selling out of a country donkey's. starts december twenty ninth on t w. this is g w news why tonight waiting for the ballots to be counted british prime minister theresa may is about to find out if she's survived a confidence vote it comes after rebels in her own party trying to. in protest over her breaks it plan also coming off a massive manhunt in the french city of. that's after the deadly shooting at

a popular christmas market police say the suspect was on a police watch list for radicalism and a new york chord said this is michael cole in just three years in prison the u.s. president's former lawyer once said that he would take a bullet for. now he has directly implicated the president in criminal kaunda. it's good to have you with us the british conservative party is set to announce the results of a confidence vote in prime minister teresa mayes leadership this hour a rebels within party want to elster over the breaks that agreement this you negotiated with the european union reports say that she told her fellow tories. she

would stand down before the u.k.'s next planned general election in an attempt to win over skeptics tonight. to reason may is defending herself with all her might this morning she responded to a potential leadership challenge by saying that kicking her out would put breck sits at risk she elaborated on her position in parliament later in the afternoon and we the public closer to me she say want us to security all that delivers on that result and we shouldn't risk under control of the basic negotiations to opposition m.p.'s in parliament because that would mean risking to laying bricks it even stopping bricks it none of that would be in the national interest so i think we need to get on and deliver a good for the country should warm opposition leader jeremy corbyn was having none of it serious and passionate he demanded and the vote on how to deal the prime minister in our government is already been found to be in contempt of parliament her behavior today is just contemptuous of this quality and.

there could be no more excuses no more running away put it before parliament and let's have the vote outside parliament young people frustrated with the whole process where raising their voices in favor of taking the decision back to the people i think that as we've watched politicians a week or so later they're in college been scrambling around arguing amongst themselves about who they want to lead their leader while our nation is in a complete political crisis we are catapulting towards exit next march i think that young people are responsibly today to take their absences that we expect more from them and i think that everybody has been really disappointed with how politicians how with this crisis and really expect more in this time in london street markets some older voters expressed sympathy towards me and frustration at the whole process. she's called your ideas in places she's done all your work. and then someone else is going to come in and start the process all over again. and it's

going to cost more movement the ins just just to try and get these. you know as conservative m.p.'s around may breck's it plans the prime minister for now is fighting for her political survival. and. she's on the story for us tonight she joins us from one day and good evening to you barbara so this vote of no confidence it is finished when can we expect the results within this hour right. was it the hour really they seem to count relatively so maybe twice to be quite sure of the result everybody hears says that she is going to survive because there were enough tory m.p.'s who publicly said they would support for either is who have been watching the political scene here for longer say they are notoriously at duplicity just because they would just say something out front and then they would do something else in the back so we don't really

quite new then the expectations are that she's going to win it relatively comfortably some commentators say if it's below one hundred she's in trouble people who are against her. she will be fine if it's far more than one hundred one hundred thirty hundred forty again so she is in dire straits so yes there is a certain amount of tension here in the might live to see another day as prime minister atal well she does not believe right yeah like you say it's a secret ballot and there are plenty of examples in british history where the secret ballot you know told us one thing before the election and the results were something completely different to resume a she addressed her fellow tories today before the voting took place what did she tell. as she told them several thing. she of course told them that they should

back her deal because that was the only one of those the best thing for the country and so on it's a force we've all heard this about fifty times throughout the last week she has is sort of like her stump speech really but then also she obviously did show some observers told afterwards that she has a further tricks up her sleeve because she then got emotional now that is hard to imagine because she always comes over as a robotic they don't call her maid or for nothing but she must have become to the motion even tears were shed and so yes you would have liked to be my son to the table in that room supposedly was quite fun and interesting to watch but we had just hearing what people say who have come out and so she really tried everything to sway people and she also promised promised she would not have the intention to run again in twenty twenty two the next elections and but one of the

