and france says the european union is ready to respond to sanctions of its own if the u.s. goes ahead with 7 and a half $1000000000.00 worth of tariffs on e.u. imports the u.s. says that the taxes are in part retaliation for e.u. subsidies given to european plane manufacture a loss. by let's get more now on that impeachment inquiry into president trump and its implications on u.s. national security william courtly as a former u.s. ambassador to kazakstan of the former special assistant to president clinton he joins us now live from washington d.c. thanks for being with us former u.s. envoy to ukraine cut bulk of them will testify today before 3 congressional committees he resigned from his post last week what will politicians be looking to get from him today they will be interested to know whether there are more connections between giuliani and ukrainian leaders that have been revealed thus far . as nurse we can tell though from what's been said publicly ambassador volcker was responded to requests. to present the landscape to make contact with giuliani so his role was reli

union united states great britain and canada have all voiced their opposition as have hong kong lawyers who held the iron much last week sharing the concerns of human rights groups who fear the low could also allow political kidnappings the chinese government has a very poor track record of human rights that includes fault i think china will have a false confession culture and hobbit way out west despite these mass protests this bill is likely to be passed the hong kong government has the majority to comment on the chief executive want to avoid before the end of the match the government has defended the bill and says human rights would be protected and the hong kong courts can still review each case to ensure there's no political motive but if the mass turnout at this rally is any indication it's clear many in hong kong i'm not convinced sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. police and protesters have fought in kazakhstan on election day kassam jomar talk is on course to be the 1st new president in 30 years but some opposition groups say the vote was unfair and should be boycotted robin fo

the european union's pledge nearly six hundred sixty million dollars to help deal with ocean pollution more than forty ministers and officials from over one hundred countries are attending a global conference in malta on how to save the oceans lauren taylor takes a look at the problems facing one of the world's greatest resources across the world our oceans and seas are being ravaged by pollution over exploitation and the effects of manmade global warming rising sea temperatures are believed to be exacerbated the effects of the recent spate of deadly hurrican in the caribbean and the united states will motions also mean acidification dead zones and invasive species jeopardizing the marine ecosystem and threatening our fish and seafood supplies then this pollution virtually every part of the world's oceans are affected by it particularly by micro plastics and every year more than eight million tons of new plastic trash end up in our c s and there's the impact of an reported in unregulated fishing it's worth billions of dollars to the world economy but at an unknown cost to the natural e

state department says the european union needs to be more critical of countries that violate a u.n. arms a bugger in libya david schenker the assistant secretary for near east affairs says the block is biased to the only criticizes turkey's involvement in the conflict and the headlines more news here here to the bottom line next. story tensions could cut global economic growth by $700000000000.00 we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in the government has shifted focus from saving lives to saving the economy. counting the coast on al-jazeera. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question well the coronavirus pandemic be the tipping point that takes us into years of joblessness and poverty let's get to the bottom line. but we look around we see a lot of people who can't find work and a lot of businesses that have gone bust but there are some winners out there it seems like the financial markets are always winning at least from my vantage point economists usually say that they saw what was coming after the fact they are always rationalizat

union meanwhile albania is preparing to hold local elections on sunday in a test of democracy that could affect its own bid to join the e.u. as well but there is a danger of the vote descending into an embarrassment for the government preparations are almost complete for the vote which will elect mayors and local council then albania is $61.00 districts but most of the results will be near total walkovers as the opposition is refusing to put up candidates in protest of prime minister eddie rama's government john psaropoulos is following events force in the capital tehran. there have been a lot of security warnings and concerns there are even been a few small flashes of violence here and there throughout the country particularly . in opposition held town halls where groups of people from the opposition attempted to resist the placing of ballot boxes in public buildings on 2 occasions in the northern city of chicago which is one of the biggest democratic strongholds opposition supporters attempted to burn the ballots after they had been delivered and stored in school buildings these incide

resulting project may sound a warning for the very future of the european union an increasingly fragile continent that threat is ever present this will be a front line with the forces of populism poised to the new recruits and create an elite in their own image. al-jazeera. venezuelan opposition is calling for more mass protests this week and says he plans to return home despite threats of being arrested international aid is still languishing on the colombia venezuela border after president nicolas maduro cut off relations with bogota but despite the barricades some venezuelans a still finding ways to deliver the much needed aid there is money iraq reports now from the colombian border town of cooking. for thousands of venezuelans who live near the colombian border crossing the river is becoming a daily routine the water is shallow but it still requires a bit of skill to make it across. most of the people we encountered here are venezuelan citizens carrying heavy bags of used goods they hope to sell in colombia . this is scrap metal people take this and sell it and use the money to buy

