d.w. . this is the debate here is live from berlin british lawmakers deal another blow to the government's briggs it plans was mr m.p.'s reject a high stakes gamble by prime minister theresa makes by a majority of fifty eight votes may have split up for withdrawal deal and a bit to gain a short briggs extension from brussels and rule out a long delay to britain as it were drawn from the european union but her strategy failed also on the show or germany extends its ban on a weapon exports to sanju arabia the ban was imposed after the murder of saudi

journalist democracy last year but other european countries fear it will jeopardize joint contracts that they signed with the kingdom and the clown who would be king or present at least but meet the comedian who's a challenging ukraine's political elites as the country heads to the polls this weekend. on leyla herat thank you so much for your company everyone well today should have been the day their britain marched out of the european union well instead it was the day that lawmakers dealt prime minister theresa may another defeat over the issue may was trying to pass a motion approving only part of the redraw all deal she agreed to with the brussels it was a bit to get around those who oppose her plan and at the same time gain a short deadline extension from brussels but her deal was. jetted by fifty eight

votes well now it appears a much longer extension might be required from the european union as may hinted in her statement to m.p.'s after the vote. to speak arising could should be a matter of profound regret to every member of this house so once again we have been unable to support leaving the european here. the implications of the house's decision grave the legal to fourteen hours that united kingdom is due to leave the european union on the twelfth of april in just fourteen days time that is not enough time to agree that just late for in russia fired and yet the house is being clear it will not commit to leaving without a deal and so we would have to agree an alternative way forward the european union has been clear that any further extension will need to have a clear purpose and will need to be agreed unanimously by the heads of the other twenty seven member states ahead of the twelfth april it is almost certain to involve the united kingdom being required to hold european parliamentary elections

to some a speaking of their earlier we're tracking the fallout from these extraordinary developments in the house of commons for you let's get you updates now from london brussels and here in berlin standing by to dissect the fallout from this big announcement are you have a break said analyst to alex forrest waiting with me here in the studio in berlin in london correspondent charlotte potts and standing by in brussels that the e.u. h.q. is georg might just show it let's go to you first i understand there are crowds protesting rate now as we speak in london set the scene for us are emotions running high. yet emotions and tension. today in london because you have to remember the significance of this date march twenty ninth was the day where the u.k. was due to leave the european union and those that voted to leave in the referendum three years ago they had planned massive parties for today all over the country

including here in london and they did show up now just to protest that the u.k. has not left the european union so behind me you see the you keep the flags so the independence party the architect of the leave and leave vote back then in the referendum they are protesting here in large numbers today and i think talking to the protesters and they are angry they are angry that the u.k. has not left the european union today angry a teary some may asking for her to step down and they are just disappointed in the whole political process and these are live pictures where the way i want to tell our viewers that we're broadcasting here from london from a crowd there assembled it near where you're reporting from already to go to brussels words to the use reaction been to the feet over teresa mayes for a third time. quite frankly it's disappointment here on the european side europe was holding its breath european institutions. so they're now disappointed the

reaction came quite swiftly they regrets this decision they now prepare for a hard break suit no deal breaks it is likely that was the message from the european commission and the european council president donald tusk made clear there will be another meeting of the e.u. leaders two days ahead of the new regs the deadline for the on the towns of april and i can't help thinking these days about where i was two years ago just outside the british embassy while i was following the british ambassador who delivered the article fifty bricks of laughter and i can still hear the words of donald tusk back then when he said we already miss you. well i think we're not quite there yet we're not quite there yet alex with me here in berlin want to take us back to that sound bite that we played at the right before we started this conversation where i don't know if i'm getting this right is theresa may hinting that she might again for

a fourth time present her deal to m.p.'s and ask them for their support that certainly seems to be the hint that we're all guessing that there is the possibility that she would try to bring it back next week we know that companies are going to meet this weekend there was talk we know monday that parliament is taking over the business of the house of commons again happened on wednesday that doing it again on monday remember that is unprecedented and there was talk that when those when m.p.'s have put forward their proposals and if there is something that comes out with a majority that possibly downing street will encourage to raise in may to put to a deal up against whatever comes out as the alternative so this deal i can say to you i do not think this deal is dead i think we could well see it coming back and the reason being that she was defeated by a huge majority back in january two hundred thirty one hundred forty nine

