t w. this is g w news from berlin tonight a wrenching sacrifice to sing for brakes it planned british prime minister to resign may says she is willing to resign tonight imputes are voting on a number of new options for leaving the european union theresa may says she's prepared to step down if it means getting earthquakes that deal across the finish line we'll go live to london for the latest also coming up the plastic plague and europe's effort to fight its european parliament votes to ban ten kinds of single

use plastics by the year twenty twenty one and in the women's champions league german side will spark looked ready to go become a massive deficit against defending champions league but the french club proved just too strong. it's good to have you with us we start tonight with that political deadlock in the u.k. over breaks it and the announcement that could be a breck's it breakthrough theresa may has told her conservative party that she will quit as british prime minister if her twice defeated brights it deal is approved by parliament this week and that would leave her successor to lead the second phase of negotiations on britain's post breaks that relationship with the e.u. on this comes as lawmakers in. been have been voting on eight different options on

how the country's withdrawal process from the european union should proceed as sides made steel the other proposals being voted on tonight include leaving the e.u. without a deal remaining in the european union's single market in customs union or holding a new brakes at referendum the plan is for the most popular ideas to move to a second vote probably on monday in hopes of finding one option that can command a majority in parliament so. our let's bring in our correspondents she is following of its forest from westminster in london good evening to usual driessen may she has told her tories her fellow tories that she will resign if her brakes a deal is approved by parliament what does this do to the entire process tonight. well theresa may face incredible criticism over this past week and she finally came

to the conclusion that there is no way forward if she stays in office so she addressed lawmakers tonight visibly emotional with a shaking voice we have heard and she said i am prepared to leave this job than i intended on its do what is right for the country and our party she did not name a timeline but we are thinking that she will step down as prime minister if a deal gets through parliament if i withdraw the agreement is agreed to when the next step of the negotiation start was so when they're starting to talk about the future relationships between great britain and the european union and that could be sometime in the summer so another tory leader would take over. we understand on friday there could be a new vote on her deal that was already rejected twice by parliament and these allies they hope is that will not happen again let's listen to what work secretary amber rudd had to say about that. but this speech today. would

have persuade some of the need to. be on the team they would like to. think that miss is going to sort it with if. so does that mean to resume a has the majority she needs for her brakes or plan. well at the moment it does look like the numbers still don't add up in her favor there are of course heartland us now from have she has convinced in saying that she is going to step down for example boris johnson the pharma foreign secretary who has bashed this deal her withdrawal agreement over the past month and said he'd never vote for it he came around and said now he will vote for it if she is willing to step down and she does so but there is still the question of whether the northern irish do you have coalition partner will come onboard and that is very unclear at this point also there is another hurdle the speaker of the house has

said that he might not allow those votes to take place if there are no substantial changes to that deal so a couple of hurdles here and tend to still look very slim that it might make it through parliament on friday and what's going to mean for the timetable we know that the european union told the reason maybe you know you have this week to get a deal parents if you want to delay. so yes if she gets the deal through on friday then everything goes according to plan and then the great britain would leave the european union on may twenty second one day before the european elections if this deal doesn't get through when while then we have back to square one basically and the deadline for leaving the e.u. remains april twelfth the default option and we have to remember that at all times still that the u.k. would leave without a deal or no deal scenario that could have disastrous consequences for the people

in this country but also in the european union so that is still the default option and i don't dare to make any predictions how this is going to go down yeah i mean even as we speak british m.p.'s are voting on their boards at options but. from theresa may to know why are these other options are they are they know meaningless . you know i think they're not meaningless because if the deal is to reason after all doesn't get through then there will be other options and the lawmakers will decide on what way they want to move forward the bricks of process they want to agree on something and find a majority but if this is in the end the way out of the breaks a deadlock i'm not sure. you know that's the big question tonight or. in london with the latest developments tonight show up thinking. or turkey is

gearing up for local elections this coming sunday fifty seven million voters across the country would choose mayors councillors and local representatives with the turkish economy in trouble president wants a ruling party faces a stiff challenge and sunday's vote is seen as a referendum on his rule. turkey correspondent yulia han met up with one local politician who happens to have a very familiar name. this tea house in the town of go to commune istanbul is more crowded than usual. because today that edge of type alderaan is making a complaint visit so long that it or not from there on this ridge of tired and one is twenty years old and the political newcomer in turkey's local elections he wants to become a mukta and neighborhood chief he's not related to the turkish president but the name he says has helped him with his career choices somebody in the movement of the

