corruption because those company had been used to hide their interest and then it led to gold mining story. construction business is a had had communication kompany which by the way swedish company is involved right . one of the recipients of of this year's write a livelihood awards a thank you very much for joining us on your program and congratulations again now iraq's kurdish minority has voted in an independence referendum the outcome will likely be yes when the official results are revealed that is despite heavy international pressure both the u.n. and the u.s. oppose the poll. iraq's kurds celebrate the holding of their independence referendum. but their government today we voted for the independence of kurdistan and it's a session from iraq. we want to change our iraqi identity to kurdish. i

say goodbye to iraq and yes to independence but. the non-binding vote was held despite pressure from all sides iraq's central government said that it would never accept the splitting up of the country internationally the us feared the kurds push for independence would distract from the fight against islamic state while the un warned it could ignite more regional conflict. iraq's neighbors also have significant populations of ethnic kurds many of whom have been boy by the referendum spirits were high on the streets of diyarbakir the kurdish stronghold in southeastern turkey. as the questions months. living in the other parts of kurdistan that referendum made me so happy it's gone now wherever we go in the world that we know that we have

a state. if. we want the kurdish government in iraq to declare their independence very soon it is no longer can but ankara sought to dampen the expectations of turkey's ethnic kurds. our attitude on this issue is very clear. regardless of the results with the clear this referendum and voyage. it is not in conformity with the current law in iraq. we declare it illegitimate. you're. going to make sure you turkish tanks on its border with iraqi kurdistan a potent illustration of how do one stands. now an effort at compromise

last night in the war of words between the national football league the n.f.l. and the president of the united states you may recall donald trump called on team owners to fire players who nailed during the national anthem to protest the country's treatment of people of color on monday the entire dallas cowboys team kneel to a chorus of boos from the arizona crowd where they were playing they stood up and linked arms however for a presentation of the u.s. flag and the singing of the national anthem president trump slammed the players for taking a neighbor he tweeted that standing for the anthem was quote big progress meanwhile bron james arguably the best basketball player in the world chided the president and defended his fellow athletes for challenging the government and mr trump. for. but we still have problems just like everybody else and when we have those problems we have to for got away how we come together and be as great as we can be at the people because the people run this country not one individual.

ok we're turning to our top story now our french president obama call is expected to give a speech right now at the sorbonne laying out his vision for europe let's go right there and listen and. if you have a thank you very much made them to me it isn't gentleman minister smith you. and gentleman parliamentarians. mr perfect be done right ladies and gentleman university presidents ladies and gentlemen. i have come here to talk about europe. some are going to say again that they should get used to it because i'm going to continue. because

this is our fight our history our identity horizon and our future vision. all ready is it necessary you are saying some. of them the time must never write to speak about europe it's too early or already too late and they have become used to move a tactic where it is so much easier never to explain where you want to go when and where we want to leave it to our citizens and to this day with hidden arguments. because they have lost their gold it is so much more comfortable to talk about instruments without even knowing where we are going to get it so everybody has become used to not saying anymore what they really think and what they are doing thinking that it's only tactics to the experience has shown that

this is leading us nowhere i'm afraid i know i have come to talk here at the sub on them and end up with mr dion i think this makes a lot of sense because we all know that this but the boom here has a lot of prestige in the beginning this a ban was not so much a precedent as an idea carried to by some academics and their disciples who built the future sitting on straw. man exists and lives today because of it because their professors and students have an idea of knowledge and idea that has crossed the decades and centuries people and you know that's a pencil and idea that was carried by the pioneers of thomas inclusionary and we have to own one and it over and over again because the problem is your fellow ideas

that make us progress and improve our destiny are always fragile. and europe can only live if we have an idea out of it but almost what we have it will make it more beautiful in a far stronger and more lively and carry it through historic circumstances. because the form may change but the idea must remain and the ambition must be the same and we have to live as colleagues that's what all bad a sort of sad and you're to intellectual that created the european idea had a single thought through wars and crises and all the historic disasters before you this idea can turn out to go and when and where chaos could have triumphed civilization always did triumph. we are

the heirs of this history and in much of. crisis that could have thrown. a dark knight to world wars that could have and now lighted us but together we have overcome. them and never forgot the lessons. the idea triumphed over. good and wish for brotherhood was stronger than far revenge and hatred. the founding fathers had a clear idea to transform the secular fight into a brotherly cooperation and european associate rivalry with. the appointment of the beginnings of european union the promise of a piece of prosperity and liberty was correct at this time when greece is a montage of gold and muttered to the common market

