even before we have -- after we have left, the laws of the e.u. still affect us. j still controls law. when we leave the e.u., the withdrawal bill will bring e.u. law into u.k. law. where appropriate, our courts will continue to look at the ecj's judgment as they did for the appropriate jurist. of other--jurisprudence of other countries's court. it may be appropriate for our country to look at the ecj's judgment. shouldgree that the u.k. agree to take part in the e.u. agency, the u.k. will respect the ecj in that regard. but the e.u. law will no longer rule in the united kingdom. that themean jurisdiction of the ecj in the u.k. must end. and the arbiter of our future relationship cannot be the court of either party. if we want access to each other's markets, it has to be on their terms. we must accept the need for binding commitments. we may choose it to commit some areas of our regulation to remain in step with the e.u.. joined most of the policy in this area and we have much to gain on anticompetitive practices. as i said in florence, we share the same set of fun

they can apply e.u. law and impose severe penalties. to your software for who you know will soon close the first streets to dirty diesels but people just take other routes how does that help the environment. and if it won't because the courts have said that bypass roads must also be blocked and as soon as people start using those know you'll be watching that development very closely. you know but it'll be traffic chaos. block off the whole city that's why we were able to push through a second option to ban diesels from the environmental design at the entire city is an environmental dissolved if diesels are kept out there's no more bypass traffic and this also has to be done and how. is that. that's remarkable. here you are an environmental organization and you're suing the government to force that to implement its own laws as that and you've been doing that a long time. and you've been successful month you seem to be on a personal campaign for the environment as a sort of white knight how do you see yourself you know with a form of i've

they can apply e.u. law and impose severe penalties. to hear stuff of who you know will soon close the first streets to dirty diesels but people just take other routes how does that help the environment. and if it was because the courts have said that bypass roads must also be blocked as soon as people start using you will be watching that development very closely i'm booked on but no because it'll be traffic chaos. block off the whole city that's why we were able to push through a second option to ban diesels from the environmental design at the entire city is an environmental zone if diesels are kept out there's no more bypass traffic and this also has to be done in homburg with. them and. that's remarkable. here you are an environmental organization and you're suing the government to force that to implement its own laws as that and you've been doing that a long time. and you've been successful month you seem to be on a personal campaign for the environment as a sort of white knight how do you see yourself. with a foot from what i hav

will have to follow all e.u. laws but will lose any role in policy and legislation negotiators also reach terms on the rights of four million e.u. citizens currently living in the group in great britain but resolution has not been reached on some of the toughest issues including the status of the border with northern ireland negotiators are anxious to find a solution to brics it does not require the creation of a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland which still officially is part of the u.k. removal of checkpoints on that border were a important part of the good friday peace agreement from one nine hundred ninety eight. and last time we met here at the headlines we reported on the proposed european union digital tax on technology firms like google facebook apple yahoo and some others well the u.s. . treasury steve i'm a new chin says the tax which would prominently punish u.s. companies is in retaliation to the trumpet ministrations plan to impose a twenty five percent tariff on steel and a

e.u. countries if there is a request for extradition the courts must assess whether in the criminal law of their own country the country where the person is being held there is a charge that is similar doesn't have to be identical but it has to be largely similar to the charge that's being made by the country requesting extradition so spain it says the main charge against him is is rebellion and there is no charge of rebellion under german criminal law but there is a charge of high treason and the question for the court today will be is that conquer. bow to rebellion are these two comparable are they also more or less comparable in terms of penalties the court will not be deciding whether he might be guilty of this it is simply trying to compare the charges if it finds that they are comparable it must extra extradite him under e.u. law so it is a legal matter as the german justice minister said but with vast political implications it is nonetheless a very political matter for germany not least because of the kind of demonstrations we saw there last night in spain and let's talk a little bi

