by. the wire. was. were. fire were. were the of. the british prime ministers meeting with a string of european leaders today. on the irish border but the message from europe . the day that. french president moves to appease the nation. tax cuts and an increase in the

minimum wage but many people it seems remain. words are mostly useless. to the. troops of the palestinian news outlets in the west bank allegedly. seizing c.c.t.v. footage we speak up the agency the english desk. he saw. me. coming told us had lunch just mentioned in much more detail in a moment of breaking news literally coming in from france has been a shooting incident in the city of strausberg on the border the fire departments reported to saying that one person has been killed three others have been injured seems struck. down at the moment that area. subject of

a big security alert at the moment is that describing it videos being appearing online apparently posted by witnesses to what happened. i. was. with. our europe correspondent peter all of his across this now peter i've just seen those pictures maybe like you for the first time this news and came out litter in the last twenty minutes or so what else is known at this stage not much was the end of it. well we have heard from the french fire service who were quoted in speaking to the reuters news agency saying that one person has been killed and three people injured in the shooting incident that took place near the christmas market a very iconic christmas market in the city of strasburg video from the scene we saw some of the video there i can tell you there are far more graphic videos from the scene that are currently circulating on social media they show people wounded lying

on the floor some of them clearly show a large amount of blood on the floor on the underneath the the lights of this christmas market underneath the street lights as well armed police arrived at the scene reports from eyewitnesses about exactly what happened have said that it seems that soldiers opened fire and shot a man who was targeting them that's about as much as we have on exactly what went on at the moment what i can tell you though is strasburg the city where this incident has happened is packed at the moment not just with people with tourists arriving for the christmas market never thing like that that comes with it but the european parliament is also holding session in stroudsburg at the moment some of those who've been tweeting out is eyewitnesses are members of the european parliament themselves currently the scene is the soldiers are very clearly present alongside police officers all very heavily armed they're blocking off streets the

latest from the interior ministry is telling people that a serious security event is ongoing and that they should remain indoors so the very latest that we have comes from the fire service here at the scene speaking to the reuters news agency saying that one person has been killed and three people injured in a shooting incident in strand's burn single line know coming as well the deputy mayor has been confirmed shooting this thanks people for staying at home is a safer place and locked the busy all time you know that people do not only christmas shopping whatsoever because michelle but keep us posted peter on how things are going the hope and nobody else injured or or of certainly fatally there thank you. next reason may has embarked on a diplomatic whirlwind tour to meet european leaders in a bid to secure assurances on the brics a deal it comes a day of fury at him please back home but perspiring that crucial bricks in vote at the eleventh hour let's go live to westminster of course police are rallies across a day there he said three of them a jetting off and leaving m.p.'s able to do little more than just argue between themselves in the commons of the vote that waited for seventy but

a look on the whistle stop sounds like not so far. no it looks like it's going to be a really tough few days for the prime minister she kicked off her european wildwind top in the hague in the netherlands today meeting with the dutch pm mark rutte and then from there she had the off to meet with i'm going to call in live in and then from very she went on to meet with european leaders in brussels and it would appear that all of those leaders seem to be reading off the same hymn sheet but they are if the prime minister herself is to be believed willing to make some small concessions reassurances for example on whether the backstop on the border between northern ireland the republic whether that backstop agreement will run indefinitely or not the prime minister saying of course she wants reassurances that the u.k. will be able to leave that backstop if it wishes to. point and as far as trees i'm

a is concerned she says that there is an understanding between the u.k. and european leaders. and what i've been doing here in europe over the past day is actually doing what i promised parliament i would do which is to speak to other leaders in europe about the concerns parliament raised about the backstop and what has been shown to me from those meetings is that there is a shared to the nation to deal with this issue and address this problem. now as far as the d.p. who are of course the party which to reason may's tories are in partnership with in a confidence and supply agreement in government well they don't want reinsure reassurances on the backstop they want the backstop agreement removed altogether and of course their votes would be crucial if the prime minister's draft withdrawal agreement is to get through the house of commons in the parliament now as far as

european leaders are concerned when it comes to the real meat and bones issues of that draft he drawled agreement that there is no room for renegotiation. to deal we have achieved is the best you possibly early. and so we can look you can use you. for the negotiation. well if we're to believe mr young that there is no room for renegotiation then it really remains to be seen how exactly to reason is going to come back and face those m.p.'s who let's face it she was very likely according to many commentators to lose that vote and to have her deal rejected and if the e.u. aren't willing to make any significant concessions that could win those people around then it's very difficult to see exactly where the prime minister goes from there and that i get in the house perhaps best summed up by the leader of the

