believe this parliamentary democracy needs urgently restoring. freely elected deputies who have a direct mandate from the people who have the power line not the government. just like it says in the constitution this means that those in power will always have to come to the parliamentarians and make an effort to build majorities and make the case through argument if they want to pass a law. but in the chance they would have to worry about every vote. correct. that would not only have consequences before a vote is taken there would also be consequences when it comes to drafting law. because they'd also be forced to think how will we get a majority. it's why i now think the current situation where we're confronted with a possible minority government is a fascinating experiment because it would mean parliamentarians regaining some of their own significance and. bringing things back to the grassroots a few months ago the grassroots made their voices heard in germany in the general elections and the nationalist alternative for germany became the strong

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 a 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 beca

and she's also the parliamentary. but she's not a member of the cabinet and from dr spektor she will have a little bit more freedom to try and start that really your goal as she herself mentioned here is not only to establish what the priorities could be within the social democrats but also to debate and decide how those priorities should be achieved something that according to many here was one of the problems in the last federal election so that's how she would try and make that renewal of the social democrats possible ok thomas many thanks for that thomas sparrow political correspondent reporting there from the s.p.d. party conference. now it's been a free scoring weekend so far in germany's business leader in sport including a spectacular time yesterday between rb lights and hoffenheim both teams still have qualification for european competition next season firmly within their sights in their last encounter like they suffered its biggest been asleep defeat to date and embarrassing for neil defeats and as it turned

changes in armenia and moving from presidents of parliamentary republican he made a very clear promise that this was not done for him to come in power unfortunately he broke his promise and you know we've seen last week him being appointed to the prime minister and until very little last moment you know he was not really. openly saying that he was going to break his promise although it was becoming apparent for the more i think what is clear here is that d.c. is not just about one person stepping down i mean there are very real grievances accumulated in public it is very important for the ruling public. power ruling party to listen to what public really wants and it's a very important step forward because i don't know speculate whether it will be new elections you know it's one thing for the for the prime minister to. go to link push its power but another thing is the ruling party prepared to do the same i think when i mentioned the democratic legitimacy of the. power it's really. a problem and there was this vacuum because of the falsified because of the vote buying because of the pre

armenians opposition leaders say they want parliamentary elections to be held as soon as possible. from running the country from behind the scenes those are your headlines so far today the news continues after inside story i will see you in thirty minutes. in the lead up to the historic twenty eighteen the real summit. al-jazeera live life in the north. join me for a series of special reports from north korea. here on al-jazeera. political upheaval in armenia as the prime minister who was president is forced to step down tens of thousands of anti-government protesters marched for days to demand his resignation so what's next this is inside story. and i welcome to the program i'm jane dokken nellie two weeks of political drama in armenia have ended with the downfall of the prime minister who was president so. abruptly resigned just a few days after being appointed by parliament he became prime minister off to ending ten years in power as president protesters accused him of a political power grab and marched on the streets of the capital yet of on for days as news of his resignation

the turkish president has called for early parliamentary and presidential elections russia typer one says a snap poll will be held. on june twenty fourth elections were originally scheduled for november twenty ninth teens but what about move them up to usher in a new presidential system or turkey switching from a parliamentary system to a presidential one can increase the power of the president with an s. barak ali joins us live now from istanbul he's the director of european studies at the set a foundation how surprised are you by this snap election and why is the turkish president doing this now of course it's early elections and this is a surprise but at the same time since we had this referendum last year and we had an drastic change in the turkish. political system from parliamentary to a presidential system and this is done will be introduced in the in the person elections saw we had two years time and one of years time but this is this is let's say putting the country in an even more you know until and unless the elections and these uncertainty is causing some problems in the

the coalition members do have the parliamentary majority that would enable them to my point a new party minister so it's not about who the prime minister is going to repeat myself but it's about what are the grievances and these are very real grievances grievances that you know there are rampant corruption in the country there is there is it through in poverty there is there are oligarchic rules that need to be broken down the country's being is emptying itself from its own citizens i mean we are really thankful that we had the this movement coming from the youth and now of all generations but the country's biggest challenge right now beyond the economic is the fact that people are leaving the country and a country that has no population doesn't have any reason to be called a country so we also have political prisoners that are right now because of freedom of speech or because of what. undertook in the past when they have tried to be creating those movements under the two man days of presidency of so sucky see on the police violence and the lack of opportunity for people to express thei

