warrant when he entered the country and we'll get the view from the vice president of the council on parliament. plus germany's new foreign minister is in israel tyco must visited yada russia where he condemned anti-semitism and said solidarity with israel is central to german policy. and the formula one season kicks off with a surprise at the australian grand prix for ariz it's about vettel gets world champion lewis hamilton to wait for magic victory. hi my ass waiter it's good to have you with us former consul on president carlos preached among has been arrested in germany on a european arrest warrant they arrest what has sparked angry demonstrations in barcelona where police have clashed with protesters who have taken to the streets in the thousands we'll get an analysis in the moment but first this report on how those events unfolded. clashes on the streets of barcelona as grows over karla's push them on survey asked demonstrators find themselves on the end of police batons the radius led away it was at the site of this german motorway where the former catalan president was detained close t

just a cost is the vice president of the council on parliament and ally of carlos presumably he joins me now from barcelona mr costa thank you so much for being here let's start very simply what has been your reaction to prison also arrest today. well we were expecting. the president would have to appear before a court somewhere we were expecting that he would be going to buy a home in belgium and he would have to undergo the same procedure. brussels. that. he had to undergo some three or four months ago so we basically. expected this. and we really hope that whatever the country whatever the court provided it's a european democracy will. that the word is without merit that it's a politically motivated prosecution and will not grant the extradition so you're saying that this is a politically motivated and that this this warrant shouldn't be valid and the council on message that we heard today is that this arrest is threatening the values that europe was built on but. these are there an argument to say that wisdom all undermined those values knowingly when he broke with the spanish con

two days ago we had a vote to elect a president at the council on parliament and the vote didn't succeed because the country didn't get an overall majority that means that in forty eight hours they had to be a second vote but in between the counted was arrested and sent to prison with other five m.p.'s members of the problem and i don't think this is really normal for a democracy is it well he is accused of some serious crimes now i mean certainly we can see the argument of trying to give the voice to people but we're not talking about an overwhelming majority of catalans who want independence in the last in the last election it was nearly a fifty fifty split between the pro union s. and the pro independence parties here feel that there is a risk that this push for catalan independence that you stand behind is dividing your region. well there's a lot of debate i mean the issue of independence is a political. issue that raises emotions but we're not there i think we're we had an election and we led to the parliament the parliament met for the first time. on story on january seventeenth an

warrant when he entered the country and we'll get the view from the vice president of the council on parliament plus germany's new foreign minister is in israel tycho mosque visited yada vashem where he can do.

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actually to be annoying to those that we've got and the council on a parliament isn't even be allowed to leave the jail on monday to attain the beat has been ruled by the spanish supreme court so what democracy is under attack you and betty or you squeeze and is evidence that the international community the e.u. and protect your rights to stand up on the state of democratic rights and it's not doing. this week so the one hundred days to go milestone passed in the can down to the twenty eighteen football world cup. he has been building his own team a football legends to host aspirational coverage of the tournament former liverpool striker stan collymore and former manchester united goalkeeper peter schmeichel are already on board and this week r.t. announced and other world class signing. for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all the time but there was one more question by the way was going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star among us and a huge amount of pressure come out you have to go meet the center of t

actually to be annoying to those that we've got and the council on a parliament and even be allowed to leave the jail on monday to attend the beat that's been ruled by the spanish supreme court so what democracy is under attack you and betty or you squeeze and it's evident that the international community the e.u. and protect your rights to stand up on the state of democratic rights and it's not doing. or pro kurdish rallies were also held across europe on sunday against the turkish military offensive in northern syria. the. one of the largest rise took place in hamburg with activists carrying the flag of kurdistan crowds demanded an end to the turkish occupation operation i should say against kurdish fighters in syria's african region and there was a similar gathering in berlin with calls for the german government to put pressure on ankara meanwhile in manchester in the u.k. demonstrators brought train services to a halt to piccadilly station dozens of pro kurdish activists climbed down onto the railway tracks several were arrested. now this week also saw the one hundred days to go ma

