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Hello there and welcome to Thursday in Parliament, | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
where MPs and peers paid tributes to the Queen on her 90th birthday. | 0:00:15 | 0:00:18 | |
Let this be a day of thanksgiving and much rejoicing | 0:00:18 | 0:00:21 | |
for Her Majesty's birthday. | 0:00:21 | 0:00:24 | |
Long live the Queen. | 0:00:24 | 0:00:28 | |
After the recent scrutiny of his private life, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:30 | |
the culture secretary says he still believes in the freedom | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
of the press. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
And the verdict is read out on a peer who double-claimed | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
mileage expenses. | 0:00:37 | 0:00:39 | |
He be suspended from the House for eight months and required to repay | 0:00:39 | 0:00:45 | |
the ?756 he wrongly claimed. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:50 | |
But first MPs and peers have paid tribute to the Queen as the monarch | 0:00:50 | 0:00:54 | |
celebrates her 90th birthday. | 0:00:54 | 0:00:56 | |
Crowds lined the streets in Windsor as Her Majesty took | 0:00:56 | 0:00:59 | |
part in the walkabout. | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
Some had been waiting for four hours to catch a glmipse of the Queen | 0:01:01 | 0:01:04 | |
on the day she became the nation's first ever 90-year-old monarch. | 0:01:04 | 0:01:09 | |
In the Commons, the Prime Minister led the tributes. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
No other country has a head of state with such | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
wisdom and such patience. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
Mr Speaker, there are some who say at times I may put that | 0:01:17 | 0:01:20 | |
patience to the test. | 0:01:20 | 0:01:22 | |
In the play The Audience, the character who portrays me goes | 0:01:22 | 0:01:26 | |
on and on about Europe so long that she falls asleep. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
I can guarantee this has never happened. | 0:01:29 | 0:01:32 | |
I may not have kept my promise not to bang on about Europe at every | 0:01:32 | 0:01:36 | |
forum but this is certainly the one where I try the hardest. | 0:01:36 | 0:01:39 | |
In 90 years, Her Majesty's lived through some extraordinary times | 0:01:39 | 0:01:42 | |
in our world. | 0:01:42 | 0:01:44 | |
From the Second World War, when her parents were nearly killed | 0:01:44 | 0:01:47 | |
as bombs dropped on Buckingham Palace, to the rations | 0:01:47 | 0:01:51 | |
with which she bought the material for her wedding dress. | 0:01:51 | 0:01:54 | |
From presenting the World Cup to England at Wembley in 1966 to man | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
landing on the moon three years later. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:01 | |
From the end of the Cold War to peace in Northern Ireland. | 0:02:01 | 0:02:04 | |
Throughout it all as the sands of culture shift and the tides | 0:02:04 | 0:02:08 | |
of politics ebb and flow Her Majesty has been steadfast. | 0:02:08 | 0:02:13 | |
Jeremy Corbyn spoke about a planned visit from the Queen | 0:02:13 | 0:02:15 | |
to North London. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:18 | |
In 2006, she was due to open the new Emirates Stadium | 0:02:18 | 0:02:21 | |
in my constituency but had to pull out through injury. | 0:02:21 | 0:02:25 | |
Unfortunately, Mr Speaker, this is a fate that has affected far | 0:02:25 | 0:02:28 | |
too many of Arsenal's squad in subsequent years. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
So we must congratulate her on her prescience. | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
My honourable friend the member for Hornsey and Wood Green was then | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
the leader of the council and as the Queen could not attend | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
the opening they were invited to Buckingham Palace | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
and she accompanied the whole squad to Buckingham Palace | 0:02:45 | 0:02:48 | |
to meet the Queen. | 0:02:48 | 0:02:50 | |
We know the Queen is absolutely above politics, she may | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
be above football too, but many locals harbour this quiet | 0:02:54 | 0:02:58 | |
secret view that she's actually privately a Gooner. | 0:02:58 | 0:03:04 | |
