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Jumat, 20 Desember 2019

Brexit: MPs to vote on Boris Johnson's deal - BBC News

MPs will vote later on whether to back the prime minister's plan for the UK to leave the EU on 31 January.

The EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill would also ban the government from extending the transition period - where the UK is out of the EU but follows many of its rules - past 2020.

Boris Johnson said it would allow the UK to "move forward".

Opponents say the bill leaves the UK's future uncertain, and agreeing a trade deal with the EU could take many years.

But the government insists one can be in place by the end the transition period.

The result of the Commons vote on the bill is expected at about 15:00 GMT.

The withdrawal bill, which would implement the Brexit agreement the prime minister reached with the EU in October, was introduced in Thursday's Queen's Speech, setting out the government's priorities for the next year.

Beginning the debate in the Commons, the prime minister said his bill "learns the emphatic lesson of the last Parliament" and "rejects any further delay".

"It ensures we depart on 31 January. At that point Brexit will be done. It will be over," he told MPs.

"The sorry story of the last three years will be at an end and we can move forward."

Mr Johnson said it also "paves the way" for a "ambitious free trade deal" with the EU.

"The oven is on, it is set at gas mark four, we can have it done at lunchtime and the new deal I negotiated will restore our great institutions," he said.

The bill's second reading is the first chance MPs have had to debate its main principles in the House of Commons.

With the Conservatives having won an 80-seat majority at last week's general election, the bill is expected to pass easily, before it moves on to further scrutiny by MPs and the House of Lords.

MPs have been given a further three days - 7, 8 and 9 January - to continue their debate in the Commons.

The government says it will get the bill into law in time for the 31 January Brexit deadline.

An earlier withdrawal agreement - reached between previous Prime Minister Theresa May and the EU - was rejected three times by MPs.

There are changes to the previous bill, which was backed by the Commons in October, but withdrawn by the government after MPs rejected a three-day deadline for getting it through Parliament.

The changes include:

Legally prohibiting the government from extending the transition period - during which a trade deal between the UK and EU will be discussed - beyond 31 December 2020

Allowing more UK courts to reconsider European Court of Justice rulings that have been retained in UK law after Brexit

Requiring ministers to report annually to Parliament on disputes with the EU under the prime minister's withdrawal agreement

Repealing spent legislation that "now serves no purpose"

The bill also loses a previous clause on strengthening workers' rights.

The government now says it will deal with this issue in a separate piece of legislation, but the TUC has warned that the change will help "drive down" working conditions.

What a difference a year makes.

It was back in January that Theresa May embarked on a series of Commons defeats as she tried and failed to begin the process of getting her Brexit plans approved.

It was only in October that Boris Johnson paused his own efforts when MPs rejected the proposed timetable for getting the Withdrawal Agreement through parliament.

But now, following the general election and with an 80-strong Conservative majority, things look very different.

And Boris Johnson knows it, claiming that it's time for "certainty" after years of "delay and rancour".

But the bill will come in for criticism. Gone are clauses about workers' rights - Downing Street says that will be dealt with in separate legislation.

And added: a provision ruling out any extension to the transition period beyond December 2020.

The process of ratifying the Withdrawal Agreement Bill will continue in the New Year but Friday's vote is, in part, designed to signal that the UK is now motoring towards that January 31 departure date.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the government's "mishandling of Brexit" had "paralysed the political system," divided communities and was a "national embarrassment".

He said MPs "have to respect the decision" of the EU referendum in 2016 "and move on".

"However, that doesn't mean that we as a party should abandon our basic principles," he said.

"Labour will not support this bill as we remain certain there is a better and fairer way for this country to leave the EU."

He said there had to be something better than this "terrible" Brexit deal that would not "sell out public services" or "sacrifice hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process".

The SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford said: "Scotland still totally and utterly rejects Brexit, yet the prime minister is blindly hurtling towards the cliff edge with these Brexit plans that will leave us poorer, leave us worse off."

On the change in the bill that would legally prohibit the government from extending the transition period beyond 31 December 2020, Mr Blackford said: "By placing that deadline, that risk of a no-deal Brexit, that we all fear is very much, is on the table again."

But Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay rejected the criticism, saying the bill offered "increased scrutiny" of the Brexit process to Parliament.

