this is do w. news live from berlin greek nationalists gather in athens for protests that could turn ugly there against the deal under which greece would agree to its northern neighbor calling itself north macedonia parliament is due to vote on ratifying the unpopular and real and in the coming days we'll go live to athens for the latest. also coming up. u.s. president donald trump comes up with a plan to end the longest government shutdown in u.s.

history and to get his mexican border wall built but the democrats say no we'll tell you why. and the bundesliga is front runners respond to the pressure in this the first weekend back from the winter break the door open just get past their fears rivals like to maintain their perch a thompson german week. omarion evanston thanks for joining us we begin in the greek capital athens where nationalist groups have kicked off a major rally to protest a deal aimed at settling a nearly three decade old name dispute with macedonia now under the agreement struck last june greece's northern neighbor would rename itself the republic of north macedonia invert turn athens would drop its objection. to the balkan country

joining nato and the european union but the deal has been hotly contested in greece prime minister a little narrowly won a confidence vote in parliament on wednesday after his right wing partner left the coalition in protest at the agreement. all right let's get the latest now from athens and for that we're joined by w. correspondent and the chorus of a so we hear some noise in the background describe for us what are you seeing at this protest. well there are tens of thousands of people from all across the country who have sworn in who is swarmed into the. capital here in front of the nation's parliament to protest over this controversial jia would now seeing we're now hearing these crowd seeing being singing the national anthem so it's quite quiet actually right now but things are

heating up as thousands more continue to pour into the capital there is also another counter protest that is being held not far from here by some. left extremist and this is a very difficult security exercise for the authorities here who fear violence erupting between both sides and seeing it stream is from both sides clashing all right let's talk about the people who are against this deal why are they so angry about it. well it's very simple for the greeks they refused to relinquish the name macedonia simply because they believe that it harbors territorial designs on greece's province of macedonia which is in the north and this is a region also which gave birth to greece's most revered ancient warrior alexander

the great and they want the government to hold a referendum on what they are saying is a very very important and divisive national issue and given the fact that the government here is teetering on the verge of. actively into a tailspin after its coalition partner resigned last week they believe that the need for a referendum is so much more imminent and definitely needed because of the political developments here all right well if they don't get a referendum what it will take for this agreement to go through is that parliament votes to ratify it so with the prime minister to for us teetering. in his position is he likely to to muster the votes he needs. he does in fact officials that i've been speaking to for from the government feel confident

that mr does have those one hundred fifty one votes the majority in the nation's three hundred seat parliament to push this deal and to ratify it but the costs the political cost they fear will be enormous not because the prime minister is already facing plummeting polls and that's why also the conservatives say forget about this deal forget about pushing it through parliament and let's get some. and let's get to national elections as early as possible so that we can block this deal all right and some reporting for us from athens thank you very much. to the united states now where president donald trump has offered democrats a deal to end the long as government shutdown in the country's history speaking from the white house trump said he'd compromise on immigration plans provided the

democrats agreed to fund his mexican border wall but the democrats rejected the deal even before the president delivered his speech our next report has more this was the president's big big to end the shutdown help out some immigrants already here in exchange for keeping more out. three years of legislative relief for seven hundred thousand dhaka recipients brought here unlawfully by their parents. many years ago. or deferred action for childhood arrivals is an obama era program to prevent deportation of undocumented minors brought to the u.s. trump had been trying to end it now we keep it in place at least for now he also said he delayed deportation for those who have fled war and disasters to issues for democrats but what did he want in return five point seven billion dollars for

strategic deployment of physical barriers or a wall the the law trumps most ardent supporters want him to deliver on a key campaign promise a border wall with mexico but democrats aren't taking the bait swiftly rejecting the deal house speaker nancy pelosi called it a nonstarter she criticized trump for failing to offer permanent protection for undocumented miners the showdown over trump's border wall has led to the longest federal government shutdown in u.s. history hundreds of thousands of government employees have been forced to leave or working without pay for almost five weeks the democrats offer no wall but hundreds of millions of dollars more for border security isn't enough for the president the shutdown will go on until the two sides can agree or one side gives in. let's get you up to speed now on some of the other stories making news around the

