very because germany's two. hundred refugee crisis. this is. a yes. gives the green light for the next phase of. european leaders. and the britain and europe move to talk about their future relations with a focus on trying. to. get that.

strong. to brussels for the latest also on the program. is a. political crisis inside the social democrats agreed to begin talks on forming a possible government with. on the united states so-called net neutrality the government says it's. opponents fear the access to information. plus the face of a young european woman who. was awaiting trial. she's just seen her parents for the first time since she ran away. last year. i'm still get a welcome to the program. day two of the e.u.

summit in brussels has brought the progress britain has been waiting for you council president donald tusk says leaders have agreed that sufficient progress has not been made to allow e.u. negotiations to move to the second phase of talks about britain's departure from the bloc it's a big boost for british prime minister theresa may who even received a round of applause last night. we'll go live to brussels in just a moment first here's what the prime minister herself had to say i'm pleased that it's been agreed we should make rapid progress on the implementation period which will give certainty to businesses and individuals the still more to do but we're well on the road to delivering a bricks it that will make britain prosperous strong and secure to brussels where we find t.w. correspondent to charlotte chelsea to welcome charlotte so talk us through this big win for both sides in bracks what's been agreed. yes a big win indeed is not very often in this break that process this may and e.u.

leaders get to celebrate something but that is exactly what has happened today the e.u. twenty seven heads of states have decided that they can rubber stamp a deal that was struck between negotiators what that basically says is that there's been sufficient progress on three key issues three issues that need to be decided in the so-called phase one of tools and those things are the divorce bill as it's called how much money the u.k. the e.u. on citizens rights isn't she what happens to u.k. citizens living in europe in european citizens citizens living in the u.k. and on the northern ireland border what's going to happen after breaks it between a northern island and its neighbor island which is still going to be in the in the e.u. so very complex issues it's been a very difficult road several attempts to reach an agreement on this failed in fact they were meant to reach an agreement here at the last summit in october and failed so big sighs of relief here today that. finally they've done it ok they've done

that what happens next. well that's quite right with america pointed out in a press conference not so long ago that was all well and good very good that we've got this in the bag but phase to the next round is going to be even more difficult now the e.u. today has published some guidelines on what it wants to see happen next it's said that the next focus is on the so-called transition period that's what happens after march twenty nine thousand when the u.k. leaves the e.u. we're expecting two years where weeks you can sort of phase out essentially what happens after the u.k. is membership in the e.u. and we also know that that is going to be something that is extremely difficult to agree then beyond that we're going to start looking at trade talks and the u.k.'s future relationship with the e.u. let's not forget as well that even assuming a deal is struck between the u.k.

and the e.u. to reason they now need to then take that deal back home and get approval at home parliamentarians have now decided they want a vote on any final deal so there is an awful lot that can still go wrong over the next couple of months trial itself in brussels thank you. here in germany the head of the social democrats was in short says his party has agreed to exploratory talks with a view to form a coalition with a chance of medicals conservatives s.p.d. has been under pressure to reconsider joining and give ground to coalition government at the chancellor merkel failed to get another three way coalition off the ground speaking to reporters mr showed stress that the s.p.d. was still undecided about whether and how they might support conservatives. it's an open question whether these talks will lead to forming a new coalition and we must repeat this again in all seriousness the fact that we are having exploratory talks doesn't mean we have committed to any particular

coalition forum do we get all these belong to. more than from d.w. political correspondents simon the young in berlin and kate brady of the bavarian conservative party conference in nuremberg welcome both simon we'll start with you martin schultz the intent on driving a hard bargain what is it that the social democrats want. yes phil despite the fact that these talks are supposed to begin without preconceptions that's to say without any presumption that they will lead to a new grand coalition government martin shields the s.p.d. leader today has been pretty clear about some of the stuff he wants he says any future german government should have a new political culture behind it and there should be dialogue forums he said with citizens to sort of promote communication between government and the people he talked about specific policies as well saying there should be. a reform of the housing market for instance of education he said more should be done to help young

families he wants a reform of germany's health insurance system and so on and so on so there's a hell of a lot of detail already in martin short his mind at least going into these exploratory talks as they still are ahead of a possible new edition of the a grand coalition with angola miracles conservatives next year ok brady in nuremberg so we have the c.d.u. chancellor angela merkel addressing libor varian see you that's where she is now how united are those conservative parties going into these talks. and exactly for just took to the stage a few moments ago here behind me in the fact that she's even here today at the cac party conference shows this to conservative parties have come a long way in the last couple of years well remember it was back in two thousand and fifteen that merkel enjoyed what was quite frankly a humiliating quarter of an hour when she was forced to stand next to impossible

for the leader of the c.s.u. as he criticised her open door refugee policy and as a result she missed last year's c.s.u. party conference of course now going into these talks with the see it with the s.p.d. the two parties have been hearing from merkel right now behind me that they are striving to be more united that's going to be interesting though as we've seen in recent months the last couple of years. even that merkel's c.d.u. has drifted more were more to the center left in on the german political spectrum while the bavarians had the c.s.u. especially ahead of the bavarian state election next year very steadfast in maintaining their more right wing conservative stance is they'll be working very hard to win back the voters that they lost in september's election to the far right a.f.p. but of course going into this now into the talks with the s.p.d. there will be striving for a united front to try and get the best deal possible for themselves to talk us through the sticking points that. well for the conservatives so beccles