In the 2016 referendum, the UK voted by 52% to 48% to leave the EU. But the subsequent difficulties in getting Brexit through Parliament have caused gridlock at Westminster.

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2019-12-20 10:12:48Z
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India extends controls on protests after day of deadly violence - CNN

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in at least 15 cities across the country, including New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Kolkata on Thursday in a show of nationwide public anger against the law considered by many to be unconstitutional and discriminatory against Muslims.

At least two people died in the protests, which saw violent pitched battles between police and protesters in several cities, including Ahmedabad, Mangaluru, and Lucknow. Police fired tear gas, water cannons and used batons against protesters who pelted stones, vandalized and set fire to buildings and buses. Thousands of people were arrested.

Following Thursday's violence, police in the country's largest and most populous state Uttar Pradesh, where one person died in violent protests, have enforced a law banning public gatherings of four or more people for the next 15 days.

The colonial-era restrictions -- known as Section 144 -- will be imposed across the entire state, Avnish Awasthi, senior official in the Uttar Pradesh Home Department told CNN.

Internet services in the state capital Lucknow will also remain suspended until Saturday evening, after protesters set fire to buildings and clashed with police on Thursday.

"Yesterday, internet connectivity in 73 districts was shut down," Awasthi said. "For the rest of the districts in the states, district officials are making individual decisions."

In the capital New Delhi, section 144 remained in place in three key protest areas Friday, police said.

On Thursday at least one telecoms provider said it was directed to suspend services in six areas of the capital during the protests. It was the first time mobile and internet services had been cut in the capital.

Violence, deaths and arrests

On Thursday, two people died from injuries sustained during a protest in the city of Mangalore, in the southern state of Karnataka, a senior doctor at the Highland Hospital told CNN.

One more person died from firearm injuries in Lucknow city, the capital of northern Uttar Pradesh state, according to a senior doctor at the King George Medical University in the city.

Additional Director General of Uttar Pradesh police, P.V. Ramasastry, told CNN that the death in Lucknow was not directly related to the protests.

Some 3,600 people were arrested as a preventative measure in Uttar Pradesh, police said. In Lucknow, 112 preventive arrests were made while 50 people were booked and arrested under various charges.

In the capital New Delhi, 1,200 people were detained for violating a ban on public gatherings. Police told CNN on Friday those people have been released without charge.

Despite the bans, further protests are planned on Friday at the capital's Jamia Milia Islamia University -- which was the scene of violent clashes between police and protesters on Sunday, and a march from the Jama Masjid -- one of the largest mosques in India -- to the iconic India Gate, in central Delhi.

At the center of the unrest is the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which was passed into law last week. The law that promises to fast-track citizenship for non-Muslim religious minorities, including Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis and Christians, from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan who arrived before 2015.

India is a world leader in Internet shutdowns

The government, ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), said the law will provide safe haven for religious minorities who fled persecution in their home countries. Critics say it undermines the country's secular constitution as it bases citizenship on a person's religion and would further marginalize India's 200-million strong Muslim community.

The Indian government had sought to quell any unrest over the law's passing by banning protests and shutting down the internet and mobile services in several parts of the country.

Many of who marched told CNN the government was using the bans on public gatherings to muzzle the voices of Indian people in the world's largest democracy.

"I have my freedom to protest. It is my fundamental right," said New Delhi student Sidharth Singh, 23. "This is not democracy. Why does the government think it is higher than the constitution?"

Thursday's deaths brings the total to at least seven, after five people were confirmed to have died in ongoing protests in the northeastern state of Assam.

Protests in the northeast are different from the rest of the country, however. Many indigenous groups there fear that giving citizenship to large numbers of immigrants would change the unique ethnic make-up of the region and their way of life, regardless of religion.

Troops were deployed and and internet shut down in several northeastern states amid the protests. On Friday senior Assam official G.P. Singh told CNN, "The mobile internet has been restored" there.

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2019-12-20 07:58:00Z
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'Before it is too late': Diplomats race to defuse tensions ahead of North Korea's deadline - Reuters

SEOUL (Reuters) - A last minute flurry of diplomacy aimed at engaging with North Korea ahead of its declared year-end deadline for talks has been met with stony silence from Pyongyang so far, with the looming crisis expected to top the agenda at summits in China next week.

