it is a threat to the parliamentary democracy.some very important points about our parliamentary democracy. but i do find it deeply disappointing that the opposition are trying to make something of what is absolutely normal —— and absolutely normal situation following a general election. the government was getting on with business at pace, she said. what i am left to conclude is that this is just gameplaying. let me refer back to what the prime minister said on the anniversary of her leadership of this country. she asked, she asked, the honourable lady is clear enough listening, she has other things to talk about, but she asked all members to come together in the interests of our country, to give oui’ interests of our country, to give our ideas, their input and their support, as we seek to fulfil the democratic will of the people in this country, to leaving the eu. and what did the opposition do? they ridiculed it. they are absolutely reject the concept of working together in the interests of our country. well, 13 million people v

these, to me, mr speaker, seem to be perfect examples of our parliamentary democracy working well. this party, has done far more for parliamentary supremacy than the opposition has. so far, over 10 million people have signed various petitions. the government has formally responded to 264 petitions, and 20 petitions have been scheduled for debate. the government has also responded to a 162 urgent questions in this house since 2015 alone. mr speaker, this urgent debate is the result of party politics at its worst. nearly 13 million people voted for the party opposite to come to this place and represent them. i don't believe they were voting for petty time—wasting by labour. one of the pledges in the conservatives‘ election manifesto was to give parliament a free vote on whether to revive fox—hunting. the government has said it isn't planning to hold a vote during this parliamentary session, which is due to last for two years. it's an issue that still rouses a few passions. obviously the message is beginning to seep through that theresa may's support for hunting with hounds was massive

taking him to court to court is the right way to deal with an issue like this we live in a parliamentary democracy i'd like to see it dealt with politically i think the end result will be that we'll have to say if tony blair was to be dealt with as he should be dealt with it would have to be by parliament and that means impeachment and that's not going to happen i'm afraid we'll be back in a couple of minutes. every the world experience. and you'll get it out of the old the old. according to just. come along for the. income inequality wage stagnation gerrymandering of political districts polarization you know the lack of effectiveness in congress there are these are well documented trends going back decades and now they're really cute ten minute fast to the point where people describe their system as sees the rouses. welcome back to the program the two days before the g twenty summit begins in hamburg it seems when leaders are going to get the warmest of welcomes the host city has been involved in protests. i. i. least dispersing the crowd clearly pointed out in riots happen spray and water cannon

taking him to court to court is the right way to deal with an issue like this we live in a parliamentary democracy i'd like to see it don't win politically it has been going on and on and on and there have been no decisions and this decision is still being reviewed so. what is the didn't lay one why is it dragging on. well i suppose the lawyers are trying to make an new case for a new type of action a lot of money in it for them i don't begrudge the lawyers their money but i don't think they're going to produce a result i think the the end result will be that we'll have to say if tony blair was to be dealt with as he should be dealt with it would have to be by parliament and that means impeachment and that's not going to happen i'm afraid. thing is you know if we look at last year there were polls that u.k. soldiers they could face prosecution you've already said you know expecting anything positive or indeed negative to come out of this or anything at all but there were reports saying that u.k. soldiers could face prosecution over the iraq war yet for now. remain he retains his immunity all the d

taking him to court to court is the right way to deal with an issue like this we live in a parliamentary democracy i'd like to see it don't with politically but i think the end result will be that we'll have to say if tony blair was to be dealt with as he should be dealt with it would have to be by parliament and that means impeachment i imagine we're going to happen i'm afraid. the russian defense ministry is that is taken out a number of i saw positions in syria as they made ongoing syria peace talks in the kazakh capital austan or his r.t.s. were mankinds or. so if ninety five and strategic bombers draw brang strategic cruise missiles on the border or hama and holmes provinces in syria and they fired those strikes at a distance all one thousand kilometers destroying three weapons and ammunition stockpiles as well as one command center now those high precision missiles are capable of being fired from a range all forty five hundred kilometers and according to russia's objective control they did their job very effectively now this is all happening on the back all of the peace talks were just concl

