this is. from berlin tonight a showdown over preconditions plans for a historic summit between the u.s. and north korea appear increasingly in detail tonight president says that he still insists on the denuclearization of north korea and that we'll see if the meeting goes this after pyongyang said the u.s. demands for it to give up its nukes could. before they even begin also coming up with. the president of the e.u.

. as european leaders meet to discuss the nuclear deal and the threat of u.s. sanctions are europe and the u.s. now on a collision cool. off it's good to have you with us after an about face by north korea plans for that historic summit with the u.s. are now in dealt president donald trump acknowledging today that it is unclear whether the much anticipated meeting is still on insisting pyongyang must abandon its nuclear arsenal north korea says it will not take part in the talks if it is pressured to give up its nukes. history being written only a few weeks ago at a summit of the north and south korean leaders. where pyongyang said it was prepared to denuclearize. but now north korea has put on the brakes.

in a possible sign of growing problems the north postponed a summit scheduled with south korea. the reason these annual us south korea joint military exercises that are currently taking place. south korea expressed surprise and disappointment at the news. it's regrettable that north korea has decided to unilaterally postpone the upcoming high level talks. back in washington president donald trump said he had been officially notified about north korea's threat to cancel their planned summit next month we haven't seen anything we haven't heard anything we will see what happens very early or the white house press secretary indicated that the president was prepared to roll with whatever decision the north koreans make. will continue with

a campaign of maximum pressure that's the case but like i said if they want to meet the president will certainly be ready and we will be prepared but if not that's where i think trump has taken credit for shepherding the korean peninsula towards peace last month meeting newly freed u.s. citizens who had been held prisoner in north korea. their release was hailed as yet another sign of thawing relations with yang but now out of nowhere things could be up in the air. or in the studio with me now is on his most there he is a professor at the graduate school of east asian studies at the for university here in berlin a familiar face to our viewers it's good to have you back on the show what are we seeing right now coming from north korea is this a case of kim jong only giving u.s. president donald trump a dose of his own diplomatic medicine you know i think you can put it that way i think there is a cowboy in the west and he's the cowboy in the east and they know how to

communicate with each other as long as this stays on a level where they can very very. precarious issue with with care and responsibly i think it's fine until now they're just communicating ok communicating and putting on a show i guess but they're also raising the stakes or at least he is raising the stakes for trump isn't it because with each problem that you have that makes a failure in the talks look even more i guess negative for the u.s. president would you agree with their well that's basically correct yes i would agree but it's also important he wants to get his message the message across to tromp to the world that they have very high interest in the talks but they wouldn't won't give in very easily so they won the piece of the cake and it's also a message to the met for domestic use they they have to satisfy the hardliners and explain to the public why they don't change and go to would. the proposals given by

the us i have to ask you about comments by the new u.s. national security advisor john bolton i mean his comments of anger the north koreans i mean what did he say that brought about this dramatic turn of events i mean is he the real reason we're seeing this yeah they were very clear about that they have very annoyed by john bolton because they have their experiences but in particular because he mentioned the libya model with gaddafi and we know all how the story went gadhafi voluntarily gave up his nukes and all the other weapons of mass destruction and then a couple of years afterwards he got shot by the rebel forces which were supported by the night oh that's right the worst case scenario it's the red rag for for the north koreans of course i mean with kim jong un he's aware of what happened to libya he has seen what has happened with iran's nuclear deal and so he's looking at all of this is he actually in a better position. to haggle into negotiate the dog is that possible yes

i do think so because now the timing is very good also. she's in pain in place of course it's completely different country and in the region with the chinese with the south koreans very well mediating between the parties which is very important to to reach is the stain of all agreement in the end because both sides both sides can make sure that what they are negotiating will will will sustain in the so this is quite different from the on the end of north korea's nuclear weapons ok north korea has nuclear weapons and if there is not change let's assume then that the denuclearization goal is not met and the summit is a failure i mean for us president trump it could be a really low point in his tenure but you know for him he has a term maybe a second term and then that's it for kim jong un he's losing face let's say if there if it's not a success for him but then he goes back to north korea and then what yeah that's

