because the city's. it's your platform. this is news coming to you live from berlin to resent me on a desperate mission to save. the british from this job was in the. talks with her. and she's just touched down in bulletin for a meeting with german chancellor. looking people is she likely to get it

or it's a coming up the french president in modern mccraw announces a series of financial measures in a bid to defuse the so-called yellow vests. and many demonstrators say they're disappointed by his speech. to press on with their protests. and today's been hearing. over many manjoo the outcome could threaten delicate trade talks between the u.s. and china. now she's a woman on a mission british prime minister to resign may is on a wild wind european tour to try and salvage a breakthrough deal to stop was at the heat for talks with the dutch prime minister . to recently is hoping to win support for changes to the brics a deal that. will make it an easier sell two m.p.'s back home on monday made took

the extraordinary measure of cancelling a parliamentary vote share due to four today. and within the last half hour to resign me a ride in berlin where she would sit down for talks with the german chancellor angela merkel. now for more stroll in our correspondence kate brady she's at the chancery in berlin and max hoffman joins me from strasbourg good let me start with you for us what does terrorism me want to get from. oil when series m a arrives at the chancellor here behind me she will of course be voicing her concerns for that she's heard in the house of commons over the fast last couple of days and also and obviously since she called off the parliamentary vote that was planned for today and so now should be putting a feel is out to see what concession she can get from anglo amount go but that does

indeed seem very unlikely merkel has made it clear time and time again that the negotiations are based in brussels and that this is an e.u. decision and not something that germany can throw its weight behind a make changes to that deal on it's hard so this isn't decision max in strasbourg leaders obviously have been watching these developments closely what have they been saying. well here the earth taishan is pretty high to tell you the truth and no one sums of a better and more telling way than that who is the e.u. chief brags at the go she had her he tweeted on monday i don't get it anymore meaning that now that they've negotiated over two years thousands of hours negotiation and now they postpone this vote we don't know whether and when it's going to happen and it appears that what is wanted by the u.k. parliament isn't something that that you leaders the other day you leaders are

willing to give the parliament i have met one parliamentarian who said yeah ok let's try to find a compromise in the withdrawal agreement and you know who really put it in a very telling way also that was you know include your grow the head of the e.u. commission he was almost angry you could see he was shaking and this is what he had to say and i have to say here in department as i do to people in this part of the deal we have achieved is the best you post it's only the polls and so we can look i believe i know who will serve as well for the negotiation so max very few alliance from the e.u. commission president is there any room for maneuver but today is on me. it seems like there's no room to maneuver with the withdrawal agreement which is the legal binding tax the divorce agreement it's also called but there's

a second agreement which is the political agreement that outlines the future relationship between the u.k. and the european union that's not legally binding and it appears that the u. is willing maybe to tweak something there to outline with even more forceful words with a more forceful wording what this future relationship could look like and make it very clear that they do not want the backstop activated this backstop which is there to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and ireland but whether this will be enough to sue the mines in london is completely unclear. and can't own tourism a has just arrived in but india think you would just in fact think which is a convoy making its way to the chancery where you are now we heard from max the e.u. is not budging on its position no renegotiation off the deal given that what can chancellor angela merkel really offer the british prime minister. there really is very little that she can offer at the moment it seems that marco

mangy just be offering it. to terrorism a but she is looking for these concessions but when it comes to this very controversial issue over the backstop for example merkel has made it clear time and time again that germany will do its utmost to make sure that there isn't a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland and again merkel is pointed out time and time again that this decision lies with the remaining twenty seven and not with germany but already they smoothing there's been voices for him all close of corners of the german political scene here people calling the decision to cancel the parliamentary vote a decision made by to reason may as irresponsible and some even claiming that there is an appetite now in london for it to fall through exactly what tourism a manages to achieve this afternoon with angle america we'll just have to wait and see and get we're just seeing live pictures of the convoy tourism is gone but

