this is the news live from europe gets down to business with the world's biggest emerging power french president to cross post for talks with the leaders of china jumping on the a few any to find ways to resolve security and economic concerns such as chinese investment into also on the program. young europeans protest against measures they say would mind freedom. be interviewed into info to gain steam copyright being proposed today. british lawmakers take notice into

the house of commons votes of the prime minister's press agenda to take control of the process m.p.'s want to find a way out of the crisis through a series of dramatic effects. i'm sure welcome to the program. chinese president as usual playing has been touring europe since friday and after meetings with counterparts in italy monaco and france today he's talking to the european union president was greeted in paris by french president emmanuel not german chancellor angela merkel and e.u. commission our president is wrong prodi on monday china committed to buying three hundred airliners from europe's av us consortium the e.u. the same for a joint policy regarding. joint policy that includes economic partnerships the

multi-billion euro belts and road initiatives and protections against unwanted takeovers of european companies. straits to paris and we find it comes from the rebecca response i welcome rebecca there's just been a press conference what we learned. that's right phil i've come directly from that press conference where the four leaders looking very friendly indeed it appears that the talks went remarkably well although the talks were only an hour long so it's hard to imagine how much could have been discussed in that hour but president mccall really reiterating many of the things he said in the in the last couple of days that reciprocity is really needed between china and the e.u. but basically that the e.u. needs to be united in their policy towards china but that that china is a very important player on the world stage and needs to be taken seriously and the climate of fear and suspicion shouldn't be shouldn't be looked too much into

germany the german. chancellor angela merkel excuse me said that multilateralism is is the only only works if there is mutual trust multi-lateralism really being the word of today really being that the approach that all leaders seem to want to take ok so the president marc ross has been one of them the largest of voices in europe when it comes to cautioning about dealing with with china so. he's having to balance two things here the chinese have the money but we also need to be a little bit careful about how well can we make them in the house. that's right everybody wants a slice of the trade pile when it comes to china china is europe's biggest trading partner and no individual countries nor europe as a bloc really want to give that up obviously they are walking that fine line

between fears of security and and the chinese take taking over the global the global stage i suppose you could say there are concerns with that and it is a fine balance but as you saw yesterday mccall signing the three hundred aircraft air bus deal they're not willing to give up those trade deals so. some sort of united policy does need to be put in place and so what is where is the you that i'm not you not if policy towards china. well it's early days i am annual mccrone did say at the end of excuse me you'll see the cars leo leaving behind getting a bit noisy here. mccall did say at the end of the summit of leaders last week that the era of naivety towards china is over and we definitely seeing that now is seeing china coming to the forefront of european policy with this sort of surprise

mini summit of the summit in two weeks and then also saying that when german take over the e.u. presidency later in the year this will also be very top of the agenda so exactly what's in in that is still get unknown but definitely it is at the forefront of conversations with a you at the moment but here it is in paris thank you. the european parliament is due to vote on the major changes to its copyright laws today might sound like a fairly harmless bill but the proposal house move tens of thousands of. he has to protest against the proposed reforms they say they're worried about how you rules will affect free speech on the internet at the heart of the matter is article thirteen this new legislation it's proposed its proponents claim it would help copyright holders protect their intellectual property but opponents fear it could lead to censorship. so how would article thirteen change the current status quo online well at the moment if

a user uploads text video musical photos to a platform like you tube that person is responsible for respecting copyright restrictions the e.u. wants to change this they want to make opera platform operators liable for the content on their sites and backed up with fines if law was a broken so this is meant to force sites like facebook and you tube to monitor what users publish critics however fear that websites will end up using automatic filters that would also block material that is not restricted opponents say that could have a chilling effect on online expression w. fabiana from to mock takes a closer look. now one of the main sponsors actually forbid not about one of the main sponsors of the copyright reform legislation in the european parliament is germany's axel fos the d.w. correspondent to go matters in strasbourg for today's vote and spoke to mr voss about his controversial bill. mr foster you've been called the father of this

