northern neighbor they saying changing macedonia as a name to north macedonia would be an insult to greek identity greece's parliament will vote on ratifying the agreement in the coming days we'll get the latest from athens also coming up breaking the deadlock after m.p.'s rejected her plan to leave the e.u. last week british prime minister to resign may gears up to address arguments of a way to cause. the crisis in the democratic republic of congo deepens the constitutional court confirms felix she is a katy's victory in last month's presidential vote but his main challenger is calling for protests we'll hear from our correspondent in kinshasa. thanks for joining us. we start in the greek capital athens are nationalist groups are protesting a deal they say would rob greece of its national identity agreement settles the nearly three decade old name dispute with macedonia under the deal from last june greece would let its northern neighbor rename itself to the republic of north macedonia and return athens would drop its objections to the balkan countries joining nato and the european union

this is d w news live from berlin clashes erupt in athens as greek nationalists protest the deal to change the name of their country's northern neighbor they say changing macedonia as named north macedonia would be an insult to greek identity greece's parliament will vote on gratifying to agreement in the coming days we'll get the latest from athens also coming up breaking news the bright city does deadlock after m.p.'s rejected her plan to leave the e.u. last week british prime minister theresa may gears up to address parliament and chart away. from him and the donald trumps all arising first term reaches the halfway mark with the u.s. bitterly divided and the government partially shut down we look back on president trump's tumultuous first two years in office. i'm calm assman thanks for joining us. we starts in the greek capital athens where nationalist groups are protesting a deal that they say would rock greece of its national identity the agreement settles a nearly three decade old name dispute with macedonia under the deal from last june greece with its northern neighbor rename itsel

next peiser welcome to the program and we start in the greek. pittel athens where nationalist groups are protesting a deal to settle a nearly three decade old name dispute with macedonia under the agreement struck last june greece would approve of its northern neighbor renaming itself the republic of north macedonia in return would drop its objections to the balkan countries joining nato and the european union but the deal has been hotly contested in greece prime minister alexis to process narrowly won a confidence vote in parliament on wednesday after his right wing partner left the coalition to protest the agreement. for more on this i'm now joined by george george a couple of freelance reporter in athens georgia what are the protesters demanding . the protesters demanding that the government does not approve very international beer signed last summer we kiwis are going to be quick to fundamentally vote on thursday or on friday next week they insist on going on greece's northern neighbor not using the name macedonia in any way to say. what's i

this is deja vu news live from berlin clashes break out into athens as greek nationalists protest against a name change by a neighboring country. there against a deal under which a greece would agree to its northern neighbor calling itself north macedonia a greek parliament is due to vote on ratifying the unpopular agreement in the coming days we'll go live to athens for the latest also coming up. donald trump comes up with a plan to end the longest government shutdown in u.s. history and to get his mexican border wall built but the democrats say no we'll tell you why. and the democratic republic of congo's election crisis deepens the constitutional court confirms phoenix she said katie's victory in last month's presidential vote but his main challenger is calling for protests we'll go live to can shasta. and the death toll from a pipeline blocks in mexico rises to seventy three hundreds of people were collecting fuel from an illegally tops pipeline in the town of town but it exploded . nick spicer well. to the program we start in the greek capital athens where nationalist groups are prot

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how does corruption arm the greek economy and the greek society right how is it harming the greeks it's time to be nice because first of all it's creating a negative impression to the outside world first and foremost we are a nation right now a dire economic boost we need foreign investment for. in two thousand and fifteen through monday set up a website where people can report incidences of corruption amongst doctors officials and politicians all anonymously around eight hundred thousand people have visited the site so far but she says it hasn't really changed anything you are working on the awareness of the greeks all there are all the things. to stop corruption maybe some legal measures that are needed but the risks need to be higher law enforcement needs to actually happen i feel the greeks without we have a plethora of laws that deal with corruption one thing we don't have is a whistleblower law and we're one of the very few e.u. countries that don't actually have one and we haven't ratified it so i think adopting a whistleblower law that would protect individuals who speak for the