approval. military action over the weekend without parliamentary approvallj would without parliamentaryd disagree withjeremy corbyn but he will make that statement, you know. she was with the us, she was with france, and sometimes you need to act quickly and swiftly, so i would disagree with that part that will be the debates, and she will have two face that debate. something the government has done is they have actually published their reasoning for the action and also, what the international law states in terms of military action of this kind and the uk government is at pains to say we have followed the letter of the law. absolutely. and only three chemical stations were attacked. it was a very surgical strike, but what we really need to start looking about and we have had this discussion fare is where are we going now with syria? because is where are we going now with syria ? because it is where are we going now with syria? because it is incredibly difficult. —— off air. you have millions of people displaced, you have hundreds of thousands killed you, you have 3 million syrian refuge

there has to bea parliamentary approval.when we reconvened. i'm concerned this morning about the confused objectives. america has said that it's is one shot, but the press conference a minute ago has indicated that there was a possibility of continuing strikes if this problem continues. of course the other overarching strategic consideration is that we are very much on the coat—tails of an erratic american president. the things he has been saying this morning have been fairly emollient about rebuilding relationships with russia and maybe iran. he'll probably say something different this afternoon. we do have common ground with the prime minister bird that it is clear that the syrian government have use chemical weapons and the russian propaganda to try to defuse that argument, i don't buy it for a moment. let me pick up on the points you have made. let's talk about this action having gone ahead without going through parliament. the prime minister was asked about this in the press co nfe re nce minister was asked about this i

thank you ladies and gentleman with you i can still carry out a real parliamentary debate that was my favorite exercise as a minister. but it won't be a mere exercise for long calm wants to speed up the e.u. stalled reform process or return to nationalist ideals he says is no solution instead europe can be sovereign while shouldering its own responsibility motion of . us from the site you know want to belong to a generation of sleep. i want to be part of a generation that stands for decision to defend democracy and know the default setting mclusky the cons backers are eager to engage with other europeans and to hear their hopes and fears. the on march party wants to reach out to people across the continent in the run up to european parliamentary elections next year. we need to be together speak about europe directly to people who want to meet citizens in the european union and everywhere. to build to rebuild europe. but michael's impetus has run into resistance conservatives in both berlin and strasbourg disapprove of his main objective a reformed euro zone with a separate budget and

and borisjohnson told cnn today the reason they did not get parliamentary approval was because they wanteded and efficiency of the operation. jeremy corbyn is adamant theresa may should have recalled parliament and if not, she should have held a vote before doing anything tomorrow when everybody returned. and he seems to think that that is the way the public mood is going. and some of the early pulling supports his view. well, the syrian government denies having used chemical weapons, and has insisted it is not breaking any international laws which prohibit their use. so just what do they say the us, french and british missions targeted? seth done, from cbs news, went to see one of the damaged sites, in damascus, and sent this report. one of the targets of those air strikes was still smouldering late this afternoon. the us military says the barza complex, in damascus, was a centre for the research, development, production and testing of chemical and biological weapons. your office was there? yes, where you see the smoke, this scientist syed told us. he has been here for 38 years. he said h

who's with popular opinion so back to parliamentary opinion again cross party parliamentary opinion if the same thing would happen again or president trump decided some kind of further action was needed as he said the gun is loaded cocked ready to go if there's something he sees that's alleged at syria. even whether it's been proven or not he was to go in again you think he'd have the support of britain and british parliament again to go in. very sadly yes without a shred of doubt there were n.p.v. even on the labor side who. just that does this again we must be ready to go in only one thing one thing can stop this rush in thing again rush to over the cliff and that is for the truth about these videos to emerge and i'm very hopeful breaking news that perhaps as early as tomorrow we will get testimony from western journalists currently in damascus and it will be shown. that the whole thing is a fabrication well we'll see what tomorrow brings for now former you can buster to syria peter ford thank you for making the time to be with us so it's nice to see you thank you mean time.