union has weighed in with a new initiative to support short time working and avoid layoffs and redundancies in the e.u.'s hardest hit economies millions of people cannot go to work but they still have to buy groceries and pay the bills companies are paying salaries to their employees even if right now they're not making money europe is now coming to their support with a new initiative. it is called shore. medical priority those finding enough beds and equipment to treat the ever growing numbers falling ill latest figures from france or a new record of 509 new fatalities and the authorities are transferring patients between regions to spread the pressure more evenly paris's hospitals are now full and 38 critically ill coronavirus patients were transferred by high speed train to the city of ren on wednesday in spain where yet another record of 864 new deaths were recorded in the previous 24 hours the temporary hospital creates what this madrid conference center has been restocked with fresh supplies every bed can save a life and in this crisis every minute matters paul brennan al-jazeera. sti

germany's chancellor angela merkel says the european union will respond in kind to us tariffs on european steel and alimony and she says she's disappointed the president withdrew from an agreement he'd already signed at the g. seven summit in canada wide.

union china russia and leaving the united states out in the cold globally and within the middle east you know in a more narrow way so he's really leaving the united states very isolated doing it both in the middle east and broadly i do want to pick up on exactly that point you know we've listed all these other deals that he is threaten to pull out says he wants to pull out of. these things move forward without the u.s. the world doesn't stop because he says he doesn't want to be part of what are the implications of that and just some does he see it as a negotiating tactic. you know it's interesting i spoke to some people who are in meetings with people at the white house over nafta and in particular on nafta he has spoken about it president trump has spoken about what he's doing there is trying to just get leverage and i think in some ways he may think he's trying to get leverage here but leverage for what he has no reason for watch he wants as the alternative to the iran nuclear deal that he's even trying to get leverage for so it really leaves him with no no idea no strategy no vis

union european integration was designed to contain germany's power it would turn the country into the most powerful economy in europe your chance falling from the second world war and continuing with anglo-american have had this trend where they want to protect german interests through the vehicle of the e.u. and focus on trade and also on kind of democratic liberal principles that you see almost become the beacon of germany so-called economic miracle began under chancellor ludwig erhard he forged ties with the us a soviet russia tightened its grip on communist east germany. later chancellors willy brandt and helmut schmidt try to improve ties with east germany in the soviet union while supporting nato and the european community. as the cold war thought the burning wall dividing west and east germany. merkel entered politics later joining the christian democrats she seemed became chancellor helmut kohl protege a woman and former east german she symbolized a new united country in two thousand and five she won a narrow victory over gary hart schroeder becoming chancellor of a grand coal

immigration come out of europe the european union but just specifically on the issue of radicalization do you believe these socio economic trends and pressures are feeding into the radicalization or goes in all direction this is ridiculous asian is a part of that so if you're envy you do all kinds of these a logic doesn't guide you in march not only in bricks it i said even in the u.s. election same thing happened the people at the bottom got very angry with the system that protested against it in germany election it recently the people who had never expected to be in the parliament they got thirteen percent of the seats i said these are probably their reaction generated to the bottom because they are frustrated they're angry because they see the system is not working for them and i said it will become worse and worse now mind you this thank you for joining me from there in cuba thank you very much thanks for that. in what's being pegged its third wave the f. word is becoming popular again yes feminism and central to the current debate is the idea that women's choices matter to vote ac

union think about merkel though if she knows how to win lawrence lee al-jazeera belin. we got a weather update next here on out zero then donald trump north korea chad and venezuela to the list of countries whose nationals are subject to a u.s. travel ban. however saying some very heavy rain moving out of the east china sea heading towards the south of japan big part of very wet weather coming into work here why pressure keeps things settled across the korean peninsula and over towards. generally staying fine in try one pleasant here over the next day but that right not too far away from mchugh she was to go on through tuesday move on into wednesday it will make some progress. a possibility by the state into south korea so. there we have seen the heaviest of the rainfall recently and of the massive cloud in shanghai seeing a staggering one hundred seventy one millimeters of rain in twenty four hours spin rather wet cement in northern parts of vietnam courtesy of our old tropical depression and part here it's a very heavy right seventy six millimeters in twenty four hour

