berlin metropolis of crime. starts january twenty ninth on d w. this is d w news coming to you live from berlin pressure builds on british prime minister theresa may a day ahead of a crunch vote in parliament on her brakes of divorce deal she's expected to make a last ditch call to lawmakers to back her unpopular exit plan or risk there being no brakes and all that she says if you catastrophic enough you can call also coming

up all street in germany brace for more extreme weather emergency crews are caring for up to a meter of fresh snow that says the death toll from winter storms keeps rising. and the u.s. some bastard to germany issues a stark warning to german companies stopped working on a controversial gas pipeline linking russia to germany or face american sanctions. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us for this prime minister theresa may is urging u.k. lawmakers to support her european union divorce deal just a day before it faces likely defeat in parliament she says failing to back the deal would be catastrophic for the country britain is due to leave the e.u. on march twenty ninth but still hasn't finalized the terms of departure. have

a critic crucial week for the u.k. simmering tensions among pro and anti breaks that supporters show signs of boiling over at the weekend i think is a rancor of pro and anti bragg's of protesters has become too much to contain demonstrators on both sides who are high visibility jackets and an imitation of the french yet of s. movement their anger was directed at the british prime minister. was the. was. which choose days parliamentary vote looming to reason they pleaded with m.p.'s in britain's sunday express news paper to back her brags a deal she wrote it's time to forget the games and do what's right for our country u.k. opposition labor leader jeremy corbin said his party was determined to avoid the u.k. crashing out of the european union i would rather get negotiate a deal now for we can to stop the danger of a no deal an exit from me on the twenty not so much which would be catastrophic for

industry catastrophic for trade and the long term effects of that would be huge we will do everything we can to prevent a no deal exit and it's cities like sunderland where those possible catastrophic economic effects could have their most profound impact heavily dependent on the nissen carmaker plant a decision by the company to shift production to another country could be devastating for the city despite the majority of voters casting their ballot in favor of leaving the e.u. patience appears to be wearing thin. on the. boats if she wants to stay in it. boat ah just wanted to be. sick. but apart from. i just don't know what's going on and it will.

change in. time is taking on britain's exit from the european union but many political hurdles have yet to be cleared. and joined now in studio by daniel tetlow he's co-founder of british in germany that's a k. a group campaigning for the rights of u.k. citizens here in germany good to have you with us this morning daniel with or without a deal britain is due to leave the european union the end of march that will change the status of e.u. citizens living in the u.k. and of u.k. citizens living in e.u. member states can you tell us what it will mean for u.k. citizens like yourself living here in on the constant. or british in germany is a campaign's organization standing up for british citizens living in germany part of an umbrella organization called british in europe which covers around one point

two million british citizens living in the e.u. right now and we don't know exactly what the outcome will be of course and therefore we don't know exactly how that's going to affect us status with confusion so what do you know yet we do know that before the brics it talks began both sides michelle bonnie ray and trees may said that that goal was that british citizens would not be affected by this that they would continue living their lives as before and we know that even with that deal all with the worse outcome of a no deal that will not be the case lives are going to change with the present present suggestions both of a deal or no deal do you think the british government is doing enough to address the concerns of people like yourself and the people you represent here in member states after breakfast. we feel that. because of the.

the the the status that e.u. citizens in the u.k. were given. this second status at that's had a big knock on effect as to the way in which e.u. citizens. in which the e.u. is treated u.k. citizens in the e.u. we're in a constant state of limbo a constant state of uncertainty i've just we're getting thousands and thousands of responses all the time in requests from british people across germany asking what can we do if i may just give you a quick call that was going to be my question what advice are you giving to people who are contacting you know lisa for instance contacted us just a couple of days ago saying hello i've been living in germany now since two thousand and fourteen registered officially in january two thousand and sixteen i have asperger's syndrome but unfortunately i never applied for a choice bandages oust vice or disabled pass as i don't feel myself disabled

anymore especially now his living in germany just caused me great anxiety but in germany i have finally find finally found a country where i feel at home i can fit in to some degree in germany they prefer directness reliability and being hardworking so i fit in here ok i am full time employment is almost finished and i have a permanent a social housing association spillane i don't have problems of the german language but please tell me will i be able to stay in germany when i have to the national stage it's a question of the such anxiety about people's positions here ok daniel afraid we're going to have to leave it there. daniel thank you so much for talking with us that was daniel co-founder of british in germany. well as the vote on the brakes deal looms both sides of the political to bother mobilizing outside the houses of parliament in london they include remainders who want to overturn the referendum but also leaders who say may's deal is a betrayal of what they voted for our london correspondent sent us this report.

