this is d.w. news why but from berlin tonight a plan that could take breaks it into major overtop the european union proposes a flexible twelve month delay for the u.k. but british prime minister to resign may once it sooner by june thirtieth what will it be also coming up tonight the libyan capital under threat from militia groups in a power struggle the un secretary general trying to avert a civil war as the eastern forces commander tries to drive out the un backed

government and an unusual battleground for ukraine's presidential election a health clinic both candidates in the run all submit to drug tests to show that they are fit for office. and the biggest game in german football in years byron take on dortmund this weekend in what could be a book as we get title decider we'll hear from both coaches about a match every football fan is talking about. i bring golf it's good to have you with us british prime minister theresa may has asked the european union for yet another extension to bret's it she says the u.k. needs more time to avoid leaving without a deal now may has asked for a delay to june thirtieth but in another twist to the bread saga the european

union is now suggesting an extension up to a full year. another day another idea done from u.k. prime minister two reason may she's asking for yet another breaks a deadline extension this time and to choose the thirtieth her letter also promised to britain would take part in a few parliamentary elections if one didn't consecrate under pressure before hand another option report suggests the president of the european council donnel to the e.u. member states to offer a flexible extension of up to one year to avoid a new deal bricks it one member of the british cabinet suggested they might have to accept the offer. well if we can't find a way through with all of it then we have no choice but it's not office choice office choice is to leave quickly cleanly deliver the referendum results and allow

persons that move forward and we're very optimistic that you know britain has a very very successful post writes the future but we have this challenge of a hung parliament that we need to overcome in order to get that germany repeated its call for a unified approach to avoid i just sold it he breaks it a statement from france says these suggested extension would not meet the existing d u conditions worsen now awaits a response from brussels. and we have team coverage of this race against the clock tonight i'm joined by our correspondents for a lot of pots in london and rebecca rivers in brussels to both of you good evening and let me start with you writes it is heading for yet another delay what exactly is prime minister to resign me asking for this time and why. well theresa may laid out a strategy in that letter to the european union and that strategy basically being the ongoing negotiations between the government and the labor policy they are

trying to find across party consensus and some common ground on how to move forward in this process but labor came out of these talks tonight saying that the government has not offered any substantial changes in their position so this actually very little hope that that might come to a compromise these talks and if these talks fail may set in the latter then she would go back to punishment and ask them to find a solution ask them to get a majority on something this is something that has failed in the past parliament has tried that already so it to reset may now the strategy is there but not offering a real solution and the big question is of course whether the e.u. is willing to grant that extension on that basis you know that's a good question rebecca to you on the other side of the english channel in brussels we know that all twenty seven members of the european union have to approve any deadline. we are hearing tonight conflicting reports germany france the netherlands

are not entirely convinced that the u.k. needs another extension what is the chance for unity here. well that's right brenda i mean you know we can't forget that whichever whichever options of bandied about next week when to raise them and comes back to brussels to ask for yet more time on bricks it will have to be decided unanimously and it certainly seems to be the view from brussels and from those twenty seven leaders that a short extension is simply pointless and we mustn't forget that to reason i already suggested this date of june thirtieth the thirtieth the last time she was here in brussels and it was rejected by the twenty seven members so it's hard to see certainly as the options that are surrounding that date haven't really changed so it's hard to see why the twenty seven leaders would bring about a different outcome this time but above all the e.u. really wants to avoid this kind of groundhog day that we're seeing of to resume

going back to the u.k. coming back here asking for for a short extension going back coming back they find it to be very distracting especially when there are other things they really want to be focusing on not to mention least of all the elections coming in may yeah that's a very good point the parliament elections for the european union or may twenty third. have all the people wondering today why asking for an extension to june thirtieth because that implies that the u.k. would have to participate in those parliamentary elections will london do that. all right brant if this extension is granted then the u.k. has to pass legislation to basically put those european elections on the schedule here in london and their reactions have been extremely divided and london today with the remainder is now hoping that this process will drag on that there might be

