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brags that solution. also coming up relationship counseling germany's social democrats and ugly americans conservatives wearily i each other before deciding whether they can live together in a new grand coalition for another four years. and might buy and take on cologne in the bonus league but the underdogs proved feisty opponents will tell you who won in a match that could have been an easy win but it wasn't. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us britain's prime minister theresa may is heading to a summit in brussels today reeling from a parliamentary defeat over brags that she and the other twenty seven leaders are expected to endorse a first stage deal on the terms of britain's divorce. it was agreed last week but

may's defeat at home could undermine her credibility m.p.'s there voted that parliament rather than just me and her cabinet must have the final say on any breaks that agreement before the deadline in march twenty nine thousand. this is the moment to resume may's way first said majority was exposed a way the ice to the right three hundred nine the nose to the left three hundred five. eleven of whom m.p.'s rebelled against hard to demand the british parliament gets a say in the final breaks if. this is the architecture from the latest humiliation . because it was a time is a time for everybody to stand up and be counted churchill said he's a good party man and he puts the party before him self and the country before we's party and that's what i intend to do. airily or theresa may try to stamp out the

rebellion for though she may have been better targeting to those seated behind her but what can i say to the honorable lady that she says that it should be parliament that makes the decision about membership of the single market actually this parliament case that decision about our membership of the european union to the people. i think one of this country who is very easy to be to your opinion and undiscovered and put it live on for the big. three she soon now that may would rather not have parliament tying her time to its intense negotiations with the european union contribution but any end to the rebels who are unmarried if that is your way the lobby is and to reason me was staring at her first major defeat over brags that they are seventy the eyes of it all off weekend she now heads for crunch talks to where else but brussels. of more on the

story we're joined by d.w. correspond to get my ass who is following the talks in london good morning walk us through yesterday's vote there in london what exactly did the parliament there decide. well this e.u. withdrawal bill is a bill that helps put e.u. law back in to u.k. law and what the parliamentarian have said is that they want to have a say they want to shape the rx and process they are not relying just on the government to do this alone but that they want to have a final say and a final meaningful vote and they're insisting on it it also says that they're pushing for a so-called softer breaks it they're not accepting what reason may is doing by herself which is a fairly hard breaks it determined to be the single market and the european union they're saying that they do want to have a say and insisting on it ok well what does this mean big and poor theresa may as

she heads into the next phase a crucial phase of bragg's that talks with the e.u. . well the e.u. up they would like to have somebody in london who is a strong partner somebody who can actually act on all they grim and that will be hammered out in brussels in the future regarding the future relationship for them it's actually not good to have to resign me as she is which is weakened she has a very thin majority and we're now seeing that her own m.p.'s are prepared to rebel against her budget thank you so much must there in london so how is all this going down with the new deal w. correspondent standing by for us in brussels georg is this going to change the strategy there you are in the breaks it talks what has just happened

there in london that decision by the e.u. parliament to take a bigger role. the e.u. terry has observed quite a bit of political infighting here during this press of negotiation process and so no it was put in a nutshell no it will not change the strategy the strategy all along has been no cherry picking for the u.k. if they want access to the internal market it comes as a but with a price and that prize is whether you're in the e.u. or whether you're outside the e.u. the same for all you have to accept all the four freedoms that that come with it pak and parcel otherwise you can have access to the internal market now there is an e.u. summit taking off there in brussels today it's a two day summit teresa mayes going to be there for the first day now leaders are expected to pave the way at that summit for future relations with the u.k. what can we expect expect that the recommendations of the european commission to move things to face to will be approved but that is where things start to get

really difficult the e.u. and the u.k. have to find a future relationship a new relationship and for that there is a number of models basically on the table you have of course for instance switzerland which has hammered out a number of unilateral agreements with the e.u. member states you have free trade agreements for instance with south korea and lately canada which structured the economic relationship predominantly and then you have the famous no we model now my colleague sick and i travel to us low to take a closer look at exactly that kind of model. but. you don't have to travel around the globe for a solution to the brakes a dilemma that can be found right at your ups store step. up on a plane to norway and you're in a country that has rejected your membership twice but you gather with states like iceland or liechtenstein they have negotiated an agreement with the european union

