it wasn't about improving the parliamentary system. that was passe for us it was not what we wanted instead we saw the need to change the world alongside the many liberation movements in latin america and africa as well as in alliance with many comm rates in france italy the us and britain. from parliament so back then you didn't think much of parliamentary democracy but ten years later in the late seventy's you co-founded the alternative list here in berlin the predecessor to the greens why did you change your mind and decide to try and change things via parliamentary representation and. we began with the simple idea of taking what was being said on the street and in meetings and giving it a voice in parliament. we were also motivated by the slogan of the long march through the institutions. i joined the social democrats in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine and we wanted to propagate explain and justify what was necessary and right. or. we had ten thousand sometimes up to one hundred thousand people on the street. and parliament be

now you are no longer in parliament are you back in the extra parliamentary opposition. i've always been part of it. still take part in demonstrations as long as my health. i will be active but i will be active in the greens. i'll be there at the next party congress and the one after this. i'll do everything i can but i also want to be involved in the discussions not something i do now not just with speeches or leaflets but via twitter every week. it was as mr strobel to finish here are three sentences that i'd like you to complete the greens are currently the smallest parliamentary group. i hope for the future of my party. you. know i'm that someday it will become a party that is indispensable to forming a government. and big movement for the left as left politicians are back in place discarding four is. this to end something that hasn't been thought through to its conclusion a rallying cry from one i think is good in principle is not enough to create sufficient common ground for making policy together. when left wingers from the very different parties greens s.p.d. and

the poly diluent up in strasburg headquarters of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe an organization which is seventy years old but virtually unknown but one but just fundamentally changed the lives of tens of millions of european citizens and changed them for the better let's organization indeed the whole continent of europe doesn't have its problems to see just not so the council of europe at its best days behind it are the greatest achievements still to come out of the carnage of world war the council of europe was formed to pull the human rights and the rule of international law it has forty seven member states eight hundred twenty million people and the operates on a budget of approximately half a billion euros senator i was merely hichens represents you the peon women's lobby in social economic issues in brussels she also happens to be the daughter of irish on the president michael d. higgins some of the higgins were given the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe i mean many people point to some fairly obvious abuses of the convention by by members of

speaker and that post really is a key post but it because this is the parliamentary speaker and the seven person leadership body in parliament who really direct the order of the day we will direct the procedural matters so we will give them control of the political agenda moving forward and everything points to the fire that it will be the separatist parties the ones who want to break away from the space that will control the parliamentary speaker position that that is what is really likely to stop. the control of a scene. but let's take a look at a little bit of the background to this. so far the chance of freedom for the prisoners have been ignored as catalonia as parliament to be opened handful of elected separate as politicians remain in jail others fled abroad. demonstrations we are trying to. keep we can stay the flame you know but if someone things that. we give up they don't know. the first the members of parliament on wednesday is to choose a parliamentary speaker next a vote is needed for the new head of the cattle government but it's complicated madrid shut down this parl

to you we can't talk about for the whole world so let's talk about what's going on iraq iraq a parliamentary committee saying that isis smuggled hundreds of millions of dollars when it retreated from the country moreover the terror group even invest directly into the iraq economy laundering its money and taking cuts from legitimate business profits. what i have to say about that why is the iraqi government allowing this to happen well i think the iraqi government need to tighten the news and tighten this. screw on on the fund then on the financial. transfer from one bank to another they need to apply a lot of international rules of the i.m.f. and world bank and and and and the european union. how they have to apply this on the iraqi banking system and the iraqi financing see it financial financial system a to stop blackmailing for example that the isis used to take a margin of all the government contracts given to the private sector and still some what some of the militias some of the mafia some of the of going to criminals are still using doing this see you hit you hit. a very important poi

parliamentary and the former national security adviser discussing iraq's efforts not to slide back into bloodshed after extremists are driven out and that's it for this edition of. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself and taken your last wrong turn. you're out caught up to us we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry suddenly i could so i write these last words in hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each but. but then my feelings started to change you talked about war like it was a cave still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one quite different i speak to you now because there are no other takers place to blame that mainstream media has met its maker. place else i was privileged to with a large applauded by you the. helper in the last election while you also believe will do more slowly over the wall suitable for di