a softer brecht's that or that they might see a second referendum and on the other side of the political aisle the hardliners the conservative hardliners basically. we already gearing up for those european elections we shouldn't forget that they say they would be perfectly happy with the no deal chaotic breck said but if there are european elections. ahead of the brics it pati already promising to run in those elections and jacob riis mogs the chairman of. the hotline european research group saying we would make life for the european union extremely difficult i've been talking also to people on the streets here though today and they have very afraid that this process will drag on for months and months to come and they really just want to get on with bricks that at some point makes it even more. murky what we heard today rebecca european council president. suggesting what he called a flex tinge

a full one year extension to break the u.k. what more do we know about this idea of butting them basically have another year. that's right brad we heard early this morning it was sort of through a leak that donald tusk was suggesting this what is now being dubbed flex tension which is basically a flexible extension meaning that the e.u. would offer the u.k. another round about a year although the exact date hasn't been formally set but that the e.u. or the u.k. sorry would have the option to leave if they were by some miracle to come to a decision before that time but shortly after that news of the flex tension there was a meeting of e.u. ambassadors here in in brussels and it certainly seems that from that meeting the large preference would be say would be towards that longer extension that donald tusk has suggested. but but some countries are also very worried about

that as charlotte mentioned you know worried about what happens if the u.k. stay in and then have to participate in those elections and then might be obstructionist once they are elected another only answered questions tonight in london rebecca rivers in brussels on the bridge riddle tonight forwards to both of you thank you. here is some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world former u.s. president barack obama is here in berlin you met with chancellor i'm going to hold today as part of his three day visit to germany the two reportedly discussed transatlantic ties stressed transatlantic ties which have been strained into the trunk ministration obama will wrap up his trip with a town hall for young people in berlin tomorrow. there's more bad news for german carmakers the european union's antitrust regulators say that volkswagen b.m.w.

and don burke colluded to limit the development and rollout of emissions cleaning technology in cars the finding comes four years after votes why admitted to cheating on emissions tests in the united states. thousands of anti-government demonstrators are marching through the algerian capital algiers for a seventh consecutive friday they're calling for a change of government the latest rally comes just days after pressure from the army and street protests forced the ailing president. to step down after twenty years in power. and staying in northern africa in libya a powerful militia is moving in on the capital tripoli in the past few hours general khalifa haftar troops have taken a village just forty kilometers south of the capital and that's where the u. when backed government is based it's begun deploying troops around the city we understand it's an escalation of a power struggle that has raged in libya since the fall of moammar gadhafi back in

twenty eleven the head of the united nations antonio has just left libya where he met with both the government and general have tar says he hopes a military confrontation in the media can be averted. yeah i'm sure a lot of people are hoping that tonight for more on this we have. from the arabic news. here in the studio where this is it's good to see you again so what do we know first of all of the have tar and his aides right now what's he trying to do is simply. after is trying to take tripoli tripoli is the capital city of libya and if you control libya you control the whole of tripoli we know that. was the commander for the self-proclaimed national army of libya he. has the most parts of libya southern eastern libya and also south of the part so he

wants to take now. the city of tripoli in the western part of libya and. it's obvious that he wants to be the new leader of the us to be the new leader of libya which would go against what the international community is trying to put together we know that the un chief and tonio terrorist he was just in libya trying to set up a peace conference but you were telling me earlier that's probably not going to happen he warned though about civil war in libya. how realistic is that it is very or let's take if we look. during the last eight years since two thousand and eleven when mamak about the late president and was ousted and killed actually libya has been very unstable there has been very militias conquering the variety of militias and. if the situation is

you know them interested buildup continues there is a serious risk that it will be a full scale. civil war and do you think that the international community seeing the way the situation is now can you imagine the international community stepping in and preventing another conflict and another civil war i don't think so because. if we look back to two thousand and eleven the nato intervened in libya and actually mama gadhafi was ousted by. through the help of the nato so i don't think that the international community would step in not with a military maybe with politico you know pressure and that's what terry was trying to do france is also trying to put more pressure on the u.n. backed government in tripoli and also countries like the united arab emirates and

