this is d.w. news live from berlin voters in the u.k. will choose a new government on december 12th after lawmakers backed the snap election. they are used the wrong 438. to the left toward. the motion as you heard passes by a huge majority in parliament will go to london to find out what this means for practice it also coming up lebanon's prime minister becomes the 1st major political casualty of 2 weeks of political protests sadal hariri resigns after his proposed

reforms fail to stop the demonstrations protesters say even her fear is departure is not enough to satisfy their demands and boeing's chief executive admits to lawmakers we made mistakes exactly one year after the 1st of 2 fatal crashes of boeing's 737 max airliner the c.e.o. faces tough questions from the u.s. centers. on cornell's been welcome to the program u.k. voters will be going to the polls in december after british lawmakers agreed to back prime minister boris johnson's call for a snap general election m.p.'s voted 438 to 20 in favor of an election on december 12th here's all that will play. now its parliament will

be dissolved next week and then comes a short election campaign of just over 5 weeks that campaign will of course likely be all about britain's departure from the european union with johnson hoping to secure a majority to finally get his breakfast deal done it all comes after the e.u. agreed to delay the bracks the deadline until january 31st. let's get more now from our correspondent. is in london for us now is 4th attempts prime minister johnson has finally gotten his snap election with a large majority of votes as well is this breakthrough that britain has been waiting for. well it is one breakthrough here we go december 12th general election in the u.k. and this time around the 4th time that boris johnson has pushed for it and paul amend parliament has actually approved of it overwhelmingly and you could almost

hear that relief there from parliamentarians so now parliament will dissolve next wednesday and then the parties will hit the campaign trail and we've already seen tonight after the vote the 1st campaign emails going out so they have now 5 weeks to prove themselves to the british public so their campaign already starting how confident can the prime minister be that those voters will be swayed and will deliver him the majority that he clearly wants. well he is very confident going into this election because he knows at the moment at least the polls are on his side and so on the plus side for boris johnson is that he's an excellent complainer we've seen that in the referendum that he led to where he let the leaf campaign in 2016 he's also managed in his short time as prime minister here in the u.k. to reunite the conservative party that is now really rallied behind him heading

into this election so this is on the plus side for boris johnson but he also has not delivered on his promise to. get the u.k. out of the european union by october 31st this is of course not happening and we'll see how voters will react to that and we have to keep in mind terry some may also wind in 2017 when she unexpectedly called for an election she went very confident in 2 dots and within 6 weeks time she lost her majority in parliament so a lot of things can change in a very few weeks in british politics now let's just assume that potentially this goes the same way as prime minister may's snap election what if he doesn't get that majority what happens with. well then it's going to be delayed much further we think but let's look at what the parties really want here so boris johnson wants a majority to push his brakes

a deal finally through parliament to get the u.k. out of the european union then we have the opposition labor party more on the remains side they are not quite sure where they are where they stand on bracks said heading into this election then we have the liberal democrats and they want to forget about brics it all together so this will be a general election that it's all about bricks that a lot of factors at play as well and london for us thank you very much. u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o has called for lebanese leaders to urgently form a new government that's after lebanon's prime minister saad hariri resigned following nearly 2 weeks of mass demonstrations protestors are fed up with political corruption and dysfunction but departure is unlikely to bring calm to the country. saad hariri had reached what he called a dead end and so he headed off to hand in his resignation to the president the

prime minister had announced his intentions in a televised address to the nation. i am going to the presidential palace to submit the government's resignation to president michel and to people in all regions in response to the will of the many lebanese people who have taken to the streets to demand change. the. very reason dress came after supporters of the shiite muslim political movements hezbollah and earlier destroyed a camp set up by anti-government demonstrators in beirut it was the worst violence since protests started nearly 2 weeks ago. i bet there are protesters expressed joy over hurries resignation but made clear they would remain on the streets until their demands were met.

