this is. from a gunman opens fire near a christmas market in the french city of stross police say two people are dead several others have been injured the gunman we understand is reportedly on the run . also coming up an uncompromising message from europe to britain no renegotiation of the brakes a deal germany's chancellor angela merkel was just one leader today with that

message for british prime minister to resign may may then with on to brussels in a last ditch attempt to save her brakes in a deal the football club forced out of its hole because of war ukraine's nest stadium was bombed in the fighting in the east of the country they now have a chance to qualify for the next round of the champions league. off it's good to have you with us we have breaking news tonight coming right now from the city of stross berg in france gunshots in the center of the city have left two people dead several others injured police say that they have identified the gunmen and that they are hunting the gunman dale. the european parliament which is

in strong has activated its emergency protocol and walked out to protect the people who were inside those parliamentary buildings. and he is in strasbourg france right now he joins us now. nags what can you tell us so we understand two people confirmed dead in this shooting right that's what we're hearing as well but the experience with this kind of events is that the toll in the body count unfortunately will go up as far as we know so far the level of information what we have is in flux and the authorities are slow to give us more information understandably so because they're trying to get the full picture as well what i can tell you is that we were behind what you can see behind me that right there is the cathedral so this is close to this monument of france really this is where it happened and we were in a local bar where we saw people running by and the owner of the restaurant had

talked to the police and said stay inside it's dangerous and that's when we started to get the notion what was happening outside we managed to get closer to the perimeter where you had military personnel preventing anyone from going in and of course you had to resign and so on the streets of strasbourg were normally at about eight o'clock in the evening with the christmas market it's a bustling city with a lot of city with a lot of people in the streets doing their christmas shopping but of course i think it's safe to say at this point at strasburg is in shock and in shock and when something like this happens we all here in germany here in europe we've got the memories of that christmas market terror attack from just a couple of years ago has there been any indication if you heard anything from the authorities that this could be a terror attack. if of course everybody when we walk down these streets said this is a terrorist attack it's a terror attack but we need to be careful with this we don't know if it really is

what you would call the classic terror attack so let's say in the framework of the so-called islamic state of course it's always terror when somebody starts shooting people in the heart of the city but is it what we have come to call terror in the past we just don't know we will have to wait for the official confirmation and do you know you made the connection there brant you were there back then when it happened in berlin but it's not the only time that a christmas market was the target of a terrorist attack right here two years ago on the first of december of security forces managed to prevent an attack on the christmas market and i'm i really have to add here this was as we understand not an attack on the christmas market but next to the christmas market because had it been on the christmas market even if that market was closing down right at the time that this happened it would have been maybe even more horrible than what we're hearing right now and meant what do we know then about the the shooter. we

do know that those are the reports started streaming in what and those reports say that the person the police is looking for is a known entity he is what the french call him she s. which means that the authorities were watching him because they believed he was radicalized through words this would support the theory that this is in the context of a terrorist attack but like all the other information that we are getting that we're giving we try to be very careful in these circumstances because. it's in flux and we still need to confirm all this. and next if you could i mean i know you're working with it with your phone right now but if you can just think to tell us where you are in relation to where. this shooting happened. right well maybe we can take a look here what you have in strasburg all over the place are these canals you can

see it probably you're right i'm working with the phone so the lighting is probably not great so this is what we call the first perimeter right here and an axis is blocked to the public at large right here in the city close to the cathedral that you see behind me there's a second perimeter we believe that's where it's happened and that's where police believe that the shooter still is at large because we understand he still is at large sir to perimeters and we were in there very close to the second perimeter when it happened but out here authorities believe that it's safe to say so you do see police cars coming by every once in a while but people are free to move around here ok some people are free to move around we've been told that the parliamentary buildings there are that they are on lockdown how far away is that from where you are and i mean you know you've covered stories many times there on tuesday night and what time is it here it's just after ten pm how many people would be in those offices.

if this is your typical plenary week ever once one some people come from brussels to have the plenary session of the e.p. problem and only the m.v.p.'s are over seven hundred people but of course every m.e.p. has its own staff from up to ten to twenty people that gives you an idea how many people were there but i must say also that the european parliament is very far away from that second perimeter so at the moment it doesn't appear that they were in danger at any time but of course the security forces could believe or assume that they might have been a target of the shooter so that's why they're keeping everybody inside preventing them from leaving. all right max often there in strasbourg france with that breaking news coverage a shooting there in the center of the city near a christmas market we understand two people confirmed shot dead and the gun the suspect is still on the loose max thank you very much stay safe

