e.u. commission president john called younger and u.k. prime minister to resign may just announcing that progress has been made on bragg's of talks after marathon talks last night the u.k. committing to avoiding a hard border there and ireland and the e.u. commission announcing that they are ready to work on a second phase of bragg's it negotiations with the very latest from brussels an analysis here we thank you very much for your reporting and we will have more a little bit later in the program but in the meantime would like to turn to some other stories that have been making news around the world poland's conservatives have named my tail but have yet ski as the country's new prime minister the former finance minister replaces. in the pope's critics say that the leadership shakeup is meant to distract from a vote on friday on laws that would give the ruling party significant power we're told it's traditional system. argentina's former president cristina fernandez to care center has said that treason charges against her are politically m

e.u. commission president john called younger and u.k. prime minister to resign may just announcing that progress has been made on bragg's of talks after marathon talks last night the u.k. committing to avoiding a hard border there and ireland.

e.u. commission president and prime minister treason may said the next phase of negotiations can now finally begin. and called for a united states of europe but first he has to persuade his own social democrat party to start coalition talks with chester on the americans conservatives news has an exclusive one on one with the s.p.d. leader marchin schultz. i'm sarah harman welcome to the show it's good to have you with us two palestinians have been killed and scores more injured in a day of clashes in the west bank and gaza a violent response to donald trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel israel is secure. the forces cluster of palestinians in gaza the health ministry there says at least twenty five people were injured israel says it bombed last targets in gaza and were telling nation for rocket fire that as the united nations security council met to almost well late condemned trumps move u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nevertheless insisted the u.s. is pushing for peace the united states has not taken a position on boundaries or borders the specific dimensions of sove

e.u. commission president of his own glowed. the two sides will now move on to negotiating a trade agreement. germany's social democrats and their leader martin schultz of the pairing for talks with the americans conservatives on forming the country's next government source told the daily news his party will push for improved european cooperation and the creation of a united states of europe. all right that does it for me on leyla iraq in berlin on behalf of all of us here thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us sarah harman is up next. i don't see phone lines at stores close as can be god's house of music but this time the songwriter from lion's head will best play. go east i'll brace my ass. was. fifty six dollars per hour. and then fresh. as i speak your language makes talking about going. for content in pashto. prospects for a return to our special futurists like germany and the prospects for those returning. to join the discussion following g.w. dot com and on facebook. prospects for attorneys d.-w. may

e.u. commission president john clive younker even said i believe that we have now made the breakthrough that we needed. will tax reform pledge by president donald trump to be completed before christmas also a limited key porsha. of obamacare the affordable care act and what might that mean for individuals and our country joining us now from denver is hadley manning the director of policy for independent for the independent women's forum hadley thank you so much for being with us really appreciate your time and before we get to it could you tell us just a little bit about your organization your history. current independent women's forum is that twenty five year old organization based in washington d.c. and our mission is to speak about issues of importance to women and family instead of course tax reform and health reform both in that bucket did you all start around the clarence thomas time was at the beginning of when you were you're out there the clarence hill anita hill. yes in the early one nine hundred ninety s. and of course you can tell from our title that we're primarily interested in

e.u. commission says it has quote deep competition concerns about the bid e.u. competition commissioner my visit to this tiger said might monopolize certain routes she wants customers and wyvil airlines to have their say those towns are hopes to pay two hundred ten million euros for air balloons aircraft as well as takeoff and landing slots. here's our financial correspondent cons are in frankfurt on the story many passengers who often take a flight have noticed that in recent weeks the prices on many routes that lufthansa took over from berlin after the insolvency have surged very much now the european union's commissioner of a star is concerned that fans are might already be monopolizing the domestic market here in germany the concessions that. suggested to the antitrust authorities were probably not enough in the next two weeks the antitrust watchdog will interrogate lufthansa's competitors in order to find out what has to be done to create fair competition investors believe that easy jet will profit from this its share prize was a big gain there here in fran

