a couple of things really and most people in parliament and most are decent, i came into parliament toairly obvious in the last couple of years that we were waiting through treacle and it was not doing anything and was depressingly and there was so much i wanted to do. and what tipped me over the edge, i got a text from gp's surgery, inviting me to participate in an end—of—life seminar which is obviously some algorithm that set up for people like me who were born in the same link of the national health service and i thought "someone is trying to tell me something" and i thought "maybe i should pop up while i can make it on my own." what are you going to miss? the friendship, the sense of power and actually being there, in the tower of power, and the things we could do to make a difference. missing the fact that you can come into a place or office or a shop with a card that says mp and they listen to you and you can make a difference. that is quite powerful and quite seductive. what do you wish you knew when you first became an mp or minister what do you wish someone had told you? i thi

now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the last week in parliament before december‘s general election. coming up... the new speaker takes his seat in the commons' biggest chair. i hope this house will be once a great respected house, notjust in here but across the world. in the final days of the session — mps push through a bill to compensate abuse victims in northern ireland. and a former conservative demands a report into alleged russian interference in uk democracy is published. the prime minister does not have carte blanche to alter our reports or remove material from them. and we talk to three of the 70 mps who are standing down about what prompted them to go. i thought somebody is trying to tell me something, i think i better pop off while i can still make it out on my own. but first... in the dying days of what's been a most turbulent parliament, mps elected a new speaker. john bercow, who'd done the job for ten years — had decided to stand down from parliament. seven mps put themselves forward

rocks prime minister officially submit says resignation to parliaments but protesters say they won't spec down. i. told them how the markets and this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up a senior rebel leader is killed in the democratic republic of congo as the civilian death toll rises. the u.k.'s prime minister criticizes the justice system after revelations that the london bridge attacker was released early from prison. and in a case that's caused outrage in india police arrest 4 men accused of rape and murder . at 1st iraq's prime minister has now officially handed in his resignation to parliament but starts the little to come protesters across the country as a lab they held an emergency meeting with his cabinet and asked the war hosts to debates his resignation he said he had no choice but to resign. this to a spot my resignation was essential to disarm the crisis and calm the situation in the country i hope the parliament choose a quick alternative for the country because the situation in the country can't handle a caretaker government for a long while well all eyes are

or sturgeon parliament the majority in the parliament should vote for the coast additional and mendham and. we would agree the new democracy and the proportional representation electoral system in georgia because not only in georgia we have that makes them i mean. my territory and so and so you have you have given us a a why and into have to look at why people are out on the streets and clearly we can see it several things and it stems from protests in the summer but one of the thing stuck out to us and that's i mean that keeps coming up again and again and i want to pause you there so our our audience is all in the same page here take a look at the picture of the person that you mentioned. george richest man this from the new york times this is their caption on that picture he's at his offices overlooking the capital tbilisi this is in 2012 the picture was taken his blessing is essential for major building initiatives like the port project this is the country's richest man georgia's richest man and. i actually want to give this one to me just because we haven't heard her voice yet to

shall we talk briefly about, laura, the people standing down from parliament.cularly about the number of women standing down. now some have been pointing out that the number and proportion isn't necessarily greater than in parliaments closing of past, but the kind of things that particularly women who are standing down are saying around the whole issue of abuse and social media and the toxic environment, as many describe it as westminster, is quite striking. it is striking, and i think it is disturbing, and for any of us who work round here, we are all very well aware that it is a problem, and it's been a huge issue for particularly female mps, but notjust female mps, and people have panic alarms in their houses. people have been sentenced in court for harassing mps. this is a very real and present thing, danger actually, for a lot of people. that said, i think one of the things that is also true is the visibility of the stuff, so when a parliament packs up and we go into an election, there is always loads of people who stand down, but the age of twitter and so