security council should be ashamed of the continued bombing of the rebel held on claims. and the council in parliament has voted to demand jailed leaders on the succession is to movement are represented in parliament former catalan president gul as pooja ma is in custody in germany waiting for a court to decide whether he'll be extradited to spain he's denied he's been denied bail and he's considered as he's considered a flight risk. a memorial service has been held in paris for the policeman killed in last week's supermarket siege in southwest france our noble trum was hailed a national hero after trading places with a female hostage when police raided the premises and killed the gunman they found troll with gunshot wounds he died later in hospital the attack a red wire like dean had killed three other people he was going to french intelligence services but not deemed a threat the tasha butler has the latest from paris. what we saw this morning was the coffin of al gore. draped with the french tricolor flag it was taken through the streets of paris and brought here to his every need which is france's

a new government the drought has blocked them is the legal actions also force the costs on parliament to council this week's planned session to elect a new lethal first minister called panel and reports from buffalo now. they're marching for their own breakaway republic but they going nowhere fast do we mean. i was. in venice. songs of freedom ring out but the political reality is discordant. it's been five months since many catalans voted to split from the rest of spain the spanish central government to so far block the move it declared the secession referendum illegal and jailed some cattle and leaders while others fled. the politicians are being a bit indecisive they need to be more daring to make progress. demonstrations like this seem to be an indication that diehard supporters are growing impatient with their leaders failure to declare an independent republic as promised and this is certainly the largest process session demonstration here so far but it's seven o'clock live from the days leading up to the october referendum last year when you independence was able to put tens of thousands o

situation on which in what you have in peace in jail you have championed us and joined the sound chosen in who's been actually to be annoying to those that we've got and the council and a parliament and even be able to use the jail on monday to attend to the beat that's been ruled by the spanish supreme court so what democracy is under attack and then he or you squeeze and it's evident that the international community the e.u. and thank you are asked to stand up on the state of democratic rights and it's not doing. yet i was as there is no no particular evidence that they are going to do that any time soon you mentioned jodie sanchez any chance he's going to get released anytime soon. well i think that's partly why today's demonstration is so important for those who want to defend him a tragically it's because it's going to take a huge movement of what it people on the streets and the look communities agitate saying and making sure that this question this issue or do you would m.p.'s and under the most if not the who are front of the discussions you can please don't cancel what it is simply cannot be a load to stand because if it does down this it's a bit dangerous precedent not

barcelona and public you know there's an extraordinary meeting of the council and parliament that is scheduled for today what's the latest on that what are we expecting. good morning sarah well i'm actually standing outside the capitol and parliament and it's already underway basically what is going to happen it's really a symbolic meeting called pro independence parties to show their support for a cutoff which we won and the other two candidates who were put forward who are also actually in prison but they're in spain as opposed to someone who's in germany because they want their candidates to be the next leader of this region in northeastern spain so they're going to be debating that in the parliament it's already underway we've seen all the main leaders arrive this morning and so it's going to be a very full day in what is actually a quite a quiet week in spain because of course it's easter week but also chris is now on what is going to come out of this debate session that's taking place here in barcelona but not a quiet though on the streets of barcelona at least in the past couple of days what is the mood like there in

council. i will need to be 27 member states on behalf of whom make negotiating a general affairs council, and we will be meeting be brexit steering group of the european parliamente state of negotiation. as far as and judge the state of negotiation. as faras i'm and judge the state of negotiation. as far as i'm concerned i shall continue, in the name of the union, to greet you regularly and report to you on these negotiations in full transparency. it's weird that full transparency. it's weird that full transparency —— it's with that full transparency —— it's with that full transparency that we published a com plete transparency that we published a complete draft withdrawal agreement, which we discussed beforehand, with the 27 member states and the european parliament. on the 15th of march, that's just two weeks later, a fortnight later, we were advised and consolidated the draft agreement, having included comments from member states and from the european parliament. so it's that d raft european parliament. so it's that draft agreement that we've been continuing to work very tentatively. with my team, and with the team from the united kingdom, having done that we