Throughout the decades of her reign, she has been a regular | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
visitor across Scotland. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:09 | |
For me, the most remarkable events have been in recent years, | 0:03:09 | 0:03:13 | |
including the 1999 reopening of this Scottish Parliament after a recess | 0:03:13 | 0:03:17 | |
of nearly 300 years. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
Who can forget the entire chamber, all MSPs of all parties, | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
the public gallery, Her Majesty and the Duke of Edinburgh | 0:03:26 | 0:03:29 | |
all singing Man's A Man For All That by Robert Burns? | 0:03:29 | 0:03:35 | |
She has seen technological advances, from when a telegram or radio | 0:03:35 | 0:03:39 | |
programme was a thing of great excitement to the prevalence | 0:03:39 | 0:03:43 | |
of satellite television, the iPhone and letters | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
being supplanted by e-mail. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:51 | |
But through all those years of change and upheaval one thing has | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
been a constant and that has been Her Majesty's selfless service | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
to Britain, admired both at home and around the world for constant | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
and consistent advocacy of Britain at its best. | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
I've always been so proud to share the date of my birth with our | 0:04:07 | 0:04:11 | |
monarch and when I was a little girl in Cardiff my father used to kid me | 0:04:11 | 0:04:16 | |
that the 24-gun salute was in fact for me. | 0:04:16 | 0:04:21 | |
I did find out very shortly that it was for a much | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
more important lady. | 0:04:25 | 0:04:27 | |
This morning when I was buying my muffin in Portcullis House I noticed | 0:04:27 | 0:04:33 | |
on the coin with which I paid Elizabeth II but today is not | 0:04:33 | 0:04:42 | |
about the Elizabeth on the coins, today | 0:04:42 | 0:04:48 | |
is about the Elizabeth in our hearts. | 0:04:48 | 0:04:55 | |
Bleurgh. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:56 | |
She is of course Her Majesty The Queen. | 0:04:56 | 0:04:58 | |
The Commons also heard from the grandson of the former | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:02 | |
On the night of the 4th of April 1955, on the eve of his resignation | 0:05:02 | 0:05:08 | |
as Prime Minister, Churchill gave a dinner at Number Ten | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
in honour of the Queen. | 0:05:13 | 0:05:16 | |
It was agreed between the private offices that there | 0:05:16 | 0:05:19 | |
would be no speeches. | 0:05:19 | 0:05:21 | |
But the Queen, greatly moved by the impending retirement | 0:05:21 | 0:05:29 | |
of her first Prime Minister, who she had known since | 0:05:29 | 0:05:32 | |
she was a very small child, rose in her place and lifted her | 0:05:32 | 0:05:38 | |
glass with the toast, "To my Prime Minister." | 0:05:38 | 0:05:43 | |
And Churchill, a very old man, in the full dress evening uniform | 0:05:43 | 0:05:49 | |
of a Knight of the Garter completely unprepared pulled himself | 0:05:49 | 0:05:55 | |
to his feet and this is what he said to the Queen. | 0:05:55 | 0:06:00 | |
He said, Madam, I propose a toast to your Majesty, | 0:06:00 | 0:06:05 | |
I used to drink as an officer in the Fourth Hussars | 0:06:05 | 0:06:10 | |
at Bangalore in India in the reign of your Majesty's | 0:06:10 | 0:06:13 | |
great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria and I drink | 0:06:13 | 0:06:19 | |
to the wise and kindly way of life of which your Majesty is the young | 0:06:19 | 0:06:25 | |
and gleaming champion. | 0:06:25 | 0:06:29 | |
Through 90 years of her life and 64 years of her reign she has | 0:06:29 | 0:06:35 | |
always been the same. | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
Nicholas Soames. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:39 | |
The Culture Secretary John Whittingdale has said his faith | 0:06:39 | 0:06:43 | |
in press freedom has been tested to the utmost but despite | 0:06:43 | 0:06:46 | |
the scrutiny of his private life he told MPs he still believed | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
in press freedom and that it was vitally important. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:53 | |
Last week the BBC's Newsnight programme revealed that | 0:06:53 | 0:06:56 | |
four newspapers knew about John Whittingdale's | 0:06:56 | 0:06:59 | |
