this is the news line from berlin the final moments of the suspected shooter in france gunning down twenty nine year old chicago after he reportedly draws a weapon against a massive manhunt for the attack of three near christmas in the city. security on and also coming up. british prime minister had to resume a defense of president strategy after. the summit in brussels european officials say had demands were unclear she seeks concessions to win over zero point zero

progress in a deal back home. and could the next world cup in qatar be the biggest ever staged says it plans to expand autonomy to food to eat. it's been a tense three days for people in the french city of stroudsburg police had been able to track down the gunman who opened fire on a christmas market and killed three people but last night's of to receiving a tipple from a member of the public they found and killed the twenty nine year old suspect. when he say he opened fire on them as they attempted to question him residents i do believe that many questions remain. our correspondent helena how free has been following these events as they have unfolded here in strasbourg a sense of no mama see. it is now starting to return off to

a tense couple of days you can see here that the christmas markets have now been reopened albeit with heightened security last night the chief suspect the man accused of opening fire in this very area was shot dead in the west of the city in an area called doff we traveled to that area following police vehicles which sped through the streets and it is there that we understand that police offices had come into contact with a man much in his description they try to apprehend him when they did he opened fire on them they returned in kind neutralizing him and shooting him dead local residents then started to emerge they told me of their relief after a tense couple of days some of them opening their houses to offices sharing refreshments nevertheless here in strasbourg questions remain over seven hundred offices were mobilized in this country to search for surely she kept he ended up

turning up in the very area he was last seen some fifty hours ago. for more let's bring in malta russian ski he is a security consultant to the managing director of planned forest in berlin and some of the thank you for joining us for pick up where helena left off seven hundred police officers deployed to find one man and somehow he was able to evade capture how did that happen well that's a very very good question the thing is that he was apprehended in a place that he actually grew up in a place that he. belonged to his friends and family. so he has had the advantage of terrain he has got he had. intimate knowledge of this area plus you could maybe draw on the support of networks that are being investigated now and in fact some people have been arrested already. in the questioning but that doesn't explain you know his knowledge of the area how he was able. go through the cracks it's understood that he was on

a french list of possible security risks so how did this happen well he was listed as a possible threat to national security and he was amongst the more than twenty five thousand. other people who were listed likewise the same category on top he was one of about ten thousand potential jihad is that france tries to keep track of the thing is that no state has the capacity of the of the staff the policeman that can actually follow a person like this the whole time and he was primarily a criminal though not necessarily as necessary jihad is so it was difficult to kind of single him out as a potential target so given what you're saying ah the police then fighting a losing battle when it comes to suspected terrorists not necessarily a losing battle of course there are mechanisms and plays to collect data on these

suspects and in many cases there are arrests and there are plots that are being disrupted so the police work is generally successful but there will always be the cases that slip through the through cracks. potential attacks that cannot be averted because there are so difficult to detect beforehand right now sheriff should cats form a lawyer claimed yesterday that he actually wasn't aware of his client's background when he represented him because she cat had somehow managed to cross country lions with his crimes what does that tell us about how europe. about europe's information sharing when it comes to suspected terrorists that has indeed been an ongoing issue the security cooperation cooperation between different states between even within states the security actors the security or sora to. yes and that is

a massive challenge because obviously in europe the different states within the different nations states run on different software systems for example the legal definitions of who is a potential jihad is for example differ from country to country so there are no common standards across the u. therefore it is very very difficult to exchange the information about such people and that hampers the collaboration between the states multi-year at the head of plan for risk and as the name suggests you you know teaching people how to prepare for such situations but how can one of such a crisis as we saw in france well in general it is difficult for states of we just discussed to to prevent every single crime of course every single crime like this from a personal perspective if one is in a situation like in strasburg where you hear gunshots and there was obviously

active and active shooter you're right it is it is necessary to really run first to see distance. and then try to hide if that's not possible this is what you can do on an individual level and of course tell the authorities as the taxi driver has done who was caught up in all those what you've seen and where the attacker has gone because that actually helps to track these suspects down security consultant thank you thank you and i just hearing from french prosecutors that a fourth person who was originally injured in the attack has now also die and the death toll in stroudsburg now for. to brussels now and day two of the last year p. and union summit of the year migration and eurozone reform are on the agenda but britain's departure from the block is still dominating the conversation on thursday