directive how worried are you how surprised are you about this sudden resistance to this reform so the competition and the resistance and so is very high so and very close to what the competition is and so that's why i'm i still hopeful that we will get a majority here today but at the end you never know how much pressure the public debate will influence my colleagues upload filters has been something that was very much in the critique something a lot of tech giants will use in the future do you think the critique of those filters is wholly unfounded yes it's unfounded because they are using these already and we are not asking for filters in our text this is a kind of practical impact of the business model in saying please upload whatever

you like on my platform and therefore they have to fulfill their obligations their legal obligations and therefore they are using these filters this is nothing what the legislators are asking for what do you make of the critique of small video platforms of small enterprises how they will they be affected by this directive so the youngest and the smallest one they are excluded of these for three years at the end but then also you have to question yourself if your business model is grounded on property of foreign creators and you will earn lot of money with these then you have to question your own business model if this is the right way forward to use property of other people if you lose today what then so the reform will be debt. there will be no my job routine

also for different men to try to look results. in the council and therefore i see then the development of the reform of copyright is there. thank you very much. talking to foster let's go into this further with theresa she's a tech journalist for both the board welcome to the studio which side of this argument do you come down oh well as a journalist i'm not supposed to incorporate each of the opposing opinions as my own but i have myself also interviewed axel foss and i have to say i was relatively shocked by his incompetence on the matter because he clearly does not understand the technicalities and how the internet works and he's using you know. different nations like fake news and doesn't formation when there were just political arguments against his reform yeah but the principle surely is sound

people should not be allowed to upload other people's work and make money off it without without respect to the copyright that's showing you can be hard for you as a journalist to argue with that absolutely and i think there are many different and better ideas to make sure that the creators get their fair share. this particular law as it is now are as it is to be voted on now is a technicality that will definitely prevent the free flow of information on the internet because you cannot guarantee that for example on you tube moderation is being maintained without a technical filter that filters out everything that could be a parody or a satire or remakes which is what makes the internet the internet but surely then your argument is not with the law which we're agreed to you've agreed to the law is

a good thing people. right so to be respected the difficulty comes in the implementation so right people are objecting to the law makers rather than the tech companies and say why don't you moderate this better well you kondraty moderated john platforms like you tube because every second three new videos uploaded so it would take an army of people to to moderate each content while they are uploaded you need a technical solution for that but for example there there is a better idea as is fair use for example that would guarantee. that on platforms that use particular images or media as part of educational process. that they can still use a treat me so far it's out of what i do but what about the rest of guessing most people have have little concern about legitimate uses drugs as you say right but what about the rest of these youtube as well just uploading stuff willy nilly here you know the the rest. the rest could work as it is right now which is notice and

takedown means whenever somebody has an object of content uploaded it's you can file a report basically clicking a button it's not much more than that the owner of this particular. piece of content is being notified the platform has to take it down within a certain limit of time before you think it is a case find often does not work we barely a day goes by without people with without seeing stories of new reforms and stories where objectionable material has been uploaded just last week with what christchurch we were full of people saying well facebook should have moved quicker something to that scale if if if a company like facebook can be criticized and at a much lower level of scale sure they're going to be even worse true but that is two different things like the christ church thing there was a material where there was no copyright infringement. whatever that was material

that was important to take down because it was real and real people shared it out of spite out of hate and it cost massive problems in certain communities but what we're talking about now is just copyrighted material and copyright material can be fingerprinted and identified just like the christchurch thing and i say that is a technical so they. were talking to you thank you for joining us. this is. still to come a window of hope for abused women and children take you inside the first protective shelter for women whose lives are at risk. as are some of the other stories making news around the world thailand's former prime minister thaksin shinawatra has accused the country's military of rigging sunday's general election an international election monitoring group is also

