for the european elections guarantees the functioning of the institutions of the european union. europe side the latino community is still at stake in our foremost interest is an orderly withdrawal of britain from. maintaining the unity of the twenty seven. percent but i see no one to hold us up and not poised to support. also coming up tonight benjamin netanyahu has declared victory a fifth term one on a promise of stability security and list occupation of the west bank the us president says that's a recipe for peace. not everyone said and i never made a profit. but everybody said you can't have peace in the middle east with israel and the palestinian. i think we have it and i think we have now is better with phoebe having. what you our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome but we begin the day preparing for a late night at an emergency summit in brussels leaders of all twenty eight members of the european union have convenient to deal once again with britain's inability to do what it says it wants to do leave the european union to deadlines for

we need a strong will prosper in stable european union. harrop. for example was awash and towards washington so they do believe we have to do every scene to keep their religion to encounter. stable so do i have did have an interest to see how do you appear in parliament work you spewed a lot of people are very worried about bricks because they believe if do you would britain move out of you can you know what used to be big or who was what german chancellor angela merkel and to do with it future economy comparable cooperation and china where be the. partner in terms of the fire to refer to remain in of a much a national song they do have an interest to look at the start of the european elections. mr peter you've been on the continent a lot in asia. do you do you bring this two things together sometimes the elections this region that you know so much about you're so interested in well of course you see the asean countries they look carefully how the european union is developing connectivity and to work together and so they don't understand sometimes

side critique this because the european union can be on. strong multilateral fota if we speak with one voice and this was a clear take to split and i think this china should seek different forms to engage and to work together by strengthening and not weakening the right. if i may we shouldn't be scared of our own shadow europe is the biggest global economy we are the biggest trading block of the world we are the biggest export partner of china and we should respect ourselves with this position this is the only bit to be more assertive to sit around the table with china and i'm not scared of these investments in the in the balkans one because recent projects have clearly shown that china fails to deliver a lot of time in romania with the power plants in montenegro road building so this country also understand that china has major difficulties. applying the european rules regarding procurement better and it just have example with the knowledge you transfer in the last two years you know what we see for example with the project in montenegro w

union indeed we could have left the european union by now the parliament didn't pass the withdrawal agreement so we need that extra time to work to ensure that we can get a deal through parliament this enables us to be even a signal to the way that's in everybody's interest i think what matters is that we are able to these the european union not the point at which we are actually far got withdrawn agreement that would enable us to leave on the twenty second of may that to me said the future is the announcement that the united kingdom is also preparing for the european elections is very important to me that will guarantee the continued functioning of the european institutions. is that it's of the off most importance to us that the u.k. leaves the e.u. and informed in a manner that we also want to keep the east twenty seven unified and will sapped in this spirit i have no doubt that we will reach a unanimous agreement again this response will be down i don't need to see you now it's time for decisions we've negotiated a withdrawal agreement with two years a lot of time was dedicated t

remain a member of the european union. do i have a crystal ball about the extension very likely is going to be something like around the end of the year because what european heads of state and government do not want is a series of kill if eggs the cliff edge for exit summits i mean like every street three weeks not even every three months they want this issue off the table in one room the french president was really striking he said we have other problems to deal with and he's also the one who wants to put obligations and duties on to the british side as long as there are members of the european union because he fears that the successor to to reason may who might be harder to tear would be obstructive would sort of try to interfere in european business would try to sort of bring down votes or do other stuff that really impedes the european union and nobody here wants that so yes there will probably be some ties to the extension and all this is just a very bad evening for the british prime minister. robert ayson reporting

will crash out of the european union this coming friday unless the e.u. agrees to another delay at a number of the summit tomorrow on the eve of that summit british prime minister theresa may her power in question dropping in on europe's leaders who without question have the power to make or break. this is the day.

