foreign minister has vowed to find those responsible. or appraisal for our closeness and our thoughts go 1st of all to the families i am returning to italy i am leaving the council of foreign affairs to meet with the prime minister and to get down to work we are activating all the relevant institutions to get to the truth as soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants on the stage of ours have suffered and lost their lives at the same time we have already taken steps to bring the bodies back to italy as soon as possible hundreds of thousands of people have protested across me and maher shutting down businesses this part of a general strike against this month's coup the demonstrations were largely peaceful despite threats that the army would use lethal force against protesters hundreds of people have been detained since the coup looting the popular democratic leader and san suu kyi the e.u. says it's considering sanctions that target businesses owned by the army. think lynn could see an end to most coronavirus restrictions by the end of june as part of a rolling change to measures starting next month u.k. prime minister boris johnson says schools will reopen a

everything that we stand for we have repeatedly expressed both at the commission at the council of foreign affairs ministers are our position and the situation against the democracy pro-democracy fighters and activists candidates and these concerns have been put to president xi by the european leaders in their meeting of the 30th of this just just wordsmiths the margarita's you had leverage real leverage with this financial agreement with this trade deal with china and you didn't use that leverage we used it to the best possible outcome at a level comparable to what our american friends did when dealing with china so this was not something that. failed our son we lived up to our standards that the references to i a low resolution child labor situation i clearly established let's just work briefly at your claim that the european union is the most advanced model of democracy in society in the modern world seems like a classic exaggeration when you look at poland and hungary. according to human rights organizations human rights watch for instance says 10000000 citizens in hungary are effectively livi

everything that we stand for we have repeatedly expressed both at the commission at the council of foreign affairs ministers are our position and the situation against the democracy pro-democracy fighters and activists candidates and these concerns have been put to president xi by the european leaders in their meeting of the 30th of this just just wordsmiths the margarita's you had leverage real leverage with this financial agreement with this trade deal with china and you didn't use that leverage we used it to the best possible outcome at a level comparable to what our american friends did when dealing with china so this was not something that. failed our son we lived up to our standards that the references to i a low resolution child labor situation clearly established themselves worked briefly at your claim that the european union is the most advanced model of democracy in society in the modern world seems like a classic exaggeration when you look at poland and hungary. according to human rights organizations human rights watch for instance says 10000000 e.u. citizens in hungary are effectively

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foreign affairs council that's the council of foreign ministers plus mr boyle the high representative have been contemplating what sort of sanctions they might be prepared to institute and who they would be targeting now one of the suggestions that's coming from brussels is that perhaps the people who are in charge of the justice situation the justice system in russia might potentially be targeted people in charge of the directorate of prisons and that sort of thing might find themselves the target of targeted sanctions from the e.u. remember that this is something that many different e.u. states individually but collectively also through the e.u. have been suggesting might come because the e.u. as a bloc has condemned what happens to mr vonnie and of cold on the russian authorities to investigate prosecute and then punish those who are responsible for what happens to him remember he was poisoned with novacek and it was only through the intervention of 1st doctors in russia and then here in berlin that he was able to recover so that's pretty much what they've been discussing what they

is a diplomatic war where seaman after the meeting of boiling moscow i mean europe had a council of foreign affairs minister starts we didn't talk about mccartney cut off all or i mean yada set up by john. there is no position oh miss million's you mcconville feels obliged to say something because there are many armenians in high positions in france for many many years for many decades and so they follow things carefully but they know that they can't intervene they cannot. it's an affair between moscow armenia up and turkey sort. let's not forget turkey that could help us out by jumping as that but john has as won the war they have accepted the deal proposed by moscow and so they don't move for the moment. it's hard isn't it c. well i find it difficult to understand what the opposition would particularly want to know they don't want passion un but then what and how would things change particularly for the good if somebody else was in charge. i don't know i think it's more the army versus shia because they feel again discredited the military they have lost the war and. dour all day they have anger a

everything that we stand for we have repeatedly expressed both at the commission at the council of foreign affairs ministers are our position and the situation against the democracy pro-democracy fighters and activists of candidates and these concerns have been put to president xi by the european leaders in their meeting on the 30th of december just just wordsmiths the margarita's you have leverage real leverage with this. financial agreement with this trade deal with china and you didn't use that leverage we used it to the best possible outcome at a level comparable to what our american friends did when dealing with china so this was not something that. failed us than we lived up to our standards the references to i a low resolution child labor situation i clearly established let's just look briefly at your claim that the european union is the most advanced model of democracy in society in the modern world seems like a classic exaggeration when you look at poland and hungary. according to human rights organizations human rights watch for instance says 10000000 eve citizens in hungary are effectiv