a foundation of british history and british law and the british conception of democracy, parliamentary democracyby terrorism we feel we are attacked as well. the attack in westminster bridge, the cruel assault on young children in the manchester arena and they attack at london bridge and the borough market, these were felt by this chilean people as keenly as the attacks we have suffered at home in astoria. —— the australian people. we stand shoulder to shoulder as we always have in freedom scores today to find and deplete the islamist terrorists that seek to do us harm and destroy our way of life and prevent us from living our way of life to living as we were sad. darren at the london bridge and the borough market, we were there today and we thanked the first responders. we thanked the police that rushed to the aid, unarmed police in the first instance, rushed to the aid of the people that had been injured. including two officers who performed cpr on one of the two australian women that were killed. we sell where kirsty bowden, the brave australian nurse who rushed out into harm 's way to help t

taking him to court to court is the right way to deal with an issue like this we live in a parliamentary democracyi'd like to see it don't with politically but i think the end result will be that we'll have to say if tony blair was to be dealt with as he should be dealt with it would have to be bar followed and that means impeachment are much more going to happen operate. russia's foreign minister has warned against attempts to bring about regime change in north korea in relation to a proposed un security council resolution on the nuclearization of the korean peninsula that's after south korean and u.s. forces fired missiles into the sea of japan in retaliation for a north korean test missile launch ati's kate part partridge has more. all of this press conference is to do with the escalation of the situation over the sea of japan so i pointed out as you said that the un security council said there must be denuclearized nation of north korea but he was at pains to point out that this should not be a pretext for regime change in north korea by the west he also said that there shouldn't be a means of

taking him to court to court is the right way to deal with an issue like this we live in a parliamentary democracy i'd like to see it don't with politically but i think the end result will be that we'll have to say if tony blair was to be dealt with as he should be dealt with it would have to be by parliament and that means impeachment or nothing we're going to happen have a parade. more news is coming your way right after this break. income inequality we stagnation gerrymandering of political districts polarization you know the lack of affect goodness in congress these are well documented trends going back decades and no they're really cute ten minutes fast to the point where people describe their system as being seized with a kind of this is. what we see on television left wing to say the kids left wingers out there and they're shutting down professors from speaking at colleges so the shutting down colleges here that this is an example of them being they're acting in an author terry terry and passé become little dictator yes and this is what links to the fact that as children they were completel

taking him to court to court is the right way to deal with an issue like this we live in a parliamentary democracy i'd like to see it don't with politically but i think the end result will be that we'll have to say if tony blair was to be dealt with as he should be dealt with it would have to be by parliament and that means impeachment or national are going to happen i'm afraid. but two days to go before the g twenty summit begins in hamburg it seems world leaders aren't going to get the warmest of welcomes the host city has been in protests. i. dispersing that had the funny kitted out in riot gear pepper spray and water cannons were also used to cause the anti-capitalist activists offices of trade a common rich protest to set up in one of the city's parks several arrests were made peter oliver has been closely following the story police everybody had been prepared for large scale demonstrations and almost certainly violence over the coming days as protesters are right for the g twenty but this one really caught a lot of people by surprise and it seems to have come about through the sheer number o

as a parliamentary democracy, they expect us to debate and vote on motions that were relevant to theirgo. 0ur constituents expected us to come back straightaway to work. instead after the gracious speech, there have only been seven votes. this parliament is already being dubbed the zombie parliament. i actually think that that comparison would actually give the flesh eating undead a bad name. this is turbo—charged political zombie—ism. pete wishart. so those are just some of the issues which are going to shape this parliament over the months to come. and to discuss all of this, i am joined in the studio byjill rutter of the institute for government, professor ian begg of the london school of economics, and by the constitutional expert professor vernon bogdanor. vernon bogdanor, is pete wishart right? is it a zombie parliament? from one point of view, it is a zombie parliament in that it is deadlocked. there is really no majority for any controversial legislation at all. and both of the major parties are internally deeply divided on the major piece of legislation, which is, of course, t