breaks a tears afterward said that's a typically political political expression because the things might change and then the attention could be different and what does all this mean for briggs self barbara i mean moving forward and if it's true what theresa may promise if we know that she's not going to run for office again doesn't make her so one of the lame duck in the european union negotiators. i mean the european union is looking at this and is a gap i mean what a shambles how can a country sort of run itself down to the point where is the politics sort of the whole system more or less implodes and you don't really know what's up or down anymore and then you know they really run in circles bringing up the same arguments because what she also said was in that room over there and problem meant that she would bring back illegally binding the. to ration to the fix up now as far as we

understand the european union that will not have full stop so again she tried to said if tattle illusions and win over her own side whether they believe her we don't know we have to wait for the result for that but it is all really it seems like a game but it isn't the way deadly serious that it is a correspondent on the story for us tonight in london we'll be checking back with you throughout the evening waiting for those results to come in thank you. well some idea of a massive manhunt is underway in the french city of straw after a gunman opened fire at a famous christmas market on tuesday two people were killed thirteen others injure shareef the alleged attacker was well known to police and had more than two dozen convictions for robbery and other offenses chicago parents and two brothers have now been detained by police for questioning government officials say they're

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 choose days attack spoke to detail. i didn't realize first what all the commotion was about i didn't see people running but 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 rhesus situation first we started with c.p.r. first outside theory 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. had arisen has again struck our country in strasbourg 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. and for more on the situation in strasburg a home for joins me now she is in strasbourg tonight and evening to you helena tell us what do we know about this suspect sharif chicago. the twenty nine year old suspect chevy schick at is now a man on the run brant he's clearly a very troubled individual this is a man with a twenty seven criminal convictions relating to criminal common law offenses according to the public prosecutor those offenses began at the age of thirteen

years old now he's served prison time in both france and in germany it's believed that he was radicalized whilst he was in prison and in twenty fifteen in fact he was believed to have radicalized others as such he has something the french a fish a s. an s. file which means that he's on a terrorism watch list now yesterday prior to the attack at the christmas market authorities went to his residence in a doff they were trying to arrest him in connection with a robbery and homicide charges he wasn't there what they did find were gernade schoolmates of weapons which linked him to the attack which took place in the streets behind me. that took place and now there's a manhunt going on for have correct. that's correct it's a manhunt which is now at the level of a terrorism investigation according to the paris public prosecutor's office france is now on the highest level of alert the highest level of alert means that

authorities can take can carry out border checks now remember of course about who is very close to the french border as we came into the region the c. evening we saw a lot of traffic snarl that the border presumably as those checks were being carried out german authorities say that was so cooperating over seven hundred french officers including highly specialized sentinel counterterrorism offices are involved in this hunt at the moment we understand five arrests have taken place including members of his family as well. this shooting taking place so close to the christmas market the city must be in shock today. brant strasbourg is a city in shock in mourning this is the self declared capital don't know whether the capital of christmas is home to the largest christmas market in fact in france and despite messages of defiance from the european parliament president from french

president and manually my call people here all on edge people i spoke to said that many serious simply left the city this morning they went to more news afterward as soon as they could another taxi driver i spoke to said that their phones are ringing off the hook people are too scared to walk outside. on the story for us tonight in strasbourg france thank you. well from holding the title go to man to receive in the order go to jail michael cohen the former personal authority and confidant to u.s. president. was sentenced to three years in prison today cohen was sentenced by a federal court in new york over his role in the payment of hush money to women who claim to have had affairs with mr trump before he was elected president coburn was also charged with lying to congress about a proposed trump tower project in russia

a project that was being discussed while mr trump was running for president in two thousand and sixteen the sentence was reduced due to mr cohen's cooperation with prosecutors. alexander phenomenas in washington she's on the story for us tonight good evening to you alexandra so what should we read here what does michael cohen story year prison sentence tell us well it tell us that the judge was convinced that michael cohen committed serious crimes that warrants considerable punishment and as the judge said that these crimes were motivated by personal greed and ambition and that as a lawyer michael cohen should have known better and he's going now to prison however we have to add to that it could have been worse because he got less than the maximum sentence in this case would be five years and three months he still has