has meaning to fury in american democracy and they have been completely ignoring their all of the e.u. lawi think groups primarily donated by by united arab emirates since that's our aid when mr tabor became. did it all and to washington d.c. effectively he changed its rudisha whole approach to kind of that. gaining influence in washington d.c. traditionally basically arab states try to our approach to big powerful figures in the white house or is it part meant or pentagon to buy or influence but actually he implicated he literally stated time of the pro is really kind of looking. at a nice little primer and focusing on mr tabor sadat and events in the completely distorting washington d.c. he started to have investment in very syntax he started to buy the loyalty of various journalists and various made media organization ok let's not lose too much as if i may i mean if you look at how wide that net was thrown before the elections if this all comes out that it has been proved that russia was involved the u.a.e. was involved facebook and the data hacking there i mean it's quite extraordinary

the e.u. . law. thousands of catalans have rallied in barcelona in support of their former president who has been arrested in germany sunday's gathering led to clashes with police. cool. officers in riot gear moved in to break up the crowd up to eighty nine people were reportedly injured and four were arrested the protesters were demanding that the spanish government end its crackdown on the key figures behind the cattle on independence movement. we decided to send the president vice president and other high ranking officials in the council on government. while the former catalan leader was detained while crossing from denmark into germany where he is now in custody he fled spain after last october's referendum which madrid ruled was illegal and he just said he has more on his arrest. the former catalan president colors push a man has been detained in germany he's wanted in spain on charges of sedition and rebellion and was held after crossing the border from denmark on his way to belgium now german

will have to follow all e.u. laws but will lose any role in policy and legislation negotiators also reach terms on the rights of four million e.u. citizens currently living in the group in great britain but resolution has not been reached on some of the toughest issues including the status of the border with northern ireland negotiators are anxious to find a solution to brics it does not require the creation of a hard border between the republic of ireland and northern ireland which still officially is part of the u.k. removal of checkpoints on that border were a important part of the good friday peace agreement from one nine hundred ninety eight. and last time we met here at the headlines we reported on the proposed european union digital tax on technology firms like google facebook apple yahoo and some others well the u.s. . treasury steve i'm a new chin says the tax which would prominently punish u.s. companies is in retaliation to the trumpet ministrations plan to impose a twenty five percent tariff on steel and a

determine whether the arrest warrant must be carried out whether in fact he must be deported under e.u. law under a very specific set of conditions back to spain as spain is requesting ok so the process could be a little bit longer than initially thought stephen you know people there in barcelona probably waiting with bated breath to see what the decision here in germany is and in fact we saw a massive clashes there overnight just walk us through how angry people all are there in barcelona over pushed a monster tension i mean is this just a small segment of the population or is this really widespread. well a revolving people going green for a long burger think this will have reached the big friday where judge probably already. of the supreme court basically ruled that all of the people currently and so from both states or the ones who are out on bail should those. the independence movement is supported by forty to forty four percent of the population but i think even if people who are not in favor of the president it's hard streamlet indignant is great at the government's handling of this f

you could call it almost like the environmental movement and you see it all over the law the new e.u. law always is in a sense a symptom of this change of awareness around what does the role of data power information as power does different kinds of technologies like for example if you look at the legality of what has been going on in the hour then i mean from the twenty fifth of may when the new data protection regulation is truly implemented or goes goes into place and there's several things in this case that wouldn't be legal at all in there for example in the way in which you do get consent from uses facebook is going consent from users to use the data in the way that in general the thing of sharing your your your friends' data is is is not it is illegal so there's a several things that that movement it's a cold whole culture movement a whole society a movement that i think it's going to it's it's going to change itself just like the environmental movement right now today if you are a company that doesn't that you're not environmentally aware if you don't use it if you don't treat the

