this is g.w. news live from berlin tonight the british prime minister's back up plan for breaks it that many say sounds very familiar to risa may have presented her plan b. today to parliament she insists there will be no delaying the date of britain's departure from the e.u. but can these new proposals satisfy the wall makers who threw out her plan also coming up that spectacular moon last night people are still talking about it was blood wolf moon turning blood red and even earning some of us we'll tell you why it

happened and how it got that name. it's good to have you with us today she came with plan b. in hand britain's prime minister theresa may presented parliament with what's supposed to be an alternative plan for brics it one that she hopes will win lawmakers support on theresa may was forced to amend her original deal to take britain elbe of the e.u. after a majority of parliamentarians rejected it last week. mr speaker turning to brett if at first you don't succeed theresa may have an uphill battle on her second go at selling her brags of clamming she's faced criticism for refusing to take a no deal bragg's it off the table but she said parliament held the key to solving

the problem for state money the right way to rule out snow deal is for this house to approve a deal with the europeans. that see that it's not this government is seeking to achieve the only other guaranteed way to avoid or no deal bret's it is to revoke article fifty which would mean stay in the e.u. one of the hardest issues to untangle has been the so-called irish backstop a deal to maintain an open border between northern ireland which is part of the united kingdom and the republic of ireland which is part of the e.u. may is facing opposition to the backstop within her own government but dublin says it's essential to maintain peace in northern ireland a car bomb exploded in the northern irish city of london derry over the weekend a possible warning from militant groups in the region. may says that she is looking for

a solution with regard to the fact still despite the changes we have previously agreed there remain two core issues the fear that we could be trapped in it permanently and concerns over its potential impact on our union its northern and just treated differently from the rest of the u.k. so i will be talking to this week to colleagues in a way that can command the greatest possible support in the house and i will then take the conclusions of those discussions back to the e.u. . just who in the e.u. is willing to listen to those conclusions is an open question the block has ruled out further concessions to the u.k. and so far plan c. is nowhere in sight. let's spoil it our correspondent barbara faisal she's standing by in london tonight good evening to you barbara you know today in parliament the opposition labor leader jeremy corbyn he called teresa mayes new plan for braggs groundhog day did she did she put forward anything new.

she absolutely did not and you must admit brendon takes a certain amount of cold bloodedness to take plan a that was roundly defeated by a palm and just a week ago blow the dust off that so difficult like that in the meantime and say ok here it is this is the plan why don't you just vote for it and of course i will listen to you objections about what i would do is those objections remains completely unclear i will take them to crawl so it's but then we'll see what happens that's pretty much what she did and it's in a way it's admirable because of course theories are made does what she does best she just carries on and doesn't sit all through of left or right. who would you say she was trying to win over with her address in parliament today. that was completely clear i mean all this was just for her own party and for her coalition partner the northern irish d u p the unionists there and they are the ones who sort

of really gave her this is this incredible defeat last week and they are the ones who sort of she now tries to convince and it's it was a relatively weak because they there of dejection stu's the brics a deal a series may go deeper than just the backstop and how many use britain might be stuck in it or not socketed in it but if there is a large group in the tory amongst the tory hardline bricks and cheers who are no really fighting off aggressively for a hard breck's it because they think this would really give them what they want total impunity of rape from the european union what about outside parliament barbara i mean the people in the u.k. do we have any indication how they want to move forward on bricks and. i mean there is a strong movement for a second referendum even though you can't really say hall many of parliament areas

would vote for it at this time at this point in time and there is of course if you look at the media here there is a rising despair that parliament and the government are just running in circles like a cat chasing its own tail and i asked some people earlier in the day here what they think the situation means for them and how they would like to solve it. i'd like is to remain. like another referendum well my preferred option when i vote was to stay in. i'm beginning to change my mind. so that's how i am now i feel i feel that things have taken place over the last couple of you know a couple of years really. beginning to change my mind but i much preferred option was to start with you know i really hope bricks and stuff i didn't vote because i

don't care. i was going to get it done because it's the most drugged out thing i've lost but he is. frankly as boring as he came nationally it's so boring i don't really know what the european leaders will accept so it seems that it's sort of an embarrassing situation where i don't even know what they could go back to europe with than and have accepted on a say that that's what i think it's fascinating that you know the opinions are as varied as divided as the country so where does this all leave us is theresa may you see any closer at the end of the day to delivering bricks. absolutely not and she still seems to be running down the clock she just increases pressure on palm and says look at the look at how time passes today it's only sixty seven days till bricks a day and so if you are responsible you just will have to say yes to the deal i