relationship with a former sex worker but had decided not | 0:06:59 | 0:07:02 | |
to publish the story. | 0:07:02 | 0:07:05 | |
Tonight John Whittingdale confirmed to this programme he had had | 0:07:05 | 0:07:08 | |
a relationship with a woman who turned out unbeknownst | 0:07:08 | 0:07:10 | |
to him to be a sex worker. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
Campaigners accuse newspapers of sitting on the story | 0:07:13 | 0:07:15 | |
in order to exert leverage over John Whittingdale, | 0:07:15 | 0:07:18 | |
who's in charge of press regulation. | 0:07:18 | 0:07:21 | |
Following the Newsnight report, the newspapers did run the story | 0:07:21 | 0:07:24 | |
publishing further details about his private life. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:28 | |
This session of culture questions was Mr Whittingdale's first | 0:07:28 | 0:07:31 | |
appearance in the Commons since and his first task | 0:07:31 | 0:07:34 | |
was to answer a question from another MP who has also | 0:07:34 | 0:07:37 | |
experienced press coverage of his private affairs. | 0:07:37 | 0:07:40 | |
Simon Danczuk asked about a law that allows courts to force newspapers | 0:07:40 | 0:07:44 | |
that are not signed up to the approved regulator to pay | 0:07:44 | 0:07:47 | |
all legal costs even where the paper has won the case. | 0:07:47 | 0:07:52 | |
The Secretary of State must realise that press abuse victims want him | 0:07:52 | 0:07:55 | |
to implement section 40, indeed even the Prime Minister | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
personally promised victims of press abuse and this House that it | 0:07:59 | 0:08:03 | |
would be enacted. | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
Why is the Secretary of State breaking the Prime Minister's | 0:08:05 | 0:08:08 | |
promise? | 0:08:08 | 0:08:09 | |
I have considerable sympathy with the victims of press abuse | 0:08:09 | 0:08:12 | |
and I've had a number of meetings with himself and with others | 0:08:12 | 0:08:17 | |
who are rightly following this matter with great interest. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
I would say that, having had my faith perhaps | 0:08:22 | 0:08:26 | |
tested to the utmost, I still believe that press freedom | 0:08:26 | 0:08:30 | |
is a vitally important component of a free society. | 0:08:30 | 0:08:35 | |
We should tread very carefully however. | 0:08:35 | 0:08:37 | |
The recommendations of the Leveson report, some have already been | 0:08:37 | 0:08:42 | |
implemented and the new system is coming into effect, | 0:08:42 | 0:08:45 | |
the exemplary damages provisions of section 40 you will be aware have | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
been enacted now. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
The remainder are still under consideration. | 0:08:52 | 0:08:54 | |
We do not yet have a recognised press regulator in place | 0:08:54 | 0:08:58 | |
but we will continue to consider these matters very carefully. | 0:08:58 | 0:09:03 | |
Implementation of these cost incentives was promised by the then | 0:09:03 | 0:09:06 | |
Culture Secretary, they were promised as a key part | 0:09:06 | 0:09:11 | |
of the Leveson report, agreed by the Prime Minister, | 0:09:11 | 0:09:14 | |
and not only by parliament but also victims of press abuse including | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
the family of Madeline McCann. | 0:09:17 | 0:09:20 | |
In signalling already that he has no intention of taking this step, | 0:09:20 | 0:09:24 | |
has the Secretary of State reflected very much at all that he is not only | 0:09:24 | 0:09:28 | |
thwarting parliament, breaching a cross-party agreement, | 0:09:28 | 0:09:32 | |
but also breaking a firm and clear promise made by the Prime Minister | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
and his colleagues? | 0:09:37 | 0:09:40 | |
I would just say to the honourable gentleman, first of all I have not | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
indicated that I have no intention. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
I simply said I was not minded which means that the matter | 0:09:47 | 0:09:53 | |
is still under consideration and my mind and that | 0:09:53 | 0:09:57 | |
of my colleagues is open on the matter. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:01 | |
A culture minister tried to introduce some jollity. | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
While we are on anniversaries may I also congratulate | 0:10:04 | 0:10:06 | |
Charlotte Bronte on her 200th anniversary which falls today. | 0:10:06 | 0:10:11 | |