a very good question because he actually now agreed to come out and to continue to dialogue with the u.s. and with south korea because he's interested to to develop his country further to have the very slight but existing development and in the economy of north korea to push that further to develop the country to become a normal member of the international community and this will be very difficult i mean i mean how do you backtrack on that and he does control the media you know the information they get is one sided so can you can you go back and forth and yoyo with the public like that and still maintain absolute control yeah i'm pretty sure that he can he prove that for the last couple of years and his father did so this is not really the problem but the bigger problem is to say we got about thirty seconds mr mosley do you think we're going to see more episodes what we've seen this week before we reach the june summit yes i think so and i think it's at this point not to worry about it's the normal communication between the two convoys in

the east and in the west the cowboy in the east in the west that's an interesting way of putting it one is more there as always if we should your insights that you. well are those special bonds between europe and the us breaking for good the transatlantic relationship is on shaky ground after a week that has seen the u.s. withdraw from the iran nuclear deal as well as move its embassy to jerusalem both are moves that europe pounds opposed tonight's european leaders are meeting in bulgaria german chancellor angela merkel who tried to convince trump to stay with iran's you know is among the heads of state in sofia they are expected to discuss their response to the threat of u.s. trade tariffs on your. head of that meeting the european council president lashed out at president obama trump he had some stinging strong words. looking at the latest the physio's of president. someone could see them. with

friends like that who said it is. about frankly speaking. europe should be grateful by president. because thanks to him. we have got to itself all he loses. he has made us realize that if you need a hand. at the end of the. alps some people showing him the polarizer from poland tonight's let's pull in our correspondent barbara bay's will she is in bulgaria covering that meeting for us tonight barbara when you hear words like that you have to ask for the transatlantic relationship how low can it go. it's pretty dead and very from where i stand here and so here because european leaders are angry tunnel to the e.u. president the council president whom we just heard he talks to leaders before he

goes to meetings like this and before he speaks out publicly and so he mira's what he heard behind the scenes on the telephone and personal meetings particularly in. front in france is here is because he feels that he has been made it it off to washington paraded around for three days then leaving empty handed and hardly had he left a trump says ha ha now i'm going to cancel the iran nuclear deal so european leaders are furious the transatlantic relationship is if you can't even talk about it anymore it doesn't exist at the moment it's on ice it's in deep freeze somewhere and then no trying to figure out how can they stand up against what they see as absolute and bully by donald trump ok so people may call it bullying other people maybe it's the cold hard facts of the power of a superpower mean the european union is not backing down from the iranian nuclear

deal but how far is brussels prepared to go i mean at the end of the day barbara europe is powerless in the face of u.s. sanctions isn't. it is in a way and it is in the way not the question is friends are they prepared to you know pay the price on they not only prepared to you know talk the talk up walk the walk that means if the trump really came out against it was sanctions against european. enterprise and business isn't gauged in iran and was to do business in iran and europe then strikes back and comes back with counter sanctions and we would send the global economy into a tailspin are they really ready to go that far i mean that's what's being talked about some more meek and some we need to talk to washington and some are really angry particularly the french so the question is what will they do is talk of course about the blocking a law that the e.u.

still has on hold in cannes international sanctions there's talk about alternative streams of finance of banking in europe to sort of go around the u.s. banking system so they are talking about practical measures it's a big political decision they need to make do you think after this meeting tonight or that europe will have a concrete plan that will make the u.s. president blink. not yet this is going to take a bit of time this is the first meeting they've had to together and there is going to be in the meeting next week in vienna particularly russian cooperation and participation and things will go from there if there is a bit of time about a month to two months to figure out what to do europe just needs to know how to know and decide do we want to play hardball against trump or do we sort of want to be cowed and be what the french say an american vessel that is the big question

