wing populist parties are making their strongest showing ever in a european parliamentary election and they're trying to become a united front here's a closer look at a growing force in european politics. the cd come not to break europe but to remake it divided by language. united by populism abusive parents with their proximity did it starts it can be frightening and a common enemy is an example of. they are europe's far right leaders and together they are appending decades of e.u. rules and norms laying siege from within. the man hoping to lead best pots work a populist it's a he's deputy prime minister macho salvini his hardline italy 1st man a face to help transform his friend's party and to government material i know he wants to do the same across the continent by ending together ideological bedfellows promising to tear up the rules. our objective is to finally be a force for government and change your book to bring your blood new hope a dream. his closest ally is marine le pen. the head of france's far right political dynasty she learned to campaign with her firebrand father nationalism runs and hard blood but no

the populous though that's another question is how united are these populist groups because if they are able to work together in a bloc in the european parliament they can wield significant power can stay fit not that terribly united. i say yet because i think there might be a phase of recognizing that they have a lot more to gain if they kind of stick together but i mean just as. having an international meeting of nationalists seems like a brother or thing that. in europe. right parties i think they are very strategic i think they've been they've seen that this success isn't being strategic about where you say interests i think. in hungary is saying that he's been very successful sitting on the fence that between the european people's party bloc the conservative traditional conservative bloc now he suspended from that you already said that he would support salvini so you know we see a lot of a lot of dancing both sides of the fence there and the big challenge now for those remaining big blocks is not to let this divide them or to find a common denominator kind of an alliance of what they claim to be the pro europeans against those w

figures for how many seats each party group would have in the next european parliament the leftist european united left and nordic green bloc take $45.00 seats so far the center left social democrats get 146 seats 70 seats go to the greens while the liberal a l d e group would receive 97 seats the center right european people's party the biggest group takes 163 seats followed by the conservatives the . 57 seats then we come to the populist groups t e d d at 45 seats and the new proposed far right european alliance of peoples and nations at 72 seats. in those e.u. poland entry elections traditional centers parties in germany france and elsewhere have seen their support erode while the environmentalist greens have been take surging taking 2nd place in germany meanwhile right wing populist parties are projected to have won their nationalist contest in france italy poland and hungary . these boxes hold the voice of europe. the future of more than 500000000 people marked on pieces of paper. once counting had begun it soon became clear the voters had spoken out against the solid center of european polit

have in the next european parliament let's take a look at some of those figures now the leftist european united left and nordica green bloc would take 44 seats so far the center left the social democrats get 149 seats the green to see their at around 6067 seats the liberal a l d e group would receive $94.00 seats the center right the european peoples party this is the biggest block of the parliament takes $163.00 seats then we have the euro skeptic conservatives the e.c. are taking 59 seats and then we come to the populist group so we have the s.d.d. at $46.00 seats and the new proposed far right european alliance of peoples and nations the purple you see there at $73.00 seats the remaining 5056 seats going to other smaller parties let's go right to brussels our bureau chief mike hoffman has been a roping in some of the key players there in brussels for us tonight max take it away. boy talk about key players sumi good to vist a are with me she's not only the commissioner for competition but she's also maybe the next president of the e.u. commission here is a prediction she will deny it but let

right to group in the world is a strange and complicated place so let's take a look at the left european united left of the nordic green block look like taking 47 seats serve. the s. and diesel democrats like getting 147 seats in the greens 66 the liberal. group would get 79 seats on these projections in the center right european peoples party the biggest group like taking 174 seats and we have the euro skeptic conservatives there with 62 seats and then we have the populists the e.f.t. they get 56 and the and if 59 seats the remaining 61 seats award on these projections go to smaller parties. let's go through those figures with our brussels our bureau chief maxell hoffman whelk a match those these are the 1st figures.