opposition jeremy corbyn. the european commission size it will not agree negotiate with and the prime minister concedes she is not negotiating. so what else is she doing travelling from capital to capital in europe it can't be christmas shopping i'm sure that's not the case so what on earth is she doing in europe but we're still not mr speaker it shows that once again she is simply. not listening. now of course it's not just the opposition parties who to remain needs to convince there are many m.p.'s within her own party who are deeply unhappy with this deal and it's thought that. forty eight m.p.'s are willing to hand in a letter expressing their lack of confidence in the prime minister now according to internal conservative party rules if that number of forty eight is reached and that was the spark a vote of no confidence and potentially

a leadership challenge within the conservative party and that's another battle that fought to reason may to win now we understand that the vote the perspiring vote will take place at some point before january the twenty first so again it's unclear whether to resume a really truly believe she will get some type of renegotiation that will let her win that vote or whether she simply delaying the inevitable and kicking the can down the road was an uncertain christmas for trees in may and britain the bigger picture recently westminster thinks we are tracking this big story well meantime trees amaze me too with angela merkel got off to a shaky start the child lot was unaware of the call it seems the problem is his car door got stuck click there goes on lots of quite a bit of work for two assistants voeckler treats to make also appears to have left a bell in empty handed as chancellor merkel said rejected the idea when you go see it in terms of that british premier is now in brussels where she's met with the president of the european council of among other top officials let's go to brussels

like that if you can hear me pilar of fire i've said loads you live an hour to international hi hi so as things started at the moment is to reason most breaks it salvageable dalal should britain be prepared for a really bumpy christmas coming up. so what that is doing thanks i believe from the major european member states to save the deal because basically the damage those who come out from. no deal especially in the economic terms to you do you katie and therefore to the rest of europe would be so big that it is better to find an accommodation for a certain no for tourism is requests. that would be no change in the deal as jonker as. apartments but there can be some of that dooms probably the sort of political statement that much to do the deal the goods sold through interpretation the

problems with kind of being for use his irish border playing isn't there and how long that could go on for maybe there's a hope they can put a dent into it to say well there would be a way out of it you know that britain alone would be able to vote on it that it might not go on forever that's the big cat and trade yes these are the two issues but this they can write something which is like a political statement accomplishing the deal in which their comedy to the u.k. the requests do not need to change the deal do change change the deal means to go back to twenty seven member states a lot to be able to regret and think it has taken to enough he has wanted one you know this is a bit last minute we hear that the likes to take things right down to the wire but people in britain including as we saw employees across the across the board they're really unhappy this is happening at the last minute on such a big issue like the northern ireland border. i'm sort of the i mean all of these has been managed in a very strange way from both sides wish to say or two or two years in the house not

to see the major problems which were well known since the beginning and it is quite clear that. it looks like if it is done on purpose in a way why would you to get you know you know the first of said why would you do this on purpose go through his rigmarole is paying for everybody on purpose who's going to get a. well whose good again are there are a large number of of problems one on one side the reason the from the you to be in union sides to. reconfigure the european union everybody knows but they don't want to admit it publicly i mean everybody knows privately that these cities doesn't work so this says to be reconfigured to look forward in a different and more more efficient way of the other and that there are problems within the u.k. i meant within tory party and the number of these contends that their

own merging of that probably have caused this sort of. income below the of negotiating in the broader way. thank you todd thanks pete on the slate and my political analyst pilar of phone we're live from brussels we'll keep track of this big story of the health thank you yeah thank you. after four weekends of nationwide protests france's president made a dramatic statement last night attempting to appease the yellow bed protest movement and his first public address since the unrest and i know what some of the protesters demands including tax concessions at a minimum wage rise from paris our correspondent charlotte do bensky next for you tonight. where hundreds if not to more than a thousand students have turned out for this protest today tonight happy yet again thanks to the admission process is due to change here in france they say that that will become discriminatory from students from poorer backgrounds this protest comes

just hours after president michel gave a speech to the nation last night outlining his proposals trying every one of the protests that we've seen records particularly the protests by the yellow vests which are being violent to the last four weekends this is what the president had to say to the nation and it was. as of this crisis i want to reconcile with you salaries will increase by one hundred euros in twenty nineteen at no extra cost to employers over time will not be taxed and i will ask all employers to pay an end of year bonus this will not be taxed and there will be no social payments for pension is receiving less than two thousand euros the tax increase will be cancelled as we had planned the total cost of all the measures is likely to be between eight billion and ten billion euros we are in the process of fine tuning to see how to finance it i've been speaking to many of the protesters at this march today and they say they are unhappy that macro speech didn't really touch on the things that

