this is news coming to you live from berlin it's judgment day for british prime minister theresa may after weeks of waiting lawmakers but today on whether to accept or reject her controversial breaks a deal with the european union may has warned of dire consequences of parliament's roosevelt also coming up poland pays tribute to the slain mayor of kabul the movie which was stabbed on the stage of a charity event in front of thousands. and

a court in china sentences a canadian man to death on charges of drug smuggling the move threatens to further inflame already tense relations between the two countries . following terry martin thank you for joining us is counting down the hours until lawmakers vote on whether to accept prime minister teresa mayes deal for leaving the european union may has urged them to back the agreement warning that rejecting it would be catastrophic for the country but most observers say the deal that may negotiated with brussels is not likely to win approval. london residents how they're feeling about bragg's it before the decisive. yeah we prime minister theresa may made a valiant attempt to rescue her breaks a deal from almost certain defeat in the house of commons from the european union

on that although she warned that failure to approve the deal and risk a no deal breaks it could lead to britain breaking apart case withdrawal. 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 a clear out with no deal we would have no implementation period no security partnership no guarantees for u.k. citizens overseas and no certainty that this isn't workers like those i met in stoke this morning and we would see changes to every day life in northern ireland that would put the future of our union a triss. opposition leader jeremy corben made clear that labor's position was unchanged he decries made his deal is bad for the country and called for the defeat but he pulled the meaningful vote this is. the government is in disarray it's clear if the prime minister's deal is rejected tomorrow it's time for

a general election it's time for a new government. in the brixton neighborhood of south london most of the people who spoke to d.w. seemed fed up with the debate. reason may's breaks a deal should the parliament support official quit. all of the she said any good to this country or whether it is believe in ourselves. it is struggling and everything she comes out with or you haven't we got nothing on the lincolnshire say it's completely different a really key. to this area a lot of different feelings yeah so it's the bedrock of britain's better off leaving we think so in our area and why yes. well what are your reasons for it and i'd rather not cite it. no i don't think it should leave the going to make things

very difficult for a lot of people we have because i will say it will take sick to come out so i did but no i don't want them to come out a looming uncertainty is how many other british voters have changed their mind since the perks of referendum if may's deal loses on tuesday the country may get a chance to answer that question. well for some perspective on today's vote in parliament let's bring in quentin peel an associate fellow at the international think tank chatham house in london and our brussels correspondent georg mountain's good morning to you both start with you quentin is it really a foregone conclusion that parliament will reject three surveys bragg's a deal today i would be absolutely amazed if she said the day. the financial times this morning they've given up even pretending that they might win it downing street so i think she's just a big group brick wall and the only question is what on earth does she do next i

mean it all normal circumstances she should resign but she's not going to i think because this is not normal so the second thing is the opposition should tell people or motion of no confidence and demand a general election that they may do but i'm not sure quite how quickly so really everything is one of the things going to happen next because this deal looks likely to go down in flames ok so there are big political consequences at stake here for theresa may herself but what about the deal itself if the deal is rejected what is may's plan b. for breaks it. you know she hasn't apparently even discussed it with the cabinet all but they have very closest advisors they seem to have the slightest idea does she have a plan b. i think the most likely never in the woman is that she'll say right well i will have another go i'll get on the plane to brussels i'll fly over there and see if i

can get any more concessions that might win rather the rebels in my own party because that's what's destroying it's the fact that she has a support inside her own party she's got at least one hundred of her own members are going to vote against it so i think the most likely chilled just struggle on. gale can brussels we call it a maze deal but of course it's brussels deal too doesn't european union have a plan b. well fishley there is no plan b. but believe you me the european union a very closely watched the outcome of this vote if it's a crushing defeat and it looks very much looks like it it makes not much sense to deliver further concessions or the possibility of further concessions to that deal and then the e.u. will have to start preparing for

