to parliament by keeping parliament out of its own sovereignty. they went to the sea bream court to stop as having every —— any say on the figuring of article 50 and they lost. they did their damnedest to stop parliament having any with with the girl say any withdrawal agreement and they lost. they spent thousands of pounds... unilaterally revoked. and they lost. the european court, certainly now will find that it can be. iwant certainly now will find that it can be. i want to pay tribute to the parliamentarians from three national parliaments and five parties who brought that decision to the court. i believe what they have one will prove to be a pivotal victory but it does raise the question that is too important to be treated as rhetorical. it is highly pertinent to the substance of today's debate. what kind of government goes to court to stop its own citizens from knowing that the government has legal powers but has chosen not to use legal powers but has chosen not to use them. what legitimate reason can there be for a government to want it

it has to be a referendum has to be approved by parliament and parliament credibly divided and there is no guarantee a tool that there would be a majority for a second referendum. in parliament so to resume a might all party leaders might say they want one but it might be rejected by parliament as a whole that's quite difficult to see how it's it is achieved. just a long way to get used to being the next crucial date when parliament will vote on teresa mayes brag deal to the helmets kratos editor of the british newspaper the observer thank you very much thank. in armenia state media is reporting the acting prime minister nicola passion younes alliance is leading in a snap parliamentary election but vote counting is still underway now passion and hard pushed for the snow but i tossed a peaceful anti corruption uprising took him to power earlier this year and marked the most sweeping political shift in on me in decades fashion and is currently seeking a stronger mandate from botha's his reform agenda. for more i'm joined now by journalist joshua kuchera he is in the capital yerevan hi

know what it was that parliament decided and know what it was that parliament met. mr. speaker, their placing themselves above parliament. they are placing themselves in contempt of parliament. and as for the legal position document published yesterday that will affect us all, -- [inaudible] just to keep us -- if it's not a legal position like any accepted definition of those terms. it was an attempt -- some of their own mps to integrate difficult position now struggling between the understandable loyalty to the government, to the party, to individual ministers and loyalty to the people and to parliament. [inaudible] may be the problem is to get so used to being -- in use parliament but forgot sometimes parliament takes decisions that they are not allowed to ignore. maybe that's why they're so upset nothing maybe it's because of alongside the issues -- should not be made available to member is a parliament or the public. maybe it's because this decision has laid bare the incompetence at the heart of the government that doesn't even know the basics of parliamentary p

to listen to parliament. i think everybody, whether you voted leave all remain, it was always about parliamentary sovereignty. the inconvenience for the prime minister is that she lost her majority here in parliament as the parliament takes back control, she does not have a majority. which is why we encourage you to go for a free vote next week to respect that and to give every mp at chance to vote. a brexiteer thinks the government defeat should not be overblown. i would say parliament's teeth are not that sharp because the amendment only looks at the process in that process into play if the government agrees to it and there is a negative as will as a positive because if, at the end of the day, this amendment leads to a vote on no deal, and it succeeds, that is the parliaments as we do not want no deal, that is a bigger constitutional crisis. and where do we go from the? one labour mp believes the vote today on brexit will kill off one option. believes the vote today on brexit will kill off one optionlj beli

injune, parliament voted to approve a third runway at heathrow. that prompted the resignation of the trade minister greg hands. borisjohnson, who was also against the expansion, flew to afghanistan to avoid having to vote on the plan. june also saw another ministerial casualty. have you told the prime minister why you are resigning? i'll be talking to her shortly. thejustice minister philip lee resigned over brexit, calling for another referendum. brexit was starting to cause theresa may a real headache, as another of her backbenchers, dominic grieve, proposed an amendment to strengthen the so—called meaningful vote. it required that the government follow directions from parliament if mps rejected her deal. got that? the european union withdrawal bill passed its second reading after dominic grieve found a level of compromise against the government and voted against his own amendment. sick mps were summoned to vote, and questions were asked whether parliament had lost its dignity. at the height of summer, it seems a long time ago now, the cabinet