mean that she that's what she repeats over and over again but that is not a solution no there is a power struggle behind the scenes and paula meant and parliamentarian said trying to sort of grab the wheel in this and bringing amendments and changes in existing laws to force the government to sort of change course whether that will be successful it is a difficult thing to do under the british system of government and the sort of division of powers here and whether they will be successful is completely open but in brussels they really must be wringing their hands about the spectacle that law and london really gives these days because they can do anything they just sit there and wait whatever will come whatever will happen and we'll have to do the same it'll be interesting to see what happens next week on the twenty ninth of january if and when parliament does vote on this plan b. our barbara based on the story for so long and barbara as always thank you. well

the israeli military says its jets have struck iranian military targets in syria including its munitions facilities and an intelligence site the announcement is a rare departure from israel's normally ambiguous statements concerning its activities in syria the strikes were in response to a rocket fired by iranian forces towards israel on sunday that itself was a response to an earlier israeli air raid near the airport in damascus. explosions in the skies over damascus on monday morning the syrian observatory for human rights says some syrians have been killed israel's military has confirmed that it targeted at radian and syrian positions including arsenals and training camps out seen in this footage during a visit to chad yesterday israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu called it an

early warning of a long term military strategy. it's one of the newly permanently pursue a policy of attacking iranian positions in syria and everyone who tries to harm. the policy was developed after a drone attack on israel from an iranian position in syria and february last year in the months that followed israel has hundreds of military bases arsenals and radar stations across syria the goal was to destroy the iranian infrastructure that as much as possible. israel increasingly views the expansion of iranian positions and the deployment of iranian revolutionary guards in syria as a direct threat to israel's security. after a rocket was fired over the golan heights israel has now warned of further counter attacks by syria syria's ally iran. here's some of the other stories now that are

making headlines around the world that russia has threatened retaliation after the european union slapped sanctions on its military intelligence chiefs that over the nerve agent attack on a former washington double agent the targeted individuals you may remember were implicated in the attempted murder of scriptural and his daughter in the british town of solsbury last year at least ten people have died after two cargo ships with indian and turkish sailors went up in flames near the crimean peninsula the blaze occurred at the mouth of the character straight between the black sea and the sea of. well millions of stargazers got a treat to that last night a rare lunar eclipse known as a super blood wolf movie now of course you may know there were no reports of where was roaming the streets but the spectacle in the night sky did bring out plenty of

amateur astronomers. around the world people stayed up late or got up early for a chance to see a rare sight in the night sky for some lucky sky gazers the conditions were just right to catch the so-called super blood wolf moon. it's a total lunar eclipse and was visible with the naked eye where the skies were clear enough. a total lunar eclipse happens when a full moon becomes completely blocked from sunlight by the earth the earth's shadow covers the moon obscuring it from view until only a dim outline can be seen at all. as for the name a super moon happens when the moon is closest to the earth making it appear larger than usual a wolf moon is an ancient name for any moon in january it comes from traditional tribal naming systems and the blood moon comes from the red color.

the blood moon aspect of this eclipse is actually what we call eclipses during to tallahassee the moon can take on a coppery red color and that's because some of the sunlight actually is filtered through the year satisfy year and bens it was able to hit the moon and it turns it kind of coppery red and that's because the earth's atmosphere filters out the blue light it scatters it if you were on the moon you would be seeing all the sunrises and sunsets happening on earth once more than fifteen hundred people turned up at this observatory in california one of many popular viewing parties held down here on earth and people were in a celebrant tory mood. that was it's his birthday is a super special day they're also celebrating his birthday so it's special for more reasons than just the notes on her birthday i said i'll give you the moon the night she took it away. the entire transformation took about three and a half hours before the sun once again lit up the lunar surface and the moon began

dropping into the horizon. if you miss the event you've got a good ten years to prepare for this particular mix of celestial circumstances to come together once again. with a french team has crossed the equator in record time while competing in the jules verne in the world yacht race spindrift just attempting to break the record for circuit navigating the globe. last wednesday and passed the equator four days nineteen hours and fifty seven minutes later their journey take them across the southern oceans the overall record to beat is just under forty one. years. is a reminder of the top story we're following for you british prime minister to resign has presented her backup plan rejecting calls for a delay to britain's departure from the e.u. beyond the end of march she says she will hold more talks with her coalition

partners and with the european union on the divorce deal. you're watching. from berlin for all of us here in berlin thanks for the company more news coming up at the top of the. with him had to be you. know if i had known i would be small i never would have gone on the trip i would not have put myself and my parents. bought it's the theme of the what a beautifully to with. money.