e.u. commission representative in germany you know. these are for when you read through the contract the elements about europe act as a third choice of inspiration for the europe we will lead in the coming months and for the decisions to be made. following on from the speeches of e.u. commission president i'm french president michel essential elements are also included as to how we can form a common future foundation in europe. is common kind of the importance of germany's rolling her became evident in the handling of the refugee crisis back in two thousand and fifteen images of asylum seekers queuing down the street at this registration center and the berlin neighborhood of motivate made international headlines now three years on the keys may have gone but integration is still a big challenge the deals decision on family reunification has also drawn criticism . is on the scottish pathak with particularly critical of the family reunions for refugees with limited status we are in contact with those affected on a daily basis with childre

e.u. commission's leniency policy which encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels a system which in the cases announced wednesday proved to be effective and exchange commission south africans a facing the first sales tax hike since apartheid it put a bit of a damp on the wave of hope following president zero oppose this takeover last week from his scandal plagued prita sesa now the country's finance minister my lucy gabba said raising value added tax by said to point to fifteen percent was unavoidable in the face of a recession the move comes ahead of elections next year increasing pressure on the country's ruling in c.t. party to make sure the unpopular at sales tax hike helps turn the economy around. and i'm afraid this is a potential bad news for the false food chain k.f.c. a group of researches at princeton university in united states now says that the k.f.c. though which depicts of course the restaurant's founder colonel sanders can be mistaken for a stop sign by all to fish intelligence software used in self driving cars by the princeton scientists have come up with a

e.u. commission's leniency policy which encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels a system which in the cases announced wednesday proved to be effective and exchange commission sensitive it out to our region for the latest on the bad that's right the bulletin international film festival and one of the contenders for the prestigious go didn't bet the iranian film crew known as pig in english is a black comedy about a blacklisted movie director it challenges studio time so what yvonne and iranian women the dub views on your call has this report. it wasn't seen in the seventy's nights to be out on the red carpet direct on money had he and his concert with their own reef need to be celebrating that from your office turbulent comedy pick at the berlin film festival. not just saying focus on director hassani who was by the government but that's not what's troubling him most and unknown kiddo's talks to be heading filmmakers. sly toot why shouldn't he be rewarded as well. but given everything down through. opening. a billion dollar without an iranian movie and on think about a pro

e.u. competition commission and market rate of a stronger wanted to send a message that the european commission will not tolerate at a competitive behavior. today the commission has decided to fine seven companies a total of five hundred sixty four million euros for taking part in fort different cartels relating to cars. three other companies involved in these cartels well they excrete. getting a fine because they came to us to reveal the cartels in the shipping industry the fines affected chilean car shipping carrier three japanese carriers as well as a norwegian swedish carrier together they formed a deep sea vehicle transport cartel for almost six years. in the automotive parts industry germany's bosher into japanese companies ran a cartel supplying spark plugs to european car makers bosh. is also involved in running another cartel fixing brake system crisis. companies can escape fines through the e.u. commission's leniency policy which encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels a system which in the cases announced wednesday proved to be effective and. what's shaking the m

e.u. commission's leniency policy which encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels a system which in the cases announced wednesday proved to be effective and exchange commission senses now everyone used to worry about the globe's oil reserves running out now the industry fears demand will start drying up somewhat a.p. reckons it'll begin plateau ing in the late twenty's thirty's as for new bills take . automotive companies around the world are betting on the mass adoption of electric vehicles in the next decades and they're not the only ones and gas giant b.p. is anticipating the same it predicts a one hundred fold growth in electric vehicles by twenty forty and a corresponding hit to the world's oil and gas sector b.p. forecasts continuing growth in global demand for oil and other liquid fuel in the next years but that demand is set to stop increasing after it hits one hundred ten million barrels a day in the late twenty thirty s. it's the first time b.p. has forecast a peak in the world's appetite for oil. it's not just about electric cars increased fuel efficiency in vehi