i regret that there wasn't a parliamentary vote on this issue, but i wish to tell the prime ministerat she would have had my vote, had i been asked to give it. #calling all the world to say... songs of protest outside while hours of talking inside, but no sign yet on a vote that will determine whether the prime minister was right or wrong. well, that was our political editor, laura kuenssberg, reporting. and this evening, despite three hours of statements from prime minister theresa may, the speaker allowed a motion from mcgovern calling for a comprehensive strategy in syria to protect civilian life. what you are seeing is parliament looking somewhat empty because a vote is under way. the end ofa because a vote is under way. the end of a further three hours of debate, the emergency debate called by alison mcgovern, following on from the three hours of the parliamentary statement from the prime minister, theresa may. alison mcgovern then called for a vote. she said in her speech that what was needed was not airstrikes, but a comprehensive strategy. she talked about the need to bring t

this is passing strange that a parliamentary democracy wants to bypass parliament and go to war only twenty two percent or british people as a whole were in favor of getting involved in the war in syria and if you look at the data beneath. a very significant sector of conservative opinion was very unsure indeed it may be. substantial defections from her own side the war in history will have kids. with so little support not even a quarter of the population supporting it before a shot is filed a top german music award has been handed to rappers best known for their anti semitic lyrics it's among all stories still ahead when we come back. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. u.s. led attack on syria is a gross violation of international law furthermore western public still have not been presented with evidence the syrian government used any chemical weapons a new phase of the syrian proxy war is needle sleeping opened up another war of choice. american sanctions would be dam

he says that theresa may should have saw parliamentary approval before the air strikes parliamentary president donald trump. we are going to hear from theresa may at nine o'clock. we will bring you that live. hello, this is breakfast with naga munchetty and jon kay. britain, the us and france have bombed multiple government targets against president assad in syria. three alleged chemical sites were targeted in an overnight operation — the biggest show of force against the man donald trump described as a "monster" a short time ago i ordered the united states armed forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of syrian dictator bashar al—assad. four british tornado jets were involved in the operation — theresa may said there was "no practicable alternative to the use of force". we cannot allow the use of chemical weapons to become normalised, within syria, on the streets of the uk, or anywhere else in our world. we're expecting the prime minister to give a press conference any minute now. syrian state television says government forces

as alluded to the jeremy corbyn reason made launching those airstrikes without parliamentary approval this was brought up to her during that press conference this morning and she said that she would be bringing the issue in front of the house of commons on monday two days after the attack took place perhaps she has about two thousand and thirteen vote in mind when david cameron wanted to also go to war with syria but lost the parliamentary vote and how she was looking to avoid a similar embarrassing defeat there are a number of m.p.'s not just in the labor party but even in her own conservative policy her own backbench m.p.'s who potentially were getting ready to rebel against about this attack on syria she has received support from the foreign secretary johnson however he's been on twitter saying that he welcomes the news of u.k. military strikes against what he says are major chemical weapons facilities in syria and saying that the world is united in its discussed of the use of these weapons against civilians and we've also how about how to before foreign secretary david miliband he

she cannot get the parliamentary approval she needs immediately to do that.t is being left out of such a crucial decision. it is quite important that this is not just crucial decision. it is quite important that this is notjust on the labour side, where there are serious doubts about air strikes if thatis serious doubts about air strikes if that is what it is. there is a sizeable number, at least a dozen conservative mps and some of them former military who have also expressed concerns. i think what we are going to get on monday if maybe the case for war, but not actually saying you, the mps, get to authorise it. i'm reading further down here the and government is adamant that military intervention isa adamant that military intervention is a decision for ministers under the powers of the world parameters. this is where we get the history of, actually that was the case up until the iraq war of 2003 when tony blair broke with the convention and said i will see parliament approval for this, that then set the precedent which happened with every camera when he saw

