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without. e.u. leaders are meeting in brussels for a summit where they're expected to agree to postpone it but it was expected to leave the european union next friday the prime minister is asking for more time to get back in for. today's decision comes with strings. the prime minister. or the deal is off. straight to brussels. what's the mood. like that.

might say the brakes of fatigue has pretty much reached its peak here in brussels. state leaders who have been arriving here are still willing are still committed to reaching an orderly breck's it but they are at states basically run out of answers on on what they could suggest what what could be offered to the u.k. that would be acceptable if work for two years on a deal that deal has failed twice everyone is pretty certain that it will probably fail a third time and so a lot of question marks here in brussels it's one thousand and one nights since that practice it referendum but britain voted out as theresa may reiterated here today and somewhere here wondering maybe she'll need a magic lamp to wrap it until she gets the deal through let's listen to the german chancellor in the pond just talk this morning before she left for brussels outlining her position on this issue it's been nothing whatever you want it is my

firm conviction that we need to have a structured withdrawal of britain from the e.u. it's not just in the interest of britain itself which of course many that believe as well but it's also very much in the interest of germany and the interest of the twenty seven other member states of the e.u. . and it's been about the way and i believe the key problem that has to do with the whole question of ireland let's end this to do not make the. argument. back to brussels and. the other european leaders i share the chancellor's view. except for northern ireland there's no question that the e.u. one stability for northern ireland into they want a safety net if you want in case the u.k. and the you could not reach a far reaching go free trade deal that will solve problems for northern ireland so they want stability for that part but the sticking point that's right now up up in

the air is basically that question how long the extension that you recently seeks will last for the e.u. it's only possible until the end of may or the twentieth of may ideally before the european elections because if it was run into the european elections the u.k. from the european institutions perspective would be obliged to participate in the european elections something that tourism a has has ruled out and so the whole question today will be will they get that extension and how long will that extension be britain's opposition leader jeremy corbin was in brussels. what's here . that's a good question and he's been here a third time now obviously seek some answers as well but many year in brussels feel they're disappointed in theresa may she hasn't delivered on the bracks a deal that they've been negotiating with but also equally some here have said jeremy court hasn't provided what an opposition is in a democracy should do

a real alternative and even though that he is in favor of getting a deal easy even once more than theresa may he wants to stay in the customs union he is not willing to sign that deal that brussels and the u.k. worked so hard on matters in brussels thank you. to london where we joined. not so welcome back and let's start with jeremy corbyn does he have any backing in parliament for his alternative plan as he outlined it for people. well the crunch time is going to be next week here in london because it's really expected that m.p.'s and the such also jeremy covens labor party the biggest opposition party will somehow take control of the bricks and process so if there is a mail to resume or doesn't work out a deal through in parliament then it's expected that m.p.'s will try themselves to

forge some sort of consensus and that is very likely to be jeremy corbin's centered around jeremy corbin's vision of a customs union like i said so he is not himself a very strong leader and has really been criticised here in london for not setting out his position clearly enough but next week there is a real chance that m.p.'s and jeremy covens party will play a much bigger role and the last night the prime minister used the national television address to give fellow holiday time to go out and did it well thought m.p.'s now more willing to do is that told. those reason may in her address try to position herself as the voice of the people versus parliament who she put traders trying to obstruct the process and that made m.p.'s incredibly angry one labor opposition m.p. said it was an attack on liberal democracy itself another opposition m.p.

said we have been facing death threats over breaks it and if something happens to any of us she will have to share. she would have to bear her share of the blame i was speaking to dominic grieve who describes himself as a friend of tourism a conservative m.p. he said he could have wept yesterday when series i'm a made a speech in downing street he also said actually everybody i speak to this morning have said that to reason may really hasn't done herself a favor and that after this speech is less likely to get out here in the parliament along the. what sort of future just theresa may have nobody seems to want her as prime minister but nobody wants to actually do her job at the moment. yes who would want to do that job where the country is so divided and really so at odds with each other but you know it's only eight days until it breaks it and really the country is an absolute chaos say even though there isn't

a procedure in place to succeed reason may if really her deal does fall through if m.p.'s really take control of the process next week it's likely that she will have to go but we don't know next week is going to be crunch time so watch this space all right we live in an age of uncertainty back at mass in london thank you. and take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world a large explosion at a chemical plant in china has killed at least six people and injured dozens it happened mid afternoon to pesticides plant in the eastern province of junk so it's the latest in a series of industrial accidents to hit china. from as well and forces are reported to have arrested the chief of staff of opposition leader i'm quite though robert murat was taken in a raid on his caracas home. the us and other countries are recognised to quite as

