a united ireland has certainly come back on the agenda. as a result of. the break the decision much earlier. than expected. some people feel there is provision in the good friday agreement that there can be a border pole in other words a referendum people of northern ireland as to whether they want to remain in the united kingdom or whether they want to be part of a united ireland i think it's more complex than that i don't think that this is going to ever come to a head count let's just have a referendum and let's just count how many want to be united ireland how many want to be in the united kingdom. because the reality is is that there is a very large number of people in northern ireland who are british who value their connection with the the rest of the united kingdom and therefore i think that would need to happen there's a lot of discussion in advance about an agreed arland about agreeing what type of future arrangements would apply on the island so i think that that is a discussion that requires a lot of consideration i think it needs to be a very

ireland do you guys it's just smile as you read those stories or do you sense the real being with them that you go at least it's true in the sense of i was going to bring back the reunification of our country is going to be republicans on the end of it is it really got me how would you i mean she has failed to unite and unite to listen to what you see which we have a field of feel to me that's a work in progress nasa fact they were what we're doing meaning these people can do what they want to me that's hoover dam and they can do we're not going there figure and then please politics but the reality is that chen feehan republican i have been a republican all my life i have been arguing and debating for reunification of our country all my life and i will do that on tell that day because i think that's a fine important aspect i mean with regards to the conversation on our end it's been more problems over the last recent months in the last year than ever before and i just turn to republicans making sure that. our job is to reunite our content our job is to do that and it's our job to convi

impact of the united ireland. i think from our point of view is howus at the moment we preserve the good friday agreement as we move through brexit actually occurring. the create -- a key principle is the principle of consent, of saying that unity could only take place if it was something there was support for the northern ireland and we believe at this point to the opening of that issue is something that could be divisive. it is something that will be very damaging for the island and we believe all of our political focus should go on how we managed to exit an orderly way. vonnie: contagion from all of this chaos in britain has to be affecting ireland socially and economically. how bad is it? >> at the moment we are seeing are irish economy continue to be very stable and continue to grow. to date we have not seen a contagion from the british economy begin to affect our performance. i think if we look at how this will develop in the future is no doubt at all that a slowing down british economy could be very adverse

ireland because we are fighting for united and and that's exactly where we are and exactly we will deliver that ok well i think juries are made to be confident that your policy will . maybe that something you just would agree on but then looking to the future what will you do with the european union to fight new liberalism. bank bailouts privatization because just like right wing near liberal policy is you cheerlead brussels at the blue barrel where we're not cheerleading and i think we have with europe and we have steered them right here to you over many years in fact are for i mean peace across a environed well. but we do believe that it is important that we remain because to fix it and then you better fix it then i think it's very important because the people and this is done to people the people north of around fifty six percent of those people for to remain and the europe. and part of and i think that photons to me respect that i should respect that float and i hope that the british government can respect that's full disk will and just for me i know you don't go into the house as we l

ireland will be decided on another day. the french president's attempting to quell weeks of violence by offering an olive branch to his on green nation after four weekends of nationwide protests the money will mccraw made a dramatic statement on monday evening. economy i am declaring a state of economic and social emergency upon the i accept my share of responsibility and initial attempt to appease the revolt has failed the so-called yellow vest protests continued even when the government scrapped a fuel tax hike and now this week in his first public address since the. two other demands like tax concessions and the minimum wage rise. well political science professor john locke and told us he thinks that the new measures announced by more crowding will not save his presidency france's broke france's not only broke but france is chronically in debt other european countries are in debt as well but france's situation is particularly severe mcconnell came in promising to reduce public spending he said he would reduce it by betwe

many nationalists see brexit as a means by which we could have a united ireland. many unions see it by means as the union can strengthen even more. and all that's undermined the work of three decades. the problem for brexiteers, my lords, including my good friends in the dup is that they never had a proper plan of their own. and voters weren't told that in 2016, now it is crystal clear, they still don't have one. they charge the prime minister with a mandate to square and impossible circle and she has done her very best. but it is rightly unacceptable. a former northern ireland first minister, lord trimble, said that if the deadlock led to the election of a jeremy corbyn government that would be a short—term problem. so we've got one side, a negative thing which is short—term, and the other hand we have got another negative thing, bigger negative thing which will be generational in its application. if we don't kill blackstock and this agreement now it's going to haunt us for years. decades, maybe even generations as well. no deal is completely unacceptable, th

ireland the whole thing is a kind of bush at this point and i can't pretend and i would be a damn fool to pretend to know what happens next so many can see you nodding your head there and do you see theresa may facing pressure to resign if she's not able to get votes. like she has ever since last year's general election where she seemed to throw away this amazing lead in the polls and and scrape a victory you know and i think viewers overseas might think you know it's incredible that here we are so far down the line where you know none of us know what's going to happen the government doesn't know what's going to happen and you know the path looks completely unclear you know closer to whatever option you take and i think one of the real difficulties here is that as unpopular as trees and maze plan is are it is not faced by. a consensus around an old alternative plan you know that she gets attacked for being too hard too soft too close too far it's not all coming from one place and as long as she's getting that kind of flak you know you might she might take the view that she's doing the

