there's some members of parliament who say we want to extend this date the twenty ninth's march of two thousand and nineteen now that would need the the unanimity of all twenty seven of the member states we were not quite sure whether that will ever be on the table if not the watch is ticking down and just to remind our viewers you have been watching a live a breaking news coverage e.u. commission president john called younger and u.k. prime minister to resign may just announcing that progress has been made on bragg's of talks after marathon talks last night the u.k. committing to avoiding a hard border there and ireland and the e.u. commission announcing that they are ready to work on a second phase of bragg's it negotiations with the very latest from brussels an analysis here we thank you very much for your reporting and we will have more a little bit later in the program but in the meantime would like to turn to some other stories that have been making

news around the world poland's conservatives have named my tail but have yet ski as the country's new prime minister the former finance minister replaces. in the pope's critics say that the leadership shakeup is meant to distract from a vote on friday on laws that would give the ruling party significant power we're told it's traditional system. argentina's former president cristina fernandez to care center has said that treason charges against her are politically motivated that is after a judge in argentina calls for lawmakers to drop her immunity to arrest she is accused of allegedly covering up iranian involvement in a one thousand nine hundred ninety four bomb attack on the jewish center in going us i had a house. fire officials say that massive wildfires tearing through southern california have destroyed hundreds of homes the blazes have now forced tens of thousands of people to flee for safety major state highways have been closed as hot desert winds fanning those flames. u.s.

president donald trump has hosted a group of jewish leaders at the white house a day after recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital and setting off worldwide condemnation and street clashes the presidential gathering was to welcome in the jewish festival of hanukkah which starts next tuesday and here is what trump had to say no forces ever crushed your spirit and no evil has ever extinguished your face and that is why the jewish people as a delight to all nations and right now i'm thinking about what's going on and the love that's all over israel and all about jerusalem. well meantime palestinians have called for another day of rage in response to president trump's decision on traversal and protests are expected after friday prayers a senior palestinian official said the u.s.

vice president mike pence would not be welcome on a scheduled visit to the palestinian territories later this month the white house has said that it would be counterproductive to cancel it fire and fury spilling across the middle east. palestinians rising up to protest rome's recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital. like here in this camp in neighboring jordan where palestinian refugees have lived since the one nine hundred sixty seven arab israeli war palestinian president mahmoud abbas meeting with the country's king to rally arab support and fight back. we reject the decision of president trump in its entirety also in its particulars. we believe america with this position has distanced itself greatly as a political actor in the middle east because it will not get back its previous role here. but in the absence of trump its rail that

comes under actual fire in many parts of the country protesters clashed with security forces additional troops have been deployed to the west bank as authorities brace for more violence in the coming days and many fear the situation could escalate even further after the militant group hamas urged its followers to launch a third intifada or uprising against israel but the blowback extends far beyond the middle east decision has prompted a broad diplomatic backlash turkey russia and the e.u. condemned the move they say it threatens to quash hopes of resolving the conflict peacefully the german chancellor also distancing herself from trump during a meeting with the libyan prime minister. this status of jerusalem needs to be resolved as part of negotiations on a two state solution for israel and that's why we want this process to be revived.

so in this context we do not agree with the decision that was taken on wednesday evening. scrambling to find a diplomatic response the u.n. security council has called an emergency meeting for later on friday the same day as hamas has declared a day of rage. let's bring in correspondent tonya kramer who is standing by with the latest from jerusalem good morning to you tanya what is the situation today. well people yeah i'm standing at the must escape in one of the main entrances to the old city they're just going in and out of the old city a very quietly it's still early morning but of course everybody is waiting what will happen after the midday prayers what will happen after the services there were calls for protests and demonstrations a mosque has called for certain to charge it to start today and of course it's

expected that there might be also violence specials and demonstrations around the west bank so i think people you know bracing for all kind of developments but at the moment you don't know yet what will happen and everybody to watch very closely the next hours here and of course that call for a third intifada that term just generally speaking i mean it conjures up images of violence it conjures up troubling times especially if you're just gauging the mood there tonya would you say that we are are paused for an us you know poised for an escalation. so it's good to say because i talked yesterday to a couple of young palestinians here in east jerusalem and they told me something i think is quite significant to describe the situation. for innocent our own city there's a lot of frustration there's a lot of disappointment as a lot of anger but also hopelessness because this conflict has been going on for so long there doesn't seem to be any solution and now there comes a u.s.