here well it sounds better than being a poodle i'll tell you there robert visual in sofia bulgaria tonight thank you barbara. yeah there's a lot at stake for european business is i mean there are angry we heard that from orbit right now we showed it yeah absolutely and want to e.u. commissioner in fact even saying that they're prepared to use legislation making it illegal for european companies to comply with the u.s. sanctions target saying iran the u.s. president donald trump is trying to slap sanctions on firms that do business with iran and he's naming names. has some gotten j.t. and checks the news several times a day to rein in entrepreneur is currently in germany visiting his business partners. he sells medical technology and is also involved in the computer industry . donald trump's decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal comes up at every

business meeting how will the e.u. react will there be new sanctions against iran. done shavian has made a lot of contacts through international trade fairs like this one in tehran last year and he has contracts with european companies but now many of his partners are uncertain about the future of the business is. currency through right now we have to sit down and see what's going on basically the through the improvement relationship between iran and european companies especially with germany and you see these very moment you know he's sorry we couldn't see who the all real partner. and to be a spokes bomb speaks to his staff in the middle east several times a day fire video link from darmstadt in southwestern germany he provides high speed

satellite internet to customers in afghanistan pakistan and iran. airlines have shown a lot of interest but getting the money together for these kinds of orders could become increasingly problematic this was one of a what would have worked fine a week ago might be impossible next week getting some of the fun these big projects for instance a european bank with branches in the u.s. won't be able to finance them or you can if you don't include books biome is still trying to keep his customers in the middle east happy but if the sanctions go ahead businesses like his might have a difficult future. well french oil giant totalis to pull out of a huge drilling project in iran unless it gets an exemption from u.s. sanctions against project is valued at two billion dollars making it one of the biggest european investments in iran since the lifting of sanctions in twenty

fifteen to tell receives ninety percent of its financing from u.s. banks and says it cannot afford to be exposed to any secondary sanctions will the company says discussing a possible waiver with u.s. and french or forces. well let's bring in our financial correspondent yens quarter now yes we're also hearing that german insurer allegiances at landing to wind down its business in iran tell us more about that. well i'm not a spokesman from leonsis quoted as saying that they're actually looking at their poet folio to identify pi r.n. related to business and then pretty likely will wind down this part of their business but the spokesman is also saying that iran related business is minimal and that they are also waiting for some guidance from the european union and old saw from the german government so the whole process is ongoing but it does look like

allianz is also winding down their business related to iran and now you and despite these geopolitical tensions are talking iran china north korea in fact so appears that rattle is there is there any reason today. well you know investors on wall street they bet on possibilities said they're trying to figure out how likely is it for instance that the north korea talks will not take place and if so how likely is that that is there are no talks of it should be the case and how likely it is that actually the tensions could escalate nobody has a clear answer to that so therefore it's almost impossible to make any bets on that and then when it comes to enough there is a deadline on thursday and it is very unlikely that we will get any deal done between canada mexico and the united states any time soon there are

elections in mexico and a good six weeks from now then we have the congressional elections here in the u.s. by november and it was all that stuff going on i do not really see that nafta is going anywhere at this stage the end quarter our financial correspondent for us in new york thank you. dates for a c.v.s. says innovation europeans especially germans do not like companies gathering their information but it's what's powered the tech giants in both the united states and china especially now the only prize europe takes right now is for taking the lead in regulation. europe has been left behind creating tech titans has so far proven the domain of the u.s. but china holding challenger status both countries have been able to take advantage of gigantic domestic markets targeted investment in the mastery of disruptive winner take all models that have allowed the likes of google and facebook to thrive

those are only two out of the five most valuable public companies in the world all tech companies from the u.s. . china's catch up strategy appears to be working its technology champions ten percent and are now both in the top ten european companies are nowhere to be seen amongst the global elite. but the seeming omnipotence of tech giants could be waning and its europe bringing in. competition commissioner my plate of us tiger has pursued a huge antitrust case and against silicon valley's biggest stopping billions and regulatory fines and starting next week europe's general data protection regulation or g d p r will require businesses to increase protections on the data of citizens europe's lead and regulation could be an opportunity for the continent's like all tech industry if it means european companies get better at building socially

