president of the alliance of liberals and democrats for europe she's a member of several parliamentary committees including civil liberties. dominic is a member of the polish parliament for the ruling law and justice party he sits on the foreign and e.u. affairs committee's journal line and has been a member of the european parliament for twenty years with a progressive alliance of socialists and democrats and is well known for his support for a federal europe max cry is vice chairman of the f.t. the i'll tell it evil for die client in the german state of saxony and number three in the party's federal list for the european elections that's our panel. before we take questions from our invited audience including members of civil society groups i'm going to ask each of our politicians to set out very briefly the kind of european future they'd like to see trophy and so can i ask you to start us off thirty minutes thank you very much and good evening everybody. we are living in a world of triumph china that's becoming stronger political global actor a world where we see big forces like facebook while

skipped a meeting today hosted by the parliament so lawmakers instead rare open end before parliamentary committee. they were supse talking about protecting privacy. >>> hold onto your phone or it could being gone in a couple of seconds. there's an increased number of grab and go thefts like this one captured on b.a.r.t. security camera. officers fanned out from the embarcadero station handle out pamphlets titled protect your tone. >> people watching movies on their laptops, ipads or just talking on their phones, and they're waiting for the doors to open and they grab it and runoff the train. >> in april alone b.a.r.t. says thieves stole 100 electronic devices. officers will continue their campaign through the week. >>> and it'll be back to the bargaining table tomorrow after no deal today for teachers in union city and hayward. this week two of the strikes, teachers were asking for a 10% raise over the next but they've compromised. they're asking for a 7% raise. the district is sticking to its one time 3% bonus and a 2% next year. >>> a fence he replaced a chain-link fence near his property with

president of the alliance of liberals and democrats for europe she's a member of several parliamentary committees including civil liberties. dominic touchin ski was a member of the polish parliament for the ruling law and justice party he sits on the foreign and e.u. affairs committees joel leinen has been a member of the european parliament for twenty years with a progressive alliance of socialists and democrats and is well known for his support for a federal europe max prize vice chairman of the f.t. the i'll tell it even if advice lands in the german state of saxony and number three in the party's federal list for the european elections that's our panel. before we take questions from our invited audience including members of civil society groups i'm going to ask each of our politicians to set out very briefly the kind of european future they'd like to see sophie and can i ask you to start us off one minute thank you very much and good evening everybody. we are living in a world of trump china that's becoming stronger political global actor a world where we see big forces like facebook while wa

[inaudible conversations] >> also on wednesday, members of a parliamentary committee questioned prime minister may on the state of the brexit negotiations. the european council recently agreed to a extension. parliament has not been able to agree on a way forward. this portion of the hearing is about 35 minutes. we will leave at the end of the month. it is important. i want that to happen before the october deadline. once consensus is reached, members should look to pass necessary legislation and end the uncertainty. we have been making concerted efforts to build on that consensus. with discussions on workers rights. the role of parliament. we also try to ratify the withdrawal agreement, which the house chose not to do. the agreed that the right thing press to do was to reach out to the opposition. i think that was unprecedented. but it was the right thing to do. the public wanted to see us working together to deliver the results of the referendum. there are differences on issues. and i many of the key areas. we note that we need to and this uncertainty and do it as soon as possible.

heard from government posse members for example in these schmidt who's a spokesperson of the parliamentary committee on foreign relations who has been saying that these allegations have been deeply troubling. bilateral relations between turkey and germany were already tense this clearly this is don't go to help masses. now it's lost because no one of the claims or the demands that have been made by parliamentary members today was that germany should urge the european union to stock the accession talks that it currently has still perform on going on with turkey though what has to be said is that these accession talks for turkey to potentially at one point to become a member of the european union have been already symbolically been put on hold by the european parliament now the european parliament itself couldn't stop this process per se but it held a vote earlier this year way it said it wants to symbolically stop these accession talks the question is these of course allegations that are currently only referring to german. citizens who are held in turkish prisons as for example 10 is a gels but there

