the germans move in so close in the specs of lines and culture in germany. us american keep take a look at germany idiosyncracies has two traditions every day lives and language i can just come out of my lungs i was so on. the good ship. liquor centrica d.w. dot com the germans. this is deja vu news live from berlin no signs of compromise from israel's prime

minister over the status of jerusalem. troops were as usual to go to work and there are those of. the excuse also because recognizing reality is the substance is just meeting e.u. foreign ministers in brussels benjamin netanyahu says e.u. nations should recognize your roussillon as israel's capital also coming up winter hits in europe with a vengeance heavy snow fall across the continent brings travel chaos on the roads railways and airports but it is a winter wonderland for some. and the bonus they got a blizzard of goals and blizzard conditions and cologne but the teams former coach was feeling the warmth of adversity and dortmund after getting a surprise call. i'm sumi so much going to get to have you with a. we start with fresh fallout from u.s.

president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu who welcomed trump's move is visiting brussels where he said he expected european governments to follow suit and move their embassies to jerusalem european union foreign ministers are expected to put pressure on him to revive the middle east peace process. let's listen to what he and the e.u. foreign policy chief had to say you know where the european union stands we believe . that the only realistic solution to the conflicts between israel and palestine is based on two states which are those as the capital of both the state of israel and the state of palestine along the sixty seven line this is a well considered position i believe that all or most of the rupee and countries will move their embassies to jerusalem record does crucial images rules a couple. robustly with us for security prosperity.

and peace so i think more on this story with our correspondents on the ground maya schwager is in jerusalem and max hoffman is in brussels good to see you both max let's start with you in brussels benjamin netanyahu saying he expects most e.u. countries to recognize to rule jerusalem as the capital of israel but how likely is that to happen. well we just sort of the foreign policy chief of the european union federica maga really and she reiterated we just heard you know jerusalem capital of the two state solution of and they go she added solution and that means that the two parties actually would have to sit down and negotiate what's not happening at the moment and then they would have to find a result and only then the e.u. as a whole would be ready to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel so that's not happening at the moment but of course the european union is more than just this institutions it's the sum of its member states and there you have

a couple of men who are states who are actually thinking about doing that or who already thought about doing that one of them for example the czech republic if our sources are true then they could barely be kept from already doing that last week and you never know what's going to happen of international pressure starts mounting meaning that if other countries start accepting start recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel then the probably be harder to contain if you want to put it that way those countries who are maybe more inclined to do so within the european union so hard to predict but at the moment it seems unlikely maya let's come to you know we also had heard benjamin netanyahu arriving in brussels saying europe has also benefited benefited from israel's intelligence can we see that as a valid threat. well what's interesting about netanyahu here is of course he's in a very difficult room but we've heard him sing the song before he has said many

many press conferences with many world leaders in the past israel is a natural partner of the e.u. we can collaborate we are the only democracy in the middle east we have mutually benefited from security vibrating on terror counterterrorism efforts etc the difference here is his song has been given sort of new heft from this declaration that trump has made he has more legitimacy in what he's saying so it may not necessarily be a threat but more just a reminder of what israel wants to offer the e.u. in terms of things like security things like economic trade all of these issues and what we can possibly look forward to in the future as max said is more european countries trying to decide whether or not they should recognize the jerusalem as the capital of israel also based on these issues max let's come back to you know we heard the palestinians saying the u.s.

is no longer a credible peace broker in the region does that mean that the e.u. can step in and is it ready to. you need the acceptance of both sides to do something like that and prime minister of israel benjamin that made quite clear here where he's putting all his eggs in which basket and that's not the european basket that's clearly the basket of the trombetta ministration in the u.s. yet announced by the way that a new peace proposal was being prepared now by the trumpet ministration and was on his way and then he repeated what i called the french president told him on sunday he said let's give peace a chance but of course he means something very different from what emanuel mccraw meant on sunday because for him giving peace a chance means to recognizing reality and i'm quoting here recognizing reality and the reality that binyamin netanyahu is that jerusalem is the capital of israel so very different things here and then of course the europeans have lost

a lot of trust in the last years the court is kind of stepped out of the game they let the obama administration so the previous us or administration to that of trump take over they would need a lot of effort they would need to rebuild trust to get back into this game and if you consider was happening in many european countries on top of that anti semitism on the rise especially in countries like germany and france that it might be difficult to gain the trust especially of israel and that's necessary if you want to be an honest broker and my amid all of this palestinian president mahmoud abbas he's reportedly refused to meet a u.s. vice president mike pence during his middle east trip later this month just briefly if you can is this part of a larger palestinian strategy. it may simply be that the palestinians have very few cards left to play on the table here and the reality of jerusalem as the israeli capital is not the palestinian reality but we also have to remember that president abbas is not necessarily very popular among his own people

