european leaders gather for a key summit in the austrian city absolves bug while some countries are calling for more e.u. solidarity others like italy austria and several central european countries oppose attempts to redistribute asylum seekers across the bloc there's also growing concern that far right and. popular spot is will use the issue to make fun of the political gains. austrian chancellor sebastian could subpoenaed in good spirits on the second day of an informal meeting of e.u. leaders in salzburg. but the day's agenda of migration is one that has been a thorn in the side of the blocs leadership the twenty eight leaders are looking for new ways to stem the flow of refugees and europe's borders. going into today's talks e.u. official donald had a word of caution. instead of taking political advantage of the situation we should focus on what works and just get on with it we can no longer be divided into those who want to solve the problem of illegal migrant flows and those who want to use it for political gain. at the migration crisis is peak in twenty fifteen more than a million migrants entere

e.u. country. on the border minute on sunday night trying to remind each border crucial border when it on how from the way beating the laws they shoot you allegations against gration like those by name a tool of a z. the unmounting reporters took photos during many visits to north western policy at sego vino the some refugees this say these injuries were inflicted by creation border police. an hour north of here's one of the border crossings integration into the. we confront a local border police chief with the allegations but he dismisses them. the croatian police strictly adhered to the law and regulations i emphatically reject every allegation that the creation police are acting unlawfully in. the e.u. border runs right through a former warsaw dominantly muslim be had was heavily contested during the bosnian war and hostages many refugees. in one nine hundred ninety two there were more than fifty thousand refugees here so the number of migrants today is not really so high many think it's high si

e.u. country. and barter minute on sunday night trying to align a border crucial border when it on how burning the gravy train a lot of very few allegations against gration like those by niamh a tool of asean unmounting d.w. reporters took photos during many visits to north western policy at the summer refugees there say these injuries were inflicted by creation border police. an hour north of here is one of the border crossings integration into the. we confront a local border police chief with the allegations but he dismisses them. the croatian police strictly adhered to the law and regulations i emphatically reject every allegation that the croatian police are acting unlawfully. called the e.u. border runs right through a former warsaw dominantly muslim be had was heavily contested during the bosnian war and hostages many refugees. nine hundred ninety two there were more than fifty thousand refugees here so the number of migrants today is not really so high many think it's high simply because the

e.u. countries gather in austria for a two day summit later this week austria's right wing government has been leading a push for tighter restrictions on migration something german chancellor angela merkel has resisted well she met with her austrian counterpart in berlin on sunday in an effort to find common ground ahead of the summit german chancellor angela merkel and her austrian counterparts a bust him kurtz have often disagreed over migration policy but his current holder of the european council's rotating presidency courts wants to forge agreements on the issue his top goal to improve the e.u. border control agencies capabilities. thank you for that we've long called for strengthening frontex with personnel and not some time in the future but in twenty twenty as well as expanding frontex mandate so that it can work with transit countries to stop the migrant boats from even setting sail up believe that it's not the migration issue is very important we share the main goals off the austrian presidency namely that we all must work to put take the extended body says aren't innocence and

e.u. countries continues more and more sectors are preparing for a worst case scenario that includes industries you don't immediately would think of ireland as one of the world's biggest question countries horses and everything around them is a billion euro business but irish purse eighty percent of irish thoroughbreds are sold in the u.k. and now breeders companies and almost thirty thousand employees fear their business could be hurt. there's always room for a bit of glamour. here at the leopardstown racecourse in dublin the horses are warming up. and the bookies are doing stellar business horseracing is deeply ingrained in irish culture and the industry is worth a lot of money. with an annual turnover of around one point eight billion euros it's an important economic sector for the country but there are fears that breaks it could slow the industry from a gallop to a canter the worst case scenario is that barriers are put on horses are not allowed to move freely across the border as they are at the moment they have to be subject to veterinary checks or perhaps there is a tariff for a charge f

