this is d.w. news a live from berlin the u.k. is divided ahead of a crucial vote on bragg's it a decisive moment for british prime minister theresa may she's insisting a parliamentary vote on her divorce deal with brussels will go ahead as planned on tuesday but will she get the support she needs and what happens if the deal is defeated. also coming up world leaders are meeting in the dark to adopt a pact on migration it aims to fight trafficking and improve the coordination between countries to deal with the ever increasing movement of people but some

countries are refusing to sign. and the armenians throw their weight behind their performance to prime minister equal passion yon's party wins a landslide victory in a snap poll that was held to cement his authority. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us we start with our growing pressure on british prime minister truce of mehad of a crucial parliamentary vote on braggs that on sunday thousands of people took to the streets of london some to voice their wish to remain in the european union others who want to leave think that maze deal with brussels makes too many concessions downing street insists the vote will go ahead as planned on tuesday despite signs that the government is facing a heavy defeat. showing their colors before the decisive parliamentary vote the speech. bull are protesting against the back seat deal struck by prime minister

theresa may they want to stay in the e.u. in wales a majority voted to leave the e.u. two years ago but latest polls suggest that's changed and wales would now votes to remain. i did. just press to make decisions. that. i think. it's. going to come right. i think is a lot of regret because i think a lot of people thought leave me just walk up to. it wouldn't be quite like it's so complicated you know. if you know what population is millions and it's just it's not as easy as shutting the door and saying goodbye. may is under attack from those who want to stay in the e.u. and those who want to leave but think her deal is not good enough and dozens of

lawmakers say they are planning to vote against it. because it is going ahead because it is a good deal it's the only deal and it's important that we don't let it be the enemy of the good and what if parliament rejects the deal and unregulated exits new elections or even a second referendum the only sure thing seems to be that the bracks of chaos will continue. let's bring in his correspondent barbara vessel standing by in london hi barbara good morning to you we've seen some reports there in the british media that tuesday's vote in parliament could actually be postponed what is the latest you're hearing on that. it's a still room assume a because nobody really knows what to do everybody here says this is the week of weeks for breaks it and it's going to decide what will happen but within her own dreams amaze own cabinet there are of course voices saying you cannot walking into

this horrible defeat to say that parliament will sort of bring up you just have to come up with some sort of ruse so some people say that there's going to be a long string of amendments somehow pushing the vote way tomorrow and others say that she should just postpone it go back to brussels tell us tell her european colleagues again can you give me something i need more particularly on the irish bank stuff and then come back and present herself as a victor and try again like next monday so it is all still very confusing and that's the reality here in london that nobody really knows what to do next barbara the consensus does seem that theresa may is walking into a heavy defeat as you said tomorrow if the vote goes ahead does she though have any chance now of pushing her break the deal through parliament. not tomorrow not in

the way as it is on the table here in london because from all sides of we've heard lot now for more than ten days from all sides everybody is completely discontent that the remainer said this is a horrible deal it'll be so much worse than being within the european union the brics and tears say will be stuck to the e.u. for years if not decades to come it's a horrible dear nobody likes it and she sort of reiterate it is the only deal on the table that might very well be true but people here don't want to parliamentarians don't want to and she will walk into a really heavy defeat and what the next step is going to be nobody really knows but it will be a crisis her idea is by provisional reporting for us from london barbara thank you very much. now leaders from some one hundred fifty countries are gathering in morocco today to adopt a landmark un pact on migration the u.n. says there are now more migrants worldwide than ever before some two hundred sixty

million the agreement aims to tackle the challenges arising from this massive movement of people but it's come under heavy criticism. it's the first intergovernmental a negotiated agreement on all aspects of migration the un migration pact more than one hundred ninety states want to sign it but what does the agreement actually say increase information data collection as one part migrants should be given information about their chosen route and they should be informed about the risks people living in countries on the rude and a host countries should also be informed about the consequences of migration and to ensure that information is based on facts authorities should exchange data at an international level. the pact asks origin countries to work towards eradicating poverty to create jobs and to meet basic standards for nutrition and education

standards should be set to protect those who nonetheless decide to leave human rights have to be respected the pact also encourages sea rescues countries should make safe and legal border crossings possible the pact calls for more international cooperation and the fight against people smuggling networks to countries could for example exchange information on smuggling routes. but not all countries agree with the pact cements the us was the first country to announce it was not going to sign . hungry australia poland austria and the czech republic have already spoken out against adding their signatures to criticize what they see as a too positive view of migration and say the pact could lead to an increase in unwanted migration some countries also argue the pact could affect the border protection policies but what do the countries have to do legally nothing the

