well starting on thursday voters across the european union will elect members of the european parliament they'll have to the power to approve e.u. new laws the e.u. budget and choose the president of the european commission 751 seats are up for grabs with each of the $28.00 e.u. countries getting a number of seats proportional to their population the u.k. is still taking part because it's briggs it plans of course not been passed the 2 major blocs in parliaments are the right leaning the p.p. and the center left s n d but the dominance of these coalitions could be eroded by the rise of europe's populists bridget lafon is the director of the global governance program at the european university institute she joins us by skype now from florence to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us so we've seen this we've seen this wave of populist nationalist movements sweeping across europe over the last few years in in the individual european governments but do you expect that to be reflected in this european parliament as these elections begin. well we should remember that the anti

on the part of the european union. member states have not been able to reach a consensus and really as as at these as it has been mentioned that the current crisis in libya only makes these decisions merge and i would like to thank all our guests lee we are out of time charlie actually saw and night thank you very much and thank you too for chick you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at age eight inside story for me imran khan and the whole team here i couldn't. i. people have to weigh your own record on this trial in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel all you do not believe in a two state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we all still are you i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been

will be free from a customs union with the european union says that will have to be done by december 2020 that the northern irish part of the democratic unionists have been propping her up that there will be a same system nor nolen to the rest of the u.k. so the element be divorced so all that to appease them but she's trying to appease the labor party as well and those other much more moderate parties by saying don't worry we won't have a horrible american chicken in the u.k. afterwards will be environmental standards and most crucially of all she said to those m.p.'s on the labor party side if you pass my bill then we will have a confirmation referendum where the public will get to decide if they like it or if they don't presumably the u.k. then doesn't leave the european union it's all to ben p's like it's no they do not speak as much of it is absolutely hated there's no really big new idea in any of it's to try to move the process forward or the bracks there's a saying we've heard all this no thanks very much the labor party side crucially those who won the 2nd referendum are say

on the part of the european union. member states have not been able to reach a consensus and really as as at these as it has been mentioned that the current crisis in libya only makes these decisions merge and i would like to thank all our guests lee we are out of time charlie actually saw and night thank you very much and thank you too for chick you can see the program again any time by visiting our website zero dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at a.j. inside story for me imran khan and the whole team here i couldn't. i. on counting the cost this week trump the world economy all shutting down iran's ability to sell oil. in the stock to pull phone screen of chinese tech giants at the f.b.i. state. talk to the inventor who suspects his technology was stored counting the cost on al-jazeera. maine on al-jazeera. as the world's biggest democracy goes to the polls we focus on the econ

s departure from the european union in disarray. but it is now clear to me that is it it is in the best interests of the country for a new prime minister to lead that effort so i am today announcing that i will resign as leader of the conservative and unionist party on friday the 7th of june so that a successor can be chosen i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. well we'll have an update from paris in a moment but 1st let's talk some more and slee in the london and lauren prime minister she tried calling on admitted she a defeat but she could not deliver breck sets that sound to you prime minister. no you know i mean you can he can say she didn't try. i mean she is notoriously stubborn. and says so herself but the other thing is that there's a definition of insanity which says the try and do the same thing over and over again to get a different results and in the end you know it was doomed to fail if you cast your mind back to the 3 votes the 3 time

out of the european union on october the 31st with or without a deal of course that really puts a lot of people the 48 percent who voted against bracks it in 2016 very fearful angry even at that sprint predicament that possible predicament and with me to discuss that further is alistair campbell he's a prominent campaigner for the 2nd breaks the vote as well as tony blair's former director of human communications now really doesn't know deal look more likely now in this event what i think is parliament over there is rejected and the parliamentary everything is not going to change and it's true that he could if he decides do that then he's got to hang around his neck for a long time. added to which i think the likelihood is that the general election before that now he might think he can win a general election i don't know that we don't know is going to be boris johnson i think one of the worst things about this is a lot of bad things about this but one of the worst things is these people who are refusing even to countenance the idea of another vote on the issues that is destroying our

