this man the interior minister matteo salvini pulls the plug on his coalition government and forces the prime minister to resign because he is angling for the job himself will his gamble pay off i'm sumi some is going to in berlin and this is the day. google group today i must conclude that the decision by the league to present a no confidence motion and ask for its immediate showjumping. require me to interrupt this government is refusing to. go. after the end of the debate i will go to the president of the republic to officially inform him of the end of this government and to offer him my resignation as prime minister. to see.

also coming up on the day britain's new prime minister boris johnson says it is anti-democratic and on viable and the european union's backstop plan for ireland has to go but the e.u. isn't budging are we back to break that deadlock so they have seen that the u.k. parliament is 3 times rejected the withdraw to remove the backstop just doesn't work it's not democratic i hope that they will see fit to compromise. a warm welcome to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world we start tonight with italy's government crisis the prime minister has resigned and will head a caretaker government while negotiations start on forming an alternative coalition earlier on tuesday prime minister just said he conti told parliament that he is stepping down and he said the interior minister matteo salvini is to blame so that

he has pulled his far right league party out of the government and is demanding new elections because he wants to become prime minister himself country accuse salvini of putting his own interests ahead of the country. removing the with the grief in creating this government crisis you have taken on a big responsibility towards italy. i heard you calling for full powers to govern the country. and invoke demonstrations in the piazzas to support you. i must say this worries me. too this is a gesture of grave institutional and disrespectful insolence towards the parliament and it could tip the country into a spiral of political uncertainty and financial instability. so country taking a swipe at south any on his way out this is what the interior minister had to say

in response. i would do everything i did again everything. like that and therefore i have the great strength of being a free man and. when they will do so i'm not afraid of the judgment of the italian people. if you want to complete the reform process that we started i'm here. so with conti now appointed at the world of caretaker prime minister what will happen next that's a question i asked our correspondent in rome max sander. things have changed so fast the last couple days and we don't know we don't even know what's have going to happen in the next 48 hours or so if snap elections take place it's likely to be in fall and whether or not people here are going to hold it against material salvini

that he actually brought he personally created this crisis without there having been a crisis before actually it's not clear yet if people will hold that against him or if he will still come out as as powerful and as popular as he expected to in the 1st place well that's a question max we such as sufi conti blasting salvation in a speech accusing him of putting himself before the country so how do italians feel about all of us. that's difficult to say i'm worth the peak of holiday season at the moment a lot of the tellings are at the beach and trying to. do more or nicer things than follow a government crisis but the those that do probably very worried what will what will happen next i'm some people will still stick to. a lot of are very worried what would happen next for example italy will have to present their budget

for 2020 to the e.u. later this year and without a working government this could be very difficult and this could essentially lead to an increase in sales taxes of the v.a. up to 25 percent and this is something every italian person would would feel in the end all right our correspondent max sander reporting for us in rome thank you very much. well let's get the view from brussels now our bureau chief standing by for us there hi max so what are the reactions that you've been seeing there. you know brussels is also on summer break right now so we haven't really seen any significant reactions so far and we don't expect the e.u. commission to react in a big way because they usually try to avoid to meddle in theory or affairs especially when they risk giving vini who is a declared opponent of the e.u. commission more fodder but you can expect that they're quietly hoping that there won't be snap elections because snap elections and you you heard her talk about

those polls would likely bring much even more power so they're probably rooting for the italian president to find an alternative solution that does not involve much he was. max what are the consequences of this political instability for the european union and instability is always bad 1st of all economically speaking the e.u. as a whole is on the brink of a recession italy has been in a recession for a long time or at least in a deep they cannot mix slump at the moment and this in certainty this instability as you call it is not helping here on top of that there are important decisions to make in the next months regarding the e.u. budget for example also migration and of course also the italia and budget itself which will be quite difficult so what the e.u. really needs is a functioning italian government and they would prefer an e.u. friendly functioning italian government that's right max but if there are new

elections you touched upon this it what would the prime minister salvini mean for the european union. there's a blueprint for that sumi just look too hungry you have victor orbán who is the prime minister of hungary right there and he's been blocking decisions in certain areas for example on migration that's why we still don't have a plan in the european union for the redistribution among countries of migrants that make it to the european union so that's the blueprint beenie of the prime minister would most likely be even more extreme if we can take that from what he has done in the last months in this government coalition but i would like to add right here we are not there yet this is just one option that the italian president had as the moment as next on the room said he could also try to figure out a different coalition with different majorities for example with the 5 star movement and the social democrats who probably also prefer not to having a snap election because the poll numbers for them are not very good right our

correspondent max huffman for us in brussels thank you very much. well it is not shaping up to be an easy week for the european union as that government crisis is unfolding in italy the rhetoric over bragg's it is heating up again british prime minister boris johnson says the e.u.'s plan for an irish backstop is unacceptable and has to go now the backstop is an insurance policy to make sure there is no hard for her between northern ireland which is part of u.k. and the republic of ireland which is part of the e.u. many fear that civil conflict could flare up again if new border controls are implemented and the plan is part of the withdrawal agreement between the e.u. and the british government the terms were negotiated under the former prime minister theresa may now johnson says it is on a critic. the existing just doesn't work for the u.k. parliament started out 3 times we can have this backstop so i'm going to go to see

