this is t w news live from berlin down but not out british prime minister theresa may survives a confidence felt by her conservative party but her authority is badly damaged after more than a third of m.p.'s vote against her so where does this leave her great city oh we'll have the latest from london. also coming up hundreds of police and soldiers in france are searching for the man they say carried out a deadly shooting at a christmas park in strasbourg they believe the suspect is dangerous and warning the public not to approach. and she can only imagine what the scene looks like but

that doesn't stop carmen lopez from driving a quick guided by instinct she's feigns forced blind female athlete to enter the world adaptive surfing championship. i'm sumi so much got to thank you for joining us british prime minister theresa may has won no confidence vote brought by members of her own party unhappy with her breaks a deal that the victory means she cannot be challenge for the leadership of the conservative party for at least another year but it has left her authority damaged more than one third of her own party's m.p.'s voted against her after the vote she said she would press on with efforts to deliver brags that she said she would also seek a short says from the e.u. over the terms of the withdrawal deal at a summit in brussels later today. but there. smith came that the majority of

conservative lawmakers do have confidence in to reason my person porters could breathe a sigh of relief. not everyone could share the joy about one third of my own party voted against the prime minister's critics think she should resign. her deal through. withdrawal agreement which is not supported by the. opposition and having failed in policy it would be constitutional. after weeks of speculation about how much support my had from within her own party enough letters was sent to trigger a confidence vote on our leadership first of january some conservative politicians are unhappy with the brakes a deal she struck with the european union but may warned that ousting her would only delay or even stop progress but now that may has survived the vote she's adamant that she will continue her mission we now need to get on with the job of

delivering for the british people and building a better future for this country opposition politicians remain unconvinced that to resume his conservative government is fit to cope this is the. party. and to the surface over the question of europe now it's it's their problem but it does impact upon the nation it's an absolutely crucial time for may's political survival can't stop the brakes of clock ticking. it's less than four months until the u.k. is supposed to leave. all right let's get the latest on the story we have correspondents standing by for us in london and here in the studio we have derek scally he's a correspondent for the irish times newspaper here in berlin good morning to you both charlotte let's start with you there what have the reactions there in london been to teresa mayes victory. good morning see you i'm sure it comes as

no surprise for you to hear that is it is the front page of every newspaper this morning not all of them declaring this as a victory as you said that if we just look at the sun newspaper the tabloid newspaper that headline is time to call it a nice pun there essentially they are arguing that while she might have won she is severely weakened and it's time for has a go that of course is something that she said she would be doing later down the line she said that she wouldn't take the country into the next election in twenty twenty two some would say that that was part of a concession to convince her m.p.'s to back her generally though the newspapers agree that she cannot carry on for the next two years as prime minister telling to the next one the daily telegraph let me put that down it says a vote to remain but when will she leave that also is asking just how long can she possibly even says so many m.p.'s voted against this that they had no confidence in

the prime minister now there is one newspaper that i just want to show you that is a bit more friendly towards to reason and that is the daily mail said no let her get on with the job macy's of pluses with two thirds of the party so it's arguing well we've got our results now we know now let's get bricks that done charlotte that very much does seem to be the question this morning theresa may has won the confidence vote but her authority has been damaged in the process what is your feeling how much has she been weakened by this challenge to her leadership. well you can look at this two way is really i mean let's be clear this was treason mays no stranger to challenges as prime minister but this was the biggest challenge to her leadership so far and she did survive this confidence vote that's something that wasn't necessarily guarantee today yes in the build up to the vote people were saying to reason they had the votes but there was a lot of concern and a lot of the british press were reporting that they were being told privately by

m.p.'s that they didn't have the n.p.c. publicly said that they supported it were privately saying actually actually we're not so sure what it was it will be obese and she will now be going to brussels proving that yes she still largely has the backing of her m.p.'s it is a bit of a blow and it has to be pointed out as wow that essentially now she's back at square one a lot of people are saying that surviving this confidence vote is was nothing compared to the challenge that she faces when it comes to getting have breaks it deals through parliament this it must be made clear was a challenge both ahead by her own and he's there is a lot of anger though in the pond in general from opposition parties about the bracks a deal that she needs to push through parliament and get approved in order to leave the european union by march twenty ninth we heard charlotte there say she's essentially back at square one so where does this leave the brics a deal i would say choose there this week you know we sat here and we've talked about this it's like groundhog day and the problem still remains she's going to