audience people often don't believe me that first of all q. and i ask if i'm joking on the net i get it and then i show them my id card it's an honor for me to have the same name as our president as much he's the respected and beloved leader of our country so you're number one what about people say they will vote for me. both because of my personality and my name that is i believe this name would help me six yards and more than about in a new order. edwin's namesake the president is also complaining hard. he's making several speeches a day execute really is. even though he's not up for election. and one is hoping his own personal popularity will help make the difference because after a decade and a half in power his ruling party is facing losses. was that that's mainly because of the worsening. economic situation last year's currency

crisis sent annual inflation soaring to about twenty percent and sept groups unemployment is on the rise. not just here in istanbul people are now queuing for subsidized vegetables in state run markets solid growth and rising living standards have driven the president the electoral success in the past sixteen years but now turkey is in the midst of a recession and many voters say they're frustrated about the economy polls suggest this could erode support for add ons ruling a thai party especially in the largest cities in the capital ankara and here in istanbul. losing them would be a symbolic blow says journalist is most simas both cities have been under a.k.p. control throughout and once time in power water for its own good of a stumble is that opposition wins istanbul ankara we may begin to discuss the possibility of snap elections here in turkey. istanbul is strongly associated with

ed. first he was elected as municipal mayor here then he became mayor of istanbul. after that prime minister and then president. if is a k.p.s. defeated in istanbul it would be a political earthquake for everyone to live on them when i get. back to the tea house in guy with a younger edge of type ad one is trying to win some votes he also he has many complains about the economy it is just the younger people don't have jobs it's become very hard to shop owners nothing is good here anymore nothing yet the young out one says he wants to tackle these problems with the least in his neighborhood but he can't be sure victory as he's facing two challenges much is at stake in the local elections for both major time. in algeria the leader of the ruling coalition or indeed party has joined calls for the

ailing president to be replaced last night the head of the army urged that. beautifully be declared unfit to rule who to flee go who is now eighty two has been in power nearly twenty years although he's rarely appeared in public since twenty thirteen. have been protesting for weeks in a bid to force him to step down or the protests are not just taking place in the streets for weeks i have been going online to keep up the pressure on the beautiful regime car nason is here now with that side of the story girl but it's happening online in nigeria yemen you know it's a fleet of social media savvy country it's a very young country seventy percent of algerians are under the age of thirty think about that so they understand social media and one of the most colorful online protest of we've seen it didn't start on a facebook wall that you started on a real ball i think a lot of this is what we're talking about here you might call this operation post it notes we see. the words of young people their writing their complaints their

demands their hopes on sticky notes and the pacing them on a wall there in the capital algiers this was actually filmed a couple of weeks ago and eventually the police they stepped in and they ripped all that down so it migrated online and you can see this facebook page dedicated to those digital versions of these posted notes they're filled with masters like these brant one here saying we dream of a better tomorrow we dream of a beautiful and free algeria of a good and useful education and together we will make our dreams come true neither here down with the corrupt regime down with the patriarchy the people's will is the only source of legitimacy here you can see in them instead of a gun a facebook symbol i mean clearly people there see facebook as a revolutionary weapon for the protestors and twenty one thousand facebook by the way brant it's a huge platform in nigeria how if the population uses it and there's no true independent media in algeria either so facebook that's where people go for

information organize and it's not just young protesters who are using facebook right jamey we're even seeing it being a valuable tool for politicians one of the most well known is actually cause he's a businessman he's been banned from running for president twice now by the government so he's gone online and that's where he's doing a lot of his campaigning he's essentially live streaming almost everything he does take a look at this video is nearly two million facebook fans he's constantly streaming what he's up to one video showed his visit to the swiss hospital were present and said to be recovering this video he's a skating from house arrest jumping off his balcony you see supporters and also police greeting them down there below that was viewed more than six hundred thousand times and that's how you get attention there's sure enough i mean i think for many is to compare this is use of social media to what we saw all during the arab spring is there a parallel get mean you know these young people they grew up watching the arab spring they didn't participate. and it algeria wasn't touched by it but they saw

