metropolis of crime. starts january twenty ninth. in the polish city of. the city's long time. killed on stage. you may not be familiar with the name. of many in poland more he was a popular leader in the country's opposition also coming up tonight the clock is

ticking for the british. parliament to. look. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with a political assassination in poland carried out in public in front of thousands of spectators the mayor of the city of squids stabbed on stage at a fund raising event on sunday night his name was powerful. a politician known across the country as a leading figure in the opposition movement. was taken to a hospital in critical condition but succumbed to his injuries earlier today.

poland is a country in shock. residents of the downs bring flowers and light candles to grieve for the city's mayor pavel adama vich. despite hours of surgery and hundreds of polish blood donors coming to his aid the mayor died from the stabbing wounds. many people in the city knew him personally. for me it's terrible especially since we went to great school together just over there. sure i was i thought he would survive. because the child just i'm just muscled i'm physically devastated i'm very sad because i saw the mayor very often. moments before the attack pavel adamo vits was praising a fund raising effort for children in need. as the mayor looked out at thousands of

people and men lunged at him with a knife. to the attacker then remained on stage shouting that he blames the mayor's former party for wrongfully imprisoning him. then he was teko to the ground. with the twenty seven year old suspect is a convicted bank robber who had served more than five years in prison and prosecutors are charging him with murder. civil movements have already called for marches against violence and hatred and several polish cities tonight but president andrei duda and other political leaders have decided not to organize a march to respect the wishes of the a dam of its family. his idea but that it's all guns of citizens want to organize marches spontaneous marches them police they can do it this is always an expression

of solidarity but because the family wants to maintain dignity as a whole i want to the least politics in all of this we have decided that we will not organize any marches as to which is new to me just imposed on the. use of id. but with many residents asking how this could happen the murder of pavel adama bitch is likely to inflame an already divided poland. you know a disturbing story to talk about that i'm joined here at the table by. polish or jake it's good to have you on the show. thank you let's talk a little bit about possible a dome of it i mean he was politically significant beyond the borders of the dems because of the oh yes he was he was much more than just a mayor in and it is a big it's one of the biggest cities in poland with big political significance but i would say pavol of them of which past turned into the face of this liberal poland

that opposes the national conservative justice party that's been ruling component for for the last three years. and he has ruled for more than twenty years here ruled the city with liberal views and no one just his party won that really march to take this city from the liberals we had last fall this local elections where conservatives were hoping to win but they didn't adama which one and this victory was really a big boost of confidence for polish liberal position what do we know about the suspect and his motives well it's a twenty seven years old a man with already big criminal record he has already been imprisoned he spent some years in prison for armed robbery secure up banks but you know it's.

quite disturbing after he stabbed mr them of each as we saw as we heard he stay on the stage he wanted to be seen he wanted to be heard and he claimed that this is his revenge for wrong foolish imprisonment that he had before. he has her teeth he's now he's now in custody and we'll maybe hear something more about his motives. he had a personal axe to grind here maybe not a political one but. you were saying you know the political scene in poland is very polarized right now so how has the you know the death of the murder of a dam which has it been received. well all political parties have condemned what what happened and poland is really shocked at this quite young polish democracy hasn't seen things like that in the recent history so really the country is shocked

everybody is asking to calm down to come down not to make such. a political issue out of it but as you said the country is very much polarized so i guess this phase of coming down will not last very we'll have people quickly particularly in the media in poland have they been quick to assume that there was a political motive here in this stamp yes of course very much there is a very. big discussion going on on twitter some site opposing the government says this is the fault of the government of the government said tongue the government's language into words the opposition about even the people supporting the opposition say ok let's calm down this is really not the best moment to say things like that. with d.w. polish giving us the latest tonight on this stabbing death in the downs which we

