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BBC World Service BBC World Service December 13, 2018 080000

Ricans back has this assessment this was a clear result in favor of the prime minister but also a clear picture of a party in conflicts and a result brokered only by a promise from to reason made to go if not just yet she'll have now what's a loyal minister described as a little more time and yes Tory rules say that she can stay on undisturbed by the same kind of challenge for another 12 months but while she's temporarily safe fire to reason may has less clout a prime minister with a sell by date holds less sway the records but reporting the highest level of security alert remains in force in France as an international search continues for the gunman who shot dead 2 people near a Christmas market in Strassburg on chews day the French authorities are to deploy another 1800 soldiers today in addition to more than 7000 military personnel already involved in anti terror patrols police across the border in Germany have joined the search the authorities have issued a photo of the suspect Well news from the b.b.c. . A fire has broken out overnight at an electoral commission building in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo 10 days before presidential elections the head of the independent National Election Commission said the building contains election materials the blaze follows 2 days of sporadic clashes between police and supporters of one of the opposition candidates Martin fire Lou. The u.n. Secretary general and Tanya good Tara she is due to attend peace talks scheduled to close in Sweden today between the Yemeni government and hit the rebels the 2 sides are reported to be close to securing agreements on reopening Santa Ana ports in the Hootie held capital as well as the resumption of oil and gas exports talks have also been held on the contested port of her data in Washington the Senate has voted to start a debate on taking away u.s. Support for the Saudi led coalition backing the Yemeni government Senator Jeanne Shaheen said they would keep up the pressure for a withdrawal this is not going away this is something we are going to continue to work at because people need to be held accountable for what's happened I'm pleased to join my colleagues today those people who have been in the forefront of trying to call attention to what's happening in Yemen to call attention and hold people accountable for Jamal Khashoggi is murder 2 workers at a u.s. Scientific research station and Antarctica have died while carrying out maintenance on a fire suppression system the alarm was raised by a helicopter pilot at the McMurdo base who source smoke coming from a structure has a generator for radio transmitter the base is home to about a 1000 scientists and the support staff. The Venezuelan government says the former oil minister Nelson Martinez has died in a military hospital a year after being detained on corruption charges his lawyers said the government ignored repeated requests to put him under house arrest on health grounds he had kidney problems and died of a heart attack and that's the latest b.b.c. News. Many thanks for the latest news Hello and welcome to the news they show here with you from our New Day studios last fall are joining us not far actually just a couple miles away right outside the British Houses of Parliament I would confidently say a much warmer even though I have a cold I'm much warmer than Lawrence I think you probably are the sun is come out and it's quite beautiful but it's very very cold we're here to talk about the well the implications suppose of the no confidence vote that to reason May the prime minister had to face and once you've got 60 percent of the vote but there 117 M.P.'s who voted against her what happens next now cartoons of the prime minister usually tend to show her teaching cliff edges peering over precipices or diving into the void in a clapped out usually British car now she tends more to cling on to the cliff edge by her fingernails still dressed in her heels but hanging on for dear political life and she has saved her political skin after high high high drama those hard line breaks it is forced this no confidence vote in her agreement with the e.u. On how to leave after that secret ballot 200 backed her but 117 didn't want to those numbers means and what sort of a welcome will she get in Europe as well where she's bound later today joining us now are. Of the European Institute formerly economic advisor to the president of the European Commission so knows that world very well Brahman Maddox as well the director of the Institute for government here in the u.k. Brahman just before the news we were talking about what might happen next what options are now sort of on the table and so on as far as these 117 people that need to be convinced so that deal can get through Parliament is she going to be able to bring anything back from Europe that might change $117.00 mind. She might what she's focusing on is the the backstop as it's called issuances about the Irish border whether or not Britain has an. Exit route from that whether or whether or not it's temporary and so it's comes down to whether she can get language from the European Union in some kind of legal letter or parallel letter that says look we really mean it that this is temporary Even so it's going to be very hard to win a vote for Parliament and of course that's just the start because there's waves of legislation she'd have to win you know after that if she fails to get parliament support in there remains very likely then she's got till January the 21st to tell Parliament what she's going to do next and following a bit of footwork by one of her own M.P.'s Dominic Grieve last week M.P.'s now have the right to amend that motion and at that point all kinds of alternatives might come onto the table like Norway like Canada like a 2nd referendum and labor will be looking at exactly that point to see whether it's got a chance of a no confidence vote in the government and perhaps triggering as a general election great picture thank you but it's as good as the kind of the flow charts that we often see in the papers and on our website as well as to what happens next if we can I talk a little bit about for the bluegrass about what happens when she goes to Europe because she's going now in search of his Bronwyn elegantly described a kind of a form of language but just tell us what you think the sentiment will be like amongst those who are seeing