e.u. country. because. we pay more than average because we expect more than average from our employees. flexibility like quality flexibility and adapting to new products and materials. it's two thirty pm time for a shift change employees have worked hard for their above average salary a few years ago a strike shut down the production line one worker outside the factory though told us the salary still isn't enough to survive on. the mind of instead of adjusting our salaries upwards they keep going down. they have people who time our work then they don't work in the allotted time instead of motivating us and giving us incentives in the mylan what i meant the. workers' rights groups are calling for change. the main headquarters for the union representing clothing and textile workers is located in the capital sofia it represents five thousand employees. in the mall of the. members throughout the country report that the standards of targets for sewing cannot be met in one day. they often have to work overtime on the right move. in texas bosses currently struggling with completely different p

e.u. countries including germany's chancellor are meeting tonight in salzburg austria it's a working dinner with the british prime minister presenting her latest proposal we'll have the latest on the summit plus a crisis of credibility for the government of. disapproval and disbelief after a controversial domestic spy chief was fired and then promoted to a position with more power and more money. and the leaders of north and south korea agreed to sweeping measures to improve relations it comes as the u.s. gives north korea until twenty twenty one to make good on its pledge to denuclearize it's. good to have you with us we must do everything to avoid a hard and we stand ready to compromise those confident words are from austria's chancellor sebastian cortes ahead of a key e.u. song. taking place tonight in salzburg austria but with just six months to go before britain leaves the e.u. the european council president is warning that parts of the u.k.'s a bright superposed rules need revising so is the e.u. sending mixed signals we begin tonight with this report. it's being described as an infor

e.u. countries especially from southern europe those countries went heavily into debt to save their own banks and were then under threat themselves the financial crisis was about to engulf the whole state the e.c.b. financed entire countries it was a highly controversial measure but it worked collapse was averted but the problem of rising european debt still hasn't been solved. so let's talk a little bit about that's i'm joined now by marcus miller from the u. . of us city cents a gallon in switzerland but today you're here in berlin good to have you with us we just heard again those famous words by easy behead dr g. these b. will do whatever it takes to save the euro and it will be enough was it enough yes it was enough and it was probably one of the best sentences ever in monetary policy history so darkie did a perfect job too to buy time for the governments to actually study law system but i mean it looks like i mean that the central banks including the e.c.b. also the federal the u.s. fed of course had to pick up the pieces after some really reckless action in the financial world over rol

e.u. countries these parties are united by ideas of nationalism euro skepticism and opposition to immigration these issues are also weighing on voters' minds in sweden and there's the issue of crime sweden democrats have made it one of their key talking points with this report from the city of manner. my attitude has just in time to break up a dispute between young arab immigrants in mind he knows that once the fists begin to fly someone could end up dead especially here. but the young men listen to him. to hash dealers got into it here. one said the other was muscling in on a deal these are the kinds of things that can lead to violence. toward a key knows what he's talking about a lebanese immigrant he spent four years behind bars in sweden for convictions related to violence and narcotics now he's trying to prevent crime in his adopted home that night she and others like him patrolman move streets talking with young immigrants and others interested in dialogue. we're here to talk we want to prevent chaos and violence so the police won't have to get involved it's a matter of prevention. to r

e.u. countries and could then in this case come come to the u.k. and stand trial. talk to us about a very notorious perfume spray bottle britain says it poisoned don burgas and her partner is a connection also being made to the script case when it comes to this perfume bottle. well the connection was made by the prime minister and his statement she said that this was likely the bottle where the nerve agent was smuggled into the country with an old say the method of delivery of the nerve agent at the door handle off the screen paul's the police meanwhile still also appealing for anybody who knows more about this plot was seen at all as the books to come forward so clearly this is a really very important piece of information and for months the police will be looking for the link what is the actual link between this group calls and then the other couple that was in contact with a nerve agent and now they have released this information and would like to know even more about it so we're getting conclusion where does this leave british russian relations. british russian

e.u. countries from that bases in the british capital a number of bankers have already traded their apartments on the banks of the thames full the river mine bought paris is also looking to lure of those on the move. the eiffel tower the louvre gallery or the arc de triomphe globally recognized paris landmarks frankfurt conde hold a candle to them it's a room a city hall pales in comparison but frankfurt was germany's financial hub even before the european central bank was headquartered here that's why many in the city's banking district are especially optimistic about britain's exit from the e.u. . front foot isn't he a few non frankfurt's an important european financial center but it's also obvious that the city of london he remains the european financial center. it will take frank for quite some time to take the title nonetheless an increasing number of london banks are eyeing paris and frankfurt as potential alternatives it looks like in april next year they'll lose the right to conduct business from their london offices over twenty financial institutions have already decided on frankfurt.

