five rounds i've heard him say that many times and he also said however that is not something the e.u. twenty seven hoped to aim for and he also made clear that the e.u. is very keen to keep the structure they agreed structure of these talks and that is first phase one. so they work out the divorce deal and then phase two they talk about a future relationship and giving the u.k. the chance to meddle the two would mean at least from your perspective that all former commitments of the u.k. in the current you could be used as a bargaining chip for a future relationship all right now garrick or we've also heard from briggs at shifa negotiator davis he has urged your leaders to take a step forward and has been saying and i'm quoting at the teams are continuing to work constructively constructively oh he's describing very different talks are we are we talking about alternative realities here or just differences in perspective . i think too that i lemma essentially is that there are different perspectives it's the for the e.u. this is a lose lose situation they never wanted the u.k. to leave whereas

britain's future relationship trade relationship with the european union what they've done the e.u. twenty seven is they've set a new deadline fourteen december that's the next e.u. council meeting at which time progress will again be assessed and if sufficient those talks can move on but what they want to see by that point is more detail from to resume a on precisely how much money britain is prepared to pay for its outstanding commitments and liabilities they're simply not convinced by her offer so far to meet britain's budget liabilities for two years after it leaves the block they want to commit to much more too on a long term commitments to projects of the european union that will long surpass britain leaving the block a figure essentially tens of billions of dollars higher than anything she's offered so far well the reason may has steadfastly refused to provide that additional detail a press conference she gave a short while ago this is what he had to say i have said that nobody need be concerned for the current budget plan that they would have to either pay it more for receive less

at home because whatever you do here in brussels you have to be able to sell it not only in the e.u. twenty seven so without the u.k. but also in the u.k. they have understood that they're giving her a little more leeway and while officially still insisting on those principles i wife from the president of the european council donald toast presented the so-called leaders agenda to discuss the reforms proposed by france's president ma crawl all those reforms real solutions. what you have at the moment is you have a very enthusiastic french president with a lot of energy making a lot of proposition suggestions all over the place and i think there's two fold here what dawn of the president of the e.u. council is trying to do is giving all those visions of that energy a little structure sort of channeling what the call is proposing and at the same time not only channeling it but preserving the ambition that is behind it because that you have to think about it you know if you still have twenty eight member states that might not agree with everything that a minute michael is saying that's one prob

the hope and that was the plan from the beginning to get them started after this summit but the e.u. twenty seven so. all the you member states excluding the united kingdom have come to the conclusion after talking to michelle year the chief negotiator of the e.u. commission that they haven't made sufficient progress in phase one phase one just a reminder is settling the divorce issues as they are calls for example the border between northern ireland and ireland the status of e.u. citizens in the united kingdom and of course the so-called bragg's it bill and especially in the dregs of bill there has not been sufficient progress but here's the thing it seems like the e.u. is moving towards the direction of the reason may a little bit at least we saw the draft conclusions and they say that if everything progresses as in to support it they will be able to start face to so trade negotiations with the united kingdom. but max in the meantime i mean does it seem as if you know there's also a back up plan being formed a potential no deal scenario. everybody denies this very strongly in brussels in

this was a face saving summit for tourism a of course she knew when she came to brussels that the e.u. twenty seven would follow the recommendation of chief negotiator michel barnier that they can should not move to face number two to future a relation talks and that there is simply not sufficient progress it actually took leaders on this summit a mere ninety seconds to establish exactly that on the other hand they have given the green light that they start reparation on these future talks and that is something she can actually bring back because for her it's it's absolutely crucial that she can show not necessarily now that backs it is a success but at least that things move forward and that there is not such a huge deadlock and deadlock was a key word a number of leaders today said maybe that was exaggerated there's not really a full deadlock and at the same time others said look but there are substantive key sticking points that still have to be clarified so we actually move to face number two now german chancellor angela merkel did praise may for a willingness to move forward but she also

will do this evening after she's address that and that the hope i think must be there that the e.u. twenty seven do decide to throw her some sort of a bone or some sort of a concession they're all too aware of how politically weakened she is a hope they don't want to damage her further by sending her home empty handed from this summit because that would only make future talks even harder they may well decide to come up with some sort of concession perhaps of citizens' rights to resume or. has told e.u. citizens living in the u.k. just today that a deal is within touching distance of only the e.u. leaders will make up the gap will they make up the gap on friday will that would allow heard least a small victory to take home with her and enable her to preserve what is left of her political authority thank you very much jonah how in brussels. maltese police believe a bomb that killed a prominent journalist and molto was attached beneath her car and triggered remotely daphne khurana who is a renowned anticorruption blogger and fierce critic of the government died on monday as she was leaving he

