this is deja vu news coming to you live from berlin turkey sentences another journalist to prison reporter paling is given a jail sentence for more than a year for reporting on a former prime minister and his alleged links to offshore companies in malta also coming up the british parliament begins a key debate ahead of a vote on the government's right to deal next week but with prime minister unlikely to get the vote she needs what are the options for the u.k. . and u.s. president addresses the nation to try to drum up support for his controversial

border war with mexico the democrats accuse him of misleading the american people and dealing in fear not fact. plus tensions boil over in bangladesh where police fire tear gas and rubber bullets a garment workers says they strike for higher wages and better conditions. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us of course in istanbul has sentenced a reporter who works for d w two thirteen months in jail. faced insult and libel charges over report on a former prime years ties to offshore companies the allegations emerged from the so-called paradise paper leaks about tax havens of major international firms and public figures or prime minister been used to ream and. his sons sued in november

claiming an attack on their personal rights the international consortium of investigative journalists condemned because conviction as yet another disgraceful attack on priest speech in turkey. well scott griffin is deputy director of the international press institute in vienna and joins us now scott what's your reaction to this verdict. thanks for having us this is an absolutely outrageous attack on press freedom and in our view a clear attempt by politicians basically to punish journalists who are looking into it doing their job of looking into the activities of powerful people and how the care obviously made some powerful people very angry with her point so she's not only sentenced in this case yesterday but she faces another civil case by the former prime minister and her side she's facing having to pay up to eighty thousand euros and damages for defamation and she's also the defendant in another civil case

filed by president and i want cited law also the minister of economy in turkey and a defamation case as well as another hearing in that case the schedule for next month so pretty and it's going to be in the courts for quite some times it seems is now she's just one of many journalists being prosecuted in turkey how difficult is it for journalists to do their work in that country. it's extremely difficult there are around one hundred fifty seven journalists right now behind bars in turkey and scores of others who are facing charges but are currently on trial and we've also seemingly been monitoring the trials of journalists actually in person over the past few months we've attended about fifty trials together with our partners we see that journalists are being held for up to either or even more and pretrial detention without charges when the charges are filed there is no evidence to support them and some cases journalists are even prevented from attending their own trials and defending themselves in person it's an extremely difficult situation and

pending this case unfortunately fits into this pattern basically of trying to stifle any kind of critical reporting about the turkish government. given the current political situation in turkey what can be done in there to improve the situation for press freedom. i think this case actually offers an interesting opportunity to raise awareness because in many other cases involving journalists they're being charged with terrorism related offenses in the turkish government as sort of using at terrorism as as a shield or trying to sell it to the rest of the world as sort of you know it's easy it is easy to explain to people who try to sell to people that terrorists and other journalists are somehow involved and that this case is really about a journalist who wrote about the financial activities of those in power and there's no justification for bringing these charges at all and i think we can see clearly that all of these cases against journalists are a question of the government trying to crack down and it's speech that it doesn't like and it's essential in these moments to to raise awareness internationally

about these cases to explain that all of these cases involve journalists who are just doing their jobs it's incentive to have this kind of international solidarity and that's what we really should be doing over the next few days about this and other cases that this is a highly high profile case because of what she was involved in but as i said there are dozens you know more than one hundred fifty journalists were behind bars or not just bawled out we're also doing valuable work and we also need to be there for their standing up for them and calling for their release scott thank you very much for talking with us today that was scott griffin the international press institute in vienna. rescue ships since they were picked up at sea last month also will be allowed the ships to dock and migrants to do some part they'll be transferred to locations in eight e.u. countries. the un has granted refugee status to run half. she's the young saudi woman who fled to thailand saying she fears her family would

kill her for denouncing islam australia confirmed it is considering a resettlement request in bangkok officials said has refused to meet with her father and brother. and a crush of humanity in the philippine capital manila as millions of catholic worshippers reach for a centuries old statue of christ many believe touching or being near the figure can cure illness police estimate five million people will take part in the procession of the black nazareth. the british parliament has begun a five day debate ahead of a historic vote on the government's deal to leave the e.u. prime minister theresa may postponed an initial vote on the deal last december after failing to secure enough support from lawmakers report suggests that next week's vote will also fail as parliament is still split on how to move forward.

