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Going to be one teacher. And the Prime Minister seems utterly incapable of ansari put his surrender bill would do he would risk any chance of the tolls only stewing is running down the clock does it mean for a kid to keep that i can see this. Also coming up a French Court Case over maurice the rooster hes a hit with the hens but not with the neighbors they cant sleep and they blame maurice is cock a doodle do you think that i could beat these people who come from paris and complain about the reste i shouldnt even be an aussie i just want to beat them up its on acceptable this is. What you our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the British Parliament putting the brakes on braggs it and also. On the Prime Minister in the span of just over 24 hours lawmakers in westminster have taken control of all plans for how the country will leave the European Union tonight lawmakers succeeded in the 1st round of votes that would make a no deal braggs it illegal that bill would also make mandatory a request to the European Union for yet another breaks it delay into january of next year all of this making Prime Minister Boris Johnson visibly annoyed and angry he reacted tonight by calling for an early election on october 15th a demand lawmakers were not willing to go along with at least for now. Yesterday it was revealed was to speak of the Prime Ministers negotiating strategy is to run down the clock Prime Minister i tell you want to tell you to just take a what on the gay shaping strategy is and it is to get a deal by the summit on october the 17th and to take this country out of the e. U. On october the tell us again it breaks it down we are on less than 60 days away from leaving the e. U. With no jail the Prime Minister has had 2 days in office before the summer recess and then plan to parag polman yesterday he lost one vote his 1st vote in parliament and he now wants to dissolve parliament hes desperate absolutely desperate to avoid scrutiny but mr speaker i know hes worried about free trade deals with america but theres only one car in a kids she can get i can see in this house i had the Prime Minister yesterday. 21 employees from hes all right poets and full of sin against a reckless no deal bricks that given the Prime Minister himself voted against the former Prime Minister why hes losing the way it is this no shows and demonstrate to the British Public his view of life 91 rule for him and one rule for everyone else they. Rise to support this bill but before i do say i want to make have that ive always believed the referendum was off must be honored and indeed i thank you for the Withdrawal Agreement on every occasion that is being presented to the highs which is more than can be said for my rival from the Prime Minister the leader of the highs and all the members of the cabinet who several disloyalty has been such an inspiration to so many of us. Are in for more on whats happening in westminster im joined by john wirth hes one of our trusted and true rights and analyst john its good to see you you know you have always been very critical of bricks and. But did you expect to see what we have seen in the last 24 hours in parliament we knew there was always the chance when Boris Johnson became Prime Minister he was going to play a dangerous game he basically wants to win back all of the 70000000 people voted for breaks in 2016 he wants to get them all into the conservative science and then hold a general election which thought that might have been his strategy all along what we can of read expected is how brutal and also of poor quality in the way that hes going to. Annoy david when we just heard it in the clip of have how brutal hes been to his own members of parliament and how hes managed to lose his majority and lose parliamentary votes so quickly hes succeeded where no one else has succeeded before in unifying the opposition against him which is quite an achievement ultimately so how difficult its got for Boris Johnson and how quickly that may be the the unusual aspect i mean it has been one review can after another against the Prime Minister but you know as they say it aint over till its over i mean this legislation passed by the house of commons it has to go to the house of lords in the queen also has to give her blessing i mean how likely is that going to happen and then its going to happen quickly by next monday right theres a race against time so we dont yet know its very difficult in the rules as to filibustering the house of lords could potentially do the difficulties is johnson he himself would quickly. The other opposition parties theyve got to theyre a bit more relaxed about it because johnson what he ultimately needs is an election as soon as possible he needs it to happen before European Union Council Summit on the on the 17th of october thats why he talks about the data 15th of october for the general election labor they can wait a bit if its the end of october if its november they can live with that thats absolutely fine because what johnson is to do is want to go you want schools to brussels and say im going to force you to basically give me the deal that i want and if you dont listen to me then we go out without a deal the more the clock ticks down into the end of october all for. Into the future then the chances are of him getting this new deal or indeed him even surviving in power so his chances then decrease moses a timetabling you know the tonight lawmakers voted against an early election so theres not going to be an early election in october 15th that we know that the Prime Minister wanted so what recourse does he have now that parliament has said no to a snap election agent to try again on monday probably so basically labor is set we want the law against new