i have been trying to leave the european union. i am looking forward to voting a fourth time to leave the european union in a withdrawal agreement bill. sadly, opposition members and some of my collea g u es opposition members and some of my colleagues have not voted alongside me in that way. but how we do that, how we do that is a matter for this house, because the deal has to be ratified by this house. government and this house have to determine what the objectives for the next stage of negotiations are going to be. i have been clear those negotiations will be taken forward by somebody else leading this government. what i am also clear about, you cannot get onto the second stage of negotiations until you get over the first stage. that is what the bill is about. the prime minister in her statement referred rightly to the need to avoid the risks that are inherent in the brexit process. but doesn't she realise that her latest proposal actually hard—wire those risks into the process themselves? is the right honourable gentleman tal

show but we do leave the european union all the thirty first of october so the goal of the party was to win the election so that it would never have to participate in them again sounds like something carol himself would be quite proud of and in order for this to happen nigel farage vowed to put the shattered two party system out of its misery and in doing so manage to unite politicians from across the political spectrum who in other circumstances may have never politically aligned and on the one hand you have your craft foxes who's a former member of the revolutionary communist party who at times has been unapologetic and her controversial left wing views there's a lot to say and i take my lead for millions of votes is showing credible resilience in facing down three years of incessant defamation and on the other hand you have the likes of paul knocked on his the former head of you can't he's an advocate of banning the back and even bringing back the death penalty and see that's the twist and bracks is now the presented as a left wing issue or right wing issue we witness the birth of

union and they're going to do their best because the canonical interests for european union to do a deal to do business deals with your opinions it's big it's a huge numbers we're talking about billions of dollars between the two sides and european union does not want to does not want to do that chance just because the united states they want to pull out just to please dia the israeli prime minister what about the us than say. then how high are they going to react to today's developments is there any chance that even the prospect of a nuclear armed iran where thank you very much in the future here of course could bring washington back to the negotiating table. the only way to bring. the united states washington to the table is if the two sides they keep. the two sides this see that the regent is the on the doors of war because no one wants the war not the americans have interest in or another they are indians so the two sides are going to keep doing. either politically or militarily from the two sides and till they get to a point that they need to sit on the table they are in use th

but the european union is only. has good relations with the united states and with it from the public of iran and they are the only thing who can really do this. and do this thing the america back into the deal because who will go out and broker this deal does the united states need to get on the united nations and the european union and the russians and the chinese they all said that the islamic republic of iran. they did their side of the deal they did not a big their side of the so the only side in this world who has good relationship was there but on washington is the european union and they're going to do their best because the end canonical interests for european union to do business deals with iranians it's a huge numbers we're talking about billions of dollars between the two sides and european union does not want to do that chance just because they're united states they want to pull out just to please the. israeli prime minister. well let's move to another headline stories today and it is a big story in the

party these anti establishment parties to band together to form a big group in the european union and to create a strong voice and she's also calling for a shakeup in politics here in france. the president has no other choice but to dissolve the national assembly and the last one to democratic voting system in order to better represent this country's majority political opinion the feeding of traditional parties and the polarization between the national party and the renaissance party confirms that the political scene is now split butt. we nationalists and globalists and that's what dominates our political life well if we look to the east of europe to countries like poland and hungary we saw all the governing bodies there winning big again showing support in those countries that have been given perhaps an anti european message in these elections and the last year but moving to central europe now in austria we saw what huge gains for the governing party over the past teams doing incredibly well taking more than 30 percent of the vote and that comes just a week after his government was h

union and they're going to do their best because the end canonical interests for european union to do business deals with your opinions it's a huge numbers we're talking about billions of dollars between the two sides and european union does not want to lose that chance just because the united states they want to pull out just to please the. israeli prime minister. ok in another big story of the week in the wake of shoreline devastating easter sunday bombings the government has expelled around six hundred foreign nationals including two hundred muslim clerics following to have overstayed their visas the country's home affairs minister says it comes as part of a broader push to tighten immigration control. considering the current situation in the country we have reviewed the visa system and taken a decision to tighten visa restrictions for religious teaches of those who were sent out about two hundred ways like preaches there are religious institutions which have been getting in foreign preachers for decades we have no issues with them but there are some which mushrooms recently we wil