already made it clear that one of the core points going into these talks will be economic growth because if we compare that to the s.p. did it's very different they're leading again on social equity which is of course the main topic that they also lead their campaign with back in september the election tax cuts could also be a sticking issue between the two and also on the on an international level you have the union and so far merkel and the conservatives have been quite reluctant to be open to many of the proposed reforms by the french president manuel mccrone including a joint e.u. finance minister and also a joint these are both points which the s.p.d. have been quite behind if we remember just last week martin schulz in the s.p.d. at that party conference very much pro you are from very much for more social equity on a communal level across the your opinion union so there will be domestic and

international issues on the table at these talks so when you read the runes for us are we likely to see a new government sued or might we face a new general election. well for that is still a possibility martin schultz says that these exploratory talks are going to begin soon after the new year and he suggested today that murder only take a couple of weeks but he'll be going back to the s.p.d. membership to get the go ahead for full coalition talks if that's the way the the thing pans out nobody in berlin really believes there could be a new government before march and if these talks are tricky as we expect they will be it could even be later than that so many young in the brady in your book thank you both. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world and russian courts

are sentenced former economy minister alexei order kyra to eighteen years in jail for accepting a two million dollars bribe from an oil boss close to president putin a sentence that was harsh but many had expected the cases ignited speculation that only might have fallen victim to a kremlin power play. israeli forces of shot dead two palestinians attaches along the road to drowse a border dozens of others are in the mood to jordan rallies in gaza city in the west bank thousands took to the streets to protest against the u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's current. u.s. ambassador to the united nations nikki haley has accused iran of supplying missiles to rebels in yemen in breach of u.n. resolutions display what she claims were the remnants of it reagan made missile provided to yemeni rebels say he called on the international community to hold iran accountable. ben ferguson is here i'm told i should ask you

what we should do without the internet but i'm guessing that we just got more work done i think i've read a few more books that for sure but the topic today is not just whether or not we're going to use the internet will be able to use the internet but what sort of content we'll get from the internet the democrats in the u.s. say the republicans are handing the keys to the internet to a handful of multibillion dollar corporations the us communications regulator has ditched the long time principle that all web traffic must be treated equally on the internet highway small websites haven't had to compete with the likes of facebook you tube or netflix until now everyone's been treated the same but the net neutrality overhaul means providers could begin charging websites and online services for their data values which could lead to preferential treatment meaning a fast lane and a slow lane for internet traffic well new startups without the resources of bigger

companies would feel the pain and be knocked out of the race that result in fewer choices for consumers than major corporations could simply pos on the added costs to customers in other words streaming movies or music could be set to get more expensive the move is part of u.s. president donald trump's push to undo barack obama's work and scale back regulation in several economic sectors. 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 million cliburn it signals a dereliction of duty at 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. union jarosz is political advisor for the german n.g.o.s. union let me know is this really the death sentence for a fair and free internet. well they media consequences as of yet uncertain but there is a clear pass that the concern materializes that the two tier internet will develop where certain. software or certain content on the internet is made more expensive or is blocked off together and that would create disadvantages for consumers the democrats senator bernie sanders had an interesting quote he said the internet will be for sale to the highest bidder basically others fearing it could further deepen

the divide between rich and poor also this tweet is quite interesting you troops in the p. is tweeting that she's devastated writing the internet is the only bridge that successfully connex people of low income to those of high income giving voice equal weight basically what happens when that bridge disappears well i don't want to comment on one specific tweet but to make an overall general point is that there's a longstanding concern that some people who are for one reason or another disenfranchised or can't afford more expensive internet or can't go through the whole maze of different packages that might develop put a disadvantage and that is exactly the fear if curbing our abolishing happens it's only telcos had lobbied extremely high. arguing that the rules under obama were heavy handed and also that they discourage the basement of broadband networks

is a truth to that well there is definitely two sides to the argument and one is very much supported by exactly these big companies and their their lobbying so that would be one sided argument the other side is that if you have net neutrality you encourage innovative and competitive start up companies to offer new services and they cannot afford to negotiate for or pay for a fast lane internet access and so in that way innovations actually stifle it in this case what some of the big companies against that though those who could probably afford it what why have they been against it well i think there has been a shift between the companies because the you tube and the facebook and amazons of the past are have grown now so also the interest have changed but it is also interesting to note that there has been brought bipartisan popular and also corporate. support for net neutrality so it's really the internet service providers versus the content providers that have shaped the debate in this case that we're

just talking about the u.s. here how is this going to carry over to germany to europe the rest of the world what for now we're just talking about the s. for sure but there is the clear concern that all this lobbying pressure that we noticed and experience in the u.s. is also going to happen in germany in the e.u. so that the same concerns that are now at present in the u.s. could also be here that innovation is stifled that startups can't afford to provide innovative services which in the end also hurts consumers because their access to a variety of services in fact a variety of news opinions might be. ok you and we'll leave it there thank you very much for coming in today very beginning to feel. as big breaks another record today experts warn the critter currency is a highly speculative investment and yet some venezuelans currency is so highly

