with italy now threatening to hold to its payments to the bloc rome is demanding that the e.u. share more of the migrant burden because the e.u. does not respect agreements and does not meet its commitments we as a political force are no longer ready to give them twenty billion a year. let's not engage in finger pointing we also believe in constructive comments leasure long threads are not helpful and will not get us any closer to a solution that bow to the center of the round had been stuck in the port unable to dock since monday night with one hundred seventy seven migrants on board some of those on board went on hunger strike on shore thousands of protesters also demanded the release of those trapped on the boat and with tensions growing even the united nations has tried to wait in its latest reports the organization urges all states to take part in the relocation process meanwhile earlier this week italy allowed sixteen migrants off the boat for medical treatment as well as twenty seven youngsters. the you need to step up in the meantime we are about maintaining health and

their fate has earned it lee a strong rebuke from the european union after rome threatened to withhold its funding from the bloc unless other member states took in some of the migrants well chris says talks held in brussels have ended without a resolution. and to talk about the standoff brussels correspondent richard riegert joins me now from brussels a parent of this faceoff between rome and brussels has ended in a no deal what does that mean. that means there was no appetite to give in to italian demands neither by the commission nor by the eleven other member states who were in brussels to talk about migration because this is very unusual italian approach to say the least the voice is perceived as blackmail or populist brinkmanship and therefore rejected but that doesn't mean that there is no solution for the migrants inside we heard the us to negotiations going on between the capitals and maybe that in the next hours or days a solution can be found but this is not sure not just for the purposes of this is question if the italian government were to carry out its threat what kind of impact with that have on t

at the center of a fresh dispute over migration within the european union rome has threatened to withhold its funding for the bloc unless other member states take in some of the refugees. the united states says it's slashing more than two hundred million dollars in aid pledged to the palestinian territories the money was meant to fund health and education projects washington says the reason for the funding cut is hamas has control of the gaza strip washington considers hamas to be a terrorist group. russian opposition leader alexina vall name has been arrested outside his home in moscow the bombing has been jailed several times for organizing anti kremlin protests was barred from running in russia's presidential election earlier this year the reason for his detention today is unclear. all right some sports news now and germany's bundesliga is off and running again kicking off last night with the reigning champions byron munich facing another top team hoffenheim the variants are gunning for their seven title in a row and were keen to start their campaign with a good result well as for hoffenheim they finished thir

refuses to allow them to enter them a strong rebuke from the european union rome has threatened to withhold its funding from the bloc unless other member states accept some of the refugees crisis talks in brussels have ended without a resolution let's get more from brussels correspondent to bend because welcome back so no agreement from a you countries who met today and these people are on board apparently starving themselves to death so where does this leave the situation between russia and brussels. there was no appetite here in brussels to give in to any italian demands today because the rather unconventional very hawkish approach of italy to this problem was perceived as a kind of blackmail of populist brinkmanship so it was rejected and the migrants have to be more patient on this coast guard vessel and the whole situation is a kind of awkward because italy is holding its own italian military vessel in an italian port hostage and nevertheless the tahlia prime minister drew the pecan to accuse the e.u. of hypocrisy. let's listen to italy's prime minister luigi de mayo ahead of today's meeting. just your opinion

bloc operates on the basis of rules and not trends. justice correspondent bendigo joins me now and it sounds like there's a standoff going on between rome and brussels who do you think is going to blink first. but there certainly no appetite to blink here in brussels because this threat from italy is seen as a kind of a political blackmail a kind of populist brinkmanship to reach these goals which cannot be reached in particularly goshi asians and not the note that you commission is responsible for taking in margins but the member states and the twelve member states in brussels you deliberating who can take some of these people from the the but it's not clear who will do that and by the way we g my is always open reading was false numbers it's not twenty billion euros the italy's paying to the us only twelve and if you take off the contributions he gets from brussels it's only three and a half billion net payments for italy so if the italian government was to carry out its threat the impact on the european union financially would be negligible. but politically it would be a disaster because legally italy's obliged to pay it's like in yo