interim president and have warned of venezuela's government not to arrest him or his aides. the main suspect in monday's trying shooting in the dutch city of tractors to be charged with terrorism three people died on at least five were injured. prosecutors believe the thirty seven year old suspect acted alone but say the investigation is continuing. i'm at least five people have died and more than twenty injured in a series of blasts in a million afghan capital kabul explosions near a shiite shrine as people gathered to mark the persian new year police say the bombs. detonated remotely. to mozambique where rescue workers have widened the search for survivors of a powerful cycloid that ripped through southern africa a week ago causing devastating floods and turning mozambique's worst hit area of by run into an inland sea more than two hundred people have been confirmed dead and

several thousand more are still need to be rescued the search efforts have been hampered by broken infrastructure and more rain is expected in the coming days. we'll just we're joined now by rick day who is that global media manager from the ngo save the children in maputo welcome to d w m bring us up to date on the rescue efforts if you would. as you say the rescue efforts are on their way there's adequate there's some boats and you know the sighting came on land in beirut which is one of the biggest cities in the in the area but it swept in lands taking water with it with heavy rains that means that there's also kind of a sea has developed in the land and there's no boat available readily so they have to be transported to there. and there's people sitting on roofs those people sitting in trees a six people sitting on one small islands in the middle of water and they all have to be either rescued or help has to be brought to them and that is what makes the

operation extremely hard and how are aid organizations coping with the scale of this disaster. aid organizations are scaling up the scale of the aid as quickly as possible bear in mind there were heavy rains which made this distribution of any aid virtually impossible until one or two days ago so the aid organizations are now going in and save the children of course is really focusing on children a lot of children have lost their parents or have become separated from their parents we have received phone calls of parents that ask you know can we find that children in in beirut for example and the parents are not a part of the country. because they cannot get in touch with them they might still be alive they might have succumbed in the ways we don't know that but you know it's children on their own are extremely vulnerable for foreign abuse for violence maybe

they start working too to make a living which is child labor we don't want that so we are really focusing on children to get them to safety as soon as possible so with with more rain forecast and how long do you estimate before something like normal returns to mozambique. or even if the range stopped the normal will not return and aid you know in the coming days because the area that is affected is so far vast and even if the water goes away the people that are lived there have nothing left they have houses they have boats they have banned same kitchen supplies everything they had is gone. so before the life we go back to normal that's going to take a long long time and so briefly one of the most urgent tasks that you need to achieve now. yeah well i only have one answer to that one work that's everything they need food they need shelter any supplies of kitchen you know so they can get so they can cook they need clean water is it is in is in is in why demand because

you know everything is flooded that means that also water systems drainage have after all it which means that the water is contaminated. and that makes this. dangerous you know if if water is contaminated diseases can break out quite easily especially among children so if you say what is needed i say everything well we wish you well and thank you for your time rick save the children in mozambique thank you. thank you. cross the border in zimbabwe the situation is just as dire it's also been badly hit by cycling today. during a flood victim in zimbabwe money money district the elderly man died when a mudslide crushed his home. team i'm in pain. my father in law had a painful death in the house collapsed because of the cycle of it's hard to accept

that he died that way and. we are fortunate that our mother survived. she was rescued alive. the official death toll from cycling he died in the zimbabwe stands at around one hundred but hundreds more injured money money are missing feared dead people worry they won't have a body to bury with reports of corpses floating downstream into neighboring mozambique flash floods and landslides swept through this region leaving piles of rubble behind. desperate moments and a desperate situation for the two money money community in the eastern part of zimbabwe where this community was the hardest hit when cycle on the day swept through more sunday and zimbabwe you see some of them have lost their entire belongings and they have nothing that they asked to auntie. and

nothing to do but wait. to move would all of this. ended their home or my family we've affected because we are there to be grown we have nothing to. even. ourselves it's not this disaster is happening king my only consolation is that my family and i are alive. people. help is patchy roads and bridges that haven't been swept away are often still impassable helicopters are lifting out the critically injured when they can a low cloud means they can only fly occasionally. patients with he's. encouraged or storms or houses for going over the summer fractures. names and doctors here say they're now seeing rooms turn

septic because it's taking so long to reach the injured for those bringing help it's a race against time you sail and now are the prime minister to send has not stopped the government hopes to have a battle semiautomatic and military style weapons in place by next month the move follows friday's shootings at two mosques in christ church which left fifty people dead. was one of the many vigils taking place across new zealand this week. as the country continues to come to terms with its worst mass shooting it's also taking radical steps to prevent a tragedy like this from happening again. today i'm announcing that new zealand will be in all military style sumi order medic we fans we will ban or pats with the

ability to convert seemingly automatic or any other type of firearm into a military style seamy automatic weapon the lone gunman who opened fire on worshipers at two mosques in christ church was armed with semiautomatic rifles he's believed to have modified them with high capacity magazines to make them fire faster from now on all of this along with assault rifles will be banned in new zealand owners of such weapons will have to turn them into the police always always want to do everything we can to ensure those people. get to bring the far arms to suranne surrender them to us and make that possible and possible quickly new zealanders in christchurch and across the country have largely welcomed the law change as a necessary step to keep their communities safe. i think it's a step on the right direction something must change spaced on the last experience i

