e.u. itself to do what needs to be done to take the drastic steps to cut back on c.l. to emissions and to reach at the very minimum the limits that are prescribed and that these countries signed onto in the paris climate accord or how when. these politicians get it done. yeah i guess they do otherwise we would just like get home and just enjoy the party or something but we have like a small winder of doing something and the next 5 years a really important force so if they take action if they go out of coal for example if they just keep the goals really strict if they force member states then it would be possible but we need polluted sions who want to act now give a specific message for the politicians what would you tell them. i would listen to the scientist they're the experts and if you stop talking about what we should do in 50 years talk start talking about what we want to do tomorrow or all right climate a big issue in the upcoming elections to climate activists and environmental protection thank you so much you're welcome. well the u.s. state of missouri has appr

agenda and party campaigning ahead of the blocks parliamentary elections next week so what is the e.u. done so far to tackle the climate crisis. in march the european parliament voted to ban single use plastics starting in 2021 as part of sweeping legislation against plastic waste that pollutes beaches and oceans. it's agreed a near total ban on insecticides that have been linked to a dramatic drop in the numbers of wild bees honeybees and other color. the e.u. parliament is pushing to put cleaner cars on europe's roads by 2030. and it wants to slash its greenhouse gases by 40 percent in the next 11 years some experts say that's not enough but right now it doesn't look like any single member state will be able to meet that target. reason enough for protesters across europe to keep pushing for faster climate action in brussels. arrival joining me now in studio tom he's a climate activist you're also an undergraduate students here in berlin right studying technical environmental protection. first of all thanks for joining us you're 20 years old right so this will be the 1st time you're actual

agenda and party campaigning ahead of the blocks parliamentary elections next week so what is the e.u. done so far to tackle the climate crisis. in march the european parliament voted to ban single use plastics starting in 2021 as part of sweeping legislation against plastic waste that pollutes beaches and oceans. it's agreed a near total ban on insecticides that have been linked to a dramatic drop in the numbers of wild bees honeybees and other color. the e.u. parliament is pushing to put cleaner cars on europe's roads by 2030. and it wants to slash its greenhouse gases by 40 percent in the next 11 years some experts say that's not enough but right now it doesn't look like any single member state will be able to meet that target. reason enough for protestors across europe to keep pushing for a faster climate action in brussels. arrival joining me now in studio tom he's a climate activist you're also an undergraduate students here in berlin right studying technical environmental protection. first of all thanks for joining us you're 20 years old right so this will be the 1st time you're actu

e.u. is done he was on the report there has been some some progress some measures passed right yeah but i guess i really need to rebranding of that debate re talking about plastic and stuff but we have to talk about much more than that we have to do big change so cut down emissions and close that emission gap to 0 because we have like they say that it's a go and they don't do that action. yet remember. what would you like to see the e.u. do to to meet these goals to cut down on c o 2 any specific action you want to see this parliament take this new parliament you have for example like they say. that emissions to 20 foot 50 that's not enough like we need to reset. 3335 so we need that net emissions less than that and the e.u. is saying we will reduce these emissions by 2050 yet that's not enough for you know it's not good you like to see really want to see like specific actions which are comfortable to the 1.5 ft. this degree to go with so that would be much more than that 2050 is not enough. let's talk about the role of of students in your part of of this friday's for future movement. wha

agenda and party campaigning ahead of the blocks parliamentary elections next week so what is the e.u. done so far to tackle the climate crisis. in march the european parliament voted to ban single use plastics starting in 2021 as part of sweeping legislation against plastic waste that pollutes beaches and oceans. it's agreed a near total ban on insecticides that have been linked to a dramatic drop in the numbers of wild bees honeybees and other culling leaders. the e.u. parliament is pushing to put cleaner cars on europe's roads by 2030. and it wants to slash its greenhouse gases by 40 percent in the next 11 years some experts say that's not enough but right now it doesn't look like any single member state will be able to meet that target. reason enough for protesters across europe to keep pushing for a faster climate action in brussels. it's to the us now where 2 days after the state of alabama passed the country's most restrictive and here borson law the opposition to it is organizing pro-choice supporters say the law violates roe v wade the 1973 landmark supreme court case that legalize

