agency for fundamental rights that's he believes europe is doing all it can to protect human rights. michael of thirty well come to a conflict zone in a recent report the agency has said that civil society is under threat across the block the report paints a portrait picture of the state of fundamental rights within the european union it's a mixed picture it's a picture of what's working and what's not working we have to stay very vigilant in europe just like everywhere else in the world to protect the incredible institutions we develop and second world war as every word in the word our foundation the idea of the european union human rights democracy and it's not getting better it's changing we have some improvement it's a very diplomatic world changing to a good changing to the bad change to the good in some places but right i am very concerned about the situation of human rights in europe today we have a lot to do across so many issues so many groups migrants older people at the disabled there's a huge program of work to be done but much the challenges with the achievements but you

europe. comedy discuss how we can beg live in countries where microbes have to leave their country because they feel not safe the second point is the kind of course groups things in those countries fighting negotiating to do your in partnership agreement of africa oh spent a lot of time on africa at the moment and you know obviously you know. we're almost out of time but one thing the west could do is stop bombing those countries so these people won't fully ok that would be a first good practical step we've run out of time gentlemen many thanks to my guests and parents and we've got to end thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember crosstalk. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics school this list i'm showbusiness i'll see of that. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich.

but just goes very very far as a giant and that's why our in europe is not the how would that make europe better i don't get it ok i travel through europe all the time i don't see it's improving i see it's declining rapidly go ahead finish up john peter peter the bolshevik revolution didn't make russia better but that didn't mean that people didn't believe in it they believed in it because it's an ideology it's a post national ideology which these people want to implement by replacing the population in their crazy minds that's what they're doing ok we're all in it you know italy has been here very hard by this immigration crisis we can use that word i mean shouldn't italy on its own be able to decide what happens with inside its borders i mean why is it waiting for merkel ways and waiting for brussels why is it waiting for this summit that's going to happen in the weekend i mean italy's a sovereign country care it should take care of its people first particularly the unemployment a bit so you think it's critical right now go ahead roland and at talian have to decide for themselves go ahea

versus europe. matt: i hope hillary doesn't mind the chart color issues, but it is obvious that europe has to be blue, right? japan is red and the u.s.. maximilian, thank you. maximilian kunkel, cio for germany at ubs global wealth management. he will join us on radio, so our viewers can turn into listeners on london dab digital at the top of the hour, or type radio on the bloomberg. guy: absolutely. let's talk about one of the most read stories, africa's largest mobile phone company, the stock is down to a nine-year low. nigeria's central bank has ordered a refund of 8.1 billion dollars. it alleges mtn illegally moved money out of the country. mtn refutes the claim. we are joined from nigeria. paul, give us background on this. has: this is an issue that dragged on for a while. lawmakers' bank and allegations against mtn allegedly repatriating money about 2 -- first serviced two years ago and lawmakers cleared mtn last year and most people thought the issue had been buried. but this statement f

taters like in libya where europe right now is paying. paramilitaries who are human traffickers and this is something we should not allow anymore all right fisher from the. many thanks indeed for sharing your insights with i think you marianna for being here turning to venezuela now where an estimated two million people have left the country in recent years fleeing food shortages poverty and economic chaos u.n. officials are now saying the region is heading towards what they describe as a crisis moment similar to the one europe saw in the mediterranean back in twenty fifteen ophelia has been following the journey of venezuelan migrants in colombia here's her report. they've got so much luggage they need help carrying it down hill. these two families have come together travelling from caracas all the way through colombia to the ecuadorian border. the crossing point here isn't as full as it had been during previous weeks as ecuadorian authorities were only letting those in who had a valid passport. fortunately gabrielle was able to get her

very important about privacy regulations in europe that are positive, but i think looking beyond europe for a moment to where this is going to take us i think what is really important is that we get to a harmonize standard, that's what i would love to talk about, harmonize standard, europe has taken big important step and important conversations happening in other places in the world and that's really what we need to get to, international consensus on privacy. >> europe is now the most powerful regulator of silicon valley, agree or disagree? >> on data, yes, it has been going on for a while, the gdpr is kind of positive or negative, protection directive of 1990's, fair information practice principles, formalizing what europe has been doing and leading frankly global dialogue, i completely agree with victoria, where we need to go is harmonize harmonize but right now absent u.s. leadership and absent leadership, the eu is occupying the field for compliance from multinational companies. >> what do tatta protection agencies do and who do they affect? >> it affects the gdpr formalizes what i

europe. coming to discuss how we can bank live in countries where it might have to leave the country because they feel safe the second is weak and of course things in those countries fighting negotiating to be added to your in partnership agreements of africa i've spent a lot of time now in africa at the moment and you know obviously you know. we're almost out of time but one thing the west could do is stop bombing those countries so these people won't fully ok that would be a first good practical step we've run out of time gentlemen many thanks to my guests and parents know and we've got to end thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.t. see you next time and remember. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected . so when you want to be president. some want to press. you to go right to be approached this is one of the four three of them will be good . i'm interested in the war. america was never great was founded on the rape in the murder.

