men of our constitution have agreed in that it's a law in proceedings proceedings of the court that m.p.'s initiated an abrogation in the way the. amendment the law the law they do still load but it on trees the level of stop in the court itself so the court will go ahead courts exist court is created to show a man once and it is not in question you had a joint statement it was a joint statement generally the forth by germany britain italy france the us all that any move to stop this court would risk everything that cost of a has achieved anyone who supports this they said would be rejecting because of this partnership with other countries including because of those integration into the e.u. and later so the stakes here are very high and they are they are the are of a row that show in fact satisfied in the past its obligation towards international and national role so there is no doubt that kosovo will continue and will stay committed to such as why its obligation towards national and international law well not if you try to i'm in atlanta with the. peace initiative that exists in the p

i'm a more friendly liberal m.p. used to the liberals and and green m.p. they're jumping up and don't saying we should stay in the single market government over which is that last week the scottish parliament the welsh national assembly said the same thing in the distance between the goal your case would be i have no doubt in my mind that the the westminster parliament the british government can and may well over write the wishes of the scottish parliament on this matter that is a consequence of scott that not being an independent country is precisely why we want the powers of a normal country to be able to decide these matters for ourselves but if they do override it and are and show contempt to the views of those elected parliaments in the nations of the u.k. then i think they jeopardize the settlement itself and that such stage the scottish people will be given an opportunity as to whether the settlement that the government is because eating a bricks it is the united kingdom they wish to remain part of or whether they would prepare to take back control

in october iraq requested the closure in protest of the kurdish referendum on secession an iranian m.p. recently said the closure had cost iran more than two and a half billion dollars. palestinians are condemning a new israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem and any future peace deal is really m.p.'s pass the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up any territory a simple majority was what was required previously the former palestinian negotiator say about a cap says the new law is a continuation of the u.s. president's decision with an end to the palestinian cause mohammed jump jhoom has more now from occupied east jerusalem. there are so many questions being asked about the impact of this new law what we do know for sure is that number one this law would mean that a supermajority or eighty of one hundred twenty knesset members would be needed for approval of any future legislation when it comes to giving up territory in to roost and that's instead of the sixty one or simple majority members of the knesset that are needed or that

s and i'm sure their m.p.'s will come on side do you think they'll be any investigation of british support for moderate rebels as they were called once by your parliamentary labor colleagues little of the conservative party in parliament other any british weapons in the hands of what are now al qaeda. in syria trying to get rid of president assad of syria i have not seen evidence directly that british weapons are being used actively by diane but it would not surprise me if there were because we don't track them and we should track them and we should investigate we also don't prosecute when export license is not abided by last year we prosecuted only one person the year before no people two thousand and fifty no people were prosecuted you know you can go back you've got to go back almost in two thousand and eleven for the prosecution before the most recent one when there's only geopolitical right would say what you are doing is in effect supporting russian foreign policy iranian foreign policy you're not helping

s and i'm sure their m.p.'s will come on side do you think they'll be any investigation of british support for moderate rebels as they were called once by your parliamentary labor colleagues little of the conservative party in parliament other any british weapons in the hands of what are now al qaeda. in syria trying to get rid of president assad of syria i have not seen evidence directly that british weapons are being used actively by diane but it would not surprise me if there were because we don't track them and we should track them and we should investigate we also don't prosecute when export license is not abided by last year we prosecuted only one person the year before no people two thousand and fifty no people are prosecuted you can go back you've got to go back almost in two thousand and eleven for the prosecution before the most recent one when there's only geopolitical right would say what you are doing is in effect supporting russian foreign policy iranian foreign policy you're not helping our allie

s and i'm sure their m.p.'s will come on side do you think they'll be any investigation of british support for moderate rebels as they were called once by your parliamentary labor colleagues little of the conservative party in parliament other any british weapons in the hands of what are now al-qaeda or in isis in syria trying to get rid of president assad of syria i have not seen evidence directly that british weapons are being used actively by diane but it would not surprise me if there were because we don't track them and we should track them and we should investigate we also don't prosecute when export license is not abided by last year we prosecuted only one person the year before no people two thousand and fifty no people are prosecuted you can go back you've got to go back almost in two thousand and eleven for the prosecution before the most recent one there's only geopolitical right would say what you are doing is in effect supporting russian foreign policy iranian foreign policy you're not helping our

