The rule of law all weve been. Put in no whole. Part of the problem with this campaign is weve been painted in an unfavorable and. Faithful like this race has been. Dignity and respect. Also coming up britain is leaving the European Union in two thousand and nineteen but theresa may just lost a key vote in her parliament so will the brakes at negotiations end up being just a rehearsal. Brix it at some point in the future may need to be refilled. Again. Or we begin the day with the biggest trump over trump that the world have seen voters in the u. S. State of alabama last night elected a democrat as their new u. S. Senator his name is doug jones now this was a political earthquake alabama is a republican stronghold and it hasnt sent a democrat to the u. S. Senate in twenty five years voters rejected the republican candidate roy moore who was accused of sexually molesting teenage girls decades ago most republicans in congress had joined democrats in denouncing moores candidacy but not us President Donald Trump he gave a full throated endorsement of moore and his advisors steve bannon went to alabama and declared the election another clash of the people against the establishment it didnt work the stunning loss plus trumps recent double entendre tweet attacking a female u. S. Senator Kiersten Gillibrand prompted the editors at usa today to publish what has to be the most damning and disturbing commentary about the us president they write it is a shock that only six Democratic Senators are calling for our unstable president to resign a president who would call a senator or a whore is unfit to clean toilets in obamas president ial library or to shine george w. Bushs shoot our first report takes us tonight to the deep south of the us. And all the states in which the democratic fight should take shape alabama was an unlikely starting point the poxy has not won a senate seat here in a quarter of a century. We really have just around the state of alabama though we have shown the country the way they are real of was. The celebrations here or much to the control vis a surrounding his opponent barely or in the day the republican crusader roy moore had hoped his horse named sassy would carry him to victory. It was the final bed to cast him as a thorough bred conservative in a campaign marred by multiple allegations from women claiming he had molested them decades ago when they were teenagers even for high ranking republicans moores actions and policies were beyond the pale he believes homosexuality should be illegal and that moves shouldnt serve in congress. For donald trump the only thing that mattered was moores loyalty to his vision the president has congratulated doug jones on a hard fought victory but said votes cast for a third candidate harmed the right ten votes played a very big factor he tweeted bought a win is a win not so. He has refused to concede. But the votes are still coming in and were looking at that by god bless you as you go on a given play fury and thank you for coming tonight were not over its going to take some time. But it is democrats who are smiling having narrowed the republicans majority in the senate to just one day say as they say a sign of success is to come in crucial elections next year. So here is what the election in alabama means inside the u. S. Senate in washington now up until yesterday republicans held aide to vote lead with fifty two seats compared to forty eight seats for the democrats will the victory of doug jones last night changes that the republican majority in the senate now shrinks from two votes to as you see right there fifty one to forty nine just one vote so how much of a blow is this for the Republican Party and for their planned legislation i put that to our washington correspondent kirsten fanaa it will get more complicated for them they can only lose one votes now even on those issues where they need only a simple majority and in many cases they cant even agree among themselves what they want plus there are a number of senators that have been deeply alienated by it on that from people like John Mccain Jeff flake Susan Collins and they might vote against it on the gender at any given time and you know theres always the question here are democrats celebrating their comeback i mean did they win this election or did the republicans choose a flawed candidate. I think its mostly due to roy moore who has very extreme political views even for alabama standards and clearly the republican establishment in washington didnt want him in the first place he was forced on them by the populist nationalist wing of the pazzi and has been this civil war within the Republican Party going on and that continues to weaken the Republican Party and what about this victory for the democrats me what does it mean and im thinking about you know next years congressional midterm elections clearly the democrats have some reason for hope now because theyre based not only was energized but it actually turned out to vote even many independents voted for the Democratic Party in alabama so they have hope now that they can actually win both chambers of Congress Next year having said that for that they still have to work oh its their own issues as also within the Democratic Party for the right way forward and they need a positive message just saying we are against trump will not be enough or at a corresponding course in phenomenon the story for us tonight in washington carson thank you very much well today i also called up with julie is funded laurie a political consultant who was part of the winning campaigns of barack obama in two thousand and eight in two thousand and twelve and i asked why the election in alabama compared to the election of the first africanamerican president saw more minorities voting. Judy as you were with the obama campaigns and you saw the way obama was able to get people to come vote for him yesterday in alabama we had more women more minorities more africanamericans vote for the democrat dr jones then we had vote for obama how do you explain that to me so twenty twelve historic election the first african president is reelected and this time around more africanamericans turn out that back then i think there are couple reasons one the extreme polarization there are some things that roy moore said during the campaign where he talked about the old times even though they were slavery that certainly mobilized africanamerican voters because of actually. And if youre reading so i think that was a big point there were a couple of things of course the National Climate played a huge role some of the racist things that are trying to set certainly mobilize the base but also democrats over the course of the last thirteen months ever since Trump Took Office i think have also looked at the straits and started mobilizing this wasnt just about this wasnt just the south where people went out this is where National Democrats from all over the place came in late into the race knocked on doors donated so literally a lot of resources the resources that a democratic candidate in alabama would certainly not have to put in and i think. It was a close race but the day you were the democrat when do you think the democrats in