we have a mood surrounding a normal operation of parliamentary democracy, which is not the normal britishnt balance but the interesting thing is across westminster and no one is saying this doesn't require investigation. a bbc investigation has found evidence that suggests a widely—prescribed antidepressant may have played a role in one of america's worst mass shootings. two uk—based psychiatrists have told the panorama programme that the 2012 attack, at a screening of the batman movie in colorado, may not have happened ifjames holmes hadn't been taking the drug sertraline. manufacturer pfizer says a causal link between sertraline and homicidal behaviour has not been established. shelleyjofre reports. did you have any doubt that you would end up killing someone? no, it's something i had to do. we need a rescue... james holmes talking in prison after the so—called batman killing. five years ago he fired into a packed cinema, killing 12 and injuring dozens more. the attack left his parents utterly bewildered. you can't believe it's possible for anyone to cause that much harm, let alone the

going to be fundamental differences, and we had to accept that that is the whole purpose of a parliamentary democracything —— everything, and we need is to ensure that where there are disagreements we debate them constructively, put that to the test in parliament, and ultimately parliament is sovereign, parliament will decide, and i would hope that many of the ideas that we put forward at the election, that had common consensus across a lot of people, whether they voted labour or did not, actually, we can see some of those transformative policies put into play because what i think many communities are and down the country are crying out for is a change of direction. andrew quinn, thank you very joining direction. andrew quinn, thank you veryjoining us. to our chief political correspondence in downing street. not all of that, but some of that would be welcome to theresa may. that is exactly what she is wanting, to sit down and talk with others. it is, but i think that the problem that she has is that the alliances that are likely to form in this party are not ones that she is choosing. she has a probl

values of democracy, values a parliamentary democracy is under attack. russia is begging those groups in europe left us are writers, those who could challenge very core values of liberal democracy. because those who challenge from within those democratic systems and would like to see the systems and values eroded. so like a hard-core measures you have to put emphasis also excel power. this is what russia uses against democratic systems. and democratic systems are much better off than russia a male for more than russia. >> madam senator, i would like to add one remark to what's beee said. and that is if i may say is an ally and a citizen of your ally, do no harm, do not question the alliance that is greatly in your strategic interest with europe, but but it's also in our interest it is existential importance for us. an american government, a white house that questions the validity of that alliance that questions the validity of the aticle five does more to undermine our security and our safety than many things the kremlin does. we are all vibrant western d

ken: i want parliamentary democracy to be restored.ed with a whimper before this recent election. leave,t we're going to which is the political settled thing. i now want parliament to hold the government to account for a grown-up policy on what our political and economic relationship is going to be. i want to minimize the damage to our standing in the world and minimize the damage to our trade and investment. francine: but there's no turning back from brexit. you don't think there's any way of turning back brexit? ken: sadly, i came to the conclusion that there wasn't. people have been absolutely rendered terrified of challenging the outcome. "theare all terrified of daily mail" and "the telegraph" and so on. they all signed up because they thought remain was going to win. francine: are there any areas of the repeal bill you would like to see amended? ken: i think the repeal bill is a suitable vehicle for amendments that will clarify that we won't put any new barriers between us and the european union. reasonard of no sensible why we s

democracy? there's an awful lot at stake here in the maintenance of our parliamentary institutions.ut of politics altogether. and the day that we've come to, you know, that we've come to where people don't feel that they can say what they think, that's actually quite a frightening new reality. conservative mp simon hart has been trying to shine a light on this problem, and he, at least, is convinced that in the last couple of years, things have become dramatically worse. because i've been involved in elections of one sort or another for ten or 15 years, and this one was very different. different where i live, different for colleagues all over the uk, and a real difference between 2015 and 2017. this was not an ordinary election, it was vitriolic, dishonest, unpleasant, not for politicians necessarily, we're meant to be used to that kind of thing, but for everybody around us. to your mind, is this something that affects politicians on the right of politics more than those on the left, or is it as bad for all sides? from my own personal experiences, and the ones i was picking up from

