it's once a general election now. it's because of the split within the party itself, we know teresa may vote sta nd party itself, we know teresa may vote stand on she said she went before the next general election, so for the tories, it's a question of who leads us into the next general election and the split within labour is obvious, they will be those who like these in the story say there will be a number of mps who don't wa nt to will be a number of mps who don't want to see jeremy corbyn will be a number of mps who don't want to seejeremy corbyn as prime minister, and then you've got the other supporters sat —— a mess of the split within the party make a general election a bit trickier than normal. extraordinary times, let's have a look at the daily telegraph, martin, jihadijack, i miss my mother. this is a man as he was when he went out to join i asked, and a fight with them, now another case of someone fight with them, now another case of someone coming back to the uk. very similarto someone coming back to the u

candidate for prime minister of the world family has stopped her bid for power and next month's general election when he has more from bangkok. two weeks ago the tire rocks a chart party entered the political spotlight as they launched their election campaign the leaders talked about the need for thailand to innovate. but the candidate chosen to stand as prime minister proved to be an innovation to follow in a country where the monarchy is regarded as above politics. princess was ruled ineligible after the palace sidhu nomination was in violation of royal tradition and culture and highly inappropriate after a complaint from an independent constitution monitoring organization the election commission has recommended that the court dissolve the party if the court agrees it would be the dissolution of a political party backed by former prime minister taksin shinawatra who lives in exile after his overthrow in the two thousand and six military coup. talks in china what has spent his political career fighting the establishment and on friday ties thought he had staged a major coup himself by having a m

now they are dead set on winning a general election. you, some of them are coming out of the last few days and saying, this is not about party unity, electoral politics, it is about national interest. the root of the crisis that has enveloped britain is conservative rule and the only way of addressing the injustices and division in the country that led to brexit is to have a set of policies that will address it and you can only do that with the labour government. the truth is, there are so many myths in the media about the reality, for example, even a parliamentary arithmetic. for example, if labour backed a second referendum, what would happen is various members of the shadow cabinet would resign, lots of front bench ministers would resign because they represent leave seats and they made a promise at the last general election to their constituents that they would not block a reverse brexit. these are not lefties, these people did not vote forjeremy corbyn in either leadership election. if there was a free vote of labour mps, most would

view, and has already touched on this partly in terms of the last thing the country needs is a general electionow, as anna eloquently put, we have not changed. what we stood on, our values, our own leaflets, have not changed. what we stood on, ourvalues, our own leaflets, our own campaigning when we stood in 2017, none of that has changed. there are big chunks of the manifesto that have not been delivered, but everything we've promised has not changed. people need to remember, this is what the big parties do. they want to crush the birth of democracy for so they wa nt the birth of democracy for so they want to crush people like us trying to change things for this country. this is the game, of course, that they will play for we are better than that and think constituents in the country deserves better than that. gary at the breakfast going down this line. each of you talked a bit about things you thought were wrong with the tory party and suggested it had gone bad very recently. there will be a lot of people, labour mp is included, who are thinking ofjoining this group you actually think that wh

as it relates to the general election, i wish that the republican leaders in this state took election security, put more emphasis on it. for what we can control here, as it relates to the caucuses, we are committed to making sure caucuses are secure, safe, transparent, and accessible for everyone. susan: mr. buckley? chariman buckley: i, once again, agree with everything troy has said. we are all working diligently on the state and national level. unfortunately, the republican party in concord and washington is not taking it very seriously at all. i think that's a detriment to democracy. we saw from the democratic national committee's perspective in 2016, where acting chair donna brazil attempted multiple times to reach out to the rnc to get them to take it seriously. because our position was, maybe not this election, but it could be you in the next election. we now know why the republicans weren't taking it seriously. apparently, as we will discover in the coming months, that there was a collusion involved in there. susan: josh? josh: chairman, president trump has taken the republica

