this is deja vu news live from berlin legislation takes a big step forward. toward that critical. want to reinvigorate today should one united kingdom british lawmakers back prime minister boris johnson's withdrawal deal by 124 votes meaning the u.k. is likely to leave the european union at the end of january. also coming up work on a natural gas pipeline from russia to germany grinds to a halt after the u.s. president signs off on sanctions we'll look at why washington doesn't want the

project finished. and the german government moves to prevent the destruction of unsold and returned goods 20000000 items are destroyed in germany alone and for your. time lame glue croft glad to have you with us the u.k. prime minister boris johnson won last week's staff election promising to get bricks it done and now he has in the e.u. withdrawal deal passed the house of commons with room to spare there's still more to do before it becomes law but friday's vote puts the u.k. on course to leave the e.u. on january 31st the 2 sides will then have until the end of 2020 to strike a trade deal. after winning his historic election victory last week boris johnson said he wanted to heal the nation and in the house of commons he presented

his bracks it bill as a step towards that was a time that together as one reinvigorated nation one united kingdom filled with a renewed confidence in our national destiny and determined at last to take advantage of the opportunities but not before us but despite the sweet talking johnson had stripped away many of the sweetness to reason may had added to help them piece support it before the election that raised passions from the opposition . this things that vanishes not only workers' rights being downgraded it is parliamentarians rights because the ability of the legislature to scrutinise executive has been taking a hit is bad for democracy. outgoing labor leader jeremy corbyn still licking his wounds after humiliating defeat drew attention instead to what he saw as bracks it's damaging implications for ordinary people will sell out on this deal will be

used as a battering ram to drive us down the path of yet more deregulation. and so wards i took sick deal with donald trump he didn't draw attention to a surprise in johnson's bill which will limit the negotiating time to just 12 months critics argue it will give the prime minister less room to maneuver in talks johnson says it'll speed things up it is true that we depart from the e.u. on the 31st agenda that point breaks it will be done it will be over johnson's mantra during the election was get bracks it done but it's unlikely that the argument over britain's place in europe will end with this spill on the roof so what's next for bracks barbara basin has more from london. it's not a done deal of course we heard that but it is really the way it will happen and formally written will leave the european union on the 30 fruits of january off next

year there is simply nothing any more that can impede that no opposition to the lies and teachers to protest movement here is equally completely sort of down and out because people are shocked and they don't feel the need to strengthen you more to stand up they were not even any protesters any more today during this vote in front of parliament who had been there is so vocal in the months before so all this really seems to be over for the time being bought we knew that in february the negotiations with the european union will have to begin about the future relationship and then of course there recently will start again there will be a new fight about what kind of relationship that will be boris johnson has made quite clear is we heard that he wants to really not align with the european union so what does that mean there are further bitter bitter battles up the road. the company laying pipes for the north stream to gas pipeline between russia and

germany says it's halted work the subcontractor all sees or become the target of u.s. sanctions on friday president donald trump approved sanctions against companies involved in the pipelines construction the u.s. has criticized the project for handing too much power to russia. germany has pushed back on unilateral u.s. sanctions while moscow says it will complete the project were guarded lists of american objections. to u.s. government moves the latest episode in the gathering geopolitical storm the buildings to hold further construction of nearly 10000000000 euro pipeline under the baltic sea. the pipeline will double undersea shipments of russian natural gas to germany. u.s. lawmakers say nord stream too will channel billions of dollars in revenues to moscow and make your more reliant on its neighbor the legislation is

a rare challenge to traditional ally germany for some of the shades of the cold war . north stream 2 led by state owned guns from would allow russia to bypass poland and ukraine. u.s. lawmakers say ukraine could lose billions of dollars in transit fees if it is built . washington is tied to exports of u.s. liquefied natural gas as an alternative. now let's take a look at some of the other news making headlines around the world. large parts of australia are bracing for more tad a straw for bushfire conditions as firefighters battle dozens of blazes burning out of control temperatures on the outskirts of sydney are forecast to soar up to $47.00 degrees celsius this weekend around 10000 emergency personnel have been deployed across the worst hit state of new south wales. in istanbul

thousands of people have marched in support of china's mainly muslim weaker minority they're calling for an end to the crackdown that is seen upwards of a 1000000 people sent to detention camps in northwestern china the protests follow social media posts of turkish german football star. condemns china's actions. u.s. aeronautics giant boeing suffered a setback friday when it starliner astronaut capsule failed after lift off the u.s. space agency nasa says the unmanned spacecraft was on a test flight to the international space station when a timing error caused it to miss its planned orbit the starliner is now scheduled to return to earth on sunday a week ahead of schedule pressure on. for south korea's conservatives the country's politics is a tale of 2 presidents former president going hey and the incumbent moon jay in they want park who was in prison for abuse of power and coersion back in office and