deal passed 1st it passed the commons today and we think it should pass the law its either tomorrow or friday labor says right thats all then if Boris Johnson says again on monday ok lets try again lets try and see if we get this chief as majority to hold an election then he might succeed so thats the order wholl 1st then an election 2nd and then we might you then looking at the general election then some point i want to talk to you a little bit about what happened last night when so many of these members of the conservative party were basically kicked out of the party right they lost the whip the anger of those m. P. s i mean it was visible today Margaret James he was kicked out of the party she used the words of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher today in parliament in them straight at words johnson when she talked about were students and advisor Dominique Clemens which take a listen to what she said. Thank you great lady you and i pay my fare on show mr speak out once said its i thought i says a minister has decide can i ask the Prime Minister to back that statement placed in mind in relation to his own chief advisor domenic comey. I. Was amused to breasting applause from labor audiences. Particularly particularly since particularly since unlike the gentleman opposite we are actually devoted to delivering on the mandate are those labor constituencies and we are going to take the u. K. Out of the e. U. I dont care whether that is as good as for the action in question that my owner will friend asked to be in be in their diet be in their diet that we are deciding on a policy to take this country forward not backwards as he would do. Theres a lot of political theater there but what about the Doherty Cummings i mean even the juries the conservatives now are saying that you know they smell a rat with him is he part of the Prime Ministers problem he could be its a relationship of convenience between cummings im Jones Cummings is a bricks its radical and he wants britain to be out of the European Union thats hes may not but he did say in an interview a couple of years ago that a 2nd referendum would probably be likely and legal right but he was also the leader of one of the chief strategist certainly and hes not a member of the conservative party although hes johnsons advice which is weird since his name is get britain out jones his main aim is to stay in power now that so theres that is the relationship of the convening of communions between the 2 the difficulty is is not stop some of his hands but more hes needs. Hes brutal he is unpleasant to people in fact even David Cameron is even described in previous as a sociopath and so therefore its his means and his behavior towards of the mets was members of parliament which is managing to generate such opposition at the moment you see johnson firing by that into this week or they would one day be surprising if someone one of his ministers such each of them the the finance minister would go to johnson and say either its cummings or its me im facing such a choice then ultimately johnson might ultimately have to dispense with his main advice because what he succeeded in doing is angering everyone we need that johnson was going to take a program that line potentially wanted to general election but setting polman out with this program the Parliament Sitting for 5 weeks and managing to kick out 21 members of parliament including 2 former finance ministers and the grandson of Winston Churchill all right but that is beyond anything that we would possibly even. Lets talk about the view from the other side of the atlantic Boris Johnson weve always been compared with you as President Donald Trump today trump praised johnsons briggs battles in parliament which ticket was and what he said from the oval office what boris as a friend of mine and hes hes hes going at it no question about it hes in there i watched him this morning is hes in there fighting. He does have a when forces at a whip. I mean. I wouldnt usually answer this but because its gotten so much attention is that a liability for were Boris Johnson right now having the trump say that to a certain extent no one in the u. K. Is going to take that remotely seriously that the difficulty is that johnson needs trump in one way he needs a little bit of cover from trump this idea that britain might strike a trade deal with the United States and we know full well with regard to china and other countries around the world that trump is not so keen on trade deals and trump just needs to fold your arms and hold the line we might give the trade a trade deal to the u. K. So what he wants and so ultimately i to teach what strategies like that statement from china thats not going to make an impact in the u. K. Basically the friendship between the 2 on the trade aspect is whats most significant we were looking were taking the story then to next monday is it possible that johnson could call for fresh elections again yes on monday and then parliament has to vote but when does the suspension of Parliament Begin so the suspension but it will happen at the end of the towards the middle of the end of next week or i dont actually know is when there is no more business but it will between between the 9th and the 12th of september which is between monday and thursday night so there would be time theoretically next week for another vote to hold a general election yes that would be possible in every day asian month so my prediction would be is if the new or against no deal has been approved by the house of lords i think palma next week will give jones and his 2 thirds majority and then well be looking as u. K. General election at some point later in october john was always we appreciate your insights i think you. Hong kongs chief executive carrie lamb has