I don't see anything wrong with congratulating her. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:14 | |
Shall I get on with it? | 0:10:14 | 0:10:23 | |
We've done a lot. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:26 | |
I also want to welcome and congratulate Ofcom's digital | 0:10:26 | 0:10:30 | |
communications review, which is not 200 years old, | 0:10:30 | 0:10:33 | |
in fact it is extremely fresh, staright out of the box and it's | 0:10:33 | 0:10:37 | |
going to promote and petition and we've issued a very clear | 0:10:37 | 0:10:41 | |
statement that we will back Ofcom all the way on this. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:43 | |
I'm starting to realise why this department is known | 0:10:43 | 0:10:49 | |
as the Ministry for Fun. | 0:10:49 | 0:10:52 | |
We all know the Secretary of State has been distracted from doing his | 0:10:52 | 0:10:57 | |
job as Culture Secretary by his extracurricular activities. | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
I'm talking about his moonlighting for | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
the Leave campaign. | 0:11:04 | 0:11:05 | |
Maria Eagle. | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
You're watching the Today in Parliament with me. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:10 | |
A peer has been suspended from the House of Lords for eight | 0:11:15 | 0:11:18 | |
months over the double-claiming of hundreds of pounds of expenses. | 0:11:18 | 0:11:22 | |
Lord Bhatia was found to have claimed mileage in the Lords on 63 | 0:11:22 | 0:11:25 | |
occasions while also claiming from another organisation. | 0:11:25 | 0:11:30 | |
It's the second time he's been suspended from the House having been | 0:11:30 | 0:11:33 | |
barred for eight months in October 2010 for wrongly claiming over | 0:11:33 | 0:11:38 | |
?27,000 in overnight allowances and mileage expenses. | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
The ruling was announced by a senior peer. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:46 | |
The commission found that he breached the House's rules | 0:11:46 | 0:11:49 | |
on financial support for members and so breached the code of conduct. | 0:11:49 | 0:11:56 | |
The commissioner also found that in not being scrupulous | 0:11:56 | 0:12:00 | |
about the claims, Lord Bhatia, and I quote, failed to act | 0:12:00 | 0:12:06 | |
on his personal honour, end of quote. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:09 | |
The subcommittee on his conduct recommended that the Lord be | 0:12:09 | 0:12:13 | |
suspended from the House for eight months and required to repay | 0:12:13 | 0:12:18 | |
the ?756 he wrongly claimed. | 0:12:18 | 0:12:24 | |
The proposal to suspend him was agreed unanimously. | 0:12:24 | 0:12:29 | |
How much help is the government giving to Iraqi troops fighting | 0:12:29 | 0:12:33 | |
against so-called Islamic State? | 0:12:33 | 0:12:35 | |
The UK already provides Iraqi forces with training | 0:12:35 | 0:12:38 | |
and the Defence Secretary recently authorised an offer for 30 extra | 0:12:38 | 0:12:43 | |
troops to provide training in areas such as logistics | 0:12:43 | 0:12:47 | |
and bridge building. | 0:12:47 | 0:12:48 | |
That means in total there are over 300 UK personnel involved | 0:12:48 | 0:12:52 | |
in training inside Iraq. | 0:12:52 | 0:12:55 | |
Replying to a question on their role, here we're told | 0:12:55 | 0:12:57 | |
what kind of operations they are involved in. | 0:12:57 | 0:13:01 | |
Since December 2014, UK military personnel have helped | 0:13:06 | 0:13:10 | |
to train over 12,000 individuals with infantry skills, | 0:13:10 | 0:13:13 | |
weapons maintenance techniques, and counter-IED and | 0:13:13 | 0:13:17 | |
combat medicine combat techniques. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:19 | |
We expect this effort to continue in the coming year. | 0:13:19 | 0:13:25 | |
The pace of training reflects the Iraqi | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
government's ability to identify personnel and units, not currently | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
committed to offensive operations who are therefore able to attend | 0:13:32 | 0:13:35 | |
training in the subjects we offer. | 0:13:35 | 0:13:41 | |
Daesh or Islamic State, call it what you will, | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
is waging war, as your Lordships no, not just in Iraq but | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
also in Syria, Libya and, indeed, against the whole west. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:57 | |
