across poland against widespread changes to thejudiciary being implemented by the governing law and justice partyesters have returned to the streets of hong kong to maintain pressure on the territory's

across poland against widespread changes to thejudiciary being implemented by the governing law and justice party've called for the reinstatement of one judge who was dismissed earlier this week. thousands of protesters have returned to the streets of hong kong to maintain pressure on the territory's bejing—backed government. at ten o'clock, clive myrie will be here with a full round—up of the day's news. first it's time for our world: hidden children of bulgaria. a warning — you may find the following programme distressing from the very start. in 2007, the bbc film bulgaria's abandoned children, exposed tragic levels of neglect in mogilino, an institute for disabled children. the film created an international outcry. as a result, with funding from the eu, the bulgarian government closed many of the country's larger institutes, replacing them with group homes that house up to m people. over a quarter of a billion euros from the eu has been invested in these reforms. but a shocking report has just been released by the advocacy organisation disability rights international, revealing that, while the

widespread changes to the country's legal system, which are being implemented by the governing law and justice partyment of one judge who was dismissed earlier this week. the government has clashed with the european commission over its changes to the judiciary. residents of venice have voted on whether to split administratively from its neighbouring city on the italian mainland. supporters say venice needs its own administration to tackle rising sea levels, mass tourism and failures to build flood defences. however the poll requires a 50% turnout for the result to be valid, which may not have been reached. malta's prime minister, joseph muscat, says he will stand down in the new year, once his governing labour party has chosen a successoi’. he made the announcement in a national television address. mr muscat had been under intense pressure to quit, over an investigation into the 2017 murder of the anti—corruption journalist, daphne caruana galizia. 0ur europe correspondent damian grammaticas reports from malta. chanting for days now, motorminister has been under intense pressure to go. the announcem

the ruling law and justice party says reforms are necessary, but critics call it an attempt to stifleead demonstrations. rich preston reports. the bill has been hugely controversial. as it was being debated, people took to the streets outside parliament in support of the judges and judicial independence. the changes give the government the power to discipline judges for what it calls "political activity," including questioning new judges that the government appoints. in a marathon debate, the ruling party argued the changes are necessary to prevent chaos in thejudicial system. translation: wea ke ns weakens the rule of law most is what we call the state of the judges. the state of the judges is the state in which the judges decide what is law and what is not. but opposition lawmakers say it is an attempt to gag judges. translation: the bill will subject polish courts and polishjudges to political control by the legislative and exacting bodies and reduce the level ofjudicial protection of individual rights. there are concerns such sweeping changes to poland's industry could contradict

the governing law and justice party wants to introduce sweeping changes to thejudicial system, and ite to fine or sackjudges who question the reforms. the government says the changes are needed to tackle corruption and to modernise the system. it wants to be able to punish judges who engage in political activity. the judges say it's an attempt to gag thejudiciary. translation: we are not only dragged through the mud — we are gagged, put in the dock. they try to put us in jail, and if this law comes into force, they will succeed. translation: this law introduces sanctions against judges based on their decisions. it scandalously extends disciplinary sanctions against judges. it does not allow them to work in an autonomous and independent way. translation: the adoption of this law means that the separation of powers will be almost complete, the judiciary will be fully subject to executive and legislative powers. but the changes could cause wider problems. poland is a member of the european union and eu members agree to primacy of eu law. poland's supreme court says these changes contradi

the governing law and justice party wants to introduce sweeping changes to thejudicial system, and itges who question the reforms. the government says the changes are needed to tackle corruption and to modernise the system. it wants to be able to punish judges who engage in political activity. the judges say it's an attempt to gag thejudiciary. translation: we are not only dragged through the mud — we are gagged, put in the dock. they try to put us in jail, and if this law comes into force, they will succeed. translation: this law introduces sanctions against judges based on their decisions. it scandalously extends disciplinary sanctions against judges. it does not allow them to work in an autonomous and independent way. translation: the adoption of this law means that the separation of powers will be almost complete, the judiciary will be fully subject to executive and legislative powers. but the changes could cause wider problems. poland is a member of the european union and eu members agree to primacy of eu law. poland's supreme court says these changes contradict that and could re