we just heard from madrid that prime minister pedro sanchez has indeed called a general election, and he has set the date for that electionas april 28th the big question mark into today was when he would call this election it was widely expected by the market that he would be calling for snap elections after he suffered that budget defeat earlier this week. there were other dates being floated, but we have now confirmation from the pm that that will come on april 28th now, we do have willem in madrid with us. he has been bringing us updates throughout the morning we will be getting back out to him later today. i think he may even be able to join us now from madrid. willem, tell us a little bit more now that we have confirmation we're looking at an april 28th election >> yes one of the dates that has been floated ahead of the statement from pedro sanchez's associate prime minister it doesn't coincide with the parliamentary elections in may that means that spaniards can focus on their own national elections and spanish political parties can focus on these national elections what we've s

it is not only about winning the democratic nomination and the general election. it is about transforming our country and creating a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial, and environmental justice. our campaign is about taking on the powerful special interests life.ominate our economic i'm talking about wall street, the health insurance companies, the fossil fuel industry, the military-industrial complex, the prison industry, and multinational corporations that exert such a large influence over our lives. our campaign is about redoubling our effort to end racism, sexism, homophobia, and all forms of discrimination. it is about creating a vibrant democracy with the highest voter turnout of any major country on end voterile we suppression, citizens united, and your mentoring -- gerrymandering. it is about creating an economy that works for the many, not just a few. we are the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. we should not have a grotesque level of wealth inequality in which 3 billion -- million now more wealth than the bottom

you have to deal with the reality and that happens in the general election and when you have the democratic left and and proposing the ideas that ultimately won't exactly work very well it hurts them in the general. arthel: let me ask you one final question as we already know senator klobachur to announce this afternoon, joining senators kamala harris, kristin gillibrand and cory booker, are the democrats on policy senate? >> how do you mean? arthel: i'm sorry, are they dismissing, misjudging power of senate, everybody is running for president? >> without a doubt. yeah, without a doubt. everything that's happening in the presidential campaign comes at the price getting things done here in washington and you're exactly right. [laughter] >> sort of half of the democratic caucus in senate running for the united states senate, running for the domination, you will have democrats running trying to come up with the best way to capture the imagination of democratic voters with increasing liberal stances and that does not do anything to help getting things done legislatively in the senate as you poi

i'm not saying he couldn't win, but he's pretty weak in the general election.s some point if he weakened further, republicans would say we're concerned about whether or not he's going to win, if we're going to face a far-level nominee, and will he take the rest of us down with him. >> primaries and incumbent presidents is not usually a winning battle, but trump has weaknesses, up unapproval rating. here to discusses, democratic strategist and co-host of "rising on the hill" crystal ball, and cnn political commentator, charlie dent. congressman dent, would larry hogan have a real shot, or is this a pipe dream for never-trumpers? >> today i don't think he has a chance of winning a primary, but the primary election is not today, either. we're still waiting on a mueller report. there's a lot that it happen between now and then. i think governor hogan is right, the rnc shouldn't be putting such a heavy hand on the scale. sometimes -- >> he made that point, too. what are they so afraid of? republicans are fairly united behind trump. >> they are. >> it looks like it's

mcdaniel in mississippi, who he thought of as someone who was flawed and potentially could lose the general election for the republicans. it is a political move. is of the underlying themes the importance of relationships, particularly in the u.s. senate. mitch mcconnell has a relatively special relationship. here is where video. [video clip] >> obviously, it is a great

was one of the key factors that contributed to his defeat in general elections last year since then the government headed by prime minister mahathir mohamad has stepped up investigations into the case as more. he's adamant he's innocent and he's fighting back storming social media and remaking his image he's hit the airwaves with a cover of an old r. and b. song slamming the new government as liars. in all magic faces forty two counts of criminal breach of trust graft abuse of power and money laundering. soon after he was sworn in as prime minister in two thousand and nine he set up the one n.d.p. state development fund with saudi money to boost the economy. in twenty fourteen he seemed to be riding high hosting the asean summit in kuala lumpur but behind the scenes according to the u.s. department of justice no less than four and a half billion dollars were being stolen from the fund by not jobs associates the u.s. also says the money was then laundered outside the country and that close to seven hundred million dollars ended up in not own bank account the stunning allegations of massi