does not approve the plan it will crash out of the european union in eleven days time. you're watching news from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day we're going to. team coverage of this latest night of voting in westminster have to see that. the for. the moment the something nice i think i as cameron jurors are doing with any and i don't i killed many civilians i mean the irish coming in clearing my father one thing such as i was a student because i wanted to build a life for myself like this the police but suddenly life became our kind of sob. providing insights global news that matters d. w. made for mines. nixon tried to continue. to. know their stuff. make groups with because boning stephanie stole. the party and checked with musicians from around the world. groups every week calling t.w. . for. coming president to her long. end of the rwandan patriotic front to include tiny the rebel army and in the one nine hundred ninety four genocide present when little or no rules there was and when to ask to be you. need to reinforce that. i ne

the hotline european research group saying we would make life for the european union extremely difficult i've been talking also to people on the streets here though today and they have very afraid that this process will drag on for months and months to come and they really just want to get on with bricks that at some point makes it even more. murky what we heard today rebecca european council president. suggesting what he called a flex tinge a full one year extension to break the u.k. what more do we know about this idea of butting them basically have another year. that's right brad we heard early this morning it was sort of through a leak that donald tusk was suggesting this what is now being dubbed flex tension which is basically a flexible extension meaning that the e.u. would offer the u.k. another round about a year although the exact date hasn't been formally set but that the e.u. or the u.k. sorry would have the option to leave if they were by some miracle to come to a decision before that time but shortly after that news of the flex tension there was a meeting of e.u. ambassadors

voted to leave the european union this shopkeeper has been following the news closely hoping for certainty and clarity. but if they decide to do exactly know he's bitter for everybody to know what does the future hold for everybody because we don't know what is known who is the extension i believe these moves on the monks will take room yes which is no good for the business or news for nobody because they have this inconsistent specially for business like mohamed a large majority of this cosmopolitan neighborhood voted to remain in the european union in the referendum three years ago but unpredictable and unwanted outcomes have taken their toll i thing ok it's just a bit confusing because we're all sort of left in the dark we don't know what to expect well they can decide they've had three is so. they should let us try again i just wanted to kind of be done really i just resolved you know i think everybody gets sick and tired of carrying on and i can understand the nice europeans and i said exactly the sort of right everybody spread me everybody else. i sterile so for for mass brixton prid

will crash out of the european union this coming friday unless the e.u. agrees to another delay at an emergency summit tomorrow on the eve of that summit british prime minister theresa may her power in question dropping in on europe's leaders who without question have the power to make or break bread i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. this is my going to paris poland then on to brussels suggests but the only intention when she needs to get friends at the moment is not london she protected the u.k. wants to stop for breakfast process becoming consul fifty not suggest that for the time being taking back control was not meant to westminster but simply other capitals in europe where nice paving stay and if indeed it matters that should have picked up for the next four didn't do the conditions sense fine but you want them counsel us is not sitting tough not being met the shaft without means but the deadline is next on april twelfth. also coming up tonight you'll meet the journalist kidnapped on the syrian border trying to report on the attraction of isis

and the european union he knows guild not to t.w. correspondent and have. baker john stretch this book you can live with the rules set by the team. cuts. being recipes for success strategy that make a difference. baking bread on d.w. . for. paul coming president to one. end of the rwandan patriotic front to include tiny the rebel army and in the one nine hundred ninety four genocide present when little in the rooms there wasn't doing to us today you. need to reinforce that im going to say i need it is but does that mean he was not putting in a. controversial leader to success is beyond question. paul. wanted tragedy starts people fish on t.w. . with just over a week before the u.k. crashes out of the european union theresa may is betting that parliament will suddenly learn to like the brakes it plan it already hates it will require a miracle from her political nemesis and more telling from the european union and there's a big question mark over whether either is probable tonight the reason maze breaks it planned it remains the only plan that britain halfs g

what eventually stay in the european union others and that seems to be the general feeling on the streets in london just want the political infighting to stop and they want to get on with the brics a process. where he has become the self-appointed gatekeeper the man stand. between the mole a report two years in the making and the american public which paid for it all today u.s. attorney general william barr told a congressional subcommittee that he will release special counsel robert bolos report on russian meddling in the twenty sixteen election next week but it will not be the entire report barr is reserving the right to redact or admit sections that he determines too sensitive for public release and with that a showdown has been set between us lawmakers demanding transparency and the attorney general that many see not as a guardian of justice but rather as a guardian for president donald trump the american people have been left with a many with many unanswered questions serious concerns about the processes by which you formulated your letter and uncertainty about when we can expect to

