they go where they get their problems solved and that's possible here on site i believe in the us i live in china before i'm french but doesn't is a very good place to raise a family. and i love it was my family. this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin britain's theresa may appeals to e.u. leaders to break the brakes at stalemate she urges them to move on to trade talks as soon as possible on the backlist beat but says the u.k. has to do more before progress can be may. also coming up this syrian mother

managed to flee the war in her homeland now all she wants is to be reunited with her three children to explain why some germans want to prevent this from happening . hello i'm terry martian good to have you with us. her best performance yet that's how one leader has described a plea from britain's theresa may for brussels to break the stalemate in bragg's that talks despite the praise may look set to go home empty handed from today's summit in brussels later e.u. leaders are expected to say the u.k. has failed to make enough progress on a number of core issues on the medical said she still believed a deal would be possible but she and others including the austrian chancellor said

maes proposals were still inadequate. you know it's ok to see that there is a least some rhetorical pocus but unfortunately you need to come to tangible conclusions because uncertainty is not good for the continent is not good for economies and so it's up to the british government to propose something which is really at peace is in the ground for for for further progress which is totally important. this is covering that summit for us in brussels and joins us now again or briggs it clearly a hot topic there at the summit german chancellor angela merkel said talks with britain were moving forward but how is the e.u. as a whole responding to the approach taken by british prime minister theresa may you commission president john cougar this morning gave a short and concise statement he said on bracks it don't expect any miracles and now the good news for theresa may from today's summit is that most leaders right

here in very very rather happy i would say about the speech she gave over dinner yesterday not the fifteen minute speech which some said was the best speech she had she had given so far others said you know it was rhetorical the strong so some tentative signs that leaders are happy about this now the message from this summit basically is take that positive spirit that the that the u.k. wants to stand by its commitments and bring that into the ranks of negotiation talks so if you want a direct message here for david davis the chief negotiator at the same time i'm also said you know face to will be a lot tougher than face number one ok let's move on to the catalonia crisis also something folks are talking about the leaders again rule out any involvement by the e.u. still all eyes must be on the spanish prime minister mariano rajoy the. over dinner yesterday the question was raised whether the summit should talk today about

catalonia and the response from the spanish prime minister was it is not the right moment now that right moment may come and that the timing terry here is key because it would be after the e.u. summit the timing is of an event where on saturday. is now expected to trigger article one hundred fifty five which here is largely regarded as the nuclear option suspending catalan out on the me and that would spare our leaders in a way if you want to comment on such a move that would steep in the crisis because the problem europe has is essentially a dilemma that catalonians are very pro european have high hopes into europe and at the same time europeans want to make clear they are no fan of the session movements they from lee stand behind madrid ok turkey's a session bid also a topic there understand german chancellor angela merkel wants to cut you funds for turkey's accession but how much support does she have for that position i talked to

a high ranking diplomat and he told me she had strong support in the condemnation of the kind of out thora tarion style that leaders have observed in turkey and she had strong support on the task that was now defer to the european commission to look into the affair and to see whether the funding for turkey could be cut or whether funding that is given to turkey three a session could be reallocated york thank you very much did. your glasses there reporting from brussels. now to some other stories making headlines today iraqi forces have retaken control of the last kurdish held area of kirkuk province this comes after baghdad rejected a referendum on kurdish independence losing the region in northern iraq has cut oil production in kurdish controlled territory in half making independence even less

likely reason in a speech delivered in new york former u.s. president george w. bush has warned that politics in the us seems to have become more vulnerable to conspiracy and what he called outright fabrication his comments have been seen as an attack on president donald trump though bush did not mention trump by name. talks for building a new coalition government officially got underway here in berlin today this week has seen german political parties meet to pave the way for negotiations that could lead to i'm going to back hope for governing coalition between the conservatives the greens and the free democrats topping the agenda is europe climate and replacing the current finance minister both conchoidal germany's money masters since two thousand and nine has stepped aside to become president of the parliament . and of course another main topic those discussions will be how to deal with the

hundreds of thousands of refugees that have come to germany over the past couple of years you met with one syrian woman who is waiting to see whether her family will be allowed to follow. we meet up with a sigh might be a year off to her german lessons this is how her day starts here in berlin without her children or husband. she tells us about her escape from syria it all happened in twenty fifteen she had to leave her three children behind that's what her husband wanted. now he's imprisoned in syria she's alone in berlin and her children are in syria without their parents. back then i decided to leave the country in the hopes of helping my children by starting anew and then bringing them here.

