economy lost some steam recently the us post tariffs on foreign steel that in turn is irritating the e.u. which said it would retaliate german trade minister get it supervisors warned that the chances of an agreement after this conference are slim here's what he had to say. if we do not find a resolution today i think we will miss a great opportunity. because we must always remember it is a good reason why the countries of the g twenty set up the global forum global challenges need global. well business correspondent she pointed she is at the meeting of the g. twenty and always ministers economy minister a chip how are the talks going what are you hearing from delegates. well. chris germany's trade minister came in to make the opening statement and she was delayed a couple of minutes because they were in negotiations and speaking before the meeting was going to start and she described the talks so far as intensive and difficult those were the two words she used and so i think things have been really difficult and on the sidelines i spoke with pressbox person of the ministry who told me that chi

recently when the west has threatened to impose tariffs on foreign steel and in turn is irritating the e.u. which said it would retaliate german trade minister to get its. board that the chances of an agreement at today's conference are slim here's what she had to say. if we do not find a resolution today i think we will miss a great opportunity because we must always remember it is a good reason why the countries of the g twenty is set up the global forum global challenges need global answers. and there are talks about another important commodity going on in vienna today where members of the opec cartel are currently discussing to extend the cap on global all supplies for the next nine months the current agreement limits the oil production to over thirty two million barrels a day it runs out in march russia and other non opec oil producing countries are attending the meeting as well sources told the reuters news agency that opec and its allies are set to extend the output cutting deal. australia's big banks have come under pressure in recent years over a string of scandals the government have un

recently the us has threatened to impose tariffs on foreign steel that in turn is irritating the e.u. which said it would retaliate german trade minister hinted to please who's heading the talks as want the chances for an agreement at today's conference us. well business correspondent he pondered is absent the meeting of the g. twenty and always ministers economy minister chip how the talks going what are you hearing from that against. well. germany's trade minister came in to make the opening statement and she was delayed a couple of minutes because they were in negotiations and speaking before the meeting was going to start and she described the talks so far as intensive and difficult those were the two words she used and so i think things have been really difficult and on the sidelines i spoke with pressbox person of the ministry who told me that china seems to be holding back on some of what has been agreed upon by all the g twenty countries that are represented here and as well as the o.e.c.d. countries that are present so china seems to be holding them back right now china's not ready

recently the us has threatened to impose tariffs on cheap foreign steel that in turn is irritating the e.u. which said it would retaliate german trade minister good at. the chance of an agreement at today's conferences conference are slim is what she had to say at the beginning of the conference. if we do not find a resolution today i think we will miss a great opportunity because we must always remember it is a good reason why the countries of the g twenty is set up the global forum global challenges need global answers. as a result of the steel crisis more and more steel companies are merging to stay afloat but while that may rescue a company jobs are usually lost since germany's biggest filmmaker turton announced it was to merge with indian steel giant tata dozen workers workers in germany are worried. after working seven straight days a slag operator gets four days off. began his career at thirty eight years ago but now he's afraid he'll lose his job. they're going to close the. we're fighting to keep our jobs. thousand jobs here and another two thousand and more talking over four thousand jo

clarifies its financial commitments to leave the e.u. which could be as much as seventy billion dollars peter shop reports from london time does appear to be running out for the british bracks negotiators as the representative field in this question at the end of the second day of talks in brussels. to confirm for me that you will need clarifications or concessions whichever you prefer from the u.k. within two weeks in order to move on to the second phase in december. my response says michel barnier is yes in december either leaders in brussels will decide whether sufficient progress has been made the two sides are to move on to discuss important future trade deals we remain ready and willing to engage as often and as quickly as needed to secure this outcome over the weeks remaining ahead of the december european council. the united kingdom will continue to engage and negotiate constructive as we've done since the start but to the prime minister's exasperate the former british ambassador to the e.u. left open the possibility of leaving bracks