world. thousands of people have demonstrated for women's rights in washington d.c. and other cities around the world the women's march in washington drew an estimated one hundred thousand people preparations for this year's event by internal divisions and accusations of anti-semitism against some of the organizers. residents of the northern irish city of london derry have been evacuated after a suspected car bomb explosion police say there are currently no reports of casualties after the blast which took place overnight saturday leading politicians say the blast was terror related fear of conflict has been mounting in northern ireland since the brakes that vote. rescuers in spain have begun drilling a tunnel in a bid to rescue a two year old boy who's been trapped in a well for six days the child fell down an unmarked well shaft near the city of milan good nearly a week ago but until now conditions were not favorable to begin drilling. skies

over the northern hemisphere are set to stage a rare celestial phenomenon in the early hours of monday when a combination of circumstances give rise to what's known as a super blood wolf moon weather permitting the total lunar eclipse will be visible from the north and south america as well as parts of western europe and africa. now in the democratic republic of congo the dispute over last month's presidential election is deepening the country's constitutional court has confirmed the victory of opposition leader felix she said katie it dismissed a challenge by rival martin for a ulu who says he is the real winner election observers from the catholic church and results leaked to the media also indicate for you lou one dozens of people have been killed in unrest since provisional election results were announced.

are i'd been does begin now and with second place byron munich winning on friday night to the pressure it was on dortmund to win last night at leipsic and even without the presence of team captain marco boyce the league leaders got the job done. leipzig were hoping their young gun t.-mo vanno would be able to break his dortmund curse he never scored against them in eight this league clashes. meanwhile dortmund coach didn't have his two top scorers in the starting line up with marco toys out injured for the first time this season and mario good said getting the nod instead of pocket while kutha and it was good so who had the first chance for the visitors but he by he must take just managed to clear the ball away. then with almost twenty minutes gone dortmund did hit the target midfielder axel vit sol

hammering home for the one nil lead the belgian second goal of the season having scored the other the first time these two teams met after that the game hit a bit of a dry spell late sick lack of precision in their attack like here with the ball landing out of the reach of use of paulson. in the second half maximillian philip charged towards the leipzig goal but blew his chance to double the lead still that was dortmund that created the better chances. kako alcott came on as a sub and had the best chance of all shortly before the end but the ball didn't fully cross the line as confirmed by goal line technology. in injury time leipzig launched last gasp attack but my taste when you're headed into the side netting one nil the final score the red bull's first home loss this season league leaders dortmund ran out victorious in leipzig for the first time

ever and got twenty nineteen off to a great start. well of a poor start to the season led to a coaching change over the winter break and the new boss bosch promise to bring attacking soccer back to the club but again third place glad that style of playing to not produce the needed goals. after a year away pets a boss is back in the. despite his debacle indorsements is tasked with guiding a talented labor queues inside up the table his team wasted no time trying to impress the new coach twenty seconds in having fallen suggest failed to connect with the cross fall into one of three strikers in the starting line up and behind him were union brands and chi habits that pavel pace involved in this chance brand with the crafty folk work habits tonight by young zama. accusing dominated crowd

back sat back waiting for their moment to strike when they did it was a sucker punch from allison pryor i one nail after thirty seven minutes prior scoring with crowd back first shots on goal. bosh needed more potency from his side after the break. with more frustration the hosts missing a string of chances have it's here and then carry better robbie. just that little bit more. i play because i'm finished with twenty two shots i'm told the only stat that counts is the final score shot through losing stopped. maybe they had two chances in the whole game i think we had at least ten big chances but in full in the end it's about scoring goals and we didn't so that's why there was a spin on for helpless i'm really happy i was in the right place a couple of times three good points a great start to the year. so. you can rely on zama is

a clean sheet of the season right back eating pace with the title contenders. all right and then bundesliga plan saturday brainin came away with the win against hanover and it only took one goal in the trashy town found the right place to be in the first half the twenty two year old hound on a block shot from point blank range. nail the final score. let's take a look at all the results so far this weekend as we saw dortmund held on to a six point lead at the top of the table by beating why fake gladbach edged paths lead for coups in frankfurt dominated freiburg and byron munich on friday night beat hoffenheim later today in nuremberg will take on how to have berlin while shaka play both work. they're up to date now on d w

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