arriving at the chancery which is right behind you it's a it's a rare dreary day in berlin and there you see to reserve a emerging from the limousine a warm handshake between the two women leaders america and tourism a and obviously a series of me has come here with a lot of hope but i think hope is the only thing. i can possibly offer her because at the moment as we're hearing the e.u. has said categorically nor renegotiation of the brics a deal a lot of press waiting to see the two leaders move indoors and these are going to be closed door talks talk us through. what has been planned what has been planned for this very brief visit but it is a me here in berlin. well exactly what comes out of these talks we were. no immediately of course we'll have to wait and see what may then

goes and delivers to the house of commons when she gets back to the u.k. as you mentioned these are closed door talks and it will be a very short brief meeting of course she is expected to tourism a story is expected to travel on to brussels later today but as i mentioned before very little is expected to come out of this meeting i'm glad merkel has already said in recent weeks that even germany now is preparing for the worst case scenario which merkel herself said would be a no deal breck's it an already again today we're hearing from different parts of the german industry as well calling on companies to take extra precautions and stop planning for the macro herself said to some of the biggest issues should the u.k. just bounce out of the e.u. with no deal with no bricks deal then there's going to be huge questions to answer here also in beilin across germany this is going to be

a massive. and challenge as well for german authorities what are they going to do with the one hundred thousand britons currently living in germany what does this mean for the german economy are they going to be hit by tariffs this is could also have huge repercussions obviously not only for the u.k. but also here in germany and across the other remaining twenty six e.u. states as well as germany right a lot of stake bridie at the chancery in berlin where tourism has just arrived and gone into talks with the german chancellor angela merkel and mine in strasbourg thank you both very much for your assessments. to france now where the government is fleshing out its financial confessions intended to calm weeks of protests by the yellow vests movement in a national address on monday president mccraw appeared contrite baki accepting blame for the angle that his often violent riots but while some demonstrators vote

his comments others say again not convinced they have to press ahead with their protests he is known for his bold words but as he addressed the nation for the first time over the protests french president emmanuel michel tried to cut a humble figure. except my share of responsibility i may have given you the feeling that i wasn't concerned that i had other priorities i also know that i've hurt some of you with my statements. we want a france where one can live in dignity through one's work and on this point we have moved too slowly i want to intervene quickly and concretely on this issue. michael said his government would raise the minimum wage by some one hundred euros a month and exempt overtime from taxes. pensioners would also receive

a tax cut but many in the yellow vests movement remain skeptical. very nice speech but i don't trust him at all and. i think he's getting scared he's feeling the heat and that's it he's lost all credibility and people don't trust him he's got to go after. he took one first big step he has many more to take . of the minimum wage that's a good thing hundred years is very good. but it wasn't all concessions from michael he refused to protestors demands to reinstate a wealth tax and said he would push ahead with plans to overhaul the country's pension and unemployment system as for the yellow vests they've already announced a new protests for this weekend no one knows whether the president's actions will prevent scenes like these from playing out across france again. this article look

at some other stories making news around the wound thailand's military junta has lifted a ban on political campaigning allowing a much delayed election to go ahead on the twenty fourth of february the junta banned all political activity four years ago after months of street protests against the democratically elected government of former prime minister yingluck shinawatra. in afghanistan at least four people have been killed in six others wounded in a suicide attack outside kabul on members of the country's main intelligence agency the deaths a kid comes among the upsurge of taliban violence against afghan security forces. three people have died in weather related incidents the heavy snow fell in parts of southeastern united states this little girl's treacherous road conditions and left thousands of homes in north carolina without power up to forty six centimeter the snow was measured in west virginia many residents were caught off guard by the

sheer amount of snow that fell. u.s. agents have arrested dozens of religious activists rallying to support a caravan of central american migrants more than four hundred took part in the protests in san diego they want the u.s. to stop detaining and deporting migrants and to welcome the caravan crime to stop across the border in t. china. the children's aid organization unicef a school for urgent international pressure to resign the humanitarian crisis in yemen according to a new survey by the organization four hundred thousand children are so severely malnourished that their lives are in grave danger the appeal comes as who the rebels and government forces in gage in a sixth day of peace talks in sweden. this is where the full extent of the crisis has played out. clinic in the country's northwest helpless mothers bring