e.u. panel which was about to discuss whistle blowing the very thing he spent almost two years behind bars for. was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bertie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media i did appear at a panel later in the afternoon with the cuban ambassador to the european union and several other me peace but that first paid in so as a understand it was. warm he said she wasn't allowed to be on the same panel with the what was the reaction to that lashed which where everybody blames the right even a risk even ten i wished i had better on happening but like i said a moment ago i thought it was a joke in the beginning and before move me it wasn't until i was doing the television interview that i finally said to the m.e.p. wait a minute did i get thrown off that pa

e.u. panel which is about to discuss whistle blowing the very thing he spent almost two years behind bars for. i was invited to speak on two separate panels at the european parliament day before yesterday and the first one included a representative of the bernie sanders organisation people for bernie unfortunately that representative said that she could not appear on a panel with me because i'm associated with sputnik radio and she didn't want the appearance of bernie sanders appearing to endorse the russian media i did appear at a panel later in the afternoon with the cuban ambassador to the european union and several other me peace but that first panel i did not participate in so as a i wish that i had this what was going on to object the decision had been made i was doing the television interview that i finally said to the n.e.p. wait a minute it's enough that i would want to know the truth but there's no evidence put forward i just wondered what your take was on must already know. literally zero evidence no evidence whatsoever this is very simply a brash political move being pushed by

and that's why we have to do all we can to shut the courts and the e.u. whichcould also take action against germany but we're doing what we can. besides paying two hundred fifty million euros into the government fund german auto manufacturers pledged in august to overhaul the emissions control software on over five million diesel cars. but environmentalists dismissed that as a gag. we have to equip the dirty details with an effective exhaust gas filter. the government could start with buses and communal vehicles. the current plan to spend most of the fund on digitalisation. is really just a joke that's just. so far cities have seen nothing of the one billion euro fund at the latest summit chancellor merkel said it would be freed up immediately for investment in cleaning municipal bus emissions and digital izing traffic control systems funding will also be increased in the coming years communities are now waiting to see if berlin will finally honor its promises or if it will be the courts that shape policy on german roads. here it felt. cold up padmavati the spe

e.u. standards. which wasn't used for three years, supposedly because waste disposal companies were competing over the lucrative municipal tender. so nothing changed and thousands of truck loads of rubbish were dumped illegally beside the old rubbish dump. the city of targu mures says it's not to blame. >> the ministries created the laws, bureaucracy and contracts without knowing the situation on the ground and without asking municipalities what problems they face and what possibilities they have to solve them. this caused the country's rubbish problem in the first place. reporter: the city's residents are fed up with excuses like these. they've started taking matters into their own hands by cleaning the riverbanks. they insist they're driving this load of rubbish to the new dump. many simply cannot believe their country is beset by this rubbish problem. that is despite receiving billions in e.u. funding. >> 30 years after the end of communism, things should be a lot better. it's great to see civil society

e.u. up which another kind of very strange competition.

e.u. budget which ends in twenty twenty nothing more if you believe the press reports here in the u.k.the u.k. government certainly has moved towards brussels position more or less doubling what to resume a offered two months ago which was in the region of twenty five billion dollars now they're talking about. up to fifty billion dollars government sources saying that they're not going they don't recognise any of these figures it's in fact a very unlikely that they will be committing to a particular amount rather they are saying these are the areas that we will continue to pay into not just areas like agriculture and fisheries and infrastructure projects but things like the european union's pension pot and many other areas which will be going on perhaps for decades so hard to put a precise figure on both sides clearly trying to put a positive spin on this in the last couple of hours the u.k. foreign secretary has said that he thinks this could be a very important turning point. working as you can imagine to build on the momentum we've got going forward to the december european council

the amendment will be added to the withdrawal bill which aims to transfer in you -- e.u. law into u.k. law. may reiterated brexit is happening with the planned amendment widely being seen as in all of ranch -- o olive branh to hardliners. this comes as theresa may struggles s to retain authority. juggling between losing two cabinet members and allegations of sexual misconduct against multiple members of the government. e.u. negotiators are preparing for the possibility the conservative government would fall which would derail difficult talks even further. leaders are set to meet next month to pursue talks with the chief negotiator saying it was becoming urgent to receive a real clarification on issues such as citizens rights and the u.k. financial settlements. anchor: the presidents of france ad germany are inaugurating museum commemorating the first world war almost 100 years after one of the most devastating world wars in history, the museum is a symbol of reconciliation between the nations. >> the first franco german memorial commemorating the first world war. it was n