appreciate it thank you you thank. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world. at least four people have been killed and more than ninety others injured in a car bombing in afghanistan the blast struck near a compound helping foreign workers in the capital kabul there's been no claim of responsibility the taliban militants have carried out similar attacks a canadian man has been sentenced to death for drug smuggling in china robert schellenberg was initially given fifteen years' imprisonment but a sudden retrial led to the new sentence canadian prime minister justin trudeau called the sentence arbitrary now it comes amid high tensions over the arrest of a top chinese executive in canada indonesian authorities say that 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 the broken into the recorder may still be useful in shedding light on the cause of the crash of that boeing seven thirty seven. in austria a man has died after falling from a roof while he was clearing snow two others were hospitalized the country has been struggling with days of heavy snowfall many areas were evacuated after authorities issued avalanche warnings this is the worst blizzard in the region in two decades. so britain's prime minister has made a last ditch appeal to parliament to approve the breaks that deal that she negotiated with the european union to reason made today urged lawmakers to give her deal a second look warning of dire consequences of parliament rejects it amuses me and said it was the best possible arrangement for britain to leave the european union lawmakers are due to vote tomorrow evening and u.k. is set to leave the e.u.

at the end of march a date and the prime minister said it should not be delayed she warns that a new deal breaks it could threaten the country's integrity. and to those who think we should reject this deal in favor of no deal because we cannot get every assurance we want i ask what would in no deal breck's it do to strengthen the hand of those campaigning for scottish independence or indy's those demanding a border poll in northern ireland surely this is the real threat to our union. mr speaker mr speaker with just seventy four days until the twenty ninth of march the consequences of sochi against this deal tomorrow are becoming clearer with no deal we would have no implementation period no security partnership no guarantees for u.k. citizens overseas and no certainty that businesses and workers like those i met in stoke this morning we would see changes to everyday life in northern ireland that

would put the future of our union a triss. correspondent barbara vigil is in washington tonight she told us about the reactions to teresa mayes addressed to parliament. she was quite impressive to reason may for the first time since months was her with this particular speech in parliament because she struck a more rational tone she appeals to the sort of the good sense the common sense of calm and terence and she was mostly of course speaking to her own conservative benches to agree to this deal because what she says how she sums it up is that everything else is worse and of course she reiterated her ultimate stretch that if the government and the parliament to end parliament were pushed into a corner over price it it mind and up the country might and that was no wrecks at all in the end and that of course should strike taro tara into the hearts of the

hard line breaks to tears in her own rows however of course everybody knows the the lines have been drawn in the sand and palm and people have made up their minds there we've heard some little changes from one side or the other but nothing to really remedy the defeat that she is supposed to to experience tomorrow and it is a large defeat that's what the latest surveys say. you know we use it with a reporting from london all the battle for brides it also means the fight for the cornish pasty it's a regional delicacy from the u.k. that is currently protected by the european union are right now if it's not made in cornwall it's not a true pasty and it can't be marketed to such but after breaks it pasty may lose its protected status. goes in brown crispy and fresh out of the oven the scent of corn in the oldest pasty bakery in england the traditional snack

has conquered every corner of person a top export and a tourist draw. were absolutely one of the reasons to come to the cornish pasty you know the best in the world. and they have them in america in michigan but i've never had them here's their so i've had them here instead. for in spades relays claim to the original cornish pasty comprising beef potatoes and vegetables under twenty million if and then made in britain every year all of them in cornwall and that's thanks to that protected p.g. i state is awarded by the e.u. . of course parsing nowadays the. source or creation so in the mating call to follow the rest of the recipe on this justification so just use the ingredients we described earlier seasoning. when it comes to the issue of cranks it pasty lover's hot school new trade agreements made them at foreign companies in the local markets and the cornish pasty may lose its protected status on home soil. the

irony really is that it will continue with a new because it's a european scheme this european regulation that it's been awarded. but the concern of the contestants they say is the continuing protection within the u.k. copies flooding the local markets for a while champion cornish pasty bacon how it's just an acceptable modern recipe. sneering greedy and sure says graham cornish which incidentally is his real name but the banks items must stay hunt made in cornwall not least for historical reasons the chosen snack of minus his hands shaped. the crew this part. was a was a help all the mothers dirty homes and the only with a ten month in cold also also that she didn't really want to eat the also that afterwards. go fully print was often discord in the minds of since closed but the cornish pasty lives on and many hope it will stay that way friends of the past

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