european leaders are in brussels to begin the tough negotiations to fill the union's top jobs. serbian troops on alert after kosovar police launch an operation in a serb dominated northern region. or. blaming drug companies for the deaths of thousands a landmark court case that could make them responsible for the u.s. opioid crisis. and sports several footballers have been arrested in spain's top 2 leagues over suspected match fixing and in the n.h.l. the boston bruins taking one of the stanley cup finals fighting back to beat the st louis blues 14 in boston. protest leaders in sudan are stepping up the pressure on the transitional military council to hand over power to a civilian government 2 day strike is underway with workers nationwide. walking off their jobs let's get the latest on this now from imran khan who is in hard to for a saw him on 1st day of the strike today to what extent has it been observed and what is the opposition trying to achieve with it. just take a look at the street behind me it's this is one of the busiest streets and you know it seem it's almost comp

european union this is how we need to said that his alliance of europe. the lines of people the nations is looking 410-2150 members and he is going to change the order in the european union how successful do you think he is going to be and what kind of changes will we see in this new european parliament well salvini had 2 main aims the 1st one was to become the largest 5 right party in europe and beat achieve it and the 2nd one was to make more fragmented depleting a scenario in the european union and yet chiefs even d's aim of course we will have probably a centrist coalition with the. the socialists and leave brawls within the european parliament so salvini and his group will be part of the majority but their mind to use their veto power on some issues and they will have an increasing capacity to influence the european agenda so the effect of the european level one be immediate of course is rising very much his influence there is a question on it thank you very much for speaking to us and that seems to be the sentiment here in the capital is better that

union does not have that so that's why the blame is somehow pointed to the european union and i think as as also other speakers said i think 2 other countries russia and china should join the e.u. in somehow implementing the effective in stakes that is more global that other countries could also benefit from this and this should be somehow an autonomy so that the united states government could not reach out to it and as far as i see in the trade bait and trade of sadistic 6 really into global value chains european union is to intertwine its too involved with the u.s. economy so i cannot see such an autonomy i mean in economy terms in the near future but there could be at least some other parts of the economy that. somehow disconnected from the u.s. market and this is possible and that could be achieved through some account of them like in stocks and those could be supported by blocking blocking the statute and many other economic measures could be implemented in order to achieve this ok and and and foresee i think we have run out of time but thank you so much that's all 3 of my guests

political analysts have been widely debating whether liberal values are on retreat in the european union and whether the 28 countries taking part in these parliamentary elections who show a rise in populism will have to wait and see when the polling booths close on sunday evening what the 1st exit polls will tell us about those trends immigration policy the economy and terrorism have been issues at the heart of this debate in europe the 1st direct elections to the european parliament began in 1989 but the 5 year early polls have seen a steady drop in voter turnout ever since 57 percent abstained in 2014 there are 751 seats here in the chamber of the european parliament up for grabs now each country is awarded a portion of them according to their population size or germany has $96.00 that top followed by france with 74 and then britain on 73 once elected the m e p's are organized into transnational blocs the largest group up to now has been the center right european peoples party so when the newly elected any piece take up their position in the chamber their 1st task will be to elect a pr

an idea of leaving the european union is being a soft warm. maintaining a trading relationship people don't seem to want that anymore they are the ones and absolutely hard leave or they don't want to leave it's all and that's left both the concert was a labor stuck and they need to make their minds up quickly because the extension of the european union is given the u.k. on what is going to do about brit's it runs out of the end of october and after the summer which is soon the promise there are only twenty two parliamentary days left before that before the extension runs out so they haven't got much time now to decide what it is that they want to do all right lawrence thank you very much for that laurence leamer live for us in london and the european elections that delivered a boost to austria's chanceless about him curse those involved in a corruption scandal he's people thought do you want to run thirty four percent of the vote news in just one seat curses facing a no confidence vote in parliament on monday let's bring in dominic cain who is

iran's foreign minister says the european union should uphold its obligations under the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and that includes normalizing economic ties with tehran new leaders earlier rejected iran sixty day ultimatum to protect it from u.s. sanctions. the cia has warned friends and colleagues of the murdered journalist america so gee that the potential targets of the saudi government report by time magazine says three people have been given security briefings in recent weeks they include activists he had l a baghdad living in norway and. in canada a third person is in the united states but not to be named security services warned that they may be targeted for continuing to saudis calls for reform in saudi arabia . well hundreds of protesters to try to stop the transfer of french weapons to saudi arabia the demonstrations were organized by rights groups in response to an investigation alleging that friends weapons have been used by saudis against civilians in yemen president a memo micro is under increasing pressure to review arms sales to the kingdom. it's a junior

