turn and there were going to find the bracks it is junked and. we're staying in the european union the labor board. we've already had one big u. turn from the labor party i don't think there's any chance of that and i don't think we've had a u. turn at all on bracks as we've had a labor party in general mick or been arguing gotten down the length and breadth of the country that he wants to defend jobs people may have voted to be out of europe they didn't feel to be out of their jobs and so what is required now is a skillful way of trying to negotiate where jobs are protected whilst at the same time dealing with the real concerns about the free movement of labor which undoubtedly had a negative effect in the in the referendum campaign and labor is the only party i failed so far that put forward puts forward policies dealing with both of those issues you mentioned venezuela let's just take a look you've been a staunch supporter of both the late hugo chavez and the current leader nicolas maduro your website says venezuela has one of the most democra

they were only overcome with the creation of brack. enter a is establishment of criteria for possible closures. dod has a list of recommendations which are assessed by an independent nine person commission before going to the president and congress for approval. the first round took place in 1980 followed by three consecutive rounds and 91, 93, 95. the last round took place in 2005. twelve years later authorizing a new round is part of the political discussion. the need is based on estimates we currently have over 20% of the infrastructure. the resources dedicated would be better allocated somewhere else in the defense budget. to talk about why we need this now, the secretary is going to inform us on that. >> i appreciate that. i appreciate the opportunity to talk at heritage on this important topic. and one that is timely. for those who watch the on goings of congress from day-to-day we know the senate is about to consider the fy 19 defense authorization act on the senate floor. we do have an amendment pending for both the chairman an

parliament steve bracks a to go she tells me a good future relationship will require a settled bill. i have no experience in divorce but i know that in a divorce. you cannot walk out of the house and letting the other family members alone without taking your financial responsibility which takes us right back to the negotiating table. as the fight might be over who's going to pay for the last round. my colleague there working very hard in brussels for more on theresa may is a much anticipated speech he joins us now from brussels good morning they are a lot of suspense surrounding theresa may speech what are officials in brussels bracing for without a doubt you know officials will follow this speech very closely but the prospects that the reason may will called breck's it not point of departure or an end to something but the beginning of a great future relationship and that is at least how history she's expected to be to say and we'll remember this point of departure of this. that is nothing that gets anyone excited here in brussels the chief negotiator michel been able to very clear w

what does bracks it have in common with a night out at the pump when the funds over someone has to pick up the bill it's a comparison many brits will understand. and maybe that is exactly why do you commission chose this example to demonstrate why the u.k. by federal it's bunch of commitments in full. it is. like going to the pub with twenty seven friends your the round of beer but then you cannot leave well the party continues if you want to stay friends you pay your share of the final bill and for britain that's a hefty sixty billion euros. let's take a look at the biggest portion of the bill infrastructure signs and environmental projects such as this one in france all of these projects have been approved by e.u. member states but many still need to be paid for the u.k. share here amounts to thirty billion euros. another liability is pensions one option would be for the u.k. to only pay the costs of british e.u. officials but most experts agree london is liable for its share of all e.u. officials that's worth nine billion euros on the divorce bill the nationality doesn't matter or eu

parliament steve bracks of negotiating tells me a good future relationship will require a settled bill. i have no experience in divorcing but i know that in a divorce. you cannot walk out of your house and letting the other family members alone without taking your financial responsibility which takes us right back to the negotiating table. that's not over five my. story to pay for the last round. and for more interest amaze address on breakfast later today let me join our london correspondent big it must be good will money be top of the agenda and is the financial settlement key to breaking the deadlock between the two sides while a financial settlement is definitely one of the biggest stops that we've seen so far and we are expecting to reason may to make an offer today and the some that's been bandied around in the british media is about twenty billion euros now we've seen in the report that's a lot much larger some might be expected from the u. sixty billion or maybe even up to one hundred billion euros but we do have to keep in mind that the e.u. also wants a deal the e.u. once bri

turn at all on bracks as we've had a labor party in general mick or been arguing gotten down the length and breadth of the country that he wants to defend jobs people may have voted to be out of europe they didn't feel to be out of their jobs and so what is required now is a skillful way of trying to negotiate where jobs are protected whilst at the same time dealing with the real concerns about the free movement of labor which undoubtedly had a negative effect in the in the referendum campaign and labor is the only party i've had so far that put forward puts forward policies dealing with both of those issues you mentioned venezuela let's just take a look you've been a staunch supporter of both the late hugo chavez and the current leader nicolas maduro your website says venezuela has one of the most democratic and progressive governments in the world what what's puzzling is the degree to which you have completely ignored the massive human rights violations that have been extensively documented in the country under both leaders why is that well first of all i think what's currently happen