long dispute greece's parliament gratifies the deal that remains in neighboring macedonia but some greeks keep up their protests sparked the and. also coming up the u.n. calls for calm as venezuela descends into crisis embattled president nicolas maduro says he's the victim of a foreign backed crew. and campaigners take to the streets as germany prepares to phase out the cold crunch talks in berlin argue to produce a landmark decision about the future energy supply. i'm suing so much kind of thank you for joining us greek lawmakers have ratified a landmark name change deal with macedonia under the agreement greece's northern neighbor awol rename itself north macedonia and athens will drop its objection to the country joining nato but the deal faced fierce opposition in greece and has already cost prime minister alexis tsipras his parliamentary majority there were more protests outside the assembly ahead of the vote although torrential rain in athens did keep many demonstrators away friday's vote was delayed by a day to accommodate the law. number of lawmakers who wanted to debate the deal

decades long just greece's parliament gratifies the deal of the renames neighboring macedonia but some greeks keep up their protests wretchedly and. also coming up the u.n. calls for kong to spend its whaling descends into crisis embattled president nicolas maduro says he is the victim of a foreign back to truth but the u.n. wants an investigation into claims that his security forces are killing protesters also coming up on eighty u.s. government employees make their voices heard as the shutdown enters its thirty fifth day the senate and attempts to resolve the dispute fails. i'm sumi so much conduct's good to have you with us greek lawmakers have ratified a landmark name change deal with macedonia under the agreement greece's northern neighbor will rename itself north macedonia and athens will drop its objection to the country joining nato but the deal faced fierce opposition in greece and has already cost the prime minister alexis suppress his parliamentary majority there were more of protests outside the assembly ahead of the vote. torrential rain in athens kept a lot of demonstrators away

a clear majority of greeks feel the name belongs to them and them alone.test was largely peaceful or radical elements in the crowd tried to fight their way towards the parliament building through the ra nks parliament building through the ra n ks of parliament building through the ranks of the riot police. for an bee"; 7 which i fiffff” w7 w pushing threud‘eparlia “lent—bike coming days. translation:£ is over but we must carry everything is over but we must carry out our duty and be here. everything is over but we must carry out our duty and be herelj everything is over but we must carry out our duty and be here. i believe this is the last push regarding the national topic of macedonia. i believe the greek people must fight the last battle. it's our last hope. this is the reason for their desperation. the prime minister and his party narrowly winning a vote of confidence in parliament last week provoked by the departure of his coalition partner over the macedonian name issue. the parliament has already ratified the agreement. if the greek parliament does s

minister of years up to address parliament in charge away full time and clashes erupt in athens as greek nationalists protest the deal to change the name of their country's northern neighbor they say changing macedonia's name to north macedonia would be an insult to the greek identity. i'm calling assman thanks for joining us. british prime minister theresa may has been holding cross party talks to try and find a way forward that our plan to leave the e.u. was rejected by a huge majority of british lawmakers earlier this week and she's due to present a proposal on how to proceed in parliament on monday at the core of the deadlock have been tensions over the irish border a car bombing this weekend in the northern irish city of london derry again put those tensions in stark relief. the car bomb exploded in the center of the city of london there in northern ireland no one was hurt police suspect a splinter group of the militant irish republican army are behind it a deliberate attempt to harm this community and one which we must all all condemn. there are fears that there will be more violen

asked why so many greeks are angry about this deal very simple for the greeks they refuse to relinquish the name macedonia simply because they believe that it harbors territorial designs on greece's province of macedonia which is in the north and this is a region also which gave birth to greece's most revered ancient warrior alexander the great and they want the government to hold a referendum on what they are saying is a very very important and divisive national issue and given the fact that the government here is teetering on the verge of collapse it is gone effectively into a tailspin after its coalition partner resigned last week they believe that the need for a referendum is so much more imminent and definitely needed because of the political developments here. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world residents of the northern irish city of london derry have been evacuated after a suspect suspected car bomb explosion police in the city also known as derry say there are currently no reports of casualties after the blast on saturday night leading politicians

