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this is news coming to you live from british lawmakers vote to century some a back to brussels parliament gives me a mandate to really go she had her break to deal with the e.u. especially the part concerning northern ireland but the e.u. says there will be no new deal so is this mission impossible we'll go to london and brussels also coming up venezuela's top quarterback self declared interim president one why dope from leaving the country and freezes his assets. venezuela
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have a list of what to expect as the country prepares for more rallies today. also in the program a refugee youth football player detained for more than sixty days in thailand hakeem arrival he is from bahrain and fears he'll be tortured or even killed if he sent back efforts to free him to return to his adopted country of australia are now gathering pace plus. that. this is the song that saved her life we meet survivor esther besh a wrong note as a girl she was forced to sing for the nazis now she sings for high school students in a history lesson they'll never forget. hello
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i'm terry martin good to have you with us there's a potential new standoff brewing between britain and after british lawmakers last night voted to reopen talks on the breaks that agreement prime minister theresa may now face is the task of returning to brussels to try and replace the arrangement regarding the irish border but the e.u. says that's not going to happen again rejecting any changes to the divorce agreement with the clock ticking on an orderly brags that what happens next is still unclear so the chinese have a kind of a. this is a u.k. parliament handing prime minister theresa may just enough space to reopen her brics agreement with the european union lawmakers passed a non-binding amendment rejecting a no deal breck's it that is leaving the e.u. without a negotiated plan and most critically the ok to renegotiate what's called the backstop the measure guaranteeing an open border between the republic of ireland
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and e.u. member and northern ireland which is part of the u.k. may frame the results as a when it is now clear that there is a route that can secure a substantial since a. substantial and sustainable majority in this house for leaving the e.u. we. we will now take this mandate forward and seek to obtain legally binding changes to be through agree. that may be hard to come by the e.u. says it's done with deal making comical so you open this somewhat at times the european council has clearly indicated there was charlie agreement that's been negotiated between the united kingdom and the european union is the best agreement possible and is not renegotiate. especially on the backstop and maintaining peace between the two irelands the european parliament's brics it spokesman kieffer hotshot made that clear tweeting we stand by. ireland and the good friday agreement
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there is no majority to reopen or dilute the withdrawal agreement in the european parliament including the backstop. now to rescind may has to convince brussels to reopen talks a hard sell if she can't she's told m.p.'s they'll have the chance to vote on what happens next in mid february. well we've got team coverage for you on this story this morning we've got the london correspondent big mass and brussels correspondent teri schultz good morning to you both let's start with you bigots help us make sense of what the british parliament wants at this point they seem to be saying we don't want to leave the e.u. without a deal but we can't accept the deal that's on the table which is the only deal available what options do the british parliamentarians think they heard no they don't accept that this is the only deal on the table we've had one cabinet ministers say well they would say that they would be open to talks but you know
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this is so majority did we now have four of he is who were the ones who go back and boris johnson when it was put to him that brussels wouldn't agree on reopening the withdrawal of even he said well believe you me she can say they just don't except they believe that there is in the end some wriggle room and that the e.u. will now have to act they believe that the ball is not in the e.u. school it's. well terry theresa may wants to return to brussels to try to renegotiate the deal she struck with the e.u. in november what reception is she likely to get in brussels. you know diplomats have been saying we can just rerun their comments from the last time and the last time and the last time because their position hasn't changed there is no room for renegotiation according to brussels they do not want to reopen this agreement all you really need to know is that ireland would never agree to have the
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backstop removed from the deal and you need unanimity to pass the the agreement any change in the agreement everyone is standing behind ireland no one is willing to remove the backstop it's very difficult to see from our perspective here in brussels where treason may think she has this wiggle room ok. where is all this headed everyone is wondering at this point could we still see a second referendum or even general elections in the u.k. if there's no breakthrough. well for not reason may has a little bit of breathing space but not very long she wants to come back within roughly two reaks and then it's the question what she can present that those people who are fighting for a second referendum they are still hoping that it's somehow on the table that there will be another dead look that she might have some i do know some declaration from brussels some some good will maybe within two weeks but nothing really substantial