out of the european union theresa may is betting that parliament will suddenly learn to like the brakes it plan it already hates it will require a miracle for her political nemesis and more time from the european union and there's a big question mark over whether either is probable tonight the reason maze breaks to plan it remains the only plan that britain hands got from berlin this is the day . this debate this division cannot strike all she's doing damage to all politics we will need a further extension of our school fifty and we need to be clear what such an extension is for so today i'm taking action to break the law i've offering to sit down with the beat of the opposition and to try to agree a plan that we would stick to we would want to agree a timetable for this bill to ensure it is passed the full the twenty seconds of the day. this is a decisive vote in the story of the signs and i did reply as national unity to deliver the national interest. also coming up tonight accusations of corruption at the top of german soccer v.w. trying to get answers during an interview recently bu

s departure from the european union plus smiles in selfies as a decades long feud is laid to rest greek prime minister alexis tsipras pays a first historic visit to his counterpart in the newly renamed north macedonia. it's good to have you with us it was a day of turmoil in algeria and it ended with the resignation of president abilities beautifully that was. about syrians a poor ing on to the streets of algiers to celebrate after weeks of protests that just kept getting bigger the army today urged the eighty two year old to step down immediately state television announced the news tonight beautifully had been in office for the twenty year. major developments there let's bring in journalist jameela to talk in algiers jameela what has been the latest reaction to the news that the president has resigned. what hundreds of people currently sort of breaking being under command of the read that nation of auditors is look if you guy now and most people including women and children coming the downtown to take a great the new they they called the ring the nation about them as you would think pe

divided over how when or even if the country should lead the european union parliament is having another go at breaking the deadlock lawmakers have been voting on for alternative scenarios tonight the results are expected in about half an hour's time if the u.k. does not come up with a new plan it will crash out of the e.u. in just eleven days three prime minister teresa mayes on brakes a deal you may remember was rejected for a certain time last friday night all right let's go to our correspondent she is standing by outside the houses of parliament in london good evening to you barrett so where are we work right now do we know any closer we have any resolution tonight . not just yet we're waiting for this to be declared so m.p.'s have ate it and we're waiting what is actually the answer have they given any on the idea was that in a two stage process that m.p.'s will come to their rowing breaks a deal so to speak say they were not happy with what series a may as have it out with the european union and then they wanted to find their own all tatted team if their way of bragg's it and soft

from the european union is pushed back to october thirty first e.u. leaders gathered at an emergency summit in brussels and they decided to grant british prime minister theresa may a six month extension but it was a night of a tough talks france's president a man on mccall said he is running out of patience and he's not alone so a lifeline for breaks it but will it be enough i'm sumi so misconduct in berlin this is the day. tonight still reveal goals of the side that still grants the right to taking them a flexible extension of the cool fifty period of the. first of october this means. for the u.k. by continue to believe we need to these the e.u. with a deal as soon as possible and finally easy you have agreed that the extension. when the withdrawal agreement has been rushed final pushes mikey requests of my fellow the people it's key to preserve the coherence of europe and allow it to move forward to be a change on britain's preparation for the european elections guarantees the functioning of the institutions of the european union. europe's try abili

what the european union has has also to do. barbara what about those parliamentary elections there been a lot of questions surrounding that whether britain gotten an extension weathered have to still take heart given that it doesn't even want to be in the european union how likely is it that the u.k. will have to take part in those upcoming elections next month it isn't perfect terry quite likely because three of them may right after easter and we have to remember that tomorrow the rich problem and rises and disappears into easter recess so they have all the time in the world if she can manage to sort of come up with a miracle in the four weeks after easter yes indeed it's all this time is just running away with talks and talks again and no results and so on and so forth so she will have to take part of britain will have to take part in european elections and then what happens is that these parliamentarians will be elected that's what the lawyers of the european union have adamantly stated we can't make an exception just becaus