FILE PHOTO: A South Korean soldier watches a TV showing a file footage for a news report on North Korea firing a missile that is believed to be launched from a submarine, in Seoul, South Korea, October 2, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo

The U.S. special envoy for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, was due to leave Beijing on Friday after meeting with Chinese officials. Earlier in the week, Biegun also made stops in Seoul and Tokyo for discussions with counterparts.

It is unclear if Biegun had any behind-the-scenes contact with North Korean officials, but his overtures and calls for new talks were not publicly answered by Pyongyang.

Biegun’s trip came as China and Russia teamed up this week to propose a resolution that would ease some United Nations Security Council sanctions on North Korea as a way to jumpstart talks.

Next week, Chinese, South Korean and Japanese leaders are due to meet in China, with North Korea likely to top the agenda.

“It’s kind of creepy that there haven’t been any statements from high level (North Korea) Foreign Ministry officials this week...,” Jenny Town, managing editor at the North Korea monitoring website 38 North, said on Twitter. “The silence, even after Biegun’s speech in Seoul, makes me concerned.”

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has given the United States until the end of the year to propose new concessions in talks over North Korea’s nuclear arsenal and reducing tensions between the long-time adversaries.

North Korea has said it is up to the United States to decide what “Christmas gift” it will receive this year, without specifying what Kim’s decision may be.

The prospect that 2020 may see a return to heightened tensions and major missile or weapons tests by North Korea has led politicians, diplomats, and analysts around the world to debate how to salvage diplomacy after U.S. President Donald Trump’s unprecedented summits with Kim over the past two years failed to make a breakthrough.

On Wednesday, four leading Democrats in the U.S. Senate wrote a letter to Trump arguing that U.S. efforts to establish peace on the peninsula and denuclearize North Korea “appear to be stalled and on the brink of failure”.

“We reiterate our hope that you will execute a serious diplomatic plan before it is too late,” the letter said.

‘THE BEST PLAN’

The Senate Democrats’ letter called for the administration to seek an interim agreement to freeze and roll back some of North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes in conjunction with reduced pressure from sanctions.

“While such an agreement would of course only be a first step in a longer process, it would nonetheless be an important effort to create the sort of real and durable diplomatic process that is necessary,” they wrote.

China and Russia on Monday introduced a joint proposal that calls on the U.N. Security Council to lift some sanctions on exports and foreign workers, with Chinese officials calling it the “the best plan in the current situation to resolve the stalemate”.

The United States has said it is opposed to any sanctions relief at the moment, but has also said it is willing to be flexible in discussions.

Meanwhile, analysts at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based think tank that has often advocated for a hard line against countries such as North Korea and Iran, called for the Trump administration to turn to implement a “maximum pressure 2.0” campaign.

The United States should increase sanctions, target North Korea with offensive cyber operations, and carry out an “aggressive” information campaign against the country, the foundation wrote in a report earlier in December.

A study commissioned by peace activists reported last month that sanctions were disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations in North Korea.

The report for Korea Peace Now! called for lifting all sanctions that may be violating international law or undermining human rights, and to “urgently” try to mitigate the impact on humanitarian efforts.

MILITARY TENSIONS

Recent weeks have seen some U.S. and North Korean officials discussing possible military actions once again.

Earlier this month, Trump angered North Korean officials by suggesting the United States could use military force “if we have to.”

Those remarks led North Korea’s army chief to warn that North Korea would take “prompt corresponding actions at any level.”

North Korea launched several dozen short-range missiles in 2019, and the commander of U.S. air forces in the Pacific said this week that he suspects “some kind of long-range missile” could be North Korea’s “Christmas gift.”

Speaking to reporters in Washington on Tuesday, Gen. Charles Brown said the U.S. military could “dust off pretty quickly and be ready to use” options it had developed during the height of tensions in 2017.

“If the diplomatic efforts kind of fall apart, we’ve got to be ready...we’re already thinking ahead,” he said.

Editing by Jacqueline Wong

Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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2019-12-20 06:46:00Z
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Kamis, 19 Desember 2019

Scotland Seeks New Vote On Independence As U.K. Hurtles Toward Brexit - NPR

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The people of Scotland have already rejected the U.K.'s political agenda, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon says – and now she wants them to vote in a public referendum on leaving the U.K. altogether. Sturgeon says she's sending Prime Minister Boris Johnson a letter formally requesting that Scotland be allowed to hold a vote on its future.

