this is you don't really resign from berlin britain's prigs that battle heats up again as prime minister asks european leaders for a break that extension theresa may want to delay the u.k.'s were drawn from the e.u. until june the thirtieth but there are already signs that the e.u. could oppose the plan also on the program helping the survivors of cycling each day to date has started to reach parts of mozambique bearing the brunt of the massive flooding that's followed this destructive storm the united nations says hundreds of thousands of lawyers in southern africa are now at risk and are you happy well it's

not a chair up because it's the international day of happiness from beijing to london to lagos we've been asking people are rarely the world what makes you happy. hour later i thank you so much for your company everyone british lawmakers are holding an emergency debate on braggs that after prime minister theresa may formally request that the e.u. extend the date of the u.k.'s would draw from the bloc theresa may is hoping to delay brings it until june the thirtieth but the e.u. has signaled it could oppose that plan on an internal assessment from the european commission has warned me supplant could create quote serious legal and political risks for the e.u. commission present or says this. unlikely that any deal to extend the deadline will

be reached this week for the issue will be discussed with the other twenty seven e.u. leaders at a summit on thursday and friday. and the prime minister's question time her weekly question and answer session with the house of commons theresa may told rowdy m.p.'s why she wanted a short extension to the e.u. departure date rather than a long one. setting aside the issues that are long extension would mean we would have to stand hold the new pm palm entry elections which i don't think is in anybody's interests the outcome of a long extension would be. days because all of this hiring. i think is carrying on contemplating its neighbors. truck driver is not my friends who are.

going to order the from the prime minister must be heard and everybody knows rule be heard the prime minister will. be on come in on extension would be this time spending yet more endless hours going to completing its maven on europe and failing to address the issues that matter to our constituents schools and hospitals and security i'm sure. we'll heard americans be heard in brussels alex forrest waiting to defuse berg's analyst is now with me here to brig down another one of these really are rowdy assertions that we just saw there on full a lot of anger from both sides of the aisle on what she is proposing this extension till june thirtieth walk us through some of the objections yes so basically as we know the house of commons is completely divided over the issue of bricks it and particularly over this issue of whether to delay breaks it or not. those hard core

euro skeptics who just want the u.k. to leave the e.u. do not want that to be a delay they are quite happy for the u.k. to leave the e.u. next friday which is still by law the date that the u.k. does leave the e.u. with or without a deal but there are many on the other side who do not want that to be a no deal in fact a majority of parliamentarians do not want that to be a no deal breck's it to reason may has discussed this with her top team had cabinet which is completely split down the middle and she has not decided to ask for a short extension as we heard until the end of june now that has also annoyed people because some don't feel it's enough they feel it should have been at least for a year others feel it's too much and it's also annoyed brussels because they have got this whole issue of european elections coming up at the end of may and what do they do. the u.k. if they're still there on the thirtieth of june it is a big problem because they want them gone by the time or if we're talking about the

european commission they don't want to be in this in this limbo where the u.k. is still part of the e.u. and the parliament elections are taking place as well exactly and you know it could cause huge problems for the parliament because everything could be questioned any law that they make could be questioned so there's this huge issue and we don't yet know what brussels will say about that extension we're getting mixed voices coming out from the various twenty seven of the members including from france who seem to have indicated or of the claims that president call saying that he could veto the call for an extension to article fifty of the lisbon treaty that's what would delay brix it although that has been denied by the palace so everything is uncertain all eyes are yet again on westminster london trying to see if they can somehow reach agreement and at the moment they can't there is an emergency brake debate that's being held in parliament at the moment there are rumors that reason why has self may make