brussels with a problem she cannot solve she has this issue called the backstop which we've heard so much about this is the issue that if the irish just want the status quo to be continued regardless of what happens to do not want any experiments on the island of ireland and they want that the border between the republican party and northern ireland will remain open because if this doesn't happen we will have we would have chaos they want to have regulatory alignment between northern ireland and the republican party if all else fails everyone is saying we want a better. do we want to do for the future of the european union we want a future trading relationship with britain that will make any sort of backstop any sort of insurance policy. obviate the need for it but the r.'s are saying we really don't really trusts and if anything else we need to be sure because of the twenty year old peace process anything that brings the island of ireland into new

territory would be very very difficult for the ares or for the northern irish not just because of trade because of politics because of peace and the backstop is on the table that has always been on the table it was a problem to half years ago but it's a problem today she's got her m.p.'s or she's got two hundred of our m.p.'s backing her so we're back to where we were on tuesday and she's also said she's not going to run the next election so she's got her her problems have really not changed since tuesday the question of the irish backstops certainly has not been solved yet and it's more significant dark because a truism a government is directly linked to tireless isn't it yes i mean she wanted after the last election she had the last election the last support and so she went into the election so she got there rather dubious deal with the d.v.d. of the unionist party they're one of the parties to the peace process in northern ireland and she's basically beholden to them and she has said rather significantly yesterday she will not do any deal in brussels at which the deal i'm happy so this is rather significant because we do not know anything on god's green earth that

would make the do you keep happy or. so she has really just pinch yourself yet again into a corner she has to go to brussels in find a way to help people in northern ireland how to who do not want to be in their view emotionally or you know i reckon a tree cut off from the rest of the united kingdom very good looked right say yes good lecture and data charlotte coming back to you now as we heard there from derek teresa mayes heading to brussels today for an summit she has said that she's looking for a legally binding commitment that the irish backstop will be temporary what do you think we can expect. yeah she's really going to be going to brussels today looking for concessions from european leaders on this crucial issue. you had that well many think prompted this confidence vote in europe has said clearly that they they are not willing to make concessions they're more likely to offer reassurances about the border than anything legally binding and then whether that's going to be enough

home for then for has to do through parliament well we're not yet sure yet and we're edging closer to march twenty ninth and the very real possibility of even the european union without a deal. for us in london and derek scally here in studio thank you both very much now some other stories making headlines around the world for people who have been killed in a high speed train accident in the turkish capital ankara at least forty three others were injured officials have a high speed train collided with a commuter train at ten struck an overpass causing two carriages to turn the train was headed for the central province of konya. leaders of the e.u. and nato are holding two days of talks with ukrainian president petro poroshenko in brussels they are expected to focus on the response to recent tensions with russia over the odds of see the e.u. launch russia to release sailors seized in waters off crimea last month.

a massive manhunt is underway in the french city of strasburg for a gunman who opened fire at a christmas market on tuesday killing two people and injuring thirteen others police and soldiers are combing the city there also said to a blocked off bridges to germany the suspected gunman sharif chicago had a long criminal record and is thought to have been radicalized while in prison. strasburg a city in mourning. the shock is visible on the streets. a manhunt is underway in both france and germany for the twenty nine year old chief suspect french police released this photograph of sharif a cat he was well known to police and had more than two dozen convictions for robbery and other violence. during choose days tragedy a gunman opened fire near a packed christmas market killing and injuring indiscriminately.

a firefight broke out but the gunman got away leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. but i swear. today a heavy police presence remains in strassburg one witness caught up in shoes days attack spoke to d.w. . then turned around the corner and immediately saw a man lying there with an apparent gunshot wound to his it's proved he was still alive. he was in the states. could have been alive or dead and i can't confirm we started recent situation of course 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 and have beefed up security for an extra eighteen hundred soldiers will join those already mobilized in the field the objective is to allow those sites welcoming the public to be secured particularly christmas markets. 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. let's bring in helena humphrey she's standing by for us in helena good morning seven hundred police are now searching for sheriff check out is there any sign that they are actually closing in on him. good morning sumi well a massive manhunt is underway the front page of the regional newspaper this morning simply said. the manhunt which sums up exactly what is going on nevertheless what

