three songs from the forest starts the first. of. this is the doubly news live from berlin britain's prime minister makes a last ditch appeal for tolerance to say that deal comes later today but the government's attorney general has raised doubts about. the european union.

i'm still going to welcome to the program britain's prime minister has been making a last ditch appeal to lawmakers to support her deal ahead of a crucial vote later today sorry someone told lawmakers that her improved version secured last night after further negotiations with the european union includes legally binding changes that mean the so-called northern ireland the backstop cannot tie the you're trying to do a u. rules indefinitely a statement however seems to contradict an announcement from the u.k.'s attorney general mrs may also stress that the deal protects the rights of a u.s. citizens living in the u.k. and huge a citizens living in the e.u. well ending freedom of movement here's some of what you have to say. i believe it is absolutely important imperative for this house that we meet the decision that was taken by the british people in june two thousand and sixteen that we deliver our own referendum and that we deliver brecht's it for the british people and as i

say there is a danger it's a failure to agree a deal that actually could end up in a situation where we have no brics it. let's go through this with a double correspondents. of mass in london i'm not in strasburg oh welcome both back at mass let's start with you let's start with the power and contradiction between what the prime minister says about this deal being what everyone wants to sort out the northern ireland but still and what the attorney general has said which seems to be something completely different. both reason may stress once again that this is the only deal that is basically an offer that the e.u.'s offered and this is going to be the deal that the m.p.'s just have to just have to come behind whereas the attorney general also says that politically it is advisable to get behind the government but he's also said in his legal advice

that the u.k. cannot withdraw unilaterally so there is a political argument and then there is a legal argument and it remains to be seen what the conservative m.p.'s have to be influenced by the words of the attorney general what they are going to listen to and whether they are going to come behind series amazed so the last time to reassert may put this deal to paul but she suffered the worst defeat of any government in british history what do you think are the chances of this new amended deal passing today. it does look like she is not going to get this deal passed her m.p.'s in the house of commons of course we don't know yet there's still a few hours but from what we've had she hasn't managed to convince the labor opposition m.p.'s jeremy coogan the opposition leader the labor party says she's not going to vote for the deal then also there are the northern irish m.p.'s and

you have to of course concentrate on northern ireland because this is really the focal point the whole backs of issue is about the future of northern ireland and the northern irish in peace i think are going to take the lead in this vote later on tonight and they all have come out against reason may still i speak to one of them this morning one of the leading and reason these still called a deal it's expensive no deal than a toxic deal is what he said and now they have to side it not to vote for the deal and a lot of conservative m.p.'s are going to swing behind the northern irish in peace because they're looking for their lead in that matter some have speculation that they will abstain soon it could be that reason is not suffering a defeat as heavy as last time but the the impression is that she is so it's going to suffer a defeat nevertheless that's a brussels a much tougher and be a use lot of has consistently being asked insistently there is

a deal there will be no reason to go see a show and so what's changed what is different between the what what mrs may will presented to parliament today and what she presented to parliament at the end of last year. you know phil it's by the way really the first time we've heard that tone from the european union here in strasburg on monday night younger said he said this is the second chance that there will be no third chance and we've heard from european affairs ministers across europe today that this is it no renegotiation basically the message take it or leave it so what's different you're asking well the documents the additional documents the instruments some of them are called that have been. authored here they do give clarification they give interpretation if you really hard line and you could say not much has changed it's more like highlighting parts of the text of the actual withdrawal agreement the

divorce agreement the one that has been basically at the center of the whole dispute and that is not going to be reopened so it's nothing really new but it supposed to reassure in a legally binding matter those house of commoners that are worried that the u.k. could indefinitely be trapped in this backstop so that backs up the insurance policy to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and ireland and what we heard from the attorney general goes in that direction he said this is a step forward so even he says this is a step forward to what they want but it's not absolute certainty so what an interesting line of brussels today i must say you commission presidential told you because saying that if the british parliament fails to back the brits that plan as it now stands there might be no bret's into toll. that's just putting more pressure in the pressure cooker he said that also here in strasburg during the plenary session of the e.u.

