this is good only news live from berlin not backing down the united states slaps the e.u. with aluminum and steel tariffs setting the stage for a global trade war punitive measures come into effect at midnight after a last ditch talks broke down the e.u. ready to hit back with counter measures were in washington and brussels. also coming up on the program game soccer shocker ryall madrid cozy with easy that acquits just danes after leading his team to a third consecutive champions league title he says his job is done and he can walk

away with his head held high. with. well all right thanks for your company everyone in a move that could further worsen already strained transatlantic relations the united states is imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum from the european union they come into effect as of midnight along with tariffs against canada and mexico last ditch negotiations and negotiations in paris collapsed after e.u. negotiators were unable to convince the u.s. to extend exemptions the e.u. is now threatening to retaliate german chancellor angela merkel in the meantime has called the u.s. tariffs illegal and warned of a potential escalation spiral in global trade. it's the moment european steer producers were dragging their help there would be except from u.s.

tariffs europeans export tree point five million tons of steel to the united states every year but all negotiations between the e.u. and u.s. officials most recently at this week's summit in paris have proved fruitless. so this use of a decision will be dangerous for growth for trade right and a lot of your growth both in the united states and in europe would be as well as the rest of the world's oldest we don't want to trade more. with starting on friday washington will impose import tariffs of twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on the menu canada and mexico have also not been spared both countries share a border with the us and i currently negotiating a new version often after free trade agreement with the neighbor the e.u. is already preparing retaliatory measures this is a but they probably were. european union cannot. react to that

we've told you kind of reaction so really you need to introduce such a dispute. on the on the. level and through the knowledge and covering all those. measures do you consider is in part due to use on u.s. products such as motorcycles whiskey cranberries and oranges mexico is also contemplating countermeasures. are everybody's trying to digest what this all means let's bring washington correspondent claire richardson and correspondent just to help us make sense of all this claire want to start also with you if i may how is the commerce secretary the senate the american decision to slap its allies and biggest trading partners with these tariffs. well when the trump administration first announced these tariffs back in march they said that the tariffs were

essential for national security reasons that having strong u.s. domestic production of steel and aluminum was important for national defense now of course key allies see them as unfair trade practices and trump really has a lot of political support in some of the states that are some of the biggest steel and aluminum manufacturers in the united states so he's perhaps looking to them with an eye of winning support in trying to prop up their industries. in the meantime this can come at a worse time for the e.u. . there's never a good timing for something like this particularly if it comes from friends from allies from close partners as the u.s. has been called in a number of statements now coming from european union officials but you're right obviously the european union is at the moment particularly busy with a political crisis in italy a looming crisis in spain and dealing with the off to miles off the fact that the u.s. has withdrawn from the nuclear deal something that has already caused damage to the

transatlantic relations so yes the timing is is really bad claire people will still holding out hope for an eleventh hour resolution talk to us about the timing of this decision. sure i mean this follows months of uncertainty a lot of anxiety especially from key european allies as well as allies in mexico and canada for the united states this originally as i said before was announced in march and then after out an outcry the united states issued exemptions to some of these places they were set to expire at midnight tonight here and we have seen a strong lobbying effort particularly from the european union and heads of state there to try and convince trump not to instate these tariffs we had of course chancellor angela merkel here in d.c. as well as french president emanuel knock on both of them top of their agenda was to try and prevent these from taking a fact or two at least when another exemption as for their negotiations could take place but it appears that the united states has been unable to get the kind of

concessions that it wanted from europe and so therefore we've seen them announce that they will in fact go into effect at midnight. what next i mean what are the options now well you've heard of the head of the european commission in that report just now so the immediate reaction will be to trigger a dispute settlement case at the w g o but these cases drag on for years so it's rather some symbolic step then within the next couple of hours we'll have to see what kind of punitive measures are coming up these are the so-called imposition of rebalancing measures that the famous list of products where the e.u. will slept arabs long. was very clear we were left with no other choice if you can slip terrorism as well we can do the same is his message in terms of bilateral relations the ties were already strained for the reasons that you alluded to a little earlier could these terrorists push them over the edge. that clearly is

a danger but if you listen carefully to look he referred to the u.s. as friends again and again and that was reiterated a number of statements so there is a clear commitment on the part of the e.u. to calm things down the concern really is that this is potentially targeting the w t o it's targeting the entire architecture of international trade and for the european union this is the big concern younger went on for instance to say that at the moment yes the feeling that u.s. friends turn their back to everything that sounds like multilateralism and so that you will see efforts on the part of the european union to work against this targeting multi-lateralism to reach out to the u.s. but at the same time you will also see them play hardball they're playing hardball clare you get the last word what's the end game here well that's the thing that's very unclear it certainly appears that the trump administration has been burning

