doesn't want to force britain into a hard break said it has to give it more time because britain is not able to reach a decision. more time but how can bristol support britain if it doesn't even know what it once. was a. better if it's most brussels can support britain with continuity. it has to be made clear to negotiate it breaks it more dottie's. which for many represent a balanced compromise will not be undone. but also that if it's a question of gaining time so that britain can decide what it wants and figure out the consequences of a hard break. then this will be accommodated. and then britain can decide whether it wants a new referendum or whether there should be a general election or if it just needs time so that the public can understand the situation. and get out of u.c. berkeley. but london only has a two year transition period in which perspiring can be. about i think there's need for time is due to the fact that britain itself doesn't really know what it's done. before and it had a completely false understanding of what's to go shooting position and the alternatives on the

former head of m i six and head of britain's armed forces writing to m.p.'s not to vote for a deal defeated on legal advice defeated on time table defeated on our finance bill and found in contempt of parliament itself some mainstream u.k. media claims the crises she faces are unprecedented in modern political history joining me now is the man who was lord chancellor under margaret thatcher and john major and who now holds the oldest surviving office of state in scotland lord mci of clash lord makai welcome to going underground to tell me about the law. last time you saw a government that could have these problems even putting a finance bill through parliament let alone heading for a defeat over legislation that took two years to prepare for i. don't recall during my time anything quite like that but of course we're in a various special situation it worth seeking to break the vote of the people link that has lasted for a long time and in which we have become very integrated in the european union and therefore separating that dick here is a very difficult tas

hello and welcome to quadriga international talk show coming to you from berlin i'm brian thomas britain and its european partners are struggling right now to come up with some solutions after the parliamentary vote that inflicted the worst defeat in modern history upon a british prime minister by a surprisingly wide margin the commons rejected teresa mayes hard won but unpopular plan for leaving the european union and with no deal the clock is ticking ever louder that's because the e.u. withdrawal pact passed after the bracks referendum mandates that the country leave the union on march twenty ninth but with may's deal now dad what lies ahead for britain and for europe. no way out of the chaos we're going to try to chart some possible ways out of the chaos today with our guests andreas clues editor in chief of on most blot today says in the current situation a second referendum is the least bad option alan posner is a british german author writing for the german newspaper develop he says there's only one way out of this mess parliament must tell the people the truth membership is the be

between eighty and ninety percent of our exports either go to or via great britain britain is alarmed bridge so arlen can't send its goods directly from its own shores to mainland europe their own there isn't the ferry capacity so it goes across there is sea primarily to ports in wales and then it goes either to the u.k. as a who or it goes to the cotton to dover or other southern ports we don't want it to be extended up they are a sea to our shores because the boss spoke of our trade is done with. great britain and that is is the case the total exports to the whole of the world from they are sure public over those exports one point six percent go to know the moment. of the irish republic total imports from the whole of the world one point six percent come from northern hutton's so thought is people don't get that they level of trade not even reporting on earth there is no real border there the movement will you say you've got you've got a currency border you've got a v.a. t. border you've got all that talk so the tax authorities in each side reporter of those or irish government figu

we'll britain have. alex forrest whiting is d.w. reporter and former west minister political correspondent she says it's now up to parliament to find a consensus that will prevent no deal bracks. did all of us to our viewers around the world alex if i could start with you you say it's all about consensus right now but how can bridge and european politicians come up with a deep deal that they've been unable to find over the last two years in just a few weeks it's a very good question and everything is on the table particularly in the british parliament the e.u. has made it very clear heads of government members of the e.u. have made it clear that it has to come down at the moment to the u.k. what does the u.k. want what does british parliament want and the honest answer to that is it does not know there are all these different factions within parliament some want a hot for even a no deal all this want a second referendum much softer at the moment in my mind it seems that parliament that the m.p.'s they need to come together and they

the dilemma the britain's in and we've got to find a way out of it so what's britain going to look like in the next ten years will it be so great look the one thing i'd say it is important to say this to any outside audience we're having a pretty profound and crisis written debate in britain right now but britain is a great country and the british people are great people will get on our feet again so you know whatever happens even if we can passionately opposed to break that but even if we do breaks it you know we will sort ourselves out and we'll get back on our feet and we'll we'll move forward so this is not simply about britain either what i'd say to any audience in europe is this is about europe do you pull a logic on a me out of europe a major political player out of europe europe's weaker so this is why if we can find a way and there's a letter recently from german politicians that was actually very helpful very sensible letter. signed by you know the leaders of some of the main parties in germany this is this is what we need to do we need to realise both of us europeans british

