Meeting is overshadowed by the ongoing roxette talks well take you live to brussels for more also coming up for children killed a nanny others injured after a passenger train heads a school bus in france the bus was split in two by the force of the clash. And fury in argentina protests against pension reform turned violent causing parliament to suspend the debate. Also coming up in the next sixty minutes the woman who is single handedly taking on cobbles drug epidemic theres no support available for addicts in the Afghan Capital and soul leyla are you dari uses her own money to rescue and rebel lets say. And as israel looks forward to its seventieth anniversary of bolivia looking back at german israeli relations defined by the darkest chapter in german history. Im sorry paul and welcome to the show its good to have you with us. Air leaders meeting in brussels are heading for a showdown over the issue of migration a mandatory quota for refugees has been described as quote highly divisive and ineffective but Germanys Angela Merkel has responded by saying that Member States cant just pick and choose when it comes to sharing and solidarity and the refugee crisis is not the only controversial issue on the agenda another difficult topic is going to be pranks. This was the happy moment at the summit leaders celebrated the start of closer defense cooperation which might lead to something that a few years ago it seemed unattainable a real Defense Union today this dream becomes a reality we are launching permanent structure of cooperation socalled. Which is a practical expression of our will to build European Defense but right after the happy moment the german chancellor seemed to have a word with two School Nobody said what it was about but one thing seemed certain america wasnt happy about comments on a mandatory refugee quota. Council president had called the quota divisive and ineffective some agreed but the chancellor had a rather different view. I made it very clear that im not happy about the simple statement that the regulations we have arent working solidarity has more than an external dimension we also need it internally and thats where we have a lot of work left to do because the different positions have not changed. Enough pictures like these from two thousand and fifteen are not forgotten migrants trying to make it to europe its still the most contentious issue in the e. U. More trouble on other topics is looming though until now the twenty seven Member States that will remain part of the e. U. Displayed rock solid unity on the brics at negotiation front and its virtually certain they will give the green light to start phase two of that process on friday it will be about discussing future relations with the United Kingdom talking about the. Deep and special partnership that i want to build with the European Union for the future and on the security issue im very clear that although the british people took itself in decision to leave the e. U. That does not mean that we were going to be leaving all responsibilities in terms of European Security but those talks will mainly be about trade not security thats when National Interests will come into play that might spell more trouble for the European Union and fewer happy moments. Of war im joined now by correspondent. Brussels good morning lets start with what they did manage to agree on closer cooperation when it comes to defense tell us more about. Indeed twenty five countries signed a pact to integrate their military capacities the Defense Forces now for decades want to know almost say this was blocked by the u. K. Over fears it might create a structure in in competition to nato for instance or even create the basis of a European Army now that readers have ruled out but they do want to fund together they want to deploy together forces they want to cooperate more on the defensive in the defense of field for instance when it comes to buying military equipment which so far each European Countries doing individually and in the future they could Work Together on that front save a lot of money and so the summit started with a show of unity here all right lets talk about the sticking points theres little agreement on migration whats going to happen there its a very difficult field and so chancellor merkel just after midnight had had to say you know we have a lot of work to do in that field you basically have the former communist east countries in the east of europe who are refusing to take in refugees who are refusing to participate in that mechanism of relocation as its called where you would take refugees from those countries who carry the strongest burden in the refugee crisis and still do with people coming in for instance its only in greece you would take people and relocate them to other European Countries they are resisting that idea even more so to find a permanent mechanism to do organize that in the future and so it may be that in the months and years to come well have to see a majority vote away where that decision is pushed through ok meanwhile britains Prime Minister to resign may try to put on a confidential despite a setback in the British Parliament lets have a listen. Im disappointed with the amendment but actually the withdrawal bill is making Good Progress through the house of commons and we are on course to deliver on brets it. Remind us what was that disappointment and how might it affect these talks. A common slogan during the press referendum was taking back control in this case it was part of its taking back control theresa may face a rebellion from within her own party where some of her Party Members backed a motion so that the poly and will have the final say on brets it now. Seeing that the European Parliament for instance will also have a final say theres a number of institutions that will have a to give a green light if ever we will see a deal on the table will that change the european position dramatically the simple answer is no the european position has always been no cherry picking for the u. K. And that remains to be the case even after that defeats for two reason may. Stay there for us in brussels for a second to come back here in a moment but with all this bracks at talk threatening to dominate the summit we need to talk about Something Else ministers are going to be making time for other things like crucial in finance reforms and for that im joined by our business anchor Helena Humphrey helena so whats going on here walk us through all right what essentially what happened was last week the e. U. Commission president put forward a set of reforms to overhaul the euro zone to ward off financial crisis in the future these reforms were spearheaded by the french president. Cheering his campaign essentially what they include is a euro zone finance minister for the nineteen Member States which would probably be the head of the euro group wearing two hats a little bit confusing there and also a European Monetary Fund not currently the stability mechanism exists but countries must agree through a unanimous vote to release funds in the case of financial crisis in a member state this would be through a majority vote and then theres also the idea of a euro zone budget essentially raising the question of who would have a final say over an individual countrys Financial Budgets you could see it as a lot to be talked about that today in brussels but lets take a closer look sara now at those euro zone reform proposals and some of the concerns. Greek protesters calling for an end two years of a sterile sea thursdays twenty four hour strike was the laces show of opposition to cuts imposed largely as a condition of the country receiving loans from its european creditors the latest protests come at a time when the e. U. Is contemplating its future especially with britain preparing to leave the bloc European Commission president ial include young couple