bound it is the demands of prodemocracy protesters today she withdrew that controversial extradition bill that sparked months of turmoil in the territory the proposal allows the suspects to be tried in courts in Mainland China accords that are run by the communist party fellow citizens for military lamb had already in fully declared the controversy of bill is being dead back in june on wednesday she made it formal with a televised address. First the government will formally withdrawal the bill in order to fully allay public consensus the secretary for security will move a motion according to the rules of procedure when the Legislative Council recent. Lamb said she was fully aware the move would not satisfy everyone and she was right prodemocracy lawmakers responded to her announcement with disbelief. Confessions socalled would focus. On that too late then make a stand. Off and were still in hong kong we should. Use some garden hose to put out. Thats not going to be acceptable. And there were more fires in hong kong over the weekend the city saw heavy clashes between protesters and the authorities during the 13th consecutive week of protests. Demonstrators blocked roads and public transport links to the International Airport causing gridlock on routes to and from one of the worlds busiest transport hubs. A prodemocracy activist and somewhat of a spokesman for many of the demonstrators said carrie lambs announcement was simply an attempt to quell unrest against beijings growing influence in the region we strongly aware that happens behind beijing government beijing. Just try to. As. Such draw withdraw. At thats just the strategy for beijing hope to. Reduce the number of participants. In the next few weeks said Mainland China was particularly looking to the 1st of october Chinas National Day a day when beijing will want to avoid a repeat of scenes like these. Well it is being called germanys most controversial tax fraud case and today its trial began it involves 2 British Investment bankers. Accused of helping traders and lenders tricked the German Government out of more than 400000000. 00 euros in tax money and prosecutors here in germany allege that bankers misled the state when it tried to collect Capital Gains taxes in water known as comics trades stocks appeared to have not one but multiple owners who were each a dividend and a tax credit so it looks like White Collar Crime comprised of double tax reclaims and sham share trade its estimated that the total loss for the European Union could be 55000000000. 00 euro as you see right there for germany 32000000000. 00 when you add taxes and other dividends today its just the beginning around 200 people we understand are under investigation they could also face charges its a huge case a huge investigation and im joined tonight by one of the journalists who have to uncover the comics trading fraud frederick rish there he is with the investigative newsroom corrective which is based here in berlin fredricka good to see you again we were talking about highly complex cross border trades involving highly skilled bankers and attorneys who were who were jews to ripping off the state and this goes back what about 20 years and yet the 1st trial began today why in the world has it taken so long. Because precisely as you said these transactions are very very complex on trade as can move billions within seconds or even less well by prosecutors. Differently if a prosecutor in could known for example wanted to find out why a french bank at a certain transaction. Might take up to 6 months the close is enormous were talking about cross border deals or tax authorities did they have the people there they have the know how to see this as its happening i mean this is it is something. I think they also had to build up that and obviously the German Justice system wasnt prepared for this understaffed so only a few prosecutions were really up to it but it it they work slowly and this is all cross border and Capital Markets are global the cross border of 3 of but the national Justice System still so the prosecutor who indicted the 2 and the many more to follow the 2 british them traitors today shes been working on it for 10 years what about tax authorities across the European Union outside of germany are they equipped to spot this type of fraud. I dont think so because i was in germany and also denmark but no one else really this was an issue but only when we published our investigation i think its been almost a year ago now. Tax office is politics and other European Countries such as spain france italy even became aware of the problems of the went even aware of it its only now theyve been starting to investigate this as well so this will all take many many more years to be investigated and brought to trial and we do in germany the. Loophole that allowed the debt that has been closed what about in other countries have a change their legislation well were actually not sure whether its been closed sufficiently in germany or the traders are very clever they find loopholes once the loophole is closed they look for a war so its probably because this was such a high profile case in germany staying away from jones youre not what more for technical reasons then because its been rendered impossible so and i dont think its been really close in all the European Countries that just want i just named let me ask you with all the chaos you controversy around breaks it right now has london become a place in your opinion for people who want to commit all kinds of fraud to the chinese ones is that a good place to holland absolutely because i think that will be even more so a place where shady money will go because it will be you know wrong for some there will struggle to cooperate even more so and cross border terms so and this will also