e.u. and unlike the russian which was invited by the. legal un the cognized government of syria so the americans are in a weak legal point there let's look at to this already visit to russia and meeting with president putin what actually was agreed there something very interesting syria must have been discussed sure the mutual interests of the two the more destructive rule was more qatar who would actually punching above their weight rather than saudi arabia and israel yes i agree i remember once and israeli of so thick in me to the border was a lever and said this is our front line with iran so they have always had this insecurity they always has in the back of their mind rightly or wrongly that hezbollah wants their total destruction so their interest is largely different from syria from saudi arabia home have seen their indian intervention because let's not forget the islamic revolution was for exports the three circles that khomeini want that so the second circle is exporting it to the arab countries where there's shia minority give

e.u. counterpart michel barnier on friday in which the border with ireland was a key issue our new meanwhile effectively set a two week deadline for britain to agree to pay its exit bill before further talks can happen this comes off as british prime minister to raise them a unveiled legislation about when britain will leave the european union which will be on march twenty ninth twenty nineteen at eight pm eleven pm brother local time here's what britain's david davis had to say after the talks there's no doubt that we have made and continue to make including this round significant progress across a whole range of issues across the board that may prove progress towards resolving some really difficult questions and that of course will continue to place between now and december. well first economic data did manage to shine a bit of light on the rather grim overall outlook for the u.k. should it come to a harbor exit british industry had the sharpest rise in production this year producing zero point seven percent more good sense of temper and it did in august according to government statistics

e.u.'s. leaders to intervene in their standoff with madrid which fled catalonia from brussels when the spanish government filed sedition charges against him for declaring independence from spain. ok we're going to go now to downtown brussels where this unexpected appearance by catalonia has ousted leader took place our correspondent georg motus is there for us georg i know it's loud there were you are i hope you can hear us tell us what was mr porridge dumond's message tonight he had a simple message for the e.u. member states and that was to recognize our independence referendum and do help us in our cause to seek independence from spain and he said he was only doing his job which was the democratically elected the syrian this referendum and the referendum which it was illegal of by spanish law but he still says his point was in the speech is that there is no legitimacy there will never be because spain will not accept an independence referendum at all and that is why he was calling for international help on the issue of a clearly an effort to internationalize the affair yet to internationali

e.u. counterpart michel barnier on friday in which the border with ireland was a key issue and he meanwhile effectively set a two week deadline for britain to agree to pay its exit bill before further talks can happen this comes after british prime minister terrorism am veiled legislation about when britain will leave the e.u. it will be on march twenty ninth two thousand and nineteen at eleven pm local time and here's what britain's david davis had to say after the talks there's no doubt we have made and continue to make including this round significant progress across a whole range of issues across the board that may prove progress towards resolving some really difficult questions and that course will continue. between now and. well it all sounds very jolly but things are heating up around bragg's it let's check in with barber of islam brussels who's been following the talks which has led all that diplo speak into plain english barbara it seems like barney is really tightening the screws is this an ultimatum. oh very clearly because in brussels it had been known for a while that this woul

eleven proposals directives among them six have been adopted which is not that easy if you consider what is the rule of unanimity inside the e.u. we have the best treating ever for a commission chose to commissioners my colleague not going to myself who are really i think a team which is didn't get into it take to of massive tax avoidance you know you can all say that in two thousand and three he encouraged the amazon to put its tax base in luxembourg i'm talking about the president of the committee. and dr you are president of the commission and this commission we are i can say that quietly but very confident keep the champions of fighting tax fraud and tax evasion we talked about this is a commission proposal i will mention two other proposals the one is the first one is that i think that the activity of those intermediaries legal advisers. fiscal advisors or banks it must be made transparent to the next administration and the third one is that we have already established a country by country reporting this is one of the six directives i mentioned but between tax administrations i would like it to become public i think there