having a say and without parliament having a say and without parliament having a say and without parliament being able to stop it happening. even if other members don't agree with me, i hope they will agree that this parliament cannot be ignored and that is why we need the attorney general's written advice. i have great respect for the right honourable lady and i understand she came to this house expecting to have a row about the government‘s interpretation of this andi government‘s interpretation of this and i understand the question she has asked, but i have responded to this question because my department is responsible for the legislation and we have given her a clear interpretation of the legislation and that we will have a motion before this house by the 21st of january. that is in all those different scenarios i talked to in my statement. the answer is clear, i respect the decisions made in this house and the government should come back to the house with a motion in the event no deal had been agreed or in the event this house rejected a deal. that was clear from my statement. wha

in terms of this contempt of parliament building behind us —— parliaments, the building behind us, if ministers at this stage are found to be in contempt, what happens? what is the process ? contempt, what happens? what is the process? not only has this proposal being put down that the government itself is put down an amendment to trying to get all in the long grass. so we are deep in the parliamentary procedure you that the end parliament votes through on this motion in favour of the one that the opposition has put down, it would appear that as the process moves forward that either the attorney general geoffrey cox or government minister, probably the cabinet office minister, effectively deputy prime minister the uk, would be suspended from the house of commons. and this is all, of course, is in the name of getting the full document published, so that the government would have to decide whether or not to publish the document. that argument is still to be had. just briefly then looking forward to tuesday, of course we have this week of intense debate. once it eventually gets started,

if parliament decide something, then in five or ten years, another parliament and decide summing else. in 1975, big referendum, 2—1 to stay in. five is greater, the labour party said, let's come out. these things are never going to end completely. all right, peter, thank you for that. for the first time two reports prepared for the us senate have analysed millions of social media posts detailing the scope of russian meddling in the 2016 election. they find that russia used every social media platform to help elect donald trump. it's the scale of the intervention that's staggering. through words, images, videos russian operatives targeted us voters. on facebook 20 russian sponsored pages with names like being patriotic, heart of texas, and army ofjesus got a widespread impact. the posts published on these pages were shared some 31 million times... and they got more than 39 million likes. overall these 20 pages managed to reach 126 million people. we're joined now by michael carpenter, former us deputy assistant secretary of defence for russia. mr carpenter, thank you for coming in to

parliament. well again we're here in the area not so much as speculation as we have certainty don't we that if we take as i say at face value what has been said by the presidents of the institutions not just by them law and let's be clear anglo-american one of the leading influencers in european politics for many years use still in office right now is german chancellor meant to resume a yesterday and today has made it very clear that she does not see any changes to the deal after the summit is over well again if that is to be believed then it suggests that it's unlikely that concessions will emerge but then let's consider what might those concessions be what can the e.u. do to concede to a country that wants to leave it knowing that it doesn't want to harm its remaining member states and clearly it will feel that it has a responsibility to states that remain inside the e.u. more so perhaps than to states that want to leave it which is why as i explained their conversation with me over africa with

— full complement in parliament. gavin lee is there. well the regional authority has said there is an ongoing incident, in strasbourg. it is within the city centre, the old centre where the christmas market is. a report of a shooting incident. it is maybe 20 minutes from the european parliament where members have been sitting with weak. we getting information coming from the fire service to reuters saying one person has been killed, three people injured. 0ne journalist one person has been killed, three people injured. 0nejournalist from the finish broadcaster and they are there covering the events of the european parliament, she said she held inside a restaurant and told to stay there. the police outside and police are scared and confused. there is a press officer as well for the european parliament talking about panic in the streets and a local journalist has about panic in the streets and a localjournalist has said he lives above the christmas market and he says up to a dozen shots fired in the city centre. 0ne say

and contempt for this parliament is contempt for this parliament is contempt for this parliament is contempt for the people. a government that seeks to place itself above the express will this parliament is a government in contempt of the people and the government that has already taken a dangerous step down the road from democracy towards dictatorship and today's debate is not about the rights and wrongs of the original motion has presented to the house on the 30th of november, because astonishingly enough, the time for debate on those questions was the 13th of november. so let's not spent time today on questions of convention and precedents, of confidentiality of legal advice and life in —— and whether that confidential they should be waived, the paper that debate has gone. the time proposition to the terms of that motion was when you mr speaker called a question and at that point the government the —— government instructed its members to do nothing, the government instructed its members not to oppose that motion. i welcome the degree of humility they are showing now admit