all right moving on now the day's other top stories britain's prime minister to resign may she has returned to london empty handed tonight after european union leaders told her that there would be no renegotiation of the brakes a deal to resign may is seeking changes to make the deal more acceptable to members of parliament who seemed at ready to reject it in a vote that would have taken place today except for mrs may she decided to call it off on a whirlwind tour of european capitals today theresa may found plenty of sympathy but little in the way of the concessions she needs. morning in the hague friendly greetings at the start of what is for british prime minister theresa may at desperate mission can she get dutch prime minister margaret on board to help owen concessions for her bracks a deal publicly he's keeping his lips sealed in the matter that may spokesperson later said the meeting was productive. in london meanwhile there's hope it's

absolutely vital that we deliver the bricks that the seventeen point four million people voted for i'm sure the prime minister will guarantee that we get a good deal and i hope will support it but she's not going to get improvements is she really be a pessimist let's wait and see she's putting everything she's got into this i think she deserves our full support trying to do that. but even as make of that errol in berlin this car door wasn't the only thing proving resistance german chancellor angela merkel has holding firm to her iron rule no agreement with london on anything that could jeopardize the unity of the e.u. that means no renegotiations but according to merkel efforts are being made to secure a share insist for britain's over the fate of the border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland but the general consensus in berlin is. kind that there can be no allowances no other agreement than the one we already have given can't because kenya climate was in there can't be any cherry picking and that also

now can't be frantic renegotiations because mrs may seems not to be able to get the deal passed in the u.k. in its current form. but e.u. commission president jean-claude juncker does have this one thing to offer and it will if used intelligently is enough to get further clarification and further interpretations we vote openly with or with this will not happen. as may arrived in brussels this evening at least the conduit was no longer proving so i knew nothing but may know because i thought may do little to appease his hard liners back at home but she sounded never the less optimistic. but what i'm discussing with european leaders and we'll continue to discuss with them is how we can provide that assurance that the backstop for northern ireland where it be used doesn't need to be used but where it be used we need that it is only temporary but

time is running out may once the british house of commons to vote on the deal by january twenty first that's the situation doesn't change dramatically but here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world to a jury in charlottesville virginia in the u.s. has recommended life in prison for the american white nationalist who brams his car into a crowd of people last year the twenty one year old drove into a group who were protesting against a white supremacist rally one woman was killed and dozens injured the judge is set to pass judgment or sentence rather in march google c.e.o. has become the latest leader of a u.s. tech giant to face a grilling by members of the u.s. congress sundar pichai denied accusations that google has programmed any political bias into its search engine he also repeated the company's position that it has no plans white now to launch

a sensor search engine in china. two russian cosmonauts on the international space station are currently out on a space walk they're investigating a mysterious hole in a soyuz spacecraft docked at the station the whole appeared in august leading to an initial loss of air pressure russian officials have speculated that it may have been sabotaged and they want to know how it happened. the final group games in the champions league take place on wednesday night and for one determined club there is the chance of moving on to the knockout stages despite immense hardship ukrainian side shock tardo nests haven't been able to play at home since civil war in the east of the country flared up in two thousand and fourteen now recent tensions with russia mean that their crunch home match with the french club the young ass been moved to yet another new bed. it's tough being a shut down nets fan the side of been forced to play away from the home stadium

since two thousand and fourteen when pro russia rebels lonesome non-conflict in eastern ukraine that dumbass arena was even damaged by artillery shells the football team first started playing home matches in levey of over one thousand kilometers away last year they moved to the comparatively close city of kharkiv but now they must face leone in kiev the recent naval spat with russia prompted an imposition of martial law in ukraine's eastern regions which is behind the switch of match venue to the ukrainian capital. fans at the recent domestic away game the moment all the travelling and dream of a day they can play in donetsk again. i would like chucked out a play now dumbass the rain or internet. playing at the dumbass arena we would all probably cry down and great the team with open.

the fact still in the running for the champions league last sixteen is down to an owner and good player recruitment following an exodus of big names there's also a huge pride in the jersey a win against leon will see them through but the players would much rather the game was in hockey have put in the stuff to get the most i think they would have been a full stadium in hockey. i know that a lot of fans bought tickets. this is a big problem. so we hope the fans will have the chance to come to kiev to support the team you know it's very important for us because i think i'm on the early genesis which was a shock hope to be flying the flag in the champions league come february you know true joe joe all right here's an update now that breaking story we're following for you police in the french city of strasburg say that the government has shots two people dead an intern several others close to a christmas market there are reports that police are chasing the suspected shooter

and have exchanged gunfire with him we understand that the offices of the european parliament there on walking again a fluid situation in the fridge city of stross for we will be back at the top of the hour with more news including the latest on the breaking news state the g.o.p.'s. birth. home of species. of home we're saving. you those are big changes and most start with small steps and global ideas tell stories of creative people and in the think it's plunged.