and i must now turn to the speech from the leader of the liberal democrats, someone leader of the liberalsomeone who i also have affection and respect for and he made a number of good points but he also said that he regretted the referendum. this from the party that was the first in this house to say that we should have a referendum on eu membership. because he does not like the result of the last referendum, he now wants another referendum. liberal democrat policy on referendums is not the policy on referendums is not the policy of gladstone or lloyd george, it is the policy of vicky butler hard, no but yeah but no but yeah! —— vicky pollard. i should also commend the speech given by the leader of the dup who explained he had been inundated with text messages today from people who were saying, please, please come back the government tonight and some of those messages had even come from conservatives. and i think, critically, when we think about confidence in this country and in this government, there is a daily vote of confidence which is being executed by the individuals investing in th

would be a natural place for them to go they wanted a referendum, that is what the liberal democratsbout all the time but i think there are still some deep wounds on tuition fees and an era when students felt they were down by the liberal democrats and therefore, voters are going there. i think at the moment, it is probably looking for home. let's about the elegy, we talk about the economic powerhouses is a way they battle for dominance. this is dominance in the technology sector and the article in the new york times says the us is basically taking aim at china in this tech power race. it says that a p pa re ntly this tech power race. it says that apparentlyjeremy hunt, the minister, has arrived in washington and the main question being asked it should britain risked its relationship with beijing in order to please the trumpet ministry should's push to move away from chinese tech? especially in this era we are looking at building a 5g networks are at chinese companies to build those network. we are, and i think this is really serious conversation to had. we are hearing more about cyb

of the holding together for this this but except for i don't know the party the expect the liberal democrats to be. reaping up the forty eight percent of the electorate who voted to remain they pretty much ran their general election campaign a couple of years ago the one that reason may went in to win and lost the lib dems actually also lost they went down a percentage point when you would think they could have hoovered up all of those disaffected remain as a lost sale of a parliamentary revival of the liberal forces so there is absolutely no sign of it they've crept up just into double figures in the opinion polls but look at the confusion there stephen lloyd a former chief whip of the liberal democrats resigned that webb resigned to himself because he couldn't hold the line are still great the limited to what the party leaders and we'll find out in this biography but i suppose he had to do something like that so he is not sitting as an independent his resignation meant that the liberal democrats went down by eight percent by that single and i was able to break that wasn't as it was probabl

but look at the confusion there stephen lloyd a former chief whip of the liberal democrats resigned that webb resigned to himself because he couldn't hold the line that is the rate the letter to say what the party leaders and we'll find out in this biography but i suppose you have to do something like that so he is not sitting as an independent his resignation meant that the liberal democrats went down by eight percent by that single and i was able to break that wasn't as it was probably well he i think he's been quite pragmatic because he thinks he has to do that to hold his seat it's not easy to do as the dam the party's lost its critical mass in many ways and they hardly figure in the report tars now so i think he's made that decision on very practical and pragmatic grounds but it just shows even in the dems you've got these problems and if you go back to what vince cable who's generally pretty capable heavyweight has said about the european union and stuff he's contradicted the position that the lib dems are putting forward to put forward now that they're just not presenting a credib

let's talk now to the liberal democrat leader who is in oui’ liberal democrat leader who is in our westdid you make of what the prime minister had to say today? she clearly sees this as a way forward in bricking the parliamentary logjam in discussions over brexit. in the words, no. iwas party discussions over brexit. in the words, no. i was party to these discussions over the weekend. very good initiative, iwelcomed discussions over the weekend. very good initiative, i welcomed the fact we have the relief of the challenge on the europeans registering. i thought that was a positive move but on the substance, we saw absolutely nothing that we could see in terms of progress. i think one of the labour backbenchers said, we had open doors but a closed mind. i do worry that we are drifting into a confrontation here with chicken played by the government and no prospect of a revolution. would you say then that the suggestion that theresa may order to talk to you and the talks she had with you and the snp and so on over the weekend, but that was just window dressing because today's statement mak

one is the conversation always seems to resolve when it comes to liberal democrats, around the consequences of illegal immigration on the illegal immigrant. the consequences for the american people are almost never discussed. did you notice you mentioned that hero, this patriot, officer singh. did you see the picture of his family? they will never, ever, the young child will never know his father. the spouse, this beautiful young lady, will never see her husband again. what about those consequences? >> sean: he is an immigrant. >> he came in legally. >> he is everything right about this. >> sean: i had the local sheriff and police chief on last night.