e.u. commission president close younger and prime minister theresa may say the next phase of negotiations can now finally begin. with. thank you very much for your company the united nations a middle east envoy has warned about the risk of a violent escalation following the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel he told the gathering of the u.n. security council that the move may trigger unilateral actions which would make a peace deal harder to reach the security council meeting was requested by britain and france and half a dozen other countries. well monitoring the emergency u.n. security council meeting is carson phenomena and carson joins us right now from washington carson what more can you tell us. why the security council meeting in new york is still on the way right now and so far everybody all of the ambassadors from different nations have condemned and criticized the u.s. move or the announcement of donald trump to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem even close allies have said the u.k. for instance which actually called for this meeting has criticized. th

e.u. commission president john. it follows a night of diplomatic wrangling over the irish border issue they're expected to give a press conference shortly we will go to it live. palestinians have called for a day of rage today to protest. u.s. president trumps recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital it follows a wave of demonstrations in the west bank on thursday. let's turn now to zimbabwe just three weeks after the ouster of president robert mugabe a court in the capital harare has released the country's former finance minister on bail it. was detained on charges of fraud and corruption after the military seized power in zimbabwe he is the first mugabe loyalist to go on trial other members of mugabe's inner circle are believed to have fled the country or gone into hiding and with widespread misuse of state resources during the thirty seven years of rule of mugabe zimbabwe has been brought to its knees we will speak with our correspondent here in the studio to find out more but first her exclusive report from

purchased prime ministers to resume a arrived early at the european commission her goal saving the talks on her country's exit from the e.u. a short meeting with european commission president include hugo followed and then the two emerged to make the big announcement usable. fairly poor. we've been able to make sufficient progress to ensure that we can now move into the second phase of the negotiation between the united kingdom and the european union of twenty seven of them so it. may and june can say there's been progress on a major stumbling block how to manage the featured border between the u.k.'s northern ireland and the ease republic of ireland has been a particularly tricky subject many a hard border separating the two with border guards could plunge the north back into turmoil by undermining the belfast agreement it ended decades of sectarian violence in the region. in northern ireland we will guarantee there will be no hard border and we will uphold the belfast agreement and in doing so we will continue to pursue the constitutional and economic integrity of the united kingdom. but e.u. chief bracks negotiates a m

e.u. commission if she doesn't come up with significant commitments there at this lunch especially in terms of how much money the u.k. is willing to pay for the you know bricks of divorce settlement people in the markets will likely become very very nervous again about future trade relations with the u.k. well right well then we all should keep a close eye on that lunch between the two of them for sure cannot wasn't in frankfurt thank you so much this well this weekend was the first sunday of advent and that means germany's christmas season is now in full swing germany is the home of the christmas market of course where the first ones appeared in the late middle ages and in those hundreds of years they've grown to become a seasonal economic factor and they're also regulated including one of its most popular products here in the center of cologne locals and visitors are getting into the festive spirit for many that means indulging in a thief no drink or two food quality tester all of our my own has come here to check they're up to scratch. i would assume ok for the boiling point of alcohol i

e.u. commission president put forward a set of reforms to overhaul the euro zone to ward off financial crisis in the future these reforms were spearheaded by the french president. cheering his campaign essentially what they include is a euro zone finance minister for the nineteen member states which would probably be the head of the euro group wearing two hats a little bit confusing there and also a european monetary fund currently the stability mechanism exists that countries must agree through a unanimous vote to release funds in the case of financial crisis in a member state this would be through a majority vote and then there's also the idea of a euro zone budget essentially raising the question of who would have a final say over an individual country's financial budgets you could see it as a lot to be talked about that today in brussels but let's take a closer look sara now at those euro zone reform proposals and some of the concerns . greek protesters calling for an end two years of a sterile sea thursday's twenty four hour strike was the laces show of opposition to cuts imposed largely