for this to take place without parliamentary approval isa place without parliamentary approval is a retrogrades pushing for a symbolic vote tomorrow. theresa may is likely to face tough questions from all sides about her long—term strategy for syria. the united states says its preparing new sanctions against russia over its support for syria. the us ambassador to the un, nikki haley, said they would affect companies dealing with chemical weapons equipment. president putin has warned that any further western missile strikes against syria would cause international chaos. here's our middle east editorjeremy bowen in damascus, journalists were allowed to see one of the targets. the syrian deny it was a complex used to develop biological and chemical weapons. in the end the operation was a limited attack, a punishment, and a message that the west will not tolerate the use of chemical weapons. powerful hardware was used. this was an american b—i bomber loading up at its base in the us. no wonder there were fears the raids could make syria's war even worse and risk a confrontation with russia and ira

now, let's take a look at some other parliamentary news in brief.n to launch a legal challenge to the scottish and welsh governments' brexit bills. the two devolved parliaments passed legislation last month known as continuity bills designed to act as alternatives to westminster‘s eu withdrawal bill. the uk government has asked the supreme court to rule on whether the legislation is constitutional and within devolved powers. the speaker gave a warm welcome to former mp tessa jowell who'd come back to the chamber to listen to a debate on cancer treatment. lady jowell was diagnosed with a brain tumour last year, and since then she's spoken powerfully about her illness and the need for better treatment. can i say to you, and i say it on behalf of all colleagues, i'm sure, i hope you will feel fortified and inspired by the warm embrace of parliamentary love which you are about to experience. fly—tipping of rubbish and household items is on the rise in large parts of the uk. both rural and urban areas are affected. but can anything be done to stop it? mp

thursday in parliament. the same situation at all. following her diagnosis of a brain tumour. of parliamentarye. suffered by some women. problems with holiday flights after brexit. holiday— makers to arrive until 2019? people from the windrush generation. for older people living here legally. get a job, or rent a home. difficulty producing the right documents. health care and some have even been deported. these cases can be dealt with immediately. presumption that they are here illegally. cards was a distraction. acquired — one of which is landing cards. returns, nhs numbers. detention centres. were both british citizens. why do we know these figures? i can only again apologise. these individuals are british. they have absolutely every right to be here. do so again today. doing. citizens of nowhere. no longer exists. ilr stands for indefinite leave to remain. confidence and to destabilise the feelings of eu citizens. no, i'm sorry. absolutely clear. welcome here. situation at all. andrea leadsom. to the commons chamber to listen to a debate about cancer treatment. was diagnosed with brain canc

but on the question of the parliamentary role i think the prime minister was not relying on the r. kerry narrowing to appreciation of the royal prerogative which no government has evoked in this country for over fifty years they've always come to parliament for debate and votes are possible on any military action and she shares there was a problem of time that surely once president trump had announced to the world what he was proposing a widespread debate was taking place everywhere including many m.p.'s in the media but no debate in parliament so would she consider shutting off once the immediate issues are over that crossed party commission of some kind to search out precisely what the role. all of parliament is a modern try in the use of military power against another stage and what exceptions if any there can be to usual rule that the government needs parliamentary approval for taking grave action which would. come i thank my right honorable and learned friend for the comments he's made about the action that was taken in syria by the u.s. the u.k. and france he refers to the pa

fact view arrested charged and working because they are members of parliament and they do have parliamentary immunity. the president of the national assembly has been informed which means that they will probably do and this is not confirmed of course is that will do you have to have an emergency session of parliament just stripped of three members of parliament of immunity so that they can be formally charged and the charge from what i can gather because it just came in just before we went on air was about conducting a lawful protests in the city. as i'm saying this there was tens of thousands of people in the streets they're pouring in from all over the place we can't keep up with the number of people. they are self organizing they are saying that this is a peaceful movement they are virtually leaderless up this point but. we also got reports that men in civilian clothes up to forty fifty of them have been attacking protesters with electric shock devices and the taunts it will be interesting to see what happens to these protests the biggest that we've seen in years with the key protest lead