had the same legislative rights as the british parliament. hugely important moment. speaking in the british lower house in london, william eaten who had been a member of the peace commission in 1778, one of carlisle's fellow commissioners and who served as carlisle's chief secretary in ireland said the government had no choice, parliament might as well strive to make the tims flow up high gate hill? it's pretty high. henceforth, the union would depend on common aallegiance to the same king. given the extent of the support and the volunteers may have had 40,000 men under arms, historians have described the events of the early 1780s as an irish revolution whose effects were second in importance only to the winning of american independence. independence, however, was a difference that mattered. henry graten went out of his way to emphasize that point. this nation, he proclaimed, is connected with england not only by allegiance to the crowd but by liberty, making ireland an independent republic was not only the plan. and i want you to note the da

personally who are building some parliaments and chile parliament will not change the whole growth or westminster palace or any other it's absolute so and also talking about georgian. i see things. they did not see clearly public or national we're also told that there will. be an in. this. group. where. it will stall the group. who are firstly supporting the. like you had told me you may have one view because. you. see i hear your point and i know why no matter what man because he has said something was interesting i had to write it down who said that the opposition is self destructing and so i want to bring in the take from people who think a little bit differently so this 1st is a tweet from georgia who says according to the latest research i r i call obo if elections were taking place tomorrow georgian dream which is the ruling party would get 23 percent of the vote and the opposition parties would some about 41 percent this explains a lot based on georgie this is what he writes about the recent moves of the the georgian dream government and i want to hear the voices of a few peopl

is it guaranteed that the parliament will actually accept it. well no it's not clear at all and we're actually entering a constitutionally ambiguous area here and the way the prime minister announced that he would resign is further adding to the confusion he said that he would be sending his resignation to the parliament but there is nothing in the constitution that actually asked him to do so the bylaws of the parliament however mention that the prime minister should be sending his resignation to the president who had been merely accept it so it's unclear whether the parliament at all needs to vote on his resignation this is currently a point of contention between members of parliament who are discussing whether in tomorrow's session they should be voting at all now what's prime minister out of the aftermath he seems to be doing here is that he seems to be wanting to trigger a no confidence vote in parliament and that is something that would require absolute majority of course it would also trigger a political tug of war let's remember that the

the at . 2 iraq's prime minister officially submit says resignation to parliament but protesters say they won't spike dine. caliber and how long he's in and this is al jazeera life from doha also coming up u.k. prime minister boris johnson criticizes the criminal justice system after it emerged as the suspects and friday's attack was convicted back in 2012. the leader of a rebel group behind a series of recent attacks in democratic republic of congo is killed during a military operation and in a case that sparked outrage in india for police have arrested 4 men accused of the rape and murder of a 27 year old woman plus. my . well iraq's prime minister has now officially handed in his resignation to parliament but that has done little to calm protesters across the country who are demanding a complete overhaul of the political system as a law says he's done everything in his power to meet their demands but his pledge to quit has only created more political uncertainty he's held a meeting with his cabinet and asked parliament to debate as best nation possibly on sunday but there were mor

had the same legislative rights as the british parliament. hugely important. the british lower house, and westminster, with an even, who had been a member of the carlisle peace commission in 1778, one of carlisle's commissioners, who served as carlisle's chief secretary in ireland, said the government had no choice. parliament might as well strive to make the tens play up highgate hill. high detail is pretty high. highgate hill is pretty high. it would depend on allegiance to the king, not parliaments sovereignty. given the extent of the irish patriots support, volunteers may have had 40,000 men under arms and they are many connections with patriots in america. historians describe the events of the early 1780's as an irish revolution whose affects were second in importance only to the winning up american independence. independence was a difference that mattered. henry gratin went out of his way to emphasize that point. this nation is connected with england not only by allegiance to the crown, but by liberty. making island and independent repu

now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament. it's on.he uk will vote on december the 12th — as borisjohnson argues a general election is the only way to push brexit forward. this endless, wilful, fingers crossed, not me, gulf refusal to deliver on the mandate of the people, and that is, mr speaker, to refresh this parliament and give the people a choice. labour backs a general election because we want this country to be rid of this reckless and destructive conservative government. the parties begin to set out their stalls. and the lib dem leader says she should be included in any tv debates. will the prime minister commit today to take part in those three—way debates, or is he going to run scared of debating? and tributes tojohn bercow as he retires as speaker. the longest serving woman mp praises him for throwing open the commons to youngsters. there were those who resisted change and said we cannot have all these children here in the house of commons, we've got work to be done. borisjohnson finally got what he wanted. after three faile