united states. >> yes, it's very difficult. in my view the europeanstaken a sufficiently strong line with the united states. united states is a threat to europe's security in this respect because it is reneging on a u.n. security council endorsed international agreement. that contributes directly to european securities, but i don't find that european has done that in response to the united states we should have a united nations security council debate of threats to regional peace followed by the possible end of this nuclear agreement we see the united nations security council able to discuss other conflict areas but not this one >>> sikdly, it's not too bad for them to voem a suite of mish urs which can have the financial mechanism of your trade which europe has put in place and a suite of measures which would persuade european banks to assist and to do so in a way which does not bring about u.s. sanctions on those banks and finally there needs to be work with russia and china it's not just up to the europeans. >> i want to come back to that question,

from russia to the european union and they have said that they are the spite the united states busy threatening european companies russian companies with sanctions because of those gas pipelines and glad we have putin said he believes that that is all just unfair competition it isn't about politics it isn't about geopolitical reasons it's all about the united states trying to sell its own gas liquefied natural gas which is much more expensive to europeans and since it can compete business wise it's trying to force the russians out of the market under the pretext of political reasons and the austrian president said that there's no impetus for europeans to buy american gas it's more expensive more cumbersome and that they're going to stick to the russian gas for now that is a very big question it is it is both the politicians and business leaders around the world for a while now and now we have some clarity the other big thing that they talked about is iran obviously it is a huge crisis ongoing crisis with. real potential for escalation escalation that would prove destructive worldwide now that w

there will be a time slot of five years to really change this nature, character of european units ando make it a real one. >> let's keep monitoring the debate in europe in the coming weeks. it's important to remain aware that the big vote is happening in three weeks time. >> absolutely. an exciting couple of weeks coming up. yeah keeping an eye on that one >> also coming up on the show, more imminently, amazon receives a boost after one of the world's richest men have have a stake in the terk firm. find out who any guesses? after the break. you need to buy a car and you want to get an excellent price you'd think with all these options it would be easy. but with terms like msrp, invoice, list price, things get confusing pretty fast. you just want to get a real price and that's where true car comes in. only with true car can you see what other people paid for the car you want and you can connect with certified dealers who offer prices based on this same information. none of those other sites do that. from end to end, true car is your only one stop solution. >> we continue to expect stro

this is one of the big items on the table when it comes to the trade talks between the united nations and the european union and sold that europe is buying more gas from the united states actually could help and smooth those negotiations a bit and then on the other side it also could be to the benefit of europe it can't really hurt if you have more suppliers and you do not actually depend so much on the gas imports from russia and then for the united states was the fracking boom here we see record production amounts of gas and of oil and sold the united states is clearly looking for more markets to sell oil and also guess and speaking of selling we have corporate news we're hearing that meat alternatives company beyond meat really gave investors something to chew on in its first trading day how did it go. you know it's supposed to taste like meat looks like meat but it is not mead one of the main bases of the product from beyond meat this actually yellow piece and the i.p.o. here on wall street was quite a success at the first trading day the stock of the surge by more than one hundred sixty percent e

parties that have been expected to make a strong showing in these european parliamentary elections and they're trying to become a unitedfront here's a closer look at a growing force and european politics. and they see the come not to break europe but to remake it divided by language. united by populism should books with their brains let me be good at statistical reasoning and a common enemy. they are europe's far right leaders and together they are appending decades of e.u. rules and norms laying siege from within. the man hoping to lead best parts work of secularists it's of these deputy prime minister macho salvini his hardline actually forced to mount a face to help transform his friend's party and to government material and now he wants to do the same across the continent by ending together ideological bedfellows promising to tear up the rules. of our objective is to finally be a force for government and change your will to bring your blood. new hope a dream. for. his closest ally is marine le pen. the head of france's far right political dynasty she led him to campaign with her firebrand father nationalism runs an

agreements of this deal and it puts pressure on the europeans to deliver what the united states is. has rejected since one year given the recent tensions between the europeans and the united states but forgot that the nuclear deal i'm quite skeptical a of the europeans are able to deliver so what are the wind implications of this move lots of into international reaction coming in even if you how israel has spoken china has spoken russia has spoken with this saber rattling really enhanced tensions in the region think it might have made them but isn't for the middle east and for the nonproliferation regime and for the middle east we're back to the bush you know as to the exocet of evil yes and what have been left of the recent small between the united states and iran is in and has been destroyed and what the lesson for the north koreans for example they have to accept all the way will drop a conclusion that any agreement with the united states will not sustain and therefore a serious blow for any kind of number of proliferation efforts marcus' come from the german institute for interna