and delicate decision the economic and political scenarios of today's europe after the victory of bracks and the british prime minister had been accused of excess of democracy for allowing a popular consultation representatives of the european institutions and several intellectuals have ridiculed the citizens who voted for bracks and especially the elderly and farmers accusing them of ignorance selfishness and racism whose decision would create an economic disaster for britain and threaten the stability of the e.u. . whether this alarmism is founded or not perhaps the real danger of the story is that it has questioned the fundamental principles of democracy what is the state of health of democracy in europe today. that's the well so i'm not sure if we see that egging. yet when you know what they. say it. going on but a lot of it is you know a bad song make that out that it evolves it for civil. and then entirely. ecology and if it got a little bit in the north that there. are some. particular. to. are interested in only one outcome the question of arc of the overthrow of our government a

liberal the liberals and after that have a far more kind of well be a benign kind of view towards bracks and that she will give the u.k. a better deal but i think we all know and we'll all agree on this panel that that is certainly not going to be the case because germany will continue to protect its interests in the e.u. and i think the e.u. as an institution is fundamental to that as we've seen germany do before and we will come back to break so but you're going to just put that question to you i mean who do you think is closer to her in her landscape when it comes to forming a coalition and how much weakened will she be with the policies in place at the moment. well if you look at germany post war over several decades then you obviously see that the sort of default partner with a christian that recruits has for many years been the free democrats the market liberal party now the problem here is that it's such a coalition in order to have a major or easy will require a very strong performance of both parties at the moment in the ratings we don't see a major or it's a new for this coalit

it is likely to hurt britain's growth prospects in the short term for him the negative effects of bracks that are clear. any reduction in openness with the e.u. is unlikely to be immediately compensated by new ties of a similar magnitude with other trade partners and even if those new agreements with other partners could be struck instantaneously the reorientation of business relationships will take some time britain's inflation rate has accelerated this year due in large part to the fall of the pound since the referendum decision in june two thousand and sixteen to leave the e.u. carney expects more inflation however any coming interest rate rises would be limited and gradual a statement less hawkish than expected. the e.u. is economic chief has joined the chorus demanding american internet giants pay more and tax in an interview p.f. most said they should pay their fair share and should be taxed the same way as other corporations late last week finance ministers called for an emergency tax on companies like facebook and google they accused them of basing operations and low tax countrie

well i guess just like the fisherman that wages surgeon you know report you know bracks it is still a topic with so many question marks also here for investors on the trading floor but what really seems to be the case that the countries who are going to remain in the european union are going to benefit we got very interesting numbers today from the center of european economic research they are always doing a survey and kind of an indication of how the next six months off businesses are going to perform and on a scale with twenty points the european businesses are actually all ranked right now with seventeen points that even made investors you surprised they were expecting a number roughly between ten and twelve points and the big winners right now are mostly banks and financial institutions who are really getting stronger with this. with this negotiation talks ok so that's sort of a refers to the next six months what about when briggs it actually occurs are you getting the feeling that investors are bracing for the worst well the big question of course is there really going to really

on the face of it the bracks the talks have so far been friendly and according to the u.k. spread secretary david davis they've delivered concrete progress but that's not the future of his e.u. counterpart michelle been here. to be honest i'm concerned. so who's telling the truth let's stop here for. and take a closer look at the nonverbal messages of the two negotiators for instance in this situation a picture of their second meeting in july i showed it to an expert in body language at the university of louvin in belgium that i think is more credible than davis to me if just by looking at it you see and listening to him also you see ben you constantly in a consistent message his words or often very prudent he's hesitating there are moments where he's really expressing that and his body language is also like that so for instance when bunny forgets something he doesn't try to cover it up. really does you know i got in the water here as your. mr davis you get and he comes even looking here. at points at some moments he comes close to fake because he's too positive too happy t

problem is that the current government for off to reason may has to sell to its population and the bracks negotiations as some form of success something that will give them a better deal at the end of these negotiations and that is why david davies again was rather more upbeat about how things went and let's listen what michel barnier the chief negotiator for the e.u. had to say is going to run we have to construct a week yes but we are not yet there in terms of achieving sufficient progress so as you can hear he's a little more. has it and to call this really brock ress and i would say that if you if you put all in a nutshell the e.u. and the u.k. still remain divided on key issues in these talks now if this is a fourth round of talks british prime minister is that they went on a major charm offensive what did back to did that have on these talks it had to some extent the impact that it installed a little more dynamics as michelle money has put it in his press conference at the same time he said it it remains clear that one of the key stumbling blocks in the negotiations is that david da