a few weeks ago and today it was just fifty eight so it seems in time it's coming down she may believe that she can still get it through that is as she says and the e.u. says the only option currently on the table but time is running out want to go to charlotte because surely the legal deadline for brig's it is now april twelfth and that's just two weeks away. yeah exactly and the default situation is that if no alternative is found that then the u.k. will crash out of the european union with no deal so it's so-called no deal directed chaotic breck's that could happen then and that would mean disastrous consequences. as for the economy and for people in this country also in the european union's oh so parliament has said that they want to avoid that scenario under all circumstances although there are one hundred or so members of parliament that actually would prefer that option as well as lief protesters behind me they've

been telling me they want that no deal scenario but parliament wants to avoid it so it and no deal could happen if there was no political alternative found just by coincidence all the other option is set to reset go made goes back to brussels and asks for a long extension which would mean for the u.k. to take part in the european elections and a lot of people would be very upset about that as well in the u.k. right to continue where are charlotte left also we're just weeks away from the european parliament elections if martin does if britain rather does have to take part how might that affect campaigning across the continent or do you think that the leaders will not let it get to that no i. offered to participate in the european elections by getting a long extension that is on the table and that remains on the table and it's for the u.k. to decide if they want to pick up that option of course it would be sort of inconvenient

if you want to put it that way if the u.k. all of a sudden now participate seeing that the seats of peace from the u.k. have already been split up partly among the rest of the twenty seven member states and so countries like racial or ireland would now be a little bit in limbo whether they will get an extra seat or not but apart from that it is without doubt that the e.u. would like to see. an orderly solution to the bracks of problem and so this would be clearly the lesser of two evils i have no doubt that if the u.k. wants to participate in the european elections get a long extension that is what they will get the papas is less important i would say than theresa may has just said in his speech alex with me here in the studio one high ranking official a tweeted a short while ago that april twelfth is now the new april twenty ninth thomas twenty nine march twenty ninth so i'm good i'm adding another incident to the

already very busy time right here march twenty ninth talk to us about the how when if we go in with this well nobody knows where we're going with this and i'm to anyone who can tell you it's making it up as they go along because this is the problem with bricks that we keep thinking just about reached the end and then there's more and there's more and there's more but we do know it's as i said to you on monday parliamentarians are going to try again to put forward that proposals through what's called indicative votes to try to find a way forward when this happened again on wednesday there was no claim of a soft bricks it was what won the most votes so keeping the u.k. in an overall customs union so that's a possibility as i said theresa may can brain has. vote deal back again trying to get that through but time is ticking and all the time we have this twelfth of april deadline we've heard from the irish prime minister live right saying that a long extension of the you should be open to that if the u.k.

decides to reconsider its bricks it approach and that is where we are at the moment if they're talking about you know a delay the you can he say why they need to delay all we're looking at the possibility of a general election sooner rather than later a what about this referendum or even the possibility of exit in brics it all together which you know would cause huge turmoil for many in the u.k. but everything is still on the table and one thing just to add is that nigel dollars he's from the d u p that that's the policy that props up to reason may's governments of the northern irish unionist m.p.'s and he has apparently said that he would rather stay in the e.u. and remain rather than the current situation of risking northern ireland's position and that just shows how strongly these different leaders are going they are completely dug in right or want to go or to or charlotte in london charlotte i mean

the clock is ticking and time is not an elastic concept do we expect there to be new elections and how soon can we expect new elections and would it make a difference. well it's certainly one possibility going forward jeremy corbin the leader of the opposition party of the labor party has called for new elections he wants to see that but basically it would be up to to resign maybe she could decide that the only way out of those mess is to hold a new general election and that that might change the parliamentary arithmetic we have to know though that parliament would have to approve that by two thirds by. two thirds and it would take them twenty five working days to prepare such an election one idea could for example be that the new elections would happen at the same time with a european election in the united in the united kingdom if the extension goes

through so that is certainly one option and a little bit of movement today in the whole party landscape in the u.k. the independents group so the members of parliament from the labor party and from the tory party that have left their parties due to the cost of bricks that they have now apply it to be a formal policy called change u.k. they want to participate in the new in the next european elections if the u.k. is participating indeed and that could of course also change the parliamentary arithmetic here in the u.k. if new elections were held where it's in the meantime young certainty just grows by the minute thank you so much for the parts that reporting from london and garrick marcus reporting from brussels and with me here in the studio. you name for a second alex where is the writing thank you all for the team coverage for now.