what's going on here is an interesting mix of european justice spanish justice party politics in spain and also that nation's experience with separatist sentiment the state attorney is certainly not recommending that the supremum court in spain releases oriel keris forever that is now absolved of all wrongdoing but it is saying that he should be let out of prison to go to brussels to take up his position as an m p it's also asking that the european union essentially remove his diplomatic immunity is that is immunity as an m.e.p. . is doing all of this because the top court in the european union the court of justice for the e.u. said the. that is what should happen but it's there is a party political context to all of this and that is that spans out to elections this year that have been basically inconclusive the socialists have won but not with the majority so at the moment they're doing lots of horse trading and trying to build a coalition one of the parties that they're talking to ease their cattle and separate his party that can carry us is their leader also this is being seen in sp

and justice party will they say now it's not necessarily like that the u.s. government said in a friend of the court brief that glyphosate is not a personage and that's the stance that the. the justice department is taking now buyer who bought monsanto the maker of roundup itself of course they deny these accusations that the product has any association with cancer the product which was introduced in 1974 has made billions for the company and as for months we know that they've had a very cozy relationship with the u.s. government so at looks like that relationship might be paying off at this point and alex what does this mean for bear and its use of the active ingredient. well life in st itself look there this is not the only case out there so we don't know what's going to happen here with this recommendation but there's literally billions of dollars in lawsuits against bear and monsanto the underling a bear in the u.s. alone so as you can imagine this can still blow up in their faces and that said you know even with this u.s. do recommendation traders seem to

the governing law and justice party wants to introduce sweeping changes to the judicial system, and itnment says the changes are needed to tackle corruption and to modernise the system. it wants to be able to punishjudges who system. it wants to be able to punish judges who game the system. 0thers punish judges who game the system. others say... they try to put us in jail, and if this law comes into force, they will succeed. translation: this law introduces sanctions against judges peoples decisions. —— judges' decisions. sanctions against judges peoples decisions. —— judges' decisionsm does not allow them to work autonomously. translation: the adoption of this law means the separation of powers will be almost complete, the dish area will be subject to executive and legislative powers. -- the judiciary. but it could cause wider problems. pollen is a member of the european union and eu members agreed to eu law. boland says the privacy laws could force it to leave the union. they also say it is a form of control from the government over the judiciary. richard preston, bbc news. let's bri

what's going on here is an interesting mix of european justice spanish justice party politics in spain and also that nation's experience with separatist sentiment the state attorney is certainly not recommending that this supremum court in spain releases oriel from the keris forever that he is now absolved of all wrongdoing but it is saying that he should be let out of prison to go to brussels to take up his position as an m p it's also asking that the european union essentially remove his diplomatic immunity his immunity as an m.e.p. . is doing all of this because the top court in the european union the court of justice for the you said that that is what should happen but there is a party political context to all of this and that is that spends out to elections this year that have been basically inconclusive the socialists have won but not with the majority so at the moment they're doing lots of horse trading and trying to build a coalition one of the parties that they're talking to these the cattle and separate his party that can carry us is their leader also this is being seen in sp

then you say bylaw h panel panel would be prohibitive from having more than five justices nominated by a single political party no more than five republicans or democrats out of time and the second is the balanced bench and this is the proposal that pete buttigieg has endorsed and you would start with 10 justices fully affiliated with the democratic party and pie with the republican party. 10 person affiliated justices would have to select an additional five judges unanimously two years in advance for a one-year term. powerful, creative and not easy to get through congress, obviously to put it mildly, so is it fair to say that convention may be the sure store most possible way of achieving these are forms and what do you think of the idea of an article five convention to achieve the reforms you advocate? >> with respect to these reforms in particular i think the clear what we were trying to do is get out in front of a debate currently happening on the left, which is lets if we ever get both houses of congress back, get rid of the filibuster and pack the courts and that seemed unthinkable a few years ago it see