what works and they saw what didn't and we actually spoke with the young woman who was behind that facebook page when this is making no protests here's what she told us about the arab spring she says the algerian movement it's very different from the arab spring we don't want this movement to become violent so we are aware that we have to remain cautious of the protests and the demonstrations show that the algerian people are politically mature for radical change without violence and it shows all of its creativity and its sense of humor and i think brands a lot of creativity really on the play in the way they are using social media feel it so it stays creative in peaceful let's hope the military stays on the side of the people as well conason as always thank you. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world india says it has shot down a satellite in a missile test prime minister narendra modi made the announcement in a live address today weeks before the country's general election india's regional wyvil pakistan responded by issuing a call against military threats an elder space now that appeared on the country's

foreign ministry website which is see there the u.s. trade deficit narrowed by nearly fifteen percent in january compared to the previous month analysts say that's due to more soybean exports few were chinese imports to the u.s. amid a trade conflict between the two countries also helped sri the trade deficit. u.s. carmaker ford is says it will stop producing passenger vehicles in russia it plans to close three russian plants as part of a broader scheme to restructure its money losing operations in europe an economic slowdown and western sanctions have put a damper on the russian market several hundred staff could lose their job as a chilean appeals court has ordered the catholic church to pay compensation to alleged victims of a former santiago priest fernando. the ruling is says that three men who say sexually abused them decades ago should receive the equivalent of one hundred

thirty thousand euros each in moral damages. well health officials in mozambique have confirmed five cases of cholera the first since the world health organization mourned of a possible epidemic following a cycle which hit two weeks ago the united nations is appealing for more than two hundred eighty million dollars in aid three million people in mozambique and neighboring zimbabwe and malawi have been affected by the disaster. speedboats a still the only way to get help to people outside urban areas in the worst hit region around the city of beirut these portuguese marines carried medicine food and drinking water to settlements along the still swollen basie river where an unknown number of people remain without aid more than ten days after the storm. devastated large areas of southern africa leaving thousands homeless and destitute

like here in this makeshift camp in beta the world health organization is warning of what it calls a second disaster if highly infectious diseases like cholera start to spread through crowded camps like this one. it's expected to any spray disease will be will be spread more easily in the zone and that's why it's important to have good medical staff here so you can be for any kind of control it's in the beginning that danger is made worse by the almost total destruction of the region's medical infrastructure. because most of the health centers have been destroyed and this clinic here has an open field with a lot of space we started setting up the tents here to take the load off other health centers because they have had an increase of patients but don't have the capacity to deal with them. w.h.o.

is scrambling to fly in nine hundred thousand doses of cholera faxing. and material and practical aid continues to flow in from all over the globe like these tents being set up by a kenyan emergency response unit important as the only non-medical way to fight the spread of disease is to improve living unsanitary conditions these people have already been robbed of everything now even their physical health is at risk. we're turning now to europe's plastic purge. no more straws no more single use plastic cutlery no more cotton buds the european parliament voted overwhelmingly today to ban these kinds of plastics which pollute oceans and beaches experts say the move is long overdue. disposable plastic was long thought of as extremely practical on a picnic for example you could use your plastic cutlery once then simply throw it away. but there are more environmentally friendly alternatives such as

paper straws they decompose quickly and don't endanger marine animals such as turtles pollution by plastic straws has been known to kill some sea life eighty five percent of the trash in the ocean is made of plastic and most of it is disposable items. experts fear that by twenty fifty the be more plastic in our ocean sunfish that's an app and i attempt at least slow that down european parliament voted by a large majority on wednesday to ban single use plastics from twenty twenty one the money but i mean that if we don't change our ways now we will choke our oceans with plastic scientific evidence is undeniable so are the gravity and urgency of the problem european scare about this and one chip to show leadership in finding solutions and raising the standards across the globe. the money factors of all products will have to be involved in ways to supposal the e.u. wants to cut the overall cost of environmental damage by twenty two billion euros

in the next few years. we're now into a discovery that has left environmental scientists pleasantly surprised a new nasa study has found that in eastern greenland a major glacier that used to be one of the fastest shrinking ice and snow masses on earth well it's growing again climate researchers they have welcomed the news but they warn the trend is only temporary. this was glacier yeah in twenty fifteen when these images were captured the glacier had been retreating three kilometers per year and thinning by fourteen meters annually since twenty twelve leading scientists to ring alarm bells but a recent study by nasa shows that the glacier has begun to expand again it's about the same rate between twenty six you know twenty seven theme from two. separate.