"Let's assert our rights as an equal nation and partner," Sturgeon told Scotland's residents as she began the push for what's widely being called #IndyRef2.

Scotland held a landmark independence vote in 2014, when roughly 55% of voters chose to remain in the U.K. But Sturgeon says times have changed drastically since then – most notably, Scotland voted to remain in the EU in the 2016 Brexit vote. She also notes that in the U.K.'s recent general election, her pro-independence Scottish National Party had one of its best showings ever at the polls.

"Scotland made very clear last week that it does not want a Tory government led by Boris Johnson taking us out of Europe and down a path that we haven't chosen," Sturgeon said.

Sturgeon unveiled her bid for a new vote as Johnson triumphantly opened a new session of Parliament, which included a Queen's Speech that focused on delivering on Johnson's pledge to leave the EU by the end of January. But in the north, the SNP had similarly campaigned on a promise to seek a new vote on independence.

"It's fascinating that on this day you have a message of unity" in London, NPR's Frank Langfitt reports, "and then up in Scotland, you have a message: 'We want to vote to be able to leave."

Full text of Nicola Sturgeon's letter to Boris Johnson requesting the powers to hold #Indyref2 - with an amusing festive payoff pic.twitter.com/rcPmzSdTwr
— Chris Green (@ChrisGreenNews) December 19, 2019

Johnson has said he's against Scotland becoming independent. Countering that, Sturgeon says that if the U.K.'s central government forbids Scotland from voting, it will bolster her argument that the relationship is too one-sided. And she vowed that the vote will happen despite Johnson's resistance.

Sturgeon says her party wants to hold the referendum sometime in 2020. She did not specify a date.

In her statement about independence, Sturgeon sometimes seemed to echo the language the U.K.'s staunchest Brexit backers have used to discuss the European Union – but instead of invoking a "superstate" that threatens the sovereignty of its members, Sturgeon said the U.K.is best seen as "a voluntary association."

"Scotland is not a region questioning its place in a larger unitary state; we are a country in a voluntary union of nations," the first minister says, in a paper that was released Thursday.

And in a passage that could require a trigger warning for anyone who's recently undergone a painful breakup, Sturgeon went on to say that while Scotland and the U.K. will always be "our closest allies and neighbors," people in Scotland should be able to explore whether "the time has come for a new, better relationship, in which we can thrive as a genuine partnership of equals."

SNP MP Steven Bonnar clearly crossed his fingers as he was sworn into the House of Commons, in protest at the oath made to the Queen pic.twitter.com/Alwt774Hq2
— PA Media (@PA) December 18, 2019

The new push to leave the U.K. comes one day after an SNP politician made waves for crossing his fingers as he pledged an oath to Queen Elizabeth II during his swearing-in ceremony at Parliament.

Sturgeon says that since Scotland originally voted on self-determination in 2014, "there has been a material change in circumstances" in the U.K.

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2019-12-19 14:59:00Z
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Putin talks Trump impeachment, climate in annual conference - Al Jazeera English

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed a marathon annual end-of-year news conference on Thursday in Moscow.

Here are some of the highlights from his comments to reporters:

On US President Donald Trump's impeachment:

"The party that lost the [2016] election is continuing the fight by other means.

"[The impeachment bill] still needs to go through the Senate where Republicans, as far as I know, have a majority. It's unlikely they will want to remove from power a representative of their party based on what are, in my opinion, completely fabricated reasons.

"The Democrats accused Trump of a plot with Russia, and then it emerged that there was no kind of plot. It could not be the basis of impeachment.

"Then they thought up some kind of pressure on Ukraine."

On climate change:

"Nobody knows the origins of global climate change.

"We know that in the history of our Earth there have been periods of warming and cooling and it could depend on processes in the universe.

"A small angle in the axis in the rotation of the Earth or its orbit around the Sun could push the planet into serious climate changes.

"[We] must undertake maximum efforts to ensure that the climate does not change dramatically.

"For our country, this process is very serious," he said. "We will undertake efforts to minimise the consequences for our country."

On UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's recent election victory:

"Johnson can be congratulated. He was victorious after all and had a better sense of the British public's mood than his political opponents. And as far as I understand, he intends to implement all of his Brexit plans."