ralph north on the blackface scandal and you know i you know the democrats claim to be this party about social justice and you know they're the politically correct party and they hate donald trump because you know supposedly he's a racist but they went ahead because of the fact that you know the lieutenant governor in virginia was also important in the scandal as well as the attorney general the next in the line of succession would have been the republican leader of their state legislator state legislature so they didn't really push on trying to get somebody who was outwardly racist removed from office because they don't want to give power to the republicans so this is always only been about retaining power for the democrats some democratic candidates have spoken about uniting america so it's a big ass whichever way you look at it given that in campaigning and it's d.n.a. it's about polarizing people into these people are bad and will help you is it even achievable. i don't think so i mean i think that there's a real detachment from reality with this party because you know i think that they really hat

the most junior justice has to throw a party and justice kagan treated us to a wonderful evening in whichhe made sure we had indian food because she knows my wife loves indian food and she got a chef to come and cook for us and it was magnificent. when justice cavanaugh arrived, i knew he is a meat and potatoes uy and dinners was going to be boring and i had to come up with something to lifen up the evening. after dinner, follow me. we went down to the great hall of the united states states and i handed the chief justice a checkered flag. justice cavanaugh is a huge baseball fan and nationals and he mascots are the presidents. they have giant stone heads and run around and the justice who is here tonight and my assistant and dear friend and found out you can rent them. [laughter] >> she went online and rented two of the presidents and we had a race in the hall of the supreme court of the united states. [laughter] >> that is one where i thought it would be better to ask for forgiveness, but i think it went over pretty well. >> we have been here in the rotunda and i have a wonderful photogr

about it there's a lot going on here is a sort of interplay between european justice spanish justice and party politics as well i think it's important to say that the spanish state attorney is not saying all is forgiven you can go free what he's doing is saying the oriel and keris should be allowed if the supreme court. in spain agrees to go to brussels to take up his position. be admitted as it was a member of parliament etc but he should still come back at some point some time in jail they have also asked that his immediate see as an m.e.p. be removed from and that's something that the european court said that spain had to do if they want him to spend any more time in jail. having said that it is unlikely that that is going to happen because there has to be a consensus amongst the $700.00 or so member parliaments of the european union. they're having to do all this because the courts in the european union ruled that because he was an m.e.p. . he was therefore removed from jail time and prosecution etc so this is something that spain is kind of having to do because the european court has said

>> it's a good judgment i think it was justice breyer that noted that when there are parties to an argumentwhen there are parties Ãbwhen there are parties to an argument and those parties resolve or settle disputes before the argument is reaches supreme court, the court should view that as a good thing and we view it as good government. >> what about the justice is concerned that the state and city laws don't apply to the hypotheticals that may arise? is it up to those people to refile litigation for the hypotheticals that weren't addressed by the laws? >> i will have rich answer that question. [laughter] >> why don't you go to the microphone. >> i wasn't really listening to that question. i think the point is the lawsuit was never about any of those hypotheticals. there are things that if folks want to explore they have to be explored to determine what those new laws mean and whether there is any constitutional claim that can be made about them. it's never been part of this case and we don't know enough really for even a claim like that to have been framed and litigated and decided now. >>