a no deal breck's it and basically that means plan c. will come into action the european union has a number of contingency plans measures unilateral measures that is to prepare for this regarding citizen rights for instance or aviation but it doesn't even come close to the controls breck said many breaks the tears dream off so it will be a terrible scene are in for the european union the heartbreaks it it's a lose lose scenario and it is exactly what brussels has tried to prevent in the past two years or so talk about this scenario an uncontrolled hard brags that as they say i want to ask both of you who really has most to lose from that option a hard break that the e.u. or britain yorkie first looked area i've covered dozens of story on breck's it by now and i haven't come across a single field where i would say the u.k. is the clear winner. if you look at maybe fishing rights would be an exception

where really france and the netherlands stand to lose substantial fishing territory in the channel but apart from that if you look at the city of london they lose the pos botting rights clearance rights it will be economically a catastrophe for trade it's bad for security it's bad for aviation it's bad for the environment it's bad so it's really the lose lose scenario that brussels has always talked about quenton what about britain heartbreaks it how bad. a nightmare i think i think the only people who might possibly be will be the hedge funds who are shorting sterling and expecting it to crash it's the country is not prepared for it they reckon that eighty percent of small businesses have had not even begun to prepare before christmas so if they are really getting on with it then it will only be this just and i think that the reason why

there is actually a very clear majority in pearl of that says this is simply impossible we cannot allow the government to play chicken on this and threat. but there are a substantial number of programs that members of parliament and members of the public who seem to think that no deal would be absolutely fine take us back to don that's where we'll get it all together again quentin peel from chatham house in london. in brussels thank you very much to you both. and we'll have more on bragg's it coming up later in our business back with gary hart and of course we'll be covering that both in the life in the house of commons this evening now poland is paying its respects to the murdered mayor of kabul out a motive she was stabbed in front of thousands of spectators at a fund raising event on sunday night the mayor was a leading figure in the country's opposition movement. and poland is

a country in shock residents of danske bring flowers and light candles to grieve the city's mayor fish. despite hours of surgery and hundreds of polish blood donors coming to his aid the mayor died from his stabbing injuries. many people knew him personally. look the letters there's a lot of you know for me it's terrible meters especially since we went to grade school together just over there. and i thought he would survive. because it'll be. physically devastated and very sad because i saw the mayor very often have the chance to. talk. to the moments before the attack which was praising a fundraising effort for children in need. as the mayor looked out at thousands of

people a man lunged at him with a knife. the attacker then remained on stage shouting that he blamed the mayor's party for wrongfully imprisoning him then he was tackled to the ground. the twenty seven year old suspect is a convicted bank robber who had served more than five years in prison prosecutors are charging him with murder. with many residents asking how this could happen the murder of pablo is likely to inflame and already divided poland. for the very latest let's cross over to a journalist much joins us from in poland what does the death of possible mean for the people a poet. well that bullish to say the scene

a deep shock also because it all happened during that twenty seventh final of the great therapists of christmas charity it's probably the biggest charity action in the whole europe which gathered almost one of the billions lot this during the twenty seven years and it all happened during the countdown to lights to heaven and it happens always at eight pm during the summer they find no anted there is a countdown there open there are all people all the people who are gathering money gathered in one place and in every city and there is cell live concert there is. a laser show and to insert a moment of flavor at the end it is the most beautiful moment of this action and right in the middle of this moment to be a mother went on the stage and killed the mayor so pointless a deep shock you know the grief also because of the movie will soon at one of the

faces of the opposition in poland against them rules of law and justice party protecting courts protecting care for example world war two museum she became one of the most nice person say in polish politics this since two thousand and fifteen what more do we know about the suspect in this case the man who stabbed the mayor what were the source do we know what the suspect motives were. well in the beginning everybody thought at that moment if we'll split the cow as we heard before she was blaming the civil platform which was that earlier erling party in poland until two thousand and fifteen for putting him in jail but we have to remember that he's a convicted robber hurok to. three or maybe four bikes. in

two thousand i think thirteen it was a robbery with a gun in his camp so it was. it wasn't. did to john just didn't have any doubts of him and to what was sued the mossad that other than we had nothing to do with this conviction he was just a mayor king and no influence on the then on the courts right now he's in are in there arrests to the prosecutors want to want him to be examined by state tied to this because she was mentally ill before and there's some more that there is to be provide military that to the illness so was that was to think that brought him to this terrible terrible events but i thank you very much for that that was journalist much a ball talking to us from debunks poland. let's

catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today 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 housing foreign workers in the capital kabul there's been no claim of responsibility but taliban militants have carried out similar attacks. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has increased the minimum wage in the country by three hundred percent you know the hike at the start of his second term in office amid increasing calls for him to quit and as well as economies in deep crisis the country is suffering from annual inflation approaching two million percent. and a fresh blast of winter weather has hit central europe making many alpine regions treacherous in the austrian ski region of bird a authorities are urging people to avoid wooded areas over the risk of trees collapsing under the snow the extreme weather has been blamed for over twenty

deaths in the last ten days. the court in china has set stick canadian men to death on charges of drug smuggling canadian prime minister justin trudeau has condemned the sentence the case threatens to further inflame tense relations between the two countries after kind of the rest of the top chinese telecoms executive at the request of the united states he's name is robert lloyd schoenberg. a comedian national in chinese custody since two thousand and fourteen. originally he had been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for masterminding a drug smuggling plot a charge he continues to deny. but in a surprise move in appeals court allowed chinese prosecutors to retry him the result. of the defendant is guilty of smuggling drugs and is sentenced to death all of his personal assets will be confiscated.

canada's embassy has urged its citizens to be cautious when traveling to china and the prime minister has also expressed his misgivings. it is of extreme concern to us as a government as it should be to all our international friends and allies that china has chosen to begin to arbitrarily apply death penalty in cases facing it as in this case a face in canadian the verdict represents a new escalation in the diplomatic spat between beijing and ottawa. observers have link schoenberg's fresh conviction to canada's arrest of this woman. she's a senior executive at telecommunications giant huawei and the daughter of its founder she's accused of helping the company bypass u.s. sanctions and american authorities are seeking her extradition. schoenberg's retrial was box through just weeks after one joe was taken into custody and now it

seems her fate as well as that of schoenberg and two other comedians in chinese custody might not be decided in a court of law but rather on the international stage. legal syllable. moving on to steaming hot to melbourne australia now where tennis players are enduring high temperatures and high humidity and day two of the australian open the tournament has instituted new measures this year to try to ensure player safety during extreme heat waves it turns out this arena williams barely had to break a sweat in her first round match of took her only forty nine minutes to defeat germany's tatyana. in the man's drawl japan's k n she corrie was about to complete a five set comeback win against her coming my truck of poland when my check was forced to retire due to late cramps common problem in high he thought in

football the final round of the asian cup group stage has begun with heartbreak for india they crashed out of the tournament after opponents behind scored in stoppage time to confirm a one they'll victory in the other game hosts who u.a.e. confirmed their place in the round of sixteen they drew one all with thailand who also progressed to the next round despite firing their coach earlier in the tournaments. it's brags that decision day in the british parliament with big implications for business is right terry just two and a half months to go and you know what business doesn't like this uncertainty one bit another only british business here in germany companies are concerned about their access to the british market as well a vote against the agreement would make a so-called heartbreaks it more than likely leaving britain out in the cold overnight as far as trade with its more important partners is concerned now

a new survey by ernst and young shows that sixty five percent of german business to say that any kind of brags it will be bad for the german economy this after just last year the young global manager said germany would actually be the country to most benefit from the brics it still serve four hundred german businesses reveals that a full ninety two percent of them stand firmly behind brussels policy of not allowing britain to cherry pick which elements of its e.u. privileges such as free trade it wants to keep it interesting though even though german manages believe brags it will be bad for germany under a third to see major disadvantage is for their own companies of the world that what german managers think about bragg said let's now go let's go to julie who joins me in the studio julie thank you for joining me so in general how bad

will it be for a german business can you put a figure to it for example now i don't think we can put a figure to it the feeling is that it's going to be bad but a lot of the companies are saying not by me which is an interesting result of our study. and two thirds of respondents said it will be bad for germany and he said only one. says it will affect their own company how does it go together a different sectors may be affected in different ways or large companies in different ways than then smaller companies i would say it differently i think a lot of the large companies have done a good job in preparing for boxset it's been a topic that's been on the agenda for the last few years in fact and as we move closer to that date a lot of companies are reevaluating their location many have decided to move many have plan b. contingency plans in the drawer ready to take out in terms of adjusting their supply chain and ensuring that they're not hit but that overall level of uncertainty that exists is definitely reflected in that sixty five percent who are