alabama were able to pull a trump in with that i mean trump when he was elected he took traditionally democratic states turned republican and you got the democrats taking a deep south red state alabama and turning it democrat and they flipped it fundamentally from one alabama just thirteen months ago with twenty percent over Hillary Clinton so this is significant and the democrats havent won alabama in the senate seat since one thousand nine hundred two so of course they managed to flip it but i think it speaks of course one to the turnout on the democratic side which is completely unusual for a. But also for the candidate selection on the republican side there was just so many scandals theres so many outlandish things said so certainly most of us and its trumps tribal politics are we seeing the beginning of the end of that is theres just a lot more in that i mean you and i have talked about this for a long time on the air and we we said you know is this a new culture is this just trouble or the republicans going to stick with it they were actually some republicans who either stayed home written in another candidate right in there actually they moved over to the democratic side and actually voted for doug jones so it is not just politics anymore and i think this is finally the point where trump and people like roy moore went too far and they couldnt just lie their way out of prediction for the midterm were going to see the democrats take control of either chamber of the u. S. House and the world is wanting to read i mean thats what were looking for are the democrats going to be able to take that back while theyre twenty five Democratic Senate seats every election they have to defend those and there are eight your republican seats are for reelection so im out of the prediction business i think we all should be at least so much a time out but i think democrats have the momentum on their side and last point that will make the republicans one into their stories defending a child molester i think this is also a branding problem for the whole Republican Party and women are critical to his when they look thank you very much. Well now to that tug of war over jerusalem more than fifty muslim countries have agreed to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of palestine and it came at an emergency summit of the organization of islamic cooperation in istanbul last week u. S. President outraged many in the middle east when he recognized jerusalem as israels capital. The aim to present a united front against the decision thats roiled muslims wild wide. Here in istanbul Donald Trumps move to recognize jerusalem as israels capital has been condemned. Turkish president recha tired at one host of the summit. As islamic countries we will never give up on our demand of a sovereign and independent palestine with jerusalem as its capital. Jerusalem status is that the core of the decades long as really Palestinian Conflict israel sees the eastern half of the city in the one nine hundred sixty seven war it controlled the citys west before the palestinians hope East Jerusalem will be the capital of their future state now the summit has backed by a stance donald trump pair on a visit to the city in may has been seen as siding with israelis and the conflict through his recognition of jerusalem as their capital. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to take the matter to the u. N. Security council to try and block washingtons decision. But israeli leaders believe they too have international backing. All of these declarations do not impress us. In the end the truth will prevail and many countries will recognize drusilla as the capital of israel and move their embassies there to. Meanwhile violent clashes continued between palestinians and israeli troops and the west Bank Protests there and touring the second week with no end in sight. Of british Prime Minister theresa may have lost a vote in the British Parliament a group of her own conservative m. P. s rebel delivering a blow for the Prime Minister on the eve of a crucial summit of european leaders. The ice to the right three hundred nine the nose to the left three hundred five. The makers voted narrowly in favor of an amendment to the governments with all bill the amendment promises impedes that they will have a vote on the final break that deal signed with brussels. All right thats a Big Development there in london lets go to london our correspondent bigger mosses on the story for us good evening to you here good so what does this mean for brakes it talks. Well this is festival something thats in tunnel in the u. K. This is a bill that regulates how e. U. Law is going to be trans fat into the u. K. Its fairly legal istic however the parliament has dealt a blow to to reason may because the British Parliament basically has said that they want to have a say in how the brics it process is shaped so its something thats in town in the u. K. And where the parliament basically makes a stand and where socalled rebels people who are up in for a self within parliament have won its nothing that has concrete and direct implications for for example the council and brussels but for the for older power play within the u. K. And that of course you know as as a second step also has consequences regarding the negotiations with brussels and exactly i mean when theresa may when she travels you know again to meet with leaders of the European Union is her hand now weaker because you know what she promises and what she says she can deliver in these talks you know that has to be carried out by the people back home can she can she promise more or less because of this vote. Well for the e. U. Negotiators they obviously want to have a strong Prime Minister they want to know that what is it greed in brussels will be carried through in london and this is definitely a dent into reason mays armor when it comes to everything that she is battling out at home because there is a huge fight over breakfast she has been quite determined to say that britain will leave the Single Market will leave the Customs Union but there are many within parliament who dont believe that this is the right way forward and who are now trying to influence it and there they want to have a say they want to have a vote before britain leaves the e. U. Meaningful very disease what it is about and of course for four for brussels that means that to reserve mays hand is weakened her hand is weakened and of course comes the question what about her government is already on shaky footing and one of our breaks didnt sell for me is a second referendum now more likely. Well breaks it itself its something that is on peoples minds who are following politics i think many people on the street really dont want to deal with it on a daily basis so that is a huge divide in the country is second referendum would probably be the only way for some you know the brics a process to be halted or to be very soft bricks it and different from what reason may is saying now its not yet on the cards however this is what many m. P. s are hoping for it could be a first step in this direction its not yet a given fact that there be many more fights here in london over the direction