that gives them full access to the single market and there you have it the norwegian model. but is no way to really be off the shelf solution that britain is looking for. we head out to the countryside to find out what drives this skin a navy and powerhouse. spy and who sells famous no we jim king craps and just like the economy as a whole he relies heavily on the european union. more than eighty percent off and always exports are to e.u. member states and one of the key advantages are shared standards. i don't need to spend a long time explaining to my european customers of open meaning because they are looking for exactly the same what i'm presenting if i go from there it's in the third floor was the sort of there was there are some other issues for the european market is a very important market for us because they're close on your descent. but there's

a price for norway's access to the e.u. market which britain might be unwilling to pay for the free movement of labor norway's government however sees it as a huge benefit. actually noways one of the countries having the largest portion of foreign labor from the countries in the way and we depend upon. the workers and labor force from from other european countries so this is actually important for us and there are other potential perks with its arrangement norway is not part of the customs union that means it can unlike member states strike its own trade deals something that breaks the tears argued is one of the biggest benefits of brics it but the agreement costs norway a lot of money three hundred ninety one million euros go to the you each year that is almost as much per head as great britain has today only the u.k. gets full membership in return britain in the e.u.

is turned lead a lawmaker norway is a lot take. a lot taker that receives on average five new e.u. directives per day which must be implemented no questions asked an inside a research at a given time keeps a folder of all the legal directors from brussels he calls it the e.u. buyable. we have implemented more than ten thousand rules and regulations from prophets and i said boettcher i would like my prime minister mari minister of transport would have to sit in brussels to get with all the others and decide my future we have given it all away that's why britain could never join so it's an agreement as we have. despite the downsides a large majority of no we love the deal and at least for the transition period after a break that no way might be the right blueprint for great britain. a report by the us and lars shelton sick now to some other stories making news around

the world today ecuador's vice president jorge glass has been sentenced to six years in jail after a court convicted him of accepting bribes from brazilian construction giant oda breath politicians across latin america have been charged or are under investigation for purportedly taking bribes or illegal campaign contributions from what i over the past decade. doctors without borders says at least six thousand seven hundred rohingya muslims were killed in the first month of an army crackdown on rebels in myanmar that began in august a group calls that number a conservative estimate and says at least seven hundred thirty children under the age of five were among the dead. at least ten people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up inside a police academy in smalley is capital city mogadishu officials said the attacker

was wearing a police uniform the militant islamist group al shabaab has claimed responsibility . saudi led coalition airstrikes have hit a prison inside a police camp and yemen's capital sana killing at least thirty five people and injuring more than eighty others the coalition has been fighting iranian backed who the rebels in yemen since two thousand and fifteen. well borwein money is not going to be as cheap as it was helena certainly not a new united states potentially in europe as well we'll find out later later with that meeting of the european central bank its last big meeting of the year today and in the united states the fed pushed the benchmark rate to between one point two five or one point five percent it's the third rise in interest rates this year the moves being seen as a vote of confidence that the country's economy is on solid footing more than eight years on from the global financial crisis in light of the global recession the fed

had held rates at zero it started to raise those rates again for the first time in twenty fifteen and since then there have been gentle lifts to ease the economy back into rate striven monetary policy with the central banks that expects the job market on the economy to strengthen further and predicts three more rate rises next year. well let's talk now about this with sasha stephan finance analyst from the frankfurt school of finance and management sascha the fed's raised rates by a quarter of a percent to the fed members did vote against that increase those are any reasons to be concerned about u.s. economic growth. i don't think so i think there was a decision to increase the rates again was based on solid economic growth over the past quarters and all the expectation of that growth is continuing into the future particularly embedded into a global growth overall so there's always people might be concerned oh it is the