leaders rebuffed u.k. prime minister to resign means pleas for changes to a breakthrough deal they were united in saying the existing deal could not be renegotiated and now to resume has just given a statement let's have a listen by note to the has been reporting that the e.u. is not willing to consider any further clarification the e.u. is clear as i am that if we are going to leave with the deal this is it but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification discussion following the council's conclusions is in fact possible the wrist work still to do we will be holding talks in coming days about how to obtain the further assurances that the u.k. parliament needs in order to be able to approve the deal for more on this let's talk to a correspondence max hoffman who is at the european council in brussels and charlotte charles some people at parliament square in london so max let's begin with you we

just had to resign maybe i should still believe there is room for some form of negotiation is this a view shared in brussels. well she really seems to think that. it's hard to tell because we're still waiting for the press conference this year of the different leaders but the indications and especially the conclusions we got from the european european council did not indicate the same thing now there is one word that's really important here theresa me she's asking for clarification does that mean she's not asking specifically to change any of the legal aspects of the withdrawal agreement that's very possible because all the other leaders have made it very clear they will not reopen the withdrawal agreement so what are we talking about clarifications the german chancellor for example i'm going to back i'll just said at her press conference that this was something that could be discussed for example but at the same time you're reading those conclusions and they say for example that this backstop so this is what it's all about of course the backstop to

avoid a hard border between northern ireland and ireland will be temporarily as long as they find another solution for the future relationship between the u.k. and the e.u. so meaning maybe a free trade agreement so really to sum it up here edith the point is we're talking about a christmas present so the e.u. and the u.k. have bought this christmas present that's the withdrawal agreement and now they're fighting about the wrapping what it's supposed to look like but the essence of it all has not changed. so shallow if we pick up that analogy from max if tourism a gets of wrapping the chains will be create an off momentum for how to move this deal forward. well that's certainly what syriza may need to convince m.p.'s in the parliament building just behind me it's up to them to decide in a vote whether or not this deal goes through and for a lot of people who are critical of have planned they view this two day summit it's a disaster they did want something more concrete more concrete changes to come out

of this summit for them and assurances clarification just aren't enough they have those red lines as max was saying when it comes to the irish border and as far as they're concerned nothing's really changed since series in may was forced to pull a very loose on this deal this week but there are two things that have actually changed this week that we've learned this week number one the euro skeptics have lost leverage this week that's because terry's a may has the vive a confidence vote that means they can't challenge her again for at least a year so they may find that they have to start falling in line behind her plan second of all we've heard that the vote on the deal is likely to take place in january of next year that is just two months before march twenty ninth roughly when the u.k. is meant to be leaving the european union and without a deal being passed do you k. could crash out of the e.u. with no deal a lot of people hear noises that carries very grave consequences they will want to

avoid it perhaps that will be enough to make them fall in line. in london and max hoffman in brussels thank you both. now to some of the other stories making news around the world kosovo's parliament has voted to create a standing army the move comes ten years after kosovo declared independence from serbia serbia does not recognize course of one strongly opposes the creation of an army last week. premie a suggested the move could provoke military intervention. the two women accused of poisoning the half brother north korean leader kim jong un back in court in malaysia their lawyer once the court to admit testimony from seven witnesses for the defense the murder trial is set to start next month. delegates of the un climate change conference in poland are struggling to agree on a rulebook for implementing the twenty fifteen paris climate accord representing

almost two hundred countries the delegates have clashed on financing and the creation of an international market for carbon credits. the head of football's governing body says he has broad support for expanding the next world cup in qatar from thirty two to forty eight teams before president jiang in fact has gained approval of that idea for the twenty twenty six cup but now he's pushing to move the timeframe forward by four years and he insists he is aware of the geopolitical issues at play in that part of the world. signed sealed but not yet delivered. as a glossy promotional video shows no expense has been spared getting qatar ready for the twenty twenty two world cup it will be the first world cup to be played in the middle east the first to be played in winter and now it could be the first world cup with forty eight teams fevers president though knows that won't be easy is it

feasible or not that's the question is it feasible to do it only in qatar. difficult probably is it feasible to have a few games being played in neighboring countries as well maybe this is an option an option yes but not without its problems those neighbors saudi arabia bahrain in the united arab emirates and locked in a diplomatic dispute with qatar banning travel and trade between the nations. the qatari meanwhile may be reluctant to share with their political rivals and having planned for thirty two teams would find it hard to build the extra stadiums if they wanted to go it alone as one official said in october or infrastructure in stadiums are all based on the thirty two team world cup that's as much as it's confirmed until now. the first says a decision on whether to expand the tournament's will be made next march. you're

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