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

the attorney general has even using the resources of the justice department, which could be exposing chinese communist party spies or contracting would be terrorists or fighting opioids or to investigate the origins of the 2016. attorney general bar news actions are presumably in hopes of turning up evidence to support these are fetched theories. is it too bad, is it too bad republicans in her r right, the attorney general news hand-picked prosecutor found no evidence to these conspiracy theories that the investigation of president trump started with people and political intent. the only evidence we have is that the outlandish theories settled by presidentpe trump and his allies to defend this administration are totally baseless. >> chuck schumer comments took earlier today. now the next step with the impeachment inquiry will be monday is the house judiciary committee will ever hoping to hear evidence against president trump live at 9:00 a.m. eastern i'm c-span. you can also watch online assessment i'm art forms of life i'm the free cspan2 radio app. >> cspan2 2020 competition, is in full scream. all across

party. we peronist social justice equality and an end to poverty unemployment and sovereignty above all. heaven fears. here indeed. there was a party here with people who were afraid about what's coming next in our. great economic growth. even when they meet. now france will host an international conference and result in the political and economic crisis in lebanon government protests have been ongoing since. the country's been without a functioning government for almost 6 weeks the prime minister saad hariri resigned in response to those demonstrations under. the new prime minister. is preparing to defend itself against charges of genocide at the international court of justice on tuesday heading the country's legal team will be the leader. takes a look at the leader who was once recognized as a champion of democracy. party one landmark election 4 years ago there was hope hope that the woman who became globally recognized as a democracy champion would lead the nation out of 5 decades of isolation under repressive military control she was under house arrest for 15 years in the internationa

abuse we undertook the task of getting a message of hope and justice to every part of this country and i'm very grateful to the labor party is into north and being very tolerant of the fact that i didn't spend as much time in this election campaign in this instance as obviously i would want to do because i've been traveling around the whole country to ensure that labor message is put but i want to say this. i will remain the m.p. for is into norse and i'm proud to represent the people of his into norse and i'm proud in parliament and outside the we will forever continue the cause for socialism for social justice and for a society based on the needs of all rather than the greed of a few that is what makes our party what it is and i'm very proud of the achievements of our party in the development of its manifesto and its ideas and i tell you what those ideas and those principles are eternal and there will be there for all time i thank the people of his into norse once again putting their faith and trust in me and i will work as i always have says to represent and defend the people of my constituency because they're very spe

i don't want to see the criminal justice system weaponized against either party. host: we will go to montgomery village, maryland, democratic caller. caller: please give me a moment as i try to get my thoughts together. it would be interesting to know -- i know you have been a criminal defender. i don't want to get into ad hominem attacks. my point is that you said articles of impeachment are incorrect. the reason bribery was not included in the indictment is because the president has obstructed the people who could help congress prove that case from testifying. it is interesting that on one -- i wish the framers had done such and such. high crimes and misdemeanors are whatever the congress says it is. guest: no its not. caller: i watched the investigative committee and the judicial committee and they could not make the case for bribery because the president obstructed people from testifying under oath. guest: two points in response. number one, the president did not obstruct anything. congress could have simply gone to the court and asked the court to issue order

the most junior justice has to throw a party for the new justice.ustice kagan treated us to a wonderful evening in which she made sure we had indian food because she knew louise loves indian food and she got a chef she knew and washington to come and cook for us, and it was magnificent. cavanaugh arrived, i knew he was a meat and potatoes guy. dinner was going to be kind of boring and i had to come up with something to liven up the evening. i said after dinner, everybody follow me. we went down to the great hall of the supreme court of the united states, the big marble hall. i handed the chief justice a checkered flag. went out, justice cavanaugh is a huge baseball fan and loves the nationals. their mascots are the presidents. they have giant foam heads and myy run around, and assistant in my ears is a dear friend and came up with the idea. she found out, you can rent them. [laughter] she went online and rented two of the presidents and we had a race in the hall of the supreme court of the united states. [laughter] justice gorsuch: that is one where

