the journey starting in may thirteenth on d w. this is d w news live from berlin tonight the gaping budget hole in europe are being created. after britain leaves the e.u. who's going to fill the gap the european commission wants major economies to contribute more to its budget and it says it's ready to cut funding to countries who violate democratic freedom is also coming up not fit to fly only four of

germany's one hundred thirty eurofighter jets are ready to take off if and when a nato mission calls that's according to media reports here as the country tightens its defense budget and. signs of a breakthrough in armenia's political crisis the ruling party says it will back this man nicole. for prime minister under certain conditions. plus the challenge of facing migrants coming to the united states these families have made a harrowing journey to get this far but for many the real challenge is only beginning as they try to cross the u.s. border to apply for.

i'm brit goff it's good to have you with us tonight europe is preparing to write a check to pay for life after breaks it today the european commission unveiled an ambitious new budget to follow on from britain's withdrawal from the e.u. now spanning the years twenty twenty one to twenty twenty seven the budget is worth close to one point three trillion euros that's an increase that has ruffled the feathers of member states who will obviously be asked to contribute more to european coffers. the e.u. has a pretty big budget hole to fill britain's departure from the bloc will leverage about twelve billion euros less well off a year the man responsible for drafting up a spending plan says member countries are going to have to cough up more to fund investment in the following areas. migration integration border control and management. more development aid to tackle the causes that could

underlie the next decade waves migration cyber security we need to invest in new areas to show that europe as a whole is capable of acting more efficiently and successfully than each member country is on its own. the biggest spending hikes are planned in the areas of defense and security the only major cost on the cards is to the agricultural budget which the commission wants to slash by five percent. another proposal that's raise eyebrows is a plan to withhold funds from countries deemed not to be respecting the rule of law . we're proposing to strengthen the links between the european budgets and respect for the rule of law this is an indispensable prerequisite for financial management and for implementing the budget effectively. the new mechanism will protect the budget from risks arising from violations. truly.

the budget has to be approved unanimously by the remaining twenty seven member states ideally before the european elections in may of next year. yeah it's about numbers one of the main issues with the next e.u. budget of course is going to be that breaks it budget shortfall the overall budget breaks down to about one hundred eighty two billion euros a year now that budget used to be shared between twenty eight member states but britain the e use second largest economy is leaving and they are taking their budget contribution with them under the new budget that would have amounted to at least twelve billion euros annually list look at the numbers one of the main issues with the next e.u. budget is of course that breaks it budget shortfall now the overall budget breaks down to around one hundred eighty two billion euros

a year now that used to be shared between twenty eight member states in the e.u. but britain the second largest economy is leaving and the brits are going to take their budget money with them under the new budget that would have amounted to at least twelve billion euros annually twelve billion euros that three european union is not going to the getting from london anymore i talk about that i'm joined by our correspondent in brussels barbara vevo good evening to you barbara so yeah i mean this is these are tricky numbers here we've got no money from the u.k. coming in after brag but a bigger e.u. budget overall so who's going to basically pick up the slack here. one country that is going to take up the slack of course is germany and berlin has already conceded and said yes we are willing to put more money into the kitty and there in was about four to five billion. budget contribution

paris's also already said yes we're willing to pay somewhat more it will be not quite as much but there will be a big force coming from paris and so it goes around about those countries that pay net into the european budget and they don't take out like most of the eastern european countries still do and some of the southern ones so it's a it's a game of redistribution and of course behind this is a political message the european commission proselyte says we are shrinking in the way that britain is leaving us however we're not shrinking and tasks and obligations for the future and we want to be politically strong yeah exactly i mean if we're not talking about just the number of euros year we're also talking about how these euros are going to be here more to the budget priorities are shifting arctic. yes absolutely and that needed to be done i mean that's been talked about for years and years and years and the last time the last budget already there was

talk we need to spend less on agriculture that for instance was one of the great bugbears of britain. however that's over they're not on at the table anymore. spending is supposed to be capped however we always see the same phenomenon once the budget talks begin already paris is holding in protests and saying no we can't have that our farmers need the money prices will rise if they don't get to the subsidies from brussels and so on and so forth so the whole road it is very difficult to redistribute but theoretically and politically it really needs to be done the european union needs to move to the future to research to artificial intelligence to other future technologies and not sort of put its money into the soil and into the cattle on european in european countries and we're talking about twenty seven states here that all have to approve this budget can we talk about that being an easy process moving forward here we talk about winners and losers. we

