this is p.w. news coming to you live from berlin britain's disorderly lawmakers breaks that alternatives. but options are rejected and theresa may says she'll resign in parliament will finally pass her deal. also on the program china's disappeared dissidents. it feels like you've been bumped up in hell. you're completely cut off from the

world you don't know anything and you're terrified. you talk to a human rights lawyer held in china secret detention system. in the women's champions league german side both for ready to challenge depending champions league on the french club prove just too strong. fellow i'm terry martin welcome to the program we start with the political deadlock in the u.k. over bragg's it and the announcement that theresa may will quit as prime minister of her twice defeated breaks a deal is approved by parliament last night and peace voted on eight different options on how the country's withdrawal process from the european union should proceed the proposals included leaving the e.u. without a deal room. maining in the bloc single market and customs union or holding

a new referendum well the results only ended up highlighting divisions. once again the nos have it with the prime minister to resume is braggs a deal floundering in unpopularity of two members of parliament put forward eight alternative plans in respect all of them were voted down a huge cabbage. having it to the news having. for the government this was confirmation that may's deal is the only option considered the white. and they do straight there are no easy options here there is no simple way forward the deal the government has negotiated is a compromise with the e.u. and with members across this house the results of the process this house has gone through today strengthens our view that the deal that governments has negotiated is

the best option and. the government's argument has an inspired support from parliament so far and it's uncertain if the third time will be the charm when the house votes again on may steel that could be as soon as friday to sweeten the deal the prime minister promised to step down and give way to new leadership if a deal passes. this is great reading briggs that hardliner boris johnson said he would vote for the deal which he won scorned he's considered one of the front runners to take may's place can fix that vision one should get yet may will also need the support of her conservative allies from northern ireland the d u p to get her deal through. and they haven't budged the d.-u. pieces may's deal could create internal trade barriers that would hurt northern ireland. we warned her before she signed that withdrawal agreement we wrote to her you will recall in relation to all of these matters but she decided to go ahead we

cannot sign up to something that won't damage the interim. some members of parliament took heart from wednesday's voting despite a lack of majority support for any alternative plans. two proposals one for a customs union with you and another for a public referendum on any briggs a deal both earned over two hundred sixty votes in a minority but still more than may's brigs a deal. for those plans supporters this could signal a way forward parliament is set to vote on monday on a narrower list of alternative plans the many hours of debate so what does this whole mean. joins us now from london to talk about that bigotry survey is offering to resign of parliament approves her breaks a deal is that supposed to be an incentive suggesting parliament might sign off on the deal just to get rid of her. exactly that's what it is terry it's an

extraordinary act of all self-sacrifice to reason may is saying i am going when you help me and she is addressing her own party she's addressing those that are cool bricks it tears that are thinking that she just wasn't tough enough and had to go see a chanst with the european union and they want the next phase because remember this is just phase one this is just the exit in the e.u. but everything that comes off of this is the so-called phase two soni go shooting in detail the future relationship between the u.k. and the ear opinion and they were on somebody else somebody from their side who wasn't on the remains side like the prime minister was in the referendum but somebody has really fought for breaks it from the beginning who they think and hope will from their point of view stand up more to the european union such reason may says she will get someone like that or you get a chance to elect someone like that if you come behind me and if you get this deal over the line last night lawmakers there in london voted on several options on how

. see all of those options were rejected does that take us another step closer to a no deal breaker. well anything that's not an agreement here in london takes us closer to a nobody who breaks it because that's the default option if there is no agreement and also no extension and also from the european union new deal is or just exiting the european union is is the do you default option and if there is no deal that signed and if there is no extension the end then yes it will happen but you also have to see that parliamentarians are clearly and they have said this in their vote yesterday they are there clearly against no deal they fear this will be incredibly damaging for the economy also for for any future relationship with the european union and it would put such

a strain on it that they really don't want that to happen so they will do everything they can and they will work on it further on monday i believe to prevent that now one of the options and last night's vote was a second referendum that option got more votes than any other alternative what does that tell us. well it's not a clear majority either but it just tells us from the logic of those who have fought for this referendum and really looked very unlikely that this might have a happen because also they're such a brags that fatigue here in the u.k. but the reasoning is that anything that it will be agreed now that the people and know what exactly it means to leave the european union they know it now they didn't know when they voted it was promised it was going to be very easy and now people realize actually it's terribly complicated and also from the point of those who

are fighting for a referendum it's it's not by the fish. for the u.k. it to leave so for people then to say well we know what this means so do we really want it have another think about it and then if you really want it then you leave on those terms however it would also mean that there divisive period of breaks and all of this wrangling of this back and forth would go on and i'm not sure that the e.u. would be terribly happy with that either big or think you did over his biggest loss in london. now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today boeing has delivered a software upgrade for its seven thirty seven max passenger jet that's meant to prevent failures of the aircraft's anti stall system the jets have been grounded worldwide following the deadly ethiopian airlines crash earlier this month boeing says the timing of the upgrade was not related to the accident. facebook has banned