just worried it's going to be bad for us interestingly though when you contrast that sixty eight percent of our respondents said actually you know for the coming year it's not going to get that much worse which is interesting because those two things don't exactly fit together how could germany benefit from from brics it is there anyways as financial services companies moving to front for the world with well we see that indeed that financial service companies are moving in frankfurt that frankfurt is profiting and in fact in the study that we did last year it was expected that germany would be one of the countries to profit from a proxy in seeing a lot of the professional services sector coming across the channel and coming either to paris or to frankfurt so we see that as a positive overall though the u.k. remains an important trade player and that's why i feel that the results are appropriate that it will have a negative impact overall on business ok so you don't leave it with a the positives will outweigh the negatives no i don't i don't interested in your

study also shows that in germany's germany attitudes towards the e.u. on the rise in german business. so but if you look across europe though a player. like poland hungary and of course the u.k. negative attitudes towards the e.u. on the rise the germans still love the use it because germans just enjoy being regulated and being bossed around by authority. that's a that's an interesting perspective i would say as a little bit to do with the nationalism and the rise of nationalism populism in many of the countries that you mention i think it could also have to do with the negative publicity that the u.s. had for years within the u.k. about talking about the additional layer the additional costs it's just a regulation without mentioning any of the benefits perhaps i could say germany sitting at the heart of europe experiences more of the benefits of the evil done a lot for the they're profiting a lot worse huge export nation and as

a result they're profiting the more we can shape the a you to actually protect our market and encourage a combined competition toward the rest of the world the more the e.u. will be seen as a benefit so not only having competition for companies within the e.u. but allowing them to bundle forces to to compete appropriately against the u.s. for example or china and so the e.u. coming together and bringing the benefit for all i think german multinational companies feel that see that enjoy that probably better than anyone else across as con to its argumentative involvements and young germany was friends with them and thank you very much for joining me today thank you. cami because ford unfolds will announce details about the planned alliance at the detroit car show today sukar giants are expected to cooperate on commercial vehicles and electric cars meanwhile folds fogging announced that it wants to invest eight hundred million dollars in its u.s. production facilities a move expected to contradict negative effects of u.s.

trade policy those terrified and fully consuls putting a damper on this year's detroit motor show washington correspondent reports. shine the hubcaps revs the engines and break out the blonde models the detroit auto show is back. it's still the biggest and for mere auto show in north america but this huge market automakers flock to the motor city every year and put on slickly produced reveals and performances but among the usual heavyweights like toyota and ford with are the germans. audi b.m.w. di miller and porsche are all big names that you won't see at the auto show this year volkswagen was the only german car maker that bothered to show up it could be a sign that the germans don't think detroit is worth coming to any more but it's hard to deny the politics also plays a role. here. at volkswagen's press conference this year the

emphasis was on investment and job creation in the u.s. . even brought the outgoing governor of tennessee on stage to talk about relationship with middle america. all this in the face of difficult and unresolved economic questions over tariffs and trade. i think he will be another challenge for us in the face of all the wars involved. and economics. markets have been particularly jumpy when it comes to chinese cars in the back and forth over car tariffs. was the only chinese manufacturer at the show and maybe this uncertainty that's keeping automakers away those who do choose to show are putting a brave face on it so i can't speak to the other brands i can speak for itself from where i would remember to the u.s.

market and i think you're going to try which is the major auto show makes sense and the product is made here and it's nice to be here. things are moving slowly at this year's detroit auto show. but at least they're not moving and reverse. all your business here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here on judgment day for british prime minister tourism is plans for leaving the european union has called on lawmakers to block the deal but all indications are that parliament will swallow it up. since. you're watching news from more news coming up the top all throughout all twenty one is up next here on the w. thanks for watching a box. cutter. going to.

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