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and then what and that's another and has to say that this situation fundamentally if it's reason may might not have changed and old says labor still hoping that they will somehow be able to have you know political capital out of this and what they are hoping is a general election so i think everything is open but for now for the immediate now two reason is safe. so in two weeks we might know something at least whether there's going to be wiggle room or not from from an e.u. that's simply not budging at this point we are getting closer and closer to march twenty ninth meanwhile the u.k. departure date is the e.u. ready for the u.k. to crush up terry it says it's making contingency plans but that's of course worst case scenario nobody wants a new deal brax it the e.u. has said it would be willing to consider an extension of the article two twenty nine a part of the article fifty if if britain is not able to come to an agreement before
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march twenty ninth that is something they have said but that doesn't mean reopening the deal i think what would be very welcome in brussels would be a second referendum is difficult or perhaps even impossible if that seems logistically for the u.k. . brussels very much wants this brics it to go away they would be very happy if the u.k. just decided it isn't going to happen at all not a no deal bricks it but no bricks it ok terry thank you so much a teri schultz our correspondent in brussels and in london that was bigot much thanks for talking with us this morning. obinna sweat is top court has frozen the bank accounts of that country's opposition leader and self declared interim president. and also barred him from leaving the country this follows an order by venezuela's attorney general to launch an investigation into the u.s. and several other nations have recognized the thirty five year old as venezuela's legitimate head of state after he launched
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a challenge to incumbent leader nicolas maduro last week well on tuesday washington also handed control of bennis widows u.s. bank accounts over to. the opposition leader has shrugged off the legal maneuvers being launched at home against him take a listen. i'm not underestimating the threat of jail and i don't want it to be understood like that very responsibly i say there is nothing new coming from a regime that doesn't answer to the venezuelan people's needs their only response is repression and persecution on by those speaking their well let's now go to jennifer camino gonzalez from the w.'s latin american service jennifer m a doro is clearly putting the squeeze on one guy though he's facing a criminal investigation now as assets are seized and he can't leave the country is it just a matter of time now before quite it is the rest. well let's face it he should have been arrested already the government usually moves very quickly on these and these
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opposition figures don't forget the fall of the lopez he was leading protests in twenty fourteen and surely if you tell on those protests he was arrested and he's still in in custody he's on their home arrest so the question is why isn't he arrested why hasn't he been arrested yet and the answer is the united states the u.s. has said that if y. though is arrested that they will take harsher measures and that is the problem that the government is actually afraid of this they're afraid that if they move into harshly on why though that it might invite more intervention from the united states and so their plans of pressure but then also holding back so speaking of holding back we've even heard that mud doro says he's ready for talks with the opposition what do you make of that now and this is what they always do they this is what he wants ultimately he does not want to call for new elections and he doesn't want to leave power but the third way for him which he has done before with
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the opposition every time that that the opposition mobilize is people he says well let's talk and so he has the backing of mexico and your wife for this and now he thinks that this is the way to diffuse the situation but the opposition is not likely to take this deal because they know what happens when this occurs that they go to the negotiating table normalization that is down and then and the end the government just continues to stay in power today is an important day in bed as well one of why that has called for more demonstrations against government today what can we expect. well you can't expect people to go out in the streets the position is mobilize it is unified it is firmly behind by bill but at the same time the threat of violence is real people are still scared of dying in the street people have already died since last week and the government is not afraid to jail people to to apply force so that could depress the turnout but we should definitely at
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least expect mobilization today to happen now looking at the bigger picture here quite of says he is venezuela's legitimate interim president he's been recognized by a number of other governments but is there any indication that look doro might be willing to relinquish power or call a fresh election well they're all want to stay on as long as possible he's going to do anything to hold on to his power and so it is not likely that he will call for elections but the thing is that this is the long game here and the opposition is playing it and they know that ultimately all that think he is for the stars to align her for one or two generals to get to the flag from the government and that could come if there is a bad situation with that with the money everything in inverness says government is about money about the oil and now that the u.s. has imposed sanctions on previous as a state oil company we have to wonder what will happen in the long term if this starts affecting the government and if with the international pressure that one or
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two generals say you know what out then that could make the difference and then right there the bad the high risk that the opposition has done could pay off load risks and jennifer comino gonzalez from our latin america desk thank you so much thank you. now it's catch up on some of the other stories making headlines around the world today a high profile zimbabwean activist and pastor evan has been granted bail by the country's high court he was arrested earlier this month on charges of subverting the government and inciting violence after voicing his support in social media for a national strike called by trade unions. ukraine's president petro poroshenko has launched his campaign for reelection in march or shakos said he would push for ukraine to join both the e.u. and nato if he were elected opinion polls put him behind former prime minister