agenda and party campaigning ahead of the blocks parliamentary elections next week so what is the e.u. done so far to tackle the climate crisis. in march the european parliament voted to ban single use plastics starting in 2021 as part of sweeping legislation against plastic waste that pollutes beaches and oceans. it's agreed a near total ban on insecticides that have been linked to a dramatic drop in the numbers of wild bees honeybees and other color nadirs. the e.u. parliament is pushing to put cleaner cars on europe's roads by 2030. and it wants to slash its greenhouse gases by 40 percent in the next 11 years some experts say that's not enough but right now it doesn't look like any single member state will be able to meet that target. reason enough for protesters across europe to keep pushing for faster climate action in brussels. well in the catholic church the role of women has long been a point of contention women are not allowed to become priests for example here in germany a group of catholic women say they're sick of the male dominated church so they're boycotting the voluntary wor

e.u. ever done for me. perhaps its practices and more practice in the member states i'm hearing about susan take it my friend and that's right just curious with the united states and the president the most sad. it seems the european union is dealing with the problem of the problem. that's. less than a couple of positive things for me as a german citizen i'm allowed to cross borders of most countries without even so i'm a possible. yes a single market that doesn't only allow me free movements but also the same standards everywhere hands i don't have to pay if i want to transfer money from my german bank and. sounds crazy some company for example. when i'm in belgium where i live right now i can call home with my german mobile and i don't get so much stuff so that's not bad that's because the. roaming charges and 2017. pounds i don't have to have saved some money and most you countries because you introduced a common currency the euro and safe house and so. i have to thank you for another very good experience

e.u. and be done with it and the remainders on the other hand i mean they're trying to vote for different parties and they're just sort of giving their votes to the liberal democrats to the greens to don't use that promise that they're really want to remain in the european union send a clear message and those 2 camps have to have absolutely nothing to do with each other and given that the ruling conservative party is projected to take a beating in these elections are they actually bothered about this result. of course for the conservative party conservative party this can be a blot vos i mean some of the projections talk about single digit results which might mean they could come out in fist place after the break so the party labor the lib dems and some of the smaller parties which then would be the message for the conservatives to finally pull the plug on to resume a cell bets are up and the atmosphere here in westminster is somewhat feed while while the true reason may is going to survive this week all the next week in the office of prime minister and the best description came from the

e.u. time and energy has it done much damage to the block. interesting question up until a few months ago i would say no because if the e.u. is good at doing anything it's good at compartmentalizing problems and putting officials in charge of it and leaving the politicians to get on with other things and that's exactly what happened during the 2 year article 50 process that was given over to michel bonnie and his team they negotiated a deal and the rest of the e.u. got on with this business i think that is now starting to change most obviously with the british participation in the european elections the numbers in what is going to be a very finely balanced european parliament. the presence of british there could change the balance they could for example complicate the question of how the parliament elects the new presidents of the european commission so i think we are starting finally to see the nightmare of brics it starts to infect the everyday business of the european union and i think when the dust settles in britain when we have a new pri

e.u. side feels like it's done everything it can as fast as it can to help iran and if tehran's not satisfied that really puts federica mcgreevey and britain france and germany in a tough spot if iran starts to re and rich the u.s. will have been proven right that it can't be trusted in a deal that it never plans to give up nuclear weapons so really very tough diplomacy going on right now terry the background of these talks are of course crucial not only is pump a 0 in brussels but now we're getting reports of possible sabotage of gulf oil shipping that is the u.s. deploys a growing number of powerful military assets to the region and its relations the theory with tehran how concerned is there right now. i think they're very concerned because again if iran were found to be responsible for the sabotage or its proxies that again is one of the if things that the united states has used as a reason to pull out of the nuclear deal saying it wasn't strong enough that it didn't rain in iran's other malevolent activities in the region and therefore they shouldn't be getting and any of the benefits und

parliament the law would remove a longstanding requirement that companies prove the job can't be done by german or e.u. national qualified workers would simply have to show a contract or for a job to be granted a work permit. it's a somewhat dubious distinction the citizens here in the eastern german city of xul are on average the oldest in the country young people are leaving for many years the local economy struggle to find skilled workers now there is a new project in supported by the to regina state of the industry and commerce that wants to bring in young vietnamese workers to fill the gap one of them is the twenty two year old cow he's been living in germany for eight months now doing an apprenticeship i'm just. calling it the best part of a job as my colleagues. sometimes the work is very hard. but with the team. we can keep our sense of humor. for the new skilled workers immigration act is absolutely essential according to a spokesman for the chambre of comus. moment time is at the moment the law allows young trainees to stay in germany for three years of training and then an additional two we

