metropolis of crime. starts january twenty ninth on g.w. . this is deja vu news live from her land it is judgment day for british prime minister theresa may after weeks of waiting lawmakers vote today on whether to accept or reject her controversial brogues a deal would be european union may has warned of dire consequences if the parliament to close it out. also coming up the people of poland to mourn the

slain mayor of dogs he was stabbed on stage at a charity event in front of the balances. and deported china senses a canadian man to death on charges of drug smuggling and sparks needs full blown diplomatic route. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program a historic day for britain as it counts the hours to the moment when lawmakers accept or reject prime minister teresa mayes deal for leaving the e.u. in the house of commons may urged lawmakers to support the agreement to morning that rejecting it said it would be catastrophic for the country boy to what observers say most m.p.'s remain determined to throw out the hard won deal which has split the nation. it if that is the outcome of the vote tonight britain could end up crashing out of the e.u.

with no agreement at all so the government is taking steps to minimize potential disruption to trade at ports on the english channel one of those ports is ramsgate although it will need an upgrade if it is to handle the big ferries used for cross channel trade. its glory days are long gone a channel resort once frequented by queen victoria ramsgate today is sleepy and rundown. only its mayor appears to be advancing energetically into the future for eli there's. a brigadier like the majority in this harbor town. trevor shock points proudly to what he calls a working harbor that's ready for all the investment needed to turn it into a hub that can accommodate large vessels and commercial traffic. and. ramsgate has not operated a regular cross channel service since two thousand and thirteen the ferry to ostend was a loss making business now there are plans to revive it in the event of

a no deal brags that it's slated as an alternative route to avert bottlenecks amid customs chaos in nearby dover but the plan by transport secretary chris grayling has been sharply criticized the harbor is too shallow to accommodate freight ships it is a five it is what's. all because we improve newport and the emperor in question is chris crowley he cannot see that this court is completely naked of all the facilities you might need to be in international pools. the harbor is as ill prepared for the freight service as the company awarded the contract to run it not only has it never operated a ferry service it doesn't have ships steve coombs and his action group discovered that some time ago as the transport secretary insists that's not a problem the government is testing other no deal scenarios alive rehearsal last week this time at ramsgate defunct airport but only eighty nine trucks took part in

the trial of an emergency traffic system to avoid congestion in dover a fraction of daily traffic ramsgate is already the brunt of jokes ridiculed as the town of failed preparations i think that we're just being a bit used their id i think right right right wing groups who are trying to push for and for this no deal is they they are the only people that seem to be at peace and everybody else just instituted a job hotel owners in ramsgate want clarity on what awaits their town amid brecht's that uncertainty their earnings have been dropping for months. but the mayor isn't rattled by the prospect of impending chaos he'd be fine with a disorderly. because that would catapult the sleepy town of ramsgate into the headlines as the no deal harper town. and our london correspondent began masses outside the u.k. houses of parliament or mattis is in our brussels studio welcome to both of you

begin to like to begin with you is it really a foregone conclusion the parliament will indeed reject recently spreads until today. there is not no such thing as a foregone conclusion these days because everything seems to be possible in british politics however as far as we know there hasn't really been a change of opinion in the last moment in the last hours and days we have seen opinions of m.p.'s hardening and m.p.'s are most of them freely firmly divided there are some who are very much pro the e.u. and they are hoping that they can somehow shift the prime minister's hand towards a soft of rexx and then there are some who say well let's just crush out we don't want to give any money to the european union we just want to we just want to leave so there are two camps so to speak and there are not that many that are all behind the reason may still so the question is by how many votes will she lose you know could it be is a day maybe just a few hours in the hundreds which would be

a disaster for trees of a if it's rejected what's the plan b. . well we don't know of a plan b. tourism a says she's going to be pushing this deal through she hasn't really said what she's going to do in the event that she will lose the speculation is that she might just go back to brussels and try to extract just a little bit more another little concession possibly on the status of northern ireland she might be forced to step down if there is a really huge huge opposition against her but we will know tonight or maybe tomorrow if your cow is likely to react here. brussels will of course closely monitor how this election will pan out and if she is indeed facing a crushing defeat it doesn't even make sense as bergen has said to make any forms of can further concession so theresa may will not come and seek those if it is a crushing defeat if it's a minor defeat this is a different story and then of course if it's