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and our thoughts go 1st of all to the families i am returning to italy i am leaving the council of foreign affairs to meet with the prime minister and to get down to work we are activating all the relevant institutions to get to the truth as soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants on the stage of ours have suffered and lost their lives at the same time we have already taken steps to bring the bodies back to italy as soon as possible. well the attack ate a world food program convoy in a statement to the program expressed its deepest sympathy adding its condolences to the family colleagues and friends of 3 people killed today in an attack on a delegation traveling on a field visit in the east of them a critic republic of congo the attack occurred on a road that had previously been cleared for travel without security escorts well catherine soyuz following the story for us from nairobi she says the regional governor told al-jazeera that security forces were not informed of the italian ambassador's visit. this is event happened at around $815.00 g.m.t. and the convoy was headi

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a labor camp a prison camp in russia as the consequence of cases against him brought in russia now we know that the e.u. foreign affairs council that's the council the foreign ministers plus mr bottle the high representative have been contemplating what sort of sanctions they might be prepared to institute and who they would be targeting now one of the suggestions that's coming from brussels is that perhaps the people who are in charge of the justice situation the justice system in russia might potentially be targeted many different e.u. states individually but collectively also through the e.u. have been suggesting might come because the e.u. is a bloc has condemned what happens to mr vanney and of cold on the russian authorities to investigate prosecute and then punish those who are responsible for what happens to him. well iran has called an agreement with the un's nuclear watchdog a significant achievement the deal allows inspectors to continue monitoring tehran's nuclear facilities for up to 3 months but there will be less access and no more snap inspections the i.a.e.a. chief traveled to iran this weekend where he met fo

and our thoughts go 1st of all to the families i am returning to italy i am leaving the council of foreign affairs to meet with the prime minister and to get down to work we are activating all the relevant institutions to get to the truth as soon as possible about this cowardly attack that these 2 servants on this stage of ours have suffered and lost their lives at the same time we have already taken steps to bring the bodies back to italy as soon as possible catherine soy is following the story for us from the kenyan capital nairobi she says the regional governor told al jazeera that security forces were not informed about the italian investors visit. this is event happened around $815.00 g.m.t. and the convoy was heading to a place called ritu. to visit a school feeding program eataly is one of the biggest funders of the w.s.p. and it's not uncommon to see individuals and country representatives of to visit some of the areas where they support the mission there now we have spoken to the governor of north who says that their talk happened not far away from goma which is the provisional capital of

a labor camp a prison camp in russia as the consequence of cases against him brought in russia now we know that the e.u. foreign affairs council that's the council the foreign ministers plus mr boyle the high representative have been contemplating what sort of sanctions they might be prepared to institute and who they would be targeting now one of the suggestions that's coming from brussels is that perhaps the people who are in charge of the justice situation the justice system in russia might potentially be targeted people in charge of the directorate of prisons and that sort of thing might find themselves the target of targeted sanctions from the remember that this is something that many different e.u. states individually but collectively also through the e.u. have been suggesting might come because the e.u. as a bloc has condemned what happens to mr vonnie and of cold on the russian authorities to investigate prosecute and then punish those who are responsible for what happens to him remember he was poisoned with novacek and it was only through the intervention of 1st doctors in russia and then here in berlin that he was ab

governmental involvement in the amount of case is russia's not the only thing on the agenda that the e.u. will be talking through the e.u. foreign affairs council talking through what it calls its strategic compass it will also be having there be an informal discussion in a digital format with the new secretary of state who is the blinken in the bite of the ministration he'll be speaking to e.u. foreign affairs foreign ministers in the course of this afternoon and one final thought me and ma will definitely be discussed by foreign ministers we know also mr masses talked about the patel the potential of sanctions being imposed on certain individuals in me and given what has been happening in that country we've been reporting on al-jazeera for the course of the last few weeks the last month or so but we know that will also be being discussed although it's not a formal part of the agenda we know it is going to be discussed. thank you for that dominic cain lifeforce say in berlin u.s. aviation regulators have ordered extra inspections for a boeing triple 7 aircraft fitted with the same type of engine that exploded during a flight on saturday engine

