliament president tomorrow maybe we can start to tell the european commission what to do instead of them telling us what to do and that's when things been really important because because people think the european parliament is powerless people don't even over there i mean is hot half the time and all it is is seen as a sort of rubber stamping operation so consequently you have this friesen of excitement and a welter of nominations for the head of the european parliament job from people ranging from a polish guy on the populist right to a spanish socialist and the co-leader of the green scar keller that will put themselves forward because they think this might be all movements to make the european parliament a bit more relevant and instead of them telling us what to do all the time we're not going to start to set out our own rules and

shows this picture of a police officer gathering evidence from the central chamber of the legislative council. and in europeg the eu's topjobs. the financial times reports on ursula von der leyen‘s nomination as president of the european commission, which has led to surprise in germany, where the defence minister has suffered many negative headlines. it was a party that went seriously wrong. guests at a birthday celebration for the formerfirst lady of the philippines imelda marcos fell ill with suspected food poisoning. around 2,500 guests attended the celebrations at a sports stadium in manila to to mark her 90th birthday when dozens of them started vomiting. the widow of late dictator ferdinand marcos wasn't herself affected. well, they are being hydrated, which is the first fundamental, most important step. so for as long as they are hydrated, i am confident that they are going to be ok. but we cannot leave any stone unturned. to washington, where preparations are underway ahead of what promises to be independence day with a difference this year. president trump has ordered a military parade of tanks for

shows this picture of a police officer gathering evidence from the central chamber of the legislative council. and in europe eu's topjobs. the financial times reports on ursula von der leyen‘s nomination as president of the european commission, which has led to surprise in germany, where the defence minister has suffered many negative headlines. dementia is often called one of the biggest public health crises of the 21st century, with around 50 million people affected worldwide. so imagine if doctors could diagnose alzheimer's disease, the most common cause of dementia, before symptoms appear. well, researchers here in singapore have invented a blood test that they believe can do exactly that. i've been speaking to assistant professor huilin shao, who led the research team at the national university of singapore. she explained why early detection is important. so as you mention, worldwide, there are over 50 million people who are suffering from dementia, and of these patients, a very high percentage of them are suffering from alzheimer's disease, which is a majorform of severe dementia. and, with a global a

the tide of course we all had to give a bit we all had to move but once again the european council has approved the fact that it's capable of doing so and given the disparate conceptions in europe and amongst the various party groups and families and the various prime ministers i believe it to be an assett. the dutch labor leader from stimulants had been seen as the front runner for a commission president as the talks started on sunday but there was a big push back from countries including poland hungary the czech republic and slovakia the so-called visit for the hungary ins and poles have been strongly criticised by simmons over their record on the rule of law throughout these negotiations donald toast the president of the european council has been wary of putting things to a vote prefer him to reach consensus however slowly the process is highlighted not just national divisions but the struggle for influence between europe's political families the top appointments are meant to take into account the results of the recent european elections the group that did best the center right the p.p.p. insisted one of its candidates should head the commission but the lead candidate of the

whenever there is a resolution passed on human rights in china in the human rights council, most of the 16 members of europe do about it? we know that china is obviously a permanent member of the un security council. in the last 65 years at the united nations, we have seen 460 or more resolutions passed to do with the israeli—palestinian conflict. 0n tibetjust one because, of course, china vetoes anything. they are very powerful. so what can you do? appeal to all the democratic countries. say, you say you are committed for human rights, you say you support of nonviolence, then you should support tibet issues. these moral principles that you claim you adhere to, should be implemented and should be shown, demonstrated... you are saying this but it is falling on deaf ears. there you are, the tibetan government in exile, and his holiness the dalai lama, in dharamsala, in india, where you are also based, even india is not supporting you. jamestown foundation research analysis group in the us, adrian zenz says, "india tends to favour relations with china at least over tibetan issues in general." your host nation