they are outside parliament every day trying to sway politicians but they are no longer alone enough a campaign started its own protest action tensions are clearly running high in westminster we've had these pro european protesters here for months now it's a new phenomenon just a few meters down the road with people who are actually protesting for breaks it. they're not as numerous as the pro europeans but they're equally determined. these pricks at campaigners are afraid that politicians might decide on a soft breaks it keeping too many ties to the e.u. they want to cut loose completely we can definitely survive and i do almost every economic model says the g.d.p. will go down do you think it's a prize worth paying yeah we're the first people i think we can do it and persons

a strong country i think we can definitely survive. punishment usually wrong you know they're not always right they always say things which are not right and maybe this time they're wrong as well. yeah around the corner other courage of motorists to show their support. but. they are convinced even if mays agreement doesn't get approved there will be some form of cooperation between london and the e.u. . we don't have to have a deal to sell things to germany i will say i have an audi car it's very old but i have an audi car i will still buy out he cars you don't you don't need a dealer told you can imagine the heads of say he spends b.m.w. vote for going to nowadays except in britain suddenly putting one hundred percent tariff on a cause that turnaround the chancellor and say no we want a deal to mark same to the french wine producers or italian wine producers it's not

since there will be a trade deal no matter what that's the firm belief of the sleeve campaign us but what's most important to them britain needs to get out and fast than anything else in monster to try and. take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today indonesian authorities say they have found the cockpit voice recorder from the lion air jet which crashed into the java sea last october killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board officials say human remains were also discovered on the sea bed. the mayor of the polish city of people. sked is in critical condition after being stabbed in front of thousands of people a man rushed the stage and stabbed. with a sharp object during the final analysis a large charity. more than two hundred fifty soldiers and firefighters have been deployed to dig out

a ski resort in austria the operation comes as helpline regions struggle to cope with record snow falls the troops are going to help uncover the town of hawk where it has been snowing nonstop for more than seven days a town was evacuated a week ago emergency workers say the mission is dangerous as the risk of avalanche is at its highest level. while helicopters are playing an important role in those snowed up alpine regions and not just in rescuing people did amy an s if is in southern austria and he explained why the helicopter is one of the most powerful tools in combating severe winter weather. here in the military base they're working around the clock to deal with the snow chaos in the area there's three hundred soldiers dedicated to clearing roofs with shovels to make sure that the roots don't cave in in this area but one of the best tools against snow is the helicopter this base has three helicopters and this is the blackhawk it's austria's

largest military helicopter now what they use helicopters for is several things one is to check out the avalanche situation to make sure there's no danger of avalanches and in the case of a dangerous situation they can even explode the snow to create a controlled avalanche another reason they use it is a thing called down washing now what this is is they hover above tree tops that are covered in snow to shake off the snow and make sure the tree does not snap and fall on power lines or streets now the situation is getting better not worse we told talked to a military commander who said he's never seen anything like this and it's entire career but the military told us that they have it under control and they're hoping for the best. you know he has a mean s. if they're reporting from austria well it's been nearly five years since thailand's army took control of the country following a political crisis military leaders have been promising a return to civilian rule ever since but now they pushed back the date for

elections yes again just one month before they were due to take place that's brought people out onto the streets of bangkok g.w.s. posture and heartache was there to hear their democrats. they've had enough enough of thailand's military rulers enough of seeing their rights curtailed enough and promised elections being pushed back time and time again. now these protesters in the heart of bangkok say they won't back down until the government makes good on its promise to let the people have their say we're living with the parliament that has no opposition opposition for the last five years without any you know good governance r. and eat no opposition liking in the parliament so the this election is very important but hyla not only to go back to democracy but also to spawn the country back again after five years and to get their rights as citizens back in the past

