no for the mountains of georgia it's good to see. this is g.w. news live from berlin british prime minister theresa may comes under intense pressure ministers desert her government in protest over her dropped deal to leave the european union lawmakers in the house of commons also slammed the agreement leaving her chances of getting through parliament hanging by a crisis but. also coming up too scared to return home.

our borders are refugees in bangladesh she camps protests against a plan to send them back to me and mark repatriation efforts opposed by the u.n. are due to start today. and the european court of human rights rules that russia's numerous jailings of the opposition activist alexina pauline were politically motivated we'll ask our correspondent mr mullins bolsters kremlin critics. i'm sumi so much kind of thank you for joining us theresa may has told lawmakers that no brakes it is the only alternative to her draft plan for the u.k.'s departure from the european union the british prime minister defended the draft deal in the house of commons but she did session and came asking members of may's cabinet resigned in protest of the draft plan brags that secretary dominic robb and others quit saying the agreement would trap britain in. block's orbit for years

a let's take a listen to may's defense of the deal in parliament delivering bricks it involves difficult choices for all of us we do not agree on all of those choices but i respect their views and i would like to thank them to see. that they have time we were told that we had a binary choice between the model of norway or the model of canada that we could not have a bespoke deal which the outline political director ration sense housing arrangement that is better for our country than both of these more ambitious free trade agreement than the e.u. has with and country. theresa may defending her deal in parliament a short while ago let's bring in our team of correspondents we have barbara vessel in london and max hoffmann in brussels good to see you both again barbara let's start with you we've seen for resignations there in london today two cabinet ministers ministers to junior ministers what does this mean for theresa may.

this means quite clearly sumi that she really doesn't have the backing off the hard line breaks the tears in her own party they may be getting ready to revolt we don't know that yet whether they will reform and has made it within the day and said all of this internal leadership challenge or not. they absolutely are i'm happy it was the deal that's on the table they don't want it they say it's a betrayal of what they fought for it stood for trail off the sort of rights that they promised the british people and therefore they are now opposing trees a maze so she really gets it from all sides including her own party and that might be the hardest bit this point max let's come to you in brussels now as barbara saying there in london we're seeing theresa may under intense pressure this is after she got her cabinet to back this draft deal with the e.u. what is the reaction in brussels been to this morning's events. we have a couple of reactions out of strasbourg and brussels including the chief you

negotiator who says we will keep calm and just proceed with what our plan is and the press spokesperson for the e.u. commission added that to them they were talking to may and the u.k. government and there really there was no indication for them right now to stop what they were doing so the process has been started and that means that the e.u. ambassadors of the twenty seven other member states excluding the u.k. are going to start. this withdrawal agreement there might be minor changes to we don't expect any big changes and then we'll continue drafting the political agreement which is not to be confound with the withdrawal agreement withdrawal agreement is for the divorce the political agreement is for the future relationship between the u.k. and the e.u. and this will all lead up to the twenty fifth of november when there we will be you brag that summit if everything goes according to plan all right as of brussels has been watching max we've seen theresa may defending her deal as we said in

parliament very acute it exchanges their arch to tear conservative party member jacob riis not was one of the m.p.'s that was challenging the prime minister let's listen to what he had to say my right shoulder boyfriend and she's unquestionably owner. said we would leave the costumes union. the next two says otherwise my right only friend said that she would maintain the integrity of united kingdom i hope protocol says otherwise my right on the friend said we would be out of the jurisdiction of the orkin court of justice on school one hundred seventy four all says on the one this is what my right of the french says and what my right on the thread dollars no longer match should i don't write to my right on befriend a member of them i'm saying west. barbara i want to ask you about this because jacob priest mark as we said an arch breaks a tear or someone who is against this draft a deal is this

a veiled leadership challenge we've heard rumors there in london that we could see a within teresa mayes own party a revolt it could really challenge for leadership. it is possible but so far during months and months all for this type of exchange with in the tory party. has always kept his powder dry he has never really stepped out of line yes constantly challenge some may about what she is doing in the brakes at negotiations but he has never really stepped up to the plate now will he do it we will have to wait and see and it is always so no way amusing to hear his deadly kind of politeness directed against the leader of his own party dr her of course she must know that this is where the real danger comes from responding and friends properly set to resume stress again and again in the statement that she delivered she was protecting the integrity of the country but we smuggle also dominic brought