our friends about like going off to germany and then to france and then to see the g 7 appearance and i'm going to make the point that the buck stops going to to come out of the moment it's absolutely true that our friends and partners are a bit negative and you friends still clearly think that there is a possibility that parliament will book record and as long as they think there's a possibility the problem will block brick suit their own likely to be minded to make the concessions that we need. while late on monday boris johnson delivered a 4 page letter to european council president donald tusk asking him to axe the irish border plan he called it inconsistent with the sovereignty of the u.k. donald tusk responded to the letter on twitter writing the backstop is an assurance to avoid a hard border on the island of ireland unless and until an alternative is found those against the backstop and not proposing realistic alternatives in fact support

reestablishing a border even if they do not admit it so saying pretty clearly there that there is no room for negotiation but german chancellor i'm going to perhaps opening the door a crack or ditch the moment if we get a practical arrangement on how to preserve the good friday agreement on still defined the borders of the european single market we would no longer need the backstop so this this means we will think about practical solutions if you have the will to find solutions you can do so quickly the european union is ready to do that but we do not need to reopen the withdraw agreement that's a matter for the future relationship and i think we will act together. in mind some even. all right let's get more on this story with irish political commentator make feel he joins us now hi nick good to see you what do you make of that does that sound like medical keeping the door open it does seem to me that she's trying to

interpret boris johnson's letter and some of the ambiguity within the letter which in itself kind of hen said something some alternative to the backstop without ever saying what that alternative might be and of course within his letter he also says that something. must of the not as already been agree to this point so the idea of the no well simply leads to a kind of chaotic vacuum i think is part of raney some of the oversimplification of the rhetoric that's been flying backwards and forwards particularly between london and dublin i think it's interesting that he visited the teacher just before the publication of the letter which suggests the letter was drafted in advance of a meeting and i think was used as a kind of a p o r and initiative to really try and prepare the irish so that

the buckler colors so to speak over this particular issue make i want to put that question of ambiguity right to you if both the e.u. and the u.k. want to avoid a hard border but the backstop is not acceptable for bags of tears what could a possible solution look like what options do does boris johnson really have here. well this is the problem he started and this has been the problem the whole way through breck's because bricks it was not defined before in advance of the referendum put before the people of the united kingdom the whole issue has been swimming in this ambiguous thing it is it's been there from the very beginning of course to suit just a reason many was forced to pull back the curtain on not the humidity as bars johnson of said and said now it's rolled very much feel 3 times they got through parliament and he's maintaining this ambiguity and i think it order to kind of at

least create something kind of space for some kind of compromise on the compromise . it's very hard to see without compromise might be although the irish government has itself admitted that we're forced into a situation although noting where there was no agreement on the border itself might seek to impose border checks oh wait you from the border and contentious area. in country checks which is an interesting reflection of want the press that is were saying some well it's the most prominent in this so then maybe you there may be a way through this and. certainly there are backbenchers in bars johnson's own party who if this is pushed. that the conservative party will ever be reelected anytime in the next 20 years so i i think the piece of

johnson is not simply the kind of model. that he's trying to project here i think he is underneath it all a very private moment politician. but what he's trying to do is take the idea of a backstop. really. unlike to resume a he's making the case that do you pretty his arse while sort of partners quiescent partners in government. making vicariously through a series of make haste are making some of those pro-union points that the backstop itself represents an economic alex situation from which northern ireland was no practical or legal immigrants from mike i want to ask you about what exactly is at stake here why people are so worried about a hard border there has been we should say an uptick in violence on the island a bomb exploded near the irish border on monday and authorities say it was an

attempt to kill police and they've also said there have been 5 attempts to murder police this year and i want to play you what one senior officer said if a 3 and a half years of no devolved institutions we haven't resolved issues or a legacy from which we have attentions on the grinding commune this issue here for a week of the uncertain day or and the acts that we have had 5 attempted attacks the murder of police officer says here and i think when you add all that up i do believe that there is a time of reflection on a time to question what type of society we want to live here ok make listening to that you are following the situation obviously very closely in ireland how tense are things right now. well pretty subtle. organized jewish most is that he said i don't need police are not spirits represent

you just heard from their. eyes it is pretty much i think from their heart because the political bucket it's not been ongoing for nearly a year longer than belching the government has created a political vacuum in which all kinds of mischief or it is kind of playing itself out the martyr recently the journalist leader of the tea but of course she was not the intended victim it was the police there is a rocking out of violence there is no political will there's no collective will between should be and who are on the francis and the you see her program except to put it into the hall of rex it is certainly a contributing factor to not. i have some personal concerns that rex is being used by politicians told that britain under the republic.