steve: basically, i thought of the simple greek concept, simple and greek.o a blue and white and butcher block. small-scale, comfortable. i also did an all-wood, bent plywood, very durable. i have a banquette, so i did the detailed piping. and for value engineering, we could eliminate this component and put this back right on the wall. so this comes undone, it's on a cleat. sam: you know what i've found a lot, steve, is that when you have that kind of bench, it gets ripped easy. and once it rips, you have to get a whole new bench. and the colors, i'm not thrilled with the blues. steve: okay. lemonis: so let's go over to the tables and chairs. sam: and to me, i've seen this before, steve, and that's my thing. we want to keep the traditional piece, to some degree, but we also want to modernize. and so, we want it to be a little different. steve: i do think it's fresh and it's clean and it's simple greek, so that's why i went with it. sam: it's a nice look. i don't want to say it's not. but it's not, i think, what we're looking for. it's just there. and we want

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greek nationalists protest a deal to change the name of their country's northern neighbor they say changing macedonia to north macedonia would be an affront to greek identity greece's parliament is due to vote on ratifying the agreement in the coming days we'll get the latest from athens also coming up. a car bomb explodes in northern ireland prompting memories of a traumatic past police make arrests while politicians warn against a return to sectarian strife. not one but two no shows for nigeria's historic presidential debate neither president. nor his main rival take part in the televised event this comes just weeks ahead of nigeria's closely watched election. welcome to the program and we start in the greek capital athens where nationalist groups are protesting a deal to settle a nearly three decade old name dispute with macedonia under the agreement struck last june and greece would approve of its northern neighbor renaming itself the republic of north macedonia in return would drop its objections to the balkan countries joining nato and the european union. but the deal has been hotly c

foreign policy to recognize a macedonian language and nationality that is the nub of greeks disagreement with the deal many don't mind sharing macedonia as a political term but the seeds of macedonian identity as spurious. because wanted good relations in the balkans they should never have recognized the macedonian state or given a macedonian identity to people it doesn't belong to or in macedonia language when you know that there has never been one we know that what's being ratified today in the parliament will be scrutinised by greek and european courts the government admits the agreement is not perfect but it has at least got the other side to agree to stop claiming ancient greek history for its own come september images of alexander the great to disappear from north macedonian schoolbooks as our maps of a greater macedonia north macedonia is most illustrious history now perhaps lies in its future. al-jazeera athens. a climate change was one of the main topics on the gender of the world economic forum in davos this year more and more it's a new generation of young activists that's tak

overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million gold francs this enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this cruise in the one nine hundred ten the george avert of ball the name of its benefactor and helped greece defeats the ottoman empire a second time and double its territory in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered or supposedly one of the reasons the greek fleet wants to update last revised upwards is the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between crease and cyprus which is in the east med very far from where it's used to prowling sensually becoming for what they call green water navy to a blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners are constantly helping the armed forces b

drawn by hand and relied on travelers accounts for example before the golden age the greek astronomer ptolemy had compiled lists of over eight thousand coordinates detailing the positions of oceans landmarks and cities in the ninth century the ruling khelifa of baghdad a. commission to group of his scholars to make a new map of the world and to improve on ptolemy's data. at istanbul's museum of the history of science and technology in islam dr left quinn turn is a scholar of ancient geography together we're looking at moon's map this map dates back to the reign of mahmoud in the first third of the ninth century the floor of period of a replica islamic science in baghdad i guess what was different about is that they wanted to improve on on the greeks maps absolutely they measured the. after and of course the but that didn't even exist in the time. they had to i guess add all these new cities medicare as well as well absolutely so there were a lot of more precise caught in the moment movement was from the very early years of the golden age here we have an example of a map several centur

