the e.u. has warned italy to refrain from making threats to withhold funding from the block over migrant ship dispute cursus talks held in brussels have ended without a resolution about one hundred fifty migrants have been stuck on the ditch on the vessel at this is so important for a cup tanya since monday night well italy's deputy prime minister says his government may stopping part of its annual contribution that is if other european countries don't take in some of the refugees while the european commission's spokesperson set the blockquote operates on the basis of rules not threats. and to talk about the standoff brussels correspondent richard reid joins me now from brussels a parent of this faceoff between rome and brussels has ended in a no deal what does that mean. that means there was no appetite to give in to italian demands neither by the commission nor by the eleven other member states who were in brussels to talk about migration because this very unusual italian approach to say the lea

the e.u. has warned italy to refrain from making threats to withhold funding from the block over a refugee ship dispute about one hundred fifty refugees have been stuck on the d.g. r.t. vessel the syrian port of mia since monday night it is deputy prime minister says his government missed being part of its annual you contribution if other european countries don't take in some of the refugees the european commission spokesperson said the bloc operates on the basis of rules and not trends. justice correspondent bendigo joins me now and it sounds like there's a standoff going on between rome and brussels who do you think is going to blink first. but there certainly no appetite to blink here in brussels because this threat from italy is seen as a kind of a political blackmail a kind of populist brinkmanship to reach these goals which cannot be reached in particularly goshi asians and not the note that you commission is responsible for taking in margins but the member states and the twelve member state

been rising this year as a percentage has actually fallen the e.u. market is less significant than the asian one so far europe has only received two point seven percent of u.s. ellen g. exports this year that is significantly lower than its total share for twenty seventeen and twenty sixteen. still e.u. trade negotiators will be doing all they can to make the case for free trade to the american counterparts later this month and l.n.g. purchases could help sweeten the deal. it's the height of the summer season in europe and there's travel misery ahead dutch court has told ryanair pilots. in the netherlands they could join a wave of strike action planned across europe friday's walkouts set to affect over fifty thousand passengers is intended to build up pressure on the cut price airline in a row over pay and conditions and as recent studies show it's not only staff that bear the cost of cheap travel. these passengers have to trek across open tarmac to get to the airplane but they don't mind by flying a low cost carrier they can save money but often a fl

no deal breaks it happen where the downside is that we said been here the chief negotiator of the e.u. has identified right away and that concerns people first and foremost their e.u. citizens living in the united kingdom who don't know what the future will look like they have british citizens living in the e.u. and germany and france and other countries who don't know exactly what their status is going to be so it's people first and foremost that we have to care about and the second thing is of course great britain is a very important partner in nato ally and we don't know how much bad blood is going to be created if a bad exit really comes to be read the reality that we're faced with and you mention people and those are who are going to be most affected on a personal note do you think the e.u. . really did its best how did it happen the way it handled these negotiations when i think that mr bundy has done an outstanding job he's been extremely patient i'm very happy that dominic rop now moves forward finally acknowledges reality his predecessor you know he wouldn't even come to brussels

rights activist rashid cotto says the e.u. has failed to address the underlying problem of why people are fleeing. and my consistent. smugness will always find ways through however dangerous. there are still many days you have projects by frontex and general and people were registered but now how many immigrants have left nowadays those who can leave you can't know how many people have left those desperate to leave have no choice but to make the dangerous doesn't crossing policy is not making them perilous journey any safer. are been here now with business news and the challenges facing africa on the trade front since leaders have gathered in washington for the annual meeting of the agricultural applied economics association a bit of a mouthful a packed agenda as well punitive tariffs treaties being trashed geo political crises times and not easy for global trade globalization is fulfilling in part due to the u.s. president's trade policies was defected a poor regions united nations conference on trade and development says global

been rising this year as a percentage has actually fallen the e.u. market is less significant than the asian one so far europe has only received two point seven percent of u.s. ellen g. exports this year that is significantly lower than its total share for twenty seventeen and twenty sixteen. still e.u. trade negotiators will be doing all they can to make the case for free trade to the american counterparts later this month and l.n.g. purchases could help sweeten the deal. thanks for watching i'll be back here with a fresh update in force of that's. coming. up. she's sixteen years old solmes a wrong business and is helping to prevent water shortages in south africa. britain is going to be signing something about the water being wasted on her transfers. so she installed an aquaponics system. it's a simple idea that's really set an example. go africa next d.w. . rock n roll. ah ah ah. sinful rhythms can tell by the church. no evil feeling that you feel when you think. stoppable. no one is more popular than jesus come the religious moralist preachers sub