contract is non-binding the un migration pact is more about sending a political signal migration is a global phenomenon and the international community wants to tackle it together was we've just heard several countries have said they won't sign on to this pact in belgium a bitter dispute over whether to endorse it has led to the breakdown of the country's government the flemish nationalist party has quit the ruling coalition leaving the prime minister at the helm of a minority administration. here in america government leaders from nearly one hundred fifty countries are meeting today to adopt the un global compact for migration. but for belgian prime minister shot michel the price for taking part in the summit has been the collapse of his governing coalition. belgium's right wing new flemish alliance one of the country's four coalition partners fiercely opposes the non-binding pact they quit the government

in protest. if into the norm spread that he doesn't i find it very unfortunate that we can't come to an agreement if the pact is non-binding and therefore not terribly important why not simply reject it on how the. prime minister michel decided to flight america despite ongoing disputes with the flemish nationalists last week a majority of the belgian parliament voted in favor of signing the un pact or. during the parliamentary debate a large majority more than two thirds voted to support this agreement. now rethinking meant they were big majorities across all linguistic groups in support of this accord which provides a tool to responsibly manage migration issues. the collapse of his coalition now leaves michaud at the helm of

a minority government with parliamentary elections not scheduled until may belgium may be forced to hold an early vote. now to some other stories making headlines around the world french president tomorrow on my call says he will address the nation over the so-called yellow vest crisis this evening protesters protests erupted last month over a planned fuel tax and spiraled into a mass movement again the president the president will also discuss the crisis with two million and business leaders. a drive by shooting in the west bank has left at least seven israelis wounded israeli officials say the attack occurred at a bus stop near the settlement north of jerusalem the assailant reportedly shot from a palestinian vehicle soldiers returned fire as a car drove away. more than three hundred thousand households in the southeastern u.s. have been left without power after a storm hit the carolinas bringing snow sleet and freezing rain the severe weather paralyze road and air transport and the national weather service is forecasting

more destruction on monday. time for business with get hired now and china has called on canada to have a free huawei as chief officer has been arrested that's right that arrest has soured international trade relations even further and has hit asian stocks tokyo's nikkei index is down two percent the hunt saying in hong kong is down one point five percent men ones who was taken into custody in canada last week at the behest of u.s. authorities and is fighting to be released on bail for health reasons the government in beijing some of the u.s. ambassador to demand the cancellation of the arrest warrant. investors here in asia fear that the arrest of while ways chief financial officer could push chances of a trade deal between the u.s. and china tech stocks are among the highest loses in tokyo hong kong and south korea chip makers like hynix and produces of smartphone displays like japan display

. the chinese foreign ministry said in a statement that the united states history of sleep violated the legal and legitimate rights of weiwei c.f.a. men one judge and the americans to withdraw the arrest warrant men was detained last week while changing flights in vancouver and is awaiting possible extradition to the us federal prosecutors allege that while we're used to hong kong shell company to sell equipment to iran in violation of u.s. sanctions they also say that man personally misled american banks about why waste business dealings in iran. the u.s. government is trying to downplay the impacts have harassed washington says it's a criminal matter which is separate from the on going trade negotiations. and to another high profile the rest following tokyo prosecutors have just formally charged fallenness and german colors going on allegations of financial misconduct

that's according to japanese media he was arrested in the mid november accused of underreporting his income by about forty four million dollars over a period of five years he's since been detained in this facility charges today further detention for going and one other executive kyoto news agency also reports the comic and this in itself is facing an indictment for making false statements and then your report. a german rail operator dodge a bomb has counseled early morning long distance trains across the nation as its workers participate in a warning strike the stoppages scheduled to last until nine am and will hit into the city and in the city express trains frequented by commuters and tourists regional services will also be limited in many cities rail workers union broke off salary talks with a ban on saturday called its workers to the strike. life as a truck driver has lost all the romans that once was attached to it today it means

being on the road for weeks on end sleeping in small cabins in the back of the truck tough working conditions the money is not great either transport ministers now want to put an end to that demanding mandatory hotel stays and better pay for the kings of the road the king of the open road. has been trucking for twenty four years he's seen all of europe riding high in forty ton juggernauts sleeping and living for weeks at a time in the five square meters of his cab to be no more weeks spent in cabs of e.u. transport ministers get their way truckers will have to take their breaks away from their trucks onto a burglar has his doubts about that. if you know they meant us truckers well but they probably haven't thought it through you know where to drive are supposed to stay there are thousands of trucks on the road in germany which have to put in a hold for the drivers to take a break. but lack of rest stops and hotels for drivers is not the