a speech tonight in downing street but that hasn't yet been confirmed and more room is that the opposition leaders including jeremy corbyn of going to meet to discuss what the options are because everything is still on the table everything's going to have we're just nine days away from briggs that actually coming into effect is this her red line she has hence many red lines and that's the problem it does seem clear today that with this talking about this june thirtieth extension that she is saying if it goes beyond that i will quit while many people would like her to quit now so i'm not really sure if that's a particular threat but it shows just how difficult it is for her she's trying to tread this very very thin line she cannot get a majority to support as she's still trying to focus on those years to get to those bricks it is to get them onside because she yet again wants to bring her deal that . has been rejected twice by parliament back to parliament still saying that that is the only deal that's on the table so hoping she's hoping to bring about this

week that ran into problems because of technical difficulties over the speaker of the house of commons saying the have to be changes to that so she's hoping to bring it back next week if she can prove that it is different from what she's already put to parliament in the hope that she can win round those skeptics but it is looking so difficult very very tight and as i say at the moment the u.k. still on course to leave next friday by law and unless that law is changed that if process accept that extension then surely they will not want that to be and no deal breaks it for swearing as ever thank you so much for your analysis we'll be talking about this i have a feeling in the hours to come for now i thank you so much our it's and age are we shift our attention now to mozambique where aide in the hard hit country has started to reach their communities not just emerged big also in zimbabwe and

how we all devastated by cycle own day six days ago heavy flooding in the wake of the storm has made a difficult to reach many survivors and the world food program is warning that ongoing rainfall it could make the situation even worse all more than three hundred people are confirmed dead the official say hundreds of thousands of lives are now at risk it's being described as to humanitarian crisis in mozambique's history heavy flooding and prolonged boats afraid of compounding the destruction wreaked by cycling last week the storm and floodwaters not only engulfed roads and bridges they also wiped out communications networks across the region. and many of eat ice victims once again finding themselves in danger. this mother is one of hundreds of thousands who lost their home she's worried about

her newborn as food supplies in the shelter for low. pay dear own doesn't last night i haven't eaten anything yesterday i saw that food was running out i went in asked and they told me that food was over and until now i've had none. that's because the floods and heavy rain which followed in the storm's wake a hindering aid workers efforts in some areas floodwaters a meters deep most rural areas streaming cut off from help. already stopping and. rescue us also working around the clock to save lives many victims as to trapped on rooftops trees and other remote areas and the region is bracing for more heavy rain in the coming days flooding has become to biggest threat mozambique is facing right now. all right and

our viewers joining us right now want to take you were to brussels where donald tusk is speaking after britain's prime minister theresa may has formally requested the e.u. to extend the date of your case was dropped on the block let's get his reaction i miss them about these proposals. in the light of the consultations that i have conducted over the past days i believe that a shot extension would be possible. but it would be condition of from the positive votes on the residual agreement in the house of commons. the question remains open as to that your ration of such an extension. prime minister may's proposal of the thirtieth of june we each have its merits creates a series of questions of legal and political nature leaders who discuss this tomorrow. when it comes to the approval of the book

agreement. i believe that this is possible and in my view it does not create risks especially if it were to have that artificial process in the u.k. . at this time i do not foresee extraordinary ropy on the council. if their leaders approve my recommendations and if there is a positive vote in the house of commons next week we can finalize and formalize the decision on the extension in the written procedure. however if there is such a need i will not hesitate to invite the members of the young girl for a meeting to brussels next week. even if the hope for a final facts may seem frail. event. lutherie and the exit for

teak is increasingly visible and justified we call not to give up seeking the devoted last moment a positive solution. of course without opening up which is all agreement. we have reacted with patience and goodwill to a numerous stones of events and i have a culture that i also know. who are not like the same patience and goodwill. that this most critical component in this process. and. please excuse me but i should go to continue my consultations and see you tomorrow think you. are it's a conditional extension the dancer speaking there are live from brussels let's get

