one woman all lost here right leg. in the process she was just a possibility she was not part of the protesters but she was caught in the crossfire so what is the other response do you expect from the government so far the government has responded to yes deploying. police to deal with with the protesters but also statements that are coming from government they have warned everyone always participating in the protest that if they are caught the law will take its course and then the other thing is that we had had but these were not confirmed statements that our government was considering maybe declaring a state of we make sense if this was going to go on and also the figure that we also had that they were planning to throttle or pull down our social media if

these protests where to go on israel privilege we've been hearing thank you very much indeed for joining us. still to come one hundred here the french president open letter promising he will listen to the people after months and nationwide protests. and the trade data which suggests china's economy is cooling faster than originally expected. i know that the clouds are gathering over parts of china once more we do have a fair amount with us at the moment and if they can have to give us a few light to outbreaks of rain but i think that rain will turn heavier as we head through wednesday so when say them most see some heavy downpours from the northern parts of it now all the way up towards we've had and for the northern pauls weather

system hits the cold air we see a lot of that turn to snow even further south it's not that warm now in hong kong with all maximum temperature just struggling to seventeen degrees and out towards the west is sri lanka where we have some of the worst of the weather recently this area of cloud has given us some very heavy downpours indeed plenty more showers are expected here as we head through chews day and into wednesday to further north it might be a little bit of cloud perhaps for the some of it we've got a fair amount of time with us to see it i propose to saudi arabia stretching up into iran in the north of that around the southern parts of iran the southwestern part that's where we're going to see a fair amount of rain from that system further south is likely to be just a little bit of gray weather a maybe the old spot of rain if you're unlucky the temperatures are rising once more into. on counting the cost of blame it on breaks in one trillion dollars worth of assets shifted out of the u.k.

change is in the aviation plus and creepy the latest consumer gadgets connected to the internet on show in the last vegas counting the cost on al-jazeera. one of the top stories here. u.k. prime minister to resign may has warned parliament to back her deal for leaving the european union or risk not leaving a top or final day of debate is taking place ahead of tuesday's vote on may's great

deal. u.s. president donald trump has threatened to devastate turkey's economy if it attacks kurdish forces in syria but the turkish foreign minister says his country won't be intimidated. and protests are broken out in zimbabwe over the government's decision to double fuel prices police responded with tear gas. venezuelan president nicolas maduro is preparing to lay out his plans to turn around the oil rich nations struggling economy in a speech in caracas and who are sworn in for a second six year term on thursday under his leadership venezuela's economy has struggled with public infrastructure such as hospitals suffering from a lack of funding and resources to leave a group of latin american countries which includes brazil and argentina as. to step down let's go live now to caracas and speak to tour is a boat tour is what portsmouth are expected to announce today.

when moto was expected to start speaking about two hours ago but he still hasn't arrived to the constituent assembly in order to present the plan for he's next ten years in office that will be a began on january tenth and also he's expected to present what is known as the nation's recovery plan a plan that would likely we're going to see an increase in salaries for example more price controls among other things there could be so prices the government. remember last tour is a fridge we'll see if we can get it back just checking i hope and i would lost her i'm sure about that about there in caracas. now at least four people including a child have died after a vehicle laden with explosives was detonated in the afghan capital kabul well than forty others were injured in the blast which took place outside a high security compound in the east of the city and there's been no claim of responsibility for the attack. senegal's constitutional court has blocked two of

the country's best known opposition figures from standing in a presidential election next month former minister karim wade who's seen here in a white robe or a secret can't say i'm sorry and the former mayor of dhaka a cell were barred because of convictions for misuse of funds and opposition says the charges were part of the president's plan to silence his critics the outgoing head of state that he thought was among five other candidates to be approved now i think we can now go back to terry's about who's in caracas such as you were talking about to mature and how he's been delayed getting to your to where you are now and that's all he may promise you i'm sorry about this for him but a bit of trouble that line from caracas apologies meanwhile french president in mandarin back home has no watched a two month nationwide debate aimed at tackling the yellow vest protests in an open letter published in french newspapers he said he would listen to ideas but warned