five years the military government has used its powers to stop critics from speaking out. until recently protests like this one where prohibited by the strict assembly lot of that's good terry dictatorship put in place now that law has been lifted but in spite of that demonstrators are still telling me that they're being harassed by the authorities that if i can do that in this business. and it's right on this day and. not that he's. like. just put me on the. you know get him out of anything. but these tactics are keeping the activists away they're afraid the government could play for time until the election deadline. constitution expires then there would be no

telling when tide's would get to vote again. washington's ambassador to berlin has issued a stark warning to german companies over a controversial pipeline that would supply russian gas to germany while bypassing eastern european countries richard grinnell reportedly wrote to several companies involved in the construction of the north stream two pipeline reminding them of u.s. sanctions on the russian energy sector also criticized project on social media the us has long opposed north stream saying it undermines european security. or else bring in our political correspondent simon young simon who exactly is did the us ambassador write to regarding these possible sanctions and what was in the

letter yeah this is been reported in the build them zone talk one of the big sunday newspapers published yesterday and he seems to have written the german firms involved in the new and stream. project the big ones of into unit but there are a number of other specialists. and obviously if they will block from working on this project it could have a big be a big problem because difficult to find alternatives to do you know firms that specialize in on the c. engineering what he said he's essentially that these firms are undermining the security over ukraine and europe is he as he puts it if they if they get involved in this project so it's a pretty serious warning felt this project. just remind our viewers it's already underway it's a multi billion euro pipeline the construction is is already moving forward why would the u.s. want to slap sanctions on firms involved in this pipeline well the united states

along with several european countries as well i should point out opposes this project because they say that it essentially hands power and leverage to russia because of the issue of the way the gas flows through europe a lot of it currently comes through the crane that would be so that means that this project essentially bad the ukraine is back to some other countries like poland where gasoline. and so that's that's one solely debate the other thing is people point out that america may well be keen to sell its shale gas to europe although it's difficult to do that the moment because it's quite expensive now presumably the u.s. investor in writing these letters is doing that with the approval of the trumpet ministration but the ambassador himself has ruffled quite a few feathers during his time as ambassador news got a lot of scorn for that what else is riling the germans all the while he has got it

he's got a track record mr grinnell just as soon as he took up the job of the ambassador in berlin he yet within a week was annoying people here because he said he tweeted that german companies should still doing business in iran immediately that was seen as a sort of pretty tough intervention in relation to the wrong question he's also said that he sees one of his talks as empowering europe's right wing governments so some pretty controversial statements that he's made in the past as you might expect from a close confidant of donald trump simon thank you so much t w political correspondent simon yo. now almost thirty years on from the deadly hillsborough stadium disaster in england the police commander who was in charge faces trial starting today hillsborough remains the worst stadium related disasters in english history where a fatal crush inside the stadium left ninety six liverpool supporters dead the

trial comes after a long term pain to fight police coverup david duncan field was the commander on the day of the tragedy he faces multiple charges of gross negligence manslaughter and has pleaded not guilty to all. some tennis news now an australian open the australian open is underway and former champion maria sharapova has shown no mercy against british qualifier harriet darts sharp over one six love six love in just over an hour open is the first grand slam tennis tournament of the year and it will have special meaning for some of the big names germany's undulate cowboy hopes another try it down under constituent her the world number one spot for andy murray it could be the end of a glittering career and roger federer is hoping to defend his title at the ripe old age of thirty seven roger federer boasts ninety nine korea titles

a men's recalled twenty first grand slam success in a strain would make him the first man to reach a century in the a.t.p. era. yeah i mean look ninety nine is going credible number i could live happily ever after with ninety nine two but if you're so close to knowing that i'm going to be playing to seasoned you know i'll give it a go but the defending champion will face competition from a resurgent novak djokovic. and old rival rafa nadal. andy murray has also long been part of the big fall. but he safely announced that injury means this might be his final tournament. german twenty one year old alexander spann i've waits in the wings for his first grand slam title. among the women caroline wozniacki is defending the crown she won last january the dane believes she's well primed to add to her so grand slam trophy it's amazing i think