can of course talk about losers farmers will be among the losers some eastern european countries will be among the new is theirs because they for received so much regional eight structural throughout the last years and many of them don't need that anymore and so many i was in bridges have been financed by european funds them must be an end to that that is the want to spike and of course certain industries universities and institutions will gain the research budget is supposed to be doubled so that's one aspect a level also on the other hand it's going to be this this is the starting shot of the great carpet bizarre of the european union will be so much haggling in fighting and slamming off the door isn't all night. that. all five. in the end of course friend there will be a compromise but very hot. my goodness bob if we listen to you we may actually get

scared. of the story tonight in brussels as always barbara thank you. we're here in germany the country's government has presented its budget for the current year is set to spend thirty eight point five billion euro zone on its armed forces that may sound like a lot but the defense ministry is up in arms needs four more to modernize germany's fighting forces as pressure grows on the country to fulfill its obligations to nato . a german euro fighter taking to the air something of a rare sight these days germany possesses one hundred twenty eight of the jet work plates but only four are reportedly mission ready that could leave the country unable to fulfill its commitments to nato germany needs to modernize its armed forces the bundeswehr but there's no consensus on the cost. conservative defense minister was

a left fund lion says she needs an additional twelve billion euros by twenty twenty one to get the military back in fighting shape but she's only receiving two point five billion extra she's taken the extraordinary step of filing an official letter of protest. and a terse statement from the line played down the conflict but stressed germany's military responsibilities the most actually and also many has to make its contribution here not just for security in germany but for our common european security as well here to germany's voice is needed. but finance minister shots is priority is a balanced budget not a state of the art bonus fair the social democrat argues that military expenditures have been growing recently. and so beautiful let me show you a chart of how defense spending has developed in the last few years if. you can see the huge rises that have occurred. this is as far as defense spending is conserved

things have really turned around it a little bit. germany's military expenditures have gone from thirty three billion euros in twenty thirteen to a projected forty two billion for twenty nineteen but that still leaves germany well short of the nato target that members should spend two percent of their g.d.p. on defense and the buddhist says far more money will be required to keep its troops ready for action. here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world global military spending has risen to its highest level since the end of the cold war that's according to the swedish institute for peace research most of the increase came from higher outlays in asian countries especially china india and saudi arabia russia's all the biggest decrease in spending down twenty percent last year u.s.

president has made his first visit to the state department to attend a swearing in ceremony for his new secretary of state might pump a zero on pail was officially sworn in last week after being confirmed by the senate he has promised to restore what he calls the department's swagger. palestinian president mahmoud abbas and has been widely condemned for making anti-semitic comments abbas suggested that the genocide of european jews by the nazis was because of the jews role in money lending rather than because of their race or religion but the un has described his remarks as deeply disturbing slur says officials in the u.s. to say at least five people have been killed after a military cargo plane crashed near an airport in the southern state of georgia the c. one thirty aircraft was on a training mission carrying national guard members from puerto rico it's not yet known what caused the crash. well tonight armenia's ruling party has

agreed to support an opposition candidate for prime minister now that apparent turn around comes after a day of strong and street blockades in the capital year of on opposition leader nicole push in the late today called for an end to the country's general strike the ruling republican party now says that it will support a prime ministerial candidate nominated by one third of lawmakers and that the party will not offer its own candidate the moves have prompted celebrations in the streets of the capital. our want to go now to your yvonne and our nick conley is standing by good evening to you nic is the ruling party i mean it looks like it's doing a one eighty here is it. well that's what people here on the streets have been telling us that they believe happened they say that the government policy is being shocked

