this is utopia news live from berlin turkey sentences another journalist to jail a court puts a d w reporter behind bars for reporting on a former prime minister and his alleged links to offshore companies also coming up berlin says egypt has detained a german citizen who disappeared there last month the foreign office once access the twenty three year old and know the whereabouts of another german teenager who's missing in the country plus briggs's battle another blow to theresa may as british lawmakers try to stop their country's cool lashing out of the european union the embarrassing defeat comes ahead of a decisive vote on means for drawl deal next week and the faint set of ukrainian

soldiers who fought separatists in the east of the country they say kiev is ignoring that despite many suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. the heart thank you so much for your company everyone a court and as someone who has sentenced a reporter who works for d.w. news to thirteen months in prison her face insults and libel charges over a report about a former turkish leaders time is to offshore companies on the allegations of emerge from the so-called paradise papers that leaked information about tax havens of major international firms and public figures of a former prime minister but now the you'll do remand his sons sued her back in november claiming an attack on their personal rights will be in. a national

consortium of investigative journalists has condemned kurz conviction as quote yet another disc race for attack on free speech and turkey. all right let's bring in now our can our economy head of data we use turkish services are kind of what are appealing uncurse options right now. there are polling options are 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 decides 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 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. 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 enter. 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 judgments actually are can are a con had a bit of use turkish department thank you. all right let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world. the standoff over

u.s. president donald trump's proposed border wall has escalated after trump went on primetime television to insist that congress fund the barrier on the democratic congressional leaders schumer and nancy pelosi accused of manufacturing a crisis and stoking fear to divert attention from the turmoil in his administration over. multiple and the european union have resolved the dispute over nearly fifty migrants who have been stranded on two rescue ships since they were picked up at sea last month the 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 sixty of them. the u.n. has granted refugee status. and she's the young saudi woman who fled to thailand because she feared her family would kill her for announcing islam

australia confirmed it is considering a resettlements request in bangkok officials said newman has refused to meet with her father and brother. british prime minister theresa may has suffered a nother said back in parliament m.p.'s in london have voted to force her government to come up with a plan b. within three days if her briggs's deal is rejected by the parliament is debating that very deal with a vote expected next week may told lawmakers that her government was still negotiating with e.u. leaders to seek assurances over taking britain out of the bloc while the vote was originally set for mid december but may postpone it when it became clear the deal did not have majority support well this afternoon a prime minister may outlined areas in which her government is still working with e.u. officials as the crucial vote for. ask closer there are three elements that we are looking at one is the undertakings and assurances we are looking for from the

european union and those will be available we can 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 of northern ireland 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. to some a there in the house of commons let's bring in now quentin peel he is an associate fellow of the international think tank at chatham house in london a very good evening mr up till now theresa may just last a key vote on know what steps she needs to take if for breaks

a 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 he 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 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 embers of 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 either mutual or 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 undocked really in the same place and it looks as if to

reason may has simply not got the sort of assurances from brussels illegal 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 lit and divided as pearl of the day is and as divided as it clearly well. to the referendum two and a half years ago there is clearly a significant proportion out looking like almost fifty percent who want a second befriend them 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 all right quinten peel from chatham house in london thank you sir. now tens of thousands of ukrainian soldiers fought in the war and eastern ukraine many are now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder while figures show that suicide rates among former can't conduct combat and so are surging and we have the government in kiev refuses to acknowledge their plight now a volunteer organization has stepped in to help to nick on the reports from ukraine it's been a year since anthony returned home from the front line fighting may now be hundreds of kilometers away but the conflict still hasn't let go. really

everything could be fine in the. constant vigilance that saved them days like in the trenches is now getting in the way of adjusting to normal life his body releases adrenaline at random. i get all hot and lose control over my arms and legs my heart starts beating like crazy my blood pressure johns sometimes i get full scope panic attacks and three spent three years on the frontline in donbass before the war he was a pos that eventually church when conflict broke out he volunteered with a nationalist as a patel and later training as a paramedic. track and your friend through the snow to safety you fall down in the bullets are flying over you but your head you get a few metres further and just end up falling down again because the fire's too heavy. back home in tears 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 a day in mountains about as far from the conflict you can get to ukraine and we will be spending two weeks with other veterans supported by psychologist and author of it's all of it paid for by private donations without any government funding whatsoever. because when was the last time you drew something though we knew it's been a while back to the shows so you think you know and it's been thirty five years at least move talk or think me because i've never done anything like this i'm glad i