e.u. commission the african union and the united nations with the five star her countries china. and the share book enough loss of mauritania and france spain italy and germany will participate or not meeting. on that occasion we will look into the question of how to cooperate against illegal migration and. development corporation and we will also focus on combating terrorism in this region. to the e.u. commission one of which has played a major coordinating role progress has been made in these areas in recent months germany has been very actively involved in the approach particularly share we are supporting the government when it fighting unscrupulous all the silly taters people smugglers who really look down on people generally and one of the success stories is that together with the government don't we share we are creating an outlook for the development for work in the regions for the people on the spot we also support the highly regarded work of the international organization for migration as well the i.n.r. and the coalition agreement c.d.u. c.s.u. and s.p.d. also looked in

e.u. commission is hosting high level talks on fighting terrorism and stemming migration through africa's region and the looking to boost support the deployment of the silk or g five sahil joint force and that's a security initiative set up by mauritania burkean a fossil mali and chad security in these countries is threatened by extremist groups and criminal networks. in brussels barbara visa is across the summit and joins me now hi bob or first of all why is the e.u. focusing so much of its foreign policy attention africa region. because the european union has understood and rita that what happened since the hill affects europe it has understood this since the streams of migrants were crossing for instance nigeria or going to libya and then going from there to italy so that is one aspect but they also know that this is a political black hole this whole huge region full of desert and scrub land that is more in this uncontrolled because there is no governance or bad governance there is extreme poverty and there's just nobody to control again self off criminals organized crime smuggling eve

e.u. commission is taking a pragmatic approach e.u. nations will have to pull together he says but it seems there's a long way to go before that will happen. today is the final day of competition at the berlin international film festival and my colleague charlotte charles impale and maya shader are standing by with the latest action on the red carpet and you know no surprise guys european films are really popular at this film festival and we had a german one preparing today tell us a little bit more about it. that's where we saw the last entry into the belinelli competition section it was called in the isles and it's a really sweet small film just sort of a low key love story about what it's like to work in a supermarket in east germany yeah that's right it's actually a very needing film and also stars fans look lusty he is a huge hit with us i have to say and also here is the bad and as well he's starring in another film in the competition believe it or not that's to you and that's a film called transit way he plays a refugee and then

e.u. commission's leniency policy which encourages companies to hand over inside evidence of cartels a system which in the cases announced wednesday proved to be effective and exchange commission senses. it is lights camera action here in berlin where the international film festival is still in full swing and his charlotte telson pale and scott roxborough are as always down on the red carpet for us welcome to both of you we know guys that were rolling out like it showcases movies from around the world a mainstay and a berlin alah classic are usually iranian films and turns out tell us a little bit more about this year's entry. hi there yes that's right it is an iranian film on show you tonight we just had the red carpet for that family was very exciting here behind us we had all the stars and the director walking into the world crime yet if that film now starts and i were lucky enough to get a preview of that film today as i will give you a very brief synopsis basically is about the radian director he's blacklisted and it's about a serial killer and surprisingly he's gradually oh one by one k

e.u. commission is already called on germany and eight other european countries with high pollution to take action and many european cities are already taking steps to clean up their acts. the special plants plight and pollution enthusiastic in germany say they can grab a particular matter out of the air and even convert it into pop. several places in germany now have the so-called city trees. london has another right it sits up to tell you the drive is an old polluting cars have paid an extra ten pounds a day more than eleven you're raised to drive in the city center of britain's capital thoughts on top of the congestion charges. already in place limits a part of a package of measures were the most recent fossils of the buses that a cleaner was stopped by diesel buses only hybrid electric and a hardened double decker buses will license it in a diesel taxi's we're encouraging them give them the assistance to move from diesel to. increase the amount of money we spend on public transport but also for kate and cycling spain's capital madrid also introduce drastic measures at the end of twenty

e.u. commission is taking a pragmatic approach e.u. nations will have to pull together he says but it seems there's a long way to go before that will happen. you're watching the news we still have a lot more to tell you about including we'll take you to the berlin film festival to see a comedy about a man with a new mug a new face the problem is it's neighbors don't recognize him anymore which makes life rather difficult. but for some good news for one of europe's problem banks ben well bank of scotland a bit of a surprise today to announce its first annual profit in a decade the three billion dollars plus comes as a relief to the lender which was once the world's biggest that was before the financial crisis plunged r.b.s. into insolvency the british taxpayer rescued the lender last year old thirty's and customers hit the scottish bank with billions of dollars in litigation over its conduct before the two thousand and eight recession let's go to conrad in frankfurt to put this into perspective conrad the balance sheet looks quite good

