trade disputes with the trump administration in washington brought china and the e.u. closer together this week. at the twentieth even china summit in beijing leaders on both sides confirm their commitment to rules based trade deepening their strategic partnership and reforming the world trade organization. there was finally some good news from deutsche bank this week germany's biggest lender is projecting a second quarter profit of four hundred million euros far exceeding expectations the announcement sent the bank's share price soaring new c.e.o. christian saving is restructuring the bank cutting thousands of jobs and scaling back its investment banking division. warehouse workers of on line giant amazon stage strikes in european countries this week a walkout started in spain on the company's amazon prime day its annual global sales event employees are demanding labor contracts that guarantee better working conditions including higher pay and paid vacation activists called on amazon customers to stop buying its products. because turkeys economy continues its downward spiral

what's the reason why it was hoping for that she would get a little closer in the discussions with president trump britain that's leaving the e.u. britain wants to be closer to the united states that would be if the sense of this visit if the reason may was able to say anything like that's over the over the weekend but from what we know so far donald trump is having none of it and yeah he was really very very critical off the reason mase strategy which of course it would leave britain much closer to the e.u. than donald trump would have advised what wasn't just the breaks of strategy he also had a tip for who were successor might be in the interview with the sun newspaper the u.s. president praised the former foreign secretary boris johnson and he said quote i think he would be a great prime minister i think he's got what it takes he also said he had a lot of respect for johnson was sad that he had stepped down so what will the atmosphere be like at these talks after these comments. well boris johnson of course has always been never says what's the reason may he's really being in opposition an open opposition to how and the fac

e.u. tips ever closer we'll go to london in brussels also.

e.u. tips ever closer to london in brussels also coming up president. is sworn in for a second term this time with enhanced powers under a changed constitution but the nation remains deeply divided we'll have a special report from istanbul and in thailand ambulances take more boys rescued from the flooded cave to the hospital meanwhile teams of divers have been working to bring out those who are still trapped inside. it's good to have you with thoughts to come that resignations in twenty four hours have rocked the british government both overbroad sit and with just months to go before the u.k. leaves the european union the events have triggered a major cabinet reshuffle in a bombshell move the foreign minister boris johnson resigned he was one of the most vocal campaigners for brights it he will be replaced by former secretary jeremy hunt he favors keeping close economic ties with the e.u. just like the prime minister to resign may has also. had to appoint a new brakes it minister after david davis resigned on sunday. over now may's conservative party a

ashley: having said that, the president points out that the tariffs charged by the europeans, the e.u., is closer's 2.5% coming the other way into the united states. he says that is clearly unbalanced and needs to change. would you agree with that? >> well, i would like to see us get the european tariffs down, but actually, you know, the u.s. has a 25% -- ashley: on light trucks, yes. >> -- which is the biggest category, the biggest market in the u.s. now is for suvs and height trucks. so, you know, this is -- the picture is more complicated than it's being portrayed. yes, there are barriers elsewhere, but the u.s. has some trade barriers too. and the most important thing is the way to resolve that is by working with our allies and trading partners. they've been willing to negotiate on this in the past. we were making progress in the ttip negotiations towards getting both and european tariffs down to zero. so i think we ought to be focusing our attention on building better trade relations rather than blowing up the trading system, raising tariffs, building tariff walls a because in the end that's

e.u. entirely and other members who want to so-called soft bracks it's staying closer to the e.u. but one such hard line a says it's not yet time for this prime minister to quit this is about policy and not about the individual but the policy needs to get back to what it was before the status quo and after mr davis' departure the prime minister quickly promoted a junior minister dominic rod to replace him whether she will last long enough to appoint a replacement for boris johnson is uncertain paul brennan al-jazeera. let's now speak to jonah hill who's outside the british parliament and so jonah she does seem to be a mounting sense of crisis around the government of tourism a does it look like she will survive these latest departures. well to the extent that any of these things are certain which isn't much it does seem to be less of a sense of crisis perhaps receding than there was at the beginning of the day theresa may seems to have survived a meeting of. m p's the rank and file of her party of the so-called one hundred twenty two committee where if there was going to be a lead