mcdaniel in mississippi who he thought of as someone who was flawed and potentially could lose the general election for the republicans. that affs very successful thing for him. one thing i will note about mcconnell is his convictions about how the senate should be run are very much colored by the political moment. i'll give you two things here. two examples. january 25. he says he will not allow the senate to become a theater for show votes and he will only bring up legislation that can pass the chamber and become signed into law. just a few weeks later february 12 he said he'd bring up a vote on the green new deal. the democratic resolution. everybody knows that is not going to pass. everybody knows it is not going to become law. a political move designed to put the democrats in a difficult position. host: one of the underlying themes of the last hour we've been chatting is the importance of relationships. particularly in the u.s. senate. mitch mcconnell has a relatively special relationship. here is a little bit more video. senator mcconnell: obviously it

these presidency we're asking what is the stage of the rainbow nation just months ahead of the general election that could definitively change the country's political landscape. and as tens of thousands of nigerians flee an upsurge in violence or hear from the experts warning off a new made humanitarian crisis. i'm christine one bill welcome to news africa i'm glad you're chewing then the stakes were high when south africa's president sort of opposed to gave he's state of the nation address on thursday evening i'm opposed to has been president for just shy of a yeah he assumed office office of the ruling a.n.c. the former leader jacob zuma but as the a.n.c. rather continues to be buffeted by corruption scandals the powerful pulpit off a drum opposed to an opportunity to market his vision of the reform party we'll get reaction to the state of the nation speech but first some of the highlights. cinerama arriving for a second state of the nation address since taking office with an election looming the president of the ruling african national congress set up to hide out advances made in the last tw

>> that's the message she'd bring to the general election.he problem is her republican opponent, presumably president trump, would try to scare americans into what she's actually offering. you know, it is true, taxing the wealthy polls very well right now. reparations for slavery doesn't poll well, especially among the midwestern white swing vote. you know, other issues like medicare for all is a phrase. it polls decently, but once you talk about eliminates private insurance, which is something that kamala harris got a little tripped up about right out of the gate, it works better in a democratic primary than the midwestern states she's talking about. she has a unifying message. you'll see it from the democratic candidates. we're all americans. we're in this together. we have the same hopes, dreams, and fears. the problem is, the details of some of these policies, if republicans can stick democrats with them, and we don't know if that's going to be the case, could hurt them in the general election. >> gentlemen, stand by if you can. michael a

a second referendum, europe might go to that, a general election.ve an extension because we are late because haven't got around to it, i'm not sure. she is facing a new set of votes, thievery14 is it, i'm not sure. she is facing a new set of votes, thievery 14 is the next big date to watch. 0ver new set of votes, thievery 14 is the next big date to watch. over to the observer. rebel labour mps set to quit party and formed centre groups. theresa may is not the only leader with issues on her plate. we go back to the 19805 and divisions within the labour party. back then it was a gang of four, and now it may be a gang of four, and now it may be a gang of four, and now it may be a gang of six or eight. regardle55 gang of four, and now it may be a gang of six or eight. regardless of which paper you speak to, it is clear this group of mp5, which includes people like chris le5lie, angela smith, were reported they are disgruntled and di55ati5fied angela smith, were reported they are disgruntled and dissatisfied with labour'5 position on venezuela, labour'5

facing the prospect of a general election in four years members of parliament defeated the budget. you're up to date with the headlines here on coming up next story. the thai opposition party is facing the act of backing the botched election bid fire princess what does it mean for democracy as thailand prepares for its first vote since the military took power five years ago this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program denis thailand's election commission has recommended the dissolution of the party that chose a princess to be its candidate for prime minister the march twenty fourth general election in this constitutional monarchy will be the first since a military coup in twenty fourteen we'll be discussing the impact of the looming ban on the tyrants the chart party with our guests in just a moment first this report from our correspondent wayne hay in bangkok. two weeks ago the thai rak the chart party entered the political spotlight as they launched their election campaign the leaders talked about the need for thailand to innovate . but the candidate chosen to stand as

