news. business t 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 a divorce deal she's expected to make a last ditch call to lawmakers to back her on or get her exit plan or risk catastrophic no deal breaks also coming up austria and germany brace for more extreme weather emergency crews caring for up to a meter of fresh snow that's as the death toll from winter storms keeps promising.

and u.s. ambassador to germany issues a stark warning to german companies stop working on a controversial gas pipeline linking germany to russia or face american sanctions. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us british prime minister theresa may is about to make a final appeal to lawmakers today to back her unpopular deal to leave the european union the deal is expected to be defeated in a vote in parliament to morrow in a speech later today may well say that m.p.'s have a duty to implement the results of the referendum she will also say that people's faith in democracy will suffer what she calls catastrophic farm if lawmakers fail to support with the agreement this is how in a moment we'll have more on the view of bragg's it for. i'm here in germany but

first a look at how tensions are threatening to boil over on the streets of london. they outside parliament every day trying to sway politicians but then 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 bricks and 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 in a deal almost every economic model says the g.d.p. will go down do you think it's a prize worth paying yeah with the british people i think we can do it and country

i think we can definitely survive. but if you show you are 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. around the corner office courage the motorist to show their support. they are convinced even if may's agreement doesn't get approved there will be some form of cooperation between london and. 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 the cars you don't you don't need to do you can imagine the heads of say he spends b.m.w. vote for going to now day except during britain some new putting one hundred percent tariff on their cars that turn around the chancellor and say no we want a deal to mark same with 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 the trailer. for now we're joined here in the studio by daniel tetlow he's co-founder of british in germany that's a group campaigning for the rights of u.k. citizens here in germany good to have you with us daniel now with or without a deal britain is due to leave the european union at the end of march and that will change the status of e.u. citizens living in britain but also of u.k. citizens living in the e.u. what will breaks it mean for u.k. nationals living in e.u. member states. right now we don't know exactly what it will mean because it all depends on the outcome of the next two months british and germany is a citizens' rights organization that represents one hundred seventeen thousand brits living in germany and we need some kind of clarity about saw future the

moment we are living in limbo we are wracked with uncertainty many of our members are writing to us day in day out about their personal situations be it that spouses potentially will not be able to return to the u.k. with them be it a loss of freedom of movement which is going to completely change that livelihoods they income all sorts of situations that will contracts will well potentially at the moment people are being discriminated against in the effort in terms of their future work contracts because e.u. employees feel they haven't got the security they need to know that they're going to be employable post breck's it whatever that means so we're in a real desperate state of limbo right now so there's a lot of uncertainty a lot of anxiety both among the u.k. citizens here and the people who employ them and have to work with them do you think the british government is doing enough to address the concerns of its

citizens who are left in the e.u. well treason ma'am michel barnier both sides of the negotiating table said that a good breakfast would be a breakthrough that didn't affect citizens' rights at the moment we're going to be spectacularly affected not just brits living in the e.u. but also brits living in the u.k. brits living in the u.k. which is the other side of the story will also have their freedom of movement rights restricted they will not be able to live and work across the e.u. and that is a side of the story is often not told. u.k. nationals here in berlin have been assured by the berlin government of continued residency in the event of a no deal scenario for the really have anything to worry about. that's right i mean we feel the german government of dealt with this with a lot of consideration and they have said that we in the situation will we will brits be asked to leave germany with a deal or no deal and today in the budget stuff for the very first time britain in

germany british and germany has been asked to give expert evidence to a bundestag german government select committee about sa situation and where and continued negotiation with both the berlin federal government but also the german government about our future status obviously with the the unknown unknowns of the coming few days with breaks it less than than three months away now what it buys are you offering u.k. nationals here on the continent in even member states what are you telling we're telling them to keep an eye on british and europe's website to keep an eye on british and german his website british and german old british in europe dot org to see what the the changes are going to how the change is going to impact their lives . and we come paining for their futures to be much more

