for the energy expert at the german institute for economic research thank you so much for your time thank you it is the 1st european central bank meeting under its new head to christine lagarde the former international monetary fund chief took over europe's most powerful financial body in november and she promised a rigorous assessment of how the e.c.b. does business from handling inflation targets to fighting climate change. the new president of the european central bank wants europe's monetary policy to do more for climate protection climate change has finally reached the main stream debate and is hitting the screen on of everyone who is interested in the future and house policy responsibilities so this really calls on us to review our strategy and to consider how our monetary policy can best deliver on its mandate but many analysts expect legard to continue her predecessors loose monetary policy with low interest rates and the massive purchase of government bonds mario draghi ensured that the weaker economies of southern europe could expand his efforts allow the euro to remain stable t

the german institute for economic research is calling for the berlin government to respond to new u.s. sanctions on the nord stream to pipeline with so-called climate tariffs against washington u.s. president donald trump signed the bipartisan sanctions bill on friday the u.s. wants to block completion of the pipeline which will allow russia to deliver gas to germany directly via the baltic sea washington says ukraine will lose billions in transit fees if nord stream to which bypasses the country is built. a saying in germany buyer shares climbed to a 14 month high today rally comes after the us government filed court papers backing the company in its appeal against the us court judgement that linked the firm's weed killer round up to cancer the environmental protection agency says the product which contains life is safe doesn't cause cancer as has been alleged that supports buyers argument that only regulators have the authority to print cancer warning labels some experts see the reversal of the decision as a signal that other claims against fire may also now face legal hurdles. and

the german institute for economic research is calling for the berlin government to respond with counter sanctions against the u.s. for its sanctions on europe's nord stream 2 gas pipeline president donald trump has imposed the sanctions against north stream to last friday in a bill signed friday by the white house wants to block the completion of the pipeline which will allow russia to deliver gas to germany directly via the baltic sea washington says ukraine will lose billions in transit fees if nord stream too is built a buyer shares climbed to a 14 month high today rally comes after the us government filed court papers backing the company in its appeal against a us court judgement that link the firm's we kill or round up to cancer the environmental protection agency says the product which contains glyphosate doesn't cause cancer as has been alleged that supports buyers argument that only regulators have the authority to print cancer warning labels some experts see the reversal of the decision as a signal that other similar claims may also face legal hurdles and for more on this let's

house of representatives where we spoke to energy expert to claudia ken food from the german institute for economic research and she told us that washington is not just acting on political issues he wants to sell his so fracking gas so to europe and to germany is so simply like that it's a false if you war where we are in between right now and we show that the president of the united states shows that the world on different kind of angles in arabia but now also in europe and germany and i mean the pipeline has some criticism because it's very expensive we don't need it because the guested moment will decline but nevertheless the u.s. sanctions are simply because they want to sell their african gas to germany i was claudia came 1st on the u.s. sanctions speaking to us last week for the 2nd time this month the eiffel tower in paris has been forced to close because the staff were operated of on strike the closure is part of a long running national dispute over pension benefits president in money where mccrone wants to overhaul a pension system that allows train drivers and other people under special pension re