e.u. entirely and. other members who want to so-called soft bricks it's staying closer to the e.u.but one such hard line a says it's not yet time for this prime minister to quit this is about policy and not about the individual in charge but the policy needs to get back to what it was before the status quo and after mr davis's departure the prime minister quickly promoted a junior minister dominic robb to replace him whether she will last long enough to appoint a replacement for boris johnson is uncertain paul brennan al-jazeera. live to westminster now and speak to others there is laurin sydney laurence the reason may is currently at a meeting of her party where she said to have been given a warm welcome so there's this mean that there probably won't be a leadership contest. well no i wouldn't necessarily assume that it's usual in these meetings when the prime minister goes and speaks to it with a nine hundred twenty two committee it's the group of. rank and file backbench conservative members of parliament when when the leader comes in it's just traditional for them to bang the d

the other alternative is that the threat of donald trump could lead to closer integration within the e.u. that's the agenda of french president michel it's an agenda that is shared in a more leap forward basis from german chancellor angela merkel and needs must potentially this could this this could lead to a big leap forward in european integration in terms of taking great responsibility for its own defense and indeed as we're already seeing pursuing a much more vigorous trade policy that goes around the united states. by by concluding also the trade deals with different countries with donald trump saying things. like he said in north dakota last week that the european union was set up to take advantage of the united states we can't let that happen he said it is that likely to drive more european integration drive european states closer together that kind of language. well first of all it's factually untrue the the predecessor the the whole european integration project was supported by all previous u.s. presidents because they thought that it was a way of creating peace stability and pr

why it's saying is forty eight percent of those who voted wanted to remain so we should stay closer to the e.u. than the heartbreaks it is want they want to complete break break all ties really difficult situation i'm ready but no one but no one wanted or no one campaigned for a hard brigs that with no deals simply just cutting ties and that is it in mail that has become probable not maybe most probable but we're talking about it what do you see happening next march i mean i've always asked you will briggs it happen it looks like it's going to happen i think it's happening but do you think we're going to have a break with no deal i think the events of the last few days make it less likely that we'll have a new deal bricks that we had to get to britain had to get a unified position for the toll on what the new relationship is going to be between britain and the e.u. and there was always this tension in the company between the two camps as i've said and now if the reason they really has resolved that tension if the cabinet is united then she has the mandate to go for this particular deal which p

protest of prime minister to resign may's new business friendly breaks it strategy pointing to closer ties with the e.u. some called it a sellout among them now former foreign secretary boris johnson who resigned on monday and david davis who went on sunday night the man tasked with negotiating brigs it with the e.u. johnson figurehead in the twenty sixteen campaign and widely thought to cover the top job wrote this in his resignation letter briggs it should be about opportunity and hope it should be a chance to do things differently he said that dream is dying suffocated by needless self-doubt. former health secretary jeremy hunt steps into johnson's shoes top level cabinet resignations usually spell trouble for a government and boris johnson's resignation might well have led to a leadership challenge but the reason may appears to have emerged unscathed from a meeting of the party for now she may yet be around to continue negotiations with the european union even if the e.u. has had yet another demonstration of just how vulnerable she is. in parliament earlier mrs may faced laughter and derision from

last week and she has concluded that she wants a softer break said which is something that is closer to the e.u. than a lot of fact cabinet members who campaigned for bricks it wanted but she cannot backtrack on this however the pressure is on many saying that she needs to get away from this sort of record in order to retain her cabinet or that would be open wolf however this is occurring this is a conclusion of a policy had to take and go a long time to this so i don't think she actually really has the realistic option off of backtracking on it she can really only hope that there are enough conservative m.p.'s who are backing have vision of a soft self directed and who want to prevent britain from really just crashing out of the european union damaging business this is what a lot of m.p.'s would fear bigger most reporting from london thank you so much for that we want to get your reaction know from brussels because with the brics a crisis is deepening we've already heard now from the president of the european council. he put out a tweet saying the following the politicians come and go but the

was working for you know the curve which in ukraine he was trying to get out of which we are closer to the e.u. all sounds more and more like a movie script sharon southie thanks very much. and judge in the u.s. has temporarily blocked the release of blueprints for printing three d. guns eight states brought the case to a court in seattle to stop a texas company from publishing its gun designs online it would have allowed anybody with a three day print to create the plastic guns prompting gun control advocates to liken it to downloading death u.s. president donald trump appeared to oppose the plans in a tweet on tuesday saying publishing them doesn't seem to make much sense. five fines is in the u.s. state of california say they've saved a community from the wildfires that are devastating the north of the state and major fire has been diverted from populated areas around the city of plea and into the uninhabited national forest at least six people have died and seven more are still missing in the fires that broke out more than a week ago they destroyed more than eight hundred homes and displac