pulled out of the twenty fifteen international nuclear deal with iran the e.u. has condemned the revived measures and says that it will shield european companies a rod to has acted to soften the blow by easing foreign exchange transactions but iranians have been protesting over the economic hardship many already fates. for six days in a row now iranians have taken to the streets in protest in cities across the country they're angry about high prices and the government they accuse iran's politicians of mismanagement and corruption leading the country into ruin but however not everyone is marching some feel helpless like his son. he's certain that his life won't get better any time soon. and i don't know what the name of the u.s. sanctions is. all i know is that for iranians everything is getting worse the sanctions just hit me people who are poor anyway like mean the rich ones suffer. food prices have risen by forty percent in just a few months and few people can afford to buy meat even the price of bread have soared. iran's currency has plunged in value since may wh

market the e.u. has responded with legislation that bans european companies from complying with the sanctions brussels sent a clear signal. we believe that it is and it has to be up to. the europeans in this case to decide with whom to trade with major corporations like air bus undying decided to quit operations in iran instead of risking sanctions themselves but medium sized companies cannot afford to give up the market and brussels is still hoping that washington won't proceed with sanctions twenty you companies can is the softness the money the hope is that americans won't sanction european companies or otherwise disadvantage them but the more they do that the more we have to protect our business with credit or investment guarantees which of treats. could it got in it's gotten t. in the new you law provides recourse to any european companies hit by u.s. sanctions but even if they can claim compensation for any losses incurred many of them are still stuck between a rock and a hard place. more on that l

now want to find out what this european union is all about and speaking of the european union the e.u. has started to sponsor cheap train tickets for young europeans and this has caused a bit of a renaissance for those into rail tickets which allow youngsters to travel the continent by paying one price and then travel all over the continent for a couple of weeks this is a big trend this year and this is also something that is being seen here in frankfurt interest who thought. in frankfurt thank you. musts twitter announcement saying he wants to take the economic. private as not only irritated markets it's now also become a matter of interest for the u.s. securities and exchange commission according to the wall street journal. is looking into whether must stay if statements were actually factual in other words was he joking the sheen has come off the business of wunderkind long mosque burning through billions of dollars at tesla without even a hint of future revenue insulting analysts tweeting like donald trump who is this kind investors still trust him one question some have called him the

companies exported goods worth three billion euros to iran last year and fear for their business the e.u. has offered to support them but trump says any company dealing with iran will not be allowed to do business in the us car make a dime or became one of the first to suspend trade with iran. trade tensions between the u.s. and china are also ratcheted up this week washington says that beginning august twenty third it will levy further penalty tariffs of twenty five percent on an expanded range of chinese imports the french tariffs will affect a total of sixteen billion dollars worth of product primarily industrial products like metals chemicals and electronics it's the second wave of tariffs the u.s. has levied against china so far. despite global trade disputes germany's foreign trade continues to expand its statistics office says that exports in june rose seven point eight percent compared to june last year and most of the demand for german goods came from european countries june imports grew even faster than exports coming in ten percent higher than in june twenty seventh seen the bigges

although europe is one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the us of late is in digs actually what you would call friendly. the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes confidence in the international order in need is never good break the rules that we ourselves helped to create. we saying things to them they say thank you we don't take you for. free trade that's stupid trade so now we will also impose import tariffs you can also use we also have to breathe this. expect that you are peons will see this business as a load. the choice between doing business with a rock a good business with the united states. seventy five years the end of the largest tank battle in history it finished within the soviet union pushing on a counter offensive to ease pressure on the western front and helped liberate the world from the nazis are two years down off traveled to the city of course in western russia to watch at the parade commemorating the anniversary. day here in course kicked off with the military parad

its announced in a press release that it had suspended activities in iran until further notice the e.u. has reiterated its rejection of u.s. sanctions and is encouraging european businesses to carry on dealing with iran protect european businesses from the effects of secondary sanctions of sanctions that u.s. imposes outside of its that we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans in this case to the side with home to trade with brussels has a little leverage against washington but the e.u. wants to help european entrepreneurs in iran the can is the softness that we can hope that the americans won't apply sanctions to european company x. or disadvantage them in any way it's true but if they do force to protect our economy with the credit guarantees investment guarantees it's gotten tea in germany in particular had long hoped for good business with iran but in recent months german exports to tehran have already fallen by four percent. in america now where yvonne decay has been inaugurated as colombia's new president conservative duke a replaces one. peace deal with the leftist

e.u. has seen the potential problem and is working on transparency regulations for certain foreign investments applied to the e.d.p. bid they would function like there's portugal first screens for chinese companies offer. parallel to that lisbon informs the e.u. commission in brussels along with the other member states they then screen the chinese bid themselves and give their feedback portugal has the final decision on whether the deal goes ahead or not. bidding for e.d.p. is still under way and it's still not clear how tight the new iraqi elections will be some countries want a minimum of outside interference including portugal hungary and greece. china now seems to have its own presence at the negotiating table along with the government heads of the european union. around two thousand chinese companies do business in africa raw materials are the main focus and africa is a huge market for chinese products so creating the necessary infrastructure to mine resources also sets up the ideal suppl

