every week double. this. from berlin tonight europe you know once again. standing up to the united states over the iran nuclear deal european union leaders demanding a total exemption from economic sanctions over iran if washington says no a european walled may be used to shield european companies we'll get the latest from the e.u. leaders summit in the bulgarian capital sofia also coming up medical workers

racing to contain an outbreak of ebola in the democratic republic of congo that after reports of the highly contagious virus has spread to a city that's home to more than a million people. and a controversial referendum in rooney people have been voting on whether to extend the president's term for up to sixteen more years as fears grow that the poll could spark bloodshed. loss of royal wedding fever as excitement builds ahead of this weekend's big day of the bride meghan mark old confirming that her father will not be attending her wedding to prince harry so the big question will walk her down leon.

i bring coffee it's good to have you with us it is an unprecedented show of european unity designed to block a controversial move by the united states today european union leaders announced plans to protect their economies and save the nuclear deal with iran just a week after u.s. president donald trump abandoned it now at the e.u. summit in bulgaria the european commission president john told you said that the e.u. would move to ban european companies from complying with american sanctions against iran and the so-called blocking statute was last used more than twenty years ago. let's have a listen to what the e.u. council president said about these measures just a couple of hours ago. i think at the geopolitical problem is when you have. unpredictable all and end all and i mean all. of the problem is if the closest friend is unpredictable. it's not the joke throughout and

it's that because i think it's a it's a different the ethical problem today was i with friends on the other side of atlantic. because how can they agree with president trump where the. well he says that unpredictability can be a very useful to him. but all it gave me so all of this let's pull in our correspondent band record he was in sofia bulgaria covering this summit this evening he needs you parents we know e.u. leaders today they appear united against strong that's the picture that we're seeing today can they maintain this united front is the big question and for how long. well so far the us seems to be determined actually to pick a fight with donald trump to tell him enough is enough across this line. for france germany and also britain the three big e.u.

countries city and so feel we have to stand up against the trump and to show him that he cannot impose sanctions or tariffs against european countries in this iran deal fight and he cannot impose sanctions for still another million country as he wishes companies as he wishes so now is the time to show him that we are united how long this will last we don't know if the americans can put a wedge between france germany and britain then maybe this will crumble if. chooses to punish single kind of companies from france germany or britain maybe then he will be successful but as of now this front stands but nobody knows how long the european union wants to use a blocking statute to protect european companies what is the statute what does it mean exactly. that this is an odd law in the

books since one thousand nine hundred six it was designed to circumvent american sanctions against libya and iran at that time but this law was never in acted actually because the political fight was over before this law came into action so nobody knows exactly what now will happen on friday this law will be of already invoked by the european commission and it says that companies may not follow u.s. sanctions they will be punished if they do so but they but also be reimbursed if there's any cost that they have to do after that but nobody knows exactly how and is it a link above for large companies companies or trusts or is it only applicable for small companies for example the german chancellor has said so we have to see how that plays out and this come into force with all this the six then the united states has threatened to impose sanctions on companies who trade with

iran but this is still one shot of what it's politicos sign in this fight it's a new round of escalations with the americans and very very briefly we know the e.u. wants a permanent exemption from u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum is going to get that but the u.s. also putting an offer on the table they say if trump wants to negotiate about trade . non-tariff. blocking blocking off trade we can do that but he has to first he has to give us an exemption and then we will come to the negotiating table and that is still unknown if trying to do that all right are banned in sofia bulgaria tonight bear thank you very much. our help is here now and talk about the news plans to stem the potential target businesses leaving iraq

tenchi waiting out a piece of legislation which is fairly old but that was aware of the fact that the iran sanctions are biting in america hasn't even introduced them yet now the e.u. says it will take steps to protect european companies doing business in iran from the impact of the us introducing that blocking statute which means that the e.u. essentially could make it illegal for european companies to comply with the u.s. sanctions against iran now it's already the second time that the e.u. is threatened to use the so-called blocking statute the first back in nine hundred ninety six is a response to u.s. sanctions in cuba it was never introduced now as a state of global firms announce that putting out of iran a unit is a scrambling to stop european affirms from doing the same. blocking statute is aimed at protecting small and medium sized companies operating in the country it would also provide compensation for sanctions related losses although german

