Demand a return for ousted President Park to get the latest on a corruption trial from silwood. Blasts in the next sixty minutes an arctic storm dumped the beast from the east slams into europe temperatures have plunged to record lows killing at least seven people across the continent but also bringing the rest scenes of snow to rome. Part of a warm welcome to you im a bit touchy one of germanys top courts has ruled that municipal authorities are allowed to impose driving bans on diesel vehicles if they wish environmentalist have been calling for a diesel ban for you this if thousands of people a year die prematurely as a result of nitrogen dioxide emissions from disease. Exhausts authorities in some cities there in favor of peace bhatia ban but even if they did they dont believe that allowed them to impose these restrictions. Because one of assad has been following this story he joins me now from adi mentary studios i want to first of all tell us about the verdict and what it means we
Is this the start of the plastic free revolution . Are you embracing the change or hanging onto your plastic bags . Come and be part of the conversation and tell us what you think. The row between britain and the Europen Union over whether therell be a hard border between Northern Ireland and the irish republic, is set to intensify today. The eu will publish a draft of the brexit withdrawal treaty setting out in legally binding text the proposed terms of the uks departure. The document is expected to say that Northern Ireland will have to follow the rules of the eus Single Market, if other solutions cant be agreed to avoid a hard border with the irish republic. Our europe editor katya adler reports from brussels. This document is about the European Commission putting into legally binding text the agreements that have been reached between the two sides, so remember those divorce issues, citizens rights, the brexit bill on the irish border and also the transition agreement, that is what
Fueling the fighting there and if anything can be done to rein it in. And its all german court is set to decide on whether cities across the nation can ban diesel vehicles after a Mission Levels are found it would seem you love us. And the german Winter Olympic Team theres a ride back home and they have been receiving a heros welcome after their Historic Success of the gun trying winter games on board a record haul thirty one novels. Im brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin this program in syria where a daily five hour truce proposed by russia has taken effect monitors say the ceasefire in the rebel held eastern do the region appears to be holding now this see. Fire comes after russian president Vladimir Putin faced pressure from the International Community to help and force a un approved truce but that resolution had called for a month long cease fire bombing of these are new to region has killed more than five hundred civilians in about a weeks time or meanwhile the I
Implications for journalism. This time its egypt. A journalist shot dead in south sudan, days after the president put the media on notice. How do reporters covering organised crime deal with the mafia code of silence, and a bags eye view at a site of air travel that you never see. We begin with egypt. A country where journalism has been under the gun. And an ain terror law has reporters warning that darker says lie ahead. This week abdul fatah alsisi ratified the law. Its a wideranging piece of legislation from death sentences from those socalled terror organizations, special courts mandated to fasttrack cases against militants. It stipulates stiff fines for anyone that strays from the governments version of the truth. Creating a website that the government teems to spread terrorist messages means gaol time. When it comes to the domestic news media, it may not be necessary. Criminal call journalism was silenced long ago. What remains is reporters and news outlets that bought into the a
A journalist shot dead in south sudan, days after the president put the media on notice. How do reporters covering organised crime deal with the mafia code of silence, and a bags eye view at a site of air travel that you never see. We begin with egypt. A country where journalism has been under the gun. And an ain terror law has reporters warning that darker says lie ahead. This week abdul fatah alsisi ratified the law. Its a wideranging piece of legislation from death sentences from those socalled terror organizations, special courts mandated to fasttrack cases against militants. It stipulates stiff fines for anyone that strays from the governments version of the truth. Creating a website that the government teems to spread time. When it comes to the domestic news media, it may not be necessary. Criminal call journalism was silenced long ago. What remains is reporters and news outlets that bought into the abdul fatah alsisi government line and report what they are told. Our starting po