basic to continue as they were previously and we'll continue to do that but we fully understand just how insecure just how wracked with. lack of knowledge about the future state is how difficult that situation is and that's why our organization exists and you thank you very much for talking with us this morning daniel tetlow from british in germany. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today indonesian authorities say they have found the cock pit 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 at the seabed location. the far right alternative for germany party says it will campaign for germany to leave the european union if the e.u. doesn't undertake drastic reforms germany's largest opposition party is holding a conference near the eastern city of dresden outside the venue police kept

hundreds of left wing protesters at the. prime minister alexis tsipras says he will call a confidence vote in parliament after his defense minister resigned all stems from a deal to end a long running dispute with neighboring macedonia over its name. coming to us and his party are part of sequences alliance who support is needed to approve the deal that will give you the mayor of the polish city if it is in a critical condition after being stabbed at a charity event and then rushed on to the stage and knifed pawel out i'm ovitz he's a leading figure in poland saw physician movement that grew out of the solidarity trade union in the one nine hundred eighty s. sunday's event was part of a national campaign to raise funds to provide medical equipment for hospitals. guys talked about moments before the attack america done praising the fundraising effort

for children in need as a demo of it looked out at thousands of people. lunged at him with a knife. he's in. the attack and then remained on stage shouting that he blamed the mess form a party for wrongfully imprisoning him. before he was tackled to the ground. he was holding a knife in his right hand and yelled that he'd spent five years in jail because of the mayor's old party. he said his name that he'd been in prison and was tortured we don't know how he managed to get on the stage. police have arrested the suspect who they said was a twenty seven year old with a wreck order violent crime. is not. our priority is finding out where the pair pre-treat are could get so close to the mayor we knew he

used to pass that said press on it. a time of it she was rushed to hospital in a critical condition with wounds to the heart and abdomen and underwent hours of surgery poland has been left in shock by the attack on this popular politician. well the two hundred fifty soldiers and firefighters have been deployed to dig out a ski resort in austria the operation comes as alpine regions struggle to cope with record snow balls trips are going to help uncover the town of congo where it has been snowing nonstop for more than seven days the town was a back you waited already a week ago urgency workers say the mission is dangerous as the risk of avalanche is at its highest level. our reporter m e n s if is traveling the alps covering the snow chaos there for ascent he joins us today from the town of into

a towel on in austria about fifty kilometers south of solace for you what's the snow situation right now in austria. well terry as you can see it snowed again last night it's snowing right now nobody knows when this is going to let up and there are about seventeen thousand people in austria right now that are snowed in that means they're completely cut off from the outside world i'm not one of these places right now ober tower and one of the most popular ski resorts in austria as you can see the road is closed here they just let in some emergency personnel so that means the road is passable the reason they've closed it is because of the weight of trees could cause that there's the danger of the trees snapping falling on the road some trees fell last night i've heard that also the danger of avalanches were in the mountains right now there are slopes out here and the avalanche warning level is four out of five now up at the ski resort people are still skiing. we talked to the. authorities up there and they said that it is safe

to ski if you stay on the slopes don't go off the slopes and of course don't drive on this road right now because of the danger of avalanches and the three thousand people who are up there they're not permanently closed in they usually open the roads for a few hours a day to let people out but again it's not because of the possibility of the roads it's because of the danger of avalanches and trees fall but this is an extreme situation there i mean how are authorities dealing with that i understand there's already been a number of fatalities. that's right. yeah just yesterday three germans were killed and i will ensure there was a rescue mission that they had to call off because of the dangerous conditions in the snow i actually spent a day with the austrian military they told me that they are working around the clock to deal with the situation they're prepared to go out on emergency search and rescue missions they're clearing roads clearing grooves they also have three

helicopters there but they can use on rescue missions and they also use those to down watch trees like what i was explaining earlier with the trees i collect snow they get heavy and they could snap off helicopters hover over that creating a wind that blows the snow off but it's it's not certain that they can do that right now because the trees are extremely wet because of the wet snow that has fallen in the last day. briefly is there any relief in sight what's the forecast. well the forecast is more snow it could rain again there could be sun tomorrow in some places don't forget every place in austria is different because of the mountainous regions but rain and sun does not mean good news for a lot of places the snow will sit on roofs get heavier with the rain could make the roofs collapse if they're not cleared off but hopefully this will let up soon. it's weather so there's really no telling any and thank you so much for bringing us up