before parliament broke up westminster. before parliament broke upfor westminster. before parliament broke up for the westminster. before parliament broke upforthe summary westminster. before parliament broke up for the summary says, there were still some votes on the customs bill to get through. the european research group of conservative wrecks the tears had started to make life difficult for the prime minister by tabling amendments that they said would then the government pursuing a soft brexit. the government supported those amendments and the bill narrowly passed but they were accused of caving in to threats by the drg, some even talked about chequers being dead. never one to let things get her down, theresa may turned her hand to dance floor diplomacy on a trade trip to africa, not once but twice she got her groove on proving there was more to life than brexit. the green party elected a new co—leader. sian berry won the contest after caroline lucas stood down. jonathan barclay, the other co—leader, was re—elected. the former first minister of scotland al

but that parliament has the power does not mean parliament will exercise the power. indeed, and importantly, this house constrains its right of free speech in relation to the sub judice issue. we its right of free speech in relation to the subjudice issue. we have passed standing orders and give the power to mr speaker to stop honourable and right honourable members reaching the subjudas a rule —— breaching the subjudice rule —— breaching the subjudice rule to make sure that business proceeds properly and likewise we are entitled to limit the means of humble addresses and information that can be received from a humble address. but we did not do so before the 13th of november. and therefore what happened on the 13th of november ought to be complied with. because if we simply say that notions of this house according to great antiquity and precedent can be ignored because the government feels like it, then what is this house here for? how are we protecting the rights of the people we represent? how are we able to seek redress of grievance? the fact that it might

parliament it would necessarily become unacceptable the irish government and the e.u. and if objects which won't happen anyway because they're not relating the negotiation but if he were to fudge it that it would satisfy no one because he would lose trust so really there is no middle ground you are satisfied he had parliament or you satisfy the e.u. and for that reason you simply won't get it still three some brooks in durham you've heard of joe english just had to say there's really nothing that can be done we've not been in this situation in the u.k. before so is there any kind of legal precedent is there any kind of room for maneuver that the prime minister might have or is it simply this is the deal and she has to sell it or not if a she doesn't sell it it's a hard drugs it. i think this point about the prime minister playing for time she's certainly been doing an awful lot of that remember that for most of the two years that she or her team have been negotiating this breaks a deal they've been keeping the details secret even from her own cabinet he didn't find out

you've got gridlock within parliament. it's like this great big enormous political rubik's cube is being twizzled every day. and every day it feels different. you are having to just try and decode that for people. and how do you avoid too much speculation given how many what ifs and potential scenarios there are? it's hard to. and i think a lot of us have been chastened from our experience of political correspondence over the last two or three years where predictions have proved to be completely wrong. think back to the 2015 election, which we thought would be a hung parliament but it delivered a conservative majority government, through to the referendum, which i think wrong—footed a lot of politicaljournalists. politics stopped being predictable quite a long time ago. i think the key thing for us is to show some humility. and not to pretend that we know how this will unfold. when there are fa cts , this will unfold. when there are facts, how do you report them? sometimes you have competing narratives. ii7 mps voting ag

we need to find out where the will of parliament is, where the majority of mps will vote in parliament and nothing should be off the table — we should consider all options. workplace reforms set to be introduced by the govenrment which will make agency workers and those on zero—hours contracts better protected and made more aware of their rights. the online fashion retailer asos has issued a profit warning, after what it says was "unprecedented" discounting and "the weakest growth in online clothing sales in recent years". a hotel in hull has cancelled a christmas day booking by a homeless charity for 28 people with nowhere else to stay. and welsh cyclist geraint thomas says he takes "great pride" in winning this year's sport's personality of the year. the team sky rider became only the third britain ever to win the tour de france. good morning — and welcome to the bbc news at 9. theresa may will set out her opposition to another brexit referendum today, warning mps that it would cause "irreparable damage to the integrity of our politics". two of the prime minister's senior allie

getting it through parliament. is he speaking for you ? let getting it through parliament. is he speaking for you? let me know this morning. you can send us a message on twitter. the prime minister made her statement outside number ten downing street this morning. i should warn you that there is flash photography. sir graham brady has confirmed he has received 48 letters from conservative mps so there will be a vote of confidence in my leadership of the conservative party. i will contest that vote with everything i have got. i have been a member of the conservative party for over 40 years. i have served it as an activist, councillor, mp, shadow minister, home secretary and now as prime minister. i stood to be leader because i believe in the conservative vision for a better future. a thriving economy with nowhere and nobody left behind. a stronger society, where everyone can make the most of their talents. always serving the national interest. and at this crucial moment in our history, that means securing a brexit deal that delivers on the results of the eu referendum. takin

