but everyone has the right. to everyone has the right to say. this is d.w. news live from berlin the u.k. is divided ahead of a crucial vote on bragg's a decisive moment for british prime minister jerusalem and 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 armenians throw their weight behind their reformist prime

minister. party wins a landslide victory in a snap poll that was held to cement his authority the. whole country's street the more than two hundred sixty million migrants on the move worldwide about is the subject of a new un migration package set to be endorsed at a major conference getting underway in markets but some countries are refusing to sign. and it supports cross city rival travel ten thousand kilometers to determine one of football's greatest prizes were played need extra time to be filled with juniors the to buenos aires clubs playing in madrid with the chance to celebrate the copa libertadores it is worth it both in spain and at home. i'm sorry so much god it's good to have you with us we start with

a growing pressure on the british prime minister tristan may ahead of a crucial parliamentary vote on brags that on sunday thousands of people took to the streets of london song to voice their way. to remain in the european union others who want to leave think that mase 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 these people are protesting against the back seat deal struck by prime minister to resign 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 not vote to remain. i did vote to leave that's just for us to make our own decisions. now i'm not sure i think we got

a bad deal staying in the year we walked out and i was going to come i mean. i think it's a lot of regret because i think a lot of people thought leave me just walk up but i knew it wouldn't be quite like it's so complicated you know. you did it with populations 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. dozens of lawmakers say they are planning to vote against it. because it is going ahead and not because it is a good deal it's the only deal and it's important that we don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and what if parliament rejects the deal and unregulated exit new elections or even a second referendum the only sure thing seems to be that the back seat chaos will continue. let's bring in deede of yours 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 assuming it 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 the maze own cabinet there are of course voices saying you cannot be 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 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 of the vocals ahead does she though have any chance now of pushing her brags 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 no 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. in the european union the breaks it 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 so 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 in our idea of use by provisional reporting for us from london barbara thank you very much. now some other stories making news around the world french president a model of mark owen says he will address the nation over the so-called yellow vest crisis this evening protests erupted last month over a planned fuel tax and spiraled into a mass movement against the president mccall will also discuss the crisis with union and business leaders. global arms sales rose for a third consecutive year and twenty seventeen that's according to the sweden based research group sipri the world's top one hundred armed groups total three hundred ninety eight billion dollars in sales of the u.s. remains by far the world's biggest supplier of military equipment and services

followed by russia and britain. and more than three hundred thousand households in the southeastern united states have been left without power after a storm hit the carolinas bringing snow sleet and freezing rain the severe weather paralyze road an air transport and the national weather service is forecasting more destruction on monday. in armenia prime minister nicole passion younes alliance has won a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections taking just over seventy percent of the vote passion on had 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 we would have preached all over 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 enough we vote for quality 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 nonpartizan 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 on lenient collect chilcote and other law. for many armenians there is real hope that this election could mark the advent of real democratic change. earlier i spoke to journalist joshua kuchera in the armenian capital here yvonne and i asked him how young is planning to tackle corruption in armenia. well 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 that the former president robert cherry on was just arrested two days before the elections there have been a number of other arrests of senior officials for corruption and other related charges there's been some kind of exotic ad hoc arrangements where the brother of the former president just last week agreed to pay thirty billion dollars to the

state treasury and some kind of deal. another oligarch paid gave a total of that same week to the to the treasury so there have been some kind of. ad hoc arrangements but i don't know that it think the biggest thing is our media never had such a problem with kind of petty corruption like a traffic cops and so on of the problem was very high level high government officials being corrupt and just removing that already that was the root of the problem i think is going to go a long way towards sports over the problem. journalist just speaking to us earlier there now leaders from around one hundred fifty countries are gathering in morocco today to adopt a landmark united nations pact on migration the u.n. says there are now more migrants worldwide than ever before some two hundred sixty million the proposed agreement aims to tackle the challenges arising from this massive movement of people while earlier this year more than one hundred ninety countries unanimously approved the pact it has also come under heavy criticism with

several european nations pulling out of the process. it's the first intergovernmental iñigo shifted 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 route 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 c 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 immense 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 the signatures they 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. right now it was a big weekend of football around the globe the biggest match of all was in madrid where river 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 two 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 benedetto getting the opener there for baka so hey we're going to win there's against 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 for the doors 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 adorers champions they now go through to the club will cope in a couple of weeks so it was a good job they got this game mean time was running out and the action took place in the dread what was the reaction like back home and obviously it was pretty wild the river plate fans were very very happy i mean the company was a dollar 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 champion so anyone think this story is over actually it might not be saga continues all right let's talk about the german but as they get moved into second place over the weekend tell us about that they did they beat stuttgart three no 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 bruce your dog and the leaders the gap is now seven points brochure dorman big shout for two one in the big rule on saturday as i say glad time let's have a look at the action. that bus home crowd haven't seen their team lose all season and the fellows had reason to feel confident again stood guard who had managed just

eleven points from thirteen games. the hosts would have had the lead after half an hour when michele lang mopped up some pinball in the penalty area but for an unwelcome intervention from an offside alison the 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 florian moyes houses cross i once had started to rain on stuttgart promptly began to pour i with five men between the ball and the goal they still couldn't manage a challenge and moyes house was free to get his own name on the scoresheet i seven minutes after that it was three no own goal from world cup winner up engine power providing a fitting conclusion to a disastrous defensive display by the guests i enjoy for cut back meanwhile they've

held on to second place after their tenth home victory in a row. right so my club back looking good there there was however some controversy in another honestly the match on sunday tell me about that yes indeed mine's true one one with hanover and they got a very late penalty and let's be honest it wasn't a penalty and fictional look at the action here was he the head of our 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 bundesliga twenty three and then this is the incident him attentively minds strike it 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 was 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 their best performances this season and the goal there to kick 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 didn't because the v.a.r. fought that wasn't the 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 got to iron out what's coming into the champions league in february and it's still a bit of a mess if iran far right mark meadows from sports thank you very much.

