all this is still up in the room a sphere brant that there is a rumor that the forty eight letters that are needed formally to to get no confidence vote against a reserve make going are in fact already laid down and problem and now there is no confirmation of that and we've heard rumors like that several times before by the might also be true in any case quite a number of those that is against her have been laid down and so this is once and what happens then nobody knows she might win it but it still would show her that to get this deal through palm and it's at one point in december is going to be extremely difficult or almost impossible. over hazel in london on the story for us tonight barbara thank you very much. well the response from brussels came immediately the e.u.'s chief negotiator michel barnier welcomed the draft parts that agreement here's part of what he had to say. now this agreement. is the decisive crucial step in concluding these negotiations this negotiation has never been and it never will be one against the other. never i have always said that we negotiating with the

thank you very much, robin brant, i know you will follow that story throughout the week, and we will watch that on asia business report. meanwhile the us midterm elections arejust one day meanwhile the us midterm elections are just one day away. the last time america went to the polls was to elect donald trump in 2016. that was the outcome which caught many i think it would be fair to say including the stock—market by surprise. until a couple of months ago stopped prices have soared in the trump administration and the bbc has asked investors in new york what they are expecting this time around. we have seen technology suffer, the industrials have suffered, does it give an opportunity in bonds and gold? that give an opportunity in bonds and gold ? that is give an opportunity in bonds and gold? that is the question. sometimes it takes longer for the market to snap back. sometimes it takes longer for the market to snap backlj sometimes it takes longer for the market to snap back. i don't think the election has anything to do with the election has anything to do with the market. depend

you know it's interesting brant we're into day five now of this fire in butte county i'm joining you right now from sacramento we're about a hundred miles south of where what's known as the camp fire has been going on and it's a day five that there's there's a conflicting need for the fire crews on the one hand they're still very much fighting an active fire they only report twenty five percent containment around this fire and it's now up to one hundred thirteen thousand acres which is a stunning amount of land to the burned but then on the flip of that they have more than two hundred people who in this area in a town called paradise are still considered to be missing and with the death toll already reported at twenty nine people they have brought in forensic anthropology teams to come in with portable d.n.a. labs to go from door to door of homes that have been reduced to ash looking for bone fragments trying to identify were victims may have lost their lives. i mean that's a sobering assessment right there is there is one that you are giving is an earlier today the even tira county

thank you very much brant and i have to say it was always going to come to this it was always going to be between the two extremes of hard bricks and no deal or at least somehow staying within the european union there was always going to be some kind of messy compromise in the middle which to reason my hopes will satisfy enough people to get through parliament from what we've seen of the deal and of course it is still emerging as we speak she has ploughed a pharo takes britain out of the european union as expected on march the twenty ninth it keeps britain in the customs union well beyond the leaving dates while the country sorts out its final end stage relationship with the european union and it is the details of that which will be pored over most closely just to see whether that is on the words of the brics it is a betrayal of brics it ties britain too closely or isn't facts the best compromise possible in what is what is your is just ridiculous media does leave britain in the customs union so technically with braids it means brags that it really does it it does. well at least person

well not really brant most analysts that have taken a look at the agreement would conclude that it is not significantly different to the original nafta agreement maybe the only very important aspect is that considering that nafta was signed in one thousand nine hundred three that it includes a lot of digital aspects that did not exist at the time but other than that and other than the concessions that it made for some of the dairy industries and the automotive industry for the united states it essentially is still a free trade agreement between canada mexico and the united states maybe that is a sort of relief for people participating at the g twenty summit as it is a multilateral agreement and a commitment to free trade by those three countries but you have to put things in perspective and take a look at all the damage that the uncertainty during these years has actually caused when donald trump was essentially suggesting that it would end nafta at all and have no free trade agreement with its two neighboring countries companies stopped investing companies could not plan companies fi