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e.u. commission, speaking on the so-called divorce. what exactly are the terms?izens rights, a major issue. a guarantee meant the rights of citizens living in the u.k. and one million britons in your country -- in e.u. countries. between ireland and northern ireland, there will be no hard order. irish citizens maintain e.u. citizenship. e.u. prime minister said this a necessary step in the right direction. the main question is the cost of the divorce. they say they have agreed on a theodology to reach financial settlement, but no price tag has been agreed on yet. let's bring in duncan woodside, london.s us live from one major sticking point has ireland,and, northern and this whole issue of borders. it's take a listen to what the british prime minister had to say on the matter today. may: we will work to achieve the trading relationship between the u.k. and european union that we want to see, that we believe will also be a good trading relationship for northern ireland. if that is not the case, we will look for a specific solution to what are the unique circumstan

e.u. she's hoping to reach a deal on bragg's a divorce terms with the european commission chief john claude younker the two sides are said to have agreed that britain will pay around fifty billion euros to leave the bloc but they still haven't hammered out conditions for the irish border and the rights of citizens living in each other's nations the e.u. has refused to move on to future trade talks until those issues are settled. for more now let's bring in our correspondent garrick mattis who is standing by with the very latest from brussels hi to you georg what are the most controversial sticking points would you say between britain and the e.u. at this point i mean when we boil it down is it all about the money well given the latest concept come concessions that at least the appear to be the latest concessions on the brakes a bill that has shifted a bit into the background and given more room for citizen rights and the question of a hard border in northern ireland the key sticking points appear to be now in that field particularly northern ireland because for the irish government it seems

e.u. commission's move as having no merit and said that it was solely a political decision let's go right to brussels state obvious next hoffman a standing by for us hi max remind us what exactly poland has done to prompt this reaction from brussels and do you have a couple of good examples there soon we earlier they really drew the line with the supreme court laws what you just said that the polish government tries influence the composition of the supreme court by a couple of tricks for example by lowering the age the eligible age for judges which would make some of them go now which would alter the whole makeup of the court in favor of the polish government and their political direction and that's just one example another example is that the justice minister would get get more influence over who becomes an ordinary judge by naming them directly and this of course is bad for the separation of powers the judiciary and the executive and plans to move on so we just saw there the commissioner in charge said that there was thirteen laws in total over the last two years and i quote here which

e.u. commission president john called your current prime minister trees of may so the next phase of negotiations can now finally begin. and he's called for a united states of europe but the former c.e.o. has to persuade his own social democrat party to start coalition talks with chancellor angela merkel's conservatives hugs an exclusive one on one with s.p.d. leader mark schultz. and coming up in the business news the ups and downs of bitcoin the roller coaster ride continues but after massive gains the cryptocurrency lost almost a fifth of its value in a single day experts are warning this could be of bob. welcome to the program my name's sarah harmon it's good to have you with us one person has been killed and scores injured in clashes on the israeli gaza border following a day of violent protest that as the united nations middle east envoy envoy excuse me warned of the whisk of more. following president trump's decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel he told a gathering of the u.n. security council that the move might trigger unilateral actions making a peace deal harder to r

e.u. commission was still strongly considering a deeper investigation which would have meant a ninety day investigation into this deal after which loved ones are still would have been able to come out as the loser. so the doubts here are actually understandable as well but all in all you wouldn't say that there is a loser i mean they've got a real grip on the domestic market and prices are already going up they do they do have a grip on the domestic market they also have a grip on the on the european market prices have gone up but still love times are wanted more. wanted more he wanted more exposure more routes. and even tighter grip and as you mentioned prices have gone up and strangely enough with this deal off the table prices are not necessarily likely to go down because as you mentioned there are no real other bidders for nikki and times has actually been pumping money into nikki to keep it up in the air with the deal off the table that's going to stop now and so nicky mayer under the backups he may stop flying as soon as friday and so more flights will be taken off the off the roste

e.u. commission president. and prime minister to resign made.