It is incumbent on nations such as ourselves and indeed it is in our | 0:14:02 | 0:14:06 | |
own interests to assist in the battle | 0:14:06 | 0:14:13 | |
against this brutal organisation. | 0:14:13 | 0:14:16 | |
So, will my noble friend the Minister, tell the house | 0:14:16 | 0:14:19 | |
what progress is being made with our assistance in Iraq in the war | 0:14:19 | 0:14:23 | |
against Daesh? | 0:14:23 | 0:14:26 | |
With coalition support, Iraqi security forces have | 0:14:26 | 0:14:27 | |
taken around 40% of the populated areas that Daesh once held in Iraq, | 0:14:27 | 0:14:32 | |
including Tikrit, Sinjar, and Ramadi. | 0:14:32 | 0:14:34 | |
While were hit is now being cleared of Daesh remnants. | 0:14:34 | 0:14:36 | |
We've been, also, striking elsewhere in northern Iraq, predominantly | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
on Daesh's is lines of communication to support the Iraqi forces. | 0:14:38 | 0:14:41 | |
Preparing for the retaking of Mosul. | 0:14:41 | 0:14:42 | |
We will continue to provide vital as a port, | 0:14:42 | 0:14:44 | |
as well as specialist training and equipment, as I mentioned. | 0:14:44 | 0:14:47 | |
Can the Minister say if the troops deployed | 0:14:47 | 0:14:49 | |
on training are embedded forces? | 0:14:49 | 0:14:50 | |
Which, according to this statement | 0:14:50 | 0:14:53 | |
issued by the Defence Secretary on Monday would put them under Iraqi | 0:14:53 | 0:14:57 | |
command, and would mean that they could become | 0:14:57 | 0:15:02 | |
combat ants without the British parliament | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
being told about it. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
My Lords, my right honourable friend the Secretary of State | 0:15:09 | 0:15:12 | |
for Defence made a written note to which the noble Lord will refer. | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
He made it clear that embedded forces are | 0:15:16 | 0:15:22 | |
not included in the convention that has grown up since 2011, bringing... | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
When troops are sent to conflict zones, bringing that to | 0:15:25 | 0:15:31 | |
the House of Commons. | 0:15:31 | 0:15:34 | |
He has acknowledged that transparency is needed and those | 0:15:34 | 0:15:36 | |
embedded forces are made public, where they are, and who they work | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
for, once a year. | 0:15:39 | 0:15:40 | |
At the moment, thereafter 177 embedded forces | 0:15:40 | 0:15:42 | |
throughout the world. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:43 | |
Staying with the battle against so-called Islamic | 0:15:43 | 0:15:44 | |
State, the government has come under pressure | 0:15:44 | 0:15:46 | |
to take action against the group for conducting | 0:15:46 | 0:15:49 | |
a campaign of genocide. | 0:15:49 | 0:15:51 | |
In the Commons on Wednesday, MPs voted by 278 votes to none | 0:15:51 | 0:15:54 | |
favour of a demand that the government refer IS to the United | 0:15:54 | 0:15:57 | |
Nations Security Council and the International Criminal Court. | 0:15:57 | 0:15:59 | |
In the Lords, a crossbench or independent | 0:15:59 | 0:16:01 | |
peer wanted to know what ministers were going to do in the light of | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
that decisive vote in the House of Commons. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
Given the unanimous vote, 278 votes to zero, following similar | 0:16:06 | 0:16:16 | |
declarations in the United States House | 0:16:17 | 0:16:24 | |
of Representatives, | 0:16:24 | 0:16:25 | |
the European Parliament, and in | 0:16:25 | 0:16:27 | |
the Parliamentary assembly of the | 0:16:27 | 0:16:29 | |
Council of Europe, wouldn't it be almost | 0:16:29 | 0:16:33 | |
a contempt of Parliament, my Lords, for the government to simply | 0:16:33 | 0:16:36 | |
say that this is non-binding and that they have no | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
intention of following | 0:16:38 | 0:16:39 | |
the will of Parliament in taking this matter to | 0:16:39 | 0:16:42 | |
the Security Council so that those | 0:16:42 | 0:16:44 | |
responsible for these horrendous crimes will one day | 0:16:44 | 0:16:46 | |
meet their Nuremberg moment and be held accountable. | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
My Lords, I bear in mind victims of Daesh who I have personally met, | 0:16:49 | 0:16:53 | |
both here and in Iraq, my Lords, I'm not going | 0:16:53 | 0:16:55 | |
to therefore get involved in what may | 0:16:55 | 0:16:58 | |
or may not be the procedural niceties. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:02 | |
