dozens of foreign ministers from all across europe have flocked to finland helsinki to participate in the summit of the council of europe when it comes to the russian delegation to their participation it is proving to be quite productive apparently the sort of flavor of the day if i may say so have become the potential return of the russian members of the parliamentary assembly of europe to well fulfill their duties. we very much appreciate that are consistent line on the restoration of justice was supported by both the secretary general of the council of europe toward me on the ag land and the responsible delegations of the member states as a result there was a decision made which clearly confirmed that as the statute states each member state of the council of europe has equal rights and equal responsibilities just a quick reminder as to why this is important not just for russia but for all of europe the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe is a body that has a say on a number of cornerstone decisions when it comes to european security and stability for instance the members of the parliamentary ass

states will be incest on the basis of the same criteria on a regular annual basis something the council of europe decided in february an offshoot of the council of europe press freedom in europe is now in the worst state than at any time since the cold war how worrying is that to live a very briefly very briefly we're running out of time it's absolutely boring because those in power in some countries try to undermine the freedom of press and we have been on top third in new media we're fake news on a daily basis from morning till morning so we're really in danger through losing throne of democracies by a by a mechanism and a mind. really spirit of a decent and really true dialogue and argument is undermined by those mechanisms from governments in power as well as other powers outside the money political public remarks across worried are you about the state of press freedom in europe i'm very worried about because what we've seen now is the attempt of the governments to censor to social networks and to social media and for instance the shoreline is partly introduced and it's fair to set source bec

states will be sent on the basis of the same criteria on a regular annual basis something the council of europe decided in february an offshoot of the council of europe press freedom in europe is now in a worse state than at any time since the cold war how worrying is that joe line very briefly very briefly we're running out of time it's absolutely boring because those in power in some countries try to undermine the freedom of press and we have been on top or the new media fake news on a daily basis from morning till morning so we're really in danger to losing from one of our democracies by mechanisms that undermine the really spirit of a decent and really true dialogue and argument it is undermined by those mechanisms from governments in power as well as other powers outside the e.u. right to money political public marks across worries are you about the state of press freedom in europe i'm very worried about because what we've seen now is the attempt of the governments to censor to social networks and to social media and for instance to show lines party introduced of its factory sets because t

member states will be set on the basis of the same criteria on a regular annual basis ok the council of europe decided in february an offshoot of the council of europe press freedom in europe is now in a worse state than at any time since the cold war how worrying is that joe line the very briefly very briefly we're running out of time it's absolutely boring because those in power in some countries try to undermine the freedom of press and we have been on top of the new media fake news on daily basis from morning till morning so we're really in danger to losing from one of our democracies by mechanisms that undermine the really spirit of a decent and really true dialogue and argument is undermined by those mechanisms from governments in power as well as other powers outside the e.u. all who try to money political public good marks cross words are you know about this state of press freedom in europe i'm very worried about because what we see now is the attempt of the governments to censor the social net for the social media and for instance the shoreline's party introduced a that's fair to set

councils two main bodies on an equal basis. and months foreign minister chaired today's meeting. he said russia said it wants to stay as a member of the council of europebligations including -- must be paid. that is very clear. they indicated they want to stay and that means that they will fully follow all of the obligations. lavrov welcomed the declaration. he said russia values the positive contribution of the council of europe has made in resolving humanitarian issues as well as improving russia's justice system. onlobal news 24 hours a day air and at tictoc on twitter powered by more than 2700 overalists and analysts in 100 20 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. let's return to washington where president trump is delivering remarks. a hundred million dollar house can you believe it? the broker did a fantastic job but i told him, i am paying you more than your supposed to get. he got millions. it forit for 39 and sold a hundred. it wasn't immediate. it took a couple of years, that's ok. had to paint a little inside. a little paint [laughter] . [applause] i call it a turnaround. i had a beautiful house mar-a-lago and this one came into t