elections the scottish minister of a parliamentary business claim that it's only fair that those who have the right to live there should also have the right to vote and we debate the issue with james dorgan from the scottish national party and david coburn from the u.k. independence party. the idea that any country allows people who are not their citizens to vote on any election basis on the head of a totally wrong the scottish national party want to gerrymander the elections they want to give the vote to every tom dick and harry this is all anybody but the english i should think i got all that goes died out so somebody might call that racist. rumble and run i just heard from david coble now the only person who sounded racist and it was him the fact. is that in the recent people. and if they get the rate to stay here then i think it's only appropriate to get rate to have a c. they must have british citizenship all the scottish national party like well scottish guys lying about it trying to gerrymander it don't have anybody in the country that would give them of would you give us some

prime minister earlier over cars says he will be campaigning to change the legislation which irish parliamentary committee recently recommended allowing abortion up to twelve weeks into a pregnancy suggest a majority of voters are in favor of reform. all right i'm joined now here in the studio by d.w. news journalist jennifer collins so good to have you here with us jennifer abortion laws in ireland arguably are a very divisive issue where is this current push for a referendum coming from well i would say there's always been a fair level of pushback against arlen's abortion laws but i would say the catalyst for this big push that we're thing was that in twenty twelve when thirty one year old indian dentists. and died after complications after being refused a abortion and an irish hospital she presented at seventeen weeks with. a septic miscarriage i was told early on in the process even though she'd request an abortion that that wouldn't be possible because there was still

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so that parliamentary select committee pausing for a moment.l and his deputy anne bulford and the head of news and current affairs at the bbc fran unsworth. all following on from a much longer than anticipated session earlier this afternoon with the bbc former china editor carrie gracie. she resigned of course from that particular post because of unequal pay and she was in a very long session alongside the head of the nuj. so we were listening at length to tony hall and his evidence there because that was in response to much of what carrie gracie had to say. that is in front of the digital media sports select committee in parliament. our media editor is here. you have been listening to a lot of evidence this afternoon. there maybe people just lot of evidence this afternoon. there maybe peoplejust picking up on this who did not hear what carrie gracie had to say at the start of the afternoon. hard to do still a lot of evidence but some of the key points, the key issues that have stood out for you? well it was a strange afternoon, it started off

from our parliamentary studios thank you. california has become the largest u.s. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana voters approved the move in a referendum in two thousand and sixteen the change in the law is to set to generate a billion dollars in tax revenue every year but some users say that despite the new legislation they'll still buy the drug on the black market. with these three. cutting the ribbon the owner of this medical center in oakland says he wants california to be a beacon of hope to parts of the world where people are still suffering under prohibit as he put it. customers have been lining up since early in the morning to be the first to take advantage of the change in the law it allows adults twenty one and older to buy possess and grow marijuana until now it had only been available for medical purposes. it's history this is serious and i think it's it's been a fish on it's going to help a lot of people a lot of different demographics in the long run been a medical patient for quite some time and my card expired so it was kind of

continuity and those are elements that definitely most leaders want to have to understand that a parliamentary sylvia's thank you this article look at some other stories making news around the world authorities in cape town have imposed new water restrictions and house rules to combat an ongoing drought from favoring residents must use more than fifty liters a day a reduction of almost half the south african city has had three years of low rainfall. a californian couple who held the thirteen children captive for years in their home have pleaded not guilty to charges of torture and child abuse prosecutors say the children was starved and shackled even when they had to go to the bathroom the couple face life in prison if convicted for ciancia. and staying in the u.s. and saturday mocks the for us anniversary of donald trump as president of the united states someone said that he wouldn't last until christmas but with the economy booming and his health reportedly good trump is holding steady. it was an audacious first week in office. gratian had been a central tenet of candidate trump's campaign w

and we have team coverage let's bring in our political correspondent who is standing by in our parliamentary studios and we're also joined by marina strauss from our social media team welcome to both with you both of you and i'd like to begin first with mckayla. for those who don't know explain to us who beatrice fung store he is and what she means to the political scene here in germany. well she certainly is a leading and spoken figure in the far right i'll turn to but she's been a european m.p. since twenty fourteen and she joined the board to start i'm in parliament also together with the for the first time in the past elections were still to see a government being formed here in germany on she hit the headlines here and in twenty sixteen when she said that if migrants illegally cross into germany as a last resort border guards should also be allowed to shoot. civilians that caused quite a storm she did slightly regret but that also shows that she has been there before making very provoking statements indeed and now we're seeing this backlash against her statement basically describing mig

