you will event in recent years poland has grown increasingly divided since the war and justice party came to power back in 2015. and staying here in europe spain's political deadlock looks set to continue prime minister pederast launches his socialist took the largest share of the votes in sunday's general election but yet again fell short of a majority the far right vox party which is vehemently opposed to catalonia independence made the biggest gains this was spain's 4th election in as many years . for the paper as its clear patron sanchez won the election but how he plans to bring together a majority capable of governing remains a mystery even to his supporters. outside the socialist party headquarters the mood was markedly less exuberant than during the last election and trolled. some supporters wave signs calling for a coalition with the leftist pajamas party but sanchez seems to want to keep his options open. we will form a progressive government and end the political blockade in our country that is the fight. meanwhile the separatist conflict in catalonia continues to polarize

for judges critics say it undermines the independence of the judiciary poland's ruling law and justice party introduced a bond 2 years ago as part of a package of reforms to the joint judicial system it makes about a 3rd of judges take an early pension opponents say their replacements would then be chosen by the heart. brussels bureau chief max often is following this developing story for us now max 1st of all just walk us through this ruling as the has there been a ruling and what did they use a high score design yeah the ruling is in the european court of justice so that you use highest court has ruled that there is infringement particularly on 2 issues that were in this law concerning the lower courts in poland the 1st one is that it's supposed to bring down the retirement age for women to 60 years and to men for 65 years notice something it's not the same retirement age so the fringe of it here is because of gender equality because men and women in the european union are supposed to be treated equally that's part one the 2nd part is that the justice minister in poland would have the powe

been under attack in recent years a law passed in 2016 gave the government of the populace lauren justice party control over state for costas reporters without borders say this is turn them into propaganda channels or here in germany polish journalist yet let the ash has been on it for his commitment to up holding press freedoms in his home country his small . germany's president joined politicians celebrities and high society for what's considered the biggest event on balance social cand the german press bowl. the evening's highlight was the award ceremony d w correspondent chata cliquey was on it for outstanding journalistic work. lives in warsaw in preparation for the ball he and his wife worked up their dance floor moves. for years to the polish press agency. fighting for independent press coverage but since the nationalists conservative p.a.'s party came to power in 2015 his job has gotten more difficult does pollution public remember the problem in poland is that we no longer have proper public broadcasters. the former public media outlets have been completely taken over by the government

if you're trying to understand the right, in poland the law and justice party just won a second term.ustice, or beast, as it's known in poland, has all the hallmarks of the new right. they attack liberal values, democratic institutions, they claim to be speaking for ordinary polls. but on the economy, the right wing piece is embracing the left. the biggest policy triumph for its government's last term was the family 500-plus program. it gives families cash handouts of about $130 per child per month regardless of income. the atlantic compared it to a scheme similar to the one andrew yang has been promoting in the united states, universal basic income. cash handouts to families are common in western europe, but this is an unusually large boost in social spending for eastern europe. and it's widely credited with helping the party win at the polls. now, pro-family programs have a certain resonance in eastern europe where immigration and a falling birth rate have resulted in population declines. but this is bigger than demographics. the law and justice party has in general expanded the wel

dominating the annual event in recent years paul poland has grown increasingly divided since the launch justice party came into power 2015. australian authorities are warning that its largest city sydney and surrounding areas are facing a catastrophic bushfire threat a state of emergency has been declared for the entire state of new south wales and queensland at least 3 people have already been killed while thousands have been forced to leave their homes. as certainty surrounds the whereabouts of evil rollason who has resigned as bolivian president following weeks of protest rallies says he was brought down by coup all the opposition says he was toppled by a popular uprising the organization of american states has called on bolivian lawmakers to resolve the crisis. spain's political deadlock looks set to continue prime minister progress on just as a socialist took the largest share of the vote in sunday's a general election but again fell short of a majority of vaux party which is v.m. only opposed to catalonia independence made the biggest gains it was space 4th election in as many years for the pap

the law and justice party has in general expanded the welfare state and raised spending on the poor." reports, the government cited it would nearly double its minimum wage. it raised pension payments and eliminated taxes for people under 26. kachinsky, the party's leader, said he drew inspiration from the kmen french economist. the german president crippled the judiciary and the press. but on economics, he's offered young couples interest-free loans. he's exempted women of paying income tax for life if they have four children. and pledged to expand nursery school capacity. he's expanded work for welfare programs. and look further back to his first term in office. after the financial crisis, he did something few dared to do. he bailed out borrowers at the expense of the banks, by offering extremely favorable rates on mortgages and forcing banks to absorb most of the difference. as the political scientist mitchell orenstein told the gps, this shift is particularly notable in eastern europe because these governments fully embrace free market ortho docks after the fall of the iron curtai

