And d. N. R. Over a week ago they were investigating alleged abuses against muslims well get an update on their disappearance from now on. And a life in the shadows of the frontline we have an exclusive report from a village in Eastern Ukraine thats been cut off leaving residents with no way out. Also coming up are the wheels coming off for over europe deals the Ride Hailing Company of big blow its top court says it over is a taxi service not Just Announced well look at the fallout. And the german cup shock i hope to keep up their good form against cologne the home side had most of the opportunities stay tuned to see if they found the back of the net. Im sumi so much gonda good to have you with us after months of ten. Between warsaw and brussels the e. U. Has now started a process that could strip poland of its Voting Rights in the block the move comes after polands Parliament Last week adopted new reforms allowing it to effectively choose members of the countrys Supreme Court the e. U. Says this puts the courts under political control and violates european norms in an unprecedented move though the commission has now triggered the socalled article seven which paves the way to punishing poland. European Commission Deputy had france timmermans made that announcement in brussels a short while ago lets listen to what he said it is with a heavy heart that we have decided to initiate article seventy one. But the facts leave us no church. I stood before you in july when i clearly said. That we dont most reached a situation where we would need to invoke article seven one situation since then has not improved but deteriorated so we have no other option so no other option lets bring in our brussels our correspondent teri schultz and here in berlin from the polish service we have wojciech good to see you both terry remind us why exactly is the e. U. Considering sanctions here. Well so be as you heard of Vice PresidentFranz Timmermans is clearly exasperated its been him personally who had to negotiate with the polish government over these last two years trying to bring them back into compliance with the e. U. Law in terms of freedom of the judiciary right now the government has given itself the power to in some cases terminate judges or at least control their terms all the way up to the Supreme Court and timmerman says thats simply not an e. U. Norm and that poland must amend these decisions rollback these laws and poland has basically ignored every recommendation the commission has made and so as to remain said they are left no choice they have to go to the back of the tool shed and bring out their most powerful weapon to suspend possibly polands Voting Rights to possibly cost money and was poland being the biggest net beneficiary of e. U. Funds theyre hoping that this time warsaw will listen so wojciech the e. U. Saying it has no choice whats the polish government saying. Well the polish Prime Minister met those more obvious q. Wrote on twenty third this judicial reform in poland is necessary and it will be carried out however he also said that hes ready to talk with the European Commission his spokeswoman said that polish Prime Minister would meet with the president of the commissions are in january if such a meeting will be organized however other politicians of the ruling kilo and Justice Party in poland or the other politician from the government they use some harsher words for example the polish Foreign Ministry said that this decision made by the European Commission was a political decision and also the spokes women for ruling glowin Justice Party said it was a political decision and that she said it could have something to do with the fact that poland doesnt want to accept the muslim immigrants so it shows that for the part of the government this decision is clearly not a legal but a political decision or it will article seven has been triggered lets take a look at what exactly that entails that Catherine Martens sent us this report. Europe has mechanisms to deal with cases of delinquency and that means more than just idle threats and reprimands. Should an e. U. Country go against the principles of democracy then europe has no choice but to nail its colors to the mast. Article several cumbered triggered by the European Commission only in the case of a persistent and serious breach of the rule of law its the most radical form of sanctions within the European Union and has not been applied so far. Every you country must uphold basic values including freedom Human Dignity and the rule of law breaches can incur real punishment but imposing sanctions is no simple process. Every Single Member state passed if the approval of the European Commission needs within the material the Member States in order to trigger at augusta the thankful scotland it tough they can in cleared the suspension of Voting Rights. Video of even one e. U. Countries against imposing sanctions in article seven amounts to nothing more than empty posturing. So terry as we heard there article seven has never been applied up until now will we really see brussels sanction poland. Well as we also heard those sanctions can be tough but they will require the agreement from twenty seven other governments all the governments except poland would have to agree to suspend its Voting Rights and already the hungary and government has promised warsaw it wont let that happen so we already know that in the end the government will block this most severe circumstances from coming to pass but the commission is hoping that the surete possible you know bad image that poland will be getting simply by going through these procedures may bring it back into compliance and theyve given the polish government three months to reconsider its decisions wojciech what do you think will that threat have any impact on the polish government could it force warsaw to actually change those controversial measures to be honest i dont expect much to happen the government knew actually that this decision was it was coming its not a surprise for war so and in the recent weeks nobody did nothing in the worst avoided so it shows clearly that war so its not afraid of this decision and hungary the political ally will not allow this hard sanctions to be implemented so polish government is calm i believe however for the polish opposition it is strengthening because the opposition in poland to may say now that the government is ruining poland in the European Union right teri schultz in brussels and wojciech maskey at our polish service good to talk to you both. Now to some other stories making news around the world the European Unions chief braggs at negotiator says britain should have a transition period shorter than two years after it leaves the thats a three months short of in britain an initially sought. The u. K. Would have to abide by e. U. Rules during that time. Austrias new chancellor has met with European Parliament ahead antonio to johnny as he seeks to reassure e. U. Leaders that his Government Supports the bloc Sebastian Court says austria remains pro european despite a euro skeptic party joining the Government Conservatives form a coalition with the far right Freedom Party this week. In mexico a reporter has been shot dead in the Southern State of vera cruz Authorities Say good model paris was killed in front of dozens of parents and children at his sons School ChristmasParty Parents were regularly about security and Drug Trafficking he is the twelfth journalist to be killed in mexico this year. Mean maher has barred a senior United Nations rights monitor from entering the Country Special reparatory young he leave was due to visit in march january she planned to assess a legit Rights Violations against the Muslim Minority more than six hundred thousand were him to have fled suspected ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State on the border with bangladesh mean maher says it will no longer cooperate with police. Meanwhile pressure is mounting on me and maher