close. to. zero. this is g w news live from berlin britain on a collision course with brussels e.u. leaders insist that they will not renegotiate bragg's it with the u.k. opening a new standoff with british prime minister theresa magda that is after she convinced parliament to give her more time to seek changes to the deal. also coming up venezuela's top port bans self declared interim president juan why go from leaving the country and freezes his assets to our friends will add

a list has what to expect as the country prepares for more rallies today and american and chinese trade officials are sitting down today for you tossed the negotiations are overshadowed by recent criminal charges against chinese telecom giant huawei and by a slumping economy plus a refugee footballer detained for more than sixty days in thailand akim all bribe he is from bahrain and fears that he will be tortured or even killed if he is sent past efforts to free him to return to his adopted country australia are now gathering place plus and is taking food that a supermarket has thrown away the same as stealing it that's the question for german for today in the case of two students who were accused of theft after the dumpster diving.

i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program there is a potential new standoff brewing between britain and the e.u.'s after british lawmakers last night voted to reopen talks on the breaks that agreement they've given prime minister to resign may a mandate to renegotiate the so-called irish backstop that's the plan to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland but it's not clear what she can actually achieve because the e.u. insists that that provision cannot be changed. in a surprise move defying agreements already made with the e.u. british lawmakers gave the prime minister a mandate to go back to the negotiating table parliamentarians narrowly passed a government backed amendment to change the irish back stop it buys may some time but the challenges remain clear there is limited appetite for such a change in the negotiating it will not be of the.

that we're seeing in contrast to a fortnight ago this house has made it clear what it needs to approve the withdrawal agreement ney's chances of achieving that appears slim the e.u. says the backstop plan to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland isn't up for renegotiation. i think in the backs of his what is an insurance and insurance is needed. to be one hundred percent sure that there is no border between you and i should public and we don't want also is that the backstop is is use is president of the european council donald tusk also immediately announced that the e.u. was not prepared to reopen discussions while french president macron lent his voice in support of no renegotiation comical so you open as the european council of december has clearly indicated the withdrawal agreement that has been negotiated

between the united kingdom and the european union is the best agreement possible and is not negotiable exist yet. the e.u. breck's it steering group meets today as theresa may is poised to travel to brussels on what could be mission impossible she may come back with nothing new to offer parliament which means back to square one for bracks it again substantial and says let's get more on this now we are joined by the london correspondent massive bear could help us make sense of what the british parliament just voted for i mean they seem to be saying we don't want to leave the e.u. without a deal but they can't accept the deal that's on the table which is the only one that the e.u. says is available so what options do they think they have well they simply don't believe what the e.u. is saying they think that the e.u. also really at any cost ones to avoid a no deal situation where the u.k.

in just a couple of months time crashed out of the european union at a huge cost to the u.k. but also to the european union economic costs and they believe that they are just going to give in and that they are going to budge on the backstop which is the future agreement for northern ireland and we have spoken to dominic rob who used to be the bricks and secretary and he used on the farm bricks it side of the conservative party has been pushing to resume to be tough on the european union in the negotiations and here's how he explains what his thinking is. we want to do a deal with our you friends of our german friends and all friends across europe and of course now you deal with we have some significant implications for german businesses livelihoods and jobs as well as here in the u.k. there's a deal to be done but you can't keep saying no to every reasonable proposal the u.k. makes they need to reciprocate the flexibility that we've shown and if that happens

and we have some pragmatism within the commission and across councils this deal will get done if not we will leave on terms on the twenty ninth of march an interesting statement there from him interesting. perhaps to hear some reaction from brussels a little bit later so tell us in the meantime though bear get i mean whatever happened to the talk of a second referendum is this dead in the water or still a possibility. well importantly and amend was was not voted in last night which had called for more time an extension of article fifty is if there is a risk of no deal at the end of february so that would have given more time oh such a prepare for a second referendum and the pound crashed off to the votes last night so that's possibly an indication of what the market things how this can can end which is the risk of no deal i think has increased but also those people who are fighting for

