i'm proud of what we did criticized by the labor party to roll out vaccines and record speed. i'm proud of what we did to support the people of this country throughout the pandemic with an oval package of 407 billion pounds to support the country and we this country will bounce back all better and all of the stronger for the strong economy that we ensured that this country had going in to the crisis which would have been impossible mr. speaker, under a labor government so that is what tells her constituents. >> mr. speaker i was deeply concerned at the weekend form or reports in the sunday express that the statues of great united states president ronald reagan which once stood in the square has been removed and remains out to public sight. i know the prime minister will agree with me that president reagan was a true frengsd friend to united kingdom along side margaret thatcher ended cold war and supported britain during the now moved to new embassy will the prime minister agree with me that president reagan statue should be moved to parliament square so visitors from hole acro

speaker, i think he would have been better off supporting the lobbying act and the labor party would have been better off nots campaigning to get rid of it. it's a toughen up our laws -- and mr. speaker, i think that his own proposal is simply to have yet again to have politicians marking their own homework. what the country wants that's all committee mt delivered it. it won't do a bit of good that's why we're having a proper independent review and any representations or allegations to make about what is taken place he should make them to the eminent lawyer who has been asked to do it it will be reporting throughout by june. >> yes. >> mr. speaker, the prime minister should be voting with us. not blocking proper inquiry. the greenfield establish the tip of the iceburg. guilty contracts privilege access jobs for their mates, this is the return of tori -- mr. speaker, it is now so engrained in this conservative government we don't need a conservative appointee marking their own homework actually mr. speaker the more i listen to prime minister more i think that ted and see 12 -- get thi

speaker, week after week the people in this country can see the difference between the labor party that thinks of nothing except playing political games whereas this party gets on with delivering on the people's priorities and i hope the people will vote conservative on may 6. >> joy morrissey. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the uk is indeed a world leader in covid vaccination. may i thank the prime minister for the swift action he has taken to deliver this for our country. will the prime minister join me in thanking the local volunteers such as christie griffith who has been volunteering at the marlow vaccine center and paul bass who has been volunteering at community health. >> my honorable friend should thank everybody involved, it's been a fantastic national effort led by the nhs, led overwhelmingly by gps, by local council officers, officials, by the army, many others, and of course huge numbers of volunteers in her constituency and others. i thank them very much for everything they've done. >> let's go to the leader of the smp, ian blyford. >> can i associate myself with the remarks o

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been found guilty along with margaret in a respected former lawmaker the founder of hong kong's labor party chuck young was also found guilty cong caught up with him in the days before his verdict. a small flat in downtown hong kong weather woes only will see young dedicated to that 18 i 10 among krakow is located the military repression in beijing 32 years ago changed the course of many people in china and hong kong including legion again i was there during the doing for the massacre and i was the pain for 3 days after my review thread to hong kong i crashed and i will spend my life time by people who mock within china. or not be in the very. least again is facing a difference fades critics say and i don't massive track now being carried out by the change this time honest news the liberal and democratic city hong kong in the wake of anti-government protest here an age this which organizing and attending and authorizes and that's really it was over a 1000000 people took part was one of the few without violent questions every one of the defendants a high profile figures apart from media tyco

it's unlikely that any meaningful amendments will be forced upon it but i have to say that the labor party which is the liberal democrats and the opposition parties are not happy about it all and they will undoubtedly try to force amendments on this bill as it progresses through it's still a long way to go and a lot of debate but the government seems very minded to put it through in its current form because they can criticize the opposition parties that that come out against it because it's such a mammoth bill you see there are measures in it for example to extend prison sentences for serious crimes that's a measure that most people in this country would agree with other measures include reducing sentences for less serious crimes again that's a measure that most people in this country with agree with but tapping into that bill that mammoth bill. things that would. restrict protest is not something that many people would agree with and it's that the fact that it's all on the want that many people are not happy about it. still ahead here she announces here families grieve for the victims of

