and their own commitment to the existing global trade order senior officials from china and the e.u. met in beijing earlier to conclude talks on a bilateral investment deal chinese deputy prime minister you he said he hopes europe would ease its controls on exports to china and the european commission vice president turn called on china to ease market access restrictions and tackle the issue of steel compatibility. women in saudi arabia on the longest in the passenger's seat the country has started to issue driver's license to women again and on sunday the first female drivers were able to get behind the wheel but to what extent is it a case of giving women more autonomy and to what extent is it about giving the economy a boost. getting into the car to drive to work or on our hands it's a first for most saudi women who are literally forced to take a back seat for the last sixty years through illusionary nature of the move makes even mundane tasks exciting that's my personal take way car fergus's or. what was your favorite now i want to take a picture of myself i want to take a selfie of.

and their own commitment to the existing global trade order senior officials from china and the e.u. met in beijing earlier on monday to conclude talks on a bilateral investment deal chinese a deputy prime minister said to you hey said he hopes europe would ease its controls on exports to china the european commission vice president in turn called on china to ease market access restrictions and tackle that issue of steel overcapacity. women in saudi arabia are no longer stuck in the passenger's seat the country has started to issue driver's licenses to women once again on sunday the first female drivers were able to get behind the wheel but to what extent is it a case of giving women more autonomy and to what extent is it about giving the economy a boost getting into the car to drive to work around our friends it's a first for most saudi women who are literally forced to take a back seat for the last sixty years through illusionary nature of the move makes even mundane tasks exciting it's more for the quicker carcasses or. what there was of a really well i want to take a picture of mysel

e.u. leaders met on sunday to seek a joint approach on tackling migration but they failed to reach a conclusion. regardless of the political crisis a danish cargo ship carrying migrants was today allowed to dock in a cillian port after several days stuck at sea these migrants odyssey is finally over. well i'm joined now on the phone by nicholas from sea watch that is a nonprofit organization that conducts search and rescue operations in the mediterranean nicholas is at the port in malta he has been in touch with the staff from lifeline good evening to you nicholas we have been monitoring the twitter feed from lifeline and the last information we had was that lifeline is not aware of any deal or any agreement about docking anywhere what can you tell us nicholas can you hear me. nicholas are you there can you hear me this is brant go off with us. ok looks like we have lost the connection with nicholas and because there in malta we apologize for that we're trying to see if we can't get back in touch with you or here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world german

e.u. have met in beijing today to conclude talks on a bilateral investment the chinese there pretty prime minister says he hopes europe will ease its controls on exports to china the european commission vice president in turn calling on china to ease market access restrictions and tackle its overcapacity of steel over. german companies b.m.w. and siemens have joined airbus in voicing their concerns about staying and investing in britain the companies all cite uncertainty surrounding the post breaks that deal with the e.u. a criticism magnified by a new survey among business leaders in six e.u. countries really half of the eight hundred executives whole bible from mckenzie that their firms have reduced investment in the u.k. since the breaks of thought aeronautics company air bus said last week that a no deal scenario might lead to moving thousands of jobs abroad women in saudi arabia no longer stuck in the passenger seat authorities have started to issue driver's licenses to women again on sunday the first female drivers were able to get behind the wheel but to what extent is that a case

e.u. officials you met there. do i do is that a job as many people believe and so high school drop the you know what i'm on. no on the contrary it is not the case that e.u. officials are not qualified especially at the european commission will be sealed that's not the problem. the problem concerns the institutional and systemic contradictions within the european union and this need to focus. has the final word within the structure of the e.u. it's the european council it has the final decision making power to seem to come to the heads of governments in the not so nice thoughts of the heads of state governments of the member states see and that's the contradiction that's common european policy has developed and decided on by the leaders of nation states if you will for we've got to get away from that if we want to see a european republic. yesterday officials and a european commission are highly qualified to speak several languages studied to top universities and they came to brussels out of idealism because they wan

e.u. supergirl met lena k. is here to make some noise outside the houses of parliament in london her arch enemy is breaks it cracks it was a non-issue for me i didn't think it was going to happen so when i woke up on the twenty fourth of june and i was like whoa how come so many people think this is a good idea. the shock was so great she decided to give up her studies now she's a full time activist for europe. the e.u. is about love and peace and tolerance and these are values that we should celebrate . even a sporting injury won't deter supergirl she thinks the future of her country is in danger we didn't press it means you know there wasn't a manifesto and. until we get the final breaks it deal and we see what the reality of bracks is and how that matches up to what was promised people still don't know what they voted for post about the. we want to stop practicing. there are a lot of people that just don't. think we've got to make them care so i might go and try grabs. their account leaving more e.u. support