it is seen as one of the toughest parliamentary occasions.eremy corbyn said the test of any budget was how it affected people's lives. >> the payment is now lower than in 2010 in wages are now falling again. economic growth in the first three quarters of this year as lower since 2009 in the slowest of the major economies in the g7. >> or may corbyn said a million people weren't getting the care they needed and he reacted angrily from the hackles from a conservative mp. >> over 6 billion will of been cut from social care budget by next march. i hope the honorable member begins to understand what it's like to wait for social care of other people have to give up their work. >> on housing, jeremy corbyn reckons he heard it all before. >> 300,000 homes three years ago. not a single one has yet been dealt in those three years. we need a large-scale publicly funded housebuilding program. not this government accounting tricks and promises. >> the westminster leader backing people in scotland. >> before the winds of brexit had a command millions of pe

meps, european wide candidates for the parliamentary electionslj support the parliamentary elections. for the european parliament. i would like to get people in cafes in naples and restau ra nts get people in cafes in naples and restaurants in galway talking about the same election choices. perhaps thatis the same election choices. perhaps that is an ambitious idea but i think it is one we should strive for. the eu needed to be ambitious about security, cutting the cost of medicines, helping the rest of the world. but there were limits to integration. whatever our future holds, europe needs to be competitive economically. and one of the ways to ensure this is by allowing competition among member states. and i think this is particularly important for a and less developedfr— . , — lg; $5.5??? 5 a; 5:33 az—fzazzjza fibfisi domestic i and need teneetfiéfif. my small and need inward investment. my strong view is that national taxes that fund national budgets should be determined by national parliaments and governments. that led to raised eyebrows because ireland is notorious for a low rate of

today there was also some colorful scenes as well one of those was of course looking around the parliamentary arena there and you could see a number of the yellow ribbons placed in empty seats that was to symbolize those politicians a handful of whom are in jail in spanish jails and others who fled into self-imposed exile in belgium all of that to try and evade rebellion charges that have been leveled against them by spanish judges because of the way that they held a referendum back in october trying to push for catalonian secession sammy. does what you've just described mean that the showdown over the mall is now inevitable. well absolutely this is the next task the next central task of the cattle and parliament and that is to choose the head the new head of the catalan government now the separatists party's as i say firmly back in control with the ruling majority they have said they want to reinstate the ousted catalan leader carlos whose demand but there's no way right now that he can come back from self-imposed exile in spain in brussels because the spanish government the judges say that

i will from time to time reference parliamentary colleagues of mine whom i can see are present, and they are here and in order to show their support for you. it's a great pleasure for me to be able to welcome, sitting in front of the sergeant at arms chair, lloyd russell moore. perhaps just raise your hand. the newly elected labour member of parliament for brighton, and very importantly, himself, i believe, a former member of the youth parliament. he made it from the youth parliament to the house of commons as a phone constituency member. appreciation for lloyd, who has a forgotten where he came from. [cheers and applause] -- has not forgotten where he came from. >> please give an equally warm and supportive welcome to the opposer of the motion from yorkshire, i call lara ferguson. [cheers and applause] >> thank you, mr. speaker. i want you to imagine the future, a future where people can live side-by-side through stigmatization. i want you to imagine the future where our friends at our relatives can introduce their partners and whatever the gender, be okay and accepted. now, a time with

party congress so i decision will be made next monday within the party bodies within the parliamentary group this afternoon and c.s.u. before become good so i would like to express my gratitude at this point. for what has been an extremely good way of beginning our work and the result of the fall well of the race last night of course it all got a little bit intense as is often the case when you're running up to the finish line but i think the capability of a coalition to stand difficult times is seen best when things get emotional when you discuss difficult issues and make decisions and still manage to do so in a spirit of respect with you now in the last discussion with the s.p.d. without any irony i wish the s.p.d. every success at their party congress i really wish that martin shirts. you always have to have a bit of luck in such matters and i wish you every success in your party congress and if we are all been so successful as it were and are able to enter into. coalition agreements and i hope we can pull of the stops out and get it all sorted out before easter it's not that easy w