commission is now involved and at the weekly session of the prime minister's questions the opposition labor party smelled blood who initially of prime minister initially is the key word here who initially paid for the redecoration of his downing street. mr and mrs pigg i think i own to this question several times and the answer the answer is that i have covered the costs i have met the requirements that i've been obliged to meet in full what we get from this prime minister of this conservative government don't you contracts jobs for their mates and cash for access and who's at the heart of it the prime minister major sleaze sitting than. again and again johnson wouldn't clarify those who had paid the initial invoice repeating early that he personally had covered the costs of regional and local elections are just a week away and opinion polling suggests the controversies are starting to affect voter sentiment again you're getting a pass and worse some points is credibility as prime minister will evaporate and you people go to last year we want somebody of that kind of abject moral character as pri

to answer the very for and sick questioning of the leader of the opposition secure starmer the labor party leader whose questioning basically concentrated on who exactly paid the initial invoice for these rather expensive renovation works the took place at the downing street apartment of the prime minister when he 1st moved in there with his girlfriend kerry simons now the prime minister insisted repeatedly that he had covered the cost but he very studiously avoided saying who had covered the initial invoice the payments and there is anecdotal evidence to say that it could possibly have been the conservative party that actually paid the initial bill and then was repaid by boris johnson and who paid the conservative party's funds well large conservative donors probably it's called it's been called here cash for curtains as in the with the potential for it being a kind of cash for influence kind of affair now that's not to say that it has been that the the commission that has responsibility for transparency and party funding is now going to look into it but they dropped a bombshell into the

also been found guilty along with margaret a respected former lawmaker the founder of hong kong's labor party each up young was also found guilty kong caught up with him in the days before his verdict. a small flat in downtown hong kong weather woes only museum dedicated to the 18 i channel in krakow is located the military repression in beijing 32 years ago changed the course of many people in china and hong kong including legion again i was there during the during for the massacre and i was deeply in propre days after my relieve pressure to hong kong crash that i would spend my life time in 5 people who mockers in china. were not being very. street at leisure again is facing a difference fate critics see and i don't massive track now being carried out by the change this time honest most liberal and democratic city hall can't in the wake of anti-government protests here an age this which all the icing and attending and authorizes and that's really wish over a 1000000 people took part was one of the few without power and questions every one of the defendants a high profile figures apart from

here in britain the opposition labor party has demanded full details of the way prime minister borisjohnsondowning street flat. it has also gone a step further by accusing mrjohnson of lying about the matter. mrjohnson�*s former adviser, dominic cummings, has claimed that the prime minister planned to get secret donations to pay for the work. but number ten said that the refurbishment costs have been met by the prime minister personally. 0ur deputy political editor vicki young reports. leading the country and setting the tone for the rest of government. the decisions that prime ministers make every day in this room have far—reaching consequences for us all. they will not always be right, but criticism of borisjohnson is notjust about his judgement, it is fast becoming about his integrity. everywhere they go, ministers are being asked similar questions about the behaviour of their boss. did he break the rules? that refers to the expensive refurbishment of the flat that mrjohnson shares with his fiancee. the prime minister's former adviser says that the tory leader tried to get party donors t

autumn belfast brian finn a political columnist for the irish years and former social democratic labor party politician welcome to the program julie is it fair to describe what is happening in northern ireland as an express and of anger by the. the loyalists disenfranchised with the breads are trading arrangements. yes i said that's fair i am an experienced on a combination of issues that have led to today's events and i would say that there is orchestrating violence or protests pitting and violence are we going to mine or where to take and that violence is not representative of all of the communities aspirations or direction of travel in which rich which which is just here to protest decisions that have been mia recently and i ever that's not to be confused with debt with contentment because there is if contentment people are angry or angry at the british government they're angry at the g.d.p. they're angry at the irish government and they're angry at the p.p.s. done a chaos started in derry. and newton and is tossed to the spreading of those areas are predominantly loyalists in a so what's

that plans for such measures could be coming together as early as next month the leader of the labor party has already said he would vote against it warning that a force vaccine passport will lead to discrimination the leader of the liberal democrat party has also voiced his opposition and said that such a measure would be separating society into the haves and the have nots so joining me now the. board which president of straw mark i'll see hilary it's great to have you on the show today now i know we've heard from the british chambers of congress and they are calling for decisive action on vaccine passport specifically and they seem to see it as a road map to opening the economy back up and providing businesses with the demand they lost over the last year is their confidence in boris johnson's government that it will be able to accomplish well pleasure to be back with you rachel i think the answer to that question is it depends who you ask they going to be supportive of whether boris johnson has the confidence i think actually if you'd also that question 3 or 6 months ago the answer might