brant tell us you know you can say that donald trump didn't win the popular vote in the u.s. two years ago to really win it now but i think in the eyes of a lot of europeans they're hoping that this vote will be the popular vote that tells them what americans really think about donald trump and we have heard time and time to get over the last two years that people don't understand the u.s. electoral college system and they know that hillary clinton got more of the popular vote so they feel like the voters in the united states either were ripped off or europeans have told us many times they don't understand what the voters are thinking so tonight i think a lot of people are hoping to get clarity from the u.s. voter and that's what they could do we'll have to see how they vote brant you know this is as we've been saying the most closely watched midterm election that we've seen really in a generation what were you particularly looking out for well i mean i think it's important to note that in a lot of europeans have said that they hope that foreign policy changes and that's not

well not really brant most analysts that have taken a look at the agreement would conclude that it is not significantly different to the original nafta agreement maybe the only very important aspect is that considering that nafta was signed in one thousand nine hundred three that it includes a lot of digital aspects that did not exist at the time but other than that and other than the concessions that it made for some of the dairy industries and the automotive industries for the united states it essentially is still a free trade agreement between canada mexico and the united states maybe that is a sort of relief for people participating at the g twenty summit as it is a multilateral agreement and a commitment to free trade by those three countries but you have to put things in perspective and take a look at all the damage that the uncertainty during these years has actually caused when donald trump was essentially suggesting that it would end nafta at all and have no free trade agreement with its two neighboring countries companies stopped investing in companies could not plan compani

good evening brant well this is obviously going down exceedingly well here being taken at least by the government being seen as a sign that the west is willing to pile on the diplomatic pressure on russia and especially welcome since that call for petro poroshenko or nato to up its presence in the black sea fell on deaf ears so this is really the only thing i think for now that ukraine can hope for is greater diplomatic pressure potentially some more sanctions on russia and that's a much they're going to get and the german chancellor angela merkel she has blamed russia for sparking this latest conflict but stresses that she will meet with wedeman at the g twenty summit so what role from where your what role can germany play as a mediator here. well just let's stop there bret i think it's pretty unheard of the tone with which angela merkel really placed responsibility not just with russia but personally with that image putin for creating this problem by building that bridge of the strait of courage which allows russia to restrict access that really was something new she had the ukraine

that video let's take a look it is just crazy how long people have to wait we go to your home state brant this is your orth carolina the video shows two to three hours to get inside this polling station but eight thousand registered voters here in that area not enough polling stations to go around in atlanta georgia battleground states a night a local reporter here on the ground documenting saying hundreds of voters here waited hours this morning see cuz there were only really voting machines not enough take a look at this line this is also in georgia a local voter here capturing this scene that is just going all the way down the hall. you know george judges in georgia actually kept those polls open than they should have been originally this is in new york some voters actually giving up their walking out saying it's too long a two hour long wait apparently some of the machines there were broken lots of crowding we saw even bigger problems broken scanners. shortage of voting that cereals and even as you will see here faulty voting machines this video taken by voter in indiana you can see h

voter and that's what they could do we'll have to see how they vote brant you know this is as we've been saying the most closely watched midterm elections that we've seen really in a generation what were you particularly looking out for well i mean i think it's important to know that a lot of europeans have said that they hope that foreign policy changes and that's not probably not going to happen and this vote will not give congress the power to do anything that it hasn't been doing already in terms of foreign policy but it will if the democrats do take the house they will have this oversights power to maybe challenge the president which has not happened in the last two years the other thing i think is important to watch is that the governors and the people who win these congressional seats tonight. they will be in power in two thousand and twenty with the next us since this is taken and that is important because then over the country new district lines will be drawn for voting that is a tremendous power to have if you were in power when those lines are drawn and politicians in the us t

