i'm whale rock thanks so much for your company everyone this is e.w. news live from berlin turkey sentences a nother journalist to jail a corporate state of you were puerto palin curve behind bars for reporting on a former prime minister and his alleged links to offshore companies also coming up gregg said battle british lawmakers deal another defeat to theresa may as they try to stop the country from crashing out of the european union embarrassing defeat comes ahead of a decisive vote on means withdrawal deal next week plus frigid conditions of bring

central europe to a standstill heavy snowfall wreaks havoc in parts of austria and southern germany several people have died in emergency services warning that the risk of avalanche is high. with. thanks so much for your company everyone a court in istanbul has sentenced a reporter who works for d.w. news to thirteen months in jail and her face to insults and libel charges a report about a former turkish leaders ties to offshore companies they all a geisha is emerged from these so-called paradise papers that leaked information about tax havens of major international firms and public figures former prime minister banal the yield there him and his son sued to incur it back in november.

claiming an attack on their personal rights the international consortium of investigative journalists has condemned kerns conviction as quote yet another disgraceful attack on free speech in turkey. all right let's bring in now our can our candy you had of did of use turkish service erica what are palin uncurse options right now. right now that she can appeal to this verdict of the judge she has today that depends on the lawyers when will it happen it could be in the following weeks it was expected and afterwards it's a little bit unclear when the verdict. let me correct is when the court of appeal will decide it's absolutely not clear therefore it could be after that three weeks four weeks but it also can be another year for example so we will see

what's going on there but how did she end up in this situation. well political work for during that period while she reported on the paradise papers and she was while she was a quite a very. successful investigative journalist and after that she was yeah she was. the court said that is not very good what she reported because she did her job actually and all of a sudden she was well we can say by the by insulting the prime minister and so therefore she was in that kind of situation right now but after this i have to say that putin left the newspaper after the board of the newspaper changed get a big reform mission in september and after that she left the newspaper maybe it's quite possible that peyton wanted to release earlier because of the lawsuit it's

not quite sure she doesn't say anything about that and what does this ruling tell us about well about the turkish traditionary and the state of free and fair media in turkey. to be honest this is a quite big slap in the face of turkish journalism actually because these people just want to do their jobs and to get arrested in cause of doing this job. shows quite clear that freedom of speech and freedom of press in turkey is right now not very popular actually and we have to see what's going on in the future but i hope but i have to say that i'm quite sure that pin incurs not. the only thing that we have to face in the future i think there will be another journey pretty much more journalists who have to face some kind of prison judgment actually are can are a con had a turkish department thank you. british prime minister theresa may

has suffered another setback in parliament and peace in london have voted to force her government to come up with a plan b. within three days ever brags the deal is rejected the parliament is debating that deal with a vote expected next week i'm a told lawmakers that her government was still negotiating with the e.u. leaders to seek assurances over taken britain out of the e.u. on the vote was originally set for mid december but made managed to postpone it when it became clear that the deal did not have majority support while this afternoon may outlined areas in which the government is still working with the e.u. officials as the crucial vote draw is closer through three of them and that we are looking at one is the undertakings in assurances we are looking for from the european union and those will be available we intend that those will be available to the house before the house votes at the end of this debate we are also looking at what more we can do domestically i've set out there is the secretary of state

will be clearer and more detail will set out what we're going to do in relation to the powers from the old man and and in relation to the question of the role of parliament for the future and we will be looking we are looking to ensure that we can provide the assurance and confidence that this house needs in relation in relation to the question that has been at the forefront of members concerns in relation to the the backstop. theresa may there in the house of commons let's bring in now clinton he is an associate fellow of the international think tank at chatham house in london a very good evening mr uphill now theresa may just lost a key vote on know what steps she needs to take if for breaks the deal is we're ject it that doesn't bode very well. no it doesn't it looks as if this entire exercise of delaying the vote by a month has really not gained her anything and now in the space of twenty four

hours she's lost two really very important votes in parliament which is now going to require her if she loses the vote on the deal next week to come back with a plan b within three days so parliament is finally asserting itself already over the government this is been a long running tussle and it looks as if parliament is starting to win so we have a fascinating situation that's likely to be playing out over the next couple of weeks now let's talk about the next five days and there are five days of debate getting underway but what i don't understand is a deal is already on the table what's left to be discussed and what options do british members of parliament think they still have. well what they want and this i would stress is the passion the hardline pro breck's it and

also the northern irish unionists they want somehow to be able to say that the special arrangements to ensure that the northern irish border is not revived and put back in place those special arrangements must be time limited and they really want to be able to say they alone can decide when they end well that's simply not acceptable in brussels and not acceptable in berlin paris and elsewhere they say it's got to be a mutual a joint decision to decide when a final trade deal has been agreed that will ensure there is no hard border in ireland so the two sides and not really in the same place and it looks as if to reason may has simply not got the sort of assurances from brussels in legal to that will persuade rebels to back her deal. in conclusion what does the

british public that the people in the u.k. think should happen now if members of parliament reject the brag city or do they want a new well lections or do they want another referendum. i think the british public is as slit and divided as parliament is under split and divided as it clearly what . referendum two and a half years ago there is clearly a significant proportion now looking like almost fifty percent who want a second verandah but there is equally about forty percent who don't want a second referendum they just want this to be over they want to get on with the process and get out of the european union the problem is there's no way of doing that that is acceptable to a majority in parliament so we're deadlocked and it may be that the only solution

will be to have another referendum right quinten peel from chatham house in london thank you sir. it's all right let's bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. the u.n. has granted refugee status to run fine tune she's the first in bangkok meanwhile official said newman has refused to meet with her father and brother. mata and the european union have resolve the dispute over nearly fifty migrants who have been stranded on two rescue ships since they were picked up at sea last month migrants will be transferred to locations in eight e.u. countries along with around two hundred fifty other rescued migrants germany says it expects to take in sixteen of them. the standoff over u.s. president proposed border wall has worsened after trump went on primetime television

to insist that congress fund the barrier meanwhile the democrats congressional leaders chuck schumer and nancy pelosi accuse trump of manufacturing a crisis and stoking fear to divert attention from the turmoil in his administration. now have a snow fall on avalanches in austria and germany have claimed at least five lies about a metre and a half of snow has fallen in the northern alps and less than a week train services and roads have been disrupted and authorities warn the avalanche risk remains high some communities have been cut off completely and more snow is due this week. a delivery of supplies for yak and now a small village in bavaria the area is almost completely cut off the main roads blocked by falling trees the only way in and out is along this forest path how much longer it will remain open it's not clear more snow is expected through it is of declared

a state of emergency because of falling trees other parts of bavaria also buried in snow and the schools are closed. in austria the situation is even more serious the battle against snow continued overnight in the northern elders the avalanche warning is that level four and it could go up to level five the highest in the next few days. in the city of celts book soldiers have been brought in to clear as much as three metres of snow from roofs. falling snow can be extremely destructive and experts are warning that the avalanche danger is increasing by the day before up as did the mean sea fish need biggest danger is the smoke does not really compact is that more and more builds up until it's released. and you could have possibly fatal consequences on them so they are of course a must as the same for dallas who are coming towards. this little improvement in

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