do many m.p.'s still share that view would you say. well it's well of an undersea has been since she joined parliament one of the really leading so-called bricks it is within the british parliament the majority of the m.p.'s in the house of commons actually did fight for staying within the e.u. when it came to the referendum however the majority now seems to have accepted that this is what is going to happen and they don't in the majority want to do something that they would that they fear might be seen as thwarting the will of the people so they've basically given and they those who are really passionate believes in the you most of them want to get as good a deal as possible from the negotiation and brussels they want to put pressure on tourism may to stay as close as possible to the e.u. but there is not really an active push for something like a second referendum that might overturn the decision that has been made and as you mentioned that vote coming up a little later today on this withdrawal béla when it comes to the votes those p

looks forward to selling more arms for more conflict around the world joining me now is labor m.p. a member of the u.k. arms export controls committee lloyd russell more lloyd welcome to going underground so your fellow member of the u.k. arms export control committee bully let them sit on monday's show that we have the strictest weapons control system regime in the world just like tourism a said usually agree couldn't agree. with that statement to tour i'm afraid we have on paper a. relatively stringent system even on paper we don't have the strictest system we follow the consolidated criteria which is a criteria to sell weapons which is an e.u. set of standards so on paper we just follow the east and. two years ago this government weakened that so they changed the presumption to allow ourselves if there was a political dimension and to override other conditions which other we interest than if it's a repressive regime even if you suppressive regime and. one example would be in twenty fifteen a company that was exporting from norway via the u.k. to afghan warlords was found guilty in

parliament of those m.p.'s who really are pushing for breakfast and who really want to make sure that it is really happening she's also a government minister there are other m.p.'s within the conservative party that share her view there are some in the labor party that share the view however the majority of british parliamentarians really in the e.u. referendum were fighting to stay within the e.u. so we have a slightly ironic situation that now a lot of m.p.'s feel well it's kind of their duty to execute the will of the british people and others who are still fighting for britain to stay within the e.u. but the majority of parliamentarians there are not that many robert so it's really only a few within the conservative party some in the labor party and it's this cots and the liberal democrats who are fighting to stay within the e.u. the rest has sort of given in to what they see as well the the fate of the of the country and given that sentiment among m.p.'s i mean this vote coming up later today on the e.u.

m.p.'s to vote for war much harder for them to deal with the consequences. chilcote was made to change the whole way in which these decisions were made it hasn't been implemented that hasn't been taken up and i fear that we are going to get another episode like we've had with tony blair in the past and of course it shows that this government just like the blair government doesn't want to be constrained by anybody the decision to go to war can be taken by a toy any clique of people around the prime minister with very little democratic accountability and of course it's very very easy for these m.p.'s to vote for war it's much much harder to deal with the consequences of a war as we've seen in iraq as we as we're still seeing you know that to reason my body is easier to poll to the case for war. democrats in the u.s. of course the measures include the creation of a new into agency cell modeled on the national counterterrorism center the senator's proposed spending more than two hundred fifty million dollars on building institutions in europe and eurasia to coun

m.p.'s to vote for war much harder for them to deal with the consequences. chilcote was meant to change the whole why in which these decisions were made it hasn't been implemented it hasn't been taken up and i fear that we are going to get another episode like we've had with tony blair in the past and of course it shows that this government just like the blair government doesn't want to be constrained by anybody the decision to go to war can be taken by a tiny clique of people around the prime minister with very little democratic accountability and of course it's very very easy for these m.p.'s to vote for war it's much much harder to deal with the consequences of war as we've seen in iraq and as we see as we're still seeing in afghanistan in libya we know that to raise in my is finding domestic circumstance you very very difficult indeed at the moment what is easier for governments like this than to say well ok we have an enemy abroad and to bolster the case for war. the pressures been mounting on the israeli prime minister after a controversial recording i

also coming up twitter suspended the account of a german m.p. over a tweet and hundred muslims the reprimand comes as drummond begins and forcing tougher laws concerning hate speech on social media. and legal marijuana hits the shelves in california recreational users can now buy the drug without fear of arrest as america's most populous state. i'm sorry kelly great to have you with us clashes overnight in iran have left at least nine people dead the anti-government protests have been raging for nearly a week in tehran and around the country in total several hundred people have been arrested and at least twenty have been killed according to state media iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei appeared to condemn the arrest in a post on his official website in which he accused iran's enemies of meddling in the country. and let's talk a little bit more about that crackdown we are joined by a.f.p. correspondent eric randolph was joining us with the latest from tehran and eric as we've heard iranian state television reporting nine more people ki