the pound is down and up new volatility for the british currency as brant said turbo all takes its toll on starting also the program kids in south africa look for a better future writing computer code. or business on christopher kober welcome to the program as british prime minister theresa may forges ahead with her brags of plans the pound has gained half a percentage point on friday clawing back some of its losses after a substantial slide overnight traders have feared the political turmoil could see the u.k. crash out of the european union without a break the deal sterling's volatility is the highest since twenty sixteen it's lost more than two percent against the dollar since tuesday old grandma made came to a preliminary agreement with the european you've business owners fear that without a deal in place supply chains might abruptly be cut when britain leaves the bloc in march not despite the mounting opposition to ms mace proposal some british companies see it as their best hope. the prime minister is desperate for a huge and damaging side of the deep deep misgivings they all seem

tensions everything is ok as we can expect a very smooth only ninety minutes of scene from the summit ok brant listen the deal that is due to be signed off to morrow is this then the blueprint of the future relationship between britain and the e.u. . the blueprint is a twenty six page long political declaration that will be signed tomorrow this is a long list of future cooperation issues from trade over to military security cooperation to everything that is actually on the plate between two states and they now have two years to negotiate a new treaty concerning all this in this long very long wishlist if this does not happen then the great britain with northern ireland bridge stay just in a customs union with the e.u. for good and this of course is that. city is oppose very fiercely and so the question is very common the british parliament ok this deal this is foreseen for december but is anything but certain that the prime minister may has a majority in the house of commons for the deal ok burns in brussels thank you for that the united nations is marking the international day for the elimina

breaks a deal through parliament it looks like it's the least of to read to me these problems indeed brant because it comes a bit later of the four that she has to deal was her cabinet have a ravaging members with her own backbenchers stabbing her in the back and was bullets flying of course from the do you see the northern irish unionist party that is propping up her government so yes she has her hands full and what we serve so early in the evening is that she decided to come out fighting and the is stifling thing about that is that i think stubbornness might be the main characteristic off trees of may one choose second of course she will like it ceria just carry on and go on doing the same thing and saying the same thing over again until people just give up in desperation and it seems they she's trying to wear them down by sheer stubbornness and determination to go ahead you know let's take a listen to want the prime minister said just a few moments ago. leadership is about taking the right decisions not the easy ones as prime minister my job is to bring back a deal that delivers on the

leaders have endorsed a brants a deal at a special summit in brussels. to bring the best of course you could for europe. you see only course. european commission president sean kohut young said it was a bad day for the european union. british prime minister to be so may says she doesn't share that sadness and is calling one had country to move on may now faces the challenge of pushing the deal through her own parliament the opposition labor party has already said it will vote against it. i'm a dick you money welcome to the program the european union has officially agreed on a divorce deal for britain's departure from the block it took the heads of the e.u. is twenty seven of the nation's just an hour special summit in brussels it will fishel said they were sad that the u.k.'s withdrawal but stressed the bloc in britain would remain partners and friends u.k. is a prime minister to resume a britain's to support the deal but it won't be plain sailing bridge is a position labor parties say they will vote against the deal when it's put to parliament in just o

and help us understand how will martial law protect ukrainians from aggression by russia good evening brant well this has been a very stormy day even by the relatively lively standards of ukraine's parliament the rada just in the last few hours so we've seen this martial law passed what exactly that will mean concrete terms that seems to all of confusion as the exact terms but we know it's going to be in place for thirty days and applied to ten regions along ukraine's borders especially those borders next to. russia and of the russian occupied crimea what this is about is about civil liberties about basically sex facing potentially some civil liberties temporarily for the greater good of the country as the government would have it so that means potentially employer imposing temporary censorship restricting freedom of assembly and also giving the police greater powers and even potentially mobilizing reserve it so that the president said he will only do that if there are further acts of russian intervention in ukraine as he put it i think the really important thing to remember here is that. i

