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this is d.w. news wide from berlin tonight as britain staggers towards its core exit endgame more division over what directs it should mean lawmakers deal prime minister teresa mayes government a fresh blow as they try to stop the country from crashing out of the european union it comes ahead of a decisive vote on teresa mayes with troll deals scheduled for next week also coming out a turkish court jells another journalist this time it's a d w reporter punished for her articles on a former prime minister and his alleged links to all sure tax havens plus
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an anxious waiting in the democratic republic of congo tensions rise as authorities prepare to were dealt results of last month's troubled election the country is still waiting for its first new leader in almost two decades there's. i'm break off it's good to have you with us tonight british lawmakers have dealt a fresh blow to prime minister to recent days government and again it's over it today they voted to force your government to produce an alternative plan for leaving the european union and it comes as parliament begins five days of debate in advance of next week's vote on may's breaks a deal lawmakers are expected to reject that deal next week.
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prime minister to resume a left office in downing street for parliament knowing most lawmakers oppose her deal with brussels but they also don't want britain to leave without an agreement together. when what the prime minister faced the facts there is little support for a deal or no deal in this house the prime minister is frozen in feel you're asking m.p.'s to write a blank check for hardline fault breaks but if the prime minister attempts a no deal we will fight tooth and nail every inch of the word labor is clear the deal is not in the national interest it doesn't come anywhere near meeting outer it will make the country poor and divided it won't protect jobs in the economy the new majority for any proposition on a future relationship with the european union in this house of commons except the majority of it is clearly against leaving with no deal. in
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a second defeat for terrorism a in the space of two days members of parliament voted to make the government quickly come up with an alternative if may's deal is rejected next week that would not be the end of it and we've also been looking at how parliament can take a greater role as we take these negotiations on to the next stage and so i can tell the house that in the event that our future relationship or alternative arrangements are not ready by the end of twenty twenty parliament we'll have a vote on whether to seek to extend into mentation period feelings are running high and a superior prominent conservative lawmaker in favor of britain remaining in the european union was abused outside parliament this week by hecklers who accused her of being a nazi. with the clothes taking down to bricks at the end of march divisions are as wide as ever and pays a jew to vote on may's deal next tuesday. i want to bring in quintile he is an
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associate fellow of the international think tank chatham house in london quin it's good to see you again so what did we see happen today in parliament i mean is this the parliament trying to reassert its authority over a brakes a plan that no one seems to be able to agree on yes that's precisely what it is it's a real struggle for control of the process between the parliamentarians of both parties across the middle of parliament and a government that has been constantly denied it itself and doesn't have a majority the trouble is that part of that in the british system government always has a slightly stronger hand the parliament said parliament is really fighting a guerrilla war to try and maneuver itself into a position where it can actually dictate to the government the road ahead and this
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road is very very difficult because as you said in your report that it doesn't look as if there's a majority in the parliament but any particular outcome and it made me that they going to be reduced to horror of horrors actually even holding a second referendum. it's expected that next week when parliament votes on teresa mayes withdrawal plan it's expected that lawmakers are going to reject that so how does today's action how does that fit into that. well what in fact the reason mase been trying to do have two weeks is really frighten members of parliament into voting for the deal she's agreed with the rest of the european union by saying the only alternative to this deal is crashing out with no the told and then pull government sources and many other people have been
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underlining just bad crashing you know with no deal would be enormous queues at the border lorries backed up in traffic jams across all the major ways but also airplanes not taking medicines in short supply even crude running out of said horror stories right across the board and i suddenly reason my eyes be faced by a parliament which said we are not prepared to accept this there is a clear majority that says we have not prepared to crash out without a deal you've got to come back with a clear plan b. which isn't just no deal said that's really the instructions she got today and we know what it takes two to tango in the european union has said all along that the deal to go shelly but made that's the deal and that's it do you know again in u.k. parliamentarians do they realize they are fact. yes but i think that they've also got quite
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a clear message from the rest of the european union that if there is a fundamental reason for a delay that's to say either a general election or. a second vote a referendum or even perhaps this simply isn't time to get the legislation through parliament those are all valid reasons to delay the date of actually leaving the european union from march the twenty ninth and i think in those circumstances that would be acceptable it's still got to be a unanimous vote of the other twenty seven but i think that's more likely what i don't think they would do is say ok you can have more time to try to resolve the internal divisions of the government of the british conservative party that i think they would just put their foot out and say forget it yeah it's a an issue that remains unresolved that is for sure quintile feller with chatham house joining us tonight from london when as always we appreciate your insights
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thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world almost fifty migrants who were stranded on two rescue ships in the mediterranean last month have arrived in malta the island in the rest of the e.u. had earlier agreed that the migrants would be transferred to locations in eight eight you countries along with around two hundred fifty other rescued mike is a former israeli minister is going to prison for eleven years after pleading guilty to spying for iran. agreed to the sentence as part of a plea bargain served as energy minister in the one nine hundred ninety s. he was convicted of smuggling chocolate covered ecstasy pills into israel in two thousand and five. german prosecutors are questioning the nature of an attack on the member of parliament freight magnets on his far right alternative for germany party insists that a weapon was used in that attack but prosecutors say magnets sustained his injuries when he fell to the ground after being attacked by three men earlier this week.