we have to do this together as european union -- as europeans. brent: his rival from germany represents the conservative european people's party in the european parliament. faced with questions about attacking climate change, he emphasized the need to preserve jobs in the energy industries but also advocated big change in transportation. >> the main issue here is the taxation of air travel. in particular, the fact that kerosene is not taxed due to international contractual agreements, while the way and drivers on the roads have to pay tax on the fuel they use. this unfair situation means flying is much cheaper. this is a sore point, this imbalance has to change in europe. brent: that's talk about the debate. a reporter in brussels is following the lead up to those european elections. can we talk about a winner in that debate? reporter: that's very hard to tell because both men are representatives of the mainstream party. there's not much difference on the issues. there was a lot of harmony, a lot of agreement. those men both want a common migrati

mechanism that the european union has created to circumvent u.s. sanctions to allow the iranians to trade with oil. to get us you just russia and china together view the u.s. unilateral sanctions against iran as illegal specifically those aimed at exports from the country iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments. insureds now that the united states is left the iranian nuclear deal and is trying to get the european union to suspend to suspend its implementation of the deal. have a right a legal right to also suspend their implementation of the deal in effect the deal is collapsing because of the united states sanctions because of how determined the united states is to torpedo this deal and to get the arena to do what they want china the chinese foreign secretary for foreign minister also said that you know sanctions may have a short term effect but in the long run they'll just end up biting the united states as well they also they also spoke about how you deal must stay

union. while the main objectives of the event at the h.q. was apparently to convince the bloggers to promote positive stories about the block . we're waiting for you to speak more about europe on your own we hope to convince you to inject the european angle into your communications because this is an important aspect of political life and we are not sufficiently present in the media . explain to us that misinformation is the use of real facts to spread political ideas that contradict those of the european union they will said that all this is organized by russia to destabilise democratic regimes but fortunately european democracy is stronger than the us but we were explain the basics they talked about generally accepted ideas about europe for example that the e.u. provides competition they said we're here to debunk these generally accepted notions in fact the message was not to tell us that the european union fails to create competition at a global level but to explain to us that this is a g

want to come to the european union. cross in brussels thank you so much germany will take its turn in the european elections on sunday and so far chancellor angela merkel has mostly stayed out of the campaign there is concern however that marco could damage the prospects of her party the christian democrats as well as her successor to the head of the party. europe's most powerful woman also used to be the poster conservative c.d.u. posse in elections but that's history this time going to america left the e p p's widely on known top candidate monthly to be mostly out alone to face the public and it was magical successor c.d.u. posse leader and it couldn't come combo of many already see is potential next chancellor who took on the heavy political lifting in the talks. in search of well i ask conservatives right wing populists on not potential coalition partners we don't want to and we won't work with them. with nothing less than the future of europe at stake this raises the question where was. busy governing is the sort o

of course the european union has something to lose as well but a lot less than the u.k. so in terms of the potential successors to theresa may out of brussels this is likely to maintain a diplomatic silence on this but did you think brussels is likely to have a preferred candidate it all may be one that they'd rather avoid in fact while i'm sure that you commission would have somebody they prefer if you gave them a list you know they could point to a name and say we would like that person better than the other one and most likely that person they would point to would not be board johnson because boris johnson is a very well known entity here and it's never gone to well he's been here in political function but he also was here as a journalist in the past and was known for his reporting on the you commission back then and of course the position he's taking at the moment saying that we will leave the european union at the end of october which is the current deadline for brags that no matter what if we have a new agreement or not so he doesn't seem to be afraid of our bags a

union you notice this to spend a special mechanism that the european union has created to circumvent u.s. sanctions to allow the iranians to trade with their oil as often as dismayed when you will produce tomorrow or last might compare how the u.s. is going to deal with the crisis that was made by washington's unilateral decisions i hope tomorrow's talks will be frank iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments in shorts now that the united states is left the iranian nuclear deal and is trying to get the european union to suspend to suspend its implementation of the deal the remains have a right a legal right to also suspend their implementation of the deal in effect the deal is collapsing because of the united states sanctions because of how determined the united states is to torpedo. this deal and to get the arabians to do what they want nevertheless the united states is as i said adamant and believes that iran must be stopped that iranian behavior is the stabilizing iran is the major destabilizing in inf