to make absolutely clear that so the e.u. law applies also but. if brussels does rules that the new baltic sea pipeline is subject to e.u. regulatory authority the consequences would be far reaching after investing a fortune in constructing a pipeline the consortium would be forced to allow deliveries of gas by competitors . the consortium's parents gazprom claims that would be technically unfeasible and a political affront to declare what it's an attempt to dictate the gas supply routes in my view it's a violation of the basic principle of a market economy before it would be an unwarranted interference in the laws of my country. brussels seems determined to cross swords with castro. the polish pipeline opponent wants to strengthen the e.u. energy union he'd like to see europe diversifying its supply and drawing on as many supply routes as possible. we've got. the north. sold to build more seem to as a matter of fact on the same approach the same supply. it is not divisive occasion to talk it would be. nor seem to it would be possible to switch of

to make absolutely clear that the e.u. law applies also. if brussels does rule that the new baltic sea pipeline is subject to e.u. regulatory authority the consequences would be far reaching after investing a fortune in constructing a pipeline the consortium would be forced to allow deliveries of gas by competitors . of the consortium's parents gazprom claims that would be technically feasible and a political a from which to dictate what it's an attempt to dictate the gas supply routes in my view it's a violation of the basic principle of a market economy before it would be an unwarranted interference in the laws of my country. must be europe diversifying its supply and drawing on as many supply routes as possible. we've got. in the north. to build to as a mature fact on. the same supply. it is not the right situation the talk we built more seem to do would be possible too. sue but. she's on for i remember the last exec numbers we had from twenty fourteen twenty fifteen eastern european countries been paying between fifteen to twenty four p

e.u. funds for infrastructure projects according to the european anti fraud office the son in law of the prime minister benefited from construction contracts financed mainly with e.u. fund it's. the only destry lampson near the hungary and capital budapest were mainly financed by the european union. but residents are unhappy about the illumination they say it's too dim and that hundreds of more lamps are needed and they founded the citizens' initiative to shed some light on the problem. that we've had zero information about this project from authority is the mayor belongs to the governing party and he won't let us look at the files because i mean. when i was. installing the e.u. funded streetlamps in numerous towns was an infrastructure project worth millions of euros and it may have involved nepotism according to the european anti fraud office all of prime minister viktor orban son in law was an owner of the company that won the contracts to modernize the street lighting journalists that the investigative news portal direct thirty six looks into the case and need to vora describes the backgro

e.u. asylum law without a common approach between paris and berlin the division between eastern and western europe could widen even further this is going to be a very difficult issue to tackle but with the pressure from paris and berlin jointly putting pressure on others who are less ready more as it's and i think a compromise deal is possible defense is another issue paris wants to advance more pragmatic cooperation at the e.u. level france is willing to give up some sovereignty it wants a solid partnership of germany as britain prepares to leave the macall will have to wait for germany to come through on this too for the period of time in which there was no government in place that obviously did not make stronger but rather weaker. germany can still make up for lost time the government coalition agreement mentions the e.u. more than one hundred times now europeans are anxious to see those words translated to action. well the grand coalition up for a vote this weekend as part of our monthly look at what germans think about politics and their politicians we have the latest survey by pollste

e.u. member nations to become law is already reported lisa.

e.u. member nations to become law is already reportedly supported by france and the u.k. . a once senior trader at de frank first based deutsche bank has pled guilty to fraud and rigging the benchmark interest rate euro bore in two thousand and eleven hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt around the globe are based upon the euro bore the trader christian but har who hails from france will be sentenced in the next two months and deutsche bank for their part in the role paid two point five billion dollars in fines in twenty fifteen over the scandal which has seen some of the biggest banks in inner dealer brokers in the world pay about nine billion dollars in fines and penalties to. the people of the us territory a proto rico continue to suffer and struggle to rebuild but their debt is generating actual profits for some investors the wall street journal reports that an index of puerto rican municipal bonds has yielded a fourteen percent return this year the highest for any of the more than three hundred indexes tracked by s. and p. dow jones indices puerto rico has seventy