he will not back down from his twenty seven thousand election promises a correspondent natasha butler has been gauging reaction in paris. well what the french president is hoping for with his letters to try and quell the protests that we've seen across france for more than two months now by responding to one of the main demands of the yellow dress protesters and that is that they don't have they say enough of a say in the way that france is run they feel that their government simply part of this metropolitan elite that is out of touch with their concerns so emanuel my core strategy is to launch what he calls a grand national citizens debate and his letter details how that's going to work with debates up and down the country various themes like tax all social services and what he hopes is that people get together online and in person and transform what he calls the anger on the streets into real working solutions now the question

is will it's work and some protesters are saying ok fine it's give this a go let's join in but of course there are many other protesters who say look this is nothing more than a p.r. exercise because they say that the letter doesn't detail how this information is going to be collated know how it's going to be used is the government going to keep some of the concerns and actually act upon them or are they just going to gather this information and then basically throw it out so a lot of people are wondering exactly what is the point and also a man or mark on his letter he talks about the fact that he doesn't want to go back on some of his old reforms and those are things he's already passed things like changing the speed limits or scrapping a wealth tax those a very controversial and unpopular reforms with many of the yellow vest protesters so for them they are saying that this debate is already off to a bad start. a left wing italian activist convicted of murder has arrived in rome after being on the run for almost forty years because of a battista he was arrested in bolivia on saturday by interpol agents his

extradition is the result of cooperation between right wing political leaders in brazil and italy. the mare of the polish city of the dance has died hours after being stabbed on stage in front of thousands of people may have provided adam a rich had just finished addressing the crowd at the end of a fundraising rally when he was knifed several times surgeons operated for five hours but were unable to save him his attacker is a former armed robber who's now having a psychological assessment the prosecutor saying there are doubts over his sanity. u.s. president donald trump has said his government would soon reach a deal with china to end a tit for tat trade war well this is new data showed the trade dispute between the two countries is taking its toll on the chinese economy china's exports of fall into the lowest point in two years while imports are also down between your reports from beijing. the world's largest trading country has been trading

a little less according to china's customs administration exports fell by four point four percent in december while imports were at their lowest levels in twenty sixteen concerns for the year ahead underlined at a news conference in beijing there are loonies in two thousand and nine the biggest the worry for china's foreign trade is to the complex and grim external environment uncertain and stable factors a stew numerous protectionism. them from certain countries are raring their heads from a slowdown in global demand and the continuing trade dispute with the united states are being blamed for the current predicament china find itself in china and the us are midway through a ninety day truce in the tit for tat trade war which started last april a delegation from washington was invading last week to continue negotiations but very few details from the missing have so far been released with just over forty

days left of the trade truce the seems to be still no solution in sight analysts say china's shrinking trade figures could be used by washington to increase pressure on beijing i think beijing clearly has the pressure there are huge about. the best of their leadership. straight to the u.k. parliament and listen in to prime minister to resign me on the political declaration to do everything possible to prevent the backstop ever being needed and to ensure that if it were it would be a temporary arrangement but listening to the debate before christmas it was clear that we needed to go further so i returned to brussels to faithfully and firmly reflect the concerns of this house the conclusions of december's council went further in addressing our concerns they included reaffirming the ears determination to work speedily to establish by the thirty first of december two thousand and twenty. alternative arrangements so the backstop will not need to be triggered they

undermined that if the backstop were nevertheless to be triggered it would indeed apply temporarily they committed that in such an event the e.u. would use their best and death has to continue to negotiate and conclude as soon as possible a subsequent agreement that would replace the backstop and they gave a new assurance that negotiations on the future relationship could start immediately after the u.k.'s withdrawal. since the council and throughout the christmas and new year period i've spoken to a number of european leaders and there have been further discussions with the e.u. to seek further assurances alongside the council conclusions and today i have published the outcome of these further discussions with an exchange of letters between the u.k. government and the presidents of the european commission and european council. the letter from president confirms what i said in the house before christmas namely that the assurances in the european council conclusions have legal standing in the

e.u. mr speaker my right honorable friend the attorney general has also written to me today confirming that in the light of the joint response from the presidents of the european council and the commission these conclusions quote would have legal force in international law. and setting out his opinion. and setting out his opinion reinforced by today's letter that the balance of risks favors the conclusion that it is unlikely that the e.u. will wish to rely on the implementation of the backstop provisions. and further. and further that is therefore his judgment that the current draft withdrawal agreement now represents the only politically practicable and available means of securing our exit from the european union. mr speaker i know that some members would ideally like a unilateral exit mechanism or a hard time limit to the backstop i've explained this to the e.u.