What I will say is that the duties clearly a matter for | 0:17:02 | 0:17:07 | |
judicial authority to determine whether genocide has taken place. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
The Prime Minister has taken a view and has | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
said, and I'm aware that the Prime Minister has | 0:17:11 | 0:17:14 | |
written to the noble Lord on this, | 0:17:14 | 0:17:17 | |
the pragmatist said: | 0:17:17 | 0:17:21 | |
"genocide is a matter of legal, rather than | 0:17:21 | 0:17:22 | |
political, opinion." | 0:17:22 | 0:17:24 | |
We, as the government, are not the prosecutor, judge, or the | 0:17:24 | 0:17:26 | |
jury, my Lords, we may not be all of those things, but I say | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
to Daesh and the perpetrators, we have a long memory, | 0:17:30 | 0:17:32 | |
we have allies, we are working with the government of Iraq, | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
we will not forget and the perpetrators will pay the price. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
The noble lady said it's not a matter for politicians, | 0:17:38 | 0:17:43 | |
is she aware of article eight of the Genocide Convention | 0:17:43 | 0:17:45 | |
which says, I quote, "Any contracting party may call | 0:17:45 | 0:17:51 | |
upon the competent organs of the | 0:17:51 | 0:17:52 | |
United Nations to take such action | 0:17:52 | 0:17:54 | |
under the Charter as they consider appropriate for the prevention and | 0:17:54 | 0:17:57 | |
suppression of acts of genocide." | 0:17:57 | 0:18:02 | |
Why would the government not do that? | 0:18:02 | 0:18:11 | |
My Lords, because it is the government's view that in order | 0:18:11 | 0:18:15 | |
to hold out hope to people who have suffered from the violence of Daesh, | 0:18:15 | 0:18:18 | |
one has to be reasonably sure of achieving agreement | 0:18:18 | 0:18:22 | |
within the United Nations. | 0:18:22 | 0:18:24 | |
Were not confident that agreement currently exists. | 0:18:24 | 0:18:25 | |
That is why we want to make progress with discussions. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
The transport minister says there shouldn't be an overreaction | 0:18:28 | 0:18:31 | |
to a reported drone strike on a passenger plane | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
approaching Heathrow Airport. | 0:18:35 | 0:18:41 | |
A police investigation was launched after the aircraft | 0:18:41 | 0:18:43 | |
was hit on Sunday. | 0:18:43 | 0:18:45 | |
If confirmed, it would be the first such incident incident in the UK. | 0:18:45 | 0:18:48 | |
Flying a drone near an airport can already be punished with | 0:18:48 | 0:18:50 | |
up to five years in prison and rules also forbid | 0:18:50 | 0:18:53 | |
flying them beyond the direct unaided line | 0:18:53 | 0:18:54 | |
of sight of the operator, | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
or near buildings, and crowds of people. | 0:18:57 | 0:19:06 | |
Drones may also not be flown above 400 feet or, or 122 metres, | 0:19:06 | 0:19:09 | |
and the US has recently introduced a compulsory registration | 0:19:09 | 0:19:11 | |
scheme so that any drone recovered from an accident can be traced back | 0:19:11 | 0:19:14 | |
to its owner. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:16 | |
Robert Goodwill told a Lords committee that it wasn't | 0:19:16 | 0:19:18 | |
confirmed that the strike on Sunday had been by a drone. | 0:19:18 | 0:19:28 | |
It was the local police force that tweeted that | 0:19:28 | 0:19:30 | |
they had reports of a drone striking an aircraft | 0:19:30 | 0:19:33 | |
and, indeed, the early reports of a dint | 0:19:33 | 0:19:35 | |
in the front of the plane were not confirmed. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
There was no actual damage to the plane and, indeed, | 0:19:38 | 0:19:40 | |
it may have even been a plastic bag or something. | 0:19:40 | 0:19:43 | |
As somebody who has landed the simulator of a 747, | 0:19:43 | 0:19:47 | |
the pilot has a lot of other things to concentrate on so we're not quite | 0:19:47 | 0:19:50 | |
sure what they saw. | 0:19:50 | 0:19:55 | |
I think we should not overreact too much. | 0:19:55 | 0:19:58 | |
But there have been some incidents, number of which are of | 0:19:58 | 0:20:02 | |
great concern. | 0:20:02 | 0:20:06 | |
Our primary responsibility as government is the security of our | 0:20:06 | 0:20:11 | |
citizens, that's why we have one of the highest regulatory safety | 0:20:11 | 0:20:14 | |
standards for commercial airlines in the world. | 0:20:14 | 0:20:17 | |