not when he's actually helped the peace or. or pushed forward the prospect of getting loose 2 party political parties back to work but are actually exacerbating the the degree of the threat in order to kind of get their own way it's almost as though northern ireland very early in these negotiations was taken political hostage both by the british and the irish i'm not between those 2 correct . go nuts who are co sponsors of the new friday agreement i think that's where the real disaster of this press and the michael. really begins and ends so make where do you see things going then if there is a situation where there is a hard border what are your biggest concerns then. well look the truth there is that let's get this clear but there is already of order there it's a very so it's

a it's a but the softest possible orderly can be an option but it is one in which migration regulations are imposed but there is no train of border but. the biggest threat here is the economic threat and particularly necronomicon threat so you were rich but more particularly aren't agriculture because the integral that the agricultural system on the island isn't a grid i don't think the economic threat is the 1st problem and the 2nd problem is if this comes down to a hard border and a continuing of this fall you know between the u.p. engine should say and i don't see where we get back to government however i also do not believe that we are going to war because many of the issues that created the congo we british and back in 1969. you know thoughts that is almost exactly 50 years ago this week. i think most of those

issues of social injustice of being. dealt with i do not see this going back to work but i don't see how the northern arm moment is the kind of serious interest in the future all right political commentator nick fealty speaking to us thank you for your analysis today. german chancellor merkel was the guest of honor at a meeting of nordic leaders in iceland's capital reykjavik climate change dominated the talks the region is directly being impacted by global warming historically high temperatures are causing arctic ice sheets to melt at an alarming rate only this weekend iceland held a funeral for one of its glaciers and greenland may lose half a trillion tons of ice by the end of the summer today the 7 nordic prime ministers along with business leaders signed a joint declaration to put the region on

a path to becoming the most sustainable in the world. meanwhile u.s. president donald trump just can't seem to let go of the notion of buying a big chunk of real estate in the arctic namely the island of greenland which is currently a semi autonomous territory that belongs to denmark to reinforce his interest trump tweeted this earlier today quote i promised not to do this to greenland suggesting another golden trump tower was not part of his development plans for a greenland receding ice sheet. greenland's prime minister who was also at the summit in iceland once again underlined today that greenland is not for sale and he's getting tired of making back clear. that question a few days ago it's not amusing to. obviously more and more people are seeing opportunities in greenland but. maybe this will cause them to see more scope for business development for new. shouldn't have much to numb the surface should be.

well denmark's prime minister mehta fredrickson has called trump's idea an absurd discussion and says she hopes the us president wasn't actually serious but there are plenty of reasons that trump might want to fly the us flag there more than just real estate. prime location unrivaled views in a great neighborhood for a man who made his fortune through real estate deals this must sound very attractive u.s. president donald trump says his country is interested in buying the world's biggest island greenland. sensually it's a large real estate deal a lot of things could be done so hurting denmark very badly because they're losing almost $700000000.00 a year there and so they carry it at a great loss and strategic way for the united states it would be nice president trump has done the math denmark pays for up to half of greenland's annual budget

and that figure comes to around $700000000.00 u.s. dollars greenland is a semi autonomous region belonging to denmark greenland to sit in the danish parliament and sometimes the danish prime minister comes to the capital nuke she's been there since sunday as part of a visit that she insists was planned some time ago. but every. 2 things 1st of all are not currently in greenland because of trump i would have come here anyway i totally agree with prime minister kim keels and that of course greenland is not for sale by the way greenland is not danish greenland is greenlandic can kill since that it quite clear greenland will not be solved this with i said before that. 56000 people live on the island fishing and tourism of the main industries but it is thought that huge mineral deposits lie on the rocks

and i see many islanders hope that developing these roll materials will help the territory get richer climate change means the ice is melting this makes mining more attractive in areas that used to be inaccessible a sale to the u.s. right now could be a bad idea that's because the bigger deal is still to come. and if study from the us has found that a good walk in the park is a great way for city dwellers to get rid of the blues you might have already known that spending time outside lifts your mood but the researchers in vermont took an innovative approach to reach their conclusions. life can be hard in the concrete jungle and increasingly research is revealing that greenery and open spaces can have a big impact on how urban dwellers feel but how to show that spending time in a park makes you happier in their new study researchers from the university of vermont in the us turn to

a popular social media platform twitter and an online tool called a heat and ometer which has been used to analyze billions of tweets the 2 ranks common words typed into the short electronic messages on a scale from one to 9 and assigns them a score words like happy and flowers score high while words like crash and jail scored low the researchers focused on almost 5000 twitter users in san francisco who publicly identify their location the scientists geotagged and analyze tweets from when and where the user spent time the he nominee then spat out a score on those tweets and the scientists analyze changes and sentiment before during and after the twitter users spent time in green spaces their results show tweet happiness scores rose dramatically for the users in parks in fact they were equivalent to scores only otherwise averaged across the social media platform on one day a year christmas. as vast numbers of people move to urban centers and the number of

city dwellers who suffer from mental health disorders grow sharply proof that green spaces can make you feel like it's christmas could have major implications for both city planning and public health. all right that is it for the day. but as always the conversation continues online you'll find us on twitter either at g.w. news or at some ugly ass and don't forget to use our hash tag the day i've seen you some is going to thank you for watching i'm for making us a part of your day. 6

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