was a state of leaders like from britain's prime minister fights for her political life series of my faces are using the house of commons hours ahead of a vote of confidence in her leadership triggered by her own party colleagues. also on the program a massive manhunt in the french city of strasburg police hunt for the gunman who opened fire near a popular christmas market two people were killed and several others seriously wounded in court so investigators have detained the suspects from. the chinese telecoms john to while away is released by

a canadian court and long faces charges of violating u.s. sanctions against iran. i'm still going to welcome to the program might be about to cost the u.k. its second prime minister opponents of theresa may spread the deal have secured support for a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the conservative party if she loses she will remain as prime minister but only until a new party leader is chosen a pretty sesa david cameron resigned two years ago when the u.k. voted to leave the european union mrs may's vote happens tonight. to reason may is defending herself with all her might her message kicking me out will put brett sit in jeopardy and any successor will have no time to renegotiate britain's withdrawal deal a change of leadership in the conservative party now will put our country's future

at risk so one of their first acts would have to be extending the rescinding article fifty. or even stopping breck's it maes ministers agree and have thrown their backing behind the prime minister they say she has their complete support. if we enter into a leadership election we wouldn't have a new prime minister in place until late january february as a time when there was really important work to do. but one of the leaders of the tory rebellion has made clear he believes the country needs a new prime minister and that it is time for may to resign others are reluctant to comment every kid my prime minister still before i tell you or anybody else what my vote will be i will give the courtesy of listening to what you're trying to committee. the prime minister had wanted to travel to ireland today but tonight

she's fighting for her political survival. and i secondly she will have heard me say before in this straight to london man where we're joined you don't lose a shot at chelsea so welcome charlotta does theresa may have the numbers to keep her job. by the fellow well one hundred fifty eight that's the number that you need to be looking out for as the evening progresses not the number of tory m.p.'s who need to vote in support of the prime minister now a lot of media projections here are suggesting that that figure has been reached that that number of m.p.'s is that they will back to reason may in the vote but let's be very clear this is a secret ballot being taken place it's very possible that m.p.'s particularly members if i cabinet may be publicly supporting her privately no one's going to know how they're going to vote perhaps they will rebel against her that's because have breck's a deal what she's agreed with the european union has proved extremely unpopular

largely in parliament they've been a lot of concerns that she hasn't got enough concessions from the european union so she is going to have to convince m.p.'s in the coming hours that had a deal is the best deal and that instead they face possibly new parts of it too so talk us through the timetable of this photons tonight. that's right first series i'm a will in dress the m.p.'s that will be voting for her then the secret ballot will take place and we're expecting to hear the results fairly shortly all through it when it comes to going forward then once that results but announce essentially there are three options we need to be looking out for either reason may wins the vote in which case tory rebels won't be able to challenge her leadership again for another year or she loses in which case that will then promptly leadership by social remain prime minister until a new leader is appointed he will then take over that is something that could take

weeks in fact but what people are really looking out for is if she wins and she's projected to at the moment how many votes will she win by if it is just a very slim majority there are many here that are saying that she is not going to be able to continue she simply cannot defend have breakthrough deal without enough support from her in policy in the meantime the bracks it clock is ticking down to the twenty ninth of march how does this latest developments thank god. that's right if we could just over one hundred days until the u.k. is meant to be leaving the european union will racing very rapidly towards that and there is growing concern that with all of these delays the u.k. is facing crushing out without a brics it deal which of course the e.u. and the u.k. alike looking at is very nervously if she wins this ballot she will then try and push ahead with her deal chai and convince parliament that it's the only way if she

loses whoever takes over from her may wish to renegotiate the deal something the e.u. has all but ruled out as we could see a lot of weeks and months of chaos ahead in the build up to that deadline and face accidently leaving the e.u. without a deal. in london thank you. massive manhunt is underway in the french city of strasburg after a gunman opened fire at a famous christmas market on tuesday two people were killed and thirteen others injured sharif the alleged attacker was well known to police and had more than two dozen convictions for robbery and other violence his parents and two siblings have not been detained by police for questioning government officials say they are treating the incident as a possible terrorist attack unordinary franchising block home to the twenty nine year old suspected terrorist one stop in an intense manhunt

and today he's nowhere to be found prosecutors say he vanished after attacking his hometown the tragedy began unfolding around eight pm to. the gunman opened fire near a packed christmas market killing and injuring indiscriminately a firefight broke out but the attacker got away leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. went into lockdown funds at a local basketball arena were united in defiance. today a heavy police presence remains in strasburg. one witness caught up in tuesday's attack spoke to detail. i didn't realize first what all the commotion

