so people know is this economist says young people are wrong to expect too much from the european union its room for maneuver is limited you know what 10 percent you can only provide money through structural fun but its programs are not targeted at specific countries demographics or classes it's up to national governments to implement concrete programs france has the extra difficulty that its birth rate is quite high and it needs to create even more jobs for the young. the young europe fans think that e.u. programs are still helping them increase their chances on the job market and that the you should be widened out to win over more young people. on the i'm picker live point this is so much creativity here we could easily keep up with the startup paradise of silicon valley a young dynamic and have potential but the e.u. needs to give us more support to develop that potential. but it's not certain programs like these would also benefit those who haven't been to university unemployment among numb graduates is up to 4 times higher than those with a university degree. the u.s. china trade d

trade sanctions are also on the minds of european union leaders but this time it's u.s. sanctions against iran e.u. leaders have urged the islamic republic to stand by its commitments under the nuclear deal which was agreed with world powers back in twenty fifteen the u.s. withdrew from the deal a year ago and iran is now threatening to abandon it unless the other signatories of the european signatories provide quick relief from u.s. sanctions. it was supposed to be the post breaks it summit shaping the e.u. future without britain well the u.k. may not yet be out it did not attend the talks a welcome respite from bracks it deadlocked but another topic overshadowed the proceedings iran's threat to have banned and the nuclear deal signed with world powers in twenty fifteen e.u. leaders of tehran to think again for the ones that will be he got us here it's now even more important that europe shows a united front. we do not want an escalation but we want to keep using diplomatic tools. we know our limitations but we all agree that the more united europe is the better the cha

. >>> years of declining voter turnout came to an end signaling a renewed interest in european union policies. >> reporter: big headlines here at the european parliament election center was voter turnout. voter turnout came in at a whopping 50.5%, an 8% gain on voter turnout from 2014 and the first time in the history of these elections that voter turnout actually increased. they've been on a steady decline since the elections first happened in 1979. it was a figure i can tell you that will leave many eu officials pleased. vo low voter turnout long been seen as a signal of voter apathy. this showing that europeans are more enthusiastic about these elections. the so-called grand coalition surprised of center right, center left parties for the first time lost its majority. to put this in perspective, between 2014 and 2019, 74% of the legislation that made its way through european parliament was passed because of the grand coalition. well, that coalition is grand no more. now those parties are going to have to be looking at smaller groupings for some sort of coalition to be able to pass

well starting on thursday voters across the european union will elect members of the european parliament they'll have to the power to approve e.u. new laws the e.u. budget and choose the president of the european commission 751 seats are up for grabs with each of the $28.00 e.u. countries getting a number of seats proportional to their population the u.k. is still taking part because it's briggs it plans of course not been passed the 2 major blocs in parliaments are the right leaning the p.p. and the center left s n d but the dominance of these coalitions could be eroded by the rise of europe's populists bridget lafon is the director of the global governance program at the european university institute she joins us by skype now from florence to talk more about this thanks very much for being with us so we've seen this we've seen this wave of populist nationalist movements sweeping across europe over the last few years in in the individual european governments but do you expect that to be reflected in this european parliament as these elections begin. well we should remember that the anti

a possible temporary customs union with the future uk government could change and the european union have dismissed. i trade arrangement which the former uk representative to the eu has described as the definition of insanity. mr. speaker, none of what the prime minister announced yesterday was discussed with the devolved government. this really goes to the heart of the problem. in december 2016 the scottish government published a compromise position. this was projected without discussion. scotland's voice has been ignored time and time again. brexit has -- from the scottish parliament. that is no respect for the devolved administration by this government. westminster has ignored scotland. mr. speaker, this is a tory mess. look around, there is no support for the prime minister is deal. prime minister, this deal faces even a bigger defeat the last one. tomorrow, communities will make their voice heard, and our democratic european relation. mr. speaker, a vote for the scottish national party is a vote to stop brexit. a vote to stop this economic matters, about to respect scotland's de