donald trump said jerusalem is the capital of israel and now israeli m.p.'s have passed a new law making it harder for any future government to compromise with the palestinians one hopes then for a two state solution this is inside story. the a. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan in the words of one israeli opposition m.p. when jerusalem burns everything burns naaman shive fears a newly passed law in the knesset could lead to more unrest in the middle east the israeli law makes it harder to divide the contested capital of jerusalem in any future deal with the palestinians and it reduces the palestinian population of the city by one third new borders have been drawn up so that several arab neighborhoods are now outside jerusalem it could all have a dramatic impact on any peace deal between israel and palestine with some saying it's yet another fatal blow to the two state solution we'll get to our guests in just a moment but first mohammed jan jhoom reports from west jerusalem. at its core this new law would require that eighty of one hundred twe

in the past the european m.p. parliamentarian dick marty it's focused mainly on the particular events of the thought of the past so suppose that it's only quickly directed towards the former k.l.a. people well the u.s. says it isn't there's not there's no restriction on that represent it is not restricted to mean i can not argue mandates for there be here from different experts that in fact that's the case if this is ethnically orient. it only you you were indicted to quit it twice. if the new court summons you yes you were yes your brother would in december the former members of the cause of the liberation army would intervene to prevent any arrests that may be with the court he said there is no k.l. a fighter that will not join in to help stop rests this is not true this is not his statement he did say it will really activate the feelings of the in fact all the courts in balkans or all the tribes there was not there or only the idea of such as why the right of the teams or the rule of law but it was a day of pea

october iraq requested the closure in protest at the kurdish referendum for independence an iranian m.p. recently said the closure had cost iran more than two and a half billion dollars the airports you know to be ill and remain closed. south korea has accepted the north's rare offer of talks proposing the two sides meet next tuesday unification astri said the talks were mainly focused on north korea's participation in the upcoming winter olympics in the south it follows kim jong un's new year address which struck more friendly tone towards. over the years . the government proposes to hold high level government to government talks between the north and south at the peace house and joined on january ninth to discuss relevant issues including the north participation in the winter olympics considering they are a month away flawlessly has more from seoul. south korean officials have made it clear that the talks that they're proposing to be held on january ninth focus on north korea sending their athletes to take part in the upcoming winter olympics and paralympics as well as on improving in

s i labor m.p.'s that completely disagree with what you've just said is this way tony blair is now back on the seam every other day talking thinking a lot of his fill in your party ready to take it over i don't think that's a fair characterization actually i mean we've got the democracy review going on right now that's going to be looking at a range of different things about how we elect our leader and so on at the moment the terms of reference don't include how we select our recount if it's for parliament bought that is something which i think if there is lots of representations from party members then i think that's something that they will take on board but the democracy will also be very clear about looking at how we can build this mass movement and how we can integrate the party more ensuite local community so that the labor party isn't you know an institution that does politics to people it does politics with people and i think it's really important we embed the party we are must movement now b

donald trump's jerusalem is the capital of israel and belize really m.p.'s have passed a new law making it harder for any future government to compromise with the palestinians or hopes that for a two state solution this is inside story.

select labor m.p.'s labor m.p.'s that completely disagree with what you've just said is this way tony blair is now back on the seam every other day talking thinking a lot of his allies still in your party ready to take it over i don't think that's a fair characterization actually i mean we've got the democracy review going on right now that's going to be looking at a range of different things about how we elect our leader and so on at the moment the terms of reference don't include how we select our recount if it's for parliament bought that is something which i think if there is lots of representations from party members then i think that's something that they will take on board but the democracy will also be very clear about looking at how we can build this mass movement and how we can integrate the party more ensuite local communities so that the labor party isn't you know an institution that does politics to people it does politics with people and i think it's really important we embed the party we are must move

well there is another problem for me is the group of the several of their m.p.'s were actually jailed in spain so there are many unanswered questions about exactly how. they can store jobs when they can take power demonstrations have taken place in the palestinian territories after groups including facts and how must call for a day of rage in response to the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel it comes as israeli forces maintain roadblocks and conduct raids on palestinian villages in the occupied west bank looking for the killer of an israeli settler eighteen palestinians have been arrested so far on thursday two palestinian teenagers were killed during scuffles with israeli troops. police in the democratic republic of congo have fired tear gas to disperse chants go as they were mourning protesters killed in recent demonstrations at least seven people died in protest in the capital kinshasa on new year's eve the demonstrations on friday were organized by catholic activists who've been protesting against president joseph kabila his refusa