let's be honest the future of britain is still murky until that's resolved all bets are off. turn now to colombia a deadly car bomb attack in the capital go with a has raised fears of a return to the country's violent past at least twenty one people were killed in the attack on a police training academy there was such incident in the city in sixteen years the bomb was reported to have links to colombia's only remaining guerrilla group the national liberation army. can colombia expect a new wave of terrorist his hacks. after the car bomb at the police academy people are worried about what will come next president even visited the scene and called the attack cowardly if we're not talking it is an attack on all of society. this terrorist act will not go unpunished we will not stand back and let our people be attacked to get you to say we should only mean. the car bomb went off and nine thirty in the morning it's thought to have contained eighty kilograms of explosives this suicide bombing was timed to coincide with a graduation ceremony at the academy. according to the state pro

should be making britain an offer to stay. if brakes had were off the table europe could finally concentrate on the future again it would do well to act now so that it's not left behind in competition with china and the us light it's time to talk about a new european economic policy in the us consumer sector there is the digital platform economy in china we see how industry is rapidly digitizing and one of the big issues here is what is the future of digital infrastructure for european industry and davros is of course a forum where all that's being discussed. that. europe will try to set the tone in davos this year even though everything is being overshadowed by briggs it. and on briggs it british prime minister theresa may is facing mounting calls for a second referendum one of those voices belongs to former british prime minister tony blair blair is in davos this week and he told correspondent ben physical and why he believes a new vote is necessary. as i understand that the idea is to to change the withdrawal agreement obvi

so where does britain go from there. it is clear that the house does not support this deal but tonight so tells us nothing about what it does support. businesses on both sides of bragg's it see the exit from the single market as the main disadvantage especially without any regulations or trade deals. business. very much because you have to see that british german trade for example is at one hundred eighty five billion a year and germany has a surplus with britain at about forty five billion a year germany of course due to this fact there will be immediately the necessity of to millions of new. duty procedures. to dealing with the regulations and this. will cost approximately. several hundreds of millions of euro for term and business great britain's economy will also suffer breaks it is already having a negative effect the c.b.i. announced this week that britain's financial sector as shrunk for the first time in five years the management consultancy ernst and young predicts that banks will shift their one trillion dollar

cooperation aviation group is located in germany france great britain and spain. production takes place across europe france as the largest operations with some forty eight thousand airbus employees across different sites germany is in second place with around forty four thousand workers in spain the aircraft manufacturer has thirteen thousand employees and almost eleven thousand five hundred people work for air bus in the u.k. that's where the wings are made in addition around four thousand british companies supply parts to the company so what could happen and event of a hard break that who airbus still be able to manufacture in great britain at all and no deal brags it would be bad for business in the country in britain more than one hundred thousand people working for suppliers could be gravely affected the effects would also be devastating for air bus itself the group has been working on contingency measures for a long time according to airbus in the short term warehouses will be set up to secure the supply of the missing parts but a playmaker may have to buil

cooperation aviation group is located in germany france great britain and spain. production takes place across europe france as the largest operations with some forty eight thousand air bus employees across different sites germany is in second place with around forty four thousand workers in spain the aircraft manufacturer has thirteen thousand employees and almost eleven thousand five hundred people work for air bus in the u.k. that's where the wings are made in addition around four thousand british companies supply parts to the company so what could happen and event of a hard break that who airbus still be able to manufacture in great britain at all and no deal brags it would be bad for business in the country in britain more than one hundred thousand people working for suppliers could be gravely affected the effects would also be devastating for air bus itself the group has been working on contingency measures for a long time according to airbus in the short term warehouses will be set up to secure the supply of the missing parts but the playmaker may have to b

you have won a lot of prizes outside of britain, more so than in britain and you have a loyal audience but you seem to have a certain amount of self—hate for the writer's life. benjamin trotter, one of your most famous characters, is an absurd figure in a way. the whole world of literary festival and literary prizes, you mock it mercilessly. are you sick of being a writer and is it time to do something else? i can't do anything else. why not? i don't have the option, i have no other skills. i mean, i've written books since i was eight years old, i wrote my first full—length novel when i was 16 and it's the only thing i seem to have any time for, really. i could teach, but i run into people every day are much better teachers than i would ever be. sitting in a room listening to imaginary conversations and it is a kind of absurd way for a grown man to spend his life, really, but somehow i've kind of spun it out to a career. i might as well see it through. jonathan coe, we must end it there, but thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thanks. hello. by the end of this forecast we wi