account i think for for profit like this with the average working person who pays his or her taxes you know reads and hears about this you can understand why public drawstring Public Institutions is so low i mean its hard not to be a cynic right. Yes and the thing this was the one story that really everyone said i dont get this you know why when i finally tax returns as a citizen they look at every detail and banks get away with it and this really as you said undermines trust and its an issue of incisions and to fix it with german politics has been just turning a blind eye on the which what do you do wrong we get lots of. Mail from viewers who look at it if you look at germany and theyre surprised that they could happen here because germany has the reputation of having a social market economy where people would think on the outside that this type of fraud would be harder to get away with than it would be in places like the u. K. Or the u. S. I completely disagree with that perception because you can you know some industries in germany a very powerful in the congress 3 also the finance industry. Im not going to say they run this place but they have a very Strong Influence on the government you know because theyre obvious of very powerful so thats why german politics is really struggling to keep at bay the influence of industries and thats maybe the quote reason why this 4th could go on so long without the tireless work of you and others this story may have. Gone unreported forever what did you feel today as this trial got underway. To be honest i didnt few months obviously proud and happy when we kind of broke the story last year in a war going all wrong when we when we when we but the Justice System theyve also been doing the job and now its up to the Justice System to decide you know what will be the penalty. But its so thats going to run its course now but the bigger question is you know why did the German Government and didnt do anything for so long and this is to us journalists its even more relevant questions and how to in the future kind of reduce and will bring more transparency into the relationship between the government and the finance industry vigorously with couric to tonight talking about you know just huge fraud but fraud that you helped to uncover for that we appreciate your time tonight thank you thank you. And now to france where a cock a doodle doo in the morning has 2 neighbors in a feud pitting rural life against urban living a retired couple who obviously do not go to bed and get up with the chickens claim a good nights sleep has become impossible thanks to a next to work rooster who you guessed it cruise when the sun rises angry and sleepless the couple are not running away chicken here they are suing their neighbors for Noise Pollution claiming that their neighbors cock is simply too well. A quiet lunch with maurice who could be frances most famous cockerel his owner coreen fares or has lived on the island of all over all for 35 years she points out the holiday home owned by the neighbors who is suing her they allege that morris is dawn cool at 5 am every morning is Noise Pollution madame fizeau sees this as an attack on the rural way of life. Was usually a permissive fairy food ice that im not going to let myself be pushed around all our elected officials back me its a big problem people have to understand that in the city they are used to city noises but in the countryside there are other noises that have always been there and that their normal will to do it is not more the case has attracted a lot of attention the feds almost have received messages of support from as far away as the us rijeka. And from europe the French Island of all or all is a popular Holiday Resort for most of the year just 7000 people live here but in some of the population swells to 5 times that the court case hinges on whether the island can be classified as a rural area or a semi urban one many visitors are surprised that the case even made it to court. That i could be these people who come from paris and complain about the rooster i shouldnt even be a lawsuit i just want to beat them up its unacceptable this is all stupid. I think again its a part of daily life and hearing a restock i was part of life and pretty nice to hear an Animal Express themselves. Now its down to the court to decide whether maurices cry is Noise Pollution or whether its just a load of cock a doodle do you. Run the roosters the day is almost done the conversation continues online you find us on twitter follow me on t. V. And remember no matter what happens between now and then tomorrow is another day well see you then everybody. Sure of. What unites. What defines. What binds the content to. The answers and stories of plunging the. Spotlight on people. On. His style was fun mistake of. His picks. Peter lynch a bad one of the worlds most famous fashion photographer and. Nobody could train women quite like. In memory of Peter Jennings battles of the system of. D. W. I. I subscribe to d. W. Books theres always something more in the world than what we may be kept in front of. Me books. I know nothing but. I guess sometimes i am place and nothing which is a Research Analyst thinks deep into german culture can stereotype a question but if you think the future of the country i dont. Need to be good for this crime up there and. Its all that. I might show join me from the general fund b. W. Post. Alone a very warm welcome to focus on europe with me peter curry and we begin this week in the u. K. Where with so much at stake duggans are already drawn although members of parliament of only just returned from their summer recess the action and intrigue are intense in and around the houses of parliament in london Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears absolutely did