we need at european union and more effective european union. the result where pro—european forces are formed or are getting a co mforta ble forces are formed or are getting a comfortable majority in the european parliament tells us quite clearly that people were worried about the current development. let's go to italy where the far right league party won the most votes. its coalition partner the anti—establishment five star movement was beaten by the centre—left democratic party which came second. they are said to get 28 seeds, by 23. -- they are said to get 28 seeds, by 23. —— seats. and you can see the other groups there as well. let's go on to the shower, though, this is particularly interesting. the league got 34%, compare that to 2014 where they got 6.2%. and as you go down you see their coalition partners, five star got 17%, that is most and exact —— almost an exact inversion of how the coalition has been going in italy. we'll get some analysis on that in just in italy. we'll get some analysis on that injust a in italy. we'l

union. one of the main objectives of the event was to inject a european angle into young people's social platforms however the commission's representative stated that the idea of hosting the bloggers the e.u. headquarters is in fact nothing new. it's something we do very often for journalists we thought it would be a good idea to do it for you you tubers as the media takes information and relays it to your audience. explain to us that misinformation is the use of real facts to spread political ideas that contradict those of the european union they will said that all this is organized by russia to destabilise democratic regimes but fortunately european democracy is stronger than this but we were explain the basics we talked about generally accepted ideas about europe for example that the e.u. provides competition they said we're here to debunk these generally accepted notions of fact message was not to tell us that the european union fails to create competition at a global level but to explai

european union and when you continue to ask what's good for the european union you need to have three quarters of the germans who say the european union secures safety in europe and it's to keep personal and industrial doing in europe and especially in germany and one aspect of the poll that's really sort of future look and like to bring that up right now this is when it comes to cooperation between e.u. member countries and german said the following they were asked how they thought the e.u. should develop in the future fifty two percent were in favor of deeper integration of it with petitions sixteen percent said no major changes needed twenty seven percent saying that they wanted more sovereignty for individual member states in this decision making so i mean here we can see this fifty two percent of that's over half of germans want more e.u. integration. so what do you make of that i mean is it contradicting what we saw in the earlier response i mean where we're less than half of the membership has been to germany is the bench. not at all we again we have to look at those who say oh

union on britain's departure from the e.u. bear in mind this was supposed to happen to months ago so we'll go straight to new correspondent to get massive is following this story she joins us from outside the british parliament. let's just get a bash as a burgomaster welcome sir theresa may is promising a new deal for the 4th time of asking what's new about it. well the she's supposed to line this out in a speech here investments and so we have to see what she really has to say but i have to say that many people who are following this story of very skeptical as to whether there is much new in it we know that she has already been negotiating with the labor opposition party for several weeks and she has try to get them round and ensure them that the u.k. will not fall behind you stand when it comes to environmental stand when is it when it comes to work has rights for example and this has failed so labor has no is has decided not to continue these negotiations so it's really interesting to see what new she can now propose that w

includes the u.k. a country that had planned to leave the european union by now populist looks set to make big games as the situation for britain's beleaguered prime minister gets even worse also coming up interim prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist p.g.p. declares victory in the country's elections the 1st results show the body is headed for a majority in parliament what philip means for the country going forward. classes jimmy celebrates the 70th anniversary of the constitution d.w. profiles to orderly citizens relying on it every day to day one week before what is rocky coast exercising his constitutional right to freedom of speech has never. had an of a warm welcome to you i'm on the. boards of opened across a very divided united kingdom in a vote that more than half the country never even wanted european parliamentary licht elections kicked off and with the country engulfed in even more political turmoil over bragg said the british prime minister terrorism is fighting for her job with even some of our own cabinet ministers devoting over her latest brags of withdrawal

after island joined the european union in the early 1970 s. the situation began to improve by the mid 1990 s. the country had earned the nickname of celtic tiger the victors write history the saying goes but in ireland they say it's the losers who sing their songs. so there's always being kind of aspect to folk music where some corner of like rebellious around the author of the area of nature and i suppose that would be an element that we're picking up on no. the financial crisis of 2008 hit island very hard causing the property market to collapse and plunging the country into recession many banks and financial institutions faced bankruptcy so ireland received a bailout from the eurozone now its economy is on the rise again. thanks to questionable tax incentives bronx it has reopened old whims a lot of things are in the open at the moment and one of them is like the rest of your breeding guess the sea the kind of like that we've had to deal with for the last a 100 years but the hands of the british mean i think if we were and if we didn't have