constructive week of work that talks it was the fourth round of negotiations in brussels britain's bracks at secretary david davis was upbeat saying the teams have made decisive steps forward but his european counterparts michel barnier warn that more progress is needed before the next phase of talks on trade and a transition period there's a look at news in brief now around the world china's commerce ministry says all north korean companies operating in china have to leave the country by january the moves part of the latest round of un sanctions against north korea for its nuclear program. place in kenya have used tear gas to disperse protesters outside the country's election commission had quarters the opposition is threatening to boycott next month's rerun of the presidential vote which is run by the incumbent president who will kenyatta supreme court subsequently notified the result. and appall hindu priests have selected a three year old girl as the country's new living goddess it's a centuries old tradition in nepal to anoint a young girl for worship shall now remain in a palace in

the points where european council president has said that sufficient progress has not been made on bracks that talks in order to move ahead to the next stage but he did welcome what he called a more constructive and realistic tone now coming from the british government his comments came during his visit with prime minister trees in may in london may says a solution beneficial to both sides can still be found well as breck's it looms over the european union french president manuel mccrone is calling for greater cooperation within the bloc speaking at the store bone in paris across delivered an ambitious vision for europe calling on the e.u. to unite in the face of domestic and foreign challenges. at a time when the european project is under attack as never before in manual mccall spent nearly two hours laying out his vision for a united europe. the europe we know is too weak to slow and too inefficient but only europe and europe alone can give us the capacity to act against the big challenges we face now. flanked by french and european flags he said europe needed to relaunch itself with gr

was seeking a two year transition period for bracks said afterwards said sufficient progress had not been made those are the headlines news continues and alistair after the story. when news coverage of looking for an easy solution we delve deeper and challenge the status quo. from at this time. and you're of why is the first country to fully legalize recreational marijuana but it's already hit a major stumbling block that's right u.s. banks have said they won't work with banks in europe why that have ties to the cannabis industry imo it could be a lot and here in the stream live on al-jazeera and on you tube. your guy is the first country in the world to fully legalize marijuana but many countries in the americas are relaxing their pot laws canada is working on a bill to legalize recreational marijuana which it hopes to pass next summer and many other countries are moving towards decriminalizing cannabis and legalizing it for medical use cultivation and consumption in europe why are carefully controlled by the state in a plan that was years in the making. we love this islam is now st

of the european institutions and several intellectuals have ridiculed the citizens who voted for bracks it especially the elderly and farmers accusing them of ignorance selfishness and racism whose decision would create an economic disaster for britain and threaten the stability of the e.u. . whether this alarmism is founded or not perhaps the real danger of this story is that it has questioned the fundamental principles of democracy what is the state of health of democracy in europe today. that's the. only thing that. a. yes when. they. say it. don't know that it is going to be a bad song that of all is it for simply. in the mean time leave. the gun to the keep it kind of. for some. grease in particular it's been a total disaster like and to come. more interested in only one outcome the question of arc of the overthrow of our government and their way of much more keen to have our own government overthrow itself. which is what happened was to reduce greece's. is to increase greece's. selling last seen with this young girl who was always saying it she somehow they're going to move out. s

and the bracks advantage he stare with his camera when history is being made. daniel biscoe present global respect for the way he works he's quick and doesn't use flash photography or image processing programs he always works like this whether it's politicians or people on the street for the few who vote for. taking pictures brings me great joy i'm meeting people just asking them and taking their picture even if i don't know them that works all over the world no matter where i am. and people say yes and simply give me their time watching. the camera has also been his key to the world of politics and his work he meets interesting people time and again like angular merkel twenty seven years ago he sees her three or four times a year in two thousand and three he took these photos when they met in london's cafe einstein. he was there during the two thousand and five election at the moment merkel realized she'd been elected chancellor. so would the photographer say he's developed a bond of trust with the chancellor over the years. when his kinds of advice is. the ch

initially at least anti nato and russia is pretty cheap pubs and so a chance of victory for bracks if there wasn't really here i think a chance of the far right winning the far right did well but so investing those kinds of resources with the criticism that would have come in germany of course for a lot of reasons including economic reasons is a very important country for russia sized i guess the assessment in the kremlin was it wasn't worth the cost what happens to germany what happens to the european union if chance or miracle fails to build a new government and new elections are called. well that would be a long delay in the kinds of things europe needs in needs to move forward on reform greater integration modem ocracy and that would be very unfortunate. i don't think it's going to happen you know germans have long experience in forming coalitions that difficult clearly there are differences of policy between the free democrats and the greens including over europe so those would have to be resolved but we know already that chance for michael is a very patient negotiator and i woul