a crushing defeat we're heading towards that cliff edge cracks it which brings me to the letter c. and the plan c. that brussels has already panned out they're not talking about about plan b. and the plan c. is the contingency plans for the heart of cliff bracks it but those plans are merely unilateral things for aviation so that airplanes keep flying but there are minimal they're not even close to the controls breck that many presidents would like to see georg matus with a view from brussels they're going to pass in london on this day where we get this vote on braggs a thank you so much to both of you. the people of poland are paying their respects to the murdered mayor of danske pavel automobile which he was stabbed in front of thousands of spectators at a fundraising event on sunday night the mayor was a leading figure in the country's opposition movement. pows came to mourn the

man who led their city for two decades pavel adam ovitz a husband father was one of the country's progressive voices. council president donald to escape flew to get danske his hometown to honor his friend. i want to promise you today your pov i'm on behalf of all of us presidents. and europeans. for you and for all of us we will defend our guitars our poland and our europe against hatred and contempt we promise you this so far well. many people knew him personally. for me it's terrible news especially since we went to great school together just over there. i thought he would survive life. miserable in charleston physically devastated so i'm very sad because

i saw the mayor very often just go right on sunday pavel adam ovitz was praising a fund raising effort for children in need that got him as the mayor looked out at thousands of people a man lunged at him with a knife. you know 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. i don't think it is. just before his death adam ovitz called get down school the most wonderful city in the world. a lasting message to the people he served.

well now it's got a quick check of some other stories making news around the world judges at the international criminal court have acquitted former ivory coast president. of all alleged war crimes committed following disputed elections in two thousand and ten judges ordered the immediate release of both dog bo and co-defendants charles but a leg a day above case has been seen as a milestone in efforts to grant to justice even high ranking leaders accused of atrocities. hundreds of central american migrants have set out from us trying to reach the united states and you caravan hopes to succeed even as thousands of migrants from the previous wave of caravans have been largely marooned at the mexican u.s. border since november. australian authorities are planning to pump oxygen into rivers and to stem often. a massive die off a fish in heat some one million dead fish were found floating last week in

a river in the state of new south wales they were suffocated by a rise in algae caused by the. let's turn now to the growing diplomatic dispute over the fate of a canadian man sentenced to death in china for drug smuggling canada's prime minister justin trudeau condemned the sentence as quote arbitrary now china has hit back accusing trudeau of making quote irresponsible remarks relations were already frosty after canada arrested a top chinese telecom executive at the request of the united states his name is robert lloyd schellenberg a canadian 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 to sentenced to

death all of his personal assets will be confiscated to lay him will say that. 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 men washoe 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 jo 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 you'll hear bungle legal fun out of a steaming hot melbourne where tennis players are enduring high temperatures and high humidity in dangerous states you have the australian open the tournament has instituted new measures this year to try and ensure player safety touring this extreme heat wave it turns out that serena williams barely had to break a sweat though in her first round match it took only forty nine minutes to defeat germany's tatyana maria german star alexander's farah also kept it very cool in his opening match he cruised to straight sets a victory against all the irish bad and they now know that djokovic and katie

should corey have also moved into the second round congratulations to all the winners there were now we head to japan where the head of the country's limbic committee has denied that two payments made shortly before tokyo was selected to host the twenty twenty games were in a way were in any way corrupt. to make cuts to cato has been indicted by french prosecutors as they investigate two million dollars in payments made just before tokyo was chosen to host the olympics the affair is a concern for organizers who have been praised for running ahead of schedule japan's olympic minister says that the country must now overcome the bad image. to your. i'm very sorry that this trouble could possibly affect the olympic movement the organizing committee and all the people involved in steadfast and smooth preparations toward hosting the twenty twenty games. for minor now the top stories

we're following for you here and it is judgment day for british prime minister to resubmit his plan for the leaving the european union may has called on lawmakers to back the deal but all indications are they will throw it out. and with that now you're up to date on t.w. news i'm sarah kelly in berlin after a short break it is business with gary hart first he has a whole lot more news if you stay with us if you can. kill that volume or that's hard and in the end this is a me you're not allowed to stay here anymore we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers with clients and. what's your story.

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