president he discards all international law here he doesn't acknowledge the reality of palestinians living yeah i mean that's the sense that people do have here and they want to see. the capital of this state and old this is gone now there's a sense of uncertainty you know what does it mean for them and what will happen here for them next we know that the arab league is scheduled to meet this weekend. to counter that decision from donald trump to say is it feel to you as if they might be willing to put some weight behind that. i mean that's the same we heard all the condemnations from many arab countries from iraq from saudi arabia how close eye off the u.s. has been condemnations a lot of criticism but what will they do i mean what kind of pressure will they. i mean they will meet and you see the arab league meeting a lot of times but we have to wait and see what they decide what will come out of

that it's also important to see we're expecting the vice president of the u.s. coming in about ten days time now we're hearing from. that he might not be well come in rome i love you have to see how this will develop and you know give us also an idea where this process is going on ukraine where with the latest from jerusalem where tensions remain high after clashes yesterday and calls for more today we thank you for your reporting. you're watching news still to come on the program as the social democrats and their leader martin schulze start talks with chancellor angela merkel to plan a coalition government we examine a major opinion poll to find out what the average german thinks of the state of politics today. and speaking of other big questions christopher copper is here with quite a doozy how to prevent another financial crisis in fact that is

a very good question and did an international committee of regulators as agreed to new rules to keep the banks from toppling like dominos in the face of another potential global financial crisis the basel committee on banking supervision met in frankfurt and it set restrictions on the ability of banks to diverge from new regulations about the amount of cash they must have in their reserves. if there's anything to learn from the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it's that taxpayers shouldn't be the ones bailing out the banks ever again since then central bankers and financial supervisors have been handling over new rules for banks to avoid future bailouts now the so-called basel committee has reached a compromise on the final block in its overhaul. called the breakthrough a major milestone it's unquestionable that this measure will reduce the excessive. variability in risk

weighted assets and that's the key point of this measure. under the new rule it will be up to central banks to determine how much equity lenders need to buffer risks based on how risky they judge the loans to be but he stressed that the general agreement is only the beginning. misunderstood we're not done in the sense that lotsa work has to be done in implementing the measures have been just been agreed what he's done is to continue designing new rules at this point in time the keep the keep option is to. put in practice what's been agreed institutions from twenty eight countries including the u.s. china and india have said they'll comply with the unified rules which will take effect in twenty twenty two. the united states' second biggest carmaker ford is

moving electric car production to mexico flying in the face of u.s. president donald trump's demands to keep production inside the united states back in january ford had stated it would make a site nears hometown of detroit the base for its new models the company's c.e.o. says there instead now to make room there for a new center of excellence a high tech facility producing self driving calls ford says grade eight hundred fifty new jobs for american workers and from the production line to the drain line germany's rail service is stepping up its game and the competition for passengers on domestic routes later today the company opens a new high speed route between the capital berlin and the northeast and the economic hub munich in the south it is one of germany's most profitable profitable commuter routes so time is money. it was more than two decades in the making and now it's ready to welcome passengers on board the icy east sprinter will cut two

hours off the current travel time between berlin and munich with train testing speeds of up to three hundred kilometers an hour the mountainous middle section of the route features twenty two new tunnels. the six hundred twenty kilometer ride from berlin to munich will now only take four hour is pushing competitive pressure on airlines and bus companies serving the same bruce torture ban is confident the new link will have a particular appeal to business travelers. in total the project cost ten billion euros making it the most expensive railway project in europe. number of passengers on the bruce is set to double from one point eight to three point six million a year the standard second class fare will cost one hundred fifty euros. critics accuse the operator of giving major cities preferential treatment despite the making of only a quarter of the population passenger lobby group says smaller communities are being neglected as called for new infrastructure projects.