e.u. why not just quit the tops and be done with it i have always argued that the e.u. is turkey's dietitian we all know that we have to watch what we eat and we need to exercise regularly to lead a healthy life but sometimes we need the prescription of a dietician would tells us how much to eat for breakfast what to eat for lunch what to eat for dinner and how much exists eyes to make throughout the day so the e.u. process itself has been fairly good for turkey it has helped us increase the standards of our democracy increase the standard so far baby food increase the stand it's off our roads and highways increased the standards of our telecommunication increase the standards of our human rights so the e.u. process has been good for turkey but the e.u. attitude towards turkey has not been as good turkey probably can apply to be in the book of records of guinness book of records because no other country has waited for such a long time to join any international organization in history we have been trying to become a member since 958 and it has come to a point where both

e.u. why not just quit the tocs and be done with it. i have always argued that the e.u. is turkey's dietitian we all know that we have to watch what we eat and we need to exercise regularly to lead a healthy life but sometimes we need the prescription of a dietician would tells us how much to eat for breakfast what to eat for lunch what to eat for dinner and how much exists eyes to make throughout the day so the e.u. process itself has been fairly good for turkey it has helped us increase the standards of our democracy increased the standard so far baby food increased the standard so far roads and highways increased the standard so far telecommunication increased the standards of our human rights so that each process has been good for turkey but the attitude towards turkey has not been as good turkey probably can apply 5 to be in the book of records of guinness book of records because no other country has waited for such a long time to join any international organization in history we have been trying to become a member since 958 and it has come to a point where both the

e.u. why not just quit the topics and be done with it i have always argued that the e.u. is turkey's dietitian real know that we have to watch what we eat and we need to exercise regularly to lead a healthy life but sometimes we.

e.u. support. and she called for optimism we've done so much we'll do it but many in germany disagree they fear that germany would be overrun but it would not be able to manage far right we have been so on the rise here as elsewhere too and a polarizing society and to many hasn't completely recovered from the 40 years it was divided after the wall by the wall fell 30 years ago the scars of far from healed. appear. the vibe beginning to understand for the 1st time what a long reach history really has how it shapes us and how little things have actually changed in the short time since 1909. things have changed outwardly but it's still clear that there were 2 very different systems i'd say that divided germany still very much lives on. is germany fragile after all. all can be a pioneering force in carrying everyone with that while keeping in mind trained on its past. the heart of europe beats 400 kilometers east of paris in strasbourg on the border between france and germany. it's the heart of the old continent. and of the new one it's the official seat of the european parliament. but there are also ot

e.u. state not to have done so earlier this month in warsaw several thousands nationalists protested against the u.s. restitution law opponents of the legislation claim it would inflict serious damage on poland's economy moreover on may 12th poland cancelled a visit by an israeli official concerned that the talks which focus on the issue of jewish restitution we spoke to mark shulman columnist and editor of history essential dot com he says the rise of anti semitism in poland is a real problem problem of property in poland is that i know less than it was in warsaw half of warsaw no one knows who owns what because it wasn't only the question of the jewish property then came the communist rule and people didn't have didn't have ownership of their apartments and no one in warsaw knows who owns what the whole jewish issue has become significant in polish politics so you know there's this problem of anti-semitism there's no jews now the jews are always been throughout history been a convenient kicking i mean you can kick you know the jews are responsible for whatever is going on and so that's rea

e.u. recognizes you know has done rather than merely rule in read the meter or not all across the west people have come up supporting a man who's talking about a military coup and you've got this is this maneuver in the arms business. talking about sending follow announcer eric brilliant blackwood or denying that reuters suggestion good good a bit like george are going to evolve we don't have the right to intervene to overthrow other governments have been democratically elected since nine hundred ninety eight every single election in venezuela has been won by the progressive party that first shot is now majority and that's when i think that america hates the fact he has a government that seize control of its oil supplies put them at the service of the venezuelan people just like in cuba i mean when castro came to power he put the interests of the cubans are american interests and that's what all these in war do you think you've heard of as your old friend was alive today and was watching the pictures of you do with military officers to get a coup would you think it early morning a would just

e.u. parties don't appear to have done very well so on the one hand i'm not so surprised because what we've seen is a fragmentation of the party system so we see and parties populist parties do better but this story that they will replace traditional parties i think has been a bit oversold so seeing them do will but not as well as maybe they were predicted to does not surprise me so much what does surprise me a bit who did well which were the social democrats but i think that may be more of a sort of country specific effect rather than a you wide thing so what did the dutch center left do right. i mean i think maybe it's more that the enemy's did a lot of things wrong and i mean he's a very charismatic leader he did a very good election campaign so i think he sort of singlehandedly won it. if you look at the debate surrounding this election what would you be hearing in france and also other countries is that this is a battle between anti e.u. forces and pro e.u. forces between nationalists and progressives is that really what this vote boils down to yes and no again we have a lot of anti e.