e.u. commission has just formally decided to recommend because you can see that sufficient progress has not been made on the street terms of evils getting to this point has required give and take on the. it's friday was the last possible day for a deal to be done so the european council copper pair and their vote next week both sides admitted they made last minute compromises to meet the deadline we've been working extremely hard this week and as you've all seen it hasn't been easy for either side. their meeting on monday ended in deadlock the sticking point was what will become of the only land border between the northern ireland and the republic of ireland which is in the e.u. the republic wanted guarantees it will remain open with no return to a so-called hard border with border guards the government coalition partners in northern ireland the democratic unionist party returned an earlier version of the deal and forced her back to the drawing board the result in northern ireland we will guarantee there will be no hard border and we will uphold the belfast agreement and in doing so we will

e.u. commission who in syria are acting on behalf of the leaders are behaving in such a negative way when it's in their interests to get as good a deal as possible with the united kingdom in a cell last so much more than we sell to them we were both in parliament to march of this year it was. must of the joy to the commons vote to vote after fifty you voted for i voted against the. parliamentary with motives starting to change that your party the liberal party edging away from the brits and position well i think you were very principled people like you who voted against it there were a lot of people who voted for it for all sorts of with gritted teeth but there was a huge majority and parliament has decided to can focus article fifty or leaving now in two years time march two thousand and nineteen. there is no data by there's a majority in parliament who voted to remain so there is a shift i think of reality but that doesn't mean to say that there's not still a lot of people in parliament who would love to record there with a single market to really. be a look so to book compromise with w

e.u. competition commission will essentially be approving a monopoly when it comes to some routes is it a necessary deal or a dereliction of duty for the regulator. well probably it's a mixed bag when you look at the results which are expected to come out from the commission authority competition authorities in brussels so reuters is reporting that the compromise is that giving up on lending and starting rides and visit often also in the future would not expand its presence in in order not to have a monopoly there but of course there are the stretches and there are other destinations where they really will have one and i guess that the competition authorities will monitor the pricing policy or flow found that very carefully going forward ok and also tourists are affected there's been a knock on effect at least for the tourism industry. yes the tourist authority in berlin is saying that because of the demise of lenin there are fewer flights into the german capital and that it's really get yet kind of the risen industry is feeling that very terribly in the month of october and november alre

for this and we are just getting in the agency reports that the european commission is planning for fundamental reforms for the e.u. the commission has just agreed to create a european monetary fund by the middle of twenty nineteen the fund will be similar to the international monetary fund but is designed to strengthen the economies of the euro zone reforms are scheduled to be discussed at an upcoming summit which takes place next week and with that we turning to the united states where thousands of homes off threatened by wildfire and california. badly hit this area you've got that storm absolutely a state of emergency actually and in place in southern california there are monica where firefighters are battling severe wildfires as we heard almost two hundred thousand people have been ordered to evacuate no one believed to have died in the fires but local media reporting that one person was killed in a car crash of fleeing the area. and he hoped to save this house now gone up in flames one of hundreds of homes destroyed by wild fire at this point all the firefighters can do is stand and watch. the biggest fire bu

e.u. steering commission as well. rochelle: incredible difficult to tell what is going to come out of today's talks. what is likely to happen next in all of this? well, we will all have to wait and see how this lunch works out between theresa may, david davis, ali robbins, jean-claude juncker, and michelle garnier. the real deadline could be this wednesday, when it you commission or sit around the table to give their stance on brexit talks. gete.u. heads of state together on the 14th or 15th. it will also be the european parliament that will have the final word. the european parliament has a high stake in the choreography of the brexit talks, and they will have the ability to veto any sort of deal. the european people's party is the biggest political party in the european parliament. was clear on twitter that the european parliament would not be budging on their red lines and move ahead toh to phase two unless they had guarantees from the u.k. side on all three sticking points, and the ongoing burning issue of the rol

