early metropolis of crime. starts january twenty ninth on g.w. . this is 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 unpopular exit plan or risk which she calls it have to stroll thinking no deal breakers also coming up austria and

germany brace for more extreme weather emergency crews are preparing for up to a meter of fresh snow and it says the death toll from winter storms keeps rising. below i'm terry march and thanks for joining us british prime minister theresa may is 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 boat in parliament tomorrow the country in a speech later today may well say that the members of parliament have a duty to implement the results of the referendum she will also say that people's faith in democracy will suffer what she described says catastrophic harm if lawmakers fail to support the agreement gray has also warned that if repeal is defeated it could result in like no brakes that our london correspondent big has

been talking just brags that supporters protesting outside the u.k. houses of parliament in west minister who are concerned about that. they 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 in a deal almost every economic model says the g.d.p.

will go down do you think it's a price worth paying yeah with the british people i think we can do it and freshens 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. around the corner other courage the motorist 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 because you don't you don't need a dealer told you can imagine the heads of say he spends b.m.w. volkswagen an audi except doing britain suddenly putting one hundred percent tariff on a cause that turnaround the chancellor and say no we want

a deal tomorrow 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 trail. let's get the perspective from brussels now i'm joined by our brussels correspondent matters from there again we're hearing this morning that the european union is trying to help theresa may get her brakes a deal through parliament tell us more. indeed they are there is a letter from the hats of the european commission of the european council that basically provides no new compromises but provides more promises more political assurances if you want that this backstop is not a trap for the u.k. to artificially keep the united kingdom northern ireland at tracks in the customs

union and parts of the internal market but it's really only a guarantee that there will be no hard border in northern ireland some here in brussels hope that may help to resolve may others have said look this isn't if we're honest the backstop isn't really the problem at the backs of sets the tracks for a soft bracks it and that is what's many years just don't want again or if british lawmakers vote against the brakes a deal and that's what they're expected to do one possible outcome is that the u.k. delays or seeks to delay its informal exit from the european union beyond the march twenty ninth deadline with the e.u. allow that. terry a few weeks that's not a nothing that's an open secret a few weeks are not the problem here the question is the point of this extension really if the point of the extension is to assure that there is no accidental breck's it because the ratification process of some sort of a deal hasn't been complied with and there's some still some technicalities that

need to be clarified a few weeks won't be the problem if it is the question for the delay of brecht's that there's some have said here now in brussels that could be political reasons so if the u.k. would say look we want to do another referendum which would be in the interest of the european union which the european union has always made clear they do want to keep the u.k. as part of this club then that is also a possibility but there is an ultimate deadline and that is midsummer because then the european elections will have taken place and of may and. and that the problem is that before the the constant should be for the final session before the first sitting of the european parliament that is really the ultimate deadline then the u.k. needs to have decided they want to be in or they want to be out thank you so much they that he is garrick my office there in brussels now some of the other stories making headlines today indonesian authorities say they have found the cockpit voice

recorder from the lion air jet that crashed into the java sea last october killing all one hundred eighty nine people on board although it's broken to pieces the recorder may still be useful in shedding light on the cause of the crash. an iranian military cargo plane has crashed near the country's capital tehran iran's army said fifteen of the sixteen people on board were killed in an aviation spokesman said the plane flying from kyrgyzstan overshot the runway and hit a building during landing after the pilot chose the wrong runway. and u.s. secretary of state michael peo is cutting short his middle east trip to return home for a family funeral after holding talks in saudi arabia peo and crown prince mohamed bin some on agreed on the importance of deescalating the war in yemen. becoming

greek prime minister alexis tsipras says he will call a confidence vote in parliament after his defense minister resigned over all stems from a deal to end a long running dispute with neighboring macedonia over its name come on the commandos and his party are a key part of the proceeds of the lions who support is needed to approve the deal and that will you know for years forty years the mayor of the polish city of six is in a critical condition after being stopped at a charity event hobble adama dave is a leading figure in poland's opposition movement of course is the city that gave birth to the solidarity trade union that brought an end to communist rule more than thirty years ago sunday's event was part of a nationwide campaign to raise funds to provide medical equipment for hospitals through. moments before the attack america dunst praising the fund raising effort for children in need as

a demo of it looked at thousands of people a man lunged at him with a knife. you know he's an idiot how to then remained on stage shouting that he blamed them as 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 in 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 has finally got tired the pair pre-treat or could get so close to the mayor we knew he used to pass that said press on a. dime of it was rushed to hospital in

a critical condition with wounds to the hearts and abdomen and underwent hours of surgery. and has been left in shock by the attack on this popular politician. well in two hundred fifty soldiers and firefighters have been deployed to take out a ski resort in austria the operation com says alpine regions struggled to cope with record snow falls the troops are going to help uncover the town of car where it's been snowing nonstop for more than seven days now the town was already evacuated a week ago emergency workers say the mission is dangerous as the risk about the latch is at its highest level. a reporter m e n s if is traveling the alps covering the snow chaos their forests and he joins us today from the town of towel on in austria about fifty kilometers south

of salt or any 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 over tower 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 a danger of the trees snapping falling on the road some trees fell last night i've heard but 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 are 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 and in how are authorities dealing with it i understand there's already been a number of fatalities. that's right. yeah just yesterday three germans were killed and avalanche there was a rescue mission that they had to call off because of the dangerous conditions in the snow actually spent a day with the austrian military they told me that they are working around the clock to deal with the situation that prepared to go out on emergency search and rescue missions they're clearing roads clearing routes and 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 see. 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 roof collapse if they're not cleared off but hopefully this will get up soon. it's weather so there's really no telling i mean thank you so much for bringing us up to date amy and surf there in austria.

in the australian open is underway former champion maria sharapova has show no mercy against british qualifier harriet dart sherpa one six love six love in just over an hour meantime germany's angela cabot the number two seed cruised easily past levine is polo in a how to talk caballe one to turn a mint in two thousand and sixteen and on the men's side world number two rafael nadal struggled a bit against australia is james duckworth before winning in three sets. well wolf thirty years on from the deadly hillsborough stadium disaster in england the police commander who was in charge then faces trial starting today it remains the worst stadium related disaster in english history where a fatal crush 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 of manslaughter he's pleaded not guilty to all comes. as you are watching d.w. news coming to you from berlin we have more for you at the top of the next hour i'm rachel will be with you then and of course you get all the lips news and information around the clock on our web site that's at d w dot com thanks wolf. nico piece in germany to learn german. language beneath. why not learn with them online on your mobile and free to south from the w z learning course nikos freek.