e.u. leaders met on sunday to seek a joint approach on tackling migration but they failed to reach a conclusion. regardless of the political crisis a danish cargo ship carrying migrants was today allowed to dock in a sicilian port after several days stuck at sea these migrants odyssey is finally over. well the fate of countless migrants trying to enter europe and the fate of german chancellor angela merkel remain intertwined tonight and time is not on merrill's or the migrants song i'm joined now by our political correspondent nina hawes as she is following the story for us tonight here in berlin good evening to you nina the chancellor has until july first to present a european plan on migration i mean when you consider how the deal was reached on living the life line dock in malta today when you look at the chances of success for america they don't look very good do that well let's not forget who gave her this deadline who gave the ultimatum and that is her closest ally the bavarian conservatives hasi who fungal america's interior minister has taken on has adopted a hardline approach to migrat

e.u. leaders met on sunday to seek a joint approach on tackling migration but they failed to reach a conclusion. regardless of the political crisis a danish cargo ship carrying migrants was today allowed to dock in a sicilian port after several days stuck at sea these migrants odyssey is finally over. well as we heard in that report a europe wide solution to the migration crisis remains elusive tonight and that's left until america the german chancellor in hot water the chancellor is holding crisis talks here in the german capital tonight as a challenge from her right wing from the right wing of her conservative alliance threatens to bring down her coalition government now among those at the meeting is forced is a hall of leader of the conservative c.s.u. party the sister party to merrill's christian democrats they over is pushing for tighter border controls the rail is threatening to splinter the alliance between the two parties which could see america lose her overall majority in parliament meaning she could lose her job i'm joined now by the w.'s political correspondent nina is outside the g

e.u. solution on monday she met the new italian prime minister promising support for his efforts to tackle the crisis last week he was in paris last night involved in it was israeli's newly elected right wing conservative prime minister conti he sets the tone for today's meeting between under the math and france's president in monterrey. italy's borders our european borders instead of being divided in europe about solidarity and responsibility we must all act together with a multilevel approach. that very solidarity just backfired on the german chancellor's home to avert a government rebellion she promised to deliver a new pan-european deals on this side so today's meeting with the french cabinet near berlin is key to bringing paris on board as most other e.u. partners keep chattering past each other in a babylonian fashion despite a tower of problems to solve with troubled home the list france and germany want to discuss has just been refocused to what was already top of the list migration here french president mccall two wants to see progress. systems that were designed to work with quot

both parties the turley and interior minister met e.u. salvini and the libyan deputy prime minister. have highlighted efforts made by libya's coast guard. in terms of controlling the human smuggling and illegal migration through the mediterranean also we understand that during the last year the number of illegal migrants reaching italy via the mediterranean sea and sailing from libyan shores has fallen dramatically that also. that is partly thanks to their italian support to libya's coast guard we understand that since july of last year the italian navy vessels have been docked in a navy base here in the capital tripoli to provide technical support maintenance and training to libya's coast guard and also we understand that this visit foreign minister silvio which is the furthest vini could be an extension to the memorandum of understanding the agreement that was sealed by libya's prime minister the face of raj and the italian former prime minister into lonny in rome in february of last year and by virtue of that memorandum of understandin

e.u. summit on migration italy's interior minister met teo salvini is in libya he says the onus is on the north african state to take in migrants found at sea and he also wants the e.u. to build migration camps in libya but that doesn't seem popular kookery being nothing. to get the we agree on many points with the europeans on matters related to illegal immigration however we categorically reject the existence of any migrant sent to us inside libya as it is against libyan law and does not apply to libyan laws and regulations or when you know lower league. football the political wranglings continue these migrants are left at sea watching and waiting for a decision on their fate to be made. in other news of berlin cortez found a nineteen year old syrian refugee guilty of an attack on two men wearing keepers the jewish skullcap earlier this year one of the victims an arab israeli film be a student on his smartphone it went viral after it was posted online leading to the identification of a suspect afterwards many germans showed their support for the jewish community by publicly wearing skull

e.u. member states are bound to be met with contradiction agreed the czech republic slovakia and poland they outright refused to attend today's summit they said it was a power move by merkel to control their domestic political situation and then you have other countries that are refusing to take in migrants outright italy last week refused a migrant vessel that was forced to land in spain while just a couple days ago malta also refused to another migrant vessel and you know these actions they're not going on notice to e.u. leaders like emanuel macron i'm in favor of having mechanisms that. we cannot have gum trees that most of the men who don't even use of the dead and who massively claim their nationals so fiercely but when it comes to the topic. now at the conclusion of the summit merkel said the e.u. needs to focus on their agreement with turkey as a framework for agreements with other migrant origin countries but let's not forget how much this costs the e.u. it was three billion euros this sternly still a lot at stake for merkel because she actually just had a political standoff with her