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brant actually we have just reached the peak of today's ceremony here the last post is going to be played by the fire brigade from belgium as it has been played since nine hundred twenty eight so let me show you a few of the pictures from my camera man can zoom in of what we see here this is quite a ceremonial moment we're standing under the many in gates it's the key gateway or memorial site if not the key memorial site winston churchill once said about the side this is the most sacred place for britain in all of the world to hundred fifty thousand british soldiers died in each per cent and round in flanders fields and all around in this memorial site you have the names of fifty thousand more than fifty thousand british soldiers engraved who have died in an unknown place. ok thank you very much the media brings over simon hughes in the studio with me simon we see the commemorations of where the fighting actually took place and where the fighting indeed one hundred years ago but we know that there's one point of all of this commemoration today is to think about the situation of world peac

elsewhere the chicago blackhawks snaps an eight game losing streak brant seabrook score the only goal of the game against the saloons blues while corey roll for it might twenty eight saves to end his first shutout in more than a year. oh i thought so we've got few right now back to end london. thanks very much and catch up any time met with all the news on our web site address that is al jazeera dot com that's it from made aren't any of us news more intimate. thirty five years we've had many proud moments around the world and in the sky and now starting from october twenty ninth churches share alliance will be checking off from the new aviation center of the world for a new journey. history has called it the great war in the final episode of the two sides fight themselves to a standstill while britain and france conspire behind closed doors to produce a secret agreement that will shape the middle east for the century to come world war one through our other oddities on al-jazeera. we understand the differences. and the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take

elsewhere the chicago blackhawks snapped an eight game losing streak brant seabrook scored the only goal of the game against the st louis blues while corey crawford made twenty eight saves to end his first shutout in more than a year. or i that is all your sport and i will have more later on. paul the health authorities in the united states have altered restrictions on soles of east cigarettes targeting young smokers the proposal solo's surgeon vaporing among young people how did you castro has more. the u.s. surgeon general reports that for each adult who dies from smoking in america two teens or young adults become new smokers that's why despite a decade's long anti-tobacco campaign aimed at young people three million high school students and six hundred thousand middle school students are now smoking in the u.s. and isa gretz are hugely popular feel like have them in their jackets like well hold on not just in like in class and things like by u.s. law and makes smoking or basic illegal for anyone under age eighteen get the most popular brand new cigarettes jewel is available at most c

the bbc‘s srobin brant was at the conference. the bbc‘s robin brant was at the conference. an audience of experts listened and question. they were polite but unmistakably hostile and the big worry is transparency. he said an hour inside there, defending work but he was light on detail and that is problematic. he did reveal that his work is the review but several experts but did not give names. he said chinese law meant he could not say the names of the parents of these two girls or where they live but there was one intriguing revelation and he said there is another pregnancy and very early stages involving embryo his team has genetically edited. this seems to be a hugely significant but highly controversial scientific breakthrough at its epicentre questions about the ethics of this human intervention. particularly the scientist who helped create the technique the team used. highly inappropriate. irresponsible and something that should not have happened and certainly not in the way that it appears to have been done. i think that it‘s incredibly disappointing to see the tec

dan: a week ago, this was the center of a brant town. now it is drained of color and devoid of life. and it is people like bill who gave this place its character.th this is first time you have seen your house, bill. >> first time. dan: there's not a lot left. >> this is the porch, this is the living room, this is my bedroom, that was her bedroom, actors the kitchen. -- that was e kitchen. the kitchen. it is scorched earth. it is clear. dan: how are you dealing with this? how you deal with it? >> man. dan: bill managed to save some pets as he faced the flames driving to safety. he picked up a neighbor and headed right into the firestorm. he was the last person from his street to make it out of paradise alive. y >>, people, it is blowing. it is hot. dan: what happens next what do you do? >> rebuild, restart, start life again. i'm alive. i've got the clothes on my back. i've got my family. i've got a lot of people. dan: can paradise be rebuilt? >> it can be rebuilt. we get to start anew. 95% gone, prty much a slate ard. start over again. th