e.u. to. on top of this countries that have this new close ties to the e.u. would have our allies switzerland or the united states was clear that they would never make it into the list even though recent studies show that there. they are stupid jurisdictions and they could actually make it to the list if if if it was an object. process. that's music to the ears of the residents of angry law who want the same laws applied to all i believe it's by the end of twenty eighteen that we have to comply and we working on that very diligently and we see no reason why we should not comply so we should go from being on the grey list to being on the goodness and certainly not the blacklist since last year's devastating hurricane erma pressure is growing on the financial sector to keep generating profits for the islanders were and will are to end up on the blacklist it would be another disaster for the island. data has become a commodity now some say it's the new oil companies want to make money with it governments want to control it and citizens want to protect their priv

countries you mention china russia u.s. one that turkey is still formally in the e.u. accession country so it is it should be expected should be forced to you know your torso mccrary to remember nato member to it and secondly it is reliant on like putting it is completely dependent on you know germany and the e.u. this is really an opportunity to press hard. to try to get whatever you know concession that the german government can get and not just for german citizens i mean i find obviously it is certainly disconcerting from the german perspective that german citizens are in jail in turkey but also that elected parliamentarians kurdish part of ontarians elected kurdish mayors journalists academics you know i mean you name it that these people are injured and these are europeans to write because turkey's also council member and so i think their dens to be a holistic approach here not to single out you know all sort of german citizens but to. really pressure to add on to change of course he will never be a democrat he will make such you know he can we can expect him to sa

e.u. of blackmail and its threat of sanctions against his country the e.u.parliament in strasbourg is preparing to debate whether hungry should face penalties because of policies that violate the e.u.'s democratic values mr obama addressed the european paula just a short while ago and he defended his government and its policies as you start out as. president let's be straightforward with each other hungary's going to be condemned because hungary and people have decided that this country is not going to be a country of migrants with all due respect but very firmly i have to refuse threats the blackmail and defamations by forces supported immigrants and migrants against hungary and hungary i must state that whatever you decide hungry. protect its borders stop illegal immigration and defend its rights if needed we will stand up against you. we'll go live to our correspondent in strasburg. trasher viktor orban sounding as defined and resolute. yes it was a very defiant speech by the far right prime minister as you heard there he was talking about not wanting to

e.u. countries and let's remember the trumpet ministration is now threatening the e.u.'s energy security in two ways both with. trade with iran which of course is principally oil and threatening them over the gas the north stream pipeline with gas russia's gazprom which they need to get gas and. as all this is going on the trump announces new sanctions against china sanctions against iran sanctions against russia same thing against canada mexico everyone else i'm starting to rethink my own personal finances in light of this and i'm investing heavily in stock in popcorn because ok. because there's all of this is going on in the us is we kidding it's dumb barrois one mechanism other than the military for global hegemony i am enjoying watching them destroy the road because you know some power. for the program and i said to. me you know it's not. america first policy because it's turning into only america policy which is you know you can you know the u.s. is an enormously powerful country no one denies that it's still the center of the financial system of the world everyone

e.u. countries were on offer. including germany. biometric passports are available like this one from the u.s. . we contacted one of the sellers. i need a passport with biometric features can you get me one. tag and what does it cost when can you deliver. it and. we wait for the reply. there's a good deal of evidence that shows that hackers are specifically targeting biometric data our research indicates that millions of people have been affected. in twenty fifteen the u.s. office of personnel management issued the following statement. it reads in part our records indicate that your fingerprints were likely compromised joining a cyber intrusion five point six million people were affected. in the philippines in twenty sixteen hackers broke into an official voter database where fingerprints were stored. fifty million people were affected. last year in india there was a security breach in the government's biometric identification system known as odd har. about one point two billion people were affected. india is the world leader in the

