well you. would want. to believe. this is the news live from berlin donald trump stands firm on his demand for a border with our shutdown there's nothing we can do about that made possible shutdown of the u.s. government kicks in that strengthened the senate disagree over funding the barrier along the mexican border we'll have analysis from washington also coming up. a german asteroid hits home in time for the holidays off to a principled saging stay aboard the international space station and it's on the

guest safe these days in space on jova yes the phone and millions to name to watch spain's annual christmas rocketry handout billions of euros in prizes we'll see why they cornish the fact want to. move her. body. i'm christine would be welcome to the program. a standoff in washington today is seeing u.s. senate as fighting for a christmas compromise that's because a dispute over president donald trump's five billion don the border wall has seen the u.s. government go into shutdown tramp's days the war is essential for national security and has warned the government shutdown could be lengthy best democrats say there are more effective solutions to protecting the u.s. border. it was one of donald trump's most divisive election promises

a wall running the three thousand kilometer border between the u.s. and mexico to keep illegal migrants out of america. trump still insists the wall is needed to counter drug smuggling human trafficking and gang violence. our great country must have border security we don't want people coming in that are supposed to be here the only thing that's going to stop that is great border security where the wall or a slot fence or whatever you want to call it but we need a great barrier on his twitter feed trump says the fortification would be totally effective while at the same time beautiful. but u.s. lawmakers are not convinced democrats and republicans failed to reach agreement on funding the government democrats held out against trump's demand for five billion

dollars to pay for the wall i don't think. you can do is any appetite. for war. funding the poor war a national security force. unanimously say one thing or person. around a quarter of the u.s. federal government has gone into shutdown the scene is in the house of representatives a reconvening in washington on saturday in the hope of a very full scale crisis over the holiday period. it's spring and michael in washington for us this evening michael will we see a little make is and the white house strikes some compromise deal to end this shutdown. well there is one rule in covering the trumpets ministration and that is that you can't really predict anything having said that. it is very unclear how this could play out and the easiest thing for everyone

involved would be to simply kick the can down the road and basically fund the government for a few more weeks or months this of course would not solve the situation but at least it would get everyone over this impasse right now. michel the democrats take over the house in less than two weeks and president jiang from full gas he's wrong on missed will offshore oil. well frankly i think it's very hard to see how democrats after their midterm election success can find anything that includes trump's border wall and opinion polls also show that a majority of americans don't really support funding the wall so i think it's very highly unlikely that democrats will fund trump's wall and the prospects for trump's wall i think are very thin. again michael stay put i just want to get your view on another story so off to the resignation of defense secretary jim messes this week

there's been a fallout from president trump's decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria now britney who is washington special envoy for the fight against the so-called islamic state has quit he's put his stamp his resignation relates have met there proportionally say if that. were in fact not defeated and that he's worried putting u.s. troops out couldn't all be the hardest to amass more power. all right so coming back to see you michael it's clearly been a turbulent week how concerned is washington right now. well a u.s. policy expert told me yesterday that it's time to get afraid to be afraid now and that kind of sums up the mood here in washington i think pretty good a lot of people are really starting to worry about the erratic actions taken by the president. in regards to syria and perhaps also in regards to pull out of

afghanistan and these people are saying that whatever you you may think about madison other experienced officials leaving now the at least had a restraining fixed on president trump and with them leaving or already gone there are really starting to worry people are really starting to worry here in washington what lies ahead all right michael. spun in washington for us thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world a team of u.n. monitors has arrived in given to observe a cease fire in the rebel held city offered a job fighting around humans mean fourth has raised fears that supplies could be cut off to the millions of yemenis who are experiencing severe food force shortages . the spanish government has reportedly allowed a rescue ship carrying more than three hundred migrants to disembark in spain this offer both at the end melissa said they would bar the proactive open arms from