population who felt the burden of the european union without feeling the advantages of. the european parliament consists of 751 amy pease representing more than 500000000 people from 28 countries the big question is how many of them will give their backing to new alliance of far right european leaders. let's now introduce our guests say a final act in all senior lecturer in european politics at the university of surrey and men and director of the u.k. in a changing europe initiative and a former special adviser to the house of lords e.u. committee and joining us from milan stephan a very generic and italian journalist who focuses on economics and foreign affairs and is also co-author of the black book of the leg agenda. welcome all of you to inside story the finest expects of us if i can start with you when just seeing this report about that rally in milan led by matt hale many how likely do you think it is that a lot of these far right stroke populous parties across europe will be able to form a functioning coalition a functioning bloc within the european parliament thi

mechanism that the european union has created to circumvent u.s. sanctions to allow the iranians to trade with oil. to get us you just russia and china together view the u.s. unilateral sanctions against iran as illegal specifically those aimed at exports from the country iran has the right to partly suspend the implementation of the nuclear deal if other parties don't keep their commitments. insureds now that the united states is left the iranian nuclear deal and is trying to get the european union to suspend to suspend its implementation of the deal. have a right a legal right to also suspend their implementation of the deal in effect the deal is collapsing because of the united states sanctions because of how determined the united states is to torpedo this deal and to get the arena to do what they want china the chinese foreign secretary for foreign minister also said that you know sanctions may have a short term effect but in the long run they'll just end up biting the united states as well they also they also spoke about how you deal must stay

union so if germany would be the front to pioneer of climate policy the whole european union could be climate of policy and it's the 3rd biggest and intent of. c o 2 in the world the european union so together we could really do something ok so it's all about the european union isn't it when it comes to carbon emissions and attacks you mentioned populists being a concern in terms of environmental policy they could poll as high as 35 percent in these e.u. elections as would some opinion polls are showing how would that affect climate change policy and environmental policy if there was that type of strong showing for the populists 1st i do hope that many people will not vote for the populous that way we have to you know each other people to go to the elections to vote for an international movement for climate protection and not for a nationalist movement and against refugees and against free borders and liberal democracy so that the 1st thing we have to do. we have to defend our democracy and our well yes lisa bottom for us from the greens in the german parliament thanks very much for b

european union leaders reject tehran's threat to partly pull out of the nuclear deal. the islamic republic is contemplating harsh new sanctions against it as the u.s. decreases the pressure. and pope francis moves against sex abuse in the catholic church. in the future, priests and nuns around the world will be obliged to inform the church if they suspect that abuse is taking place. i'm brent goff. to our viewers on pbs in the united states and all around the world, welcome. we start tonight in washington, d.c., where president trump is threatening to impose tariffs on $200 billion worth of chinese goods beginning at midnight tonight washington time. china has a delegation in washington talking with the u.s. trade team, but the chinese government in beijing is threatening to retaliate if the tariffs oh ahead. trump appears to be playing it cool as the deadline looms. he says that he received "a beautiful letter" today from the chinese president saying "let's work together." tonight, he renewed his complaint that china has been taking advantage of the u.s. >> we are the

the european union is and remains open to u.s. companies and equipment with trump set to be in europe next month we can expect more calls to boost defense spending as long of course if you buy from the united states peter all of the berlin the former vice president of the parliamentary assembly of the n.s.c. even even a says though that nato. would not be weakened by any. sport is 0 on going war effort on the side of you know the suits and their farm when we come. in your we have to be a loyalist to go moment so this question the yellow t. is that there was always a pleasure on the side of sumo that suits. you or sources and nursing you when it comes to all your latina talk where nobody sees as hurt at least not. as a cunt who is. trying or even so much and for the region and therefore odors policy in the worst and therefore it is the behavior of somebody who sees your there's a plunder and not as a bar noyon core poison creating its own army is not the only concern for the european union the rise of nationalism is also among the

