this is interview news live from berlin and pulling back from the brink of a trade war u.s. president donald trump postpones a decision on steel and aluminum tariffs until next month but is he just kicking the can down the road. also coming up he's the third most senior figure in the catholic church now a judge in australia has ordered cardinal george pell to stand trial on charges of sex abuse he denies the allegations israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu presents evidence he says proves tehran is lying about its nuclear program critics

say it's old news and question his timing. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us there were just hours to go before the deadline expired then u.s. president donald trump decided to delay a decision to impose controversial steel and aluminum tariffs on the e.u. and canada and mexico critics fear the import duties could spark an international trade war the us has now extended discussions for another month. four more weeks but despite gaining a one month reprieve the e.u. and the u.s. will still be desperately trying to reach an agreement. washington says it's been unfairly treated in trade with the e.u. and it wants concessions from brussels gemini's institute for economic research study tariffs on five thousand products it compared to how the e.u.

and us tax each other the results there are considerably higher barry is for u.s. goods entering the e.u. on average the institute says europeans charge a five point two percent levy compared to just three point five percent by the americans u.s. beef is particularly hard hit it's taxed at sixty eight percent that's to protect film as in the e.u. meanwhile the u.s. charges a forty nine percent levy on european tobacco products and twenty two percent on trucks with the aim of protecting american farmers and vehicle manufacture as experts suggest lowering import duties on both sides while that would reduce european customs revenue it would be cheaper than a trade tool. it's certainly a lot at stake there are business editor have you got to give us is here with us that have it i imagine a lot of people in germany this morning sighing are breathing a breath of relief for now at least at least for now and especially because

yesterday since the german government hadn't heard anything specifically everyone pretty much assumed that we would see those tariffs enter into force today so actually we didn't do know that we will have to wait one more month but it's going to be a difficult month and actually to analyze this i am now joined by helen pickering senior economist at bear him back he's joining us from london this morning good morning to you callan thank you very much for being with us today what do we make of this situation now it has been a long wait it will keep being a long way going to do just kicking the can down the road. well you certainly don't cure the world of an evil by adopting it but when it comes to trade it looks as if donald trump is trying to create some leverage over the e.u. that may work with smaller markets but it's like the e.u. along with china with big internal markets won't succumb to the pressure as easy as say mexico or canada would. however we do know that trump wants things to change

and as we saw in the piece we do know that the e.u. has higher tariffs for u.s. products do you think trump will end up getting what he wants anyway. in the end after creating the little slow minutes he may indeed find the e.u. in the us lower tariffs remember there was a plan for that already it was called the tape but that lost momentum when donald trump became president so it's likely in the end we may see modestly lower barriers but they certainly won't be as extensive as if it would have been followed through in full now some say that these threats that we've continuously seen are just a strategy to actually get for the e.u. to somehow lower the tariffs without the us necessarily doing the same if you think that strategy in general is smart you could be very very aggressive and then hope the other side concedes again i stress with smaller economies this possibly works but we'd be a big internal market again if you tried this with china the chances are that the

e.u. could simply retaliate i don't think they will i think the diplomats on both sides will work hard to deescalate these tensions so in the end we may see a little progress but that is after we've already seen the economic damage we've already seen the confidence effect in the market effects of these threats and it will certainly continue to be a tense situation there thank you very much talent pickering back for the analysis . thank you. and of course we'll follow up on the story and on the negotiations that will follow throughout the month so we will certainly hear a lot about this and you know have you were just hearing about donald trump strategy is there a common e.u. strategy here they're trying to figure it out they have a common stance that's at least something but we do know that donald trump likes bilateral talks he wants to talk to merkel on the one hand you want to talk to mccall separately for example the you still has to pressure to just have these negotiations as a bloc and to find a common strategy for that to see if that works another month from now are you here

are give us our business editor we'll see a little bit later in the program. moving on to some other news now an australian court has ruled the vatican treasurer cardinal george pell must stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse now tell us australia is the highest ranking catholic in the most senior church official to be trying on such charges details about the allegations have not yet been made public but police say they have described them as historical a sexual assault of offenses that date back decades the seventy six year old has pleaded not guilty. let's bring in herman who's standing by for us in sydney soekarno powell is one of the most powerful men in the vatican hierarchy how closely is this case being followed there. oil he at least was one of the most powerful men and vatican's hierarchy he was actually a number three in the vatican he was

