in these talks that have played the negotiations throughout which is the issue of the irish border and the way the future trading relationship will look between the u.k. and brussels and as long as those issues aren't resolved reason may says the u.k. is going to continue to prepare for a no deal scenario which after this statement i have to say feels like a much more realistic prospect this is a pretty low point in relations between the u.k. and the rest of the e.u. to resume a failed to secure any approval and to convince the e.u. leaders of the merits of the czech is deal in salzburg yesterday she came back to london empty handed and the president of the european council donald terse really wasn't impressed with what she had to offer and he made that quite clear take a listen to this all just to train work for economic corporation. must be

clear the. issues. were modes. ready to compromise and. first of all this is. for fundamental freedoms. and. single market and this is the way we. remain skeptical and critical is done still despite the chicas proposal skeptical and critical of those poor's is really say it's all they really are at loggerheads and donald tusk didn't stop there he used instagram as well to have a dig at to resume a he posted a photo on his account of afternoon tea and cakes with to reason made in the photo and he commented no cherry's kind of reinforcing that mantra that they've heard all along which is that the u.k. can't. have its cake and eat it too and just appears to be taking on i think the

role of a bit of a bad cop in this situation talking about all the negative points the president of the european commission however john called young he appeared a little bit more philosophical in his approach to commissioners prepared indeed to all the elements of the consequences of the new deal which could be entirely new to so don't worry be happy don't worry all that is not the mood in london i don't think actually there is an increasing sense of nervousness after that statement to resume a made and to illustrate that while she was talking it was quite a short statement the pound sterling fell significantly against the euro to a an all year low you can actually see it for ling while she was giving that statement in downing street and so we've reached this standoff stage it's quite a critical moment now and what to resume a appears to be saying is that either brussels blinks and stops playing hardball or

london is crashing out of the club in less than six months time. the u.s. will bear the consequences if it doesn't cancel it sanctions against china's military that reacted to washington's latest move prior to the sanctions china had announced it would purchase russian military hardware or he goes down after deeper into the story to analyze would be has said we have to see we have to look at what washington's doing and essentially it's playing a double game it is targeting russia mostly with its new round of sanctions but also launching a blog which intention is to damage beijing everything revolves around the russia's weapons brushes heavy weapons like the as you thirty five fighter jet on the four hundred surface to air missile defense system and so china bought some of those. units and now it is also coming under fire for the beijing let me tell you

was not impressed when it found out the it is being dictated some new rules on this arena of trade other than competition we strongly call on the us to remedy the mystique and council the sanctions otherwise the u.s. has to bear the consequences russia has also reacted to this new round of sanctions russia still diplomat sergei lavrov has said that what the it's doing the essentially are pushing more school towards reducing its dependency on washington and especially on the exchanges in dollars in the u.s. currency has also added that this is something that other countries are learning from these sanctions to love reasons that featured a blonde with russian roots who was not too offensive to the i who has an instagram page filled with pictures of her in a bikini is who was claiming that just minutes away from the restaurant that sergei script holland his daughter yulia had been visiting in another italian restaurant

she and her husband she claims were poisoned by vladimir putin who was going after them and wanted her killed and that story of course turned out to be something that was on the front page of the sun as well as several other tabloids and is now being treated as a hoax and this is what the son had to say on this like any news paper we were keen to talk to those at the center of the incident and in this case chose to give mr pirro the opportunity to share with the public her version of events that we had the model share her story however indeed the police are now investigating the main inquiry looking into this as a hoax and they have asked the media to not speculate on this whole case and it has to be said that there are also reports now going around that the restaurant where all the commotion unraveled on sunday night with the understanding that a major incident could in fact be in place. the restaurant is now saying they're

going to see this couple if it turns out to be true that this was a hoax amidst reports that the husband of this model had at one point been reported to be a convicted criminal and also to be somebody who had once hoaxed or pranks prince charles himself. a father in germany's appealing to the authorities to relaunch the investigation into his son's death almost a year ago marcus hempel died after a fight involving for refugees on the security video marcus center in black with his friend showed up at the group it was later judged to be in self-defense on the part of the migrants his father claims the video shows quite the opposite we are all of a managed to speak to it. coming up after break new york times is under fire for its hefty report on russia's alleged interference in the twenty's sixteen u.s.