babies desperate for food. is severely malnourished. on every bed lies a tiny victim of the civil war. that. now ten year old a soft has the body weight of a two year old. her skeletal frame devastated by hunger and malnutrition. had a life for us is brutal especially here you know. while the united nations can get limited supplies and it's called on warring sides to loosen their grip on key cities archigram the gunmen before there was meat there was food there was salad everything today there is nothing good now there's only hunger let me elaborate. this is why the flashpoint city of hadera rebel held undergoing a massive government offensive seventy percent of the country's food imports come

through the port. peace talks underway in sweden are trying to ease the siege but the man mediating between the site says a breakthrough on her data and another key battle ground will be hard won. if we are able to progress on this through places. live the threat of war to the people in those two places i think that order of service. it will be a huge boost to really get her to go. running that. there are at stake is the fates of millions of starving children and the future of yemen. i'm now joined by get from unicef he's a recent director and responsible for unicef operations in yemen welcomes a couple of resource and they did distressing images of children in yemen you've just returned from there tell us what you saw there. well. yemen has become

hell on earth for millions of yemeni children every ten minutes a child is dying from preventable diseases those figures are mind boggling but the reality hits on the hardest when you are indeed in yemen when you were engaged with the children when you engage with their fathers mothers people who tried to save lives then on the you realize how deep the crisis is and the warring sides in yemen civil war current lee holding peace talks how optimistic are you that these talks will work and how important obvious talks for humanitarian work on behalf of the millions of yemeni children we need to remain very hopeful important hollow ever small steps have been set last week in settling peacefully the conflict in yemen settling the conflict is critical

for the millions of yemeni children and not tomorrow it needs to happen now. now to ending the conflict with a couple it was an heiress can be done to help ease the desperate suffering in yemen that you've been seeing and talking about. well first in the absence of a peaceful settlement organizations like unicef need no single more obstacles to allow delivering this much needed to humanitarian assistance too often all parties to the conflict are creating unnecessary obstacles preventing us from the living the assistance in time preventing us from delivering the assistance at the scale that is needed. but also very important

on top of the the end of the conflict. for the international community to really invest massively in yemen unfortunately yemen has been governed for decades in a way that led to deep in the development and unfortunately yemen has been governed with little attention for began many people and definitely not for the yemeni children so what we need in yemen is on top of all peace is a reinvesting in the investment with at the center the millions of yemeni children get couple of it from unicef thank you very much for talking to you thank you. a football player living as a refugee in australia could soon be extradited back to his native country martin hakim was arrested late last month in bangkok and bahrain's request while i'm on of

the cation there with his wife he's a one time star defender for the behind national t.v. but sort asylum in australia after he says he was prosecuted and tortured today of high court fully extended his detention to sixty days and i be told reporters he fears for his life if britain is to behave in. a not of the champions league where last season's iran is up liverpool have an all or nothing showed on against napoli tonight coach yogen clubs aside needs a win to have a chance at making it to the last sixteen the stage is set for the final round in the group stage of europe's top club tournament. it's now or never for your gun clubs liverpool the reds have lost three out of five games in the group stage they need to win at home to napoli and some head scratching mathematics to save their

champions league season the turnaround will be tough but klopp is hoping for a big performance have to create a special atmosphere with all with the way the flames and we have to use. as well and. yeah i was already before i read the forward to it so it's a big opportunity for us and yeah we will try everything to to put it right. there probably have more reasons for optimism they only need a draw to go through their coach carlos mencia lot he is well aware of how and feel can rock on a big european nights but sees it as a positive. nobody wants to play one of the best stadium in the world honest i don't fear. that is true that there are a lot of reports from part but there is through also that there are three thousand napoli from the british reporter and also forty million around the world of that