Now, there are already existing laws in place that require | 0:20:17 | 0:20:20 | |
users of drones to maintain direct unaided visual contact with that | 0:20:20 | 0:20:22 | |
vehicle and not to recklessly or negligently cause that aircraft to | 0:20:22 | 0:20:26 | |
endanger any person or property. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
These incidents that we read about, or | 0:20:29 | 0:20:31 | |
alleged incidents, were already breaking existing regulations. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:33 | |
Indeed, the departments and the Civil Aviation Authority | 0:20:33 | 0:20:38 | |
are working with a wide range of partners | 0:20:38 | 0:20:40 | |
across the sector, including manufacturers, airport, and airlines | 0:20:40 | 0:20:42 | |
to ensure our understanding of potential hazards for aircraft | 0:20:42 | 0:20:44 | |
remains up to date. | 0:20:44 | 0:20:45 | |
Now, to business questions in the Commons. | 0:20:45 | 0:20:47 | |
As ever, the leader of the house, Chris Grayling, faced questions from | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
across the house on a wide range of subjects. | 0:20:50 | 0:20:52 | |
And, as ever, his Labour shadow Chris Bryant was the first to speak. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:59 | |
He took the opportunity to pay a warm tribute to the comedian, | 0:20:59 | 0:21:04 | |
writer, and musician Victoria Wood, whose | 0:21:04 | 0:21:06 | |
death was announced on Wednesday. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:12 | |
I don't know what your favourite line was, Mr Speaker, mine | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
was her definition of middle age. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:19 | |
It's when you walk past a Dr Scholl shop and think, | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
"those look comfy." | 0:21:21 | 0:21:22 | |
Perhaps was her sitting at the piano belting out, | 0:21:22 | 0:21:24 | |
"Let's do it, let's do it not sweetly, not meekly | 0:21:24 | 0:21:28 | |
Beat me on the bottom with a Woman's Weekly! | 0:21:28 | 0:21:31 | |
Which does sound like a good time had | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
by all at the Tory party awayday last week. | 0:21:33 | 0:21:35 | |
Having taken his | 0:21:35 | 0:21:36 | |
traditional swipe at the Conservatives, Mr Bryant moved | 0:21:36 | 0:21:40 | |
on to a report published at the start of | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
the week calling for changes into how the Commons deals | 0:21:43 | 0:21:45 | |
with bills put forward by backbench MPs, known as | 0:21:45 | 0:21:47 | |
private members bills. | 0:21:47 | 0:21:48 | |
Mr Speaker, we've already heard that the | 0:21:48 | 0:21:50 | |
procedure committee has published its report on private | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
members bills and the chairman is quite right, we | 0:21:52 | 0:21:54 | |
think, when he says the system is completely bust and in the last | 0:21:54 | 0:21:58 | |
chance saloon. | 0:21:58 | 0:21:59 | |
I have noted the comments from the deputy leader who | 0:21:59 | 0:22:01 | |
seemed very hesitant about reform and the leader who seemed a bit more | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
inclined towards reform but will the leader now guarantee | 0:22:05 | 0:22:07 | |
that the house will get a proper chance | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
to debate the changes to standing orders | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
and I don't just mean some insubstantial debate but a proper | 0:22:13 | 0:22:15 | |
debate that can lead to change. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:19 | |
The Bills are traditionally debated on a | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
Friday but are often talked out by ministers or other MPs. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
This is a thoughtful report, this is a welcome report, there is a lot | 0:22:23 | 0:22:27 | |
of fruitful thought in it and we will respond | 0:22:27 | 0:22:29 | |
in due course but I want to read it carefully. | 0:22:29 | 0:22:31 | |
I want to decide how best to respond but I will respond | 0:22:31 | 0:22:34 | |
properly in due course, as he would expect. | 0:22:34 | 0:22:37 | |
Finally, let's return to those tributes to mark | 0:22:37 | 0:22:39 | |
the Queen's 90th birthday. | 0:22:39 | 0:22:42 | |
It wasn't just MPs who wanted to send their best wishes. | 0:22:42 | 0:22:52 | |
Peers too were keen to relive their encounters and give | 0:22:56 | 0:22:59 | |