e.u. member states are bound to be met with contradiction of the czech republic slovakia and poland they outright refused to attend today's summit they said it was a power move by merkel to control their domestic political situation and then you have other countries that are refusing to take in migrants outright italy last week refused a migrant vessel that was forced to land in spain while just a couple days ago malta also refused to another migrant vessel and you know these actions they're not going on notice to e.u. leaders like emanuel macron i'm in favor of having mechanisms that take this into account we're going to have gum trees that massively benefit from e.u. so the dead and who massively claim their national selfishness when it comes to the topic of migration now at the conclusion of the summit merkel said the e.u. needs to focus on their agreement with turkey as a framework for agreements with other migrant origin countries but let's not forget how much this cost the e.u. it was three billion euros this sternly still a lot at stake for merkel because she actually just had a political

earlier this week german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel micron met to try and redesign e.u. policy in the hope of creating a more unified policy as speak to dominate kain in bird lives are they coming up with a more unified policy then dominic. well so far at least certainly that's what they seem to be aspiring towards i mean we now know today that the president of the european commission john called younker is calling for a mini summit as it were to be held in brussels this weekend on sunday at which the heads of government or heads of state of eight e.u. member states will meet will gather to try to work out what sort of bilateral or multilateral rather resolution there might be to the migration crisis the point to be made here in berlin is the tension has risen up around what happens to people who apply for asylum in this passive in this member states who have already applied for asylum elsewhere in the e.u. people who are bound by what's called the dublin three regulation it's a very much the burning issue as it were here but not just here we've heard today from the cha

which banks himself admits to in fact as our in banks explains he met a lot of people from a lot of countries in the run up to the e.u. vote it wasn't just the russians we met all sorts of nationalities we also brief the state department in washington we also met with the top embassy officials in london so if we are russian spies we must be american spies too there's also talk of meetings with a russian businessman and rumors of a potential gold mining deal as well as trips to russia he has a russian wife by the way banks has openly admitted that he handed over telephone numbers the members of donald trump's transition team to russian officials but he's denied that russians sought to influence his leave dot edu after and them campaign the russian embassy also denies trying to influence the vote. the russian embassy has not in any we intervened in domestic u.k. political terms has including the bracks and referendum meeting stakeholders representing all political spectrum of the host country is natural element of the work of any embassy. there british governments fake news inquiry under pressure to justify its existen

e.u. member states are bound to be met with contradiction agree the czech republic slovakia and poland they outright refused to attend today's summit they said it was a power move by merkel to control their domestic political situation and then you have other countries that are refusing to take in migrants outright italy last week refused a migrant vessel that was forced to land in spain while just a couple days ago malta also refused another migrant vessel and you know these actions they're not going on notice to e.u. leaders like emanuel macron i'm in favor of having mechanisms that take this into account we cannot have gum trees that massively benefit from e.u. so the dead and who massively claim their national selfishness when it comes to the topic of migration now at the conclusion of the summit merkel said the e.u. needs to focus on their agreement with turkey as a framework for agreements with other migrant origin countries but let's not forget how much this cost the e.u. that was three billion euros this sternly still a lot at stake for merkel because she actually just had a politic

e.u. member states are bound to be met with contradiction agreed the czech republic slovakia and poland they outright refused to attend today's summit they said it was a power move by merkel to control their domestic political situation and then you have other countries that are refusing to take in migrants outright italy last week refused a migrant vessel that was forced to land in spain while just a couple days ago malta also refused to another migrant vessel and you know these actions they're not going on no to.