election we break down that article for you and see what is being criticized after this break. given sobber attack do we know who stands behind. the sony attack whether it's north korea we assume that but probably will never know that we had the general public we had all the answers so the question how to offense. is very crucial in fear when we the jury are public perhaps not only us know nothing much so reading is what john bolton saying here the us national security advisor looks like his gloves off things the senate going to get

this going to get more aggro he says quote washington is going to do a lot of things often civilly and reduce strategy in america's hands will be tied always gloves off and is it. well yes the issue is the news. of the us sun by president. deal with the fence of against as you said you were rivals and. i think these new subs strategy is more for diplomacy. the puce cyber capabilities and cyber power since no doubt. those who have the sub a cup abilities in this age used it in the past you know several cases of state act to act tools that were allegedly stand behind sub

attacks. to create a situation in which the us use other dimension in order to create some attacks and in order to offend against its rival potential rivals you do not need the new strategy for that thing that in this case the new service strategy of the us yes i was going to sell just to finish a sentence here so you think all this new this new strategy is not going to work in a nutshell it is. no no i didn't say that he would work the bot i said that probably that. as since the purpose of this new service strategy is to create a new line a new red line that our policy the thrum policy is completely different from. the policy of president obama and we will also hold. going to hurt is that while

there. is a bit of a delay which is where the crossing across each of the you know where the time we got to hear story tell powerful head of his studies at tel aviv academic college thank you my friend. oh the tick tock of time right now the new york times is published a special report describing russia's alleged interference in the twenty sixteen us presidential election out of the ten thousand words in the article the word alleged is only used twice with the story instead apparently portraying many unproven accusations as facts. in. away to unravel the russia story so far the new york times special report into the saga looks impressive masses of subsections fancy photo shopping and multiple timelines and they all lead back to a kremlin conspiracy to get its man in the white house as mr trump emerged in spring twenty sixteen as the improbable favorite for the republican nomination the russian oppression accelerations on three fronts the hacking and leaks was horrible

and we'll examine the at the damage an economic impact so far at least on hurricane florence as the waters are finally starting to reseed our intrepid correspondent sara mottos the oka gives us the latest including the status of billions of dollars into tester. and speaking of natural disasters legal journalist molly barrows from the ring of fire network helps us take a look at the odds natural disaster barometer the waffle house and at the southern u.s. iconic restaurant chain plus we'll consider how downloading may change in light of the new european union copyright walls with our friends steve malzberg will fall to the brim as usual so let's get to it we start with the major headline. european union authorities have opened an investigation into tech giant amazon related to how they have treated merchants selling on the amazon platform marguerite's festinger the e.u. competition commissioner said the investigation is in its early stages and is

seeking details from amazon merchants about the information they provide to amazon as a condition of being on the e-commerce retail platform the issue is super interesting for myriad reasons including the competition commissioner's proactive approach to regulation in the new evolving in the merging retail tech space and the focus on business which may be disadvantaged as opposed to only and users consumers well more on this in the coming days. ali baba the. huge chinese multinational e-commerce and technology company says it will have ai artificial intelligence chips on the market next year next year for gosh sakes u.s. companies like i.b.m. qualcomm and intel not only sell computer chips but are now moving forward with a chips it appears the ai race is full on the move by ali baba shows the increasing efforts by china to become even more self-reliant amid the increasingly competitive

and contentious trade environment u.s. authorities and others around the world remain concerned about intellectual property theft from china you may recall their role in the states over chinese tech companies e t.