that's an enormous question brant and you don't trump has played on that from the from the beginning in terms of knowing that the television in particular was reliant on him and getting great ratings from him when is right when his camp is presidency was starting that president c.b.s. said that the trump was a gold mine essentially and it's been that case ever since i know that even c.n.n. has been studying and worrying about what in the world they'll do in terms of how they'll get ratings after trump whenever that is i think it's largely a television problem i think that i'm not trying to pat newspapers on the back but it's less so of the major newspapers in this country they're not reliant on trump in the same way for circulation although certainly both the new york times in the washington post and flora's during this period but i would say it's more because of the need for truth and the search for truth and the need for ratings but but you raise that very fair article raises a very profound question i don't have the answers to but i agree with much of what it was. you know what is

speaking about that shortly for we can just or not will be talking about that a little later in fact brant sorry about that it's close to friday instead we're going to be talking about zealand's because the german industrial powerhouse of a company has told e.w. the c.e.o. in fact that the german industrial companies one of the companies actually pulled out of a saudi investor conference following the murder all of a distant journalist. joe kaiser said that business as usual was no longer possible with the kingdom in the wake of the killing. the fact is that we did not sign a significant deal which was worth north of ten dippy and that's true but obviously you know things go as they go and i've always made it clear we had a very reliable partner competent partner of the kingdom of saudi arabia who have more than thirty million people mostly young people in the kingdom there has been a lot of reforms which have been initiated so i think we need to look at all factors the things which really really are bent well in the kingdom the recent thread the thirty is a very very promising. mission an

good evening brant well present has presented some intelligence evidence to ukrainian journalists just in the last few hours which he says shows russia upping the numbers of tanks along ukraine's borders and that's a very difficult to verify independently and there are plenty of present person because internal critics in ukraine who accusing him of political of trying to change the sort of terms the public discourse had of next year's presidential elections with the polls looking pretty bad for him in recent weeks and trying to you know present himself as a sort of commander in chief in that way having said that this is different to the situation we've had in the last months and years this was ukrainian professional troops standing off gets russian professional troops whereas if the conflict in don't dast is via the proxy of russian backed separatists that is something new and is worrying development present said he tried to call that image putin on the weekend to discuss this but the kremlin wouldn't take his calls you know interesting they're calling it we know that a russian court t

that's a good question brant because nothing really has been a great what's on the table is the latest version off a draft agreement that could be struck now if the british side finally stops negotiating with itself and sort of saying either yes or no to what we've seen the two negotiators here in brussels from that you saw it and the lead negotiators and the british side bent over this forty page tax of very dense legal language for several days and nights now and they have come to a point where they say ok this is it we can go and you for the london will finally have to agree or say no to it and what this is about is only the divorce agreement the terms and conditions on which britain is going to leave the e.u. in march of next year and this of course bring concerns everything from the rights of citizens living on one or the other side to the money that britain needs to pay to finally the did the crucial and the devolution question of how are they going to solve the ireland problem and that is really what london now has to deal with and bigger that is the question right i mean is the

well good evening brant it's good to be back home to your program and have this opportunity to send a very clear message to your viewers about where we actually are at this moment enjoying the tweet that you refer to makes it absolutely clear that the only people today that have resigned from government in the united kingdom what people who were committed to break that is not just committed briggs it is they are committed to a certain type of brakes it which is by and large people who are committed to a no deal exit from the european union now that is not something which delivers the referendum result that the people of the united kingdom voted for in the referendum and by removing themselves from government that now give us the opportunity to carry out a centrist and center right reform program for the united kingdom i mean deed it leaves a prime minister now free of the shackles that these people had placed around to try and get deals through the house of commons i don't say that lightly i know that that is a tremendous challenge that she sees ahead of us and as i do the arithmetic

