this is g.w. news live from berlin and she's been here before it's a night for the second time this week britain's prime minister is in brussels seeking a break sit breakthrough or a day after surviving a vote against her leadership in london theresa may has returned to brussels but european union leaders are saying what they said earlier this week they will not renegotiate the brics deal also coming off a major search operation in

a strong suburb it comes up empty handed that's as french police hunt in vain for the man who gunned down passers by in the city on tuesday and yemen's warring parties agree to a cease fire in the red sea port city of the data but will it bring relief to the hundreds of thousands of yemenis on the brink of starvation. i break off it's good to have you with us britain's prime minister to reason may is in brussels seeking help yet again all because of brics a day after facing down a leadership challenge at home to resume a is hoping to get reassurances about aspects of the breaks it deal that have split her party and polarized britain's parliament but the other twenty seven member nations of the european union they have agreed they can offer warm words and

support but no renegotiation of the withdrawal deal itself. theresa may needs help selling for exit deal at home and right upon arrival at the summit european leaders seem eager to offer support to say i just said i think i'm ready to help. we're ready to have ice agreed to suspect from the way she's doing this the tenacity rather than i do is delia's she really has reason to your question i really admire and meanwhile the british prime minister is facing an impossible task lobbying for concessions on the withdrawal agreement that none of the other leaders want to make i recognize the strength of concern in the house of commons and that's what i will be pushing to colleagues today i don't expect an immediate breakthrough but what i do hope is that we can start to work as quickly as possible on the shore and says if necessary. headwind for may also from outside the european council

this group of activists had come all the way from london to protest the deal because. she's coming here begging to the european leaders we demand an absolute right to have a final say on that deal it is shocking it lets britain down brakes it is is a is a horrific. thing for britain and britain needs to stay in the you because britain will otherwise get much poorer actually no bracks deal is good enough for the british people because the best deal that we've got is the one inside the european union theresa may is seeking legal changes to the withdrawal agreement in particular the irish backstop a red line for you leaders who want to guarantee that a hard to border between ireland and northern ireland be avoided at all costs to harm the to the old one salute of course we have our principles and i don't see that we will be changing it with the dollar going again but we can certainly talk about it dishing the insurance if you don't give in. but will that be enough for may to win over support at home for now lou is

a political issue or an sos and some cosmetic wording seem to be all she can get despite the empathy. yeah and our very own max hoffman he is following the talks force in brussels that evening to you max we understand the german chancellor angela merkel she has said that and i'm quoting here we can talk about additional assurances i mean what does that mean what can the e.u. now give to resubmit to take home. assurances are nothing that are part of a legal text so she's also excluding basically that the withdrawal agreement that was just mentioned in the report to sit there will be reopened so we're talking about the political declaration which is supposed to outline the future relationship between the u.k. and the european union they need to find something to satisfy the critics back home in the u.k. for theresa may so they're probably trying to figure out together what that could be they have an informant here at that summit normally is just a recent may saying something about her situation then she has to leave the room

and the e.u. twenty seven so the other leaders discuss their point of view this time in between those segments they have question and answers with to recent may the u.k. prime minister so that's new maybe is to find out if there is anything in that wording in that cosmetic wording in those reassurances that might be enough for her to save the deal back in london and that's and it's an interesting point and max if they use additional assurances if they are not enough what will happen then. well look brant look at the room behind me there we can take a look here you have a hundreds of journalists you have experts you have spin doctors even have politicians coming here from the e.u. parliament you know what they have in common nobody knows what's going to happen the only thing that we do know is that one option is off the table since wednesday night which is her party at least has confidence in her more or less so that means

theresa may is going to remain prime minister at least if it comes down to her party everything else is still on the table second referendum hard breck's it maybe even that it will pass at some point in january and i would be lying if i said to you that i know what's going to happen i mean i heard someone say earlier today describing what happened yesterday in london for theresa may that theresa may had walked through and that she would be happy to be in brussels today how or or did mess. troubles how are they being seen where you are in the context of breck's. you heard the dutch prime minister in that report i just mentioned he said he wasn't admirer of to resign may that might be a little exaggerated for some of the other leaders but they are happy that there is only one person they need to talk to only one prime minister and that they don't have to deal with another prime minister now that will probably take weeks to choose you don't know his position so that would have been definitely a huge problem for the deadline that we are running up against which of course is

the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen that's the braggs a date and if they had to deal with a new prime minister would have been very hard to meet that deadline even with the current prime minister it's very tough all right next up and yet again to use some force tonight we'll see how long this one goes max thank you very much. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the european union has extended economic sanctions on russia for its role in the eastern ukraine conflict the measures were first adopted in two thousand and fourteen and will be extended for another six months they target whole sectors of the russian economy including its valuable oil businesses at least nine people have been killed and many more injured after a high speed train crash in turkey the train collided with a locomotive on the same track shortly after it left the central station in the turkish capital ankara authorities are investigating the crash police in france have taken a fifth person into custody as part of their investigation into