minister in november the human rights commissioner of the council of europe wrote to the senate and the congress of deputies pressing for serious amendments to the so-called law on citizens' safety i know that your government promised meaningful changes to this law but you haven't delivered them of the i've been visiting this the consul. he was not complaining at all and he said that this pain in the judiciary of us consider it an indefinite then one performing a calling with human approachable. so there was no christmas or you didn't read the letter was sent there you had an interview with that they went to them and. i don't think there is criticism about the functioning of the spanish or the sure but you didn't you didn't change the law did you you promised meaningful changes to you haven't i don't know exactly what you were talking about the general terms of consideration the. concert will make of the spain the system are very good what the commissioner wrote was in his letter i find it disturbing that according to the minister of interior 27000 alone more than 21000 sanctions have b

yes it has happened on a few occasions more during my work at the un and subsequently at the council of europe where there are some people who speak with a heavy accent and who. is not very good so what do you do for the most part you pause and you don't interpret where you don't understand hoping and that hope. works most of the time that it will become clear. it will become clear lead in most cases it does become clear later but you don't. sometimes you say what you think she meant. but it's better to admit something and then to hope that things will become clearer. it hasn't happened too often for me that i took a risk but it has happened and then there are always. for instance there are gay lover who is brilliant in english i remember he was sitting down with clinton and obama in the translator was translating and then turns around and corrects the translator i mean this kind of embarrassing does that happen a lot when you're translating a person who is perfection in a language that you're translating to the to the to the reader well sure i mean. deputy foreign minister laurence office mig

council's two main bodies on an equal basis. finland's foreign minister chaired today's meeting. he said russia says it wants to stay as a member of the council of europe. >> that means all obligations, including the payment fees, must be paid. so that is very clearly indicated they want to stay and that means they will fully follow all the obligations. mark: russian foreign minister sergei lavrov reaffirmed russia's commitments, including paying the fees. he said russia values what he called the positive contribution that the council of europe has made to resolving humanitarian issues as well as improving russia's justice system. bloomberg has learned the white house is considering derek kahn for a seat on the federal reserve board. he is an undersecretary in the transportation department and has been a senior advisor to transportation secretary elaine chao. president trump has named four people for the two open seats on the board. none has made it through the senate. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. caroline: fr

marty's report for the care of the council of europe he says that hashem patsey who is supposed to be the president of kosovo today is the most dangerous of the k.l.a. criminal bosses and we have many reports even new reports we keep reports by the dozen on the criminal situation within kosovo it is a very it is very much a criminal protectorate of the united states today and i think that's not a secret for many of the cloud of us so seeing these people giving lessons to the serbs living in the north of kosovo is quite as quite contradictory quite funny actually if the situation was not so it's such a sort of magic is it not the case also the b.m.i. being gauging in some posturing as a military posturing in response to just a routine police operation in an area that it's largely recognising it's lost control over for sure and which are not admitting yesterday then there's a certain part of parliament that he has no control over over the course of the today he has to suffer some sort of bravado because insurgents just want except abandoning losing kosovo and i think also that pristina

russia is getting his voting rights back in the council of europe. russia's voting rights after the country's annexation of the crimea 2014, which ukraine and most of the world viewed as illegal. russia, a member since 1996, then stopped paying membership fees in protest. taiwan has become the first place in asia to legalize same-sex marriages. lawmakers approved a bill after facing pressure from groups on both sides of the issue. the president, a backer of the law, tweeted on may 17 in 2019 in taiwan, love one. we took a big step toward equality and made time on a better country. global news 24 hours a day, on-air, and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. thanks so much, mark. geopolitical turmoil was the order of the week, let off by in u.s. china trade talks. in the end, the markets did not suffer all that much. does that take away some of the incentive to get a deal done? a senior fellow at the brookings institution specializing in foreign policy and th

they talk about europe of nations there you are winning they don't really know you we have surveyed the europe we have the it is the europe of the veto the europe of unanimity of the council these europe of nation this is europe which again was. very clear you euro is a failure is already there is a thing which is a failure we are coming to the end of the show i'm going to have to move us on just time left for a flash round where i will ask each of you to be very brief we'd like to have our next first time in just one sentence maximum ten seconds each and we will cut you off so you have a listen. from spain. if i had to say something to european politicians i would ask him to please stop thinking about his own interests and to think about citizens and the people my question to a politician in brussels would be does he remember why he ran for office because. i don't have as will come to you first very much so and that's why i fight for against corruption for human rights for respect for the rule of law for you in solidarity and that means a better europe more europe has it's a medical doctor i went into politics. because i was worried about the environment on the effects o