kosovo's parliament approved the first read of the draft laws on october and during the process cause of a serbian minority remains opposed to the creation of course of the army a position shared by belgrade which denies course was existence as a state alexander who treated the president of serbia said he did not understand how anyone in the world could approve the creation of course it was army or turn a blind eye to something as he said entirely in a collision with all international documents he added serbia will not read the war drums but won't allow anyone to humiliate the serbs in kosovo superior alleges the army's main purpose would be to ethnically cleanse course of a serbian dominated north a claim strongly denied by prishtina prime minister of course i would i wish had it in i said the tree laws have a want us to protect the territorial integrity of course of all and to protect the citizens of all communities in course of syria deputies begged by belgrade which does not recognize cause it was in the band this have blocked any such move in the past saying creation of a nationa

if you can't get parliament's support, then can't get parliament's support, then can parliament vote on alternative strategies? well parliament has within its means to vote on allsorts of things. that is a constitutional. but that is not what i am interested in. iam interested in getting but that is not what i am interested in. i am interested in getting this deal across the line. it is clearly the best one in the national interest. the idea that you need to get a coalition of an m —— of mps to try and agree, otherwise we are going to fall into a new deal brexit, aren't we? that that is exactly right, and that is why think this deal is the best way to deliver on brexit, exactly as you said, and the alternative of no deal is extremely difficult, we are ramping up extremely difficult, we are ramping up no deal plans. i have been working on them. and in the last week, we got to full no deal planning, and the cabinet tomorrow was discussing no deal planning. it is not the act, want, but it is my judi dench or that the areas that i am responsible for are as prepared as possible ——

according to the constitution could not dissolve parliament before parliament completed whole and a half years of its term at the point that president seriously in the dissolved parliament it was at least a year and two months short of that time period and the seven judge bench where hearing made a unanimous decision all of them agreed that the president had violated the constitution so what this means is stands basically reinstated the disillusion has been knocked down by the court in sri lanka now there are still issues yes the entire disillusion of the changing of prime minister sparked a constitutional crisis but there are for the issues which will be coming up in for the day is there is the sacking of prime minister brown become a singer who claims he's still the legitimate prime minister and his successor the former president rajapaksa basically has his authority has been questioned in the court of appeal and there is a restraining order stopping him from functioning as prime minister now he has appealed that restraining order but as you can see many things still remaining to be re

you know i mean the idea that she if she's listened to parliament and done . and pulled the vote and her dearly is dead done she's done exactly the right things that strengthens her position if she can't get concessions in brussels then . we come out on without a trading deal european union and we trade on world trade organization rules and only one hundred plus days to go could happen so heartbreaks it isn't on the card you call it all breaks as i call it clean global bricks that we should be good for the country thank you. so what i got from that interview that you just how bad it is if it's a recent gets nothing from brussels at the summit meeting this week then that sets . if she gets nothing from the summit meeting this week she has she's at the end of her political chatter i mean she can do anything more than she can appeal again to the tory party and say listen you really have to think very carefully do you want to deal with the transition period that's guaranteeing a sort of softer lending for the british economy or do you want as we heard directly to

now on bbc news, the week in parliament. hello there and welcome to the week in parliament. with the crucial vote on her eu withdrawal deal looming, theresa may appeals to mps to support her plan. i ask you to back it in the best interest of our constituents and our country. and with my whole heart, i commend this motion to the house. but labour is clear they will not accept the deal. the prime minister has seen these negotiations only as an exercise in the internal management of the conservative party. also on this programme, jeremy corbyn and theresa may clash over the state of the welfare state, and peers reckon the public will be angry if they don't get a vote on theresa may's brexit deal. why did you deny me the chance to become familiar with those facts and then express my opinion again? why did you take that from me and deny it to me? but first, it was a another week of drama at westminster. the ayes to the right, 307. the noes to left 311. a week of dismay for ministers. the ayes to the right 311. the noes to the left 293. and a week of defeat for the government. the