they have been protesting about for the last year or so he talks about education reform but they say wasn't i know because he didn't offer anything to them and when i asked him about i want to know for two yellow best reasons this idea of increasing the minimum wage giving people earning the minimum wage a hundred years plus a month for giving concession was cheap pensioners they said it's not enough it's not good enough and is too little too late this is what some people have been telling us it was because you would need a city school system you could go my crohn's words are mostly useless namely the proposal to raise the minimum wage by one hundred euros but he did not specify that it would be one hundred gross so it's not that big a deal as it's just crumbs because this is nothing in relation to the rage of the people who simply does not care so you. are secure today only prioritise students

have access to universities after mccrone reform is much more scandalous is that young people have been mobilizing for two weeks and there was no sign that mccrone had accepted any of our demands mccrum has not listened to the young and the youth is here today to be heard to mobilize because religion is a super cluelessly i can almost imagine there have been college student protests for it to have months and there's been nothing in the. nothing at all we see the yellow vests are violent they break things they burn cars and we're peaceful which is why i didn't create a buzz. that's the reaction you know from people on the street same paris he still seems to be a huge emerging intention towards the president many people saying what he also does night was too little too late but what about in mexico reaction this is what's been happening so far. i believe that brown five of the revolution in our country next saturday will be a great moment of mobilization but of course i think it's up to those who are in the protest movement. mccrone has become dangerous for france under the guise of

measures he chooses not to change his policy and continues to rule against the people if a man your micron is so sure of himself he should have the courage to have his measures backed by referendum so far it seems there should be all a staunch offered by president mack or is it your nuff to quell the disquiet am i here in france many people still calling for his resignation saying what he offered last night was too little too late and he needs to offer more time for the moment it looks like the process is set to continue with as you lazy all said to have another protest on saturday this weekend which will make it the fifth weekend in a row show that even steve. paris. heard those protests a groat it was just six weeks ago that one man called on protesters to take up the yellow vest as a symbol the video went viral received millions of views with the truth as it is

will. we all have these yellow vests for the whole week starting from the seventeenth of november put on your yellow vest to show that you are with us with our movement. we spoke to the man you just saw they told us he's still not satisfied with macross proposed solutions. to these measures will affect only a small part of the population not all of the people would benefit from what astronaut not all of the people are paid minimum wage there are people with a slightly higher wage he targeted a small majority unfortunately this is not the whole population and these measures are really small he could do a lot more he should have reduced the salaries of the rich because they have disproportionate salaries. these are rich ways that this is not fair the poor pay more debts the rich has zero taxes this is disproportionate this is the beginning of chaos we should find measures to resolve it we are on the streets in the wind in the cold not for. pleasure. for the french of calm because they could not stand

that this is lasted for years not only micron although here was did nothing to see the situations people are on the streets not giving you because they are determined . to put a fresh political. he believes that macross latest economic maneuvering isn't quite what it seems either a face value menu in my corner say yesterday that he didn't want to do to make the reach or so it says this anyway we are afraid of ferns because apparently doesn't want to make the reach the more you say that you want it to to true between crees as a. class people salary. about one hundred rule but so at the beginning that that announcement was very grateful as a look that's people but a journalist did their work then they ne that the one where was planed.

in the normal economic you know so people are not so a p. because many lie to them again and the years definitively last measure or its use of population. israeli defense forces have raided the office of the palestinian youth agency wafa in the west bank according to the agency soldiers fired tear gas and seized c.c.t.v. footage while searching a building. journalist . number one even.

more few check out these pictures were released by the raided news agency seems some people were saying praying while israeli soldiers search that building israel gave no reason for the raid but it is believed the action is connected to the i.d.f. search for the perpetrator of an attack on sunday which left seven israelis wounded right from the clashes there between the i.d.f. and palestinians in the area for the palestinian red crescent reports that dozens were wounded including two people struck by live ammunition we have to comment on the right still not heard of him but from have to say if we do we'll let you know next earlier we spoke to a journalist from the agency who was there at the time of the raid he described to us direct how he saw the events unfold the army entered the northern passage from a. in that and in the morning actually and they were searching buildings along the way sort of looking and taking pictures because we're a news agency we have for the gentlest here and so they decided to come up also to

our building i was there myself and i did live through that ordeal i do you guys i was in the building where we work and it was really difficult to stay inside. at one point even as you were taking some pictures from the balcony of the our floor they fired stun grenades at us which exploded in the balcony and then they looked for footage of security cameras that. but in the building of the streets and it took. dave's according to court because of these security cameras he could have asked. us. to put it could have done that and the footage would have been delivered to them i think that in a problem there was no need at all for what happened there was no need to enter the building and to take them by force they used intimidation and force and scared

