seventeen he told. her first. this is did of the news coming to you live from berlin independence for the kurds in iraq a bond that sees no concept of britain as a vote for independence gets overwhelming support but there's talk in baghdad of sending in troops so where is the vote to succeed from iraq heading also coming up

as the fourth round of former breaks the talks and a britain's prime minister to resign may says any transition period out of the european union would be capped at two years and german chancellor angela merkel hits the campaign trail again just days after winning the general election this time she's helping out in a vote in one of germany's states. on a warm welcome to you i'm on the touch. the latest moves by iraq's kurds to what self-determination has thrown the region into crisis more than ninety percent of people in iraq's kurdish autonomous region in the north voted in favor of independence the iraqi government reacted with outrage saying the referendum was illegal neighboring turkey and iran which also have good minorities have both condemned the vote. as the god celebrated iraq's prime minister threatened serious

consequences there were euphoric scenes among iraq's kurds after the official result was announced kurdish authorities said that with a seventy three percent voter turnout the poll had been a resoundingly success. at this historic moment i want to congratulate you on the success of the referendum on the independence of kurdistan in our autonomous region and the areas outside the autonomous region which kurdistan claims. in baghdad the reaction couldn't be more different iraq's government opposes the kurdish push for statehood and has demanded an immediate an element of the vote. iraq's government has already taken retaliatory steps threatening to halt flights in and out of the kurdish autonomous region it's also demanded that those behind the vote including kurdish leader massoud barzani face legal consequences iraq's prime minister allow but he said he wanted to keep his country united without

resorting to the use of force that parliament has given him a mandate to deploy the military to the kurdish territories including the oil rich region around the city of kirkuk that we will impose federal authority on the whole of iraq with the force of the constitution and the force of the law this is not a threat some people have made threats and some have used force to impose their will in the disputed areas we will use all the tools provided by the constitution and the law. the measures passed by parliament also called for the closure of foreign diplomatic missions in the autonomous kurdish region. neighboring countries turkey and iran are worried that the referendum will embolden their own kurdish minorities and are applying pressure with sanctions of their own. and for the very latest to have with me john this campbell he joins me from it'd be in iraq's autonomy. region now welcome campbell of the. muslim.

politician what do you hope to achieve with this referendum. well i think it was and truth is i think he was wearing a shoring up domestic support which he did also think he was. going to get more international support and she didn't so it's a shrewd politician i think we seem to have be having problems with that line to be i think we have to leave it there i'm very sorry about that we did we're having kind of some issues with that line and we'll try and get that up for you later moving along now mystic a look at some other stories making news at this hour a u.s. air strike in afghanistan's capital kabul has claimed a number of civilian casualties officials say the strike missed its intended target due to what they called a missile malfunction it had been aimed at militants who launch rockets and kabul

airport on wednesday shortly after the u.s. defense secretary jim artis arrived on a visit japan's prime minister shinzo r b has dissolved the lower house of parliament clearing the way for snap elections next month be announced the move earlier this week in a bid to capitalize on high approval ratings but he could face a stronger than expected challenge from a new opposition party launched by took your sparkler governor your local care. people in puerto rico are pressing u.s. president donald trump to send more aid more quickly the u.s. territory has been paralyzed since hurricane maria kit a week ago nearly everyone and beyond and some three point four million people are without power nearly half don't even have running water and fuel is also scarce. to europe non britain's prime minister to resign may has said any transition period

out of the european union would be capped at around two years she's under pressure from politicians who support bragg's it to keep the transition period a short as possible and meanwhile the fourth round of formal breaks the talks ends today with both sides posturing to promote their own interests it's difficult to get to the truth of how the negotiations are really going but did the obvious yog lot of things you may have found an answer. on the face of it the bracks the talks have so far been friendly and according to the u.k. spread secretary david davis they've delivered concrete progress but that's not the future of his e.u. counterpart michelle been here. to be honest i'm concerned. so who's telling the truth let's stop here for. and take a closer look at the nonverbal messages of the two negotiators for instance in this

situation a picture of their second meeting in july i showed it to an expert in body language at the university of louvin in belgium i think by the year is more credible than davis to me if just by looking at it you see and listening to him also you see ben you constantly in a consistent message his words are often very prudent he's hesitating there are moments where he's really expressing that and his body language is also like that so for instance when bunny forgets something he doesn't try to cover it up. really does you know i forgot in the years you're. mr davis you get and he comes even looking here at points at some moments he comes close to fake because he's too positive too happy this is a very happy face could be an incredible birthday party and we're ready to roll up