the promotion of white nationalism and white separatism on its social media platforms which include instagram the company has been under pressure to make changes after a white supremacist broadcast live video of his deadly attack on a new zealand mulls the policy will be enforced starting next week. venezuelans are enduring a third night of another massive blackout in caracas water pumps have been knocked out and schools and businesses have been forced to close president nicolas maduro is blaming the nationwide power outages on the united states and the opposition of many suspect years of corruption and mismanagement are to blame. third for the crisis in golfing venezuela has forced thousands to seek a better life in neighboring colombia but that country is struggling to take them in the capital bogota has a housing deficit of a quarter of a million homes that are often undocumented or rarely allowed to rent an apartment

so they're turning to colombian landlords some of whom are trying to profit from the desperation while others are just trying to help. this three story building owned by a colombian family in southern boko tung houses ten venezuelan migrants they eat breakfast together on a quiet sunday morning. these people are among the two hundred thousand migrants who have come to the city in recent years since the city council provides few shelters the migrants only choice is to rent shared rooms with two or three other people of the holy month we sleep here in the living room and it's a little uncomfortable sometimes since meaning privacy but other than that it's good. her landlady nogueira lives on the house's upper floor the colombian national decided to rent her rooms to venezuelan migrants in part to earn some extra cash. was moved by their situation the quality of life they had in that moment they have

no place to sleep as some people would not rent to them or me and. they're not as obviated back she tries to create a comfortable atmosphere with plenty of space to talk and laugh with her tenants and she even goes a step further. sometimes they call me their mom so i scold them when they do things wrong or when they don't go to work or pay the utilities i'm looking out for them. despite strict rules for cleanliness and order there's also sympathy for the migrants tough financial situation especially when bills are due. sometimes we are late with payments so we simply tell her look mrs no such and such is happening i don't have the full amount give me a few days and i will pay you. understand. the positive example of the family a particular situation thousands of and as well as have a very hard time finding lodging and it makes them easy targets for those taking

advantage of their situation by offering far less decent housing for higher prices . and respond tina is a real estate association explains how landlords are making money housing venezuelans in rundown buildings. many property owners have made a business out of renting or receiving payments making people pay a daily fee to spend a single night in a tenement. the so-called. pain dailies only offer a bed tenants have no guarantees and risk getting kicked out it any moment nineteen year old luis works as a barber he barely earns enough each day to pay for his. so i mean this is like something for prisoners three bunk beds that mean six people you don't have the privacy you want and you can never leave your valuables here.

then is whalen migrants are at the mercy of fate if they don't and counter helpful colombians they risk being exploited and can only hope to someday be able to afford a place they can truly call home. to a child and a recent spate of high profile disappearance cases have attracted international attention being disappeared as people in china call it is a common practice dissidents are often held at secret detention facilities and usually only handed over to the judiciary system after a confession has been obtained. has met a human rights lawyer who disappeared for six months before he was jailed for subversion. to detention room is like a cooling chamber with a metal door escape from this room is impossible. thomas. was one of two hundred human rights lawyers chinese authorities rounded up in july two

thousand and fifteen. everything inside is wrapped in soft material the walls the table it so you can't kill yourself. i didn't see daylight for half a year a bright light is on twenty four hours a day you don't know if it's day or night. it feels like you've been locked up in hell. you're completely cut off from the world and. you don't know anything and you're terrified. all. she and he was called to the administration of his apartment complex he didn't suspect anything. there several plainclothes police were waiting they blindfolded him and shoved him into a car. with his

wife and children were wondering why he didn't come back then later that day twenty police officers came to search their partner and could have had to eat and i was absolutely terrified nobody told me he trying to taint the police searched the highs but refused to give any information your joy were actually shot through the force disappearances have become increasingly common in china the head of interpol former canadian diplomat an exiled writer a canadian businessman and activist and a photographer a lawyer booksellers. and a billionaire just a few of those who disappeared in the last two years. facilities of military compounds they are secret but activists have tried to find some detainees are not in the judicial systems database sienese wife and his mother herself

a lawyer then did everything to track him down but without success. cause you got if you want i tell you if you want how she was even more terrified than i was she kept asking when have they taken my son. she said young you might never come back. i could send you a twenty two days after my husband disappeared she suddenly died on. the uncertainty is intentional or thirty's use the sites to extort confession. to guards a presence of around the clock. the register every movement you make. they observe you to find your weak spot and find out what you're most scared of.

