if it doesn't yourself up i don't know it's not easy to go to another country you know nothing about the wife of the young do this because we can't stay on venezuela i'm not i don't know most of what that. closely global news that matters d.w. made for martin's. today the twenty ninth of march was supposed to be big break that day the day the u.k. left the european union and like any divorce it needs a settlement three times the british prime minister asked follow it to bless the deal she'd done with brussels three times parliament said no so what will theresa may do now with a deal that just won't die until gail and this is the day. it's

within our grasp on the. i'm going to deliver practice it. all of my energy is going to be focused and we can leave the marks for the deal. rex explains bracks it will be. today should have been the day that the united kingdom left the european union we were expected to celebrate our independence. day polls analysis of united kingdom is due to be the european union on the twelfth of april. in just fourteen days time for their. meeting today is a matter of deep personal regret to me. also

tonight ukraine's election race one of the candidates played the president in a hit t.v. sitcom now he wants the job for real so does he stand any chance. 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 and i'm proud of it. of the long running bracks it saga was written said day when the u.k. parliament rejected the deal the prime minister who. negotiated with brussels to take britain out of the european union the bracks a clock has now been reset instead of leaving the e.u. today britain will leave on the twelfth of april without a deal unless theresa may can convince brussels that it's worth giving the u.k. more time but the prime minister warned and extension would have consequences. to

speak arising could should be a matter of profound regret to every member of this house that once again we have been unable to support leaving the european. the implications of the house's decision. the legal force now as the united kingdom is due to leave the european union on the twelfth of april in just fourteen days time mr speaker i feel we are reaching the limits of this process in this house this is . the this house has rejected no deal it has rejected no brics it on wednesday it rejected all the variations of the deal on the table and today it has rejected approving the withdrawal agreement alone and continuing a process on the future of this government will continue to press the case for the orderly grex it that the result of the referendum did mark. so where does this leave of britain's withdrawal from the e.u. well here are two people with plenty to say on this t w president analyst alex of

forest whiting is here with me on the brussels correspondent gold matters is where you'd expect to find them in brussels welcome both let's start with you alex so they said no to this deal three times is it now dead you would think it should be dead and i should be telling you that that thick game is over but this is two reason may she is one of bedded to that deal as you say she's already bought it back three times and there is the possibility including from what she said in parliament that she could try to bring it back for a full. time perhaps as early as next week the belief is that on monday when parliament takes control of government business again remember they did it on wednesday they're doing it again on monday and this is unprecedented this is so that m.p.'s can try to find a way through the bricks mess and and come to a proposal that perhaps more m.p.'s can agree on that perhaps than to reason may

put her jail all form of her deal against that an m.p.'s might get a chance to vote on it this is what the possibility is but phil let me say this to you nothing is clear or certain at the moment everything is to play for but that deal i don't think yet is that you see on the face of it that looks just not but when you look at the figures of the first and second times a prime minister she lost by two hundred thirty votes and then by one hundred forty nine the margin was just fifty eight so play so she's changing some minds she is a resource some heavyweight some a brick cities or there's euro skeptics in her own party who finally came over to her side today former conservative party leader in duncan smith the former foreign secretary who desperately wants her job boris johnson he voted for her today even jake a pretty small guy who is the chair of the european research group of those heartbreaks it is in her party they all voted for that deal however she could not bring over

those ten d. u. p. m.p.'s they all those northern irish unionist m.p.'s they prop pop a minority government they will not at the moment vote for it in fact a night to daunce who is the head of the d u p in westminster said i would stay in the e.u. and remain rather than risk northern ireland's position that's how strongly i feel about the union so she has a problem there and only five labor m.p. supported her deal today three last time she she got a cup. but just five labor m.p.'s she needs dozens more to get that deal through and that is the problem it's still she's got a long road ahead if she wants to try to bring that deal back and get it through parliament this is a prime minister who relishes a challenge go glasses in brussels let's have a look at the european response what the e.u. leaders are saying about this. i tell you this i think there is an official and

there's a lesson official position here the official position came really swiftly the moment the vote was through the european commission made clear that they do regret this decision by the british parliament that they would have liked to see that their deal would on which they work for the period of of more than two years basically would fly now that it's not the case they think that no deal is the most likely scenario and that is what they're preparing for so much for the official position the rather unofficial position as i would call it is that there is a number of leader who have pretty openly said look the british people have been misled on this everyone knows that the vote was gained by the bracks a vote was achieved by spreading lies that were just not on are untrue and that they would like to see that the british people make it a second vote and the the reason why all the breaks the tears as alex pointed out now suddenly voted for this deal is exactly this fear that after all there may be