how come she's survived something that politicians do they feel sympathy for going through this kind of political auto to fade that's carrying on here in London I think certainly. Fellow e.u. Leaders have understanding of what it's like to be in a political crisis and therefore sympathy might be stretching it but you know they they they have some sense of what she's going through at the same time they're exasperated and they're fed up with this neverending Pritish crisis they've moved on they're got lots of other issues to deal with and as far as they're concerned you know Praxedis a done deal what is to describe to Britain as a Teresa me trace amazed you know it's actually the e.u. . It's the only deal that is on the table and any amendments to it would be very minor and I think what is missing in the British debate. Is the realisation this actually is a pretty much binary choice it's take what's on offer from the e.u. . Or crush out without a deal I think if you presented this badge and we presented it to the British Parliament on the 28th of March 1 day before. That day and it's a choice between and Teresa Mayes you know the used to your or nothing take it or leave it he would get a very different response than you do now the problem is everyone else has a 2nd best option or a very emotive some people want to know a direction some people want to crush out without. The motor accident talking about these things as well so they were Brahman Philip is explaining it from a European perspective as a binary choice and yet we're still here indulging ourselves by talking around all these different choices and varieties and things that we can do we're only going to get a majority from parliament if we get one in the end that you know one of these options as others begin to close so I think that's right the ship passage of time maybe to close off some options or. Votes as they begin to come to Parliament begin to close off some but it is a very high is case isn't it is very high stakes but it's a really blunt violent way without violence to carry it out it's basically staring everyone down getting closer and closer to a disaster and seeing what happens the order t. Is that the woman thing that parliament appears to have a majority for is a great There is no deal is a very bad thing and yet it does remain a possibility because of the way this process works but that is Chief of her calculations isn't it that the fear of that and the approaching closeness of just over 100 days away makes it more likely to run into her into their absolute right and yet because you've heard just. Because the passage of time quite a bit will talk in the past few days about could we extend Article 50 in sympathetic noises from the European side at that it may be you know 123 month extension of the March 29th deadline you know that's very sensible in many ways because one thing it needed is time but again that undermines the kind of pressure that tourism is trying is interesting as we're looking ahead here and there is this kind of end of March cutoff what point does this mean you said many of the many of the European politicians have well other problems you have to think of Emmanuel McCall they've got plenty on their plate when does this become a really serious problem for Europe again I don't think that Article 50 could be extended simply because of political indecision in the u.k. Something would have to be off it would be either. Not coming referendum or not coming general election at least give us more time and we promise to do this and actually the opposition puts it simply a continuation of this political chaos now I don't think that Article 50 would be extended for that and the whole point about a 50 is to create the cliff edge which gives the leverage in these discussions so I don't think I don't think that's a realistic prospect you can ask someone earlier who is broadly sympathetic to the deal we have more people speaking on the program in the past few days who are not sympathetic to the deal do you think that European leaders look at it and actually they've got quite a good deal what are they complaining about I think from an e.u. Perspective yes there are many people in Europe who think that the u.k. Has got a very good deal for example extending the Customs Union in the backstop to the whole of the u.k. Without requiring the u.k. To contribute very technically or without with all the records 3 requirements that would normally be attached many people notably in France but also elsewhere I think that's a huge concession by the e.u. Equally I think the fears in Britain about being stuck forever in this so-called backstop are misplaced 1st of all because the use of doesn't think it's a desirable. Come in 2nd of all because the withdrawal agreement cannot create permanent training regimens legally right interest and therefore it's not it's not actually a realistic threat all the stuff we're covering here is so unruly briefly do you think that Europe would even want Britain back I think many people are just simply fed up. And you know I think that you have to swallow hard and but you know now that the rules that Article 50 can be unilaterally revoked That's when a decision is very briefly Bronwyn what should we be looking for Therefore in the next few weeks we look at possibilities forming down until there's only one left what will that last one standing be I can't possibly tell you but I think. I think we have to look 1st we're looking to Europe then we're looking to whether she gets this through parliament if she puts it to parliament and then we're looking for what Parliament or what amendments Parliament might bring and then we really can go one of several ways one of several ways come back and tell us about those several ways Brockman please do Robin Maddox director of the Institute for government and also of the European Institute thank you both indeed for sharing your wisdom will brain with the business what wisdom of you got I'm not sure whether wisdom is the word Lawrence but I can certainly tell you what the financial markets are made of yesterday's vote in the British prime minister and that was broadly they were pretty pleased to see the pound gained steadily throughout the day yesterday and though that trickled off a little bit as the scale of that rebellion that you were just talking about your guess became clear. Overall a good day for the British pound finishing up and perhaps that was a sign of a sigh of relief from the business community more broadly 6 is