e.u. commission more fodder but you can expect that they're quietly hoping that there won't be snap elections because snap elections and you you heard her talk about those polls would likely bring much even more power so they're probably rooting for the italian president to find an alternative solution that does not involve much he was. max what are the consequences of this political instability for the european union and instability is always bad 1st of all economically speaking the e.u. as a whole is on the brink of a recession italy has been in a recession for a long time or at least in a deep they cannot mix slump at the moment and this in certainty this instability as you call it is not helping here on top of that there are important decisions to make in the next months regarding the e.u. budget for example also migration and of course also the italia and budget itself which will be quite difficult so what the e.u. really needs is a functioning italian government and they would prefer an e.u. friendly functioning italian government that's right max but if there are new elections you touc

e.u. commission more fodder but you can expect that they're quietly hoping that there won't be snap elections because snap elections and you you heard talk about those polls would likely bring much vini even more power so they're probably rooting for the italian president to find an alternative solution that does not involve much he was. max what are the consequences of this political instability for the european union and instability is always bad 1st of all economically speaking the e.u. as a whole is on the brink of a recession italy has been in a recession for a long time or at least in a deep a konami slump at the moment and this in certainty this instability as you call it is not helping here on top of that there are important decisions to make in the next months regarding the e.u. budget for example also migration and of course also the italia and budget itself which will be quite difficult so what the e.u. really needs is a functioning italian government and they would prefer an e.u. friendly functioning italian government that's right max but if there are you elections you touched up

e.u. commission plan for the wi-fi-based standard was defeated in july, opening the door for a 5g standard supported by audi and bmw. in the u.s., the trump administration has put off making a decision, but ford is not waiting for washington. in january, the carmaker committed to deploying c-v2x in its cars from 2022. currently, general motors is the only u.s. carmaker promoting the older wi-fi standard. bloomberg new energy finance says in the long-term, the u.s., korea, and japan will adopt the cellular option as they aggressively deploy 5g networks. for now, the western world has left it to automakers to fight it out over which standard to adopt. ed ludlow, bloomberg news, san francisco. emily: coming up, testimony and age discrimination claims against ibm indicate the company may have fired as many as 100,000 workers over recent years. details on multiple lawsuits and ibm's response, next. and, demand is growing for man-made jets to fly everything from 5g networks, to satellites, to engagement rings. i visited one of the top producing labs to see for myself and try some on. next. this

e.u. commission president phoned the line promised to table the new law by the end of the year the fridays for future protests are set to continue after the summer break . it was 20 years ago today that russian president vladimir putin came to power at the time he was a relatively unknown figure he was singled out by post leader boris yeltsin no one knew back then he would have an iron grip on the country for the next 2 decades for public support by cracking down on separatists in chechnya and during his 1st presidency the economy grew for 8 straight here playing on his hard man image he won a series of election victories his current term runs for another 5 years and 2014 he was widely condemned internationally for russia's annexation of crimea he walked away from a key nuclear missile treaty raising fears of a new arms race and despite solid support at home opposition to putin is growing over his authoritarian repression of political opponents for more i'm joined now by our moscow correspondent emily sure went and we thank you for joining me glad i'm here putin came to power in the midst

e.u. commission president founder line promised to table a new law by the end of the year the fridays for future protests are said to continue after the summer break. and really good ending with reports that 20 years ago today vladimir putin became russia's prime minister singled out by post soviet leader boris yeltsin the young putin was a relative unknown and no one back then had any idea how he would change the country's constitution to suit his own purpose and cement his grip on the country for the next 2 decades during his 1st presidency russia's economy grew for 8 years in a row and putin won public support by cracking down on separatists in chechnya playing on this hard man in the she went on to win a series of election victories is current term runs for another 5 years and 2014 he received international condemnation when russia sees the ukrainian territory of crimea since then the russian economy has been squeezed by sanctions and falling oil prices relations with the united states and donald trump are also tense both sides recently walked away from a key nuclear missile treaty ra

e.u. commission here in brussels is threatening a form of a siege against italy italy has to table and you budget in october this likely to be postponed so it's all in all no good news but although europe was expecting this because this crisis has been in the making for a long time now and if the last fact of the far right much to your side view me as a possible prime minister being viewed with some alarm that. many european politicians sullivan is perceived as a dangerous man because he's really right they are right being nationalist complaining like his like donald trump for example steve benen is a close ally odds of much he was obviously been a was a close ally of trump who orchestrated his campaigns so savini is playing the same ticket he's campaigning and the very national note that he has has also some friends in europe you have to say prime is the founder of the prime minister of poland and also the german driving a 50 the allies of material vini and he was also successful to form a new right wing fraction in the european parliament so interesting times ahead for europe indeed benj