s have made their way through parliament to parliament some even on motorcycles but also up to 62 m.p.'s this is a 128 member of parliament you're going to need 50 plus $165.00 mph over the core of an order for the session to go ahead $62.00 at least $62.00 are now boycotting at the session of parliament members of belonging to opposition parties as well as independents so it's not clear whether or not this session will go ahead or whether the speaker of parliament nabih berri will announce its postponement yet again people on the street say that the part of metairie and they're not working for the benefit of the paid people they're working for their own benefit there is a controversial general amnesty bill on the table which they believe is ambiguous they believe politicians want to pass this law in order to protect themselves from possible corruption cases so it's still not clear whether our not to a core of will be reached and that session will take place if it doesn't it will be considered a victory by the people in the streets i'm saying that the banks are very open today how sig

the president or not if he resigns to parliament if it's accepted by parliament do we know who might take over from him. well this is not that they were dollars in fact one of the reasons why there has been a lot of opposition from all the political parties for him to step down because it was extremely difficult in the 1st place to agree on the prime minister who was elected. excuse me the parliamentary elections took place in may 2006 months for the political parties to select a compromise candidate that they could all agree on this is a process that can take months takes a lot of political bargaining and it is likely to be a protracted process that will increase the uncertainty in iraq and that will lead to even more instability the biggest bloc in parliament which is led by. and to reign in that part of the party is very much against his resignation so should there be a vote of no confidence he will vote against it now it does not appear that his blog controls an absolute majority so there would need to be other parties that basically also vote against. this resignation for him to

this parliament is stronger for your being speaker.ocracy is stronger for your being the speaker. and whatever you do when you finally step down from parliament, you do so with the thanks of a very large number of people. >> it is the case, however controversial the role of backstop may be other areas, your >> not an appreciation universally shared in government. web hasovernment cheap no business shouting from a position. the judgment will remain in the chamber. -- the gentleman will remain in the chamber. business --n has no order. has -- order. the honorable gentleman has no business behaving in that way. >> they lost patience a long time ago. in 2015, they tried to change the rules for electing the speaker. they failed, to the relief of john bercow. >> order. the eye, 220. [applause] ♪ john bercow came to the chair promising a blake with the -- break with the past, but there were scandals. speaker bercow: i wish to make a statement about recent culture of about the sexual harassment at westminster. between members and those who wor

bolivia's parliament is looking to approve legislation to pave the way for new elections former president evo morales has been calling on his supporters to maintain their blockade however which has been causing food and fuel shortages in the. resigned and fled to mexico on november 10th following protests over last month's disputed presidential election since then at least 32 people have been killed in the violence and in iraq's capital baghdad the government is denying reports that at least 4 people were killed after security forces opened fire on protesters on friday the killings take the total number of deaths since the demonstrations began in october to at least $330.00 people. up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition of inside story is coming up next. a new wave of anger in georgia protests to say the government has broken its promise of democratic reform so could this turn into yet another crisis in this former soviet republic and are outside forces involved this is inside story. welcome to the program on how he had seen almost 3 decades after georgia gained it

parties for individual constituencies cynics will say of course that the westminster parliament has actually been out of operation for some time being totally deadlocked and absorbed by bricks it that is certainly how it's been reported. however this is not altogether the reality in today's show we feature a cross party initiative which is brought forward remarkable legislative success on a subject which means it creates a deal to millions of people cruelty to animals this is how the then hippies across the parties broke through the folk of bricks it she joined me achieve stick to regulation of the sale of puppies otherwise known as lucy's law which will now come into effect next year from puppy smuggling a heart is an industry perpetrated by people motivated purely by money they can make up to an incredible $35000.00 pounds per week illegally transporting puppies through our borders to be sold on unsuspecting dog lovers in the u.k. and the root cause of puppy smuggling seems to indeed be the ease with which gangs can abuse the pet travel scheme that operates across europe of was kn