time to spend christmas with his family and even in prison he can cooperate with prosecutors to reduce his sentence and you know that's an important point to make there we use it at the beginning of this story that he used to be the go to me for mr drunk but remind us what role did michael cohen play in president drugs business . he had worked for donald trump and his organization for many years for twelve years to be exact he was trump's personal lawyer but he was more than that as you said he was a close confidante a fixer to fix problems with a great knowledge of trump personal and business dealings and once he even said that he would be ready to take a bullet for donald trump and this loyalty was a topic today in the courtroom where michael cohen said that what he did he did of behalf of the president and that he was weak to believe that he's duty that it was

his duty to cover up done the dirty deeds. you know with that he's implicating the u.s. president in so the war crimes how is this widely to impact will drop. well i would say that this is not a good day for donald trump this is the first time that a member of his inner circle. prison sentence as you said the president is fully implicated in this case so we have seen so far some democrats already talking that that could be an impeachable offense however we also have to to add that the president seems to still have the support of his fellow republicans and he himself didn't eyes and the wrongdoing here. the washington bureau chief a loser phenomenon the story for us tonight was under thank you. there

is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world u.s. president on trump has threatened a government shutdown in a heated exchange with democratic party leaders over funding for the border wall with mexico you see it right there the president needs democratic support to pass any spending legislation but the democrats are offering much less than the five billion dollars war so. there have been messages of solidarity from around the world for two white hers journalists in me and more on the first anniversary of their jailing loan and chua. were given seven year sentences after exposing a massacre or hinge at muslims in what kind stake their trial was widely as a sham. only said salt is a ukrainian filmmaker or he was imprisoned by russian authorities over claims of an arson plot in crimea he's been on or by the european parliament as this year's

prestigious recipient of a prestigious human rights prize the prize is awarded to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the fight for human rights. european standards one to applaud them and teach. you would real recipient ukrainian film director only accent sophie was denied the chance to attend the ceremony oh gee much about today is a sad day for all of us we'd like to pay tribute to oleg sense of film director from ukraine who's been imprisoned for political reasons. so it was jailed in russia in twenty fifteen convicted by a military court of plotting acts of terrorism sense of who denies the charges is a theist critic of russia's annexation of the crimean peninsula. earlier this year

he spent one hundred forty five days on hunger strike calling for the release of all ukrainian political prisoners his cousin says he's on the mend but still not fully recovered. or start a costly own legacy still being kept in very hot conditions that affect you very badly even without any hunger strike russian gulags have never added to anyone's health was that of the. russian authorities sentenced to twenty years behind bars he's being held here in this arctic penal colony the e.u. is pressing for his release. on the english football star raheem sterling is hearing free use from teammates and coaches in the wake of his comments blaming certain media for fueling racism and chester city pep guardiola was among the supporters sterling took to social media after

a game in which he allegedly faced racist abuse from chelsea supporters of such abuse sterling says is in part due to the way newspapers portray young black athletes differently from what once. for him sterling is one of english football's biggest talents he was a key part of the manchester city side that won last season's premier league title . and yet many believe his success and skin color have made him a target for abuse. this is the moment chelsea fans and legit lee hooked racist insults at sterling during a match last weekend the incident has prompted a police investigation and that to sterling's coach pat. saying more has to be done to tackle racism is everywhere that's the problem of the ressam is an area where the people focus in football is not just in full the fortunately we have to fight

but the strictly. for the human rights for everything to make a better society for the future but today very dangerous but not here in england everywhere absolutely everywhere sterling was why he prays trun instagram post after the incident in it he compared how the media treated two of his teammates when they bought expensive houses for family members toasts in bio a black player said to have splash the cash. foden a white player seemed to be taking care of his mother sterling wrote look how the newspapers get their message across for the young black player and the young white play yaar. and this is probably the first time the media has had it really fair expect from them and that it has made media little bit uncomfortable the media often fans and winks at the fans of the problem without actually taking any responsibility for themselves sterling also has the support of this team mates he's