to leave the european union may announce shall resign on june 7th almost 3 years after the british voted to exit from the bloc she was unable to get a deeply divided parliament to back her withdrawal deal i will shortly leave the job that it is be the owner of my life to hold. the 2nd female prime minister but certainly not the last. i do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love an emotional end to a turbulent time at the top to resume a came to power promising a break to deal and spent over a year negotiating one i have done everything i can to convince m.p.'s to back that deal sadly i have not been able to do so i tried 3 times. so-called break the treaty has many voters resigned to whatever comes or just fed up. it doesn't change the numbers it doesn't change the mess we're in and that parliament can't make a decision even if we get progress prime minister what are they going to do that's going to change things about trying to nation gets a leader that's been the liberal people vote for. may's difficulties in

youth unemployment in the european union fell last year around 10 percent compared to the previous year it's great news for the younger generation but there are still about $5800000.00 people between the ages of 15 and 25 without work job opportunities and with that people's prospects are not the same across europe far from it young people in germany have the best chance of finding a job that's of course europe's largest economy and youth unemployment there is 5.6 percent and here's something that might surprise you france is the 2nd largest economy but the youth the youth unemployment rate is almost 4 times that of germany at 20.2 percent that accounts for more than a 1000000 young french people. these activists don't think finding a job will be much of a problem for them thanks to the european union. the little village of commercial here part of my life a friend of mine as for example currently doing an internship in germany as part of the exchange program erasmus and there are many other even initiatives for young people in the e.u. is really important for us that's why everybody sho

the european union is and remains open to u.s. companies and equipment with trump to be in europe next month we can expect more calls to boost defense spending as long of course if you buy from the united states peter all about. the former vice president of the parliamentary assembly of the l.s.e. even even miss as they that nato will not be weakened by any. spread is 0 on going to war effort on the side of so you know just suits and their farm when we come. in your all we have to be loyalists to go about this question the yellow t. is that there was always pressure on the side of soon. to. inform us sources and this is not seeing you when it comes to. where nobody sees a split at least not. as a countries like india china or even so option for the nation and therefore it is policy inside the west and therefore it is the behavior of somebody who sees your there's a plunder and not as a call poison well creating its own army is not the only concern for the european union because the rise of nationalism was among the most discussed

greece john and the future of places relationship with the european union. it doesn't bode badly for the future of the greek relationship with the european union because the conservative. democracy pelosi being the party that brought greece into the night in the 1970 s. and 1981 ultimately. is the party that cost itself is the pro european policy. the leader of that party promises to have a very good relationship with the great the greater powers in the european union but he does vow to make it easier for people to do business in greece he wants to bring corporate tax from 29 to 20 percent over 2 years he wants to create $700000.00 jobs over 5 years he wants to bring the current week growth rate of about one and a half percent to 4 percent he believes that is greece's potential and he wants to bring back half a 1000000 greeks who've left this dying job market. economies back and he promises to do all of this within his 1st term more or less so when when a greek political leader promises to do well for growth and for businesses he's really appealing to the br

i think as a result of this will be more centralization in the european union now decentralization going in there with this was one of the 1st warnings after a from muswell that there were this is incentives for both brussels berlin that would put at the forefront or to make sure that this would not be successful. because there's a special evil or anything but simply because if brics it was. wildly successful others would follow so. they want this to be just a one off and not precedent yeah obviously or orbis case would of course be if they never left at all decided to do this 2nd referendum and for a while now it seems like this is what britain has been moving towards this if you took no deal off the table and told that you either will take any deal or give us or so obviously in such a situation you've got to have. you're going to have a problem in the political system and i think it's in this vacuum. people like for us to come up with this brics a party which works on the very quickly is not really fit to govern it they don't even have a manifesto they just had a catch in there and reg

