this is deja vu news live from berlin european summit where the countdown to is set to dominate we'll hear from to answer on the back all live this hour before she heads to proselytise for that summit once there the british prime minister theresa may will be waiting to urge all other e.u. members to grant her country albrecht's that delay.

i've brought in thomas thanks so much for joining us we start here in berlin where chancellor merkel is about to deliver a policy speech to the german parliament ahead of the e.u. summit in brussels among other issues she is expected to outline her position on bracks if you're getting a live images now from the bundestag with lawmakers preparing for the chancellor speech breck's it was not originally at the top of the agenda for today's annual spring summit in brussels but it's now expected to dominate those discussions today chief political editor michel acuff there is at the bundestag for us and our political correspondent simon young is with me here in the studio good day to both of you let's go to michelle a first down there at the bundestag. michelle chancellor mackerels about to talk in

about ten minutes time what do you think we can expect. well she certainly will say something about bricks but she's been deliberately unclear throughout this week saying that her stance on what the way ahead will have to be and also on that extension will depend on much more than this less have to reset may sent to the european union she wants to hear what he recently has to say and then decide with the other remaining members of the e.u. because theresa may well have to leave the room on how to proceed but it's quite clear that germany would be in favor of granting an extension although of course there's this big european if but i'm sure if the reason they get this vote through but i'm also sure she's going to talk a lot about china because that's what was on the agenda trade relations between the e.u. and china the you want to be more assertive and wants to have a much more balanced trade relationship so i would expect her to mention breck's it

but as little as absolutely possible ok simon is a very difficult position for for the shells or isn't it that this is the annual summit a lot is on the agenda besides that but it looks like germany is going to back the british prime minister's request for an extension do you think that's the role germany wants to play right now shepherding the other e.u. states along in the same direction i do believe so the foreign minister i go marse did say yesterday that he was worried that a delay for brakes it might just be pushing the solution further down the road and of course i support a lot of people have made but at the same time michelle is absolutely right you know the chancellor has said she wants to avoid a no deal outcome asshole costs and she's willing to work right up to the deadline she says to try and get the deal that's been agreed over the loan ok and we'll tell you we'll find out what deadline that is exactly simon thanks for now and michelle

will be hearing from michelle the governor later on as well. orbit divorced from the us plunged into chaos after parliament rejected prime minister mazen bracks and dio she's now asking the other twenty seven a few members as we've been discussing to give her more time let's have a look at yesterday's events starting in london to resume a says she regrets having to delay breaks it but as the clock ticks she's forced to do so the prime minister is seeking an extension of the deadline until the thirtieth of june and no later than that some argue that i'm making the wrong choice and i should ask for a longer extension to the end of the year all beyond to give more time for politicians to live the way forward. that would mean asking you to vote in european elections nearly three years after our country decided to leave what kind of message would that send i you could approve may's request but only if you came

lawmakers approve the divorce deal they've already rejected so says the chief of the bloc although the exit for teak this increasingly. justified. to give up sick in the last movement a positive solution. m.p.'s at westminster have already voted down the agreement in its current form multiple times and his talks go on so does the uncertainty this is speaking we're now in the midst of a full scale national crisis incompetence failure and intransigence from the prime minister and her government i've brought us to this point parliament has rejected a deal it's rejected no deal the prime minister now has no plan to reach the most immediate plan getting the other twenty seven e.u. countries to grant her an extension. for order there's

a lot of very noisy barricades this house has almost itself on you are fortunate. because in the u.k. and across the channel we'll be hoping she can cut through the noise i well how will the german shells or help theresa may cut through all that noise we're back with michelle tough now the bundestag where the chasseur line her position on bracks and to the parliament shortly michelle what do you think how can the chancellor approach to brussels especially young or younger what specifically might she be looking for to help theresa may. well it's quite clear after the e.u. council. said that this extension that it's recently is seeking until the thirtieth of june is conditional on actually a vote going through making this actually a meaningful process and with less legal risk attached to the e.u.