from government posse members the for example in these smith who's a spokesperson of the parliamentary committee on foreign relations who has been saying that these allegations have been deeply troubling bilateral relations between turkey and germany were already tense this clearly this is not going to help us. no it's lost because on the one of the claims or the demands it has been made by paul the entry members today was that germany should urge the european union to stop the accession talks that it currently has still perform on going on with turkey though what has to be said is that these accession talks for turkey to potentially at one point to become a member of the european union have been already symbolically been put on hold by the european parliament now the european parliament itself couldn't stop this process per se but it held a vote earlier this year where it said it wants to symbolically stop these accession talks the question is these are of course allegations that are currently only referring to german. citizens who are held in turkish prisons as for example ten is a gels but th

the problem is that mark zuckerberg and another have not turned up to a parliamentary committee and ashe border they would be summoned. they would be forced onto the committee to discuss it. that is a story we shall watch. thank you for coming into the studio, laura. more business news throughout the day. hello, you may have heard it will turn very worn by this weekend. temperatures gradually rising throughout the rest of this week. today could be fairly cool again, particularly across western areas, where there are increasing amounts of cloud and rain moving eastwards. you can see this warm front that is providing the rain as it moves east but a south—westerly wind means across northern and eastern parts of england and across northern scotland, while there will be sunshine into the afternoon, it should be warmer on the coastal areas. further west, the rain moving through northern ireland, south—west scotla nd through northern ireland, south—west scotland and north—west england, certainly in wales, and central parts but the wind coming from a south—westerly direction and so temperature

[inaudible conversations] >> also on wednesday, members of a parliamentary committee questioned prime minister may on the state of the brexit negotiations.

these are parliamentary committees on environment. we had ireland, we had the environmental protection agency been w-- we had delegation from france. they published that incredibly depressing report about million species going extinct. the french delegation is here to talk about biodiversity. the city of zurich was here talk about their incredible energy initiatives that they've done. on and on, it's been a very busy six weeks. reminder of how much that we do in san francisco doesn't stay in san francisco and how curious the rest of the world is about learning from us. you want to call out that we not only give out money but we apply for money and the zero waste program received a $500,000 grant from cal recycle to do a big initiative on food waste prevention. that is going to be using interesting new tools we'll be contracting with ngos to accelerate. our food waste. as you may remember, one of the big commitments that came out of the climate action, the governor's climate action summit was to reduce our generation 15%. we're very mu

after that, the prime minister talks with parliamentary committee members about brexit. ♪ brian: amityhlaes, why do we spend so much time in this country and on our network and in your life talking about presidents? amity: thank you, brian. i am glad to be with you and with harold. we talk about presidents because people understand people better than ideas, and we eventually went to get to ideas, but we get at those ideas through people, our presidents. ia

after that, theresa may appears before parliamentary committee on brexit. former attorney general alberto gonzales talks about the mueller report and it handling by william barr and the white house. ♪ ♪ why do wety shlaes, spend so much time in this country and on our network and in your life talking about presidents? amity: thank you, brian. i am glad to be with you and with harold. we talk about presidents because people understand people better than ideas, and we eventually went to get to ideas, but we get at those ideas through people, our presidents. brian: dr. holzer, as i'm wont to call you, even though you are not a doctor. [laughter] harold: thank you for that mixed introduction. [laughter] thank you for having me on the show, and welcome to franklin roosevelt's home, from which we are broadcasting tonight. amity has it right. i also think we were blessed to have a first president who was a national hero before he became president, and was a touchstone and an icon, and created a presidency based both on personality and ideas, but in large measure p

they can be compelled to appear before a parliamentary committee. they were supposed to talk about safeguarding privacy. facebook sent two senior executives instead, but that did not satisfy lawmakers there. >>> contra costa congressman is hosting a town hall. it begins in about 20 minutes at 6:30 in the shade lands art center in walnut creek. >>> an odd story in san francisco. it's all about that fence right there. property owners along a park are being told to tear down that new fence bit end of this week. the land they fenced in isn't theres. mark matthews is in bernal heights for us with the details. mark? >> reporter: you know, raj, they say good fences make good neighbors. this is a perfectly fine redwood fence, well-built. let me show you what's wrong with it, though. it is sitting on city property. you see all this land here, those trees, every bit of it up to the wall of that house is part of the bernal highs park. mark sabatino bought this house 22 years ago. >> we went to the city and asked if we could purchase the land. they said no, we'

