alex partridge there.nd peers spend all their time arguing with their political opponents. but there's one area of parliamentary activity notable for its cross—party harmony. we sent duncan smith to investigate. they exist for everything from cuba to cats, from shipbuilding to scotch whisky, and involve politicians of all political colours. hence the name all party parliamentary groups. but what do they actually do? well, to find out, i swapped the hustle and bustle of westminster for the more subdued atmosphere of a local sports bar, to speak to a member of the all party group on snooker. and to stage my own vintage—style tribute. neil gray says the cross—party aspect of these groups is important. it's a comfortable, more comfortable atmosphere to do that type of cross—party working than the more adversarial environments of select committees or the parliamentary chambers. also key, the dialogue between the politicians and the industry. that will allow the sport to flourish, the participation to continue t

live from london kate partridge thank you very much for bringing us that report. some e.u. officials aren't particularly pleased with the mays latest efforts either stressing about the blog is in no mood to reopen bricks and go she and the internet has been having a field day. recently 1st of her name queen of making it up as you go along the current kept in chains and mother of chaos may's new deal got a boat breaks to stop it waits in full for i know. bracks. former director of research at britain's institute of economic affairs jamie white says trace the mayor has no chance of getting her deal over the line. there's 3 outcomes that are possible no deal breaks at all unlikely the 2nd referendum i think it's increasingly likely or just continuing on until a full blown political crisis emerges which results in a general election on the assumption that theresa may doesn't get this through they'll be a new leader of the conservative party soon enough that person was sent to be starting from scratch not completely because they'll know that there's resistance in parliament almo

britain to fifty weeks in prison for skipping bail back in twenty let's go live now to our kate partridge who's outside crown court in central london kate julian assange just legal team spoke to reporters a little we caught some of it what they have to say. hello there union yes as you say we here at side saw that crown court while earlier an hour or so ago julian assange was sentenced to fifty weeks in prison for breaching his bell conditions set in twenty twelve the charge that deborah deborah taylor she said that the case was particularly serious and merited almost the full sentence which would have been and also highlighted the fact that the whole duty in a song but cost the british taxpayer sixteen million pounds she rejected the claims by his defense that he should. give you levy and see due to the fact he'd already spent seven years in the ecuadorian embassy while he was given the sentence judy in a song if he was impassive standing there in the dock. but his supporters up in the public gallery chanted show you when you as a sentence was passed and off two words this is what the he

a partridge for more on the global reaction to tehran move what's been said. hi there you know yes plenty of reaction especially here in the u.k. will come to that very shortly also let's add a little bit more context to this the u.s. has been ramping up the pressure on iran particularly over the last couple of months with some meat with some new laws that it's instigated first of all it's designated is an elite islamic revolutionary guard as a terrorist and also deployed an aircraft carrier to the gulf it's also been putting pressure on the countries that still trade with iran its monies to extend those exemptions from sanctions for five of the countries that buy oil from iran such as china india and turkey so with all these events in mind the secretary of state might pompei or came here to the u.k. to meet to resume a foreign secretary jeremy hunt and in the press conference that followed my pump a i also how to word or two to say for european companies that were trading with iran and stressing that those who traded on a humanitarian basis such as providing

we'll know more aspersion in the hour about what what can happen imminently behind you there kate partridge in london thanks for being across. breaks things. stories in the u.k. as well actually focusing on london again it seems the u.k. has become increasingly picky about what foreign business is good business the government's pushing for a change in the house of lords which will force players to the clear whether or not they have dealings with russia or china it says as part of a bid to make the political system more transparent the reports on that one. what's more dangerous than dirty money red money from russia there are fears it could be flooding britain's upper house of parliament the house of lords the sunday times newspaper has done some digging it's published a list of what it calls moscow's men the lords benefiting from russian rubles. just like employees the lords half there's a clear their business interests and official register but unlike their colleagues in the lower house they don't have to say how much those business interests have them although the government is said to be

sanctions yes so many aspects of placate partridge in london thanks for the latest . millions of south africans have to taken to the polls today in what's being called by some the most crucial election in the country in over twenty years a record forty seven parties have thrown their hats in the ring and while polls suggest the ruling a.n.c. african national congress will stay in power. party's popularity is waning over the pardon field here to address key issues well it's come under fire for failing to combat high on them ploy meant which currently stands at twenty seven percent also the fight against crime has been key to the campaigning with theft and murder rates on the rise probably the most contentious issue has been land reform seventy one percent of private farmlands in the hands of white farmers and some parties are suggesting they'd be removed from the land without compensation one of those calling for such a reform is joseph malema he's the leader of the far left economic freedom fighters or party member that has previously been convicted of hate speech inc