there is a limited scope as to what the german chancellor can do i don't think we will see any kind of breakthrough of somebody taking action and pulling everybody on board i think this is a lot more soft touch trying to give to reset may have been more leeway a bit more wording probably to take back to the british parliament at the same time the message is rather clear not just from brussels but also berlin that there is substantially nothing essentially left to give her to to actually deliver to her own parliament because of this deal being close concluded and that's also the line that the german government is taking having said that we also are getting very clear signals here from those around the german chancellor that the german patience is sheer enlists that germany is interested to have person

on board not just in terms of security cooperation but also as a very close economic partner in the future which of course fits into this multilateral role that germany sees itself in mediating of bringing multi-lateralism forward as it is under attack from the likes of the u.s. president so we can watch very closely for that wording coming out of brussels we should be getting that any minute now. there is a cardiod already a condition on any engine coming from brussels and it has to do with the european elections that are set for mary. you're being. count so he said yesterday that the big problem would be if britain had to take part in european elections. that could raise legal and political reservations about about any agreement and similarly if that doesn't happen there

could be threats to the outcome of the european election. where we have a shelter now is just taking the podium let's go now live to parliament. when the starkest last night approved in the parliament yesterday we hope to work very closely together with you in the future. thank you for having ladies and gentleman today and tomorrow we'll see the last regular era paean council before the european elections in may. the. question that all of the thinking of in recent weeks and months and today as well is how will the withdrawal of britain from the interview. pan out and i'm afraid i have to say that eight days before the formal withdrawal of britain from the e.u. i still cannot answer this question definitively minister and the reason may be

british prime minister tree some may even wrote a letter yesterday to donald tusk asking for two things one a positive approval of the european council. many documents approved in strasbourg. the backstop and interpretation and that's what it covers here that they approve theirs and i think i can say that as the european. council needs the support of the other countries germany would certainly give this support the letter also requested. a. extension on. the backset. that are sixth of june and the twenty seven heads of state and government will be debating this issue intensely at this summit if we get a positive vote for this we would be able to support this but only if the house of

commons approves the deal and the thirtieth of june sorry is the date. of course in may we have the european elections so that means that the future. and the legal basis of the european union elections must of course be clear but if that's done then of course we could approve it i believe. but should it be the case that there not be a positive vote on teresa mayes deal next week. we will be in a different situation and we will have to leave it open as to whether or not we will manage to have another meeting or the need to have another meeting. to discuss these issues it is my firm conviction that we need to have a structured withdrawal of britain from the years it's not just in the interest of britain itself which of course many believe as well there but it's also very much

in the interest of germany and the interest of the twenty seven were other member states in the eleven i believe that the key problem when that always that is essentially there has to do with the whole question of islands and the relationship between a public violent and northern ireland if you buy it has to be a part of the united kingdom the theme of you know in the spirit and that again and again it's always about some very difficult question is how any view of the future relations between the european union and using it within an hour one has to ensure the integrity of the single market. if we're not to have a customs union which is what the british mascot is said the good friday agreement but at the same time that it fulfills the good friday agreement so that there are not the border controls to be tried in ireland and the republic i don't obviously

know very difficult business no question about it but if we want to have a structure and the withdrawal of britain from the e.u. we need to do everything we can to make this happen i believe that the droll documents including the aspect being sidelined she spoke i believe the necessary steps have been taken out it's also quite apart from how it breaks it pans out and we obviously would like to ensure that we have close ties in the future and i said this again and again this is true both in terms of come of it with all your policy and defense policy and security policy in terms of the nato and the discussions that we have it within the european union and with britain and if we're talking about improving our job or defense capabilities within nato and the united nations then i mean i just kingdom always has to be fact i do see we could see the relation this in the this is also true of the frogmen mastic security as well and i minister

of the interior here in germany has also talked about this i worked closely together and this is also true when it comes to the area of research that he signed . in recent decades in the fridge for a lot of office tires have emerged between them. but i station that packet of fuel i think with geneva as well as that is up in the air space research did you suppose but i mean me doing our relations to britain of course with i cannot be as close as they are now in britain as part of the european union but of course we hope to remain in friendly relations certainly our door is wide. thank you very often it all as much as we want to work towards a structure with all that. for at the same time for weeks and months now we're

having very good pairing for abraxane crash i don't know if you actually have a lot of that european level and on a national level here in germany in the parliament a number of measures have been taken if there is no deal exit and. more regulations have been put in place to respond to. the flows of goods. as well between i to you for your erasmus will be able to continue their course as a programs and the british citizens already you will be in all of. these regulations for a few months at least here as well you know we have looked at how we can reduce the negative impact so for example british citizen mice who have found their home here in germany will continue to have the right to live and work in germany for the questions of health insurance in both countries that we have solved and we have.