a second referendum they still think that well if it drags on and drags on for a few more weeks and maybe the prime minister really doesn't have any other choice but to give it back to the people we've spoken to i just met who has is a labor m.p. and she has been fighting for a second referendum and she is not prepared to give up this is what she had to say i think it's more likely because we saw teresa yesterday kick the can down the road as we british puts it once again and she spoke to solve two more weeks to try and resolve the problems that she's got within her own political party i don't think those problems are resolved people and i think we'll be back to square one in two weeks' time and unless the party leaders turn to corporate interests may compain some resolution some way of arriving there to a consensus on what the deal should look like and i think the impasse in parliament

is going to remain and are not basis we have to support the musts about to the people. ok so a call for a referendum there we will indeed see if that happens better get mass joining us with the view from london in the wake of this vote there get thank you so much for putting it into perspective for us. well now let's get a quick check of some other stories making news around the world german police have arrested three suspected islamist extremists on suspicion of planning a bomb attack federal prosecutors say that the men were iraqi refugees it were detained here the danish border in the region of marcion officials say that the group had not yet selected a target for an attack but were harvesting explosive material from fireworks. schools in the thai capital bangkok have closed as authorities struggled to contain choking air pollution the city has been shrouded in a toxic case for weeks efforts to seed rain clouds and regulate truck traffic have

failed to clear the air officials are urging residents to curb the use of incense and fireworks when they celebrate next year's next week excuse me lunar new the new year. large parts of the united states are bracing for the worst cold snap in recent memory temperatures across the midwest to maine are forecast to plunge 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 venezuela's top court has frozen the bank accounts of the country's opposition leader and self declared interim president. and also barred him from leaving the country it follows an order by venice well as attorney general to launch an investigation into quiet oh the u.s. and several other nations have recognized the thirty five year old as venezuela's legitimate head of state after he launched a challenge to incumbent leader nicolas maduro last week now on tuesday washington

also handed control of venezuela's u.s. bank accounts over to. the opposition leader has shrugged off the legal maneuvers being launched at hold the meantime against him. listen. i'm not underestimating the threat of jail and i don't want to be understood like a 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 let's get more on this now we are joined by jennifer communal gonzales she is a venezuelan analyst at the news welcome to you jennifer so tell us because you know we've seen with doro now clearly putting the squeeze on he's facing a criminal investigation his assets are being seized he can't leave the country is it just a matter of time now before we see quite oh arrested in the country you know what the question is why hasn't he been arrested already i mean these measures are

expect this from the government the government considers him to be acting against the constitution and so they would likely go after him but the thing is the venezuelan government usually moves much much much quicker when it comes to i rest the people especially opposition figures that have galvanized and mobilize support so all it's admittedly they're not they're not going as far as arresting him because of the united states i think the united states has is playing a huge role here keeping why go in safety because as they said it by those arrested they have they have threatened of serious consequences and what our desires consequences we don't know but they think that it could be more intervention and that is not what the mother regime wants right now and you basically also have another interesting wrinkle here because you have when doro saying that he is ready for talks with the opposition he even offered fresh parliamentary elections what are we to make of that. well it makes sense the elections are not elections to

remove him so he will he will throw a few things out like oh we could have elections for the parliament or we could have a negotiation but the main thing that people want is a new presidential election and that he is not willing to give absolutely not but i mean this makes sense you know he has done this before every time that the opposition mobilizing and has a big phrase then he says ok let's have negotiations and that usually the mobilize of the opposition so he's hoping that that will happen and the governments of mexico on here right have already backed this so he thinks he has the international some international backing to carry this out and it's interesting because we've seen the pressure you know against. basically coming from international governments around the world but how is the situation domestically because i mean one has called for more demonstrations within the country against majority government today what can we expect there. well people will come out definitely of the opposition is

galvanized it is united it is fired up and it really the opposition and his voters really believe that this can happen and so they will come out absolutely no question but the problem is of course they do have the threat of violence the threat of arrest dozens of people that already have been killed and hundreds have been arrested according to human rights organizations on the ground and they know that so you know i think that might the press the turnout but people will come out ok we'll see how they shape up today those demonstrations which are scheduled jennifer come you know gonzales joining us from thank you. you're watching news still to come desperate pleas from a former bahrain national team football player who was arrested in thailand at bahrain's request activists trying to stop his extradition claiming that he faces present torture even death vs sent back. to the person american and chinese trade officials are set to begin a new round of talks in washington the latest effort to resolve