they have broken the rule of law a basic principle of the european union. in a few hours spain is expected to unveil details of his plans to take over castle only is government. hello and welcome i'm watching al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up attacks on two mosques in afghanistan more than seventy people dead . kurdish fighters say they feel betrayed as iraqi forces claim the hold of kirkuk province from the passion. and more than one hundred people are arrested in brazil and what the police say is their biggest bust of a nationwide paedophile ring. our top story today in the next few hours the spanish senate is expected to trigger article one five five of the constitution imposing direct rule over the autonomous region of catalonia the move follows weeks of political deadlock between madrid and the cattle and regional government but how did the crisis come about well on october the first catalonia held a referendum on secession the spanish courts ruled the vote illegal and the national government tried to stop it still aroun

union the trade blocks and what he really is system atomize in the world at a time when we have actually being to create things like the international criminal court the tribunals on the law of the say we got a whole set of rules that the world can function by and he wants to reduce this to be easy in each country by itself will say you know the whole this is all part of that last gasp of the jet or the generational conflict that has really been going on across the world especially in western democracies we saw in bragg's it was older voters who said we've it was younger voters who said remain we saw it here in the presidential election in this past november as younger voters who wanted hillary clinton and to be more of a global community whereas all their voters were more toward the proportion and with macro and i think that part here is that last gasp of the big. we want to stay isolated don't like the world has become smaller because of technology ok but this last gasp is going to last at least four years we imagine what does it tell us as to how the united states is going to engage w

union chamber she didn't want to talk to me about president trump speech no one wants to talk on camera off camera people are pretty talkative i've spoken to one western foreign minister i've worked spoken to one senior member of the security council both telling me the same thing these comments were deeply and helpful with regard to north korea and iran this is a place normally the u.n. where things are about compromise a nuance that's not what you got from president trump you got some very stark language. donald trump is the thirteenth u.s. president to come here to address the u.n. and with the north korea crisis to tear orating he knew the world would be hanging on his every word the message is with these two messages coming together but once he headed to the general assembly chamber he's excellent donald trump he had a very different message delivering a speech that astonished many diplomats by including an unprecedented threat to annihilate another u.n. member state the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no

union and the killing of u.s. ambassador chris stevens in twenty twelve by an armed group dodged the career of then secretary of state hillary clinton up until and during her campaign for you presidency now the talk is of the definite family members and supporters returning to politics. a political activist says only those who have not committed political economic or world crimes can be tolerated that i and i have. a number of ministers at the u.n. backed government of national accord are remnants of the gadhafi regime in fact some of them are accused of corruption crimes before and during the revolution ironically the united nations mission in libya knows that transitional justice should be served first. six years since the death of moammar gadhafi libya remains diverse teated the diplomatic struggle to restore political order has a stalled and the old guard is just waiting for an opportunity to return. tripoli . you're watching out there and much want to bring you on this news now. i'm not angry with my mother a

remain a joint european union in two thousand and seven and is subject to special monitoring on the judiciary and the rule of law i've been one to remain informal ministers deputies and senators have been indicted by the council of europe's anti corruption unit since two thousand and six but brussels has been accused of being too soft on the former soviet state the scale of the protest is nothing new and remain is history tens of thousands took to the streets in one thousand nine hundred nine and the mass uprising which led to the downfall of the communist dictator nicolae ceausescu memories of that revolution seemed rife nearly thirty years later the new prime minister is set to be sworn in in early february perhaps her first task is appeasing the marchers. al-jazeera. now the united nations special rapporteur for me on mine has been visiting one hundred refugee camps in abandoned their janjaweed was banned from entering myanmar a visit to neighboring bond with it comes just days before one hundred refugees are due to start returning to myanmar the repatriation process is expected to last tw

the european union's foreign policy chief and top call for an end to the u.s. against cuba. comments come after washington decided to tight restrictions on have anna. on a visit to the communist island nation she is hoping to strengthen europe's political and economic ties china's president is urging military leaders to train soldiers for real combat and improve their capability to weigh. made the comments at a ceremony at an army base outside beijing he said the purpose of the event was to showcase the country's military might and in this new era for china. those are the headlines the news continues keep it here on al-jazeera inside story is next. ahead of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germans a sense this divide the stage of their economy this is easily the start news biggest tech success story the company was bought by microsoft in two thousand and eleven we bring you the stories to the shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost of this time zero. iran's leadership is both to the violent protests continue to. trouble so is the re