to date amy and surf there in austria. well it's been nearly five years since thailand's army took control of that country following a political crisis military leaders have been promising to return to civilian rule ever since but now they pushed back the date for elections yet again just one month before they were due to take place that's brought people out onto the streets of bangkok the w.'s bastion heartache was there to hear their demands for. they've had enough enough of thailand's military rulers enough of seeing their rights curtailed enough of 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 by the last five years

without any you know good governance on any no opposition like in the parliament so the way the election is very important for thailand not only to go back to democracy but also do this on 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 were prohibited by the strict assembly a lot of that's military 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 again if that is what it is. it's right on this day and. not that he's.

like. that's put me off on the kill. but these time. kooks aren't keeping 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. it's hard to report him there well 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 criticised the project on social media us as long opposed to north stream saying it undermines european security. or more doubts 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 yet this is being reported in the zone talk one of the big some of the newspapers published yesterday and he seems to have written the german firms involved in the north stream. project the big ones have been to holland unit but there are a number of other specialists. and obviously if they were blocked from working on this project it could have a big be a big problem because difficult to find alternatives to you know firms that specialize in undersea engineering what is sadie's essentially that these firms are undermining the security over ukraine and europe as he as he puts it if they if they get involved in this project so it's a pretty serious warning 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 what the united states along with several european countries as well i should point out opposes this project because they say that it essentially hands 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 for ukraine is bad for some other countries like poland where gasoline flows and so that's that's one certainly 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 on and why he has got it he could 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 jim companies should still doing business in iran immediately that was seen as a sort of pretty tough intervention in relation to the iran question and 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 young the australian open tennis tournament is underway and former champion maria sharapova has shown no mercy against british qualifier harriet dart

sharp over one six six love in just over an hour meantime germany's really count the number two seed cruised easily past libyan ias paulo not how it's all about won the tournament in two thousand and sixteen on the men's side world number two rafael nadal struggled against australia as james duckworth before winning in three sets. phil 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 were a fatal crash inside the stadium left ninety six people dead the trial comes after a long campaign to fight a police cover up david duncan field was the commander on the day of the tragedy he faces multiple charges of gross negligence and manslaughter and has pleaded not guilty to all counts. well some fresh economic figures from china

are out this morning and markets are not happy go hot that's right terry hong kong hong kong's hung saying index for example is down this morning offered to much that china's exports dropped by more than four percent to december compared to the same period a year earlier it's the biggest drop in two years china's global trade also signed last year according to chinese customs figures fox crucially china's trade with the u.s. jumped more than seventeen percent from two feels that u.s. president donald trump might feel the need to crank up the heat of the simmering fried conflict between the world's two biggest economies china's weaker imports also worry analysts raising concern. with 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 flocking i phone sales in the world's second largest economy shares in other companies heavily invested in china also dropped after word got out that demand to softening the global economy only nine 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 this. bring in our correspondent elizabeth cohen and from. there why are china's economic figures so important well china is such a big player in the global economy that it's we really have to pay attention to every move i think in the chinese economy and a considerable one turd 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. over there have long been doubts whether chinese economic figures are actual representations representation of the chinese economy are they politically skewed. well there are some questions about this i think. there 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 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

discrepancy of these discrepancies and whether the sell. well at the moment i think economists are sort of really looking out at the data that's in hand you know i mean i think the economy is it seems to be slowing when you're you know you 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. if it's going to end 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 uncertainty over brags it was the main reason only last week the head of the city of london corporation said no deal breaks it could spawn chaos in the stock markets and up to twelve thousand jobs and all the. consultancy firm

says that banks and money managers are already planning to move one trillion dollars worth of assets from the u.k. to other parts of. that's all your business here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you. british prime minister tourism may is to make a final plea for support for your goals to a promised vote in parliament on tuesday she's perspective there could be no great set of soul if the deal is rejected by law. you're watching news from more news coming at the top of the hour. that's more news on the website of course that's developing news dot com funny you very much for watching overfishing africa's great lakes the next all documentary.

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