and tested these points in negotiations but the e.u. would not agree to this because they fear that such a provision could allow the u.k. to leave the backstop at any time without any other arrangements in place and require a hard border to be erected between northern ireland and ireland. i have been very clear with them that this is not something we would have account. it's that the u.k. is steadfast in its commitment to the belfast agreement and would never allow a return to a hard border but it is not enough simply to say this both sides also need to take steps to avoid a hard border when the u.k. is outside of the e.u. failing to do so would place businesses on the island of ireland in an impossible position having to choose between costly new checks and procedures that would disrupt their supply chains or breaking the law so we have the backstop as

a last resort but both the t. shock and i have said consistently that the best way to avoid a hard border is through the future relationship that is the sustainable solution and that neither of us want to use the backstop so since the council we've been looking at commitments that would ensure we get our future relationship or alternative arrangements in place by the end of the implementation period so that will be no need to enter the backstop and no need for any fear that it will be a hard border and that is why in the first of the further assurances they've provided today the u. has committed to begin exploratory talks on the details of legal provisions of the future relationship as soon as this parliament has approved the deal and the withdrawal agreement has been signed and they have been explicit that this can happen immediately after this house votes through the agreement if this house approved the deal tomorrow it would give us almost two years to complete the next phase of the negotiations and of course and of course we will have the option to

extend the implementation period if the time we needed for either one or two years it is my absolute conviction that we can turn the political track to ration intrade legal text in that time of voiding the need for the backstop all together let us also make clear that these talks should give particular urgency to discussion of ideas including the use of all available facility of arrangements. and technology is for replacing the backstop with permanent arrangements and further that those arrangements are not required to replicate the backstop provisions in any respect so contrary to the fears of some honorable members the e.u. will not simply insist that the backstop is the only way to avoid a hard border they have agreed to discuss technological solutions and any alternative means of delivering on this objective and to get on with this as a priority in the next phase of negotiations second the e.u.

has now committed to a fast track process to bring our future trade deal into force once it has been agreed if there is any delay in russia cation the commission has now said they will recommend provisionally applying the relevant parts of the agreement so that we would not need to enter the backstop such a provisional application process save for years on the e.u. korea deal and it would prevent any today's ratification by other e.u. member state parliaments from delaying our deal coming into force third the e.u. has provided absolute clarity on the explicit between the withdrawal agreement and the political declaration and made that link clear in the way the documents are presented. i know some colleagues are worried about an imbalance between withdrawal agreement in the political declaration because the e.u. cannot reach a legal agreement with us on the future relationship until we are a third country but the link between them means the commitments of one cannot be banked without the commitments of the other and the e.u.

have been clear they come as a package bad faith by either side in negotiating the legal instruments that will deliver the future relationship played out in the political decoration would be a breach of their legal obligations under the withdrawal agreement. for the exchange of letters confirms that the u.k. can unilaterally deliver all of the commitments we made last week to safeguard the interests of the people and businesses of northern ireland and their position in our precious union gives clear answers to address some questions that have been races the deal was reached that the deal means no change to the arrangements which underpin north-south cooperation in the belfast agreement that stormont will have a lot on any new laws the e.u. proposes should be added to the backstop and that the u.k. can give a restored northern ireland executive a seat at the table on the joint committee overseeing the deal. this is speaker president says explicitly in his letter that the backstop would represent a sub optimal trading relationship for both sides we've spoken at length about why

we want to avoid the backstop but it is not in the e.u.'s interests are into this backstop gives the u.k. tariff free access to the u.s. market it does so with no free movement of people no financial contribution no requirement to follow most of the level playing field rules and no need to allow e.u. boats any access to our waters for fishing furthermore under these arrangements u.k. authorities in northern ireland would clear goods for release into the e.u. single market with no further checks or controls this is unprecedented and means the e.u. relying on the u.k. for the functioning of its own market so the e.u. will not want this backstop to come into force and the exchange of letters today makes clear that if it did they would do all they could to bring it to an end as quickly as possible nevertheless mr speaker i fully understand that these new assurances still will not go as far as some would like i recognize that some members wanted to see changes to the withdrawal agreement