in out and they're using the power of you tube to galvanize their movement. so 3 mm conservatives and their army of you tubers have been hitting the streets in force to reverse the impeachment of former president bach in haiti into current progressive president mungy in from office many opposition politicians blame what they see as a critical and corrupted media environment for pox downfall and see you tube as the key to correcting that injustice my name was to undermine his bill to go etiology the liberal democracy me believing that media egypt has the potential to break a monopoly controlled by the mass media such as a major broadcasting network sendai major dailies in 2016 massive demonstrations driven by progressive social media forced pock from power conservatives have since reacted founding an estimated 223000 right wing you tube channels to present their

point of view these demonstrations together with their intense media coverage from independent journalists or youtube vids from kind of the feedback loop generating support for their conservative cause these saturday rallies have taken place for 150 weeks since the corruption scandal engulfing former president bok and in. eastern europe actively participates in the rallies he founded his channel more than a year ago live streaming from atop his perch in through 8 hour rallies to look at the us all see them in the moon j. in government is not a legal regime and president can't be in haiti was impeached because of political retaliation as moon came to power south korea became a communist dictatorship so i made a you tube channel to prove constant fact. in facts are precisely what are at stake critics allege that conservatives are using the platform to peddle their own

versions of the truth emotions are running high on both sides of the country's political spectrum the youtube phenomenon together. distrust of mainstream media are contributing to a growing gave big political divide president approval and disapproval ratings each near 50 percent. books toys home where millions of returned unsold items on amazon and up in an incinerator even if they're perfectly good the abundance of waste has got the attention of the german government which is looking to prevent major retailers from destroying the products they can't sell these photographs are a testament to our consumer society christmas lights electric fire as books they were taken in an amazon distribution center in germany i'm a defendable by the environmentalist group greenpeace they show new goods still in the original packaging goods that will never reach

a consumer that destined to be destroyed genest discovered it's a waste disposal company removes containers full of new goods from the site every week and takes them to be incinerated. says garen to every one of these products which are often small products made in southeast asia and shipped around the well and it's a crumb the pictures come from this amazon site near humbug amazon packs and posts around $1000.00 possibles a day here mostly from 3rd party vendors who pay just all the goods at the site almost and takes care of sale and shipping economist's be an aztec a has carried out extensive research of commerce in this business model he say's if the party vendors can't sell the goods storage costs eat up their profits. and if an article hasn't been sold in a year then storage costs rise to 170 years picked. by then it's clear accompli

profitable and then does a pressure tools destroying the goods. amazon doesn't deny that new goods are being destroyed. it's a general problem in the industry but why can't the goods be donated to german retail federation says they would still have to pay sales tax and they want that to change. shoes. and it would have an immediate effect. the german government now says that in future the trashing of new goods should only happen in exceptional cases and it will be made harder to destroy new or return goods and they want to re-examine the rules on sales tax they also want retail giants like amazon to publish figures on goods they destroy so it will be clear as to what extent our consumer society is a throw away society it's the final weekend of matches before german soccer takes

its annual winter break on fridays match hoffenheim. first. crossed. to make it one nil and the 17th minute often heimat to wait until late in the match to reply. level to score in the 87th minute and andre scored the winner with just 3 minutes left. surfing makes its debut at the summer olympics next year and the world surf acting as a qualification route team brazil proved they will be a force to be reckoned with as 2 of their athletes placed 1st and 2nd in hawaii. a champion performance from brazil's it's hollow forever. but does a wing showing in hawaii saw the 25 year old cil his 1st world surfing title.

trophies a one thing but an even great surprise has also been secured. areas underdog victory means he's owned a place at next year's olympic games in tokyo alongside competitor and runner up gabriel medina. i'm so happy right now this interest in games with gabriel ok the brazilians will be joined at the games next july and august by mail surface from the likes of australia france japan and the u.s. . it's the 1st time surfing will be included as an olympic event. another performance like this one will be the bare minimum if sarah is to achieve more glory in japan next year. 6 people have been injured after 2 cruise ships collided off the coast of mexico the carnival glory rear ended the carnival legend

as a docks on the caribbean island resort of cozumel a statement carnival said the 6 passengers had presented themselves to the onboard medical center with minor injuries. you're watching news from berlin up next for business update don't forget you can get all the news around the clock at our website w dot com thanks for. that created today's. 979 the historical turning point in politics business analyst. ron. people of the islamic revolution. opens up making its initial flirtation of those streets in states of emergency sinks into chaos good job the 2nd to spread.