. >> we call on the united nations, the european council, the european parliament, international coalition forces, islamic countries, and the international community as a whole to take steps to immediately avert the tragedy in after sandrin get concrete results, including withdrawal of all armed forces who entered afrin. nicole: more news from syria, war monitors report at least 30 people were killed on saturday, a midst the ongoing bombing and ground offensive against eastern ghouta outside the capital, damascus. thousands of civilians have been fleeing the assault othe suburb which was controlled by rebel grou. on sunday, syrian state tv broadcast video of syrian leader bashar al-assad visiting troops on the front lines in eastern ghouta. in russia, president vladimir putin has won another six-year term. official results show he won 76% of the vote. his main challenger, an opposition leader, was barred from running after the results were announced putin was questioned by reporters about whether he'd run again six years from now. >> i believe that what you're saying is a little funny. let

killed in eastern ghouta since the united nations security council called for a ceasefire one week ago. now on bbc news — the week in parliamenta may takes more steps on "the road to brexit". will bring back control of our laws, oui’ will bring back control of our laws, our borders, and our money. labour says the government is in chaos. when is she going to put the country's interests before the outsized egos of her own cabinet? also on this programme: we talk to welsh mps as scotland and wales turn up the pressure on ministers to make sure they get control of some of the powers coming back to the uk after brexit. there's a call for a ban on live animal exports. and is facial recognition technology a security boost or a big brother threat? the chinese site has introduced a system whereby you can smile to pay. but first. . .. the acceptance that the uk cannot have its cake and eat it, was just one of the messages from theresa may as she set out details of what the uk wants from brexit. in a speech on friday she laid down five tests for a future agreement with the european union, including whether any deal respects the result of

on all the hoff by select few how can elected members of parliament accurately represent the diversity of british society i speak is activist on the front line campaigning against tory government and local councils and working class issues striving to get the most vulnerable in society a seat at the table of power chris fairly is the founder and c.e.o. britain has class a grassroots charity stablish to tackle the institutions at the center of britain's class problems. a working class kid from luton i went to comprehensive schools all my life are going to see just sort of statistically in the sense of you know if you throw enough work in class.

on our behalf by select few how can elected members of parliament accurately represent the diversity of british society i speak activists on the front line campaigning against government and local councils working class issues striving to get the most vulnerable in society a seat at the table of power chris barely is the founder and c.e.o. britain has class a grassroots charity stablish to tackle the institutions at the center of britain's class problems. a working class kid from i went to comprehensive schools all my life are going to see just sort of statistically in the sense of you know if you throw enough working class kids in the russell group universities some of them get in and i go and i studied economics for three years and i nearly dropped out i think at least once a year because you just get there and you work so hard together you've done so many things to prove that you're worthy of being somewhere and doing something and then you have just thrown back in your face every minute of every day that you're around people who are better than you you know around you equals you're on your superiors because people have seen more than you they've experienced more they know more they'

on bbc news. the un security council will meet later today to be briefed on that nerve attack in britain. he later has said it has been kept informed of the investigation. plenty more from parliamentn we come back in a few minutes but first let's get the weather forecast. we have got the mild atlantic wet and windy weather in the west whilst we've got some fine sunshine across many central and eastern parts of england, and scotland. the cloud is coming in and it is rolling in and bringing some rain with it. you can see the depth of this area of low pressure and how fast it is dominating the entire western atlantic. it's bringing rain and strong to gale force winds as well. the rest of the afternoon looks set to be rather soggy across the western side of the uk. it may be mild but it won't feel particularly pleasant. the strong winds will ease overnight. they will push that heavy rain across the mountains of ireland and northern ireland. concerns here for some flooding. part of a share will see the continuation of that strengthening south—easterly wind. they will be a frost for most of us. it looks fairly wet come the morning. that rain from most of us will be three or four hours a