we do know so far is that he was last seen in a suburb. and then he seemingly appeared to vanish he was last seen injured and we now know that over seven hundred offices are looking for him in both france and in germany of coast you to some proximity with the german border so over seven hundred offices looking for a twenty nine year old suspect who is believed to have been wounded in all of this of course against the backdrop you can see here i mean plastic and a bat in the heart of memorials tributes are coming in for the victims of that attack you know more details have been emerging about the attacker since the attack happened around thirty six hours ago what more can you tell us about him . he's been described as a holiday and criminal as new tourists we know that cat was born and raised here

they were but he appears to be a troubled individual twenty seven criminal convictions since the age of thirteen or less now according to court documents seen by w. he had convictions for robbery and robberies in france germany and in switzerland he also spent time in prison in both france and germany and it was believed that he was radicalized whilst serving prison time he also tried to radicalize others in twenty fifteen he had something called a fee shit s. an s. file that is the same terrorism watch list file that i made equally bad he was also on around twenty thousand people are on the body of course the man who was behind the paris kosher supermarket attack in twenty fifteen so this is the profile of the man now which is starting to emerge the man who is still on the run potentially in france in germany we just don't know at this stage of this attacks also raise some questions about france's security what can you tell us about that. this is tat

comes at a very difficult time for france as well as for french president a minute of my call of course he has faced a lot of criticism over his response to the best economic protests which have taken place in france over the past four consecutive weekends getting the response right to this insecurity questions that will be raised in the wake of this attack is crucial for the french president bearing in mind that the leader of the far right for nessie and maybe not paying has already come forward saying this clearly shows that tara policies need to be reviewed in the light of this is tack of course is a difficult question for the french population do they want more security has already been more security in front since twenty fifteen sentinel counterterrorism police forces which patrol many towns and cities in for all the stupid. terrorist attacks which have really dealt a blow off to blow to france since twenty fifteen killing over one hundred thirty

citizens all right helen humphrey for us in strasburg this morning helena thank you now the former lawyer of u.s. president donald trump michael cohen has been sentenced to three years in prison a federal court in new york said that cohen paid hush money to women who claimed to have had affairs with trunk before he was elected cohen was also charged with lying to congress. when michael cohen arrived at the manhattan courthouse one thing was clear he wasn't going to avoid a prison sentence the crimes he was accused of were far too serious tax evasion to the tune of millions of dollars for all illegal campaign financing and false statements to the f.b.i. and us congress michael cohen pleaded guilty in all cases theoretically he could have faced more than forty years in prison but as it turned out the sentence was a lot lower probably because had cooperated with the authorities the sentence could spell danger for donald trump. there's a very real prospect that on the day donald trump leaves office the justice

department may indict him that he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time the reason cohen has admitted to paying hush money to both an adult entertainment film star and a playboy model on behalf of donald trump during the presidential campaign according to the course this violated campaign financing rules juta his use of trump campaign funds his assertion that his false statements to the u.s. congress were coordinated with the white house also piles pressure on the president so what does this verdict mean our washington correspondent my ass waiter has. michael cohen is going to jail for three years the president's former lawyer is the first of trump's inner circle who will have to serve time in connection with special counsel robert muller's investigation into the trunk campaign's affairs cohen has pleaded guilty to eight charges including lying to congress over suppose that hush money payments that were paid to two women who have alleged having had

affairs with the president the president has denied both the affairs and any knowledge of these payments but cohen told prosecutors that not only was the president knowledgeable of the payments he directed them is the president lying is cohen line only time and robert mueller will tell. all right to last night's champions league football action byron munich and i.x. faced off in a thrilling three all draw now the drama started with fifteen minutes to go and the match level at one apiece a buyer thomas miller was said off for a high kick week which you see here i x were already down to ten men by this point after that a penalty for each team made it to all the time to score with his second goal kingsley come and then put byron ahead in injury time but just when you thought the germans had done enough for victory nicolas tally a few goal leveled the match again three three finals. the last team to