a trade dispute that has just for up to business across the globe and the stakes are high u.s. president donald trump has threatened to raise further tariffs on chinese goods if no deal is reached by march that would hit an already slumping chinese economy and then there's the issue a four way. will they won't think that's the question in washington as the world's two biggest economies sit down to work out their differences and subtle there are open trade conflict since u.s. president donald trump took office beijing and washington have taken turns slapping each other with ever higher punitive tariffs. the u.s. government argues that china is taking advantage of existing trade regulations using a combination of state subsidies and industrial espionage to legitimately gain a leg up on the competition. case in point while away. the u.s. recently accused the chinese tech giant of violating international sanctions against iran and stealing trade secrets something the chinese government vehemently

denies. you know it's been some time since the u.s. started to use its state power to smear and suppress certain chinese enterprises in a chant to throttle the other gentleman operations their intentions are strongly political and manipulative we suddenly urge the us to stop ill founded suppression of while away and other chinese enterprises we. experts are skeptical that both sides will find common ground this week china is unlikely to give up its cavalier approach to foreign intellectual property any time soon. and after trump's recent loss in the u.s. government shutdown he's likely to push for sweeping reform. but time is ticking perhaps if no deal is reached trump has threatened to impose another two hundred sixty seven billion dollars of tariffs on chinese goods starting in march. let's

get more we are joined by steven barely here in the studio so we just heard that in that piece there that no resolution is expected from these talks so what is holding up progress i think the big issue that the two sides are really separated on is the issue of technology and it's often referred to as technology transfers or forced technology transfers what that means is that when a company goes into the chinese market it is forced to basically partner with a chinese business which can then take some of that technology or sort of copy some of that technology and that's in order to have access to that market at all and so this is going to drive not just with the u.s. but with all sorts of nations including germany including european nations and something they'd like to see resolved to chinese ears however when you hear we want you to change your system that's exactly what it sounds like we want you to postpone your ambitions of becoming an economic and technological might and so there's also suspicions that even if they promise to make changes to their domestic laws in terms of business practices and what foreign investment does there they won't be follow what's in force mechanism and how do you ensure that this won't

happen because they've made these promises before china that is absolutely and doesn't go through the day which which sort of mechanisms are they yes exactly now let's talk about these unsealed charges against huawei and their chief financial officer i mean how does that play into these talks because they've really hit a hot button here you know if you if you listen to u.s. treasury secretary steve and he said yesterday they have nothing do with each other we can we can take care of one and the other in separate realms and there is something to be said for that because these charges are probably there is something legitimate to these charges if you look at the indictments there is a case against what way that other nations are willing to make as well but of course if you. chinese side this is now becoming a face saving issue i mean this is something that royals the public opinion as well and it gets them go and i mean this is our chief financial officer of one of our businesses that we're most proud of a multinational and now she's being held in canada on charges in the u.s. and now there's suddenly this release in the trade talks right is right as our

negotiators are flying in these charges are unsealed there are still more still more sealed charges what's the next shoe going to drop during the next round of negotiations that's the question briefly who needs a deal more the u.s. china who's in the stronger position the short answer would probably be china based on what we know we do know that their economy is decelerating manufacturing orders have gone down consumer activity has gone down but you don't know if the u.s. trump also he needs a negotiating when if you look at it politically look at what happened the shutdown fiasco and with him you never know what's really going to happen but economically the u.s. is in a much better position it seems than china is at the moment but one has to ask for how long we know the economic cycle has been the longest ever in history many also expecting a downturn there is even barely from business thanks so much. well now a german court is set to roll in the case of two students accused of theft after dumpster diving taking discarded food items from supermarket garbage containers is a common practice but in germany it's against the law now many people though think

that it's time about law changed including the two young women awaiting today's verdict. fancy and cargo are happy their trial is bringing the issue to light they're convinced that stealing from supermarket dumpsters is not a crime the students don't want their full faces filmed because they face particularly serious the charges they're stolen goods food stuffs like these mandarins collected from the supermarkets garbage to tom van foyer the dumpsters were full mostly with milk products like cheese and yogurt there was also bottles juice and some vegetables. and. many people here in germany are against the disposal of tons of foodstuffs by supermarkets so-called dumpster diving has become a movement here but it's