s ministry of defense so far there's been no response kate partridge bring us the latest from london the . demonstrations and rallies have been held in gaza to mark the 71st anniversary of nakba day it commemorates the hundreds of thousands of palestinians who were expelled in the war that led to the establishment of israel in 1948 now as you can see on your screen here there's a huge fire burning near the border with israel with clones of black smoke visible from kilometers away protesters have been throwing rocks and burning tires and a number of palestinians are said to have been injured already israeli forces have reportedly used tear gas and rubber bullets against the crowd. top level talks continue in the russian city of sochi on tuesday u.s. secretary of state mike pump met with both president putin and foreign minister sergei lavrov global issues were discussed including the venezuelan crisis syria and the iran's nuclear deal now on wednesday putin met with auster and counterpart alexander vender bone biological ties and international issues were on the agenda for the meeting

let's go live now authorities kate partridge in london kate after seven years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy events are escalating fast for julie massage bring us up to speed on today's developments. there you need yes indeed joining us on she has actually literally just left the building we saw his van going away after he was earlier sentenced to fifty weeks in prison for preaching not bell in twenty twelve the judge debra taylor said that his crime merited almost the maximum sentence or two to his seriousness and also highlighted the fact that the assigned affair had cost the british taxpayer sixty million plans she rejected his claims to leave in sea based on the fact he'd already spent almost seven years in the ecuadorian embassy while she handed down the sentence to the innocent was impassive in the dock but his supporters up in the public gallery shouted shame on you and in the meantime we can take some solace and also tweeted this response. julian assange just sentence is a shocking as it has been addicted we have grave concerns as to whether he will receive a fair extradition

technology does pose a major security threat partridge has more. a major british telecom company vodafone has announced it's going to use equipment provided among other manufacturers by chinese company huawei as vodafone looks to roll out its 5 g. network across the u.k. from july the 3rd however the u.k. government stance on qual way seems a little bit of and officials are not ruling out working with the chinese company despite numerous attempts by the u.s. to persuade the u.k. to shun wah its equipment over security concerns while on choose stay the u.k.'s position was forced by foreign secretary jeremy hunt we as a government are going through the process of making an assessment to what extent if at all we are able to use while wait kit we couldn't stop the growth of china if we wanted to so we need to find a way of living alongside this big new power in the world while hans also said the u.k. needs to avoid an unnecessary cold war with beijing adding that china is here to stay as a major economic power whether you like it or not while at the en

and britain to sixteen weeks in prison for skipping bail in two thousand and twelve are seascape partridge reports now from london. julian assange was sentenced to fifty weeks in prison for breaching his bell conditions set in twenty twelve the judge there deborah taylor she said that the case was particularly serious and merited almost the full sentence which would have been a year she rejected the claims by his defense that she should also give him leave me and say due to the fact he'd already spent seven years in the ecuadorian embassy or while he was given the sentence julian assange or she was impassive standing there in the dark but his supporters up in the public gallery chanted shame on you as a sentence was passed his sentence for seeking and receiving asylum is twice as much as the sentencing guidelines the so-called speed boat killer convicted of manslaughter was only sentenced to six months for failing to appear in court during the song should be in the ecuadorian embassy here in central london for almost seventy years not sought asylum there to avoid being extradited to sweden

warning not to travel there because of the threat of terrorist attacks and kidnapping of his cave partridge looks into why the somali community considers britain a greater threat to the children. stabbings of young people across england have become epidemic in those few years i was doing my a levels it was tough just seeing people being dropped every other day being stabbed london is not the place to be for a teenager when they're living here in britain the context is britain this is a british problem and it's a problem that we've fallen into one of the things i'll never forget is the fact that when you walk in the streets of kenya you don't have to go over your shoulder here i could travel women out of the city go and visit her about wanted and it was good i felt a sense of freedom when i came here it was like a clean slate my mum feels i'm much safer here than anywhere else in the world and it's not just parents and teenagers who are worried the author or it is are also raising the alarm i'd have to say that the last couple of years on down to julie have been as dave said the highest and

bray got more on the latest developments and of the political reaction from correspondents kate partridge in london and kill them off in new york. washington is talking about full pressure on iran there have been some military developments we've got u.s. aircraft carriers headed toward the region as well as being fifty two bombers now iran has announced a partial withdrawal from the nuclear deal citing the fact that they say the united states has violated the agreement and at this point iran is asking for european countries to compensate them for the damage done by the usas withdrawal they have yet to be compensated so they're waiting for that we have an announcement from iran that they intend to no longer sell off the excessive enrich uranium and heavy water that they're required to dispose of if production exceeds a certain threshold and now at this point we've got the u.s. special envoy for iran brian hook saying that terrans announcement on the nuclear deal is in defiance of international norms now iran is basically giving sixty days to european countries it will negotiate with them a