to change the european institutions and to make them accept a more nationalistic european union which is a paradox as she called for the formation of a powerful a union a powerful group within the european parliament with a firearm such as. such as it's party in the u.k. will she succeed that remains to be seen with a with all those parties agreed to get out that we only find out within the next couple of weeks and months one of the questions out there and certainly salvini as we've been hearing from a lot is pushing for that money will trust in paris thanks very much well one of the european union's most prominent jobs is also up for grabs and selection the role of the president of the european commission young claude younger he's been doing the job for the last 5 years but he is not up for reelection let's take a look at the people looking to replace him. i will do everything to defend this year i think we as greens take the battle i would propose. we have work to do migration is an opportunity we introduce minimum wage to every member state they are all running for the e.u. commiss

it's for the european union for unity against what people here call the hate creatures from the far right who want to divide the peoples of europe and who want to destroy the european union but it takes that of course an added part and see if people are demonstrating here because they have just seen even side gate the scandal involving the extreme right freedom party and many people here say they have shown their true face we have always believed that this is a bad idea to go into a coalition was them and now we really see what it means if you try to do politics with a party like that after one scandal after the other sort of involving right wing extremist views and signs and as songs and caricature is now this is scanlan even finally tells people read austria really what these what the freedom party means and they are violently opposed they really say they need to step down completely from discovery meant looming over all of this of course are e.u. elections which are. days away what impact could the scandal have on the freedom party there and on far right parties in other countrie

the european union in a pretty difficult position because they've been so strong in their backing for iran since the united states pulled out but what we've been hearing since that decision was made by iran what we've been hearing from the iranian president hassan rouhani is that they don't want to pull out of the deal in total because that would essentially play into washington's hands the united states wanted to pull out of the way in order to make iran withdraw from a deal the day after so the u.s. would be able to refer the case to the u.n. security council to ease the burden on the shoulders of the u.s. to redouble and ratcheting up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap so my pompei o heads to brussels the secretary of state will hold meetings we expect with the foreign affairs council of the european union to discuss iran further spare a thought though for those journalists that do travel with mr pompei oh this is the 2nd last minute change of destination they face that is many weeks last week he was supposed to be heading here to berlin for a talk with angela me

that includes the u.k. a country that had planned to leave the european union by now populist looks set to make big gains as the situation for britain's beleaguered prime minister gets even was also coming up interim prime minister narendra modi's hindu nationalist be chippy declares victory in the country's election 1st results show the party is heading for a majority in parliament what would it mean for the country going forward. losses germany celebrates the 70th anniversary of its constitution d.w. profiles the old reduced citizens relying on it every day to day release of a former iraqi exercising his constitutional right to freedom of speech with credit . and fee for abandons plans to expand the already troubled 2022 world cup in qatar they usually turn into 2 years instead of $43.00 tried to win the softest most coveted trophy. in a warm welcome to you i'm. voting is underway in the united kingdom in a european parliamentary elections that over half the country didn't want remember 52 percent of britons voted to leave your back in 2016. this election comes with the country en

if we do not leave the european union all of. them just as we've surprised people in these european elections we will go full would absolutely stunned them in the next general election there's a big wake up call to westminster let's see whether. the fortunes of the briggs party in exact opposite to the decimation of ukip they were the form of the pro briggs and pollux if you can say it but they've been devastated they went into these elections well in 242014. actions having won 28 emmy peace but since then they'd suffer the number of defections mainly due to the leadership of patton and his association with far right figures like tommy robinson and a number of those continents shifting over to the briggs and policy who have now taken the mantle as the main pro brags that policy hit in the u.k. and in fact we can have a breakdown of some of the more prominent leadership all of that bribes and polity . now of course briggs it has been dominating the political sphere in the u.k. to the point that perhaps voters are fed up with it al

the european union is and remains open to u.s. companies and equipment with trump set to be in europe next month we can expect more calls to boost defense spending as long of course if you buy from the united states peter all of the berlin the former vice president of the parliamentary assembly of the n.s.c. even even a says though that nato. would not be weakened by any. sport is 0 on going war effort on the side of you know the suits and their farm when we come. in your we have to be a loyalist to go moment so this question the yellow t. is that there was always a pleasure on the side of sumo that suits. you or sources and nursing you when it comes to all your latina talk where nobody sees as hurt at least not. as a cunt who is. trying or even so much and for the region and therefore odors policy in the worst and therefore it is the behavior of somebody who sees your there's a plunder and not as a bar noyon core poison creating its own army is not the only concern for the european union the rise of nationalism is also among the

future lies ahead for the european union all the results.

