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yes. so, in summary, what is it? so, what happened was, last month, the scottish parliament, by a pretty big majority, passed this legislation and the legislation, this gender bill, seeks to remove administrative and medical barriers to changing the sex on your birth certificate. that s basically what it does. it s passed the scottish parliament and it was waiting to be given the rubber stamp by the king, royal assent. but, crucially, while the issue of trans rights is devolved to the scottish parliament, the issue of equalities is something that s decided at westminster on behalf of england, scotland and wales and the uk government says, hang on a minute, we think those two clash. and there s a line in the rule book that set up devolution a quarter of a century ago that allows us, they say, to pull this trigger and stop that proposed law becoming law and getting royal assent. that s what they ve done and it s caused one heck of a row. right, well, let s chat a bit ....
a political clip for instagram. and a senior un official visiting kabul says progress is being made to ensure that afghan women continue work with aid agencies, despite the taliban ban. you are watching bbc news. now newscast. hello, it is chris, back in the studio in westminster and no longer in edinburgh. here in the studio. we have got this week, we ve had to guess in recent weeks in the first edition of newscast in this, we have three. forthe edition of newscast in this, we have three. for the price of one. we have brigid phillipson, labour, shuttle education, we have grand, the business secretary and we have the deputy leader in the house of competence. and we ll talk about that in the second and an issue that has dominated our lives down the last couple of days which is the coming together of two very naughty and complex and controversial issues and complex and controversial issues and what is the uk constitution and the other one is this planned lot of the other ....
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Politicians like myself is that, at the moment, the government is failing to provide the support in orderfor people to failing to provide the support in order for people to change their behaviour. you can t outsource it to mayors and cities. this is a problem that will hit most of the uk because we do have a masons in some of our big major towns and cities that are not safe. we have to clean up or out. we have to help people to do that. the report in uxbridge and south ruislip tells you people want to do the right thing but they don t want to be penalised because they can t afford to change their vehicles, and there is not a scrappage scheme that complies with the legislation to enable them to do the legislation to enable them to do the right behaviour. i think the public want to do the right thing. theyjust want to public want to do the right thing. they just want to make sure they are not penalised for it. i hear that. i think that is something that all political parties need to refl ....