our sleeves and get down to work and once more. with that let's do it thank you britain wants flexibility brussels wants commitments particularly regarding money both men are so far apart but who will take the first step the feet are interesting because as they are far from the brains you cannot control them and year you can see that davis has been really pointing towards. a sign that at least on a personal level things could move forward so keep negotiating gentleman and watch your feet. and that report was by a correspondent kyung lah to sanaa joins me from brussels you know despite some levity there breaks the talks are serious business and it seems that the food the round of talks at the end of it the still sides remain as far apart as before

that's exactly right and returned both gentlemen have so far ruled out that there is a deadlock but if you take a closer look and see at the last couple of rounds the statements have been similar so i think they haven't made a sufficient progress at least although david davis for instance said there was sufficient progress on some fronts but the real problem for the u.k. and for the year after all is that time is running out. in october there is a summit coming and on that summit leaders want to decide whether there is sufficient progress in the talks in order to talk about a future relationship so the the structure of the talks is first you talk about the divorce and then about a future relationship and unless there is sufficient progress then that step cannot be made and that is real dilemma here there's only one more negotiating round a fifth round before that summit in october and you the british foreign minister is the me has been on

a huge charm offensive ahead of these negotiations did that have any impact on the brakes the talks do you think. at the beginning of the first of this fourth round david davis the negotiator of the u.k. here made clear that as to reason may rule pointed out in your speech the u.k. is ready to honor its commitments but in accordance with and in context with a new future relationship and that makes clear the key to lemma here he does not acknowledge the division the structure of the talks first about divorce secondly once that is been cleared for instance the question of a huge breaks a bill the u.k. has to honor and then secondly the future relationship and that is the key to that is so far hampering the talks to move forward and in that respect to recent mais speech hasn't made any changes at all that got matis in brussels thank you very much for that we're turning out to our top story and the independence

referendum in the kurdish area of iraq which has been strongly condemned by the iraqi government for the very latest i have on the line journalist campbell. he joins me now from being in the town in the sky this reason well. the iraqi good leader must goodbye's and he has a reputation of being a very shrewd pilot being assurance politician what do you hope to achieve by this independence vote. well i think he was hoping to achieve a couple of things and the first was to shore up domestic support for him and his party and that he certainly did but he was also hoping to win over international support ahead of the vote which he wasn't able to do but what you need to realize about him is that he's seventy one years old he's in the thirteenth year of an eight year presidential term that was extended and expired in two thousand and fifteen so he won't be standing again in the november elections here so this was his last chance for him to pursue his lifelong dream of kurdish independence so he

took a gamble and it's not clear at this point yet where that gamble is paying off now he wanted international support but at the moment he's internationally completely isolated but how much pressure does the outcome of this referendum put on the central government in iraq more than eighty ninety percent of the people voted in favor of independence and the turnout was over seventy percent. it did but there's no legal mechanism by which this referendum you know requires any steps now to be taken so you know he's been saying this whole time that he's going to take this is a mandate to go to baghdad and negotiate but there's no requirement to take part in those negotiations what we've seen is baghdad saying no thanks we're not going to negotiate on this because we see this vote is unconstitutional rides campbell down the road in iraq so it's an almost a good if he's in thank you very much for that update. you're watching the

news still to come jill news chancellor angela merkel is hitting the campaign trail again just days after winning the general election we'll tell you why. but first i'm joined by helen humphrey from our businesses can president trump has unveiled his long awaited tax reform plan he most certainly has some critics say that it's a little bit thin on the ground regarding details but what we do know is that it could be a boon for the wealthy for corporations what we don't know is how exactly that money will trickle down to lower income american workers that is not yet clear but many analysts have criticized as we mentioned that lack of detail but one of the biggest changes though is a drastic tax cut for corporations so let's take a listen now to the president outlining that part of the proposed tax overhaul doing everything we can to reduce the tax for you and your family by eliminating tax loopholes we will ensure that the benefits are focused on the middle class the

working men and women not the highest income earners under our framework we will dramatically cut the business tax rate so that american companies and american workers can be our foreign competitors and start winning again. we will reduce the corporate tax rate to no higher than twenty percent that's way down from thirty five and thirty. and to unpack the president's tax plan and now i'm joined in the studio by professor from the free university of berlin lovely to see you this morning now this document has been billed as a framework more than a plan and he's promised relief for companies what does that mean specifically.