no breck's it because either it's drek down the way and people will there will be a people's vote or that it just won't won't happen technically and. it will materialize and there are easy to leaders and also members of the european parliament who secretly would say look this is good the deal has been rejected and so maybe there is a chance we won't see it off for all. those so many permutations the country with a let's listen to another one go have a listen to the leader of britain's main opposition party responding to the prime minister's defeat in parliament today. but the speaker of the house has been clear this deal now has to change the has to be an alternative found and if the prime minister card to accept that then she must go not at an indeterminate date in the future but now so that we can decide the future of this country through

a general election. in brussels how would how would brussels view the british rolling the dice in this way. look i think it's an open secret that brussels and that includes the twenty seven year member states are rather sick and tired of the political gains that they have observed over the past two three years basically unfolding in the u.k. and that is not only true for theresa may and the leadership challenge i mean think of the fact that a political leader says she would step down if something if she would achieve something i mean this is this is absurd from that perspective and then also this is also true for her because there's a number of european leaders who would criticize the approach that there has not been a cross party approach to brecht's it and that's germany corben clearly hopes that there would be a new a new elections and that he could grab power and so it is this deadlock in the

political system that many in brussels blame for the mess they're now facing ok alex one thing the british m.p. say they want even less than to resubmit his deal is no deal yet this is looking increasingly likely exactly two weeks today is the next brecht date and that is possibly as you say a no deal because that will happen unless two reason may come back brussels for an extension but that has to be a reason for that so as i said to you that m.p.'s will be pushing forward their proposals on monday for a way forward and one of the ones that was fairly popular on wednesday when this i when this happened previously was soft of bricks so keeping that whole of the u.k. in a customs union which would actually even please the d.p.

those in northern ireland so there are ways in which they are hooping they can reach an agreement among themselves the majority can say to the e.u. look we do have a plan b. . sponsor some extra time hold not the thoughts of hours we'd listen so they use that chief bratton negotiator michel barnier. b.b. from who does intern from. the new food option would be moody to. become more likely. it was never all we're saying are you not did you twenty seven has no. sir alex you you you outlined one of the like will for us to come out of next week's vote do you think that we all go to see anything more clearly next week possibly but we've waited this long haven't we fell and we haven't we're not really saying anything whole clearly at the moment monday is when the jews come back and

put forward their plans again and perhaps again on wednesday what we did see last week was that they were only six votes short of fists off the backs of the customs union and actually there was quite a lot of support for a second referendum so these have these ideas have not gone away they'll still on the table what reason may and downing street will be hoping is that if she if she can persuade them to sit push her deal over then there is still the possibility that these soft of bricks it off options may be on the table through the second part of this deal which is the political declaration now that is not what m.p.'s based on tonight they just voted on the withdrawal agreement i know it's complicated but it breaks it is in two parts if that's what she put to to them tonight but that is what downing street will be hoping that maybe there will still be a way forward ok we will be taking notes we will be i will be asking questions about

this later so make sure you are taking notes alex forrester was here with me in the studio back of the masters and brussels thank you both. britain's reputation for pragmatism has been taking a beating of a bracket but another national trait has at least survived the chaos countries a sense of humor however dark has inspired some compelling satire of late as brits try to stay sane amid the turmoil at westminster. the house of commons was a benny hill chase on acid running through a salvador dali painting in a spaceship on his way to infinity it was a kind of death defying window shattering shaping never to be surpassed lunacy. the image drawn by tom petty writing in the independent newspaper. now to reason may has lost so many votes on bret's it it looks like they're stuck.

in india and i can tell you that brits take forever to leave i'm irish and i can confirm this is true. when in your case it's literally forever. some people do seem to think there's movement but it's running way out of control. wrecks it is like half the country run by accident and now they feel like they have to get off even stop. people on both sides think it's chaos even modernist. watching briggs it play out on twitter is like being on a what's up group with your mates at one thirty seven on a saturday morning waiting for a cab well keith's gone missing and joel is eating a kebab at the ben. and the view from europe they see it something like this. or ukraine goes to the polls on sunday to choose

a new president it's the first national vote since twenty fourteen when the my down revolution forced a pro russian leader to victory got a coverture out of office let's take a look at the three main contenders on sunday we'll start with the incumbent petro poroshenko he's pro europe but he has faced lots of criticism for failing to implement reforms and to fight corruption here is another face this is a yulia timoshenko she's a two time prime minister who's also procure of and was part of the two thousand and four orange revolution against corruption. but the but the insurgents in this election the wild card who could turn ukrainian politics on its head is this man this is monogamy as a lens he's a comedian and actor and he's famous for playing the president in a popular t.v. show according to opinion polls he's got a good chance of becoming president for real. who thought. worse if you personally picture

a little abroad delivery would morning mr president is. an ordinary man taken by surprise catapulted into the top job by a string of coincidences that's the story of the hit ukrainian sitcom servant of the people now its lead. is poised to become ukraine's president the second time and this time it could be through real polls consistently put him ahead of both the incumbent president petro poroshenko and x. 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 a seemingly 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 that. selenski 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 to his potential supporters direct. his 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 staying a normal guy 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 in referendums. but easy enough to donald trump and it. will. be the next show business outsider to shake up his country's politics. creating a really popular political myth in ukraine. only an. existing political system on