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a court it is stamboul has sentenced a reporter who works for d w news to thirteen months in prison. was convicted for insulting and slandering a public official of those charges came from her reporting on the panama papers and the former turkish prime minister's ties to offshore tax havens the international consortium of investigative journalist has condemned the sentence as yet another disgraceful attack on free speech in turkey. usually pailin writes about other people and their stories now she's making headlines herself after being sentenced to jail for defamation an insult and slandering a public official. in the big three addiction i expected this verdict because here in turkey as a journalist i always have one foot in jail i'm not the only one many reporters are in the same position so we try not to let it get us down and we just carry on doing
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our job. she was the up my show. has been reporting for turkish service since last year. before that she was part of the international network of investigative journalists who analyzed and published the so-called paradise papers . leaks confidential documents revealing the offshore accounts of politicians business people and multinational companies who are avoiding taxes and sometimes evading them. during her research found an alleged connection to the family of the former turkish prime minister yielded them and wrote articles about it for the turkish daily newspaper john kerry it yielded room sued her. assemble the goods the yanking the this is an attempt to intimidate not me personally or my articles but the whole journalism profession. by larry up with the message is if you report freely you will be punished. that's the situation
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for journalists here in turkey if they didn't say that. she may have been sentenced but not in prison yet she wants to appeal and while her case continues she hopes she will be able to focus on writing stories again instead of being the center of attention herself. where tonight the democratic republic of congo is on edge of the worries are set to announce the results from last month's presidential election in about two hours from now but government opponents say that the election was deeply flawed they say that the outgoing leader joseph kabila wants to stage manage a handover of power to his preferred candidate. for the moment this building is the focus of attention in the congolese capital the country's electoral commission inside officials are evaluating the presidential ballot results which they were supposed to announce last sunday outside riot police are erecting barriers the
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security presence in kinshasa has been stepped up and nervous locals say that's not a good sign. saying elise barry is it's clear the electoral commission doesn't need or want to give us the name of the person who was elected. to repair the transfer of power in a civilized way so people don't die when they announce the results so no blood is shed we're tired of that. this ballot was meant to usher in the first democratic transfer of power in congress fifty nine years of independence both local observers say they were major regularities one of the opposition front runners martin for you lou has made this threat against the election commission. if the proclaimed results are not lawful we will release own figures already known
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by the electoral commission international observers african observers and local observers is. the. congo was rocked by violence after of in two thousand and six twenty eleven now there are real fears of more instability. or heavy snow fall in avalanches in austria and germany have claimed at least five wide strained services and road access have been disrupted warned that the avalanche risk in the alps remains high some communities have been cut off completely 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 the thought is of
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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 no 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 south's 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 because if it did that means the fish need biggest danger is the smell does not really compact is that more and more builds up until it's released. and you could have possibly fatal consequences. that's the same fatality
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a commando it's. this little improvement in prospect more snow and storms the full cost of the weekend. mark swartz news now in the balls asian cup was back to stand edged out oman with a late goal the seal a two one victory meanwhile four time champions japan battled back from a goal down to beat turkmenistan three two thanks to a brace from braman striker you go suckle and qatar post today to know when against eleven on that after a scoreless first half. of announced that they will sign it france or world cup defender benjamin pub ard from stuttgart in july it is the start of what could be a busy transfer window for the bundesliga champions with youth very much the name of the game. by and try and say hello to benjamin pav on well in july at least the twenty two year old will join at the end of the season from start got where he's been playing since twenty sixteen to steady seasons with
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stuttgart where followed by his breakthrough at the world cup in russia his goal of the tournaments down argentina on route to his friend citing lifting the trophy in . my own boss is a shelling out a report it's thirty five million euros. this is. is a really good player who can play in lots of different positions he's a world champion and we're very happy that we have by and have been able to get him and then have to buy and give him. the impact of england teenager jayden sand show i'd been this legally distraught memphis has alerted by and two other young english talents struggling to get a game in the foreignness have traded premier league chelsea forward callum hearts no draw is very much a buy on target. and what i can say about calum hood synagog is that we like the player a lot and we have
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a big interest in signing him beyond that we'll see that is it. for now by an half world champion pavel reading in the wings. to rock royalty on the seventy fifth birthday of jimmy page the former led zeppelin guitarist is pulling out a lot of candles today as he celebrates a monstrous career in rock n roll age found example in back in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight unleashing a juggernaut that transformed rock music and set a new benchmark for hedonistic excess we also wrote some of the most memorable rock songs in the process. stairway to heaven and perhaps the most famous guitar solo in the rock. rolling stone magazine ranked jimmy page heard in the list of the one hundred best guitarists in music history some even credit jimmy page with having invented hard rock he got his first