what will time for the announcements it is seen as a parliamentary occasion.eremy corbyn says that test of any budget is how it affected peoples lives. >> mr. speaker is now lower than 2010 wages are now falling again. economic growth in the first three quarters this year is the lowest since 2009. and the slowest of the major economies in the g7. >> he said over a million old people were not getting the care they needed and he reacted angrily with heckles from the conservative mps. >> over 6 billion would have been cut from social care budgets by next march. i hope the honorable member begins to understand what it's like to wait for special care stuck in a hospital bed with other people to care for them. >> and he reckoned he had heard it all before. >> 200,000 homes, three years ago. not a single one has yet been built. in those three years. we need a large-scale publicly funded housebuilding program. not this trick and empty promises. >> the westminster leader would be worse off. >> before the windsor breaks at heather, the starting position for millions of

from a leftist rebels in colombia have launched their campaign for upcoming elections the parliamentary and presidential votes will mark their party's election day view thousands of members handed in their weapons under twenty sixteen peace deal with the government at least fourteen soldiers have been killed at an army camp in mali seventeen others were wounded when the base near timbuktu was targeted the military says it killed seventeen of around thirty attackers and its reclaimed control of the base when the world's richest man has been freed in saudi arabia prince our waleed bin talal has been held for two months on corruption allegations he's been released after agreeing to a financial settlement. the finance chairman of the us republican national committee has resigned after being accused of harassment and sexual assault several woman told the wall street journal that steve wynn made unwanted advances those are the headlines the news continues people in power is next facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city

they are now voting to choose the rest of the parliamentary committee that runs parliamentary business. they have chosen a member of the left wing independence party by 65 votes for. the unionist camp has lost the possibility of having the speaker as one of their members. the citizen party had appealed to backleft-wing party them and that would have produced a a time because carles pupuigdemont wasas not allowed o vote i in the e voting tododay. getey are pushingng ahead to carles puigdemont invested. the spspeaker who o will be a mr vote isin how t that organized has said earlier before thihis vote that he was't in favoror of the left-wing pary backing the idea of a vote by teleconference. if the lawyers of the parliament were against it that may mean there's more pressure on carles puigdemont to step aside and let another left-wing candidate or pro-independence candidate present himself. genie: how likely is that to happen? will he step aside? >> at the momentnt he is saying absolutetely n not. he says he was the legitimate president of t the republic of cacatalonia thatat was declal

cicilline: parliamentary inquiry? has debate concluded on the rule? the speaker pro tempore: all time for dwight on the rule has expired. mr. cicilline: in light of that, mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h.r. 4872, the end the shutdown act of 2018, -- may i firn. a continuing resolution through tuesday that would immediately reopen o the government while negotiations continue on a budget agreement that adheres to parity, re-authorizes the children's health insurance program and other critical health care programs. addresses dreamers, and providing assistance to americans impacted by natural disasters. i'm asking for unanimous consent to bring this bill up to reopen the government. if all the claims my republican colleagues i'm asking for made about openi the government, here's the chance. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is no longer recognized. under clines consistently issued by successor speakers as recorded in section 956 of the house rules and manual, the chair is constrained not to entertain request unless it's been cleared

but labor use and of skewer an obscurekewer -- parliamentary procedure to make the government release the papers. >> looking at this that i have here, two things are obvious, -- are obvious. the first is that in many ways, it is unremarkable and could and should have been published months ago. the second is that the wide range of sectors analyzed demonstrate why it is so important for members of this house to see the impact assessment. host: after a great deal of tilling and throwing, the information was released but in an incomplete form. david davis was asked to appear before the committee, revealing that the impact assessment was not in fact impact assessments at all. >> the answer to the question is no. the government has not undertaken any impact assessments on leaving the eu for different sections of the british economy. so there isn't one on the reporting sector. is there one on aerospace? no? >> no to all of them. >> right. doesn't it strike you as rather strange given the experience in the committee that you have come of that the government and takes assessments at all lookin

the first task the members of parliament on wednesday is to choose a parliamentary speaker next to vote is needed for the new head of the cattle government but it's complicated madrid shut down this parliament last october rested cattle and leaders for rebellion after they held a referendum to break away from the rest of spain in a snap election last month the citizens party which favors remaining part of spain emerged as the biggest single party but a coalition of separatist parties. to form a ruling majority. ahead of the new session of parliament separatist politicians headed into closed door meetings the key concern seemed to be how to press ahead with the goal of breaking away from spain. obstacles are a constant issue we will have to look for new solutions but we have never rejected the idea of negotiations but the only thing that the spanish state offices is prison on direct rule of the ousted catalan first minister. remains in self-imposed exile in belgium judges warn he will be arrested if he returns to take his seat in the catalan parliament. separatist parties say they will t

