chances for the ratification of the we do our agreement well as an hour from our correspondent lawrence lee he's been following developments in london. well to reason may is right singh has written is in the process of writing to the head of the european council and just asking for an extension to our school fifty and a delay to bricks and clearly she's working on the assumption that that's going to be granted on some level but a lot of the music now coming out of brussels is to say why should we do it you can't tell us what your tentative plan is and certainly the french among others are suggesting they might not grant an extension at all now just to extrapolate that that would mean that after the e.u. summit at the end of this week there would be one week left until the supposed bricks it dates of march twenty ninth the reason may was then you have to come back as a parliament here and say this is your last chance about an ideal but even if she says that the ultra hardcore bricks it says will not vote for her because they would say don't want to do that because we're out with no deal at t

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lawrence lee has been following events forests at the houses of parliament it was a messy series of votes but the two main events were a very narrow failure on the policy of backbenchers across parliament to try to wrest back control of the process from sarees in may and come up with other ideas that lost by just two votes in the end but then the government won handsomely its motion to ask the european union for an extension to bret's it until the end of june and so it all effectively sets the stage now for a third vote on sarees a maze deal to leave the european union at the start of next week if she wins then the u.k. will leave by the end of june if she loses though for a third so i'm it's up to the european union to decide if and for how long it will grant the u.k. a much longer extension. the u.s. senate has just voted to revoke president donald trump speculation of a national emergency on the southern border with mexico several members of trump's own republican party rebelled against his measure to secure billions of dollars in emergency funding to build a border wall in a surprisin

while lawrence lee joins us live now from westminster lawrence you've been following all the developments we had been expecting that today parliament would vote against leaving with no deal so has the vote that we actually got been a surprise in any way well look i think i think i think we've learnt two things tonight's and there's and there's a lot of very big questions as well we i think it's fair to say we have now learned that there will be no deal and we can explain why the seconds. and we've also learned that the u.k. will now not leave the european union on march twenty ninth that's now seems to be not not going to happen it's all but after the votes by parliaments to rule out no deal completely under any circumstances they the prime minister now dropped this bombshell in terms of what's going to happen so morrow around the debates and the votes on seeking a delay from the european union based on that because what she said these that by only next wednesday just a week away if nobody can come up with a better idea it is assumed her deal which is lost twice by two hundred thirty one

so until we actually see him return and the result read out so let's preview things then with lawrence lee in london has been doing a tremendous job all this week ollie ups and downs lawrence this is supposed to be the third of three days of voting talk us through it. well yeah just for that since it's so your introduction you know made me lose again doesn't like her votes and then they say we really don't want no deal either so we've got to figure out a way of extending and by how long and so this first folks that just happening right now as has been put forward with a view to delaying for a long time and then having another referendum on the argument that when the first referendum happens you know it was a binary choice stay in or dems to leave but now it's time now there's about six different ways of leaving it in the argument is people not now they know what the choices should be put back to the people to decide whether they want to do actually want to leave in some of the polling they suggested that remain these is a base in the leaves but if you speak privately to the people behind w

well they live overseas in an hour from now stay with us to be back with lawrence lee for that as we look at some of the live pictures from outside the houses of parliament lots of people there as they often pretty much every day with well mostly e.u. flags a lot of protesters there are the pushing for. a second referendum or just their support of the european union their outsides inside the debate goes on some empty seats there now you would expect them to fill up for the vote as lawrence is in just under an hour about fifteen minutes from now live coverage on al-jazeera as and when it happens. two other news and kurdish led forces in syria say they've killed thirty eight still fighters in the final assault on the armed groups last claves the syrian democratic forces have been bombarding the east village. where number of fighters remain the operation intensified after a brief pause to allow civilians to leave the s.d.f. also says three of its fighters were killed during this latest operation the latest report of a bill hamid in as we look at those pictures harder looks like a really

three one two it was so very close and eight my goodness it is for that so once again back to lawrence lee in westminster and again can you explain to us what this means now. well it's good news i think for to reason my roommates what treason they said last night's. parliament rejected the idea of leaving without deal she said ok fine it's a choice again between my deal and the vote not next week or some great big long extension and possibly no breaks at all in response to that these people vote for an amendment that said well hang on a minute you know we don't want you to keep coming back when you'll do we want parliament take take take control the process and test all these different ideas out instead and that's lost by the narrowest of margins just two votes and so basically parliament by that very narrow margin seems still to be sticking with the idea that the seats are the trees a maze deal or a very long extension with no particular plan a wage that's that's right and yes a parliament sided not to sort of risk control from the prime minister in this kind of reinforces to reason may's