the britain woods institutions because there's a labor body here in britain that really expanded that kind of p.r. for private public ownership you're. saying it's the other way around but i mean companies some of these may not be in the developing world. lunches here maybe for as capita not karelian now because i think they went bust with our health care services they all say these kinds of partnerships are a great way of delivering health care and other civic society duties i mean i guess if you are a person in a developing country living in poverty that is on able to access health care or education because it's just fine actually i've reached that and not all commit just just doesn't wash well. your report you alluded to this earlier says i don't know whether this is against us or it's going to both of them we should be listening to real people you said absolutely. less listening to the elites that will be in davos today i think it's about these people recognizing what the real story is all behind statistics that. these numbers of rich people poor people i think the important thing

where we are britain is if we can use. germany oman what do you think israel really means presumably they thought it was mildly amusing no one's laughing about this in damascus where the bombs are dropping and many of those bombs come from israel. well while u.k. armed israeli soldiers fired missiles at syria u.k. armed soldiers from saudi arabia and the u.a.e. bombed the poorest country in the middle east yemen there was no warning for those living in the yemeni capital of this week's strikes described by some as the worst for a year joining me now is a journalist on the ground in sanaa hussein albuquerque hussein welcome to going underground i'm going to ask you first of all about the u.n. envoy martin griffiths making a allegedly surprise visit to yemen in the past forty eight hours what do you think he's there to achieve i think he come to set sweden agreement right or as we say here in sanaa to cover up the failure because till now what the saudi backed forces has not done the second step from the first stage of the w

being more pro british as it would like keeping britain in. more than let's say the french and there's a think tank in munich the evil institute that has laid this out very clearly in a in a complex click case. and the e. u. twenty seven must make a j. we get off their old shtick that there can be no cherry picking right in i like the defense to do differences compares rigid unions based on coercion like the ottomans the soviets the yugoslavian say sooner or later they just. break up absolutely lost and tastic stores so let us introduce flexibility and let the german chancellor. talk to the french and others who. are on the side of rigidity in say let us make some exceptions friends to the e. u. has with switzerland which is not formally part of it all sorts of a a package of deals that amounts to an exceptional relationship we can create an exceptional relations and others would. want to take it too and that way the you might survive because if if without that the we might. in five or ten or twenty years be talking about the e. u. just unrave

to britain. well it depends on the willingness of european negotiators to to offer this solution to the united kingdom a think british politicians would be very keen on undiscovered of solution but it depends them especially on brussels but involvement from the evil economic things i can unify thank you. in zimbabwe soldiers are patrolling the streets to deter a growing protests over shock rising fuel prices itself response to fuel shortages and the latest sign of the country's deteriorating economy things in zimbabwe were supposed to improve with the end of robert mugabe and grip on the country and did two years ago rain marked by stockpiling debt and soaring inflation. gasoline in zimbabwe takes days to get and it's now the most expensive in the world costing three dollars and thirty three cents per liter this for a nation where the majority lives in poverty inflation and shortages have returned to zimbabwe and with them anger at the government. has been going through to fifteen dollars for two

and as the impasse continues in britain opinion among the other members of the e.u. over the union's future appears more divided than ever. and let's step away from davos and take a look at the markets in new york our correspondent yens korda is standing by yen some negative trends today u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross saying trade talks with china are close to resolution and of course that continuing government shutdown investors don't really seem bothered today what's going on. yeah that was really interesting to see because there would have been plenty of reasons to sell into the stock market mess you mentioned commerce secretary. was saying in an interview with that the us is miles and miles away from reaching a deal with china we had quarterly results from ford to missing profit expectations and for the past year actually profit got caught by more than enough but still the stock traded to the upside we get reports that the big u.s. airlines could face some trouble with the ongoing shutdown but airline stocks rallied by a good six per cent with strong quarter

next week so what is next for britain you w.'s are lousy shelter sick fun some unexpected answers and. london business as usual but wait was there something to oh yeah breaks it for tonight have years now we journalists have followed the breaks to debate and vote again and again and we spoke to analyst after analyst and we still don't seem to be much smarter about the outcome of that well maybe it's time to look for some chart of ways to find answers if you really want to know the going on in the british capital ask the cabbies they are the keepers of the city's secrets the ones with the ears on the ground. as the milner has been driving a cab for ten years and discussions center on one thing in particular i mean that's all i ever talk about is. there is there is no subject not even not even football is just. what i believe what what what what i think is going to happen so what is going to happen to the fleet let's pull over for this one. to see affect. is coming in more people i would say all all interested in the in the. in hav