the number of customs officials in place so that we don't have too much of a bottleneck at the border and i have to say that even though we have taken the most important measures have already put this in place despite a measure and to the very last day even the very last hour we will be pushing much to ensure that our emergency plan is never actually needed but rather that in the last few days admittedly there aren't many left we work towards achieving a structural cracks it thank you to colleague and including the smelts of their colleagues as painful as it is that britain is leaving you. there. there is still a great deal of the work that needs to be done. to engage with the future of the european union of the twenty seven again in member states in a world of that which ten years after the list. ten years after the financial

crisis and thirty years since the fall of the iron curtain a world that is finding it and the balance we're seeing emerging economies economic tigers as well and asia particularly china for the places and trying to fundamental challenges yet even that that would be like that we are experiencing that multi lateral is not increasing the pressure that the system of markets and natural and cooperation in recent decades has allowed us to have winds to unknown here in the face of prosperity and peace and this is the way forward for us what we do always been on the basis multilateralism for the benefit of all thank you obama has started in the fields now as a peacekeeping power in the world europe has affirmed positions women in the

international community but that hope that democrats will mention that we can also say that it is. past the end of democracy and human rights despite all. the faltering that we've seen in some cases of minorities are protected from persecution you're it means the free don't to express your opinion and it also means believing whatever you think is right and writing whatever you think is right thinking whatever you're think is right obviously within our legal framework and on there's no basis to shared values. but european woman that citizen lives have been given a promise that we must deliver on on the one hand a promise. of berets and on the other hand a promise of security that did um and you the worst of dynamism that we're seeing here is no longer something you can take for granted that we can deliver on those around mrs so get it and this is why it is only republicans and good that the

debate about having promised us parity be an important thing that we discuss at the european council meeting in the day we can say that ten years after the in and out of the international financial crisis europe has emerged in better shape than it was before and unemployment is at a lower limit from five and although there are still far too many people without words particularly older people you could suffer a debt has declined the beds my traditional money we can certainly state that the sixty percent of mark regarding the script in the debt levels compared to g.d.p. and this is something we are following says parts of the european union as a whole has been run as economy for two years and now in every individual member state of the european union we are seeing growth. though prospect of this so how do you think slightly a future so we'll see more move into the right direction but let me say quite clearly that it's not enough it's not enough to be able to stay at the bible i said

the world rankings i just was so one thing is that we need to do everything we can to shore up the common currency so much has been done a great deal of work has been done i want to thank. the finance minister and we have made progress when it comes to the bank and capital union but we need to stop the good feelings that really finished the work here quickly and without dismantling the risks we cannot share the risks i and that's not just but at the same time pushing for a strong euro is more than just the natural policy. outside of your eyes. as sending out to sea but you have is willing to stand its ground that it is willing to live its single market that is willing to speak with a single voice thank you this is good now if you'll be aware of the fact

that we've made real progress with the finance ministers when it comes to labor's own budget. and strength and competitiveness and convergence the german and french agreements have been particularly important here because we continue to work closely together with other member states. when it comes to getting some good shit entering into and creating a financial transaction tax of course the history of this financial transaction tax hike has been a very long road and it proves once again that if we do not agree. on a very general level. it's very hard to implement things and the details and yet in the end but still we've made an initial step and i want to say thank you to all national it's in this connection thank all of them good nice and gentlemen the first party from strength and courage to say that in the age of

