britain would be welcome to stay in the union addressing parliament in strasburg european commission the president called your european council president donald tusk said that if the country changed its mind britain was welcome to stay within the bloc mr tooke reference to comment made by the u.k.'s breck's it secretary david davis about the reversibility of the twenty sixteen referendum vote wasn't it david davis. if it democracy cannot change its mind if she just to be a democracy we hear on the continent haven't had a change of heart our hearts are still open. thank. you it's a beautiful thing let's get more from v.w. correspondent mark kauffman in strasbourg welcome max i was britain's prime minister it's the reason i reacted to donald talks charming of official word from downing street was quite swift and said basically one thing there will not be a second referendum so that's that fair enough so does the it's so that the e.u. really think that britain would change its mind about bret's it. well it's kind of a bizarre way how this whole discussion came about it started basically with nigel for raj who was the head of the

the european union and exit the kinds of europe rather than exiting the good opinion and remaining in the council of europe ironically it is breadth that which has secured the u.k. within the strasburg institutions as even some fervent back to two years believe that staying within the council of europe emphasizes the point that the u.k. is leaving the european union and not europe but how do you kill really reached a level with an institution forced out of the fires and carnage of world war with the united kingdom in the vanguard of its creation is seen best as a tactical necessity for the time being perhaps the time is come for a new it emphasis on the substantial i'm purpose of the council of europe the one political institution which can be genuinely said to unite a tub of continent. so from alex know the team here at alex thomas so in our first edition of the new york thank you for what we hope to see will through. los angeles the city of luxury and fame but also an alarming number of people living in the streets. the simple fact in l.a. he's there's just not enough shelter even if people on the streets right now decided to come in there's nowhere to come in and it's been a stru

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

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