this parliament is stronger for your being speaker.emocracy is stronger for your being the speaker. and whatever you do when you finally step down from parliament, you do so with the thanks of a very large number of people. >> it is the case, however controversial, your rule as the backstop has been one that has been appreciated by individuals across this house. david: not in appreciation universally shared in government. -- not an appreciation universally shared in government. mr. bercow: order. with --rnment people chief wet has no position whatsoever shouting from incident repossession. -- from a sedentary position. the honorable gentlemen will remain in the chamber. the right honorable gentlemen has absolutely no business scurrying out of the chamber. order. . order, order. the chief has absolutely no business -- order. order. the right honorable gentlemen has no business behaving in that way. david: ministers had lost patience a long time ago. in 2015, they tried to change the rules for electing the speaker. the attempted coup fai

had declined them but we have to remember that the georgian parliament is led by the majority governing party that you watch and dream and the reason the crowds that we've seen this week and opposition movements are so frustrated it because the changes to the electrical code were promised back in june and it would have made for a much more democratic reflection of the popular with in georgia if they had gone ahead. right here is for the opposition to continue to show that they have some form of the men's room ahead of large scale demonstrations again in the capital when parliament reconvenes next week well this week's protest follow decades of unrest and revolution georgia claimed independence from the soviet union back in 1991 that led to 2 years of civil war and the overthrow of its 1st president the 2nd president was also removed after protests in 2003 known as the rose revolution it was seen as a move towards closer ties with the west less than a year later tensions with the a general region came. close to a military confrontation the crisis ended without bloodshed and with the gove

tight security outside lebanon's parliament as protesters move to prevent politicians from entering the building. have a listen around here in the western region after calling for a long day of work to the beauty of yeah it's finally burning to fix things up one of the worst massacres in colombia history to take up to the fact. the u.s. has abandoned its longstanding position on israeli settlements in the occupied west bank saying it will no longer consider them illegal this latest pro israel move puts the us at odds with most of the international community and the un security council was in jordan reports now from washington d.c. . for 41 years the u.s. has called israeli settlements built in the occupied west bank illegal under international law that u.s. policy changed on monday calling the establish of civilian settlements inconsistent with international law hasn't worked it hasn't invents the. as of peace this is a complex political problem that can only be solved by negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians pump ailes announcement is the latest in a string of controve

do i find a seat, try and get myself into parliament, or do i serve the cause better by traversing the length and breadth of the united kingdom, supporting 600 candidates well i have decided that the latter course is the right one. the government confirms the benefits freeze introduced by the conservatives three years ago will end next april. labour promises to make every home in the uk more energy—efficient if it wins the election. the vietnamese community comes togetherfor a vigil for the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. airbnb introduces a ban on so called "party houses", after five people were shot dead in san francisco at a property booked through its website. now on bbc news, asjohn bercow bows out after ten controversial years as speaker, bbc parliament revisits the career of a modernising but polarising figure. order! jaunty 605 music. 0rder! 0rder. a speaker who did it his way. i don't require any help from a member on the third row who thinks he's got some role to play in these matters. he's got absolutely no contribution to make whatsoever. on a long and colourful p

the parliament will be out of session for five weeks during the campaign. coverage of prime minister's questions when they return live on c-span2. >> next week, the house intelligence committee and chair impeachmentcontinue inquiries, beginning tuesday morning at 9:00 eastern on c-span3, watched live testimony from jennifer williams, 82 vice president mike pence and director for european affairs at the national security council, and a 2:30, investor kurt volker, the u.s. castle to ukraine, and tim morrison on wednesday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, it continues to the u.s. -- with the u.s. ambassador, gordon sondl-- sondland. and davidn cooper hale. on thursday, they will hear from ms. hill. -- should impeach an increase in their entirety on our website. you will find transcript of which -- testimony and procedure. plus, points of interest to each that identifies key hearings indicated by a star in the timeline. next week, watch live coverage of the house impeachment increase testimonies on c-span3, c-span.org or announcer: congress faces a deadline this thursday t

