will reform our crime and justice legislation here in england and wales. one part of it covers changes to the policing of protests. if it goes through, police chiefs will be able to impose tighter conditions on static protests by setting a start and finish time. they will be able to set noise limits. that meant it has i am told just been rejected by the house of lords in the last hour. and they will be able to apply these rules to a demonstration involving just one person. i have to ask you since you are but we voting on some of these issues later this evening, are you going to vote for it? are un favour of the bill equipment yes, i am and we had just been voting while bernice king was speaking so eloquently about voting rights in the us, the
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching context on bbc news. the us stopped to remember the civil rights leader martin luther king junior, who died this day 54 years ago. commemorations this year frame with a continued fight in the senate for voting rights reform. in the uk, a bill that would curtail the citizens right to protest is going through final stages in parliament. do look up if you have telescope, you might even see the asteroid now hurtling towards earth, but breath easy, it will pass safely by and by some distance. tonight with the context, stephanie rawlings blake, former democratic mayor of baltimore, and conservative peer ed vaizey, who was culture secretary under david cameron.
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listen to me about why she is opposed. what worries me about this bill is it s very widely drawn and it s very vaguely worded and it really uses noise for the first time as a way for police to decide whether you or i are criminals. it actually extends even to one person protests, so if you or i wanted to sit on a street corner shouting, the police now have very widely drawn powers to decide whether we are causing what they call in the bill serious annoyance or serious inconvenience . now, that is very subjective. it s up to somebody else to decide, and i think really we are sleepwalking into a police state. i know camilla very well and she was a fat head i know camilla very well and she was a fat head of i know camilla very well and she was a fat head of policy i know camilla very well and she was a fat head of policy under i know camilla very well and she was a fat head of policy under david - a fat head of policy under david cameron a fat head of policy under david cameron w