yes, no one wants to have a general election, andi wants to have a general election, and i think theroup has made people get quite serious about this, these three members of the conservatives walked across the floor of the chamber, this is serious, so we have got to understand, but also with the labour party, we have got to think about the constituencies in the north and the constituencies in the north and the west midlands who voted to leave, so they have issues within their own party that is causing concern. their own party that is causing concern. one estimate of 25 labour mps that were not... that do want brexit and don't want a referendum. it is like a game of chess at the moment. this is the guardian. jeremy corbyn will back a public vote to stop a tory brexit and this comes after a push by keir starmer and deputy leader tom watson. tom watson is going to address his own group of labour mps tomorrow, is the prime minister makes her statement. huge matching nations behind the scene, and a lot of coded messages. —— huge macca nations. tom watson was one of the senior labour mps w

policy that chose a princess to be its candidate for prime minister the march twenty fourth general election in this constitutional monarchy will be the first since a military coup in two of the fourteen we'll be discussing the impact of the looming ban on the thai rats the chop party with our guest in just a moment first this report from our correspondent wayne hay in bangkok. two weeks ago the time the chart party entered the political spotlight. as they launched their election campaign the leaders talked about the need for thailand to innovate . but the candidate chosen to stand as prime minister proved to be an innovation too far in a country where the monarchy is regarded as above politics princess who was ruled ineligible after the palace in her nomination was in violation of royal tradition and culture and highly inappropriate after a complaint from an independent constitution monitoring organization the election commission has recommended that the court dissolve the party if the court agrees it would be the third dissolution of a political party backed by former prime minister taksin

ultimately, will this be an issue at the next general election? very early david cameron comment on jeremy corbyn. my mother would say to you, put a shirt on, do your tie up to you, put a shirt on, do your tie up and sing the national anthem. this is that these as to what david cameron was getting at. finally, briefly. can we go to the telegraph? mouldyjam. briefly. can we go to the telegraph? mouldy jam. this is an issue that got a nation talking. theresa may's admission to her cabinet yesterday that she scraped the mould of the top of the jam before she spread on her toes. gait has divided the country apparently. i do it. henry was saying, i keep myjam in the fridge so it has never gone mouldy. i have never seen mould onjam. my favourite thing about this story is two years ago, to reason me to donald trump is chart ofjam as a present. i wonder what he did with it. -- a present. i wonder what he did with it. —— ajarofjam. present. i wonder what he did with it. -- ajar ofjam. we present. i wonder what he did with it. -- a jar ofjam. we will be pre

prime minister petro sanchez is expected to announce on friday whether he will call an early general election the socialist premier had been depending on the support of two pro independent parties to get the budget through but both voted against after he ruled out talks on self-determination for consul mona saying that spain's constitutional just lost a lot. more from pablo. welcome pablo so where does this leave the government well this is do government with what is funded commentators are saying with hours more or less until an announcement is made on the end of better sanctions as government is going to call snap elections that's what x. what's expected it looks likely. it will take place in april because in may of course spain will be taking part in the european elections and also regional and local elections will be taking place then so on friday there's a cabinet meeting and it's expected that an announcement will be made by then over and back to when the parliament will be dissolved and when the elections will take place ok so just to be clear this is this is such a big deal because he

you can't have a general election. what are you doing. don't want to fight you. we like a general election. this moves onto the front page of the sun. cabinet ministers believe this could be a nice poetic finish for the premiership. believe this could be a nice poetic finish forthe premiership. i have done the hard work, i have delivered thanks it, i bow out now. sailing off into the sunset. all prime ministers like to get the opportunity. usually quite astute in his political commentary. the interesting thing, the kind of identified to cabinet issues. two issues. including liam fox. it is interesting. it's written carefully enough. i don't think it's coming from tourism. i think there is enough of it there, in a sense, that she already made clear she is not going to serve the next election. seeing off the leadership challenge in december. there is a reality that whatever happens with brexit, if she just gets over the line, all her political capital has been used up. the conservative party is not going to want a refreshed new start. were