get into the champions league final sixteen was legal they travel to rainy ukraine and managed a one one draw with shocked or donetsk and that was enough to put them through a here's a look at the teams including dortmund and athletico in group a that have advanced a group b. at barcelona and tottenham are in p.s.g. in liverpool in c. and porto and shaka in group d. by munich and i x. in group e. a manchester city and leo and. rabbit rate and roma and you ventus and manchester united progress from the reigning groups the draw for the next stage of matches is next week. and this week the world adaptive surfing championship is taking place in la jolla california the event gives surfers with physical challenges the chance to display their talents in a world class competition this year's edition features a visually impaired female surfers for the first time common lopez is representing

spain. carmen lopez can only imagine what the sea looks like. but that hasn't stopped the twenty one year old spaniard from riding this surf. christmas if. i can free entry locks i don't have any concerns and it's just me and the range. coach lucas garcia guides carmen with whistled signals he's trained her to compete at the world adaptive surfing championship. no one ever thought that blind people could surf and suddenly we find kamen who can she need some extra help in the water compared to other adapted sports but at the end when someone wants something they can break the limits and everyone can surf carmen was born with congenital coma and lost her vision when she was

a child she wants to encourage others with physical challenges to push past their limits and if that means that you keep showing day by day and with everything that i do if you want something you can get it whether or not you have a disability the important thing is to do what you like the most people put their own various not know when asked puts them there that's what. carmen has also learned figure skating and horseback riding with her bold attitude the sea is the limit. ok kara this year with business and china stepping up the pressure on canada yes i mean it is chinese state security is now investigating a second canadian businessman chinese state media said michael space or has been accused of harming chinese national interest it's the second canadian to disappear off to beijing detained former diplomat michael coverage on monday the two cases appear to be retaliation for the detention of men one jew

a chinese executives. make a wife arrested in canada after the u.s. issued an international arrest warrant the whereabouts of mr speight remain unclear and to bring together this is michael speight for doing what he does best bringing foreign athletes to pyongyang to compete with north korean athletes he is a canadian businessman with a cultural exchange company based in the northern chinese city of dying dog he is also the man behind the unusual friendship between us basketball star dennis rodman and north korean leader kim. spader's possibly one of the best connected western business people in north korea and now nobody is exactly sure where he is before beijing confirmed it was investigating spader canada's foreign minister confirmed something was amiss we are aware. of a canadian. who was caught in touch with us. because

she was being asked questions by chinese authorities. spader also uses his base in china to promote investment in north korea but china says he is now a security risk. italy's prime minister has used up accounting has been working hard to reach a compromise in the dispute with brussels over his country's ballooning budget as he met with european commission president jumped appears to be a step forward in an unprecedented conflict between the e.u. and one of its member states. the budgetary tug of war between italy and the european commission has been going on for months conti is now suggesting a budget of two point zero four percent of g.d.p. down from two point four just a bit higher than your co would like. three and it's not for me to foresee what the

final reaction of the commission will be shortly our proposal was judged important and significant and the next hours we will continue to work i trust on a positive solution. with italy's prime minister bring an early christmas present back from brussels while shoppers are spending freely on holiday presents the amount of money their government can spend next year is still up in the air the coalition partners in rome are trying to satisfy e.u. regulators by showing goodwill towards brussels and a willingness to compromise on their original budget proposal many italians now want to see their government make a deal. it's all very messy i think that something may finally be moving and maybe little by little in a strange way we will finally become europeans we've tried to form europe for so long even if often we've not been very happy within it i said it i mean to do that

but i hope the budget law will be approved. and that the e.u. understands the problems we have. i hope that material salvini and our prime minister does that picante manage to do something good for italy. but if the budget plan is rejected and italy is sanctioned by brussels that could trigger yet another election in march and even more insecurity for italy citizens. european parliament has approved an agreement with japan that has been called the wells biggest trade deal establishes trade guidelines for the wells g.-d. . sure the agreement will go into effect in february he had been working on the deal since when he said you tariffs on japanese cars will be abolished will be just japanese tariffs on european cheeses and wines in companies will also gain access

to government contracts tendered out some e.u. leaders see the deal with tokyo as a possible model for future relations with britain after it leaves the block. next . and that's only a business here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you british prime minister terrorism a no confidence vote by members of her own party unhappy with her bags until. he is damaged because more than one third of conservative m.p.'s voted against her after oh she said she pushed the feds to deliver press. that's. the news from berlin more news is coming at the top of the. conference zone is next so stay tuned.

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