it required such a preposterous arrogance on the part of the fbi, the justice department and the democratic partyho financed the fraudulent dossier christopher steele clutched to throng enough to have john mccain hand it over to the fbi. >> to have michael horowitz talk, he could not connect the dots to prove political bias. behind that. i do understand, i totally disagree with him. i understand why he didn't want to get into this. but this is what appalls me. maybe you can't find a democrat or republican political bias. but it's the deep state bias that's so clear. that is what it was. lou: god bless barr for saying, the forward of the report is just wrong. >> god bless donald trump. i don't know any human alive who could have endured the crap these people have thrown at him the last three years. he will never get the first term back. look at the amount of energy that has been wasted on all this nonsense. he. thanks so much. we appreciate it. the spying on the 2016 trump presidential campaign. what that means for the deep 8. they thought they were so clever. not so fast. we are coming right back

bolton we have more >> as the house prepares to impeach the 45th president, the other party insists perverting of justice >> it is a complete subversion of the scheme. >> mitch mcconnell says he's working in total coordination with the white house >> we wouldn't be doing our job to work to clear the president of this sham >> some gop senators argue impartial ilt doesn't include politics >> i am clearly made up my mind. i'm not trying to hide the fact that i have discontain for the process. >> tuesday's ruling will term the length of the debate wednesday, the full house will take up the articles democrats expected to pass both, formerly impeaching the president before the christmas break. mr. trump's break will be decided with chief justice roberts presiding. >> i think this is the beginning of the end for this show trial >> there is little sustain spence the senate will acquit the president. >> we are not going to see any new evidence house democrats don't sense defeat even if the president is not removed from the office. >> it is not a failure in the sense of our kons fusionconstitt in the house >> a re

then senator barack obama at the iowa jefferson jackson dinner now known as the democratic party's liberty and justice celebration. that was back in 2007. well, that speech considered one of the best of his campaign changed everything for candidate obama, of course. one of the speechwriters that helped write it, adam frankel, had his own life altering experience not long before joining the campaign in march of 2007 learning at the age of 25 that the man he'd always known as his father was not his biological parent. franklin details how exploring the family legacy of his maternal grandparents both holocaust survivors led to the shocking discovery about his own origins, and more in his new book, adam frankel joins us right now. thank you for joining us tonight. let me ask you about that. that experience of leading two lives, one, the new speechwriter for obama in the campaign and the other, the kid trying to figure out where he came from. >> yeah, it was incredibly difficult, chris. some months before joining the campaign i learned my dad was not my biological father and more than that. i learned this w

justice. it went as expected, strictly along party lines. the democrats will be holding a news conference any minute from now. we're awaiting nancy pelosi to address the public and tell america what went down tonight. this is essentially a symbolic vote by the house of representatives because essentially next month the senate will vote against impeachment. now, among the politicians, not just speaker employee sichl we heard from other house speakers. for lofgren, this is her third impeachment process. >> this is even worse. president trump not only used his power, he used a foreign government to do it. >> lofgren worked as a staffer for congressman don edwards during president nixon's impeachme impeachment. all of this is unfolding as president trump was holding a rally in michigan and he was true to form. >> it doesn't really feel like we're being impeached. the country is doing better than ever before. we did nothing wrong. we did nothing wrong. and we have tremendous support in the republican party like we've never had before. >> we'll ha

the ruling justice and development party as well as the opposition nationalist movement party have themajority and they will i believe give our donder support that. he needs for their military troops so that they are able to send military troops in case there is a demand from the. un backed government in libya. but i think. if that's the case then why now why is turkey deciding why is the president deciding to set the now when he could have done it years ago. well he could have necessarily done it years ago because there was no demand from the from the government at the time there is now. as per what our president our boss that there is demand from the g.n.a.t. which is the internationally recognized government in libya against. our forces. which are backed by some of the. powers in the region i mean tokyo also has secured 2 maritime geo 2 deals with levy which for their sustainability the survival of the recent government is important so you know turkey and libya are securing these maritime deals which are which is one of them is the economic deal and the other one is a military deal