a kenyan opposition m.p. has been arrested after the staged inauguration of royler a dinger on choose day the mock swearing in of the opposition leader in nairobi was condemned by the government as a form of treason lawyer an m.p. who swore in t.j. was arrested on wednesday afternoon three t.v. channels that covered certainly have also been shown. the french coast guard has now called off the search for the chief executive of the company that owns popular software brugge quicksilver. went fishing early on tuesday and later sent a message that he would be returning late because of thick fog his boat was found washed up on a beach near the french surfing resort he set off from which is also his. hong kong has voted to ban ivory sales members of the legislative council passed a bill that will completely abolish the market within the next three years it includes a ban on hunting trophies and ivory taken from elephants of nine hundred seventy five. now for a lucky star gazers on wednesday there was a chance to wit

folks socializes with influential politicians a russian m.p. from president putin's posse now a senior banker the mayor of ukraine's second city kharkiv left in a wheelchair after a mafia style assassination attempt. what's interesting about him is the extent to which he shows that the separation between ukraine and russia can be a bit skin-deep the elites of both ukraine and russia for that is basically the same country the money flows backwards and forwards the business deals going backwards and forwards. a recent leak of offshore company documents the panama papers establishes folks at the helm of a huge global business empire. it begins with his offshore company which is their international incorporated registered incident kitts and nevis. it has holdings in companies all over the globe in directly in golden eagle trust in new jersey. owned by billionaire v.j. maleo today facing extradition to india on fraud charges which he denies another link mining in tanzania and cameroon to palm oil billionaires in malaysia even state run pharmaceutica

after the break we'll be going to going underground regular lembit open for the liberal democrat m.p. about more domestic issues both back in twenty seven then looking forward to a turbulent twenty eighteen for your ip that lies ahead of us. how does it feel to be. the greatest job in the world it's as close to being a king as any job there is what business model helps to run a prison and i would just do it on my guess is you know b.o.b. as a patient i don't know what comes in anymore we don't have to serve them anymore is cost effective that's what they want to do that at the moment they don't give a damn if you do the charge or not they're actually paying us to put it back into. the louisiana incarceration rate is twice as high as the u.s.n. breach what she could is behind such success. hello my name's peter and i've been living in bush for about seven years and this is a film about just some of the crazy things i've got. through . the all school fifty process is now underway. to be honest. i am basile and thousands of things celebrates may try when the pendants make sure . he got a

law now there has been a lot of debate about this bill there have been fears mostly amongst labor m.p.'s for example when it comes to workers' rights will the u.k. have the same workers' rights that were guaranteed by the e.u. for example when it comes to working time and not working too much and the british government has ensured m.p.'s that it will be the same and it won't go beyond or we're in for a fall back on these rights but m.p.'s are not sure whether this is really going to be true because of each new british government can make a new decision on that so there are worries on the other hand there are also people who feel that finally they're breaking free from the e.u. this is what they have fought for they wanted bracks and they wanted to be able to make completely their own decisions and not be bound by anything that has been decided in brussels by basically other parliamentarians and not by them and we have met up with one of those parliamentarians with swell of on under is a conservative m.p. and she's now just joined the british government in the bracks of ministry and we

is now getting the backing of british m.p.'s they are pressuring the home office to rethink so-called state lists asylum applications the man in question has been without legal status since he was a child and was rejected under british law. mr ferret to oz because he was destitute and on the streets for several years and he stayed in a family home for the first time in many many years. have told him to go bought policy. on repeated occasions and he said ok i'm willing to go bought he couldn't go bought he didn't have the people work and then the home office accused him of not being polished and. even if he had laughed palestine as a child you should be able to demonstrate knowledge of you heritage and culture having no identity documents does not make you stateless. that find somebody amongst our host who is willing to take him and it's also important because he is more likely to get the emotional human possible support that he needs. ok there's been a blast from the past for britain's foreign secretary scientists have discover

ok let's get further into this now because martin doul zhora hamburg m.p. from the d. link party one of those left wing parties joins us live now on the program very welcome as we heard your party's leader describe the s.p.d. suspicion to enter graeme coalition as political suicide tough language are you have a similar assessment about. yes from the tendency this is a right to analyze this but if we look in deeper we can see there is a long term process which is followed no by this decision when we see the social democrats just since ten or fifteen years they gave up the original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. the interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population so this was a process with which was to be foreseen if you see that now is just the crease and office process we can see in the moment it was the kind of dilemma if the social democrats now would have say we want new elections maybe they already lose two or three percent and make the. stronger if they say the