is undermining transatlantic relations and europe may have to defend itself can europe live without the us this is the inside story. i don't welcome to the program it is a product with friends like donald trump who needs enemies that was the reaction from european council chief donald tusk when the us president with a juror from the iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions well you leaders want to save the nuclear deal and a multi billion dollar business contracts but european companies to u.s. demands by pulling out of iran including british airways and air france which aground and flights to that's despite a revised e.u. legislation called blocking statute it's aimed at nullifying u.s. legal action against european firms which defied u.s. sanctions on iran and the e.u. agreed to twenty one million dollars in aid to iran to help offset the impact of sanctions. germany's foreign minister has called for independent payment channels to be created which would avoid u.s. sanctions and a newspaper article i ma said it's indispensable that we strengthen european autonomy by creating paym

but also europe that has some concerns about chinese practices i hope however that europe is not going to be as disruptive as trump well do you recognize any strategy there how is it is it just disruption and who benefits from it. it's difficult to see a real strategy behind what from his doing he seems to have kind of a pattern he tries to does wrapped things with his tweets with his utterances and then see how play pieces fall into place after words he's given to occasional u. turns strategy is too big a word but to rock the boat and then see what happens afterwards is probably your description it looks like a he's gambling all the time would he be successful in disrupting free trade in using europe to help with the trouble with china. well so far we have seen a lot of disruption we've seen a lot of noise we have not seen much progress instead we have seen terrorists being imposed including steal a living or terrorists on the e.u. there is a good chance that if the u.s. indeed now works with the e.u. to put pressure on china so that china changes some of its practices there is a good

my friend and i share the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe for two years when you are here as foreign minister and we are also a member of nato we are member of the o.e.c.d. and we are the party iotas we are not asking for us either we are part of the europe major like it or not to be part of that you are mr foreign minister why if you want to continue did your president tell parliament in ankara last october to tell the truth we don't need the membership anymore so which is it you wanted involve you or you don't want to do anymore which is a this is the reaction. this is a reaction. when european union behaves turkey that on the turkey needs european union turkey needs european union and european union needs turkey we are everywhere of this but some european countries unfortunately don't see the fact so why so you don't leave you any man or you said your needle tongue trees in the european union actually against turkey's membership made big my shirt off the e.u. countries you members this actually are in favor of turkish if you're going to actually eat a woman bishop

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>> if you were doing business in europe of any kind, if you have customers in europe in any business or if you are trying to attract customers in europe so you are marketing in some way in europe, you will be impacted by the gdpr. it could apply to you, so you need to be thinking about if you are in legal compliance, of course, and i'm a lawyer by trade, so the legal compliance part is important, but more broadly, you need to be thinking about how you are going to treat just sayof i would not european customers, of any of the customers you have. again, for our companies, they have been thinking about this for many, many years. this is something very much bacon to the dna of the companies i represent, but for many companies, understandably, it is not. that has been one of the interesting things about the gdpr, that you have many more companies thinking about this, and hopefully, not just from a legal compliance perspective but why privacy is important and how we should be treating customers and what expectations they have and how we meet those expectations. >> what are some of the com

needs to hedge that's why europe needs to have a plan b. those doubts and the need for the plan for plan b. come at the worst possible moment because europe is the siege by anti-liberal forces also from with from within and by and anti-liberal author terry and powers russia and china from without so it's a very precarious moment but europe doesn't have any other choice i agree with mr goss that of course it's easy to say you're going to pull this off because there are so many countervailing forces but those politicians who believe in europe and to believe that even a big country like germany is no longer enough sufficient to hold its own in this kind of tumultuous world they need to kind of invest to try to convince the public and make the most off this situation that in terms of the turmoil is is indeed unprecedented and should they use you know the issue of iran to come together and stand up to the u.s. on this most of us will go to you. i don't think iran will make much. effect or will have much effect on european public opinion. and thi

perspective iran does not matter economically so whatever decisions europe makes these either j c p u a are going to be national security could decisions and political decisions if they want iran to stay in the j.c.b. way they're going to have to offer some additional economic benefits but that's not because europe is deeply in hammered of the possibility of trade with iran i do think though to your questions your broader question europe is perceiving all of these things as a piece of the steel and aluminum tariffs the recent sanctions on russia. the resumption of sanctions on iran i think you see the united states disregarding the needs and interests of its allies and europe and other allies are going to have to look at this and decide how to respond in order to protect their own console and yet mr blank you suggested before that in the event of troops pull out your of will likely side with the united states even if it blames the current administration for ruining this deal and if it does i think the european leaders will essentially have to accept that their level of credibility i