lawrence lee joins us live now from the houses of parliament in westminster so a lot has happened tonight lawrence put it in perspective for us where does that leave the plan have for a break with with or without a deal. well the thing about the votes ruling out no deal at sol is that it didn't actually mean anything because it was non-binding big and because in law the u.k. was still to leave the european union on march twenty ninth unless anybody else had a different idea and so the point to which that vote was passed no deal was still on the table is just that after that series of may announce the business of the votes that is now juice to be held on thursday which asked the european union for its allay and she then went on to frame it as a straits binary choice between two things she said the boy next wednesday and that anybody else can come up with a different idea how the votes will get voted on again for a third time even though she's lost it by a large margin twice if in but next wednesday vote wins then there will be a technical delay until june thirtieth three months time for fi

end of to resume and when the leaders are expected to discuss the issue at a summit on thursday lawrence lee has more now from brussels. when sarees and they has to address the e.u. twenty seven the other members of the european union at the start of their talks on thursday afternoon the one question they're going to be asking her is what happens if your deal fails again for the third time of the start of next week because they're only prepared at the moment to countenance an extension to back seat if a deal passes and there's every likelihood that it won't they will say to her i'm sure what happens if it fails are you actually prepared at the end of next week for the u.k. to leave the european union with no deal at all despite the fact the u.k. parliament voted against it now twice despite all the economic damage that would pose to the u.k. the republic of ireland the netherlands and other bordering countries to the u.k. despite the fact that it would be mean the reimposition of a hard border in the island of ireland and all the violence that could lead to they're going to say the reason wh

the twenty second of may but it is conditional let's talk through the conditions will bring in lawrence lee who is joining us from brussels and the join hall is standing by in london just outside the houses of parliament we'll across over time in a moment lawrence so as we're saying they've agreed to delay but there are conditions just talk us through what we've heard. well where to start first of all let's just walk you through the new deal because it's quite complicates aides but it's really really really significant came in saying she wanted an extension to get her deal over the line yeah because she keeps losing in parliament she wanted so the end of june the european union was never going to accept that they said that the extension could only be until the european elections on may the twenty third after hours of prevarication that now accept states that if she does pass the deal then the u.k. will leave by may twenty second so that much of its is what series i'm a one seed but the rest of it's is a massive humiliation for some reason maybe because what happened this afternoon was the r

now waiting for john mark of the speaker of the house to ask for the results let's also bring in lawrence lee was outside the house of commons lawrence remind us what the impact of this amendment would be considering the vote the results of the previous one. just went on the previous amendment that passed it got passed despite the fairly major whipping operation by the government that is trying to force its own employees to vote in a certain direction not for that amendment but for to resume a zone motion and therefore a very large number of trees most olympians just ignored the almost the dictates of their own government that so you know in that sense trees one has lost control of room party and all of this amendment has been put down by the hardcore the nationalists the answer. european brigades it is very complicated but effectively what it does is to get rid of trees mess with all agreements replace it with something else even though it breaks the e.u. zone rules but in any effects it would allow for a no deal brick states but given that parliament has just voted in bustling majority to r

parliament more time to stop its all from happening and the prime minister could be on her way out lawrence lee al jazeera brussels. to china now where an explosion at a chemical factory in the country's east has killed at least forty seven people and injured about ninety others it happened in young chang and young so problems that's the coastal area north of shanghai people living nearby say that they went mashed by the force of the blast let's get more on this hour china correspondent adrian. live from beijing so what more i hear you hearing about this adrian. well i think it's becoming pretty clear that the death toll is beginning to inch up you know on thursday afternoon we were told that six people had been killed and perhaps a dozen had been injured but overnight those figures were dramatically revise and now we have forty seven people confirmed dead we know that more than six hundred have received hospital treatment often just for things like grazes and cuts but also we know that thirty two people are in a critical condition which is why i think the death toll could continue to inch up a