so. the resignation of harry reid is the 1st step in building a patriotic democratic country the way to achieve the demands of the october 17th uprising the 1st victory of this uprising has been achieved now we have to start planning for the 2nd victory and look forward to it. and we're remaining in the square despite terry's resignation because from the beginning we said we'd stay till they all go down. harry reid's departure has lifted the spirits of the anti-government protesters but it may not be enough to end the country's turmoil. earlier we spoke with our lebanon correspondent reidy and we asked him about the fallout from her being raised decision. the course of action to we we so in the process squares old they were happy they salute the movement and

they are that it's the 1st step one of the main demands to the governance of the nation 2nd you have to. know you want. the wrong to take down the old. so the 1st step that is the government achieved. for the new formation of a new government. with difficulty members so they can achieve the of the month. are let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world thousands of anti-government demonstrators have taken to the streets in chile's capital santiago for 12th day of protests demonstrators clashed with police who used tear gas and water cannons the protesters are demanding greater equality and better public services. the ceasefire brokered by turkey and russia in northern syria has ended turkey says it will joint patrols with russian troops to verify that kurdish forces have withdrawn turkish forces exchanged fire with syrian government troops near one

border town turkey says it has captured some 18 syrians. ukraine and russian backed separatists have starved agreed to start pulling their forces back from the front lines in eastern ukraine representatives from the organization for security and cooperation in europe helped negotiate the deal and are monitoring the withdrawal both sides hope the move will hope will help restart the stalled peace process. boeing c.e.o. dennis mullen bird has admitted to a u.s. senate committee that his company quote got some things wrong in the in the development of the $737.00 max airliner today's hearing came exactly one year after a 737 max crashed due to a faulty sensor system only weeks later a 2nd crash likely caused by similar problems 346 people were killed in those accidents and many of the relatives watched as mr burke faced some tough questions

on capitol hill. on behalf of myself and the boeing company we are sorry deeply and truly sorry as a husband and father myself. i'm heartbroken by your loss. it was an emotional address delivered exactly a year after the crash of a 737 mox in indonesia that killed everyone on board in march of this year tragedy struck again when the same model came down in ethiopia. since then 737 mock have been grounded the classes are thought to have been caused by a software fault u.s. lawmakers accused boeing of knowing it systems were subpar and of failing to train pilots adequately those pilots never had a chance these loved ones never had a chance they were in flying coffins as a result of boeing deciding that it was going to conceal and care

from the pilot boeing's boss says the company evacuate nice's its failings and is committed to doing better in the future. we've made mistakes and we got some things wrong we're improving and we're learning and we're continuing to learn. the 737 max will stay grounded until further notice a major financial blow for boeing and cold comfort for the friends and loved ones of those for whom that precaution has come too late. british police are investigating the deaths of 39 people who were smuggled into the u.k. in a shipping container last week the container passed through the belgian port of seabrook and now questions are being raised about security for seizures that the port had been flagged in the past as a hot spot for illegal border crossings. i mean s.

if and sunda went to and sent us this report. it's the end of a long work day truckers prepared to spend the night and years able to port they'll be driving again tomorrow. they've been on edge since last week when 39 bodies were found in a truck that passes through here they worry that smugglers could use their containers to send migrants to the u.k. without their knowing trucker nicollette. claims it happened to one of his colleagues so 6 people got inside his truck yeah 6 people there. was going to. program but this hasn't happened to you know 9 years mean no no no the future shows us the c.e.o. that here touches to the back of each container he moves. to the back door can't be opened without destroying the bolt along still the gadget isn't foolproof and

others at the truck park told us smugglers can always get around the security measures. as truckers settle in for the night dock workers continue to load the next ship bound for the u.k. . it's hard not to wonder whether one of these containers might be full of people. is able to get it is one of the busiest trucking container ports in the world with 40000000 tons of goods passing through here annually security here is tight. but authorities say that with so many containers coming and going it's impossible to make sure that humans are not being smuggled across these waters to. every truck delivering a container to the dock must pass through this kind of control point officials take several photos of the truck as well as of the driver and the license plate they checked the photos but no one here checks the seals that's up to the shipping companies and only about one out of every $100.00 trucks is x. rayed to check the cargo harbormaster peter difficult says the port authority cannot have an overview of what the trucks are carrying with xavier has

a budget and personnel that would create massive delays he says it's good if you would be able to scan every single continue but where do you do that is it only in the port is that the only responsibility of the port or is the whole chain of logistic events involved in this i ask if he believes there are ways to stop the human smuggling and the deaths that often result but i think 1st of all we should do everything that it's possible to avoid and that's one main thing but of course we're dealing with connectivity and connectivity and they had always one step ahead unfortunately and if you tighten controls in the port then they will move somewhere else the local and national police declined to comment on their role in enforcing security i'd say booka. for now it seems that smugglers will continue to operate using this port as a key point in their clandestine and sometimes deadly industry. you're watching the

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