a tired of course we all had to give a bit we all had to move but once again the european council has proved the fact that it's capable of doing so and given the disparate conceptions in europe and amongst the various party groups and families and the various prime ministers i believe it to be an athlete. the dutch labor leader from stimulants had been seen as the front runner for a commission president as the talks started on sunday but there was a big push back from countries including poland hungary the czech republic and slovakia the so-called visit route for the hungary incident poles have been strongly criticised by symonds over their record on the rule of law throughout these negotiations donald toast the president of the european council has been wary of putting things to a vote prefer him to reach consensus however slowly the process has highlighted not just national divisions but the struggle for influence between europe's political families the top appointments are meant to take into account the results of the recent european elections the group that did best the center right the p.p.p. insisted one of its candidates should head the commission but the lead candida

of europe who are gathered in the council building so that means that then of course social democrats become different posts in this whole quotas set up and in the end france might beg the e.c.b. the european central bank so it's a complicated big game but they have completely reject the whole picture here i mean this is a position that necessarily needs unanimity behind it. no it doesn't and all its needs only 21 countries from 28 to say yes to a candidate for the top job and it needs 65 percent of the population however we did listen carefully to the german chancellor merkel walking out after the interminable 1st part of the summit yesterday afternoon and saying we should consider whether it's smart to vote against one or the other big country you know whether she meant poland or italy we don't know but she obviously wanted somebody who is not the as contentious as the social democrat timmermans and they seem to have found that person the european parliament is jews who elect its president tomorrow is that a likely to be asked intentions a process. it is part of the whole process be

of the european council has been wary of putting things to a vote prefer him to reach consensus however slowly the process is highlighted not just national divisions but the struggle for influence between europe's political families the top appointments are meant to take into account the results of the recent european elections the group that did best the center right the p.p.p. insisted one of its candidates should head the commission but the lead candidate of the greens has denounced the package as a back door deal and old europe at its worst is not a certainty that the parliament will approve the names i'm going to merkel says the e.u. could explore new rules to avoid repeating the squabbles we've just seen for example direct elections and transnational lists whatever happens the calls for greater transparency are likely to get louder nadeem barber al-jazeera brussels. oh beatrice real says with the e.u. policy network you're active she says some of the best candidates were overlooked in favor of internal politics one we look of the names we see the worst is struck we're struggling to achieve a balance in between kerry toria representation denver balance and political representation dot that

minister charles michel would succeed donald tusk as president of the european council spanish social democrat use of barrels would take over as europe's foreign affairs chief. but the biggest hurdle in this political race has still to be clear that the european parliament has to approve the lineup and the social democrats of already set themselves against it while for some analysis now let's go over to the max hoffman he's in strasbourg where the european parliament is meeting today max the ball is now in the e.u. parliament's court what do any piece there make of the nominees that they've been given by the european council for the top jobs. let's go back a couple of weeks remember most of the european parliament said they would only support a candidate for the commission presidency who previously was a so-called which was the lead candidate for one of the political groups right here in strasbourg. is not that person and you can imagine that among the political groups here there is well i wouldn't call it happiness because of that decision now you have the conservatives was enough on the line is a conservative she's a member of the eu

the head of the you council just now he was he said that europe is a woman after all and making making highlights of the gender balance in these nominations from the lion has been germany's defense minister for 6 years she's a very experienced politician but the contentious point really apart from the fact that she's. expressed federalists sentiments. in public which is a no no for some people in brussels and a good thing for others is that she is from the center right the european people's party she is a member of chancellor merkel's c.d.u. in germany but not just her nomination but also the 2 highest ranking vice presidents of the european commission according to donald tusk will be france timmermans the dutch labor leader so a socialist and he was somebody who was a front runner at least until some day. and also moderator. she she's a danish politician and those 2 names i think are perhaps surprising to some people though. the was a needs to be seen to be. keeping the center left even those nominations for the top jobs also don't notice good mixing that it's not a done deal the whol