he misses because we copped a week the people of this country could see the difference with your labor party the twists and turns with the wind that thinks of nothing except playing political games why is this party gets on with delivering on the people's priorities and i hope the people but conservative on may the 6th. tell me you're watching al-jazeera we're bringing you live pictures from the houses of parliament in the united kingdom during prime minister's question time very fair brawl atmosphere inside prime minister questions and the question time the prime minister blair is johnson facing accusations that last october he said he was prepared to let bodies pile high rather than order another coronavirus locked on but the bulk of prime minister's questions pm queues as they're known surrendering are surrounding questions over whether or not tory party donors paid for renovations at his residence last year i want to bring in paul brennan our correspondent in london paul this sounds like another lively session of premises question times but any one of these would be a problem for any pri

speaker, we people of the country can see difference between labor party the twist and turns with the win of nothing except plain political gain where this party gets on with delivering on the people priorities and i hope that people will vote conservative on may the 5th. >> prime minister -- may i thank the prime minister for the swift action he has taken to deliver this for our country. and will the prime minister join me in thanking the many local volunteers such as volunteering at the vaccine center and guy and pall who has been volunteering alongside the denim community health, and thank you for the vaccine rollouts -- >> prime minister, well, should my honorable friend should thank everybody involved and it has been a fantastic national effort led by the nhs that by volunteering i thank guy for that very much. everything they've done. >> let's go toad looker of the smp -- ian. can i associate myself within the leader of the opposition over humanitarian crisis in india and injustice over the horizon issue at the post office. mr. speaker, over 127,000 people have died from covid i

campaign mare and someone stops me and said you know always vote conservative and i run for the labor party and they said you know you would have been great for the area but you need to stop talking about racism. and i just said that racism is real and he was like yeah it is and i was like so why would we stop talking about it i go or britain is one of the least races countries on earth but my response to that is well you know the least racist country is still racist i mean i just think people feel very threatened by some of that conversation you know for me the biggest frustration about not talking about empire in this country is that people don't understand why people like me are hair right and i'm always fly you know i'm half feagin half pakistani my mom's family from pakistan that's moved during partition you know my great grandmother ended up in fiji as indentured labor which i know is i have a similar story to you in that way and the money that exploded back from her labor all the way in the fiji islands is came back to the u.k. i mean i've been paul of the british working class gener

the uk opposition labor party has lost a vote to set up a parliamentary inquiry into former prime ministeron's lobbying of ministers on behalf of the now failed financial services firm greensill capital. labor leader kier starmer has accused the prime minister of presiding over what he called a return to "tory sleaze". borisjohnson said he shared the concerns raised but insisted the review he's ordered would get to the bottom of the issue. here's our political editor laura kuenssberg. cause for alarm? labour thinks it's onto something. after weeks of claims about an all too close relationship between politics and those trying to turn a profit, it was borisjohnson�*s turn to answer. questions to the prime minister. after it was revealed that the man who used to stand in his place argued for the interest of a now failed back to those in power. every day, there is further evidence of the sleaze that is now at the heart of this conservative government. does the prime minister except there is a revolving door, indeed, an open door, between his conservative government and paid lobbyists? mr spea

president of united states, first and second time, he stole word for word from a speech of neil, the labor party head, and from late robert kennedy. it not because he is a smart man, he is quite a dumb man. all about power and joe biden. for joe biden. all about promoting joe biden. the other week he met with a bunch of historians, he wanted to know, how could he be bigger than roosevelt, and barack obama, he leaned hard left, he will do what of he has to do. whatever it takes, to promote joe biden and his legacy, joe biden is hooked on this frayed, jim crow, i got to thinking about it nobody better who is alive in washington d.c. to talk about jim crow, than joe biden. why? joe biden of the part of jim crow, listen to this short audio from national public radio in 1975. i will take the point you to joe biden is most racist president in the oval office since woodrow wilson. >> there are those of we social planners who think somehow if we just man's individual characteristics and trades by making sure that a society is a totalo homo jean society we'll solve our social littles, quite the contrary.