i'm not a parliamentary expert, but it certainly could be up for debate. host: let's see what our viewers have to say. dale in missouri, a democrat, europe first. -- you are up first. caller: i got a couple things. for chrysler corporation from 1968 to 1999. when my social security kicked in when i was 62, i had to take -- or they took $1000 away from my chrysler pension and then they paid my medicare. i paid medicare plus i worked for 31 years and am still losing a thousand dollars to medicare . my other issue is all the immigrants that have come in since 1999 or since the 1970's whenever i was working, how much deterioration has that done to the retirements of people retiring now? just like i looked on the tv and they said at&t and boeing and all these other companies, they were paying them anywhere from $1000 to $2000. $2000 is not much when you have three or four grandkids and you want to take them to disney world. whenever they cut my entitlements, i can't even go to branson, missouri and see the shows. me.ncially that hurts whenever social security t

but having lost the tories their parliamentary majority in last year's general election, theresa may'sive mps a vote on the issue were pushed back to 2019. now, in an attempt to improve her party's fortunes, the prime minister has gone one step further. one of the clear messages we got on a number of areas was when people are concerned about what we were proposing. just as we have looked at issues on school funding and tuition fees and housing, we are taking forward approaches in relation to that. on this issue of fox hunting, what i can say is that there will not be a vote during this parliament. for now, then, there is little chance the law on fox hunting will be changing any time soon. the prime minister is to carry out a cabinet reshuffle tomorrow. it's not known yet what changes and appointments theresa may will make, but it's being reported that several ministers could either lose theirjobs or be moved. a downing street source has described such stories as "pure speculation" and "guesswork". let's ta ke let's take you to paris. president macron is due to lay wreaths at the office

parliamentary and the former national security adviser discussing iraq's efforts not to slide back into bloodshed after rick stray misses are driven out and that's it for this edition of. is america as it actually is a bomb over the fantasy is reality and he's doing what you'd expect a seasoned businessman to do cut all the nonsense out of the mix bring jobs back. to medication is widespread on the u.s. market a frequent cause of death at that point in my life. like everything with my family was literally coming unglued i had actually planned. to commit suicide watch all who has made antidepressants so commonly used we were doing what the doctors told us to do we were being responsible and what the real side effects. was. what i did was done on a cocktail of legal drugs. just because something's legal doesn't mean it's sent. we're told a secret society existed within the f.b.i. with the sole intent to undermine kennedy and then later president donald trump also we're told the last text messages from members of the secret society with russia gave rapidly losing steam we now have f.b.i. g

was on the whole scene with a politician like the first step would be to lift her parliamentary immunity experts say her tweet was typical for her. regularly attempts to incite racial hatred of migrants muslims and so called others that something germany experienced with anti semitic slogans in the weimar republic in the one nine hundred twenty s. and it can be dangerous to the republic if it is not stopped the family has been damaged because it twitter suspended the a.f.d. politicians account for several hours acting under authority of the new law that requires social media firms to promptly delete suspected criminal hate speach. let's get more detail you political correspondent report to welcome rupert to firstly let's start with batteries from still. well because from stories is a leading figure of the fall rise populist party alternative for james germany or d. and since they entered the german parliament last year she has been serving them as a deputy leader in the parliamentary party and she has quite a reputation for using provocative statements to gain media attention in two thou

turkey has a great history of parliamentary and participatory politics. i cannot accept that this is similar to some other countries which no such history whatsoever. >> before i take the question about the rights that have or have not been given to the kurds, i want to move this question to the speed of which we can expect democratic transition or could expect or should not expect turkey. we have institutional history with an experience, with democracy in turkey. how would you respond to the question of how can we expect this to happen overnight? >> i think the key issue is let's keep our eye on the trajectory. that is is turkey moving toward rule of law? do you process democracy, social inclusion, or is turkey descending into authoritarianism, crony capitalism, one man rule? and if that is our kind of guiding light, i think the answer is simple. the demand here is not overnight democratization of turkey. the demand here is turkey, at certain periods, was moving towards what i would consider the right target. you know, as expressed maybe in the european

