this is deja vu news live from berlin the united kingdom formally leaves the european union. celebrations in iraq that's the exact moment threats it comes into effect but much uncertainty remains over what exactly comes next. also coming up 2 votes shy democrats hoping to call witnesses in president trump's impeachment trial are defeated in the senate clearing the way for trump's almost certain acquittal in the coming days.

and when blue cross thanks for joining us more than 3 years after the united kingdom voted to leave the european union its official at the stroke of 11 pm local time friday the u.k. ended nearly half a century of membership in the e.u. now begins an 11 month transition period and the difficult work of agreeing to a new relationship between the 2 sides. moment a whole generation never. breaks it wrings out of the prime minister's residence in downing street and the country still bitterly divided. those who celebrated britain's exit from the each night did so with fierce passion for these people britain is free again the solution really is the way. this.

basically. to many proponents bricks of rights in historical wrong. for nationalists like nigel for never accept the country's membership in the block the decades they view is a monarchy now they celebrate nima meant of triumph. case 3 and this is. the craziest in the history. and not the hof of britain celebrated the alcohol commiserated. outside the scottish parliament opponents of bricks it gathered where in london

there was joy in edinburgh there was sadness. a majority of scots voted to stay in the a you. but they don't have a dominant voice in british politics i think it's because i'm a 62 percent of us wanted to demand in europe i may have been dragged out against our will is absolutely disgraceful. some are also in brussels 2 here and in other cities on the continent young britons rallied their future listen off to some not and the vision of a nation at home in europe seemingly defeated. the need to break the think the u.k. seems to think he can take the place. he was in not in which all the divisions of british politics were on display i.

show of emotion and tribalism proving that the bite of britain's place in europe is far from settled. now just some of the other stories making news around the world israeli aircraft have struck militant targets in the gaza strip in response to new rocket fire from the palestinian territory israel's military said 3 rockets were fired at israel overnight without causing any casualties the strikes come amid high intentions after the release of the controversial mideast peace plan by president don drumm. police in chile have fire water cannon in tear gas at anti-government protesters in the capital santiago protesters responded by throwing rocks at vehicles lance have been demonstrating for greater social equality since october. the trump administration is restricting immigration from another 6 countries including nigeria kyrgyzstan and sudan visas to citizens from the

african post soviet countries will now be much harder to obtain the administration says it's imposing the changes to guard against a guard for u.s. national security. the los angeles lakers have honored their former player kobe bryant in their 1st game since his death tens of thousands of fans gather at the staples center on friday brian and 8 others perished when their helicopter crashed last weekend. in the united states the senate on friday voted against hearing from witnesses in the impeachment trial of president donald trump with justice john roberts presiding senators voted 51 to 49 against the motion only 2 republican senators sided with all democrats in their effort to hear the witnesses the defeat paves the way for trump's likely acquittal in a vote set for wednesday. this was senate democratic leader chuck

schumer just after the vote. it's a grey and tragedy one of the worst tragedies that the senate has ever overcome america will remember this day unfortunately where the senate did not live up to its responsibilities where the senate turned away from truth and went along with the sham try for more we're joined by tyson barker u.s. policy analyst for of the berlin based think tank the aspen institute thyssen tell me decisive points on both sides what led senators one way or the other to vote for or against more witnesses and more evidence well we had a very close vote obviously $51.00 to $49.00 a bipartisan vote to have additional witnesses and what led to that swing for 2 republicans to join all of the democrats was essentially the fact that new evidence had been presented in the form of john bolton's manuscript transcript that he's going to be coming out with a new book which had evidence that he personally witnessed attempts by the

president to pressure him and other top aides in the white house to pressure of lattimer zelinsky to open an investigation into joe biden as early as may that's 2 months before but july 25th call that was basically the impetus for the peace process to start with on the republican side we saw some movement towards a new position which was essentially that while the case might be made for a so-called abuse of power that abuse of power did not rise to the level of an impeachable offense and 2 of the key senators lisa murkowski a maverick senator from alaska and institutionalise lamar alexander's of tennessee both said you know the even if there were witnesses that wouldn't change any votes therefore it was time to move to a vote. but john bolton a key figure in the trump administration why not just hear from him why not why not