the valley marking massacre yeah absolutely we had a very frank and riposte meeting with some of the m.p.'s who are proposing the for police forces for their actions in ireland such as the murder of eleven civilians as you've alluded to in. and by the mafia in one thousand nine hundred ninety one we told them that is not just intolerable to sion feehan is intolerable to the vast majority of political parties in ireland the victims commissioner herself in belfast who spoke very strongly against this proposal and all the victims organizations out there who give great expression i think to the feelings of the families who have suffered at the hands of these british soldiers think prime minister tourism a who is only prime minister of the united kingdom because of her deal with the d u p will ever respond to your calls regarding or the cause of those people that we just spoke to about the belly movie massacre well we haven't the deed of course the british prime minister has the par on the international legal obligation to fund inquests into a lot of these legacy cases and there are currently

and i'm getting the backing of british m.p.'s they are pressuring the home office to rethink so-called stateless asylum applicants after the man was rejected under british law and has been without legal status since he was a child. muhammad was referred to was because he was destitute and on the streets for several years and he stayed in a family home for the first time in many many years. have told him to go bought a policy. on repeated occasions and he said ok i'm willing to go bought he couldn't go bought he didn't have the paperwork and then the home office accused him of not being palestinian. even if you have last palestine as a child you should be able to demonstrate knowledge of your heritage and culture having no identity documents does not make you stateless we that find somebody amongst our host who is willing to take him and it's also important because he is more likely to get the emotional human possible support that he needs. you're watching out international thanks for company this morning will be back with more n

treaty a delegation of german m.p.'s will travel to the french parliament later today says french m.p.'s visit the bonus talk. business news now with more of a current it seems the rich are getting richer while the poor getting poorer same old story sounds familiar terry doesn't it and just in time for the meeting of the world's movers and shakers of the world economic forum in davos the international n.g.o.s oxfam is updating its annual inequality report and one of the most revealing numbers the number of billionaires worldwide has gone up to two thousand and forty three this past year their combined wells increased up by thirteen percent as the rich are getting richer the poor are getting poorer that is the conclusion let's take a closer look so eighty two percent of the global wealth generated in twenty seventeen went to the top one percent of the world's population the so-called super rich has some food for thought in only four days the c.e.o. of one of the world's top fashion brands as much as a seamstress in bangl

israeli law which makes it harder to hand over parts of jerusalem under a future peace deal israeli m.p.'s passed the bill which means two thirds of the knesset must now approve giving up territory. pakistan has seized control of charities and financial assets linked to one of the main suspects in the two thousand and eight by bomb attacks in india. has been designated a terrorist by the un and the us he has repeatedly denied any involvement in the attacks and a pakistani court found insufficient evidence to convict him. supporters of saeed are protesting against that move against his charities as well as against the u.s. president on from their angry mr crump's accusations that pakistan isn't doing enough against armed groups iran has reopened the border with iraq's kurdish region the crossings to build and sell them and media were closed in october iraq requested the closure in protest of the kurdish referendum for independence an iranian m.p. recently said the closure cost iran more than two and a half billion dollars those are the headlines up next is romania people power all season

some of which i think margaret thatcher as the m.p. for finchley. took to heart and in fact there's a story in my diary is of how she sent a message to geoffrey howe in. knox or i think then foreign secretary foreign secretary telling him to calm his. comment i have stopped talking about a palestinian solution. how difficult is it to get a book like this cleared in the book you seem to advise david owen. secretary of clearing any that memo was with i didn't personally basis in terms of day to day and i thought he probably ought to submit it for clearance he question that but there we are that's his reference is one way six then a reference to a secluded area which i did i did submit i don't draw it just address to the foreign office in fact i think the cabinet office are responsible for clearing drafts of the source but i you know i got foreign office clearance and it was a triple the size before they got to the things the next time you'll have to come on as as lord right talking about syria and perhaps i sort of an opposition look forward to his st