digitize ation it's also about not just preserving jobs in the future that is but also creating new jobs and clearly your dream industry is the cannon as it stands for eight percent of our exports and thirty eight million jobs across the european union but it's also clear that this industrial basis is facing tremendous challenges if you knew about that much in today's world is defined by a management big data and artificial intelligence and this will just cite how the part i was even more that i just want to push. through the companies that are involved in this. most come from america. from asia and this area and we need to catch up here in fair competition. and also naturally our industrial base its own lives from small to medium sized enterprises in germany but

it's also. platform economies other types of economies are necessary. for us to achieve the position we want so it will take money and this is why i will be talking about industrial policy in strategic aspects of industry policy these are things which those around. me in council feel i'm going to. wash them and germany and france have made proposals my number states and maybe poses some of the physics and i would like to ask you don't you just to people have a kneejerk response as soon as we talk about strategic industrial policy because that doesn't mean that the state is going to do everything and decide if knife is a country but for example in the areas the most is not for sector if we have a number of rules and regulations that we put in place particularly around today i want to attention the fact of the if we say that by twenty to thirty. cars have to

be thirty seven percent less in terms of the emissions compared to then tenth and twenty days a cup you see because if we decide how trucks are supposed to develop as well if we have set out exactly what that is not the option of what the certificates out out the carbon footprint of each member state in your opinion is supposed to develop over the next few years time twenty thirty nine that's muslim got then you can't just say we'll just set up a barrier else here and it's a question of having the ability to put a stop to develop your how we're supposed to keep jobs in europe it's just not our problem and it's not up to me and then i have to say that i. agree with children and with interest of economics cannot just watch swathes of the there's a they can all make the change to relocating out to europe outlets because of course we have to find industrial partners if we're talking about battery self production for example in the future the same time we cannot live. i was being told

that it's not that important so you say yes thankfully this opinion has now changed it seems to me that we have to get it was about this whole framework that doesn't give us enough wiggle room to make progress. with you and i mean the european union has of course given a strategic projects that are to find that we have. the ship production and now we're going to be able to use them in the battery selfrighteous before so that is the funding and the german government plus european funding so that we can really. come out of our single market globally beyond the borders of europe and can really support major animation in the world and that's why it's important that we talk about industry comes to strategy. in the us didn't everything that's just been marked pizzo otherwise we're not going to be able to leverage the potential of a single market because otherwise everyone just be working on.

innovations. require us to connect production requires us to join forces and when it comes to connect all seeing eye to pursue intelligence germany and france at least want to work together and i say area that ladies and gentlemen of this is the financial we have to factor all of these other suspects in when it comes to tackling the challenges fate facing us and that means is zero carbon production system within the course of this decade and the industrial sector will have to contribute a huge way to achieving this but to believe that it's enough to set out there isn't regulations everywhere. and not to think about the bigger picture the general development that is the wrong way forward and that's why i think it's crucial that we have this debate about industry promised a strategy that's quite a disappointment to you and i made your point is how we defining our trade

relations we have made a great deal of project progress i agree need to get japan to fight it is a case in point we are negotiating with united states of america as well and i have to say that in the talks that we have a lot we don't want to be introducing a lot of tariffs we want to dismantle tyrus the german government feels it must do all it can to achieve this but i also have july really answer to that when the french position is to say we need to have a certain amount of reciprocity if for example when it comes to public tendering we don't have access to many of the states in america then we have to look at which americans have access to public costs for tender care in germany and there has to be a balance and it's even more the case that this process is important we talk about china and the people who is going to be in china is so much and will be preparing for that that fits very well in the duties of our discussion about industry policy

strategy on the one hand china is clearly a strategic partner but on the other hand china is also a strategic competitor and i'm very grateful to the european commission it was its own it has. given us a position paper them simply because you can see looks at the relationship awful that we have to china and spells out to a certain extent it's here it's a competition of systems we've focused on liberty driven socially minded economy and china focused on i finished state driven economy by doubting that doesn't mean you can't work together if you have two different systems but you must be logged into a false sense. just curious now that you're working in the same system. and this is why i wonder what we've lacked in the past often that we. think twenty seven member states have not spoken with one voice that's kind of you know it's you know you don't that way to china or the united states. but we must do so we must speak with

one voice thank you i do agree with the first question and another major comments that we have made to the citizens of europe is the promise of security and opened me up for the insights that we need to take more responsibility for our interview here it's really here in europe is something i think we all share hope seen as we see this in the face of the events happening just you know in the close to home. of ukraine. where the middle. east and the next station of crimea. took place or if i think of syria and other conflicts is. also europe will have to. come up with a new immersed myself to the geopolitical challenges facing us which means we need to put in place the correct states to do so both in europe and outside the issue of migratory flows. this well in north. terms of.