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guitar at age twelve he taught himself to play by practicing day and nights. and i was in the habit of taking the guitar to school and you know sort of practicing. in his early twenties page worked as a session guitarist playing with eric clapton the kinks the who and for the yardbirds and the rolling stones in one nine hundred sixty eight at the age of twenty four he founded led zeppelin he hired single robert plant bassist john paul jones and drama john boehner. in the years that followed that zeppelin would become one of the most influential and innovative bands in rock history. in the early ninety's seventy's the band was catapulted into the world of rock superstardom their lives played out exclusively on stage in private jets and in hotel rooms hard drugs and fast living took the toll jimmy page became addicted to
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heroin then in nine hundred eighty excessive alcohol consumption led to the death of the band's drummer john bonham. in the wake of this tragedy the band decided to call it quits. as part of led zeppelin jimmy page wrote music history the band is his life's work and now at age seventy five he still tends it's a legacy. from serial way to heaven the stairway to trade held somewhere that's really great how that could perhaps again dead a little bit better because now we've heard that u.s. negotiators at least say china has promised to purchase
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a substantial amount of american goods that could lead to an end of the trade war but we've heard this before it follows two days of trade talks between the two nations investors are celebrating the news as they are monitoring the negotiations for signs of an actual deal to prevent further tariffs the u.s. statement mentioned only that the chinese were set to buy more from the iraq cultural energy and manufacturing sectors it's unclear if there's been any agreement on intellectual property theft. 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's a desire to forge ahead and make
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a better trade situation than before. the french back toward tobacco shop has been an institution in france for generations but since the start of the new year quite a few of them have added a decidedly more millennial feature alongside tobacco and lottery tickets customers can now purchase big coin in their neighborhood tobacco shop. it seems like there's one on every corner in french cities letter back or the tobacco shop now the small stores are selling big cones vouchers can be bought at the counter and later redeemed for the crypto currency the only restriction the buyer must be at least eighteen years old. to google because i want to move it's much more advantageous in terms of prices and it's easier in terms of transaction at least you're not giving your bank card details to malicious websites. so this is well beyond. the new business is a joint effort by french financial startup to pluck and the association of tobacco
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retailers around four thousand stores are already on board and many more are expected to take part to play it hopes to help it cohen recover from its collapse in the last year a lot of people now know and for why are interested in bitcoin but don't know how to buy it even online it's quite complicated even if even a bit coin concept and luck chain is quite complicated and then buying or or purchasing vetoing is if it's another step off of complication store owners are also banking on the new business they hope bitcoin can help make up for diminishing tobacco sales. it's a profit is a we already sell a lot of other things apart from tobacco we do money transfers we sell a lot of telephone related stuff we sell credit to buy things on amazon or other shopping websites and i think big coin goes well with the products we already offer people position of course making big coins more accessible does not automatically
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mean that they will become more acceptable to skeptics of digital currencies. protests in bangladesh are keeping our storages busy as workers are demanding better working conditions the government recently increased to the minimum wage but the raise is not enough according to unions some textile factory owners aren't passing the rays on to their employees for their infuriating the country's workforce. 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 have been injured in the exchanges so far along with twelve policeman. in 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
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just eight thousand taka around ninety five dollars a month the strike and protesters want more. and we're demanding twenty six 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. to turkey now a country where the president recently built a one thousand room palace but that privilege is not only for the head of state if you want to you can buy a palace and turkey too will take you to the northwest of the country about halfway between istanbul and the capital ankara that's where the city of mood annoys locate it it's booming economy actually inspired an investor to pump in millions into a development to attract big spender but it has become a real estate nightmare. it's
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a touch of disneyland deep in the ruled province of bull in northwestern turkey hundreds of little castles in fact luxury houses with pointy towers and fairy tale charm if it wasn't for the barbed wire and the fact that they're all empty and just aren't selling situated halfway between istanbul and ankara the region is popular with tourists who like hiking in the vast forests here and turkish developer spend over one hundred million dollars building homes for arab customers who say that i'm isn't. the inspiration for the project came from our work in kuwait and the gulf countries we talk with our customers there and came up with more than one design based on their demands the choice in the end was for a design like this. is a view of the sort of the one of the outcome is certainly
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a matter of taste the economic situation in turkey is clearly bad the economy is retracting dilli rough falling few people here are willing to spend up to five hundred thousand dollars for a villa. that puts measure yeah dylan in a bind his satellite group is seeking bankruptcy protection he says local factors are to blame for the sake of the work. which this project is three kilometers from the city center in an area that's not suitable for agriculture but despite up painting all the approvals and permission for this project we've seen a lot of bad press that has pitted the locals against us. indeed many here don't like that castles. we don't want these properties here we don't want those houses decided to be sold to foreigners. it
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seems the foreigners won't be coming after all for years the housing market in turkey was strong now it seems too many homes have been built hard times for the construction sector adding to the region's economic woes. i don't know if i would feel like a king with so many neighbors there watching the news from berlin we're going to go on a break when we come back brant going to be back to take you through the day stay tuned for.
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