it he was a liberal democrat in the "miami herald" i think it was but tom johnson was committed to news. there could be. problems. and they did a lot of wrong things but but that was not the norm it was the exception. cnn is there to do nothing but anti- trump. i was going on a fox show a few months ago and i looked on my phone and i looked at the app on cnn they had 15 storiesey on their app and 13 attacked trump over something he had said the day before the 14th attacked trump on something else 15 the story was like a world war or something that 14 out of 15 were attacks on

>> part of my argument is that one of the things that makes liberal democratic capitalism work is, you want to have a portfolio of allegiances. two different institutions, different identities, you want to wear different hats. i am against what they called the clean and well lit prison of a single idea. and so what you want, what makes that possible is not just a division of labor in terms of our jobs, but division of labor in terms of our minds. that part of our day we can be religious, part of our day we can define ourselves as a father or mother or whatever. or a sports fan. and that allows us to get outside of these single lanes of identity. and so i belong to a lot of different tribes. my family, ultimate first platoon, first allegiance but there's also places like national review, american enterprise institute, my friends. you can go down to judaism to some extent although my very bad jew. you can go down a long list of different identities and i think that they are mostly simpatico with more symbiotic with each other but also all different. and what you don't want to do is get t

people had the opportunity to vote for a second referendum by supporting the liberal democrats in 2017. just 7% voted in those. it is the job of parliament to deliver on the promises made at the last election, not to be seeking a new one. now, some suggest, some suggest there's a fourth option, to agree that we should leave with a deal on the 29th of march but to vote this deal down is the hope of going back to brussels again and negotiating an alternative deal. but no such alternative deal exists. the political declaration sets the framework for the future relationship and the next phase of negotiations will be our chance to shake that relationship. but we cannot begin those talks unless or until we agree the terms of our withdrawal, and the european union will not agree to any other deals for that withdrawal, so having ruled out all of these options we are left with one, to vote for this deal tonight. one that delivers on the core tenets of brexit, taking back control of our borders, laws, money, trade and fishery but in a way that protects jobs, ensures our security and honors the i

i have just held constructive meetings with the leader of the liberal democrats and the westminster leadersand plaid cymru. from tomorrow, meetings will be taking place between senior government representatives, including myself, and groups of mps who represent the widest possible range of views from across parliament, including our confidence and supply partners, the democratic unionist party. i am disappointed that the leader of the labour party has not so far chosen to take part. but our door remains open. it's time for us to come together, put the national interest first, and deliver on the referendum. that was the prime minister in downing street a short while ago. laura is with me now. what do we make of the message the prime minister gave in the commons which reinforced the shape of the kind of talking she wants to happen. what can we make of it? we cannot be sure yet, she is trying to make it difficult and awkward forjeremy corbyn, if this really is a time of national crisis, as suggested, why won't he rise to the challenge, is her message. get into downing street, sit down, and try

pretty liberal democrat. nt didn't collude because if he did we have some laer, more problems than republican versus democrat. >> especially how well hehe trthe fbi. now we know this year and a half long campaig that trashes the fbi and now we have this news, disconcerting. >> you know what we're talking about at bottom is what is the story with donald trump utd vladimir, okay? that's really what we're talking about. and i have to tell you, republicans, democrats, liberals, conservatives, i think we would all like an answer. one question i have is w has the president kind of bragged that with lester hol and with rosenstein that his reasons for his firing of comey were russia. if you're a russian o nrative, you' bragging that your reason is russia. can i say i've never understood this part of the story. >> maybe he needed to let somebody know that he was doing it for that reon. at's the thing. with trump, you just don't know. i'm going to pause it here. we've got some shutdown conversation to talk about as well

m on the other side i'm a liberal democrat who supported obama. i've never voted anything but democrats is the first time i kennedyr john hann -- john . i'm not one of those guys. to the democrats as the republicans doing it. i'm trying to be neutral. very difficult in our age of divisiveness to be neutral. -- where ire i lives live in them trying to remain. host: republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. .ndependents, (202) 748-8002 alan dershowitz with us until the bottom of the hour. conrad, a republican in philadelphia. good morning. caller: a couple of questions. i hear him talk about our founding fathers with the constitution. the constitution was written in 17th-century limited not have electric, gas come email, has brought up bringing up the constitution with modern times? know nothing. -- no nothing. guest: that is a marvelous question and the constitution has been enduring. some parts are living in some parts are dead and the debate between a living and dead constitution is foolish, the 35ts that say you have to be to be pre