out of the european union very chalons has more from outside the u.k. parliament in london. so who will be the next prime minister of the united kingdom well 14 tories have already said they'll consider running 5 have actually throwing their hats into the ring they all estimate of a rule reste to it's hancock and jeremy hunt and also boris johnson perhaps the most familiar to viewers around the world is the former mayor of london and foreign secretary he is the bookies favorite by a considerable margin but historically speaking the favorite usually doesn't do very well in conservative party leadership races whoever gets it will face exactly the same challenges with it's to reason may have just the best time to get it done the deadline is looming at the end of october they will be leading a minority governments of a divided party a divided country dealing with the european union that doesn't want to renegotiate to resume a deal and then you have the labor party opposition which will do everything in its power try and bring down the government and force a general election. don

your child is there i'm still robin and these are all top news stories the european union has rejected the sixty day ultimatum iran gave world powers to fulfill our commitments to the twenty fifty nuclear deal comes after tehran rollback nuclear restrictions but stopped short of violating its twenty fifteen deal with world powers meanwhile the u.s. announced new sanctions targeting iran's a metal and mining industries french president manuel macro told reporters the iran nuclear deal must be saved and that the accord signature ease should do all they can to ensure the islamic republic respects it joy look at the end of the earth today learned that in france from the beginning has strongly and gays in the nuclear agreement to be signed in negotiated this agreement is not enough we need to completed by twenty twenty five following iran's political activity and regulating also the regional activity and we wish to maintain this pillar of the pealing we must maintain it iran must stay within this agreement and we will do everything to make sure that happens if china says it has kept its pro

for things on the way to in the european union elects and members of the european parliament between now and sunday people from 28 nations will choose a p.c. represent the u.k. . and the netherlands are the 1st to vote. in the northwest and syria rebels have prostate cancer attack against pro-government forces facing has been intensifying in a province since last month despite a cease fire brokered by turkey and russia. and a food outbreak in the u.s. is largest detention facility in texas has forced officials to move hundreds of detainee's the decision came after a 16 year old somalian boy dias after getting sick in custody he's the 6th miner to die in u.s. border patrol facilities since september. reports the largest border detention center in the u.s. has stopped taking in new migrants for processing after a large number of people at the center came down with high fevers and flu symptoms officials say the closure came shortly after the death of 16 year old carlos hernandez vasquez on may 20th the guatemalan boy who traveled to the u.s. without his parents spent 6 days at the macal

leaving the european union right so how is all this going down in the european. well claude younker the head of the european commission who's who's going later this year was was quoted this morning as saying that he thought he assumed that the u.k. would have to have another extension after the current one end zone october 31st he may well think that there are lots of other people in the european union particular the french they were so sick of all this that they they actually want the u.k. out even if it ends up being the dealers' as i was saying earlier on you do have to ask yourself i mean given that when theresa may go as well as her david cameron the last concert of prime minister john major who lost his job as prime minister over the over rouse of the maastricht treaty inside his own party and margaret thatcher as long ago as a 980 s. that's the last 4 conservative prime ministers who have to resign over their difficulties with the european union and across parliament they don't know what to do and i just think they're oh you know a number of european count

he supports an agreement with the european union to prevent crushing out supports putting that proposal when agreed to a public backed labor's infighting led directly to a surge in support for the greens and liberal democrats the total vote for parties which supports not leaving the european union at all was over 40 percent so they could say they won as well the number of votes the fact that more people have supported remain parties if you count us as the lead remaining party and then greens and change u.k. add those votes together more people have supported us and supported the bracks it party the government has to listen there is one piece of common ground between the brics that party and its pro european opponents all of which outflanked labor and the conservatives they're all demanding electoral reform the traditional 2 party system of politics in this country is now under enormous strain and i hope that this will be a sign to the conservatives and the labor party that we need to have a proportional system and i truly believe when you look at those 2 parties there is more than one p