methods they've insisted the training is done under strict supervision earlier we spoke to regional m.p. from germany's left party martin who's against specific targeting of youngsters. they had been a huge campaigns in schools even in kindergartens. to. make the army more attractive to young people there had been some schools who had been working together with the army to put the young students in some kind of camp we support some initiatives called corner bundeswehr for example which c.s. where that education should take place without going this where the people who are under age to they shouldn't be urged to. get into the army the united nation already in two thousand and fourteen. the german government to stop this and erase the ph of soldiers i think this is a problem. but the main problem is if you do a foreign copilots here with us which is based on dialogue you don't need such a strong army or so many soldiers i think that is the main problem behind the. french culture minister has attempted to dispel rising concerns over president backgrounds plan to tackle fake news she said t

labor party shadow emergencies minister chris williams and band we asked tory m.p. and deputy chairman of the u.k. just a select committee john howell if minority government needed to raise a maze premiership is sustainable in the wake of what appears to be a new scandal every day there's new figures showing arming rises in u.k. food bank use award winning director sean baker an oscar nominated actor willem dafoe on what the western economic crisis is doing to the children of the usa well the simple going up today is going underground but first this week marks one hundred years since a revolution without which arguably britain today would be in the hands of nazi descendants the rapid industrialization that took place after ten days shook the world in russia would ensure the defeat of hitler on the eastern front and enormous human cost and allowed britain's escape from being an outpost of the third rush but of course according to go mark the revolution was supposed to happen here in london not three and a half hours by east of this studio in moscow it's something you

well to mark the anniversary of the lease a treaty a delegation of german m.p.'s will travel to the french parliament later today says french m.p.'s visit the board this time. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world today in afghanistan fourteen foreigners and four afghans have been confirmed killed in the attack on the intercontinental hotel in kabul officials say six gunman wearing army uniforms stormed the compound saturday evening sparking a thirteen hour gun battle with police the attackers were all killed the taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. a former vietnamese state oil executive who was allegedly kidnapped from germany has been sentenced to life in prison for embezzle meant trench one ton was seeking asylum in germany but disappeared from the capital last year germany uses vietnam agents of snatching him from berlin park . a motorcycle bomb has exploded in the market in thailand's southern yellow province killing three and wounding many more the region is home to a long running islamist insurgency but no grou

some of which i think margaret thatcher as the m.p. for finchley. took to heart and in fact there's a story in my diary is of how she sent a message to geoffrey howe in. knox or i think then foreign secretary foreign secretary telling him to calm his. call me to stop talking about a palestinian solution. how difficult is it to get a book like this cleared in the book you seem to advise david. i did. and i thought he probably ought to submit it for clearance. but there we all that's his reference is no references to it because i did i did. not draw it. to the foreign office in fact i think the cabinet office are responsible for clearing drafts of the source but. foreign office. before they go to it. next time you'll have to come on as a. lord right talking about syria. over the opposition look forward to his people that's wrong lloyd wright thank you for the show and. the house of lords will be back on wednesday this week in the form of. the treasury flight about why bricks it could be for the city of london until the. social media will feel wednesda

s i labor m.p.'s that completely disagree with what you've just said is this way tony blair is now back on the seam every other day talking thing.

thinking long term that the party will be destroyed by the grand coalition martin daughter a hamburger m.p. from the dealing party believes the social democrats have been drifting away from their quirky news that is a long term process which is followed by this decision when we see the social democrats just since ten or fifteen years big gave up the original position they gave up to be a party which really has a decisive politics for peace a decisive politics for. the interest of the workers for the interests of the majority of the population is just. this process. turning to the u.k. where the head of the army has outlined the main threats facing britain and russia turns out to be top of the pile general certain carter wants money to be allocated to bridge the gap between british and russian capabilities. the arch exponent of this is russia i believe it represents the most complex and capable state based threat to our country since the end of the cold war they represent a clear and present danger they are not thousands of miles away they are now on europe store. i believe our ability to p

ready to make the decision catalonia is deposed leader collis belgium and is meeting his newly elected m.p.'s in brussels they'll be negotiating with other process session this party's said drafting a proposal on the composition of a catalan parliament body that would elect the region's next president has been in brussels since being forced out as leader and threatened with arrest by the central government in the trade. is in brussels for us just how significant is today's meeting a team. fairly is very significant term we're just about we're expecting a press briefing by members of mr pushed him on certain gather for catalonia party and the catalan republican left party who've gathered here in brussels mr push for more should be arriving shortly and those two parties together with the support of four other members of the catalan assembly do have a majority but the reason they're here of course is that was to push them out and several of his deposed ministers. who lost their jobs after madrid dissolved the assembly after a referendum. declaring that the catalans had acted illegally they ca