you know it's something i've always hoped for and trapped off and then being back here it just feels so great i feel like the first time i came in and ahead on the course i think ok i feel at home i feel good i feel like these courts are suited for me serena williams is looking to equal the record of twenty four grand slam singles titles but needs to avoid the meltdown which cost a last year's u.s. open world number one simona halep has a tough draw well germany's angelica campbell is looking to kick on after winning wimbledon last year the battle is on to stop wozniacki sailing away with another title just a quick update on the australian open julie compass has won for best match for let's get some business news now and there's some rough news coming out of china in terms of its economic data that's right terry hong kong's hang seng index is down

this morning after the merge that china's exports dropped by more than four percent in december compared to the same period a year it it's the biggest drop in two years china's global trade plus also signed last year according to chinese customs figures boss crucially china's trade surplus with the u.s. jumped by more than seventeen percent from six fears that u.s. president donald trump might feel the need to crank up the heat in the simmering trade conflict between the world's two biggest economies china's weaker imports also worry analysts raising concerns the world economy might be on track for a slowdown. signs of an economic slowdown in china have been hard to me if and since the beginning of the year the effects are being felt elsewhere to. in britain last week jack your landrover said it's causing four thousand five hundred jobs due to a dramatic drop off in sales in china. there was also

a sharp selloff on global equity markets when apple issued a profit warning to you to flogging i phone sales in the world's second largest economy shares in other companies heavily invested in china also dropped after word got i that demand is softening the global economy only now seems to be waking up to the fact that growth is slowing fast in china. g.d.p. growth by some accounts will drop to just over six percent by next year china will remain a fast growing economy compared to many other nations but a slowdown now means a lot more than it would have a couple of decades ago that's because back then china surging economy a kind of for only a small part of global economic performance but today it's nearly twenty percent that means china's growth doesn't have to cool too much before things get really haase in the countries who do business with us. bring in our correspondent

elizabeth cohen and from. there why are china's economic figures so important. well china is such a big player now in the global economy that it's we really have to pay attention to every move i think in the chinese economy that accounts for about one third of of global growth. in twenty seventeen i think that because it's such a big manufacturing producer and so important to european economies including germany we have to pay attention to every move. they have long been doubts where the chinese economic figures are actual representations representation of the chinese economy although politically skewed. well there are some questions about this i think. there are probably are subliminal considerations in some in some areas there were. a couple of that principle a couple of provinces said recently that they they had they had been over over

a showing overplaying their hand a little bit on the economic data but the national bureau of statistics also tried tries to sort of even at these these figures so i think economists well they recognize that there are some blips there and i think that overall they think that they are pretty pretty reliable. at the same time with the trade war going on with the u.s. at the moment and there must be some sort of political influence going on to try and present a more positive picture and the initial days we got today was showing that imports and exports actually rose. to their strongest for seven years and it was only in the second set of data that we got and use that december was was was down so low so overall i think we have to just work with the data that we have. are there any real discraft obvious discrepancies and what are the sell. well

at the moment i think economists are sort of. really looking out at the data that's it in and out of hand you know i mean i think the economy is it seems to be slowing when you're you know you know you can experience a slowdown in particular in southern china in manufacturing. but i think. in terms of finding real major discrepancies it's still quite difficult. to fit conan and at beijing thank you very much. a survey by the british business lobby group c.b.i. shows that demand for britain's financial services sector has dropped for the first time in five years on sudden breaks it was cited the main reason only last week the head of the city of london corporation said no deal could spark chaos in the stock markets and london up to twelve thousand jobs and all the survey from the consultancy firm says that banks and money managers already planning to move one

trillion dollars worth of assets from the u.k. to other parts of europe. that's all your business here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you british prime minister to make a final full support before the divorce deal goes in palm and on tuesday he suspects it's a war could be told if the deal is rejected by lawmakers. on the verge of the crews in austria and germany are bracing for as much as another meter of snow at least twenty four people are believed to have died in weather related incidents across the region. we. do watching news from. outlook talk. yeah that's it from me for now focus on your next stay on the.

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