of interfering in domestic affairs. the foreign minister told a virtual meeting of the united nations human rights council that people livingce enjoy greater security and freedom from terror attack. labor rights and personal freedoms are not restricted. protesters in myanmar divide their military leaders and stage the biggest rally so far after the fatal shooting of two demonstrators over the weekend. the u.s. is imposing sanctions on senior army figures linked to the cu three weeks ago in response to the deaths. the european council is the latest body to condemn the takeover in myanmar. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and at quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. rishaad: still to come, the start of the trading day in mumbai. commodities enjoy a broad-based surge. also to come. haslinda: and we are watching out for hsbc earnings today after the bank announced a renewed focus on asia along with a raft of leadership changes. we will be live on the ground at hsbc's hong kong headquarters. keep it with us. this is bloomberg. ♪ haslinda: a br

of the u.k. says it's considering taking further action against those who it says are crushing democracy and the e.u. is called on the military to end its action against civilians its foreign affairs council is expected to discuss it when it meets on monday. started is founder and coordinator of out sea and burma network of organizations working to support human rights and democracy in the unmarked she joins us on skype from bangkok good to have you with us so do you think that the international sanctions are either already are sanctions have been in place since the issue many countries have stepped up sanctions since the coup but are they having any impact. well we still haven't seen a sanctioning targeting military companies in myanmar which is the main source of book income for the military insert the light infantry division 33 which just posted to mandalay and is responsible for killing those protesters and firing on ambulances is actually a shareholder on one of those companies and received an e-mail dividends of millions of dollars these companies need to be sanctioned if we're really serious about action. would also targeting military companies in the case of some trading laws like

of democracy in the world. >> i want to bring in cnn global affairs analyst to talk about this. a senior council on the foreignumnist for the "washington post" also. what do you think about what he said there? >> a sad and accurate reflection, i think, where we are in the world and the damage that's been done to the united states by the trump presidency. i mean, it's not just the events of january 6th. it's everything that's happened which was really an unremitting assault on u.s. democracy and it wasn't just an assault on democracy. also a horrific display of imp competence in the fact more than 400,000 americans died in the last year of the trump presidency, because we mishandled coronavirus worse than any other country in the world. this is going to leave a long-term blot on america's reputation, which used to be that of a country that was democratic, that was can-do that could accomplish things's now people around the world look at us and saying, this is a pitiful pariah. america can't get anything right, can't even uphold its own democracy. there's a small chance to get things right if the senate were act

of myanmar the u.k. is considering taking further action against those who it says a crushing democracy and the e.u. has called on the military to end its action against civilians its foreign affairs council is expected to discuss the matter when it meets on monday is tom andrews now un special rapporteur on human rights in me and maher who told us it is likely the crackdown will yet get worse as you know that terry is capable of just about anything and then massacre protesters in the past in street street they've killed monks in saffron roche protesting and of course we've seen what they're capable of doing with the ethnic minorities including the ethnic lines so this is a very dangerous situation and the nightmare is made even. more frightening by the fact that they are now deploying these army troops these these deployments sort of in this case the 33rd light infantry division this was the very division that is accused of and was actually involved we know in massacres against the regime or ethnic minority tremendous atrocities so now these hardened and soldiers are being deployed from the coastal areas and from the the areas like rakhine state in the north into these ribbon areas and t

council on foreign relations. distinguished fellow and guide to foreign affairs. the immediacy is the decline and fall, can america ever lead again. you nail it with a chapter ofmented power how fragmented are we? >> we are humpty dumpty and we are just beginning to put this slightly back together with crazy glue and hoping that it doesn't fall down again before the glue sets. lisa: can you give us a sense of the import of having a global leader right now as we still have a pandemic very much in the forefront with mutating strains and the idea that this is here to stay. >> the pandemic emphasized that there was a real world out there that bites back and that government is not just a game that americans play with each other and that politics isn't just a rhetorical bloodsport. there are consequences. there are policies. most people used to think the government is supposed to do something to protect the people from external dangers, internal dangers and advance their interests. when the government didn't do anything about the pandemic in the short-term, it seems to fundamentally challenge that entire notion and the world looked on and said you are supposed to be

of the u.k. says it's considering taking further action against those who it says a crushing democracy and the e.u. has called on the military to end its actions against civilians its foreign affairs council is expected to discuss it when we are on monday tom andrews is the un special rapporteur on human rights in me and maher he told us it's likely the crackdown will get worse. this you know the terry is capable of just about anything and then massacre protesters in the past in street street they've killed monks in saffron roach protesting and of course we've seen what they're capable of doing with the ethnic minorities including the ethnic lines so this is a very dangerous situation and the nightmare is made even. more frightening by the fact that they are now deploying these army troops these these deployments sort of in this case the 33rd light infantry division this was the very division that is accused of and was actually involved we know in massacres against the regime or ethnic minority tremendous atrocities so now these soldiers are being deployed from the coastal areas and from the the areas like rakhine state in the north into these ribbon areas and to confront these these prot