the german parliament bundestag last year she has been serving them as a deputy leader in the parliamentary party and she has quite a reputation for using provocative statements to gain media attention in two thousand and sixteen she at the height of the refugee crisis she called for the german border police to shoot at refugees when they are crossing the dormant german border even including women and children and after a huge outcry of criticism she said well i never really meant to publish thought it was just on my computer and then i accidentally slipped with my fingers over the mouse so she's got quite a reputation for rather braces and very strong provocative statements and. vital saying that german authorities want to germans to live with criminal mobs of migrants so these these comments these tweets is this just the f t being a f d a short are they looking to make a particular splash as they say it in germany's politics for the first time it's a little bit of both has made it a political strategy to use provocative statements to gain media attention they even is some sort of manual o

from our parliamentary studios giving us some analysis this morning thank you so much. you're watching d.w. news still to come these migrants hiding out in brussels fear they'll be tortured if they return to sit down a belgian officials colluded with the sudanese regime to get them to ported b.w. has an exclusive report. let's get some business news now for monica worlds the world's movers and shakers are meeting in davos switzerland again it's that. time of year one after the other they arrived they had german chancellor angela merkel of course will come french president in mind when my call and u.s. president donna to tromp are among those leaders of the world's biggest economies expected to attend the was economic forum in davos switzerland a lot to organize of course security is always paramount with so many prominent figures swiss soldiers have cordoned off the anti-a valley the security costs topping eight million euros so you'd expect a good show for that. these are the stars of opening night in davos singer elton john actress cate blanchett and bollywood star sh

irony of it is the degree to which it will be worse test in the commons just last week your grand parliamentary alliance for the single market was put to the test in a vote and you lost so who are hopeless. that you can actually achieve results if labor would actually get their act together and start working like an opposition party we'd be able to hold this minority government to a proper account of the does not mean that you had to supply the scottish parliament who have to pass a length of consent motion to this bill if they don't do that will that actually put our alleged spoke in the government's will legislative consent motion is required from the devolved parliaments where the bill and the proof that the legislation affects their operation so obviously a lot of discussions have been going on about the effect of this on t.v. lucian and we haven't yet got an agreement and fight the secretary has reneged on promises to bring forward amendments this month so we wait to see what's a centrist a vote for the second state for scotland has as he promised in a direct answer to me in the chamber la

where the way that her opposition to the court in strasbourg to the european convention to the parliamentary assembly could remember most certainly i think that her feelings are very fundamental feelings it's as if somebody has done her susceptibilities and she wants to put the booted and she can't do so no but there will come a time when she may well try to souping that she lost the course but i think the argument is much wider that it's in terms of our rights throughout these islands and throughout our continent we've got to stand by those and what is the would be the impact on the devolved positions in scotland and wales if there's some point in the future that was to be a you came of coal from the jurisdiction of the stars because course that assumes that scotland and wales are still an integrated part of the u.k. scotland has a slightly different position because scotland has its own legal system and have that have been a record. of cases arising from scotland i know you yourself wrote it as first minister in that context but scotland and wales will have to make their own course for the

committee which i mean they're basically these are parliamentary officials but nothing can happen without agreement on that so lisa maybe we've reached agreement on that. what has to happen now is before the thirty first they have to agree on who is the counter president now although the person who got the most votes was innocent or matters a leader of the center right citizens party as you said in your introduction the independents want is between them have the most seats and therefore colors push them on the exile who as you say and self-imposed exile former president is the only candidate the moment however it is not clear. he says it is legal for him to be sworn in as president via a video link up the government says it isn't there is no legal precedence of this that i'm aware of so there's probably going to be a lot of. moving around the cleanup of the thirty first we're not expecting anything dramatic to happen today that you know not so the future of the mall and other jailed separatist leaders is still unclear can we expect though more confrontation with madrid. one of this seems

to you we can't talk about for the whole world so let's talk about what's going on iraq iraq a parliamentary committee saying that isis smuggled hundreds of millions of dollars when it retreated from the country moreover the terror group even invest directly into the iraq economy laundering its money and taking cuts from legitimate business profits. what i have to say about that why is the iraqi government allowing this to happen while i think the iraqi government need to tighten the news and tighten this. the screw on on the fund then on the financial. transfer from one bank to another they need to apply a lot of international rules of the i.m.f. and world bank and and and european union. how they have to apply this on the iraqi banking system and the iraqi financing sit financial financial system a to stop blackmailing for example that the isis used to take a margin of all the government contracts given to the private sector and still some what some of the militias some of the mafia some of the of going to criminals are still using you doing this see you have you hit. a very important poin