politicians have said that can't be applied across the board the picture is much more complex for a bigger european corporations with close friend in corporate ties to the u.s. the prospect of severe penalties over sanctions violations as well as the loss of financing from u.s. banks and other potential consequences already has some european businesses looking to exit iran the world's biggest container ship or a mall or maersk has said it will wind down its iran operations germany's biggest insurer it's preparing to wrap up their two siemens has said there will be no new deals with iran and french oil and gas company to tal says it will pull out of a multi-billion gas project if it can't get an exemption to tells departure would be especially painful for iran the iranian government had hoped the scale of the project would embolden other international companies to invest their. for many companies the e.u. blocking statute poses a dilemma they could either stay in iran and risk their u.s.

operations and possibly financing or they could leave iran and face penalties under the blocking regulations. and our man on a wall street yes court is standing by for us in new york of course yens it seems that with this statute europe is attempting to give trump the red card will he be cowed by that whatsoever. well it really would surprise me if the u.s. president would be too impressed or even. reconsider we shouldn't forget why donald trump got out of the iran deal in the first place it's driven by ideology and he has quite some backing here in the united states with conservatives versus evan gelug killed swiss the core voters for donald trump by israel and then it really would be an interesting twist if those foreign companies would be

compensated by the well at the end by european takes players for those sanctions from the u.s. president and is this to speak then having an impact on the u.s. economy right now. well directly i do not necessarily see a i mean first of all besides some exceptions like boeing for example maybe also companies like general electric there are not that many u.s. corporations doing business in iran but then again certainly the relations between the european union and was the u.s. are pretty tense already it was all the trade talks and if there is some fighting going on about the iran deal that definitely does not really help the relations but we should not just look at europe look at china for example for the u.s. agriculture well industry china is crucial to seoul therefore all this tension

regarding the iran deal even if it's not having and direct impact on the u.s. economy it certainly does not help in this overall really tense situation when it comes to all the trade talk a financial correspondent yeah thanks a lot. canadian prime minister justin trudeau says he feels positive about talks to rework the north american free trade agreement on nafta now his comments came as a thursday deadline paulse without agreement u.s. officials say the talks need to wrap up very soon to give the current congress time to vote on a final text to revalue it's not just about mexico's says that a deal may not even be reached before the mexican presidential election on july first. will sometimes small businesses have to overcome unusual hurdles on their way to success and one were strong to her in the australian city of perth and he found that out developing

a novel solution to stop his business going to the boats quite literally while waterfront dinah's but tired of being harassed by swooping seagulls the owner of the restaurant has now given his customers water pistols to keep the boats at bay to see those gathered to scavenge left davis or wait for patterns to throw them a bite now it seems the water pistols and not only a tool to keep going is on molested they are also attracting customers. was back over at sea bright now concerning moment for public health and the d.l.c. this is actually right and we're going now if you the democratic republic of congo where the first urban case of the deadly ebola virus has been detected the outbreak has entered a new phase according to the country's health minister after spreading from the countryside it's now been found in the northwest city of mine dhaka the latest outbreak has already claimed twenty three lawsuits the fear now is that it could spread rapidly in densely populated areas. the first batch of the

a bowl of vaccine a rising kinshasa the capital of the democratic republic of congo oath origins are rushing to stop the latest outbreak from spiraling out of control the vaccine itself is still unlicensed but the world health. zation says it's proved effective in human trials and it's the anything available that might help stop this deadly virus. our first priority with the vaccinations are the health workers and also those who have been in contact with the confirmed cases not just alerts or suspected cases. this is the ninth time it has been recorded in the d.l.c. and many hundreds of congolese have died it was hoped that this latest outbreak could be contained to more rural areas but with the case now confirmed in the city of baton dhaka this concern it will become more difficult to control the hope is