for more now let's bring indeed bigot mohsin london she's been following the breaks of debate from the beginning big get the breaks that deal debate in the parliament is finally getting underway after the prime minister postponed a vote in december when she was clear the vote would be rejected then those theresa may have any reason to think that parliament will approve the deal now. she really doesn't and it's a very very tricky situation it seems that over the christmas break opinions have hardened amongst m.p.'s there's a recent opinion poll done by a by an academic institution amongst m.p.'s and it really shows that those who want to remain and those who want to leave on very clear times there's even hardened opinion so went if there is a may had thought that maybe over the christmas period there would be well coming

together of parliament and joining behind her to approve of the deal that she has negotiated with the e.u. she really clearly has not succeeded with this plan. and just to remind our viewers we are looking at some live pictures now from the british parliament the house of commons where the debate has gotten underway on the breaks that deal of vote is expected next tuesday we're talking to our correspondent british musser in london what. do british parliamentarians think they have at this point. well the debate is going to start soon what we're just seeing right now is prime ministers question which is a weekly ritual but just after another short intervention we'll see the debate going under way and it is another general debate on the withdrawal agreement but also what we're seeing at the moment is a tug of war really in the houses of parliament parliament ones to regain control

over the process and they want to force the prime minister not to what they say amounts to running down the clock and dragging out this process of leaving and then in the end parliamentarians will have no choices no choices to to come to to their own maybe compromise or to their own solution how they want to leave the european union but to just accept the prime minister they don't want her to just extend the process they want to force her to after the vote to come back within three days and explain the next step so they are really trying to influence the prime minister's hand. expect to see in parliament over these next five days beggared of debate and it's a very intense moment for of british political landscape. it's clearly an intense moment and i've spoken to many and he's a many people who are following this in the past and everyone is conscious of this

historic decision that they are going to make on not going to make so at the moment it looks like the the vote will not be accepted the question is how many m.p.'s from both sides of the house so that's really interesting it's not just opposition m.p.'s but it's only consider also conservative m.p.'s from within to reason may's own party how many of them will be persuaded to reason may is arguing that her that she has negotiated with brussels is the only deal that's on the table there isn't really a clear alternative and also we don't see at the moment that parliament itself is coming to to a different solution so we haven't really gotten wind of the brick city has to want to cut loose from the european union much harder and much quicker than to his amazing jesting we haven't really seen what they are proposing and even if they had a plan it's nothing that's been agreed with brussels so we're really looking at the

stalemate and the interesting bit will be after the vote labor has announced that they are going to call for a general election vote of no confidence so that will be the interesting days to watch next week very good thank you so much for now did obvious bigamous in london or u.s. president all trump has used a live primetime t.v. address from the oval office to press his case for a border war with mexico he said the legal immigration was causing what he called a humanitarian crisis at the border and insisted congress fund still war. this is just commonsense the border wall would very quickly pay for itself the cost of illegal drugs exceeds five hundred billion dollars a year vastly more than the five point seven billion dollars we have requested from congress the wall will also be paid for indirectly by the great new trade deal

we have made with mexico us president there speaking on primetime television last night well the u.s. government has now been partially shut down for eighteen days due to the standoff over funding for trans border wall democrats accused of dealing with fear rather than fact sent of misleading the public. in fact more is. not a security threat they are. present comes. and counter productive powerful have the money. and the factions present mustapha holding method a hostage might stop now if that crisis i must reopen the government for now we're joined by tyson barker from the aspen institute germany based here in berlin good to see you tyson good to see if the president trump has used his first oval office address to the nation to drum up support for his border wall he said it was an

appeal for common sense as he put it in a compromise in the name of national security what do you make of the show well i mean we have to ask ourselves why now i mean you know he's been in office for two years this is something that he ran on this was kind of one of his big three catch phrases during the campaign and you know for a long that for the majority the entire time of that two years he had unitary control g.o.p. control of congress and for some reason this acute situation this humanitarian crisis is arising now and i think that the reaction of the of the american public has been why now why does this seem so manufactured which is a word that you heard a lot from his critics and from the press now what he did not do is declare some sort of national emergency which would have allowed him to bypass congress affectively to to deal with his wall why didn't he do that when reports coming out from the white house in washington are that they are preparing for that possibility