a generation later it was not just tactics it was suited to countries that came out of dictatorship and one heeded the call of letter to the pentagon and eastern europe while we. joined this project one generation later this hour. and it was hope again that brought that. history started and forty seven and yet we kept going on and on and included a country that had lived through of oppression women and they joined the european usually union like the promise. that when you buy that. at the time of the bill it was clear to everybody that we had to protect europe from the rest of europe because security was not a topic and they going to going to feel economy might have been already knew where

to go and wanted to catch up with the united states what you would be on the european project. if you want to get online and was the mission of. the who wanted to bring back the threads only of a continent that had been a split by two world wars that it's a vital stakes are still very rare look up everything but. the protection behind which europe could cross by i have to spit in what appeared to get a. globalization has come over it like a storm. and the ideas that seem to be preferred solution unless you don't have a reson nationalisms protection as the sovereign. fifty dollars idea yet have would be if you were. in the start a disastrous wars and crises that could have what have destroyed europe will have

risen again because of the fear of the citizens you know that we have ignored for too long a mic who we thought for too long with you know past would never come back to us and that we had all learned our lesson and we thought that we could all. live in. peace and forget our ambition and our hope that europe of maybe don't carry on with it because it seemed obvious and we took it for granted. but it end. now you have come back to haunt us and still fast and you know you don't and try to make us forget how much unhappiness they have a broad in the past and try to say what they can bring for the future of us could do or not because the european idea is. because going maybe to

look. good and a created the conditions for them because of what we did forgot or ambition you forgot to defend europe and we forgot to make new propositions for europe. thank goodness of we found that and we have let the dollar to take its place and what are they saying to our citizens they say that they have the solution that they are going to protect them all if you don't but you are all of the action i learn just like you try a match on channel digital transformation migrations to another reason. challenges world wide challenges and nation that closes its largest can not overcome them they are lying to their citizens and we have let them do it if

we wanted to have an eye to europe as a powerless bureaucracy and what we always play on every lawyer and if something was to complicated it was not as it was brussels and we forgot that brussels we are brussels was all the time and we have a stop proposing. to you i am not going to lead anything with to those who promise a choice division and protectionism i am not going to make any new proposal europe is going to make them and we have to carry them to de mint. and now. can you read. we cannot get rid of the same vocabulary

same policies same. winter when you can not. protectionism much because that would be a collective suicide and we cannot let the illusion of protectionism intimidate and if we refuse that we. overcome the challenges and we realize just how. high the stakes are. the europe that i want to talk. about today you need has to be built by us a democratic union. where we dare take anyone road together they will be everything that i said to my branch poor fellow citizens i'm saying that you know again europe is not the first and get enough to

slow but only europe can give us the capacity to act and the world today that is changing so quickly and you can give us a real desire and letting up and i mean all the past thirty two only existed in the world of today to defend our values and interests. but there is no european sovereignty that we have to build it's necessary because of. what constitutes our deep rooted identity this balance of the values and to liberty human rights collective justice that is something that is entirely new on this planet to be going to be the machine made a market economy with social justice is also a new idea of what europe or presence it's not something that we can give away not to. the other side of the atlantic and nor to asia we have

to do it. and will prevail in that. climate of globalization we call. well you did and instead of doing any debate in the european social world and. in budget they had financial debates political debates this is what we have to do we have to think about how to create a strong europe in the world today and how to build the basis for the necessary sovereignty and to master all those challenges to meet concrete action the first key the foundation of all politics is security. and you know we have a double more women and. progress of this and tango men and from of the united

states and the lasting terrorist phenomenon that has split up or before you societies. and in those fields europe has become aware of its fragility and hunt necessary it is to act together we have to strengthen our projects in order to fight against terrorism and to combat terrorist propaganda on the internet and we have to strengthen our cyber security and to create security and a common security and justice place but there are a call has to be an autonomous psychopathically for action. the pillar of those autonomy has also ready been created with the story developments in the last month. we create the ways for.

europe defense with herman and cooperation where we can engage and progress together or d.n.a. and also european defense fund in order to finance our capacities and research. and this necessary bass is being filled with contents through the exchange between the different member states who want to progress and those directions and we want to go even further. what you have us liking most today in the field of defense is a common strategy a culture. and capital to you to meet all work together and be convincing is also damaging our credibility that we don't have the same parliamentary culture or political culture or sensitivity but we cannot change that in one day. but

i am already proposing to build this common culture together. and to propose unit and taliban channel initiative in order to create this common strategic culture and in order to manage this we need deep changes so i am not going to sing heartless to welcome in our international news and i'm going to start with initiative in the french army to soldiers from all the other armed forces as early as possible and plenty of order to your work together in intelligence work and strategic work and. the beginning of the next decade you should combine our in force us intervention forces common defense budget and a common doctrine in order to act thank