order thatis 8 —— of a liberal democratic order that is starting to crumble?lcome to hardtalk. thank you. there is a lot of evidence from surveys in opinion polls across europe suggesting thatjews feel much more insecure than they did ten, 20 years ago. why? attacks against the jewish community come from different places. there is the attack from islamic radicals, it islamic terrorism, as we have seen it in toulouse and paris and herbin hagen, and brussels. and we have attacks against religious practice ofjewish religious practice in the european parliaments, outlawing practices to circumcision and preparing kosher meat and also the far left, with the far right, is getting stronger in many places in europe, and anti—semitism is back in vogue. anti—semitism is back in vogue, you say. the european union has its own survey of fundamental rights and agency devoted to that. and they say anti—semitism has become disturbingly normalised. so do you see governments across europe responding to that reality? governments are trying to respond to those different threats. w

sir vince cable, the leader of the liberal democrats.ng promised access to "world class" treatments, as part of the new io—year plan for the health service. the prime minister says the publication of the plan this week marks an "historic" moment for the health service — with the nhs budget rising to an extra £20 billion a year by 2023. labour says staff shortages and cuts to the health and social care systems in recent years will make it very hard to deliver what's being proposed. here's our health correspondent dominic hughes. one... two... jenny ray knows first—hand how hard it can be to live with poor mental health. for years, she's struggled with anxiety and depression. when she's needed help, she's had good support from the gp and the wider nhs. but she says mental health is still only second—best when compared to physical problems. it feels like we're making a start, but there still seems to me like there's a long way to go, um... and i mean, i don't have the answers, but it seems to me that waiting months and months for treatment

groups of mps arriving in whitehall this morning with tory backbenchers, the dup, liberal democrats. senior government ministers to see if anything can be done to find a brexit solution. with 71 days to go, there is little time to waste. we want to have a proper conversation about some of the details. parliament has been very clear in that vote on what it doesn't want and we have to be clear on what it does want in a way that can be delivered with the european union. but for now labour is not taking part. jeremy corbyn wants to 7 well, taking part. jeremy corbyn wants to ? well, i taking part. jeremy corbyn wants to 7 well, i do apologise, we had a problem with that report. in a moment, we'll speak to our europe correspondent adam fleming in brussels. but first to our assistant political editor, norman smith. so, norman, the prime minister has been talking to mps from a range of different parties. are there any signs of progress or signs she can build a consensus and break the deadlock? i have to say that i think the prospects of any real progress on that front are pretty minimal. in

three would say we are going to come to thank you mr speaker from the liberal democrat position we are clear that we want to. with talks with comanches governments but it's very important that the government makes clear that no deal is not an option thank you very very important the prime minister as she actually to be fair to her earlier today didn't do rollouts extending all its cool fifty is important to the house kids that have that job to think and come together and finally i would ask the prime minister will change sure mr speaker that this house gets a chance to take control of our own business as we go through the next few days and we. thank you put into all that i missed that i will dogs mr speaker on the result of the motion of no confidence tonight illustrates the importance selfie confidence and supply arrangement that is currently in place thank you thank you thank you it was i always was i'm always i don't have to say i am always delighted when maher opponents and the strip the strength of that our relation to how it was for northern ireland. and when the people of northe

the leader of the opposition it was a number of different politicians the leader of the libs liberal democrat party as well so the reason may of all of them having to go back to brussels with a failed seal and trying to get some concessions she's also staring down the barrel of yet another leadership challenge now and she could be sent to be debated to morrow and what happens there is that she can be fighting for her job chances are she could see you toss just like she did last month when she faced a leadership challenge from within her own party but if she loses well then it could get very complicated in deede because the government would then all run on the anybody would have fourteen days politicians in the house of commons would have fourteen days the parties to scramble together and try to get some sort of government together cobble one together that wouldn't be very easy considering that the conservatives are still the biggest party in parliament and if within fourteen days that doesn't take place well then we could be staring down the barrel of another general election and that all con