his own. 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. famous. he's one of ukraine's richest men and an arch enemy of president petro poroshenko. he denies there is 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. do in real life is anything but clear but for now it looks like. this time on the political stage

and without a script. nick joins us from ukraine's capital. besides. the people of. good evening phil well he's definitely keeping his options open on the really big questions he says he'll put it to the people through referendums but he is quite open about the fact that he's no policy expert and he's open about having a team of professionals that were around him but i think he's really trying to focus people's attention on a change of style on greater openness and about concentrating on economic development rather than the identity issues about language and confrontation with russia that have been so important to ukraine's politics the last five years and where is the money coming from who is financing his campaign.

i think this campaign doesn't necessarily have to cost a lot of money as the report mentions most of his campaign is online so doesn't this really need huge amounts of cash having said that the most valuable part of his election campaign has been for free it's being the airing of the third season of his show. the people that came on to the ukraine screens yesterday on the channel. this guy who's carney out the country that he's being linked to that doesn't necessarily mean financing in a direct sense but there are worries that selenski given his long term association with he has some kinds of commitments so that something is expected of him wade to become president and it's definitely clear that he has a real axe to grind with president bush and co and basically any president. in office here in kiev would be a win for him let's talk about petro poroshenko he won by

a landslide twenty four what's gone wrong. back in twenty fourteen when he was elected russia had just annexed the crimean peninsula the war in the east of georgia just got going to be definitely looking for the safe option a safe pair of hands so that if he was a willingness to give him the benefit of the doubt now five years on the economy is still in a worse state than it was before them are down before the war people's real incomes really have taken a beating the stories of corruption. every day matters here there is a lot of disappointment that the reforms haven't gone as far as people were hoping but this is was inevitable to an extent not everything that is going wrong is countries within the president's control the conflict is also largely down to the decision of people in the kremlin it's not something he can solve on his own definitely is the tightness and weariness and a desire for new faces and briefly how much big issues playing

a part in this campaign. crimea has basically disappeared as a topic it's not something that spoken about much given that it's been relatively quiet for the past few years the donbass conflict where people still are dying with soldiers namely but occasionally civilians dying regularly is definitely an issue it's something that costs the country a lot it's also a place where the soldiers have to on a regular basis that is something with more than a million refugees from that area spread all across ukraine that is very present in people's minds but at the moment i think the main real focus of this election this is turning into a plebiscite a referendum about selenski about a new face someone without experience compared to the safe pair of hands that is pushing co potential. because only in care thank you so much.

once said how weakly friday for future strikes have become a global phenomena today she took a fight to the german capital here in berlin thousands of students skip school to join her demanding urgent change to save the environment and d.-w. reporters won't tell. her why. they're chanting we're here we're loud stealing our future and not allowing nearly twenty five thousand young people have taken to the streets of berlin and for many it's not their first time. ever really think my politics friends are making fun of us they're not taking us seriously because they just don't get that there are quite a lot of us and that we are the future i think that's still a problem at the moment but we'll get them to join our side in the end on finally do something substantial for climate protection. from lack of medical sense she supports us and that it's good in that sort of thing but nothing changes and we think that's kind of absurd that she agrees with us but does nothing and she's the

one who can change something. and it's not just young people on the march they're backed by parents scientists and medical professionals. do more to elderly mother earth is in the intensive care unit and it's not five minutes to midnight it's actually five minutes after midnight that's why we're here as doctors . the mood at the demonstration is euphoric swedish activists gratitude for who initiated the protest is also in berlin. the climate activist who many here admire doesn't mince words. we should worry we should panic and by panic i don't mean running around screaming by panic i mean stepping out of our comfort zones. because when you are in a crisis you change your behavior. i. hate us

for feeling for but it is a role model for me because she started out by sitting in front of the swedish parliament building every day then every friday she's definitely a role model for me hark at the new if i think it's harder than needed for the young protesters want to ramp up public pressure until the european parliamentary elections in may they're united in their stance against parties to do little or nothing for climate protection the only drawback many of these young people are not old enough to vote. about was the day as ever they call the session continues online you'll find us on twitter at the w.'s. they've got to use a hash tag a day that's all from us we leave you with protests those apps i think british house of parliament following the surge defeat of treason a spreadsheet do you see that's talk of a good. thank

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as data from british lawmakers deal another blow to the governments of plans for m.p.'s reject the prime minister's withdrawal deal for a time so instead of leaving the e.u. today britain will leave on the twelfth of april unless theresa may can convince brussels it's worth giving the extension. on the program. claims about the streets with their weekly demands for fresh elections for the country's any president to step down after two decades in power.