you have to kudlow news independence referendum on october the first protests swept the region both for. vote spain then dissolved the council parliament and called the election the post conflict president then fled to belgium international arrest warrant which was dropped in december so we twists and turns to this before then been reissued again last week. will now appear before a judge in germany on monday keep you posted and see the demonstrations of it. here in russia the final results of the russian presidential election were announced on friday were putin took seventy six percent of the vote in the end to secure his fourth term in the kremlin and his decisive victory has already got many questioning just how long he might be in the top job for now. at the moment i'm not planning any constitutional changes. do you think you will be in the presidential seat until twenty thirty or course if you change the constitution if it's. what your thing is. until i turn one hundred the result was putin's biggest ever election win with the other seven challengers left behind you can see the votes on the screen there the communist party's millio

you of to cover loads of the problems referendum on october the first protests the region both for and against the vote dissolve the council of parliament and called an election the deposed president and fled to belgium an international arrest warrant which was then dropped in december before being reassured last week. will now appear before a judge in germany monday. here in russia the final results of the russian presidential election were announced on friday but they were put into a coma seventy seven percent of the vote to secure is for the kremlin and his decisive victory is already got many questioning just how long he might be in the top job for. the moment i'm not planning any constitutional changes. there was more than this do you think you will be in the presidential seat until twenty thirty two. course if you change the constitution it's difficult. but i think what you're saying is. there aren't a lot and hundred there was always putin's biggest ever election win with the other seven challengers left far behind the communist party's millionaire candidate pavel gardenin finished second all to national brands but their measure

minister and a limit on bilateral contacts with moscow the case the shuttle for discussion later today at the united nations security council has theresa may speaking in parliament . there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr script and his daughter and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg including detective sergeant nick daly this represents an on move full use of force by the russian state against the united kingdom. under the vienna convention the united kingdom will now expel twenty three russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence offices they have just one week to leave this will be the single biggest expulsion for over thirty years and it reflects the fact that this is not the first time that the russian state has acted against our country. through these expulsions we will fundamentally d. great russian intelligence capability in the u.k. for years to come and if they seek to rebuild it we will prevent them from doing so let's get more on this now from quite impale those are your panelists chatham house think tank and london. corresp

election basically the president would be elected members of parliament chairmen of local councils as well as councillors so when they queue up on lines like this they get accredited and then they come to this particular station there are in fact twelve of them in this location then they'll be casting ballots this particular councillors. the next one is for mayor or chairman and then over there there is a box for presidential candidates and members of parliament now as you can see over there that is an election official issuing voters or other a voting card. for this particular voter who will go and stamp and market then drop it inside now he's here marking his buy a lot after this he will drop it in each of the boxes slated for president member of parliament chairman of council or a mayor so basically that shows how enthusiastic these voters are but of course there are at the back of their mind there is fear this is a country emerging from a brutal war a civil war it ended fifteen years ago but of course there are few years lingering for years of outbreak of violence. i still had an al-jazeera the saudi crown prince heads to th

such stark terms the un security council and the european union will hold meetings on the attack but so far the retaliation remains a british affair today may told parliament that she is expelling twenty three russian diplomats suspected of being spies and there will be a royal boycott no member of the royal family will attend the soccer world cup in russia this summer does this punishment fit the crime we have more in this report. may announce the measures after russia nor the deadline to provide an explanation for the attack she said moscow's failure to cooperate showed what she called a disdain for the gravity of the events her conclusion when it came was unambiguous so mr speaker there is no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr script pile and his daughter and for threatening the lives of other british citizens in salzburg including detective sergeant nick beatty she said the steps against moscow would include freezing up some russian accents and this is special of high level contacts be the headline move though was what will be the largest expulsion of russian diplomats from the u.k. in m