of the european union without feeling the advantages. of the european parliament consists of 751 representing more than 500000000 people from 28 countries the big question is how many of them will give their backing to new alliance a far right european leaders. doctors in france so switched on life support by court order for a man at the center of the country's right to die debate. suffered severe brain damage and became quadriplegic after a traffic crash in 2008 doctors had started turning off life support on monday before the appeals court ordered it be restored and the decision to keep alive has split his family and the country but ash about lawyers following developments from paris. of us along best case is a very high profile one in france it's one that is a divided people across the country and it's actually torn apart his own family he's a 42 year old man in 2008 he had a motorbike accident and ever since he has been in a vegetative state in a hospital nice to france now he can breathe on his own he can sometimes open his eyes but

from the european union is a major transition and regardless of what happens in british politics the german government will do everything to achieve a good partnership an orderly exits and good cooperation. all theresa may will be remembered for presiding over one of the most chaotic periods in the country's modern political history lawrence looks back almost 3 years as prime minister of the united kingdom and it's safe to say it's not been an easy right. so well the new prime minister from the political chaos that followed the bricks and river. and i'm set out her agenda which suggested a bold change of direction for the governing conservative party we will make britain a country that works not for a privileged few but for every one of us. that will be the mission of the government i lead and together we will build a better britain. she been the home secretary in charge of the police immigration and security for several years with a reputation for hard work competence respected but not loved by colleagues but as prime minister less than a year into the job it was her decision to cal

from the european union is a major transition and regardless of what happened. im pretty sure politics in german government will do everything to achieve a good partnership an orderly exit and good cooperation cyril ramaphosa will be sworn in for a full term as south africa's president on saturday if you cough as last year after jacob zuma resigned over corruption allegations of a poser has prioritized reform and economic revival well those are the headlines for you to stay with us here on al-jazeera the news continues after inside story. on counting the cost where did it all go wrong for argentina's champion of the free market can actually stay in power as a populist makes a comeback a potential multi-billion dollar fine on course to break up facebook and bailout number 13 for pakistan counting the cost on i just. read has been an independent state says 99 to one but it's only just emerging from decades of sanctions and diplomatic isolation as a 28th birthday we ask why hundreds of thousands. have become refugees this is inside. hello welcome to the program on.

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iran's foreign minister says the european union should uphold its obligations under the two thousand and fifteen nuclear deal and that includes normalizing economic ties with tehran. is a reefs tweet comes hours after the leaders rejected iran's sixty day ultimatum to protect it from u.s. sanctions and saved a landmark agreement from collapse but they say they are committed to maintaining that the. pope francis has issued a new low making it compulsory for all clergy in the catholic church to report case says and cover ups of sexual abuse that they crave requires priests and nuns to report sex crimes to their superiors but not to civilian authorities crimes heard during confessions are excluded those are the top stories that stay with us twenty years of me continues next hour i. thank. him. there have been more attacks by shifting. rages from rival tribes. killed one of those old a half brothers and two uncles. i was around with a mile. and the little ones that feel good and only good they're going to. don't go on he is going on or i'll give you. off. right. through the deal because

said before you do wonder if the european union actually wants the u.k. in anymore because you know this this tortured relationship between the u.k. and europe is now done for a reason a david cameron john major who lost his job of the maastricht and margaret thatcher not in a sense the last 4 conservative prime minister all that lost their job over. the u.k.'s relationship with europe there's a perfectly good argument to say that if boris johnson became prime minister he might pursue hardbacks and just say we're going anyway in that seat but the beer revolt in parliament against that because parliament doesn't want to know till bracks it's something i think which would clear the air would either be a 2nd referendum or a general election and that have between presumably the end of august and the end of october to try to do it if they could but i think in europe just thinking what what why why can't these people make their minds up or is leave there for the moment you know how it will unfold lawrence lee reporting from london. a pretty well still ahead inc

hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the european union and the foreign ministers of germany france and the u.k. have rejected the sixty fail to meet them by iran's president hassan rouhani for world powers to fulfill promises of the twenty fifty nuclear deal in a joint statement they said they remain fully committed to the preservation and full implementation of the u. greenland and the u.s. has impose new sanctions on iran targeting its steel and mining industries trawlers to iran's announcement to ease some of its obligations to the nuclear deal. south korea's military says north korea has fired an unidentified projectile it's unclear if it was just a single one or more that launch took place from sin already in the north planning on province south korea says it was directed towards the east the us president has accused china of breaking the deal ahead of further trade talks donald trump promised to more than double tariffs on two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods china says it's ready to retaliate. by the way you see the chair because it broke that. they broke the l