can the full parliament do it? guest: there are two things -- what happened earlier was the conservative party inside parliament triggered a vote of no-confidence in theresa may as therefore, as prime minister. she won that. but over one third of her own mp's voted against her. that was after giving assurances she would not lead the party in the next elections in 2020 two. a vote of no-confidence generally can be called. the labour party is thinking about doing that, trying to pick the right moment to do that. if they did that and won that, there would be a period of uncertainty, and that could lead to a general election. bear in mind that because theresa may called a general election in 2017 and failed to win a majority, she is now dependent on a bunch of irish mp's from that democratic unionist party to maintain her slim majority in parliament. they are effectively holding a sword over her head and saying we will not agree to any of these arrangements for ireland because of the nature of the border there. host: g

parliament. what hasn't today in the u.k. parliament it was supposed to be the first of five days of debate over the withdrawal agreements the so-called bracks deal led by prime minister to resign may and then over the following days are seeing some of her senior cabinet colleagues make the case for the deal in their area of responsibility people like the chancellor philip hammond and the foreign secretary jeremy hunt but on tuesday that's being delayed because parliament is going to be debating whether in fact the government is easing in contempt of parliament itself in contempt of the house of commons why is that well monday the speaker john bercow said there was an arguable case that the government could have been in contempt for refusing to publish the full legal advice on the impact of this brics it deal the vice by the attorney general geoffrey cox mr cox unusually was in parliament in self on monday taking questions from m.p.'s he's sticking to his guns saying he believes it's in the national interest not to publish th

welcome back to the parliament. in copenhagen i'm now going to speak to a representative from a community who wants in the band that's not just from the european union but from denmark itself i'm going to speak to mark. from the field. magni out how would you assess the developments in danish politics with the election upcoming and how might that benefit the fade away alliance which you represent here in copenhagen i think it's moving forward like a close race between the existing government and the blue wing in the parliament as we call it and the opposition and the red thing if it develops in the way as it's it looks it could happen that it will be a hung parliament and in that case the fairly members and even the greenlandic members may come into a very central position in appointing the new status minister or the presidency and i might be and all your family has a long history of this there is parliament because your great grandfather built the staircase but you are a business person coming into politics and giv

i'll be back on monday on bbc parliament at 11pm with the latest news. theresa may's due to update mps on the brussels summit and those brexit talks. i do hope you'll be able to join me then. bye for now. hello. the weekend is upon us and bringing some disruptive weather. we have a named storm, storm deirdre named by met eireann, and warnings for ice, snow and we will see freezing rain, which is rainfall falling on to cold services and instantly freezing, so widespread ice could be a problem across parts of northern england, southern scotland, central and northern scotland will see some heavy snowfall will stop not only the snow, the ice and freezing rain but we also have some heavy rainfall and some strong, gusty winds. all courtesy of low pressure moving in from the atlantic you can tightening isobars in association storm deirdre. it will be a cold start on saturday, subzero temperatures for many, a little bit milder in the far west. we have the cloud and rain working in through the morning and as that rain bumped into that cold air that is where we wi

parliament will be able to put forward a plan b. that is important because there is clearly now no majority in parliament for the hardest briggs's of all the so-called no deal breaks it which a minority in her party on the far right of a party would like to see that now becomes very unlikely the options narrow therefore towards either as you suggest a repeat vote on to reserve may's deal if she loses it first time around maybe make a few tweaks to it at perhaps another option which is an even softer version of bragg's it talking about the norway style deal that puts the u.k. along with norway other countries in the single market with freedom of movement in the customs union no longer with a say over how the rules are made but more or less the sort of deal that have now or as again you suggested no breaks if at all via the route of a second referendum those become the options now looking likely if she loses that vote next week so that's pretty significant it pushes the whole debate much closer towards the remaining in the e.u. side t

european union, european parliament. of course it is those processes that lead to the final agreement and the withdrawal agreement. will the prime minister today tell us precisely what she's asking for to deliver on key concerns of legally binding and definite nature of the backstop with no right for this country to exit on its own terms. >> what i'm asking for to ensure we can deal with concerns that the right honorable gentlemen and others have expressed about backstop will be indefinite. first to ensure bank stop is not triggered in the first place and the second to ensure that if it only temporary. >> thank you, mr. speaker. on thursday it will be 100 days until britain leaves the european union. at the moment we have no deal, no plan b. this is a constitutional crisis because this house is not being allowed to express its will on behalf of our communities who around the country are telling us that they reject this deal. that's why mp's want to be able to vote against it. can i say to the prime minister that it's poi