mp hilary benn who is chair of the parliamentary brexit committeejoins us chair of the parliamentary brexit committeerom westminster. good evening. when you be voting for this? no, because what the prime minister has offered has either been put forward before but crucially on the customs issue, she has not offered a permanent customs union, she has said we can stay in this arrangement until the next general election which is in the spring of 2022. we will stay in the customs union anyway under the transition agreement until in all probability december of that year because that is what the transitional period is. but on the crucial question of a confirmatory referendum, we do not need the prime minister to give her permission or a bill to have the vote but we need her to commit to supporting a confirmatory referendum because we made a generous offer some time ago to say we do not like your deal, we have voted it down three times but we are prepared to enable you to put it to the british people if you will commit to holding a confirmatory referendum in which the choice is the deal negotiated for leavin

president of the alliance of liberals and democrats for europe she's a member of several parliamentary committees including civil liberties dominic touchin scheme is a member of the polish parliament for the ruling law and justice party he sits on the foreign and e.u. affairs committee's journal and has been a member of the european parliament for twenty years with a progressive alliance of socialists and democrats and is well known for his support for a federal europe max crys vice chairman of the f.t. the ultimate evil for dyche lands in the german state of saxony and number three in the party's federal list for the european elections that's a panel. before we take questions from our invited audience including members of civil society groups i'm going to ask each of our politicians to set out very briefly the kind of european future they'd like to see for himself can i ask you to start us off one minute thank you very much and good evening everybody. we are living in a world of triumph china that's becoming stronger political global actor a world where we see big forces like facebook while way

you have been calling for thejeremy kyle show to be asked and now it is, we also have a parliamentary committeeinto the duty of care, and also into the question of whether participants are pressed to exhibit more extreme forms of behaviour, given all of that are you satisfied and is it enough? yesterday i said they would ask that show and they did, it had no shot twice but to, they have a really big problem to deal with. itv talked about the care and mental health ca re assessment about the care and mental health care assessment get to the competitors, before they went on the show or the gas before they went on the show, there was a psychologist and three mental health nurse is available. my concern is that the psychologist and mental health nurses were not looking for strong character is a robust is because it does bite —— type of people do not make a television. it does bite —— type of people do not make a television. they were looking for people of character weaknesses, people of character weaknesses, people of character weaknesses, people of explode and the really interesting thing will be

we've also heard from governing party members for a session for the head of the parliamentary foreign relations committee to say that these allegations are deeply troubling as i quote and that they want to see consequences no relations between turkey and germany or already two million of those won't help things will it. well it's thirty one hell things but the question is what consequences can the german government implemented and what will these consequences actually. make happen so one of the requests that was put forward today is that germany should put in the votes to stop the accession talks between turkey and the european union but that request is questionable because what has already happened is that the european parliament has put in a symbolic actually not very effective while it's on stopping the accession talks with turkey the european parliament cannot decide that the but it's already been a sign that the european union doesn't want to go any further with having these kind of relations with turkey but at the other side this is something that even turkey doesn't seem to want anymore that hasn'

it comes ahead of a parliamentary committee hearing set up to examine the long term resilience of theext 12 months. a lot of services of those branches used to provide have now gone on line said to give you for an example, that made about £1000 a monthjust for each example, that made about £1000 a month just for each individual post office. now we do it on line, they make about 70 quid from it. it's been a huge difference. making up that loss of revenues. government funding for these branches has fallen sharply by £477 million. there is a big disparity in what they are doing. the questions about their future and the people who use them, really worrying. it's really important to lots of people. he's one of the biggest names in showbiz, and is recognised around the world for his heartfelt lyrics and flamboyant style. now, sir eltonjohn's life is getting the hollywood treatment, with a new biopic starring taron edgerton and richard madden. they spoke to breakfast‘s graham satchell, in their first uk tv interview, ahead of the premier in london tonight. # and i think it's going to be a lo