union does not have that so that's why the blame is somehow pointed to the european union and i think as as also other speakers said i think 2 other countries russia and china should join the e.u. in somehow implementing the effective in sticks that is more global that other countries could also benefit from this and this should be somehow an autonomy so that the united states government could not reach out to it and as far as i see in the trade bait and trade a sadistic 6 within the global value chains european union is to intertwine is too involved to be the u.s. economy so i cannot see such an autonomy i mean in economy terms in the near future but there could be at least some other parts of the economy that. somehow disconnected from the u.s. market and this is possible and that could be achieved through some account of them like instincts and those could be supported by blocking blocking the statute and many other economic measures could be implemented in order to achieve this ok and and and foresee i think we have run outs of time but thank you so much so all 3 of my guests for

union do now have the mentum with them and this is going to complicate the scene within the european parliament now we've seen the erosion of the center left of center right the traditional jew up lee who held the stability of the european union's parliament together they have they have lost they've got they've got a a leech of support from them so it's going to be more complicated now as far as the european parliament is concerned the groupings will be organize of the next few days and weeks there will be a new alliances and i think getting through policies and getting through any legislation will be more difficult now because it's not simply going to be a case of it being ordered by paris or berlin it's going to have to be spread across the capitals much more efficiently than it was before says the end if you like of the dominance of the traditional axis within the european union the parliament and every decision that's made now every piece of legislation that's taken is going to require long and complex negotiations so you could say that's a victory for democracy at least but it d

say this isn't what we wanted to or we want to remain in the european union so when those parts of the population are becoming more and more angry and at the same time not you ferrante very skillful politician and his party has been a runaway success but he. needs to be said very clearly that he cannot government if the 2 main parties collapse the brics it party does not have the administrative and technocratic background that is needed in a country like britain to take over the government of britain nor do any of the other opposition parties that we hear about not even the liberal democrats who are old and well established party so in a situation where the country is becoming more and more angry on both sides where the government that exists at the moment is a divine deed and discredited with a prime minister who both won't go and won't take the process will wait where the labor party is also becoming discredited and is now deeply divided it is looking extraordinary difficult to see who can take this thing forward and actually provide groups that with and fictive government that is an

thing that germany runs the european union which is kind of true let's be honest and them so that is obviously a position they don't really like to see and i well i play with that obviously controversial point by the way i might have to ask you for some facts to back one up i want to read fake news are you happy that you're back in germany now i mean because you used to be living primarily in the u.k. but now you're kind of going back and forth is that because. it it's not because of that i just used to be in britain only and then i got an offer to work in germany and do standup in my own language and then i started to do it and it worked out ok and now i kind of commute between then and london fashion brand ready. so to know joining us here in the thank you. indonesia's president we don't know has warns that strong action will be taken against rioters in the capital jakarta he was speaking after demonstrators protested the results of last month's presidential election at least 6 people were killed in clashes with security forces violence broke out after authorities confirmed the pre

union does not have that so that's why the blame is somehow pointed to the european union and i think as as also other speakers said i think 2 other countries russia and china should join the e.u. in somehow implementing the effective in stakes that is more global that other countries could also benefit from this and this should be somehow an autonomy so that the united states government could not reach out to it and as far as i see in the trade bait and trade of sadistic 6 really into global value chains european union is to intertwine its too involved with the u.s. economy so i cannot see such an autonomy i mean in economy terms in the near future but there could be at least some other parts of the economy that. somehow disconnected from the u.s. market and this is possible and that could be achieved through some account of them like in stocks and those could be supported by blocking blocking the statute and many other economic measures could be implemented in order to achieve this ok and and and foresee i think we have run out of time but thank you so much that's all 3 of my guests

good relations with the united states army indeed has to have good relations with your european union in fact i mean as you know in one thousand and seventeen. twenty third's of the member has signed an agreement with the european union and armenia indeed the dollar has to have has very close relations with russia and this relations are historic i want to ask you about your personal account of a somebody because you recently were caught on camera. chatting about something with joe biden the the former vice pres. in the united states and c.n.n. speculated that this was about his possible presidential bid did he tell you anything new for anything about that well again if even he did not going to say this publicly be it when the and i think i will. i will say yes or no if i get a permission from mr biden himself because there's a simple i think of behavior even between politicians so i know joe biden for a while for several years with but there we had discussions and i think we both. felt cameras and we think that was a part of our discussion it was very very sort of a. the low intensity