a vote counting process was deeply flawed thailand's election commission has delayed releasing preliminary results until friday. in the united states the pentagon has authorized a billion u.s. dollars of funding for president trump's controversial border wall defense officials say the money would pay for roughly ninety kilometers of fences and infrastructure along the us mexico border in february president trump declared a state of emergency after congress rejected his budget plans for. president. and spy to apologize for the conquest of central america's indigenous peoples five hundred years ago standing with his wife in front of a minor rule he said he hoped the request would prompt historical reconciliation. u.s. officials estimate that nearly two million people have been affected by cycle of the day and its aftermath in both mozambique alone the storm hit almost two weeks

ago causing huge flooding and damage across southeast asia africa more than seven hundred people have been confirmed killed. in the middle east now where cross border fighting between israeli armed forces and militants in the gaza strip has entered a second day israel says it has intercepted dozens of rockets fired from hamas controlled gaza and bombed targets in response this latest violence comes after a rocket fired from gaza hit a house near tel aviv and despite how announcing an egypt broken ceasefire on monday night. ceasefire appeared to collapse almost as soon as it was brokered israel said it's ion dome rocket defense system intercepted several launches with most others falling into open fields earlier in the evening a rocket aimed at the border town of sderot got through the fences and destroyed a home no casualties were reported. the tit for tat attacks were triggered by

a rocket that obliterated a residential home outside tel aviv in the early hours of monday israel said that rocket was launched by hamas the militant group that rules gaza the homes residents were awoken by air raid sirens and managed to flee before the rocket crashed through the roof and exploded. this is the real price and i just paid off my family and if we hadn't got to the sheltering time i would now be burying my family by nightfall the israel defense forces were retaliating with rocket attacks striking targets in gaza hideouts they say that's how mass militants. the ceasefire reportedly broke at by egypt and accepted by hamas late on monday was never confirmed by israeli officials the rocket attacks through the night show that if it ever really existed the ceasefire is at best shaky and at worst over before it even took hold. are in jordan years of campaigning for the government to provide

better protection for women threatened by domestic abuse is beginning to bear fruit on the country's crime prevention law it's been common practice to jail women at risk of abuse supposedly for their own protection but last year the government finally opened a secret shelter and as d.w. found it is giving vulnerable women hope of starting a new life. it's been years since my last saw her husband but the abuse she suffered at his hand is still fresh in her mind. when the beating got really bad i would run away to the neighbors when my husband suspected i was having an affair with my neighbor so he beat me again and strangled me. authorities feared minutes husband might kill her in the name of family honor so they put her in prison. the forty two year old mother of eight was incarcerated for seven months under georgians crime prevention law which has long been used to

indefinitely jail women consider to be at risk of so-called honor killings supposedly for their own protection. a jailed me with women facing the death sentence women convicted of drug crimes were the ones on just the row are hard to deal with. lawyers were able to get more out of prison after her husband left the country but the circumstances of her release are extremely rare. a woman is usually told that someone must come and bail her out in guarantee has safety usually a brother or a father her son or her husband and that's difficult because these are often the same people who were threatening her they had to do all. it is estimated that hundreds of women have been jailed under the pretext of protection with some spending over a decade in prison but after years of campaigning things are finally starting to change. according to the government cases like more that won't have to spend any

more time in prison for their own protection in twenty eighteen the jordanian ministry for social development opened this home owner's daughter emma the purpose of it is to house women whose lives are under threat by members of their family today we're being given a rare look into the home and the lives of its residents. the shelter subject around the clock protection and surveillance its location is kept secret. and is one of the first to be transferred from jail to the shelter after spending almost six years in prison. for safety reasons we cannot give details about the twenty six year old story only that her life is under threat from multiple members of her family. and. when i arrived here for two days i could not believe that i could just go out on the balcony and see people the world and life it had been almost six years and i had not seen the sign and i had not seen people. shelter director

does that insists this is not just a place for the women to eat and sleep here they also receive psychological counseling legal aid and vocational training with the aim of reintegrating them into society children up to the age of six can remain with their mothers recorded for ted and when a woman comes to us she's entering an unfamiliar situation and then we let her know that being here is voluntary one of her choices on our first task is to comfort her help and once that happens working with her becomes much easier. since its opening twenty women have been transferred from prison to the shelter around twelve still remain in prison but the ministry intends to gradually move them here as well three of the women transferred from prison have left the shelter after they were deemed to no longer be in danger if a woman wants to leave beforehand she's informed of the risks and cannot be held against her will. my goal is to one day be able to leave and find