our it's a next step we're going to shift our attention back to here to germany which has announced it will extend its ban on arms sales to saudi arabia for another six months the weapons freeze was imposed after the killing of saudi dissidents a journalist. last year germany's the european allies have criticised the band because it throws the future of joint contracts in doubt this is asian has also renewed divisions in germany of the strength of its position on human rights. it's an attempt to please everyone as demanded by the s.p.d. the german government extended their weapons exports to saudi arabia until september thirtieth twenty nineteen thousand clues both new deals and weapons already purchased a move criticized by the conservatives. c.d.u. c.s.u. alliance. we cannot create a new saudi regime nor can we resolve the conflict from our perspective especially if we keep our distance and that is why i believe we have to rely on our partners

in the region that if. a contingency plan is being found for these shipyards in northern germany coastal protection ships ordered by saudi arabia are being built but can't be delivered under the export ban now the german government says it may buy them exempt from the ban or european joint projects such as the euro fighter around thirty percent of the parts come from germany such permits will now be renewed subject to certain conditions and part that is to prevent the threat of billions in damages claims from the industry the socialist left party calls this misleading the i did a big deal the only condition imposed by the german government is that the partner countries france and great britain should be assured by saudi arabia that these armaments will not be used in the yemen war but that is ridiculous einhorn many in the c.d.u. already fear that european partners will continue exporting weapons to the gulf region without including germany. let's bring up to speed now some of the other

stories making news around the world he was president donald trump is threatening to close the country's southern border with mexico next week trying to get that mexico is doing nothing to stop the flow of migrants from central american nations heading for the u.s. democrats are challenging plans to divert a billion dollars from the funds budget to help build the president's controversial border wall. the death toll from a massive fire in a high rise building in the capital of bangladesh has risen to twenty five a day after the blaze firefighters are still searching through the remains of the building in dhaka police say they're investigating allegations that it lacked adequate fire safety measures and that some of the upper levels of the twenty two. story structure around the clock. to nasa astronauts one demand a one woman have carried out a nother spacewalk outside the international space station it was meant to be the

first ever historic all female team in today's event but there weren't enough space suits of the right size well the two astronauts are meanwhile installing new and stronger batteries for the station's solar power grid and all right there was a lot of talk about this earlier this week and to talk more about it with me now in the studio is anna sacco from d.w. science so good to see you first of all this historic all female space walk was scrapped because of a wardrobe malfunction of sorts tell us more yeah it's actually a terrible because. that's the truth they are that wear and enough emphasize space suit available well you see it's not unusual for us or not to train in different sizes so any mclean she trained in ellen emphasized on earth but because. changes your body shape you sometimes switch from one size to the other so make they notice on the last space that last friday that m. suited to a better but m.

was already promised to her female colleague christine a call so there was only an astute left and that one had to go to the milkman a colleague right now for some masses decision to scrap this would everybody was really looking forward to it and describing as a historic all female a spacewalk it reinforces some concerns about gender bias are we reading too much into this well they have a point. eighty five percent off the spacewalks performed in the last twenty years have been done by male strongholds they couldn't wish to female us troops on the ice as they couldn't foresee that the both smaller space suits when needed there are no s. sized space suit available at all so you could say there is some gender bias unconscious gender bias there but you have to admit that not making a lot of effort in recent times to show more implicity of women in their programs

but we're just not beriah by you can say that again and it's now said they should have forseen this all right thank you so much sacco for science. we're going to turn to our jury now where about one million algerians took to the streets in several parts of the country for the sixth day in a row there are demanding the departure of long serving president of the seas with a fake and the ruling elite in the capital algiers demonstrators feel that these cities that major squares chanting slogans against the. regime of the ailing beautifully who has been in power for twenty years friday's protests come days after the military called for an eighty two year old president to be declared unfit for office on health grounds so beautiful a guy has rarely been seen in public since he suffered a stroke back in twenty thirteen. and we can go now to algiers to journalist so jim you know with. jamila set the scene for us how