committee. >> parliamentary inquiry, mr. chairman savel) >> the gentleman apended until recognized!parliamentary inquiry... >> we cannot have people shouting over each other. >> woodruff: they voted on the format for their own hearing with the attorney general tomorrow, approving extra time and giving committee lawyers the green light to pose their own questions. barr previously raised objections to these changes-- objections that the committee chair, democrat jerry nadler of new york, dismissed.w >> i don't knowhat he is afraid of from questioning by staff counsel. >> woodruff: repeatedly, republicans, including wisconsin's jim sensenbrenner, suggested democrats had other motivations. >> side, you're trying to use the procedures of an impeachment committee doing oversight. >> woodruff: they also clashed over special counsel mueller's march 27 letter to barr: skmaryland democrat jaime >> this is a pattern of outrageous obstructionisththat continueobstructionism contained in the report, and w druff: meanwhile, the republican ranking member, doug collins of georgia, suggested the alar

president of the alliance of liberals and democrats for europe she's a member of several parliamentary committees including civil liberties. dominic was a member of the polish parliament for the ruling law and justice party he sits on the foreign and e.u. affairs committees john lennon has been a member of the european parliament for twenty years with a progressive alliance of socialists and democrats and is well known for his support for a federal europe max crys vice chairman of the f.t. the i'll tell it evil third license and the german state of saxony and number three in the party's federal list for the european elections that's our panel. before we take questions from our invited audience including members of civil society groups i'm going to ask each of our politicians to set out to very briefly because of european future they'd like to see sophie and so can i ask you to start us off on a minute thank you very much and good evening everybody. we are living in a world of triumph china that's becoming stronger political global actor a world where we see big forces like facebook while way appl

if the majority wants to run a committee in which minority's rights do not matter, parliamentary procedure does not matter, we saw it on full display yesterday, it will not continue. we will continue this exercise and we will exercise what we have as minority, which is the minority right to ask questions, to make motions, because at the end of the day, unless we have forgotten, mr. chairman, you have more votes than we do. you will get what you want. like you sat on this side and we sat on that side and spent hours talking about what you wanted to talk about and chairman goodlatte let you and the question that bothered me yesterday, we have to get on to another bill. timing does not trump minority rights. and no member and freshman members or anybody else here for the first time, that's not how this committee works. if you don't believe me, ask chairman sensenbrenner, three times as chairman and he lay laid it out clearly. when we do gate members of my side calling ms. lesko's amendment ridiculous, that is just wrong and should offend everybody on this dais. the tragedy of the day is not t

do that type of cross—party working than the more adversarial environments of select committees or the parliamentaryt will allow the sport to flourish, the participation to continue to improve, the benefits to the economy to be realised and for the recognition that women's involvement in snooker is improving and developing and something that we should be supporting. the group's chairman says that like many appgs, this one has a specific aim. there is an exercise element, there is a social element in playing the game, there is a mental stimulation in the calculation of the numbers or the different computations of potting balls. there are enormous benefits for snooker, and it's one of the great participatory sports. and all we want is a recognition from government and from those governing bodies that this is a sport. and snooker gets a voice at westminster. it's an official public body, so it's an all party, so it's cross—party support, all party parliamentary group, and really that is in support of snooker. so, it's really about... it's a communication channel, it's an opportunity for us to get our m

was saddam's brady who is the foreman off the all menace backbencher 1922 committee that really holds the power in the parliamentary conservative party and obviously that was some dealing going on to reason may got this last reprieve but then she's going to be gone after the 1st weekend in june and alex to you in the studio why now she tried 3 times to get briggs it through 4th time got cancelled why yeah i mean. just picking up on what bob or was saying about that important 922 committee that committee of conservative bench m.p.'s many of whom have been calling for her to go a one of the the leaders of that committee has tweeted a thank you to recent 911 conservative m.p. thank you to reason right decision to allow a new leader to take us to a new bricks into arrangement without handing them a toxic baton of the withdrawal arrangement bill time to refresh the paunchy a move on to deliver a focus on britain's future and that is why because earlier this week she had wanted even today to be able to put upon them and deal the withdrawal. bill however it helps set so many m.p.'s in her own party because it was a sop to