sanctions and of course the european union european leaders would know that that's probably quite unlikely they'll be able to come up with anything in that timeframe and what they're rejecting is the imposition of that timeframe in the first place because what e.u. leaders have been saying all along is that they're doing everything they can to try and support this deal to try and support this twenty fifteen accord that they say is the best bet for regional peace security and stability in in the region they are saying that they are working hard to support iran so i think in a sense this is the e.u. saying to iran we understand we are trying to do our best but we won't be dictated to as to how long we have to try and come up with perhaps a better strategy to contour these u.s. actions and i suppose the big question is natasha's how long. do you feel like they can continue to back the agreement if they think iran is not complying with it because we saw just twenty four hours ago iran saying that it will suspend some of its commitments. that's right and the french defense minister on the wedne

away covering the results and what they mean from across the european union in a few moments we'll be getting the view from paris and brussels but 1st let's speak to lawrence lead who is live in london for us so long as they break the party led by nigel farage the clear winner there was this another u.k. vote on another referendum breaks it up. well yes and i mean obviously i was taking everything to do with politics here but as usual the brics it's a deeply confusing outcome because both the lever's and the remain as are both claiming victory. as you said his single issue brecht's that party won overwhelmingly the biggest share getting 31 percent so he says they won but at the same time if you add up the combined votes of the 5 parties which all have a stated position of either just abandoning breakfast or at least having another referendum one reading of that is that they got a just over 40 percent so they're claiming that they won as well but there is one thing in the fallout of all this confusion that the brics it party and those other part of the liberals in the greens in the s.n

but it's also provided a lot of food for thought in the european union with me now is matthew bevington a policy research or at the think tank u.k. in a changing europe at king's college london matthew what is the general idea of this today brussels of a what do they make of this. i think for brussels this really just confirms already how dysfunctional the u.k. politics is becoming i really don't think it changes that much in the side all they can really really do is stand back and watch their own like each try and get involved in the campaign and try and favor $1.00 to $1.00 candidate over another i think for their position has always been we negotiate with the government we don't negotiate with m.p.'s as long as treason is the prime minister she's the one we deal with and whoever else takes it from her that she will deal with them so i don't think we're going to become embroiled in this so just see what happens and deal with it afterwards that have already been particularly strong voices saying that there is definitely no room for an renegotiation here is almost as if preempting that

union that's why it's important that this house actually comes to a decision on that issue. and referendum the 2nd reading of the withdrawal agreement bill will. this house to come to a decision. issue it would also enable the house to come to a decision on a 2nd referendum which i continue to believe would not be the right route for this country to go we should deliver on the 1st referendum. anything about a 2nd. demonstrations continue in the nation's capital where protesters are angry at the results of last month's presidential election and the support of jakarta on lockdown after 6 people were killed you know riots on tuesday night has more than jakarta because. one of the elections by quite a huge margin 2 digit 11 percentage points which translates to nearly 17000000 votes analysts have pointed out that this in a way undermines the opposition's claim that the elections were rigged and also worth remembering that international observers have largely declared the elections to be free and fair despite. claims that the elections that there were fraud irregularities during

union and if we went through with bracks it and left the european union that money would come back and be spent on the n.h.s. now the arithmetic of that 350000000 pounds a week has been picked over in the past 3 years since the referendum and found to be jus b.s. put it that way i won't give you the nuts and bolts but it's closer to around 160000000 certainly nothing like 350000000 a week. down kosovo serbs are valid to resist further police raids in the semi autonomous region protesters in north much of spoke out against the police operation on tuesday dozens of people were arrested in an operation against organized crime and corruption serbia but its troops on the high alert saying the arrests in the area largely populated by ethnic serbs were designed to intimidate. israel's prime minister is in a race against time to form a coalition government or faced unprecedented 2nd election of the year in netanyahu is right wing coalition has until midnight local time to secure the support of other door lieberman's nationalist better new faction without him netanyahu has no parliamentary majo