definitely add talk again and then lawrence to analyze it further whatever there is the analysts lawrence lee live in westminster thank you and still to come in this half hour we're going to have more on that breaking news for you a little earlier the second sentencing of president trump's former campaign manager all nine of all this time the seventy three. and we speak to relatives of the victims of sunday's ethiopian airlines just on the phone steve tire of. the tragedy . hello the rain is not particularly dramatic in china it's steady in the night shanghai might be fairly wet to see temperatures restricted to about ten degrees but you'll see that improve as the rain disappears in the sun comes out hong kong and shanghai are not that far apart temperature wise more cloud is building further west on the higher ground in some parts of sichuan you see the rain we have recently seen significant rain in pakistan once again fifty millimeters involved stan easter quite a by some way but the clouds moved away now it's on the indian side of the border is running up through northern india it's almost

is outside the british parliament in westminster first to lawrence lee in brussels this looked like it was settled hours ago what happened and what went wrong. well i mean there's various different ways of explaining that one is that under the terms of what to pay is now to be a new deal bricks a day might not be next friday it's all with or without an extension but effectively what happened was they did it's a reason they came here and said one extension had looked like they were going to give us some sort of extension on the assumption of how do we get through until may the twenty second but then she apparently was so evasiveness in a question and answer session with the other twenty seven members of the european union join the afternoon that effectively they just said so let's go and sit in the room over there and if you can't tell us what your plans going to be if you lose your vote for a third time next week then we're going to come up with an alternative plan for you and then they went off to have their dinner. and from all the sounds of it flashed out any number of different opt

will vote on her latest deal on tuesday more miss lawrence lee joins us live from west mr lawrence there had been some speculation as to whether that mean for a vote would take place tuesday and tomorrow in parliament as as the pm promised as it now looks like it's going to head. yes it does that there was a genuine panic earlier on around westminster suggestion that trees may might might have a thing about pulling it on the grounds of she'd lose it and that lets a pretty dire warnings from rebels inside her own party that they put her in contempt of parliament and should try to unseat was prime minister if she were to do that but this afternoon there's been some sort of ratios of the vote is going to go ahead and on the assumption still that she's more likely than not to lose it's the sequences that then be a further votes on whether the parliament wants to rule out leaving the e.u. without any deal it'll which would almost certainly happen and then based on that the be another vote who should be the critical one about whether parliament wants to get the european off the european union

lawrence lee has the latest from london so it does look like that vote is not is going to end in defeat for the governor what happens then. well you know i was so into before about this new sense of crisis that seems of engulf the governments on the assumption that the lose if it's the same deal the reason they lost the last time by two hundred thirty votes that was a record in british parliamentary history what exactly does happen then and so it's been announced in the last few minutes by the irish foreign minister of all people that series m a's going to go to strasburg tonight's for what frankly last ditch talks a lot throw the dice with john claude younker the presidents of the european commission presumably in the hope that he can give her something else that she can come back to parliament with on tuesday directly before this vote parliaments have now got something else from them so please please support it it's either that or she's going to meet john claud young kids who ask him if he thinks the european union would be prepared to delay bracks isn't extends well which is which is

be does an extension increase the chances for a direct if you question of do we do agreement or lawrence lee has been following developments in london. well to reason may is right singh has written is in the process of writing to the head of the european council and just asking for an extension to law school fifty on a delayed subject sits and clearly she's working on the assumption that that's going to be granted on some level but a lot of the music now coming out of brussels is to say why should we do it you can't tell us what you'll tentative plan is i'm certainly the french among others are suggesting they might not guns an extension asshole now just to extrapolate that that would mean that all of the e.u. summit at the end of this week there would be one week left until the supposed bricks it dates of march twenty ninth the reason may was then you have to come back as a politician head and cite you this is your last chance about an ideal but even if she says that the ultra hard pull bricks it says will not vote for her because they would say i'm going to do that because we're out with n

country willing to take in more refugees getting them to stay is proving tricky lawrence lee reports from the capital has been. six years ago raf fats was a student in damascus since then his dad's been killed he's traveled to jordan and egypt before finding himself of all places in lisbon now he runs a restaurant staffed by other refugees it's quite a story but he's happy. i really like being here for different reasons i like the country the people the climates like home and the way they treat us i don't feel like a stranger here i can speak portuguese now and to make things much simpler house. there's been has become similar taney asli the most welcoming and yet least well known potential destination for refugees everything happening here is the opposite to the rest of the european union portugal finds itself in a minority of war on the inside the european union the only country actively trying to encourage refugees to come and settle here the problem is trying to get them to do it and then trying to get them to stay portugal has reached out to greece and italy and is in advance ta