e.u. -- in that you commission. she took over the position a month ago and this is her first visit in washington. csis is happy to have her here to make some open remarks, then she and i will have a conversation that will touch on a number of issues. then we will open it up for your questions. dr. weyand for trade. prior for this, she was the deputy chief resident negotiator for two and a half years, which had to the one of the difficult jobs in the e.u. i told her that if we invite her back a year from now, we will ask her who was harder to negotiate with, the british or the americans. i am sure we would get a polite answer, but, she has a history in a number of positions of significance inside the european commission. as i said earlier, one of my personal favorites is before she was a brexit deputy, she was deputy director general of trade. those of you who are european know exactly what that means and how important it is. i have no clue, but it certainly sounds impressive. she has numerous positions going back mo

e.u. commission plan was defeated in july, opening the door for a 5g standard supported by audi and bmw.e u.s., the trump administration has put off taking a decision, but ford is not waiting for washington. in january, the carmaker committed to deploying c-v2x in its cars from 2022. currently, general motors is the only u.s. carmaker promoting the older wi-fi standard. bloomberg new energy finance says in the long-term, the u.s., korea and japan will adopt the cellular option as they aggressively deploy 5g networks. for now, the western world has left it to automakers to fight it out over which standard to adopt. ed ludlow, bloomberg news, san francisco. emily: coming up, age discrimination claims against ibm indicate the company may have fired as many as 100,000 workers over recent years. details on the lawsuit, next. and, demand is growing for man-made jets to fly everything from 5g networks, to satellites, to engagement rings. i visited one of the top producing labs to take a look, and try some on. next. ♪ emily: ibm has laid off as many as 100,000 workers in recent years, according

e.u. side for the time being officially. now i did you commission there on the possibility that the u.k. does not pay the divorce bill let's bring in our financial market correspondent ashutosh pandey on this why not paying your bills doesn't go down well with anyone how much money are we talking about and what would it mean for the e.u. . but monica its 39000000000 pounds that both sides of agreed to a 43000000000 euros this is largely the money that you get to the e.u. with the coming financial commitments that it has made as far as the budget is concerned future projects that concern even pension for stuff pensions are concerned so that's a payment that both sides have actually agreed upon now as far as you use the. ability to compensate for this loss is concerned it certainly can i mean i at the end of the day 39000000000 pounds is a huge amount of money but not enough to cripple the economy it will have to cut some funding for long term projects or call on the richer members to actually bridge the gap but the bigger loss would be actually the loss of trust with the trading partner y

further by saying that he would be ready to pluck a trade steel that the european commission hammered out for the whole of the e.u. the negotiators in 20 years with the so-called markers to a states and brazil is one of them to make a trade deal with them now the front of the french but also the irish government have set unless they see some more action against these wildfires from brazil they would be ready to pluck that traits deal now you have to understand that the trade deal has been negotiated by the european commission but it needs to be ratified by each an individual of the $28.00 e.u. member states if one of the states is not ratifying the deal the deal is practically dead so it's strong was from the french president and now of course inequality is the top bell topic at is as it were that's what everyone is meant to be talking about oxfam says that there is a double problem of the well the climate crisis centrally compounding inequality how will leaders be getting to grips with that. well on this i have an eye on this the 7 summits the french president took took a precaution after donald trump on the las

vessels with fines of up to 1000000 euros if the end to italian ports the dock commission the government also wants other e.u. countries to take in more to refugees and migrants landing in italy do you down to say max zonda joint a c watch risk commission off the libyan coast and sent us this report. takeoff from an undisclosed location. for the german n.g.o.s c. watch is taking us on a reconnaissance flight over the mediterranean. muttiah and pilots have one main objective saving lives or 30 miles up or would you know if this is the 1st actual better trade your group or other africa. search right is looking for by greg abbott dangerous crossing. over boats they're leipsic recruits. finding them is like looking for a needle in a haystack and conditions are anything but ideal. this you watch aircraft moon bird mainly operates in the search and rescue zone off the coast of western libya an area that spans more than 350 kilometers of coastline this is where migrant bowed set off on their perilous journey to italy and malta footage from an earlier mission shows how that looks dozens of people on an overcrowded r