came here really good for going there for surplus on the straight out of all but the future of the project is under threat it's a good vision this 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 the seems like a different person one with a plan that can feel that way and. for the war i was a pastor. a therapist of a college. using manual or i want to see experiences i've gained here to help others like me. i've seen myself how tough it is. left the army a year ago. well should i still care one way if you will we should pull the troops . all right next to egypt germany's foreign ministry has confirmed that one of

two german young men who went missing in egypt last month is being held by the country's authorities a spokeswoman said more that guys these a student was detained at cairo airport on route to his grandparents' home officials are still trying to determine the whereabouts of the second young man. he disappeared earlier last month after a landing in the city of looks are. are we can talk to mom with brother now the young german who is being held in egypt many guises joins us now from medina in saudi arabia leka good evening you and your brother were traveling to egypt is my understanding walk me through what happened when you arrived at cairo airport so we arrived at the airport in true with my brother much more i rest with her from december the twenty seventh and even they made us late at the control for hours without mentioning any reason project miti four hours

later than they just think that they would not allow on the floor to and to egypt and that they would send him back to medina from where we change i was commanded to cause a lot to leave my brother vehicle why do you think that he was detained and you were allowed to go. i have no clue at all actually because they've been mentioned drugs and the reason throughout all the all of the i was in that one i was never politically are just so i have no reason at all as far as not to at all do you know anything about my moods whereabouts. no i don't know anything about him. and since two weeks ago. from the embassy there were from what was a man who called me yesterday and told me that they would have been used by tomorrow. ok so you have not been able to speak to him since you have been separated during that that flight he looked

at all lots of all right thank you so very much and he got disease talking to us from medina saudi arabia. all right let's get you more now with him we're talking about two separate cases here so we just talked to my. brother he has been confirmed as being in detention and then there's another case of somebody who just basically went missing you talked a little bit about these two separate cases as he was of the german government. treating these a two separate cases to egyptian german doing nationals who went disappeared in egypt around the same time the other case he was on route to cairo from looks to two to. reunite with his family astonishing thing about this case is just how few information we have we know very little about the background of the two men the

egyptian authorities have yet to say why they were being held or why. it was not they were they've not been charged with anything so far so they've been very very unclear about the motivations of the german government has indeed confirmed that the brother of the gentleman whom we just heard is in custody but today said that they wouldn't elaborate on the reasons citing quote unquote privacy issues they said that they are trying with the highest effort to visit him but have so far not been able to do so so at this point we're only left to speculate it's also very strange because the background of the two missing men is not immediately connected with human rights organizations there are other ways that journalists because usually when. cases of sudden disappearances in egypt they have grown in human rights or activism then that's a good place to start looking but there's just so few information and they're quite young as well one is twenty one hundred twenty three right quite quite young we

know that they're not related these two cases at this stage that's what the german authorities are not they're not treating it as so far as two separate cases but they did go sort of missing around the same time. does this happen a lot in egypt that people just disappear into thin air egypt does have a problem with enforced disappearances accord human rights organizations such as amnesty international and human rights watch. as well this happens often the reason why these two men are getting so much attention of course is because they are dual citizens and they have so to speak the weight of the german state in the german foreign ministry to ask about them that gives the egyptian authorities more motivation to cooperate sort of speak to try and give information to try and find them it would have the case would be very different if these were just egyptian two egyptian men whose families went up to the police station to try to find out their whereabouts perhaps i mean it feels like a lot of course any day not knowing where your loved one is this horrible but even to get this kind of information in three weeks it's quite unusual because. the