that with the arrival of the trial vaccine some protection will be provided for those most at risk. to our very own injury increases monitoring this story for us tonight she is in nigeria good evening to you so how worried are authorities by these recent developments i mean how worried are they that is going to spread to a major city. well of course it's a very worrisome development and the virus traveled quite fox. more than one hundred kilometers from where the first case was actually reported so that means that very travelled very fond that is indeed very worrisome you have to remember that the huge break we've seen in western africa in two thousand and fourteen and fifteen when more than eleven thousand people were killed actually reached that level because the virus went to the urban centers it went to the capitals of like sierra leone of guinea but there's not only need for pays him ism there's also some

reason and hope of course because we have seen in the past that it does not necessarily mean a catastrophe if virus reaches the big city we had the case right here in lagos and i still remember that day when the news broke that demand from liberia arrived in lagos on the plane and he had the virus people here really panic they were really worried because they thought in this huge city with twenty million people the virus will spread very very fast but in the end of the day the authorities reacted very well the health authorities put the right measures in place and in the end of the day they were only twenty confirmed cases here and legace so this is the case that definitely people in the er see also looking up to now we've heard that this is the ninth time that ebola has been recorded in congo since the one nine hundred seventy s. what lessons have been learned from these previous outbreaks. well i mean of course the key lesson is you have to react very quick and this is what hasn't happened in western africa before it took waste to long for an appropriate

global response on on the problem and this is the reason why the virus back then could spread very fast we understand from experts that this time around the reaction was much quicker experts are already on the ground teams on the ground we have heard that four thousand doses of an experimental vaccine have already arrived in the dia sea so it seems this time around the problem is taken much more serious and the key right now will be the tracing all the people who wept possibly in touch with victims and this is very very complicated you need to have trained teams on the ground to we need follow up on everybody who has possibly be in any form of contact with one of these people and you have to trace them because if you don't do it the whole thing can spread very fast and you need to know that the symptoms of ebola can it can take up to three weeks until they're really visible. all right our correspondent on the story for tonight. nigeria adrian thank you very much

the people of the have voted in a referendum that could allow the current president pierre nuclear reduce to stay in power until the year twenty thirty four accounting is now underway long lines were earlier reported at polling stations in the capital. is currently serving a third term in deadly violence erupted after his controversial reelection back in two thousand and fifteen there are fears that extending his rule could spark fresh bloodshed. well the incumbent as we said. is already serving a controversial third term described as constitutional by his opponent snow his plans to change the constitution could undermine years of peace building this tiny used african nation and has a bloody history. a twelve year brutal civil war killed more than three hundred thousand people between one thousand nine hundred ninety three and two thousand and

five in the year two thousand these so-called peace and reconciliation deal was signed helping to end the fighting five years later ten years of relative peace were to follow but violence flared up again in twenty fifteen when new group started his third term war then you see right there thousand people were killed with new reports of voter intimidation there are now fears that could see a return of the deadly violence of recent years. in the small village of. bloodstains a straw mat where a family used to sleep prefer for gruesome attack by neighbors to silence he murdered twenty six villages in their homes earlier this month with guns flames and machetes. these killers attacked my family my family is dead and the army did nothing to save them and although they weren't far from here. no one knows for sure

if this attack was related to burundi is referendum but it gives a taste of the tense atmosphere in which the vote is taking place. there not always apparent burgundy is deeply divided over its president and his plan to amend the constitution to be able to extend his reign pm currencies are believes he has a god given right to rule and while not everyone agrees he has huge support in rural areas i am here before you turn arounds to all burundians that the election will go very well as god is my witness. the opposition says the president's planning a power grab and that its hemant to stop him. who are trying to intimidate us claim that a new vote would push our country back to war this is terrorism let us say no. but saying no to pm isn't easy. when the indians took to the streets to

protest his last controversial re-election demonstrations were crushed twelve hundred people died in the violence that followed and hundreds of thousands fled their homes many now live in refugee camps in neighboring countries such as this one in rwanda. those who stayed behind said they live in fear elena and her children watched as their husband and father was taken away in a raid. they were afraid we don't have a propagate we're trying to block the entrance to the yard with branches so we can hear the police and call for help. then as now the president's ruling party was accused of using violence to stifle opposition the run up to the referendum has been marred by hate speech and intimidation and the pull it suggests that people opposed to and currencies have been arrested and beaten. israel says that it has