and after a short break brant will be back to take you so stick around. entered the conflict zone confronting the powerful. this week in a special edition cummings own is coming to you from the ball in policy for my guest says the veteran buffalo syrian chief negotiator america. he sees dream of an independent state ever came true for what would it look like a conflict so for sixty minutes he don't. look closely. carefully. since she needs to get a good. match. discover who. subscribe to the documentary on youtube. climate change. waste. pollution. isn't it time for good news eco and africa people and projects that are changing no one environment for the better it's up to us to make good. let's. do it for the farming magazine. on d w. who's afraid of letterman putin the u.s. special envoy in ukraine was in berlin today proof that u.s. president wants europe to deal with the escalating tensions between ukraine and russia tonight i ask if moscow pushes too far will washington simply get out of the way i board gotham berlin this is the day.

news after a short break brant will be back to take your sort of a team coverage of twenty so stick around. russia is becoming a hotbed of any it's accompanied by a lack of information and stigmatize ation in some cities h.i.b. is spreading rapidly. here in several iraq russia's age i think it be dead because been moving to a new phase making a definitive transition from the so-called fall on the rebel groups to the bane population h.i.v. in russia what. sixty minutes on d w. the fast pace of life into digital more. shift as the lowdown on the web showing new developments and providing useful information on the witness finds and interviews with makers and users. should include five minutes. how about taking a few risks you could even take a chance on was. raring to go. don't expect a happy ending. dump the church or bust was just struck. the thirteenth meeting of the g. twenty will be taking place for the first time in a south american country here and when osiris i didn't enough a country struggling with an economic crisis an increased public touré goodwill the nationalist trade agenda o

is a spot victory because when she when we just heard her talk about impassioned debate that really brant is sort of code for we fought like cats in a sack because in it within these five hours they have a rumors coming out of downing street that some tory brecht's tears were absolutely infuriated and that she really had a hard time to get them to sort of back her up and go along was the deal and so this is a first step but it is she's not there yet i mean many have thought she would fall to today when the meeting lasted so long everybody said oh this is go horribly wrong and then finally once more we must say she emerged victorious but nothing is for sure yet and we know that she has to go to parliament tomorrow and tried to do the same thing there and is that going to be as easy and i'm saying i'm using the word here easy very. carelessly i'm going to be the as easy as it was tonight. it's going to be much more difficult because of course she will have the full brunt of the hard story of rex it tears against her who do who do stand up in parliament and voice their opinion as she will ha

traded up just a little above six fifty six dollars per barrel at nymex as did the global benchmark brant crude which trades at the intercontinental which change in europe ice futures europe in london which closed just above sixty six dollars per barrel and here are those numbers at the closing bell we. are both of the systems to spaceballs. i don't course on the syria. world's going to say they support the business with the most intuitive because look . this is. the food. but it's not on the front of us not i'll show tonight. the cases that i know is that. to look at them what are the funniest or flaw with most home from the show such as the fluid somos. as the media become unhinged in there of trump the president's most ardent critics in the media hang on his every word news cycle after news cycle are all about trump and much of this coverage is negative as journalism lost its purpose are journalists now nothing more than ideological advocates. pranking gave americans a lot of job opportunities i needed to come up here to make some money i could make twenty five thousand dollars as a te

robin brant is in shanghai. hello. another round of tariffs increasing some pretty already hefty tariffs, is china worried by this? there is no doubt this trade war will escalate significantly either beginning of next year when the us is due to increase its tariffs on about $200 billion worth of goods from here to the us, from 10—25%. president trump is saying he is highly unlikely to see to any possible chinese demands to not go ahead with that increase. you'll says that in this interview with the wall streetjournal that if says that in this interview with the wall street journal that if he says that in this interview with the wall streetjournal that if he does not get a deal he wants when he meets president xi on the periphery of the g20 meeting in argentina in a few days' time, he is fully prepared to go ahead with an even further escalation and impose tariffs on the remaining $250 billion worth of trade going from china to the us. is this just presummit tactics? is this a president fully prepared to go. the head