a charge that you could level at labor as well his own party as he well knows is also divided on bracks it and so for example today you had him talking about both respecting the referendum results but also trying to guarantee unimpeded access to the single market so for whichever party is in power in britain over the next couple of years that is a big existential problem and i'm wondering how it went down what he said in the atmosphere at the conference was a positive. it's been an extraordinary atmosphere jane a speech of seventy five minutes i lost count of the standing ovations the football style chanting i think i'm not going to far in saying the adulation from the floor for jeremy colvin and let's just wind back a little bit of recent history how divided the party was certainly how a large majority of the parliamentary party was deeply skeptical about this man the leadership challenge at party conference only a year ago well now it feels as if the right wing of the labor party what we might call the blair right wing loyal to former prime minister tony blair has been well and truly

however following the bracks that vote of two thousand and sixteen when a majority of scots went against the national decision to leave the talk of a new referendum emerged again we discussed both scottish and catalonia and calls for independence with columnist lesley riddick. for the catalans and for the scots the case is being made as an aspiring saying these are nations who want to become states now do you tend to think as an onlooker what else can catalans do if their attempt to event haven't vote is resulting in such heavy handed approaches so it looks like it will be in practical terms it may be impossible to halt but the question is what next. with the terminal at the general election just two days away news outlets are doubling it one of the most boring campaigns in memory especially after the fireworks of the vicious french campaign just months ago and many were waiting for reports of russian meddling to emerge just to spice things up artist peter all over picks up the story we're into the final stages of this german federal election but one question keeps popping up with the qu

people and i'm not a dreamer i'm a realist his comments amount to be candid denial in brussels the bracks it is happening and the desire to be uncooperative at every step of the way it is absolutely is a comment that that doesn't belong or between mature individuals and belongs even less between between mature countries. and while european officials try to make britain pay our people in france seem to continue to be divided over briggs it has survey suggests the thirty eight percent are in favor of britain leaving the european union thirty two per cent wanted to stay in the union the remaining were undecided william dartmouth ukip m.e.p. say the e.u. will miss britain's financial impacts well i actually looked at the poll it's a plurality it's thirty two percent of one poll but don't forget there's always been a very strong strand in fronts probably about a third so this confirms it which thinks let's get the u.k. out of the e.u. and then we can go ahead with our plans for a for a for a federal europe for a united states of europe for european superstate with no be objecting so i would si

surprising i mean we always knew that the both the british election and the british wrote on their own bracks it and the american election would be very very close. ok but really norm of the opinion polls is suggesting that in the german case this surprise lies in. the extent to which the smaller parties were differentiate themselves so they're not very far apart in the opinion polls and opinion polls in germany traditionally have been really quite reliable in terms of predicting the outcome and we all know that opinion polls are not doing very well over the last. the last years but i think in this case you do you would see the c.d.u. very very clearly ahead of the over properties i don't think anybody would doubt that and if that didn't happen there would indeed be an enormous surprise you've written several books dealing with the subject of german identity and i think this issue of national identity is central to many political changes that we observed over the last couple of years the election of china for example either redefined american identity or at least exposed this side of it that

ahead of bracks and do you see that happening here in germany. yeah that's a good point i mean in particular on the issues of migration and identity there's been a sort of false consensus among german political elites for for quite some time where the elite opinion was out of step with a large number of germans and now we have a party that the extreme is going to be dissenting from that consensus and there really wasn't any difference on migration policy from the greens to the social democrats to the christian democrats and now you have a party that's you know fundamentally at odds with that consensus so i think they're going to be instigating a lot of debates within the parliament and you know part of that is going to be obnoxious part of it might even be xena phobic and nationalistic and racist but part of it's going to be good because i think german politics could use a little more debate amongst its political leaders a lot of people here in germany are really had to tend to say german publics politics become americanised and sink to that leve

the channel and on the german side we are willing to find a fair deal with the united kingdom on bracks and provided this doesn't end up with reasoned picking in the sense that it makes the result makes it an invitation to other members of the european union to imitate the british example so . everything remains to be seen i don't think it has that much to do with our election bethanie alan abraham and what about the government the election result and what it means visa v the e.u. can we expect to hit a debate now on euro zone and to gratian as the coalition for. i think initially you know primarily the results of this election have far more implications for domestic german policy than for broader discussions however. one thing one thing that you know many analysts and average germans have felt over the past few years the grand coalition between the s.p.d. and the c.d.u. has kind of centralized debate and it's kind of tamed debate so that there hasn't been as you know as rigorous a discussion about really important issues such as the euro zone you know such as integration. and so. this