e.u. in the future which is why we want the tariff free trade access. mark: that is the u.k.eader of the opposition speaking to us earlier. let's bring in the u.k. government reporter. it was said prime minister may was slow to respond to the sexual allegations story. as she got ahead of it yet or not? >> it depends on who you talk to. to be fair to her, it is not something that simply affects her party. there are other officials and lawmakers also implicated. it is the government which is going to come under the most scrutiny in these situations. she needs to be ahead of the game. she is trying hard to make that a reality. mark: can she change the narrative? their leader was talking about the soap opera at the top of the u.k. government. can she shifted back to brexit -- can she shift things back to brexit? >> i am sure that will be partly what she is trying to do. we have another round of negotiations later this week. they will be important in terms of trying to establish a path through to discussing a trade deal which is the big prize the u.k. needs to win by the end of th

e.u. members like ireland luxembourg and the netherlands also use low corporate tax rates which track firms defining why. makes a tax haven could be a sensitive issue for those countries that means finding consensus in the current talks could remain difficult despite the pressure of new leaks. and to take just one companies an example outside of the e.u. the massive mining firm glencore is mentioned thirty four thousand times in the paradise papers from the swiss n.-g. o. public eye and rasmus back joins us now believe me andreas glen cole has been singled out for criticism in the financial press what has the company done wrong in your opinion why the county the company has a lot of things from accounting mining licenses at the very low prices to aggressive tax avoidance in countries such as colombia are book enough though until running it goes feet ships that was never disclosed. so your investigations into glen cause part of the paradise papers focuses on the company's operations in the democratic republic of congo why this country in particular. well first of all the democratic republic

e.u. observers can call up a precise map of the line of demarcation on their g.p.s. devices which they also need for their own safety. officially the conflict over south a said is considered frozen. the farmers here in the disputed region think that's a strange term they're suffering under the country's ongoing divisions. they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder over many in photographer has made it her mission to prove that saying with her own as she calls it atlas of beauty after giving up her job at a television station she traveled around the world to photograph women like her to show that every woman is beautiful the way she is. has been in georgia china and india she's visited more than fifty countries in the last four years to capture images of female beauty. when i started this project that i didn't have this idea a project i was just aiming for something of a curiosity for myself. still doing it required a leap of faith. no real quit her job at a t.v. production company in bucharest at first she lived off her savings then she started financing her trips through crowd

e.u. so. only you a part of it this is based on which we indeed see in these kind of papers that in many cases the structures seem to be legal and making use of differences between texas terms as well as gaps between those stick systems ok if they're legal but nevertheless i mean trillions of year as a last in taxes every year what do you think finance minister today in brussels are going to do about it there's talk of a possible blacklist i think already for some time to have indeed some measures there have been some proposals for instance of addressing the issues with intermediaries phasing this kind of structures and indeed also a blacklist is already a for some time jus really many national member states have discovered of blacklist and now it's their task to come up with you one but of course it's quite hard to find agreement on the composition of such a list why be on that list why is it that is the problem. everyone has his own ideas about what the tax haven is. as well as there are certain interests as well as some things are not known to to them ok so we need a common definition for a

e.u. and unlike the russian which was invited by the legal un the government of syria as with america. as of a no week legal point there let's look at to this already visit to russia and meeting with president bush at what actually was agreed there something very interesting syria must have been discussed sure the mutual interest of the two the more destructive rule was more qatar who would actually punching above their weight rather than saudi arabia and israel yes i agree i remember once and israeli of so thick in me to the border was level and i said this is our front line with iran so they have always had this insecurity they always has in the back of their mind rightly or wrongly that hezbollah wants their total destruction so their interest is largely different from syria from saudi arabia home have seen or any an intervention because let's not forget the islamic revolution was for exports the three circles that khomeini want that so the second circle is exporting it to the arab countries where there's shia minority give this year to our prize we have the during the program is a