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yulia timoshenko who has promised to regain control of crimea if she wins. lawyers defending the infamous mexican drug lord known as el chapo have rested their case at his u.s. trial after calling just one witness you walk in guzman's brief defense followed a nearly three months long case by prosecutors the civil cartel leader is accused of trafficking massive amounts of cocaine heroin and other drugs into the us speaking of the us a large parts of the us are bracing for the worst cold snap in recent memory temperatures across the midwest to maine are forecast to plunge to as low as minus fifty three degrees celsius the deep freeze is a result of arctic air spinning southward and is expected to bring snow as far as alabama and georgia. the death toll in the devastating
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brazilian dam disaster has now reached eighty four and it's expected to increase authorities believe hundreds more people are buried under the sludge that was released when the dam collapsed on friday five people have been arrested in connection with the disaster. how was it possible for the dam improvement in you to collapse it's not only the victims' families who want answers to that question so to brazil's authorities. the first arrest took place on tuesday two managers working for valley the company operating the mine along with another employee whose. two engineers working for the german company to suit were also detained in september the company carried out safety inspections on the dam self discovery we conducted a search and seizure at the homes of the two engineers we are going to take them to minas where the situation will be clarified. both of ali and to have said they will
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cooperate with the investigators meanwhile environmentalists stage a protest in front of the mining companies headquarters in sao paulo they call the company a murderer and chanted this was no accident this was a crime a criminal investigation against the company is still going on after a previous down collapse back in two thousand and fifteen. it effected we are seeing more disasters and every time the impact on the environment and the economy becomes worse the money supply gets poorer and agriculture and fishing become impossible. at the mining site the search for victims continues rescuers discovered a bus full of bodies buried underneath the mud and. finding survivors here is increasingly unlikely since the weekend search teams have only recovered bodies. you're watching d.w. news still to come and survivors campaign to stop the resurgence of racism we meet
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ninety four year old esther. who's using music as a medium to reach today's younger generation. in football newscasts have reached the final of the asian cup after a dominant four nil victory over hosts the united arab emirates fans and contest capital doha watched on a big screen as the team spirit is placed in the final for the first time they face four time winners japan in friday's game success would be a boost to the gulf nation as a prepares to host the twenty twenty two world cup. at efforts to free a refugee bahraini football player from a thai prison have picked up pace the asian football confederation is calling for hakim b. to be released despite an extradition request from buffer aid. from sport is here
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with us to fill in the details hey there you have it so we got this football player a ride b. he's originally from bahrain why is he sitting in a prison in thailand so he has been stress since twenty fourteen on refugee status was on the basis of claims that he was wrongfully imprisoned and tortured in bahrain and back in november of course he was arrested by top thirty's up to bahrain requested a red notice from interpol he's been sentenced to ten years in jail in bahrain for alleged an attack on a police station dating back to two thousand and twelve this despite there being footage out there of him playing in a football match at the time of the alleged crime. of football community has rallied around came. formosa crew craig foster and other ones pushing the charge to get his lace from a to. prison. more than sixty days after first being detained in thailand became al-arabiya remains in limbo separated from his wife unable to
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return to his adopted country astray and his job as a professional footballer. if you're a ten year prison sentence awaits al-arabiya if he is extradited to bahrain even though he was playing in a televised football match when the alleged crime took place activists have been tirelessly advocating for his release with former footballer craig foster a meeting with fay far and tie officials this week bahrain only in the last few days have escalated this issue in. clearly stated their intention in a brazen fashion to to contravene the international human rights of paki male writing. on shoes day the asian football confederation weighed into the issue asking thailand's prime minister in an open letter to ensure mr al arabiya his return safely to australia governing body faith has also called for the players
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release we agree that this has now become an emergency situation we want to see progress along with this week ok given the immediacy of the situation and we continue to call for. a trial end and to the prime minister. to release immediately. these international human rights. with al-arabiya having spent two months in detention for says that he wants the case resolved before friday. night the story is getting a lot of international attention is that just because he came he happens to be a professional football player not at all i mean this is this is an example of a guess what activists are saying is unlawful detention in thailand based on the principle of nonperformance which under international law says all pretty puts the