responsible alternatives to today's tech but will they. well that's never a bright now as macro seems to be saying to michael let me get back yeah it begs the question is there something real when they say there's a medical mccrone magic place right now but it's a question many people are asking the german chancellor angela merkel says that she is doing your best to come up with a response to e.u. reform proposals by the french president. she says the german answer will be ready in time for next month's e.u. summit america made the pledge today in the german parliament the book is talk during a debate on the budget but not all lawmakers are in favor of that magic and they don't like the idea of contributing more german money for brussels. it was money time for. this talk. discussing her proposed budget talked

about both how much she wants to invest in germany and whether her government is willing to fork out more for the e.u. france's president in one remark call once additional investment in the block but merkel is cautious though it is nearly all of it would be pretty difficult to put more in the e.u. budget and more in the eurozone budget while still maintaining a used ability kriti area will be talking to france about dilemma in obvious effects and. for the far right populist if the there is no dilemma they say merkel is simply wasting german money. so you will. celebrate president in manama cos plants don't oppose a massive transfer of german tax money or the creation of an e.u. finance minister so on the contrary you seem to be in a hurry to shift responsibilities to paris and brussels and to spend tax money which you never. get the fear we need now but it's not.

the center right f.t.p. also accuses the government of wastefulness. other and not all of our partners in europe want to know what they're spending their money on. we are the only ones in europe saying we'll give more money without knowing what it's for me not good enough. because you know coalition partners the social democrats favor more german financial support for the e.u. . as often as the country that profits most from the e.u. it is their own fundamental self-interest to strengthen the european bloc to refuse would be to pull the rug from under a own feet and ask them to others that. can make. the very pro e.u. green say that merkel isn't go. in far enough in mccall's direction in this compound get that off and that's the point is for us to project that we're full of this

vision of a common era the point is that we put up the money but this is precisely what you finance minister didn't didn't even i missed enough. class to balance between supporting my cause desire for a strong the e.u. and taking heed of skepticism among german taxpayers the good news is that state revenues are on the rise giving here a bit more on the way. so here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world malaysian reformers leader anwar ibrahim have celebrated his release from prison by appearing at a rally attended by his triumphant supporters the release comes after his opposition alliance one of lections earlier this month and more was imprisoned in twenty fifteen on saw them in charges which he and his supporters say were politically motivated facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg has agreed to appear before the european parliament in the wake of the global data sharing scandal antonio to johnny the parliament's president confirmed on twitter today that zuckerberg would clarify issues as early as next

week the british firm cambridge and with a shared the data of nearly three million facebook users without their consent. filipinos working as domestic workers in kuwait will now have access to greater support and help from philippine authorities as part of a deal agreed between both nations after months of diplomatic turmoil the friction began after the brutal murder of a filipino maid in the gulf state the crime prompted philippines president robbery go to charity to ban filipinos from working in kuwait and asking those there to come home. at last hundreds of overseas filipino workers arriving in manila after their flight from kuwait amid the waiting and the form felling tiredness and relief. by god's grace i'm back in the philippines i can i move freely without fear so

everything is ok so. they were answering the call of their government which had demanded to come home following reports of abuse the most shocking of which shamed a nation. her name was. in twenty fourteen she posted photos of her visit to death organization who were helping her start a new life abroad as a housemaid in kuwait two years later her body was found mutilated and stuffed in a freezer she had been tortured the couple she worked for confessed. it prompted an international backlash with philippines president rodriguez banning filipinos from emigrating to the gulf state and calling on thousands living there to come home. you are at their.

but the museum. and family. in february on a demo fellas his body was reunited with her family the murder shine a light on the conditions of more than two hundred thousand fellow pino workers in kuwait. but relations went from bad to wash when diplomats took matters into their own hands videos a match purporting to show embassy staff rescuing domestic workers. and then the. kuwaiti authorities were furious expelling the philippines ambassador he defended the rescue stunts. we ask public servants of diplomats to promote the welfare and protect the interests of overseas. workers

anywhere in the world. as these women head for the families they left behind the well being of millions of other filipino workers in the middle east remains an open question. i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

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