in his resignation statement said this deal does precisely the opposite who is right. oh it depends on which side you are standing on i mean the bricks to cheers the heartbreak six years a still peddling them this that they would be some sort of was drawl from the european union and not without having a hard border in northern ireland towards the republic of ireland and it is not doable there has to be a compromise solution and they don't like the compromise because on one hand it ties britain into the sort of customs union it was like you know for years to come and on the other hand all the island will be tied to europeans almost down the same time they don't like this and this is absolutely against the grain of what they want and what they have telling the british public at that point and the purpose of breaks it is now of course they have to oppose this intrusive of course to reason

may is right in that sense is without a compromise on northern ireland there would be no brakes to deal full stop backs that brings me to you because the unresolved question that had been holding up the deal up until this point was how to deal with the irish border or indeed as barbara just mentioned we heard theresa may talk again and again in parliament about a backstop explain to our viewers who are not familiar with that term what that is and what this deal lays out for the irish border question. the backstop was really the biggest problem ever since because if you didn't have the border and i lived in northern between northern ireland and ireland you could have basically said let's have a free trade area and a free trade agreement something like with canada maybe with added security something like canada plus plus that was in the discussion but with this political element between northern ireland and ireland you can't have that because the fear is that there will be trouble maybe even something like a civil war i've heard people mention that of course the those are speculations but

they don't want to risk it and that's why they need the backstop and the backstop is an insurance policy against a hard border between northern ireland and ireland and to avoid that. basically is . to avoid that they need something that they can fall back on if the talks about the future relationship fail these talks will only start with the so-called transition period so after the u.k. leaves the european union so at the end of march of next year and then they want to hammer out the deal but the thinking is that might take very long it might even fail you never know who's going to be in government in the u.k. that you don't know how they use going to devolve and so the backs up they had planned now in this withdrawal agreement calls for a customs union swimming pool approach to the customs union meaning that northern ireland would be on the deep end a little more integrated in the customs union and the rest of the u.k. at the shallow end still in the custom unions in the customs union but in

a more basic way that's why you call it the swimming pool principle deep in northern ireland shallow and rest of the u.k. that's a backstop that's what brigadiers don't like at all you've got the backstop and the swimming pool in there max that's very impressive barbara if i could ask you about what jeremy corbin had to say the leader of the labor party saying that no deal is not an option is the right. no deal of course is not an option for the labor party because they don't want to be responsible for the ensuing chaos everybody knows that if there is no deal till the training ninth of march of next year if you will have them in the way that they will there will be files of trucks going back all the way from dover off to london and they will be scarcity on the shelves of a supermarket of certain fresh goods within days and so on and so far as everybody knows what happens if you break down trade in this very interconnected world from one day to the other so jeremy corbyn doesn't want to own that but he also said he

really absolutely dislikes and does not want and will vote down the brics a deal because it doesn't deliver what labor has asked it to deliver that labor once it breaks a deal that protects jobs that's good for the environment that will keep all the social protections the european union offers and so on and so for us then the question is why don't they just say let's stay in that's a particular problem the labor party has with itself in the end the majority of party members at our at the point that they say we need a second referendum to figure out what the british people want at this point but carbon really has to be still pushed through that particularly to the particular juncture all right well theresa may of course very clear saying my deal is the best option here all right this is a story of course that is developing very quickly we've seen a flurry of cabinet resignations both of our correspondents here max huffman in brussels and barbara these all for us in london both tracking the latest

developments thank you both very much. for having to move on to some other news refugees in bangladesh have protested against attempts to send them back to me and mar with many of them fearing for their safety the protests caused bangladeshi authorities to postpone the launch of a repatriation plan agreed with me in march but opposed by the united nations refugee agency an estimated one million rohingya muslims are living in huge camps around the bangladeshi city of cox's bazaar after having fled violence and persecution in myanmar. the sheer scale of the refugee crisis in bangladesh hundreds of thousands for hang the muslims are living in squalid camps just like this. they fled me on my arm because of army led by lens following a military crackdown but with agreement from myanmar bangladesh is beginning the enormous task of trying to repatriate them and it's

a move that is proving deeply unpopular. with. the ring a community leader told me that my number has been listed and i have to return to myanmar but my son and daughter were killed there i cannot pray there no one talks about our rights there we were sent away after being labelled as bengali we will not go back there. this family fled the bangladeshi camp they called their home and they are in hiding there fearful of returning to myanmar. but more with the not they have tortured us so much there are no words to explain it we went through so much pain and if we go back again to face the same why should we go it's better to die here by taking poison. there will have to stay in camps were already in camps here i feel that i will die here so don't try to sunder stair. aid organizations and the un refugee agency admit there are still concerns for the