in days and date a am i think is a very as ass i mentioned i is a veryry open spanish general election i thinknk it's s gonna. it's gonna be quite a polarizing and quite a puller on n s campaign i think there's a lot to pay for o on both sides. and i think in one sense the fact that traditional spanishsh conservativeves are prepared to ally with the far right may actually produce. lotsts of disenchanted left wing via to stay time they may end up goining t to the polls to stop. what they perceive as ththe far righght having too much influene so that gives a slight advantage to patterson check? in your opinion how is it possible that the spanish political scene get shaken up so dramatically in short spans of time. well i thinknk i am readydy to s is is one and so w which is t te economic crisis the economic crisis. that begegan in two thousand i just still playing i i is still disrupupting politicalal life nt just in spain but in the rest of europe. and spine is now facing -- what w what what w was once a to party system is now i've been completely eroded and and it's currently five part

if they don't get rid of trees that might be if we can get a general election it was absolutely clear at conference we want to second people's vote. so i don't see why one for me so surprised it's been covered as a great betrayal and particularly saying that how can a second vote be all knowing the referendum which labor prevails if you look back at the referendum what both sides were saying to remain as and believe as it's all turned out not to be true i.e. what we've now got is much more detailed analysis of what's going happen and the defining issue has been diffused at the business community overwhelmingly every business thinks there will be major problems if we leave in that as that's come across in the media i think that's why there's been a shift now and you can't unite people and not a vote if they change their mind i like we've never been alexa here on the left of the sort of tony benn's side of brick sets you know just when they were actually in the first referendum back in one nine hundred seventy five i voted to leave you were because of them was about two to one in favor

budget is usually approved by parliament to keep the government running in the months just for a general election but this party lost in three regional elections in december thanks in part to a lack of support from farmers and workers and in a few short months mo the faces a general election in his bid for a second term. or d.w. asia news anchor be responded to is with us this show will be covering this story in detail tell us about this interim budget this is usually something that doesn't make headlines but this time it has why the simple answer to that is because the good government from is noted from all the has reached into its big finance bag and put it out in a virtual india gift card it's a gift card for all such in the society that matter to the name the more they go to the middle flows the farmers especially and also labor those in the unorganized sector this socks that have been promised to these people and they really did need the money but it's the timing of it remember you said the word intended in the interim budget in ten budgets. a number six grand prix is the reason they've been

commission says political campaigning can resume after its controversial decision to delay the general elections by a week president rouhani is calling for an investigation into why the vote was. a new round of trade talks between the united states and china is set to be held in washington from tuesday and follows last week's negotiations in beijing which ended without a deal but negotiators say some progress has been made at resolving the ongoing trade war between rounds two largest economies edging brown has more from beijing will lou hurt china's vice premier who is leading the chinese negotiating team will be on his way back to washington shortly to continue those resumed negotiations which will be held at the end of the week high noon is approaching zero because president donald trump has warned that unless there is a deal by march the first beijing time march the second washington time that he will raise tariffs from ten to twenty five percent on some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese products i think while there has been progress made clearly not enough progress has been made o

it was the 2017 general election, it was the 2017 general election, it was those kinds of patriotic labourbor party. the lesson of that is that they might have felt a bit comfortable and unsure aboutjeremy corbyn in downing street and john mcdonnell in 11 downing street, but they ultimately, where it matters, held firm and voted labour. and they probably will do again whenever the next election is. ok. the front page of the mirror. your paper, they are treating you well. yes. keeping me busy. on a scandal. england hero lost out. gordon banks who died yesterday. he was 81. missed out on a knighthood. one of our reviewers last night was asking why it he didn't have a knighthood. and they didn't have a knighthood. and they did not know the answer to it. nomination papers were sent in three years ago and then got lost somewhere in the whitehall system and the daily mirror has spoken to his former colleagues and friends who nominated him in the first place and they have revealed that there was a plan afoot for him to be granted a knighthood, but he lost out because of this whitehall blunder. wh