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and the republic of ireland has become a key issue in rexx it united kingdom seemingly hastert choose between staying in the customs union with the e.u. or putting up a hard border isolating northern ireland are this really the only choice is is there a third option that could work. no i think that i think that summer summarizes a really the agreement that was made twenty years ago between our london the united kingdom the good friday agreement which provided for the settlement of the conflict in northern ireland regulates all the relations between men relations between our land on the united kingdom and arising from. both the irish government and the u.k. government and indeed all of the political parties in northern ireland and in the south of ireland or. do not want to see a hard border we do not want to see a return to the days when there were customs posts when there were soldiers police when there was a real physical border there right now there is a perfectly free movement between both parts of the island people travelling between top. belfast for example. most times don't even

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of the united kingdom along with ireland and the united kingdom. they then thought that it would be very nice, but it was decided they wouldn't be able to control that. so they then wanted a six-county olster which they would be able to manage and control. but then having decided to have the necessary majority, they then organized in such a way as to have permanent control. and during the period of 48 years it was in existence, it was a permanent majority. usually in a parliamentary of 52 m.p.s, or 10 or 12 were -- were nationalists or sort of known unionists. despite what carson had warned them, sir edward carson had warned them, he said to them, be careful of the catholic community. treat them faithfully. he said, and they will stay with you. but if you are in just, then yo will create your own difficulty. but what they did first of all with gerrymandering, and in this country you know what gerrymandering is because that's -- that phrase was started here -- gerrymandered places where there was a nationalist majority and places like derry and oman

from the rest of the united kingdom because of special arrangements to do with northern ireland in terms of that backstop they will retain some elements of the single market and therefore they will have to be regulated reboarded checks down the irish sea between northern ireland and the united kingdom in order to make sure there is no hard border on the island of ireland and that's something that they fundamentally ideologically politically reject so as long as this deal remains on the table there doesn't seem to be any way of taking the northern ireland unionists back into the fold and therefore you know it's not just about the big numbers next week it's about day to day government stories of may's got a real problem jonah for the moment many thanks jeremy corbyn the labor party opposition leader there on his feet trying to take some political chunks out of theresa may the u.k. prime minister day two of the debate focusing in on cybersecurity and what they're going to do with it how they're going to handle it how they're going to deconstruct it because cybersecurity is a big deal of cou

we are very close to the united kingdom, and ireland is the united kingdom, and ireland is the one that wants the united kingdom to stay in the european union but it respects the opinion of the people the most. presumably... she can make the point that if the uk leaves with no deal, and nothing us uk leaves with no deal, and nothing us is found in this place, don't act automatically result in the kind of border crisis everybody wants to avoid. therefore, it may be better to give a bit more of a concession at this stage to beat the no—deal brexit agreed so that that crisis does not happen in march 2019. yes, in an ideal world, that is what would happen. there are two things. there is nothing guaranteed in that respect and there is no guarantee evenif respect and there is no guarantee even if that is done, which cannot be done from our point of view. many of the remainers are against it, many of the brexiteers against it. it's a very difficult situation. ultimately, they have to face the music, and then we will see what happens. nobody wants a hard brexit, but that's entirely in the gif

and ireland every two years, was named after president bush's grandfather and his namesake.

abstention it to the d u p represents northern ireland in the u.k. parliament the d.p. wants bragg's it and yet it knows that the voters of northern ireland do not so you have this real am person going on where the d u p is the party that looks at the deal that was proffered to them and to parliament by tourism in her government they look at it and they saying no there's no interpretation that could be put on the the backstop as it were that is acceptable to them so there is the problem as it were that the chief problem there is how does one interpret what was put there in a way that's acceptable bear in mind that whatever clarification comes from here would have to be clarified by all e.u. leaders is mr valid co you refer to the tea shop is he likely to accept what's put there again lots of questions not many answers and remember furthermore that theresa may was intending to go to speak to the tea shock in dublin today but because of this confidence confidence vote she's had to put that visit off now clearly if she loses that that confidence vote sh

and ireland every two years, was named after president bush's grandfather and his namesake.