e.u. support. and she called for optimism we've done so much we'll do it but many in germany disagree they fear that germany would be overrun but it would not be able to manage far right movements on the rise here as elsewhere too and a polarizing society and too many hasn't completely recovered from the 40 years it was divided after the war that the wall fell 30 years ago the scars are far from healed. appear to. be valid beginning to understand for the 1st time what a long reach history really has how it shapes us and how little things have actually changed in the short time since 1909. things have changed outwardly but it's still clear that there were 2 very different systems i'd say that divided germany still very much lives on. is germany fragile. after all. can you be a pioneering force in carrying everyone with aids while keeping an eye trained on its past. the heart of europe beats 400 kilometers east of paris in strasbourg on the border between france and germany. it's the heart of the old continent. and of the new one it's the official seat of the european parliament. but there are also ot

e.u. has put up that they've done anything to curb dumping by chinese producers, which was often the statedtleld like to do more, but the intransigence about the chinese government in particular, because it impacts this statement that they've made this week that they would have to actually make changes in chinese law in order to comply with the trade complaints, and that is a more difficult thing than i think lots of people realize >> yesterday china announced $60 billion worth of retaliatory tariffs where, we look through the list one thing that was excluded was these goods, and i just wonder from your perspective how significant is it the fact that they left that out and oversee that has big implications, i would presume, for the technology sector. they don't want to cause any additional hardship on japan when it coming to rare earth it's the elect fiction of the overall economy for the next several decades with things like magnets for motors and power trains for vehicles. >> it's very interesting that they were then excluded from the lursz because they're part of china 2025 very importan

hell no you can't say anything about brics it is a done deal we have this deadline of the 31st of october of when the u.k. is supposed to leave the e.u. that is being put down by the e.u. by brussels but as i've said before the u.k. is so divided the politicians who sit behind me here in parliament also divided about whether they want to leave whether they don't want to leave a soft bricks at the heart breaks it a no deal breaks it so nothing can be confirmed about what will happen perhaps yet again it will come down to brussels and to europe to decide whether they want this false as it has become to continue after the 31st of october or whether they just say that sit the u.k. just has to get out ok alex thanks very much for that i was forced why the. shake up in britain right now with brooke supported thanks very much. so just how disruptive inside the european parliament could the bracks it party be and euro skeptic parties in general making their substantial gains i'm joined by guts from holes political analyst talk more about that thanks for coming in this morning after hearing what we just heard from london how concerned are you

e.u. side is doing all it can to get it set up but more needs to be done so from the american side no question about it they want inspectors to die certainly from the e.u. side of things they don't want to because they remain committed to that deal and they see it as their way of trying to keep iran inside the deal for as long as possible. how much of a strain on relations between the u.s. and its allies and countries like germany has this whole issue brought to bear what it seems quite a considerable strain summit because that's because you're about this this 1st meeting between mr pompei and an angle america what should have happened much earlier this month when it was cancelled by the u.s. state department quite abruptly short notice when it was supposed to happen several weeks ago so the fact that's happening now well it's a meeting of minds to a certain extent clearly not on iran but us remember these 2 countries are allies broadly speaking and certainly that's something that's the theme that angle americal returns to when she greeted mr pomp a little while ago. we'll have plenty of issue

e.u. recognizes why do you know who has done rather than merely were in readily available we not all across the west people have come up supporting a man who's talking about a military coup and you've got this business maneuver in the arms business talking about sending follow down to eric brilliant blackwood or denying that reuters suggestion good good good good luck george we're going to evolve we don't have the right to intervene to overthrow other governments have been democratically elected since nine hundred ninety eight every single election in venezuela has been won by the progressive party that first shot is now majority and in that's when i think that america has the fact he's a government that seize control of its oil supplies put them at the service of the venezuelan people just like in cuba i mean when castro came to power he put the interests of the cubans. american interests and that's what these in war do you think you've heard of as your old friend was alive today and was watching the pictures of you do with military officers talking about a coup would you think it early or

e.u. why not just quit the talks and be done with it i always argue it.is dietitian we all know that we have to watch what we eat and we need to exercise regularly to lead a healthy life but sometimes we need the prescription of a dietician would tells us how much to eat for breakfast what to eat for lunch what to eat for dinner and how much exit size to make throughout the day so the e.u. process itself has been fairly good for turkey. it has helped us increase the standards of our democracy increase the standards of our baby food increase the standard so far roads and highways increased the standards of our telecommunication increase the standards of our human rights so the e.u. process has been good for turkey but the e.u. attitude towards turkey has not been as.