hear from under oath what we've now read in a manuscript i mean literally that is what lisa murkowski who would have basically placed the senate into a tie position said in a written statement today which was essentially even though that would be. would basically reaffirm the case against trump or the case for his guilt it wouldn't change the kind of the threshold calculus that the senate had it in its in its sights so the question then becomes the senate well ok if there's an agreement of what happened then what is the level of censure that should take place are there other options on the table aside from impeachment should they consider censure option for example and that's one option right were not done with this impeachment trial yet we're going into the weekend next week's a big week to take us through some of that right i mean well it's going to be quite a gauntlet for the american political system and there are 2 basic characteristics in american political system today one is political polarization the other it's

exhaustion we're starting on monday with the iowa caucuses there's basically a head to head run between 4 top candidates will have a new front runner perhaps after that then on tuesday we've got the state of the union address and wins they we've got the vote in the senate to acquit or not to acquit so it's going to be a really really tight political week all right tyson barker aspen institute thank you very much thank you in china the number of people infected with the coronavirus is tops 11000 on friday more than 40 people died the latest countries to confirm cases are russia the u.k. and sweden the world health organization has declared the virus a global health emergency that's led countries to start flying their citizens out of the chinese city of where the outbreak started. military medical staff instead of air hostesses but at least their out of who hand french citizens are flown home

from china they'll spend 2 weeks of quarantine at this holiday resort among them journalists who've been reporting on the pandemic. nobody suspected this right so i saw the people like they were like yeah looking forward to to leave hong who they were scared but not in panic and course i mean i guess that they were happy to to land in france that we i saw people clapping their hands when the when pope when the plane landed there was yeah that was a good sign that the people were happy to be here you know it was. this will be temporary home for the 100 or so germans being flown out of who had a military barracks in the rhineland. life starts. are relieved that we're now in a position to end the difficult situation in which our citizens find themselves there. yes we can now fly those out who are willing to leave as if the decision was

also to float. down here others are making their own way home i'm going on. with the book we will lock down for 8 days i'm very happy that finally our government paid heed to our requests. i'm happy to be going home to bangladesh. difficult to be able to move out of. most countries like here in algeria are setting up medical checks at airports it would seem the rational approach. i hope that. and calm russian the scientific object if attitude should be conducted to the development of this outbreak so there's no need for unnecessary panic and no need for. excessive measures. yet what is excessive and what's enough in china

officials direct the nation's manufacturing might towards providing for the pandemic liquid disinfectant protective suits and gloves of being produced in huge quantities and a top speed in football now the bonus they got could have a new table later this weekend ebay live saying i held on to the top spot for 5 straight match days but after losing last week the lead has become very slender indeed only 2 points separate lives saved and saturday's opponents mention glad both who sit in 3rd place and also harbor hopes of a league title rb leipsic aside unbeaten since october couldn't continue that run last weekend in frankfurt losing 2 goals to none the eagles despite struggling a bit this season have serious punching power in their own backyard wife 6 slightly bruised can't afford another slip up dropping points against glaad could see their

table lead disappear only success guarantees leipzig remain stable leaders and their coach is in taking like. him for. his temple we've got a good tempo up front they play the long bowl game well. they have a clear pattern of play when they win but the ball. press well as a team a salzburg under market was a. dozen there are a lot of parallels there in development in the 1st half of the season shows that a lot of good work is being done they are where they are on merit and it's a top much on saturday some stuck glottal lost their 1st fixture against the bulls this season but after defeating mike's last match day momentum will be on their side ahead of saturday's match the defending champions byron munich who kicked off before about one saturday only troll leipsic by one point and could climb to number

one with victory putting even more pressure on lifes. and a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. the united kingdom has formally left the european union to tears held a big party in parliament square in london and brussels e.u. officials said they are sorry to see the u.k. go after almost 50 years of membership. now don't forget if you miss us you can always get to know the news on the go just download our apps for google play on the apple app store that will give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you find yourself part of a new story you can also use that in a few apps to send us photos and videos of what's happening where you are. that's it for us at this hour but don't go anywhere world stories we can report is up next don't forget keep up to date all the time wherever you are from our website

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