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and europe's largest budget airline hit by its biggest ever strike more than seventy thousand passengers are affected as the summer holiday season goes into high gear. i'm brian thomas thanks so much for being with us we begin with the case of the jailed ukrainian filmmaker and kremlin critic all that sends off now he's been on a hunger strike for three months in a russian prison and his gravely ill french president manuel mccrone set to discuss his case today with russia's vladimir putin back in two thousand and fifteen a russian core seven cents off. twenty years in a siberian penal colony and charges you plan terrorist attacks on the crimean peninsula russia of course annexed crimea and twenty four team sent off calls the charges against him and dozens of other ukrainian prisoners political social media posed by sense of family and lawyer quote the filmmakers saying the end is near let's get more now about all expense off and his imprisonment in russia from ukraine's capital kiev i'm joined by correspondent david stern and from moscow by your shadow good morning to both of you yuri if

we get europe's response. he will be's -- matt will be speaking to the ecb governing council member and former commissioner for economic and monetary affairs. despite an ugly august for emerging markets, credit suiss'' ceo tells bloomberg he doesn't see contagion. >> i don't believe there will be material contagion. in the short term, there is always spontaneous reaction. less than half an hour from the start of european trade. keep an eye on whitbread. costa, thebuying coffee chain. that will move markets later on. at the moment, london futures are mildly negative. it has been a very tough month for emerging markets. that is where the real action has been. interesting to see how european carmakers open up after trump objects to the idea of zero tariffs and hints there could be paying down the road. let's look at the gmm. see the action in emerging markets once again. africany, the south market absolutely clobbered. -- argentinian currency feels very ftse like in its move but this line here. there is the peso

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dream of a better life in europe has become a nightmare. he has no residence permit and now he has no home. he can only work illegally on one of the many fruit and vegetable plantations you don't have no right to what. you know you don't have no money to see that living out the seed that everyone wants you need to build in one thousand one you know you don't have a lot. we can go a long way his friend motor of the lucy say as in the same position except he's a newcomer in space having recently arrived from senegal. he lives in this hut he says the roots taken by refugees to europe are always changing currently entering europe via the western mediterranean seems to be the safest. a route from libya to italy has lots of problems it's almost like a war you can get killed so now many of us are coming to spain through morocco. but . the numbers of migrants coming into spain are currently at a peak and spain is still dealing with the effect of its economic crisis making the rising numbers of refugees a political issue. feeling get tired but on th

europe. can influence his course of action offering support but not at any cost under a very firm conditions and that is. we need an economic aid program run by the international monetary fund. we need to adelanto stop his blackmailing of partners whichh she did o over recent yes just putting german or american citizens s into jal and only offerining trees under certain conditions that is blackmailing us and nato partner. and he's also very unreliable. germany had to build a central in in truckee. towards the tool. to help turkey to be in a safe situation with the war next door in syria and out of one even didn't admits a german parliamentarians to visit german soldiers and so we had to change that and pull our troops out so. there's a lot of things where everyone is unreliable and now he needs our help and that is the moment where we should have very firm conditions under which we will. give them financial aid. i don't a president that one is to blame. definitely i mean -- he he started out

needs to hedge that's why europe needs to have a plan b. those doubts and the need for the plan for a plan b. come at the worst possible moment because europe is beseeched by anti liberal forces also from with from within and by and anti-liberal author terry and powers russia and china from without so it's a very precarious moment but europe doesn't have any other choice i agree with mr goss that of course it's easy to say you're pulled this off because there are so many countervailing forces but those politicians who believe in europe and to believe that even a big country like germany is no longer enough sufficient to hold its own in this kind of tumultuous world they need to kind of invest to try to convince the public and make the most off this situation that in terms of the turmoil is is indeed unprecedented and should they use you know the issue of iran to come together and stand up to the u.s. on this most of us will go to you. i don't think iran will make them much. effect or will have much effect on european public opinion. and thi