parliament more time to stop its all from happening and the prime minister could be on her way out lawrence lee al jazeera brussels the un's describing the flooding disaster in southern africa as hugely complex and it says it will require an even more complex response fifteen thousand people many of them are still stranded more than a week after struck out of there as malcolm webb is travelling through one of the west head regions this isn't a district in western mozambique close to the border with them bob way. cyclamen i ripped through roads and washed away bridges. so i would journey from barrow. began in small boat made of tree bark. then a few kilometers down the road another broken bridge. the cyclamen split central mozambique into islands cut off from road access. we met machree on a sire who hasn't seen our husbands in for a storm mobile networks are cut off and made the crossing to find him. it is good but what choice do we if. i. tell you something that is happening the locals are hampering us actually helping us to cross to get food. people in need to cross to reach loved ones or foo

it is indeed lawrence lee making sense of that for us there in westminster lawrence thank you. it's going to nigeria now where the authorities say around fifty schoolchildren have been pulled from the rubble of a three story building which collapsed in lagos but dozens more are feared dead it was a primary school on the top for the building and as many as one hundred pupils were studying when the block came down well go live to lagos in just a moment first of all right chalons reports on the rescue effort. freed at least but not moving this is one of several children i believe from the rubble so far the collapse three storey building contained homes shops and a primary school for at least one hundred young students it's in the it's a foggy area of lagos highlands the original heart of nigeria's most populous city that would destroy you i don't know you know i would be out of the jaws i mean i pull out all my stuff i'd see my kids i want everybody i got here two years to get this child looked in better shape you can hear the relief of the onlookers as she's carried through the c

they have left to vote on the main vote of the evening and for information on that we bring in lawrence lee in westminster this is the one which really matters lawrence. yeah this is the money shot as they say in just a reminder of what it is having lost for the second time to treason is not lost the vote on the deal with the european union twice the first one by two hundred thirty votes that was a record in british parliamentary history and then she brought it back again and then lost by a hundred fold c. nine thing a couple of days ago so she's fine based on that when there was a process that she said she'd agree to last night they had a vote on whether or not the parliament wanted to rule out leaving with no deal and that pos and then she said ok fine based on that i'm going to make a straight choice either for my deal by next week in which case we're going to have an extension until june the thirtieth to get some fifty pieces of legislation through so we leave with my deal by by then or if you don't vote for my dale then there's going to be a long extension possibly no bracks it only wa

watching closely portugal is one of the most attractive destinations in europe for britain's has lawrence lee reports the lack of clarity from london is already taking its toll on businesses that. one of the myths about british people in europe is that they like to live in places like portugal so they can get a round of golf in before moving on to gin by lunch time but very many more move to places like this for work we brought this group together they all have different questions they cannot get answers to me and many many other people mostly use the same concern. about health care will that continue obviously with people wanting to move between countries and. not knowing. well there are going to be able to take people's goods between countries having started where the work already business is running. and. a large chunk of forty percent of the market which is currently a bridge from a bricks in residential info people going to be able to come across here to see the value of the pound and what's going to happen there is in speculation so we're not really sure many more money but what's going

have made a new life overseas so that they fear for their future after briggs it is a serious lawrence lee reports now from the spanish town of. on the border with portugal. it's carnival weekend i am auntie and people are on the streets it isn't a rich place by any means but the sense of community is obvious but the home karen simon and thirteen year old jayden aren't so happy they fell in love with the place moved here years ago when a small consultancy from home changes bilingual and regards himself as more spanish than british and they're watching events unfold in the u.k. with a mitigated horror absolutely shamed because the every person i spoke to here in spain looks at me with pity or with with a look in their face to say why one why you doing this and i'm so sorry that they're doing this to you i'm so sorry because i just cannot understand what is your problem what is the problem tell me what are you going to gain from leaving what are you so i've upset you know idea i can't answer them they worry about the impact of brecht's it on the business but they were removed or about their