that is all the more reason why we need to have parliamentary authorisation for continuing action.nuing action. there were tearful contributions and rare applause as mps debated what could be done to tackle anti—semitism. opening the debate, the committee secretary described it as the world ‘s oldest hatred. secretary described it as the world 's oldest hatred. a century ago, the then us president described anti—semitism as a noxious weed. u nfortu nately, anti—semitism as a noxious weed. unfortunately, in recent yes, this week has found fertile corners in the corners of social media and political activism, especially those anti— israel and end his zionist sentiment. return to accusations of anti—semitism levelled at labour in recent months. we cannot ignore that particular concern with elements within the labour party. nor can we ignore the fact that this increasing concern has correlated with the current leader of the opposition. there is no place for anti—semitism in the labour party, in the left of british politics, it in touche society at all. end of. a conservative turned to

all sorts of people have said there needs to be a parliamentary vote although it would be retrospectiveis case, what are the chances of this happening? not impossible. a lot of opposition parties are calling for a vote, the snp in particular calling for an emergency debate. that would be a protest vote, it would not bind the government but it would expose divisions in several parties between the mps and their leader. labour has also called for a vote and they are especially unhappy, jeremy corbyn, about what he calls the dubious legal nature of the justification for the strikes theresa may launched in western syria. especially by choosing humanitarian grounds, he stays that is still legally dubious. he said he would only cantons involvement in syria if there was a un involvement behind it, but some conservatives have said, jeremy corbyn knows russia would veto that some picnic use of a roaring what is going on on the ground in syria. —— so going on on the ground in syria. —— so they accuse him of using what is going on. vince cable one certainty about whether this was one one—off strike

if exit were tricky enough, just before easter they had a parliamentary debate that the campaign hadeeding spending units in the referendum. they had strongly denied accusations that used a different process to get strict spending control. the time being tresa mae will be room relieved she has a deal on transitional periods and trade. on the last monday before the easter break, she updated on her latest meeting with eu leaders. such an implementation. has been widely welcomed because it is necessary if we are to minimize on. [inaudible] >> we are pleased that some progress seems to have been made given the identical of what labor was calling for. the only real question is why it took the government so long to realize a transition on the same term is vital to protect jobs and our economy. [inaudible] it could have a disastrous economic effect for brexit. >> theresa may on that brexit deal. i'm delighted to say i'm joined now by chris mason. chris, what can we glean from this deal that it might tell us about the final bill. >> it tells us in the short term there's going to be a differe

he refers to the parliamentary position. effort was made to put forth the resolution and get the path that would've been able to have accountability for these attacks. that was vetoed by the russians. the timing enabled proper planning to take place so it was a targeted set of strikes. it was done in a timely fashion to maintain the operational security of our armed forces. any who commits our armed forces into action was sent -- in doing so. there's a statement in 2016 on the convention which said after careful consideration the government decided it will not be -- in law or resolution of accounts to retain the ability of this and future government to protect the interest of the u.k. in circumstances we can't predict we continue to make sure that parliament is kept informed. i come to parliament with statements on the action that took place. parliament will hold me to account for decisions that have been taken. >> i want to pass on my condolences. can i also think them for the head of the engagement as well as advanced tigh

engaged to the operation without parliamentary approval our correspondents shiela do bensky in paris and alley in london have been following events for us. so the u.k. this morning announcing that they took part in those bombing raids in the attack against syria we've heard from to reason made this morning she's been holding a press conference here in london at downing street and confirming that four jets took part in that they launched a series of air strikes the reason may not speaking to the success of them but very clear to make it to make the point that this is not an attempt at regime change but merely in her words trying to deter any future use of alleged chemical weapons we've also been hearing from the opposition the leader of the opposition jeremy corbyn he's the labor party leader and he called into question how legally sound these asteroids. bombs won't save lives or bring about peace britain should be playing a leadership role to bring about a cease fire in the conflict not taking instructions from washington and putting british military personnel in harm's way to resume