and this move by the troubling ministration of recognizing jerusalem as the israeli capital and only the israeli capital is seen as a big failure of leadership by the government did of his correspondence my sweater in jerusalem and max hoffman in brussels thank you both. now to some other stories making headlines around the world saudi arabia has announced it will end its thirty five year ban on cinemas with the first movie theaters to open an early two thousand and eighteen the decision is one of several social reforms introduced by the country's powerful proud prince mohammed bin salman. global arms sales are on the rise for the first time in seven years the stockholm based international peace research institute says world wide arms sales totaled more than three hundred seventy four billion dollars in two thousand and sixteen u.s. based companies account for more than half of those sales followed by the united kingdom and russia though at significantly lower numbers venezuela's president

nicolas maduro has banned key opposition parties from next year's presidential election he claimed the move was based on the party's decision to boycott mayoral elections on sunday the opposition was protesting what it claims is a rigged electoral system. and a major flare up in southern california's largest wildfire has triggered new evacuations the blaze has been moving closer to the city of santa barbara fires in the area have forced two hundred thousand people to flee their homes and destroyed hundreds of houses. while large parts of europe had been covered in a blanket of snow you're seeing drone footage here from the netherlands well the reality for travelers around europe was a lot less tranquil than these pictures there was chaos on the roads in britain after the heaviest snowfall in four years and germany also got its first heavy dusting off the here let's take a look at how the country is coping with the onset of winter. a chance to

just stuff a sled or show off your snowman making skills snow has come to germany. suppose it's great for the children finally we have snow. i hope it will be as why does this come christmas when i really like it especially because you can leave the car at home and go for a walk. these drivers must have wished they had done the same progress near the western city of bielefeld came to a complete halt plows arrive to clear a path and then things slowly got moving again for of a stir it was v.n. divert road. tram passengers in dusseldorf were also going nowhere fast trucks clogged full of snow meant no service unlike in the city of tal its famous suspended monorail was unaffected. passengers were left hanging at frankfurt airport hundreds of flights cancelled for queues grew inside while

outside for plows and di ices did their work. outside cologne cathedral pedestrians were proceeding with caution and they'll have to continue treading carefully more of the slippery stuff is forecast over the coming days. germany's bundesliga stadiums weren't spared from the havoc the snow wreaked across the country despite the harsh conditions of the games in hanover in oxford went ahead as the players and the fans proved their hearty souls. snowy conditions welcome tough and harm in hanover and the guests had the ball and then that first. but it's not damon mary strike was ruled out for offside. kind of his more direct game plan paid dividends after the break. by the quest to keep poking home style of sunday's head. and they still do to know when on eighty

five minutes martine hung a crossing highest following a set piece by kind of his first victory in five games. out toward hosted heads of bellin looking for their third consecutive win and after number of miss chances they made the breakthrough in the seventy four minutes. i. thought you'd be with this good goal of the ses and. but victory was snatched away at the death substitute salomon kalou storing in injury time a colossal five. out book having to settle for a one one finish. cologne went into their bundestag a match against freiburg on the verge of setting an unwanted record with just three points and fourteen games another defeat but mark the worst start by any side in german top flight history so how would they fare in their first game with a new coach let's find out. stefan wouldn't back face

a tough task in his first game in charge of bottom side cologne and not just because of the weather his team began brightly in their early dominance paid off when lucas took minutes at the open in the eight minutes i've freiburg here and schuster them foul syracuse to see in the books the penalty spot had to be uncovered before get a secret fire risk pool go into the season i cologne kept up the pressure even in the snow and soon it was three nil up to just thirty minutes the i'm back you own goal scored by candidates time i'd freiburg still believe the news pietersen smashed in your because he is free kick leaving colognes t.-mo horn with no chance. that he was again the provider on sixty five minutes this time going to kaba heading into make it three two i began to implode and sunny a shot and gave away a spot he wished he'd just think about it on ninety minutes i was right but we're

not done with their remarkable comeback and in injury time give us he's humble that's another penalty pietersen competes in his hat trick. one of the most extraordinary ability against ever summed up rock bottom colognes bizarre season. that was colognes first abundantly game since coach peter stark that was fired just over a week ago while he's now jumped in at percy a dork meant to replace peter bosch bush was sacked after saturday's two one home defeat by better brain last season for help cologne to a surprise fifth place finish but just last week he was fired with cologne languishing in the bottom spot after the worst ever start to open a second campaign staffer stuart macgill went on till the end of the season. let's take a look at the bundesliga standings after a match day fifteen byron are well clear at the top of the table leipsic the closest a massive eight points behind. occupy the other two champions league places while

dortmund have fallen to eighth in the bottom half there was little movement cologne remain in deep trouble in just three points with a big gap opening up between them and the rest of the competition. top stories this hour israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is holding talks with european union foreign ministers in brussels he says he expects most nations to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital for any chance of peace in the middle east . will have an update on the top stories for you in about forty five minutes thanks for watching.