the tide of course we all had to give a bit we all had to move but once again the european council has approved the fact that it's capable of doing so and given the disparate conceptions in europe and amongst the various party groups and families and the various prime ministers i believe it to be an athlete. the dutch labor leader from stimulants had been seen as the front runner for a commission president as the talks started on sunday but there was a big push back from countries including poland hungary the czech republic and slovakia the so-called visit for the hungary in some polls have been strongly criticised by symonds over their record on the rule of law throughout these negotiations donald toast the president of the european council has been wary of putting things to a vote prefer him to reach consensus however slowly the process is highlighted not just national divisions but the struggle for influence between europe's political families the top appointments are meant to take into account the results of the recent european elections the group that did best the center right the p.p.p. insisted one of its candidates should head the commission but the lead candidate of th

the tide of course we all had to give a bit we all had to move but once again the european council has approved the fact that it's capable of doing so and given the disparate conceptions in europe and amongst the various party groups and families and the various prime ministers i believe it to be an asset. the dutch labor leader from stimulants had been seen as the front runner for a commission president as the talks started on sunday but there was a big push back from countries including poland hungary the czech republic and slovakia the so-called visigoth for the hungary in some polls have been strongly criticised by symonds over their record on the rule of law throughout these negotiations donald toast the president of the european council has been wary of putting things to a vote prefer him to reach consensus however slowly the process is highlighted not just national divisions but the struggle for influence between europe's political families the top appointments are meant to take into account the results of the recent european elections the group that did best the center right the p.p.p. insisted one of its candidates should head the commission but the lead candidate of t

results of the election did not see some heads of government very disappointing deal of the council this is old europe at its worst a back door deal with candidates emerging to please the national leaders from germany france and spain this is not the change that was promised to european votes is. e.p. should not follow. leaders have also put forward a new head of the council who will take over from double tough they've opted for the belgian prime minister over the pick doesn't sit well with many in the european parliament either by supporting any p.s.r. particularly angry as michelle openly mocks the idea of britain quitting the bloc. let's bring in german political scientist dr pat self for more on this now well enough m.e.p. is approved on a line to get her the job. well there is high probability that there would be some difficulties for getting to prove it by the parliament but if a parliament with the nivea approve it then the european union votes in that would be in a big crisis indeed and my feeling is that the members of parliament who shot back from that if she is approved will she be able to

results of the election did not see some heads of government very disappointing deal of the council this is old europe at its worst a back door deal with candidates emerging to please the national leaders from germany france and spain this is not the change that was promised to european votes is e.p. should not follow bloc leaders have also decided who will succeed donald tusk as head of the e.u. council they've opted for the belgian prime minister but private party i mean aren't pleased as he's openly slammed the idea of brecht's it. let's get some live reaction from richard wellings deputy director at the u.k.'s institute of economic affairs now how do you rate earth vender lines chances here i think they're very good and this is obviously in some ways fantastic news for supporters because she's been very open about support for the agenda of ever closer union so when e.u. superstate with an e.u. army a common eurozone centralised budgets all these things that supporters have been warning about for years. how would you think that she would compare to younger in this position. well i think it's going

by the european council leaders have proven they can do so given the different points of view in europe and among the various party groupings and prime ministers i think we have successfully shown the european council is capable of taking action horns. it is easy. we've got the german chancellor there saying we've proven that the e.u. is capable of taking action i mean how true is that really. well they did take action after 2 failed to summit and action that came about as a result of some very ugly negotiations people saying terrible things about some of the candidates you had french president or many mcclung coming out yesterday and saying this is a failure this is embarrassing this is tarnishing our image as the european union so it wasn't a pretty process but sure today's a better day than yesterday by virtue of the fact that they have their candidates now they've nominated them they seem popular enough none of the $28.00 leaders where we're told opposed the nomination of ursula of underlying and of course christine legarde garners a lot of confidence around the world she's a very s