this is t w news coming to you live from berlin the people of poland mourning the popular. toasts the president of the european council and former prime minister of poland was especially emotional at a rally to remember kabul. the mayor was stabbed at a charity event on sunday also coming up it's judgment day for british prime minister theresa may lawmakers will vote on whether to accept or reject her controversial brightside deal with the european union signs or they will throw it

out. and the courts in china sentences a canadian man to death on charges of drug smuggling the move threats to further inflame already tense relations between the two countries. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us poland is paying its respects to the murdered mayor of kabul a move it shows he 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. polls came to mourn the man who led their city for two decades pavel adam over which a husband father was one of the country's progressive voices. council president donald flew to get dad his hometown to honor his friend.

i want to promise you today your pov on behalf of all of us presidents polls and europeans. for you and for all of us we will defend our good our poland and our europe against hatred and contempt promise you this so far well. many people knew him personally. for me it's terrible especially since we went to great school together just over there. i thought he would survive . presumably in china i'm physically devastated so he's under very sad because i saw the mayor very often. died on sunday pavel adam ovitz was praising a fund raising effort for children in need. as the mayor looked out at thousands of

people a man lunged at him with a knife. to the attacker then remained on stage shouting that he blamed the mayor's former party for wrongfully imprisoning him he was then tackled to the ground. prosecutors are charging the twenty seven year old suspect with murder. just before his death at a movie called get down scoop the most wonderful city in the world. a lasting message to the people he served. well for more let's cross over to journalist. all who's standing by for us in a much a what does the death of pavol mean for the people of poland. well it means that the political discourse in our country crawls to the unlined there is so

much hate in the discussion especially in the social media and that's led to this tragic find no. event that. the hopeful instead of fight off. a lot of which was for the past three years introduced by the public media is that public enemy number one. also because he has some he had some long problems sit with his statement of assets but also because he was one of the faces of the program a classic it was in poland defending courts defending defending human rights defending for example live on the south and also there was an event called acts of political death produced by far right they're going to station all polenta you'll see it was produced for date mayors of eleven polish cities and who wanted to. have immigrants and in their in their towns and this case it was close to invite them

prosecutors in poland because they dated. they decided that it wasn't and breaking of the law and right now there are consequences about that the hate speech brought to do this event. to the death of the hobbit but also to the resignation of the chief of did a great charity orchestra you recall check and who decided that you want to be the leader of this organization and because of the hate speech and during the final of the orchestra and that much of their acute public opinion of course has been highly polarized in poland since the conservative nationalist law and justice party was elected three years ago how it was possible the mortgages death being interpreted by poland's political establishment. well to date but if you go soon it's not as polarized as it was before the attack because everybody agrees that these it wasn't barbaric act everybody's and you need grief from prime minister. to the

president and so you do the two old it only takes from day opposition parties so today we are all together. we don't know what will happen after for example if you know of the president to where will that political discussion go after this event we all hope that to it will be a cold shower for everybody especially for everybody who are using the hate speech and day yesterday we saw as. a moment of sort of gotten the whole conflict silent marches everywhere also indicts going to here and thousands of people gathered around it and then fontayne also as you stated don't ask us also and then there were many friends of five of them of each also and the presidents of salt and being out in that the countries there are cities that are nearby and different beautiful moment. and we hope that this only verity will to last for that next

months and years and we still don't know where we'll get to they're all happen we now know that president decided to announce nation day on this day of the funeral but sure thank you so much for brains up today that was journalist much a ball talking to us from to the. britain 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 lawmakers to back the agreement warning that rejecting it would be catastrophic for the country but most observers say that lawmakers are likely to throw a maze hard won deal. yeah we are 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 the north she warned that failure to approve the deal and risk a no deal breaks it could lead to britain breaking apart ukase 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 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. opposition leader jeremy corben made clear that labor's position was unchanged he decries may's deal is bad for the country i called for this defeat but he pulled a meaningful vote this is pretty good. the government is in disarray it's korea is a 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 and most of the people who spoke to d.w. seemed fed up with the debate. the reason maze breaks a deal should the parliament support official quit. well if he she said are any good to this country what we're doing is believe in ourselves. it is struggling and if if she comes out with our government that we don't live in and rooted in lincoln should say it's completely different areas. to this area a lot of different feelings yeah so is the bedrock of britain's better off leaving we think so in our area and why what are your reasons for. my drive an outsider. no i don't think i should leave the going to make things very difficult for a lot of people because i've wanted to come out so i did but now i don't want them to come all it's

a looming uncertainty is how many other british voters have changed their mind since the break said 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 the international think tank chatham house in london and our brussels correspondent georg montas good morning to you both start with your question is it really a foregone conclusion that parliament will reject recent days bragg's a deal today. i would be absolutely amazed if she said the day. the financial times says this morning they've given up even pretending that they might win in downing street so i think she's just and he grew a brick wall and the any question is what on earth does she do next i mean in 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