teresa mayes own conservative party said the changes weren't enough to sway them so let's talk to lawrence lee in london as we count down to this vote which feels like it will probably go the way of the last one. yeah exactly and if you cast your mind back she lost the last one by two hundred thirty which is a record in british parliamentary history and so to change that she would have to get one hundred sixteen people and pisa changed their minds hundred sixteen times to a z's is two three two there are people who do add up whose job it is not up how many people change their mind and so far the largest tally i've seen of switches is seventeen so that would mean. that that she'd lose by just under two hundred which is frankly catastrophic and the question then is is what does she say next because as soon as the the vote tally is announced she has to stand up and say where it is that she goes from here clearly there is supposed to be this plan for another vote on wednesday to rule out no deal and another one on thursday for an opinion for an extension but the thing that struck me come a last ni

but i am not prepared to delay brics it any further than the thirtieth of june out of there as lawrence lee has more from brussels. when sarees m a has to address the e.u. twenty seven the other members of the european union the stuff of that silks on thursday afternoon the woman question the guns of yachting harry's what happens if you'll deal fails again for the third time of the start of next week because they're only prepared at the moment to countenance an extension to back seats if a deal policies and there's every likelihood that it won't that will sights on her i'm sure what happens if it fails are you actually prepared at the end of next week for the u.k. to leave the european union with no deal little despite the fact the u.k. pollens voted against it now twice despite all the economic damage that would pose to the u.k. the republic of ireland the netherlands and other bordering countries to the u.k. despite the fact that it would be mean the reimposition of the hall border. on the island of islands and all the violence so that could lead to their going to say the reason why is th

lawrence lee has the latest from london any sense of hope lawrence that this deal may pass parliament this time. well you know the thing is tomorrow is supposed to be the day of the big votes it was always the plan. and series a maze promise parliament would have another vote on her deal so morrow and if it gets voted down again as everybody thinks is going to happen then their parliament will be asked for to see if your opinions prepared to delay a brac sets but the problem is there's a rumor that's been going around parliaments all day today that because three of them a nose that should go in solution is intending now to renee go on her promise potentially have a different vote instead asking parliament what sort of deal they might be prepared to accept and if that happens there are already been warnings from many m.p.'s inside her own ruling conservative party that they would hold her to be in contempt of parliament for breaking her promise and so that would put at immediate risk. to her role as prime minister of the country so there is a sense now of real crisis i think here in go

european countries are anxiously watching the countdown to briggs it due at the end of the month lawrence lee reports now from lisbon the capital of portugal which is a favorite destination for britons one of the myths about british people in europe is that they like to live in places like portugal so they can get a round of golf in before moving on to gin by lunch time but very many more move to places like this for work we brought this group together they all have different questions they cannot get answers to me and many many other people can see it's the same concern. about health care will that continue obviously with people wanting to move between countries and this whole process. not knowing whether i'm going to be able to take people's kids between countries having started work already why business is running rental apartments and my concern is that we use a large chunk of the forty percent of our market which is currently a bridge from a bricks in residency and hope people are going to be able to come across here to see the value of the pound and what's going to happen there is some

eurofighter typhoon jets to the saudis which they say is illegal under international law of syria's lawrence lee has more from that protest in london. it's only a model but the point is a stark one the u.k. government has already sold two dozen of the british typhoon jets also known as the eurofighter across the european union to the saudi government and plans are in the works to sell their leaf fifty more it's all worth hundreds of millions of dollars along with this message for the cameras they handed in a petition of fifty thousand names condemning what campaigners describe as a legal and ethical insult to international law that the british government is ignoring the international arms trade treaty a treaty that it was a champion of not so long ago in a drive to continue selling these arms five billion pounds worth of arms since the onset of the conflict that is seven times as much is being spent on aid in the man the random nature of the saudi led attacks on yemen the heavy civilian casualties have prompted several european countries to suspend arms sales to riyadh every week more and more e

time the last time this deal was put to a vote she lost by two hundred thirty vote let's bring in lawrence lee live from westminster so the defeat not as big as last time but still a defeat and she spelt out that she would go through those votes that had been promised. yes i mean it's still a catastrophic defeat she's she's nowhere near. being able to form an argument that said ok well this now it's this so closely model to bring the deal back in a few weeks time that would have to be a lot fewer than the hundreds that she's lost by so she got no choice now but second seat of the process that she had promised before the war that the intriguing thing that she said was that the votes is not going to happen tomorrow wednesday. where the government will call on parliament to rule out no deal is not is going to be a free folks. that means that the conservative party will not try to demand his own m.p.'s vote in a certain direction and they'll leave it to their own discretion to decide how they feel they want to do it journalists have a rich influence just explain the significance of the free vote f