shape policy making across the european union. meanwhile germany's chancellor angela merkel was in croatia to attend a campaign event a pro european union gathering of moderate conservatives she warned against supporting far right groups. who tune the decisions we're dealing with a populist movement is who want to destroy european values. the does all. this includes minorities not being protected fundamental human rights being questioned corruption playing a role in politics. we have to stand up to them decisively and that is what we will do for. one. in milan the far right party leaders presented a united front but some nationalist groups notably the governing parties of poland and hungary did not attend an indication that the show of unity may not be so deep the e.u. parliament election will reveal how much support they have. analysts take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world former u.s. vice president joe biden has officially kicked off his campaign for the 20 twentieth's presidential elections speak

s departure from the european union they will now be a conservative in leadership contest with some of our colleagues already saying they'd be trying to get her job until that grace is decided me would stay on as prime minister she called her job the ana. lifetime let's take a listen to what she said because i will shortly leave the job that it is being the owner of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. and for more let me a draw in our correspondence barbara visit is in london and with me in the studio i have of briggs's analyst alex forrest whiting welcome to both of you let me start with you barbara we just had to resume a statement she's funny said she's stepping down but not quite yet let me 1st sort of talk about her breaking down at the end and sort of. it's coming out in tears i mean the one of the big tabloids of the country already made a splash on wednesday was showing her on the for thursday it was showing her in her

has put so much pressure on the other signatories on european union companies doing business in iran on china on russia to pull out of the agreement to stop doing business with iran that iran hasn't hasn't received the benefits that it was promised in exchange for curtailing its nuclear enrichment activities and other actions that the rest of the world felt might be able to lead to a nuclear weapon so now iran did exercise what it calls to teach it patience and it simply says look our economy is not doing as well as you promised us it would you have not stood up to the united states and now basically we're going to start calling some conditions of our own we know that germany is one of the five countries which remain signatories to this deal which is take a listen to what germany's foreign minister said today. that in shit. we don't agree with the steps taken by iran today first. of all the message is and remains clear we along with our partners unconditionally stand by the nuclear agreement and that's why we expect iran to stand by the agreement completely and unconditionally. so th

is pull out of the agreement well the european union castigated them absolutely slammed washington for doing this saying that put at risk all of these months and months of work that went into getting the deal over the line back in 2015 of course when iran announced last week that they were intending to pull out of some parts of the deal that also prompted well some discord within parts of the european union with some members then turning on iran and launching criticism at them iran has agreed to vital compliance measures if they break that deal and there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react so we urge the iranians to think very long and hard before they break. the end today nothing could be worse than iran leavin the agreement there are new sanctions today from europe because iran has so far always respected the commitments it has undertaken this commitment and not respected the question of considering the decision last week by to iran puts the european union in a pretty difficult position because they've been so strong in their backing for iran since the united s

split between the 2 main powers within the european union between paris and berlin so we'll have to wait and see how this turns out but it does appear that the new future of the european parliament after these elections will be one where more compromises have to be made and more time has to be taken over each individual decision both on appointments and of course more importantly on policy david britain's prime minister tourism a is in attendance home last brussels summit as prime minister before her resignation what does she have to say. it was. a mixture of well compared to what we last saw when she very emotionally returned to downing street tears in her eyes saying she she loved her country and she tried to serve in the best way possible a much stronger performance here she arrived as you say for the last time she said that she had regrets course that she couldn't find. any way to fulfill bragg's it and to be the prime minister to make sure the brig's it happened but in the end she realized that of course the time was up as she tried to have the time and the compromises with the

union this move by terror on really exposes a lack off of a diplomatic wage that the european union has in this case they fit tried very hard ever since the us yes withdrew unilaterally from that steal to encourage enterprises to keep doing business with iran about the threat of u.s. sanctions for any enterprise that works together with iran it's just so much stronger so they have created a mechanism for instance so that food can be sold and bought from from iran but that's about it's it's a long way to go and it is a real dilemma for the e.u. this iranian problem here. matheson's to be romania thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world and north korea has fired two suspected short range missiles into the same second weapons launch in a week north korean leader kim jong or defended the launch out of this week as a regular military exercise this comes after a failed summit in egypt between kim jong un and us president donald trump. that is when security forces have arrested the vice president of the country's opposition controlled national