union follows reports of british ministers u.k. prime minister's country retreat checkers are making a breakthrough but a record as governor has been visiting the us to drum up financial support for the battered island but many puerto rican sphere it will be big business not the residents that benefit from rebuilding after last year's hurrican she have written z reports. ricco the rosales says investors should take advantage of puerto rico's opportunities. and enjoy. the benefits of puerto rico but the government plans to prioritize put a rico's electricity grid there how shareholders will make a profit even as they invest in a reliable electricity source for all hasn't been explained put a rico's history as cautionary in the ninety's governor rosales further privatized the water system when he was governor a failure that polluted the environment and raised prices authorities eventually reap to control having paid to french multinational companies hundreds of millions of dollars it's this whole idea that their public utilities are

threat but the european union has been particularly tough for the united states. they make it almost impossible for us to do business with them and yet they send their cars and everything else back into the united states and they can do whatever they'd like but if they do that then we put a big tax of twenty five percent in their cars and believe me they won't be doing it very long the position of trumps commerce secretary who clashed with cone trade policies with the e.u. are out of date concessions made to rebuild a post-war europe don't make sense in the context of a strong modern european economy concessions that were perfectly reasonable to make to germany in one nine hundred forty five or trying to nineteen forty five. don't worry existence anymore those are now very mature big strong economies on wednesday and social media trump continued to deflect fears of a global trade war arguing the us has lost more than fifty five thousand factories six million manufacturing jobs and accumulated trade deficit of more than twelve trillion dollars the white house says

-a a week up to italy and to turn them away the standoff has highlighted the european union's inability to agree on how to manage the influx of people fleeing wall persecution and poverty. a preliminary name changing agreement has been signed on the border between greece and macedonia it will become the republic of north macedonia if both parliaments a president which is fiercely opposed by nationalists. eighteen people have been killed and forty nine injured in a second attack in twenty four hours in the afghan province of. on saturday and i saw the attack in the same province killed thirty six people meanwhile the taliban has confirmed to al jazeera that a temporary ceasefire agreed with the government to celebrate deed will not be extended. there was a final weekend of campaigning in turkey ahead of the parliamentary and presidential debates on june the twenty fourth rival rallies by president party and the h d p which draws support mainly from kurds taking place in istanbul on sunday will see them close here lou is our correspondent covering these rallies she joins us live now see t

union instead of negotiating the ukase withdrawal from the bloc that interim criticize the maze plan for break sit in a newspaper interview that was published during his visit to the u.k. the president said he told me what to do about brakes if and she didn't listen and her plan could kill a trade deal with the u.s. he later backpedaled on his criticism and said a trade deal could be done syrian rebels say government forces are widening their offensive in the south west the government and russian ally jets have fired more than eight hundred missiles at a stretch of opposition land in the countryside of connector which is four kilometers from the israeli occupied golan heights government forces are also said to have advanced on a village there are the rebels have reportedly fought back killing several soldiers meanwhile four hundred fifty rebels and their families have been moved from their raw province in southern syria they were given safe passage to leave after russia brokered a cease fire between the government and opposition fighters eight days ago syrian forces are now in contro

union the strategy to leave the european union at the heart of this crisis let's get the view from europe now on this and we're joined by the former swedish prime minister cabell taze via skype from stockholm thank you very much for speaking to us so how is europe a saving this crisis in britain right now we may spend deeper already because the u.k.'s in the turmoil that we now see in london which was to some extent unavoidable because of the inability of the british government to come up with vision earlier it is because of worrying the clock is ticking there is a need to have an agreement on the terms of the united kingdom within a hundred days and there are quite a number of complex issues that the sort that out there with the turmoil in the chaos in london that becomes even more than it is right now a viable negotiating partner as far as brussels is concerned and well at the moment it doesn't look like that is off to new because it clearly going to take some time to sort out the issues in london. but we do see there is a problem is the white paper from the government on thursday and t

entirely from the european union and have that as a negotiating position with the e.u. and lawrence just take us back to what we can perhaps describe as the straw that broke the camel's back and that is the so-called agreement reached on friday at checkers in the prime minister's country residence which was supposed to show the unity of the cabinet but clearly revelled almost as soon as it was presented with the resignation of david davis what is it about that agreement that is upsetting david davis obviously quite past.