. you can always come in the culture broader in the fight and the second is terrorism and teligent services secret services and i want to create a european union intelligence academy to strengthen the links between when our countries through training and exchange. and. to confront international terrorism your own has to be our shield they are everywhere the ramifications everywhere so we also have to act together from prevention to repression and this is also why you have two communities created a european general attorney in order to be able to prosecute. if you think

security. we saw a tragedy in the last days not just bombs and machine guns climate change are also a threat from him you know the security as never before our security you this. losing increase human lives every week this is what i want to create also a several protection stretch of force. that is going to allow our son to act to disasters that are less and less purely natural disasters. you know. what the united europe to protect intervene to save lives is a europe that has found a sense again of brotherhood and that is able to act concretely and show how

strong collective action can be a few in. our sovereignty is the second key. on the european scale to protect our borders and our values we've got. migration crisis it's not a crisis that's a challenge that's here to stay anything we did and that is based on the deep inequalities in the world europe is not an island. and our destiny is a linked to the. far east to the middle east and. the other continents and we have to respond here and europe only together with europe can report take our borders and welcome those who deserve asylum and integrate them really. and talking with us as long

as it will lead to a sign of our partners have for an arrest of influx because of course if you're going to protect our borders and as long as our asylum france you just are so so long. we are not going to be able to organize to gether return of migrants who are not allowed asylum here we need more efficiency and more humanity anything in the coming years you know has to. realize that this is the biggest challenge and we don't have a choice we have no alternative. to hide. behind the corridors were inefficient and lose. more we can build together the borders for asylum and migration that's why i would like in the

coming year to have to vote. on the migration and asylum i want to you know asylum office that accelerates our personal jers ellington. rulings biometric files a secure files. because the new tens of thousands of asylum requests are being treated and france every day that our partners have already refused to talk we need more security you need clear border management and secure return to those who cannot stay here and. solidarity training and integration program for refugees. to integrate them because they have risked their lives at home and on the way here it is our common

duty as europeans and we cannot lose that out of sight. when. we have done allowing this. but without leaving the burden to only some only if we have to create a real solidarity that is chosen organized and not. through this common color with a solidarity and efficiency that i propose and that starts at home. that's why i started in for using their values to reform a look at to better welcome refugees and improve organization in our country accelerate asylum and see just what inspired by the german model with

more justice and more efficient and i would like france to start already to do what i want for the whole of europe. but we also have to look further. and i'm saying this very clearly. the most road by us border an obvious and the most ambitious. pollard the seas cannot stop this is lasting migration will only start stabilizing and strengthening the countries of origin in canada to this. contemporary migration and are caused by instability and crisis in the countries of origin and if europe needs a border that has to be protected and the strengths and what you are has to first of all have been a rise and all foreign policy. objectives for us the mediterranean the

heart of our civilization we turned our backs on at we did no one to see the crisis there. and today. they are every where in the mediterranean are home and. ticks in the mediterranean in africa have to be a kind of solitary turtle that's what we have already tried and initiatives for libya for the silent zone but. are your panel of ours really should not go see africa as a menacing neighbor but as a strategic partner with whom we have to master the challenges of tomorrow. employ him and technological revolutions and i hope that our partnership with africa will be an element for you to reform and

development has to be improved i already engaged france and process and every year we are going to increase it and we're also going to increase it and work better because numbers don't mean measures. and one should not think that development policy is only a question of numbers we want to work with civil society and our development policy has to be your paean also and i am ready and i ran out to start on a new foundation is a project of. european investment tax us in order to finance those measures thank goodness. we know the debate by heart. and why

do those initiatives always fail because the technical modes that we choose sometimes penalize one country there are talks. countries in europe that have a transaction tax if france and really humble because my producer chose that only we should apply those tax on the whole of europe. and. the red lead to give all thoughts resources to development politics thank you we are knocking. there is another country who has a transaction tax it's quite broad. and they had it before us that can create stamp duty you did what you wanted when you wanted and. if this is not creating an unfair competition because. of our predecessors.

could any. vote measures that are not sustainable today. but if we adopt the british tax nobody can say that this. law allows unfair competition. i don't hear quite. easy solution but anyway i am going to work towards this tax thank. you. but what you need to not have understood already that thirty. four and polish in a partnership with africa. our development policy that is going to create a huge project of. cross investment education however and our jane in.