a personal advisor to the pope himself and he was a kind of treasurer to the catholic church worldwide he is not anymore in the vatican because he left vatican voluntarily that's what he said and his career was a very very quick thing it was climbing the ladder very quick he was a priest in ballarat that's about one hundred twenty kilometers west of melbourne and of after this see you became the archbishop of melbourne he was the archbishop a while and then he was asked to come to the vatican and again and but it can be climbed the ladder very fast to do what can you tell us about the allegations the nature of the allegations against cardinal pell and when they first surfaced where we're talking about sexual abuse abuse of course that began in the mid seventy's of the last century when he was a ballarat as a priest and that continued and that's what the court says and it continued in

melbourne and he was an arch witch of sexual abuse to two boys and he always denies wrongdoing of course but but the court is pretty sure the council is pretty sure that he is guilty. what's the reaction been the australian public to this case. the people in australia followed were very closely i doubt very much interested in what's going on at the courthouse in melbourne and today there were clapping hands actually they were giving hands when it became clear that you will have to stand court people and australia very much want that the catholic church clears all these problems all these problems of the last decades and mr pole is one of the first persons to stand court. dieter

hermann speaking to us from sydney peter thank you. now to some other stories making news around the world a delegation from the u.n. security council is the me and maurice part of an investigation into alleged ethnic cleansing muslims they met leader aung san suu kyi before visiting record state an estimated seven hundred thousand were injured i have fled me and more following a military crackdown. on us adult film actor stormy daniels has filed a defamation lawsuit against president trump she chooses the president after presenting her as dishonest in the comments he posted on twitter daniels has claimed she was threatened not to discuss an alleged sexual encounter with trump a claim he tweeted was quote a total con job. thousands of people have protested in moscow against the blocking of the messaging app telegram authorities began blocking the service earlier this month the company is refusing to share the keys to with data encryption with authorities citing privacy concerns iran has now joined russia in blocking telegram

. israel says it has new proof of a secret iranian nuclear weapons program on primetime t.v. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu presented what he called evidence that iran had lied about its nuclear ambitions analysts say the move is designed to pressure u.s. president trump into abandoning the two thousand and fifteen iran nuclear deal here in europe germany is defending that agreement and has called for an immediate investigation into netanyahu is claims. using language his american ally would understand. iran lart big time binyamin netanyahu delivered a piece of political theater presenting what he called evidence of a secret uranium nuclear project a few weeks ago in a great intelligence achievement israel of turned. for term of the material

inside these walls. and here's what we've got. fifty five thousand pages. another fifty five thousand farls on one hundred eighty three c.d.'s netanyahu referred to files israel says proves secret nuclear facilities and plans to develop atomic weapons exist incriminating documents incriminating charts incriminating presentations incriminating blueprints incriminating photos incriminating videos and more. iran maintains it has never sought a nuclear weapon and never had one even before netanyahu spoke foreign minister mohammad javid serif had dismissed the claims in a tweet the boy who can't stop crying wolf is at it again undeterred by cartoon

fiasco at the u.n. g.a. you can only feel some of the people so many times. netanyahu speech came on the back of a visit to israel by u.s. secretary of state mike pump a oh. and i know this suggest it was time to pressure donald trump into withdrawing his support for the twenty fifty nuclear agreement world pyres signed with iran. if that were the intent it seemed to have an immediate impact is the largest democracy prime minister netanyahu just gave a very i don't know that everybody said it but i just got to see a little bit of it and that is just not an acceptable situation and i've been saying that's happening they're not sitting back i believe setting off missiles which they say are for television purposes i don't think so. you know office in the past week german chancellor angela merkel and french president. have made sacred

visits to washington to try to remain in the agreement but trump has threatened to withdraw from the deal unless it's renegotiated to decide by me twelve we'll be discussing. and we can speak to eric randolph he's a journalist for the news agency a.f.p. he joins us on the line from shiraz hi eric how has a rainy and president rouhani responded to these allegations. i don't feel are very much for motley fool we've got trevor mcclish. from the planners requiring the. not to be all the really good. good. we've already asked to every experience he could for you quoted one concrete. the general theory is clear what the reaction from. you know we've heard that this is old news accusations that we've seen before what about the documents though that israel is presenting these secret nuclear files what does iran say that they