authorities to release two reuters journalists arrested more than a week ago the matter accused of violating a colonial era official secrets law they had been investigating the allege and a military crackdown on her head to muslims. Committed to finding the truth but now held captive thirty one year old while alone and twenty seven year old cho so who are described as bookish and warm by family and friends. While lone joint Reuters News Agency over a year ago from a family of rice farmers hed always dreamed of becoming a journalist. Hes also written a Childrens Book cofounded a charity to promote tolerance between myanmar ethnic groups and worked with often. Good husband to me the heart and he continues to learn. To know you know but usually hes not a politician journalist. I believe he wouldnt do anything wrong thats why i want him to be free to soon as possible. Wrote poetry before violence and his native state led him to write news. But his learns reporting on the military crackdown that which has forced more than six hundred fifty thousand muslims to flee has cost them their freedom. Theyve been missing since last tuesday after being invited to dine with Police Officers and young gone myanmars ministry of information released this photo of the two men who it said had illegally obtained documents on the violence they plan to share with International Media foreign governments human Rights Groups the u. N. And the e. U. Have condemned the arrests we expect for me im all for it is to ensure the Food Production of the rights and to release the journalists as quickly as possible freedom of the press and media is the foundation and the corners or the corner stone of in the. Mouth or t. S. A. Police have almost completed their probe of the two journalists after which a court case against them again. Journalist david greene bomb has been following up the plight of these detained eternals and he joins us from there gone hi david can you tell us what documents these two journalists gained access to. Well its not exactly clear what they had. It were invited to dinner that night to joint police and then shortly after that dinner ended and they left the restaurant they were arrested and then what basically did was a full these put them they showed a picture of these journalists and then on a table in front of them were paperwork and phones and money and and keep in mind this is usually what this government would do. To people who are charged with drug crimes so when you see a situation like that that was alarming to a lot of people its not really clear one thing that has come up in recent days some of the local press have brought up is there any connection to what these reporters were doing and a mass grave that was just recently turned up we do know that these two reuters journalists have been working on stories on the crisis in Rakhine State whats not clear if they were working on anything in this mass grave and whats the key economic. Is that keep in mind that while the u. N. Officials and human Rights Groups have accusing them or is military of ethnic cleansing the military has been repeatedly denying it saying its launch its own investigation has cleared its own troops of any wrongdoing so the question here is are these room it remains are they going to turn out to blow a hole in the militarys claims and if they do is this something the reuters journalists were working on and is that why they were arrested and these are all things we just do not know yet so possibly damning information they got their hands on a number of journalists david local and foreign have come under pressure have been arrested and what impact is that having on the ability to report especially on the forehand. Yes you know ive talked to all of a number of local reporters whos basically said this is just had a Chilling Effect because you know those reuters reporters are facing the possibility because theyve been you know charge of the official secrets act that could lead potentially to a fourteen Year Prison Sentence so a lot of reporters are really concerned that on sensitive issues if they do anything more than just scratch the bare surface that something could happen to them next so this is having a concerns only with the local press and then on top of that keep in mind the Foreign Press you have local reporters who work with you in the form of war the local reporters you depend on for their Language Skills for their contacts for their understanding of the contacts so this could have a real Chilling Effect on reporting thats done in this country particularly on the sensitive or kind crisis which is of the utmost importance to really find out what has been going on up there and david just very briefly if you can this comes as the main a human rights monitor from the u. N. Has been banned from coming to the country whats your take on that well this is you know she herself has said that this does raise the question if they have something that hide and people have been accusing the emeryville when she came here ah shes the number of trips already since her man they started in two thousand and fourteen and there were a number of places they would not allow her to go citing security concerns and that raised questions about whether or not they were trying to hide things and this is just going to raise those alarm bells i mean you see me and my military who which is the most powerful situation this country has been doing everything it can to undercut the uns image with the local population here accusing them of collaborating with the insurgents and things like that things that have been dismissed in the National Community but they really raise those concerns and got a lot of the local population to believe it and this just seems like one more step in the right journalist david greene and yet for us i thank you very much. Youre watching the news still to come in the german cop shot i hope to keep up their good form against the home side had most of the chance to stay tuned to see if they found the. First benazir ben is it over for over it could be both the way they do business at least semi over is the biggest name in the economy which in gauges temp workers and its just hit its biggest roadblock European Court ruling the app doesnt just connect people wanting a ride with those trying to earn some extra cash the is a regular Transportation Company and needs to follow the rules a simple app a couple of clicks and before you know it is waiting he or she drives a private vehicle and is basically just an ordinary citizen that was the original idea behind it but off to countless battles europe says contact it that easy the bombshell came on wednesday with a ruling by the European Court of justice a spanish Taxi Drivers Association submitted a complaint of unfair competition by the u. S. Company in response the top European Court decided folds into the category of transportation rather than Technology Services and just like any other taxi company its therefore subject to regulation from now on all drivers need a license to work thats already the case in many e. U. Countries vehicles must also be officially registered as taxis something that could put the brakes on business model. The ruling is a milestone for Taxi Companies europe wind theyve continually protested against like here in romania at the end of november the us apps rock bottom prices meant customers turned their backs on the stablished Taxi Companies but now it seems may be heading down a dead end street. Brussels correspondent max hoffman if this signals the end of the road for. Well the end of it would probably be a little exaggerated here but it will probably have consequences in spain at least because what the European Court of justice has said now is that countries can regulate as a Transportation Company as we understand the ruling they dont have to do it so if some country chooses for example to regulate we were in a different set of rules or established new laws saying we like we wer