destined for the european union to still be under e.u. trade tariffs but those trade tariffs would be collected by the u.k. and then passed on directly to brussels such as trying to some extent the remaining is in the cabinet under this plan it would also allow for there to be a certain degree of regulator realignment when it comes to standards for instance with the european union over things like health and safety and so on and so forth but brag city is worry that if that is the case then doing trade with the united states that has very different safety stand this may well be challenging there's already been a degree of resistance from some key brick cities within the cabinet david davis the breck six secretary reportedly written a letter to reason may describing the plan as unworkable on the basis that he believes that the e.u. will not buy this plan a plan that of course would allow the u.k. to collect tariffs on behalf of the e.u. the brics it is a. also planned a strategy of their own meeting ahead of this crucial gathering at checke

believes the european union. rescue is in mexico is still pulling survivors from the rubble of the massive earthquake for the death toll does keep rising and now stands at two hundred eighty six. the united nations humanitarian coordinator in yemen says the country is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis the almost twenty one million people in desperate need of help speaking at a meeting on the sidelines of the un general assembly jamie mcgoldrick said the fighting was at the root of all the country's problems. it's a totally mind made catastrophe that's facing yemen as we see today the figures in the facts speak for themselves to know half years of conflict have unleashed on president color epidemic and seen deplorable tykes against civilians and civilian infrastructure and has transformed yemen into the wash the largest humanitarian crisis known well the u.n. secretary general and turning to terror is as world leaders to do more to end the suffering there and a whole new report on the situation. more th

union or new additions it's going to be a tense meeting i would imagine canada's prime minister displayed the diplomatic anger and announced retaliatory sanctions somehow this is insulting to them the idea that the canadian steel that seven military military vehicles in the united states the canadian aluminum that makes your out your fighter jets is somehow now a threat the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable europe's leaders are also irate and threatening sanctions on a litany of iconic american products from levi's jeans to kentucky bourbon to harley davidson motorcycles. all made in the republican staged needs to keep his party in control of congress in this year's midterm elections. at a news conference on thursday french president emmanuel mccrone and trudeau signed a joint statement of multi-lateralism a show of unity before an expected confrontation with a unilateralist us president sort of a mass. in terms of trait i'd like to say to president trump that the measures taken are counterproductive even f

once the most corrupt country in the european union romanian society is engaged in an unprecedented fight against corruption. on the thirty first of january twenty seventh in the biggest protests since the fall of romania's communist dictatorship broke out in the streets of cook arrest. the newly sworn in government had secretly passed to be creek that would grant its members' immunity from prosecution on some corruption charges. hundreds of officials including businessmen mayors government ministers and members of parliament have been charged and convicted at the center of it all there's an independent judicial body the national anti-corruption directorate for d.n.a. in the early twenty sixteen the viennese chief prosecutor announced a sharp spike in corruption charges posted emissions will that got them based on me and those that she says they include but the court of law new berlin not she made. oh. they changed my words meaning parliament thought they could. be nice. shots but i thought she said not all. independent collectives like the funky citizens have also joined the fight agains

union speech seen as a defeat for hardbacks it has he want to leave the european customs union but he doesn't resolve the lack of clarity of what bracks it will actually look like laurence leamer points and clarity he spoke about all about courage it's tortuously slow it is painful to watch so many times the british government has said it wants to do one thing over bricks it's only to be overturned and so again prime minister to resign may have not wanted parliament to have any say in what deal she negotiates with the european union but enough of her own m.p.'s threatened to rebel to force yet another climb down one minister even resigned so he could speak more freely. i urged my parliamentary colleagues to follow my lead and vote to give our greatest this house of commons our constituents and our country the powers it needs to leave our children a legacy of which we can be proud. so what to make of the government's continuing inability to make sense of brecht's it on behalf of people in places like sunderland in northeastern england who voted for it see it runs a small business selli

will buy that plan to collect our of some behalf of the european union going forward we know that within to reserve base cabinet some bricks it is themselves have met ahead of this meeting to work out a strategy going forward some a deeply concerned about having any alignment with the european union any policy that may well mirror what's going on in brussels going forward they're demanding a clean break but to resume a desperately needs progress she is and i think it's fair to say possibly anticipating some high profile resignations they haven't talked about extensively in the british media and she we also know that she may have a backup plan a possible reshuffle plan should simply be members of a cabinet decides to leave ok most importantly she wants unity and that's really something she struggled to gets so far though that ministers may be on the going to in check is until about ten o'clock local time in the evening we know that they've had to hand over their phones we know they've had to hand over their small watches to reason may want to keep firm control of what information comes ou