e.u. un mandates in new york which would involve don't laugh british warships patrolling the coast and firing randomly the shells anybody they thought we were traffickers to didn't manage to do that because there was no legal basis for it and i think it's going to run into the similar problems what is the legal basis to just go ahead and be very french i mean seem to have this incredibly anachronistic colonial almost nineteenth century joseph conrad view of africa you know ease not all up to speed on the modern world he believes that france could just brush aside the international protocols and send its officers there to point guns at problem people now of course the problem with pointing guns at people is sooner or later you have to shoot them if they're doing not what you want and then what happens after that you start to incur don't i think what we need to do is we need we need much more honesty from france and from the european union they need to look at the aid flowing into those countries in keeping those spots in power we need to have a sort of new system whereby human rights accountab

e.u. is considering a new plan to bridge the divisions among member states about how to deal with migration ben exactly this is an idea or a compromise rather put forward by a stone which holds the e.u. rotating presidency at the moment the idea is to determine a country's fair share of asylum seekers based on population and wealth some nations could be asked to offer assistance if the situation becomes critical by offering aid as opposed to taking on more arrivals but once migrants arrive in a nation like germany what are their chances of settling in we met an energetic young man from guinea who's trying his luck here as an entrepreneur a language barrier is the least of his problems. a mommy suma from guinea is struggling with german tax law he's taking a special course for refugees because he wants to start his own company he arrived in germany four years ago with nothing. when the economic situation is no good and there's no democracy in the country then you have to go where there's humanity and justice. and vets what i've done. guinea is one of africa's poorest countries in recent years it seemed continual political unrest in state run organizations like the post

to increase its offer an exit bill which some e.u. officials say could be as much as seventy billion dollars we are sharp reports from london time does appear to be running out for the british brecht negotiators as the representative field in this question at the end of the second day of talks in brussels. to confirm for me that you will need clarifications or concessions whichever you prefer from the u.k. within two weeks in order to move on to the second phase in december. my response says michel barnier is yes in december either leaders in brussels will decide whether sufficient progress has been made to the two sides or to move on to discuss important future trade deals we remain ready and willing to engage as often and as quickly as needed to secure this outcome over the weeks remaining ahead of the december european council. the united kingdom will continue to engage and negotiate constructive as we have done since the start but to the prime minister's exasperate the former british ambassador to the e.u. left open the possibilit

e.u.'s entire refugee policy disease before a recent immigration decision in the european parliament shuras was meeting with a rep which on the subject as well as five different e.u. commission is i'm not a conspiracy theorist but this hold some clues now soros denies the allegation calling it a deliberate lie and the third reason soros has been very outspoken in his criticism of the hungry and government. no it. was a courageous thing john kerry and people have resisted. and corruption of the mafia state that all but as much because of all that orbit has a personal battle against soros launching a nationwide television and billboard campaign against him back in july and his opponent was quick to respond accusing the hungry and prime minister of anti-semitism. the campaign is rym in this interview ups darkest hours the n.g.o.s there are some good ones but there are very many of them that act as a fifth column to undermine the stability and integrity of the countries they act as sort of. an internal intelligence agency. that is always there when the time comes to overthrow a government you can count on i think there wil

e.u. asia-pacific dialogue, which is about to start, to discuss how we can further our corporation and ensurehe markets. opense we are very [indiscernible] on equivalencies. the e.u. has been open in recognizing their country rules as yielding the same results. we hope this will continue. betty: i want to switchgear's and talk about a topic that is of the moment in the financial markets. that is bitcoin. i want to get your view, from a regulatory point of view, on bitcoin. valdis: from a regulatory point of view, as you know, we do not treat bitcoin as a currency. there is only one currency in the eurozone and that is the euro. it is rather to be treated as a commodity, where the price is determined by demand and supply. we are not commenting on the price at the moment here. betty: i understand that. but my question is more, are you looking at this, do you believe it is something you may eventually have to regulate? we are looking at bitcoin and other currencies from another angle, from that angle of anti-money laundering. we have already put the virtual currency holders, the virtual currency