where the way that the her opposition to the court of stars but the european convention to the parliamentary assembly could be met i think that her feelings are very fundamental feelings it's as if somebody has done her susceptibilities and she wants to put the booted and she can't do so no but there will come a time when she may well try to assume that she lost the course but i think the argument is much wider than that it's in terms of our rights throughout these islands and throughout our continent we've got to stand by those and what is the would be the impact on the devolved positions in scotland and wales if some point in the future there was to be a u.k. with goal from the jurisdiction of the stars because we're course that assumes that scotland and wales are still an integrated part of the u.k. scotland has a slightly different position because scotland has its own legal system and have that have been a record. of cases arising from scotland i know you yourself wrote it as first minister in that context but scotland and wales will have to make their own course for the future and i wo

that's according to a parliamentary report, seen exclusively by bbc news. pay their heating bills should be used instead to help tackle hunger among the elderly. john maguire reports. do you always manage to finish what we deliver to you? yeah. janet is receiving a check up—this morning from annabel martin, a nutritionist from the hertfordshire independent living service. 0k, and that's a slightly more than you were last time so that's absolutely fantastic. she is malnourished but today there is good news, she's putting on weight. malnourishment is defined as when the body doesn't get the nutrients it needs to function properly. a parliamentary report published today says it affects 1.3 million elderly people, but it's an estimate. the data comes from 2011 so it's calling for updated information. those who provide meals on wheels suspect it's a much bigger problem. well, we're dealing with malnutrition on a daily basis. we've done our own research screening clients when they first come to our meals on wheels service and we discover that aa% of them are maln

from our parliamentary studios thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world south korean president moon j.n. has offered to hold talks with north korea about cooperate on next month's winter olympics in the south but he stressed that north korea's nuclear issues were part of any dialogue north korean leader kim jong un had raised the idea of joining the olympics and his new year's speech a new campaign against sexual harassment has just been launched in hollywood and it's already raised thirteen million dollars the time's up initiative has the backing of a list power players like reese witherspoon jennifer aniston and shonda rhimes it aims to help victims of sexual misconduct working in low income industries. in iran violent demonstrations are sweeping the country and they show no sign of easing after nearly a week of anti-government protests at least twenty people have been killed and hundreds of others have been arrested the protests began over economic woes and rising food prices but have since

but having lost the tories their parliamentary majority in last year's general election, theresa may'sto give mps a vote on the issue were pushed back to 2019. now, in an attempt to improve her party's fortunes, the prime minister has gone one step further. one of the clear messages we got on a number of areas was when people are concerned about what we were proposing. just as we have looked at issues on school funding and tuition fees and housing, we are taking forward approaches in relation to that. on this issue of fox hunting, what i can say is that there will not be a vote during this parliament. for now, then, there is little chance the law on fox hunting will be changing any time soon. we can now speak to chris pitt from the charity the league against cruel sports, which has been campaigning to keep the fox hunting ban in place. what is your view on the change of heart from the prime minister?m what is your view on the change of heart from the prime minister? it is obviously welcome. it is good to know the role not be a vote during this parliament. but obviously we have to be sl

government someone pass thank you very much i'm delighted to be joined by lists of all robots the parliamentary leader of ply comrie and the house of commons and edinburgh the stampede tommy shop up in the cabinet office spokesman of the s.n.p. welcome to you both good to. we're delighted to be here well let's solve robots that summit recent summer a few weeks back if we have the s.n.p. imply calmly brought to go over the liberals agreed in a whole variety of parties in the house of commons but your empty chair and the labor party because they wouldn't come along to support the single market they thought was a bit of a political stunt to have a name to cheer that indicate you were really interested in building a line let's look at the totality here what we were endeavoring to do there was to invite all the leaders of the opposition parties so that we could work as a functioning co-operative coordinating opposition we invited jeremy corbyn jeremy corbyn chose not to come there what evidence do you have what really substantive evidence that being the single market is going to cause so much econom