now on bbc news, a look back at the week in parliament. hello and welcome to the week in parliament, your backstop to the most turbulent dramatic week at westminster since the last one. the parliamentary party does have confidence. the prime minister survives an attempt to force her out. but that wasn't the meaningful vote mps had been expecting. this house agreed to five days of debate. this house agreed when the vote was going to take place. amid chaos, an mp removes a symbol of royal authority in protest. shouting order. put it back. no, no, no, no. this was a week of two votes, one that happened, one that didn't. theresa may saw off an attempted coup by her own mps but only after promising not to lead them into the next election. even then, more than a third voted against her. that vote was prompted by her decision to pull the vote parliament expected on her brexit deal. as late as monday morning, ministers insisted the vote scheduled for tuesday was going ahead. then suddenly it wasn't. the prime minister told mps she detected concern

at the court of session and the original scottish parliament has been taken over by the lawyers and is actually the main scottish locals at the moment and has few lawyers now thinking well maybe scald become independent maybe those low courts will actually be with the locals for an independent country some day and that's the route through that is through the european crisis now looking at the dramatic events and the house of commons this week obviously something you're very familiar with from terms of the the rules and procedures of the of the parliament to reasonably seems to a divided her own party in terms of her proposal she seems to view hated the liberal party against but simpleton the asli has alienated the ulster unionists under scottish nationalists is there any hope or toll in your opinion for the prime minister given that landscape in the house of commons i think what we're fundamentally seeing alex is the breakup of the british parliamentary system the parliament and political parties that have existed for the last last hundred years we're seeing the labor break up but a

if she can't go ahead deal passed in parliament parliament what she want he said hoping that m.p.'s were running around germany coping with say ok we'll look at a second referendum they will ask the e.u. can you extend article fifty as in the date when the u.k. would have to leave can you make it longer this m.p. said to me when i said ok well when would you possibly have this referendum there's so much to get through he said be looking at many many long as it is before the european elections in june we think it is a possibility so. everything is to play for all these that they're still on the take the sting out of the way if you if you're joining us right now you're watching news this is our live coverage the result of that vote did come in for the british prime minister theresa may she did survive she she won that vote tonight with about two hundred votes for her hundred seventy to get the margin of victory there rather meager and it will be sending mixed signals. especially to europe beginning to ask both of you alex and barbara in one day and then when we look at the results an

there's not a bill before parliament on this issue, there's a motion before parliament on this issue and they're two separate matters and i have no doubt that having a humble address before would have been ruled disorderly and would not have been a subject for debate and for that mr. speaker is nodding and i hope it can go into the record as an authortative reply. and one of the concerns, the attorney general himself is a member of that committee although nonvoting and not adding to quorum and i'll give way to my honorable friend. >> speak into the micro. >> what she was saying-- >> i'm sincerely sorry, mr. speaker, the law offices would recuse themselves from such meetings. >> that gives me complete confidence in supporting the government's amendment, but i would absolutely reiterate that however the vote goes today, the humble address plus be obeyed unless overturned and for the government to fail to do so would not be treating parliament properly and of these we must remember when we are in power to defend the right to parliament for those occasions when we would not be. >> thank

through parliament by the twenty ninth of march so one of their first acts would have to be extending all rescinding article fifty delaying or even stopping breck's it when people want to get on with it and the leadership election would not change the fundamentals of the negotiation or the parliamentary arithmetic weeks spent tearing also part will only create more division just as we should be standing together to our country none of that would be in the national interest. that was the british prime minister to resign me talking outside ten downing street short finally go to a bomb or a visa spoke to big cash is a conservative m.p. and a long time drags the chair he publicly announced that he had submitted a letter of no confidence in prime minister mean we asked him why he gone public very simply for the reasons i've given i'd lost confidence in the prime minister's ability to conduct these negotiations and as we've seen if i may say i was proved right because these negotiations went nowhere in terms of the house of commons it wasn't accepted by the house of commons as a whole that'