e.u. negotiated for the first time this afternoon after a shake up in the government here two senior ministers resigning over trees a maze new plan for breaks in which would force see closer economic ties with the e.u. something the progress it is really don't want to see this european commission document warning member states and businesses to step up their preparations in the event of a particularly a no dealing which case it says they will be no transition period and e.u. law will cease to apply to and in the e.u. the u.k. rather and it foresees particularly problems at the border problems with transport problems with aviation the movement of goods and people over what would be brand new hard borders between the u.k. and the e.u. i think some countries i think it was then like that i was listening to that they've actually had a lot more border guards of border officers to the netherlands as well yeah that tell me a little bit more about what other countries have actually started thinking about doing well these are these are reports that we hear about the netherlands hiring a thousand new customs officers the denmark as well because of course. what they hope the e.u. tw

the other alternative is that the threat of donald trump could lead to closer integration within the e.u. that's the agenda of french president michel it's an agenda that is shared in a more leap forward basis from german chancellor angela merkel and needs must potentially this could this this could lead to a big leap forward in european integration in terms of taking great responsibility for its own defense and indeed as we're already seeing pursuing a much more vigorous trade policy that goes around the united states. by by concluding also the trade deals with different countries with donald trump saying things. like he said in north dakota last week that the european union was set up to take advantage of the united states we can't let that happen he said it is that likely to drive more european integration drive european states closer together that kind of language. well first of all it's factually untrue the the predecessor the the whole european integration project was supported by all previous u.s. presidents because they thought that it was a way of creating peace stability and pr

protest of prime minister to resign may's new business friendly breaks it strategy pointing to closer ties with the e.u. some called it a sellout among them now former foreign secretary boris johnson who resigned on monday and david davis who went on sunday night the man tasked with negotiating breaks it with the e.u. johnson figurehead in the twenty sixteen campaign and widely thought to covet the top job wrote this in his resignation letter briggs it should be about opportunity and hope it should be a chance to do things differently he said that dream is dying suffocated by needless self-doubt. former health secretary jeremy hunt steps into johnson's shoes a top level cabinet resignations usually spell trouble for a government and boris johnson's resignation might well have led to a leadership challenge but to resume a appears to have emerged unscathed from a meeting of the party for now she may yet be around to continue negotiations with the european union even if the e.u. has had yet another demonstration of just how vulnerable she is. in parliament earlier mrs may faced laughter and derision from

e.u. the two leaders could be seeking to forge closer ties both in trade and diplomacy. political who responded very neat is on the story boards she's here with me now here you were to the airport here in berlin when. touch down were you able to speak with her nor was the press were actually able to speak to her today when she arrived in the end it was a very private affair rating which is quite understandable after the experience that she's had over the last eight years and she was quickly taken away in a block car and said i was reading much to be said where expect to know where she's expected to actually seek some medical help now that i actually heard from some of her friends just before she was released from house arrest in china and many of her friends that said both friends that she has here in berlin and china has said that they had been concerned for her mental health especially since the death of her husband last year earlier we spoke to john used to say that i way way listen to his take on she was really nice. on the she has being unsorry putting all surprised

e.u. entirely and. other members who want to so-called soft bricks it's staying closer to the e.u.with one such hard line a says it's not yet time for this prime minister to quit this is about policy the not about the individual who told me that the policy needs to go back to what it was before the status quo and after mr davis's departure the prime minister quickly promoted a junior minister dominic robb to replace him whether she will last long enough to appoint a replacement for boris johnson is uncertain of paul brennan al-jazeera. or in our other top stories eight schoolboys have now been rescued from a thai cave where they were stranded for more than two weeks all the children have been sent to hospital after two days of rescue operations for more boys and their football coach remain in the cabin in chiang rai the head of the rescue mission says he needs three more days to get them out. israel has shut down a key economic lifeline into the gaza strip a move hamas has branded a war crime the abu salim crossing is a vital access point for supplies in the besieged territory isra