size and policy and made some progress and let me just remind you of something that i think. we've taken for granted actually thanked the ministry of the interior namely that there would be the true twenty twenty we have a register in place logging who enters into leaves the e.u. and actually all with shang and agreements we really should agree that at this time if you look at how to develop that somebody is over there now in monterey in the sense that if you have a shared space you need to know who is in it and who's left it. it's now ever better late than never i like to say. but let's have at it quickly we have protected our external borders better. and are making progress here we have a new partnership with africa that we need to find out if there's still a great deal that needs to be done about regarding good imitation of those offending but it's also true that we haven't done well and have yet to achieve many

of the things we wanted to achieve entirely and so now the question is can we we actually twenty seven number states find new forms of solidarity when it comes to combat the legal eagle migration and introduce a series of. legal structure and migration i think we can now go oh but i also have to say that it cannot be the case that an individual member states that they can. go out and this is simply not prepared to get involved at all in the distribution of our great fiji's in europe. on the basis of solidarity and also it's also about. and past at least not act outside of europe i'm thinking of our cooperation with nato and the permanent structure and cooperation pascoe is an important body. another important.

task millet's another aspect of this is that we will achieve a military coup here and it's among the member station the european union regarding . operational capacity here. people also mean that we will have an armaments industry and a weapon of mass in just three that is not as diversities today but rather that we have to develop common weapons systems for all of europe which has got to be more efficient some of the only for a week the european union and ladies and gentlemen this brings us to an issue that is everyone's mind. you know where it's not easy for anyone to accept the challenge of space is in the future on the one hand it's without. sufficient financing to do the things we want to do and all this stuff and i would like you not to always focus on what we haven't managed to do but also look at what

we have managed to do from you since the treaty of wales one point eight hundred percent g.d.p. i mean the budget that you saw yesterday says one point thirty seven percent in this time of prosperity we can say this is a step in the right direction it's not enough but let's not be noted late ourselves and so we've made some important steps in terms of the german armed forces but also in terms of how it's like building confidence in our work that i'm here but it also like to say that with one point five per cent g.d.p. for twenty times before we've made a commitment to the night to nato not really and that will naturally impact on the structure of cooperation within the european union about which does not have to fulfill the expectations of everyone up in the alliance but the commitments that we have made do want to stick to i stand for this and the german government has committed to this through this book let's have a plan and it's going to take

a lot of and introduced i think they actually followed another thing that we often talk about european armed forces we talk about how we need to develop european would pop up weapons systems and of course this can only be done a cooperation of a nation gentleman. and i'm not pointing think my fingers here but it is absolutely clear that without a shadow of a doubt that's connected to our cooperation when it comes to acquiring new weapons systems a new tank under german auspices or a new plane under french auspices this new that this requires reliability between the current news and. it cannot be the case that others are incapable of acting. in minnesota and this brings me to an aspect that i just like to touch on the very abstract and i could take a copyright law article thirteen has caused some heated debates in recent days we

have a coalition agreement here at home and germany writing this out we all think it's good and we're all committed to what's there and now we are partners within the european union swell and then we have another quite navigon know who from their perspective they have just as good a reason substantiate what they said in terms of copyright friends said you cannot just get rid of it all. for it exempts the startups because we do that then everyone suddenly be a star television parliament of all but we said we see it differently but this europe has debated for almost a decade so you find it kind. of the irish talk you write the last one so perhaps we need to be prepared to at least get a little wriggle room so that we can find a woman or do we say what's in the coalition agreement set in stone with her life and i don't think that makes this very good heart. and of course it's a difficult one and we will try to do it with. what he said just