parliament that's where i am at the moment and what he's trying to do is really bring everything to boiling point making the breaks to tears understand that this might be their best shot that they should take this deal and run with it because otherwise the risk increases that there will be an extension of so a delay of the brags that nobody really knows what would happen during that delay the longer the still a the higher the chances that there might be a second referendum or even step elections and that might endanger the braggs it as a whole because right now we still have those three options on the table till we have the option of a of a brags it without a deal of bragg's it with a deal and no brags it at all and if you break the two years what they prefer with the deal the deal that's on the table or no breaks at all at least that's the thinking here in stroudsburg that they would probably take the breaks that with the deal all right i have final word to you back at mass in london what happens if parliament rejects this deal tonight briefly if you don't mind.

driza may has promised that there's going to be another set of it's one of the extrusion if no deal so excluding that thing u.k. will crash out of the european union at the end of march with no further agreement in sight and of parliament ariens get behind that which is expected because that's a horror scenario for a lot of them then there's going to be a vote on a possible extension of the withdrawal period so that means the end of the you u.k. would not leave the european union at the end of march but as a later stage and several weeks several months some maybe think even if you years time. mass in london not often in brussels in strasbourg thank you both. and take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. backed syrian forces say they have killed at least thirty eight jihadi same had been fighting in eastern syria the syrian democratic forces have been closing in on

the town of backwards for several weeks now it's the last pocket of territory held by the circled islamic state in syria. u.s. secretary of state might pump air has announced that washington is to withdraw all remaining diplomatic personnel from venezuela because of the country's deteriorating situation political turmoil in the country increased last week where had the electricity grid a largely collapsed president dora has suggested u.s. sabotage is behind the blackout. caught in belgium has given a life sentence to a gunman who killed four people in an attack on the jewish museum in brussels met the in the movie stage the attack in twenty fourteen after returning from syria where he suspected of having fought the so-called islamic state of demonstrators returned to the streets of algerian capital a day after president abdelaziz bouteflika said that he would not seek another term in office he also announced that next month's presidential elections would be delayed saying that he was responding to weeks of protests but many voters are not convinced that the eighty

two year old will follow through on his promise not to run through a fifth term. echoes of the arab spring after nearly a month of popular protest eighty two year old who to flicker has bowed to public pressure and announced he will not now run for a fifth term as president but he pushed the election due to be held next month indefinitely. a day after the announcement thousands of demonstrators are back in the streets of the capital algiers demanding immediate political change. in egypt we are against any extensions any decisions to delay the elections or extend presidential terms we want to transition to governmental rule not sustain this corrupt government and if you have to try to save his fifth term by extending his fourth term and postponing elections this is unacceptable and as a citizen i do not approve of this new specie hard i'm not coming one. and we do

not accept the extension that was announced but they said new elections would be coordinators. that is fine as long as they are the sheffield elections. we simply do not except this. one that. the chief league has suffered a severe stroke in two thousand and thirteen and has rarely appeared in public since but on monday algerian t.v. aired footage of the ailing president in a meeting that included noureddine by doing the current interior minister who is not considered part of beautifully because in a circle has been named the new prime minister that's being seen as a sign that the old guard might really be releasing its hold on power. and the decay. has been joined that journalist a safin and on the line now welcome how likely is the government to heed these protests against the elections. this is quite an unclear

we carefully don't know how the government will react if protests are going on and it's clear that protests would go on i think the government hopes that things are calming down and that people will. come down and stay home or like that that the intensity of those protests. will go down of a certain point it's a question of how the new interim government will look like and there when they might try to appoint a government that. makes the impression that it's acts as inclusive as possible but they're already calls within the opposition of not joining the scope of government so this was a crucial moment if the if the current government if the current prime minister is able to appoint an inclusive government in my time donna did this not. we have to. so when is this new vote likely to happen and what is the justification

for the postponement. it's also unclear when these elections will happen because the first step is the appointment of a new government and the national conference a conference of conferences. which is likely to happen in the coming weeks or a couple of months if the past from the center of this conference to push forward a constitutional change cancer tests the framework for new elections sometime the mother of a new vice midwife funny minister funfair and said. yesterday that elections are due to take place here so. it's difficult to live get on and we can expect elections to happen by the end of the year problem the top new thanks for joining us on this a not algerians. and

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