britain's prime minister makes a last ditch appeal to parliament to save her. if this deal then breaks it could be. vote comes later today when the government attorney general has raised doubts about her. european union. also coming out fresh protests across algeria thousands turned out to accuse the country's ailing president of prolonging his grip on power despite his promise not to stand for a fifth term. germany joins the list of countries closing its airspace to the boeing seven three seven eight aircraft and the wake of some things ethiopian airlines crash carriers around the world grounding the popular. i'm phil girl welcome to the program britain's prime minister has been making

a last ditch appeal to lawmakers to support her deal head of a crucial vote later today it's recently returned from strasbourg last night with a revised deal that she says includes the legally binding changes that mean the so-called northern ireland backstop cannot tie britain to a news release indefinitely a statement in parliament today seems to contradict an announcement from her own attorney general. that the risk of the tide to the e.u. after bret's it remains unchanged and she's my all some stress of the deal protects the rights of citizens living in the u.k. a new case it is and a living in the end in freedom of movement is years in parliament battling a sore throat. 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 on that referendum and that we sit for the british people and as i say there is a danger is the failure to agree a deal that actually could end up in

a situation where we have no bricks it will. just go over this not with at the top and correspondent spot but faisal in london max hoffman welcome both of us saw with you barbara the last time mrs might push the deal what's a price a deal to parliament to drive resulted in a record breaking defeat what are the chances of the deal passing tonight. it is supposed to be the case that the defeat tonight she will be a bit smaller but everybody here is still expects a defeat we've heard from the e.r. g. there hard line chary breck's it cheers that they are saying no to what she brought back from strasburg yesterday and we know that the g.o.p. is not going to go with that and she simply doesn't have the numbers however some of the more middle of the road sorry said ok we'll hold our noses and we will vote for the deal in order to get a break suge across the final hurdle and some others say they want to abstain in

order to make that defeat less visible less horrible however everybody here believes that it is going to be the downfall the final political down for after is may with regard to break we're going to see this tonight this has been a messy confused business on the confusion continues today with the prime minister saying that this box issue has been dealt with and her attorney general saying that nothing has changed so he's believing. i was you bob rafelson. london who m.p.'s believing between the prime minister and the attorney general. had to resign may of course try to sell the deal and say this is more or less what you wanted it's not perfect but politics is the art of doing the possible don't certify us for ideological purity here this is

good enough more or less and it fulfills most of what you wanted from me however on the other us on the other side the attorney general geoffrey cox said that she couldn't basically change his legal opinion now if you look at the agreement from last night was the i the cold i was a lawyer of course then legally yes the bricks and tears the hardliners here didn't get what they wanted if you look at it was a political ally you could say yes this sort of more or less full full support is this is what we're seeing here is sort of the battle between those who say let's get this done with us and we just live was what we have and others who say no this is not what we wanted and we want everything we wanted all foxholes been in strasbourg the e.u. has said consistently that there is no altering this deal now they say the deal that theresa may house today is non-negotiable even though it's changed so is that

much difference between this new deal and the woman m.p.'s voted down in january. you never know fill with the european union which is known to have last minute deals that's how they get things done they have in the past the feeling we're getting here in strasburg where the european parliament has its plenary session at the moment though is that really they have gone as far as they are willing to go and they can go without completely abolishing the backstop and nobody sees that happening european union member states of the twenty seven including excluding the united kingdom have been very firm on that and have to have had a united front to the surprise of many by the way listening to. work on monday night saying this is the second chance there will be no third chance listen to european affair ministers that had a meeting today in bucharest who said this is it take it or leave it we do get the

feeling that this actually might be the end of the line and if you look at the times you know bragg's it is scheduled for the twenty ninth of march then really this is over the whole period of time this is the last minute hard to say if there will be more movement within two weeks and it's a last minute until the next to last minute we've had lots of last variance across is this process max commission president john claude young seems to be adding fuel to the flames he's quoted as saying that if pollen fails to back its latest plan then that might mean no breaks it'll once see up to. you of course you're right the last minute is the last minute till there's another last minute but to have another last minute that would need to be an extension and let me get to you for the answer of your question right there because if. the article fifty period which is another word or another wording for if they delay bragg's it that doesn't only give them more time to negotiate

a potential deal it would also give people want to stay in the european union in the u.k. more time to let's say organize a second referendum or even snap elections depending on the the amount of time that is extended so it's a risk that brics tears are running there and that's what john told you a comment he said basically it's a veiled threat saying that if you refuse this deal not only do the chances of a no deal brags it increases but also the chances of no bricks at all. so bob revisal walk us through what we can expect today and what will happen if the if polly went rejects they still. oh dear i have no profit i have to say to that box i can only reiterate yes everybody expects the deal the vote should night to to go down the drain things to turn out badly fund to raise the may and then the fat is in the fire because then there's everything to play for the

enemies of bricks and those who say we rather would like to stay in the european union it is all for it to play for the opposition who says we probably want a second referendum and it will tears of the political situation wide open there is talk about elections coming up here this is what some tories now say some of the hardliners and there is also at the same time the idea that you aren't the parliament can vote against no deal and then either tomorrow also you say there will be the question of the extension it might be the case. trees are made three m. spot amende and comes up was a request for an extension herself but nobody has a plan as we have heard what will happen in that extension time so everything is completely wide open fun and games in london these days again. london rocks off when strasburg thank you both.