if the majority wants to run a committee in which minority rights do not matter, parliamentary procedure does not matter, we saw it on full display yesterday, it will not continue. we will continue this exercise. and we will exercise what we have as minority which is the minority rights to ask questions, to make motions. at the end of the day, unless we have forgotten, you have more votes than we did. you will get what you want. just like we sat on this side and you sat on this side and got to spend hours talking about whatever you wanted to talk about while chairman let you do it, and all you wanted to -- and the question that bothered me the most is we got time. timing does not trump minority rights. there is not a member that should say it is not. freshman members, that's not how this committee works. if you don't believe me ask chairman, three times was chairman of this committee and laid it out clearly yesterday. when we degregate members on my side, calling the amendment lidick unless, calling ours dilatory, that's just wrong and should dais. mr. chairman, this is wrong. th the tra

if the majority wants to run a committee in which minority rights do not matter, parliamentary procedure does not matter, we saw it on full display yesterday. it will not continue. we will continue this exercise and we will exercise what we have as minority, which is the minority rights to ask questions. to make motions. because at the end of the day, unless we've forgotten from mr. chairman, you've got more votes than we do. you will get what you want. just like we sat on this side and you sat on this side and got to spend hours talking about whatever you wanted to talk about while chairman goodlatte sat there and let you do it. all you want to -- the question that bothered me the most yesterday is we got time, we got to get on to another bill. timing does not trump minority rights. freshmen members or anybody else, that's not how this committee works. if you don't believe me, ask chairman for three times, three times was chairman of this committee and he laid it out clearly yesterday. but when we deg ra deg ra date members of my said calling ms. lesko's amendment ridiculous. calling ou

another would be, they say, we want a different setting and the parliamentary positions when it comes to the presidency, the committee chairs, the procedures. >> one quick question on voter turnout. over 50%, the highest in over 20 years. does it tell you people are interested in europe again? >> i think people understand that the eu is not a concrete block. it needs the support of itits citizens. more people have gone to the elections then have done over the past elections. that is a good sign. >> thanks for sharing your insights with us. austria chancellor sebastian kurz and his government have been ousted after opposition parties joined forces in a vote of no-confidence. it was a spectacular reverse for a leader who last night, was celebrating victory for his party in the european elections. austria's president confirmed he helped to have an interim government in place within a week. >>s ebastian kurz after losing a historic no-confidence vote. he is now the shortest serving head of government. he wasted no time and lashing out at his former coalition partners. >> in recent days, we've heard only one thing for the

if the majority wants to run a committee in which minority rights do not matter, parliamentary procedure does not matter, we saw it on full display yesterday. it will not continue, we will continue this exercise and we will exercise what we have as minority which is the minority rights to ask questions, to make motions. because at the end of the day unless we've forgotten, mr. chairman, you've got more votes than we do. you will get what you want. but just like we sat on this side and you sat on this side and got to spend hours talking about whatever you wanted to talk about while chairman goodlatte sat there and let you do it, and all you want -- and the question that bothered me the most yesterday was we've got time, we have to get on to another bill. timing does not trump minority rights and there is not a member on this dais that should say it's not. and freshman members or anybody else who is here for the first time, that's not how this committee works. if you don't believe me, ask the prior chairman three times was chairman of this committee and he laid it out clearly yesterday. wh

if the majority wants to run a committee in which minority rights do not matter, parliamentary procedure does not matter, we saw it on full display yesterday. it will not continue. we will continue this exercise and we will exercise what we have as minority which is the minority rights to ask questions, to make motions. because at the end of the day, unless we've forgotten, mr. chairman, you will get what you want. you will more votes. but just like you got to spend hours talking about whatever you wanted to talk about while chairman goodlatt sat there and let you do it. and all you want to do -- and the question that bothered me the most, we got time, we have to get on to another bill. timing does not trump minority rights and there is not a member that should say it is not. and freshmen members or anybody else here for the first time that is not how this committee works. if you don't believe me, ask chairman sensenbrenner. three times was chairman of this committee and he laid it out clearly yesterday. but when we did he go agrgra ga members of my side causing the amendment ridiculous,