wage growth in sufficient is the g.d.p. growth sufficient but i don't think to be worried about or that we have to be worried about your economic course in the u.s. so you know concerned about the tax reform meant increasing the deficit in the u.s. and hurting growth there. i don't think i think the overall opinion is that the of the tax reform is going to increase growth overall the question is whether it can be to the extend as opposed by the administration so there is going to be an expected increase in the debts but i think the monetary policy decision is fairly separate from the fiscal decision of the administration all right give us your take on the e.c.b. meeting then today can we finally expect that actually to notch rates northwards. i don't things like don't think that there's any surprise here i don't see any interest increase this year also not next year the question i think is going to be what's what's happening to the to the bond buying programs right so if not now then

when. so in terms of interest increase i think we don't have to expect anything here before the bond by purchase power would have to be terminated i think what we have to look out for sometimes of rhetoric as to what these of the officials say in terms of how strong economic growth is not in particular countries but overall across the eurozone but i think that we don't have to expect anything concrete and terms of when the bond buying program are going to be terminated at some point though the least monetary policy will have to be wrapped up because it's certainly been very expensive do you think that it's done its job. i think it's a particularly those the recent bond buying programs are working but it takes some time so take several quarters until these programs actually trip a dollar into trickle down into the economy through various channels so things are working but also the the time that it takes is also one of the determinants of why

these abuse naude going to make a very clear decision as to when to and it's been five programs. steffen finance analyst at the frankfurt school of finance and management thank you. the austrian and our nicky is insolvent and flights will cease today is a subsidiary the bankrupt german carrier named it was set to be sold off to do tonnes that but the german airlines withdrawn its bid off the e.u. competition authorities cited cartel concerns around one thousand employees are expected to lose their jobs and thousands of passengers might find themselves stranded meanwhile eben's bankruptcy administrators trying to find a new buy finnicky but so far no one else has come forward to operate a thomas cook and british airways own i agee had previously both shown interest. well the meeting of the world trade organization in one his ideas has ended in discord the three day summit of world trade ministers failed to solve any of the

most pressing issues during a strong rebuke from chait trade treaty from europe and the us as well as south africa now in light of the lack of progress the w t o's director general called on the body to do some soul searching no agreement on agricultural reforms no agreement on scrapping subsidies that supports illegal fishing no agreement even on a joint closing statement there was some lip service paid to the importance of the w t o but ultimately for director general roberto azevedo the words help little waste what is disappointing is that this support it's not translate into action. if we really all support that with you if we really do we have to very much on. that multilateralism doesn't mean that we get what we want it means we get what is possible it's not comparable to expect multilateralism to

work and at the same time expect to walk out with everything you want speaking of walking out earlier in the week u.s. trade representative robert lies heiser accuse the w t o of losing its focus on trade and becoming and this occasion centered organization he then proceeded to leave the missing early. on the streets outside thousands of demonstrators marched to protest against what they see as the effects of multi-lateralism greater inequality and weaker workers' rights with their representatives unable to reach any meaningful consensus their conviction that globalization has failed is only likely to strengthen. well here in germany analysts said would be doing well if we had a government before christmas is over to terry now to find out if we creeping any

closer i don't think cent is going to put that coalition government under the christmas tree just yet. here in chairman he leaders of chancellor are going to michael's conservatives and the social democrats say they'll meet again on friday to talk about forming another coalition government that's something the social democrats had previously ruled out during president playing published on my has encouraged two sides to talk he wants to avoid new elections following an earlier failed attempt at forming a coalition government now there's a renewed effort to revive what's known in germany as a grand coalition. martin shields was keen to take the s.p.d. into opposition after four years in a grand coalition with angela merkel's c.d.u. but since the chancellor's attempts at building a government with other parties fails the pressure to patch the c.d.s. unhappy marriage with the social democrats is on. we will negotiate with the s.p.d.