because the 2017th general election would achieve.e labour party split and it's been denied i'd those specifically named, there is an argument that it splits there is an argument that it splits the left of centre politics again which creates even more problems than those who find themselves left of centre, not even labour voters, but labour, liberal democrats. it's difficult to see how all of this can be resolved. in normal circumstances what would happen if politicians would push the situation back to the public, there will be another election referendum, but theresa may is saying, we will not do that. let's look inside the sunday times. such a sad story. a lot of this. the effects of social media on mental health. indeed, there's been a lot of discussion about how young, vulnerable teenagers suffering with lots of concerns and worries, mental health concerns, or essentially finding notjust a health concerns, or essentially finding not just a way of support but finding avenues that encourage their eating disorders, their problems. th

we'll see a woman elected in a couple months i think, as the former attorney general, she'll be elected restore of rule of law and respect for law and continue to fight corruption in that role. >> senator tom carper, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. >>> we are just getting word about when former trump fixer attorney michael cohen will be reporting to prison and the timing may impact possible testimony. we'll talk about that. also a new twist in this whole jussie smollett case. chicago police now working to obtain the actor's financial records. we'll talk about what they are hoping to find there. stay with me. let's go from plans... to full-blown production. ♪ ♪ let's go from being on-call... ♪ ♪ to being on-line. american express can help move your business forward with loans, vendor payments and buying power. chat with one of our 4000 specialists and let's make it happen. the powerful backing of american express. don't do business without it. guess what day it is? guess what day it is! huh...anybody? julie! hey...guess what day it is? ah come on, i know you can hear me. mike

and thatis chances at a general election and that is incredibly dangerous.he next mp that might resign. the strategy is a drip to try and discredit labour and i don‘t believe that any of them... sorry, we‘re going to have to leave it there. i‘m going to take up that "i didn't it there. i‘m going to take up that "i didn‘t see any spin doctors this morning, but i wasn‘t in the room. thank you forjoining us. labour front bench mpjon ashworth tweeted: former labour leader ed miliband said on twitter... that is some of the response coming let‘s speak now to the guardian columnist, dawn foster. she joins me via webcam from south london. are you surprised by all of this? not at the moment, to be honest. it has been a long time coming. there have been a lot of talks about this over and over again. we have had lots of discussions about people saying that they want to start a new separatist party and they believe there is a genuine route for it. i think what will happen next is the number will be very, very low. i would be surprised, given the reaction this morning to

and today he said that general elections are not an option right now and you know way he also threatens right now he said that the reelections that could happen in this country right now would be legislative election which basically would be to replace the current national assembly that's controlled by the opposition so that it will certainly in a way spark more tension in this already divided country well thank you very much to raise above bring us all the latest developments there in caracas where opposition to. the national assembly will of course the political turmoil in venezuela has divided the international community turkey's president has been speaking out on his criticize the united states in the european union for endorsing . situation. what's happening in venezuela right now is venezuela your state. how can you say leave it and go to somebody who is doing that job was the result of the election how could you deliver the presidency over a nation to someone who hasn't even been through an election whereas the democracy the. egypt's parliament is advancing plans to let abdul fat

cani general election.lready knows, i want to see the future relationship coming into place by the beginning of 2021, well in advance of the next general election. the other point you made is absolutely the point i have been making to the european union, that one of the concerns of this house was that any assurances given in relation to the temporary nature of the backstop in early january were not of the same legal form of the international treaty which forms the withdrawal agreement. that's why what we are asking for is legally binding status to these, and the obvious way to do that is within the withdrawal agreement. rachel reeves. cani withdrawal agreement. rachel reeves. can i say to the right honourable gentleman, the humiliation this country is facing is losing jobs and investment. that's what we should be focusing on. the business secretary told our select committee last week that this friday, the 15th of february, is the deadline for getting a dealfor february, is the deadline for getting a deal fo