and while the e.u. has created legislation to protect european companies many are unwilling to risk being sanctioned by washington. and without i'd like to go back to willie bots in front could only daughter i'm to georgia telecom both german industry heavyweights dropping iran due to u.s. pressure what signal does that send out to other companies doing business there or anywhere else in fact the u.s. is having issue with. it's just too dangerous so there's just too much at stake as you suggested the iran business it's an important growth fracture for many companies yes but in terms of total volume of pales in comparison to what's at stake if people lost access to the u.s. market or were subject perhaps to fines totaling billions that's been that's been imposed before by the united states and companies like your bank or the doj and have accepted that and when you look at this particular example the deutsche telekom all it says deutsche telekom but they have a huge u.s. subsidiary just. took over another com

although europe is one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the u.s. of late isn't exactly what you would call friendly. the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes confidence in the international order in it is never good for us to break the rules that we ourselves helped to create. we selling things to them they say no thank you we don't take you that's not free trade that's stupid trade so now we will also impose import tariffs we can also do stupid things we also have to be this stupid. expect that you are peons will see this business is a load seen the choice between doing business with a run of doing business with the united states story coolly it. has been seventy five years since the end of the largest tank battle in history it finished with the soviet union pushing on a counter offensive to ease pressure on the western front and helped liberate in the world from the nazis are to zeerust on off traveled to the city of course in western russia to watch the parade commemorating the anniv

because the e.u. has given quite a stern response isn't it to the sanctions well that's right it's fair to say that the european union and donald trump haven't seen eye to eye on a number of issues they fell out over the decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and in israel they fell out over donald trump's unilateral move to pull out of the paris climate accord but it's his decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal that upset some of the biggest names in european leaders as well as in this among the diplomats and there was a communique issued well before this announcement that said the european union stance on the new tranche of sanctions was a unanimous no we are determined to protect european economic operators in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force under seventh of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business but he ran from the impact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions so what is the blocking start to it well i

but now they are seen as an alternative to the swift banking payment system has now become a legitimate discussion topic in the e.u. german foreign minister has floated the idea of an independent system free from any u.s. pressure. where the u.s. crosses red lines we as europeans must counter-balance as hard as that is it is indispensable that we strengthen the european autonomy by creating channels that are independent of the united states a european monetary fund and an independence with system so swift as it stands at the moment the society for worldwide interbank financial telecommunications is a global payment network show you've heard of it is designed to secure transactions between banks and encompasses eleven thousand financial institutions and two hundred countries is massive swift claims political neutrality but it has apparently caved in to american pressure in the past let's say more about that it's after washington withdrew from the iran nuclear deal and reimpose sanctions against iran swift was left with a choice either to cut off a rainy in banks from its network by early november or face an asset f

government has told the e.u. it has to compromise or risk ending up with a no deal.e pound rallied to the highest level in three weeks yesterday despite minimal evidence of any progress on the divorce negotiations. -- saying a no deal brexit is one part of the e.u.'s plan that we must be prepared for any and all options on brexit. peter chadwell has been listening to these comments. anderday was about possibly a president for the u.k.. we saw the pound rally. saying it could prompt the bank of england to get a little bit more aggressive. if they strike a deal that goes through, and i'm projecting into the weeds here, how much more aggressive do you think the bank of england could be next year? that whatl, i think the market is underpricing is the possibility that the bank of england could go with the next hike as soon as february of next year. i think what would give the bank , moreland more ability intent to move rates of quickly would be as long as they didn't risk.y clear brexit i think that's something that movingeave the curve toward a flattening. that is the bi

because the e.u. has given quite a stern response isn't it to the sanctions well that's right it's fair to say that the european union and donald trump haven't seen eye to eye on a number of issues they fell out over the decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and in israel they fell out over donald trump's unilateral move to pull out of the paris climate accord but it's his decision to pull out of the iran nuclear deal that upset some of the biggest names in european leaders as well as in this one the diploma there was a communique issued well before this announcement that said the european union stance on the new tranche of sanctions was a unanimous no we are determined to protect european economic operators in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force under seven of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business but he ran from an impact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions so what is the blocking statute well it was initially

the e.u. has been kicking around this notion of migrants, now they cannot deal with 120 migrants sat on their doorsteps. where is the e.u. policy on this? berne: there is no common policy anymore when it comes to migrants that arrive in italy, it is a case-by-case, boat by boat management, if you will. the e.u. needs urgently a long-term strategy. it's escalating and there is no solidarity in italy is asking its fellow right wing populist government and hungry to take some of the migrants but the answer was no. host: thank you. zimbabwe's top court has upheld president mnangagwa's narrow victory in last months election. the ruling dismissed opposition allegations of vote rigging. ithe election was regarded as a start. the outcome left the nation severely polarize leading to post election violence. >> the top court had a clear message for the oppositition -- insufficient proof. >> the court finds that the applicant has failed to place before it clear, direct, sufficient and credible evidence. that