a shooting near the christmas market in strasbourg on tuesday the gunman himself is still on the run officers from an elite police unit conducted a major search operation today shutting down parts of the new go neighborhood where the twenty nine year old suspect. lived chicago is described as dangerous and police are warning the public not to approach him the death toll from the attack has now risen to three. you know the humphrey she went to that neighborhood in stross for to find out from local residents what she was like. this block of apartments is home to france's most wanted man twenty nine year old cat but the man accused of opening fire on christmas market after a very different impression on locals. we were very shocked by what we heard because he came from all neighborhood. he was good we knew his brothers and sisters

and. this story represents two different sides of sides work on this side of the road a quiet residential street and on the other side of the road the council estate and the apartment block where the suspect share the fisher cat lived. housing estates with a tough reputation. has worked in the community for forty years he says petty crime in the area is due to the country's economic situation. we're in a neighborhood where a significant portion of the population is poor and there's a high level of unemployment. he. and that unemployment can lead to frustration. and certain flu starts your. local corner shop islamic religious television plays in the background the shops

manager also points to france's secular policy as another source of frustration. comes to much as. to muslims the secular state feels like stigmatize ation. people of that lie because it mostly singles out sound department. and that's why the numerous perceived badly by some muslims and especially by name can you can be multiples. but here in this community the overriding sense is one of dismay that one of their own was on france's terror watch list and is accused of an attack they find unfathomable. well the two sides in yemen civil war have agreed to a ceasefire in the port city of a data at u.n. sponsored peace talks and sweet secretary general until now but they had us shook hands on the deal with yemen's foreign minister and

a top and the rebel leader this round of talks of the establishment of humanitarian where doors in the deployment of neutral forces the next round is scheduled for january the city of the data on the red sea is a vital interest for the humanitarian aid that's needed by millions of yemenis and has seen some of the worst fighting in the war which began four years ago we're joining me now is lisa grundy she is resident humanitarian coordinator for the united nations also responsible for the republic of yemen in sanaa is gone it's good to have you back on the show we know that united nations secretary general antonio good terrorists he's announced this cease fire and it's been agreed to for the port city of hood data how surprised are you at what appears to be sudden progress after four years of war. we're very relieved. ceasefire has been agreed by the parties to the conflict after six months of nearly

daily bombardment the data was assigned to the as it's been brought to the city the ceasefire changes all of that the two hundred thousand people who are still in the city no longer have to break up every morning and fear for their bodies fear from fighting and shoving here strikes and the fact that today that is the main course at this time there is growth for humanitarian assistance including for a country now that is safe now that it's secure it means that soon can reach the people who need some of this is critical for fighting. and i'd like you to take a moment and listen to martin griffiths the u.n. special envoy for you have it in to what he had to say early. on the design of the withdrawal first of all from the port three ports very quickly within days and then from the city of both sides disengaging is designed in order to open up that east

west road so that humanitarian pipeline which is crucial for the survival of those people in yemen who need mansour night is opened up again as it isn't not at the moment let me just ask in his mind what will these changes mean for your work on the ground for the flow of aid to be built really mean better times for millions of yemenis. that's our expectation right now there are twenty one million in the through our hundred and there are camps in the didn't prove are food insecure but that means that when they break up and the only thing absolutely no idea how different it is in the united nations right now is providing food eight million civilians in the country we don't know because conditions are deteriorating that we have to use another formula we have to convince twelve million people we can only keep them if the road print data from is open and if we can bring in the food it's necessary to cease fire give them

a chance to do that i want to ask to you know we have tried and struggled for the past four years to keep international attention on this conflict but since the murder of the saudi journalist jamal could oshie the warring parties they have come together and now we have the u.s. senate that may rebuke the u.s. for supporting the saudis in this ward do you think these were recent events they make a difference it's very good that the humanitarian current has been even hint that we're in the road and but equally clear is that the international community people focus on what this war is something they do not want twenty nine really the feeling to be impacted by a senseless tragic war it's very clear this time in the war has come and we're all grateful that the price of the conflict come to the table they've been with the book and they've reached an agreement on who did this the first thing we need to be funner their existence for our country ok lisa grundy resident humanitarian

coordinator for the united nations joining us tonight this good news this latest development a cease fire in yemen is one a thank you. you're watching. from berlin i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day to see it. here's what's coming up going to sleep you have plenty to talk about here. as cut a look at what all that means for the table of course. going to sleep every weekend here on t.w. .