well in many cases they'll be watching for 2 very specific things let's handle the european union side of this 1st when it comes to this nuclear deal ever since the united states left the deal about a year ago and started its maximum pressure campaign on iran iran has been exacting a maximum diplomatic pressure campaign on europe pressing europe to keep its side of the deal pressing europe to honor the nuclear deal itself and make sure that it can help mitigate help iran mitigate the u.s. sanctions against it the pressure on iran's economy but iranian leaders have in the last several weeks and months been very vocally disappointed in their european allies in the signatories to the nuclear deal they've been disappointed with their partners saying that they've been unable to resist american pressure they've been unable to maintain their own sovereignty when it comes to diplomacy in order to help iran navigate the sanctions so as to maintain the integrity of the nuclear deal so iranians will be looking for strong words from the european union foreign policy chief fredricka mongering he ha

with heads of state from the european union in brussels david what can we expect as an outcome to to all of this today. the legend that the last time to reason may was here was in fact one of those emergency summits that we got so used to talking about briggs it and the others the other members of the european union dined with her in an ante room but this time at least she will join them at the table. everything that's going on here shows that in future the decisions of the european parliament will take much more time and compromise on those of the commodities of course which trees in may the british prime minister ran out of in her negotiations with the european union and i think the lesson that everybody's learning is that there is a new face to the european politics in the european parliament and it is one of compromise it will take time it will take negotiation but this is after all real politics but don't expect a decision after dinner tonight david many thanks officers david chase of the live in brussels this is the news from al-jazeera still to come on the program as their inv

welcome back every count of the top stories on al-jazeera european union leaders have rejected iran sixty day i want to mate and to protect it from u.s. sanctions and save the twenty fifty nuclear deal from collapse but they say they are fully committed to the agreement and have cautioned the u.s. against taking any action that would harm their fates. donald trump says he believes he can reach a deal with china this week as negotiators from the two sides for pads and meet for trade talks in the coming hours the world's two biggest economies have been knocked in a trade war for the past year and vote counting continues in south africa's general election the ruling african national congress body looks set to retain power but with its smallest ever vote share since the end of apartheid. south korea's military says north korea has fired two unidentified rockets or missiles the launch happened in cool song in the north pyongyang province south korea says the projectiles were directed towards the east rob mcbride has more from seoul. south korean defense officials confirming that two projectile

european union leaders at the meeting in brussels to discuss who will head the block's institutions no party won an overall majority in the recent e.u. parliament elections france and germany are it's odd silver he should get the top jobs have a change to reports from brussels. who's next for the top job in brussels the german chancellor angela merkel arrived with the name of only one man on her lips to replace john cloud as president of the european commission not to me is this will not truly integrate coalition i support man for their vote but not all coalition partners do the same with the 46 year old but varian has never held a government elected office in his life but as the leader of the european people's party recent tradition at least say the job should be here as we know that we cannot celebrate a big victory we lost seats but we are still 2nd as a 1st party and that's why we are ready to talk now is everyone to sit together to find a common understanding prosecutor the french president emanuel macron though was clearly against his judgment part of choice and he's gaining supp

still wants to maintain the twenty fifteen accord i don't also enable the european union to find new ways of misnaming the u.s. is great on international trade for six cutters a growing what's important is the e.u. strategy because today there's a problem with u.s. sanctions on iran but tomorrow it could be cuba russia or venezuela so the europeans are building tools to allow the e.u. to overcome what they see as an acceptable u.s. dominance in the global marketplace that they can acknowledge that your plus as tensions escalate between the u.s. and iran european leaders are caught in the middle washington has sent an aircraft carrier group to the gulf and accused iran of threatening american troops iran's reported to be reconsidering its commitment to parts of the accord on tuesday french presidential sources indicated that if tehran violates the deal the e.u. would be forced to reimpose sanctions the deal they fought so hard to save looks increasingly fragile natasha buckler al-jazeera paris let's look at south africa now which will be voting for a new parliament on wednesday and wh