support us and we have to go through the most of this. stars like most sell and should ensure kiri will need to be at their very best to beat napoli and rescue qualification but in this competition liverpool is a club that it's unwise to ever write off. yeah joins me now and he's got some breaking news get out yes some breaking news from the trade war front we're getting just now unconfirmed reports that china is moving towards cutting its trade war tariffs on imported u.s. made cars that's according to the bloomberg news agency reporting that apparently there's a proposal to reduce tariffs on cars made in the u.s. to fifteen percent from current forty percent and that has been submitted to china . as cabinet again according to the bloomberg news agency well two sources that what we can say for sure is that the u.s. and china are talking again during a phone call between the two sides officials discussed chinese purchases of us are

going cultural products among other issues still unclear is whether the recent arrests of y.y. executive men one who was part of the conversation the case against her will be watched closely by both sides. the forty six year old executive with huawei one of the world's biggest smartphone companies and a symbol of chinese economic heft brought before a court the bail hearing in vancouver to determine if mung one joke can go free while her case proceeds it continues today after monday's adjournment her lawyer argues high tech surveillance and a twenty four hour security detail be allowed to keep her out of jail during proceedings. u.s. prosecutors say mom used the shell company for a while ways dealings with iran misleading banks into approving millions of dollars in transactions defy lated sanctions arrested in canada she faces extradition to the u.s. . on monday her lawyer said huawei sold the alleged shell company sky com years

earlier but the paper trails complicated sky com was bought in two thousand and seven by a company a known tax haven for ownership records are opaque. the case against mom is now set to unfold against the backdrop of a tense u.s. china trade dispute a dispute many hoped was approaching a resolution but that was before joe's arrest. u.s. senate panel is set to grill google c.e.o.'s on the pitch on its recent data breach today as well as the firm's controversial plans for china the appearance by mr pidgen before the senate judiciary committee comes after his company revealed that google plus this was soon to be offline the social network had exposed the personal information of as many as five hundred thousand people which i will also face questions about google's reported plans to introduce a sense that first of its search engine in china. the european central bank

has won a landmark court case for ruling that it did not violate e.u. law with its trillions of euros of government bond purchases the top e.u. court said on tuesday they found nothing to show that the e.c.b. is bunk buying program exceeded the bank's mandate in twenty ten the e.c.b. boards bones from crisis countries greece portugal and ireland for the first time spending sixteen point five billion euros for it to prop up those countries it is specially hard by the financial crisis here later the crisis was nowhere near over so the e.c.v. got out the wallet again to buy bonds from the heavily indebted euro zone members italy and spain in twenties wealthy easy really started from seeing money to boost the weaker eurozone countries and bought over two hundred nineteen billion euros worth of bomb bonds from them and three years later the e.c.b. launched the biggest bond purchases in program today with the quantitative easing

measures they hope to boost spending and investment they began buying bonds from all over europe and spent a staggering two point six trillion euros on that well some fiscal conservatives had argued the e.c.b. overstepped its mandate with these purchases and filed a complaint that now has been refuted by the european court of justice today earlier i asked our markets correspondent susan to explain that really. well once and for all the european court of justice has said today that the european central bank did not overstep its mandate with its quantitative easing program you know those monthly asset purchases those purchases of government bonds in order to keep inflation in check and in order of course to prevent deflation plaintiffs from germany all of them very conservative policymakers and lobbyists have come out with

this lawsuit they claim that the european central bank was illegally financing government. budgets with those purchases of government bonds but the european court of justice says no as the you see being has been buying those government bonds not directly from the governments but on the financial markets this has been monetary operation within the mandate of the e.c.b. which is of course to keep inflation in check to keep prices stability in the euro area or use no financial correspondent in frankfurt thank you. time and. pulled out of venezuela the company's ballooning economic crisis. one thousand two hundred workers have been laid off and posted on the gate said the time i had ceased operations good. severance package including ten.

years of financial turmoil and struggles with u.s. sanctions seen companies such as. bond and venezuela hyperinflation made most business in the local currency. and that's why the business of the top stories we're following for you right now british prime minister. with german chancellor casa last ditch efforts to save rex it is reportedly seeking support to get the deal through parliament that's after she postponed a vote scheduled for today. and french president a. financial measure. to diffuse four weeks of violent protests across the country taking full responsibility for the public proposed a minimum wage increase as well as tax concessions.

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