one hundred others a number of centers have been targeted since they opened last week ahead of parliamentary and district elections later this year in the latest attacks fifty seven people were killed in kabul when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of a center there and north of the city in baghdad and province an explosive place near another voting center killed six people from the same family well on friday gunmen hit a voter registration center in bad hits province killing a police officer there and then a day earlier armed men killed two police officers as in jalalabad city as they guarded a voter registration center i want to say attackers kidnapped three employees into policeman from a voting center and core province mariana honda reports on the latest attacks. police say a suicide bomb addition aged explosives at the doorway of a voter registration seem to in kabul where afghans received identification cards for elections in october. the morning arrived at the scene we helped many wounded. people to carry them to the hospital all the victims were women and children who

a faction that got seven or eight percent of the parliamentary vote has no rights to speak on behalf of the people. if you do not accept the legitimate requirements of the state then goodbye what he's adamant he won't quit his new role as prime minister so he seems legacy as president poses several challenges i mean here has struggled economically for two decades and despite actually dependent on russia the official unemployment rate is at nearly twenty percent with a third of the population living below the poverty line and the main industries are in the hands of the business elite including the prime minister on top of all this the borders with azerbaijan and turkey remain closed and there is little movement in normalising obvious relations with its neighbors so anybody ever al-jazeera. we can now speak to robin forestay a walker who is in the capital yerevan and robin we've been speaking about damage. strange tense between riot police and protesters today what is happening when you won now. well right now we've got thousands of think it's republic square that's the main square. an

this passing strange that our parliamentary democracy wants to bypass parliament and go to war or only twenty two percent of british people of darfur were in favor of getting involved in the war in syria and if you look at the data beneath. a very significant sector of conservative opinion was very unsure indeed saw it maybe she did about substantial defections from her own side no war in history will have to start with so little support not even a quarter of the population supporting it before a shot is fired just to remind you in the early hours of saturday morning the u.s. the u.k. and france carried out joint strikes against the syrian government the three allies say the operation was launched in response to an alleged chemical attack in the city of duma a week earlier although many western governments have blamed assad's military for that assault no clear evidence of that has been put forward. one of the targets of the u.s. led attack was a research facility near damascus the syrian government says it was a civilian object we spoke to a technician who worked day who said that the

lack of parliamentary approval for these focus on the lack of parliamentary approvalfor these are focusthere is no constitutional or legal obligation on mrs may, nevertheless, there is significant political pressure and political precedents to hold a boat. interestingly, mrs may foley is signalling she is not minded to hold a retrospective boat when she addresses mps on monday. that too will be a subject of controversy. lastly, i think there will be controversy lastly, i think there will be co ntrove i’sy over lastly, i think there will be controversy over how far this strike has exceeded in its central objective of the terry resident assad ‘s, because it has been a very limited strike. —— deterrent president assad. a number of missiles being shot down by the syrians which might have further limited scope. there is a question about how much impact it might actually have hand. a number of significant little? surrounding last my‘s attacks. significant little? surrounding last my's attacks. -- significant questions surrounding last night's attacks. thank you forjoining us from number ten d

generally, it is in parliamentary countries, and, i think i generally, it is in parliamentary countriesby hillary during the campaign, says she is the one who first budget in my head, but her thought was because ina my head, but her thought was because in a parliamentary system, it is easierfor women to get in a parliamentary system, it is easier for women to get their collea g u es easier for women to get their colleagues to support them, not unlike she did when she was in the united states senate, and the leader is selected from irrelevant to be small group of people. say able to be more convincing to get people to support her. when you take that to be mass scale of united states elected, it gets harder. you'd write in the book about a double bind that women are in. when we behave in women are in. when we behave in women we are discredited, when we behave as men, we are seen as inauthentic, so how is a woman to break through that problem?” inauthentic, so how is a woman to break through that problem? i think the encouraging news, though, is hillary did prove that a woman could do it.