garland and provided also for the totality of the relationships between the united kingdom and ireland and this was always going to be an issue that was going to have to be resolved as part of. the united kingdom leaving the european union there are lots of complex issues involved there's the issue of costumes there's the issue of. environmental issues thirty issue of the single market all of these issues are involved i think it was probably an issue that needed to have been addressed more clearly before the referendum took place but we are where we are and it has to be addressed now. now the french president's trying to quell weeks of violence by offering an olive branch to his angry nation after four weekends of nationwide protests emanuel mccrum made a dramatic statement. i am declaring a state of economic and social emergency. i accept my share of responsibility and initial attempts to appease the revolt failed the so-called yellow vests protests continued even when the government scrapped a fuel tax hike in his first public address since the unrest mccraw bowed to other demands li

so for many people it's not about precious union and united ireland, it's about a way of life and that's the tragedy of brexit, it took all the things the very sharp lines around sovereignty about whether you look to dubliner irish or british and the sharpen them and the good friday agreement was about softening all of those issues and allowing them to fade into the background and brexit has landed them back into the middle of everyday politics, but really it's about conducting people's ordinary lives. but the backstop itself is not necessarily a problem for some politicians, is the fact that we cannot get out of it unilaterally. we had to have the consent of the eu 27, that's not about taking back control, why does that not concern you? well the point is it's an insurance policy, we all hope that in the actual trade discussions, there may be a different way down to around it, but that's the point of an insurance policy. if you can cancel it unilaterally, then your mortgage provider whatever would not cover you and i suppose as i said at the star, it can't be taken on faith that another

, the united kingdom could be stuck in that agreement indefinitely. the body of george hw bush is on its way from texas to washington where it will lie in state. america's 41st president is being remembered today as a model of civility from another era. also on the programme: the bbc‘s david attenborough open the un climate conference in poland, appealing to world leaders to act on behalf of millions world wide who are crying out for change.

the island of ireland has been living with that cents. the issue of brexit. what do you think of the implications of whether it is a soft, hard or no deal brexit for northern ireland in particular in terms of civil rights? they are asserting their rights over the rest of the community, but in northern peace --the hard-won it was a 4% majority vote over the rest of the united kingdom. scotland did not vote for brexit. young people certainly did not vote for brexit. what are the implications that offers much union greater rights and standards were living? those rights are now jeopardized for people within northern ireland. would be theu say most worrying aspect of brexit for the future of civil rights and perhaps peace in northern ireland? >> look. have been there for 40 years. i see the european union membership as part of a progressive evolution of ireland because first of all, a gave us the opportunity to develop our economic potential, which we had failed to do before we joined. secondly, it exposes to scene,ces outside the which i think are helpful and pos

the island of ireland has been living with that since. so the issue of brexit -- what do you think of the implications of whether it is a soft brexit, a hard brexit, or no deal brexit for northern ireland in particular in terms of civil rights? you could say the present democratic unionist party are asserting their rights over the rest of the community, but in northern ireland, the hard-won peace -- it was a 4% majority vote over the rest of the united kingdom. scotland did not vote for brexit. young people certainly did not vote for brexit. what are the implications that the european union offers much greater rights and standards for living? those rights are now jeopardized for people within northern ireland. what would you say would be the most worrying aspect of brexit for the future of civil rights and perhaps peace in northern ireland? amb. mulhall: look. i've been in this business now for 40 years. european union membership as part of a kind of ofgressive evolution ireland, north and south, because, first of all, it gave us the oppo

europe is united around the cause of ireland. presidents of the commissioner junker made that statement this morning. i was chairing the debate. on that issue it will not happen. the question then arises is there an understanding of what the backdrop means. >> tell us because this is so complex and for our audience it's complex. i want to you explain what the backstop is. >> okay. when the united kingdom leaves the european union at the end of march we won't have established the details of our future partnership that is set out in a political declaration. the details will not be worked out. the concern -- in the aftermath of the referendum, the brexit vote, was nobody thought about the consequences for this invisible border with northern ireland and ireland which becomes the external border, the only external land border between the european union, which my member state ireland is, and the united kingdom, which northern ireland is part thereof. so without the political concerns around the peace process, one would say there will b