well amnesty international has blasted several european union states saying they have failed to poll their obligations in regards to the arms trade treaty because they're selling weapons to saudi arabia living with arms that will likely be used in the war in yemen the bar has been bouncing off european ports like a pinball this is a serious test of country's resolve to uphold the obligations on the arms trade treaty and you common position on arms exports several states have food this test in the space of just a few days now the concern is that some of these weapons could be being used on the front line in the war in yemen and could be being used against civilians now that yemen conflicts being ongoing out since 2014 around 10000 people have lost their lives in the conflict and millions have been pushed to the brink of starvation it's been described by the united nations as being the world's worst humanitarian disaster and the concern from amnesty international is that if it is possible that the weapons being sold by e.u. member states to saudi arabia are being used in any way to per

trump: the tariffs have been a necessary thing for me to do because in the case of the european union, they have not treated us right. money for manyng years and the european union has not treated us properly, but we will see what happens in regard to tariffs. we have not made a decision on that. >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: it will be discussed next week. >> [indiscernible] say it again, say it again. >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: well, i think i have a very good relationship with some of the press. unfortunately, some of the press does not cover me accurately. they go out of their way to cover me in accurately, so i don't think that is a free press, i think that is a dishonest breast. i want to see a free press. the fronty to see on page of the "new york times" that they were talking about spying on my campaign. that is a big difference between the way they have been covering, but that is a big story. that is a story bigger than watergate, as far as i'm concerned. i want to see freedom of the press, and i get treated fairly by some press, but i get treated very unfairly by othe

2 european lawmakers like the dutch m.e.p. cathy perry for being anti islam and to immigration when they actually throw socks with turkey however they and the piece criticize the turkish government for being too harsh on dissidents and a lot of those critics are actually pro muslim can this be the reason for a turkey fail a session or one of the reasons. well historically turkey is opponents used to claim that there are 3 issues turkey turkey is too poor turkey is too big and turkey is too muslim the fact as we are too poor is no longer correct because our per capita purchase parity is higher than some of the current e.u. member countries. the fact that we are too big is actually an advantage for europe because europe needs new markets because the european population is getting old the average age in germany is 49 but the average age in turkey is 27 so this young by now make consumer base is really important for e.u. companies to reach out to and to turn to shoot at turkey's to muslim is actually a great benefit for europe if

on the part of the european union. member states have not been able to reach a consensus and really as as at these as it has been mentioned that the current crisis in libya only makes these decisions merge and i would like to thank all our guests lee we are out of time charlie actually saw and night thank you very much and thank you too for chick you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at age eight inside story for me imran khan and the whole team here i couldn't. i. people have to weigh your own record on this trial in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel all you do not believe in a two state solution the official story is that there are no i'm sure we all still are you i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been

play out in the individual countries of the european union so let's also switch across to italy and a dose of any who of course is the league lead to the right wing leader and he's really established his position there that he said that this win of his and the the right wing surge heralds a new era for the european union and that will be a lot of negotiation going on with the the right wing throughout europe and also of course in the rain in the pen and they'll form or hope to form a new political tendencies schooling you know a new block because the main bloc the jew what pally that has. been in charge of matches ascension europe for the last 20 years the center right and the center left they're the ones who have lost ground so they've lost their majority so that means essentially in future europe will be looking at much more negotiation that went all be decided in paris and berlin anymore a lot more to play and i was then asking fact what impact will this have on the e.u. and the wave function. well i think the 1st thing holies to talk about what is the next step here and how how