were manipulated in such a way that only the prime minister's son in law could win them back you have to realize that in hungary e.u. funds are handed out directly by the government. another case in viktor orban so hometown a felt shoot involves a much publicized soccer stadium direct thirty six says e.u. funds were fraudulent lee diverted to build a stadium and a nostalgia railway line in the area both construction projects benefited lawrence messer us seen here on the left of the picture he's organs childhood friend the mayor of the village. some of that money is going to leave their friends and relatives of the prime minister are using our circle and the really follow to be revealed several examples of. the staff at direct thirty six say that up to now gary and justice officials have refused to take any significant action on such information the government has brushed aside allegations of corruption and nepotism and its ranks. government spokesman zoltan coverts says the claims are politically motivated by the opposition. it was just that and we have to test the off of the european institutions and they clearly

they can apply e.u. law and impose severe penalties. to hear stuff of who. will soon close the first streets to dirty diesels so that people just take other routes how does that help the environment. and if it was because the courts have said that bypass roads must also be blocked as soon as people start using that you will be watching that development very closely i'm booked on but no but it'll be traffic chaos if not if you don't block off the whole city that's why we were able to push through a second option to ban diesels from the environmental design in stuttgart the entire city is an environmental zone if diesels are kept out there's no more bypass traffic and this also has to be done and how. often is that stuff. that's remarkable. here you are an environmental organization and you're suing the government to force it to implement its own laws as that and you've been doing that a long time. and you've been successful months and you seem to be on a personal campaign for the environment as a sort of white knight how do you see yourself much of this much

they can apply e.u. law and impose severe penalties. to hear stuff of who. will soon close the first streets to dirty diesels that people just take other routes how does that help the environment. and if it was because the courts have said that bypass roads must also be blocked as soon as people start using it you will be watching that development very closely and i'm booked on but no but it'll be traffic chaos if not if you don't block off the whole city that's why we were able to push through a second option to ban diesels from the environmental design car at the entire city is an environmental dissolvable if diesels are kept out there's no more bypass traffic this also has to be done and how bored. what. is it. that's remarkable. here you are an environmental organization and you're suing the government to force it to implement its own laws as that and you've been doing that a long time. and you've been successful month and you seem to be on a personal campaign for the environment as a sort of white knight how do you see yourself. with a foot from what i

e.u. institutions will now have to agree to this so it becomes law your mother stayed on your correspondent in brussels thank you for analysis. tough times continue at embattled german carmaker opel even under a new owner peugeot citroen the company can't seem to be able to shake off its troubled past from its takeover in august to december last year and racked up operating losses of almost one hundred eighty million euros a consolation the losses have gone down but much needs to change opals c.e.o. says he plans to solve matters by twenty twenty through cost efficiency and exports for years opel has been in general motors hands of has made a profit in almost twenty years. and staying in the automotive sector of the world's biggest component supplier for the car industry bosch is backpedaling on its theme ability ambitions the company announced it was giving up on the research of new batteries for electric cars project bosch has invested heavily into it is unclear why the company is taking the step and hansing battery efficiency and thereby extending the range of the cars has been a key cha

e.u. gentlemen talking about a very important topic here we have a massive budget passed and signed into law in the united states a huge military budget here. they make it what it is the mantra is that obama degraded the military i'm sure all those countries that were bombed by the united states would agree with that statement here but now this is going to be a massive build up as usual the pentagon doesn't usually spend very well but it's important at the same time to our viewers should know is that russia has decided over the next five years to decrease military spending well russia is. going to get that frankly russia understands that it does not need to keep on a military presence around the world in dozens and dozens of countries like the united states does russia does not have. world i mean the or being the single seat of power. russia has no such more chips so it doesn't have to unlike the united states it doesn't have to spend. trillions and trillions of dollars and billions of. debt but one. thing yes so russia and their stance that it has to give a semantical answers to. the americ