e.u. commission president john called you took exception to an earlier assertion by johnson that the e.u. was trying to build a super state even boris himself was sounding a little bit desperate by the end under a hail of questions from journalists. enough of your sweet nothings where is the clarity do you think that you are the right person to be reaching out to those remaining do you worry that this uncertain approach to brace it that we're feeding this country is because we have a pm who won't say sure vote for it today some of the anger that's fueled remains has come from your own government i accept that this morning i'm not going to. persuade everybody but i've got to i've got to try and i've got to make the effort because in the end these are people's feelings and people's feelings matter. two questions remain that were also asked today's media conference and that is whether boris is the man to deliver this message and of course whether it's actually too little too late. or i laura frankly up there there may be boris johnson the next story on his mind befuddled him somewhat when to

e.u. commission so it's safe to say yes they would react in probably in a twofold way first of all by tariffs of their own on certain products you just mentioned some of the possibilities there and also by filing an official complaint with the world trade organization we're talking about some of those products max we had reports that they are products talkative from republican states is the e.u. interfering in what is u.s. domestic policy that moment in the what you referred to the harley-davidson from wisconsin and also the whiskey products jack daniels for example from tennessee and kentucky and those are products that are associated could be associated with some republican politicians or with a majority of republican voters i would be very very careful with that though it sounds like an awful lot of spin doctoring has been going on or some media may be focusing on that too much because as we understand those lists are old rather old at least and they were started in during the period of george w. bush and then maybe adapted but it just shows you know trade tussles aren't anything new betwe

e.u. commission they have been very much in favor of this and also as investors that's what investors are telling me here as well it's very important that germany is going to have again a strong voice now on the european level there is so much on the agenda such as breakfast for of some of those breaks the talks have been very slow and then those latest comments also made recently by a two reason may about the rights of citizens so investors are happy that germany is really a back also on the european level ok let's stay on the european level because analysts have been telling me that the commitments in this treaty to reforming europe are strong but we would be hearing a different voice from germany i mean with choice as finance minister it was all about austerity if we get a new finance minister and finance minister is from the social democrats it would definitely be a different voice how do you think germans will react to that because germans don't want to see that they're the ones pulling the weight that they're the ones working for the southern europeans. yeah i think that this is cer

e.u. commission is taking a pragmatic approach e.u. nations will have to pull together he says but it seems there's a long way to go before that will happen. are expressed as correspondent gary is covering this informal summit friskier good evening i believe just on one miracle addressed the press earlier. exactly and we just put the question to her about this conditionality and her onset was she quoted the swedish prime minister and basically said that he explained there. the countries who do a lot for refugees spend a lot of money provide a lot of help should also receive more money from the budget and said look this is also a way to look at this conditionality in a more positive sense of course in a negative sense this would mean less money for those who countries were not willing to take up refugees for instance in the east of a europe but and that is what a german position paper suggested so i would say today she backtracked a little on that position how did that go down that the proposition to link link funding to receiving migra

e.u. commission will be hosting high level talks on biting terrorism and stemming migration through africa's hell region the e.u. is looking to boost support for the so-called g five held joint force that's security initiatives set up by more attain ia burkina faso mali and chad those countries have been plagued by jihadist groups and criminal networks. well for more on this let's bring in our brussels correspondent barbara basal she's standing by for us there barbara why is the e.u. focusing so much of its foreign policy attention on africa's hell region. because the e.u. has recognised terry about two years ago that not too far from its own shores there is a big political black hole and those that it is those five countries that you just showed the problem is that the region is sort of hidden by. governments or bad governance extreme poverty and criminal networks that smuggle anything from people to drugs to weapons and also food to food shortages no jobs no prospects it is just sort of a political disaster zone and european leaders have seen that this is sort of influencing and it's havin

