correspondent barbara wesel on the story for us tonight in london.nk you very much >>> and here is some other stories making headlines around the world. angela merkel, angela merkel is making a drip to poland. meet the the prime minister and the president. america 'em's drip comes with relations between germany and poland at a low point amid disagreements on migration and polish judicial reforms >>> the substance used to poison russian ex-spy sergei skripal in the u.k. is due for testing. an international team of weapons experts arrived to test samples of the nerve agent used in the say tack. it is known as novichok. the u.k. alleges that russia is most likely behind that attack. >>> turkey is not letting up on its campaign against the kurds in northern syria. turkey's recep tayyip erdogan vowed to extend the offensive. 150,000 from afran has been displaced. turkey views kurdish militants along the border as terrorists. he wants the militia eliminated from the border. >> this is what victory looks like. turkish forces and turkish-backed fighters swar

brent: our correspondent barbara wesel on the story for us. thank you very much.s over to javier now and european efforts to avoid resh tariffs on exports to the u.s.. javier: that is another big conflict unfolding right now. the dispute over you did tariffs on steel and aluminum that downtrend plans to introduce is at the top of the agenda is this week. the eu is trying to change the mind of the trump administration. a look at the facts and figures chose the tariffs the eu imposes on u.s. products are on average higher than the other way around. let's take a look at that. the u.s. for example imposes levies of around 5.2% -- rather, the other way around. the u.s. imposes lower tariffs of 3.5% coming from the eu. the eu slaps particularly heavy tolls on beef coming to the u.s. the amount for that is around 68%. that's a lot. the other way around, the eu has to pay 49%, or 22 -- when it comes to products coming from the eu. experts say leveling the playing field by reducing to the same lower figure makes more sense than to begin a new upward protectionism spiral. r