union will there be any disturbances will britain trying to play the bad boy in the european union and so on and so force trees may has done that during the whole withdrawal process at all we don't know how long she's going to be in office so everything is possible this is something that the french president wanted in particular and the of the e.u. leaders gave it to him because they thought it doesn't matter we can talk about this one more time right alex coming to you this is what the french president wanted it's what theresa may want well you can probably say yes and no and for some of the reasons that bob i just said. you can say no because a she wanted june the thirtieth she wanted that deadline and she said it did not want does not want the u.k. to have to take part in these parliamentary elections her party will be furious about that and obviously there is still the possibility that if she can get some kind of deal through parliament they can pull out of those elections but it doesn't look like that is the case at the moment on the other hand one of the pluses well look there is

is due to leave the european union in just eight days and the bloc isn't budging on the timeframe. it's. april twelfth as however the ultimate possible deadline for approval. if the house of commons does not express itself by this date no further short extension will be possible. for work on the deal and i think that a no deal at midnight on the twelfth of april it's now one more and more likely scenario. that something many parliamentarians want to avoid on thursday the highs of lords debating legislation to force to reason may to seek a delay but use as a longer extension will only be granted if the u.k. puts forward a concrete plan and it's by no means guaranteed m.p.'s will unite behind any compromise may manages to broker. well as we mentioned german chancellor angela merkel is in dublin today to discuss. the uncertainties surrounding brags that the irish border separates northern ireland which is part of britain from the republic of ireland which will remain a member of the european union after brags that at the moment there's no physical border between the two the absence of

elections guarantees the functioning of the institutions of the european union. europe's viability immunity is still at stake was part foremost interest is an orderly withdrawal of britain from the e.u. . maintaining the unity of the twenty seven. children but i do not want breaks or to hold those up and not poised to take. also coming up benjamin netanyahu has declared victory a fifth term one on a promise of stability security and endless occupation of the west bank the us president says that is a recipe for peace. not every word said and i never made the promise. but everybody said you didn't have peace in the middle east with israel and the palestinians i think we have it here and i think we have now a better would be having one. we begin the day with the e.u. burning the midnight to bragg's it oil an emergency summit in brussels e.u. leaders came together once again to deal with britain's inability to do what it says it wants to do leave the european union now two deadlines for breaks that have already come and gone the e.u. again granted the u.k. one more o

union indeed we could have left the european union by now the parliament didn't pass the withdrawal agreement so we need out extra time to work to ensure that we can get a deal through parliament that enables us to be even a swede most of the way it's in everybody's interest i think what matters is that we are able to do these the european union not the point at which we rushed if i got withdrawn agreement that would enable us to leave on the twenty second of may that to me said before the announcement that the united kingdom is also preparing for the european elections is very important to me that will guarantee the continued functioning of the european institutions. is that it's of the off most importance to us that the u.k. leaves the e.u. in installed in a manner that we also want to meet the easy twenty seven unified and well stocked in this spirit i have no doubt that we will reach a unanimous agreement again that's what's about to go down i don't need to see you now it's time for decisions we've negotiated a withdrawal agreement with two years a lot of time was dedicated to t

leaders he has described china and the european union as quote important partners more cooperation deals are expected to be signed during the meeting as the trading relationship between the two sides has been growing. now let's get some more on the story with our correspondents saying i'm so in taipei and barbro whistle and brussels barbara let me start with you the european union just reassessed its stance toward china criticizing its influence in europe and labeling the country a systematic rival how is this changed attitude likely to impact the talks. that is going of course to impact the talks because this is the first meeting after the e.u. really really assessed its relationship with china and its position towards china in the last years if we look at it i mean these complaints you already mentioned intellectual property say after dumping state aid that was hidden electoral friends parents the like of market access i mean there's a long range that already has been there it's always been known european business always complained about this and now fine of the lead the e.u. has said