when tom johnson was running it he was a liberal democrat in the "miami herald" i think it was but tom johnson was committed to news. there could be. problems. and they did a lot of wrong things but but that was not the norm it was the exception. cnn is there to do nothing but anti- trump. i was going on a fox show a few months ago and i looked on my phone and i looked at the app on cnn they had 15 storiesey on their app and 13 attacked trump over something he had said the day before the 14th attacked trump on something else 15 the story was like a world war or something that 14 out of 15 were attacks on donald trump and variations of the same attackd. it is so over-the-top and so obvious. they don't report news how many news programs do they even have? they are all talk shows. >> do you know, the difference anyway? so when we come back the government shutdown is it? as most of the government shutdown? whathe percent how does the media report this? why is it that there is a government shutdown it is republicans fault both houses of congress and we will explore that when we return. ladi

the liberal democrat leader who supports another referendum said backbenchers would assert themselvese government loses this week sport. parliament will take control of this process, will take control of this process, will insist we pursue the option of no brexit. it can happen in one of two ways, it can happen simply by cancelling article 50 which i think would be resented by lots of people, oi’ would be resented by lots of people, or it can happen by parliament seeing actually we go back to the public to have the final say. the prime minister and her team have admitted they face a challenging week as they try to win the vote and if they don't it's clear we will face if they don't it's clear we will fa ce eve n if they don't it's clear we will face even more challenges. questions about britain's post—brexit agreements with switzerland and up to 70 other non—eu countries have been raised by the chairman of the commons international trade committee. last month, the international trade secretary, liam fox, announced that the uk had approved an interim trade deal with the swiss but the s

the great thing about liberal democratic capitalism is it helps us learn how to deal with strangers.we even all for hundreds of thousands of years with serious programming that says do not trust strangers. wonderful book by a guy at yale called just babies where he surveys the research done, the programming that babies, no babies were harmed in the conduct of those experiments but french babies have a french accent. and babies bond quickly with the appearance of their parents and instantly distrust people who sound different or look different, they are completely wrong where people are taught not to hate. in the evolutionary environment i talked about at great length, there is an enormous evolutionary advantage, the tribe works together and cooperates, the woman is full of rugged individualists who read ayn rand will be wiped out. because of that programming there are political ideologies that contribute to being part of the community. and unity is not a problem. unity is a good thing. tribalism is a good thing. it is finding healthy attachments and outlets for it. family, friends, l

the liberal democrats over decades have played a unique position.to do today and what are you going to do in 2019 and 2020 two great a more cogent discussion to the nation? going to votere against the brexit deal because it is a bad deal for the country, and because they think there is no brexit deal that is going to be anywhere near as good as membership of the european union. we fought very hard on that issue at the last general election. with the first to suggest that there should be a people so on that deal when it happens. that is not proposition that by many mps. i think there is that wider point that you mentioned which is, how to get past this and create the country people can live in, and what are the causes of brexit. for the last 2.5 years, brexit has been so all-encompassing for the government, that there has been no -- tom: this goes back to the beginning of the labour experiment, and now you forward to a conservative party falling apart. goal to take people away from the conservative party? jo: this is about the best future for the cou

last week, i met the meter -- leader of the liberal democrats, smp, and green party, and members from both sides of the house. my right honorable friend of lancaster also had a number of meetings. the government has approached constructives in a manner without preconditions and i am pleased that everyone we met with took the same approach. that the leader of the opposition has not chosen to take part so far. i hope you will reflect on that decision given the importance of this issue. we should all be prepared to work together to find a way forward. my colleagues and i will continue with further meetings this week. let me set out the six key issues which have been at the center of the talks to date. the first event relate to the process for moving forward. first, there is widespread concern about the possibility of the u.k. leaving without a deal. there are those on both sides of the house who want the government to rule this out. but we need to be honest with the british people about what that means. the right way to rule out no-deal is for this house to approve a deal with the europe

guy: we are joined by vince, the leader of the liberal democrats. good afternoon. may is widely expected to lose this evening. you have any idea from talking to people inside a house, the scale of the losses we could potentially be looking at? the champagne popping come we get away with under 100, which is staggering. we are not used to the idea of government being defeated in parliament or to be defeated on the scale, though that level would be way beyond anything we have experienced before. >> there is an expectation that if there is a title of the evening, that the leader of the opposition labor party will then call it vote of no-confidence. do you expect that to happen and what would need to be done to make that work? >> is a question of whether we want to. when the government authority collapses, the opposition is going to step up to the plate. the other smaller parties try to get a motion of no-confidence confidence before christmas. he was not having it. problem is the party is not just relatively unpopular but has no clear view on brexit and is not willing