e.u. countries in the future. al jazeera. why u.s.president donald trump has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against foreigners who meddle in u.s. elections let's get more on that from our white house correspondent kimberly halkett what more can you tell us about this kimberly. yeah well this is coming down from the white house the president signing that executive order centrally putting in place a mechanism to punish any nation that interferes in the upcoming midterm vote and this is a pivotal election coming up in november barbara because what it will determine is which party democrats or republicans will crown troll the u.s. congress moving forward very much will determine whether or not donald trump can continue his agenda if democrats take control of the house of representatives in particular so the reason this has been signed of course is this recovery here in al-jazeera for months the fact is that the intelligence agencies in the united states have determined that russia did interfere in the twenty sixteen u.s.

e.u. countries especially from southern europe those countries went heavily into debt to save their own banks and were then under threat themselves the financial crisis was about to engulf whole states the e.c.b. financed entire countries it was a highly controversial measure but it worked collapse was averted but the problem of rising european debt still hasn't been solved. so let's talk a little bit about that's i'm joined now by marcus miller from. the union university cent a gallon in switzerland but today you're here in berlin good to have you with us we just heard again those famous words by easy to behead mario dr g. these b. will do whatever it takes to save the euro and it will be enough wasn't enough yes it was enough and it was probably one of the best sentences ever in monetary policy history so darkie did a perfect job too to buy time for the governments to actually stylised the system but i mean it looks like i mean that the central banks including the e.c.b. also the federal the u.s. fed of course had to pick up the pieces after some really reckless action in the financial worl

e.u. countries including germany's chancellor are meeting tonight in salzburg austria it's a working dinner with the british prime minister presenting.

e.u. countries come to macedonia and say you should opt for nato and here you membership and change your name name of the country to that's the kind of call we hear from them on u.s. officials have the same kind of cause mattis was there by the way just recently so . if we would have said it when tempest and from there we would have been blamed again and again for everything and the high percentage of the e.u. in one of the statements to the words in the first days of this month she said the balkans is a territory which belongs to be you so there is no room for anyone else only for the e.u. . and you'll know you should really talk to them and make them listen to reason so that will be a bit more culture too in their behavior. days ago hearing and she asked president the question was granted but that. is me. thank you very much. mr lavrov. up hospital which my question will be in russia because i present the russian media. so. it was back in may that there was a request towards general regarding the russian diplomatic property in order to prepare for the seventy third session of the un general

giving back the position of their countries that they should be holding within the e.u. remember poland is a very pro european country you have seventy five percent of all people who are pro european so they're walking a very thin line and they're saying that actually europe of course shouldn't be centralized and shouldn't be governed from brussels from or from berlin but they're saying that this actually the true europe is with poland holding a strong position while telling the. well that until now well and was in ruin that the not the but there you think so they believe that if they hold more power they take more power that the country will actually stronger within the e.u. well in practice of course they are basically l e n a thing there they are ok but is it at the end of the day at the e.u. has been quite upset with viktor orban for a few years now but you do get the impression that it was standing by watching things unfold. hungry gets nearly five point five billion dollars per year about for more than four percent of his g.d.p. comes from the e.u. so why did it tak

e.u. country that's decided to harness its vast network of waterways as part of a new national clean energy grid already has about three hundred hydroelectric plants with plans in the works to add about another three hundred but environmentalists are raising the alarm redirecting waterways and building scores of dams is already having an irreversible of fact on the nation's natural beauty. crystal clear and it would appear untouched the gushing area's rodolph mountains along with other mountain revers it is a natural paradise with a unique flora and fauna sunny start young used to love to come fishing here now he says there are hardly any fish left. me. but it's been going on like this for years that the water level is sinking and there are less and less fish because some stretches don't have anything left at all with all their net worth i'm up on the roof. this concrete dam is the reason why it stores water to generate electricity pumping nearly all of it to a power plant nearby. what's left of the gushing ya is just a feeble trickle. the conservationist demeter criminal it has been examin