we may not agree on everything, but through debate and discussion, the hallmarks of our parliamentary democracycontribute, not just to criticise. vigour. challenging our opponents to contribute, notjust to criticise. i think this country needs a government that is prepared to take the bold action necessary to secure a better future for britain and we're determined to be that government. in everything we do, we will act with an unshakeable sense of purpose to build better, fairer britain which we all want to see. thank you. applause thank you, prime minister. as is the way, we have a few questions. i will start with one of me colleagues, if thatis start with one of me colleagues, if that is not too much of a fix. prime minister, you have focused on the just about managing. how do you see detail review is contributing to that agenda and are there other proposal but you might be looking to bring forward in the next few months to develop the agenda selwood?“ you think back to the first time that i referred to people who work finding day—to—day life a struggle and just about managing, it was in that

democracy. the parliamentary numbers worry me very greatly and, yes, i am agreeing with you, i think we are goingter brexit than the people voted for which means we are going to be debating this for the next two or three general elections. oh, no. i'm afraid so! are used to follow nigel farage around during the big summits and he was like the man with the fork and the two horns they really disliked. you had a seat in parliament and he only had a bit of support in the country when he started off and yet he carry this idea so far through sheer purserfor stash he carry this idea so far through sheer purser for stash force of personality and whether you like him 01’ personality and whether you like him or not, that is what he did. and this is the challenge theresa may has to live up to on such a difficult task. the idea of a politician who says what he thinks and bucks the establishment and they represent a different policies but what they had in common was this sense of strong personality and people in this time seem to like that. a softer side theresa may today, a new immune occasions advisor. robi

parliamentary meetings. the opposition believes that democracy in the long run has been eroded in the aftermath of the two. to be at many events. it looks like some incredible pr events, personal pr events, by the stern again. people will be asking if that to really warranted this? it is a moment, in a way, the governing party has been in power for way, the governing party has been in powerfor a long time way, the governing party has been in power for a long time and way, the governing party has been in powerfor a long time and mr burden has been the leader of turkey for a very long time. arguably one of the most popular leaders since the founder of the republic, ataturk. 0r the other holidays and special days have to do with the setting up of the republic, but this was the first time that this party was able to defence chris lee in action. is the sense that mr are again likens himself to ataturk? indefinitely sees himself as one of the greatest leaders. his supporters would definitely argue that he is the modern—day ataturk. if after has incredible significance for the secular segment of society, current

. >>> while china's communist rulers were cracking down on democracy, the results of parliamentary electionsidarity was a big winner. for supporters, the taste of victory is sweet. the numbers are overwhelming. the government conceded. >> stupendous first time it ever happened in eastern european communist history and this was contagious. >> one of our producers from primetime live went into east germany posing as a tourist. he found an incredible scene there. >> in east germany, you see a series of demonstrations for change and the question becomes, are these demonstrations going to be repressed and wiped out? what is gorbachev going to do? >> the east german leader at a military parade through the heart of east berlin preached reform and offered a gorbachev proverb. those being late, he said, will be punished by life itself. >> gorbachev felt he could put a happy face on socialism, that he could modify it. but he got the genie out of the bottle and couldn't get it back in. >> the time has run out for honecker. he resigned today. the official reason given was poor health. >> the people have

democracy, which must not be limited to elections every five .ears, but day-to-day actions based on a broader representative base, hired by a desire to be more effective, democratic debate and parliamentary debate will be rejuvenated and revitalized. the desire for action to see will convergess on another sovereign principle which we have ignored too often, the principle of responsibility. activity revived by a clear course, better constructive debate, a parliament that is better able to carry out its role of control of the responsibility of the executive power, i want the parliament, the majority and the opposition, to more means -- to have more means of expressing the demands for the political responsibility. the ministers themselves must be accountable for what they do in their ordinary functions as ministers. for this reason i would like to eliminate the court of justice of the republic to be abolished. we will have to find the right organization to do that, but our citizens no longer understand or accept why only ministers can avail themselves of this exceptional court. the principle of responsibility throughout our institutions also means that the judiciary must be fully independen