a strong guy get. it no fault of the like he's not. letting him down from his dislike was stupid stuff for him sterling has started an uncomfortable but necessary public conversation on the media's role in perpetuating racism. are going to go back to our top story now we're still waiting for the results of that no confidence vote in british prime minister to resume a that vote the events surrounding in london having an immediate impact in the world javier especially in the world of business keeping us on edge there ends of the end of course they're also keeping investors on edge if you take a look at the british pound difference he has been rallying after prime minister of tourism a said she would fight to that confidence vote taking place right now with all she's got of the currency is coming out of a twenty month low against the euro that we saw on monday after may pulled

a vote on a draft rexx an agreement now the pound jumped on may's response today making up for some of those losses as you can see here traders apparently believe may will win and that the u.k. could still of heard a no deal breck's now on that topic earlier today we asked our correspondent in frankfurt con about booze and what the consequences would be is to resume eight doesn't survive if that confidence votes. everywhere whoever has to do with business or with the united kingdom everywhere people are getting involved in preparations for another to break that and those preparations have got a bit of a boost because of the events of today and the last few days today the german government for example announced that it has introduced legislation which will allow british banks to continue to do business here in germany even after march twenty ninth those are the so-called passport rights which are to be extended until

the end of twenty twenty rolls royce the large engine make that it is talking to the european safety aviation agency over shifting design approval here to germany not something was royce really wants to do something it has to do if it wants to stay in business here in europe. it was caught up was in frankfurt now the brics it saga has overshadowed another dispute in europe italian prime minister decepticon today has made an offer to the european commission to lower his country's deficit to two point zero four percent g.d.p. next year let's not forget this was following a meeting with european commission president don't you would you want to said that additional financial resources had given it a little more room to negotiate on the budget that's the topic of the dispute brussels rejected italy's previous proposal for a deficit of two point four percent of g.d.p. which exceeds the use limit of two percent. a canadian court has

granted bail to the chief financial officer of chinese telecom giant huawei main one troll the daughter of the company's founder now awaits a hearing for extradition to the u.s. man was arrested earlier this month at the request of u.s. authorities over allegations she was involved in violating u.s. sanctions against iran. while ways chief financial officer. was granted bail of ten million dollars after three days of hearings in vancouver among one joe will have to hand over her passport wear an ankle bracelet and should be confined at night to her home in vancouver. hmong is often viewed as a national hero in china so her release after a week in detention was a relief to many in beijing. i feel happy about monks released 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 sanctions only on china and not fairness. here

still the prospect 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 among the rest canada's government is still collecting details. we are aware of the situation of a canadian detained in china we have been in direct contact with the chinese china's diplomats and representatives we are engaged on the file which we take very seriously and we are of course providing consular assistance to the family markets and that's all for business we're keeping an eye on london brant will be right back .

into the conflict zone with tim sebastian. i'll be challenging those in power asking tough questions demanding answers. as conflicts intensify i'll be meeting with keep players on the ground in the census and. cutting through the rhetoric holding the fossil to account facts the conflict. conflicts

a conflict zone with two subjects on w.w. . like we were. when we were. eighty percent of americans at some point in our law. well experience hardship listen. up and. hijacking the news. where i come from the news is being hijacked journalism itself has become a script is a reality show it's not just good versus evil us versus them black and white. in countries like russia china churchy people are told is that stuff and if you're a journalist there and you try to get beyond it you are facing scare tactics

intimidation. and i wonder is that where we're headed as well. my responsibility as a journalist is to get beyond the smoke and mirrors it's not just about be fair and balanced or being neutral it's about being truthful. when he was playing golf and i we're getting. today british prime minister to resign made told by the country that she will see breaks it through and finish the job if it doesn't finish her first we are awaiting the results of a no confidence vote on theresa may within her own conservative party she's expected to survive but there may be a hefty price to pay off in berlin this is the day.