the opposition labor party in the uk has lost about a set of a parliamentary enquiry into the prime ministering of ministers on behalf of a failed firm greensill captial. boris firm greensill ca ptial. boris johnson firm greensill captial. boris johnson said he shared the concerns, and insisted that the review he has ordered will get to the bottom of the issue. cause for alarm? labour thinks it's onto something. after weeks of claims about an all too close relationship between politics and those trying to turn a profit, it was borisjohnson�*s turn to answer. questions to the prime minister. after it was revealed that the man who used to stand in his place argued for the interest of a now failed back to those in power. every day, there is further evidence of the sleaze that is now at the heart of this conservative government. does the prime minister accept there is a revolving door, indeed, an open door, between his conservative government and paid lobbyists? mr speaker, this is a government and party that has been consistently tough on lobbying, and indeed, we introduced legislation, saying

graduated from the university of minnesota law school, he was deeply involved in the democratic farmer labor partys own wing of the democratic party. as a dfl liberal and a disciple of senator hubert humphrey, mondale was appointed minnesota's attorney general. to fill the vacancy left. in 1976, jimmy carter pulled him from the senate to be his vice presidential running mate when carter and mondale lost the election in 1980, mondale was down, but not out. >> the nominee of the democratic party, walter mondale! >>> four years later, he won the democratic presidential nomination and made history. picking the first woman, ever, to run on a presidential ticket. former-new york congresswoman, geraldine ferraro. but history was not on the side of mondale and ferraro. they were defeated by the 1984-reagan landslide. >> he has won. we are all americans. he is our president. and we honor him tonight. >>> mondale and ferraro only managed to win his home state and the district of columbia. mondale stayed off the national radar, until president clinton named him u.s. ambassador to japan. always one to conside

been found guilty along with margaret ng a respected former lawmaker the founder of hong kong's labor party was also found guilty w.'s phoebe kong caught up with him in the days before his verdict. a small flat in downtown hong kong weather woes only museum dedicated to the 18 i tell them in krakow is located the military repression in beijing 32 years ago changed the course of many people in china and hong kong including leadership again i was there . for the massacre and i was the pain propre days after my relieve pressure to hong kong crash that i would spend my life by people who mock within china and. were not be invading streets are legion again is facing a difference fades critics say and i don't massive track now being carried out by the chain this time honest mostly liberal and democratic city hong kong in the wake of anti-government protest here an age of this which asked for organizing and attending and authorizes and that's really it was over a 1000000 people took part was one of the few without violent questions every one of the defendants are high profile figures apart from me

states the first and second time around, he stole word for word from a speech of neil party he labor party stole language from the late robert kennedy, he's absolutely shameless about the things he says and does. it's not because he's a smart man he's actually -- quite a dumb man. it is all about power and joe biden. for joe biden -- it is all about promoting joe biden. other week he met with a bunch of historians, and he wanted too know how could he be bigger than franklin roosevelt and lbj and learned before left and before it was not hard left and do whatever he has to do beat his chest pat himself on the back, make claims about inventing vaccine and distributing them whatever it takes, to promote joe biden and his legacy. but joe biden now is hooked on this phrase jim crow, and i got to thinking about this. there's really nobody better that's alive in washington, d.c. to talk about jim crow than joe biden why? because joe biden was part of jim crow. i want you to listen to sh short audio from npr national public radio back in 1975 but i'm going to make the point to you that joe biden i

graduated from the university of minnesota law school he was deeply involved in the democratic farmer labor partynnesota's own wing of the democratic party. as a dfl liberal and disciple of hubert humphrey he was appointed minnesota's attorney general in 1960. four years later he was named to the u.s. senate to fill the vacancy left when humphrey was elected lyndon johnson's vice president. in 1976 jimmy carter pulled him from the senate to be his vice presidential running mate when carter and mondale lost the election in 1980 mondale was down but not out. >> the nominee of the democratic party walter mondale. >> for years later he won the democratic presidential nomination and made history, picking the first woman ever to run on a presidential ticket, former new york congresswoman geraldine merferraro. they were defeated by the 1984 reagan landslide. >> he has won. we are all americans. he is our president and we honor him tonight. >> mondale and ferraro only managed to win his home state and the district of columbia. mondale stayed off the national radar until president clinton named him u.s. a