e.u. commission's message for the six western balkans nations the first could enter the e.u. potentially as early as two thousand and twenty five we have a huge interest in bringing stability to vist region we need political economic stability in this region because if the balkans grow in stable this instability will come to the rest of the european union the six nations have long been considered future members for the front runners montenegro and serbia accession talks have already been launched while macedonia and albania are waiting recommendations to start talks to join. european commission chief sean claude younger however made very clear in strassburg that the finishing line by two thousand and twenty five could only be crossed if the candidates resolve all outstanding bilateral disputes and there are a lot more conditions the three main points are strengthening the rule of law including media freedom and minority rights and strengthen the rule of parliament second economic reforms the. economies in the west of book regions have to become more competitive and the first

e.u. commission they have been very much in favor of this and also as investors that's what investors are telling me here as well it's very important that germany is going to have again a strong voice now on the european level there is so much on the agenda such as brac said for example those talks have been very slow and then those latest comments also made recently and by two reason may about the rights of citizens so investors are happy that germany is really back also on the european level ok let's stay on the european level because analysts have been telling me that the commitments in this treaty to reform in europe are strong but we would be hearing a different voice from germany i mean with choice as finance minister it was all about austerity if we get a new finance minister in that finance minister is from the social democrats it would definitely be a different voice how do you think germans will react to that because germans don't want to see that they're the ones pulling the way that they're the ones working for the southern europeans. yes thank you this is certainly going to b

e.u. commission hosted high level talks on fighting terrorism and stemming migration through africa's sahil region that's rocked the world's poorest areas more than four hundred million euros has been pledged by e.u. nations for the region also said it would double its funding for a joint military operation set up by the five countries in the sahil where security is threatened by extremist groups and criminal networks that help in this has become a european priority because of the high levels of migration from the region to europe. europe's front here in central africa thousands of migrants travel through it before they can take their chances crossing the mediterranean for years the hell has been plagued by jihadist groups and criminal networks smuggling weapons drugs and humans across borders. it's become a breeding ground for terrorists and a big worry for the you. in brussels boosting development was a key topic at today's meeting with leaders from the african region but the main issue on the agenda was that of security the european union has pledged to double its funding to the g five s

e.u. still has its attractions for nonmembers today the european commission is set to discuss bringing in the western balkans now the european union currently has twenty eight member states seven countries are waiting in the wings to join the bloc five of them are so-called candidate countries that means they have already applied to become members and started negotiations with the e.u. and four of them are in the balkans montenegro albania serbia and macedonia and then there is turkey where negotiations have stalled two more balkan states bosnia and herzegovina and kosovo haven't formally applied but they are still potential members even as those nations hope to join the bloc they're also looking to avoid mistakes of their balkan neighbors already in the e.u. still at odds over border disputes. fishing in troubled waters every time a zero jump ship heads out to sea the gratian fisherman is met by police forces from neighboring slovenia. in brazil but what about because we're always accompanied by the croatian police so that the slovenian police can't do anything can't arrest us. when we c

e.u. commission hosted high level talks on fighting terrorism and stemming migration through africa's sahil region that's rocked the world's poorest areas more than four hundred million euros has been pledged by e.u. nations for the region the e.u. also said it would double its funding for a joint military operation set up by the five countries in the sahil where security is threatened by extremist groups and criminal networks are helping this has become a european priority because of the high levels of migration from the region to europe the europe's front here in central africa thousands of migrants travel through it before they can take their chances crossing the mediterranean for years the hell has been plagued by jihadist groups and criminal networks smuggling weapons drugs and humans across borders it's become a breeding ground for terrorists and a big worry for the you. in brussels boosting development was a key topic at today's meeting with leaders from the african region but the main issue on the agenda was that of security the european union has pledged to double its funding to th

e.u. has according to the commission invested ten billion euros in the last five years so there's not only money to be lost there but also money to be made it obvious max hoffman in strasbourg thank you max. now here in germany conservatives and the center left social democrats are still working on forming a government and they're still far apart on several key issues leaders on both sides are pushing hard for an agreement merkel and the head of the social democrats martin chill's had this to say as they arrived for negotiations today. we are now in the critical stage of negotiations i think everyone can sense that of course there are many stipulations that must be agreed upon first and we still have before us some very decisive topics such as health and labor rights as well as our international responsibility on this commitment. perhaps some of these items sound like technicalities. but ultimately we are dealing with the quality of life for people and the success of our economy. good morning everyone i think today is decision day. find out whether. the c.d.u. c.s.u. and the s.p.d. able to

