the recording also contains discussion of how to disguise a donation to the party stuff that is heard offering lucrative government contracts in return and punishing industrialists one speed to hostile china the head of the conglomerate. if we become part of the government i promise you one thing housing starts or won't get any more contracts the identity of the russian business woman is unclear but she seems to have served as a decoys stuff has admitted the meeting took place in this discussion and relation to all topics i've always referred to the relevant legal provisions and the need to comply with the austrian legal system whether these revelations are going to strain the freedom party's relationship with chancellor is a bust and courts and his austrian people's party remains to be seen the opposition new austria and liberal forum has already called for stuff to step down our let's get more on this let's head to vienna now where we have correspondent standing by

klaus 1st of all can you just walk us through exactly what these allegations me. if these allegations are really true and nobody doubts about a fake that this meeting took place nobody knows up to now who made this fair and covered up this fair now and not in front of the national elections so voting took place in july 27th in october 27th the national elections in austria took place and since then it's the white transit she offered ted in dying colin of the biggest newspaper in austria and getting into business is motorway buildings and he offered in return donations to his party knock on the party things but it's true and it is like i do political actors committees all. foundations it shouldn't be covered up even if that would have to be weak some simply like 500000 or $2000000.00 euros

now this video just coming out what sort of reactions are you saying. most formerly already announced is there a chance to cool it's the question power upshot announce his measurement tomorrow morning a lot of people already are using that kind of potential and un would you know have to step down so why is chancellor ends a rip off the freedom party in parliament most are known as friends of russia because in 2015 he did kind of a treaty with russia but it's party unity and so is the nexus to russia was always existing and if saying zagg going in a direction that proved to be right he denies every saying he only says yes he met this lady and he talked to her but he didn't anything which would hamper her

austrian law now you touched on it but what do you think the chances are that that straka will stay in office if these allegations turn out to be true. if these allegations are really true then he cannot stay in office and only that question is there's a chance they go on because freedom democratic party to govern austria always upbeat new elections in a shot period of time everybody is asking the question lanes this video comes out now one week before european elections and who profits of it. profit if it works but either the party goes as belonging to laws it's over democrats a lot of speculation is a rod already there was a scandal a big scandal in the national elections in 2017 friends or social democrats had some happy hands from specialists who made big ticket painting and this was discovered maybe this is behind it we don't know up to now but most probably do you

know it's going to be gone at the end of the weekend ok another potential political scandal brewing there in austria klaus proper thank you very much. let's get you caught up now on some of the other stories making news around the world anti-government demonstrators have taken to the streets of the algerian capital for the 13th consecutive friday they're demanding that the country's interim leader step down and that the presidential election planned for july 4th be scrapped a long time former president on delancey street a fleet of resigned in april he was pressured by the protests and by his army chief . humanitarian organizations the watch says it ship is quote stranded at sea because authorities haven't allowed it to dock anywhere vessel rescued 65 migrants from a rubber dinghy off libya on wednesday the charity says libya's west coast is a main departure point for people hoping to reach europe. iran's foreign minister has called on the 5 remaining signatories of the 2015 nuclear deal to take concrete

action to save it iran previously warned that it would scale back some of its commitments under the deal a year after the u.s. left the pact and we imposed sanctions. where u.s. presidents donald trump has announced an end to steel and aluminum tariffs on canada and mexico that improves the likelihood that american lawmakers will approve a new trade deal between the countries trump impose the tariffs 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum last year citing national security but members of congress signaled the tariffs were stalling they were prove all of the new trade deal with both nations. are let's get more on this now i'm joined by w.'s business is steven beardsley now steven just walk us through the significance of this decision mean this is about more than just steel prices right and this really goes what you just spoke of which

is the fact that there is a trade deal between these 3 nations which needs to go through at this point this is the new nafta cause of the u.s. him see. everyone else 1st called the new nafta and basically what it did was it sort of updated some nafta provisions and right now to the point where it needs to be ratified by the 3 countries and that means the u.s. congress needs to get it a few days ago a very influential senator charles grassley said that he would not approve the deal going through if tariffs were still in place so trampas use these tariffs as a way to have leverage over both of these countries to get them to make this deal announced a deal is sealed he's been facing more and more pressure to lift them canada mexico have also been pushing obviously throughout this whole process for the lifting of these tariffs and obviously i think it's more of a practical measure for trump than it is anything about prices and especially about national security which as you said was of the heart of this too right so so your time of this new nafta i mean that was that's this trade deal it's in place between the 3 countries this was something that president trump campaigned on basically

redoing saying this was a bad deal for the u.s. what about this new nafta what was going on there. for trump you know look at it it does update some things for example it updates labor standards it requiring more minimum wage manufacturing as in these countries it requires more local components for cars they're going to reach the 0 tariffs realty for example but ultimately it doesn't really make any major changes to nafta it is in a way more of a political act by the president's has long been seen as that than a policy one for canada from mexico it's really a way for them to get these tariffs perhaps off their backs more than it is no where the radical change to what was in place before a political win for trump perhaps to have a deal that's why again he probably wants this to go through and that's why he's lifting his tariffs it's been seen as also today trump postponing a decision on tariffs for overseas cars maybe a sign that he's reconsidering those as well probably not. being seen as

a sign that he has a lot going on with china for example these talks broken down what he's actually done now is. of a time line for himself he said 6 months from now we're going to revisit this so now the pressure is on to get a deal with the e.u. and japan for example that actually paints them in a very difficult corner because those negotiations are not going to be easy if you thought these issues were big with these tariffs on steel or aluminum just wait until tariffs are put on us foreign cars coming to us that would probably be even bigger politically and arresting all right business stephen beardsley thanks very much. well the german government is to pay out compensation to victims of a former german sect in chile the notorious colonia dignidad was founded in 1961 by paul shaffer the cult leaders collaborated with the chilean military dictatorship and for decades they forced labor and child abuse into common place practice it

wasn't until 2016 germany admitted to failing to protect the victims. many of those who lived in the colonia dignidad are now old age and trauma have taken their toll but their efforts have played a key role in germany's to.