to disembark a professor of modern european history paolo byrne a danish says the christ is the e.u. has found itself and goes far beyond problems with migrants. well i'm going to do a major write down of the quietness of the looking. and waste goes wild beyond the problem and then my. reorganize. so i think in my only be able to correctly and the other consider instance because some states are growing you know. so we do a lot of september previews look on the whole good it's. very own group that is a pirate gotten fired up in such a mess because you got nothing on it is a i'm going to bore you made your bridesmaids so a lot of things are not going to find. the value in the people who the good while be. the poverty line is difficult to separate from books that the more my clients are and is a bomb and this should be in a sensible way face by the middle of the news nothing isn't the problem the most correct and professional way i say should be. russia's defense ministry has warned that terrorists in syria op preparing to stage a chemical attack in a bid to provoke a western intervention.

not at the right place on the europe's one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the u.s. of late not exactly what you'd call friendly. the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes company international need is never good ask break the laws that we ourselves helped to create. we saying things to them they say no thank you we don't take you to. free trade that's stupid trade so now we will also impose import tariffs we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid and. expect that europeans will see this business as a load seen the choice between doing business with a run a business with the united states is very clear to them. well a pigsty. and i will follow for you today the u.s. national security advisor has got a tough message regarding syria and the iranian presence there it's one of the topics up for talks right now with his russian counterpart nickel yes trish if that's underway in geneva it comes at a time when relations between moscow and washington of specially for a say europe correspondent peter all

although europe is one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the u.s. of late is not exactly what you'd call friendly. the united states. from the. international. break we ourselves. free trade. so now we will also impose import tariffs you can also. we also. see this business. business with business with the united states. it is seventy five years since the end of the largest tongue in history the third reich on the red army will died eight thousand tanks with over three million soldiers involved on both sides it finished with the soviet union pushing on a country offensive to ease pressure on the western front and helped liberate the world from the nazis. easy. to me that. it would. be the purpose of authorities but it easy for. all those are new stories for with facebook busily purging a kind from russia and iran this week watching the hawks delves into what in authentic behavior actually means and it's next. to me just simply set. up a base here. in the field. non-single he would be useful if he. were talking to. ok let'

brussels has little leverage against washington but the e.u. wants to help european entrepreneurs in iran the can is we can hope that the americans won't apply sanctions to european companies or disadvantage them in any way but if they do you'll be forced to protect our economy with the credit guarantees investment guarantees gotten tea in germany in particular had long hoped to the good business with iran but in recent months german exports to tehran have already fallen by four percent. business thing here been for joins me now to flesh out what these u.s. sanctions on iran mean for european businesses been we just heard or the number there that german exports to iran have dropped four percent and that could just be the tip of the iceberg exactly. we know that this strategy is not about blocking u.s. firms doing business in iran there are very few of those this is about blocking european and asian companies as well you know germany france and britain old likes that nuclear deal china did too and the u.s. natural national security advisor john

at the right place although europe is one of america's closest allies the kind of treatment the e.u. has been receiving from the u.s. of late isn't exactly what you'd call friendly. the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal that diminishes compliments of the international order is never good break the rules that we ourselves helped to create. we setting things to them they said no thank you we don't take you for. a free trade that's stupid trade so now we will also impose import tariffs we can also do stupid we also have to be this stupid. expect that you are peons will see this business as a load seen the choice between doing business with a run a good business with the united states to the. video has emerged of a british police officer slapping a fourteen year old girl during an arrest the images soon spread online and divided public opinion please be aware that the video we're about to show you does contain scenes of violence. thank you your god was going to. make a come out was. ok and yet you know you. guys thank you i'm kind of all right because you. know. police s

hunger strike two in protest and with tensions growing even the un has decided to weigh in in its latest report the organization urges all e.u. states to take part in the relocation process in italy in particular to allow all the refugees on board the boat to disembark italian government in the meantime has now allowed sixteen migrants off that boat for medical treatment as well as twenty seven youngsters. the you needs to step up in the meantime we are about maintaining health and human rights standards on board the we have allowed miners to disembark . well professor of early modern european history paladin a teenager's side at the crisis in the e.u. has found itself in does go far beyond problems with migrants. going to the major identity because the been looking. and lives goes wow dion and the problem. we're all going on isn't. so big my only. correct link and a lot of incidences for some states are growing you're absolutely were something septa reproduce not on the whole group it's. very own group that is a part of it and fired up in such a manner because you got one partner is an underdog you made your bride says a lo