inflated brother part the little money they have in the world it's difficult to overstate the depth of venezuela's economic crisis every day hundreds of families cross into neighboring brazil in the hope of escaping the misery daily food and medicine shortages have left them with little option but to leave elsewhere at the border some try to trade their worthless wads of bolivar are illegally inflation in venezuela is projected to surpass two thousand percent next year that fact has prompted many of those still in the country to convert their rapidly depreciation fall of our into crypto currencies software engineer john mcguire the large recently bought medicine and even booked a holiday using bitcoin. at the travel agency they told me i won't say which travel agency it is because i don't want to get them into trouble but they told me it's either dollars or dollars i said look i'm

a venezuelan like any other i can't be more homegrown going white from iran and here i don't have foreign bank accounts nothing like what i do have to pay for his ticket today or is point. they accepted us. but bitcoin is not the crypto currency of choice for embattled venezuelan president nicolas maduro earlier this month he announced the launch of an alternative digital currency the petro he says will be backed by the country's oil reserves. but venezuelans don't appear to view the prospects of the petro too favorably those who have set their sights on cryptic currencies tend to favor bitcoin itself of course notoriously volatile and for now you'll still need hard cash to buy food on the street. irish budget carrier ryanair says it's prepared to recognize pilot unions for the first time in the airline's thirty two year history to avoid

a strike this holiday season chief executive mike lee or he once famously said he'd rather cut off his own hands than sign a deal with the union to bring wages up to industry standards now in a major u.-turn he's to invite pilot representatives for talks for years ryanair pilots in several countries have been demanding recognition of their units some breaking news now with phil bed thank you police in the netherlands say they have shot a man that ship all airport reports say he was armed with a knife authorities are reported to have evacuated the building so the area is not safe to bring you more on that as we get it though a german teenager is awaiting trial in baghdad after being captured in a stronghold of so-called islamic state linda w. traveled to iraq after converting to islam there she matters and i asked fighter who was later killed now she says she wants to come home the only she makes it back to germany her future is uncertain it was a cautious we union 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. 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 helped to strengthen the internal structure of the so-called islamic state but this question will ultimately have to be clarified by germany its federal court of justice. but. 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. now a commission investigating child sexual abuse in australia has called on the catholic church to end their requirement that clergy members be celibate it also calls on religious leaders to be prosecuted for failing to report child sexual abuse a critical including priests who hear about crimes in confessionals the five year inquiry found this australian institutions including the church had failed to protect children with tens of thousands of used over decades of responding to the

reports of prime minister malcolm turnbull found people who'd come forward to tell their stories of courage and help to uncover a national tragedy. though this report looks at a range of australian city institutions the catholic church was singled out for particular criticism religious affairs correspondent as well welcome thank you so compulsory celibacy is a thing in the catholic church the read the report says get rid of it. because of contributes to to. sex abuse what is the link between the two there is a superstition that very repressive sexual environment produces sort of scape so to say that sort of you know producing this kind of abuse specially because children in the context of church institutions tend to be in very precarious situations so they are really at the mercy of that however it should be pointed out that you know sexual abuse against children something that happens across the board as members of

the church they pointed out in celibacy that's not seemed to be in any particular way they're regulated so this clearly something that will be contested it seems an odd thing to say that the. if you if you put men in a situation without sex then they just call control themselves very much so i think that there is something quite break you your i mean they're the sort of the underlying accusation of course that you know men in the situation of celibacy essentially cannot or ultimately in cases it many cases evidently will not be able to control themselves the response of the church is this is not normally not the case but we have cases of sexual abuse across the board so you know this institution in many cases the institution that is actually central to the vote. to the votes of the priesthood so it's very unlikely that this will have any effect on the church there are reports also looking also recommending that the church will be full most of the priests can report child abuse disclosed during

a confession in the church is also against that even though protects abuses there are two arguments against the proposition of course the proposition is understandable in the sense that priests who actually do commit abuse in at least some cases are reporting it to their confessors during confession the brome however is that this is actually protected much in the way that the relation between a physician and he's patient or the relation between an authority and his client or her client is protected the problem is that if you actually do open this and you make it sort of liable to justice or the state looking into it chances are that there will be no people left reporting in confession what they have done and the reason why they are reporting in this kind of context is very likely because the speech is actually protected so it cuts both ways and it's really quite clear that this recall mendacious had been. much more than grandstanding in some sense.

thank you a pleasure. sport now start with football dortmund star american the play. has been named u.s. male player of the year age nineteen is the youngest ever to win the award and it was a landslide he took ninety four percent of the votes from national team players coaches ex players and the media has become a key player for dortmund and is emerging from the u.s. national team has been one of the few bright spots the u.s. failed to qualify for the twenty eighteen world cup. top story this hour. meeting in brussels have agreed to move to the second phase of talks on britain's departure from european council president said the new face would be even more challenging the decision to move is a major boost for british prime minister to resign. or on a website called. it's

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