because who will go out and broker this deal does the united states need to get on the united nations and the european union and the russians and the chinese they all said that the islamic republic of iran. they did their side of the deal they did not a big their side of the so the only side in this world who has good relationship was there but on washington is the european union and they're going to do their best because the end canonical interests for european union to do business deals with iranians it's a huge numbers we're talking about billions of dollars between the two sides and european union does not want to do that chance just because they're united states they want to pull out just to please the. israeli prime minister. well let's move to another headline stories today and it is a big story in the wake of sri lanka's devastating easter sunday bombings the government has expelled around six hundred foreign nationals including two hundred muslim clerics found to have overstayed their visas the country's home affairs minister say it's part of a broader push to tighten immigration controls. co

because there is no way that the united states can actually absolute direct a direct role of european companies in direct trade with iran so i think it is absolutely worth 8 pursuing this route now of course one thing you can do is point the guns at the heads of european and other companies basically saying saying you have to invest in iraq now that we cannot do what we can't do that is actually signal and act upon us signaling that we are serious about this and i think that we do have and the iranians if you like 60 ultimately 60 days actually do suggest that there is still a window of opportunity to actually get this up and running do you think the europeans not only taught she are being robust enough in tackling this because they have been accused by the iranians of a timid response to the u.s. his decision to withdraw from the j.c. . i think you know let's be very clear about it i think yes indeed so far rather than timid i do think this is a gradual approach and i think it's a gradual approach because it's really something that goes well beyond around the j.c.t. away i mean this

but a very european union is the only side has good relations with the united states and with the public of iran and they are the only thing who can really do this negotiation and redo this deal and get america back into this deal because who pulled out and who broke this deal with the united states not yet on the united nations and the european union and the russians and the chinese they all said that the islamic republic of iran did their side of the deal did not a big their side of the so the only side interests world who has a good relationship is there but on washington is the european union and they're going to do their best because the end canonical interests for european union to do business deals with your opinions it's a huge numbers we're talking about billions of dollars between the two sides and european union does not want to lose that chance just because the united states they want to pull out just to please the. israeli prime minister. ok in another big story of the week in the wake of shoreline devastating easter sunday bombings the government has expelled around six hun

to seek as much european support as he can get and to seek a united europopean positin on the ongoingrisis around tripoli. this might be the reason why emmanuel macron won't make any public statement after this meeting, probably because he wants to talk to european counterparts and try to find this united position. one crucial question remains. strongmanibya's react to this potential european support? will he e be ready to make concessions? or retreat from his positions around tripoli? from the time being, it is the opposite we have been hearing and seeing on the ground in libya. just before the trip to europe, halifa called his troops to wipe out the enemies in tripoli. he has support from countries like the united arab emirates and egypt. again, for the moment, we have no idea whether european support him tohim -- could force change his position. >> thank you indeed. turning to other news. win againstic barcelona, liverpool are through to the champions league finals. they turned things around dramatically having lost 0-3 in the first leg. we have the report. >> never give up. that w

i think they believe the european to the united states is divided about whether or not we should be colo but the european sees the threat very real. the behavior of iran and iraq is being bad and the bottom line is, the nuclear agreement did not stop the iranians from dismembering the middle east, the money they got separated and the maximum pressure campaign is beginning to work they have less money and that's a good thing. [inaudible question] >> i think there's a well-thought-out plan. it is the pushback the iranian behavior that syria tries to destabilize iraq spending to the story of israel that they will pay a price as long as the expeditionary ideological regime that they will not get away without a consequence any longer and the way to do that is not by invading iran for putting sanctions until they change their behavior up to this moment in time i hope democrats will routagree with republicans thate owe it to those in theater for doing our bidding of the nation to make sure nobody can attack them without thinking twice about it and deterrence is best had by moving military asset