actually show. well they're not only going to go to c.n.n. crew western treasury got human cred fabricate two hundred thirty three foreign minister actually said good morning to you are you sure they were keeping frank lucas crude documents limit. and that's i think there are no. very much sticking to the line we have which will probably never i mean clearly we have been the supreme leader has been president. and i can never seeking weapons of mass destruction all those are going to come after two thousand and three when we talked about the truth that's true. we saw in a report the words there from donald trump you know how concerned is tehran that this could push the u.s. to finally abandon the nuclear agreement. well it's good to introduce interation. in actuality it's already. the nuclear

deal because there's essentially expired in the sense that i'm out to block the image of the trade and investment potential that they were hoping to get from the nuclear deal the uncertainties don't trump is created around business it's an investment that iran is going in to the screw ease any money coming into the country they are worried about losing their homes but it's not clear that donald trump will be able to to convince the chinese and the russians and the indians to stop buying uranium in the same way that the product obama was able to to create that consensus in the international community is very much a wait and see not even. so who in iran is actually going to benefit if the u.s. does abandon the steal another of. the hardliners in the conservatives who said grania the president should never have trusted the americans they are going to be vindicated with america pulls out of this you know

make a lot of hay out of that. as i said a lot of. a lot of that argument has already been made because iran feels that america has been thinking to its commitment to normalize trade in relations with iran so they've already been arguing. the american value to make good on its commitment and iran it should never trust them and to see all of them out of the conversation inside iran has already moved on to vac worried about how to deal with their own economy domestic unrest even with the social and the country and the nuclear deal is just another act that big challenges with iran is visiting other vitamins and journalist erik ron randolph in the news agency a.f.p. speaking to us eric thank you. let's get the german perspective on this now we have our political correspondent hans broad following the reactions here in germany for us hi had thanks for joining us in our studio how is the german government

responding to these israeli allegations well the official response has been very brief and very reticent germany has simply said that it takes note of their tell ya less information allegations and that these should be immediately sent to the international atomic energy agency in vienna that is the united nations organization that actually overseas this agreement and oversees nuclear developments all around the world and that this organization should in fact as quickly as possible examine this evidence and see whether it is contains anything new whether these allegations can be made to stick or not this is germany standing behind the independent investigations but can those actually determine whether iran is sticking to this deal well the international atomic energy agency in fact monitors iran since this deal was made it monitors iran iran around the clock they are cameras installed they are inspectors in the iran all the time iran's nuclear

facilities are being monitored all the time in a one of the most tough such investigations such monitoring that exists in the world and regularly the. reports from these investigations and most recently in early march say that it was convinced iran was in fact sticking to this deal that it was keeping inside of the bargain is it fair to say that germany and other international countries were naive in signing this deal with iran that is what washington asserts they would say that they were in fact every anything but tonight eve. proven by the fact that these very tough continuous inspections are going on in iran and that they pushed iran in fact to allow those tough negotiations those tough investigations that are continuing they would say that in fact because such tough negotiations took late to this deal. the deal in fact has been made to stick quite quite well if the u.s. does end up abandoning this deal what will we see germany do you take

a leading role in continue a new agreement of sorts i think germany the european union and we have to say russia and china which are also involved in this as permanent members of the united nations security council they will try to make the deal continue they will try to persuade iran not to pull out of the deal from its side and for these inspections. to continue and for the lifting of sanctions from the start of the european union and other countries also to continue so they are similar i think to the climate agreement the paris climate agreement where the united states withdrew but the rest of the world said we will continue with this on this path i think the other countries involved in this deal with iran will also try to keep the keep the deal going all right our political correspondent hans brown following the story for us thank you have three. here watching d.w. news still look out after traveling for months a group of asylum seekers from central america have been allowed into the united states but some fear the new journey ahead of them through american bureaucracy