it is very ha rd to parliamentary approval.o see how he would ever support military action in these circumstances. the question, of course, for the labour party more broadly, dozens decided in 2013 that they would vote for military action. have they changed their mind? would they go along with it if it came to it? the other point is parliament is not sitting at the moment. they are back on monday. it is difficult for theresa may to say to donald trump, anger on, i need approvalfrom parliament. after this afternoon, and the cabinet meeting, we will see which way she decides to go. after the cabinet meeting, you mentioned the cabinet meeting, you mentioned the precautionary voices there are against military action, will some of the voices sit around the cabinet table for the conservatives?m of the voices sit around the cabinet table for the conservatives? it is fascinating, the brexit secretary david davis voted against military action last time around. he has taken to twitter today and is saying that he has changed his mind. the

he refers to the parliamentary position.he decision to act was taken on the basis that, first of all, obviously an effort was made in the united nations security council to put forward a resolution and to get that passed, that would have enabled investigation and accountability for these kept cam -- chemical weapons to be determined. that was vetoed by the russians so it was not possible to follow that diplomatic the route and the timing was such that it enabled proper planning to take place so this was a targeted and effective set of strikes. that it was done in a timely fashion and also that it maintained the operational security of our armed forces. and any prime minister who commits any of our armed forces into action of this sort must have a care for their safety and security in doing so. i can also refer my right--- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> all of th

turkey will have presidential and parliamentary elections much allium on june the twenty fourth initially the vote was shadowed for november next year the polls will be held under a state of emergency it's going to be the first election since a vote to switch to a presidential system. ok let's return to our top story those talks between donald trump and kim jong un. is an international lawyer and a professor at harvard law school he says there's a risk the meeting won't go as planned because of the unpredictability of the two leaders. that is certainly a glaring handicap on the u.s. side that there is a lack of expertise but other than the lack of expertise i think that there is a lack of diversion views since we do not understand north korea objectively and what their hot points may be we need to hear various viewpoints and i'm not too sure that we have gotten a fool view of alternatives so that we can be flexible given the predictability of. president kim and as well as president trump i think that there is a risk of going during of course but i think they have said that they are open t

has announced they'll be early presidential and parliamentary elections on june the twenty fourth a vote was supposed to take place in two thousand and nineteen constitutional changes were passed last year in the referendum allowing turkey to switch from a parliamentary to presidential system. manages the turkey project chatham house a think tank in the u.k. he says public perception of the decision could decide the outcome of the election . this is the first time that the ruling party since assuming power in two thousand and two if it's the first time that they have gone for voluntarily and actively for an early election usually they they prefer they were against any early elections as a sign of weakness so given the worsening state of the turkish economy at the government twenty or the present and the ruling party went for an early elections i think that in all like at least at this stage the likelihood is that the ruling party will maintain its majority in the parliament and. should will probably win the presidential elections however the key question is how will the voters perceive t

commercial and investment issues and the major coordinating role of course is played by the into parliamentary committees on both sides. we have very much that. we will see continual growth as we have over the last year in economic. performance on both sides as the president has just said russia has become the third main importer for the turkish. republic after china. and.

with you, i can still carry out a real parliamentary debate.t was my favorite exercise as a minister. reporter: but it will not be a mere exercise for long. macron wants to speed up the stalled eu reform process. a return to ideals is no solution. instead, europe can be sovereign while soldiering its own responsibility. >> i do not want to belong to a generation of sleepwalkers. i want to be part of a generation that stands firm in its decision to defend democracy. reporter: macron's backers are eager to engage with other europeans and to hear their hopes and fears. the en marche party wants to reach out to people across the continent in the run-up to european parliamentary elections next year. >> we need to be together to speak about europe directly to people. >> we want to meet citizens in the european union and everywhere to rebuild europe. reporter: but macron's impetus has run into resistance. conservatives in berlin and strasbourg disapprove of his main objective -- a reform ed eurozone with a separate budget and monetary fund, much to th

mr viktor orban feeder she is seeking a third consecutive term in office and polls ahead of the parliamentary election suggest it is right when party would retain its two thirds majority preliminary results are expected in a few hours time. the top and has been in power since two thousand and ten and previously served as prime minister in one thousand nine hundred eight in two thousand and two is hardline stance on the e.u. and immigration has created friction within the bloc hungry oppose the e.u.'s refugee resettlement scheme. of mr ation has also passed a number of controversial laws and the political expert told us a win in sunday's elections is unlikely to ease tensions with brussels. if viktor orban in the future succeeds at the election it means it's going to probably continue dear immigration agenda and we're going to continue dear conflicts we are european union of course because a sexist means and impoverishment by the waters so there's going to be probably more coffee to the european union but it could be also happened it's going to be a symptom for european leaders and the try to