e.u. entirely and. other members who want to so-called soft bricks it's staying closer to the e.u. but one such hard line a says it's not yet time for this prime minister to quit this is about policy and also about the individual child but the policy needs to get back to what it was before the status quo and after mr davis' departure the prime minister quickly promoted a junior minister dominic rod to replace him whether she will last long enough to appoint a replacement for boris johnson is uncertain paul brennan al-jazeera. well it speak to john the westminster journalist david davis of our stance and it had been rumors about them leaving well for months years really almost since the beginning of this government how potentially fatal could this be to terry's amazing leadership. well it almost had very immediate consequences with a meeting of the rank and file of a party the so-called one hundred twenty two committee m.p.'s parliamentary backbench m.p.'s she was due to do to appear before them to sell them the virtues of that famous friday deal struck with a cabinet of checkers wh

e.u. entirely and. other members who want to so-called soft bricks it's staying closer to the e.u. but one such hard line a says it's not yet time for this prime minister to quit this is about policy and also about the individual but the policy needs to go back to what it was before the status quo and after mr davis's departure the prime minister quickly promoted a junior minister dominic robb to replace him whether she will last long enough to appoint a replacement for boris johnson is uncertain paul brennan al-jazeera. well let's go straight live down to westminster and speak told is there is lawrence leigh lawrence sometimes it's hard to remember really that it's been two years since the actual vote and that in nine months the united kingdom should actually be leaving the european union where do we stand now when it comes both of course to terrorism a the leadership of the conservative party do you think there's any chance of a possible general election. i'm not sure about a general election no i think i think there's every chance though of a leadership contest for the conservat

protest of prime minister to resign may's new business friendly breaks it strategy pointing to closer ties with the e.u. some called it a sellout among them now former foreign secretary boris johnson who resigned on monday and david davis who went on sunday night the man tasked with negotiating breaks it with the e.u. johnson figurehead in the twenty sixteen campaign and widely thought to covet the top job wrote this in his resignation letter brags it should be about opportunity and hope it should be a chance to do things differently he said that dream is dying suffocated by needless self-doubt former health secretary jeremy hunt steps into johnson's shoes top level cabinet resignations usually spell trouble for a government and boris johnson's resignation might well have led to a leadership challenge but to resume a appears to have emerged unscathed from a meeting of her party for now she may yet be around to continue negotiations with the european union even if the e.u. has had yet another demonstration of just how vulnerable she is. in parliament earlier mrs maynard faced laughter and derision from

e.u. and ukrainian officials said on thursday the suspension of talks on closer ties could be revived after the two day meeting but officials said the deal was off the table for now. thank. you. pro e.u. protests on the streets of kiev and to their second day the crowd of a round of thousand protesters were joined by the leader of the opposition or any well boxing champion vitaly klitschko he called on the demonstrators to maintain pressure on the government after it decided not to sign a major trade deal with the e.u. you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up at my right can you take me through that period so someone let's. find the money at the worst with the mute in the uk see. more snow. yet at the mobil have. to go to. if you want me a pretty much. as we took appropriate for the will move and you built a will grow. up just in the going is also. what you see is the loser i don't like the interest of the least a little to shift my ground. robert perry is a longtime investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best known for his major disclos

e.u. and ukrainian officials said on thursday the suspension of talks on closer ties could be revived after the two day meeting but officials said the deal was off the table. for a. pro e.u. protests on the streets of kiev and to their second day the crowd of around a thousand protesters were joined by the leader of the opposition or any well boxing champion vitaly klitschko he called on the demonstrators to maintain pressure on the government after it decided not to sign a major trade deal with the e.u. you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up at my right can you take me through that very slow someone let's. find the money at the post with the mute in the uk see. more snow deal or yak at the mobile have. to go to. if you want me approaching my billet in wichita do you let me be took appropriate for the little move around your little group. up just in the company is also. what you see is little bizarre i don't like the interest of the least a little to shift my ground. robert perry is a long time investigative journalist based in washington d.c. be

