e.u. representative has said this is not biased toward this is not a call that is restricted to one nationality or the other she's made that quite clear there's no bias this is not an understand what your president said this is historically unfair court i don't really hear you here from different experts more expert nationals and internationals. lost opportunity to treat everything in either way or all their lives crimes and to satisfy the right of all victims unless so as this is source the report of and b. in the past the european m.p. parliamentarian dick marty it's focused mainly on the particular events of the thought of the process so suppose that it's only clear directed towards the former k.l.a. people well the says it isn't there's not there's no restriction on that.

e.u. representatives have repeatedly emphasized however that the bloc doesn't view the situation as a potential trade war. that greece continues to struggle to clear up a scandal involving pharma giant no vomitus prosecutors have been investigating the swiss company for over a year it stands accused of bribing high ranking politicians to smooth the way for expensive sales and fast approvals for its medicines in greece now the country's parliament is also getting involved the affair has provoked furious reactions in greece where many blame corrupt politicians for the country's economic woes. kentucky fried chicken customers in the u.k. were left disappointed after the fast food chain was forced to close most of its nine hundred outlets because it was unable to get fresh chicken delivered the first food chain recently switched its delivery contract to d.h.l. which clearly had some serious logistics problems neither k.f.c. nor d.h.l. went public with the reasons for the shortfall. it's called petro and is meant to help pull venezuela out of its endless crisis. on tuesday the country's president ni

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e.u. representatives spoke about high level corruption cases here she said the fact that so many of these cases indeed without sentences or complications suggested that your track record was that really good enough to to get visa liberalization which is something you so much want from the. true the corruption and the situation on fighting corruption it's not. somehow toploader how much we have gone but we are aware of our challenges as a society in fact these are liberalisation it is not only more to politicians it's a war to those that are suffering the your europe we belong to wrap our destiny is your of so i think punishing politicians or elites or ride but punish in a society and citizens this is not right over the years let's just talk about witness intimidation over the years one official after the has complained about the massive intimidation with this is from possible some have been killed some ability to suicide before they could give evidence before the prosecutor at the international can move tribunals for the for me of this levee at culloden county. separate witnesses from pos

e.u. commission representative in germany who know. these are for them and when you read through the contract the elements about europe act as a third source of inspiration for the europe we will lead in the coming months and for the decisions to be made. following on from the speeches of e.u. commission president i'm french president michel essential elements are also included as to how we can form a common future foundation in europe. as is common kind of the importance of germany's role in her became evident in the handling of the refugee crisis back in two thousand and fifteen images of asylum seekers queuing down the street at this registration center and the berlin neighborhood of motivate made international headlines now three years on the keys may have gone but integration is still a big challenge the deals decision on family reunification has also drawn criticism . is on the scottish particularly critical of the family reunions for refugees with limited status we are in contact with those affected on a daily basis with childre

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr garland say that he supported cooperation between member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them or loath them altern

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees. countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported co-operation between the e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them or loath them altern

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national deal to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr garland say that he supported cooperation between member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them all loath them alt

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported cooperation between the states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them all loath them alternativ

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know it's human that countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do you two with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here. well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr garland say that he supported cooperation between the e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because

e.u. no longer represented german taxpayers in fact she called it pure socialism that resulted in groans and a few boos from other members within in the parliament she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks that would also got a similar reaction but it was when alexander garland co-leader of alternative for germany took up his position to speak at the bundestag there we saw a different reaction from angela merkel mr gallant was saying that he couldn't germany shouldn't support the decision to make a. mandatory quota system for distributing refugees around e.u. states that would see the overhaul of the current dublin agreement he had this to say let's have a listen now. you know it's you know one that countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national deal to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here. well it was mr gallant was making that statement i'm glad she had enough she got up and walked out and this is the this is say is this the new normal in german politics because like them all loathe them

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported co-operation between the e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them all loath th

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national deal to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was off not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported cooperation between the e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them all loath the

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander garland to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know sooner countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do you to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was off not going to stick around to hear mr cowen say that he supported co-operation between the e.u. member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well. is this the new normal in german politics because like them or

e.u. no longer represented the german taxpayer in fact going as far as to call it pure socialism well that resulted in a lot of groans and a few boos from her fellow members of the bundestag she also called for a reduction in the e.u. budget post breaks it but then it was the turn of her co-leader alexander gallant to speak he hits out directly at angola merkel's support for the proposed e.u. refugee distribution system that would see an overhaul of the dublin treaty that would see mandatory quotas for e.u. nations saying that they have to take set amounts of refugees you know countries want to decide for themselves who they take in there is no national do to with regard to multiculturalism and this last remark goes especially to the greens here well that prompted this reaction from the chancellor angela merkel clearly having enough decided she was often not going to stick around to hear mr garland say that he supported cooperation between member states but not the formation of the united states of europe well is this the new normal in german politics because like them or loath them altern

e.u. representatives spoke about high level corruption cases here she said the fact that so many of these cases. is indeed without sentences or complications suggested that your track record was that good enough to get visa liberalization which is something you so much want from the. true corruption and the situation on fighting corruption it's not though. somehow the poor the how much we have gone but we are aware of our challenges as society in fact these are liberalisation it is not the only reward to politicians it's a war to those that are suffering the your europe we belong to iraq our destiny is your of so i think punishing politicians or elites or ride but punishing a society and citizens those who have right over the years let's just talk about witness intimidation over the years one official after the has complained about the massive intimidation with this is from possible some have been killed some political suicide before they could give evidence the former prosecutor of the international can move tribunal for the for me the slavia color don't want it said that witnesses from