member states will be set on the basis of the same criteria on a regular annual basis ok the council of europe decided in february an offshoot of the council of europe press freedom in europe is now in a worse state than at any time since the cold war how worrying is that joe line very briefly very briefly we're running out of time it's absolutely boring because those in power in some countries try to undermine the freedom of press and we have been on top third in new media where fake news is on a daily basis from morning till morning so we're really in danger to losing ground of our democracies by mechanisms that undermine the really spirit of a decent and really true dialogue and argument is undermined by those mechanisms from governments in power as well as other powers outside the e.u. right to money political public markets cross i was worried about this state of press freedom in europe i'm very worried about because what we see now is the attempt of the governments to censor to social networks and to social media and for instance show lines party introduced of it's fair to set source bec

in europe are coming under fire off to one of this year's deadliest shipwrecks in the mediterranean involving migrants young and young egeland head of humanitarian groups a norwegian refugee council says europe is fueling the fire of conflict in libya and worsening the situations situation of migrants there at least 70 migrants and now thoughts to have drowned after leaving northwest libya on thursday that boat capsized near the cat can islands off stocks and in his ear that in his the navy was able to rescue 16 people this was young reaction is all of us europeans say responsibility to avoid this monster hemorrhage of human lives in the mediterranean we were shocked that 250 people died crossing that 1000000000 more wall during a generation of cold war and though we seem to accept $2500.00 or more people dying per year in the mediterranean what is it again is that bending verdict of the so-called european civilization we cannot have that happening now is a nice populist government opposes mass migration it's long posts huge a closed port policy and is being accused of restricting the work of humanitarian groups on friday so people who were rescued were allowed to disembark in la

not defendable modern it's more more a nation state more there and they value more of europe and can seat of the council of ministers and at the end consider this is why mr mock or would prefer all. but head of states nominate. and negotiate for different positions. the us president does all of this trade chief to impose punitive tar of sun all remaining imports from china that's on top of friday's dramatic tax hike on around $200000000000.00 with the goods for america's top trading partner the latest levees come despite donald trump's claims that washington and beijing held positive talks this week aimed at settling the differences. over the course of the past 2 days the united states and china have held candid and constructive conversations on the status of the trade relationship between both countries though both sides intend to push ahead of the negotiations beijing has said the latest u.s. move will be met with counter measures china rejects america's claims it's backtracked on its any commitments breaking down all the latest developments in this dispute in own special way is in case you missed it.

he's demanding declassifying the origins of the miller investigation into trump russia collusion the special councils to europe probe found no evidence of criminal conspiracy between the trump campaign on the russian government during the 2016 presidential election our senior correspondent morocco's the of looks now at how the mass media has shifted its stance on whether the us president can question the activity of the intelligence services or not. the thing with spies with all this secrets and power and egos is that it really seems to goo to their heads and honestly how can you blame them they are literally be yawned public scrutiny and he wouldn't tries to stick their nose in you just stamp everything that's classified and loudly denounce them as unpatriotic see it is a very very serious and outrageous move on the part of mr trump once again trampling upon the statutory authorities of the director of national intelligence and the heads of the independent intelligence agencies how dead trump what true american would ever question why they're being wiretapped and spied upon good thing america has m.s.n. be sh

defeated while modern is more more in nation state more there and they value more of europe and can seat of the council of ministers and at the european conceded this is why mr mock or will we for all of that ahead of states nominate. and negotiate for different positions because viz not on president of the commission. present from sort of the u.s. trade representative to impose tariffs on a further $300000000000.00 worth of imports from china that's on top of the increased levies on to under a $1000000000.00 in chinese goods which took effect on friday it comes despite the president earlier having claimed that washington and beijing that held constructive trade talks this last week over the course of the past 2 days the united states and china have held candid and constructive conversations on the status of the trade relationship between both countries though both sides plan to continue negotiations beijing's pledge to retaliate shoes beijing's pledge to retaliate to the u.s. moves china has rejected u.s. accusations it backtracked on its earlier commitments in the talks now the latest edition of in c