well the decision last week by to iran puts the european union in a pretty difficult position because they've been so strong in their backing for iran since the united states pulled out but what we've been hearing since that decision was made by iran what we've been hearing from the iranian president hassan rouhani is that they don't want to pull out of the deal in total because that would essentially play into washington's hands. the united states wanted to pull out of the g c p a way in order to make iran withdraw from a deal the day after so the us would be able to refer the case to the un security council to ease the burden on the shoulders of the u.s. to redouble and ratchet up the pressure on iran iran did not fall into this trap so my pompei o heads to brussels the secretary of state will hold meetings we expect with the foreign affairs council of the european union to discuss iran further spare a thought though for those journalists that do travel with mr pompei oh this is the 2nd last minute change of destination they face that is many weeks last week he was supposed to be he

not the major earthquake that was expected but definitely some tremors in the european union elections for the parliament especially from the extreme right 1st of all there was marine le pen a national rally gaining a one percent advantage over president emanuel macron who course is the chief integration ist for the european union that will have a big impact locally on french politics she has definitely said that things will have to change she thinks this is a major victory against president. already of course modern lot of troubles with the yellow vests rebellion then across to italy and the tail south end of the deputy prime minister and leader of the extreme right league party has really strong victory from him he thinks that heralds a new era in european politics there will definitely be a lot more from him of course he's been infamous for his immigration policies and he thinks that they can make a real impact now on the rest of the european union so essentially what is being said now by many analysts is that the center left and center right have lost ground and the the nationalist

on the part of the european union. member states have not been able to reach a consensus and really as as at these as it has been mentioned that the current crisis in libya only makes these decisions merge and i would like to thank all of a we are out of time. and. thank you very much and thank you too for take you can see the program again anytime by visiting our website dulce com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash a.j. inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is at age eight inside stories for me in my own cause and the whole team here like a. story of one of the most successful p.r. campaigns in the u.s. . study after study has demonstrated that israeli perspective dominated american media coverage what part of this can you get through your thick head as hamas a terrorist organization the only thing that you're going to say is what we want to use and if you don't say it we're not going to speak it would be very hard for ordinary ameri

in europe, italy's deputy prime minister has lashed out at the european union's budget rules. as he campaigned for parliamentary elections, and you're looking at his prime minister there,salvini said the regulations are impoverishing the continent. he insists he's not afraid to break the spending limits and his government will spend everything there is to spend until unemployment is halved when he talks about his government, it's not entirely his government and the prime minister responded that his party would oppose any new budget that raises public debt of the european commission have slashed in brussels. pledging to bring responsibility and economic stability to the bloc and his socialist opponent argued a europe wide minimum wage would create economic growth timmerman said if he's elected, he will work to bring the uk back into the european project >> look at what the divisiveness of brexit has done to the united kingdom. today, the united kingdom looks like "game of thrones" on steroids and that's because of this divisive politics. >> tomorrow's headlines. >> that's becau

union barbara sarah al-jazeera the european parliament in brussels. italian interior minister. has welcomed what he called a new european renascence as he celebrated his far right parties success in the polls as on a binge of aid has more from rome. it's been the night for. the party as projected earlier it has done quite well with exit polls showing at least a 3rd of the voters who come out to vote have voted for material needs that the democrats as well as his coalition partner the 5 star movement are trailing behind but this is not just a vote about the european union voters who we've been speaking to through the day have been telling us that this is also a referendum on the tally in politics people want to change to see a change a face is so to speak they want their own representatives to go into the european parliament and want to cast their votes for those people who've been saying that they want to change the status quo but so far in the south the turnout has been low which has resulted in the other parties trailing behind and it's been higher

he has been defid in his career by this one issue of our membershipf the european union, and, at the moment, of course, that issue is serving him well. >> reporte normally in britain, elections for the european parliament aren't significant at all, largely because of voter apathy. at the last round five years ago, t turnout was less than 37%. but this time, passions arein ruhigh because of the failure of prime minister theresa may's conservative government to deliver brexit. and if, as the polls predict, nservatives are humiliated at the ballot box, then theresa may could finally lose her grip on power. >> for brexit! >> reporter: so-called remainers have also lost faith in the main opposition labour party because it's continually flip-flopped on brexit. in fact, some labour m.p.s have left and joined a new party: change u.k. >> our politics is broken.br ain's two-party system needs to be shaken up. m thissy brexit process is thexa clearest emple of this.ng >> reporter: ce u.k. wants britain to stay in the e.u. it's a mix of defectorom the conservatives and labour. spokesman chuka um