of greg said that soft greg said second referendum yes or no all right our correspondent in london bigger bass bigger thank you very much. There is not much trust to go around it seems when youre talking about briggs it neither in london nor in the European Union the European Parliament today debated whether or not to make its recent breaks agreement with britain legally binding one of the key points of discord is the irish border now in her recent deal with the e. U. Theresa may problem is that there would be no hard border between Northern Ireland which is part of the u. K. And the republic of ireland which is a member of the European Union or promises like that dont mean very much according to one of the leading brics it two years nigel for raj today in the European Parliament he predicted there will be a second brecks its the same story across the whole of the west the aspirations of the people and the aspirations of all political leaders and klaus in a very very different place are there was not before was there im joined now by Tony Connolly he is the Brussels Bureau chief for irish Public Television arts ee he is also the author of the critically acclaimed book bright sit in ireland the dangers the opportunities and the inside story of the irish response he has been called the experts expert when it comes to breaks in ireland tony its good to have you on the show what about that prediction good evening from nigel for raj are we going to see a repeat of brics in. Well for the moment everyone is trying to simply get over this particular hurdle that weve had in the past few months of our moving from the first phase of the negotiations into the second phase which will look more specifically the future trading relationship between the u. K. And the e. U. And of course one of the three key hurdles that trees a maze government had to get over was the question of the irish border and how to avoid a hard border in the future in ireland so for the moment the whole question has been about whether she could sign up to something that would meet the aspirations on the concerns of the average government about preserving the Peace Process in ireland making sure there isnt a tough Customs Border along the island along the middle of the north northeast of the island and i think thats really where the focus is at the moment but critically i think the the nature of the agreement that was reached last week between the British Government and the European Commission on how to avoid a border has somewhat narrowed the room for maneuver for treason may because they will have to there will have to be regulatory alignments between Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland and between Northern Ireland and the u. K. So it kind of binds the u. K. Closer to the european model of regulation this is somewhat complicated but i think this is where the focus is at the moment i want i want to pick up on the issue of the ireland the irish border just a moment but i want to get your take on what we saw tonight in london in parliament in this vote basically a slap in the face to theresa may is her hand now significantly weakened when she returns to the negotiating table with the e. U. I mean on the surface you would think so but she has been through so many crises in the past few months and she has so far survived those those upheavals on those difficulties so i think the feeling in brussels is that she is safe for the moment because there isnt within the conservative party an obvious replacement because there is still a civil war within the tory cabinet to the direction of travel with break that so shes kind of in place because theres no alternative and i think even with tonights vote the prevailing wisdom in brussels would be that she still will be there for some time on the significance of that vote i mean it if you think this through if the e. U. And the u. K. Go through another twelve sixteen months of negotiation and they reach a difficult hard fought treaty withdrawal treaty between them what happens if the house of commons rejects the treaty i dont think its possible that the e. U. Will suddenly say well we have to go back to the to square one i think the crisis then would simply fall onto the shoulders of trees in may on the conservative party that would probably be an election but its inconceivable that the e. U. Would simply say right we have to go back to the drawing board. I want to pull up the tweet that you sent out last week that really put the brakes it cat among the pigeons if you will you tweeted that the u. K. Will concede no regulatory divergence on the island of ireland on the Single Market and Customs Union that draft was an updated with the phrase continued regulatory alignment but both phrases were enough to calls a lot of trouble for to reason may be for our viewers around the world we dont want to get into the specifics of the border issue but is the irish border issue is it now solved in terms of bracks it. Well to make things simple for people at the moment the irish border is virtually invisible because on both sides of the border both Northern Ireland and the republic of ireland are members of the European Union so they all abide by the same regulations on a whole range of things theyre both in the Single Market the both in the Customs Union so there is no need for a border once britain leaves the European Union of course that poses the immediate problem of customs checks of checks for Food Products checks for regulatory standards and before you know it you could have a restoration of a hard border in the island of ireland both countries in the e. U. Have been trying to figure this out since the break that referendum and ultimately the average government came to the conclusion that the only way really to avoid the border was for britain as a whole to stay in the Customs Union and Single Markets or failing that at least Northern Ireland would remain in the Customs Union and Single Market so what happened with the negotiations last week was that they were trying to find a way in which britain would guarantee no hard border and by doing that they would they would say northern stays aligned if you like in regulations now what happened was i got sight of the draft text on monday morning and i could see that that concession was there that it would either be no regulatory divergence in other words things would stay the same or things would be continuing the way they where in the v. C. The do you do support treason as government were not able to stomach that all right unfortunately were out of time tony but fascinating talking with you please come back again to the day because i have a feeling there will be more reason to analyze these bricks and talks Tony Connelly the Brussels Bureau chief with irish Public Television r. T. E. Three thank you thank you very much. Well the day is nearly done but as always the conversation continues online you will find us on twitter either at u. W. News or you can write directly to me off t. V. Different if you use that hash tag today and remember no matter what happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see that everybody. 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