the. audio. to play. this is news live from berlin and there's no sign of a quick end to the standoff in washington the white house visitor santa is among government sites closed under a partial government shutdown this off the top republicans and democrats failed to reach a deal on a spending bill that includes the funding of prison donald trump's board also coming up from. a german astrological kids home in time for the holidays off to a record setting stay aboard the international space station exeunt again these

days in space launch over. the five million student to watch spain's adult christmas walk trying to hand out billions of years in prizes we'll see why they call it the fact one. and in the bundesliga by in munich look to keep up the pressure feed the variance take on friend fish in a place to keep pace with the leaders for a sea of dortmund will have a full roundup of today's action across the. little. odd. i'm christine one two out welcome to the program. there's no sign of a christmas compromise in washington over a spending bill that seen the u.s. government go into partial shutdown will make its today unsuccessfully try to end an impulsive a five billion dollars to build president donald trump or to war democrats say

there are more effective solutions to protecting the border and senate democrat leader chuck schumer had this to say. we arrived at this moment because president trump has been on a destructive two week temper tantrum demanding the american taxpayer pony up for an expensive and ineffective border wall that the president promised mexico would pay for it spring and michael in washington for us this evening and michael will we see it all make his and the white house strike 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 all from full gas he's wrong promised 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 brickman is washington special envoy for the fight against

the so-called islamic state has quit he's put his stamp his resignation and they've met their proportionally see if that. were in fact not defeated and that he's worried putting u.s. troops out could and i'll be your hardest to amass small power. all right so coming back to you michael it's kitty you've 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 president trump 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 they at least had

a restraining effect on president trump and with them leaving already gone there really starting to war and 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 another day off the end of this anti-government pushes has been taking place across france demonstrators scuffled with police in paris but reports indicate turnout is no event on previous saturdays this week gave in to some of the end of a system arms. there's also been a large anti-government protest in the serbian capital belgrade thousands of people ready to give the government wish to say is becoming autocratic they're accusing it off excessive control of the judiciary and media as well as encouraging intimidation of the opposition. a team of u.n. monitors has arrived in yemen to observe

a cease fire in the rebel held city off for data fighting around yemen's main force has raised fears that supplies could be cut off to the millions of yemenis who are experiencing severe food shortages. the spanish government has reported a loud a rescue ship carrying will then three hundred migrants to disembark in spain this officer but if he and moshe said they would bob the proactive open arms from docking the vessel is just four days journey away from spanish boards. a double car bombing in somalia's capital mogadishu has killed at least thirteen people the first crossed struck a checkpoint near the presidential palace the second came minutes later at a nearby intersection the islamist insurgent group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the it's it's. british police have arrested two people a forty seven year old man and a fifty four year old woman off to drones caused havoc at london's gatwick airport

it closed for almost thirty six hours off to the remote controlled aircraft were first sighted over the runway on wednesday the disruption came at the height of the holiday travel season. britain second biggest airport is back in operation. bringing relief to thousands of passengers who can finally continue their christmas journeys to their kid you know if you get to nice ones we get there today reform very first. thing. they're going to go right during the last couple days so they don't know what turns out the know that they did before gatwick airport has been shut down twice since wednesday due to drone sightings about one hundred fifty thousand passengers had their flights delayed or cancelled on friday evening police announced they had arrested a man and a woman living close to the airport if charged and convicted they face up to five years in prison thanks to danger to aircraft posed by drones has been demonstrated

in tests. there already several anti drone methods and technologies to combat the threat at airports why no such measures were in place at gatwick is still to be explained recent days have brought drone danger to international attention. but often lie to inspire that needs to be more measures especially registration requirements so it's always clear who is piloting a drone and to keep track of them and we've also heard how use that technology be put in place to track oldroyd fly and it just has to be done on a european level doesn't was o.p.'s a good friend while planes are taking to the skies again at gatwick passengers can only hope there are no further disruptions to christmas travel. again if got some breaking news coming in indonesian government sources say at least twenty people have reportedly been killed as a tsunami hit the island of java the waves struck beaches around this strange on the west of the island it's believed volcanic activity may have caused the ways

we'll have more on the story as it develops. now the german astronauts eggs on a guest has arrived home for the holidays from the international space station a return to earth with colleagues from the u.s. and russia off to sitting in a record for the number of days stint aboard the ice ist but he says he contra wait 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 press in his hometown cologne he talked of the lessons he learned spending time in space with such an international team. is in conflict or did we grew up in completely different environments or dead yet 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 it's something we must project into the future see in missions. this was the second stretch in the international space station for alexander gassed. there he worked on roughly two hundred experiments. and for one of them he himself was the test subject. i'm waiting for your command. 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 gassed also stayed active in cyberspace 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. that 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. 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. in stain it wouldn't be christmas time without the lottery known as drill the fact it lives up to its name the world's biggest lottery this year handed out.