e.u. and this will not impact any relation with the within the nato for now we don't know the technical details but it's might mean turkey will really had met the refugees that are sent back from other e.u. member countries but not the ones who are sent back from greece south africa and india the one hundred twenty fifth anniversary of a significant moment in their histories when mahatma gandhi was forced off a whites only train the incident in pietermaritzburg is seen as the indian independence leader's first day of civil disobedience how rude tosser. one hundred twenty five years ago mahatma gandhi was on a train traveling to the city of pretoria south africa's capital this reenactment shows gandhi sitting in the first class carriage it was a time of racial segregation only white people were allowed to sit here during the rank of government all motives to travel in the van gundy who was a lawyer from india refused to move to the back of the train where black people were supposed to sit eventually he was thrown off after his experience he began a campaign for an end to racial discrimination and oppression through non violent means he did i

e.u. leaders and so when i'm going to macro met the spanish prime minister high on the agenda is this idea of secondary migration of people registering for asylum in one state and then moving to another the idea of controlling borders is something key to this is the idea of a compromise solution all people are going to be able to access borders such as this border here that i'm standing on the austrian german border or will there be some form of control here in bavaria the government very clearly wants to have tighter immigration controls but from the german federal position that's when they resist that and so when i'm going to america and mr sanchez talk about secondary migration high on their minds is the fault of the shang and so on the border free area how can they protect that whilst at the same time finding a way of resolving the immigration crisis among america's perspective the meeting she has today all instrumental in pushing her towards the solution she's promised her allies might come at the e.u. summit that's coming up on thursday and friday. here in chief into terraces calling

e.u. leaders and so when angle americal met the spanish prime minister high on the agenda is this idea of secondary migration of people registering for asylum in one state and then moving to another the idea of controlling borders is something he too this is the idea of a compromise solution are people going to be able to access borders such as this border here that i'm standing on the austrian german border or will there be some form of control here in bavaria the government very clearly wants to have tighter immigration controls but from the german federal position that's when they resist that and so when anglo-american and mr sanchez talk about secondary migration high on their minds is the fault of the shang and so on the border free area has. can they protect that whilst at the same time finding a way of resolving the immigration crisis michael america's perspective the meeting she has today all instrumental in pushing her to war is the solution she's promised her allies and the e.u. summit that's coming up on thursday and friday a senior general in myanmar has been sacked after he w

e.u. and this will not impact any relation with the within the nato for now we don't know the technical details but it's might mean turkey will really had met the refugees that are sent back from other e.u. member countries but not the ones who are sent back from greece south africa and india the one hundred twenty fifth anniversary always significant moment in history is when mahatma gandhi was a whites only train the incident in pietermaritzburg is seen as the indian independence leader's first of civil disobedience tosser. one hundred twenty five years ago mahatma gandhi was on a train traveling to the city of pretoria south africa's capital this region atman shows done in the first class carriage it was a time of racial segregation only white people were.

e.u. leaders agreed on a last night well now that italy's demands have been met in a separate development of germany of fortune agreements with greece and spain to where turn migrants who previously registered asylum beds in those countries all right we've got a team coverage because lots of reaction to get here in berlin but also in brussels to standing by at the council building in brussels and rupert redeveloped here in our problem entries studios gentlemen a very warm welcome geyer when i give you the first word it came down to the wire so is this the fix that will help manage the flow of people and if so why is it so short on specifics. it really depends on what's specifically aspect of migration you're looking at if you're looking at curbing illegal migration it could be the decisive step if implemented and here we are with the with the specifics that are lacking for instance two things here you have these registration centers or disembarkation platforms whatever you call them in african states we don't know which african states would be willing to do that and also we don't know if

e.u. summit on migration italy's interior minister met teo salvini is in libya he says the onus is on the north african state to take in migrants found at sea and he also wants the e.u. to build migration camps in libya but that doesn't seem popular kookery being the. we agree on many points with the europeans on matters related to illegal immigration however we categorically reject the existence of any migrant centers inside libya as it is against libyan law and does not apply to libyan laws and regulations. but while the political wranglings continue these migrants are left at sea watching and waiting for a decision on their fate to be made. you can talk to alina from a c watch a nonprofit organization that conducts the search and rescue operations in the mediterranean she is in malta from which she joins us on the phone alina very good evening you've been in touch with staff from lifeline is my understanding the stranded vessel carrying more than two hundred thirty migrants what is the situation on board the lifeline hi thanks for having me. currently the situation is calm wind continue

the european union held informal talks in brussels ahead of a may just some met online gratian on thursday germany wants e.u. states to accept asylum seekers more evenly. protesters have tried to block a boss carrying migrant children there the u.s. border with mexico crowns briefly step the bus as it was leaving a border processing facility and texas case for coal to disperse the protesters. russian asked ikes how targeted there are provinces in southwest syria is the first time moscow has provided as support for the syrian government's offensive which was launched last week to recapture there oh those are the headlines coming up next it's one i want. or. the. millions of tourists flock to china as mama region every year but it's not the spectacular scenery they come to see it's the elderly residents. an astonishing number over one hundred and it's kick started driving tourist interest. on this episode of want to one east we investigate if they hold the secrets to a long and healthy life.