and in the british army document warns that people describe themselves partridge's might in fact big streamers those people if they that patrick says i'm suspicious that. you know what why would that be suspicious i think it's a great trick. i don't agree with that at all i don't quite understand why they would think the patriots want to buy. a morning a.t.m. or a moscow morning from a welcome to the program 2 my name's kevin now and this is international and i'm here with the next. world news update starting with this than 3 more u.s. democratic hopefuls have joined the chorus of those calling for president trump's impeachment after retiring special counsel robert muller said he could not exonerate trump for obstruction of justice claims but our senior correspondent orders have explains that impeachment isn't necessarily a recipe for democratic success anyway. every so often america goes crazy for impeachment it's like the flu someone gets it and before you know it everyone sneezing oh well and peaching they hoped and prayed mueller would get rid of the president that isn't how the

and iraq appears to have refuted the idea of a heightened threat level with more details is kate partridge. the does seem to be rather a difference of opinion a breakdown in communication between the u.s. military central command and the coalition's 2nd in command over the threat posed by iran though there's been no increased threat from iranian backed forces in iraq and syria we're aware of their presence clearly. and we monitor them along with a whole range of others because that's the environment we're in we're british major general chris cake of the coalition's deputy commander for strategy and information seems to refute the trumpet ministrations claim iran is mobilizing groups in iraq and syria to attack american forces with his comments also seem to contradict the claim terrine is an escalating threat u.s. national security adviser john bolton has long promoted action against iran but the british general says there's little to fear there are a range of threats to american and coalition forces in iraq or syria we most of them all about forces is clearly one of them. and i'm going to

to back a deal this time shiva dangled the chance to vote on a 2nd referendum if they back up a partridge brings us the latest from london. it was an equally anticipated prime minister's question time this this afternoon as everybody was waiting for that statement that the prime minister would make on that 4th installment of her break sit deal now what she's done recently she'd had talks with the labor party 6 weeks of talks with the labor party and those had broken down but the pm said that she had learned something there had been areas of compromise that she had learned from those talks to the labor party and in this 4th installment she effectively said there will be some concessions and this took the form of 10 points which were in reading about earlier now there are key points in there about workers' rights about environmental protection and the future relationship with the e.u. but the key point was the potential for a 2nd referendum for n.p.c. to vote if this bill goes through to the people if they were to pass it now along with that they also she called on parliament to break the i

well when it comes to campaign issues that the partridge on top arche put out there i would like to compare that to the opposition which had several schemes that are proposed in this manifesto it spoke about minimum income it spoke about a separate budget for farmers but none of that is important right now the opposition is entirely decimated and while the garbage on the party highlighted its achievements it's the the what it claimed was just achievements the mean plank was nationalism there was a standoff between india and pakistan earlier this year though the prime minister was seen as having taken decisive action by carrying out airstrikes according to india and this actually shored up his support all across the country the prime minister in rallies said award for the b. is award for the prime minister directly so even bending many people on the field who were not that much in favor of the b.g.p. candidate they still wanted to watch for the lotus the symbol of the g.o.p. simply to support the prime minister now in the victory speech that he just made he has tanked the people of the youth

hearing tomorrow as well kate kate thanks for now i'd bring this right up to date on the court kate partridge artie's london correspondent. all right moving on for not calling for a final phase venice will a self declared interim president one going to go is calling for another day of government protests this wednesday after initiating a so-called military uprising in the country's capital the opposition leader has the full support of america once again with the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o even suggesting venezuelan president nicolas maduro was ready to flee the country but was stopped by russia literally nicolas maduro getting prepared to go on this airplane and head out of the country before a stop stop really at the direction of the russians he was ready to leave this morning as we understand the russians indicated he should stay he says during his the plane ready to go to cuba. and the russians took him off the plane i'm forbidden to leave the country. please be serious. venezuelans foreign ministry has branding pump a statement as fake news russian responded as well saying wash

describe themselves as troops might in fact be extremists coming up we ask people if they found partridges and pushes them. you know what why would that be suspicious i think it's a great story. and i don't agree with that at all i don't quite understand why they would. take it's not a. pretty morning 11 am here in moscow good morning this is art international with me kevin though in life if for the next 30 minutes from h.q. without that even it will news update 3 more u.s. democratic hopefuls have joined the chorus of those calling for president trump's impeachment then after the retiring special counsel robert mueller said he could not exonerate trump of obstruction of justice claims but next this morning is our senior correspondent more girls if explains impeachment isn't necessarily a recipe for democratic success. every so often america goes crazy for impeachment it's like the flu someone gets it and before you know it everyone sneezing all well and preaching they hoped and prayed mean you would get rid of the president that isn't how the law works he couldn't do it the opinion says t