iam without a prior parliamentary vote. i am pretty clear about that.m westminster. from london, let's go straightaway to the syrian capital. we're joined now by dr bassam abu abdallah, a professor of international relations and an advisor to the syrian ministry of information. thank you forjoining us. and may i ask you, what is the syrian government position right now on what happened in eastern ghouta a week or so ago? is it the government position that there was some sort of chemical weapons attack? thank you very much for having me on your programme. it's a very good opportunity express from damascus what's going on and what is our opinion generally. i think damascus in full cooperation with the opcw organisation, which is responsible for relational investigations. first of all, the government and the minister has declared many times, we did not use and we did not use any kind of chemical weapons because we do not have these kind of chemical weapons after 2013. everyone knows that wejoin the weapons after 2013. everyone knows that we join the intern

we have to be consulted because we live in a parliamentary democracy. really get the feel for that because i know as much as the next person, and surely as mp5 we should be given that privilege and it is right to know that. i'm sure those articles will be continuing all afternoon in parliament. thank you. the organisers of the next commonwealth games in birmingham say they're certain the event will help to boost the city's prospects. but traders on australia's gold coast have warned that the games were bad for business and turned customers away. the 11 days of competition drew to a close with yesterday's closing ceremony — from the gold coast, hywel griffith reports. being the host city brings the promise of gold — medals for the athletes, lots of money for the local economy. but some on the gold coast have been left feeling short—changed by these games. i've been here 22 years. the worst i've seen in 22 years. it's impacted almost a month and a half of trade, and we are all down at least 50%. when they planned the commonwealth games, the organisers war

peers backed an amendment restricting the power of ministers to change laws without full parliamentary scrutiny. the government had already suffered five heavy defeats at the hands of the lords over the european union bill, which transfers eu law into uk legislation. regulations can do anything, including of course wholesale amendment or repeal of statutes that have been passed through the exacting process of primary legislation. whichever side of the brexit argument they stand, people might believe that taking back control would be under the sovereignty of parliament. ministers are answerable for all they do to parliament, and not responsible for all that they do to parliament and they should not be able to decide what is appropriate and what is not. we are saying they can be used, but the government would note that we need the flexibility that, if it's appropriate to tidy things up, well who is taking this decision of it being appropriate? it may be theresa may?

he also did not declare to the parliamentary authorities.apologised for failing to declare to the parliamentary authorities. downing street says it has confidence in mr hunt. they put out a statement saying he has apologised... but as you say, still potential problems with companies house and presumably parliament as well. yes, exactly, the committee of standards could look at it. the former chairman of the committee saying it's a double standard here, that if the conservative government brought in the legislation he is now... he should be held to the highest values asa should be held to the highest values as a minister. finally, as they say, i don't know whether this is happy news or not, rachel, on the front of the guardian. and that is about drink. yeah. not happy news if you drink. yeah. not happy news if you drink. it shortens your life. although the headline might not be ...ifelt although the headline might not be ifelt bad, matching although the headline might not be i felt bad, matching the story, iimagine i felt bad, matching the st

paunchy won just on the hof the vote based on preliminary results has given him two serves of parliamentary seats. about a first we are not satisfied with the results of the election and we want to demonstrate that the forty nine percent is not two thirds made fifty or more that. there are calls for a recount a new election even new electoral rules but among the tens of thousands who took to the streets of budapest there was frustration at the disunity among the opposition parties to what it could be obvious that the opposition are pathetic. basically said you know it's terrible they're so weak on able to reach a compromise and they kill each other instead of joining forces for us. this protest was one of the largest hungary has seen for several years but even if the outside world is listening it would take much more to change the politics inside. ricardo of red bull has won the chinese gone pray in shanghai and has started fixed on the grid but stormed ahead in the final twenty laps to win by almost nine seconds almost an eternity in formula one racing good enough to beat a second place va