now to the snowboard halfpipe world cup at colorado's copper mountain in the u.s. over the weekend alone think champion chloe kim was spectacular on home snow the eighteen year old easily took the honors in the first women's meet of the season in a men's competition australian scotty james hit the heights a triumph in a very on australian conditions at least at this time of year. china has called on canada to free while ways chief financial officer or a face the consequences god that's right the rest of the. executive is seen as a further escalation of trade tensions between the u.s. and china and his has his asian stocks today tokyo's nikkei index closed more than two percent lower the saying in hong kong is down one point four percent while i c.f.o. men one zoo 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 summoned the u.s. ambassador to demand the consolation 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 small framed displays like japan display. the chinese foreign ministry said in a statement that the united states history is he dial a to the legal and legitimate rights of weiwei c f a man one giant and the americans to withdraw the arrest warrant one 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 while ways

business dealings in iran. the us government is trying to downplay the impacts have harassed washington says it's a criminal matter which is separate from the own going trade negotiations. and german exports rose eight point five percent in october to one hundred seventeen billion euros that's data released by the federal statistics office today alice say it's a sign that europe's biggest economy is still in robust shape despite international trade tensions germany is the third largest exporter in the world off to china and the u.s. calls like i say these b.m.w. and fox germany's top sellers around the world they make up around one fifth of total it machines chemicals and electronics also in high demand abroad. so pretty positive new figures there within the studio now as our correspondent

stephen business stephen why are these numbers significant will get her there is actually a great article a few weeks earlier and one of the business dailies here it talks about how oriented german businesses are overseas excuse me and he said that four out of every five euros earned by germany's thirty dax companies that is the biggest companies on the end of the dax come from overseas a four out of every five years that they earn in revenues so. the german economy runs on exports it's an export economy and so to see whether exports are going up or down is obviously what everyone here is watching investors looking to see the way things are going global demand is what drives the german economy and with a lot of the challenges the that the global demand is facing right now the global economy is facing whether it's trade issues whether it's maybe decreasing demand merging economies and these things are happening they're putting their finger to the wind and they want to make sure there still is the market for them this new shows their exports are up a bit surprisingly considering last quarter they had dropped

a little bit due to some domestic issues and also the trade balance the trade surplus shrinking a little bit because german imports are also up so that's significant as well the trade. will focus on trade balances these days since since trump became president only absolutely for him it's a metric of trade fairness and economists dispute whether this is really the proper metric of determining trades relationship to the economy but for him he feels obviously put out when there's a trade deficit that the u.s. is running against china against germany so while this may not really matter as much domestically for germany it matters politically for them to see that surplus shrink a little bit it's something they can go to trump with because of course he can hold such things as auto tariffs over german companies that are in the u.s. if he's very unhappy so this is sort of a political win you could say for the german government coming back to the rest of the who are way executive which is also kind of a warning shot that the u.s.

is firing it seems it is seen by some as that many businesses in europe also have close business ties with iran that's what the arrest is about iran sanctions should businesses in germany and in europe before it as well you know i would say maybe the iran sanctions is one aspect of it obviously but german and european businesses have already sort of taken a lot of this into account they've already pulled their stake. out of iran and sort of disconnected ties in many ways much to their chagrin but this is also about the ongoing dispute between the u.s. and china and that has ripple effects that can affect german businesses in european businesses a lot of german carmakers are operating in the u.s. making cars of their export into china and so this could affect them steve business thank you very much. and on to another high profile arrests we're following tokyo prosecutors have just formally charged for one man calos going on

allegations of financial misconduct that's according to japanese media he was arrested in mid november under reporting his income by about forty four million dollars over a period of five years and he's since been detained in at this facility charges today would mean further detention for go on and one other executive order news agency also reports the comic in this on itself is facing indictment for making false statements in an annual report. just. joining me now is michael penny is the president of the get to news agency in tokyo. looks like gold will spend christmas in a japanese jail so how is this likely to play out for gold given japan's relatively high conviction rate. yes well uh going is definitely a very rough situation what will happen now is that there rearresting him

essentially on the same charges but they're extending them now to three additional years and this does mean that the prosecutors can keep him hidden away from the world and unable to defend himself in public for another twenty two days which as you say means that right up until the end of the year now he will be he will be in a kind of a cold prison cell which is very without without heating so yes he will be in tough situation in terms of the press. the indictment there's a ninety nine percent conviction rate in japan once they the prosecutors indict you so he does seem to be fifth facing a difficult legal battle to michael very briefly if you can some analysts have suspect that the investigation is going to finance as may have been a ruse to block a merger between this son and renault how much is there to this view briefly if you can. well briefly the evidence that that backs that point

of view that there is some sort of corporate maneuvers were involved is getting stronger and stronger the facts are lining up on that side of the evidence at this time and that may be something that helps go and as most of the world looks at the evidence and says this doesn't look right michael bennett in tokyo thank you very much. thank you. that's only a business and here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here on the british prime minister of tourism a faces a fight for political survival head of a crucial parliamentary vote on have wrecked the deal she's expected to suffer a heavy defeat on tuesday despite resistance to a deal from many sides may insist the vote will go ahead. to washington news this morning news oxford top of the out. this valley that's up next because watching. on.

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