commission. yes of course the e.u. wants to make this thing. either create a situation where it doesn't or you get name only which is what it is. or where. the. drop becomes. the imposition of trade barriers between tariffs. ok why do they want to do that while the e.u. was already in a trice. before we proceed to leave. it was in a crisis because north western countries the wealthy. north west and. some in europe and eastern europe in the republican model and colonies and there's a lot of and there are a lot of political reasons or cultural. barriers. and so it was we were in a crisis and it gets out. and crossed and the might there may be other countries who might be wondering why in the end that is the reason why one of the reasons why the e.u. wants to make this as painful as possible we i mean they always go back to the default position of w t o rules ok i mean if boris johnson wants to succeed and i have to believe he wants to. do much better than to resume when you were assigned an entire group of people to work with that goal of w t o r

e.u. just 17 days late when they said ben it is the brics brics that commissioning editor at the telegraph newspaper in london and he says that johnson's move is legitimate and could spark progress with the e.u. talks. well certainly boris johnson's announcement came as a surprise to many indeed allies of his of tolls i'm a of my colleagues that you know the stagecraft for this was something they compared to like napoleon zz military tactics of the ground are may when it sends a part of his army in different directions to distract people so have no idea what is or do next in the same way ministers jacob reese morgan his colleagues were sent to travel separately up to balmoral to see the queen because if they travel together up to her majesty's highland retreat then tongues would wag people would wonder what on earth are they going to ask her about and indeed now we know it's too prorogue parliament this is the official term for suspending parliament which happens when a sessions over what we must remember that the current session of parliament has been sitting for basically the last time i

e.u. member states, have to be approved i the european commission, and they have to submit that draft by mid-october. claire: thank you, stephehen. turning our attention to australia, where cardinal george pell has lost his appeal against his sexual abuse conviction. the 78-year-old has been in prison since his sentencing in march. he is the most senior catholic cleric in the world to be convicted of child sexual assault. claire rush has more. of 2-1, therity court of appeal has dismissed cardinal george pell's appeal against his conviction forr the commission of sexual offenses. >> cardinal george pell is going back to prison. the world's most senior catholic to be found guilty of child abuse, pell is serving six years from a listing 213-year-old choirboys more than 20 years -- 13-year-oldng two choirboys more than 20 years ago. one victim shared his reaction to the ruling through a statement t read by his lawyer. relieved d by the decision of the court of appeals. it is four years since i reported to the police. the criminal process has been stressssful. ththe journeney has takeken me o places tha

e.u. antitrust regulators according to the financial times the newspaper says the european commission has sought specific information from those of working on the digital currency by a questionnaires on tuesday bloomberg reported about the commission had specific concerns over quote potential anti-competitive behavior related to the libor association so far facebook and the commission have both declined to comment. our financial correspondent joins us now from new york and so what sort of answers is facebook actually supposed to provide here. well i mean one of the main questions really is in this case at least the possibility of competitive behavior and if you look at facebook they have more users than the combined population of china and the u.s. so there is this claim there and then also facebook will probably face questions if there are any plans to somehow connect libra to some of facebook's services like for example or also the messenger services but this is really only one of many regulatory issues that facebook is facing with libra and with its other services in general as well no

e.u. just 17 days later a sabet is the bracks a commissioning editor at the telegraph newspaper in london he says boris johnson's move is legitimate and could spark progress with e.u. talks. well certainly boris johnson's announcement came as a surprise to many indeed allies of his of tolls i'm a of my colleagues that you know the stagecraft for this was something they compared to like napoleon zz military tactics of the ground are may when it sends a part of his army in different directions to distract people who have no idea what is or do next in the same way ministers jacob reese morgan his colleagues were sent to travel separately up to balmoral to see the queen because if they travel together up to her majesty's highland retreat then tongues would wag people would wonder what on earth are they going to ask her about and indeed now we know it's too prorogue parliament this is the official term for suspending parliament which happens when a session is over we must remember that the current session of parliament has been sitting for basically the last time it sat this long we have to go

for a safe landing they have already requested that an executive with the european commission has already called out the e.u. member states to show compassion and try and see if they can provide a solution with which these people can be taken on and given the opportunity to seek asylum in e.u. member countries but of course this is all part of the process which has been happening in these islands here even though the interior minister but they are salvini has said that he has banned these landings from taking place the reality of the of the matter is that they keep turning up while there are people who are desperate to try next escape the conditions that they found themselves in libya they will do anything they can. possible to try and find safety in the european union country. the u.s. says it will bring in new rules to allow migrant families to be detained indefinitely while judges consider whether to grant them asylum in the united states on the current legislation migrant children can be held for more than 20 days and he policy part of a crackdown on documented migrants will have no limits on how long c