poland has become divided since the law and justice party came to power. australian authorities are warning its surrounding areas facing a catastrophic bush fighter threat. -- bushfire threat to three people have already been killed while thousands have been forced to leave their homes. uncertainty surrounds the whereabouts of eva morales who has resigned as the libyan president. he says he was brought down by a coup while the opposition says he was toppled by a popular uprising. the organization of american states has called on the libyan lawmakers to resolve the crisis. in europe, spain's political deadlock looks set to continue. prime minister pedro sanchez took the largest share of the vote but fell short of a majority. the far-right vox party, which is opposed to catalonian independence, made the biggest gains. this is spain's fourth election in as many years. >> pedro sanchez won the election, but how he plans to bring together a majority capable of governing remains a mystery, even to his supporters. outside, the socialist party headquarters, the mo

the highest public support almost 53 percent number 2 is the polish law and justice party who received almost 46 percent then the. people disagree. so the top 4 parties having a very strong legal. agenda illegal migration had a very serious impact on the entire european union look at the figure since 2015 there are of 33 major terrorist attacks. taking place in the european union committed by persons with the migratory background killing more than 300 people. which were created in the western european societies you see that they pose a security risk and they call it a risk as well because you know i mean such kind of decisions that the symbols of christian faith should be taken all from public institutions is is really. serious but i think other religions also face similar pressure. for example there is a pressure off downplaying islamics and i don't know i don't know about any islam country. of the muslim faith was forced to take. any kind of. places but anyway you know when it comes to let's say migration in order to address demography. labor market challenges i think that must be le

rule of law and justice party brought in the law retirement age 2 years ago as part of a package of reforms off the judicial system it makes about a 3rd of judges take on early pension opponents say the ruling party can then exercise influence over the courts by appointing replacements for the retired judges. now brussels bureau chief max for fun is following the story and joins me now mark fill us more about this ruling how did the e.u. use highest score justify its decision. you just mentioned one part of that i'm reading lowering the age of retirement of the judges of the lower court but it's not just the fact that they lowered the retirement age they lowered it differently for men and women so the new retirement age for women is 60 years and the new retirement age for men is 65 years on the court so the european court of justice in this case that use highest court ruled that this is not conform to e.u. law because it treats men and women differently that's one part of the ruling the 2nd part of the ruling is that only the justice minister has the power to extend the period of active dut

dominating the annual been in recent years poland has grown increasingly divided since the law and justice party came to power back in 2050 australian authorities are warning that its largest city sydney and surrounding areas are facing a catastrophic bushfire threat a state of emergency has been declared for the entire state of new south wales and queensland at least 3 people have already been killed while thousands have been forced to leave their homes spain's political deadlock is set to continue afterwards 4th inconclusive election in as many years while the governing socialist party celebrating the victory in sunday's election it failed to secure a majority the far right vox party with its vehement stance against kettle on independence more than doubled its seats in parliament. the world's biggest economies are not doing enough to fight climate change that is the finding in a new report by the climate transparency network instead of a decrease in c o 2 emissions laid out by the paris climate accord those emissions are increasing mainly due to 3 factors what are the a rise in g.d.p. we've go

towards on iraq's minister of justice his impartiality has been questioned by us workers party. to the carwash corruption operation is the largest in brazil's history and polarized society thousands demanded justice on the streets because the investigation discredited brazil's political class discontent paved the way for the election of the us president and that's why not everyone in brazil celebrated last release on friday. are a mystery really disappointing to them because of their is no reason and the mood of people that can make inquiry no fears are put in the know and the making of serious damage for the country and there is right now. movement and congressman's future in the situation he would allow the region in this circumstance but in the meantime lula is free and instead of being weakened by his time in prison he seems determined to reclaim his place in brazilian politics once again that he said will help. well a group of chileans has openly defied president sebastian pinera as threat of a crackdown on violent protests mass demonstrators set fire to a university and loo

elect for poland's law and justice party which was recently reelected to government and which is often criticized for being anti immigrant anti refugee but actually you're not anti immigrant and refugee you're ok with white christian immigrants from ukraine you've taken around $2000000.00 of them in you're just not ok it seems would brown muslim refugees from the middle east white people fine brown people not fine there's a word for that isn't there dominic. good evening thank you for having me it has nothing to do with. it hasn't it hasn't it has nothing to do with the religion i keep repeating it for last 4 or 5 years it's all about safety and the common sense it's not law it's not about ukrainians who are allowed to come to poland it's about illegal migrants who wants to cross our borders and if you're brown and white yellow wall or whatever if you want to cross our border illegally you're not allowed we are reacting well 1st of all plenty of people are coming into your illegally as asylum seekers you have a legal right to asylum from places like syria but you say it's not about rel

elect for poland's law and justice party which was recently reelected to government and which is often criticized for being anti immigrant and refugee but actually you are not anti immigrant you.