e.u. and ukrainian officials said on thursday the suspension of talks on closer ties could be revived after the two day meeting but officials said the deal was off the table for now. thank you for a. pro e.u. protests on the streets of kiev and to their second day the crowd of around a thousand protesters were joined by the leader of the opposition or any well boxing champion vitaly klitschko he called on the demonstrators to maintain pressure on the government after it decided not to sign a major trade deal with the e.u. you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up but can you take me through that period. by the minute the worst with the media in the uk see. more. yak at the mobile have. to go to. if you want to let me update you my position which it would you let me as we took appropriate for the will move and you built a will grow. up just in the company feel and see what you see is little bizarre i don't like the interest of the least a little to shift my ground. robert parry is a long time investigative journalist based in washington d.c. best kno

e.u. the two leaders could be seeking to forge closer ties both in trade and diplomacy. or one of the most important neo nazi trials ever held in germany will come to an end tomorrow after five years a court in munich is expected to deliver a verdict for five people who were charged in connection with the biggest neo nazi killing spree targeting migrants ever seen in post-war you're and whatever the court in munich decides the families of the victims say the trial has not answered some key questions including why far right killers were able to elude police in some cases for as long as a decade. abdul karim shack is the son of the first victim he was a child when his father was killed. why did the murderous choose my father i just can't and won't believe it was a coincidence or. you have four hundred thirty seven days of negotiations and this important question has not been answered i can't find closure because i don't feel that everything has been investigated. the victims' families feel that the trial for the first series of racist murderous a post-war germany hasn't se

e.u. the two leaders could be seeking to forge closer ties both in trade and diplomacy. well earlier the dissident chinese artist ai wei wei spoke to d.w. exclusively from bangladesh here's what he said about sean's release and germany's role in the release on the she has being tardy putting all surprised of for so many years which is such a dreadful situation and the. whole international community has argue about this notion i should be afraid on the specialty one germany. you know tesler so much attention about it is just based on a made such effort in a german has being come for a long time to tool to negotiate with his chinese government about chinese political prisoners on the loucheux three days is a positive. it something you know part of. possibly bizarre for this kind of international effort there was the artist ai weiwei speaking to d.w. exclusively a short while ago from bangladesh you're watching b.w. news still to come germany's interior minister has been accused of insensitivity after he appeared to joke about filled asylum seekers being sent back to afghan

e.u. and ukrainian officials said on thursday the suspension of talks on closer ties could be revived after the two day meeting but officials said the deal was off the table for now. thank you for a. pro e.u. protests on the streets of kiev and to their second day the crowd of around a thousand protesters were joined by the leader of the opposition the rennie well boxing champion vitaly klitschko he called on the demonstrators to maintain pressure on the government after it decided not to sign a major trade deal with the e.u. you go back to kiev the next day after the meeting with merkel. and protests are up at my right can you take me through that period so someone let's. find the money at the worst with the mute in the uk see. more snow deal or yak at the mobile have. to go to. if you want to let me update you my position which of those clothes we took appropriate for you will move on your little group. up just in the coming few months what you see is the bizarre i don't like the interest of the release they were able to shift my ground. robert perry is a longtime investigative journalist

protest of prime minister to resign may's new business friendly breaks it strategy pointing to closer ties with the e.usome called it a sellout among them now former foreign secretary boris johnson who resigned on monday and david davis who went on sunday night the man tasked with negotiating breaks it with the e.u. johnson figurehead in the twenty sixteen campaign and widely thought to covet the top job wrote this in his resignation letter brags it should be about opportunity and hope it should be a chance to do things differently he said that dream is dying suffocated by needless self-doubt former health secretary jeremy hunt steps into johnson's shoes top level cabinet resignations usually spell trouble for a government and boris johnson's resignation might well have led to a leadership challenge but to resume a appears to have emerged unscathed from a meeting of her party for now she may yet be around to continue negotiations with the european union even if the e.u. has had yet another demonstration of just how vulnerable she is. he'd parliament earlier misses many faced laughter and derision from

here after two reason may's plans were rejected by some senior ministers to maintain closer economic ties with the e.u. what the e.c. is now warning of is this no deal they're telling member states and business to step up their preparations they're saying in the event of no deal they will be no transition period e.u. law will cease to apply to and in the u.k. that means border issues transport issues the movement of goods and people money and medicines data everything gets held up that's the scenario of a no deal and how likely is the no deal scenario as you said we've kind of seen three's a maze government it's like a meltdown of the past week ten days so is it becoming more likely that we'll well i think it's the events of the last two weeks or so that have brought this into particularly sharp focus now two weeks ago there appeared to be a unity of purpose within the cabinet here the e.u. responded quite positively to that michel barnier said i think we'll have a deal by tobar the parliaments can all go and vote on them before march next year since then two big resignations to resume a court fightin