e.u. limits for years if the european commission believes germany continues to ignore the problem it will decide next month about prosecuting germany at the european court of justice. it's been more than a year since farmers in new south wales in australia have seen a decent drop of rain water is scarce so is cattle feet and eating from this in a precarious situation. these cattle used to graze on rich green grasslands but after a year without rain the pasture looks like this farmers in australia's hunter valley are forced to hand feed their animals if they can because the ongoing drought has dried up dams and creeks the situation is growing increasingly desperate. it's very depressing to go out to a paddock and find that yet another cat has died. some farmers are even making the tough decision to kill cattle that have grown too weak others are offloading their animals in the regions cattle auction. there's going to be long term repercussions in this area because they get back. to the really significant in the past droughts have triggered assistance measures like transport subsidies from

government of the parliaments who are deciding these restrictions i once ran a human rights commission in an e.u. member state and i was i was struck by the extent to which it's not the face of the law that's the problem it's the way in which it's applied and the manner of which richard supply can violate a right as easily as be respectful of the right that's why it's important to generate the evidence figure out what the principles that apply and i think that is not like in reality of the state of law. we cannot make decisions without the hard data but what's the situation is and how it impacts affected communities you can really run already people today in france if he seems to be a terrorist also without warrants. if you can the law is below you this ok and then but in terms of a question what are you asking me to respond to. what is your reaction on that well my reaction is as i say the our job is to advise the e.u. so that the actions of the states be that the laws are the application of the laws of human rights compliant but we're not some overall judge we don't have that capacity we're no

was not the report is not my words because i was really just about an independent report commissioned by the e.u. . we have all are well meaning that we wasn't one expert i mean several several as well on that we were responding and sometimes it is also people who like to blame the weekend when you don't want to say well we can behaviors well i'm sorry we were not. leave the swiss diplomat who led the investigation was biased against georgia i believe that the facts are very stubborn we weren't there we were attacked you cannot be blamed for being attacked we were attacked and this is the fact that we protect our summer to they went towards our capital they couldn't get our capital because united states intervened because our army was here or because six president leaders of european countries came and stood under the russian bombardment we do our people in this is just to be clear in their country just a big no way a very just to be good no one on this show or in this interview is defending the russians of putin and the report criticizes russia very heavily you're right about that but it does s

e.u. commission said the e.u.doesn't seem to be able to get it right first the united states was complaining for decades that europe wasn't doing enough on its own defense now we see tesco being in this yes and this criticism from the u.s. side so could you enlighten us on that what really does washington have to complain about i think that we need to be patient here we americans it is true that the european governments need to spend more in their defense that's the nature agreement two percent of gross domestic product in most countries including germany well under fifty if the european union however can convince national parliaments to raise defense budgets for an e.u. project that's going to translate into direct benefits for nato because the e.u. and. they are symbiotic almost nearly everyone in the e.u. is either a member or partner of nato so i think we have americans have to applaud efforts by europe by the e.u. to strengthen itself knowing that that's going to help nato as well. now and of course we have t

is taking the commission to court in the e.u. in the wake of some rare court defeats for the regulator the european courts generally only look for legal errors and commission actions while u.s. regulators are only a few of their merger denials have been overturned. general electric has announced it will overhaul its board by reducing the number of directors to twelve down from eighteen a year ago the changes that g.e. are happening as c.e.o. and chairman john flannery is planner planning majoring restructuring as we've reported before that could include breaking off some major divisions flannery has pledged to remove at least twenty billion dollars in assets from the company's balance sheet. a statement released from the weinstein group says that the bankruptcy is imminent following the collapse of talks with an investor group about selling the company harvey weinstein the co-founder and former fierce force in hollywood who last year fell from grace due to sexual misconduct spurred the demise of the once powerful company that he a