e.u. transport ministers get their way truckers will have to take their breaks away from their trucks onto a burglar has his doubts about that. if you know they meant us truckers well but they probably haven't thought it through you know where to drive are supposed to stay there are thousands of trucks on the road in germany which have to put in a hold for the drivers to take a break. but lack of rest stops and hotels for drivers is not the only problem the e.u. transport ministers also want to make sure truckers are paid local wage rates wherever they're driving and not as in many cases the cheaper rates of their home countries. in base transport company owner calls it unrealistic he's one of the few small freight forwarder is within our own fleet and twenty drivers. leveling wage structures would be helpful to us but it raises the question of who's going to check up on it which body which authority will be responsible for monitoring all that. country betting to drive surface influence feels the pressure on a daily basis from would offer for chockablock by midday no chance at all by eveni

e.u. and knock on effect of the transport chaos disruption to food supplies the u.k. imports about thirty percent of its food from the e.u. so supermarkets could see shortages on their shelves and there is more another sector that could get into trouble banking london ranks as one of the world's top financial centers without a deal financial operators could because off from clients in the e.u. and then there is health care the u.k. imports lifesaving medicines like insulin and cancer treatments the government has already admitted its stockpiling drugs in case of a no jail practices. the e.u. and the u.k. are now busy pushing contingency measures in place with the knowledge that a no deal bragg says would actually be a pretty big deal. well i am joined tonight by the w.'s barbara vai's old from brussels barbara has been on the front line of the brig's battles since day one she has chronicled every twist and turn in her brags diaries some of her more recent entries are entitled wives and anarky the dream has died or how about this one a monte python madhouse in westminst

mark mershon director of the international council on clean transportation thank you very much for joining us in the studio to death the e.u. council is set to approve a slate of fiscal reforms for the nineteen nations who share the euro currency but lack a common monetary policy the euro zone reforms will expand the role of the european stability mechanism the bailout fund created during the euro crisis in twenty two the d.s.m. will now be able to conduct its own review of member nations financial health and intervene earlier to fix a reform don't go far enough and many sidestep issues like a common budget and finance minister measures promoted by french president obama and i call him the flush of his twenty seven thousand election on pro europe. so is that really enough joined by les you're to see from the brutal think tank joins us from brussels unless you're no budget no minister just a vague promise a look at the issue again that's how they want to call want it raw. absolutely this falls short of a man will micron's the grand plans or when he won the election in france i think his strategy was first to show that he co

some of my conversation earlier with greg archer who is the clean vehicles director of transport and environment an e.u. environmental watch that we want to go back to the issue of the actual fuel tax and he said president had the right approach to addressing the environment but he failed to take on board french economic issues. well i think mr macro has been going about in the right way but he's been trying to do is to equalize the amount of taxes which of paid on both diesel and gasoline because we know that those diesel cars are much more. and he's trying to use that revenue in order to try to shift people away from internal combustion engine cars towards electric ones but the problem he faces is that france is the most taxed economy in europe forty nine percent of g.d.p. is taxation and if you keep pouring water into a glass eventually it spills over and you have a mess and that's exactly what he has the moment so he's done the right thing on the environment but what he's not done is address the wider issues around the social equity of taxation in front it's interesting i'm just looking at a couple

e.u. wants truckers to be paid local wage rates where they're driving not the often cheaper rates of their home countries berlin based transport company owner. calls that unrealistic he has a fleet of twenty drivers. structures would be helpful to us but it raises the question of who's going to check up on it which body which authority will be responsible for monitoring all that and a bag no drives and feels the pressure on a daily basis chockablock by midday no chance at all by evening i'd have to call it a day by midday and then i've got another five hours left. the driver is lucky there is one parking space available. now it's time to check his low. like it or not that's his way of life day in day out with another fifteen years till retirement. and finally this week saw an unusual fashion show in moscow featuring not luxury products but cuddly comfortable garments for cold winter nights and the clothes geared to an older clear intel were also showcased by fifty plus models. rap this is my second time on the catwalk i participated last year so now i'm an experienced model you could say i like it it's great for the elderly to

we should discuss us now with our guest greg who is the clean vehicle director of transport and environment that is an e.u. environmental watch while he's in brussels nice to have you with a stance that we focus so much on the protest movement and then on the whole idea of mr mccraw on even being forced from office that we didn't really look enough at the issue of the taxi of now as david said it was there to try to encourage people away from petrol into what was just a micro going about this the right way. well i think mr macro has been going about in the right way what he's been trying to do is to equalize the amount of taxis which are. on both diesel and gasoline because we know that those diesel cars are much more. and he's trying to use that revenue in order to try to shift people away from internal combustion engine cars towards electric ones but the problem he faces is that tax france is the most taxed economy in europe forty nine percent of g.d.p. is taxation and if you keep pouring water into a glass eventually it spills over and you have a mess and that's exactly what he has the moment so he's d

e.u. without a plan this includes measures to limits disruption in key areas including finance and transport british prime minister theresa may has told m.p.'s that negotiations with the e.u. is still going on but the u.k. has set aside two and a half billion dollars in funding to government david departments to prepare for any fallout from a so-called no deal breakers are following developments for us from london. well in parliament on wednesday jeremy corbyn the leader of the labor opposition accuse prime minister to resign me of being reckless in announcing these new measures for speeding up preparations for no deal breaks it come the end of march next year the government has one cabinet approval for measures worth more than two billion u.s. dollars more in funding for things like special flights to ensure medical supplies continue to arrive stockpiling a certain imported chemicals in britain putting three and a half thousand troops on standby in employing thousands more civil servants he is not the only person who's worried about that prospect five of britain's biggest business organizat

europe but sustainable transport campaigners say the agreed limits will mean that a third of new cars will soon be electric or hydrogen powered. the law still has to go through the e.u parliament and member government but the likelihood of its approval mean carmakers will and evidently have to raise their game. while the incentive for service vehicles like vans or trucks to become more electrified is already there several cities in germany have banned diesel fleets from their centers over their emissions that's disastrous for many small businesses who rely on mobility and have bought the latest clean air diesels in good faith. bricklayers. can't imagine life without his trusty diesel pickup. rely on our diesels and that's the problem. with. the diesel ban is likely to affect eighteen of estens districts including the a four motorway one of the most important transport axes in the valley it leads directly into s. and city center. building contractor frank shoto who burt and his employees use the a forty several times a day. if they actually closed off the a forty to diesels that would cause a lot of chaos. skilled trade companies typically expect to use their diesel