will take even longer. but first have you back in there some good news to have your for the greek economy try to mean we had had many of those but greece is finally getting some credit but the other kind of credit after a painful recession the european commission has now praised the country for making encouraging progress on its debt reduction giving it a positive growth outlook that's good news for the country's finances and for greeks who've long struggles in the shadow of financial insecurity greek prime minister alexis tsipras has good reason to smile he's receiving high praise from. the o.e.c.d. general secretary for his country's impressive progress and reforms even though they were not voluntary and sometimes against the will of the greek people resist reform efforts are paying off the greek economy is growing again. we think this year is going to grow two percent. perhaps next year don't want three

percent. and that's why the country intends to leave the aid program by the summer and stand on its own two feet in order to achieve these goals the o.e.c.d. feels that greece needs to use reforms to further reduce its debt members of the euro group have even hinted that greece might receive debt relief although germany would be against the move. if you want to eat fresh fish from the oceans in the future some things will have to change experts say three quarters of fish stocks in the e.u. waters are being overfished in order to allow stocks to be replenished the e.u. fishing minister has set stricter cash quotas that's likely good news for the fish but bad news for local fishermen. it's nearly six in the morning when the sun is rising over the western baltic sea fishermen on to this look and his colleagues have been on the water for three hours they barely notice the sky instead they're

busy heaving nets full of herring up on board it's back breaking work because main fishing ground is the bay of graph spot the herring returned here in the spring to spawn. here again at what we're going to leave this catch area now because the herring have finished spawning we can see from the dirty anchor that they work here is done the area is full of roll and built more mood so look ahead to ten minutes further east to cast his nets out the european union has lowered this year's catch quota by thirty nine percent and that means that fishermen will earn over a third less income from their core business. today look at his caught around two tons of herring that's around nine hundred euros in revenue he's almost reached his seventy ton limit so he can only fish for herring one more time this year. most of the cold have to return to the old colt one hundred seventy tons to be able

to earn enough decent income we're pushing everything to the limit or paint the bolt and clean it and the water only what's absolutely essential we have to save where we can to try and balance the books. but there's little chance of raising catch limits for herring right now in fact the tuna an institute for baltic fishing is considering further curtailments instead temperatures are rising in the baltic making life tough for the fish. until the mid one nine hundred ninety s. reproduction rates were very good but since then there's been a continual decline the only factor involved is water temperature which is affecting various areas. but unless limits increase and his fellow fisherman will have to hang up their nets soon they'll be no point catching herring they'll shut up shop like a thousand others in the region before them. business

we switch to the u.s. now where the immigration debate is taking center stage again sumi that's right have your u.s. border officials have reportedly let the first eight members of a group of central american asylum seekers enter the country from mexico more than one hundred fifty people have been waiting at a crossing near san diego to request asylum the group has attracted attention at the highest levels of the u.s. government with the white house demanding that they not be let into the country. the weeks long journey has ended in limbo for many. border officials have let just a few of the migrants into the u.s. to process their asylum claims. the rest are being told the border facilities just south of san diego are too full to accommodate everyone that once. they've ended then that will come out that once the end of fishel should have a little more awareness and at least support us and cases with serious needs for help that we have left home not because we want to end it but because the situation

is very bad in our countries that we've been told by his or any. president trump has condemned the group's trip repeatedly since april first following reports on fox news and buzz feed about the caravan making its way across mexico. the president and vice president pence insist migrant caravans are abusing loopholes to enter the u.s. and then stay as asylum proceedings drag on the simple reality is that this caravan and caravans that have come before are are a result of individuals who are attempting to exploit the suffering of people in central america to try and finance their agenda for open borders and to change the laws of the united states of america. but many of the asylum seekers here say they're not driven by an agenda but by fears of what could await them back home and they're prepared to wait for the chance to make their case across the border.

we just have time for a minder of our top stories here on d.w. u.s. president donald trump has delayed the imposition of steel and aluminum tariffs on the european union canada and mexico until next month the decision came just hours before exemptions for these countries were due to expire. a judge in australia has ordered cardinal george pell to stand trial on multiple charges of sexual abuse hellas australia's highest ranking catholic and the most senior church official to be tried on such charges the seventy six year old has pleaded not guilty. and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has presented what he says is new evidence that iran is lying about its nuclear weapons program iran called the presentation a stunt the u.n. nuclear watchdog also said the evidence was over. a different you can always get the w. news on the go download our app from google play or from the app store that will

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