cooperation is happening obviously because of their western ties and a very harrowing ordeal for parents of course as well who can't locate their children all right thank you so very much for him for giving us the latest all right so we're going to go back now here to europe for heavy snowfall and avalanches in austria and germany have claimed at least five lives about a metre and a half of snow has fallen in the northern alps in 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. the delivery of supplies for yes and no 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 among this forest park how much longer it will remain open it's not clear more snow is expected the thought 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 about like a. snow continued overnight in the northern no city 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 meters of snow from roofs falling snow can be extremely destructive and experts are warning that the avalanche danger is increasing by the day. did this need it is dangerous to smoke does not really compact is that more and more builds up until it's released. you could have possibly fatal consequences. as this fatality were committed. there's little improvement in prospect more snow

and storms are forecast over the weekend. now the world's biggest tech event is underway in las vegas but this year c s is a little different than yes the consumer electronics show is happening under a cloud of trade tensions between washington and beijing china has grown into a major market in the tech sector as you know with a flurry of u.s. companies developing apps and web solutions tell it to strict censorship laws in china chinese companies have traditionally shown up strong ad international tech shows but not this time. china's tech giant while away has a large booth in the us vegas and it's crowded here the company famous for its phones and tablets it's taking on apple introducing its new laptop for just a little over twelve hundred dollars for this price of your house for him to sign you up. the screen is still here touch. if you hit it exactly people

you have they'll be offering to friends they're trying to focus on business here but it's certainly not easy last year and why way executives was arrested in canada at the behest of the u.s. the arrests came amid growing tensions between the two countries why why way attend c.s. other chinese companies decided to skip the show altogether the number of china's except hers is twenty percent lower than last year. the chain spenders we spoke with were open to talk about their product stressing that they are still very much interested in the u.s. market however no one wanted to go on the record about the current straits tensions between china and us and the consequences the tensions are already slowing down business especially for startups and smaller companies to don't have the flexibility of large a tech rivals. east cooter anybody could make a jetson for example says it is using the show to meet with merchants and talk with

competition about moving its supply chain out of china to vietnam. we will continue to look into new directions and new territories all over the world on where it ends up its own determined at this point but i believe it's our obligation to explore. a trade war could lead to higher prices and dropping for every news some however think that the president is not all wrong on china. i think to try to. go the number of a billion years for us trading for a bunch of person products so you know i want to see a little bit more fairness and that respect for us it's a negative in the short term but you know maybe certain things resetting things that i'm in the right direction and you know c.s. is about new tech trends and connecting with new partners this here however it's hard to ignore politics let's make us. and in news just in u.s.

negotiators say china has promised to purchase a substantial amount of american goods the pledge following two days of trade talks between the two nations and uses boyd investors who've been monitoring the meaningful signs of a deal to head off further tariffs the us statement was short on details mentioning only that the chinese were set to buy more from the agricultural energy and manufacturing sectors it's still unclear if there's been any agreement on other areas like intellectual property theft. that's for being only bonds briefly from frankfurt only what does a substantial amount mean. well that's open to your interpretation and mine presumably it means that the chinese will buy more american stuff than they have before but the talks aren't concluded yet and the chinese will want some concessions from the americans as well so it's still totally up in the air but

important message for everyone concerned also i think the people here in the markets is a part of that there was a statement that sounds good and that there's a will there is a desire to forge ahead and make a better trade situation than before and in the state and they mention that they've been talking about fair or trade what would the world look like if trade was fair or. well look a whole lot different than it does today but it doesn't mean that it would work to everyone's advantage fair trade would mean that basically everyone is on the same level playing field when they're offering their services or their goods and. if you as a consumer i as a consumer have a choice between who's t. shirt car or perhaps a ton of steel i buy i'm only going by price and availability and design and service and not buy things like. like subsidies that the one side provides to the

other or perhaps in that advantage an education in the united states designers have over the chinese that kind of level playing field is very difficult to create and not just between countries if you look at the united states or if you look at europe or if you look at even countries within europe even germany there aren't level playing fields basically anywhere there's always differences regionally locally and nationally very hard to iron out that's what trade talks are for to provide with tariffs an effort to get close to that what the world could look like with all the bots in fact it's. it watching v.w. news will have more nextel.

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