google is to be fined around five billion dollars by the european union over its android software in mobile phones officials from the e.u. have been investigating contracts with phone manufacturers that force companies to pre-install google services in the cargo armed government supporters and police have stormed an opposition stronghold at the center of protests against the president at least two people were killed and dozens were injured in messiah months of anti-government protests have killed at least two hundred seventy five people and widespread human rights abuses are alleged. passenger flights between ethiopia and eritrea have resumed two decades after they stopped due to conflict between the two countries the first ethiopian airlines flight to eritrea is capital asmara took off from madison is the latest move aimed at normalizing relations the thai football team eighteen days trapped underground is due to meet the media for the first time the twelve teenagers in their coach are due to be discharged from hospital after more than a week of assessments by doctors various of the

in sixteen years the european union says the disagreement between the electoral commission and opposition parties can be resolved. the prince you pay for those. phrases from something while i was against some company provided for some country star we discovered in different places is that when. we come. back from credibility the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says if nothing is done to resolve the stalemate his party will announce their own final results when both content is complete a move some say could jeopardize the credibility of the polls. al-jazeera. al-jazeera and. every. day i mean i don't know how to define or that it's not possible for me to the from that's it's just one of those things that you feel this is yes yes i believe in this i'm so i'm not but i'm an independent on a mission for america. that's about the idea the. greatest. it's about it's about the believing in you again it's about that. as a filmmaker i would want my audience to support that when men begin first as a unit i would definitely want my audience to do a jumble with it and say yes this is what i wan

union is recalling its embassador to moscow as diplomatic reprisals continue over the poisoning of a former travel agent in the u.k. on march fourth earlier a year leaders' meeting in brussels back britain's assessment that moscow was likely behind the poisoning of surface cripple using a military grade nerve agent at the u.k. forced twenty three russian diplomats to leave london and response to the incident former south korean president lee myung has been arrested jailed and placed in solitary confinement the seventy six year old is facing a number of corruption charges and authorities fear he would destroy evidence. and those are the headlines to keep it here on al-jazeera for news throughout the day people in power it's next. there were seven candidates vying for egypt's presidency. cloud there are just two and with president abdullah fattah el-sisi poised for his second term in power international rights groups are calling this election a fosse we'll bring you the latest coverage and analysis of the egypt election on al-jazeera. the usas constitutionally in trying love affair wit

we've seen statements from the european union and the u.s. condemning both right loading does swearing in and this media shutdown. of former president of the maldives will run in elections later this year after a supreme court ruling quashed his conviction for terrorism offenses or how to shoot called in the government to respect the ruling which acquits and and his colleagues branded smith as more. opposition supporters in the capital mali say the supreme court ruling paves the way for the multi-verse first democratically elected leader. to return from exile and run for president in elections jus this year speaking from colombo mohamed nasheed said he would contest the elections and he said president abdullah you mean should free all political prisoners and democracy activists the motives military and the security forces must give safety and security to the judges and i strongly believe that that would happen there is still a small element of. small element within the military and the police that wants to prop up the dictatorship we should i

now the european union has won nine of its member countries that they face legal action if they don't do something about pollution france germany and britain are among those being told they must reduce their emissions but as dominic cain reports from the german city of stuttgart efforts are being made to find new ways of cleaning up europe's. nestling in a natural bowl of the neck of valley should guard is renowned as the cradle of the automobile several famous manufacturers have important bases here but there in lies the problem because with the car comes pollution which often lingers in the air because of the local topography to combat it the city has pollution meters set up in many locations gauging the amount of nitrogen dioxide and minute particles of fine dust in the air a sophisticated alarm system warns people in the levels are too high but local authorities say more needs to be done the federal level needs to spend more money for the for the local level at the moment we have what they call is for programs quickstart program which is a one billion euros which is not that that