safety of those who do return but nevertheless the work to repatriate one hundred fifty ringgit each day is underway. we're still talking to the ringer refugees people working on the grounds to encourage them to go back are associated organizations are also working. life in the camps is far from easy but for many were being staying here still seems better than being forced to return back home. let's bring in deborah guha she is the head of did of use asia department she recently returned from a visit to the camps near crosses bazaar differently thank you for joining us tell us what you saw there how worried were people about the prospect of returning to me and maher. yeah actually people are immensely immensely in fear i mean they want to go to be our own land but not without a national id not without difficult mission from myanmar moreover there is no more

village existing anymore in myanmar seoul without any reconstruction without their homes big cannot go back and of course there is a fear of genocide and torch is still there so they do not want to return to their securities and short ok said they don't want to go back but bangladesh says these repatriations will actually be totally voluntary how can that be the case. but till no none of it taken to the transit camp u.n.h.c.r. also confirmed that none of the listed during a speech or owned over two thousand had agreed to return to their rockin state so as the latest news the process of repatriation has been postponed the u.n. and the red cross both say state isn't safe enough to send bring us back that this whole process has been rushed why do you think then that both governments seem so determined to start this program now. well for me and martin there is obviously a huge pressure from the international community along with the widespread criticism because of which myanmar signed an agreement with bangladesh in the

beginning of this year to take back the recently displaced drawing guys as for bangladesh the pressure is from the local community no one should understand that drawing does are a majority now in that area which is also resulting in tensions and even clashes we should also keep in mind of bangladesh is not a wealthy country how much of a strain have these hundreds of thousands of refugees been putting on the country. when it's huge and there is a lot of internationally for example the refugees are given rice lentils and oil but this still need cash so what to do when to sell part of these aides get cash and buy vegetables fish etc this is resulting in a parallel economy in bangladesh there are many shops outside or inside the camps now on the other hand the refugees are not allowed to go out of the camps after four pm there are schools for the children but there are no books that are secured places for very men and children but there are nothing for young boys thus they're

getting into criminal and illegal activities so the strain on bangladesh is not only to provide them with food and shelter but i think that it is also to provide a decent livelihood and i think that this is tough and i really believe that it will take a. very long time and they would still much longer time than expected all right deborah. thank you so much for joining us thank you. now to some other stories making news around the world the death toll in california's wildfires now stands at fifty six with authorities warning that some one hundred thirty people are still missing thousands of firefighters are still battling blazes in the north and the south of the state though authorities say they are slowly gaining the upper hand. lawmakers in sri lanka's parliament have exchanged blows leaving one m.p. hospitalized it is the latest escalation of the political turmoil that has left the country without a prime minister or cabinet the fighting started when the prime minister claimed

the speaker had no authority to remove him from office and scientists have discovered a planet orbiting the closest single star to our sun after two decades of observation the planet's mass is thought to be more than three times that of her own and researchers say it is very cold far below freezing barnard's star b s it's been named is only about six light years away from our solar system. the european court of human rights has ruled against russia in a case brought by opposition activists alexina judges and strong cited with napoleon said his various jailings by russian authorities between two thousand and twelve and twenty fourteen were politically motivated the valley is a fierce critic of president vladimir putin and it's found himself behind bars on numerous occasions russia accused him of organizing a legal demonstrations when detaining him. let's bring in our correspondent in moscow emily sure when it was standing by for us hi emily good to see you so what

does this european court of human rights decision actually mean for moscow. well certainly it's a bit of a blow on the one hand it is a blow to russia it's a bit of a mix rather on the one had it is a blow to russia because this ruling says that these arrests were politically motivated so essentially the ruling is questioning the existence of the rule of law in russia which is something that officials here including putin always emphasize as being very important and of course russia does care about its image on the international stage but on the other hand russia has been kind of setting the scene to question the legitimacy of any ruling that comes out of the european court for human rights for several years after the annexation of crimea in two thousand and fourteen russia was stripped of its voting rights in the european council which means that they also do not elect the judges in that court so they say and they

have been saying now since two thousand and seventeen that this course the court is somehow biased against russia kind of setting the scene to really question any ruling that comes out of it so it's hard to know whether this ruling will really have a big effect but it is a blow to russia's international reputation emily election of only really has been in the past a thorn in blood in her putin's side what role does he still play in russia's political scene. well as you say a thorn in their putin side certainly one of his fiercest critics a well known opposition politician who has called for protests over the years anti corruption protests which have sometimes yielded a huge turnout he's also created various investigations into the corruption of several members of the political elite including the prime minister need to be made if which have gone viral on you tube but it's hard to know how big his popularity