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from that so far there hasn't been any protection according to the text of the agreement between the u.n. security council plus europe and iran the iranian nuclear deal the europeans have to have to establish a mechanism to protect the iranians and hasn't happened iran is now threatening to pull out of the treaty altogether it is said that it is already suspended a number of points for example that is it will continue to enrich uranium to levels beyond what it is bound to by the treaty itself that it will stop selling excess uranium that it will. stop selling heavy water. it's an escalation anyway you look at u.s. warships in the persian gulf the radiance threatening to pull out of the treaty so there's a lot riding on what happens today on wall on the talks today between mike compared to me and putin of whether they come to any sort of agreement and whether as i said cooler heads will prevail. ok thank you and that was more a ghastly of their for several porting from such a. remark middle east analyst convey a frosty abi does believe iran nuclear deal can still be rescued. iran has given 60 days to europe to clean u

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the parliament opening session on tuesday all 5 of facing charges over their involvement in the 2017 council and independence referendum. staying in europe politicians from europe's mainstream policies are calling on voters to stand against the far right ahead of the european parliamentary elections among them is the french president emmanuel marquardt he's met with the european council president to discuss the vote starts on thursday micro has broken with tradition and join the campaign trail. the corruption trial of argentina's former president cristina kirchner is set to begin on tuesday however stories of bono explains the trial will take place. is running for vice president in the upcoming election. now they would have us here that. she was argentina's president for 80 years from 2007 to 2015. 4 years later cristina fernandez that continues to be one of the most important politicians in the country. right now she's on trial for her alleged role in a corruption probe worth millions of dollars during her administration. lawyers likely get of the more nervous than say the links between kirshner and the businessman are a crucial part of

of the council and the commission. ramzan karmali, bbc news. country by country, this is a remarkable set of results. i've been speaking to our brussels correspondent, adam fleming, on the changing political landscape of europe the european parliament tonight is that the stranglehold, the big centre left and centre—right political groups here have had, on the business of the european parliament, for decades and decades, has disappeared. between them, the ce ntre—left disappeared. between them, the centre—left and centre—right across europe do not have enough seats in the european parliament —— parliament to control the agenda and guarantee legislation will get through. to do that, they will have to rely on support of the greens and from the much larger liberal group now as well which includes en marche mps and a lot of meps elected in places like germany, something they are calling the green wave so over the next couple of days, it will be intriguing to see, do those for big pro—european groups form a block and is that form some kind of coalition agreement for the next five years? as soon as the groups in european parliament start building a roadmap, they will come in conflict with eu leaders, chancellors of

of key is -- key decisions ahead. who be the next commission president, the council president, foreign affairs post. these will be decided against his rarities for more europe now. we know a key point of friction and access in -- division in europe has been that tension between france and germany. more europe and the status quo. this is a key thing to watch here. >> before we get to horse trading for the various top positions including the ecb president which will come after other positions are determined, tell us why this particular election matters more. it is the election i remember galvanize in the most voters in any european election in history as far as i can tell. you have to wonder how much it matters to markets in the sense that, how much politics -- policymaking is done versus at a national level. isn't it all set in stone already? >> apparently it is not. it is disruptive but we will not see business as usual going forward. we will see a complex trade-off between national priorities and the two major blocks of pro-eu and anti-e.u. parties at the european stage. at the other hand, you touched on an important thing. appeared tothis has galvanize su

of us. the european parliament election. we have a new ecb governing council coming in. we have not the uniformity needed. needed to tackle all of the issues europe is confronted with. it is difficult. guy: we will leave it there. thank you very much, indeed. vonnie: let's check in on bloomberg first word news. here is courtney donohoe. courtney: mike pompeo has arrived in russia for talks with president vladimir putin. are expected to discuss differences on iran, syria, venezuela, and arms control. the talks are taking place at sochi, the black sea resort. president trump is calling on the federal reserve to copy china's central bank. the president wrote china will be pumping money and raising interest rates. he writes that if the federal reserve ever get a match, it would be game over. saudi arabia says drones attacked two pumping stations owned by aramco. the stations are linked to a pipeline transporting oil in the eastern sector of the country to a port on the west coast. many -- yemeni officials say they used drones to attack the saudi's. has enteredgovernor the democratic primary race. there are now 22 democrats running for the white house