you more from madrid have you a brussels bar chief maxell hoffman who has also been listening in to this in a very short statement what did you make of his reaction to teresa mayes demand for an extension of june thirtieth max. the conditions haven't really changed if i listen carefully to this short extension possible he said that an extension until the thirtieth of june has its merits you obviously know that this time the specific date is very controversial here in brussels because it goes beyond the scheduled european elections that are taking place from the twenty third to the twenty sixth of may and presumably the u.k. will not participate in them so they will still be a member of the european union officially but not participate he said it has its merits but there are legal risks involved so you can see this is one part of what leaders will have to discuss on thursday but he seemed not opposed but also if of

course the house of commons approves of the deal he did not say whether this has to happen next week or there might be a chance to do this within this extension period but this is still the official goal of the e.u. twenty seven to approve the deal that was already twice rejected in the house of commons and the second part dealt with the so-called straws berg agreement which is which are documents that interpret explain what has already been negotiated in the so-called with their all agreements so this divorce agreement and then the political agreement that is supposed to give an outline what the future relationship so after the u.k. has pulled out of the you should look like that's not very substantial in itself we talked about that at length when it actually happened so he said he thinks it's possible the leaders will officially approve of this shouldn't be really a problem really wasn't up for discussion beforehand but it is

a small thing that he can give to theresa may. max you know listening to that very issue or to a brief statement by the e.u. council president i mean he mentioned in his statement briggs that fatigue and you know you can't but help feel that he was kind of done with the issue as well that he just wants this done and dusted once and for all be preferably before the european parliament elections i mean what's the fatigue like on this issue in brussels. yeah i don't know what you're talking about you're not at all tired of regs here. there is fatigue in the sense that it is overshadowing every other important topic and everybody knows that you have some issues that it needs to resolve migration on climate policy on security there are a couple others you know reform of the euro zone but really the over all imposing all the raising bit is still brags it so it is no wonder that especially european

parliamentarians want to get it over with so they can concentrate on their topics what they want to talk about looks like this might not happen because if there really is an extension until the thirtieth of june that will be difficult and he said something else that what is it was interesting i hope i can find this here yeah he said even a final success at this point seems like an illusion we need to basically paraphrasing here try until the last moment to do this so you know if you look at don't want to get what he said in the past you know like things like there's a special place in hell for brics a two years then this was actually a very soft statement a very soft statement max hoffman brussels borough chief thank you. now to some of the other stories making news around the world on the u.n. courts has ordered former bosnian serb leader radovan carrot and stick to spend their last of his life in jail for war crimes

a panel of appeals judges upheld his original twenty sixteen conviction for atrocities committed during the balkans war including the massacre of bosnian muslims in sort of i need them to the point said his original forty year sentence is that it was too light. the european union's anti trust watchdog has fined google one point five billion euros the e.u. competition commission says the internet giant abused his dominant position to stifle competition in the advertising market fine takes google's total penalties from the european union to more than eight billion euros over the last two years. a court in the united states has ruled that the weed killer round up was a factor in causing cancer in a seventy year old man is the second mate this is rather the second major legal defeat for the chemicals manufacturer monsanto in months and more cases are likely to follow the company was bought last year by german chemicals giant buyer.

the first funerals for victims of the deadly shootings at two mosques in new zealand have taken place today in christ church hundreds of mourners a time of the burial of a father and son who fled the war in syria for they believed would be a safer life in new zealand. two members of a syrian refugee family were among the first to be laid to rest in christ church to lead mustafa and his fifteen year old son hamza came to new zealand fleeing war before they were gunned down by a white supremacist in a mosque last friday. among the mourners staffa younger brother he suffered gunshot wounds to his leg during the a talk. heavily armed police took guard outside

another reminder of the horror of what happened. the nation is grieving with its muslim community. and prime minister just cinda are down once to demonstrate that. there is a desire to show support to the muslim community as they were tuned to mosques particularly on friday there is also a bizarre months new zealanders to mark the week that his presence the terrorist attack. to acknowledge this there will be a two minute silence. on friday we will also broadcast nationally via t.v. in seed and radio new zealand the call to prayer. and

then the outpouring of sorrow the message is clear we stand together in the face of terrorism. next we turn to kazakhstan where yesterday the country's president made the shock announcement that he's stepping down after thirty years in power north fulton nasr bio of has left the oil rich nation since one thousand nine hundred nine when it was still part of the soviet union he said he would continue to chair the security council and remain leader of the main party in parliament but the move me is that his parliamentary speaker automatically assumes the presidency for now. talk about his predecessor which ends next year as interim president. before independence took i have was a soviet diplomat he went on to serve kazakhstan as foreign minister and prime minister until yesterday he was chairman of the senate the upper house of parliament he's a close associate of north by f.