i havejust held constructive meetings with the leader of the liberal democrats and the westminster leadersgs will be taking place between senior government representatives, including myself, and groups of mps who represent the widest possible range of views from across parliament, including our confidence and supply partners that democratic unionist party. i am disappointed that the leader of the labour party has not so far taken part, but our door remains open. it will not be an easy task, but mps know they have a duty to act in the national interest, reach a consensus and get this done. in a historic vote in 2016, the country decided to leave the eu. in 2017, 80% of people voted for parties battled on ma nifestoes voted for parties battled on manifestoes promising to respect that result. that is last night on downing street. breakfast is coming up downing street. breakfast is coming up at six o'clock. you are with their briefing on bbc news. britain's prime minister will meet more senior politicians later on wednesday to try to find a way forward for the brexit process. the greek prime m

opposition liberal democrats defense cable his party wants another referendum. since cable you've been really fighting for a second referendum do you see your hopes going up in smoke today no not at all i think it's as we say on the back burner of the moment but into weeks' time the prime minister will come back i don't think they will have made much progress with your opinion it's possible but i don't think so and then all of the options will then have to be reopened. and to the exit date the possibility of going to the country for a referendum it may be that the other all options been exhausted it's the only way that the government can get its deal forward by giving it to the public concern fifty fifty challenge she would win at the moment there's relatively little but it doesn't look like treason maze playing to the right of a party to the city is and maybe in the end she would prefer do you really question without it i don't think that will be allowed to happen i mean i know they're talking tough but actually the overwhelming majority of the house of commons

the truth is there's not that much difference between the most moderate democrat of the most liberal democratic. when democrats are looking for things like charisma, talent, heart. >> laura: right. >> if the election was held today, kamala harris would be elected. if scholz got in the race, donald trump would come in third. i think the democratic party has moved to the left and i think that's a good thing. and i think there's a lot of overreaction on the right to some things that are very popular in this country, like health care, like education. >> laura: ration care. >> there are things people want. >> laura: dan, ten seconds. >> they are not popular, chris. medicare for all his only popular until you tell people what the price tag is. doubling their taxes. then you know what happens? eighth-graders are 37%. that's not popular, only using febrile math. >> laura: out of time, out of time. if you thought the crisis at the border wasn't affecting your state, think again. portland, maine, under siege from an influx of asylum-seekers. the former governor is here to tell us. our grandparents checke

it ends up being mostly liberal democrats who believe in modern monetary theory. host: the headline, " alexandria ocasio cortez is the darling of the left and nightmare of the right, new taxes and medicare and tuition rollout and she is just getting started." peter is one of the authors of those stories. taking your calls this morning. darlene is up first in nevada, a democrat. go ahead. to say a lott want of poor people pay a lot of their income towards income taxes and the outcomes from those income taxes are basically nothing. there is no oversight for public schools and many of our children are not even making it. if we are paying taxes the benefit to how we are supposed to utilize those taxes -- why can't we have more health care? if you get it when you come across the lines as an immigrant or a legal citizen. i think we need to do more as citizens of america, we need more rights. the solution in your mind more taxes and higher taxes or better use of the tax dollars we have now? caller: it is getting more taxes from people like our current president. ensuring

ends up being mostly liberal democrats who believe in modern monetary theory. it's thatheadline, nightmare of the right, new taxes. she is just getting started. peter coy is one of the authors of the story. we are taking your calls. darlene is in henderson, nevada. caller: thank you for taking my call. pay towardor people income tax. the outcome from the income taxes are basically nothing. there is no oversight for public schools and our children are not making it. if we are paying taxes, the benefit to how we utilize the prison. why can't we have more health care? moret think we need to do as citizens of america. thank you. host: is the solution in your mind more taxes? higher taxes? is it better use of the taxes we have not? caller: it's getting more taxes from people like air current president. that we have a better use for those taxes. we need to have accountability. it doesn't matter if it's health i got a mastectomy. i got no treatment. then they dropped my insurance. where's the fairness in all of this? people, i lost my mytion eight housing because land