e.u. competition commission over its partial takeover of beilin today e.u. regulators are concerned about what lufthansa as bulk purchase would do to ticket prices and competition now british airways own i.a.g. is once again considering bidding on abol lynn subsidiary the austrian ally and nicky taking advantage of the pushback close is facing from competition authorities both times i want eighty one aircraft and the associated landing rights for a purchase price of two hundred ten million euros. now my colleague brandegee that is following the talks and joins us now from brussels bound what is the commission worried about. negative s. to the commission of how competition is concerned. might gain too much market share and even a monopoly on certain routes in europe in germany this may affect one hundred drugs especially coming from. billiton and the ticket prices there are already going up twenty six to thirty nine percent on average the ticket prices have risen since aberdeen stopped flying to these cities about sixty thousand seeds a day missing and loved

e.u. . but they couldn't stop the european commission backed by numerous e.u. members from extending licensing for the controversial chemical for another five years critics maintained life to say it is too dangerous i mean over all days like a major scientific and medical issues that are not totally like the mason everything's on the environment but also we are growing at least seem like a huge well the over this independent evidence linking deficit with concert. the world health organization has classified life to sate as a likely carcinogen though other studies including by the european food safety authority are inconclusive. life a sate has been used to world wide and industrial food production for more than forty years. critics maintain there are other chemicals with the same benefits and fewer drawbacks. glyphosate is the active ingredient in the lucrative roundup products produced by us see giant monsanto. a company germany's bya is currently offering more than sixty billion dollars to acquire. the two sides appear to be close to a deal in britain's expen

e.u. competition commission will essentially be approving a monopoly when it comes to some routes i guess what i'm asking here is whether it's a necessary deal or a dereliction of duty for the regulator. well it's probably a mixed shelf it isn't necessarily deal because obviously we knew me need these these routes to be serviced because what we're having right now at least and some destinations inside germany it's just not enough flights air in the air are just operated but on the other side as well according to reuters last time there's handed in some serious concessions in order to sort of cure the obstacles which they were obviously having so what is the rumor is that they have been there for going or giving up on starting and landing rights in the so there are and that might have curate some of the concerns the competition authorities had in the e.u. but still there are many routes where aloof towns are the which is supposed to go through will be the dominant force if not the monopolistic. kariya such as frank the live in frankfurt but also other so it will remain to be seen what they

e.u. competition commission will essentially be approving a monopoly when it comes to some routes is it a necessary deal or a dereliction of duty for the regulator why probably it's a mixed bag when you look at the results which are expected to come out from the commission or thora the competition or thirty so reuters is reporting that the compromise is that giving up on lending and starting riots and sold off and also in the future would not expand its presence in the gulf in order not to have a monopoly there but of course there are other strategies and there are the best in nations where they really will have one and i guess that the competition authorities will monitor of the pricing policy or flow found that very carefully going forward ok and also tourists are affected there's been a knock on effect at least for the tourism industry. yes the tourist authority in berlin is saying that because of the demise of lenin there are fewer flights into the german capital and that it's really get yet kind of the or is an industry is feeling that very terribly in the month of october november r

e.u. the commission has just formally decided to recommend to the concert that sufficient progress is. being made on the street terms of the divorce getting to this point has required give and take on both sides friday was the last possible day for a deal to be done so the european council could prepare and then vote next week both sides admitted they made last minute compromises to meet the deadline we've been working extremely hard this week and as you've all seen it hasn't been easy for either side. that meeting on monday ended in deadlock the sticking point was what will become of the only land border between the northern ireland and the republic of ireland which is in the e.u. the republic wanted guarantees it will remain open with no return to a so-called hard border with border guards the government coalition partners in northern ireland the democratic unionist party vetoed an earlier version of the deal and forced her back to the drawing board the result in northern ireland we will guarantee there will be no hard border and we will uphold the belfast agreement and in doing so w