that they say well we want a different setting in the in the parliamentary positions when it comes to the presidency when it comes to the committeechairs when it comes to the procedures one quick question on voter turnout over 50 percent the highest in around 20 years what does that tell us people are interested in europe again i think people have understood that the e.u. is not a concrete block it can fall apart and that it's actually something that needs to support of its citizens and so more people have gone to the elections than have done over the past elections and that's a good sign right yes of getting from the european council on foreign relations thanks for sharing your insights with us pleasure. now austrian chancellor sebastian courts and his government have been ousted after opposition parties joined forces in a vote of no confidence the motion was backed by lawmakers from the far right freedom party who are in coalition with quartz until last week it was a spectacular reverse for a leader who only last night was celebrating victory for his party in the european elections. that sebastian cortes shortly after losing a

brady will play well with the ballot of mps because he was the chair of the 1922 committee so he knows his parliamentarymessage to ordinary party members who aren't that interested in the shenanigans of the party. it's going to be fascinating. the biggest leadership contest in political history, i think. here's louise with a look at this morning's weather. i found ifound a i found a little glimpse of sunshine along the south coast this morning. it doesn't look as though the we will start to see deterioration in the weather over the next few hours —— does look. moving out of northern ireland, the rain goes into north—west england and wales, it will fragment and we can enter band of light showers as it pushes its way south and east. probably arriving into the midlands by lunchtime. one or two isolated showers by the middle of the afternoon, behind, there should be some brightness with brightness and coming through. the far north of scotla nd coming through. the far north of scotland stays breezy and wait for much of the day. 9—11d, the high here, we could see height values of 21 celsius any south—east cor

constituency on thursday as britain votes in the parliamentary elections and then on friday we're told to be meeting brady influential chairman of the $122.00 committee that's the conservative party committee of backbench m.p.'s it sort he will lay out for her just how little support she has just how perilous her position has become a prime minister now with both cabinet and her own m.p.'s gunning against her cabinet members wanting her to pull the vote all together into her deal a 4th vote for the 1st week of june there are happy about concessions she's made but they say went beyond any agr.

parliamentary inquiry. >> my inquiry is it appropriate or is the committee permitted to vote on an amendment, which as far as i can tell offer as legal opinion, but doesn't modify the contents of the contempt resolution. >> it's not a proper parliamentary inquiry. >> okay. >> the gentleman yield back? >> yeah, i yield back. >> i recognize myself for five minutes in opposition to the amendment. the amendment does two things. it says that my correspondence does not identify any legal basis to compel the department to request, does not identify any legal basis to compel the department to request a federal court order. quite correct. it doesn't identify any legal basis to compel the department. because we don't ask the department be compelled to request a federal court order, it has nothing to do with anything. it's completely irrelevant. the second part says that the correspondence does not account to the recent d.c. court decision in mckeever ver us barr, which holds that the mckeever decision does say that, it recognizes that various exceptions, to enable federal courts to release 6 e information, includin

parliamentary inquiry. i seek recognition. mr. nadler: adoption of the entire report and underlying materials. we will not hear from the attorney general today but the committee will obtain the information it needs to conduct its constitutional oversight and legislative responsibility. we will defend the prerogatives of congress and the rights of the american people to know what's going on. we will defend the constitutional scheme of equal and coordinate branches of government. we will make sure that no president becomes a monarch. we need the information without delay. mr. gaetz: mr. chairman. mr. collins: and will do so with trampling of minority rights. mr. gaetz: there is not going to be a recognition of members who seek legitimate inquiry into the procedures -- [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org >> following the hearing, house members spoke to reporters reacting to attorney general arr's absence. >> mr. cicilline: david cicilline from rhode island. we just

parliament has asked the committee can “— parliament has asked the committee can —— to consider whether nigel farage broke parliamentaryt's get the latest on this from our deputy political editor. what more can you tell us? today nigel farage had been courting criticism and comments about his own personal financial support and donations to his party, all smears and collusion but we now see a new front open up, help worth hundreds and thousands of pounds from the millionaire leave campaigner arron banks, that is being looked out by a discipline and conduct committee of the european parliament. —— looked at. mr faraj says this was simply personal support but he wanted to leave politics to put it all behind after the referendum —— mr farage. if this committee advises the president of the parliament there was a breach of the parliament there was a breach of the rules, sanctions could apply such as a reprimand at the lower end, rising to the removal of privileges and other sanctions. they will decide that probably at the beginning of next month. meanwhile the electoral commission have been into the brexit party headquarters