russia's ambassador to the european union has suggested that the nerve agent used to poison a former spy could have originated in the united kingdom the british government has dismissed the claim britain accuses moscow of being behind the attack a charge it denies russia and britain of expelled twenty three of each other's diplomats over the raul foreign secretary boris johnson says international experts will conduct further analysis on the poison. tomorrow. technical experts from the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons will come from the hague to the u.k. we will share the samples with them they will then be tested by the most reputable possible international the burra trees well still ahead here on how to zero a potential new problem for donald trump reports say the f.b.i. his deputy director who was fired on friday has turned over his private notes to the special prosecutor and we begin a series on water shortages around the world first opposite africa's cape town which could run out of water by july to stay with us here on al-jazeera. welcome back we'll look at w

i started in may and immediately i turned to the european union for european governments to negotiate with us arrangements for them to take detainees. i did not like going to countries and asking them to do something that we as a government were unwilling to do and that's not because of the obama administration that was because congress prohibited us. too bad and it made it harder and many countries would say why should we help you do something you won't do and my answer was you're right we should but we can't so the question is will you help close guantanamo even under those less than ideal circumstances or will you not. no way are they going to now more than a million you do that or should you. sure don't use order to move or do you or your to me on a platter a bit later that i knew what i knew when i hung up. on the junior fat dinner. edges on shantaram. question being can do the trick of not going there. simply because the attitude is a little welcome to. join now slowly got there on the alarm was hard as anybody cares who you are so. by last night didn't allow themselves to get m

china together so we know how to manage our relationships and we equally have good relations with the european union we have recently joined shanghai cooperation organization and we're also building a strong relationship with russia we have as i said in the history had a strong relationship with united states we have good relationship with g.c.c. countries in our region so we want to have a very inclusive foreign policy because the future of a global economy wants that all countries must learn to collaborate and become more connected we are in a network economy where connectivity of countries and regions i think will bring more opportunities i'm glad you mentioned the g.c.c. because i couldn't not ask you about it seeing as you are here in doha you have as you said good relationships across the gulf cooperation council. even if i just single outside iran and qatar who are of course on different sides of a divide at the moment where does pakistan sit there or are you trying to again just hands off each might take on this would be that pakistan has experienced long conflict and we know conflict

under the leadership of the european union. the conferences old germany the and the u.k. both in twenty fifteen london in twenty sixteen brussels this year i went out. to enjoy the greatest support over that support is insufficient concerning that. considering the immense needs of the country brussels. will be the opportunity there again over the first initial two months of twenty eight hundred for all of us to strengthen our support and france intends to play a very active part. economically a new effort is necessary to support the spirit of responsibility that has been behind the decisions concerning lebanon over the past few weeks france has always shouldered its responsibility in contributing to reconstruction particularly immediately after the end of the civil war the effects of the syrian crisis are such that today the organization of a new support conference for lebanon is necessary it should be held within the first four months of twenty eighteen we are working actively with germany and. you're watching al-jazeera live from doha and carousel.

union you might get on your enemy again as anyone macedonian is greek greek people will not accept the fact of a name we determined to show that we went out to history under the terms that can be no european prospects copia this was greece's official position until about a decade ago it has since accepted the use of the composites name such as northern also love macedonia and a new government in scope is willing to die you to the countries constitutional name republic of macedonia so the basis for a compromise in theory exists the question is can the two societies accept it the greeks have been through an eight year economic depression they have lost one hundred over their national finances and budgets very humiliating has been compounded by the fact that many european media have denied even that ancient provenance they have now said with one voice that their identity and history are not up for negotiation most greeks agree that the use of the name by known greeks employs a fictitious ethnicity and a first as part of their own ancient history there but it might be the new person as wel

union nations which signed it and their rainy and counterpart comes ahead of a decision in washington on reapplying sanctions the deal is working it is the living on its main goal which remains keeping the iranian nuclear program in check and i want to close in the survey against the i.a.e.a. has confirmed in nine hundred more to see that iran is fully complying with the commitments made under the agreement u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly threatened to tear up the agreement which he's called the worst deal ever it was signed at a time of heightened tensions across the region some of iran's neighbors have been talking about a possible military strike against the country. to iran's made no secret of its arsenal of ballistic missiles but some countries including israel claimed it also had an active nuclear weapons program iran insisted its nuclear agenda was purely civilian but under the deal it agreed to end research in return for the partial lifting of sanctions allowing it to access global financial markets and crucially sell its oil. last summer president trump agreed to w