union and what is so incredible about this continuing obsession with the european union in britain is that as anybody who lives in europe on the continent of europe can see the project is collapsing internally never mind britain which itself is a major catastrophe breck's it is a major catastrophe for the european union because britain's departure if it happens is the equivalent of out of one country leaving but of 20 countries exact you about cyprus and luxembourg and all the small countries but of course internally as we all know poland and hungary and up in arms the greeks and the germans are at each other's throats even the french and the germans see very differently on that front subject than in fact the european union pick because everything is decided together has become a structural system for exporting your problems to your neighbors so you explore your unemployment if your poland you explore your unemployment employment to britain germany obviously exports massively its goods to other countries you export your debt problems if you're greece or spain or another country to the

union because of brexit. but it is also obsessed with a deal with the united states, a trade deal. and a lot of the conservative candidates, i think will be asked about this and will come down on the side of the united states for the same security reasons. but they are confused, they will want to do deals with china big time because britain's economic position is so confused, what is its relationship with europe be? what about the potential for china? but we can't alienate the usa and so there will be a lot of this bewildered confusion within a british government, notjust between different parties. and bari, i wanted to pick up on something that isabel said about the national pride issue, the sovereignty issue. some analysts say what the americans are asking of china is to rewrite its operating system and put that in law for the economy. obviously as a country, china, which says it has had two centuries of humiliation at the hands of foreigners, there are delicate issues around being seen to act at the behest

cars awards to the european union, we haven't made a decision on that. >> will you be electing patrick shanahan? >> we'll make a decision on that next week. >> world press freedom day we've heard a lot of your -- about us, can you say something that you've been able to approve? >> well i think i have a very good relationship with some of the press. and unfortunately, some of the press doesn't cover me accurately, in fact, they go out of their way to cover me inaccurately. so i don't think that's a free press. i think that was a dishonest press. and i want to see a free press. today i was happy to see on the front page of the "new york times" for the first time when they were talking about spying. and they were talking about spying on my campaign. that's a big difference between the way this have been covering. that's a story bigger than watergate as far as i'm concerned. so i want to see freedom of the press and i get treated fairly by some press, but i get treated very unfairly by other press and frankly, i think that's very dis honest, and i think that's -- i i don't consider that wh

is pull out of the agreement well the european union castigated them absolutely slammed washington for doing this saying that put at risk all of these months and months of work that went into getting the deal over the line back in 2015 of course when iran announced last week that they were intending to pull out of some parts of the deal that also prompted well some discord within parts of the european union with some members then turning on iran and launching criticism at them iran has agreed to vital compliance measures if they break that deal and there will be consequences in terms of how european powers react so we urge the iranians to think very long and hard before they break. the end today nothing could be worse than iran leavin the agreement there are new sanctions today from europe because iran has so far always respected the commitments it has undertaken this commitment and not respected the question of considering the decision last week by to iran puts the european union in a pretty difficult position because they've been so strong in their backing for iran since the united s

thesere the conditions that she gave the european union. i don't see any given in brussels. if anything, there will be more preparation to brace for no de. how badly has brexit damaged britain standing on the global stage? >> there's so much turmoil in -- world, wther it is the whether it is venezuela, russia is a constant challenge. we have relied on the u.k. to be that strong every minister is so distracted and we see so many distractions. we le a capable, effective partner. jane: president donald trump is on his way. possibly a trade deal would have been negotiated or at least discussed. what happens to that now because that was an essential part of the brexit plan? >> bilaterally the u.s. and the u.k. have done what they can d conditionsll of the where they are ready to go, but until we know what that final relationship -- what thatre finl tionship is, we cannot go any farther. but let's be clear. hardballsi.l play the state we will see. gracious.ent was very i think we will see a and grins between president trump and nigel farsoe and mr. joand that may set the tone of t