carried out overnight airstrikes in gaza in response to machine gun fire from the area of tensions are high after more than sixty palestinians were killed by israeli gunfire at the gaza border earlier this week the militant group hamas says most of the dead were its own members but several minors were among the casualties w.'s tanya kramer spoke to one family in gaza now mourning the death of their teenage daughter. a picture on a phone is all that is left fourteen year old west was killed on monday during the protests here and the refugee camp a mother and sister struggle to cope with the loss. of a man i. had prevented her from going i had locked the door with a key and told her i didn't want her to go out that day she said i've been waiting so long for this day please let me go she kept crying. so i let her go.

sometime after eleven i got the news that she was dead make or bless her soul. wessel was with other protesters not far from the border fence when she was shot in the head her mother says she couldn't stop a youngest daughter from going to the protests. was one of the fifty eight killed on monday by israeli sniper fire. the protests have calmed for now the fence has become a symbol of the tight restrictions on movement of people and goods that israel and egypt have imposed for a decade. terek has spent most days near the frontier the seventeen year old doesn't hide the slingshot he uses to launch stones over the fence he says he has no fear. i want my rights if there would only be work for the young people but there is no work. if there were work i would have gotten

married yesterday but there is no money no will like tricity no water nothing the blockade is suffocating us. at gaza city's biggest hospital rooms are crowded with injured patients from the protests nurses and doctors are working around the clock the already stretched health sector has reached its limits once again. suchan talk to me is busy chasing a patient with a gunshot wound to his leg some of the injuries a so severe that the limbs have to be amputated. all of these patients will need long term treatment maybe a year or more they need different surgeries plastic surgery orthopedic surgery so a lot of things are waiting for them i'm back at the end of that. it's unclear whether the protests will continue people in gaza wonder if they'll actually bring

change at the very least they to the west attention to gaza's misery for a few days. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world images have emerged from the arabian city of cars a room where at least one person has died in clashes between protesters and police the violence erupted when protesters set fire to a police station of people in cars or would have been protesting decisions made by local government officials there have been clashes in france has a lease again tried to remove environmental activists from a site formerly earmarked for an airport activists of occupy the land near the western city of nods for years france's public broadcaster reported that some activists threw petrol bombs while police responded with tear gas and sound ridiculous. huge clouds of ash are spewing from hawaii's killer way of ok no after

an explosive eruption the hawaiian civil defense agency says that the ash plume would cover the entire surrounding area some two thousand people have already been evacuated and authorities have urged people to take shelter and avoid driving. well it is official tonight the u.s. actress meghan marko confirming her father will not be attending her wedding to britain's prince harry it follows reports that thomas markel has undergone heart surgery now the couple are due to marry at windsor castle on saturday and as final preparations are underway royal excitement is reaching fever pitch. with camping bed already in place this woman doesn't want to miss a thing and she's not alone among the police and security ardent fans of the british royal family have been descending on the town of windsor outside london for straight. don't really go read. the super is history

prepared. to be heard through a straight road through. crowds gathered in windsor have already had the chance to watch a military rehearsal of saturday's royal event with the pomp and circumstance fit for a prince and princess members of the army navy and air force have been processing through the town. but while excitement is building ahead of the wedding between prince harry and meghan markle things haven't been so easy for the couple. the american actress has been forced to issue a statement confirming that her father will not be attending her big day because of his health thomas marco was jus to walk his daughter down the aisle but is reported to have undergone heart treatment. despite the difficult circumstances

fans of the british royal family are still expecting saturday to be a fairytale wedding. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you european union leaders aiming to ban the e.u. companies from complying with american sanctions against iran the move is part of the easy to salvage the iran nuclear deal after the united states pulled out last week after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that.

country goes on international talk show for journalists to discuss the topic of the week by moving america's israeli embassy to jerusalem and withdrawing from iran nuclear deal president trump is creating facts on the ground in an already unstable middle east is europe able to counter u.s.

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