standing outside the parliament. crowds. still standing but they've been cleared from the main streets and side streets leading around the building the main building of the parliament earlier they had to attend and erected sandbags and they had had to load the gate close to the entrance gate to parliament but the police we saw them earlier been very quickly in riot gear. touching the protesters or the down to the to the area but the front of the building and then using water cannons to ready extinguish the fire to the protesters and. ripping up the tent the tent candidate and basically clearing people off i had built myself seen any. stage quite possible that in some detention but i think the old rule a government was the people very quickly off the street that soon as they began this action which was the basically blockade parliament because they say the parliament no longer has any credibility off to that trauma by the government. really negative all day to strongly to change the electoral law to one of proportional repres

the parliament's not that it is choose anybody from outside the parliament or from outside the political parties that that that that i mean. i don't have the majority and side the parliament but in my opinion and i heard some rumors from some of my friends that in baghdad of course the president of the republic is trying to nominate and independent person to be the next prime minister and that he should be given the authority of the rise to choose his own cabinet even if they are not from the same political parties this is a very difficult decision of course the parliament if they want to do to save themselves from a destiny like the one that the prime minister suffered they should accept this but if they want to have demonstrations against them and attacks against them and then they were removed it would be a remote got from that office by the protesters they would i think they may refuse such i think ok great to get your thoughts. joining us that live from london and people wait with bated breath to see how developments in iraq unfold thank you very much indeed. now political campaigni

the parliamentary agenda has made it difficult for members of parliament to represent the causes that normally would do by parliamentary activity. i think in many ways it is however there have been opportunities to take it forward and given that the government has had to bring forward there was i think where those cross party engagement and consensus and particularly in relation to animal welfare on lisey's law which is the 3rd party poppy sales in pet shops and through poppy farmers what you say because the government consumer this epic parliamentary battle on the other legislation is told to be consensual not as provided a lot of truth to the stranger with additional opportunity for members of the to bring forward their only job yeah i think our hearts and we've really capitalized on not as a c. we had massive success with lisey's law and we also had finance law brought through which is to protect service dogs and to make sure that animals are here in service if they're attacked that there is a law where those who perpetrate that can be held responsible and accountable so overall we

parliament in this morning any idea as to why. you know that's often the case here in stroudsburg the. members of the european parliament usually show up when they have to vote they don't always show up for the different speeches and it was about fondling and doesn't really have support throughout all the different political groups for example not from the very far right or the very far left so that explains part of it but it appears that those who intend to vote for her later in the day were present. a message was so silly and attempted being a unifying one let's get to what was her message but we know you know how come most of the process is associated with the european union can be do you think that the e.u. parliament will now get behind what appears to be a very ambitious plan. it's going to be different from the past because in the past you needed 2 parties the 2 big parties the conservatives which is also the party of laws of the funded and on the other hand the social democrats but both of those droops lost votes lost shar

and had parliament at one minute past midnightand had not parliament at one minute past midnight and the stages and not made into law will fall. if a new government wants to pick it up again after an election, they will have to start from the beginning. we talked a lot on this programme about the domestic abuse bell that was going through parliament. that has gone. they will have to see if it will be picked up again. three elections in five yea rs, again. three elections in five years, john, for this country. that is pretty unusual. will this be an historic election? every election is historic election? every election is historic in every election are significant and matters. the result is what people will look back on. they will rewrite the history of the campaign on the basis of what the result was. this is the car going into buckingham palace. it will be particularly interesting when the result comes through. we could end up result comes through. we could end up in much the same position as we are now with a minority government and the tories not being able to command a majority o

protesters in lebanon have forced the postponement of parliament by blocking m.p.'s from getting in because we're near the parliament building in beirut more than half the m.p.'s had already chosen to boycott what would have been parliament's 1st sitting since anti-government demonstrations began a month ago in another development bank some reopened after a week long strike by stop nationwide senator joins us live now from the lebanese capital the protesters have succeeded in blocking this plan session of parliament tell us what's been happening there. well yes protestors are declaring victory what they did is since the early hours of the morning they gathered in different locations around parliament building this was one of those locations basically blocking the roads leading to parliament preventing m. fees from from reaching the building what we understand is a $5.00 m.p. is managed to reach parliament and you will need a quorum of 50 plus one which is a total of $65.00 and peace in order for that session to go ahead so it has now been canceled and no date has be