into the country as it seeks to build closer trade ties with europe in the wake of the looming trade war with the us the premier league. told central and eastern e.u. leaders at a summit in bulgaria that overall import tariffs to the chinese market would be lowered most of these visit comes after u.s. tariffs on thirty four billion dollars worth of chinese goods came into effect beijing has imposed retaliates three measures from washington. hundreds of women are protesting against what's being called a spy cam pornography in south korea demonstrators say the government is not doing enough to stop hidden cameras being used to secretly recorded women in public spaces including toilets subway escalators and even their office desks saturdays rally in the capital seoul follows last month's protest where thousands turned up to raise awareness about the issue of those are your headlines the news continues after the wanted eighteen. it lasts. it. home. you. and then it is seven i was just. six years or living with my family in officially camp. most of the time we didn't want settling. boring life. the only thing we could do indoors was reading comics. and

e.u. the two leaders could be seeking to forge closer ties both in trade and diplomacy. all right and for more on the usia release we're now joined by felix lee he is a correspondent for one of germany's dailies good to have you here with us felix it seems looking from the outside that germany played an imperative role in securing her release why did germany or the german government take interest in her case well actually this used to be a major issue of human rights used to be a major issue for all western governments for all governments of western countries now after france u.k. there it's not a big issue anymore for them dealing with china economy is more important and after . donald trump became president also the u.s. is not pushing so much anymore so germany is the only country left to. research this question let's talk about timing because it seems to be very auspicious well yeah we just heard officially the chinese government says it has nothing to do with the visit of the prime minister. chung here in berlin but to be honest no it definitely has something to do

e.u. obviously recently increased efforts for close economic relations with china now this bit. is off the table so what would you make of it closer cooperation with china yes but investment no. it's a critical infrastructure and tia as with an austrian pipeline we see that critical infrastructure is has an important aspect to the german policy or european policy as well so here obviously the german government decided not to give it in chinese hands and to control it by itself so that's one part of the reason and the other one is that germany really wants to have the control also of a particular interest doctrine for years in china cannot really do it. for the energy expert at the german institute for economic research think is much thank you . a poll for the times newspaper shows that a majority in britain now favor a second referendum on breaks it this as the european union's chief breaks of negotiating michel barnier ruled out allowing the u.k. to collect a customs duties on the e.u.'s behalf a key u.k. proposal for post breaks a trade. that could threaten the u.s. customs union and other key policies britain is set to leave th

certainly excludes when it comes to closer relations it takes excludes the financial sector why do you think. well the u.k. will end free movement of people when it leaves the e.u. from the start the e.u. is made absolutely clear financial service is off the table if the u.k. chooses to violate that key component of the single market so it's no surprise in a way the u.k. is simply realized that it cannot have financial services if it ends free movement of people on the side of the ending free movement of people matters more than keeping good access in financial services and they've brussels turns around and says well thank you very much for the proposal unfortunately it won't to do will that open the door again for better negotiations with the united states. and i think on this case the e.u. case proposal to keep reduce your why. i mean in goods with some kind of customs arrangement in my opinion it's a customs union in all but name i think you will see that this is the first off the u.k. has put forward that is a reasonable basis for negotiation so i don't think the e.u. will reject it although they may be maybe some suggestions about how the u.k. may need to

although we've now moved closer to a final deal, it remains to be seen whether the e.u. will accept what has been proposed by the u.k. there has still been cherry picking on the customs union. anna: and where does this leave the bank of england? one analyst suggesting this is up in the air. if this level of uncertainty were to continue, the bank of england wouldn't be able to make a decision. they've been impressed by the data and they seem as if they are heading in that direction. alexis: mark carney said brexit has been a drag on the economy. the economy is still running strong. the bank of england is ready to raise rates. provided the data continues to upbeat this month more than it was in the first quarter, the bank of england is still said to hike. reporter wrote this morning from ernst & young about dei into the u.k. the u.k. is the number one destination for foreign direct investment. andose 64% in germany doubled in france. fdi in british financial firms dropped 26%. do you think that is just a one-off, or is there something more telling him that data? alexis: it