overall wales voted to leave the european union and there isa leave the european union and there is a feeling that both conservatives under labour here will feel the impact ofa under labour here will feel the impact of a surge of support for the brexit party when the results of the european elections are announced. kenya's high court has rejected calls to change a law which bans gay sex. three judges told a packed courtroom that they had not seen sufficient evidence of discrimination caused by the laws, declaring them constitutional, because they represented the values and views of the country. gay rights groups argued that the state has no business regulating matters of intimacy. ramzan karmali reports. the consolidated petitions have no merit. this was the moment that left campaigners deflated. they had been seeking to overturn a law banning gay sex in kenya. but three judges rejected claims colonial—era law violated the new constitution, which guarantees equality, dignity and privacy. gay rights activists had argued the current law had given rise to a climate of homophobia, but t

trade sanctions have been on the minds of european union leaders but this time sanctions against iran e.u. leaders have urged the islamic republic to stay in value its commitments under the nuclear deal which was agreed upon with other countries back in two thousand and fifteen the u.s. withdrew from the deal a year ago iran has now threatened to abandon it unless the other signatories europe provide quick relief from u.s. sanctions. it was supposed to be the post breaks it summit shaping the e.u. future without britain well the u.k. may not yet be out it did not attend the talks a welcome respite from breaks it deadlock but another topic overshadowed the proceedings iran's threats to abandon the nuclear deal signed with world powers in twenty fifteen e.u. leaders tehran to think again for the ones that will be. it's now even more important that europe shows a united front. we do not want an escalation but we want to keep using diplomatic tools. we know our limitations but we all agree that the more united europe is the better the chance we have of using dialogue to find possible solu

the european union is and remains open to u.s. companies and equipment with trump to be in europe next month we can expect more calls to boost defense spending as long of course if you buy from the united states peter all about. the former vice president of the parliamentary assembly of the l.s.e. even even miss as they that nato will not be weakened by any. spread is 0 on going to war effort on the side of so you know just suits and their farm when we come. in your all we have to be loyalists to go about this question the yellow t. is that there was always pressure on the side of soon. to. inform us sources and this is not seeing you when it comes to. where nobody sees a split at least not. as a countries like india china or even so option for the nation and therefore it is policy inside the west and therefore it is the behavior of somebody who sees your there's a plunder and not as a call poison well creating its own army is not the only concern for the european union because the rise of nationalism was among the most discussed

smaller countries in the european union and. at the famous heroes square we made victor noise about. his father is german and his mother is hungary and he doesn't feel like a european. that all things get. 50 of the i support a conservative state a nation state. and i'm opposed to the european union and the. victor is active in the right wing conservative party of prime minister viktor orban he's also involved in the election campaigns outside parliament he plays a video for a huge election rally held last year. god it's like the whole country came together on this one day. we felt strength and peace. we felt we were one country. so much of their emotional absolutely. i want to go right on the ball bounce nationalist populist rhetoric is popular with many young people obama's new electro laws instituted in 2012 helped secure a 2 thirds majority in last year's parliamentary election despite winning just under 50 percent of the voter feed as also has enormous influence over the hunk area media and the courts many independent resea

s departure from the european union speaking outside the 10 downing street mrs ray said she had tried her best to one of the results of the budget referendum but she resigned on the 7th conservative party will then hold a leadership contest some of her colleagues have already announced their intention to stand still continue as prime minister until that race is decided in an emotional speech the prime minister described the role as the honor of a lifetime whatever our backgrounds the color of our skin or who we love we stand together and together we have a great future our politics may be under strain but there is so much that is good about this country so much to be proud of so much to be optimistic about. i will shortly leave the job that it has been the honor of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. more on this from tom nottle he had seabird in bureau of the weekly news magazine the economist welcome to d.w. people within th

elections despite its plan to leave the european union prime minister to resign may wanted to avoid holding the vote by passing a break deal in time but now the british government has admitted it isn't legally bound to hold the european parliament elections to field candidates on may the twenty third the finance minister philip hammond saying the obligation is challenging giving that the country has voted to leave the e.u. meanwhile to recent days government has resumed cross party talks aimed at reaching a compromise. deal. and in preparation for that upcoming e.u. parliament elections later this month the two top candidates for president of the european commission have been debating on german public television tonight german conservative politician munford vapor of the european peoples party and friends timmermans of the party of european socialist who was from the netherlands they battled it out for the hearts and minds of voters on subjects likely to affect the future of europe whichever political group in the e.u. performs best at the polls has a good chance of replacing outgoi

