thousands took part among them the swedish student created to invade mechelle admitted the movement has pushed the german government to act more quickly on climate change she conceded more needs to be done if germany is to meet its commitments under the paris climate accord who the advice you're getting a little bit concerning the 2030 goals we don't know the exact details yet the experts say and i agree with them that the most efficient path to achieving those goals is to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions but we must also take into account the social impact is a tell all of the. medical brushed off complaints from her party's coalition partners the social democrats over the election of a seller for the lion from eccles c.d.u. party. business we shouldn't be overly proud about it but we also don't need to be the only ones in europe who are grumpy about it it's all flaky. after 90 minutes the press conference came to an end with a strong signal that the chancellor hasn't given up her job just yet. joining me now in the studio is verizon is a long time washington correspondent for t

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thousands took part among them the swedish student created to invade mechelle admitted the movement has pushed the german government to act more quickly on climate change she conceded more needs to be done if germany is to meet its commitments under the paris climate accord. concerning the 2030 goals we don't know the exact details yet but the experts say and i agree with them that the most efficient path to achieving those goals is to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions but we must also take into account the social impact. of. mekele brushed off complaints from her party's coalition partners the social democrats over the election of a seller for the lion from the ackles c.d.u. party. business we shouldn't be overly proud about it but we also don't need to be the only ones in europe who are grumpy about it flaky. after 90 minutes the press conference came to an end with this strong signal that the chancellor hasn't given up her job just yet. our political correspondent simon young was watching that press conference now this was as you mentioned wide ranging i mean sheets of question

for future movement for spurring on environment policy at annual summer press conference on love mechelle face activists like swedish teenager. have driven her to act fast on climate change and she answers questions on a range of other issues including. pacifi little editor joins me in the studio also coming up. the u.s. claims one of its more ships has shot down an iranian drilled in the gulf us president donald trump says the unmanned aircraft posed a threat to be american naval vessel but iran's foreign minister zarif says he has no information about losing a drill. i knew was a miracle buoying is to spend nearly $5000000000.00 compensating and i'm affected by the grounding of the 737 max will be looking at what that means for the company with monica jones from the steps. we stop the show with some breaking news a strong earthquake has hit just north of the greek capital athens the full. just 5 point one magnitude tremor sent people scrambling out onto the streets of the city in fear phone and while its connections were also knocked on while witness called the quake strong but fortunat

but when it came to her own political party mechelle proved willing to turn her back on traditional positions. for some conservative stalwarts her decisions to phase out nuclear power and to military conscription and support a national minimum wage were hard to stomach. this instance was an entirely different era from that of helmut kohl or conrad i don't know. it's hard to believe it. the same party but you have to remember she didn't make those changes on a whim so she brought the c.d.u. in line with reality. by its hands and this was this her own accomplishment or just a reflection of the changing times by both sides and that side times had changed and i was setting a different agenda from that of what colin just predecessors. over the years until america's succeeded in keeping her private life out of the public gaze she never felt the urge to play to the cameras but her sober down to earth style contributed significantly to her popularity. for the folk when people see 3 things in her that they like things that don't involve her strategy or her goals. she has a modern unpretentious demeano

mechele, what is amazon's response to the criticisms of these striking workers?u, we provide great employment opportunities with excellent pay. they go on to say we encourage anyone to compare our pay, benefits and workplace to other retailers and employers in the shakopee community, where i spoke to that amazon worker, but also across the country. i think the point here is that amazon is famous for prising efficiency but for the people who work in those warehouses, that efficiency is putting them under a huge amount of strain and that is where you see both sides not necessarily seeing eye to eye. thank you for your help on both stories. one more business story. china is seeing very slow growth in its economy, the weakest growth enormous 30 years. gdp growth slowed to 6.2% in the last three months. president trump tweeted "us tariffs are having a major effect". that's not the only factor at play. here's one economist‘s analysis. at this stage, especially, you start to see some recovery. it has been contracting for the past 30 months and recently just started cont