know some people could see this as a reaction or class reaction because of one person the consequences from what we've seen is this terrible and something must change hopefully nothing in the guy and the gun laws will stop it from happening again the two mosques will reopen their doors on friday when mass commemorations to mark a week on from the attack are due to take place. almost twenty years since the end of civil conflict under the command rouge cambodia is still littered with an estimated two million landmines according to the un clearing them is an expensive and potentially deadly business the nonprofit group is recruiting rats to sniff out the unexploded bombs. they may look like vermin but these rodents are lifesavers to try and traps

are searching for landmines in cambodia millions are still buried across the country the legacy of decades of war. the rats have a powerful sense of smell and they have an ability to learn. here at rat boot camp where they are trained to detect explosives. rats can sense the slightest whiff of t.n.t. . and when they do they're given a treat. but it takes around one year before the rodents are ready. but he's good with the right. to smell. the target. so that's. it's faster and cheaper. easy to. carry.

the rats go to work clearing this area of land mines ten of them at a time sniff out the explosives every half hour different rats take over so their concentration doesn't slip for humans one wrong step could mean death the rats though are safe. then you need to be more than five. just down the road the rats of free this village of landmines but that's after four decades in which the mines killed more than sixty thousand people in the country thousands more were disfigured farmer was one of them. our village lived in fear for many years wondering who might be next. five sons and worried constantly. now that the mines are gone we feel great relief.

and the rats are fast this area would have taken people for days to clear with great danger but the rats did it in under an hour. football now on that germany's national team played a friendly against serbia last night it was their first outing this year and they fielded a new look young team coach you have him x. three senior players despite playing at home though they could only manage a drill. serbia's struck first through a header from i tried frankfurt's look at yo bitch serbia took that one goal lead into the break germany without the x. thomas moore ledger on board taking and match how most 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. guys think about the ones that you saw what we were all about from our performance

in the first stuff we spent too much time in areas that didn't bring us much we talked about that at half time and did things better than second and i thought i spoke on no one that's not enough of us are going to think of them as and i thought 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 to go that's right not that unless we had just given the space part of it there was drama in injury time and serbia's milan pav cough was sent off for a bad foul on leroy's side me 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. and today is world down syndrome day one child in every thousand across the world is born with a genetic condition that means that millions have it and they're increasingly being integrated into their communities is an example from a cafe d w visit in the iranian capital.

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. i like the cafe it's big and it's nice. that's why i'm so grateful to the owner. that every night when i go to bed i thank . 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 are 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. 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 more as. we've never received support from any kind of organization it's a completely independent project founded and finance privately or totally self

dependant negative. giving up is not an option because every day she sees just how much this work means to him ron and the others. i used to just be with my father. but father look at me. i finally made it. i'm famous and go through life with my head raised high c. . 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 neuron could get away with this level of frivolity imraan and the others are making the best out being a little bit different and have transformed coffee down tizen into

a place that's bursting with positivity. here's a reminder of our top stories at this hour british prime minister theresa may is in brussels trying to persuade gherkin union leaders to delight until the summer but best saying that the delay would only be granted if britain approves the broadside withdrawal agreed. tens of thousands of people in mozambique are still waiting for food clean water and shelter in the wake of cycling a day of more rain has been forecast and believes the rescue efforts are struggling . coming up next hour indeed a new news that asia. persecuted at home and forced to flee to bangladesh now thousands of victims are children are leading the fight for an education. join the foot soldiers of fun to sit behind the scenes china's largest piece of. it

as a child well how about those stories i'm more in just a moment i'll be back at the top of the hour a good day. the

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teacher is beating a boy for talking back and class. for the rest of the class watches. i'm sure a toddler is being hit by a smaller. breaking up lots. of child sleeps in the streets because her family through her. fear. online bullying. pushed. as a teenager over the edge. just because you can see violence or come stronger doesn't mean it doesn't bear make the invisible visible. might violence against children disappear. african. company president. and i'm going to go on to patriotic front time the rebel army and to the one nine hundred ninety four genocide wasn't when

all in the groups there wasn't wearing clothes to be used in toto me to reinforce that a controversial leader whose success is beyond question could turn. wanted tragedy starts able fifth on t w. this is the daily news asia coming up on the program access to education it's especially tough when you live in a refugee camp looking at children in bangladesh may be eager to learn so why would the adults in government left on adams. a detergent ad for holy star in a hindu girl and a muslim boy provokes and nationalist backlash. plus we go behind the scenes at the world's biggest film studio where for the footsoldiers movie making.