Europe's Leaders Meet After U.K. Votes To Leave EU; Juncker To Farage: "Why Are You Here?"; Farage: E.U. A "Political Union Without Consent"
HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Welcome, everyone. Tonight, we are live outside parliament for a special program. However if you're having trouble hearing me or if you can hear some of the singing behind me, it's because a large anti-Brexit protest has broken out here. You can hear them singing "Hey E.U.," in the style of "Hey Jude." We'll keep an eye on them throughout the hour ahead, but as you can see, there is a ring of police forming around the protesters, signs criticizing the leaders who campaigned for Brexit in this country, Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson. Banners reading "divided we fall" and pro-E.U. banners as well. Also this hour, we will look at the major stories developing on this day. Who will blink first before the Brexit? The U.K. wants to negotiate. The E.U. says OK, then make the first move. Also speaking of top Brexiteers, Nigel Farage, wags his finger at fellow MPs. CNN asks him in Brussels if that was a wise move. Plus Scotland is keeping all of its options open. I'll speak to Scot who made an impassioned speech to his European parts today. Hello, everyone. I'm Hala Gorani. Live outside parliament in London once again where a large anti-Brexit demonstration has formed. This is THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. We begin this hour with a look at the top developments. European leaders including David Cameron, this country's prime minister, are currently sitting down to dinner. They are meeting for the first time since the U.K. voted to leave the E.U. UKIP's leader, Nigel Farage, got boo'd in the European parliament after he predicted other countries would seek to leave as well. Labor leader, Jeremy Corbyn, is holding firm. He says he will not step down despite losing a confidence vote. So political chaos and turmoil all around. European leaders are firmly, though, on the same page. They're saying no Brexit talks until the U.K. pulls the trigger on Article 50, as I continue to struggle to make myself heard. That of course is the measure that would begin the country's departure from the European Union. Now listen to what Angela Merkel and Donald Tusk said before today's meeting.</s>ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLO (through translator): What is important to me is that we only enter into negotiations when Great Britain has declared its intent to leave. So this is not possible before the request under Article 50 has happened.</s>DONALD TUSK, EUROPEAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT: This is the only legal way we have. Everyone should be aware of this fact, which means that we all have to be patient because there is such a need. Europe is ready to start the divorce process today.</s>GORANI: All right. Europe is ready to start the divorce process even today. Donald Tusk is the president of the European Council. Merkel and Tusk made those remarks ahead of an extraordinary day in Brussels. It was also an extraordinary day here in London where leaders from across the European Union waded into uncharted political waters. The question facing them, how do you navigate the U.K.'s exit from the E.U.? How is it actually going to work practically? CNN's Nic Robertson sent us this report from Brussels.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: It was never going to be an easy day, David Cameron facing Europe's leaders, his country having just kicked sand in their face.</s>DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: I'll be explaining that Britain will be leaving the European, but I want that process to be as constructive as possible and I hope the outcome can be as constructive as possible.</s>ROBERTSON: Reality is a messy divorce awaits, and not on terms likely favorable to the</s>U.K. MATTEO RENZI, ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER: It's impossible to belong to community only with the good things and not with the bad things.</s>ROBERTSON: Leaders impatient for the divorce papers, Article 50, to be served by the British.</s>XAVIER BUTTEL, PRIME MINISTER OF LUXEMBURG: It's not complicated. It's all together or not together. It's not one step in, one step out.</s>ROBERTSON: But one Brit more than ready for the separation.</s>NIGEL FARAGE, LEADER, UK INDEPENDENCE PARTY: I know that virtually none of you have ever done a proper job in your lives.</s>ROBERTSON: Brexiteer in chief, Nigel Farage having a last unconstructive throw of the sand.</s>FARAGE: Why don't we just be pragmatic, sensible, grown-up, realistic, and let's cut between us a sensible tariff-free deal.</s>ROBERTSON: And he got a ready right wing echo. Marine Le Pen, France's far right nationalist, telling the European parliament Brexit a signal for European democracy, umping fears for pro-E.U. leaders, there could be more divorces ahead.</s>JEANINE HENNIS-PLASSCHAERT, DUTCH DEFENSE MINISTER: It should be a wake-up call to us all. Whether we like it or not, the sentiments of a large part of the British voters are shared in many other E.U. member states.</s>ROBERTSON (on camera): For right now, there are still 28 flags, 28 flagstaffs here. But for how long? One for sure seems at the time set to come down. We just don't know quite when. Nic Robertson, CNN, Brussels, Belgium.</s>GORANI: Well, it's not every day we can report there were fireworks in the European parliament but today we actually can. You heard in that report from the UKIP's leader, Nigel Farage, feeling bold and brash, accusing MPs of never really having done a proper job in their lives. Not everyone appreciated his tone. Watch this from the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker.</s>JEAN CLAUDE JUNCKER, EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT: Just the last applauding here and to some extent, I'm really surprised that you are here. You are fighting for the exit. The British people voted in favor of exit. Why are you here?