a suitable place to live i do not want to be threatened anyone who had heard the opening of the shelter has been hailed as a major step forward but activists say the law which allowed for these women to be held in the first place must be repealed to guarantee this never happens again. a moment is in the u.k. have frustrated the prime minister's bracks it plans again on monday evening m.p.'s voted to take control of the parliamentary agenda wednesday will therefore see a policy parliament to hold a series of indicative votes on the country's departure from the e.u. as i tried to put together a potential breakthrough deal that could command the majority this by the vote to raise a set that there is no guarantee that she will be bound by that decision parliamentary observer see monday's votes as the latest evidence of a prime minister with dwindling authority. when it comes to break this unusual is the new normal the latest on preset dented move

a vote by parliament to seize control from to reserve may's government to debate alternative plans for leaving the european union the prime minister says parliament's power play will likely result in more confusion. when we strike this kind of thing in the past it's produced contradictory outcomes or no outcome but. there is. there is a further risk when it comes to brics it is the u.k. is only one half of the equation and those could lead to an outcome which is on negotiate with the e.u. . among the proposals parliament may consider staying in a customs union with the e.u. or cancelling brigs it altogether the main opposition leader says another option is a referendum on the terms of the exit deal. we do not know what the house will decide on wednesday and this house must also consider whether any deal should be put to the people for

a confirmation vote this is where this show where this job and has failed this house must and i believe will succeed but the government won't be obliged to follow the outcome of the so-called indicative votes so far members in this house have agreed on how they'll debate but they seem as divided as ever on what happens next with breaks it. will have a bigger impact on the republic of ireland than any other e.u. country especially if a hard border is re-established between it and the british province of northern ireland that would bring back memories of a more violent era say locals and practically guarantee a return of cross border crime. if you want to go out on three hundred fifty says mike has plenty of tales of smuggling to taro and he lives in northern ireland right next to the border the former truck driver says lots of shady stuff went on in the area in the past much of it involving customs control or between the british

province and the e.u. member state to the south i see me going to shed great said henri the sailor so with a grin this big ship has. made a very through that door that door let's share that shit for all night in the snow is a virus so he thought that if it's impossible getting rid of controls didn't get rid of smuggling completely fireworks which are banned in the republic of ireland are still taken across regularly they're legal in the north and sales of them are brisk in the border region. and foreign diesel subsidized by the e.u. also often crosses the border illegally as does heating oil from northern ireland that's not been slapped with a value added tax because there are no controls. conor patterson remembers a very different time into the one nine hundred ninety s. thousands of trucks were checked by customs officials in the sheds they disappeared

with the advent of the e.u. single market here but breaks it could bring it all back along with a return of more professional organized smuggling if beef and the irish republic and line with base prices across the years at waller a at and cheap base has begun corded not deferential could be significant enough to encourage widespread smuggling the issue for also is that smuggling. a. humble down exploited by crime guy things. in northern ireland has benefited from its position at the border it's developed into a major shopping for the region a rise in crime would certainly heard businesses here but could post bret's its smuggling be kept in check. people here are rubbing their hands with with the way anticipation without which is that was i was to him and given the price of a source inside funds boost it would see it is not true to make

a lot of money however you cannot be any re installment of border infrastructure because our present sonali challenge on our threat which is a return to the dark it is of our very own cost mike is also against bringing back the checkpoints and watchtowers like many others here it reminds him too much of a more violent era that lead. to his reminder of our top story abyss the leaders of france germany and the e.u. are meeting with the chinese president xi jinping in paris and looking to create policy on relations with europe's biggest trading partner ahead of an e.u. china summits next month. finally it's often said that april showers bring may flowers but what about march rain still out with you in california the concept is this is a so-called super blue which is to much of the deserts into fields a while. i'll be back at the top of the hour enjoying.

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