chancellor makes her first trip to greece since alexis tsipras became prime minister in the past many greeks blamed on low machall for the hardship caused by austerity measures so how do they feel about her today. plus snowed under people an alpine region in germany and austria struggling to clear record amounts of snow some villages completely cut off emergency workers are warning of the danger of more avalanche. i'm brian thomas great to have you with us a court in myanmar has rejected an appeal by two journalists serving seven year prison terms while alone and cost to arrest in december of two thousand and seventeen after investigating the massacre of ten boys and men during the army's brutal crackdown on the muslim community the two reuters journalists were later sentenced for breaking the official secrets act by possessing classified documents their lawyers argue that they were entrapped in a police state. earlier i spoke with one of their colleagues kevin colicky reuters asia editor i asked him for his reactions to the verdict. it's another in justice for well known and shows so for ou

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but many greeks are against the deal including tsipras coalition partners here that will form a. response in the region for americans visit this or the deal with macedonia gets ratified by parliament. if. the insured remains valid even if the opposition takes power to the east. it's a little bit. conservative opposition leader kitty a close mates of talk is leading the resistance to the macedonia deal in the greek parliament super's hopes that merkel might be able to influence the conservatives position because if his coalition breaks down tsipras may soon find himself facing a vote of confidence. or just how serious is that one of the questions out there today following the visit as did abuse chief political editor michel cover joins us now from athens good morning michelle could on the macro help and first off this name dispute over the two macedonia's. well she certainly is trying. mapped out here in athens already that she felt that this agreement that would basically ended decades long dispute is good for both sides and it would help greece as much as it would help the europ

probably one reason why greeks get emotional is that greeks do not understand why they get emotional impact now seriously you need to go back in history i feel you know ordered to to to understand this just to name an example the sultan part of macedonia region became part of modern greece only after the bulk of the early twentieth century in that time there have been there have been fights there have been atrocities on both sides of the border many greeks still remember these so in this part of the world it's almost impossible to make political decisions by by leaving history aside super arsons i have have done exactly this this is an achievement and we we all hope it will work. as he said this deal it's done of course as unpopular i'm curious is there any risk that this deal might unravel in the future or is this set in stone we don't know i think the devil lies in the in the details there are still some unanswered questions for example commercial issues who has the right to produce macedonian wine from now one such things we still need to fix but i think the crucial question is wh

the greek government wants its citizens to contribution towards replacing its outdated navy fleet in a massive crowd funding scheme which also uplift reports from athens. greece is thirteen frigates form the backbone of its navy but they are now three decades old refitting them would cost more than half the price of a new fleet and without the capabilities so the heloc navy is looking for a brand new fleet and it's taking donations galligan fairly limited as those i call on great ship owners and greek citizens to contribute something from their surplus in a special account set up to acquire a new fleet of frigates and a new flagship greek defense spending has fallen by forty percent to six billion dollars during a decade of recession and even though it's still one of the biggest spenders in nato greece says it cannot afford new equipment and its traditional rival turkey now spends three times as much the problem is greeks already have the highest taxes in europe in an attempt to pay off the national debt and half the population still owes the government money. no i won't contribute t

in the greek capital thank you. you're watching the w. news live from berlin. with more world news followed by the day i hope to see you this. letter we were. when we were. eighty percent of americans at some point in our lives will experience hardship listening. audience.