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new elections been so-called soft brecht's that position represents an evolution for the labor leader who has long been regarded as a skeptic of e.u. it also ordered him some praise rare praise that is from business groups including the confederation of british industry and the british chamber of commerce. and sticking with the united kingdom retail sales for january in the u.k. were lower than expected growing only point one percent when expectations were for half a percent year over year u.k. retail sales were up one point six percent also far below expectations for two point six percent yearly increase the outliers in retail show that food sales took a large drop while sporting equipment sportswear toys and games all increased by eleven percent. the seventh round of talks to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement or nafta have begun but the latest news in the us mexico relationship there are more likely to make not much progress and recent months mexico and u.s. diplomats had worked behind the scenes to lower tensions that had been stoked by president donald trump's campaign pledge to complete a wall along the us m

e.u. reforms. one person who certainly welcomes the agreement is the au commission representative in germany. >> whenead through the contracts, elements about europe act as a third source of inspiration for the europe we will lead in the coming months and decisions to be made. following from the speeches of the president younger and president macron, essential elements are included on how we can form a common future foundation in europe. reporter: the importance of germany's role in europe became evident in the handling of the refugee crisis. back in 2015, images of asylum-seekers hewing down the street at this registration center and a birmingham -- queuing down the street the they just made headlines. immigration is still a challenge. the family reunification decision has drawn criticism. >> we are particularly critical of the family reunion for refugees with limited status. we are in contact with those affected on a daily basis. with children and families who want their wives and kids here, miners who have to have their parents here. for them, it is a great loss of trust in our institutions. repor

conference he is hosting in rome to discuss migration security representatives from several african countries where there is well as from the e.u. and the united nations jonah how was there to. so fourteen nations at least forty nations in gauge here at the italian foreign ministry in rome in what is an ongoing conversation between the countries in africa that actors countries of origin and transit for the many many thousands of people trying to make their way to europe and the so-called host countries in europe that receive them which of course italy is a prime one the conference heard that the numbers had been decreasing quite encouraging really over the two thousand and sixteen seventeen period in large part or they haven't said it here because of italian methods of dealing with the libyan coast guard encouraging them to turn people back but in fact turning them back to camps that have been described by aid groups and activists as prison camps and detention centers where smuggling networks are rife and exploitation right as well that will have to be dealt with here in terms of protecting the human rights of those involved in

conference he's been hosting in rome to discuss migration security representatives from several african countries with her as well as from the e.u. and the united nations. south africa's parliament has delayed president jacob zuma state of the nation address amid fears opposition m.p.'s would disrupt his speech zuma is under increasing pressure to resign because of corruption scandals that have caused widespread protests and calls to step down from members of his own party south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has called for a special meeting of his top committee to decide zimmerman's fate. three high profile student leaders in hong kong are free after the city's highest court unanimously quashed their jail sentences joshua while nathan law and then there is cho was jailed in august last year for their role in the umbrella movement protests in twenty fourteen they case was seen as a test of the independence of the city's judiciary a sarah clarke reports from hong kong. the students who lived twenty four teams pro-democracy protests in hong kong joshua long knife in law and alex chowk arrived in court along with their supporters uni

new elections corben so-called soft bracks at position represents an evolution for the labor leader who has long been regarded as a skeptic of e.u. it also ordered him some praise rare praise that is from business groups including the confederation of british industry and the british chamber of commerce. and sticking with the united kingdom retail sales for january in the u.k. were lower than expected growing only point one percent when expectations were for half a percent year over year u.k. retail sales were up one point six percent also far below expectations for two point six percent yearly increase the outliers in retail show that food sales took a large drop while sporting equipment sportswear toys and games all increased by eleven percent. the seventh round of talks to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement or nafta have begun but the latest news in the us mexico relationship there are more likely to make not much progress and recent months mexico and u.s. diplomats had worked behind the scenes to lower tensions that had been stoked by president donald trump's campaign pledge to complete a wall along the us m

conference he's hosting in rome to discuss migration and security representatives from several african countries with as well as from the e.u. the united nations to hold the latest from rome. so fourteen nations at least forty nations in gauge here at the italian foreign ministry in rome in what is an ongoing conversation between the countries in africa that actors countries of origin and transit for the many many thousands of people trying to make their way to europe and the so-called host countries in europe that receive them which of course italy is a prime one the conference heard that the numbers had been decreasing quite encouraging really over the two thousand and sixteen seventeen period in large part of they haven't said it here because of italian methods of dealing with the libyan coast guard encouraging them to turn people back but in fact turning them back to camps that have been described by aid groups and activists as prison camps and detention centers where smuggling networks are rife and exploitation right as well that will have to be dealt with here in terms of protecting the human rights of those involved

representatives from the charity a meeting u.k. government leaders some of that stuff are accused of hiring prostitutes while working in chad and haiti the e.u. and the british government are threatening to withdraw funding for the organization oxfam says it has introduced new measures like stricter vetting and recruitment process is to prevent future abuse. britain's foreign minister believes that. isn't fully aware of what he called the horror in more than rakhine state forest johnson visits his muslim villages there as well as refugee camps in bangladesh they're housing some of the seven hundred thousand people who fled a military crackdown the un says maybe a genocide was pulled out a jan reports. the u.k. foreign secretary came to see the situation with his own eyes boris johnson to a door hinge of refugee camps and bangladesh and met with villagers who remain in me and were kind statement he thinks myanmar leader aung san suu kyi does not fully understand the crisis i don't think she's been in a helicopter to see what we have seen today i don't think it has come through to how the full extent of the horror of what has happened the horr