a little filter aspect which isn't actually spelled out in the coalition enough nicer and it's possible when it comes to our arms export it that we will have a different of our going to do in the final say when it comes to looking at how we exert influence on our part to stop the work in the way that we did it may be that we say. we will not give you a single component that is made any additional national oil to fit in with it britain or in france because they don't agree to these kinds of challenges that we're facing and we're going to have an intense debate about this and the last to do so otherwise we'll be considered would have been morally supercilious. what i think it would go with them when they considered. this is entering into compromises and it all just a lip service it was saying how wonderful you really is that it will not is good for us in your. we have a problem. your

views live coverage of chance for all america address to parliament before she heads on to brussels on a key e.u. summit where bracks it is said to dominate the discussions let's go straight to the parliamentary building where michelle acuff they're standing by to us giving qualified backing to an extension of bracks if that's the issue at hand right now to the end of june what were her conditions michelle. well she really wants to see that breaks that deal go through the british parliament and quite clearly this is also the position that we've heard out of brussels she says yes she's willing to grant that request that to reset may put in this letter to the head of the european council donald yesterday but what will be crucial is to reset may actually has to say once she arrives in brussels and the german chancellor also

said that if there was a failure to vote on this in the u.k. parliament an open situation this would potentially require yet another e.u. summit that then would be a separate. summit in the coming week bearing in mind of course that the coming week was supposed to be the brics it week next friday is when the u.k. wanted initially wants to leave the european union so this is very much going down to the wire but the german chancellor also quite clearly stating her regrets throughout this process of the u.k.'s intention to leave so still an open situation going heading to brussels pretty much right after that speech that she's holding here for the chancellor is concerned there was moto is britain having to back the deal that's now on the table the chancellor saying the ball's in teresa mayes court right now that there has to be parliamentary support for her deal for

any extension to happen. yes and this is also the intention that theresa may put in that letter is actually a controlled for exit under the deal that she negotiated her government ago she ate it with brussels so there they really see eye to eye but it is definitely up to british parliament to make this happen or so what a viable alternative could be isa new doubt brisson being in a crisis also notable here that the german chancellor spent about a third of her time of her speech about the upcoming summit on brics it alone and then there really was a turning point where she said as much as she regretted the u.k.'s wish to leave europe must move on must look ahead while at the same time remaining very close to britain in deeds not just on trade but also on security corporation something

britain has said all along certainly when it comes to security and defense they still partners in nato and in sharing security information that is also something britain at this moment in time is actually seeking seeking closer ties with brussels of that very corporations so still a very messy political situation and i wouldn't really put any money on whether we're going to get definitive clarity of the next forty eight hours coming out of brussels the chancellor also put out there the situation with the northern border what's going to happen with the border in the event of bricks whether it's going to be a no deal or a restructured possibility but this has been one of the most contentious issues for the british parliament and the chancellor's it's all up to britain to get the border issue solved. yes really it is

a contradiction in terms not to be in any kind of at least tax union with the e.u. and not wanting a hard in northern ireland that's why this whole backstop solution came into play something the brics it is hard line breaks it is a vehemently against some common ground was found there actually not leaving that completely open putting a time limit on that but at the same time there was a creeping suspicion that kept growing here in berlin certainly that was it really about the backstop issue all along what parliamentarians this side of the channel are seeing that were wondering what if it hadn't been the backstop would have been a different issue that would have potentially gone down to the wire with so little clarity on that very essential question of what kind of relationship the u.k. really wants to have with the e.u. in the future so this is a very messy situation it's

a crisis and this can't be solved that's the message time and time again also coming out of berlin by simply saying no i'm not defining the potential way ahead so i'm in terms of defining the way the chancellor was very clear about what happens if there is no vote within the next week for breaks that so that there is no extension we see bracks it come friday the chancellor says germany europe is prepared for that eventuality what did she say about that. the european european union has put in place regulations to deal with that situation to allow the flow of goods for instance. i don't exactly know how that's going to play out because we've seen a lot of people of talk through the difficulty that princes truck drivers going to face simply queuing at the ball. english channel for