getting one step closer to a new government more than ten weeks after the country's general elections in fact . because apparently social democrats have voted to start talks with chancellor angela merkel about governing coalition but not everyone in the party supports the move have a look india and the social democrats follow their party chief. reluctant did with a clear majority they gave the go ahead to open talks with. you following the worst election results in decades many s.p.d. members felt the party should no longer partner up with merkel and her conservative party coalition. from the bottom of my heart i am against another grand coalition it has not served us at all in the past years as. is the oldest democratic party in

germany and it would be disastrous if we refused to talk. the social democrats have been into grand coalitions in the recent past that left us with only twenty percent of the polls we did not end up winners. initially martin scholz had agreed with the sentiment after the election he ruled out any government participation but then the party establishment step did know he had to sell this about face to the delegates you have misunderstood we must not govern at any price but we must not go into opposition at any price what matters is what policies we can push through this must be a choice that. shows then lined out his priorities gender equality in the workplace and a relatively liberal approach to immigration he rejects the idea of limiting the number of refugees to be allowed into the country shows also wants germany to be at the heart of a much more integrated e.u.

so what. we're going to get most of these all my comrades the year of we want does not exist right now we will have to create it if we want europe to stay strong we need to make sure it remains capable of acting people must realize that europe can make a noticeable difference in their everyday lives but put a strong europe hinges on a stable germany and many remain skeptical doubt another grand coalition is the right answer scholz may have cleared this hurdle but there are so long road still ahead and little room for missteps. so that's the view from the parties but what does the average average german on the street think of the parties and the politicians more than ten weeks after they voted in an inconclusive election we have been looking at the latest trend opinion poll for germany's national broadcaster. bungle america liz no only the acting chancellor and it could be some time until she is once again the head of an elected government

if it ever is the merkel era as some suspect germany's most popular politician is foreign minister sigma gabriele of the social democrats the s.p. dame with an approval rating of sixty five percent merkel has the approval of fifty four percent while s.p.d. had martin schultz gets just thirty nine bought a majority of germans say they'd welcome medical's dying on as chancellor for weeks merkel tried to form a so-called jamaican coalition with his cd un the c s u together with the greens in the free democrats alternately without success is now only another grand coalition with the s.p. day or a minority government can prevent new elections the s.p. day is being grappling with a way that to join such a coalition again what does the public think which would be the best government at this point forty five percent called a grand coalition of the c.d.u. c.s.u.

in the u s p d good about fifty two percent consider it not as good or even bad for the first time a majority wants merkel to lead a minority government. the close relationship with the united states long a cornerstone of german foreign policy is being called into question with the world seemingly in turmoil who do the germans still trust in these troubled times ninety eight percent of germans place great trust in france britain has the trust of sixty two percent a majority despite breaks it less than a third expressed trust in russia and only a quarter in the united states under donald trump germans still support uncle americal even if his standing is diminished still can't imagine anyone else taking charge of the german government. let's turn now to some sports news and cologne have been knocked out of the europe europa league after

a one nil defeat to red star belgrade though the german side created more chances they went down to a twenty two minute goal from. sarah niche the win saw red star leapfrog cologne into second place in group g. earning them a spot in the competitions last thirty two and the other match group winners arsenal thrashed off six nail colognes to feed means that all three german sides crashed out of the group stages often high and lynn who were eliminated on the previous match day both through their final matches one all and staying with football cristiana rinaldo has won the long door for a record tying fifth time the rail madrid forward retains his crown as the world's best player after helping to the spanish league in the champions league titles last season were naldo has now drawn level with his attorney a rival barcelona star lionel messi brussels has lost the

right to host the games at the euro twenty twenty following delays in the development of a new stadium. says that the four matches set to be played in brussels will now be moved to wembley stadium in london. when lee is already scheduled to host full semifinals and the final euro twenty twenty is a pan-european showcase event with matches being played in twelve different countries a quick reminder now of the top stories that we have been following for you here at d.f.w. britain and the european union appear to have made a breakthrough in bragg's of talks prime minister to resume a made an unscheduled trip to brussels to meet e.u. commission president john boyd younger following a night of diplomatic wrangling over the irish border issue they have agreed to prove.