that was my own think goal. we join her as she goes to help center for family reunification. in the hallway she shows us pictures of her son and two daughters. here they are with their grandmother. sebastian movie helps her deal with the situation he's had a lot to do since twenty sixteen when the german government stopped refugees like osama from reuniting with their families it was supposed to only last for two years but now the conservatives want to extend the suspension. of all this means is that families are separated for years the parents are

separated from their children that spouses are separated for years for a period of time that has no definable end and that's very hard for families to deal with it it's catastrophic. loss. of. the conservatives want to make sure that germany is not overrun with three united refugee families. even at the christian church conference the interior minister of germany justified this measure although many see it as unchristian this is it's not right to send under-age children away in the hopes that their parents will be allowed to come here later we won't reward this behavior that's a tough measure to take but it's necessary when you look at the current reality of this refugee crisis things. in the advice center shows us her favorite passage in the german constitution article six the special protection of marriage and family

since the telephone lines to syria are disrupted all osama has are these photos. i keep getting photos of my children but that only makes it worse because i cannot experience them firsthand. oh simon's last hope is german politics her dream is that someday she will be allowed to live a life in safety together with her children. to italy now and the island of sicily is one of the most economically deprived areas of the country there but it's also an area of striking natural beauty the municipality of ganji has come up with a plan to fight further economic decline it's buying up deserted houses and selling them all for just one euro so they can be redeveloped as tourist accommodation. the town of ganges straddles the

a dilemma donia mountains in central sicily an hour and a half's drive along windy country roads from palermo it boasts a superb view of mount etna from one side. country is home to seven thousand people twenty churches and now roads hardly wide enough for a modern car. ganji has no industry to speak off on the town's population has been steadily declining for years and two thousand and fourteen a new med decided to inject energy into the commune by selling off old abandoned houses the leeches are mccourt to get a lot of privilege and a few years ago we did a count and discovered that there were six hundred eighty empty houses and some were in acute danger of falling down so we asked the owners if they wouldn't just rather give them to us one of the. after the initial shock many owners were in fact happy to sign over their properties to the commune and heritance tax on the heavy

cost of renovation had made many buildings unattractive investments. the mess saw an opportunity to attract new residents to ganji after decades of emigration he offered the houses up for one euro piece provided the owners were prepared to invest a certain amount themselves. your . man and the other laws in the house i'm about to put on the market is not very big i would say you could do out with a total of thirty thousand euros. downstairs as one of the stables for the animals in total there are four rooms spread out over four floors the kitchen is on the top floor and as was common with houses built in one thousand nine hundred there is no bathroom. in order to preserve the village building regulations stipulate that any new buy must renovate in the traditional building style. we want to prove this is more than just

a mafia and bad bureaucracy and this weekend we can process a building permit in just three days anyone who comes here can see that we're different jogging in. one hundred sixty one year houses and country have already been sold off to those attracted by the stunning landscape plenty of year round sunshine and a sense for adventure. now the longest and durrance sailing about in the world the ball the ocean race begins this weekend in the spanish port city of canton the competition is held every three years and will finish an eight months time in the dutch city of the hague this year the race is all about equal opportunity here's more. from. this year's volvo ocean race has a new low following rule changes and encouraging more women to participate in the once male dominated competition welcomes eighteen female senators this year for the

seventeen's racing around the world under the new regulations mixed crews can be made up of ten sailors while all male crews are restricted to seven members among the women taking part is british skipper di kfar. a mix tape brings out the best of the girls it makes them right. and it calms the testosterone of the boys that little so ends up being a very nice environment cathari took part in an all female crew team as cia in two thousand and fourteen it was the first time in twelve years that women had participated. the rule changes were met with skepticism from some male sailors claiming they were not being allowed to freely choose their own crews. but with this year's competition about to begin in the spanish port of ali come day it appears the include. you know women is being welcomed with open arms. oh they did very well yes they have they give us credit for and you know that not all of them

know we're out of a very happy the day they're having a look that they. thrilling forty five thousand nautical miles away to teams across eleven legs in six continents no matter the winner a new era and the race is about to begin. that's all you news for now we have another bulletin at the top of the next hour i'm rachel will be with you for that supports you'll find more on all our stories online at g.w. dot com thanks for. showing us that people the world over information they provide the peons.