bridges with key american allies it's going to remain to be seen exactly what kind of retaliatory tariffs take place how strongly europe and other allies react to this we already know that mexico has said it's going to penalize imports of apples grapes cheese and of course there's the famous list of retaliatory tariffs from the european union that could go into effect targeting key states that have a lot of political support for donald trump and efforts to try and punish him that domestically. clair de york thank you both for your continued coverage greatly appreciate it. and then fizzling we'll be here later with the reaction from the markets on a potential trade war all right the first i want to bring up to speed with some of the other stories making news around the world. spain's prime minister mariano rajoy looks poised to lose a parliamentary no confidence vote expected on friday spanish media say the socialist party leader petro sun just has enough votes to defeat were boy he's been

under pressure to step down after members of his conservative people's party were found guilty of corruption that's a human rights group in nicaragua says eleven people were killed during anti-government marches on wednesday after reports put the total at two witnesses say armed groups opened fire on protesters then eighty people have died since protests started last month over plans to change the country social security system . the european court of human rights has found two e.u. members complicit in cia torture activities the ruling says both lithuania and romania violated european anti torture laws so just say the countries allowed the american intelligence agency to illegally mistreat to al qaeda terrorist suspects in secret prisons it ran in the respective countries. all right we've got some breaking news a just coming in to us from rome the great wing league and the populist five star

movement say they will try to form a government well last week you may recall the two parties quit those efforts after italian president said you're not that iowa rejected a proposed cabinet minister an official announcement is expected momentarily so i suggest we cross over to a barbara raise alarm right now who is in the italian capital barbara so what does that mean that they found a way out of this crisis. now we are going to see it seems after all but that we hear from the parliament where the parties have been sitting together all day and haggling all day about the details of their coalition contract and the list of ministers we're hearing now that they're ready to cooperate so this is going to be the populist coalition and rome made up from leg and five star movement to a reboot of what like you said sort of went down or was shot down by president musharraf

just a week ago now what's happened is that they did replace the finance minister who was sort of the of contention for much of a rally he is going to be roped minister that's a post that doesn't really carry any particular power and they have found another economics professor who is less contentious obviously these he said to be pro euro the man is called to viney tria and nobody knows him in rome but obviously he is the one who has been chosen to deal with italy's difficult finances all right and barbara i know this a story is just breaking as we speak any idea about who is going to head this new government. depots the other posts are quite clear i mean we're going to see the leader of the five stars as minister for works and pensions because he really wants to do something for the south of italy for

people there and we're going to see my two salvini the very strident outspoken and quite demagogue leader of. the interior minister and that's where we will see a lot of struggle and a lot of problems in the near future because his legs are of course to deport half a million migrants who are in italy illegally as he says and that is his big plan and that is a part of what won him this election all right bob amazing reporting on breaking developments out of the elite where the two populist parties seem to have reached an agreement thank you barbara we'll check in with you later. force news now real madrid's coaches into these events was living a never ending success story he just completed an unprecedented three peat in the champions league era and was at the top of the football world but at that relatively young age of forty five's the then stepped down as the coach of ryal

simply saying it's time to go. the announcement that stunned the football world. is indeed on stepping down as reale madrid coach this despite winning a record three straight champions league titles the first coach to achieve back feet snapping up the last one just under a week ago against liverpool. this is the right moment for everyone it might seem a bit strange but it had to be done for the good of everyone the players the club and myself your sickest moment to build this team must keep winning and it needs a change after three years another voice another method of working across it is so but i thought i thought. it's one of the most pressurised jobs in the world of sport some fans were unhappy that the don only managed to lead his side to a single spanish title but that doesn't diminish from his historic champions league

success the frenchman can walk away with his head held high unlike at the world cup final in two thousand and six against italy where as a player he lost his composure and head butted the opponent but he's learned from that mistake and now he leaves just as unexpectedly as he came a d.r.s. rianne madrid it was. all right and there's also been the big news surrounding the world cup in their russia for wu captain paulo group has been given the all clear to play in the tournament for the first time by a swiss federal court while guerrero tested positive for cocaine and had a ban imposed by the court of arbitration for sport that court is based in switzerland meaning two were able to challenge the suspension in the swiss judicial system while the thirty four year old blamed the test on drinking coke a team which is a beverage that is popular and current place the south america. you watching the

news was to have a lot more to tell you about including as the u.s. imposes tariffs on the european union mexican and canadian steel and aluminum we follow the market fallout in new york and frankfurt and that's coming up with ben. and also you can attack me out. they make a commitment. they find. and stronger.