european concern remains the risk of a world trade conflict. and war driven by trade tensisis between china andnd the united states. with a sheen it is it does. the european commission has once again scaled back its forecast for economic growth. single currency bloc is expected to grow just one point 2% in. twenty nineteen france is projected to grow just a bit faster but the biggest surprise it came from the euro zone's biggest economy. germany's growth forecast was cut to just half a percentage point second week is pace in the block. germany'ss economy is driven by manufacturing and exports and it's been deeply impacted by the global trade tensions you see italy at the bottom there this is the commission forecast just point 1% gdp growth. after it slipped into recession at the end of last year. european officials issued an even more dire warning about room spending plans setting the stage for a renewed clash. european commission says the budget deficit is due to hit two and a half percent of gdp this year and three and a half percent next. that would breach the rules which mandate member states to keep their deficits within 3% of gdp. room c

today the european union is the only side has good relations with the two with the united states and the. republic of iran and they are the only side who can redo this negotiation and redo this deal and get america back into this deal because who pulled out and who broke this deal is the united states not yet on the united nations and the european union and the russians and the chinese they all said that the islamic republic of iran did their side of the deal did not a big their side of the who's doing detention and decision and who's breaking who broke this deal. number one is the united states but they're doing it also under the pressure of the israeli occupation under the orders of prime minister binyamin netanyahu so the only side interests world who has a good relationship with iran and washington is the european union and they're going to do their best because the canonical interests for european union to do a deal to do business deals with your opinions it's big it's a huge numbers we're talking about billions of dollars between the two sides and european union does not want t

to be said the most important market for europe is europe itself even after bracks it the european union will unite four hundred fifty million consumers and it also has to be said that markets like china have become more and more important in recent decades not only because of car sales but also because of the enormous influence of china electronics and try to parts made in china used in virtually everything produced in terms of consumer computers etc you simply cannot avoid china and that also means that you have to include china in negotiations about you know how to govern and make trade. cliff talk about china no matter what's going on in these trade talks that have been dragging on for months. it looks like china is winning i think it's possible you know we can actually say that they've really played a blinder in many ways there's been a lot of areas where they've annoyed their neighbors in particular say in the south china sea we've heard nothing about that for months we've had the belgian road initiative we have the huge forum in beijing in recent days and that seems have gone down very well

to basically stop iran from actually pursuing an atomic bomb that is something where the europeans are very united and surprisingly so for the u.s. president so a lot of contentious issues we have mike pompei who the u.s. secretary of state arriving here tomorrow and those students there will of course be hoping that i'm going to makkah will give them a highly political speech and i totally agree with alexander that i mean this is simply not going to happen this is not going to be the forum where she comes up with comes out with something very contentious it's a it's a democrat stronghold where she's speaking and i think it's also an interesting factoid that the couple of minutes before she's due to speak here u.s. president donald trump actually held a commencement speech but the u.s. air force academy in colorado and i think that's pretty much set the scene of the 2 different very different approaches in 2 different outlooks the 2 have on the wall but what i would expect though is hard to stress once again as she has over the past couple of months wherever she spoke how important a rules based i

rand is not a threat to them it's certainly not an accidental threat to the united states in any way at all but the europeans tend to just fall in line and i think i find that really disappointing go ahead in rumania. i think part of the challenge that we face in europe is that europe itself is not united if the european union you can see recently with bonds is it in trouble and you have the regime in washington actively cultivating the right wing in the surgery regimes across much of europe so any attempt to bring about a consensus amongst european nations as to their approaches on iran are many other foreign policy issues is increasingly difficult and challenge i think in comparison to the antiwar movement that we saw the for the asian of iraq in 2003 conflicts was very different that was a campaign which had been built up over multiple years and also sanctions that had been imposed on iraq since the 1st gulf war and in that time. had the development of a substantial network of an antiwar movement all across the united states you had the build up of opposition to dissension on iraq across europe and intern

the hamas it's a terror organization it's defined as a terror organization by both the united by both the european union and united states and against a terror organization everything goes so they keep testing israel along the way how many rockets can they fire how many civilian israelis can be killed before israel does something but israel has fully clean hands in this endeavor and will continue to pummel gaza and to destroy any terrorist infrastructure hopefully no civilians will be killed in the process but israel is protecting its population this is something that is. intensely interested lee in the region of the time being and this could in large into a larger scale attack by the israelis and the intensity of will be seen between the two sides but you know is that israeli israeli air strikes and israeli attacks on the gaza strip have been used to be march more intense much more brutal a much more rust in this against the palestinians israel has the most sophisticated army and the world the more sophisticated weaponry pinpoint attacks being carried out by israel and for the time being and isra