with the aim of forming a stable government. we want to provide this country with a good government. a good deal. behind the scenes the parties have been weighing up the pros and cons of another grand coalition deciding what compromises they're prepared to make other options being mulled over a minority conservative government or the latest suggestion a co-operative coalition where the main parties would only agree on major projects such as european or climate policy. trident it would be up to parliament to decide whatever is not included in this agreement that's the big difference for the parliamentary group would be free to seek majorities on single issues and this would have a democratic a film with tommy i believe in this element funding. a good thing for democracy perhaps but the conservatives have already rejected the idea it's also doubtfully

s.p.d. would be able to push through key projects under such a model as the parties on the left do not have a majority in the newly elected german bundestag. well spring indeed that we have political correspondent charlotte potts here who's following these talks from our parliamentary studio charlotte is german you know the clear answer of no interment if not any closer on having a new government if anything became clear again last night that it's going to be a very lengthy process until that new government is in place the christian democrats with angela merkel they decided that they are going to head into exploratory talks after a meeting with the social democrats yesterday but the social democrats said they wanted to postpone their decision until friday until they have talked it over with their leadership and they still seem somewhat reluctant to head into these talks to form a new government so lots of talk what are they talking about in this initial meeting

charlie we don't know much about the details off the meeting yesterday but initially it was about trust building there has been a lot of blame after the election both parties suffered an intense loss at september's elections so now it is about rebuilding trust before those parties head into exploratory talks and then coalition talks and it is not likely that germany will see a new government probably until the next spring sean thank you so much t w political correspondent charlotte parts. but its leaders soccer but it's legal leaders by munich were licking their lips of the prospect of winning callet of willis cologne coming to town last night but the basement side put up more of a fight than even their own fans might have thought possible it was stephan wooden back in arm in phase first game in charge as coach and sporting director and they

faced an uphill battle against byron. some of the home fans thought they might even be in for a high scoring blockbuster and by and put their guests under pressure from the get go only t.-mo horn could keep thomas miller at bay. but cologne finally broke on the counter. attempt blocked by davida alabama was understandably peeved it should have been a corner. halftime frustration for biron relief for a wooden back and cologne. but it was the billy goats who started on the offensive and could have taken the lead had lucas quittner not lost his cool. by and were more clinical in front of goal and robert lewandowski opened the scoring in the sixty eighth minute with his fifteenth goal in fifteen starts.

biron kept knocking on colognes door but they were lacking the urgency to put the result beyond doubt. and when they did find a target horn was there to keep the ball out. one nil the final score in munich a narrow defeat for the billy goats they impressed but not enough. meanwhile over to guess and kiss in shock away into their match against augsburg looking for a victory which would push them into second in the table but borg are no fools these days let's see how that played out. the felton's a rainbow was rocking as shaka hosted their last bundesliga game of twenty seven tane an early christmas present of second place was on offer shaka should have taken an early lead after good work from. butts west and mccann he couldn't

produce the finish. the youngster just inches away from a maiden bundesliga goal. shall cause dominance eventual paid off though it's fancy footwork found frank de santo. in tinian showing off his own smooth moves. and with good reason it was a classy finish. a short break and then shall go we're back at it in the forty seventh minute bergdahl reacted quickest to notice header. sunil to the home side. but after a defensive showing auk's book woke up. cut u.b.

rising high for his fourth goal of the season two one. and book one a penalty ten minutes from time. corage stepping up. to two. but shell code words of a tonight hurried touring a fella from marvin hits. daniel caligiuri doing the rest. three to the final score shell can now guarantee to go into the winter break with their best points tally in six a zens. say with results of those and other games mean for the standings at this point in munich are nine points clear with one match to go before the winter break. shockley because men hoffenheim are the big winners of the match day sixteen dortmund have slipped down to six then further down in the bottom half looking beyond cologne who seem doomed none of the teams here can really feel safe just yet. and just for

you a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here today on t.w. news britain's theresa may is heading to a summit in brussels today reeling from defeat in a key vote at home the u.k. parliament says it will have the final say over any future breaks a deal just may end her cabinet. and germany social democrats conservatives are to meet on friday for more talks on forming a coalition government that's something the social democrats had previously ruled out. you're watching news coming to you from berlin we have more top of the next hour and of course you can get all the latest news and information in the book on our website that's at d w dot com thanks for.

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