member of the european union your g.d.p. grew by a massive four point nine percent that's a good result inside the e.u. . but inside the e.u. has been good for your economy not a question hasn't of course it hasn't i mean really the point nine percent growth in g.d.p. isn't a good result you did notice to twenty percent drop during the two thousand and nine and ten twenty percent. of what you think the two other countries doesn't but now does it now and european union has no business when you have to hark back to the g.d.p. growth this european union is for preventive constituted the other has nothing to do with one of the fastest growing we can't have it all of the ways in you're going to have your harking back to five years ten years ago here but ten years where you are in the middle of a class where the recession and it was i saw two thousand and seven there was a very good global year for growth as well i mean you can't have it both ways we were in your opinion in ten years ago and we were we were a country the most with

union to the u.s. in the past year we are talking about roughly four hundred ninety billion dollars now those new tariffs are for goods in the amount of eleven billion so it's minor in that sense but certainly there is an easy miss if we might be seeing some tit for tat so now that the european union might answer and that could provoke us president donald trump and his administration once again and that's where the danger lies so that those two sides will actually start a fight it was the each other and that could potentially lead to some escalation but who knows maybe the u.s. administration is using this case as a leverage show for some other trade talks and still open for example if the u.s. will impose tariffs in the near future. but yes this attack on airbus is also coming at a time where boeing could use a boost hardly a coincidence but it is well if we just look at the facts i mean this dispute dates back to the year two thousand and four as we've just heard earlier so it's fourteen fifteen year

which of course is true outside the european union. did reports on what i consider to be historic agreement it proves is that we are over focused on matters relating to brics it's an insufficiently focused on other matters that we work on so yes i'm very happy that an agreement has been reached amongst the twenty seven i think it was essential to demonstrate its. c twenty seven stand united in their analysis and in action and in october we'll see what happens all along you know they are meeting with two long beach. thank you and the floor is now open for your questions and i think the first question goes to chris is the gentleman to all right. thank you bourbon is chris morris and b.b.c. and president as you said the extension is a little shorter than you expected isn't it from your perspective in some ways the worst of both worlds not short enough to really put on the pressure in the u.k. parliament to get a deal passed quickly but not long enough to allow you to set aside breaks it to focus on other things for any useful period of ti

will leave the european union without any deal without any provision for the future which would have dire consequences for business business all very afraid of the northern ireland business in particular they are so dependent on the european union for for all that trade so this is something that reason may says she wants to this is why she goes over to labor but still to say something that most parliamentarians are trying in a parallel process also to block but we know if there is no deal in london a further withdrawal agreement isn't signed if there isn't another extension with the european union that this will be the this will be what's going to happen and just over a week's time ok that is a big cultural she has the april twelfth deadline looming let's assume that theresa may managed to get labor on board when can we see parliament voting again. well there really is not much time if she wants to look for another extension and i presume that the talks also with labor have to take some time she has to really get this off the ground in the next days because there is another summit in

s departure from the european union also coming up tonight nato secretary general u.n. stilton bag is in washington to mark nato's seventieth anniversary but first a meeting with one of nato's biggest critics u.s. president donald trump and smiles and selfies as a decades long feud is laid to rest greek prime minister alexis tsipras pays a first historic visit to his counterparts in the newly renamed north macedonia. i bring golf it's good to have you with this we're going to get to those stories in just a moment but we have breaking news to report algerian state media is reporting that the president. has stepped down this after the head of the army today called on him to quit immediately the eighty two year old has been in office for twenty years after weeks of mass protests said it just yesterday that he would. resigned before his term ends on april twenty eighth but hundreds of students once more hit the streets of the capital today they've been calling for the entire political elite to be removed we're going to bring you more on this story as it develops again the p

what's the connection between bread but home and the european union he knows guild contests p.w. correspondent and avid baker can stretch this second line with the words set up by the team. snapping recipes for success of the strategy that make a difference. baking bread on d.w. . when the water starts rising the fight for survival money based on a budget because of money but when there's a flood water comes up to a waist on your clothes fast every morning. but a lack of water is equally dangerous. based on keep people move south so they can plant crops and find food. floods and droughts food climate change become the main driver of mass migration you couldn't write any apocalyptic scenario if you want and probably most of them to come from. the climate exodus starts to fall thirtieth on t.w. . place. this is you know we news live from berlin the moment of truth britain's theresa may stare. down another deadline with a request to the european union for another briggs extension she's in brussels hoping for a delay until summer but e.u. leaders have other ideas through those lines