become and i think that that's something that they're still considering he's going to meet with house and senate democrats today to continue negotiations but the truth is this is a real separation of powers question because the power to appropriate money lies squarely in the hands of congress that's considered to shuttle issue and if he were to deploy money to build this border walford on national security grounds then others might question. what else can be justified to do to reappropriate money on national security grounds what about health care what about education are these also national security questions what kind of precedent with the set this would clearly land in the courts now looking at what trump had to say in his address he made a number of assertions which fact checking teams are taking issue with anything catch your attention well let's start with first and foremost this definitely caught nancy pelosi in chuck schumer's attention he said that democrats support this deal slat option as opposed to a concrete wall which is factually not the case this is this is never been the case

and this is definitely something that's not going to go forward and they've addressed the other thing is really context you know they took a lot of statistics for example that more people die of a drug overdose in the united states than died in the vietnam war that has an element of truth to it but the truth is that not all those drugs are coming from mexico and he said you know the border bauble pay for itself not just because the money's coming from indirectly from mexico through a trade drill which is not exactly true but also because it will clear up the drug drug epidemic in the united states and we know that making a border war will not clear that at the debate we need to address that through health care measures including rehabilitation in treating treatment centers and not through a border wall that's not going to solve the problem tyson thank you so much tyson barker from the aspen institute here in berlin thank you to crane our tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers who fought in the war in the east of that country many are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder figures show that

suicide rates among former combatants are surging yet the government in kiev refuses to acknowledge their plight now a volunteer organization has stuff stepped in to help nick calmly reports from ukraine it's been a year since and that he returned home from the front line. may now be hundreds of kilometers away but the conflict still hasn't. everything could be fine in the. constant vigilance that saved them days life in the trenches is now getting in the way of adjusting to normal life his body releases adrenaline at random and i get all hot and lose control over my arms and legs my heart starts beating like crazy my blood pressure jobs sometimes i get full scope panic attacks and then he spent three years on the frontline in donbass before the war he was a past that even general church when conflict broke out he volunteered with the

nationalist as a patel and later training as a paramedic. for struck and your friend through the snow to safety you fall down in the bullets are flying over you your head your head a few metres further and just end up falling down again because the fire is too heavy. back home in kids even finding a job is a struggle many businesses won't employ veterans for fear they could turn violent and since returning and that he has not received any support from the government and he's not alone but the military's top brass denies it has a problem on its hands on the command tells us that most soldiers get back to normal after just three days at home confronted with figures suggesting a surge in suicide rates they tell us that soldiers are no more likely to take their own lives than anyone else. gets active is that of filling the gap left by government we high up in the cup

paid in mountains about as far from the conflict you can get in ukraine and they will be spending two weeks with other veterans supported by psychologists an art therapist all of it paid for by private donations without any government funding whatsoever. when was the last time you do something. it's been a while to get it shows that you think you can and it's been thirty five years at least. i've never done anything like this i'm glad i came here i mean a really good one going there poor. little but the future of the project is under threat it's given us in this hour eighty percent of my time goes on fundraising trying to get people to just take notice of what we're doing it's getting harder and harder any twenty percent of my time is actually left to help these people. even after just a few days and be seems like a different person one with a plan that can feel the will. for the war i was

a pastor. a therapist of a college. mean you know i want to see experiences i've gained here to help others like. i've seen myself how tough it is but also those that were simulate left the army a year ago and i still can't see where we should pull company keeps. some football news now and by and munich will sign french world cup defender benjamin from st god in july the twenty two year old joins on a five year deal ahmad has been out since twenty sixteen and head to steady seasons before helping his country to world cup glory in russia odds transfer fee is reported thirty five million euros german media have also speculated that it will be joined by him by france's other fullback lucas head and it's.