election plus a further people in this country who actively want to leave the european union with no plan and no deal they are determined and they are organized and their opponents are in some disarray with the conservatives and labor at war with themselves and each other it has fallen so far you've other passes to try to fight off brick says here's a new one called change u.k. currently polling in single digits. and here's another resurgent centrist liberal democrats on around 15 percent nowhere near as high as the bricks at policy so why don't they all stand together and if they don't which one should people vote for. going to fearing i would be much happier if there were 9 parts or 2 working together on a common threat from it didn't happen i'm not blaming anybody it's just the way it is now we're dealing with the reality and i think it's very clear from the polls people are gathering around the liberal democrats and i would encourage them to be right then there's the greens registering the highest ever polling in the u.k. they accepted there had been infighting between the remain

leaving the european union with with no deal at all and so having spent 6 weeks eventually fruitlessly negotiating with the opposition labor party to try to come to a deal that all collapsed at the end of last week she's now trying to bring the hard side of her own party and all those level decisions who either don't want to leave the european union or at least want a 2nd referendum on boards similar tain is lead by offering concessions to both sides i won't go through them all now she she listed 10 of them but the main one to try to get labor m.p.'s on board because that's who she is now looking to to try to get the deal passed is by promising them a 2nd referendum if a deal goes through or least a vote on a 2nd referendum if a deal goes through and so in trying to do that she's effectively try and sue peel away labor m.p.'s opposition politicians and others from opposition parties who don't want breakfast at all to try to support it so on the promise that they would have a vote on a confirmation vote it's called on a 2nd referendum will it work is the question probably not it hasn't

the european union has voiced its criticism of the u.s. decision not to allow some countries to continue trading with iran for oil iranian oil sales have already fallen by a half since the us pulled out of the twenty fifteen nuclear deal the tasha butler reports from powers since donald trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran deal one year ago european leaders have been battling to save it this week britain germany france and the e.u.'s foreign ministers criticize washington's decision to end sanctions waivers for some iranian oil exports to countries including china and india in a joint statement they said the lifting of nuclear related sanctions aims at having a positive impact not only on trade and economic relations with iran but most importantly on the lives of the iranian people in february the e.u. launched a new payment mechanism called instax to allow e.u. companies to continue trading with iran and bypass u.s. sanctions by avoiding transfers in dollars the e.u.'s foreign policy chief told the un security council that ensuring regio

population who felt the burden of the european union without feeling the advantages of. the european parliament consists of 751 amy pease representing more than 500000000 people from 28 countries the big question is how many of them can give their backing to new alliance a far right european leaders. new zealand police have charged the man accused of the christ church mosque shootings with terrorism brenton tyrant already faces charges of murder and attempted murder $51.00 people were killed in the march attack the self-proclaimed white supremacist is expected back in court in june. of former white house lawyer don mcgann is following u.s. president donald trump's instructions and refusing to testify before a congressional committee on the russia investigation began was asked to appear in front of the house judiciary committee on tuesday if each and prominently in special counsel robert manas investigation into possible russian interference during the 2016 election the white house says mcgann has constitutional immunity but as well and president nicolas maduro has propos

population who felt the burden of the european union without feeling the advantages of. the european parliament consists of 751 amy pease representing more than 500000000 people from 28 countries the big question is how many of them will give their backing to new alliance a far right european leaders. global sea levels could rise by 2 meters by the end of this century twice as high as predicted if carbon emissions continue unchecked that's according to a study which draws on new data revealing how the ice sheets in greenland and antarctica are warming and melting the rise could entirely submerge some island nations and coastal cities and more than 118000000 people could be displaced the authors say human activity is behind rising global temperatures but it can be avoided if carbon emissions are cut or jonathan bamber is a professor of glaciology at the university of bristol and is the lead author of the report he joins us now from bristol good to have you with us so 1st off talk to us a little bit more about how you arrived at these projections and what they're based on

union and if we went through with bracks it and left the european union that money would come back and be spent on the n.h.s. now the arithmetic of that 350000000 pounds a week has been picked over in the past 3 years since the referendum and found to be judaists put it that way i will give you the nuts and bolts but it's close it's around $160000000.00 it's certainly nothing like $350000000.00 a week and the test now is whether this individual marcus ball busy can make the charge stick and the threshold is fairly high ridge of the details it's a public officer while he's an m.p. so that would work wilfully neglecting to willfully misconduct himself to such a degree as to amount to an abuse of the public's trust without a reasonable excuse or justification and what he's done is today one of 1st victory and that and that boris johnson the judge's order the powers junction should come to westminster magistrates court for a preliminary hearing which point the case will be sent to a crown court and john so will have to ask the answer he can brush this off he will have to answer these charg