a legal trance and cargo think that's wrong. it was a crime shot and it doesn't hurt anyone the food stuffs were thrown into the dumpster so to us it seems that they no longer have any value the store can no longer sell them. a recent government survey shows that more than eighty percent of germans are in favor of less food being thrown away for months. sometimes the expiry date is still good but it started out anyway because new products are already there. just because it's taking food from dumps to disregard it to stephen but morally it's the right thing to do market operators at the trial insist they are obligated to protect consumers against the consumption of disposed food. attorney carl daken hart has been watching the case he thinks one solution is to change the law as france has done. legal situation in france

with change so that individual food shops are obligated to you through to them to continue to use the food stuffs and not throw them away so individual shops would for example be required to follow food share in consequence of. that is what the two facing charges are demanding they have even started an online petition. even once mentioned we wish that supermarkets and bakeries were made to further distribute food stuffs. whatever the court's decision convo and fancy have accomplished one thing germany is talking about their case. on now the effort to free a rainy football player from a thailand prison has picked up pace says he faces extradition to the nation of his birth to keep out of raping was detained more than two months ago while on honeymoon in bangkok he had been living as a refugee in australia since two thousand and fourteen when he requested asylum there claiming that he had been falsely imprisoned and tortured in bahrain. more

than sixty days after first being detained in thailand became al-arabiya remains in limbo separated from his wife unable to return to his adopted country astray and his job as a professional footballer. 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 meeting with faith and toy 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 arriving. 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 a stray leah governing body faith has also called for the players release we agreed that this is now become an emergency situation we want to say progress along with this week given the immediacy of the situation and we continue to call for. thailand and to the prime minister. to release had been immediately. told these international human rights. with al-arabiya having spent two months in detention forces said he wants the case resolved before friday. and we are joined now by. an expat from sports to tell us a little bit more about why bahrain is so determined to see al arabiya returned yes to the bahrain authorities claim that al-arabiya committed a us an attack on a police station back in two thousand and twelve obviously

a very serious crime and the sentence into a ten year prison sentence in his absence the only problem with this is that there's actually footage of him playing in a televised football match on the day the alleged crime was committed so that obviously brings up problems as well as the fact that he fled bahrain after claiming that he was imprisoned unlawfully and tortured by bahraini authorities for his brother's political activities so now he faces extradition back to bahrain and obviously fears for his life and this story is getting a lot of international attention why has it struck such a chord with human rights activists i think it does help these training football community has got the haunted me does play football in australia for melbourne club but also this is just about basic refugee human rights activists say he came was unlawfully imprisoned by toy authorities because international law actually pretty fits refugees being sent back to the country with a few persecution on top of that interpol also contravened its own refugee policy

in issuing a red notice for her came to rest and i actually read through that so this should never have happened in the first place and now that bahrain has officially requested his extradition from top stories activists are getting more and more concerned that if he sent back he could face torture or possibly even death and we've also got a statement from the asian football confederation which we understand is actually led by a man who is part of the bahrain well family what role if he had in this year so shake some on him. he's the president of the president of the i.o.c. and a vice president of faith so massive figure in world football but he's been completely silent over this issue and mccain claims that shakes ohman is behind this extradition process he accused. of discriminating against shia muslims and also of persecuting bahraini athletes that protested against the royal family

during the arab spring so he believes this is a political move from selman and activists very concerned about his silence and they feel that he should be removed from office if indeed cain is sent back to bahrain yeah expat joining us from sports thank you. now austria's marcel harsher has once again stamped his authority on the alpine skiing knight race under the lights of slogging in austria are sure had some fifty thousand fans behind him as he put in two dominant runs and he finished in second place ahead of alexey touchable of france it was his sixty eighth world cup when keeping him a talk this season stand was good for him. but mine are now the top source of your phone with for you here at t w e leaders say that they won't really go shave their breaks a deal with the u.k. that's opening up

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