instance but. that was just one problem she touched on she talked about the erasmus university exchange program you've got a lot of british students going to study european universities and vice versa she said that would continue she talked about the rights of citizens to u.k. citizens to visit europe that would be visa free for a few months at least she said and then there's this question of the u.k. citizens living and working residing long term in the european union germany at least is put in arrangements to allow those people to continue in their current status at least for the time being of course longer term some type of arrangement deal or no deal will have to be brought in ok so if there is no deal come friday next friday the chancellor saying extra border police are there and the airports importantly will be remaining open. one last question to you michel if we could

briefly on the michael she says she's interested in a structured withdraw after listening to her speech do you think she's going to go to brussels and push for that. absolutely she's been pushing for this all along and this is something where her and to reset my accidie completely agree on and this just highlights the fact that it is in the first parliament where this deadlock is right now and that parliament you were talking about regulations that were put in place also in germany specifically for those u.k. citizens british parliament has been simply too busy with that very question of the back seat deal to put own similar regulations in place so that opens up a whole new minefield if there is a hardback set michaud there and simon young here in the studio thanks very much to both of you. this is d.w. news live from berlin still to come on the show southeast africa is drenched in and

more rain is on the way thousands in food and shelter a week now after cycle own i first made landfall. but first new zealand's prime minister use in the ardern has announced an immediate ban on semiautomatic and assault weapons this comes as the victims of last week's shootings in christ church are laid to rest mourners across the country paying their respects to the fifty victims with more commemorations expected tomorrow to mark one week since the attack. or earlier listen ardern use in order to explain the scale of the bad time for the mass and easy availability all of these weapons must. and should die. today i'm announcing that new zealand will ban all military style seamy or domestic weekends. we will also

have been or assault rifle we will ban old high capacity magazines we will ban or pots with the ability to convey semen automatic or any other type of firearm into a military style simi or dramatic we've been new zealand's prime minister there well to africa now where more rain is expected in south east africa in the coming days in a dire situation for tens of thousands of survivors is expected to get even worse this week after the powerful cyclonic. first made landfall more than three hundred people have been confirmed dead as floodwaters hamper relief efforts. but. lots of survivors rushed to receive their aid when they knew it had arrived in mozambique aid workers have a difficulties delivering food and other necessities. as well as heavy floods in the wake of the storm

a widely broken infrastructure in and around the worst his city of beirut is also hampering relief efforts or just saw we are no energy one thousand nine percent better city post we've no power. everything's destroyed the hospitals facing the same problem we have no communication or drinking water. there was. in a show of concern to some pics president felipe a new c visited one of the shelters in beirut. that the survivors excitement was overshadowed but disarray everywhere citizens are panicking because help is slow and clearly insufficient fights over food erupt. people who didn't sleep a came here early in the morning to receive food we slept here and have no right to receive it. calles in the shelters and out on the streets

a lot of people are still at risk trapped by the floodwaters. the united nations described to have the coast. as quote a message to soest affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people. for more i'm joined from the world food programme which is providing relief in mozambique right now thanks for coming in this morning what more do we know about the situation in the affected areas in mozambique it's really tough when you fly over this area it looks as if there's a whole ocean that has moved in miles and miles of water people on roofs people spend days in trees schools or sheltering. people so we're bringing in food we have these little energy biscuits that have all the nutrients that a person needs to survive because they can't cook they have nothing and we bring in

water we bring in supplies we have teams on the ground who do emergency telecom so that the aid workers can actually talk to each other and organize a response but it's a massive crisis it isn't supported to people to to higher ground right now there's been hearing you have two hundred people on the ground and what are they saying what are the main obstacles for them right now it's the water i mean we're bringing in helicopters dropping off food and other supplies and water to people. in areas but you also have to mount a huge logistical response we're going to bring. cargo planes in. coming is coming in from all over southern africa because we will feed five hundred thousand people just think of that and that takes a lot. but it's it's massive because we already were on the ground before this disaster struck we handed out food vouchers to people could buy food before the