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return of a refugee to a country where he or she may feel persecution in the fact that the interpol red notice was withdrawn after it was issued because it contravenes interpol's own policy that a red notice should not be issued against a refugee also is quite brazen strength government is also being criticized by activists the federal police themselves notified the toy forty's that came was actually arriving in thailand and so this whole mess should never have happened and now that bahrain have officially requested his extradition activists are very concerned about future. and they feel he could be tortured or even killed if he's returned to bahrain and we've got the statement from the asian football confederation which i understand is led by a man who who is part of bahrain's royal family quickly if you can what role has he had in all this yes so it's a bit uncertain the role that sheikh salman has actually had in this he's been very
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quiet on the matter when the f.c.c. called on thailand's prime minister to release a cane they said that sheikh salman had actually been recused from overseeing the matter now he came claims that this is all a matter of a friend he he claims that this is coming about because he cues sheikh salman a member of the ruling bahraini royal family of discriminating against shia muslims and also punishing bahraini athletes who protested during the arab spring so. now sheikh salman he's president and activist is very very concerned that he's not saying anything on this and there. thanks so much an expat from did obvious sports on sunday as the world marked international holocaust remembrance day there were warnings that young people today know less and less about the nazi era genocide of jews and other groups one person working to change this is ninety four year ninety
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four year old esther bestial rando as a girl she was sent to the largest nazi concentration camp but thanks to her musical talent she managed to survive and now she shares her remarkable story with german high school students. this is this song saved my lai hard years especially if. ninety four year old establish a run or enjoys singing this popular war time german song. it's a happy tune but it brings back memories of her time in the streets concentration camp back then the camp authorities were scouting for inmates to join the girls' orchestra and she grabbed the chance the addition esther had to play bellamy on the accordion she never even held an accordion but knew she was a talented musician. concentrated on the job at hand and told myself you can do this i knew if i didn't get accepted into the girls' orchestra and i
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would have to do hard manual labor that would have been the end of me. is there was only eighteen years old when she was deported to auschwitz at seventeen she had been separated from her parents who were then both murdered by the nazis in a concentration camp is there was forced to carry heavy stones until she was accepted into the girl's orchestra and work as a musician consisted of playing songs as the prisoners marched out to do their work and later she also had to play when the trains arrived bringing thousands of people about to meet their last in the gas chambers. of us. that's the worth thing that has ever happened to me because i felt so hopeless i couldn't help these people i knew they were going to the best. behind us to the s.s. soldiers with their rifles and if we hadn't played then they would have shot us.
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more than a million jews were murdered in our streets is the vision of annele may have escaped death but most of her peers did not she feels it's her duty to tell young people what the nazis did she goes to schools from her memoirs and gives concerts she's backed by hip hop and called microphone mafia. concept was to bring members along to compose rap music using letters and journals from formal concentration camp prisoners. and the microphone hope that by using rap they can connect with today's young people here in a can on high school the concept seems to be working they've been sharing a stage for ten years now singing against racism in recent times wide radicalism has been rearing its ugly head again in germany and other countries. my dream is that all not just disappear and i always say i will sing until there are no more
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nazis left. even though she knows that may not be a realistic goal. just a reminder the top story we're following for you here today on good news for u.k. lawmakers have given prime minister theresa may mandate return to brussels and reopen the talks with european union but brussels has said this deal is no on negotiate. you're watching news live from berlin don't forget you get all the latest news and information or website that's a dot com coming up next in the business talks are set to resume in washington today aimed at settling the simmering trade conflict between the u.s. and china but it doesn't look good america's justice department has brought charges
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a a a it's time. to take one step further. and face to possibly time to search the unknown and find for the troops above mouton to overcome a boundary fence connect the world. it's time for w. d w d is coming up ahead of me for minds. once upon a time there was a young girl with a burning ambition. to become a conductor. every very curious child and very excited and in love with music and i would go to concerts with my parents. for being on stage with the musicians and being part of that magic it was a difficult first. world famous conductor.
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of the not. lamaist. starts feb eighteenth on t.w. . american and chinese trade officials are sitting down today for new talks negotiations are overshadowed by newly unsealed criminal charges against chinese telecom giant huawei and by a slumping chinese economy. also the u.s. is pushing europe for a new trade deal threatening automakers in return but brussels has a little more leverage it's importing ever more amounts of soybeans. and u.s. sanctions on venezuela are driving up the price of oil worldwide.
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