demonstrations of return to the streets of algeria's capital a day after president has these beautifully and 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 again. echoes of the arab spring after nearly a month of popular protests eighty two year old with a flicker has bowed to public pressure and announced he will not now run for a fifth term as president but he pushed the election to be held next month indefinitely. the day after the announcement thousands of demonstrators are back in the streets of the capital algiers demanding immediate political change. did 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. shihab i'm not coming want me. we do not accept the extension that was announced they said new elections would be coordinators. that is fine as long as they are the sheffield elections. we simply do not accept this. into fleet has suffered a severe stroke in two thousand and thirteen and has rarely appeared in public since that on monday algerian t.v. aired footage of the ailing president in a meeting that included nurit in bed during 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. journalist

softly on the surface on the line from algiers i asked him how likely the government would be to heed these protests against postponing the elections. this is quite an include. 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. want to come down and stay home or like that that the intensity of those protests. will go down to the certain point it's a question of how the new interim government will look like and that when they might try to appoint a government that. makes the impression that it acts as inclusive as possible but they're already calls within the opposition of not joining the scope of government so this would you crucial moment if the if the current government the current prime

minister is able to appoint an interim system and things my tongue down a little bit if 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 a couple of weeks or a couple of months and it's the power from the of this conference to push forward the constitutional change plans to test the framework for new elections sometime the mum of the new vice my funny minister for foreign affairs said. yesterday that elections are due to take place if your soul it's diskette you leave it on

and we can expect elections to happen by the end of the year problem we told you thanks for joining us on the sofa and now james. the u.n. environment programs are new all assembly has to nairobi member states looking at ways to cut pollution and build a greener global economy and host country kenya illegal sand mining is a growing environmental threat a building boom in the country's cities has driving demand for sand but digging it out has depleted water supplies and lead to violence melanie cole of the bow visited district with a promise of quick cash from sand is having devastating consequences. it's a walk across this god landscape which john meant to him was called home this used to be a river carrying drinking water for the community and their livestock in much tacos county kenya that until sent out it's just started illegally mining the river bed leaving barely any sand told the water john fight to stop them but his activism has

come at a high price. goes where no somebody. my whole. my house also is a human being that you made to me just to fuel up. john says sand cut tells that behind the illegal mining which feeds the demands of the country's rapid zation people in his community believe they won't stop the destruction until there is no sand left with no regard for those whose lives depend on access to the water is. a lot. when the sun is too hot and you come to look for water you find the levels have gone very low and this water is salty it's not good for washing clothes for drinking this water is bad and we sometimes catch diseases like typhoid.

all over the country illegal sand harvesting is taking place in broad daylight the driver of this truck doesn't want to be filmed but tells us up to two hundred truckloads of sand are collected each day the illicit sand business is a lucrative one just not for the people in the communities where the sand is mind on the small group of sandy this cashes in on the sales while the people of much of course are divided between those who depend on the little money and from harvesting and those desperate to save the last puddles of water in the area but no matter which side they're on both groups suffer the dangerous and by mental and human cost of the data you send industries underbelly. many lives have been ruined or lost due to kenya sandra this is a thirty six year old farmer who lost her husband a cent harvester who died at work. it happened on the seventh of march twenty fourth teen before he was scooping sand to sell.

as they were scooping sand and taking underground the soil above him fell down and buried him. as does self as opposed to the sand harvesting which has caused an almost permanent drought in the region but she knows that many of these men who make just a few dollars a day feel like they have no choice. in . the problem that we visit their own tiny job we have families we have needs. we human being does and we try to hold to get kills but we just don't get them. is that. dunn says it's a tragedy that men like matthew are being used by the cut tells and have become complicit in destroying the livelihoods of their communities he's asking

politicians and police to find me stand up to those stealing my check and send so that hopefully one day its rivers can recover. i'm increasing number of european countries are suspending flights of boeing seven three seven craft. spaced the latest include austria on and on the united kingdom germany and france have also closed the space to the planes are following sunday's that fatal crash but ethiopian airlines plane national authorities say they're concerned that they're not receiving enough information from the investigation many airlines are also choosing to grounds that of three hundred seventy four. states currently operating around the world really hot have already been grounded. we'll get more on this from steve in business from have business department welcome steve why are we seeing all these restrictions when america's federal aircraft oath or is

saying that everything's fine because this point not everyone believes the f.a.a. rights every country has its own flight regulation authority which it's going to follow and when they see that their publics are being concerns about a plane that even f.a.a. says it's ok it's fine we're going to take action and in this case there's also some concern that the f.a.a. was the certifying authority for this plane and that it may not have been aggressive enough to really challenge some issues that especially came up after the lion air crash and some of the flight control systems there some reports came up basically showing that pilots weren't retrained for the seven thirty seven max if they had already been trained on the seven thirty seven in fact not having to retrain the pilots was part of the program requirements for boeing so they said look pilots are know how to fly they already know you know what's going on the narrative risks being that the f.a.a. and boeing have overlooked safety issues for the sake of pushing the program