a 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 what on earth is 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 a cabinet all but have very closest advisors they seem to have the slightest idea does she even have a plan b. i think the most likely never being 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 hasn't got support inside her own party she's got at least one hundred of her own members who are going to vote against it so i think the most likely chilled just struggle on. in brussels we call it to research 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 will very closely watch 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 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 brecht's that 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. worked 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 porting rights clearance rights it'll 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 bid 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 had had not even begun to prepare before christmas so if they're really getting on with it then allegedly be this started just now and i think that's the reason why there is actually a very clear majority in parliament that says this is simply impossible we cannot allow the government to play chicken on this and threaten no breck's it but there

are a substantial number of pro brecht's 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 quite impale from chatham house in london. in brussels thank you very much to both. judgment day in the british parliament big implications for business that's right terry just two months and a bit to go until it will become reality and you know what business will breathe a sigh of relief today when the uncertainty finally ends and not only british business here in germany companies are watching today's vote with bated breath because a vote against the agreement would make a so-called heartbreak that more than likely a new survey by consultancy firm and young shows that sixty five percent of german businesses say that any kind of brags it will be bad for germany even though in the

last year and another survey showed that germany would actually be the country to most benefit from bribes it still the survey of 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 much as free trade it wants to keep and interestingly german manages believe breaks it will be bad for germany but not even a set of respondents see major disadvantages for their own companies for more on that i spoke to julie take atitlan from john who conducted this study and i asked her if she could put a figure of to how bad it will be for german business 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 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 gender 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 interesting lee 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 just financial services companies moving to front for the world would

be 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 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 have it with a the positives will outweigh the negatives you know i don't i don't interesting to 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 pleasure. 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 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 e.u. has had for years with and they say 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 evil doing a lot for the they're profiting a lot worse huge export nation and as a result are profiting the more we can save 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 its cotton to its argumentation padma it's a young german who was friends with them thank you very much for joining me today thank you. talk record now terry has more world news for you thanks get. a check up on what else is going on around the world today a fresh blast of winter weather has hit central europe making many alpine regions treacherous and the austrian ski region of bird authorities are urging people to avoid wooded areas over the risk of trees collapsing under the snow extreme weather has been blamed for over twenty deaths in the last ten days. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has increased. the country's minimum wage by three hundred percent you know it's the hike at the start of his second term in office amid increasing calls for him to quit and as well as economy is deep in crisis the country is

suffering from annual inflation inflation approaching two million percent. a 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 canada arrested a top chinese telecoms executive at the request of the united states he's name is robert lloyd schellenberg a community 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. well the defendant is guilty of smuggling drugs and is sentenced to death all of his personal assets will be confiscated until they hit.

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 facing a 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 boxed through just weeks after one joe was taken into custody and now it seems her fate as well as that of and two other comedians in chinese custody might not be decided in a court of law but rather on the international stage. the latest let's cross over to beijing where our correspondent is standing by material as we just saw a child is sentenced felon back to death on those drug smuggling charges is this the final verdict or can he still appeal. terry he can still appeal the court of appeals has sent the case back to the original of course so he can appeal again and then death sentences have to be confirmed by the supreme court of china which will look at it again as well whether his appeal has any chance of success is of course another question considering the complicated international environment of this case all talking about the

complicated international environment there's been speculation that backs death sentence is linked to the case of missing one shoed the senior telecom chinese telecoms executive arrested in canada what can you tell us about the. i would say it's more than speculations officially china has denied denied any link to the case but that's merely a face saving statement comments in part the media and also comments by chinese diplomats have made very clear that china is angered of odd months case and that this case as well as two other cases of two canadians two tight detained on national security charges are indeed linked to money. should canada and other countries then be worried that their citizens in china could face arbitrary justice as the canadian prime minister suggested

avi traore epic cation of national laws this is exactly what the canadian foreign service has said in its latest warning to citizens it has issued. a security warning to china canadian citizens for china so clearly canadian diplomats think so other countries might be at stage if for example in cases that are similar to that of a similar high profile the next country everybody is looking to is poland which has detained a while way employee on spy charges and the nationalist tabloid with close links to the communist party the global times has already warned poland of re wench what this means. who knows what is thank you so much for an obvious but yes bellinger that in a beijing. now to steaming hot melbourne where tennis players are enjoying high temperatures and high humidity in 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 that serene williams barely had to break a sweat in her first round match it took her just forty nine minutes to defeat germany's tatyana my area in the men's draw of japan's cane she corrie was about to complete a five set comeback win against my chuck of poland when my check was forced to retire due to leg cramps that's a common problem in high heat in football the final round of the asian cup group stage has begun with heart break for india they've crashed out of the tournament after opponents bahrain's court in stoppage time to take a one nil victory in the other game hosts united arab emirates confirmed their place in the round of sixteen they drew one hole with thailand to also progress to the next round despite firing their coach early in the turn. just forward

a reminder the top story we're following for you here today news the people of poland are mourning the popular mayor. he died in hospital after being stopped by a charity fund a charity fundraising event on sunday the mayor was a leading figure in poland's opposition. of course is judgment day for british. leaving the european union may has called on lawmakers to back the deal but all indications are that parliament will reject. what. you're watching the news coming to you from berlin we have more for you at the top of the hour and of course get all our story. thanks very much.

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