eleven proposals directives among them six have been adopted which is not that easy if you consider what is the rule of unanimity inside the e.u. we have the best three thing ever for a commission chose to commissioners my colleague not going to myself who are really i think a team which is dedicated to fighting the text of massive tax avoidance if not you can see that in two thousand and three he encouraged the amazon to put its tax base in not. i'm talking about the president of the commission and jocko you are president of the commission and this commission we are i can say that quietly but very confident keep the champions of fighting tax fraud and tax evasion we talked about this is a commission proposal i will mention two other proposals the one is the first one is that i think that the activity of those intermediaries legal advisers. fiscal advisors banks it must be made transparent to the next administration and the third one is that we have already established a country by country reporting this is one of the six directives i mentioned but between tax administrations i would like it to become public i think there is n

e.u. rules and regulations into domestic law a process which is expected to cater to and these are put down almost five hundred amendments to the proposed text of the bill environmental pressure group greenpeace is launching an ambitious legal challenge to norway's oil industry have gone to court in the capital oslo aiming to prove in court the granting of government licenses to drill for oil in the arctic is unconstitutional they're arguing it violates the norwegian constitution because the government signed up to the paris accords which aims to stop the use of fossil fuels before the end of the century. is to get the court to invalidate. the government just how long. it's very important for. a moment to damage a government is allowed to do. this. now u.s. regulators approved the first digital pill which will allow doctors to track if patients are taking their medication properly medicine is a version of the established drug abilify used to treat schizophrenia bipolar disorder and depression it will have an ingestible sensor embedded in the tablet which will cause it the medication has bee

e.u. doesn't establish a trade deal with the u.k. when they leave which we can at this point assume it's not going to happen there are some leaders in europe that are open to china's project you know they're not against having an increased presence there however there are other leaders that are very cautious about working with china because a leader is one to establish that they will everything. happen within their rules and regulations and right now course there is no guarantee that that would happen especially china is at the helm so so a lot to be determined i don't think there was ever any question for us in joining here and this obviously the bilateral agreements are taking over everything we talk about trade now right i mean as far as we know the u.s. is not considering at all joining on but they still have to take into consideration when we negotiate our own trade deals right of course if this ever happens but what its stance would have to be thank you so much for information on this boom bust. let's take a look at the worldwide impact of china's g

e.u. rules and regulations into domestic law a process which is expected to be extremely complicated and raise a parliament have already put down nearly five hundred amendments to the proposed the text of the bill. u.s. regulators have approved the first digital pill of which will be able to track if patients are taking their medication properly the medicine is a version of the established a drug abilify used to treat schizophrenia bipolar disorder and depression it will have an injust of all sensor embedded inside the tablet that records that the medication has actually been taken a patch run by the patient transmits this information to their smartphone pretty amazing that's it for me for now i'm going to have more of the day's news from london from sixteen g.m.t. now though let's go back to come out and go looking forward to that thank you bob let's get to some of your comments just before we hit the brake quite a few of you messaging in to us on yemen in particular. on facebook what kind of monsters put landmines next to a school they question as well and then interesting comment here yemen

e.u. observers can call up a precise map of the line of demarcation on their g.p.s. devices which they also need for their own safety. officially the conflict over south a said is considered frozen. the farmers here in the disputed region think that's a strange term they're suffering under the country's ongoing divisions. they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder over many and photographer has made it her mission to prove that same thing with her own as she calls it atlas of beauty after giving up her job at a television station she traveled around the world to photograph women like her to show that every woman is beautiful the way she is. has been in georgia china and india she's visited more than fifty countries in the last four years to capture images of female beauty. when i started this project and i didn't have this idea about a project i was just aiming for something of a curiosity for myself. still doing it required a leap of faith. no real quit her job at a t.v. production company in bucharest at first she lived off her savings then she started financing her trips thr