about domestic. we're not totally it's a species. this is data we need is live from britain finally gets a yes from brussels as the e.u. gives the green light for the next phase of negotiations european leave aside major hurdles have been overcome and the button on the euro can now move on to talk about their future relations with a focus on trade we've made quite significant progress case to pay now begin to be

realized that obviously this phase of negotiation is going to be even hotter and take you live to brussels also on the program. as an end to germany's political crisis inside the social democrats agreed to begin talks on forming a possible government with chancellor merkel's conservatives. on the united states drops the so-called net neutrality the government says it's cutting red tape opponents fear that access to information will suffer. less the fate of a younger a peon woman who mounted on islamic state fights linda awaiting trial in baghdad she's just seen her parents for the first time since running away to join the islamist group last year but she could be facing the death penalty. i'm for a welcome to the. day two of the summit in brussels has brought the breakthrough

britain has been waiting for you council president donald tusk says leaders have agreed that sufficient progress has now been made to allow him to go see actions to move to the second phase of talks about britain's departure from the bloc it's a big boost for british prime minister to reason may even received a round of applause last night's country is due to leave the e.u. in march two thousand and ninety so a big win on this phase of bracks said let's hear from the german chancellor angela merkel and some still stunned in the end we talked about the question of britain leaving the european union we've made quite significant progress case to pay now begin but we realised that obviously this phase of negotiation is going to be even harder. to brussels where we join w.'s correspondent at charlotte chelsea pill welcome charlotte so a big win on this phase of brecht's it explain to us what's been agreed. that's

quite right it's very rare in this process in this break that presence that we get some good news but yes indeed finally we have it and we've had the e.u. twenty seven have essentially rubber stamps what the commission's agreed that there's been sufficient progress on three key issues now that the border with northern ireland and ireland an e.u. member the rights of citizens post breck's it and it's the divorce bill essentially how much money the u.k. owes the e.u. now as you mentioned there were huge celebrations here people taking the chance to to celebrate the fact that this is happening though there is cheers for to resume a dinner last night but everyone here is very solemnly aware that things are going to start getting a lot more difficult as we heard from and a medical in the sound bite some guidelines have been issued from the e.u. about how we're going to proceed we know that next stop they're going to talk about the transition phase that's expected to last two years off to the u. k.

leaves the e.u. and it's not expected to be easy with all the nitty gritty details essentially about the u.k. future relationship with the e.u. still to be decided and it's not just about a decision between the e.u. and the u.k. the u.k. itself may face some problems at home we heard only a couple of days ago that the u.k. has to put any final decision to a vote in parliament so there's a lot that still could go wrong in this process so agree with all of britain as it heads for the exit but more trouble with member states poland. that's quite right not something that's come up in questions in press conferences today what we're hearing is that the european commission is expected to next week to launch an unprecedented process against poland its ques of being undemocratic essentially of taking away rights from the judiciary and it's it's alleged putting them into the hands of politicians now ultimately if the commission does initiate this

process next week that could take us into some very uncharted waters that in theory could lead to poland losing its voting rights something that we've not seen in the bloc so far so that's certainly something that needs to be watched as the next couple of weeks that could really starts to get incredibly serious charge at chelles in poll in brussels thank you. here in germany the head of the social democrats martin shoulder says his party has agreed to exploratory talks with a view to forming a coalition with chance and i'm going merkel's conservatives he said the talks would likely get in early january ahead of party congress and fourteen for not he told reporters germany needs and a new governance culture and the s.p.d. has been under pressure to reconsider talking and no grand coalition government after chancellor merkel failed to get another three way coalition off the ground. that's got more from germany political correspondent simon young welcome simon tell

us more about what martin short has been saying today. yes phil schultz says that he's cancelled the christmas holidays for himself and twelve senior s.p.d. politicians who are going to take part in these exploratory talks which he says can begin just after the beginning of the new year and he rather optimistically suggested they may only take a couple of weeks three to the middle of january at any rate there's going to be another meeting of the s.p.d. party membership to decide then whether to move to full coalition talks with angela merkel and her conservatives so another meeting of the s.p.d. i get this feeling of deja vu way that we had the social democrats and conservatives meeting with the president about a month ago he bang their heads together they agreed to talk and that's pretty party conference indorse that decision and then there were talks two nights ago now martin schultz is talking about going back to his party why when your rifle

is confusing all these meetings in decisions but you have to see that there's huge opposition within the social democrat party against the idea of a new edition of the grand coalition government of s.p.d. and conservatives and a lot of people would rather have some much looser kind of arrangement with the conservatives or indeed go into office issue which is what martin childes initially said he was going to do after the election and so the these various votes are designed to if you like take the party membership along at every single stage as the leadership moves towards joining a government and to provide some kind of insurance if things go wrong so i mean young thank you. regulators in the united states have decided to revoke the notion of a net neutrality the decision a basically ditches the longtime principle that all web traffic must be treated

equally the move is part of donald trump's push to reverse moves made by the a bomb a ministration a trance cayle back regulation in a number of economic sectors critics however say it could spell spell the end of the free and fair internet. net neutrality rules banned internet providers from giving preferential treatment to certain websites after the f.c.c. vote that seems to be a thing of the past. the ending of net neutrality has been met with fury by millions of internet users both online through social media. and offline at this protest outside the f.c.c. headquarters they say consumers will be forced to stump up the costs of say paying for faster access to their favorite sites or even paying to access certain websites that all. say it will saddle content platforms with costs that they will be forced to pass on to their consumers the chairman of the f.c.c.