but many greeks are against the deal including tsipras coalition partners. over. the sparkle in the region for americans visit isreal the deal with macedonia gets ratified by parliament. who in short remains valid even if the opposition takes power things. it's a little. conservative opposition leader close mates of tank is is leading the resistance to the macedonia deal in the greek parliament super's hopes that miracle might be able to influence the conservatives position because of his coalition breaks down tsipras may soon find himself facing a vote of confidence. but well across europe the heaviest snowfall in two decades is bringing daily life in alpine regions to a grinding halt at least sixteen people are reported to have died from weather related causes in the past week austria has been especially hard hit forecasters warning that there will be more snow and in some places avalanche warnings are there hot yes. it is a beautiful sight but the snow laden slopes also spell danger many mountainsides in austria so heavy with snow that the army is preparing for

debbie is also shrank a they're talking to me a little while ago from caracas now greek lawmakers are set to vote on a landmark name change deal with macedonia under the agreement greece's northern neighbor will rename itself north of macedonia and athens will drop its objection to the country joining nato now the parliamentary vote was delayed by a day to accommodate a large number of lawmakers who wanted to speak on thursday thousands of angry protesters gathered outside the assembly police fired tear gas and detained dozens of demonstrators more rallies against the deal were planned for today ahead of the vote. well it's a highly contentious topic for the greeks so what to call the country on the other side of their northern border but why is it so controversial let's take a look the former yugoslav republic of macedonia as it is currently known to the greeks is here it's located north of greece's northern province which just also happens to be called macedonia many greeks object to their neighboring country using the name macedonia arguing that it could lead to territorial claims

the german chancellor has been to greece for the first time since the end of the greek bailout program angela merkel was instrumental in mobilizing european financial assistance to help the country restructure its debts and stay within the euro zone but this is a trip is about more than the greek economy that's john seraphina's reports from athens. the timing of angular merkel's trip leaves little doubt that it is largely to support the name changing deal between greece and the former yugoslav macedonia greece's neighbor is finalizing constitutional changes this week to rename the country north macedonia macedonia is also a region of northern greece and pressure is on greek leaders to ratify the agreement and that's a. good i can only say that this step that greek prime minister separate took was a decisive step from which not only greece and north macedonia prophet but also europe as well as our common values prime minister alexis tsipras says he has the parliamentary votes he needs even though his junior right wing coalition partner independent greeks won't support the name change de

demonstrators are set to rally in the greek capital against the proposed name change deal to normalize relations with neighboring macedonia it wants to change its name to the republic of north macedonia but greeks object because macedonia is the ancient name of one of their region's greek prime minister alexis tsipras has survived two confidence motions in parliament over the contentious deal fencer openness is more from athens the reason people are demonstrating here today is to prevent that parliamentary vote from happening very demanding a referendum but i think after the referendum of july twenty fifteen in which sixty two percent of greeks voted for noble austerity and the government turns that around into a third emergency loan accompanied by austerity measures the government is loath to go into another referendum adventure it is likely to lose the vote because most greeks are polling as being against this agreement so i think what we're seeing here is a last ditch attempt a real good to express sentiment felt by many greeks across the country but it's likely to fall on deaf ears

all of the long standing concerns over the irish border also coming up clashes erupted in athens as greek nationalists protest the deal to change the name of their country's northern neighbor they say changing macedonia's name to north macedonia would be an insult to greek identity. and the donald trump's polarizing first term reaches the halfway mark for the u.s. bitterly divided on the government's partially shutdown we look back on donald trump's some most risky the first two years and offers. a little. i'm calling aspen thanks for joining us british prime minister to resign may has been holding cross party talks to try and find a way forward on bracks it her plan to leave the e.u. was rejected by a huge majority of british lawmakers earlier this week and she's due to present a proposal on how to proceed in parliament on monday at the core of the deadlock have been concerns over the irish order a car bombing this weekend in the northern irish city of derry londonderry but those tensions front and center. the car bomb exploded in the center of the city of london there in northern irelan

overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million goal. franks this enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this cruise in one thousand nine hundred ten the george averred of ball the name of its benefactor and hope to greece defeats the ottoman empire a second time and double its territory in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered or supposedly one of the reasons of the greek fleet wants to update wants to revise upwards is the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between greece and cyprus which is in the east med very far from where it's used to prowling essentially becoming for what they call green water navy to a blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners a constantly helping the