their own warm words. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:00 | |
What is truly remarkable about Her Majesty's commitment is | 0:23:00 | 0:23:02 | |
that she continues to serve with | 0:23:02 | 0:23:04 | |
a zest and undimmed sense of public duty. | 0:23:04 | 0:23:07 | |
Last year, she carried out 306 engagements in the UK | 0:23:07 | 0:23:10 | |
and 35 overseas, a workload that would be daunting | 0:23:10 | 0:23:12 | |
to someone even half her age. | 0:23:12 | 0:23:13 | |
Several peers spoke of the Queen's experiences during | 0:23:13 | 0:23:15 | |
the Second World War. | 0:23:15 | 0:23:16 | |
With thousands of other young women, she qualified as a mechanic | 0:23:16 | 0:23:19 | |
and a driver with the ATS. | 0:23:19 | 0:23:21 | |
For The Times, it was quite bold and daring for a princess | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
and not a decision that the government were at all happy about, | 0:23:24 | 0:23:27 | |
believing that the most important training | 0:23:27 | 0:23:29 | |
should be as heir to the throne, not as a mechanic. | 0:23:29 | 0:23:31 | |
Her determination and persistence, insisting that she wanted to serve | 0:23:31 | 0:23:36 | |
her country, was a clear indication that she would become a Queen | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
who would bring her own style and make her own way. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:43 | |
Throughout the huge amount of change that this country | 0:23:43 | 0:23:46 | |
has experienced in the last 90 years, | 0:23:46 | 0:23:48 | |
Her Majesty has been constant, | 0:23:48 | 0:23:49 | |
standing with her people, whether it be in times | 0:23:49 | 0:23:51 | |
of tragedy, or times of joy. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:54 | |
Her unwavering sense of duty supported | 0:23:54 | 0:23:56 | |
for over 68 years by the Duke of Edinburgh and her commitment | 0:23:56 | 0:24:01 | |
to the service and welfare of | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
the people of this country is surely an inspiration to us all. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
One peer recalled a reception he'd attended. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:10 | |
My collegue had the misfortune to be in the process | 0:24:10 | 0:24:12 | |
of eating a large biscuit. | 0:24:12 | 0:24:14 | |
Something was bound to go wrong and, indeed, it did. | 0:24:14 | 0:24:17 | |
When he turned around he was so astonished | 0:24:17 | 0:24:21 | |
to see her standing beside him that he dropped his biscuit | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
onto the floor and right next to Her Majesty's feet. | 0:24:23 | 0:24:30 | |
With her great sense of humour, Her Majesty was most amused. | 0:24:30 | 0:24:35 | |
Since Her Majesty took the throne, there have been seven Archbishops | 0:24:35 | 0:24:40 | |
of Canterbury and seven archbishops of York. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:50 | |
What Her Majesty has made all the richly diverse and | 0:24:52 | 0:24:54 | |
eclectic selection of primates will no doubt be never revealed. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:56 | |
All that I can say from those of the | 0:24:56 | 0:24:59 | |
archbishops of whom I have known, is that those archbishops like me | 0:24:59 | 0:25:01 | |
valued at her support, interest, and faithfulness more than it is | 0:25:01 | 0:25:04 | |
possible to describe. | 0:25:04 | 0:25:09 | |
There are very few other people to whom an | 0:25:09 | 0:25:12 | |
archbishop can look in his heart, knowing that his confidences will go | 0:25:12 | 0:25:16 | |
no farther and certain that at the end of the conversation | 0:25:16 | 0:25:19 | |
he will go away, affirmed and encouraged. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:22 | |
Let this be a day of thanksgiving and | 0:25:22 | 0:25:28 | |
much rejoicing for Her Majesty's birthday. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
Long live the Queen. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:31 | |
Here, here. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:40 | |
Which rousing birthday wishes brings us to the of this edition of | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
the programme. | 0:25:43 | 0:25:44 | |
Do join us on Friday night at 11 when I look back at the | 0:25:44 | 0:25:47 | |
week here at Westminster when we talk to one here about why the | 0:25:47 | 0:25:51 | |
government's Housing Bill is coming in for such | 0:25:51 | 0:25:52 | |
stiff opposition in the Lords. | 0:25:53 | 0:25:54 | |
But, until then, from me, goodbye. | 0:25:54 | 0:26:04 |