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 of far right european leaders. let's now introduce our guests say a final act in all senior lecturer in european politics at the university of surrey and men and director of the u.k. in a changing europe initiative and a former special adviser to the house of lords e.u. committee and joining us from milan stephan a very generic and italian journalist who focuses on economics and foreign affairs and is also co-author of the black book of the leg agenda. welcome all of you to inside story the finest expects of us if i can start with you when just seeing this report about that rally in milan led by matt hale many how likely do you think it is that a lot of these far right stroke populous parties across europe will be able to form a functioning coalition a functioning bloc within the european parliament thi

and to underline the scale of the challenge, the european union said today that mrs may's resignation did nothing to change its position on the brexit agreement theresa may negotiated. so what lies ahead for the brexit process? 0ur deputy political editor, john pienaar reports. everyone expected this, the fourth tory premier in a row forced out over europe. the only real shock was seeing her heartbreak on show. now the same deadlock that brought theresa may down is waiting for the next one. the numbers have not changed in parliament. the challenge, the significant challenge, of seeing that we leave the eu and deliver on the brexit referendum with a deal, which remains firmly in our national interest, that challenge still firmly remains. what do we want? brexit! the brexiteers are strong and getting stronger, among conservative mps and their democratic unionist allies. and with nigel farage scooping up tory supporters, pressure for a tough line on brexit won't let up. until we deliver brexit, nothing else really counts. if we don't deliver brexit, there won't be a conservative party, s

the european union side on the understates of the european union site that's full determination to do all we can as i said with all instruments to implement it for our part of the nuclear agreement as long as it makes compliant next stop sochi in the russian black sea resort pompei i met president vladimir putin and foreign minister sergei lavrov but again he got very little. people good we didn't support it and we consider it a mistake that the u.s. exit did the iran nuclear deal eager to win my game so we hope to find a political solution to the situation in iran and we'll try to assist you steve so that the situation doesn't turn into a military scenario. for you mr marty in recent days the u.s. has considerably increased its military presence in the persian gulf but palm pale denies that the trumpet ministration is preparing for war we're looking for iran to be a buck a normal country and that's our ask and we have applied pressure to the leadership of the islamic republic of iran to achieve that we we fundamentally do not see a war with iran iran's leadership also tonight is it's

union so if germany would be the front to pioneer of climate policy the whole european union could be climate of policy and it's the 3rd biggest and intent of. c o 2 in the world the european union so together we could really do something ok so it's all about the european union isn't it when it comes to carbon emissions and attacks you mentioned populists being a concern in terms of environmental policy they could poll as high as 35 percent in these e.u. elections as would some opinion polls are showing how would that affect climate change policy and environmental policy if there was that type of strong showing for the populists 1st i do hope that many people will not vote for the populous that way we have to you know each other people to go to the elections to vote for an international movement for climate protection and not for a nationalist movement and against refugees and against free borders and liberal democracy so that the 1st thing we have to do. we have to defend our democracy and our well yes lisa bottom for us from the greens in the german parliament thanks very much for b

they are blaming politicians and the european union, thatis politicians and the european union, that is not the fault of the european union, it is the fault of politicians at westminster. i do not disrespect the reason why people voted leave. you have touched on this, but touching on it again, tommy has got in touch to say... that is not the case. i will give you an example. the other saturday i was in portree which is the main village and sky. a young spanish lady is going to veteran a college and wants to live and work in scotland. i did the rules that the uk wish to impose, you would have to earn a salary of 30,000. there are many skilled jobs in scotland that do not own a salary of 30,000, so this is not about cheap labour, this is about access to labour to people who want to come and contribute to our society, make a positive contribution. the analysis is that emigrants do, can drive down wages. we have a problem and that is that we have not had sufficient investment in our economy. we have a problem with low productivity. we need to create the circumstances where we increase in

you must remember the european parliament is very few pause the european union is not a democracy it's run by a bureaucracy called the commission and the elections and the real effect on that. pas be will have got to elect very soon a new head of the european commission they've got to head elect a new president the european council will to arrange for a new president of the european central bank and put them into these 3 figures will mean much much more in the shaping the future of europe than anything that's happened in the elections over you say the european parliament has limited powers that there's been such a turnout this time around and you know as well as our european parliamentary elections that's a pain without a trace normally it doesn't. it doesn't matter the turnout was not huge it was only 52 percent which is actually quite quite modest in fact they were very lucky to get over the 50 percent more but most 52 means 48 percent of europeans just stayed in bed. it's almost 5050. between those who didn't pull the voting in those who voted that's not a huge democratic can do all