leaves the solution is closer integration his vision involves introducing a euro zone budget to forge closer ties between Member States appointing a joint finance minister to monitor and coordinate income and expenditure and establishing a permanent European Monetary Fund for emergency to protect euro zone countries from crises but those plans have split countries and even germany the e. U. s biggest economic power has voiced reservations the idea is to discuss a range of topics on friday with a further summit in june to table concrete decisions the European Commission president will have his work cut out for him if hes to reawaken peoples passion for europe are some big proposals on the table whats poland and brussels weve heard this before european Budget Office the finance minister that would be a huge step closer toward a unified European Union but how realistic is this. Dont expect any fireworks today from this meeting of the Council President basically invited leaders to share their vision for the single currency for the euro zone and that is exactly what they will do there will be no council conclusions. Any concrete decisions have been postponed to a summit in summer two thousand and nineteen there is a large consensus has said on the idea to make the eurozone more resilient to economic shocks there is large consensus to work on the Banking Union and creating a firewall for financial crisis and even there is a large consensus to create a European Monetary Fund but even these two are ideas for the future today will be an open discussion of what could be achieved in the near future discussion and indeed did point out that resistance to these ideas did represent a north south divide why would gemini be so strongly opposed to these ideas. Exactly as you said this geographical simplification basically boils it down. To an old situation we have seen in the euro zone a number of times and that is that the rich countries in the north are reluctant to share risks in the eurozone budget for instance with the indebted countries in the south and that is basically the main reason why germany is resisting ideas a lot of money put together and then bail out or. Be transferred to countries that have more debts its the eurozone is not a transfer union that has been the argument from the german side all right this is having overtones of the grex thanks for walking us through whats old is new again in brussels thanks also to Helen Humphreys from our business desk for talking us through the European Finance aspect of that story were going to turn now to some of the other issues that are making news around the world now two nephews are going as well as first lady have been sentenced to eighteen years in prison a new york court found they had conspired to import cocaine into the u. S. Enough use of syria flores venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro as wife tried to make twenty Million Dollars their Drug Trafficking to help keep their family in power. The head of the Islamist Militant Group hamas has called for fresh global protest against Donald Trumps recognition of jerusalem as israels capital speaking in gaza city at an event commemorating the groups thirtieth anniversary Ismail Haniya manned it islamic world make every friday a day of anger. And somalias capital mogadishu a suicide bomber disguised as a Police Officer was blown himself up inside a Police Academy at least eighteen people were killed and twenty wounded bomber targeted officers gathering for morning exercises a terrorist Group Alshabaab says it carried out this attack. At least four children have been killed in Southern France after a train collided with a school bus the force of the impact splitting that bus into it was carrying around twenty students for a secondary school no one on the train was hurt but passengers and crew are being offered psychological care on their way home from School Secondary students on this bus ripped in half by a train on a level crossing dozens of Emergency Rescue workers were deployed the french Prime Minister also rushed to the scene. Where christos i feel a deep sense of sadness as well and its something thats shared by everybody whos been directly or indirectly affected by this accident. The accident occurred late thursday afternoon in the small village of me yes close to frances border with spain the bus was taking around twenty students home off to school when the regional train smashed into it on this crossing at a speed of around eighty Kilometers Per Hour french president emmanuel mccann tweeted his condolences my thoughts are with the victims and families of these terrible School Bus AccidentRisk Youth Services have been fully mobilized to help. Investigations are underway to work out exactly how the crash happened it was frances third fatal rail incident in the past four years. Of one joined now by correspondent jake second narrow hes with us from paris to ask you the question i think many parents are asking themselves this morning how could this happen. Certainly you know its a nightmare and specially this time of year during the holidays so near to the winter holidays details of the cause of the crash are still unclear and authorities are still trying to figure out exactly what happened the bus was to dive in pieces as you saw completely sliced into by this rain and local Officials Say the regional train was traveling at a normal speed of eighty Kilometers Per Hour and level crossings in good working condition and then it had even recently been updated our descent is a collision has been occurring in france for the past ten years or so despite routes to rowing crossings in twenty four thousand nine hundred twenty one crashes were registered killing twenty five people so theres clearly something wrong here the investigators are trying to find clearly something is wrong we know that four people were killed others were injured how are they doing so well so yes at least twenty other people were injured at ten of those are said to be in Critical Condition ten people in Critical Condition and how are people there in france responding to the news of this crash as they wake up. Well its a tragedy here everyone is obviously responding with Great Sadness and as you know the Prime Minister the transport minister both with directly to the scene and the transport minister called it a terrible accident present a manual now who has tweeted his support for the victims and their families and investigations have been opened by Police Transport henris and which is the state owned row a company also a Grief Counseling Center has been opened in the local community for children and victims families to talk about their grief by lots of arcs here thats jakes second air reporting for us from paris thank you youre welcome. Youre watching the news live from berlin still to come on our program angry argentineans have been lying about the planned Pension Reforms demanding that lawmakers for geoff their governments austerity push. Its time now for some Business News with helena and in the u. S. The future of the internet could be about to change were talking about a total turnaround from what weve come to understand sara in the United States thats off the u. S. Federal Communications Commission reversed Net Neutrality rules these were championed by the former president barack obama and they barred providers from blocking or slowing access to content or charging consumers more the move is part of u. S. President Donald Trumps move to scale back regulation in many economic sectors Net Neutrality rules banned internet providers from giving preferential treatment to certain websites after the f. C. C. Vote that seems to be a thing of the past. The ending of Net Neutrality has been met with fury by millions of Internet Users both online through social media. And offline at this protest outside the f. C. C. Headquarters the