the fear at some point, that will be separated from the united kingdom, northern ireland is a part of. threatening to break up the united kingdom. it is a tricky issue. not sure how you do it. they like it, but fear northern ireland could end up permanent involved in the eu customs situation which they do not want. how you solve it, quite frankly i have no idea. connell: nobody else seems to either. if anybody knows how you solve the tricky can issue, the border between republic of ireland and northern ireland what other options are available to theresa may? melissa and i wonder will there be another referendum? is that another thing that might happen. might results be different that time around? >> well i think there is no way that the conservative government will agree to another referendum. nor should there be another referendum. 17.4 britons voted in june 2016 to leave the european union. the britain has to respect the will of the british people. there is no need for a second referendum. britain had its vote. british people voted on matter. as long as there is conservative governm

states and ireland that america treats like a colony this is nothing less than a legal dictatorship imposed by the us congress on question rico this tradition of cockfighting has existed since the sixteenth century people of puerto rico will continue to do this one way or another legitimately or covertly. all right we'll be back in about twenty five minutes here on international with more of your saturday stories. mind share that's where the the playing field the battlefield of the furniture center so we're at war right now i mean so whether we're going to take you know trickles down to bullets and bombs and guns and stuff i mean that's immaterial we're already our war right now is being played out in our collective unconscious if you wake up in the morning and you feel it was a massive headache just because china and america are now more in your mind. to do the same. if they're going to be cheap. and then to improve come through so let's idea the right to go to his computer he said if you give them everything slip to the bus.

between british ruled northern ireland, which is part of the united kingdom, and the republic of ireland, which is an independent country which is an eu member. you can see some of the options on the table. let me show you another map now. some of the options, on the left, a dotted line. that's the border being drawn around all of the united kingdom instead of -- and the island of ireland. instead of drawing it in the irish sea or between northern ireland and the republic. if you look closely at the map on the right, take a look, go one more map over, you can see that that's how you'd otherwise have to divide it, you'd have to have a line that goes through northern ireland and the united kingdom. it that's a problem because right now, there's to real border there. there aren't even border markings. there's to real way to know which side of the boarder you'r on in most places. one side marked in kilometer es, the other side in miles. want to be removed from the eu customs union all together. even though the backstop is said to be temporary, they're not interested in that. this is real pic

and the rest of the united kingdom, i dislike. but i have had also to take into account that this is an arrangement which we can avoid, and secondly that if we were in it, it would be as much an instrument of pain to the european union as it would be to the united kingdom. unfortunately he does not answer the basic point about denying a motion passed by this house, saying that in his view that that is not in the national interest is not good enough. when the government loses a vote it must follow the will of this house under an humble address according to all precedent. in this case, i am convinced that an order to disclose any advice that might have been given would be fundamentally contrary to the interests of this country. it is no use the braying and shouting of members opposite. what i am trying to do is guard the public interest! that's all! and it's time... and it is time they grew up and got real! but that wasn't enough to prevent six opposition parties asking the commons speaker to begin contempt proceedings against the g

of the united kingdom and the republic of ireland which is an e.u. member the backstops been agreed to allow free trade and no customs checks on exports but many british members of parliament who want to leave the e.u. the backstop will mean the whole of the u.k. will remain tied to the e.u. rules indefinitely britain's prime minister at once a time limit on the backstop and any deal with the e.u. to apply to the whole of the u.k. but the e.u. wants the backstop in place for as long as it takes and for it to only apply to normal and. let's bring in our panelists in london we're joined by jonathan this deputy director of the british influence cloud maurice a labor member of the european parliament for london and chair of the european parliament civil liberties justice and home affairs committee and again in westminster catherine mcbride seen economist international trade and competition unit at the institute of economic affairs welcome you all to the program i'd like to begin with you catherine in london has britain made the wrong decision. no i don't

northern ireland is part of the united kingdom, which would leave the e.u. under brexit. both the e.u. and britain wa to prevent the return of a hard border between ireland and northern ireland, but they can't agree on a solution. until there's a final brexit settlement, northern ireland will remain within the e.u.'s free trade zone, and its border with ireland will remain open. theresa may's opponents fear northern ireland's special status would effectively mean partition of the united kingdom. they're also concerned that britain will be apped into following e.u. rules for an indefite period of time. conservative member of parliament, nigel evans: ttorney general has made it clear that we cannot, with the withdrawal agreement,at unally leave the european union. we want to control our own laws in the united kingdom, and the withdrawal agreement as ity currentlands doesn't allow us to do that. >> reporter: conservative rebels sske evans want theresa may to demand new concens from beuropean leaders who areng tough on britain because they don't want any more countries to it