airborne missions we far. from big house. up to thirty meters now it's almost a hundred and one year. and between twenty seventeen and twenty three in the same thing again scientists are looking closely at what's happening in greenland there's enough ice sheet here to make global sea levels rise by seven meters the latest finding at glacier yeah came as good news but the authors of the study and other scientists agree this changing trend is temporary they believe a natural cyclical cooling of north atlantic water is likely caused the glacier to stop shrinking for now what the measurements in the for your where this classic is demonstrated is that when the class c. was retreating the waters were quite warm and they were beaten fed by waters from the ocean and when the class it was started to thicken about water is no longer

than i thought you said the oceans of warming is just a transfer of heat from the ocean to the face of the classes start. too little too late that's the researchers message there's no sign that global warming is slowing down instead they say what's happening in the is warming proof that the speed of changing ocean temperatures can affect the greenland speak is glaciers. well moving now to an unlikely place to find kids playing and reading and it is thriving in the indonesian capital despite choking car fumes and an initial opposition from local gangsters this open air children's library in jakarta is offering kids a rare opportunity for reading and learning outside school. there are no quiet rules at this library it's all about play. reading. and entertainment the shortage of public libraries in jakarta means this

space has become a big hit with the local kids but i like it because i love listening to story telling stories are fire and they get it's exciting. just a few years ago this fly over was strewn with the rubbish and frequented by gangs but then armed with just books paint and green astroturf for the children to sit on the library's organizers got to work several murals and planted boxes later the area's reputation began its transformation. they want to make the image of this area under the bridge more positive to the people. before this place was perceived very negatively but there was a lot of rubbish. gangsters were here and made the locals living in the area feel anxious but then we arrived and provided free books because we wanted to bring books closer to the community that the idea didn't go down well with the locals

that first parents were afraid their children would be kidnapped or hit by a car and the resident gangs needed persuading to find new turf but it worked and today it's not uncommon to see up to seventy children attending afterschool sessions. because of where this place is people who are passing by can start enjoying hand and children can play while also learning that haven't been any complaints about the smell the rubbish or the rumble of traffic yet but just in case they use a sound system to drown out the noise. into the women's champions league now where two of europe's top clubs met in the second leg of their quarter finals tie will spark host the defending champs leo with the french club already holding

a two one lead. eight minutes into the match the fiery mood dampened for the woman from will spur the goalkeeper underestimated jennifer morrow shuns free kick which crossed the goal line the german national player put leone ahead. later in the half another mistake this time at midfield. and schildt had no choice but to follow in the area. the referee awarded a penalty kick randy bernard had no trouble and it was to no meaning wolfsburg needed five goals at that point to reach the semifinals just after the break they got the first off the foot of the next player harder. a couple minutes later harder levelled the score at two wall in which burke was dreaming big but their hope left the pitch at the hour are. usually less a mare made it three two was she later added another for leone the defending champions move into this season's champions league semifinal the buyer in munich

have kept their promise to spend big money for new talent they just shelled out eighty million euros to sign a player madrid defender lucas and on days that's a record amount for a buyer and mandans is also a world cup winner with the french national team it was joined by going on a five year contract this summer the twenty three year old is out for the rest of this season with a knee injury but he's expected to be ready for the start of next season. the u.s. space agency nasa is facing criticism for canceling what would have been the first all female space walk because well they didn't have enough space suits in the right saw astronaut christina call seen here on the left was to be joined by her colleague and mclean but since only one medium sized suit was available a male astronaut will now have to join call on the walk on friday according to nasa it was only during her first space walk last week that mclain realized

a medium sized suit that was her best and a new suit just simply could not tell you that much in talk read by her roommate forty. you're watching t w news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight we're going to have exclusive and complete coverage of british prime minister theresa may she always says that means tonight it may mean her very own political stay with us.

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