e.u. says this reform puts a course under political control and is a violation of. european norms poland says the moves are needed to combat corruption in what would be an unprecedented move the european commission could invoke article seven of the e.u.'s treaty to punish warsaw for breaking its rules. let's go right to our brussels correspondent teri schultz she is standing by for us hi terry good to see you how things got this bad between warsaw and brussels well it's taken a while the european commission has been warning morris for some two years that these moves to take more control of the judiciary were simply not in line with e.u. law and not e.u. values e.u. principles and they've issued recommendations to the polish government to reverse course to change what it was doing poland has steamed right ahead and now basically the commission feels it has no choice but to take out the biggest stick in his arse it's in in in its arsenal which is article seven it says if it does not do so then what does what do the use values mean so basically what we're going to see today is the commission saying we have given warsaw as many chances as much time as we can and this is what we're left with the nucl

e.u. . but they couldn't stop the european commission backed by numerous e.u. members from extending licensing for the controversial chemical for another five years critics maintain glad to say it is too dangerous i mean over all days they come major scientific and medical issues that are not totally like the mason everything on the environment but also we are growing at least seem like a huge body of evidence independent evidence linking deficit with cancer. the world health organization has classified life to sate as a likely carcinogen though other studies including by the european food safety authority are inconclusive. life is saved has been used to world wide and industrial food production for more than forty years. critics maintain there are other chemicals with the same benefits and fewer drawbacks. glyphosate is the active ingredient in the lucrative roundup products produced by u.s. c giant monsanto. a company germany's buyer is currently offering more than sixty billion dollars to acquire. the two sides appear to be close to a deal in britain's expen

e.u. commissioner said we need to keep a close eye on the government, at least for the commission. some e.u. parliamentarians, especially those from the left, said this was not a good thing, and they would be very vigilant. but if you look at the documents that have been released so far, there is some good news for e.u. institutions. as you said, this coalition is trying to reassure everybody in brussels that they are pro-european. they even wrote that a strong austria can only exist in a strong europe. i think nobody has doubts in brussels that at the very least this new coalition will and large and -- -- will enlarge the rift with countries that want a european immigration quota, taking in migrants and refugees, and on the other side, those that don't. austria will probably be firmly on the side of those that do not want to take in any refugees. laila: to your point, with austria doubling down on immigration, what will the e.u. do in response? can it do anything? max: we really have to differentiate. of course if they do something on a national level, in line with the austrian con

e.u. citizen children, and the right to health care pensions, and other social security benefits. we made sure procedures will be cheap and simple. this is an issue the commission will pay particular attention to . the same goes for u.k. citizens living in the e.u. 27. the prime minister said in her florence speech that the united kingdom would honor its commitments. including beyond 2020. this was detailed, a line by line process. she has been good at her word. and i amegotiating grateful for that. the european union has made it a priority to protect the peace process on the island. been in contact over the last days, including last night and the last negotiations we had yesterday with our irish friends. the u.k. has made significant commitments on the avoidance of a hard border. stand firmlyu. 27 behind ireland and behind the peace process. let me be clear we still have a , lot of work to do. the joint report is not the withdrawal agreement. that agreement needs to be drafted by the negotiators and then approved by the council and ratified by the u.k. parliament and the european parliament. 534 days ago the british people voted to leave the european union. 24

purchased prime ministers to resume a arrived early at the european commission her goal saving the talks on her country's exit from the e.u. a short meeting with european commission president followed and then the two emerged to make the big announcement. we have been able to make sufficient progress to ensure that we can now move into the second phase of the negotiation between the united kingdom and the european union of twenty six. of them since. may and june to say there's been progress on a major stumbling block how to manage the future border between the u.k.'s northern ireland and the ease republic of ireland has been a particularly tricky subject many fear a hard border separating the two with border guards could plunge the north back into turmoil by undermining the belfast agreement it ended decades of sectarian violence in the region. in northern ireland we will guarantee there will be no hard border and we will uphold the belfast agreement and in doing so we will continue to pursue the constitutional and economic integrity of the united kingdom. but e.u. chief bracks in a go shatzer michel barnier says sorting