lots to choose a president members of parliament and local council officials that include mayors and councillors now across southern yawn we hear that things are moving on fine in sutton place and in most places but in certain places there are few which was where elections cannot start i had of shadow now to talk about that is our made sally you giallo election monitor here is certainly on can you talk to us what do you hearing from your team your colleagues across syria on what are they saying about voting in other areas of the moments of hot sun to speak to my colleagues across the country and reports coming from the other parts of the country indicates that the process of this started according to. the police is it didn't start to get to seventy a large that it doesn't peaceful and a lot of people have come out in the numbers to cast their votes for the flock on the night before this election there were warnings about election violence a possibility of violence breaking out a jew ring in after the vote what are you hearing are these concerns justified from what you're hearing from your colleagues across the lower in the of. because we're also monitor

election basically the president would be elected members of parliament chairmen of local councils as well as councillors so when they queue up on lines like this they get accredited and then they come to this particular station there are in fact twelve of them in this location then they'll be casting ballots this particular box is for councillors. the next one is for mayor or chairman and then over there there is a box for presidential candidates and members of parliament now as you can see over there that is an election official issuing out voters card or other a voting card. for this particular voter who will go and stamp and market then drop it inside now he's here marking his buy a lot after this he will drop it in each of the boxes slated for president member of parliament chairman of council. all i'm mayor so basically that shows how enthusiastic these voters are but of course there are at the back of their mind there is fear this is a country emerging from a brutal war a civil war it ended fifteen years ago but of course there are fears lingering fears of outbreak of violence. trying to the blocking of social media sites

council on the 23rd of march. that's but reassuring mp's who are concerned about creating more political problems in island. -- in ireland. mark: how many members of parliamentrt staying in the customs union? nicky morgan: the 10 of us that are signed at the moment, we are all watching and waiting. nobody wants to vote against their own government. of course, these are divisive issues. we are launching an inquiry tomorrow on this whole issue of the customs union. in ae say we can't be customs union because we want to strike independence with third-party free-trade agreements. is that worth the difficulty? mark: would you rather stay in a customs union or go out there and sign trade deals with other countries? what is preferable? nicky morgan: i'm unconvinced that the third-party free-trade on offer will are make up for the difficulties caused by imposing some kind of border infrastructure on the island. the prime ministers says that's not what you want. we have seen this week with u.s., this issue with tariffs and possible trade battles and every thing else, it's not easy to strike these third-party agreements. mark: supporting this trade bill amendment, som

council debates possible solutions to the crisis. and south africa's parliament passes a motion that could see white farmers across the country stripped of their land and without compensation we hear different opinions on the controversy. good evening to you my name is neil harvey this is r.t. international. but i'm a putin has delivered his annual state of the nation address to parliament sharing with them his vision of the country's future during that speech the president announced the development of new strategic weapons which he said outmaneuver all existing missile defenses senior correspondent right guess the it has the details well this was glad to be a putin's fourteenth address and the first step out of it was largely dedicated to domestic issues it was incredibly ambitious the things he called for in the things he said russia must do now he said it needs improvements across the board massive new funding expansion in infrastructure and you also address outside concerns security concerns namely the united states and nato which had been expanding building up. the stablish ng and setting up their own missile defense complexes surrounding russia basically vladimir putin said but no longer. russia

has been so far we have had word from one of the members of the committee for international affairs in the federation council that's the upper house of parliament here in russia and he said that the response could be more than tit for tat it could be even harsher and it could be that russia would expel even more than twenty three diplomats but that's not official word yet that was just one of the members of the upper house of russian parliament saying that the russian embassy has also responded they said that the u.k. has full responsibility for the deterioration of relations between the u.k. and russia and they also called this move just not just hostile but also short sighted the foreign ministry has said that there will be an official reaction soon so we'll have to watch out for the berg and can you put this in context for us what does this mean for british russian ties. well of course it's a new low point for british russian ties the relation has already been strained particularly since the death of alexander litvinenko and since it was found out by the inquiry that russia is responsible and most likely this was ordered directly by by the k