only problem the e.u. transport ministers also want to make sure truckers are paid local wage rates wherever they're driving and not as in many cases the cheaper rates of their home countries. in base transport company owner calls it unrealistic he's one of the few small freight forwarder is within our own fleet and twenty drivers. leveling wage structures would be helpful to us but it raises the question of who's going to check up on it which body which authority will be responsible for monitoring all that. country betting to drive surface influence feels the pressure on a daily basis from would offer for chockablock by midday no chance at all by evening i should call it a day at noon with an i've got another five those shift left i can't just stop work now. pregnant lucky there is one parking space available. it's time to check his load. the waste he's carrying has to be delivered by the

next day like you don't know that's his way of life day for day with another fifteen years to retirement. you can forget kings of the road it's nothing but slogan now. it's not as laid back as it was fifteen or twenty years ago before the job. despite that the next generation is already in the saddle. didn't manage to persuade his son to take up some other profession so nowadays they sometimes get together on germany's legendary autobahns. has been elections in armenia and so his mom thank you gary hart of the prime minister nickel passion young and his alliance have won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections taking just over seventy percent of the vote aposhian had actually pushed for sunday's ballot in a bid to cement his authority that's after

a peaceful anti-corruption uprising took him to power earlier this year. looking for a mandate nicole passionate man has a reform agenda and he needs political support he's hoping the snap elections will deliver it but he also says it's about more than just his program. i can say that we would have preached all of the general. and it is really free. democratic elections past me and has written a wave of anti corruption sentiment and indeed for many voters that was the central theme of the election well thought out in the press we vote for equality and against corruption these are the most important things a solution of these two issues will satisfy me the rest is not that important neither salary nor anything outside only these two major issues corruption and equality. international monitors were on hand to observe the election proceedings

this after decades of single party rule and the arrest just last week of a former president for trying to overthrow the constitutional order. we are aware of the unique atmosphere around these elections however we have to be. absolutely independent so we cannot be swayed by any political sympathies we are here to observe the process to make sure that it complies with international standards to make sure it complies with all meaning in electoral coat and other law . for many armenians there is real hope that this election could mark the advent of real democratic change. let's get some perspective on the story with journalist joshua kuchera he's in the capital you're avan following the story for us hi josh good morning there was a convincing win by pashtuns alliance how was he able to win such a large percentage of voters. for

a while he's he's enormously personally popular he had a lot of charisma at the revolution which he called the revolution that happened in april and may i really captured the imagination of armenians secondly during the campaign i really kind of became a referendum the only people who challenged and the only party to challenge it was the former ruling party the republicans who are still very widely in our media and the other so-called opposition parties more of us like to line up on washington so there wasn't much really choice for voters who supported the revolution passion and says he wants to fight corruption in armenia do we know how he plans to do that. what he's already started that's one of the things he's been active doing in the last seven months since he's been prime minister there's been a number of arrests as your report mentioned the former president robert sorry on was just arrested two days before the election and there have been a number of other arrests of senior officials for corruption and other related

charges there have been some kind of exotic ad hoc arrangements where the brother of the former president just last week agreed to pay thirty million dollars to the state treasury and some kind of deal. another oligarch paid gave a total that same week to the to the treasury so there have been some kind of. ad hoc arrangements but i don't know that i think the biggest thing is our media never had such a problem with kind of petty corruption like traffic cops and so on the problem was very high level high government officials being corrupt and just removing that part of you that was the root of the problem i think is going to go a long way towards towards solving the problem and just not just basic you can do you think he has the political experience needed to deliver on those promises. you know he's easy but he has been the head of this party for a while he's been in arlington for a while i think is political experience isn't so much the issue the issue is our

media's problems are really very deeply rooted and it's going to be pretty for him so it's just about the promises that he's made all right journalist joshua could charm speaking to us from the armenian capital in caravan thank you very much for your analysis this morning. right now it was a big weekend of football around the globe the biggest match of all was in madrid where were her plate were crowned copa libertadores champions after a long drawn out saga and mark meadows is here from sports to take us through it yes indeed they beat their fists rivals baka juniors three want to lift the trophy as you say it has been a long drawn out saga they drew to two in the first leg and then the second leg was meant to take place at river stadium people might remember there was violence ahead of the game to block a team bus was pelted with stones so that game didn't take place there were various appeals in the end we got this game in madrid which is not a team was really happy with now going to the actual game well it was