</s>GORANI: Intense moments there, Jean Claude Juncker, telling the MEPs from UKIP, those anti-E.U. MEPs, why are you still here? This is the last time you are going to applaud. By the way, I need to update you in case you're just joining us, there is quite a sizable demonstration happening beside me here at Westminster, anti-Brexit, pro-E.U. demonstrators shouting "shame on you," and holding up banners. And you can see it there, it's extended in front of parliament here. It was a much smaller crowd just a few minutes ago. You're seeing the E.U. flag, for instance, you're seeing posters showing the faces of Nigel Farage, of Boris Johnson, those politicians that campaigned very hard for Brexit. They're screaming and yelling "shame on you." They're singing songs, a modified version of "Hey Jude," instead of "Hey Jude," though, the words are "Hey E.U." But around them, though, a ring of police officers has formed to try to contain the crowd and prevent it from spilling out farther into Abingdon Green opposite the Houses of Parliament. Another day of major developments. Let's bring in CNN's Richard Quest to break things down. He's live in Brussels at this hour. We're seeing here behind me these anti anti-Brexit demonstrators, holding up posters, showing Nigel Farage, and screaming out "shame on you" for having put us in this difficult situation. You spoke to Nigel Farage today, what did he have to say?</s>RICHARD QUEST, CNN MONEY EDITOR-AT-LARGE: I've just seen Mr. Farage here in one of the bars, sitting having a glass of beer. Remember, he's a member of the European parliament so it's slightly unusual for him to be in this building, I mean, he's perfectly allowed to be which is the council building of heads of states and heads of government. The fact is that he is the one who has led the charge against the so-called European elites, as he sees them. And Hala, whilst you are in Parliament Square with the protesters, behind me now I'm told that David Cameron up there in the dining rooms. He is now briefing the other 27 members over dinner about Brexit, his decision to resign, and the timetable as he sees it for Article 50. It's all over a very pleasant evening meal. However, Nigel Farage certainly has been stirring the pot. On this question of when the British government should activate Article 50, give formal notice of the intent to leave, and start the two-year clock, I asked Nigel Farage when he thought it should happen.</s>QUEST: This hardly endears you to the very people who will have to give consent to an agreement in two years' time if you are rude to them.</s>FARAGE: They called me all the names under the sun. I just teased them about the fact that they are a bunch, basically bureaucrats who never had a proper job.</s>QUEST: You don't like them?</s>FARAGE: They don't like me. It's mutual.</s>QUEST: And you haven't liked them for how many years?</s>FARAGE: Almost 17 that I've been here. What they've tried to build a political union without consent. I've been in there to fight against it. Finally a member state of the union has said we wish to secede. They didn't like it much.</s>QUEST: You keep talking about the political elite. You keep talking about the establishment. Sir, you're part of it. You've been here for 17 years.</s>FARAGE: Yes, but I came into it from business. I used to trade in -- I had a proper job once.</s>QUEST: So how on earth do you have the effrontery to criticize Wall Street, the banks, you criticize big business, when you were part of those markets.</s>FARAGE: But the markets aren't just operated by big business. Goods markets have small to medium-sized competitors trading in them too. Look, the actions of Goldman Sachs in cahoots with this European Commission, getting Greece into the Euro and everything else, we need change.</s>QUEST: Nigel Farage giving a spirited defense. He did say he thought that Article 50 should be activated within the next couple of weeks, Hala. And nothing is going to happen tonight. No decisions are going to be taken. But I think what will happen is that the E.U. leaders will want to be reasonably sympathetic to David Cameron, a man who they personally liked and who -- I mean, he may have launched a disastrous referendum, but fundamentally he's regarded as a good politician and a good man here.</s>GORANI: All right, we'll see if that relationship changes when the new prime minister is named the head of the Conservative Party. It could be Boris Johnson. We'll see then. Now as we've been mentioning, it's been another tumultuous day here in the United Kingdom. Even before the protests behind me broke out, people have been chanting "We are European," very unhappy with the results of the Brexit referendum. Now even before any of that happened, Jeremy Corbyn said he will not resign as leader of the Labour Party despite a vote of no confidence against him by his own MPs, 172 lawmakers said they do not have confidence in Jeremy Corbyn, 40 voted in support of him only. The result is nonbinding, but it does add pressure on him to step down. Let's go to our studio in London and speak to Diana Magnay. So he says he will not stand down, but how can he lead his party when such a crushing majority of the lawmakers in the Houses of Common don't want him there?</s>DIANA MAGNAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Hala, it shows you how divided the Labour Party is, really, between those in Westminster, the parliamentary MPs, and the body of people in the country, the members of the Labour Party and the voters of the Labour Party. And Jeremy Corbyn is saying that he has a Democratic mandate elected by around 60 percent of the Labour members, and therefore he is not going to step down just because he doesn't have the support of the parliamentary MPs. But it really does look like a battle of wills. What you're seeing in Westminster is these Labour politicians who feel that Jeremy Corbyn's very lackluster campaigning in this referendum campaign. He was on the "remain" side, but really he didn't put much conviction behind it, and I think they blame him for not carrying more of the country with him. And they feel that should it come to a snap election in the autumn, which is quite possible, Hala, Jeremy Corbyn is not the man to win a labor prime ministership. He's not going to go without a fight, he says. He's putting up much more of a fight now than he actually did during the campaign. The trouble is in Westminster there isn't really a very clear candidate to take over from him and certainly not one who can necessarily unite this very divided party -- on the right side of the party, the more centrist side of the Labour Party, the MPs and Westminster. And then a more left wing, old diehard Labour heartlands who don't believe that Westminster really represents them. So you have incredible turmoil politically at the moment, not just in the Tory leadership, also in the Labour leadership -- Hala.</s>GORANI: All right, Diana Magnay, as you mentioned, both parties in complete disarray. Behind me, people very unhappy with the results of Thursday's referendum, saying they are European, and saying to those politicians that led them out of the E.U., "shame on you." Still to come, markets seem to have stabilized, but have we seen the last of the Brexit-related losses? We are live in New York. We'll be right back.