really india is in russia on the whole in part because he is regularly discredited by state media in fact state t.v. today hasn't even been reporting about this court case at all they often don't mention him by name but it seems that he does have some sort of a a presence even if he's not named in political life here for example a new law has recently been brought in front of the duma of the russian parliament which would make it punishable to call for miners to come out onto the streets for unauthorized protests a law which though it doesn't name me certainly seems to be aimed against him as young people have often come out in droves to his protests. and reporting for us from moscow thank you so much. well let's go back to our top story now the controversial draft breaks a deal the resignation of several ministers christophe that has sent shock waves financial markets as well that his rights to the currency markets are usually quick

to react to these kind of developments and indeed the pound has been tumbling following the resignation of several members of teresa mayes cabinet including the breck said secretary raising questions about whether a deal to leave the e.u. announced only last night was unraveling the market's response to the many rob's departure of a swift sterling is currently down about one and a half percent against the u.s. dollar reversing gains that have made after last night's deal was announced the british currency has already lost ten percent against the dollar and the euro since the referendum two years ago. now for more let's cross over to frankfurt and our financial correspondent daniel cole daniel the british pound tumbling about the braggs a turmoil give us some more market reaction. yeah exactly i guess you can see it very well in the background cursive we're really experiencing quite a roller coaster here at the blue chip index stocks today and also at most of the other markets in europe everybody was rather in

a positive mood this morning as they were saying it doesn't look too bad none of the ministers was resigning last night but mostly after the news was breaking that the brics the minister would be stepping down we really saw the markets here going down at the moment right now we are just slightly in the green at the moment it really seems that the past four to reserve may and i see also many and bester is here in the background watching all of this unfolding at the moment is going to be extremely difficult and then you know the prime minister tourism a has been addressing the members of parliament defending the deal and declining any possibility of a second referendum what do investors make of it what's more likely at this point an orderly or a hard and messy divorce well i guess right now or not even all the investors here are sure that by the end of the day it to resume may to resolve may

will remain as the prime minister off the united kingdom so right now pretty much nobody knows in which direction all of this is going to go it seems that it's going to be a very difficult day for her with more than four ministers already stepping down throughout the day i guess at the moment there is still some optimism here or among investors but it's extremely hard to predict what is going to happen when you cope in frankfurt thank you. or brags that isn't the only contentious issue european union is facing at the moment italy's budget dispute with the e.u. is also growing more acute on wednesday the country once again refused to cut down on this proposed spending deficit spending something that the european union had insisted on in light of at least already huge capital now romans facing possible this is going to marry measures from brussels that could involve billions and penalties the country's borrowing cost of borrowing continues to rise. as tensions

between the e.u. and italy rise so just the cost of italian borrowing investors in other words want more for their money it's no longer a surprise italy's borrowing costs its bond yields have risen steadily since its populist government was elected investors respond partly to uncertainty and rome has provided plenty trashing the euro currency and dismissing the country's massive pile of debt the new budget seems just as i'm concerned about debt it more than triples deficit spending from the previous government's plan the e.u. says its growth projections are too optimistic credit rating agencies have waited in lowering ratings and outlooks the gap between italian and german borrowing costs which is one measure of investor confidence continues to widen the chair and based human foundation says government and corporate bonds and italian stock exchange losses have totaled more than one hundred seventy five billion euros since the

government took office in may this process is going to have a very bad effect on italy on the part of that and so on italian savings italy's more than two trillion euros debt is already the highest in europe . lori auction at sotheby's in geneva has achieved a new record price for a pearl but that probably had more to do with who was the previous owner of this pearl and a diamond pendant fetched thirty six million dollars described as an exceptional natural pearl of extraordinary size it was part of a collection that once belonged to the french queen mary and to an it she and her husband king louis the sixteenth or gear thousand and seventy ninety three during the french revolution of the jewels were smuggled abroad shortly before the royal couple were arrested. and a reminder of the top story we are following for you here at this hour british

prime minister in some aid is under pressure after her draft a deal triggered a wave of government resignations she also faced tough questioning from lawmakers in the house of commons who must indorse the deal to smooth britain's withdrawal from the european. you're watching g.w. news coming to you live from berlin we have a fresh bulletin coming up at the top of the hour don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock on a website that city w dot com. thanks for watching wherever you are.

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