so mr hughes out a warning for the world's economy christophe has more and it's a stark warning terry the global economy is facing darkening skies that's according to the world bank and its annual report that the lender downgraded its outlook for the global economy this year and cited raising trade tensions weakening manufacturing activity and growing financial stress in emerging markets the world bank now says that it expects the world economy to grow. two point nine percent and twenty nine thousand that's marginally down from the three percent it forecast back in june. for some more analysis let's bring in our financial correspondent only bards in frankfurt only walk us through this the world bank warns of darkening skies but still expects growth of almost three percent. yes that's right the revised figure for two thousand and nineteen or the slightly downward figure for two thousand one thousand isn't that great. a rupture or earthquake here for world growth but the trade tensions that it does cite possible

problems in emerging markets that's the warning sign the warning card if you will and there's merit to that of trade talks for example should not be concluded with a good end or if there should be a messy no deal breaks and things look differently and the kind of effect that all this nervousness is already having on major economies you can see in germany today we got the news that exports month on month were down this week already. production figures and factory order figures were down significantly sparking debate on recession so there is worry in the world bank is not the only one talking about this and the trade dispute between the u.s. and china is already hampering economic growth and now the recent meeting between representatives of both countries in beijing came to a close what do investors make of the outcome. well they'd like to wait for the

statement to make that assessment there is no official statement yet all one has to go on is a statement by donald trump who said that well he thought it was all going very well. around the time that the talks were concluded when the state comes we'll know more but my prediction is that they'll say they reached maybe something or. got closer together on this in this issue but talks will continue because they still have days to continue and first of even ninety days the total time that they've given themselves is very little time to really make a substantial changes with all the interests that are involved in issues like trade you parts of frankfurt thank you. it's the bangladesh now and striking workers have hit the streets of the capital dhaka for the fourth day running they are protesting conditions in the country's garment sector prime minister shake who was reelected at the end of last year has raised

the monthly minimum wage by over fifty percent in the country's largest industry but the people working there well they are saying it's not enough. police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into crowds of demonstrators on the streets of dhaka and some of them fought back with stones over fifty protesters are reported to apparently injured in the exchanges so far along with twelve policeman . the garment industry plays a key role in the asian country bangladesh is the second largest manufacturer of clothing globally and its factories supply some of the world's largest retailers although the industry has turned the nation into a major exporter the benefits haven't trickled down much the minimum wage is still just eight thousand taka around ninety five dollars a month the strike and protesters want more. and we are demanding twice that sixteen thousand taka. the basic monthly income has to be ten thousand taka and

salaries have to be sixteen thousand the authorities are giving us nothing unions have warned that the strikes may spread to other cities the protests are expected to continue. well let's get more of the story with sons of berman he is with the w.'s bangali service under these workers have a point claiming the increase in wages is insufficient. of course they have a very strong point because if you look at the standard of living in bangor these things are quite expensive and they do deserve the rice of course that is known but the whole situation seems to be very complex because you have tea parties in this old problem you have the government you have the walkers and you have the owners of actually owners of course and the factory owners are also affiliated to different political parties and everybody has been waiting for the elections for really all believe came back with a huge mandate and always

a time when they chose to course press for that months and. their president is off the walkers are also divided in party lines and within those party lines of since smaller groups so nobody seems to have control over their respective lines and that is also causing a quite a lot of countless right now which we can see on the streets in dakar and. now speaking of this violence that we witnessed there the garment industry is one of the biggest economic sectors in bangladesh at this violence against members of this extremely important segment of the economy seems just a bad idea doesn't it. yeah well it's a kind of a fall out of a much bigger problem of course the government and the representatives of the workers as well as the owners they have been in. like the city on tuesday two of the ministers in the government have talked to all the parties and there's a two member panel which is form which is supposed to look into the demands and

talk to the respected all the parties in the next one month and come up with a solution over there is the allegation that the owners have been manipulating with the numbers like. they're very ready to offer more money on the other hand they're also enjoying some of the loans this was they're getting rid of the fact that workers are getting less money or very little somebody raise their getting so this whole thing is a bit complex right now because of the different political affiliations and fragmentation of the workers and altogether this is creating a problem on the street and some of this for people who are educating on the street . under control of representatives so this is creating more cows and this can go out of hand d.w. sons of berman thank you. and finally we have this item for you a hospital in alaska at an unexpected visitor this week a giant moose wandered in through an open door and began chomping on the plants in

the lobby there you have it quite a big one workers were spellbound they say they never once felt threatened by the curious visitor who stuck around for about ten minutes before sauntering back out and there's no problems other than for the plants which fortunately for the most are not just me. and a quick reminder of the top story we're following for you a court in istanbul has sentenced a journalist who works for d.w.i. to thirteen months in jail ellen incur was found guilty of quote a different nation an insult for reporting on offshore companies owned by a former turkish prime minister. that's a show thanks for watching. the. clock.

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