by the numbers that have come out of the streets that are still out in the streets behind me celebrating the success as they see it of today strikes today states and having said that we have seen this before just last weekend before we arrived in there about it seems they were implying slightly less explicitly than they have today that they would support russian yand that they wouldn't say get in his way they wouldn't vote their candidate and then yes they we had that night nailbiting session of parliament that just went all in on all that all and late in the evening they finally denied him this the vote to see that he needed to become prime minister and that was what creates this huge disappointment shock here among thousands of people on the optics way so i think it's not over yet we still have to wait but tuesday and see what kind of brinkmanship this go ahead and nic i know it's very loud there weren't where you are but let me just try to get one more question to you do you think that the ruling elites in parliament are they prepared

to loosen their grip on power to help diffuse the tensions in the country that's obviously the million dollar question it would seem extraordinary that twenty years of republican policy republic party rule would end so quickly having said that you know the resignation of says. previous prime minister took everyone by surprise so this is really these also you weeks have been full of surprises for even the local people who haven't seen this coming it's old but it does seem now that these numbers these tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands bussed in says all historic romania for a country of just three million people and that's given this proof. an ability to preach about the streets and to really paralyze aragon nothing those streets would be at full was closed people would drag cases and on the brooch much way it's the apple today that they will have to eventually fold with conditions and they're trying to do some behind the scenes deals now to at least try and maintain some of

that influence some of that presumably some of the assets but that's not something they're going to be sharing with us yet but we will be there when and if there is change our nick connelly in the armenian capital tonight nic as always thank you very much. we're in the u.s. officials have begun processing a small number of asylum applications from a group of central american migrants camped out just across the border in mexico and the migrants traveled across mexico back in march aided by political activists u.s. president donald trump has described mass migration as a threat to national security he has called the caribbean a provocation he's warned they could be denied entry w.'s clear richardson is at the border tonight. these are some of the faces that have invoked the great president donald trump the reason he's threatened to mexico and called for thousands of troops to be sent to protect the border and stop short on their

journeys they've set up makeshift camps into want to mexico. but as you know we're sending many many national guardsman down to the border most of them are already there and that's having a big impact most are from honduras they say the united states must hear their asylum case that they left their homes because they had reasons to fear for their safety but again because they killed my father. or i mean that's us then what they because of death threats that's what forced me to lay for one of the men pulled out a gun pointed at me and told me if i didn't give him what he wanted he was going to kill me soon all of that battle came up with maybe i'm a. they travelled together for over a month my folks boss and trained. they sought safety in numbers and what can be an

arduous and dangerous journey. if it was ugly tiring and boring. as big as my feet when i was walking and glendale can learn a thing they traveled some three and a half thousand kilometers all the way from near mexico's southern border with quite a moa. when they arrived at the u.s. border with one a hoping to request asylum they got stuck. with the right papers it's just a short walk across this bridge to the united states and to california but more than one hundred people who say they fled terrible dangers in their home countries are stuck here on the mexican side of the border the united states has not said that it won't hear their asylum claims that would be illegal under international treaties that the u.s. has signed but they've. watch their entrance by saying that the processing center is for. the united states is bound by law to hear their cases yet although they

often face military criminal and sexual violence most people coming from central america lose in the end organizers hope that won't be the case here when you see an analyst but they're hoping they will be granted asylum so they can live their lives free of the violent conditions that put them at risk. their future is a test case for the trumpet ministrations anti immigrant policies to see whether his fiery rhetoric is enough to stop the united states from welcoming those fleeing persecution are going to stay in north america helena is here all eyes on lives u.s. interest rates all eyes on those rights they're not going anywhere right now where the u.s. dollar for slightly off the federal reserve decided to keep those rates unchanged the u.s. central bank made the announcement following a two day policy meeting the decision means that the lending rate will remain between one point five and one point seven five percent for now but analysts say at

least two hikes are likely to be announced before the end of the year. while our financial correspondent is with us from new york now yeah the fed not changing a whole lot they're saying inflation was moving upward says to tell us more about the move when we can concretely expect it. well most investors on wall street believe that the next rate increases coming at the next fed meeting in june and that the federal reserve might pause in the july august meeting and then once again might increase rates another time in september and then we will have to wait and see if there might be a third increase shortly before the year comes to an end so that's at least the projection for now we did not see a lot of surprises in this fed meeting the federal reserve did acknowledge that inflation is on the rise that we see a decent economic growth here in the united states but the market actually did get