the leader of the uk's opposition labor party demanded answers in parliament wednesday. >> either, thel invoice. or it was the conservative party. or it was a private donor. or it was the prime minister. so, i'm making it easy for the prime minister. it's now multiple choice. there are only four options. it should be easier than the chatty rat, mr. speaker, so i ask the prime minister again, who paid the initial invoice? the initial invoice for the prime minister's flat? >> the answer is i have -- i have covered the cost. and i think most people will find it absolutely bizarre. and, you know, of course, there is an electoral commission investigate -- investigating this. and i can tell you, i've conformed in full with the code of conduct and the -- the ministers -- ministerial code. and the officials who have been kept -- have been advising me throughout this whole thing. but i think people will think it absolutely bizarre, that he is focusing on this issue. when, what people want to know is, what plans the government might have to improve the life of people in this country. and let me

australia's labor party is calling for a review of the objective and fiscal monetary policy possibilitiesis is in response to economic weakness ahead of last year's possession. this comes as we continue to monitor the rollout of the vaccine. more than 700,000 astrazeneca doses were secretly flown into australia from the u.k. amid the ongoing blood clot concerns. our big interview in over an hour's time here we are speaking to the trade and tourism and investment minister, to talk about the travel bubble, much more. vonnie: you are watching "daybreak: australia." u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen expects president joe biden's proposed corporate tax plan to recoup to truly dollars in overseas profit in the next decade. she says the plan to raise taxes to 28% would be fair to all americans. and remove incentive for u.s. corporations to shift assets abroad. indonesian president's backing a push to expand the central bank's mandate. he believes it should include bolstering the economy, throwing public support, which some analysts believe it is risking its independence. speaking to bloomberg

the constitutional position or tactics should be used was a member of the social democratic and labor party, john hume who provided the international -- intellectual analysis and framework that allowed the negotiations to take place in northern ireland from 1996 to 1998 that produced the good friday agreement. of course, he received the nobel prize for his efforts, along with the unionist leader, david trumbull. george mitchell, of course, was very important in the success of those negotiations. american involvement in these years in northern ireland really can be attributed to the efforts of john hume, who as early as the 1970's, came to america to lobby people like ted kennedy, to get them to use their influence so that irish-americans would not give money to paramilitary groups and would backup the use of dialogue and negotiations as a way forward. as i've indicated, it was this approach that finally brought an end to the devastation in northern ireland that had taken the lives of 3600 people and created severe injuries for about 36,000 others. tip o'neill got some of his other colleague

once, the labor party cared about young people, people on low incomes, people in social housing waitingthen, from me, david cornock, bye for now. hello there. april showers have been in short supply. it's been a very dry month so far. that's not going to change all that month over the next few days of the northern parts of the uk will see a little patchy rain through tuesday, courtesy of a weather front pushing in from the north—west. you of a weather front pushing in from the north-west. you can see the outbreaks _ from the north-west. you can see the outbreaks of - from the north-west. you can see the outbreaks of rain - from the north-west. you can see the outbreaks of rain as l from the north-west. you can. see the outbreaks of rain as we go through the day will weaken as they sink further southwards and eastwards. for england and wales, quite steer murky for some of these eastern coasts, some of these eastern coasts, some sunny spells, patchy cloud into the afternoon and a small chance of catching a shower. temperatures across england and wales, 15, 16 degrees, turning julia across

commission is now involved and at the weekly session of prime minister's questions the opposition labor partysmelled blood who initially of prime minister initially is the keyword here who initially paid for the redecoration of his downing street. mr and mrs peacocke i think i hope i answered this question several times and the answer the answer is that i have covered the costs i have met the requirements that i've been obliged to meet in full what do we get from this prime minister of this conservative government don't you contracts jobs for their mates and cash for access and who's at the heart of it the prime minister major sleaze sitting than. again and again johnson wouldn't clarify who had paid the initial invoice repeating only that he personally had covered the costs of regional and local elections are just a week away and opinion polling suggests the controversies are starting to affect voter sentiment again you're getting a pass and we're some points is credibility as prime minister will evaporate and you people go to last year we want somebody of that kind of abject moral character