director of policy the British Chambers of Commerce money Hanna good morning or would that be a fair assessment a sigh of relief I don't think anything has changed any business I think they're all a bit dismayed at looking at what's going on in Westminster and want politicians to really start to focus all of their energy. On delivering on says to the really practical questions they have about what trading conditions they're going to face come the 29th of March next year well you say dismayed I'm looking at your press release from a couple of days ago it's from the 10th of December before this vote in the prime minister was announced is intitled business intensely frustrated by yet another delay firms are looking on with utter dismay utter dismay because because we're about 100 days out from Britain leaving the u.k. Leave in your opinion and they simply don't have the practical questions like a lot so you can I hire and how long will they be able to stay for how long will it take me to get my goods across borders and what rules will I need to follow when I'm trading outside of the u.k. Or it is just really practical things we've identified 24 of them in our backs at risk register and 108 us 100 days to go we only have 2 of the 24 with a sufficient answer and the problem is listening to the political discussion there at the top with Lawrence out on College Green We are back at a stage where he where we still don't know what that is what would you like to hear out of this European summit and what you want to hear from the prime minister of the coming weeks I think the priority for business right now is to avoid messy and disorderly exit from the European Union there are different views as to what the future relationship with the European Union should look like much as there is in the population as a whole but within the business community is absolutely imperative that we avoid that mess will be helped a little or no deal a tool was categorically ruled out by politicians. I think it's always in a mess into the exit which is definitely a priority but then it still raises questions of what what what will happen if not that and I think certainty clarity about future trading conditions is it is absolutely what we should be getting as soon as possible Shaima certainty uncertainty those God You are absolutely going to continue hearing from the business community going forward that was her exit from the Commerce. Well many many thanks indeed more questions and more uncertainty from from Will's guests and from Lawrence is guess we'll be back to Lawrence outside the Houses of Parliament in the meantime let's take you to Turkey now and the story of the train crash in the capital. Which happened earlier this morning our correspondent sitting there it is following the rescue efforts which are still underway and still and are we clear about how many people died because some reports say 7th others say 9. The Ministry of Transport have made a statement in the last few minutes and the death toll unfortunately has risen to 9 people the latest numbers are 9 people got killed including 3 mechanist and more than 40 people 47 people have been injured in this train crash this was a high speed train and we still have yet to hear from the or so it is about how high the speed was when the train crash took place but the report suggests that it was around 890 kilometers per hour and this happened because of the collision between 2 trains. B.b.c. Reporter is at the moment I'm basin is sambal still and we've been speaking to her and she has told us that another mechanism has been telling her that of the 2 trains were actually diverted by mistake to this same direction and that's why the coalition has taken place of course we have yet to confirm from the of authorities about how exactly this accident took place of course we have to also remember that this is not the 1st train crash that has taken place in Turkey earlier this year and in July another train crash in the western town of chortle took place at a train train got to do railed and 24 people got killed there and the relatives of the deceased have been demanding since then all resignations took place and still no responsibility has been taken because of bad accident and after this train crash and similar questions will be demanded to I'm sure the answers I'm sure they will be the answer is whether or not they'll be provided is another thing the other question I guess is what does this tell us then about the safety record. Of the railway system. Well that is a serious question because as I said this is a 2nd very serious train crash that has happened only this year and Turkey has actually a bad record when it comes to the safety of. Of trains actually And when you see the television when you look at the t.v. Pictures that have come out from Ontario today you can see the wreckage scattered across the tracks and. And it is a very serious accident what was the main reason what was the exact reason why did this accident took place is a question that will be demanded from the also or it is from now on how dependent are people on the railway system is it is it a busy railway system and how new Are the train saline. The trains are actually not that they are new and serious investment has been made to the railway system in Turkey but still it is not a dot com and people in Turkey still are predominantly using the highways and roads for their transports but of course recently in the last decade for instance serious investments have been made to the railway and this particular investment is something the government this particular railway between cornea and on is something the government was really proud of because it is a very modern high speed train railway this one and. There haven't been many accidents that have taken place on that road to the trains that have taken place and that are travelling on that road are very modern and I myself have taken that train many times as well and you don't feel unsafe when you take one of those trains what of course given that given to the railways more than the trains are more than ended feel safe why did this accident took place well I'm sure this is an answer everybody was a question everybody wants an answer to and hopefully as we get more details we'll go back to our correspondents still in Europe who's been following the story and the rescue efforts which are still underway in the Turkish capital you're listening to news day on the b.b.c. 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