a unilateral exit mechanism from the backstop an end date or rejecting the backstop altogether although it should be said that this would have wrist other e.u. member states attempting to row back on the significant winds we had already achieved such as on control over our waters or the sovereignty of gibraltar but the simple truth is this the e.u. was not prepared to agree to this and rejecting the backstop altogether means no deal whatever version of the future relationship you might want to see from norway to canada or to any number of variations all of them would withdraw agreement and we want i asked what would a no deal bricks it do to strengthen the hand of those campaigning for scottish independence or indy's those demanding a border polter i'm not interested may there outline the details of the exchange of letters between the u.k. government and the e.u. seeking to provide. assurances that the irish backstop which has been such a stumbling block in passing bricks it legislations would be temporary she also

said that the attorney general general had advised and published advice says the e.u. pledge has legal force and think it's unlikely that the backstop would come into force ron that's in around half an hour thanks very much for watching i for. i'm adrian figure this is counting the cost of a serial weekly look at the world of business and economics this week blame it on briggs it's one trillion dollars worth of assets shifted out of the u.k. and we'll follow the money. also this week changes in the air we'll take

a look at trends shaping the airline industry in the year to come. smarter and internet connected gadgets on show in las vegas. as things stand in just two months time the u.k. will leave the european union the divorce is being viewed as a political issue but its economic impact is undeniable one industry in particular is bracing for a seismic shock london's financial services industry the square mile as it's known is the bitting heart of the u.k.'s financial services industry and its status as europe's financial capital is under threat a report published this week estimated that banks of other financial companies have shifted at least a trillion dollars worth of assets out of the country and into the european union setting up new offices in places like frankfurt joining us now via skype from leone in france is. us is the managing director of frankfurt mind finance good to have

you with us on counting the costs one trillion dollars worth of assets have already been moved out of the u.k. so briggs it is already having an impact on. the u.k.'s financial services sector how much more money will will be will be lost this figure came out just a few days ago from e y. and we expect at least the same amount of money to also be moved. we alone have very clear indications that about eight hundred billion of us dollars in assets will be moved into frankfurt was going this year and what about jobs. how many are we talking about jobs being lost in london jobs being moved from london to to europe or jobs being created locally in europe.

like you said there will be various ways in which jobs will be impacted the latest study which came out by iraq he said about seven thousand jobs i expected to be in two thousand and ninety i think that's a that's a fair assessment but first of all already before a few thousand jobs have been moved and depending on the outcome of the final results another couple of thousand jobs may or may not be moved depending on that. how would that impact people having to move from london into into continental europe these are very hard estimate to make because the majority of financial institutions will try to recruit on the continent you do not find a stampede of people that that line up because for moving its london

is a very attractive city it's a very attractive financial center and it will remain to be able so most people will very likely try to stay there and it will be only a minority that would make consciously the decision to move and but what we see is particularly people who originally come from continually european countries their willingness to move is quite high much higher than logically people who are born and raised in the u.k. what impact is brics that having so far on companies on the continent particularly in germany when it will have a significant impact on culprits why is that the case. london as of today's particularly for the. comp companies the place to go to find financing particularly international large financing to do risk management and and

they will have to shift some of that business because london is likely going to lose its so-called passport he writes these past putting rights would allow financial institutions in london to sell sea services on to corporations on the continent not all but some of that would be questioned and some of that would be lost those rights so the companies will then have to relocate some of those financing activities onto the continent the most prominent example is likely going to be so-called interest rate derivatives what companies insurers himself against changes in interest rate by futures and options and o.t.c. derivatives this is very likely having to be moved on to the continent and that's what we see

a lot of companies are already in the process of doing i want to ask why all of this matters to people like you and me and anyone watching london's financial services industry pumped a lot of money back into the british economy could briggs's trigger a recession in the u.k. and what's the financial outlook for germany as well is that country teetering for a technical recession teetering towards a technical recession certainly does harm to the u.k. our economy and looking from the outside one may wonder why obviously the u.k. is doing harm to itself in that situation but that is something which which is to be tipped to be given because the people wrote it and at the end of the day the people the palace. and we'll have to come up with a final decision we're not questioning that. and. and like i said before we still do not know what the final outcome if we will end up with something