who unexpectedly resigned on tuesday as president after twenty nine years in power . buckley or thora tarion ruler isn't retiring from politics where they were the first i made a difficult decision to resign as president of the republic of kazakhstan i remain chairman of the security council chairman of the norton party and member of the constitutional council is a work of struggle so now the biafra tains considerable power what's more his daughter that he got by about has been appointed to replace as chair of the senate . after his swearing in talk i have proposed renaming the capital astana ton as a tribute to has a bio of parliament promptly approved the legislation. are like to welcome now in their country golden he served as prime minister of kazakhstan from one thousand nine hundred four to one thousand nine hundred seven he currently lives in exile in london and is considered a leading opposition figure of warm welcome sir thank you for taking out the time

to come see us you have been a very vocal about corruption in kazakhstan and i are also very critical about the ruling party the ruling nasir because you have family so you must welcome this decision by the leader after thirty years to say i'm stepping down this is a good good development. people like to believe is good development is people demand to changed. so years ago brzezinski survive on those the he's going to share the power was parliament but not deliberately progress as usual stuff for. them to urgently this stuff to change. in prevent the amendment for a constitution they knew it giving more power to national security council. in fact he stepped. dahlan from the office but she's going to buy another

office which is in totem so for foreign policy and national security more powerful than presidential office eighth she's not going somewhere she's not jumping from the cleeve he's still in the inch ouch certain founders understand correctly from your answer he basically has a structure in place which self-perpetuating his role so what does this all mean this latest development for kazakhstan's future why did he do this he. simple reason she want to secure himself from the past from to be stake in the past from he's very rich people right now is very special and five million very rich and we all understand how the family becoming rich there are to twenty five years from the zero two. and this is number one issue to secure him so to control the. this morning it was more development to secure yourself from.

his daughter as the member of. becoming chairman speakers which is going to replace you something happened grace interim president acting president. will take over office of president in case what do the people of kazakhstan make of these developments. i believe the people who cause are subs like me they don't really disappointed what's going on with a month change we believe myself personally i strongly believe there is some sense of. if you had it there and i believe he will touch reality he will understand you could leave the country in office with this circumstance have to go the task to change something she must to do something for the nation but she did that why

people his thoughts and he thought her to disappoint you were prime minister from one thousand nine hundred fourteen one thousand nine hundred seven why did you leave. leave ultimate like the seven after three years of office of prime minister and it was very hard time in the star understand the funny the amount more power and i have only two routes are to continue to see that my office is and abuse my power and being part of this. group of people who is. taking over state property or should stop the sort of way. and that my career with and i decide to stop that is the party is the formal democratic force of cousins the. try to run for presidential nice to wait in line early election. forced to leave country.

mr arkell from the country go then thank you sir for coming in to speak to us and that does it for me. thank you so much for your company but before i let you go did you know that is the first day of spring here in the northern hemisphere so could there be a better day for the un's international day of happiness to have your correspondents have been asking people around the world what makes you happy. shields would do shit. to wake up every day next to her that's happiness for me. oh boy you want me to apply as well a few days less work every week that will be happiness for me. but all with. no night so why but i will make a. go it's money. your money makes you happy right when i

set up to see me like a hockey mom i like to doubt they have a double life yeah i'm not good enough there's no need to be able to enjoy simple things the song and the birds sing. boy oh boy. oh boy.

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