through so will this doesn't look good for boeing its share price has already dipped wasn't right of course one look at the share prices you see how much of a danger this is for them this is a massive program there are forty six hundred of these aircraft the max aircraft that are waiting to be delivered and so if airlines are going to stop taking deliveries then that's going to be a huge huge issue for their bottom line you know all of these airlines they these programs their cost expectations their earnings are set out years in advance when something suddenly throws a wrench into. something thrown into it they can't just get on a dime and suddenly start making dollars on another program these things are years in the making and to suddenly stop this program right now to ground it it's a massive massive deal for them but steve visit thank you. thirty years ago today a scientist named tim berners lee put the idea of the world wide web on paper and suggested to his boss that they set it up his boss agreed and the rest is history but his idea has taken off in directions he could never have imagined. the ability

of just about anyone to contact everyone anywhere in the world is down to this man tim berners lee as a young english physicist berners lee came up with a program language that enabled computers connected to the internet to exchange data. back then he was more concerned about linking academic computers around the world the science community and something else tim berners lee didn't get his language page in did the world wide web was free of charge from the beginning on that might have had something to do with how the internet swept and changed the world in such a short time. what we're getting to this point in just a few months when for the first time more than half the world will build will be online we're calling it a fifty fifty moment and that's a moment where i think we've got to do two things firstly we've got to say what about the next fifty percent and there's a lot of challenge in how we're going to get everybody connected or even the most

the majority of the world connected but it's also of course a lot to do to make the web better and whether that's dealing with privacy concerns with content online with governments censoring or cutting access to the web in different parts of the world there's lots to do to make sure that we're getting the web we want not a web that actually hurts humanity because that's the downside enormously powerful tech conglomerates like facebook and google who collect collate and monetize personal data governments that spy on their citizens they make berners lee livid so nowadays he's working to help internet users regain control and ownership of their personal data. so. first. years ago the cold war between the west and the soviet union came to an end after almost half a century the communist bloc dissolved and some of its former members later joined the west's defense alliance poland and the baltic states used to be aligned with

the soviet union in the communist alliance called the warsaw pact after nine hundred eighty nine they along with other former warsaw pact countries joined the nato of the north atlantic treaty organization that nato so to russian president vladimir putin was a sign of russia's weakness today is country is strong and since you create a crisis and the annexation of crimea former communist states are grown concerned about russian intentions that's why the northeast of poland less than a hundred kilometers from the russian border hosts a contingent of u.s. troops there part of nato is planned to secure poland in case of a provocation from the east. these are not pictures stuff an actual war it's an exercise in case of emergency jonathan oakes has been stationed for six months in north a sim poland near the russian border a long way from his home state of tennessee in the u.s. he previously did two tours of duty in iraq as

a tank on are. likely not. reckless a combat mission spring with busy. mission throughout the day throughout the week. here we're focused on training with our friends nobody here hates working with the nato partners. it's one of nearly a thousand nato soldiers from various countries helping put on the shelf force the occasion poland is celebrating twenty years as a nato member. it's a demonstration of power also meant for the polish president. bush. a few who we're going over every way you know this quick response taskforce troops which protect us from the eastern flank of the alliance that are

stationed here. really is that i'm not sure. i hope that they will increase their presence if you're going to encounter as many poles few russia as a threat especially since the ukraine crisis and the annexation of crimea that's why the u.s. has sent extra troops siddur nadirs east and flank as a deterrent they're now around five thousand u.s. soldiers and poland. every year opponent is spending two percent of its g.d.p. on defense making it a poster child for nato for selling to a crime and stuff the alliance has also. let's see repeated price by the united states now in return for their financial commitment poland is also demanding for more security from nato and for more u.s. troops in the country. the little town of or shish near the nato base has been profiting from the past sins of so many u.s. soldiers oaks and others frequently visited he says he does not feel threatened

even though the russian border is less than one hundred kilometers away. i wouldn't say a burden at all. nato partners we're here to train with him for any threat this is not just that you know it's it's any threat whatsoever so for the freight train for one hundred years and nothing ever happens that's good training manny off the townspeople feel safe for now that the americans are here at oaks favorite restaurant people no longer fear russia will look a little christian from them if we think we can depend on the americans for america's five fifteen one logically believe they will help us in case it comes to a conflict with russia. if you can see it also. polls have been calling for a permanent us space for years but for the time being the soldiers are only stationed here for short term oaks will soon return to tennessee he says specially looking forward to being with his young daughter again whom he saw only briefly

right after she was born. washington dublin you fly from baldwin coming up next in d.w. news a shall we talk to minority muslims who fled detention centers in china or the calling twenty first century concentration camps. plus what is fueling militant extremism in kashmir in a dream dubbed exclusive we talked to the family off the obama suicide. restaurant as a world how far those stories are coming up next on news asia all back at the top of the hour of the to. cut.

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