and the european union at the moment. of course britain could do that out of the block but then it would lead to huge markets that it needs to sell its new products and this is what china and united states have to have strong industrial policies but also a very big market now you just mentioned china and the united states already we're right now in an environment of very tense global trade situation we also have an awful lot of new technologies that it's very hard to keep up with how competitive is the e.u. in its current form i think it is still competitive in you know in the middle of technologies like cars and machines and so on but of course we have beginning to look behind because those other countries. do lift up their economies to invest in infrastructure and for instance renewable energy germany has been a leader in the field but has been taken up now by china which is now a leader because of the market also because of unfair trade policies but the european union was not strong enough to counter those. of policies

two clear trends coming out of europe, more nationalist anti—european union, pro—european union, the greens, the greater effect on the continent where all the demonstrations you have seen in london and london in favour of action on climate change. driving up the green vote? the degree amongst younger voters. the austrian government have been forced from office today. he lost a no—confidence vote earlier today. forced from office today. he lost a no-confidence vote earlier today. he broke up his coalition with the far right freedom party last week after its leader was caught in a video that suggested he was open to corruption. we had got sebastien court, one of the youngest leaders in europe doing particular well in the european elections. now he is out of office, where does he go from here? it has been a roller-coaster ride for him. yesterday he was celebrating a clear when in the european union elections, he is credited with having turned around the fortunes of his conservative party but now the scandal that has engulfed his former coalition partners, the far right freedom party,

disaster if you want to say that the european union keeps calm and carries on. it looks likely that may be replaced by a more pro hard for x. leader what does the e.u. say that some of the leaders have already stepped out saying that the withdrawal agreement that is on the table right now will not be renegotiated so where do we go from here i guess that they can keep calm and carry on with a wait and see you have to see also the european elections still running across the continent so they have to wait on phone your commission 30th of october as the deadline for a no deal extension what. this known deal scenario is certainly one that the e.u. wants to avoid but leaders coming in possibly not so eager on avoiding this scenario how does the e.u. deal with that they can't just keep calm and carry on. nobody wants a no deal no ha. ha spread it but of cause that is the decision of the u.k. government whatever's going on that can be even new elections so nobody knows really what is going on in the west and so these states so what are we going to have is for sure commi

an idea of leaving the european union is being a soft warm. maintaining a trading relationship people don't seem to want that anymore they are the ones and absolutely hard leave or they don't want to leave it's all and that's left both the concert was a labor stuck and they need to make their minds up quickly because the extension of the european union is given the u.k. on what is going to do about brit's it runs out of the end of october and after the summer which is soon the promise there are only twenty two parliamentary days left before that before the extension runs out so they haven't got much time now to decide what it is that they want to do all right lawrence thank you very much for that laurence leamer live for us in london and the european elections that delivered a boost to austria's chanceless about him curse those involved in a corruption scandal he's people thought do you want to run thirty four percent of the vote news in just one seat curses facing a no confidence vote in parliament on monday let's bring in dominic cain who is

between the new prime minister and the european union. and the european union is rightly fearful. last the new prime minister. is quite disruptive within the european union so long as the uk remains a member state. which we will certainly until the thirty first of october at the earliest. okay robert his resolve to leave it there thank you for your call sir. robert he's a constitutional expert at university college london. now at speaking of european elections they're taking place as we speak here at the continued on friday in a process that is set to take four days in total. irish voters cast their ballots after campaign domination by concerns over neighboring britain's. messy bid to leave the block the czech republic also began their voting at which is to last into saturday. eurosceptics are hoping for strong results across the continent but the momentum took an early hits our production example on thursday suggested pro p. u. parties. are headed for a surprise when they're at the netherlands and britain kicked off the voting process. on t thursday. no prisoners rights group in