john boehner says he won't allow another vote unless substantial changes are made that speak to lawrence lee in london for a snoring next friday supposed to be rex said rex it day what's going to happen once the government's next move. well that we were hoping for a bit of clarity from the cabinet meeting this morning it didn't happen so if we want to play a game of what we know and what we don't know they the only things we think we know at the moment of that to resume a single letter to donald tusk the president the european council asking for an extension and we also think we know by now this late in the day and shoot day that the government's not going to attempt to ignore the ruling from the speaker yesterday that said she couldn't bring back a vote for third time and try and force a vote tomorrow wednesday before the european summit at the end of the week what we don't know is what's in the letter to donald tusk how long the extension is for the u.k. once on what grounds they want to have an extension and the your opinion has been very clear in saying that they won't grant an extension

to ratify any deal and in order to do that we need an extension until june thirtieth or shortly lawrence lee will have more from brussels but first to join a whole who is in westminster for syngenta how is the will to say intervention like if you go down a number ten with the prime minister. hopeful broadly speaking probably at a very difficult time it's not bad news for treason by because it gives her such a what she wanted which was a third vote on her twice defeated deal she'd hoped to hold that vote this week ahead of the european council meeting on monday john bercow the speaker of parliament sorted that plan saying you can't keep bringing the same issue fact problem and once parliament has already decided upon it well this if indeed this is to be the settled position of the e.u. twenty seven of the next couple of days this might constitute sufficient change that to be able to persuade john bercow to allow a vote next week it would be a vote of course pitting teresa mayes deal against a no deal cliff edge exit from the european union in the dying hours before march the twenty ninth next

parliament more time to stop its all from happening and the prime minister to be on her way out lawrence lee al jazeera brussels. the un's describing the flooding disaster in southern africa as hugely complex and it says it will require an even more complex response fifteen thousand people many of them still stranded more than a week after struck. traveling through one of the west. this isn't a district in western mozambique close to the border with zimbabwe. cyclamen it i ripped through roads and washed away bridges. journey from para. began in small boat made of tree bark. then a few kilometers down the road another broken bridge. the cyclamen split central mozambique into islands cut off from road access. we met machree honest who hasn't seen her husband through three storm mobile networks are cut off and she made the crossing to find him. it is good but what choices do we give what choice do i give to the at least three something that is happening with the locals the happiness the actual helping us to cross to get food. people need to cross to reach loved ones or food so they find whatev

many of them have made a new life overseas and say bell fear for their future after bragg's it lawrence lee reports from the spanish town of i am one day on the porch with portugal. it's carnival weekend i am wanting and people are on the streets it isn't a rich place by any means but the sense of community is obvious. at the home karen simon and thirteen year old jayden aren't so happy they fell in love with the place moved here years ago when a small consultancy from home changes bilingual and regards himself as more spanish than british and they're watching events unfold in the u.k. with unmitigated horror absolutely shamed because the every person i spoke to here in spain looks at me with pity or with with a look in their face to say why why why you doing this and i'm so sorry that they're doing this to you i'm so sorry because i just cannot understand what is your problem what is the problem tell me what are you going to gain from leaving what are you so i've upset you know idea i can't answer them they worry about the impact of brecht's it on their business but they were removed or ab

s the european commission says may must inform them about the next steps by thursday lawrence lees live for us in london so this cabinet meeting is going ahead lawrence what does the government do next. well we were hoping for some clarity from the cabinet meeting as to what they were going to do given that the announcement from the speaker of the house last night that you talked about frankly came that very little. the province's official spokesman told journalists off to woods that she was going to write to let's assume the presence of the european council donald tusk asking for an extension that he refused to say whether is going to be a long extension or short extension he was asked if the prime minister would be prepared to just throw in the towel and abandon the projects and he said no she really doesn't want to do that some leaks that came out off the woods suggested that she might in her letter be asking for both the long and the shorts extension just to confuse things even further. because she still can't make a mind up on this that will tentative plan the idea that based on th