like the norway model which cannot be ruled out we cannot even rule out a second referendum i don't consider it to be very likely but i would certainly not rule it out and then a lot of these negative impacts maybe grow back so we eventually will not have them but what why is that going to happen well it's a political decision at the end of the day and how is it going to impact germany. not the impact is bad we very clearly believe that price it is bad for the european union it's bad for germany but it's worst of all for the u.k. . great to talk to many thanks there for being with us thank you very much for european medical professionals are also facing an uncertain future if they remain in the u.k. al-jazeera is lawrence lee reports now from london of what impact that's having on key services in the health industry. remember this it was one of the reasons leave

one in the backseat referendum take back all the money the u.k. gives to the european union and spend it on the british health service instead it proved a very powerful message but how to square that with alice soundarya story by the time he'd left italy for london he had a master's degree and four years specialist experience in mental health this is starting salary in britain was around twenty five thousand dollars a year under the government's proposals he would never have been allowed into the u.k. because that salary would be too low for him to get to work permits to brick says i know who is going to pay for the visa for working visa in the future for obviously a lot of people decide to don't apply. meanwhile even in this period of the thirty nine on the nursery is very early on they do find out before for example in the u.k. rather than. ten thousand or. two year cycle as it stands there are one hundred

thousand unfilled roles in the british oil service and dire warnings about to the looming crisis as european nationals leave the country the royal college of nursing is so worried it has joined the campaign for a second referendum calling for a rethink about leaving the school there's something quite challenging about thinking that highly skilled always means highly and what we need to do is really think about in the public sector what is the value that people bring enough value as a minute. it's often in terms of the skills that i have so i think we need to think differently what's happening in the health service reflects a bigger question is immigration really the problem it's a safe sees there are two entirely conflicting narratives at play in the u.k. at the moment the government's arguing that there is far too much european migrant labor and is taking away jobs from british people but at the same time the government can row. his cell phone having read called low unemployment's it does

rather raise the question if the government does what it says it wants to and reduce european immigration by eighty percent and who exactly is going to do all the work there is an argument in cabinet between people who really care far more about restricting immigration than about the u.k. economy led by the prime minister and the rest of the cabinet and of course the business community who want to make preserving the interest of the economy a priority and that hasn't been resolved like having argued that the u.k. was at breaking points because of uncontrolled immigration and politicians are now presented with a chance or reducing is in will this lead if that happens the country will find out what the migrants are such a problem to rule. still to come on the counting the cost greece's crowdfunding plea to buy new warships. but first last week we had a shock profit warning from apple this week samsung electronics cut its revenues

and profit forecasts the south korean tech giant is the world's largest smartphone maker it's predicting a drop in fourth quarter profits because of weaker demand for its chips and the competitive phone market al-jazeera is rob randall's gauge the mood at the consumer electronics show which kicked off this week in las vegas. four thousand companies from dozens of countries rolled out new products at the consumer electronics show l.g.'s new flexible t.v. screen made a big star. algy has an only ad t.v. sixty five inches that rolls down and disappears from view into a box that is the first rolled on flexible screen that we've seen produced from a major television manufacturer the price tag around three thousand dollars this year there's an air of anxiety in these corridors tech stocks have been tumbling on wall street apple made

a surprise announcement it would miss sales targets blaming weak demand in china chinese telecommunications giant weiwei is here even though its chief financial officer is under house arrest in canada fighting american efforts to put her on trial for fraud new major chinese tech executives are attending c.e.o.'s giant tech companies are displaying smart home devices face recognition systems and more big picture products and then there are guys like golly rows of who got tired of folding all this kid's laundry but we have piles of laundry always waiting to be folded and who doesn't rose of the appliance called fold of eights will go on the market later this year price that about a thousand dollars on the corky side c e s twenty nineteen features wearables for pets smart phone controlled doggie doors and a baffling proliferation of internet connected intelligent toilets there are plenty

of items here that are fascinating and some will prove to be big hits with consumers.