the companies are interested in the net that they're getting from increased sales in the future when economic growth brings about new sales it's going to be in the first instance the net income coming to the corporation that will be important for making these investment decisions if you're willing to invest more if you know there's going to be more sugar if we can call the extra profits sugar if that's offered so that's the theory behind everything but corporations are not people they're owned by people corporate income goes to people who own stock and. roughly the top. thirty percent of the population own the very overwhelming majority of stocks so one looks at that as as much a redistribution as it is an incentive for further increased investment in dayton where we know that we could see the corporation tax potentially go from an average of around thirty five percent down to twenty percent potentially guaranteed boon

for the wealthy the middle class could or so they'd be lifted through some of these tax proposals but my question is i'm wondering what about lower income people and families in america right now it looks like there's going to be essentially a sop a little bit could be coming out but when you hear a doubling of the standard deduction what is happening is a merger of what's called the personal exemption with the standard deduction so from the point of view of the small. poor family there might be a fifteen percent increase in this deduction which means a tax saving but it's it's peanuts compared to dropping for instance the personal tax rate for these so-called passthrough companies by the way the trump organization is a pass through company and that would be an income tax rate of twenty five percent what are the chances that this reform will actually be implemented. let's just say

better than i think the repeal of obamacare with the repeal of obamacare was possible to mobilize people who are directly suffer the cuts the way this is all packaged is the necessary spending cuts will come in the future so the victims if you will or those people paying the cost of this tax reform will be mobilizing yet oh and from the free university of berlin thank you very much. in a way to frankfurt our financial correspondent quanah that was and is at the stock exchange conrad germany's latest economic outlook is out i right in thinking that the german government can enjoy an economic tailwind when it takes off this totally and it's very likely that the political parties that will be trying to form a new coalition government in the coming weeks and months in germany will also discuss a lot about tax cuts because the budget surplus that is expected for germany

due to this strong economic growth is very high twenty eight billion euros this year the budget surplus expected for next year is thirty seven billion euros and for twenty nineteen the experts predict a budget surplus of up to forty four billion euros surely the political parties will not be able to avoid the discussion of at least giving some of this money back to the taxpayers g.d.p. gross domestic product for germany is expected to be about two percent this year and in the coming years and this would be around about as high as growth in the united states all right that's what we like to hear con and out of prison in frankfurt thank you very much. well ryan it hasn't pulled out of its tail spin yet in fact things have got even worse for the budget alan it's announces counseling another eighteen thousand flights between

november and malts this month rhianna announced it was pulling up to fifty flights a day through the end of october often it quote messed up the planning of pilot holidays even relieved passengers whose flights haven't been canceled might think twice about booking ryanair in the future what started as a mere debacle has turned into a public relations nightmare for founder michael o'leary at a press conference last week after the first round of cancellations he admitted serious mistakes have been made but does that mean that from time to time we don't make mess ups and we do with the security of michelle i take responsibility for the mess that it is my mess up and therefore i have to clean it up. o'leary apparently has a lot more cleaning up to do than anyone guessed the new round of cancellations this winter will affect up to four hundred thousand more passengers after a meeting with shareholders a week ago one expressed what many now say is the root of the problem of bad

relationship in him and pilots in general and that's what the pilots are coming back to him now and not meeting him halfway the airline however claims it has no deeper problems with pilots and blames the chaos on a new rostering system but the relationship can't be very cordial most ryanair pilots have rejected the offer of a twelve thousand euro bonus if they would agree to work just ten extra days and stay on for a year and according to the irish airline pilots association that was to be expected it says ryanair has fostered a culture of disrespect and fear among staff. well out of federal elections here in germany you might have thought that campaign season was over you might just be getting over election fever but apparently not right you are helena because just days after all was the expected result in germany's general election angela merkel is back on the campaign trail this time helping out ahead of

