also: where s the evidence? congress s house intelligence committee demands from the president that his phones were wiretapped just before the election. after turkey s ministers are blocked from attending some european rallies, president erdogan threatens to take the netherlands to the european court and accuses germany of supporting terrorists. diplomatic freeze. blizzards in america s north east forces german chancellor merkel to reschedule her trip to the white house. i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. it is 53 days since donald trump took office, it s 233 days since britain voted to leave the european union. so much has happened since then and yet nothing at all has happened at least in terms of the formal brexit negotiation. but things are about to hot up. tonight, the uk parliament takes its final vote on the brexit legislation, which should clear the way for the prime minister to begin the process. it has just rejected both of the amendments.
Caution, particularly in recent months, because previously they have been accused of being overly optimistic, raising peoples hopes only to dash them. caution has been the watchword in recent weeks. in terms of lifting the final restrictions, it was always no earlier than. restrictions, it was always no earlierthan. but restrictions, it was always no earlier than. but he was really switching that in terms of the push to backdate july the 19th, switching that in terms of the push to backdatejuly the 19th, saying he really did confident that would allow enough time. and what ministers are arguing is that this isn t some sort of arbitrary data, where they say, we need a bit more time, so give us some. what they are saying is what you have been outlining, that this window of time, with an accelerated vaccination programme, will mean that byjuly the 19th, and two thirds of adults will be offered to narco doses of the vaccine, and all ovary teens will have been offered one dose of the vaccin
Lifting of lockdown measures. as i say, we know with coronavirus, things can change, things have changed in the past. unexpected setbacks. no cast iron guarantees, but certainly sounding pretty confident tonight, so the advice that he is receiving from the scientist leads the government to believe that a four week delay would believe that a four week delay would be enough. believe that a four week delay would be enouth. ., , be enough. brief last thought, is this ttoin be enough. brief last thought, is this going to be enough. brief last thought, is this going to be be enough. brief last thought, is this going to be tolerated - be enough. brief last thought, is this going to be tolerated by - be enough. brief last thought, is this going to be tolerated by his| this going to be tolerated by his backbenchers? hat this going to be tolerated by his backbenchers? this going to be tolerated by his backbenchers? ., ., ., backbenchers? not all of them. some of them will backbenchers?