egypt the neighboring egypt what can what can egypt do because i know that we're always talking about egypt is worried about its western borders and what could come you know. from libya so how committed is egypt to making sure that its neighbor does not become even more of a failed state egypt was supporting in the last few years and two since two thousand and fourteen. in a military sense and political sense and they are interested in because they see in him a kind of somebody who would step against the islamist. knows militias and who he would describe as terrorists who would just describe as service yesterday so i think egypt sees a clear ally in. if it has the military capacity to to support him by taking tripoli this is another question it would put egypt

by supporting him would be against in the plans of the international community to write which is. voiding now they're not really. going to. leave the u.n. backed government and in tripoli but they are not helping it as well so it's a very complicated situation libya is a very complicated case so we don't really know where this is going to lead us now from the arabic news desk we appreciate your insights tonight helping us understand what as you said is a very complicated situation thank you well now to ukraine where in unusual step of both remaining candidates in the presidential election have submitted themselves to blood tests it was called for by the challenger the comedian. who wants to show that both he and president poroshenko are medically fit now the

two candidates are arguing about how to hold a televised debate as forty million ukrainians look on but me. again us i'll be waiting for you here at the olympic stadium the debate will take place here in front of the people of ukraine all the channels can broadcast alive and all journalist will be able to attend both candidates must undergo medical tests so that ukrainians can be sure neither of us is an alcoholic or drug user this country needs a healthy president you know my brain about the withdrawal of islam and there it was. his long awaited reply to all those who say he's weak on policy as a lady on a comedian running scared of tough questions like this were an ordinary political debate an ordinary television studio instead selenski wants it hell i live in front of a crowd of up to seventy thousand interior olympic stadium. the

same epic soundtrack the same attempt in formality the incumbent petro poroshenko is response wasn't long in coming the president never missing a chance to insist that his show business rival isn't serious about politics. if the bucket for a debate is not a show an election campaign decides the future of the country for years and decades to come but this is no time for jokes becoming president and commander in chief is no game. but cruel his claims that selenski is only playing becoming president is petro poroshenko himself who's now playing catch up in a new political reality where zelinsky is making the rulings that your stadium it is then i'll be waiting for you lot are all except through which. ukrainians then woke up to these images both candidates arriving to take blood tests as demanded by zelinsky in his opening gambit president poroshenko is not only accepting the

challenge to debate in front of a thousand strong stadium audience he's also willing to put his medical history discussion against the challenger more than ten years his junior selenski is making good on his promise to turn ukrainian politics upside down the only question is how ordinary ukrainians will react to this unlikely battle of the candidates. bizarre politics there let's go to nick connelly is following this for us nick i mean when you look at your report you have to ask yourself why would i ever agree to the drug test or to do this debate in a stadium these are these are definitely things that zelinsky holmes so why did he agree to do this good evening brand well it seems that he's team decided that the risk of being seen to be

cowardly to be pulling away from this challenge was just too big obviously stylistically this is difficult for him he all through the campaign is being selling himself as a safe pair of hands the commander in chief a serious. conventional politician who can stand up to russia and using any opportunity has to. say this is someone who's not serious about politics but given the extent of his loss i mean zelinsky picked up almost twice as many votes in the first round as did he surprised us all yesterday with his his agreement to this to this test and he's willing stood up this morning to give not only blood tests but also have another test to prove his health and his fitness for office to the ukraine nation i mean do we know how these images and the blood says how that's going down with ukrainians who will be voting in the run all. well this definitely has being the number one topic of discussion today it's been all over

social media in ukraine people barely been speaking about anything else it's definite dividing people there's a real group people who feel this is not appropriate this is not what the president should be doing all those seemingly intrigued by the whole prospect i spoke to people on the streets let's have a look at what they have to say. never seen anything like this before so it's something new it's really cool to follow it's also. it's an issue this is a show it's meant to be a debate where people can see who has what it takes to lead ukraine into the european union. so. we can't wait. they've got popcorn for the debate i mean that speaks to the fact that he is a disrupter in this election and he's hoping to make gains by by disrupting the process the incumbent president. how is he dealing with all of this.