s border laws and money may also refuted e.u. accusations of each case trying to cherry pick the most favorable of its rules while stropping the ones they don't like bangladesh has told me to withdraw its troops from their shared border an area widely referred to as a no man's land where thousands of rango seeking refuge me and my has been telling the refugees to leave the area for weeks and since thursday troop numbers of multiplied. politicians in italy in making their final pitch to win over voters ahead of this weekend's parliamentary election polls is of predicting a hung parliament with former prime minister silvio berlusconi's alliance of center right groups expected to emerge as the largest bloc. why have more on that upcoming election in italy and our other top stories in the news hour that's coming up in twenty five minutes time to join me then rewind now continues. november two thousand and nine and the president of the united states issues a stern warning to north korea over its nuclear program. north korea behaves in

e.u. wales and the pharaohs that are potentially part of the deal with a bit of planning laws. they tried in years past to pass laws against us and they kept getting they were the way they were that they wouldn't enforce them so i think believe this year they they have succeeded in keeping us from going there i know the ships can't go and. i don't know if individuals want now how that will work out but we're not going there on a campaign this year because of that because of the prohibition there and then we have other issues now that we're tackling like this illegal fishing which is a huge problem all over the world. if you want to use to you know for example you just go to a supermarket buy a can of tuna open it and you enjoy it because the next day. but when you see how it's catch you start to sing about. the fishing boats are seen fishing already in big trouble we kind of go off but i still try to assume they settle on meetings and then it's a percentage of phone starts to are pulling the nets and nets just start getting tighter and tighter fish squeezed all night in a lemon

e.u. saying we want it down in one hour. these are soft laws, not on the books.clearly feel they can double down to get more efficient. emily: how have these companies reacted? caroline: they are straining with this. they have not come out individually, but we have heard from representatives of the companies, i will bring your attention to the computer and communication association. they say such a tight timeline which doesn't take into due account all the restraints linked to the account removal and will force providers to take down all reported content. here is the kicker -- what if it impedes free speech? this has been brought up again and again to the governments of the e.u. and they do not have a good answer for it. content if youst , only give it one hour, maybe you will mix it up with people's views and a stifle free speech. as long as it is not inciting hatred maybe it has a place , online. therefore there is a difficulty rising. digital rights people are saying you are asking facebook and google to be censors here. you are institutionalizing facebook and

that britain should for the international law as ties with russia now look set to enter a new deep freeze the u.k. is looking to its allies for support the e.u. is donald to scale says he believes the attack was inspired by moscow and promised to discuss it at an east summit next week. for. director of the center for security and intelligence studies at the university of washington in the u.k. and i asked him who are the twenty three people that the prime minister is kicking out and why were they selected. i think we can very safely assume they were selected by britain's security service the m. and five and they were selected because of that titles people need to know they have basically two sorts of intelligence offices who operate in foreign countries those who are attached to an embassy legally and those who are independent of the embassy said called illegals now all of the illegals in the embassy some of those people in the embassy will be normal diplomats doing that open source diplomatic activity but some will be secret intelligence offices and m i five our security service will have a good idea of who they are so mr glees are you sayi

e.u. and the rule of law in general. tom: very good.d news in new york with a monday briefing. taylor: u.s. president donald trump is poised to take's most aggressive actions yet against russia today. he's likely to announce the expulsion of dozens of diplomats in response to the nerve agent attack on a russian spy living in the u.k. trump has tried to maintain a semblance of a constructive relationship with the russian leader. the u.s. treasury secretary says he's optimistic of a deal with china that would avoid the imposition of tariffs ordered by donald trump. thee mnuchin told foxnews sides are engaged in productive conversations. last week the president announced measures against china worth $50 billion as punishment for alleged property -- intellectual property theft. >> we are having negotiations with the chinese to see if we can reach an agreement. we want to cut the trade deficit $100 billion over the next year and eliminate joint force ventures with technology and we are having productive conversations with them. we are procee