it's committed to the 2015 agreements with world powers but iran says the europeans are submitting to pressure from the united states can a way forward be feigns this is insight story. hello and welcome to the program i'm hala marr here dean european leaders are scrambling to save the iran nuclear deal from collapse after years of on off to pull mysie the agreements known as the g.c. was finally signed with world powers 4 years ago but the united states with drew last year one year on and serene in leaders are threatening to produce more enrich uranium which could be used to make nuclear weapons unless other parties to the deal protects its economy from u.s. sanctions iran has given the european union china and russia 60 days to comply and ultimatum already rejects it spoil sport they say they remain committed to keeping the nuclear deal alive and they're urging iran not to abandon its. yes france has stayed in it and will stay in it and i deeply wish to iran will too it is up to us to work to convince everyone and iran to stay in it we remain fully committed to the full implementation of the disappear way of

the other 6 global powers but particularly the europeans and the united states have not and they do what they promised to do not after president trumped unit added we withdrew from 2 nuclear program the europeans tried to. try to somehow manage to convince iran not to get out of the nuclear deal and gainst them instead you refer to a sort of a compromise but unfortunately the europeans have not deliberate act all that mechanism has not worked because the europeans are really a place between a hard place on a hard rock they cannot abandon the u.s. because the u.s. is their strategic ally and at the same time did not want to see the end of the new creative deal they have to deliver more and the reason why eat on has the side that to take some measures against the nuclear deal is to put pressure on the europeans to deliver and it's now time for the europeans to either deliver or iran might take additional actions but deliver what exactly that is the question. deliver us to liberty a peace the transfer of medicine and argue culture a product to eat on at this time and then later on to allow

isn't look and despite all the discussions and temporary setbacks i firmly believe that we europeans have united for the basher. thank you of those photos which unfortunately i'm of a column typed feels creaks when the vote and the relationship between germans and americans to demonstrate our form a wartime anime's can become friends can't visit thanks to the isn't very thought out so would be a plum for george marshall by the talking in a. commencement speech fuck'n that it was george marshall who gave a crucial contribution to this so the plan he announced at the commencement ceremonies in 1947 in this very place. thank you tons of law and the supporters of madonna's one very open forum to makati on mention racial. side for you but. this reasons want to dance pre-shared on the isle of profiteers on the transatlantic partnership based on values such as democracy and human rights has given us an era of peace and prosperity of benefit to all sides which has lasted for more than 70 years and no. thanks one toy took and today it's nothing very long at all on the political unknown political might ar

but living in a globalized world economy how exposed the european companies that do business in the united states. well the european listed companies are expected to generate 1.2 trillion euros of revenue from the u.s. now you see what's at stake for the european companies i mean europe is going to really suffer if there is going to be a protracted trade war now donald trump has already warned of tirades against hundreds of european goods he said that the auto sector is already what it. is expected to take a decision on tariffs on car imports later this week and europe in europe economy does not make it so resilient as the chinese for a protracted trade war so but is president wrong. in the trade for what on another front is something only he knows as a transponder with the analysis for us from the french substate. would pick up on that point that ashutosh made their own cars because the trade war could actually benefit the european car industry as washington has its hands full european trade commission as the syria monster and expects the trump administration to delay a may 18th deadline

but living in a globalized world and economy how exposed to european companies that do business in the united states. well the european listed companies are expected to generate 1.2 trillion euros of revenue from the u.s. now you see what's at stake for the european companies i mean europe is going to really suffer if there is going to be a protracted trade war now donald trump has already warned of riders against hundreds of european goods he said that the auto sector is already what it. is expected to take a decision on tabs on car imports later this week and european economy does not make it so resilient as the chinese for a protracted trade war so what is president on willing to open the trade for what on another front is something only he knows as a transponder with the analysis for us from the french stock exchange. german cities have been trying out all sorts of things to clear the air following the diesel scandal vehicle restrictions strict speed limits and now a giant vacuum cleaner that's meant to eliminate all the nasties from the air we breath. a new filter for a new type of vacuu