e.u. which it believes will prevent ad h border in ireland. here is our political editor. reporter: look close. then closer. ok through the hazy. -- haze. there's the cabinet deciding their future. and more importantly, all of ours. thprime minister gesturing to boris johnson, what do you od think his language is saying back? teresa may's aies desperate to get him andth the heexiteers onboard. and signs are still profound disagreements about life outside the e.u. teresa may argued for a model where we're snugly tied to the e.u. in many ways. but it seems at least in her mind the dea was done. >> well, in detailed discussions today, the cabinet has agreed our collective position on the future of our negotiations with the e.u. and our proposal will create a u.k.e.u. free trade area which establishes a common rule book on industrial goods and agricultural products. this will maintain hi standards. but we will ensure that no changes can take place without thel approf our parliament. will avoid we friction in trade. that will protect jobs and livelihoods and also meet ournt commito northern ireland. we've also agreed to aew n business friend

closer. the problem that brussels has been aware of for months is that the british government has negotiated itself within its own ranks and not with the e.u. and so there are stuck here in brussels the same way that was stuck to the right road three months ago and we know that the prime minister and her cabinet i mean they did agree on a break they planned just on friday and so barbara i'd like to ask you how is that being received in brussels. cautiously of course said nobody wanted to sort of wipe it off the table immediately so there were friendly responses to yes we will look at the detail of the proposal and then we will sort of talk about it and we will read begin negotiations bought of course behind the scenes it was clear that this again looked like cherry picking that britain wanted pieces of the single market and pieces of the custom union and sort of made make up out of that sort of custom made solution for a british e.u. relationship something that the european side has always said is not doable and so that's thing has really changed we're still stuck at the point where the british side doesn't have a clear negotiating positio

trade towers are a big talking point china is ready moving closer to developing nations like brakes members to counter protectionism china the e.u. mexico and canada are the main targets of president tom's trade offensive and all have hit back with steep tabs in response later on wednesday the european commission president will meet at the white house but isn't too optimistic they'll be able to resolve anything else on wednesday mexican president elect andrus money over a draw or sit down with officials from canada they're looking for a united front ahead of talks resuming with the u.s. about the north american free trade deal or nafta which trump has threatened to abandon now white house correspondent kimberly how good is standing by for a discussion about how this meeting between trump and is likely to go we're going structure in just a few minutes but for right now we go to how or. why that breaks meeting is going on how are they able to present a united front the brics nations in face of this looming trade war with the united states. well they certainly are trying to the leaders who spoke in today so far have all pushed for

e.u. . well the certainly a big political game at the moment with trump criticizing european governments for their relates of low defense expenditures at the same time. getting closer to russia so that's also an economy excite to. today's political game as put the tramp has been very critical of the was a cut especially of germany's traits plus. you can see that the german government is trying. to keep a lead on tensions in order to avoid some type of specially on comic sports so it's a lost political gamble taking place at this moment the french government is being a little more search tools to us when it comes to trade issues but really russia is just one part of these i mean from a european perspective russia is one part of these growing tensions between the you and the u.s. in general it's not surely just about defining one come on approach to to russia it's to russia it's it's a bit more complicated than that especially given the. trade tension that the moments nikkei joe why has trump broken so decisively with what the u.s. stance towards russia has been for very many is well first and foremost i want to make sure that we understand something here about the u

excludes when it comes to closer relations and it clearly excludes the financial sector why is that you think. well the u.k. will and free movement of people when it leaves the e.u from the start the e.u. is made absolutely clear financial service is off the table if the u.k. chooses to violate that key component of the single market so it's no surprise in a way the u.k. is simply realize that it cannot have financial services if it ends free movement of people on the side of the ending free movement of people matters more than keeping good access in financial services we have about half a minute left and perhaps you could enlighten us if you happen to know what donald trump advice to reset may to do in terms of break said she said she gave her advise and she didn't take it. all i think donald trump's advice would have been just out very much all right kellan pickering their senior economist at bear in bed bank in london thank you so much for your time. and here's a reminder of the top story we're following for you protests mark this is a top u.s. president on a tramp to britain earlier trying to set a british american free trade deal may be impossible if the u.