administration about whether a law an exemption will be in place for a stroll and whether or not this will be a unilateral imposition of tariffs across the board the e.u. is threatening council measure as if european steel production is affected by the terrorists it says it will retaliate with tariffs on u.s. products including motorcycles and whiskey we would not sit idly while our industry is hit with on for measures that were thousands of european jobs at risk the e.u. is reacting firmly and commensurately to defend our interests consumers will be the biggest loses of course. in the u.s. the terrorist will mean more expensive compass and elsewhere more expensive u.s. products. all right let's talk a little bit more about this i'm joined now by evan annette since she is general manager of the american chambers of commerce in germany and she joins me in the studio now good to have you here with us and i would like to start with with a more general question i mean what's it like for the american chamber of commerce in this day and age to represent companies well since we are the voice of transatlantic business obviously there are a couple of difficult

e.u. gentlemen talking about a very important topic here we have a massive budget passed and signed into law in the united states a huge military budget here. they make what is this the mantra is that obama degraded the military i'm sure all those countries that were bombed by the united states would agree with that statement here but now this is going to be a massive build up as usual the pentagon doesn't usually spend very well but it's important at the same time to our viewers should know is that russia has decided over the next five years to decrease military spending will russia is. going to get that frantically rush understands that it does not need to keep on a military presence around the world in dozens and dozens of countries like the united states does russia does not have. world i mean the nation or being the single specific power there russia has no such more chips so it doesn't have to unlike the united states it doesn't have to spend. trillions and trillions of dollars and billions of. debt but one. thing yes so russia understands that to give a semantical answers to. the amer

e.u. should do away with one of its cornerstone principles that members must not vote unanimously for certain laws and policies to pass berlin fears that stipulation risks letting the block these days and wants to adopt instead qualified majority voting the chiefs get right behind it too in order to be able to act credibly on the global stage we have to simplify our decision making process says it cannot be that we always have to decide by anonymity when it comes to foreign and defense policies at the moment when the e.u. votes on particularly sensitive topics like taxation or accepting new members etc all states must agree before any changes can be adopted the principle also applies to decisions relating to the e.u. security and foreign policies but over the years seems trying to get every e.u. member on board has got in the way of that if e.g. in twenty sixteen greece and hungary refused to read reference china in a statement on the south china sea territorial dispute that in twenty seventeen history repeated itself again with greece in hungary blocking resolutions against china on two separate

e.u. must respect the referendum it was a vote to take control of our borders laws and money and a vote for wider change so that no community in britain would ever be left behind again but it was not a vote for a distant relationship with our neighbors second the new agreement we reach with the new must ensure after brics it both the u.k. and the e.u. want to forge ahead with building a better future for our people not find ourselves back at the negotiating table because things have broken down. third it must protect people's jobs and security people in the u.k. voted for our country to have a new and different relationship with europe but while the means may change our shared goals surely have not to work together to grow our economies and keep our people safe fourth it must be consistent with the kind of country we want to be as we leave a modern open outward looking tolerant european democracy a nation of pioneers innovators explorers and creators a country that celebrates our history and diversity confident of our place in the world that meets its obligations to our near neighbors and f

e.u. took against poland they launched sanctions procedures against the country over judicial reforms introduced by the law and justice party i mean they were highly criticized a lot of threats were made. that. could see warsaw stripped of its voting rights do you think that the e.u. though will actually make good on that threat. i think the threat is a slash as you are not using the last point of threats and distinctions so was the european commission is playing i was reading those saying well we see there are some things not going right in poland which is absolutely true but they of course do not want to use the sanctions because it's actually very destructive both for poland on for the european commission but i mean that rhetoric is that enough though to get poland to make some changes more in the favor of democracy well i think this will be economically directly and so so this will be something like through the problem of rule of law and poland for the next three four five years or something like this and i think both sides are very unhappy about the situation of what days so much at stake in the relat