is departure is supposed to happen ok let's talk to lawrence lee about this he's live outside the houses of parliament in london for us. lawrence deja vu all over again isn't it you just hear another juncture another so-called meaningful vote which looks like it will go the same way. well yeah and i think it looks like this is the very last chance that the vote she said it is seven o'clock is three o'clock now so she got four hours whether debasing all this or that to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse but frankly she's she's she's toast that the deal is going to go down probably by from the look of it the best pasta two hundred votes and that's only just less than the two hundred thirty which is a british record should she should she lost by last time i do think it's worth just just reminding ourselves just for a second the reason why this is that this car crash unfolding before us and it frankly all goes back to that to the complete naivety of the referendum question which was do you want to leave your opinion or to stay and it's a straight choice between two things one clearly and we

it opposes holding a referendum until an agreement is reached with the european union confused lawrence lee can clear some of that up for a serious live back in westminster i mean the reality lawrence is the debates and talking go on but we really are much care always as to what is going to happen with fifteen days to go well not now i think i think the things we found out last night i mean first of all we found out that the u.k. is now seems inevitably not going to leave the european you know march twenty ninth because it's either going to be delayed if series amazement passes if that happens or a much longer delay indeterminate for something else yet to be considered the other thing is i think no deal has almost certainly been ruled out theoretically still possible because it could happen still after a long delay but a long delay if that were to happen but there would be something else in the meantime of the referendum or a general election or something else so that's sort of vanishing over the horizon really as well the thing about these votes tonight is that there's one for the referend

that brics is revealed about british politics and there certainly is a very messy picture there lawrence lee live for us there in london of for all things brazing you can go to our web site at once again al jazeera dot com we have got this interesting piece from lawrence which takes a look at how brazen it is affecting british people living in portugal on al-jazeera dot com we want to hear from you on all of these stories and you can send your comments to any of our online platforms we're on twitter use the hash tag a.j. news grid our handle a.j. english we're also on facebook facebook dot com slash al-jazeera or you can send us a message on whatsapp or telegram a plus nine seven four five one trip or one four nine a ten prominent saudi women's women's rights activists have appeared in court for the first time since they were detained last year they were arrested in may in the weeks before a ban on women driving cars was lifted their their case has raised global squeak scrutiny.

lawrence lee has been following developments with the latest from westminster. well to reason may is right seeing has written is in the process of writing to the head of the european council and just asking for an extension to article fifty and a delay to bret's it and clearly she's working on the assumption that that's going to be granted on some level but a lot of the music now coming out of brussels is to say why should we do it you can't tell us what your tentative plan is and certainly the french among others are suggesting they might not grant an extension at all now just to extrapolate that that would mean that after the e.u. summit at the end of this week there would be one week left until the supposed bricks it dates of march twenty ninth the reason may was then you have to come back as a parliament here and say this is your last chance about an ideal but even if she says that the ultra hardcore bricks it says will not vote for her because they would say no to do that because we're out with no deal at the end of this week and that's what we've always wa

comes a week before the fourth anniversary of the war which has left thousands of civilians dead lawrence lee reporting now from london. lama's international trying to keep the pressure on the british government over its enormously lucrative arms sales to saudi arabia worth hundreds of millions of dollars every year fifty thousand names headed into the trade departments here trying to urge the government to stop its allan's from the state. despite all their efforts. fifty thousand names on a petition you know politicians talk about moving the dial is going to make a difference just think well we've been campaigning now for four years and it's four years that the coalition has been bombing. any man and that this country has been selling arms to saudi arabia we will keep that pressure up we won't stop and that's. because there are now so over six thousand eight hundred civilians who have lost their lives due to that bombing and it is outrageous that the british government continues to maintain the british royal blood on their hands i do there and that the british government is ignoring the inte

will vote on her latest deal on tuesday when this lawrence lee joins us live from west mr laurence there had been some speculation as to whether that mean full vote would take place tuesday or tomorrow in parliament as as the pm promised as it now looks like it's going ahead. yes it does that there was a genuine political.

