austria and that is extremely dangerous for tourists there's still three thousand tourists up in overtown and they're still skiing and of course as we've seen there have been deaths and avalanches this is very serious the locals know that they have some way of dealing with this but the tourists maybe not ok well here's the issue out in all that snow there joining us from going to town in the role thank you thank you. let's get a look now at some of the other stories making the news today yemen's who the rebels have carried out a drone attack that killed a number of people in the south of the country who's in saudi reports say it tackett a military base there although not tensions in yemen have been rising again over how to implement a u.n. sponsored peace deal australian police say they have arrested a man suspected of mailing thirty eight threatening packages to foreign consulates in three cities a forty year old has been charged with sending dangerous materials by postal service packages largely contained especially as chinese t.v. has released images of president xi jinping meeting wit

meters is really everywhere it is a complete white out here we're actually just down the road from overtown which is one of the most popular ski resorts in austria and the road is closed there is no access to the ski resort there's actually people in this hotel right here who are holed up playing board games but we met a family from holland who came here to ski they can't get through and there is waiting for the roads to open up again but of course it is not all about cancelled because because there are villages just over here in a region called upper styria there's an estimated fifteen hundred people who are completely cut off from the rest of the world that means they're living off the resources that are found in their small towns let's get a quick check now some other stories making news around the world yemen's hoofy rebels have carried out a drone attack that killed several people in the south of the country who theon saudi reports say that the attack hit a military base near on that tension in yemen has been rising again over how to implement a u.n. sponsored peace deal australian pol

are in a constant race against the snow which is coming down relentlessly i'm here on the road to overtown one of the most popular ski resorts in austria and there are about three thousand people up there who are trapped right now as we speak and that's because the road has been closed due to the danger of falling trees weighed down by the snow and of avalanches now here they usually open the roads once a day for a window of an hour or two but some villages in austria are not so lucky there are about seventeen thousand people in austria who are snowed in a few thousand of those are in villages that are completely inaccessible to the outside world now the head of emergency services in this state of god's work has said that they have the situation under control that they are bringing medicine and food to these villages and that nobody is in a life and death situation but the real relief will only come when the snow finally lets up that was deja news. reporting on the bin to chill in austria turning out of sports and the australian open which started today in melbourne and the opening day fea

crush out there are others who are hoping for a second referendum they're hoping that they can yet overtown breck said and this is also you know mir it's in the end a house of parliament those it big polarization so it's a long shot for tourism a to actually bring this together and yet that she is she is hoping to do that or at least she's hoping that she can have a consensus within her own party that one amendment will go forward and she can say well this is the best basically that we can do but this is our line of negotiation from now. get mass in london thank you. so what does that europe want from this folks chief political every time he had a curfew has been speaking with german m.e.p. munford faber one of the men hoping to become the next e.u. commission president he hopes today's vote will clarify britain's position. because nobody can predict for the moment the outcome of the of the votes but i welcome the votes that we can have a chance to get clarity about the ideas of the parliament again i think it's a historic moment for the for the country to get the coming understanding among