this is the news live from berlin tonight europe planning for a breakthrough crash and britain searching for a plan b. prime minister theresa may survive last month's confidence vote in parliament now she's scrambling to build a political consensus around a new plan to take britain of the european union also coming up is the world getting better at dealing with leaders who despise human rights and human rights watch releases its twenty nine thousand report with a conclusion that may surprise. you.

i'm burned off it's good to have you with us the next big date on britain's breaks a calendar is now set january twenty ninth is when parliament will debate and vote on prime minister teresa mayes a plan b. for taking the u.k. out of the european union but what exactly plan b. entails it's not very clear at the moment may has been holding cross party talks in an attempt to find a solution that the majority will support but so far at least the leader of the main opposition party is refusing to take part meanwhile there is growing concern across the european union about the ongoing brights it. from berlin to lisbon the words of european officials and leaders betray growing nervousness time is running out for an orderly process. that. was my oh that's

why we have to say clearly to london sights the time for petty games is now over. the ball is now in britain's court. and that's why we can only call out british colleagues. even precedent demonstrated your sense of black humor in recent days. now we are counting on your legendary pragmatism and sense of reality it's. in paris prime minister edward philip announced a fifty million euro investment plan to prepare french ports and airports for the worst referring to tuesday's vote in the british parliament he said. the whole guillotine we can regret this defeats all rejoice about it in any case what's clear is that the prospect of a no deal bricks it is becoming more likely by the day. portugal's

government to announced contingency plans for a no deal breaks out but prime minister antonio koester warned that that was the worst solution and said it was urgent for british authorities to take the necessary steps to reach a good deal by march twenty ninth. that is the use chief negotiator . who ordered the clock is ticking on. this serious moment we must remain lucid. for. tuesday's vote reinforces a risk of an exit without an agreement. and that is not the option that we are working for. in the name of the e.u. and with the confidence of european leaders and the parliament to remain determined to work for an agreement to organize an orderly exit but that risk does exist. the

risk is highest for britain government ministers meeting at ten downing street in london know that europe is waiting for their next move you know what will the next move be let's bring in d w correspondent barbara vessel she is standing by in london tonight good evening to you barbara theresa may she's staggering on in power if not quite in control she survived that no confidence vote last night what does that mean for today that means for breakfast today that theoretically she's supposed to recharge to the opposition leaders to the heads of the other parties in parliament and talk to them and figure out which majority could lie what kind of breaks it sort of could carry the house with that however if you look at what happened during the day you get the impression that the two sides are rather digging themselves in because from her own side from my own cabinet came veiled threats that ministers would stand down if she wouldn't sort of take no deal

off the table and if she would not let parliamentarians grab more power off the proceedings how things are going to go on here and on the other hand tourism a iterated a sort of command to the army to stand by for the end of march in case they were needed for on rest or other civil problems so you look at it and you see day one of the very short frist until she needs to come up with plan b. nothing zero zero. we know that the prime minister she has to present parliament with a new breakthrough strategy by next monday they're going to vote on it then january twenty ninth how is her plan b. how is it likely to change from plan. maybe it will change very little and that that is going to be a major problem because then we're going to have groundhog day on the twenty ninth of january and when parliament comes back together and tempers i getting even more

afraid than there were already on tuesday this week when she is suffolk the sketch of the traffic defeated in parliament so is she really doesn't have anything and there is no sign of movement from downing street ok she's got friday saturday sunday to sort of really turn things around and and get to get something going but so far no sign of that she could yet sort of ask for a full of patient to the e.u. she could yet ask for more time to renegotiate and so on it's a force there are some options on the table but it is still completely unclear what she wants she will choose yes so many unanswered questions as you say just as it was twenty four hours ago previous on the story for us tonight in london barbara thank you. well here are some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world a president almost trump is bound to update u.s. missile defense systems to counter evolving threats speaking at the pentagon trump

said the strategy would help deter hostile states such as iran u.s. defense ministry officials have long warned about in vance minutes in hypersonic in cruise missiles being made by russia and china a former bodyguard to french president. has been taken into police custody alexander nala is being investigated for the possible misuse of diplomatic passports the bodyguard was fired last year after a video emerged of him assaulting protesters at a demonstration at least nine people have been killed and many more were injured in a car bombing in the colombian capital bogota it happened outside a police academy authorities have named the car's driver no group has claimed responsibility the country's president has described the explosion as an act of terror. human rights and their abusers are facing rising resistance that is the central conclusion of the twenty nine thousand report by human rights watch