union and brics it could give a big push to those forces and is there anything that the european union can do to counter that i hope that they will be doing it this even when they give a long flexible extension for brics it could that give the democratic process which will end up with a second referendum on britain maybe some staying in the you which would be if. it's for europe or with a softer brit both. for europe and you think that there is also in europe inception that britain needs to go through this i hear more and more the argument in continental europe that. britain is going to be such a problematic member of the u. the metaphor of poison is used but if we're thinking about long term for decades the prospects of the european union long in relation to china trumps america to climate change then it's clearly better to have britain inside so it wouldn't be easy initially but we'd get through it and we'd be a better place at the end what do you think if there was no deal what would be the actual outcome what would it mean for for their relations with the e.u. i think it would be p

crashes out of the european union it's not the fault of the european union but of the u.k. that's the message that we might call it strands vein here and the third one and that's the most important one of course if you have the irish prime minister is that the e.u. will stand by their land no matter what happens and of course it's in the interest of ireland to avoid a hard border between northern ireland and ireland and that's what the whole business of the backstop was for those so this is insurance policy basically to avoid the hard border but i can tell you this here in brussels many ambassadors many diplomats have been looking into the eyes of the irish every day asking are you sure about this isn't it better maybe to limit the backstop let's say for four or five years then the u.k. crashing out of the e.u. without a deal because that would mean immediately reinstalling the border between northern ireland and ireland and i can tell you nobody is ready for that ok now the british prime minister position is coming under increasing pressure from. now let's listen to what o

attention from the european union so m.p.'s are looking to table this in parliament and then effectively force the prime minister to go for this option now we don't know yet whether they will get it through so far and these have already been able to unite behind any. new alternative option they are sort of bricks and that hasn't happened yet but we know that they are going to try this. in london thank you so much. now let's look at what else is going on in the world outside your window the dispute between the two between the nations of greece and north of macedonia it's the end of a decades long dispute the greek prime minister alexis tsipras has met his north macedonian counterpart the dispute between the two nations was because of a name macedonia it wasn't only the name of a country but also of a greek province ever since greek has water greece is worried that the shared name demonstrates that a new unit the new nation has further territorial ambitions so greeks vetoed its neighbors efforts to join international institution

who didn't know do you will never be the european union's decision on the coup we have worked for an agreement for a treaty that is much more than just a deal. provides guarantees for breaks it creates uncertainty for e.u. citizens and for ours and it's more than a deal it's a treaty. that's the take from. there's also indications that france's president emanuel mccrone may be softening his stance when it comes to the links of this delay he's favored a short extension so far how long of an extension will paris tolerate now. that we will figure out tomorrow it is very likely and that's the way the european union operates it's going to be something between the one that i'm going to america finds tolerable and these three to maybe four or five months that chrome's. really find suitable so let's say late fall or maybe right after christmas something like that is in the realm often possible and likely and mccraw really emphasizes different things here because he is worried about the european union being posen from within not only by the possible emergence off the back bad boys of bread on

carmakers the european union's antitrust regulators says volkswagen b.m.w. and dime were colluded to limit the development and rolled out of the missions cleaning technology in cars the finding comes four years after both swaggered admitted cheating on the mission's tests in the united states thousands of anti-government demonstrators are marching through the algerian capital for a seventh consecutive friday they're calling for a change of government the latest rally comes just days after pressure from the army and street protests force the ailing president abilities beautifully to step down after twenty years in power. while in neighboring libya a powerful militia is moving in on the capital tripoli in the last few hours troops commanded by a warlord general khalifa haftar have begun deploying around the city it's an escalation of a power struggle that has raged in libya since the fall of the dictator moammar gadhafi back in two thousand and eleven the united nations chief and tonio terrorist was in tripoli today where he held talks trying to avert a new ci