wien britain right now are less able to make imaginative leaps then we used to be. —— we in britain. because we are now so consumed used to be. —— we in britain. because we are now so consumed by this tribalism, in rout, saw them, black or white. it may be a failure of imagination. it may be, you know, a failure of the public discourse or the online discourse, a kind of online way of thinking which reduces everything to like or dislike, to binary oppositions. i am not sure what it is, really. but i feel that a novel has, can have, a constructive role to play, even if not a transformative role. where do you, jonathan coe, sitting all of this? iam you, jonathan coe, sitting all of this? i am mindful of your background. you call the book middle england, and specifically it is about england rather than britain. ina sense, about england rather than britain. in a sense, itjuxtaposes london metropolitan is with provincialism, as identified in the second city of learning, which isjust down as identified in the second city of learning, which is just down the motorway from london. —— l

it's not just a question of wanting britain to suffer all the macro. suggested that he thought they should suffer didn't know he said i mean and that's it shows us one thing it's not easy to access the european union not without cost not without consequences is that force but he wanted the suggestion is that he want to know to pay back a gesture that suggestion the matter of fact meaning the e.u. is a complicated process i don't think that anybody on either side of the channel would deny that would you do you know do you know anybody who would actually say that the process of leaving the e.u. is an easy one. well actually people in this country in britain certainly said it was an easy one but they've been proved wrong do you believe in a last minute deal the two sides taking it right down to the wire just to show that they've extracted all the concessions i'd like and frankly others i just like to make a point there is no one including the president in france who thinks that perhaps it is a good thing but there is a strong feeling in london that the fr

to britain. well it depends on the willingness of the european negotiate us to to offer this solution to the united kingdom i think british politicians would be very keen on this kind of solution but the it depends them especially in brussels but evolved from the evil economic think tank of uni thank you you thank. and that's all your business here's a reminder of the top stories we're following for you here. british prime minister . government face a vote of no confidence today off to lawmakers throughout the braggs it defeat creases the possibility of a just over the divorce from the european union. the seeds of a hotel complex in the kenyan capital. over kenyan president hu who are said all the attackers have been killed while fourteen innocent people have lost their lives he said more than seven hundred were rescued on home. and that's a job you can always get your news on the go just download from google play it all from the apple store. access to all the latest news from around the world as

and what does the future of corporate britain as its exit that exit from the e.u. approaches nothing is certainly goes and looking for on susan finds them in the most unlikely places and solution. being. alone but i'm a bit that shima good to have their company. jilin foreign minister high command says the cast straight is now open for shipping following mediation by but in the straits became a flashpoint between russia and ukraine two months ago speaking in moscow off to meeting his russian counterpart sergey lavrov not be able to send to russia has accepted a proposal from german chancellor on the american observers to monitor the strait which links the black sea to the sea off of ukraine temporarily imposed matia no off to russia captured three of its vessels in the cash stream to the russians also detained twenty four ukrainian seamen who were the crew of those three vessels with no nothing on buses for the main it is a correspondent emily shebeen joins me on the line from law school emily ma sais the k. street is open which is quite a breakthrough what well ca

britain did not. i think this helps us to understand some current events, particularly of the sort i said i wouldn't mention. the process of european integration, the signing of the treaty of her own, which set up .he original european community as the de facto peace treaty for western europe at the end of the second world war, this injury the line in a way under those years -- this drew a line in a way under those years. that takes you from 1939 to 1940 and then to 18 17, and then to the war of napoleon and louis the 14th. beatingtries have been each other and finally came to the recognition that if you can't beat them, join them. that is what they did there. france and germany coming into a new relationship with each other . has been at the heart of the european project ever since. and it ishe euro worth remembering that in 1990, germany is unified, france's fears of a unified germany are placated by the german willingness of the chancellor i giving up the deutsche mark, their chairs currency -- the

laura: what does this mean for britain's standing in the world as we approach the brexi britain is still in no and is -- u.n.mber of the u.s. security council. but how is it affecting britain's status? aminda: if you ask people wi the european union, they are becoming increteingly exaspewith the u.k. all of this is parliamentary churn in london that is not getting closer to a responsible brexit. for the united states, i clear that debates in london are solely on brexit, which means ey don't have the bandwidth to be an effective manner with the u.s. we other countries -- effective partner with the u.s. or otheral countries on gl challenges. laura: the referendum result was firmly, if narrowly, in favor of britain leaving the eu. but does what is going on parliament reflect the division .n the country? amanda: absolute as you say, it was very close referendum. 52-48. there are many calling for another referendum now although it could be close. your -- you are seeing that there is not a majority in ment for any specific ty of deal, and if you ask the british public, there probably is not go