northern ireland even though we are part of the united kingdom would have to treat the rest of the united kingdom asa treat the rest of the united kingdom as a third country. that would mean trade barriers between northern ireland and the rest of the uk which would stop the flow of goods in both ways and to use the terminology would create friction and trade and distort trade. and would exclude northern ireland which is a major exporting area in the united kingdom. it would prevent us from taking part in any trade deals which the united kingdom would make with other parts of the world. when we leave the eu and no i don't think any mp5 and other part of the day and would tolerate such a status for their constituencies and i am sure you can understand why we have objected very strongly and that made it clear to the government that if they persist down this road, we will not be conniving with them in the destruction of our country and our economy. let me put you a quote from jacob rees—mogg. he said the dup will float with the government. but the risk of them losing an election will go up

and the rest of the united kingdom in order to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland — we should have no hard borders anywhere. so, the deal has to be changed or whipped up and if not or ripped up and if not the prime minister has to go? well, that's the message that's coming across from all sections of the house of commons, not just the dup. it has to be ripped up or else this deal will not go through. what happens to the prime minister after that is a matter for the conservative party. with me now is jacob rees—mogg, one of the prime minister's fiercest critics, and labour's chuka umunna, who is one of the leaders of the campaign for another referendum. jacob rees—mogg, you were very clear that you want to the prime minister to go, and her deal to go as well — will you now move against her and have a vote of no confidence? this is the prime minister's deal, she is personally very associated with it. she lost two secretaries of state as she was negotiating it, who it is her deal, it has failed, and she should take responsibility. and will you force that can you persuade co

could remain within european constitution and basically become detached from the rest of the united kingdom. this is fundamentally unacceptable to many mps and the government of northern ireland, obviously. within this there are plenty of other issues that are also being searched for. it is not as a binary as people make it out to be. which is why cabinet ministers are lobbying the prime minister ‘s about other further concessions as well as the backstop to add a sense of greater control or more of a brexit or a harder brexit, so more of a brexit or a harder brexit, so that people feel they are getting a brexit that they wanted. it is almost an emotional issue as much as almost an emotional issue as much as a political issue. it is interesting, you outline some of the things people are asking for, concession on the timing, the nature of this vote, perhaps giving mps more control over issues like the backstop but she's not having any of that some interesting comments from tony blair saying that the premier is staring at the mp5. tony blair saying that the premier is staring at the

the problem is if brexit succeeds, since northern ireland is part of the united kingdom, they will be out of the european union, and so the irish backstop plan has been created in which, for a transition period, those borders will continue to be open, allowing the free flow of people and goods. theresa may says that can't last forever and the hard line brexiteers say if we postpone this for too long, we will always keep this. so that's what it's all about. that's why she has not been able to even call for a vote, because the plan she reached includes this irish backstop. liz: we know markets hate uncertainty and as a business network, we saw the other day when word came that she would face this no-confidence vote, we saw the markets shake and shiver. right now, we are higher on decent trade news that we believe will bring us closer to a thaw in the relations between the u.s. and china. right now the dow up 243. i want everybody to note that because now it's about 24 minutes away from the announcement on the outcome of that vote. what do you suspect will be the reaction here in the uni

italy from ireland and places it was. always controversial for a whilee they were there were there was always racism and they're always a tax. on the migrants because there was a sense that too many of them were coming at once and this is what you're feeling in europe at the moment but i think there's too little focus on the benefits. of migration over time -- two countries and especially in people. you know because you used to hear all of the that that the social programs and so forth and i think that there's too little discussion about that there's there's a lot of discussion about. that the downsides the dangers and so forth and there's a lot of discussion about integration but i think you know the real problem in europe in especially in in in in germany i think at the moment is that there's this sense. that you can integrate people in that nothing is gogoing to change in society that germany is goining to stayay just as it is and that's that that's not the case in integration does change society's. most people would a

right now, norern ireland, part of the united kingdom, and the republic of ireland, part no the european union, hav land border, and cars and goods can cross easily.ma s plan would keep that border open, but could leave britain subject to european union customs rules indefinitely. conservative politicians argued her version of brexit didn't break the relationship with europe enough. but she also faces opposition from the left,nd labour party leader jeremy corbyn. >> the time for dithering and delay by this government is over. >> schifrin: may has tried to theince europe to twe deal, in emergency meetings with european officials yesterday. but they held firm, vowing no new negotiations or concessions, as german chancellor angela merkel said today. >> ( translated ): we do notny haventention of changing the withdrawal agreement. this is the general position of the 27 member states, and therefore no changes can be expected at the end of our debates. >> schifrin: after sur, tomorrow, y heads to a european union meeting, where she'll once again ask for concessions that the e.u. vows not to gr