was about i didn't see people running but i thought they were just panicking in some general way but then turned around the corner and immediately saw a man lying there with an apparent gunshot wound to his proof he was still alive. he was in the states. could have been alive or dead can't confirm we started research situation for us we started with c.p.r. first outside and we took him into a restaurant that was close by kept going at it for forty five minutes french authorities have raised the terror alert to the highest possible level. terrorism has again struck our country and stroudsburg we've been given a dramatic reminder that the danger is still a reality france has borne the brunt of some of europe's worst terror attacks in recent years. now the country finds itself yet again in the

crosshairs. it's got the latest from the french capital data on at least as welcome lisa tell us about the manhunt. well they're about seven hundred twenty people police officers deployed trying to find him three and you know that the fact that there is such a high number of people looking for him for this suspect also means that they really don't really have a concrete just yet perry they're cooperating with people in germany that are checks at the borders the government has pushed up the anti terror non to its highest level and that means that they also actually says they have a chris's markets open here freight that other things could happen across france but now we don't really know where the suspect is right now and what do we know of the suspect. we know that he's twenty's twenty nine years old he was known to the police has been known to the police for

a long time he was sentenced to twenty seven times mostly in france but also in germany and in switzerland he was known for to crime but he was also known to be radicalized now the police were watching him apparently they searched his apartment yesterday in the morning that's also how they could identify him we understand that when he fled the crime scene in a cat he taught the taxi driver you know the police actually searched my fact this morning and they found a hand grenade and that's how the government then actually you know linked the dots and understood that they were actually talking about he who is known in his area apparently deprived area of strasburg as someone he had problems with the police others you know the french media have been asking have been talking to his neighbors and the neighbors have been saying you know he was someone who would get into trouble actually on a regular basis. and this notice in paris thank you. now

just some of the other stories making news around the world the european union's prestigious sacral prize for human rights has been awarded in absentia to ukrainian film director on exam stuff a fierce critic of russia's annexation of the crimean peninsula he was jailed in twenty fifteen for twenty years in terrorism related charges. there have been messages of solidarity from around the world for two reuters journalists and made a mark on the first anniversary of their jailing wallowing and were given seven year sentences after exposing a massacre of one hundred muslims in rakhine states the trial was widely did not just as a show. us president donald trump passed threatened a government shutdown in a heated exchange with democratic party leaders over funding the border war with mexico the president needs democratic support to pass any spending legislation the democrats are offering much less than the five billion dollars he wants. a canadian

court has granted buyouts of the chief financial officer of the chinese telecoms giant who are way a man one joe the daughter of the company's founder is now awaiting a hearing for extradition to the us was man was arrested earlier this week this month at the request of u.s. authorities over allegations that she was involved in violating sanctions against iran. why ways chief financial officer was granted bail of ten million dollars after three days of hearings in vancouver among one show will have to handover her passport wear an ankle bracelet and should be confined at night to her home in vancouver. among is often viewed as a national heroine in china so her release after over a week in detention was a relief to many in beijing. pace i feel happy about monks release on bail it's a victory for the national enterprise although it's only pay i still hope all the sanctions on huawei could be cancelled it's important that we have fair international competition with sanctions only on china and not fairness we can go

here still the prospects of monk being used as a bargaining chip in trade negotiations between china and the us increased as us president trump said he would intervene in the case if it was in america's interest . hours before the bail hearing a former canadian diplomat was arrested in beijing presumably in retaliation for monk's arrest canada's government is still collecting details. we are aware of the situation of communication in china we have been in direct contact with the chinese chinese diplomats and representatives we are engaging in the file which we take very seriously and we are of course providing consular assistance to the family markets in asia closed higher after among was released as investor fears east about the trade battle among the world's two top economists. all to football last season's champions league finest liverpool have squeezed into the knockout

stages with a narrow one mill will open up only one hundred solace first top dog and the red sea shutout victory they needed to progress they had to restart their dramatic finish before goalkeeper i always saw made a spectacular saber point blank range to preserve the way the coach look at the clock. so as liverpool scrape. by to advance to the knockout stage not. starting the evening in first place in group c. because the other big. win on the top of the group another english side. already through to the last sixteen don't forget you can always get the w. news on the go just download from google plus. i'll give you access to all the latest news from. breaking news and also use it to send us photos and

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