will definitively defend those greek red lines. their boss is one who could shift it when building operations out of britain if the country crashes after the e.u. without a deal a french company has appealed to the u.k. parliament to avoid and no deal scenario ever asked employees fourteen thousand people throughout the u.k. the u.k. is aerospace sector no stands at the precipice bricks it is frightening to destroy a century of development based on education research and human capital if there's no deal breaks that we are there because we'll have to make potentially very harmful decisions for the u.k. u.n. secretary general antonio terrace has warned that the world is losing the race against climate change speaking at the world economic forum in davos he also said the political will to change course is fading but john howard visited a climate science camp above the davos slopes and he spoke to some people who remain optimistic. hi on the world economic forum agenda this year is climate change recognized by many decision makers here

donia which is of course part of greek history of a very glorious part of greek history which the greeks did not want to share with. sure a multi-national multi-ethnic state demetrius do you think today's development then puts that deal in jeopardy. i'm not sure it puts a deal in jeopardy in the short run we're not yet clear whether they're following the confidence vote. prime minister is going to steamroll the agreement itself. with sculpture in parliament or whether he's going to use the confidence vote as a license to pass. the. international agreement however. the problem here is that there is also a constitutional question. the scope your parliament has voted with one hundred and with eighty votes or one hundred twenty which is eighty percent of their parliament to. confirm and pass the agreement in greece athens has a bigger problem than sculpture to accept that our goal. has decided that a one hundred fifty or one or both that is fifty percent plus one is enough to pass such a major agreement which according to the constitution article twenty eight. says that three fifths of. the

in twenty fifteen the new greek prime minister staged a referendum in which greek citizens overwhelmingly rejected the e.u.'s austerity policies but brussels imposed them anyway those living in the birthplace of democracy well pleased with what they saw as an undemocratic process. and this one may not be related to the e.u. but it is related to britain in twenty twelve voters in the city of manchester rejected having elected mares but a couple of years later david cameron's westminster government imposed them on the region anyway late last year the e.u. is top court ruled that the u.k. can unilaterally stop gregg's it stressing that the twenty sixteen referendum here wasn't legally binding so technically in terms of the law the u.k. government is free to do whatever it chooses be it plowing ahead with leaving or nothing into river shore stopping gregg's it would be a failure to deliver on the will of the people but after two and a half years of political turmoil here in the u.k. public. has shifted the latest polls now show that some fifty six percent of u.k. voters would fain know ted br

a clear majority of greeks feel the name belongs to them and them alone.as largely peaceful, more radical elements in the crowd tried to fight their way towards the parliament building, through the ranks of the riot police. for some, it was a largely symbolic protest, against an agreement which has already been signed and which the greek government is committed to pushing through parliament in the coming days. translation: i believe everything is over, but we must carry out our duty and be here. translation: i believe this is the last push regarding the national topic of macedonia. i believe the greek people must fight the last battle. it's our last hope. and this is the reason for their desperation. prime minister alexis tsipras and his syriza party narrowly won a vote of confidence in parliament last week, provoked by the departure of his coalition partner over the macedonian name issue. the parliament in skopje has already ratified the agreement. if the greek parliament now does so too, it will enter into force and become legally irreversible. its champ

overtaxed at home the defense ministry is looking to greeks living abroad and the merchant shipping community these communities produced a rescue plan once before it was a donation of seven million gold francs that enabled greece to make a down payment of almost a third of the value of this crew in one thousand the george r ver of ball the name of its benefactor and helped greece defeat the ottoman empire. second time and double its territory in the balkan wars now as then the navy wants to extend its range this time to cover its exclusive economic zone or easy as well as that of cyprus where hydrocarbons have recently been discovered well supposedly one of the reasons of the greek fleet wants to update in the last revised upwards is the fact that it's now being called upon to safeguard the easy between. greece and cyprus which is in the east med very far from where it's used to prowling sensually becoming for what they call green water navy to a blue water navy greece has long relied on the generosity of individuals and greek ship owners are constantly helping the armed forces but