a bit nervous after this fed meeting and blue chips losing a good one hundred seventy points here in the wind secession and we've also got the job market numbers that we've seen robust growth in previous quarters so how's it looking this time around. you know we got the jobs from the private sector the big jobs report will be coming out on friday in the private sector or on one side we did see that the job grows did call it a little bit in comparison to march but still we saw the six consecutive months that at least two hundred thousand jobs got created and this is no surprise that at this level at this high level this elevated level where the labor market stands that it's not going to be easy to achieve those two hundred thousand plus job growth month by month so overall a very solid jobs report and it is

a rather likely that we will see also wages increasing we will see by how much but certainly it's wages are increasing if commodity prices keep rising what we're seeing right now so there is a certain inflation picture here in the united states and that for sure could cause the federal reserve to a bit more aggressive than originally planned right we'll keep an eye on how that uptick continues jan quarter for us in new york thank you. well cambridge analysts ago the british firm at the heart of the facebook data collection scandal has announced that it's immediately ceasing all operations the consultancy group says it's declaring bankruptcy in the u.s. and britain cambridge analytical was propelled into the limelight after it appeared that its collected data on up to eighty seven million facebook users it compiled a database and a large number of u.s. voters and use that information to influence the twenty sixteen u.s.

presidential election will face but lost the trust of many users over the scandal and has since tightened its privacy restrictions. growth in the eurozone is staging a sharp slowdown in the first three months of this year the economy grew by less than half a percent when in twenty seventeen the economy expanded by a steady zero point seven percent from the second quarter through to the end of the year but initial results by the european statistics authority for the first quarter of this year reveal a slump to zero point four percent now last week the european central bank ruled that protectionist dangers were affecting the monetary blocks recovery is made up of the nineteen e.u. states of course that use the euro as a currency well portugal is seeing strong economic growth and it's not attractive place for investors in many sectors especially in the property market a building boom is lifting the ms than the capital is

a hive of activity after being down in the doldrums for many years now property prices are rising but that also means her residence so often rents. while lisbon is known for its beauty its property market was ignored for a long time that has changed in recent years investors have been pouring money into lisbon's real estate sector in twenty fifteen investment in commercial property more than doubled from the previous year to eight hundred seventy six million euros and the levels have remained reluctantly high since then. real estate prices are also rising in the portuguese capital for the city's historic center they increased sixty seven percent between twenty seventeen and two thousand and eight according to local real estate experts so affordable housing is harder to find and some residents are becoming more marginalized in twenty fifteen be authorities cleared slums on the outskirts of lisp and while that may have offered some property

investors a better view locals when given an alternative critics say so portugal's property boom is also leaving many behind. active right now in a shocking dare we even say choking report only edit we very that's right hold your breath helen a new study from the world health organization has revealed that seven million people die each year from diseases caused by air pollution the study also shows that poor countries bear the brunt of these deaths while air quality has actually improved in european cities low income countries in asia and africa have seen the air more contaminated. air pollution an invisible threat that affects almost everyone on the planet clean air has become a luxury now the world health organization has described the situation as unacceptable. lying every ten persons around the wall breathing

air that these know all too respecting the recommended guidelines of ritual for quality so he's going to be young the requirement. that's really very dramatic while few have access to pure air air quality goes hand in hand with inequality ninety percent of air pollution related deaths occur in low and middle income areas of the world. and the gap between the rich and the poor is widening while air quality generally improved in european and u.s. cities between two thousand and ten and two thousand and sixteen pollution worsened and poor areas such as southeast asia emissions from motor vehicles and bustling cities are a major risk factor as people around the world continue to move to urban areas but the world health organization warns that indoor pollution is also a major killer accounting for around half fatalities. eight million. many people. are lying all and very

few words. or. strides have been made recently in green technology but they mainly benefit the developed world the world health organization will hold the first conference on air pollution in october to hasten change at the global level. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you the european commission has unveiled plans for an expanded budget after the u.k. leaves the e.u. the proposal has angered major economies who will have to contribute more to europe's budget. to take you through the day stick around for that.

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