well bred the thing is we're ten days away from this debate and we are still talking about the ins and outs of the debate where it will be who will be in charge who will be presenting rather than the issues not overtly shows that selenski has dictated the rules of the game and that's something that you can't be interested in as the incumbent does someone who is over the policy detail by dint of having been in office for the past five years he is really struggling here and he's being forced to leave his comfort zone that video we saw from your staving without a tie on trying to be a bit more informal it's still great it's a little awkward it's a long way for him to get to zelinsky his routine. he'd routine relaxation relaxed atmosphere in front of the camera so definitely zelinsky is doing all he can to make this about personalities about the details about kind of holding one's nerve rather than about the nitty gritty of how ukraine is going to be ruled the next you know an economy in the ukrainian capital of the night with

the latest on what is definitely an interesting campaign to say the least nick thank you or to new zealand now we're in court has ordered the suspect in the christ church mosque shootings in which fifty people were killed to undergo a psychiatric evaluation the assessment will determine whether he is fit to face trial for mass murder. around twenty five relatives of victims and some survivors of the massacre travelled to the cool truman christ church. the accused twenty eight year old australian brenton tyrant appeared by video link he's being held in new zealand's only high security prison in oakland. he looks all right he doesn't he doesn't wear anything he looks very fit. and eventually i don't think so he. rules for evolution loss.

the family the victim the family here a bit i want to go through that then i. can but i want to do it anymore the alleged shooter is facing fifty charges of murder and another thirty nine of attempted murder experts say the case is unprecedented in the country's history. as far as nature is concerned with saying nothing like this in the context justice system but i think they are just the system and of course how well i conduct this and the prices from here on and at the end of the twenty minute hearing tyrant was remanded in custody and till mid june. or sports news now the biggest german football match in years is what they're saying byron munich host dortmund on saturday in what could prove to be a bonus league title decider that would have a two point lead over defending champions byron at the top of the table and there are just seven games remaining but injury one looks set to play without the man who

got the better of byron earlier in the season it's shaping up to be an epic encounter. the last time these two sides met it was pack white castle with the decisive match winner for dought mind i now they looking for a repeat their performance this season has even won over their archrivals by on. somebody before they come and when you describe dortmund's approaches are appropriate wilson says so they're having a very good season closer to the much of the feeling of the team that makes less mistakes when. that team more often than not a spy and a look at their recent head to head record shows by and with the advantage they've won three of the last for their classic cars aided in great part by former dot mn player robert eve and off he who has scored fourteen goals against his former club

by and i hope in the off chance can make the difference in this game. as i said it was there's a good reason for the saying that titles are won from the back only games are decided on crunchy that's the decisive factor in. this historic months for us realistic shot at the title in may and the emotions are high the stakes are high so just how special is this edition of the classic i mean again the because of the situation in the table and because it's byron against dortmund will be shamanistic obvious that it's special but there are seven games left who's even. breaking by and six you hold on the going to see the title is no easy task but it's distaso nine could lift the title for the first time since twenty twelve. well now to form following function this year germany is marking one hundred years since the founding of the influential bauhaus school of design if you're

a fan of the modern aesthetic you're want to pay a visit to the brand new bauhaus museum which opened today in the city of weimar that's where the movement got its start more than a thousand ivans are on display over five floors the museum puts these icons of progressive design in their historical context during the nazis rise. here's a reminder of the top stories that we're following for you in the latest twist to the brits at saga the european union has proposed a flexible twelve month delay but british prime minister theresa may she wants it sooner by june thirtieth and forces loyal to a powerful libyan warlord have reached the outskirts of tripoli the seat of the country's un backed government the advance by. marks and sharp escalation in the country's ongoing. struck. you're watching news live from

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