justice. what's being done with the fisa reports. and why did congress reauthorize fisa in march instead of waiting for this damn report. it's about time both parties understand one thing. the american people have had a belly full of what made this fbi and this justice department under the previous president operate the way they did. this is infuriating. every american has been outraged. what's been done to this president and the american people, my god. if we are going to survive this we better stand up on our hahn muchs and demand respect. >> when the left went crazy because attorney general barr said there was spying going on. when you secretly record a phone call or conversation, when you are secretly doing that without the knowledge of anyone else, i don't know what else you call it but pieing. when we start to see the evidence that cops out of this 435-page plus report, that will provide a good foundation for the work john durham is already doing as he expand it beyond where we are today. lou: i look at this justice department, particularly this attorneyien. we are seeing a number of advances that are important and sometimes lost from public

to continue their program of political reform and the perseus of justice for protesters killed in the uprising. lebanon's political parties have nominated a new prime minister after months of protests in the country university professor has and has vowed to enact reforms to help the country out of its economic crisis protesters have already rallied against his appointment. on capitol hill in washington congressional leaders having gauged in a war of words one day after the u.s. house of representatives voted to impeach president donald trump a divided house voted overwhelmingly along party lines 12 articles of impeachment democrats said trump had abused his powers and obstructed congress in relation to the ukraine strike to the u.k. in scandal after the house vote in the senate is due to be tossed with conducting a trial of the president senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who will decide the terms for the trial has reacted by calling the house impeachment process unfair house democrats embark on the most rushed leaf thorough and most unfair impeachment inquiry in modern history. this is by far the basis for in a house

party apart. its obsession with racial justice is wreaking havoc on the 2020 candidates. er called out his own party for the diminishing diversity in the presidential field. >> i see the anger to people in the congressional black caucus and leaders of color. we don't understand how we got to the point there are more billionaires in the 2020 race than black people. >> laura: it gets crazier. last night a white black lives matter activist threw a fit during a pete buttigieg campaign event. >> [shouting]. >> [muffled audio]. >> why are we talking about pete buttigieg? this is a farce! >> [shouting]. >> laura: joining me now is candace owens with leo terrell. have they brought this on themselves. if you live by identity politics you die by identity politics? >> that's right the left is eating its own. i enjoy it because i called this in 2016. i said there would be a black exit. more and more black people are waking up to the politics of the left and realizing they don't have our best interest at heart. they use us every 4 years and say black people be afraid because they need

i recognize that has contribute to the results the labour party has received this evening all across this country. the issues of social justice and the issues of needs of people will not go away just because brexit is dealt with in the way in which boris johnson presumably plans to deal with it at the moment. all of those issues will come back center stage in the debate, and the fundamental labour message about justice and equality within our society is going to be there for all time, because it is the core of what my party believes in, and what i will always advocate on behalf of my constituency and party. i want to also make it clear i will not lead the party in any future general election campaign. i will discuss with our party to ensure there is a process now of reflection on this result and on the policies that the party will take going forward. i will lead the party during that period to ensure that discussion takes place and we move on into the future. [applause] am very proud of the trust that our half million members put in me to lead this party, i am proud of the way we fought this election campaign. we did not desc

told to boil young son saskia esten want to renegotiate their party's coalition deal with the conservatives and focus more on social justice investment and climate policies. such as kin and north of all to borean celebrate their win more than 50 percent social democrats voted for them as the new co-leaders of germany's oldest political party the. standing side by side with the candidates they ran against in a show of solidarity doesn't olive so it's only are all social democrats that something we really learned during regional conferences and this provides an important conversation for what lies ahead except to have to unite this party and invite our rivals to work together just like. clara guy votes and vice chancellor made the final ballot after making it clear they wanted to maintain the governing coalition with merkel's conservatives unlike the winners though the defeated duo emphasized the need for unity to clobber the i believe the s.p.d. has made a decision means new party leadership types everyone should get behind them. as cannon fodder still be confirmed at a party conference next week and they're willing to cont