is critical the increasing opposition to the war in yemen and the role that not only the united states but european countries are playing on it playing it and we've seen an alliance between many governments and citizens working to weapon sales to saudi arabia working to raise awareness about it so i think there is actually a peace movement that is by her that is present on your other point with regards to coverage of this is i wouldn't necessarily call m.s. and the left either their very central establishment but we've seen this in the 1st gulf war we've seen this in the 2nd gulf war you have an almost watching us approach across media in celebrating congratulating and cheerleading the military aggression wrought and that's not unique to the united states we see this across most countries and most media what is necessary in terms of campaigning in engaging as organizations and citizens is this constant effort to reach out to raise people's awareness and i think what's critical today to diena legitimize war as an approach to addressing conflicts internationally if you look at any of the major large

european union. and i repeat that had the first vote gone through we could have been out already. accept thei do not description you have given as the position that the united kingdom will be in following -- on the basis of the withdrawal agreement and the future, proposed future relationship we are negotiating, will also take place with the european union. and i could go through the specific issues, but it is not the case. it is very clear that is not the case that we will see the continued -- of the european court of justice here in the united kingdom. >> prime minister, when i called on you to resign the other day in the house, you said that the withdrawal agreement was a good deal for the united kingdom, but how can it be so when it deliberately undermines the -- of 1972 and i mentioned already there is no commencement. this shackles us to all eu treaties and laws. your 108 promises not to extend the time have been overridden by what many regard as an unlawful statute interest. and you gave instructions to conservative mps to defeat my amendment in the kuiper bill that would've stopped our taking part in european elections. so we passed the european uni

they believe that the pressure might be relieved if you start a conflict and divide the europeans from the united states. we are divided about whether or not we should be in the jcpoa. but the europeans see the threat stream very real. they see the behavior of iran, iraq and syria as being bad. so the bottom line is, the nuclear agreement did not stop the p iranians from dismembering the middle east, and the campaign is beginning to work. less money for hezbollah and hamas and that's a good thing. >> a well thoughtout plan or overarching-- . there's a well thoughtout plan, to push back against iranian that is dismembering, and paying a price as long as they're an expeditionary ideological regime that they're not going to get away with miss -- dismembering the middle east. and until they change their behavior, as to this moment in time i hope that the democrats agree with the republicans, we owe it to those in our nation, nobody can attack them without thinking twice about it and the deterrents is best had by moving military assets to make it toward a run. >> the u.s. embassy in baghdad was attack

unit. that was ultimately prevented by european antitrust regulators. very good thing for the gas and power unit. guy: with what has been going on with ge and the trouble it has been having with its power unit, this is a tough thing to do. we all know about the strength of the german workers in terms of their ability to guide the way that german companies develop. they have seats on the board. emma: you're right. they do have seats on the board. but it seems that this option of carving out the unit was the one that was more preferred by the unions in germany. they had been more concerned about other options which might have been a joint venture with another company. this keeps the business in germany, that we don't know where it will be headquartered yet. it does come with the news of some 10,000 job losses from the core unit at the aim of saving money, about 2.2 million euros. taylor: thank you. that was emma chandra from our markets team. that sounds a lot like ge. guy: it does sound an awfully lot like ge. i think they are trying to avoid some of the

well one of the real problems for the european union or the united nations is that eritrea really doesn't respond to any kind of shall we say carrots i mean the european union has for years been trying to give aid to eritrea eritrea just said we're not interested we really don't care whether you give aid or not in fact it's always the europeans that are trying to say to please please take our aid now in those circumstance you can then hardly say well if you don't take the aid we'll take it away you know we'll if you don't reform we'll take this away i mean the european union has rather been doing a different series of things they have been putting up buffers in the mediterranean to stop people crossing they've been making it much more difficult for fuel to get into libya and once they in libya the they are then imprisoned they are sent back to there's all sorts of restrictions are in place put in by the european union and then by other countries along the way who are encouraged to do this the whole cartoon process which is supposed to oversee this is actually not chaired by eritrea so you