council debates possible solutions to the crisis. and south africa's parliament passes a motion that could see white farmers across the country stripped of their land without compensation to a different opinions onthe controversial move. or good evening to you my name is neil. harvey this is r.t. international. president putin has delivered his annual state of the nation address to parliament sharing with them his vision of the country's future and during our speech the president announced the development of new strategic weapons which he said outmaneuver all existing missile defenses of the senior correspondent has more if you aren't russian in the first hour of putin's speech would have been boring taxes and corruption science and industry that sort of thing after that though it got real hot real fast and i mean. russia is a major nuclear power basically nobody wanted to talk to us nobody listened to us so listen to us now rockets lasers nukes in a rush putin unveiled an arsenal of new weapons bigger faster stronger and deadlier than any that came before. the some super heavy i.c.b.m. two hundred ton missile capable of penetrating any existing defense in service at the end of the year next an

put a deal on the table to hammer out all the details a so that in time and that is by october as council president toast put it a deal is there for all the institutions the european parliament the european commission the european council but also the british parliament for all of them to ratify that steel so in fact they can meet that deadline in march next year and it will be a tight race the red government isn't duffus thank you very much for keeping across that story for us. christopher joins me now from business is in the e.u. thinks it's off the hook when it comes to these messages from the us crystal at least for now and looks like the negotiation negotiation efforts are showing some success the european union expects president trump to announce that the bloc will be exempted from fresh terrorist on steel and aluminum later today that's according to the european commissioner for trade now earlier germany's economy minister peter . had voiced similar hopes he and the commission heard trade have travel to washington earlier in the week to make the case for steel producers not the white house has said the tariffs will take effect beginning friday. now for some more asses

on the letter from twojewish groups accusing jeremy corbyn of failing to tackle anti—semitism. representatives from the board of deputies of britishjews and thejewish leadership council will hold a protest outside parliamentst a torrent unprecedented step, but it comes afterjust a torrent of incidents of anti—semitism within the labour party and what prompted this was our willingness and wish to support moderate and jewish members of labour party at today‘s parliamentary labour party meeting, really prompted by what we thought was the last straw over the weekend, which was the unsatisfactory way that the labour leader dealt with an anti—semitic mural a number of years ago and justified his decision to support the artist on the grounds of free speech. we felt that was enough. that there was too much going on within the labour party and we needed to send a letter to the parliamentary labour party saying that the party under its current leadership was unable to understand or... where anti—semitism occurred and address the concerns of community. do you think he is not fit to be leader then? no, we are not saying that at all. we are saying as a leader he has a duty to ta ke saying as a leader he has a duty to

on all the hoff by select few how can elected members of parliament accurately represent the diversity of british society i'm speaking as activists in the front line campaigning against tory government and local councils and working class issues striving to get the most vulnerable in society a seat at the table of power chris fairly is the founder and c.e.o. britain has class a grassroots charity stablish to tackle the institutions at the center of britain's class problems. so i'm a working class kid from luton i went to comprehensive schools all my life going to l.s.e. just sort of statistically in the sense of you know if you throw enough working class kids at the russell group universities some of them get in and i go and i study economics or three years and i nearly dropped out i think at least once a year because you just get there and you work so hard to get and you've done so many things to prove that you're worthy of being somewhere and doing something and then you have just thrown back in your face every minute of every day that you're around people who are better than you you know around you equals you're on your period because people have seen more than you've ever experienced more they the

the jewish board a protest in parliament organised by thejewish board of deputies and jewish leadership council and last nightjeremy corbyn said the party needed to do better on0 labour mps but still a group of more than a0 labourmps and but still a group of more than a0 labour mps and peers calling on him to suspend a senior official accused of supporting someone who had denied the holocaust, which she herself has denied. but so far he has shown no signs of wanting to do that. for now, thank you very much. 0fficials of sta nsted now, thank you very much. 0fficials of stansted airport have apologise. more than 100 flights from stansted airport were cancelled last night after a shuttle bus caught fire outside the terminal building. a normal service has resumed this morning but some passengers are unsure when they may be able to fly. earlier the chief operations officer explained why they had to make the decision to send travellers home. smoke was blowing into and across the terminal and it was difficult to see where it was coming from four. it went very dark inside and the first thought as always is the safety a nd first thought as always is the safety and sec

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