and europe would be. iran's taking legal action against the u.s. government say that almost trumps decision to reimpose sanctions that they may have sets both countries on a collision course. response to. a gracious. iran's filing with the international court of justice was an attempt to interfere with the sovereign rights of united states to take lethal action including the reimposition of sanctions which are necessary to protect our national security earlier this year donald trump pulled the u.s. out of the two thousand and fifteen nuclear pact between iran and a number of world powers and announced to do need last fall plans to restore sanctions against iran they include restrictions on buying american currency as well as trading metals including precious ones the sanctions were met with resistance from washington's key allies including many european countries the even updated its blocking statutes to limit the impact of the sanctions on the interests of european companies during legitimate business in iran it came into a fax just over twenty da

marshall spoke is a need to relieve self interest in europe. he hope to offer help to any nation willing to receive marshall aid, including the ussr, including its new satellites, even though he realizes the terms of oak and he -- opening the economic books to see their real strength would be refused by the soviets. one of the key lines in that 11 minute address, and you can hear marshall deliver it, one of the key lines said that our policy is not directed against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. its purpose should be the revival of a working economy on the world, and the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist and this is the essence of the marshall plan. what would become. offered to all who would agree to list their nation's assets and their needs. a consideration of what guarantees a soviet union when -- would not participate. the other key initiative is that nations who wished to receive aid would get together collectively and work out what they needed a

of pats catch on the continent look at the war from our correspondent and travel misery as pilots at europe's biggest low cost carrier arriving are set to go on strike we look at the cost of. this new business on christopher caldwell welcome on his quest to become an even stronger economic powerhouse beijing has for years been buying foreign companies mostly market leaders in ten different key industry sectors like robotics or pharmaceuticals as a result countries like germany and the united states see their industrial advantages that risk and are now tightening regulation it's a move china won't like germany's government once brought a veto powers when investors from outside europe by into local companies starting at fifteen percent stakes instead of the current twenty five the new regulations come after berlin effectively blocked a chinese company from buying a twenty percent share in electricity grid operator fifty hurts chinese trade representatives claim they're being singled out however the sudden surge in chinese purchases is striking while the volume of chinese transactions in germany

>> if you are in europe if you have customers in europe or any business lines or even if you're trying to attract customers in europe you will be impacted by the tdpr so you need to think whether or not you are in legal compliance of course. that is important but more broadly you need to think about how you will treat the data not necessarily european customers but any customers that you have. but again for our company they have been thinking about this for many years. this is something that is baked into the dna of the companies that i represent so understandably it is not. one of the interesting things is you have a little more companies to think about not just the legal compliance perspective but a bigger issue how we treat our customers and what expectations do they have. >> what are the companies you represent? >> the global software industry like apple or ibm and microsoft and we have many wonderful members but basically we represent everything from a small software company. >>host: you mentioned several very large companies which probably have the resources to comply with these

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this man is also challenging europe and its political leaders. i don't want to kind of garner plenty of support back home in turkey their europe becomes a handy scapegoat for self-made problems religious and nationalistic supporters respond particularly well. the state powers treat their opponents anything but delicately be they kurds unionists feminists or journalists tear gas and water cannons have become a routine way to meet protests those who attract the president's ire are quick to find themselves in court or jail. for. a failed coup d'etat in the summer of twenty sixteen only aggravated tensions. the officers behind the attack were sent to have close ties to islamic movement the putsch targeted key governmental infrastructure such as the country's intelligence headquarters the parliament building and the presidential residence. public anger erupted. the soldiers were lynched in the streets including young recruits proven to have been deceived by their generals about the true intentions of the attack in just twenty four hours the rebellion

his book advocating overlord, story to liberate europe debated by the brits and americans and how that become linked to other corporations. i really enjoyed the book. he has served in the navy and communications. thank you for your services. army retiree, phil has interested trained. he maybe from maryland but let's give them all a warm welcome. [applause] >> however, 75 years ago may 19th, it was hot and humid and inside the federal reserve building on the second floor, the commanders from britain and the united states, they were attempting differences on what strategy to use. the way i came to this, many years ago i became aware of a fishing trip, franklin roosevelt taught 760 miles northwest of here, up in the canadian shield country and in later years when i was working in back rooms supporting national discussions and negotiations which is always a contentious and demanding process from time to time, i wondered about that fishing trip. literally the global capital for allies running the war in that time. how could he lead in a critical point in deciding how to go forward, so it le

have a place we got a whole new perspective on europe and truly understand that europe is not so much about its laws or politics but about the diversity of its people. many of the lucky fifteen thousand teens are sharing their travel experiences on social media describing their encounters with the europeans but does this actually help forge a sense of european identity. critics point out that it does little good if all these young travelers do is part of a nicer way. atum gets them from his past that's valid to spend time exploring the history of the countries he visits in prague's museum of communism and he's invincible the emergence of the former czechoslovakia and its times to the soviet union. he's one aware that after breaks it other british youngsters like him will no longer have an opportunity to win a free internet ticket. he's deeply disappointed with the outcome of the referendum . i think a lot of people voted blindly initially and they didn't really know what they were voting about they were kind of following government propaganda like communism actually. and then it's tim