e.u. helps make up for damage done by the sanctions.re the u.s. witfrom the nuclear deal last year. pope francis today mandated that priests and nuns report sexual abuse and cover-ups to church authorities. the new law also inclu procedures making it easier to investigate bishops. a senior vatican prosecutor said it shows no one is above the law, including bishops. experience sws us that either a closed-shop mentality or a misplaced interest in protecting the institution was hindering disclosure. i think the law is veryan impo because it makes disclosure as the main policy oh thch. >> woodruff: some abuse victims called the law a step forward.pl others cned that it does not require reporting abuse to police. akback in this country, las in alabama delayed voting on a bill that bans abortions at any stage of pregnancy. democrats and at least one republican shouted objections when other republicans stripped t exceptions for rape an incest. debate resumes next week. federal prosecutors in san diego have filed 109 hate crimes charges in last month's. synagogue atta 19-year-old john earne

well done some months is one of the many faces of the e.u. elections. but he is not expected to have a real input year at least not a positive one them his party is expected to come in in 3rd and traditionally here in the netherlands they are very pro european but not so much pro voting in european elections the voter participation since 1909 has never exceeded 40 percent and we're actually standing right in outside of a polling station right now and crossed the canal talked to a couple people there they feel like this time maybe there was more interest they feel like more people are coming but we'll have to wait for the for the end of the day to see if that's true or not and let's we saw in the u.k. a populist surges expected what is it like in the netherlands. well one political party has taken center stage all of a sudden that's the forum for democracy a far right populist party the which was started in 2016 and they are expected to come out 1st and these e.u. elections and they're campaigning there anti e.u. there campaigning on their want they want

pulled out of this deal but also in the lead up to getting the deal done there was an awful lot of work put in by the e.u. side i know federico mockery of the high representative for foreign affairs saw this project as a particular personal achievement and she was quite visibly upset when the united states pulled out will be looking to see what comment she gives a or if any later on what we have seen though is a comment on wednesday from the french defense ministry they said that should iran do essentially what they've said they're going to do and pull out of the deal that was the worst case scenario for all involved. today nothing could be worse. iran leave in the agreement there are new sanctions to do through mutiny because iran has so far poll with respect to the commitments we should have undertaking this can refinance and not just back to the question of do we consider it the has been a lot of the warm words i mentioned from the e.u. side to iran saying don't worry we've got you despite the u.s. pulling out put a lot of the problems come not from the political side the diplomatic side comes down to

of nonproliferation company physician at that nobody has been that he done so we'll continue to support it if. we agree with other e.u. states the nuclear deal is necessary for us security and its goal is to prevent iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. or just last week iran said that it would no longer commit to all aspects of the 2015 nuclear deal. this came a year after the united states unilaterally pulled out of the agreement all together it does leave brussels and it leaves the 28 member states of the european union in a very peculiar position they are absolutely condemned the united states for pulling out of this deal particularly federica mockery need the high representative of foreign affairs basically the e.u. equivalent of a foreign minister for the 28 member state bloc she said it was a disgrace that this is happened she was on the verge of tears at some point because she put a lot of her own hard work into it now we are starting to see some of those 28 member states starting to look towards terror and saying if you pull out of this whole heartedly well this isn't going to work well for anybody iran has a

so, with all of the things that russia has done, why don't we, the united states, e.u., nato, get outside of looking at isolated incidents where we can condemn russia and the government and look at them from a general perspective as an enemy of democracy? >> thank you. doug, take that one. >> first of all, there is no question they are chose. it's very clear that putin has torn of the rulebook which has governed the post-world war ii period, and he's a major disruptive factor in europe. why don't we just go after them? there's still a significant body of common interests, even with the misbehaving russia. russia has 7000 nuclear weapons. nobody else comes close. the security of those nuclear weapons, the management of those systems as a fundamental, existential challenge to the united states. we can't do that by ourselves. dialogueo enter into a with russia with regard to nuclear security. they have a very large sunni muslim population. there were more russian citizens who migrated into northern syria and northern iraq and joint isis than any other nationality. number one nationality to j