on reapplying sanctions european union remains committed to support the full an effective implementation of the agreements. including to make sure that the lifting of nuclear related sanctions has a positive impact on trade and economic relations with iran including benefits for the iranian people u.s. president donald trump has repeatedly threatened to tear up the agreement which he's calling the worst deal ever it was signed at a time of heightened tensions across the region some of iran's neighbors have been talking about a possible military strike against the country. to her hands made no secret of its arsenal of russian made ballistic missiles but some countries including israel claimed it also had an active nuclear weapons program iran insisted its nuclear agenda was purely civilian but under the deal it agreed to end research in return for the partial lifting of sanctions allowing it to access global financial markets and crucially sell its oil. last summer president trump agreed to waive sanctions on iran's oil industry but things could be about to change in october he announced

are counting on that of the european nations that guided agenda of the organization i think now with a leader who is that a party and a well organized myself and resident present i believe we can now begin the serious thought that the african union needs in order to go forward to action ok other is the time right now i mean program is that he says that the time to change is now there is not urgency felt across the continent that there is a sense of urgency across africa because if you see the level of migration from africa i do risk us with africans are taken to be able to cross the far i desire to be able to make it to europe you know there isn't just to with which the african you know must reform african nations must begin to think of how to ensure that there is sustainable development in. in africa to ensure that up with the number of africans i have been lost on the trail of the militant really healthy through the sahara desert in the last twenty to thirty years perhaps put together could be more than the number of africans who died in the transfer her and transatlantic slave tra

why the european union has ordered amazon to pay nearly three hundred million dollars. no love lost between two of the childs of women's tennis joe we'll tell you how this grudge match in china and down. a court in turkey has convicted forty two soldiers in a major trial linked to the failed coup in two thousand and sixteen they were accused of trying to assassinate president. forty received life sentences so has the latest. verdicts have been delivered against some of these suspects accused of being a part of an s.s. nation team targeting the turkish president on the night of the failed coup attempt in july two thousand and sixteen the conviction of this team as they were dropped is one of the most important following the feared coup because they're all well known prison tired on himself is the plaintive and phantom the u.s. space turkish businessman is accused of organizing the failed coup. only it's this is hard to get to make this team was sent to kill the president it was clear what these suspects were accused of and to some of them were caught already handed it's

and the threat that that has to the united states to the to the european union to france it could degrade wages and it could you do grade the middle class both in the united states and in europe then he went on to talk about the environment and the united states supporting old industries like mining and fossil fuels that threaten. the environment that threaten that contribute to global warming and finally said that he hoped at some point that the united states might rejoin the paris accord so it was an interesting speech highlighting the similarities between the two countries but also highlighting the differences at the moment but he says those are differences that he thinks that the two nations can overcome and it's very interesting that you mentioned a few key policy differences actually between matt and there with. speaking about the iran nuclear deal he is trying to convince the u.s. it is a deal that must be adhered to is. ideology of multilateralism and of course his position on climate change what is the view there in washington do people think that this is a relationship the trump

union to think about merkel though if she knows how to win gloriously al-jazeera. is an associate professor in the school of public and international affairs at the university of georgia he joins us now from athens thanks very much for being with us or to be so i'm going back in is already said that she wants to win back some of those voters who've left her for the a.f.p. how do you think she'll do that. she will do it by showing that she's in control of immigration and particularly refugees. that will mean probably that she's going to push for more deals with states in north africa to prevent more refugees from coming she will also probably reach more to the east which has been disproportionately voted for d.f.t. but what about the f.t. itself mean it already appears to be in turmoil as a party with the chairwoman saying she won't be joining that balcony in parliament how's that going to work will not weaken the hand you think well the a of d. has gone from many transformations in only twelve years that has existed that started out as kind of a conservative party

union wherever you look even in these desperate remedies for the situation they don't look very promising mark thanks so much for unbundling all the big issues there for us we do appreciate it mungana their life at lancaster university in the u.k. . well mrs may not meeting the french president emmanuel back home because he today busy with lots of other stuff he's promising to lift the minimum wage income tax on pensions and salaries to quell protests against his government in his first national address since the so-called yellow vest rallies began a month ago mr macro says he shoulders some responsibility for the anger of some demonstrators in the concessions just don't go far enough. from paris to. emanuel mcconnell speech was an appeal to french hearts he admitted making mistakes and called for national unity and upon the path to success possibility i admit my share of the responsibility perhaps i made you think i didn't care i had other priorities i know that i have heard some of you with my words. the french president spoke after four weeks of near silence about the so-called yellow