cycloid hit so they had food for two weeks but this is a totally different scale no is the international effort coming together what are you seeing happen and moses. in terms of people pulling together from various nations to help those in need right now exactly and what happens in a crisis like this i've done for example the tsunami in indonesia as you work together various countries you bring in military from from countries where working for example with south african rescue teams using their helicopters in the beginning to bring food and other supplies to things it has to be really coordinated so that people get everything the big concern now is the dams could be breaking from other rivers they could be more flooding that water from rains are still coming into the country now. and of course the feel of disease cholera typhoid malaria all of that is no huge concern. to you and your people on the ground there mozambique in the days ahead bettina luscher from the world food program thanks for coming in. well today's world down syndrome day in one child is

born with down syndrome for every one thousand births worldwide millions have the genetic condition and many with it are increasingly being integrated into their communities one example of that is a cafe d.w. visited in the iranian capital tehran. this completely in his element serving couple chinos to the guests in this cafe waiting tables this is first ever job and the forty year old is loving every second of it. you know i like the cafe it's big and it's nice and warm that's why i'm so grateful to the owner misses i got here. every night when i go to bed i thank. him for that although. he and the others who work here have little chance of finding work elsewhere iran's job market is currently in such a bad state that over

a third of college educated young iranians that unemployed for people with special needs it's become nearly impossible to find work. for most of those people there's nothing to do once they finish school they just stay at home but we're convinced it's good for them to show people that they have other abilities not just good for them it's also good for their families they're often sad because they can't do anything but here they can show just what they're capable of in. more than forty people living with down syndrome autism work here regularity everybody pitches in doing what they can brewing coffee waiting tables or entertaining the guests with music. they all get paid for their work except for the cafe owner he she runs

a deficit every month there are very few government programs to support social projects like this one in the islamic republic. we've never received support from any kind of organization it's a completely independent project founded and finance privately were totally self dependant on. giving up is not an option because every day she sees just how much this work means to him run and the others. are used to just be with my father. but father look at me. i finally made it. well i'm famous and go through life with my head raised high see. you. with a positive attitude imran and his colleagues have created an atmosphere found nowhere

else in the islamic republic. no other can feel he a new iran could get away with this level of for valente iran and the others and making the best out being a little bit different and have to inform coffee down tizen into a place that's bursting with positivity. we have some sports now and germany's national football team played a friendly match against serbia last night it was their first outing in the new year and they fielded a new look young squad after coach welcome love x. three senior players despite playing a home game they only managed a draw against the servants. serbia struck first through a header for my truck frankfurt's look at yo bitch serbia took that one goal lead into the break germany without the axe thomas merely go a tank and match how mills took their time to respond but they couldn't get the

ball past serbian keeper marco demitra bitch. but leon gorecki managed to find an opening in level to school. i think about the ones that you saw what we were all about from our performance in the first off we spent too much time in areas that didn't bring us much we talked about that a tough time and did things better in the second. round knowing it's not enough of us are going to think of them and i felt we have to make sure that we perform you saw that today but with the chances we had in the second half we have to win the game that's what not and that's what is given credit for that there was drama in injury time as serbia's milan pav cough was sent off for a bad foul on lee roy sonny luckily side may set the foul looked worse than. it was and is expected to be ok the one one finish isn't the best two enough for germany to kick off their twenty twenty euro qualification against the netherlands on sunday. if you're a minor of our top stories this hour german chancellor all

a macro has told the parliament their european union leaders could approve a short delay to bracks as long as britain's parliament passes the withdrawal deal next week back on all the e.u. leaders will be hearing from the british prime minister later today in brussels. this is due to the news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for all of us here thanks so much for being with us.

the floods have taken everything. now despair. climate refugees. they seek shelter in the capital. but even here the water's rising. the floods are coming. into the conflict zone with tim sebastian. right. this week here in london feels like two mills a member of the throwback to european the such groups who just consistently campaigned for a tough deal with brussels last week grow mr mills changed his mind and decided to support families a maze

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the prize winning documentary from the forest starts april first on t.w. . place. place. place. this is the w. news live from berlin. after all aback all says she supports a breakfast at the lake with conditions germany does has all merge and see preparations in place right now. until the very last day even the very last hour we will be pushing it to them sure enough there and the agency plan of his never actually need to. speak in.