iraq's prime minister has officially handed in his resignation to the country's parliament. he held an emergency meeting of his cabinet and also the lower house to debate his resignation he said he had no choice but to leave his post. behind my resignation was essential to this the crisis and calm the situation in the country i hope the parliament choose a quick alternative for the country because this is jewish and the country can't handle a caretaker government for a long while but matty submitting his resignation has done little to calm protest as around the country off to weeks of on raw. demonstrators clashed with security forces after trying to block a road in the capital baghdad medical officials have reported that 3 protesters were shot and at least 58 wounded in these latest protests which took place in the capital but also in the southern part of the country. he says the government has done everything it can to meet the demands of protesters but they are saying they have no intention of backing down and they vowed to continue protesting until there's a complete ove

now on bbc news, monday in parliament. hello and welcome to monday in parliament.e have a new commons speaker! the question is that sir lindsay takes the chair of this house is speaker. sir lindsay hoyle will succeed john bercow. this house will change but it will change for the better. and he gets a warm welcome. you'll also bring gore signature to our proceedings. we have a problem if they can hold the executive to account and i know that you will stand up for that principle. so after several hours of voting sir lindsay hoyle was finally elected to one of the most important jobs in politics. it fell to the longest serving mp, the former conservative chancellor, now independent mp, kenneth clarke to deliver the results. sir lindsay hoyle beat six other candidates. the job of speaker comes with a salary of 150 thousand pounds — and the added bonus that now he doesn't have to campaign in the coming election because it's customary for candidates not to stand against the speaker. so no wonder sir lindsay was smiling. i invite sir lindsay hoyle to take the chair of the

that is no longer the case since the passage of the fixed—term parliaments act. —— the fixed—term parliaments gaina the monarch. the government could not gain a two thirds majority required under the fixed—term parliaments act and it passed it with a simple, straightforward majority. parliament has in effect dissolved itself without the action of the monarch. nevertheless, 105 days after the queen asked him to form a government, borisjohnson will come to the palace later this morning and he will tell the clean—up parliament has dissolved itself. i imagine it would be a fairly short audience. he has things to do and so does the queen. she has an engagement in kent later today. that is what will happen. the queen will still sign a royal proclamation, the mechanism by which for many concerning the dissolution of parliament and that, as we say, is the formal, as it were, the symbolic moment when the general election campaign begins. symbolic moment when the general election campaign beginsm symbolic moment when the general election campaign begins. it is a lwa ys election campaign begins. it is a

so it preserved parliament's role in our democracy.d, the second case, which of course is much more recent, this september of 2019 in which you essentially argued with your team before the supreme court that borisjohnson had no right to prorogue, to suspend parliament at a crucial juncture in the brexit discussions. he does have the right to prorogue parliament, that sits with the prime minister but it was the intent of doing it in a 5—week period... but i suppose, it made a lot of headlines, you garnered a huge amount of publicity but what difference in practical terms are historic and six—pack historians going to conclude it made? it preserved parliamentary sovereignty and defined the separation of powers because since all the way back to the case of proclamations of 1610, there has been this oversight from the courts when there has been overstep of political on the terrain that actually should be there for the courts or for the sovereignty of parliament. do you, on reflection, worry about the degree to which your intervention is bac

still ahead on al-jazeera pressure on the parliament in georgia is mounting as opposition protesters try to force new reforms and it's almost voting day as the president goes up against challenges that include 2 former prime ministers. to become rivals . how do we go quite a rash of showers across southeast asia or as per usual but some really live the ones there and see where the philippines once again into good parts of borneo brunei seeing some live fish as long as spells of bright in that wet weather she can see extending across a good part of the region not too bad into indonesia for the time as we go through sunday and on into monday for anything that rifle does become more expansive tide and say some wet weather java also seeing some wet weather system to see the race just not going their way and across a good part of indonesia we could there was some rainfall of course across a good part of australia not see much of that in the full cost but there will be a few showers over the next day i'll say this was the saying on friday in sydney the other bushfires continue to cause pro

sato whose block has a notch as seats in the parliament wanted. to resign what does this say about the influence of these outside powers and do you agree with to a certain extent that it has to be these powers that intervene in a way to solve this crisis so there's a bit of a contradiction between what the people are demanding and those that are looking to preserve the system and preserve the government so iran stepped in and there seems to be a coalition of forces that want to keep this system and to keep the prime minister in place that includes the paramilitary.