most unlikely it seems the road may be running out for the british prime minister the al-jazeera lawrence lee was outside the british parliament as the crucial vote was made he explains the potential scenarios. the word meltdown is being used liberally to the scribe what's happened suits a reason maze bricks it plan a second crushing defeat and apparently no way back now for the steel and ultimately what it means is the power of the bricks it process is being taken out of her hands out of the hands of governments and put as the hands of parliament and the european union the chronology now is a couple of days a vote on wednesday nights where parliament is being asked to rule out no deal leaving the your opinion crushing out that me deal in theory if not in practice no on thursday a separate votes on asking the european union for a delay in the inside brics a process which it is assumed would have to follow agreements against no deal but what all that means is that the delay goes into the hands of people like the twenty seven members of the european union and they have the right to refuse the u

more euro fighter typhoon jets to the saudis which they say is illegal under international law lawrence lee has more from the protest in london. it's only a model but the point is a stock one the u.k. government has already sold two dozen of the british typhoon jets also known as the euro five across the european union to the saudi government and plans are in the works to sell nearly fifty more it's all worth hundreds of millions of dollars along with this message for the cameras they handed in the petition the fifty thousand names condemning what campaigners describe as a legal and ethical insult to international law the british government is ignoring the international arms trade treaty a treaty that it was a champion of not so long ago in a drive to continue selling these arms five billion pounds worth of arms since the onset of the conflict that is seven times as much is being spent on aid in the man the random nature of the saudi led attacks on yemen the heavy civilian casualties have prompted several european countries to suspend arms sales to riyadh every week more and more evidence a

refugees one country that's bucking the trend is portugal which wants more people out of there as lawrence lee has this report from it's been. just six years ago reference was a student in damascus since then his dad's been killed his travel to jordan and egypt before finding himself of all places in lisbon and now he runs a restaurant stops by other refugees it's quite a story but he's happy more than. i really like being here for different reasons i like the country the people the climates like home and the way they treat us i don't feel like a stranger here i can speak portuguese now and to make things much simpler house. there's been has become similar taney asli the most welcoming and yet least well known potential destination for refugees everything happening here is the opposite to the rest of the european union portugal finds itself in a minority of one inside the european union the only country actively trying to encourage refugees to come and settle here the problem is trying to get them to do it and then trying to get them to stay. portugal has reached out to greece and italy and is

european commission says mame must inform them about the next steps by thursday reliance lee is live for us in london lawrence do we have any idea at all where the government goes from here. well there there is it has to be said and outright and now of desperation and crisis at the hostel government the cabinet met this morning for an hour and a half to try to decide what is going to do when the lights of this ruling that you mentioned last night that they couldn't bring trees a maze plan back again for a vote there was apparently a massive rattle inside cabinet between those who want an extension and those who just say screw it let's just get out you know that that that the real hard cold texas so that happens and some reason may has said it's according to her official spokes on the way that she is now going to rights donald tusk the presidents of the european council today asking for an extension but she apparently hasn't told her own cabinets what's going to be in the letter because some of them said that they thought it was going to be a binary choice between may be the end of june itching as you would th

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tom: lawrence fink at this hour as well with blackrock. and william lee with us.or esther draghi -- mr. draghi? bill: he has to tell the world what they are going to do about normalization. much.l not be able to say one of the greatest fictions in the history of policy making that stability and growth pact. ecb is supposed to be guided by the principles that debt ratios are supposed to be three and 60% of gdp. nobody observes that. -- debt to gdp ratio is less than 10% of euro 80 -- euro area gdp. tom: i get the idea of currency issues, but if italy is in recession, does germany care and the issue is they have to. bill: they have not in the past. i was a euro skeptic in the days when i was in the german desk in the late 90's. for what i can see, structural problems have not changed. you cannot expect draghi to be able to boost growth using just -- nominal policy. i was going to take it a step forward and say maybe the u.s. is heading into japanification. it has gone global. the proof of the pudding is in the eating. the fed funds rate peaked a cycle. at no time ha

ashley: edward lawrence thank you very much, let's go straight to our next guest, city bank global chief investment strategist bill lee former head of north american economics at citigroup and former senior economist at the new york fed by the way is now the chief economist at the milliken institute you've been busy but steven let me begin with you what was the takeaway from the fed? it seems to me the market should like it as a very benign fed right now. >> well the federal reserve downgraded its expected policy tightened path more than they downgraded the growth forecast. i think that there was probably some apprehension and financial markets that the federal reserve had not been fully convinced that it was necessary to change its policy outlook in order to maintain the expansion so i think that there's some relief in fact that that was the case. ashley: so bill, that outlook though is downgrading the gdp expectations, saying that they're a little concerned about inflation as much as having a hard time getting it to that 2% level. is there trouble ahead for the economy, at least a slow down certainly we know it's go