a snap election in the state of law saxony the german chancellor lending the support to a conservative party's candidate is trying to win back the state from the social democrats doing so with give merican and the conservatives a much needed boost as they try to forge a new governing coalition here in berlin now forming a new government isn't the only challenge facing politicians in the german capital with six different parties in a record number of deputies in parliament they're going to have to be creative to find space for everyone. space is now a scarce commodity in this prime location in central berlin the new german parliament is going to be the biggest and most costly ever in post-war history instead of four now six parties have to divide up the photo is where the meeting rooms are but who is going to share with whom. probably the a if you will be far away from us if i can choose. nobody wants to sit next to the

a.f.d. in the parliament chamber either some are worried that if the far right party sits on the right they'll be uncomfortably close to where the government sets of d. itself is relaxed on the issue. is about if they treat us in a way that makes us look like the victims of the voters will say that's on fan and then even more people are going to vote for us next time. for. the number of parliamentarians has swollen from six hundred thirty to seven hundred and nine making space is not going to be easy but there is precedent when the greens first entered parliament in the eighty's there was no room for them they even held meetings in the open air the new bundestag is the third most populous parliament only the european parliament and the chinese people's congress has more members. the bigger the parliament gets the more difficult it gets to enter the base and to

keep the government in check because such a big parliament can't act as an independent institution anymore. because argonne again khan the parliament may have grown but the percentage of women has shrunk the new bundestag has the lowest percentage of female politicians and more than twenty yes a deficit which is particularly acute in the a.f.p. the f.t.p. and surprisingly enough christian democrats. that we know drawn up a little chorus on hans and brought it up on a mentee studious. contest we call it the joe one bottom it is going to be much bigger and the if t. have promised robust debate in parliament this is going to be a very different bottom one from the last one is did here's a deed it is and no one knows exactly what to expect apart from the fact that there are so much more deputies in parliament the question is exactly how the a of d. is going to operate in this new chamber that it is entering for the first time if

the example of the regional parliaments that the f.t. has been anything to go by they will try very often simply to disrupt the process so what will be important is to control parliament very tightly and obviously has rules and these rules have to be strictly applied and and you control of parliament as speaker of parliament has been found that is going to be the current finance minister of all of gunk choice he's going to become speaker of parliament that is in terms of protocol the second highest position in the state of germany and he's known as somebody who doesn't take. criticism easily who is very disciplinary and and is a good debater the hope is that he will be able to keep the f.t. under control and the finance minister as you said should have that he had a very strong influence on european finances goodies departure marked the end office terror to politics in europe be fiancé few again. it's certainly the end of

an era in european finance policy but austerity politics they're still open to debate because obviously there will be a new german finance minister be a new government but there will be some kind of continuity between this government and the anglo-american and her previous government so it's not quite clear whether austerity policies in europe well as a result be mild and or maybe depending on who the new offer new finance minister will be maybe they will become even tighter we don't know at the moment hans brought it about i'm interested is thank you very much hugh hefner the founder of playboy magazine has died at the age of ninety one hefner and his magazine was symbols off the sexual revolution credited with helping breaking down puritanical attitudes in the u.s. but his critics accused him of degrading objectifying women and undermining traditional family structures hugh hefner and his giant media and entertainment empire from his elaborate mansions often clothed in silk pajamas. it takes

a special event to get me to get out of my pajamas. and put on a pair of pants. we did mix of nude fight eyes high brow articles and fiction by well known writers have the nerve at the time when he started publishing time boy more than sixty years ago the men's magazine became a roaring success and instantly made have been a famous for some hefner his magazine and his lifestyle was symbols of the sexual revolution credited with helping breakdown puritanical morals in the united states the fact that it would resources and that it would not only succeed but also would become such a phenomenon. in the sixty's literally changed the world who could pass through. for those half an integrated women treating them as objects of male fantasy at

a time when women were fed by sea crime such as equal opportunity and equal pay in the past decade or sorry playboy circulations have plummeted and the brand seemed down but have to leave the playboy lifestyle to the very end. here what in the news has a recap of the top stories that you're following for you gone seven celebrating off the independence referendum one ninety three percent support the both bob god and neighboring states are threatening sanctions. and jill is just a young american who has hit the campaign trail again just days after winning the general election this time she's been helping out in the election and the state of north saxony where how far she hopes to win a snap election. i have more news for you coming up in half and i look forward to seeing you then the but.

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