they don't allow you to change positions when you sleep with. them and they deprive you of your slightest freedoms. if you have to ask even if you want to drink water . or they make you sit on a wooden block for sixteen hours until you can feel your limbs anymore. you can't even go to the toilet because your d'oeuvres seem dead. the whole detention facility is designed for you to understand that you are under their control. if they want you to live you will live if they want you to die you will die if they want you to suffer you will suffer. if they want you to be happy and you'll be happy. sienese

whereabouts were unknown for six months later he was transferred to a regular detention center and jailed for two years after his release he wrote to detailed account of the secret detention even had his license to practice law revoked but he has do refusing to keep quiet. and our correspondent who filed that report joins us now from beijing material how common are these disappearances in china. that has been an increase in these disappearances during season pings rain for the last five years of course none of these methods are new all of this has happened in china before but this is to mattick and comprehensive use of these message methods to extort confessions is something that we've seen in the last few years in a few high profile cases it probably has its origin in the u.n.

to a corruption complain because this is how the party handles internal cases people disappear under the paci they are investigated and then handed over to the judicial system and this has been extended to political cases like those we've seen the lawyers the canadians who have disappeared all those whose cases are directly watched by the central government when someone is taken into secret detention like your report shows that must be very distressing for the detainees families what recourse do they have who can ask for help. well they usually do what everybody would do they try to go to every possible organization which in china i mean state organ and try to find out something police station detention centers regular criminal detention centers etc etc there they don't get any information they try to find

a lawyer but lawyers do not get access either the only thing they can do really is to get as much possible international public attention to their case because they can hope that this will offer some kind of protection to their relatives although it's never able to release them body from these detention centers so international attention you can try to get that is china facing any international pressure over these disappearances. china is facing pressure on individual cases all the time there is always there are a few high profile cases and these lawyers are some of them who have been very closely watched by the unit anational diplomatic corps when there are officials court hearings diplomats try to go there of course the international press goes there so there is some level of pressure but there is no means of ending this there

is no means of making the chinese government change its approach to descend fundamentally but thank you so much for that good talking to you. in beijing. now to a discovery this lasts and viable scientists pleasantly surprised 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 is growing again climate researchers 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 forty 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 at about

the same rate between twenty six you know twenty seven team from two. separate. airborne missions we. have near the front big lay sure has weakened by up to thirty meters that's almost one hundred feet in one year. and between twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen 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 bottled waters from the ocean and when the glass it was started to thicken about water is no longer that most of the 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 see what's happening yeah it is worrying proof that the speed of change in ocean temperatures can affect the glaciers in greenland. to sports now and we begin with women's champion the two women's champions league now in football where two of europe's top clubs met in the second leg of their quarterfinal germany's post-war hosted defending champions league with the french club already holding a two one lead. eight minutes into the match and wolfsburg hopes of a comeback were hit when goalkeeper on the chilled underestimated jennifer minus

shuns free kick. the german national player but leone ahead. later in the half another mistake this time in the midfield. a desperate show fouled in the area and the referee awarded the clear penalty. when he even not had no trouble converting and it was two nil spirit needed four goals at that point to reach the semifinals just after the break they got the first thanks to denmark forward printed the haka. a couple of minutes later how to level the stores that to all and most were dreaming big but their chances of progression evaporated on the hour mark. man made it three two on the night somewhere later added another for a six three aggregate when defending champions league move into the semifinals. so the horseback riding team game of polo now is sometimes dubbed a sport of kings in part because it's so expensive to play in nigeria

a nation of both extreme wealth and poverty it's become the pastime of billionaires lagos now hosts the biggest tournaments in west africa tracting teams from around the world glitz and glamour are always on display sometimes even eclipsing the sport itself. football entertains the masses while polo interchange the elite the lego's polo club is somewhat of a billionaire boys and girls club that's become a social hot spot vibrant fashion full glasses of champagne and selfie moments every sick. was. the sports the passion the same and. you say that for me it's something fun it's something something or something come to the table that's enchanting that is science right that's right chances are it's like there's

a bit of cut out. nearly all the teens at this international polo tournaments are owned by millionaires thirty three teams from nigeria argentina south africa kenya and the u.k. competed for top prize yet for the onlookers the competition seems to take a back seat to the atmosphere at the of it it's a nice environment you know people going to have it all to day events in nigeria and they're not a lot of things you can good for during the day when. you have the one time we count that media and during the bad beats nigerians still put football ahead of all other sports but according to the polo club president this polo tournaments is the biggest social event only calendar in legals just. up next what impact will break that have on european trade just one question being explored this week in our european affairs program focus on europe you are watching

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this but does that mean he was not following in a. controversial leader whose success is beyond question. time. one tragedy starts people fish on t w. o n a very warm welcome indeed to focus on europe with me peter craven and passions are still running high in the u.k. and the rest of europe over break and all its potential implications a million protesters took to the streets of london in a mass rally last weekend they were calling for a second referendum on whether or not britain should.