On the Libyan conflict:
"Russia is in touch with [Libyan Prime Minister Fayez] al-Serraj and with [eastern Libyan commander Khalifa] Haftar. We are also constantly maintaining dialogues with our partners, including Turkey, Europe and other countries.

"In our opinion, the best outcome would be for an agreement to be reached between the two conflicting sides that would lead to an end to military actions, and would establish who will rule the country, how, and what responsibilities they would have."

On Ukraine peace talks:

"There is nothing other than the Minsk [peace] Agreements. I was of course concerned by [Ukrainian President] Zelenskyy's statement ... that they could be revised. If a revision of the Minsk Agreements starts, then the situation could enter a complete dead end.

"Direct dialogue on Donbass is needed. It is lacking."

On Russia's doping scandal:

"Any punishment should be individual. If someone is guilty of something specific, then that is completely natural and just.

"If [World Anti-Doping Agency] WADA does not have any claims against our national Olympic Committee, then our team should be allowed to participate under its own flag. Deal with specific people.

"We are doing everything to make sure Russian sport is clean."

On gas talks with Ukraine:

"This is a very difficult, sensitive topic. We would like to solve this problem.

"We will look for a solution that is acceptable for all parties, including Ukraine. That's despite the construction of infrastructure such as Nord Stream-1, Nord Stream-2, Turk Stream. We will preserve gas transit through Ukraine.

"We have no desire to exacerbate the situation in the energy sector or use this to influence the situation in Ukraine itself."

On changing Russian presidential term limits:

"One thing that could be changed about these [presidential] terms is removing the clause about 'successive' [terms]. Your humble servant served two terms consecutively, then left his post, but with the constitutional right to return to the post of president again, because these two terms were not successive. [This clause] troubles some of our political analysts and public figures. Well, maybe it could be removed."

On extending the new START arms control treaty:

"We are ready until the end of the year to extend the existing agreement, the new START treaty.

"Now if we were to receive a letter tomorrow - we are ready to sign it and send it back to Washington.

"But thus far there has been no answer to any of our suggestions. And without a new START treaty, there is nothing to curb an arms race. And that, in my opinion, is bad."

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2019-12-19 13:30:00Z
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Vladimir Putin says Trump was impeached for 'made-up reasons' - CNN

The House of Representatives voted almost exactly along party lines Wednesday to impeach Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Trump was the third president in US history to be impeached, and he now faces a trial in the Senate that is expected to start next month.

"Regarding the continuation of our dialogue till the end of Trump's presidency, you make it sound as if it's already coming to an end," Putin said answering a question about whether Russia has a strategy for continuing the dialogue with the US until the end of Trump's presidency.

"I actually really doubt that it is ending, it still has to go through Senate where as far as I know the Republicans hold the majority so it's unlikely they will want to remove the representative of their party for some made-up reasons."

President Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on Thursday.

Putin's defense of Trump is in line with the unusually-warm relationship the two leaders have formed since 2017. Last year, Trump sided with the Russian President when he declined to endorse the US government's assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, saying instead that he believed Putin's denial that his government meddled. Trump has also dismissed credible allegations that Putin uses violence against his opponents, saying in 2015: "I haven't seen any evidence that he killed anybody, in terms of reporters."

Putin added on Thursday: "This is just the continuation of the internal political battle, one party that lost the elections, the Democrats, and are now trying to find new ways by accusing Trump of collusion with Russia. But then it turns out there was no collusion, this can't be the basis for the impeachment. Now they came up with some pressure on Ukraine, I don't know what is the [pressure] but this is up to your congressmen."

The question was asked by Dmitry Simes, head of the Washington-based think tank Center for the National Interest, mentioned in the Mueller report for providing advice to Trump's campaign on Russia.

The two articles of impeachment passed against Trump charged him with abuse of power for withholding nearly $400 million in US military aid and a White House meeting while pressuring Ukraine's president to investigate a potential political rival, and obstruction of Congress for thwarting the House's investigative efforts.

CNN's Devan Cole contributed to this report.

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2019-12-19 12:38:00Z
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Vladimir Putin says Trump was impeached for 'made-up reasons' - CNN

The question was asked by Dmitry Simes, head of the Washington-based think tank Center for the National Interest, mentioned in the Mueller report for providing advice to Trump's campaign on Russia.

CNN's Devan Cole contributed to this report.

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