involved was mortal who is now john. 8 awards on iraq's minister of justice his impartiality has been questioned by u.s. workers party. to the carwash corruption operation is the largest in brazil's history and polarized society thousands demanded justice on the streets because the investigation discredited brazil's political class discontent pave the way for the election of the last president and that's why not everyone in brazil celebrated last release on friday. i missed really disappointed because of there is no reason and the reward to a people that can make inquiry now here's a plane though and the making of serious damage for the country and there is right now. movement and congressman's future in the situation where allow the region in the 2nd these but in the meantime lula is free and instead of being weakened by his time in prison he seems determined to reclaim his place in brazilian politics once again. 17 rockets have landed close to an iraqi army base south of the city of mosul the base also houses american troops which are part of the u.s. led coalition helping iraqi forces battle remnants of eisel have

and bill barr in the party justice if trump doesn't win and a bill bar in the party justice if trump doesn't wimp out like he has in the past these guys are going to go to jail while we serve out like he has in the past these guys are going to go to jail well we certainly hope so i wonder what i think it's the it'll be easy it's easy for me to imagine them in orange last 36 hope so i wonder what i think it's the it'll be easy it's easy for me to imagine them in orange last 30 seconds goes to you garland go ahead. what these people on on goes to you garland go ahead. what these people don't understand is their power 9 is in their anonymity their strength is in people not knowing what they do but in the stand is their power is in their anonymity their strength is in people not knowing what they do but nothing makes the tree grow like pruning it they're trying to cut people off at the root and that's going to call nothing makes the tree grow like pruning it they're trying to cut people off at the root and that's going to cause people to push back more and to want to know what they're tr

they have nine justices, five appointed by president of one party, for by president of another party in the president appointed them in the justices himself have differences about how they thank you should go about interpreting the constitution that ends up dividing in the highest profile hot button issues along the lines of the president that appointed them. it's very easy for the public that used to practicing everything else in political terms to say the five conservatives x, the four why and i honestly believe the court is not processing the cases that way but they are processing the cases through j their philosophy that happens at this moment in time to kill one 100% with the political affiliation of the president who appointed them. it hasn't been that way this starkly before, jan alluded to justice seer. justice stevens two republican appointees who ended up voting much more like numeral justices, if you can use that term. it sort of showed like they were doing that, it's not because -- it's just stevens and a certain sort of country club chicago kind of way, still a republican

include at least one transgender artist we discuss the issue with the leader of british political party justice for men and boys and also with the women's rights activist. deneuve museum is actually to affirmative action to to write a historical wrong which has been. excluding basically women from from the arts world and i fully support their their choice and all too often in recent years i've seen some bizarre works and they are painfully poor and you know very often it must be by a woman because it's been put in there to satisfy some gender quotes but you know the public knows good fine arts from poor arts i think my counterpart is not really understanding the argument the argument is the fact that. we men have never big given are not very well arts and it's important to give access to art to all genera to all genders in general like all races etc but did not say women cannot be good artists what i'm saying is that for you that i let most of the work coming out of the humanities where art please please maria let me finish let please let me finish what i was saying at the top of the virtually

male and female representation but we discuss the issue with the leader of the british political party justice for men and boys and also with the women's rights activist. complete nonsense i'm not aware of a field of human activity where excellence can be measured objectively where women compete in any numbers at the top level this is all about. this is all about forcing institutions to buy poor from poor female artists of course they don't agree and. it's actually to. affirmative action to write a historical wrong which has been. excluding basically women from from the arts world and i fully support their their choice of it all too often in recent years i've seen some bizarre works they are paying for them. and you know very often it must be by a woman because it's been put in there. to satisfy some gender quotes but we know the public knows good fine arts from poor arts i think my counterpart is not really understanding the argument the argument is the fact that. we men have never big given are not very well arts and it's important to give access to art to all general to all genders in gener

ok joining me now to debate the topic we have the leader of the british political party justice for men and boys that might be cannon and women's rights activists maria beatrice giovanni welcome to you both a very good evening. to 1st as i understand we're talking just 4 percent of the museum's current permanent works are created by women so people would say you know this is a long overdue correction. you know it's complete nonsense i'm not aware of a field of human activity where excellence can be measured objectively where women compete and in numbers at the top level this is all about. this is all about forcing institutions to buy poor arts from poor female artists. that's a strong assertion maria how would you respond to that. well of course they don't agree and. museum is actually to. affirmative action to to write a historical wrong which has been. excluding basically women from from the arts world and i fully support their their choice i mean they said don't give up this can be used in many runs a life might that if people aren't given the opportunity then they they were proven o