poll after poll, survey after survey shows that the media are liberal and democrat. they don't disappoint to liberals and democrats. we have a packed media with a groupthink mentality. and i wrote this down before i came here. w there are no uniform binding standards among the news outlets. no clear line between news and opinion. this is an opinion show. i give an opinion. you give an opinion. that is clear. but news is different, isn't it? no universal rules of conduct that apply the lawyers and electricians. no particular experience required, chuck todd, chriss cuomo, their experience as a democrats hacks, no connecting to connectivity. no commitment to truth telling. the result is old-fashioned, yellow journalism. scandalous, sensational, intellectually corrupt. so what we have is the fourth estate state has become the fifth column. mass media in this country, they areed committed to hillary clinton's election, now committed to ousting donald trump. llvery single day. they are sloppy, they miss report, they do not care. they figure they will throw out an apology if

there's not that much between the moderate and liberal democrat. we're looking for charisma, talent, brains, heart. >> laura: chris? >>> hey if the election was held today, kamala harris would be elected president. if schultz got in the race, donald trump would come in third. i think the democratic party has moved to the left and i think that's a good thing. >> laura: okay >>> and i think that there's a lot of overreaction on the right to some things that are very popular in this country like healthcare, like education, >> laura: rationed care >>> there are things people want. >> laura: dan >>> they're not popular, chris. medicare for all is only popular until you tell people what the price tag is, doubling their taxes. then you know what happens? it craters to 37%. that's not popular, only using liberal math >>> we have to do something about healthcare in this country. >> laura: if you thought the crisis in the counsel trilt wasn't affecting your state. think again. portland mane under siege. influx of asylum seekers. the former governor is here t

party in maryland has a -- quite a fight going on right now with what you would say traditional liberal democrats and very progressive new democrats that they're having more of an intermural squabble going on. republicans we don't have enough to argue about anything. >> wait. democrats argues? >> believe it or not. i try to bridge the gap and get them all to work together. [ laughter ] >> the great democrat mediator. >> i'm the negotiator to bring the factions of the democratic party together. >> governor wolf, what about this question of the bigger fights are within your own party, i think you said that's not the case for you. >> not in pennsylvania. we've been able to work together but increasingly we've been able to find common ground with the other side, the republicans as well. but i think you've had -- off much bigger democratic majority, democratic caucus than we had in pennsylvania so maybe that's the issue, you build divisions but in pennsylvania we've been -- the democratic party has been fairly -- >> you've each taken some surprising positions given the party you belong to and i'm thin

and over here, on the opposition benches, labour has 254 mps, the snp have 35, the liberal democratsy has one. but as we know, brexit has divided the two main parties. some mps will not be doing what their whips tell them. so let's go next door to the lobby, to remind ourselves who doesn't like the prime minister's deal. well, first, there's the dup — all ten of them. they can't vote, they say, for a deal that includes the irish backstop, and so far there's been nothing the prime minister has offered which would reassure them. so they are still firmly in our "no" column, at least for now. and then there are 99 brexit supporting conservatives who are on the record as opposing the deal. there are also tory remainers who say they will rebel — there are at least 12 of them. so the total number of conservatives against this deal stands, by our tally, at 111. next comes labour and all the other opposition mps, and altogether that adds up to another 312 votes against the prime minister. who's going to vote for the deal? well, the best estimate from bbc research is 205 conservatives will fal

the liberal democrat leader thinks mps will assert themselves if the government loses on tuesday. by cancelling article 50, which i think would be resented by lots of people, or it can happen by parliament saying actually we go back to the public to have the final say. it's hard to find anyone in westminster who thinks theresa may will win the vote. everyone is talking about plan b but there is no agreement about what that is. vicki joins me now. only 48—hour is to go before the vote. if anything is shifting in favour of the government? it does not feel like it, given that theresa may delayed the vote before christmas to buy herself time. there has not been a shift of mps to come over to her thinking. it feels like it isa over to her thinking. it feels like it is a momentous time. this week is so it is a momentous time. this week is so unpredictable. theresa may is trying to put through a controversial idea without a majority and that has been the problem from the beginning. talking to people in westminster it is almost impossible to find anyone who thinks she will win on tuesday.