the jitters there and forced them to open the doors and enter the rooms where the servers were and took their footage without any. approval from from their from the administration of the law for a move not the next story before we do in case you just tuned in wondering what you see in a box there the pictures coming in live from strasburg the french interior ministry calling the public to remain indoors remit what it's called a serious security event when you go there with our correspondent live feed all of your our europe correspondent in fact let us make those pictures big now see what's going on a lot to see at the moment there's a shooting in a christmas market earlier on when we hear one killed we think six injured by the authorities the deputy minister has been telling people to stay in doors course such a busy time of year people don't buy the christmas shopping in the week or so up to christmas so the thing you dread to come across looks like has kicked off there tonight we'll leave those pictures for now we'll move on we'll come back to our

europe correspondent who's across in more detail in a minute or two so next than. moscow's right on the u.s. secretary of state have his remarks about two russian military aircraft sent to venezuela to take part in exercises so after mike pohnpei accused the two countries of squandering public funds comments which the kremlin described as completely inappropriate and instant this is a very undiplomatic step from the u.s. secretary of state it's a serious accusation pointed at the russian government and we believe it is not an appropriate statement talking about public spending we do not agree with this moron that this is an inappropriate statement from a country which could feed the whole of africa with half its military budget we continue to seek dialogue with our colleagues and hope for washington's readiness sooner rather than later. this response came off to the u.s. secretary of state mike compare had quite the same thing to russian military at crufts across the atlantic was

a waste of money and these are his words russia's government has sent bombers halfway around the world to venezuela the russian and venezuelan people should see this for what it is to corrupt governments squandering public funds and squelch and liberty and freedom while that people suffer the suburban exchange following to deploy mine told to russian strategic bombers here in venice to well what earlier on monday as part of a brokered military cooperation between moscow and caracas we missed the arrival of two russian white swans he is my report here at today's one of the russian tupolev one is sixty's joint. capable of ours was just that. you. don't feel that you have a company. doctor and. you

know. right. from the base and russia has no. cross have covered the distance no more than ten thousand kilometers and they flew over that blinded before they let it hear it it is well it. was sixty supersonic strategic bomber like. this if occasion no one in russia has. wow. such flights are useful to work with in russia we can conduct long

distance nonstop flights but not one like this the aircraft cross the ocean and pass through different latitudes which is useful for training and demonstrating aircraft reliability. countries. by the country's armed forces for years already under. the country's defense minister to the airfield. the russian pilots. our armed forces have improved their combat readiness we are constantly working to raise our game and ensure that we have a modern military capable of defending the country russia and venezuela have already. joined the military drills and later this week on wednesday the white ones

are expected to be here as part of yet another russian venezuelan military training . you know one. of the live pictures in from. the capital of christmas but silent at the moment because there's been a deadly shooting there in the city a strasberg on the german border the police confirm one person is killed now the injured numbers going up to nine in the last few minutes the gunman still on the run as well as christmas market was to have millions of visitors every year or so close to christmas but eric early on lockdown including the new age q in the city video is appearing online some of. the possible witnesses to what happened here's what we can show you. the two. every time you hear the sort of thing your heart sinks doesn't force of the family

or friends of the deceased so that number of injured is gone up in the last twenty minutes or so. yes since i sporty last we were quoting from the reuters news agency who had spoken to the fire service that they were at the scene saying one person had been confirmed killed in three people had been wounded i'm now looking at french local media from the scene saying nine people may have been wounded in that as well and looking at some of the footage from the scene in the immediate aftermath that would seem more likely some really quite horrific scenes in the immediate aftermath clearly showing a large amount of blood on the floor people lying prone having been wounded also in the immediate aftermath we saw horrible pictures of people fleeing for their lives looking for any form of cover of course what makes this even more of a tense situation is what we're hearing from the mayor and the police and the interior ministry of france is that the gunman is reportedly still on the run a major security operation is underway in strasburg right now the city would be

full of tourists anyway at this time of year people do come to visit to the that iconic christmas market where this event happened nearby but also it's busy because the european parliament is meeting in stroudsburg at the moment that building is on lockdown but we have seen some of the tweets from eyewitnesses have been actually coming from any peace who were were nearby. what we do know is that i was at a major police operation is underway we've seen from the most recent at the scene footage we're seeing street empty with soldiers as well as armed police special response units from the police at the scene there we also understand that a minute mark on the french president has called off an event that he was attending we may well be hearing from him some time soon it's understood that at the moment police are investigating aren't ruling anything out but this is being investigated as a terrorist attack.