saying it's not the role of the regulator to dictate to business models to the market it is not the job of the government to be in the business of picking winners and losers in the internet economy we should have a level playing field and let consumers decide who prevails actually but for democrat commission a minion cliburn it signals a dereliction of duty to the public can plainly see that a soon to be toothless c.c. is handing the keys to the internet the internet one of the most remarkable empowering enabling inventions of our lifetime over to a handful of multi billion dollar corporations the companies argue they need the money internet users are demanding faster connections for ever more devices and that infrastructure will add to billions in costs to their balance sheets that has already been legal opposition to the ruling but for now it's

a victory of light touch regulation over big government of corporate america over the average internet user. let's take a look at some the other stories making news around the world palestinian demonstrators have clashed with israeli forces during protests of a us president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital in the west bank they threw stones at israeli troops who responded with tear gas as the tribes announcement stood and across the arab and muslim world. prince prince harry and his american feel safe back a man who will marry on may the nineteenth. next year kensington palace announced the dates and confirm the ceremony will take place in st george's chapel of windsor castle the couple announced their engagement last month following a sixteen month romans. in argentina protests against planned the pension reforms have become violence and rising was so severe it forced the congress in what is there is to suspend

a debate about those reforms the government says change is needed to control the country's deficit and to curb inflation opponents fear the moves will leave millions worse off. are the u.s. ambassador to the united nations mickey hailey has accused iran of supplying missiles to rebels in yemen in breach of u.n. resolutions displaying what she claimed were the remnants of an iranian made missile provided to yemeni rebels was how he called on the international community to hold iran accountable is focused on the nuclear deal now a german teenager is awaiting trial in baghdad where she could face the death penalty in the w. traveled to iraq after converting to islam there she married and i asked five so who was later killed now she says she wants to come home but even if she makes it back to germany a future in that country is uncertain it was a cautious reunion with a family who traveled from germany to baghdad to see the seventeen year old who's

in custody awaiting trial. pictures of her arrest in mosul in july were beamed around the world. identified only as linda w. she left her home in eastern germany to join the so-called islamic state now she regrets it has this vision going to need to conclude i don't know how i came up with such a dumb idea i've completely ruined my life yet. linda says she didn't take part in any fighting she says after the death of the i.a.s. member she married she stayed in various women's shelters and almost never stepped outside hundreds of women have left europe to join i.a.s. many of them are now in custody in iraq according to research by german media at least seven germans are among them until now german women who were not in combat but married to i.a.s. militants were rarely prosecuted back home now a different legal approach is likely. where of the opinion that these women are

guilty of membership of a foreign terrorist organization because they help to strengthen the internal structure of the so-called islamic state but this question will ultimately have to be clarified by germany it's a federal court of justice and. it's not clear whether linda w. would be prosecuted if and when she returns an investigation is underway but there's no warrant for her arrest in germany. a russian court has sentenced former economy minister alexei to eighteen years in jail for accepting a two million dollars bribe from an oil boss close to president vladimir putin was told it is the highest ranking official arrested in put in seventeen years and was fired more than two million dollars the sentence was harsher than observers had expected the circumstances the case of ignited speculation that he might have for the victim to a kremlin power play. in football dortmund star christiane

political reason to celebrate has been named the u.s. mail player of the year the youngest to win the award the nineteen year olds at ninety four percent of the votes from the national team players and coaches x. players on the media two years younger than previous youngest will excellence and forward landon donovan. in alpine skiing germany has won its first men's super g. world cup right. in almost twenty seven years comes as your favorites were surprised by joseph festal who went down the coast early and i fall get interrupted event at italy's got dana is early lead held up by just two one hundred so a second of austrian france olympic champion maya took fast will describe she's with us unbelievable. i just time to recap our top stories for you at this hour. a youth leaders meeting in brussels have agreed to move to the second phase of talks on britain's departure from the bloc and european council president said the

new face would be even more challenging the decision to move on is a major boost for british prime minister to resign. and to germany's political crisis could be in sight how the social democrats agreed to begin talks with chancellor map as conservatives are forming a government it's also with two smaller parties collapsed last month germany currently has only i can take a government. that's it you're up to date i'll have more for you at the top of the hour out of the day. images from an isolated country images from the north korea. any tell me is the target for captured fascinating shots of everyday life in a regimented society.