. 0n that one solitary former liberal democrat.ly, is 19 more votes against terror than just over a month ago when we last looked at these figures. but i remind you, as we did last time, that we do not know how many of this group who are against mike at stein, ruling that overall total, and we do not know how many labour mps might back the deal who have not yet made a decision. we don't know how concessions and changes may come from the eu before the vote, which could all change the numbers. at least we will not have to wait long to see what the final tally is. what comes to see what the final tally is. what co m es after to see what the final tally is. what comes after that, well, that anyone's gas. we will keep you up—to—date with all of that. heavy snowfall and strong winds have now led to the deaths of at least 14 people across europe. 0ne village in northern greece has experienced a record low temperature of minus 23 celsius. the risk of avalanches are at the highest level in parts of the alps and norway and forecasters are wa

but the democratic party in maryland has quite a fight going on right now with traditional liberal room across a new democrats that they're having a more of an inner problem going on the republicans we don't have enough of us to argue for anything. >> democrats argue? >> believe it or not. [laughter] >> what about the question of the bigger fights within your own party, i think i heard you say are not sure. >> i think with pennsylvania we've actually been able to work, together, we've been able to find common ground with the other side in republicans as well. but i think you've had a much bigger democratic majority in a democratic caucus that we've ever had in pennsylvania. maybe that's the issue to build some divisions. >> you've each taken, some surprising positions giving the party you belong to. especially your guns right questions in maryland, and then there are other examples for the two of you, how hard is it to go against your party or what the expectations of your party are. >> i don't think there is any orthodox, because everyone in each party has to believe all these things.

strengths i think of why it's important to have the cross party support of this panel and the liberal democrats think that the government has not been strong enough however that's why it's so important for the saudi arabians to engage with us because we have the whole range of the views here and the fact is if they did allow me to go and interview the detainees and seek this evidence it would be well received by britain and other liberal democracies this would not be a seen as any kind of stitch up this is very much a cross party effort and the focus remains on international human rights will regardless of we know what other geopolitical considerations saudi arabia may well be involved in at them and. between from got in as i understand you wrote to the saudi embassy here and you've is it correct you hear nothing in. what we know. we're not for it we're not forming a gauge twice a reprint of the panel in a letter to the saudi ambassador on the second of january and then a couple of weeks later with imus of followed up with a less. formally of congratulations to the new foreign minister in saudi

allow time in parliament for the other parties, the scottish nationalists, the welsh mps, those liberal democrats who are pro-a second referendum. they could call for a no-confidence vote if he had no choice and had to do it. brent: thank you very much, alex. let's take the story back to the e.u. parliament. >> we not only have a member of the european parliament, we have a member of the brexit steering group, he is here with me now, undoubtedly also digesting the result. 230 votes, a historical defeat for theresa may. is that deal so bad? >> the deal is so good because it is a compromise. a negative, broad majority, and unexpectedly broad majority, but the two groups cannot agree on anything. some want to have a hard brexit and the others want to have no brexit at all. now it is up to the british to make a proposal to reconcile it. >> it seems like the european union will have to offer something so theresa may can save the deal or that set -- or so that any deal can pass. what can they offer the u.k.? >> there's the question of the irish border that was agreed on. they will have to come up with

but the chairman of the liberal democratic party prime minister singh's arbet and again we believe that such statements are unacceptable we asked the foreign minister. whether japan under the circumstances. he. could take independent actions since it's so much dependent on the us but we were assured that japan will take action based on their own national interests we would like to see that's kind of approach. japanese television and h.k. reason. i need we need a recognition of the outcome of world war two not it he say that japan first needs to recognize. it's come of world would see how satisfied are you with the reply by the japanese foreign minister that. i outlined all position on the outcome of all were two very detailed. recognize i reminded the minister san francisco. treaty nine hundred fifty six. green mint and together with the san francisco. agreement. wraps up the outcome. of world war two and there's also article one hundred seven of the un charter recognizes the outcome of. the l i's. document in the treaties and again i did not hear any objections to that from the japanes

might be a second referendum a vote on the deal and i've spoken to vince cable the leader of the liberal democrats here in london and he said he still thinks that this is the most likely option or this is one of the very likely options so in reality we are none the wiser that's reason may first is to go to brussels come back and then we can take it from there there's more work to be done there get mass in london thank you. you're watching news still to come on the program china's daring delivery man who trades the icy roads on the high mountain passes of tibet we will find out what it takes to drive routes like this. but first a quick check of some other stories making news around the world german police have arrested three suspected islamic extremists on suspicion of planning a bomb attack federal prosecutors saying that the men are iraqi refugees they were detained near the danish border in the region of did marcion official saying that the group had not get selected a target for the attack but were harvesting explosive materials from fireworks. schools in the thai capital bangkok have closed as