a festival of football for ones who are talking about football rather than other things this is been a death so getting the opener there for barca so back off or hey we're going to win this against this is rivals the two biggest teams in argentina in football but then prato equalized for river to take it into extra time so much drama in this game certainly the river plate fans think this is a chance of course the company put it or is the top title in south america and then continue to with a fantastic finish to give river a two one lead in extra time and then martinez they have wrapped it up with a goalkeeper not even in the goal because he went for a corner so river plate a couple of doors champions they now go through to the club world cup in a couple of weeks so it was a good job they got this game in time was running out and the action took place in madrid what was the reaction like back home and when inside this obviously it was pretty wild the river plate fans were very very happy i mean the company was it or is is the equivalent of the champions league that we have here in europe and these two sides the biggest two argentinian sides in football had never met in the final

before so that's why it was so much at stake obviously there was trouble ahead of the original second leg and of fortune there was a little bit of trouble last night in buenos aires but not quite as serious as we saw a few weeks ago so yeah you think that's the end of the story actually. it might not be because bach a genius did actually appeal to the court of arbitration for sports to basically have river kicked out and casts haven't actually decided on that yet so there is a chance that river will be disqualified and bako will be named champions so anyone thinks this story is over actually it might not be saga continues all right let's talk about the german but as they did now blood moved into second place over the weekend tell us about that they did they've got three know they took the time over it the first half was very cagey but they burst into life in the second half it was a big win for them because they needed to keep pace with brucia dortmund the leaders the gap is now seven points bru should dortmund beat shouted two one in the big b. on saturday as i said glad time let's have

a look at the action. cut backs home crowd haven't seen their team lose all season and the foes had reason to feel confident against it got who had managed just eleven points from the thirteen games. the hosts would have had to lead after half an hour when mitchell lang mopped up some pinball in the penalty area but for an unwelcome intervention from an offside allison player that caused the goal to be disallowed. the deadlock lasted until late in the second half when some standoffish to got defending left rafael free to turn in floria noise houses cross i want it had started to rain on stuttgart it promptly began to pour. with five men between the ball and the goal they still couldn't manage a challenge and neuer house was free to get his own name on to score should i

seven minutes after that it was free now and own goal from world cup winner benjamin powered providing a fitting conclusion to a disastrous defensive display by the guests i enjoyed for cut back meanwhile they've held on to second place after their tenth home victory in a row. some icloud back looking good there there was however some controversy in another honestly the match on sunday tell me about that yes indeed mine strew one one with hanover and they got a very late penalty and let's be honest it wasn't a penalty and fifteen look at the action here was he that kind of are actually second bottom really needed to win the gold first his hundred vite and a really interesting character overseas just over six months ago he was playing fourth division football and suddenly now he's playing in the wind as they were twenty three and then this is the incident him the minds strike of going down there nina will contact the referee gives

a spot kick the video assistant referee reviews it and still says yes that's a spot kick kind of a. absolutely furious we can see again here is that a penalty. but there's not much contact there at all as i say hanover absolutely furious after has a sporting director came out said this is an absolute joke what are these people doing it was clearly a dark. madness but. it was a disappointment for her because that was one of the best performances this season of a don't get into the goal there to keep them off and they for we can finally clamber out of this relegation zone after a very sticky period but then they've not quite got this video assistant referee situation right in the blunders the yet they're intervening too often and then in a case like that where many football fans would say that the should have intervened he didn't because the veer off thought that wasn't a clear mistake you could give a penalty so therefore i can't overrule the referee but i think nine point nine out of ten football fans in the world would say that wasn't a penalty so they don't have to iron out it's coming into the champions league in

february and it's still a bit of a mess if you're wrong all right mark meadows from sports thank you very much. or minder now of our top stories that we're following for you here and british prime minister tourism a faces a fight for her political survival ahead of a partial parliamentary vote on her breaks a deal she's expected to suffer a heavy defeat on tuesday despite resistance ordeal for many sides may insists a vote will go ahead and leaders are gathering in morocco to adopt a landmark un track and a better coping with mass migration but a number of countries have withdrawn from the agreement to make concerns that infringes on their sovereignty and encourages illegal immigration. thank you for watching t w a back in half an hour.

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