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election can be used to talk about more important things which to hedge mind arc social justice, climate change, and the party had already said that the brexit strategy was if they were to come into power, they would renegotiate with the eu within the first three months of them taking control, and then put that to a referendum to the british people. he is saying that our plan is laid out, let's not talk about it, let's use oui’ let's not talk about it, let's use our energy to talk about what people are looking for. as leader of the labor party, that would be a good strategy, wouldn't you think?m seems so. strategy, wouldn't you think?m seems so. settling to keep everyone in the same page. none of this confusion? that has been the challenge for his party. notjust his party... other members of the labour party have even said that their party is remaining, and he is crushed that, we are looking to support the result of the first referendum in 2015, we will renegotiate what we think would be a better deal and we will pointed to the british people stop in the meantime, let's talk about the other great things that

standards for quality services that we could look at trends, and that we could ensure procedural justice for both parties. and as a result, we have been able to get more people to agree to mediation than we have in the first year that we were doing this. we've also developed some other efficiencies and what we think is more effective for some people and that is telephone mediations. there are oftentimes people who have come to san francisco they may live in the east bay maybe they are traveling out of town, and we have been able to arrange several mediations by telephone. and those prove very satisfactory with mediators coming to our office officers in our office and conducting mediation through the telephone. we would like to do this through a video at some point. but at this particular time i don't think that we have plans to do that. >> we need you to wrap this up please. >> okay. the last thing i want to talk about is how we are measuring success. we are measuring it in two indices. one is the process. is the process fair? the outcome, is the outcome long-lasting. out come is important in terms of sa

30 p.m., the democratic presidential candidates are in des moines for the iowa democratic party liberty and justiceebration. at 8:00 p.m. on c-span two, president trump holds a campaign rally in tupelo, mississippi. on c-span3, at 9:30 a.m., a report on the effects of climate change. forre the house adjourned the week, outgoing california representative katie hill gave her final speech from house floor after intimate photos of her released without her knowledge and an internal house panel began looking into possible ethics violations involving her and a congressional staffer. in her farewell remarks, the lawmaker apologized to her constituents and explained her decision to resign. ms. hill: this is the last speech that i will give on this floor as a member of congress. i wasn't ready for my time here to come to an end so soon. it's a reality i'm still grappling with and i will be for a long time to come. i expected or i at least hoped to be here for at long -- for as long as the voters of my district deemed me worthy of the honor of representing them. i thought i could make a

, four appointed by presidents of another party and presidents that appointed them in the justices themselves have some differences, fundamental differences how you go about interpreting the constitution, that end up dividing in the highest profile hot button issues along the lines of the president that appointed them. it is very easy for the public that is used to processing everything else in political terms to say the five conservatives that did x before liberals did why and i honestly believe justices are not processing the cases that way but they are processing the cases through their judicial philosophies that happened at this moment in time to dovetail 100% with political affiliation of the president who appointed them. it hasn't been that way before. jan alluded to justice souter, justice stevens to republican appointees who ended up voting much more like liberal justices if you can use that term and it sort of shows why were they doing that, justice stevens in a certain country club chicago kind of way is still a republican but he had a judicial philosophy that is very dif

previous justice departments, both parties have said the president and his senior advisers are absolutely having to sit down and testify before congress. the second issue is executive privilege. a little different. they have to show up, but they don't have to answer questions about certain issues and you know these issues actually -- >> that would be applicable to a classified type of information though. >> not just classified information. presidents of both parties dating back to really george washington made the argument that an executive privilege prevents senior administration officials from testifying about sensitive issues. national security. diplomacy. law enforcement. military issues. and the supreme courts ratify that notion. there's a big question about whether that applies here. >> i was going to ask. does this fall into that category? >> well, so -- >> especially when there's the language of the favor and going after a political opponent? >> yeah. it's very interest iing and we haven't really seen the white house kind of make this argument but let's, i think we're going to ant

party event last night in iowa. ♪ ♪ >> ♪ my weight today? -- >> good evening and welcome to the 2019 liberty and justice celebration hosted by the iowa democratic. for our floor guests, dinner is now served. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ betty: --ering] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you. ♪ iowaank you to the entire democratic party team. it is an honor to be at your liberty and justice dinner. it is even a bigger honor to be in a room full of committed democrats. including two mentors of mine, this gentleman, mr. chairman, senator, mentor, tom, can you please stand up one more time? [crowd cheering] tom: thank you. forcan we please give it up your former governor, my former cabinet colleague and a life log mentor. -- lifelong mentor, thank you governor. [crowd cheering] again, a big shout out to your congressional delegation, thank you so much, abby, and cindy storming to victory because you guys knocked on doors. they lead with their values, thank you. thank you to my friend, thank you for my -- or service congressman. thank you for everything you have done and best of luck. you do not know what the word retirement is. you will be knocking on doors every single day for democrat