now on bbc news, tuesday in parliament. hello there and welcome to tuesday in parliament. as mps and peers gather for a final time before the general election. on this programme, calls for the government to publish a report on allegations of russian interference in uk democracy. publish this report and let us see for ourselves, otherwise, there is only one question. what have you got to hide? the business secretary reveals the latest shock in the collapse of thomas cook. thomas cook only took out insurance cover for the very largest personal injury claims. and departing mps make theirfinal speeches in the commons. there have been occasions of the last week since i announced my intention to step down, when i felt that i have been granted the privilege of attending my own funeral arrangements without the need to arrive in a hearse. but first, and peas across the commons have called on the government to publish a report into alleged russian interference in uk democracy. the document from parliament's intelligence and security committee, the isc, is currently with the prime mi

police were under orders to clean the streets outside parliament from protest is. such that anyone else who happens to be in the way journalists included the police have responded very quickly it's been less than 24 hours since the blockade started around the parliament now they simply moving down the street clearing a little away some of the street and actually sitting down. was the. city didn't take long to remove the makeshift camp last week the government has rejected a bill on 3 proportional voting it would have made it easier for opposition parties to agree on more seats in elections next year or so protesters declared parliament's bags they accuse the governing party's chairman. of breaking his promise to reform it is electric code opposition leaders say even if you believe it is an unelected oligarch with too much control over the country we have another example of what is force so you would. call it the legitimate purposes to great governance all those people were insulted by the charter the problems of india very unfortunately have after all of this ultim

i honestly think in parliament over the. couple of years although the agenda hasn't been as phyllis perhaps the government would have light we have to be able to capitalize on not and not spin fantastic for animal welfare right across united kingdom but with a cover thank you so much for joining us again on the. short term we saw a little bit of the normal activities of of parliamentarians continue despite brits thank you very much. so a parliamentary success but what difference will actually make who better to ask than the celebrated market for him how does it work innovate on television personality go by marshalling across party campaign in the palace of westminster mark speaks to alex. and i'm delighted to be joined by mark abraham better known at least twitter handle as mark mark welcome to the alex salmond shill hi alex i don't know if you have just achieved a. pretty significant campaigning success eleusis law how what is it tell us that and how did you manage that when blacks as completely dominated the political agen

a comfortable margin but as you know it's not over until the fat lady sings especially in this parliament that's very fragmented so everybody's kind of careful with their predictions but if i had to bet you know 100000 euros or which i don't have but if i knew it would be definitely. as you're keeping your eye on that vote max we're also looking at some live pictures that are coming in as well as from their instructor i mean what are your thoughts on the lines their priorities now as she steps into this new role. well the 3 top priorities are mirrored with her selection of what they call executive vice president so those are commissioners that will have more power than the rest of the commission and they're also in charge of those top 3 priorities one of them being an economy for the people so basically trying to be more competitive in the digital economy but also more inclusive meaning that no one or as few people as possible got left behind with this disruption right there then digital is a big topic also of the 2nd portfolio which is in this case making you're a fit for the digital age

jessica, this is the last night of this parliament, mps in the parliament ceased to be mps in the parliamenthts on their behalf. how do you think this short parliament is going to be looked back on? we had the long parliamentary session following what turned out to be an incredibly short parliamentary session. this parliament will be looked back on as one that has been defined to some great extent by its brexit battles. borisjohnson was saying it was a parliament that couldn‘t agree on anything on that topic. parliamentarians would see that differently, they managed to pass legislation effectively blocking a no—deal brexit. but it has been a stormy time in westminster and it will be very interesting to see who comes back in december. i mean, iwas in parliament earlier today, there was an emotional atmosphere on the last day. some mps leave knowing they won‘t come back because they may be retiring. i saw some mps embracing and saying there final goodbyes and people go after campaign not knowing whether they might win the election and their seat. but as you say, one minute past midnight tonigh