are things right now where you are. the one in her head remain relieved think my uncle far out you be on to your i guess all these years here again to pretend that the did give people good today and will idea which is presidential palace that it is really is sort of ok but earlier we were getting reports of police using tear gas and even one report citing the use of a rubber bullets i mean as you are reporting the protests have been peaceful so far could it turn a little more sinister. i think that's the protein that if they really want it to keep it that way they want it to keep the third is that he was in this. boat and this is the reason why we can think that treated many people gathering not

only young men but no well no children and old people so i don't think that there are really. any violence against their regime they really want it to keep the this bone and to continue that great what may be the authorities might have a change of heart i mean because protesters wind not just any change they want radical reform i mean i wonder what will satisfy them because promises of political or transition so far are not convincing them. they're not satisfied with what the regime is offering yet all protesters they agree on one thing they want the real and big change not just angry again president abdelaziz bouteflika got there they want to bring down an entire political system they want to they all go out to be good yes at the beginning of the moment the bill asking for but if you got to step down but now it's out sound you think the entire ruling elite to be

gone this includes former prime minister we actually are also includes you he is going to suggest the prime minister. and also for the first time this week we have the pearls slogans against algeria t.j. there are some who was called earlier this week for what if you got to be declared but the focus those are rejecting this coalition saying it's only a cynical move just east of the moment and to preserve the region they want. down not agree in one solution there are ongoing discussion between the protesters and the opposition to what the change can look like but it's clear that they're not only rejecting abdel-aziz the need to get the see under your system all right to me i was in algiers reporting thank you. next to

ukraine which is said to elect a new president on sunday it's the first nationwide vote since twenty fourteen when the made on revolution led to the fall of the country's per russian government well two of the candidates are political veterans along with a surprising newcomer who's made a strong showing in opinion polls volodymyr is alinsky he's a comedian famous for playing the president in a popular television show well now he wants the role in real life. good morning mr president. an ordinary man taken by surprise catapulted into the top job by a string of coincidences that's the story of the hit ukrainian servant of the people now its lead. is poised to become ukraine's president the second time

and this time it could be. polls consistently put him ahead of both the incumbent president petro poroshenko and prime minister yulia timoshenko and there's the rub where both his closest rivals have been at the forefront of ukrainian politics for decades as a blank page he's never previously been involved in politics let alone held elected office but in a country struggling with massive corruption and. conflict in the east many are desperate for fresh faces. and i'm running for president i'm challenging the elites on their own turf that's why they're tearing into me calling me a clown yes i'm a clown i'm proud of it. is a candidate unlike any other and he's refusing to play by the normal rules of campaigning there are no rallies and very few interviews selenski is running a campaign that's almost all online and he's using social media to talk his potential supporters directly the central message transparency breaking with the

kind of politics that has made ukraine one of europe's most corrupt and poorest nations selenski calls it becoming president but stay and. he says he doesn't want to make promises he can't keep on the really big questions he says he'll let the people decide referendums. but is it enough to donald trump and it. will. be the next show business outsider to shake up his country's politics zillions. creating a really popular political myth in ukraine the theory goes that only an outsider can defeat the existing political system on his own which i doubt he'll succeed. but how much of an outsider is really his critics argue that in reality he's anything but launching a campaign calling him a puppet of the oligarch. channels have made famous. as one of

ukraine's richest men and an arch enemy of president petro poroshenko selenski denies there's anything untoward about their relationship but the questions remain in servant of the people. president protocol out of the window much to the delight of the crowd. but within weeks his enemies begin to sabotage his plans. he would do in real life is anything but clear but for now it looks like. this time on the political stage and without the script. armont of the top story that we're tracking for you this hour british prime minister theresa may has lost a high stakes vote on drugs it may split apart out specks of the drawn deal she agreed to with brussels in a bit to win over lawmakers but in the end the government's motion was defeated

three hundred forty four to two hundred eighty six all that spells more uncertainty for the ukase of rigs that process over. their readers africa would christian right is up next on the rock n roll and on behalf of the entire news day and thank you for spending this part of your day with us.

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