no deal is not acceptable to parliament i believe that they are too cowardly and members of parliament the six hundred fifty m.p.'s of the sitting there to actually make the decision to say well let's withdraw our intention to leave and stay in the e.u. . the us secretary of state has given moscow an ultimatum over its alleged violations of a key nuclear missile treaty might pompei over so as russia has two months to show is complying with the i.m.f. before washington pulls out. in the light of these facts the united states today declares it is very russia in material breach of the treaty and will suspend our obligations as a remedy effective in sixty days unless russia returns to fall and verifiable compliance so russia now possible last chance to call me back into compliance with the irony of cheating but we must also stop to prepare for a world without the treaty the us has previously accused russia of building missiles in violation of the treaty of moscow denies all the allegations claims u.s. missile defense systems in europe to protect europe from places like iran could be used i

that is contempt of parliament. there is no real dispute as to the meaning and legal effect of the withdrawal agreement. the attorney general could not have been clearer about the legal position yesterday. in fa ct, the legal position yesterday. in fact, mr speaker, no honourable member could say in all honesty that the attorney general has done anything other than treat this house with the greatest of respect. they are placing themselves of parliament. they are placing themselves in contempt of parliament. and as for the legal position document published yesterday that was going to fix it all, that could have hardly been more patronising . the gu pitt, whose mps used to support the government said the statement did not comply with the commons motion. this approach, this secret approach only confirms in people ‘s minds that there is something to hide. and, if anything, the government is scoring an own goal by refusing to publish this. members will know that parliament was meant bible makes it very clear that the g

if it loses again, parliament is dissolved and it is a general election. that isa and it is a general election. that is a clear statement of intent at this stage that labour would seek to, in immediate aftermath of that vote in parliament, collar vote of no confidence in the government. the conservative party chairman has said that if it happened the government would have to deal with it, but the best way to prevent that is for parliament to pass the deal on december the 11th. thank you. let's speak now to the conservative mp and former attorney general dominic grieve. judy government published the legal advice and phil? there are two macro issues, the first is whether it was right for parliament to ask for the advice and in my view it is not. it is important that the advice the attorney general produces is confidential to government. i made that point when we had the debate on this a couple of weeks ago. the difficulty now is the government did not contested because it felt it was going to lose the vote. therefore it accepted the terms of the address aski

and in the case of government, sometimes you shouldn't reveal everything to parliament. these are unprecedented times, though, with probably one of the biggest decisions parliament will make for generations. having said that, though, where does this leave theresa may? the daily telegraph saying the day theresa may lost control, the daily telegraph seen as one of the pro— conservative newspapers. i mean, there is no precedent set here because he it has never been done before. we were expecting her to have to fight her corner, and that is what she is doing. i think we also saw her grovelling to say please be reasonable, see it from the remainers's with a view. and u nfortu nately remainers's with a view. and unfortunately she is doing what she has to do. she is standing up there and she is fighting her corner —— remainers' point of view. it has given her a few more votes, because the dominic grieve amendment that has passed and says that if she loses next week, parliament has opposed the government will have a say as to the next stage is and what brexit could look li

parliament became much more important this week. two key votes in parliament were asserting its authority to shape the deal. the non—binding decision from the european court that gives parliament the right if it is confirmed to revoke article 50. my question for the constitutional scholars is, what happens parliament says we have made no progress, we revoke article 50, and the government decides not to do it. the revocation i think is a red herring, unfortunately. it would annul the result of the referendum by parliament unilaterally and they are very few takers for that. almost any other course of action we could imagine after theresa may's deal is defeated would require an application for an extension of article 50, and that does require the eu to agree. it was relevant to the degree that were there to be a referendum to give parliament the ability to revoke article 50. or a general election. or a leadership election for the conservative party. i feel like that woman who said, not again! this is essentially an english problem. s

it's not like parliament binding on the hands of future parliament. or, like you have a new party in power suit you can overturn that the manifested. this will be international law that has to be written in. if not, it has no legal weight. do to be written in. if not, it has no legalweight. do you to be written in. if not, it has no legal weight. do you accept that people have a valid concern that the uk could be topped by this backstop condition? absolutely. you could not write it with deal. ironically, this gives away parliamentary sovereignty. this is an agreement of the budget, not one that anyone should sign up to. it is the worst of all deals. so you think people should get another say in the matter? i've always said that parliament should resolve this. it's why i thought for parliament. i can't see any outcome that will create a solution to this. if the kind by the 21st of january, then it has to be put back to the people. we cannot carry on with this weight. were wasting money and time and in all of this. the rest of the world is looking at us