this is not a sensible way that this process should still lying in her hands to be continued charlotte potts reporting from london thank you. as we have to speak now as some of the other stories making news around the world is spain a former gym teacher at a catholic school has gone on trial accused of sexually assaulting students will public prosecutors are seeking a twenty two year jail sentence for collecting many says who taught at a school bus alone up on it comes at a time of sustained criticism of the vatican's response to a decade's long sexual abuse crisis. chinese president xi jinping is in paris for talks with president. she is on the last leg of his a three nation tour of europe and that of boosting trade and diplomatic ties on the spot at their meeting prison mccall has urged the e.u. to be wary of china's growing influence around the world. a teacher from a remote village in kenya has won a one million dollar prize in dubai for peter to be she works in a government run school that has just one computer and patchy internet access at best but the judge just said that despite all

our correspondent charlotte potts spoke to some of the protesters in london earlier we asked you to tell us more about their motives hundreds of thousands of people have been marching here in central london carrying european and u.k. flaxen their number one demand is that they want to put it to the people again they want a second vote a second referendum on whether the u.k. should leave the e.u. with the deal for example that may have negotiated over the past months in brussels or whether the u.k. should indeed stay in the european union after all and i've been talking to people and the number one concern that they have is they say stop the brics that mess they are tired of the political process of these past couple of years they are tired of their politicians and of the government and of the brics it back and forth and that is why they are demanding a second referendum in the hopes that this time around it would be different that the outcome would actually be that the people of the u.k. choose to stay in the european union. that was d. w. charlotte ponce speaking to me earlier from lond

our let's bring in our correspondent charlotte potts here is following these developments in london for you show that bring us up to speed because there seems to have been a lot happening behind you in that building. so theresa may just left a meeting with the hotline as within her tory party and she promised them in this meeting that she would step down as prime minister if indeed her withdrawal agreement makes it through parliament and if they support the deal so she said in that statement that was apparently very emotional have voice was cracking i have heard very clearly the mood of the parliamentary party i know there is a desire for a new approach and a new leadership in the second phase of the bracks that negotiations and i won't stand in the way of that i am prepared to leave this job and i intend that in order to do what is right for the country and our party so she's promising to step down for the next step of the negotiations that would mean if a good deal had withdrawn agreement makes it through parliament then the next step of the negotiation. what start with the european u

looking good for teresa mayes brigs a deal is get you the latest now from london with a user charlotte potts charlotte what next for theresa may now. well this was the first time she addressed parliament after she returned from brussels where the e.u. extended the deadline for the u.k. until april twelfth so that is the new deadline for the u.k. leaving the e.u. and to resume made conceded in front of parliament that she just doesn't have the votes to bring back a deal to parliament at this point that she does not have the votes of the northern irish the u.p.a. and of the hard line breaks a ts within her own party so she can't get her deals through she said also that she is still trying to make it possible and that she is trying to bring it in front of parliament maybe at some point this week to find a way forward meanwhile parliament is taking its own steps tonight there will be votes on amendments tonight whether parliament should take control of the brics a process something that theresa may obviously does not like and her government so they are trying to take control of the brecht exit p

our very own charlotte potts in london with the latest brexit evelopments tonight. thank you. turkey is gearing up for local elections this coming sunday. 57 million voters across the country will choose mayors, counselors and representatives. with the economy in trouble, the ruling party faces a stiff challenge and sunday's vote is seen as a referendum on recep tayyip erdogan's rule. our correspondent met up with one local politician with a familiar name. >> this tea house near istanbul is more crowded than usual because today recep tayyip erdogan is making a visit. this recep tayyip erdogan is 20 years old, political newcomer. he wants to be a neighborhood chief. he's not related to the turkish president but the name, he says, has helped him with his career choicece. >> people often don't believe me at first and ask if i'm joking. then i show them my i.d. card. it's an honor for me to have the same name as our president. he's the respected and beloved leader of our country. people say they will vote for me, both because of my personality and my name. i believe this name will

extension from brussels and so again a lot hanging in the balance there let's take you now to charlotte potts she is standing by in london outside westminster where do things stand right now. well as you said theresa may is determined to get her deals through parliament tomorrow for another vote for a third time this time to extend that deadline for the u.k. to leave the european union until may twenty second in an orderly fashion and she made that ultimate sacrifice yesterday telling her conservative party that she is going to step down for the next step of the negotiations if they are going to approve that deal and some tory rebels fell in line with that strategy they said they are going to vote for the deal amongst them for example boris johnson the former foreign minister he said he's going to vote for that deal now after he's been bashing it for a month the problem is that the numbers still don't add up in her favor though the northern irish do you hear her allies saying they are not going to back the deal to rescind they would also need some labor support for her deal to pass so it's ve

charlotte potts reporting from london thank you so very much and the. markets as always thank you as well and alex forswearing with me here in the studio providing some much needed analysis thank you to all of you all right now we are going to turn our attention now to new zealand or a national memorial service has been held in christchurch new zealand to remember the fifty people killed in two mosque attacks two weeks ago the gunman was a self declared white supremacist who had expressed anti muslim views the ceremony presided over by prime minister just in the urban channel the grief of a nation echoing calls for a kinder and more humane world. i'm just passing i mean. look i didn't i mean. the hum of the names of the victims read out one by one as tens of thousands stood in silence and in unity. remembering grieving and looking inward. what words adequately express a pain and suffering of fifteen mean woman and children lost and so many injured. what would scare picture the anguish of our muslim community being the target of hatred and violence. what

analyst to alex forrest waiting with me here in the studio in berlin in london correspondent charlotte potts and standing by in brussels that the e.u. h.q. is georg might just show it let's go to you first i understand there are crowds protesting rate now as we speak in london set the scene for us are emotions running high. yet emotions and tension. today in london because you have to remember the significance of this date march twenty ninth was the day where the u.k. was due to leave the european union and those that voted to leave in the referendum three years ago they had planned massive parties for today all over the country including here in london and they did show up now just to protest that the u.k. has not left the european union so behind me you see the you keep the flags so the independence party the architect of the leave and leave vote back then in the referendum they are protesting here in large numbers today and i think talking to the protesters and they are angry they are angry that the u.k. has not left the european union today angry a teary some may asking for her to step d