which was presented here in berlin for the first time today and despite so many headlines to the contrary the report finds that when it comes to human rights things may actually be getting better. stories like that of the alleged murder of journalists by the saudi arabian government may make you think that autocrats and human rights violations are increasingly becoming the norm. but human rights watch is actually optimistic despite both the united states and britain withdrawing from their traditional leading role in defending democracy and civil rights the advocacy groups annual report says countries like germany are quote pushing back as the u.s. and the u.k. have retreated from state of meaningful human rights respecting foreign policy germany has started to fill the gap it's not enough and we want to germany to do much more but we have seen the germany has treated it openly and loudly the

presidents of turkey the presence of china russia and trump of course. another good example is germany's response to saudi arabia's human rights violations shocked by the brutality of the killing the german government suspended the sales of arms to the kingdom and expelled some saudi diplomats the us took no such measures to distance itself from the saudi arabian regime. when germany is marking one hundred years since women here first exercise their right to vote the government in berlin today honored that with a ceremony in the in the stock. among the dark suits these women stand out female members of parliament have just in black shirts today a sign of respect to the women who helped bring in a new chapter of german democracy. one hundred years ago today women's suffrage was

introduced leading to the first woman ever to give a speech in parliament. you know to your first blog i would like to state and i think that i speak in the name of many that german women don't owe this government any gratitude. what this government did. was a matter of course. this is a reenactment of that speech given by mary you hatch in one thousand nine hundred only a year before german women went even allowed to attend political gatherings it took protests and patience for their voices to finally be heard. the fight has continued ever since peter's use more as a former president of the border stock and one of only two women who have held the job do you think we have arrived in the present but not in the satisfactory present

yet it's time to take the next step. the overarching message women's rights are human rights and it's important to keep sticking together. a century after german women voted and entered parliament for the first time gender equality still hasn't been achieved today there are two hundred nineteen women in the bonus track and four hundred ninety men some here aren't happy about that. is the youngest female member of the bundestag she says germany is actually going backwards when we see the last legislative term of the bundestag we have more women and we have younger people in the bundestag and we turned all the her and more male and i think that is the situation we need to change again. she says she didn't face too many obstacles to get to where she is today but she admits she sometimes gets treated differently to her male colleagues you points are very different when i say

well can we please calm down sometimes people and that is mostly them and they say well that is what women do it being a little hysterical. jensen says she'll fight until that's changed and women are equally represented in the german parliament and everywhere. there's still a long way to go. well queen elizabeth's husband prince philip walked away unscathed from a car crash near the royal sandringham estate earlier today according to reports the ninety seven year old he was driving the range rover himself at the time was shaken by the action two people in the other vehicle have been treated for minor injuries. jared read my colleague he is tracking that story for what happened well as you say he was out driving behind the wheel himself and the the royal family

sandringham estate which is in norfolk around two hundred kilometers northeast of london is a joyride what was he going to the store what was he doing we don't know he was out with his body god and he was pulling out onto a road when the crash happened and yet his range rover ended up on its side and he escapes quite miraculously he was said to be very shocked and shaken as you cannot imagine he was taken to see his doctor he's now back home at the estate and two people in the other car were treated for minor injuries so looks like everyone escapes pretty luckily and i don't want to get emails from people complaining about this but i have to ask me he's ninety seven years old is he even allowed to drive at that age he does have a driver's license well i guess he does have a driver's license says the situation in the u.k. is you never too old to hold a driver's license but once you turn seventy you need to get one you need to renew it every three days. you might imagine though that is the queen's husband prince

philip should need to drive himself around but if you've seen the crown on netflix you'll know that he's pretty forthright and been a character who has you know driven the obama's around he's very fiercely independent back in the fifty's he even got his private pilot's license which was very much frowned upon at the time yeah this is a man even though he's retired from public duties which he did a couple of years ago he's still very fiercely independent in so i'm not familiar with the driving laws for. in the u.k. but are there any consequences when a duke causes an accident on the road well i've read that they will be an investigation into the circumstances of the accident where the prince philip himself faces any kind of richard vision is we don't know it seems unlikely but i guess maybe he might now be persuaded to give up the license will say yeah i mean hopefully he will get a good stern talking to buy from me to listen to the music i hope she doesn't hit

him with that purse. greeted following that royal collision tonight thank you dear . and you're watching the w. news live from berlin for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company will see you again with more news at the top of the. where i come from we have to fight for a free press and was born and raised the painter she protests want to be shot now and if your newspapers when official information as attorneys i have. many can trust and fall.