e.u. just 17 days later a sabbat edge is the bracks it commissioning editor at the telegraph newspaper in london he says boris johnson's move is illegitimate and could spark progress with talks. well certainly boris johnson's announcement came as a surprise to many indeed allies of his of tolls are many of my colleagues that you know the stagecraft for this was something they compared to like napoleon zz military tactics of the ground are may when it sends a part of his army in different directions to distract people who have no idea what is the do next in the same way ministers jacob reese morgan his colleagues were sent to travel separately up to balmoral to see the queen because if they travelled all together up to her majesty's highland retreat then tongues would wag people would wonder what on earth are they going to ask her about and indeed now we know it's too prorogue parliament this is the official term for suspending parliament which happens when a sessions over what we must remember that the current session of parliament has been sitting for basically the last time it sat this

also because a german woman is going to be the new commission president was a law from the law and she is trying to renu the inside a system in the e.u. and in the in that context i think i was hoping that there will be a kind of coalition of the willing of maybe a dozen or more european states who will participate in this and will then also take up the migrants that's a crucial issue for each of the obviously and for countries like spain that don't want the migrants all to end up in their countries ok let's let me pick up on that what happens and who decides. to resettle migrants once they make landfall once they're allowed into port what's the process for them right now right at this moment was ships like the one we're seeing here are it's a very at talk process there's some cold which countries prepared to take some of these may have more than 100 migrants and there's another migrant ship currently waiting for more than 300 to be taken. then a few countries in this case maybe 5 or 6 france germany romania luxembourg countries such as these will take side take up a number of these and they will then be taken to that country and go

for a safe landing they have already requested that an executive with the european commission has already called out the e.u. member states to show compassion and try and so you could provide a solution with which these people can be taken on and given the opportunity to seek asylum in e.u. member countries but of course this is all part of the process which has been happening in these islands here even though the interior minister met there salvini has said that he has banned these landings from taking place the reality of the of the matter is that they keep turning up while there are people who are desperate to try and escape the conditions that they found themselves in libya they will do anything they can. possible to try and find safety in the european union country the u.n. special envoy to yemen martin griffin this has arrived in sun which is controlled by rebels on tuesday griffiths told the u.n. security council that yemen was at risk of falling apart if an agreement to end the conflict was not. found urgently elsewhere in yemen prost protesters have been out on the streets of thais in the southwest

for a safe landing they have already requested that an executive with the european commission has already called out the e.u. member states to show compassion and try and simply provide a solution with which these people can be taken on and given the opportunity to seek asylum in e.u. member countries but of course this is all part of the process which has been happening in these islands here even though the interior minister my peers salvini has said that he has banned these landings from taking place the reality of the of the matter is that they keep turning up while there are people who are desperate to try and escape the conditions that they found themselves in libya they will do anything they can. possible to try and find safety in the european union country an unprecedented number of wildfires have been recorded in brazil's amazon rain forest this year nearly 73 funds and of the been detected between january in august the president has been condemned for his environmental policies that have accelerated the deforestation of the amazon. as the coordinator for forests and biodiversity of friends of the e

e.u. is planning new restrictions on the technology to protect its citizens and officials from the european commission says they want to limit what they call indiscriminate use of facial recognition well doll bob is a former chief superintendent in london's metropolitan police he says there's a need for checks and balance for this technology to be fully embraced. all of us need to understand is that people will have surveillance going on all the time you know whether your going to supermarket supermarket can track your purchases and and determine what is the best things to sell to you so i think what this is doing is tracking people who are potentially going to do is arm and then looking at how they can try and mitigate the harm. i think it's right that we have proper checks and balances because the concerns that people are now voice in are the very very same concerns that people have always seen when d.n.a. was introduced all when tracking of individuals was 1st introduced in. the number plate readers of cars and i don't necessarily have as much faith with the private sector not abusing the data that

e.u. is coming new restrictions on the technology to protect its citizens an official from the european commission says they want to limit indiscriminate use of facial recognition well dell babus former chief superintendent in london's metropolitan police force he says there's a need for checks and balances for this technology to be fully embrace. all of us need to understand is that people will have surveillance going on all the time you know whether your going to the supermarket supermarket can track your purchases and and determine what is the best things to sell to you so i think what this is doing is tracking people who are potentially going to do is arm and then looking at how they can try and mitigate the harm. i think it's right that we have proper checks and balances because the concerns that people are now voice in are the very very same concerns that people have always seen when d.n.a. was introduced all when tracking of individuals was 1st introduced in. the number plate readers of cars and i don't necessarily have as much faith with the private sector not abusing the data that we have