as such a figure that they can direct the european union so that's the importance of the parliament and it's interesting one of the comments that you will hear in most european countries for people that are angry at the you is that they all say well it doesn't really represent me those of represent my views it's a bunch of an elected people in brussels in the deep irony was that people felt unrepresented and then turnout was very low the one time when they could vote directly but we've seen a change in that it does seem that now where looking at an overall e.u. turnout of about 51 percent which may not sound like much by national election standards week when you consider that some turnouts in 2014 in some countries were as low as 13 percent then 51 percent turnout across the union is certainly something to celebrate for the people that want to move toward the europeans a few more engaged with the european union thank you very much bob or sara in brussels of course barbara mentioned italy there and all eyes are on the battle between the 2 ruling parties that have been some exit poll

germans in cities nationwide have shown their support for the european union before the e.u. elections the parliamentary elections later this week for lynne and cologne were among the venues for the no hate no a yes to change marches protests his voice 2nd cern's about the rise of far right nationalist parties in europe. in venezuela opposition leader says he won't have what he calls false negotiations with president nicolas maduro. why don't rally supporters after a meeting between the opposition and government representatives in norway i do or say his trying to build a peaceful agenda to resolve the political and economic crisis. we have a path a strategy of people that are mobilized a plan for the country we will not be deceived government will not deceive us they are so weak and insist they want to manipulate talks we went because of an invitation from a friendly country norway let me say clearly to norway the context group europe the united states the lima group we appreciate all you if it but we have barry clear dura government will not confuse us. the president of boli

union's ability to do that european countries have tried and arguably not managed to be successful in trying to make some of those things work there was a banking bypass that didn't work iranians have also accused the european union for working alongside the united states for eventually siding with the united states against iran so there's a great deal of distrust will be watching very carefully what comes out of these talks but there is a great deal of popularity in iran of federico mongering of the e.u. policy chief is very popular she was a stalwart supporter of the deal with iran and she's been a harsh critic of the u.s. departure secretary pompei was likely to come up against the harshest resistance the most pushback from the european leader when they meet later today so that is probably who iranians will be watching most closely they'll be trying to get a read from the e.u. foreign policy chief of the direction that europe might be going in now we are on the clock here when iran decided to stop cooperation limit some of its cooperation with the nuclear deal as part of the deal i

have been at this stage is that the government i mean the european union has tried to do this different. those laws to to fight against extremism online that require platforms for instance to take down any terrorism related content within an hour of a notice being issue and all the company risks a fine can this european model be applied elsewhere on the global stage well i think what we need to do is we need to separate these tech giants and regulate them separately and be very clear that our regulation is for these centralized data harvesting companies so that we don't by accident also destroy the potential of a decentralized internet because the we can build technology differently we can build it's so that we have privacy and we can have freedom of speech so imagine for example that every one of us had our own place on the answer that's that we owned and controlled that people could find us using a domain name for example you know let's let's make domain names noncommercial let's make it sort of everyone can get a domain name for free let's subsidize webspace sort of people can have t

the european union warns iran that it won't respond to ultimatums but criticizes the us too. and i'm fully back to watching al-jazeera live from doha also coming up libya's un recognized government suspends operations of dozens of foreign companies including the french oil giant tom the u.s. ramps up its rhetoric against china president trump says new ties will be imposed on friday and pope francis issues new rules designed to crack down on sexual abuse but in the roman catholic church. european leaders have rejected iran sixty day ultimatum to protect it from u.s. sanctions and save the twenty fifty nuclear deal from collapse e.u. leaders say they are fully committed to the agreement and have cautioned the u.s. again saying any action that would harm their efforts but in the past twenty four hours president donald trump has imposed new sanctions on iran this time targeting its metals industry the second biggest source of export revenue after all and in gas meanwhile a u.s. a craft carrier battle group has passed through the suez canal and is on its way to the gulf the white