well summertime all year round in europe will have some some significant changes then the proponents of the summer time who also the people in that survey they also voted in favor of keeping the summit on rather than the wintertime the advantages of that would be extra daylight in the evening so there are some arguments about traffic reducing traffic accidents there are some arguments about health factors particularly finland has appealed to the european union now for a number of years that they need extra day late in the evening hours rather then a little bit more daylight in the early morning hours and sold on to a junker has heard all these arguments and here is what he had to say. you shouldn't doesn't pitch a problem now it's up to the number of states in the european parliament to take action the european parliament has been heading in this direction for years anyway it will happen there's no sense in asking people and once they respond disregarding their response behaving as if it weren't put on record people people wanted to bill do it to us for muslims so what are the next s

and europe now he's talked in the past saying that he thinks the u.s. is doing too much so all of these concerns have prompted mark can say we can't now rely on the u.s. the security we have to do something about it ourselves what is that well he's talked about this close defense cooperation here in europe but he's also said that europe needs to look beyond its borders and to look to other countries such as russia in the future. for stamp this reinforce on a dirty would imply revisiting the european architecture of difference in security by knish eating renewed dialogue on cybersecurity chemical weapons conventional weaponry territorial conflicts space security the protection of the partisan sympatico with russia i want to launch exhaustive reflection with our european partners in a broad sense with russia defense relationship with russia mr michael said depends on europe and russia finding a mutual agreement in progress when it comes to the minute's peace agreement on the continued conflict on the train so it seems that as the u.s. continues to isolate

victoria: if you are doing business in europe of any kind, you have customers in europe and in any business line, or if you are trying to attract customers so you are marketing in some way, you are going to be impacted by the gdpr. apply to you. you need to be thinking about whether or not you are in legal compliance, of course. i'm a lawyer by training. the legal compliance part is important. you need to be thinking about how you are going to treat the data, i would not just a european customers, any customers you have. companies, they have been thinking about this for many years. there is not -- this is something that is very much in the dna of the companies i represent. for many companies, understandably it is not. that's has been one of the interesting things that gdpr, you have more companies who are thinking about this and hopefully not from just a legal compliance perspective but thinking about the bigger issue about why privacy is important and how we should treat our customers and what expectations they have and how we meet those expectations. host: what are the companies you repre

closed the country has become the new gateway to europe for thousands of migrants. a mr you see we've got a new way for migrants to get into europe are we going to have to come up with a new dio the way we did was turkey i mean how does europe deal with this new form of migration. well it would be incredibly helpful if the european union would have or would not do the things it's been talking about for three years we need two things to solve a crisis like this the ability to quickly decide who of the people who arrive need protection europe and who doesn't and if it takes like an incident in recent years four years until a final decision is made it basically we don't need insight into something anybody arrives stace we need speed so we need speed and we need to organize this in the way the dutch effort to decide in six weeks including appeal but in spain or italy or multiple and this requires a european effort so that's the first thing secondly once we have a decision and then a lot of the people who are now coming to spain who came to italy are from countries with

is undermining transatlantic relations and europe may have to defend itself can europe live without the us this is the inside story. i don't welcome to the program on it is a product with friends like donald trump who needs enemies that was the reaction from european council chief donald tusk when the us president with a juror from the iran nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions well you leaders want to save the nuclear deal and a multi billion dollar business contracts but european companies to u.s. demands by pulling out of iran including british airways and air france which aground and flights to that's despite revised e.u. legislation called blocking statute it's aimed at nullifying u.s. legal action against european firms which defied u.s. sanctions on iran and the e.u. agreed to twenty one million dollars in aid to iran to help offset the impact of sanctions now germany's foreign minister has called for independent payment channels to be created which would avoid u.s. sanctions and a newspaper article hike i ma said it's indispensable that we strengthen european autonomy by crea

caroline, what about europe? caroline: sticking with stocks, we saw gains across the board to finish this week, driven higher by the banks, good numbers to help the ftse. the car companies helping the dax. the s&p 500 is up .5%. this is bloomberg. ♪ is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ shery: from bloomberg's headquarters, i'm shery ahn. i'm kevinevin: cirilli, in for david westin. shery: china promises retaliation on any tariffs. goolsbee,austan chairman of the white house council of economic advisers under president obama. ♪ shery: president trump backing down on china. white house cefco