docking the vessel is just four days journey away from spanish holds. and that the day of the end of this anti-government protest has been taking place across france demonstrators scuffled with police in paris but reports indicate turnout is lower than on previous saturday's this week the government gave into some of the end of a system ons. british police have arrested two people over the criminal use of drones at london's gatwick airport the airport was closed for almost thirty six hours off the drones were first sighted over the runway on wednesday tens of thousands of passengers were affected the airport has resumed many office to office says today. german astronauts and it's under a guest has arrived home for the holidays from the international space station he returned to earth with colleagues from the u.s. and russia off to setting a record for the number of days spent aboard the i assist but he says he hunt waits

to go back. it looks as though six months in zero gravity had no effect on alexander gassed. two days after his return to earth the astronaut seems in perfect health and in good spirits speaking to the prince in his hometown cologne he talked of the lessons he learned spending time in space with such an international team. does anyone complete or do we grew up in completely different environments. i would then here without thinking too much about it we worked extremely well together and says that in my view is one of the most important things we can learn from the space station which can be applied here on earth and it's something we must project into the future. this was the second stretch in the international space station for alexander guest. there he worked on roughly two hundred experiments. and for one of them he himself was the test subject. i'm waiting for your commands

. he was there when the ai robot called simon arrived on board and alexander guessed also made some space history by becoming the first german commander of the i.s.a.'s. during his time orbiting the earth gast also stayed active in cyber space he posted regularly on social media his message to the world we have no planet b. and we have to do more to protect. he also had a message for future generations. when i look back down to earth sadly i feel that i have to apologize. currently it looks like my generation is not going to leave the planet in the best shape for this. back on earth just says he wants to continue raising public awareness about the uniqueness of our planet. but first he's planning some down time starting with two

days off for christmas with his family. with the ok to stay now where it wouldn't be christmas time without the lottery known as el gordo all the fat one it lives up to its name the world's biggest lottery this year handed out prize money almost two point four billion juries the top ticket holder took home four hundred thousand years it's a tradition dating back more than two hundred years. it was take shoot for i was just to get inside hoping to win more than just a seat in the theater. the rest of spain had to watch on television as el gordo got underway. some thought costumes might fasten their chances. people i'm the lucky think i'm going to win all the prices in el gordo obviously. the lucky frog might disagree but what to do with the share of that two point four

billion euro price poss. here were monopoly game i will spend it on holidays and i don't know what else i. puzzle to pay off the mortgage. it's up to the school children to sing out the prizes one announces the winning ticket number the other declares the sum. but if they didn't yes why. and this was the stage fright proved too much for this one time of the hands of this one i thought good news was so hard to bear i have. no tears here though even just selling a lucky ticket can be cause for celebration. was. going to be great happiness because we know we have given joy to someone it's a surge of positivity for us because we spend all good trying to deliver happiness

and with this prize with done it for once. there's no single winner gordo pays out thousands of prizes giving plenty of spaniards something to sing about life yet. right up yet. writes us now and by and munich have ended two thousand and eighteen on the. hi with a resulting three no win in frankfurt and we'll head into the new year in second place gets have a look at the other results from match day seventeen so far disallowed golf grabbed an injury time winner in hand over and were too strong for belin life's a shift at least to be by him instead got fed at home to show frye book took home all three points from nuremberg dortmund won on friday and we have games in book and often time to look forward to on sunday rail madrid have cruised to

their third consecutive if a club world cup cycle beating the u.a.e. is in for one in the final in goals from newcomer moderates marcus who are in today and captain sergio ramos sealed the windfall of santiago solari steam the spanish giants have now won a record for club world cup stealing one play off arch rivals also known as. and a reminder of the top story we're following for you a partial shutdown of the u.s. government kicks in off to us democrats refused to fund the multibillion dollar president trump promised he's focused on the us mexico border about a quarter of the government agencies are impacted thousands of u.s. employees may have to work but all the pain until the budget impasse is really long . but before we leave i'm reminded that holidays are here and christmas is just around the corner so that means it's christmas which is ready because santa claus is on his way from. happy holidays.

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