walid and i'll give it to you alfred well he says what does catalan independence have in common with bracks it eddie so let's fast forward let's say the referendum happens it passes so there is independence on the table alfred the european union has already said that catalonia would have to reapply for each new membership is that something that you're keeping in mind for the future. worse yet today president yorker from the european union said that they would consider any result and they were obviously in respect of the result of the referendum now that's great news because we actually want to do exactly the opposite to what it meant for the united kingdom we want to remain in the european union in fact we are european we're not just going to drift away from the european continent we will stay there and we think it's in the interest of everybody especially in a common market not to lose seven point five million producers consumers and net contributors through the european market so we're positive that whatever happens and if there is an independent catalan republic this will be settled and

state and local level for for a long time it has been brewing for a while and we've seen it with the bracks that vote with the trump are those things connected in your i don't i don't know if they're connected in the sense of the reason why people get angry or frustrated i mean why did the you know so many people vote to get out of the e.u. is not very similar to why trump was voted in the details but i think that one common denominator is simply people are not feeling heard they're not feel like their ideas they don't feel like they're being paid attention to that is a common denominator somehow parties have to come to grips with what we definitely saw a lot of anger in the us election do you see that same anger in germany i do listen to the a of tea party convention last spring and as i listen to those talks and speeches i heard a lot of things that i heard. in the run up to the election in november sixteenth so yeah i see that same kind of phenomena but you have a parliamentary system here in germany and of course most of europe and and therefore there are safety controls there i mean ye

they failed to predict the outcome of the bracks that boat in the united states nearly all of them forecast a win for hillary clinton and we all know how that turned out german pollsters are hoping they've done a better job. pollsters taking the pulse of germany's voters their questions are designed to take a snapshot of public opinion and show trends it's a difficult job in the firms don't always get it right why did most polling organizations fail to predict the bricks and vote or the results of the us election . for pre-election surveys or not predictions in the us some of what should have been seen as an opinion trend was sold as a forecast experts say an exact forecast is only possible on election day in germany up to one hundred thousand people are questioned once they've cast their votes for the pre-election survey only about fifteen hundred people are called. manfred gould there has worked for the force institute for many years he finds that there are many new operators in the polling business not all of them of high quality. it was probably it was him if you look at the bigger prob

this likely to hurt britain's growth prospects in the short term for him the negative effects of bracks that are clear. any reduction you know openness with the e.u. is unlikely to be immediately compensated by new ties of a similar magnitude with other trade partners and even if those new agreements with other partners could be struck instantaneously the reorientation of business relationships will take some time britain's inflation rate has accelerated this year due in large part to the fall of the pound since the referendum decision in june two thousand and sixteen to leave the e.u. carney expects more inflation however any coming interest rate rises would be limited and gradual a statement less hawkish than expected. five more days to germans elect a new government terry maybe that's right maybe maybe with less than a week to go to the german election the principal challenger for the post chancellor. has been facing questions from a live t.v. audience he and his party the social democrats are heading into the polls trailing chancellor merkel's christian democrats by double digits so

people and i'm not a dreamer i'm a realist his comments amount to be candid denial in brussels the bracks it is happening and a desire to be uncooperative at every step of the way it's absolutely is a comment that that doesn't belong or between mature individuals and belongs even less between between mature countries. and while european officials try to make britain pay our people in france seem to continue to be divided.

during wednesday, for many eastern areas, the cloud will thin, it will brack up and there will be someinto northern ireland and that rain spreads into south—west england and wales. it is associated with this weather front and just notice the white lines there. just becoming more closely packed together. so, a stronger wind developing across the western areas to go with that rain as it moves in on wednesday, but temperatures not doing too bad for the end of september. through, through wednesday night this weather front will move its way eastwards. so giving a spell of heavy rain and then we have got a ridge of high pressure before this area of low pressure before this area of low pressure m oves pressure before this area of low pressure moves in. for thursday the rain will clear away interest eastern areas. as it does so, the sun will come out and for most of us on thursday, another dry day with warm and sunny spells developing. the temperatures once again in the high teens and low 20s. more details available online. that's it from me. bye— bye. hello it's tuesday, it's 9 o'clock, i'm v

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