european commission launched a formal antidumping investigation into steel products from china taiwan and indonesia on tuesday the inquiry follows a complaint by the european still association e.u. steel producers say some of their peers outside the block have flooded europe with cheap steel. media giants viacom and c.b.s. will merge to form a $30000000000.00 in entertainment conglomerate indian years of tie up talks viacom owns the movie studio paramount and t.v. channels comedy central and t.v. analysts said merger will while the new company to compete with streaming services . millions of muslims have made their way to mecca as part of this year's hodge pilgrimage increasingly saudi arabian businesses are finding ways to make the most of the vast numbers of travelers coming from overseas some hotels are now catering in particular to wealthy pilgrims and offering a very special experience a high end harsh. the carbon in mecca is islam's holiest site for pilgrims it's the final destination at the end of a long journey and now the wealthiest among them can end a tiring day in a room like this across a 5 star hotel is now off room with the who leave you to the select few who can

european union its position has always been that the 27 the commission european commission would negotiate on behalf of all e.u. states so in meeting boris johnson and other merkel is one leader clearly a very important leader but just one leader and there are other leaders other e.u. leaders that boris johnson will be meeting very sad very shortly to spell out his message to them he did he's heading to france next as is the french president been open to a kind of movement on the deal. well this is the interesting thing the french government has said today that it there is not a cigarette paper that could be put between their position and the german position and they reiterated that by saying that they now believe that a no deal as it were a disorderly some might say chaotic brigs that is what they expected to happen on the 31st of october now the point there is as i say that's a repetition of what the german government has been planning for and said it was planning for for some time the issue though about the backstop we know that angle americal has indicated that perhaps practical arrangements can be arrived

e.u. is planning new restrictions on that technology to protect its citizens an official from the european commission says they want to limit indiscriminate use of facial recognition. so joining me to discuss this here in the studio is a former chief superintendent in london's metropolitan police and also via skype from cincinnati we have the day us hoffmeister who's a law professor at the university of dayton and that is if i can start with you we're seeing this what seems to be a growing and widespread use of facial recognition technology is it legal. yes it is legal how great the going to see for more interesting rethink whether or not to allow law enforcement to use facial recognition for example you're starting to see in silicon valley some of the major cities there like san francisco and oakland to prohibit police from using. if i can come to you the problem i suppose with the sort of technology is that it's tracking you without war morning or permission and so that therefore raises concerns certainly in western countries that it's invading civil liberties and privacy. well i think what you nee

e.u. on october 30th 1st. let's bring in our guest joining us from london acer bennett the braggs of commissioning editor of the telegraph newspaper from brussels peter clottey had of the brussels office at open europe a think tank also from london jonathan lis deputy director of british influence welcome all to the program normally when a nation faces an issue that could reshape its future like brigs it that's where you normally need the parliament on board but it's not the case in the u.k. why's that. well simply because the previous prime minister try to put the deal to parliament and it got thrown back rejected 3 times and so now with the clock ticking the new prime minister boris johnson faces a crucial choice either he has to try to get a deal that is good enough to win a majority but it's meant to be a majority of his side and maybe enough of the opponents the trouble is the opponents are not really coming through they want to stop him and say they show no interest in backing a deal so then the alternative is much more controversial of going for a no deal bracks s. and this is why then the remainer oppon

commission has launched a full antidumping investigation today and to steel products from china taiwan and indonesia the investigation follows a complaint by the european still association you'll still produces some of the non e.u. fears of flooded europe with cheap steel. british food delivery service delivery ruth says it's pulling out of the german market claiming tight margins the company says it's focusing on other more profitable european markets like france as well as the asia pacific region. on the news from the business of football in germany's bundesliga. gotten off to a great start to the new season with a win against rivals by and munich in the season opening super cup but things are looking much less rosy financially is the only because the club listed publicly on a stock market and profits down along with total revenue which has fallen dramatically to rob 17 and a half 1000000 euros that's a drop of nearly 50 percent numbers were to some extent sales of top players to other clubs last year also brought in quite a bit of couch. novel more the finances of football not joined but johnson crane from last sports desk jonathan welcome to the studio if those numbers that we've just heard from other good