to sort this out you know because usually when we mention europe people consider that it is only e.u. twenty eight or the twenty seven if you consider that the u.k. still out but is or knows a way to look at what europe means and as you may know you know my last job. before creating the global com past was as a director of education and you said the council of europe and the council of europe comprise forty seven countries and member states including russia including turkey including. crane and many other counties that are not part of the e.u. how well aware mr buswell let me of them and they're all my question because when we talk about the european identity or the european values speech by the way why where at the center of the ukrainian kong for a conflict i think we in russia at least we mean first and foremost the european union and the values the so-called european values that. it sets out to promote you mentioned that europe is still searching for that identity but i don't think this is the kind of view that we get here in russia because we actually think many people think here in rus

course of the european union breaks it is an issue at the top of the agenda and crucially for the e.u. twenty seven minus to reason may to decide whether sufficient progress has been made in the talks so far talks of centered around as you said there the nitty gritty difficult issues like money settling britain's outstanding commitments and liabilities whether progress is made sufficient to be able to move on to more substantial issues like trade britain's future relationship with europe crucial of course to big businesses in the u.k. who are putting big pressure on the government and the reason may because they crave confidence and certainty as they stare down the realities of breaks or the problem is that the realities of these negotiations are that many people here in the e.u. in europe believe that the negotiations are essentially at a stalemate that they're not going anywhere and won't go any further to resume a has failed to convince with the offer she made in florence three weeks ago of a figure in excess of twenty billion dollars to be paid over the course of a two year transition per

of the sort of progress the prime minister to resign may and might have hoped for remember the e.u. twenty seven leaders her colleagues at this council meeting must use this meeting to decide whether sufficient progress has been made in brics of talks so far to be able to move talks on to the second stage they're currently been dealing with the first the more contentious stage the so-called divorce settlement dealing with things like money britain's outstanding liabilities commitments how much it's willing to pay tourism a very much wants to move things on to the next stage at least in parallel even with the first stage which is britain's future relationship with the european union future trade arrangements crucial for business in the u.k. putting a lot of pressure on the government at the moment because it needs it craves certainty about quite what the details of breaks it will entailed well the problem she's got is that a lot of people around the table believe that the talks so far have made sufficient progress but in fact are stalled stalemate and she's been unable to convince them with

e.u. in march twenty nine thousand. of them on the brink that negotiations i'm joined by our brussels correspondent. killed the british prime minister terrorism mrs britain and the e.u. are within touching distance off a deal on citizens' rights to elitist feel the same way. at least michele dunne year the chief negotiator who represents the interests of the twenty seven member states here in the e.u. has said that it's made some good progress on the issue of citizen rights so yes i would say that fairly well matches the division that david davis his counterpart from the u.k. has on the issue of of citizens' rights they're not far away and it's only a question of legal guarantees that is still in the room and that hinders the e.u. to say yes in this point we see sufficient progress the main stumbling blocks remain. in northern ireland and of course the bracks bill and tourism a would have to rife with a big check if she would really want to achieve a breakthrough on the summit and the reason they will address and their l

it hasn't even used at all and so this was the first time that michelle obama negotiator for the e.u. twenty seven member states has really for the first time said we are looking at a deadlock here let's listen to what the two positions are. this week in a constructive spirit because if we can't find certain point one without whether making any great steps who would talk on of. one of those still work to be done much would be done we've come a long way to recognize the significant progress we've made should too. how to reconcile those two statements very contradictory i mean the u.k. . davis said talks of significant progress is he describing the same talks or is he describing alternative reality well you could ask yourself if he's hearing what he wants to hear i mean the british focus on saying that he hopes that progress will be made by december and they're really hoping that at the next you council meeting that things can move on because from a british perspective what they really want is they want to discuss the future relationship they want to know what sort of trade arrangement what so

been a face saving summit if you want forty research made she came here of course knowing that the e.u. twenty seven leaders would follow the recommendation of negotiator michele been years that it is too early to start heading towards the second phase that there is not sufficient progress in fact it took a leaders here when theresa may had already left only a mere ninety seconds to come to that conclusion in the in the final council conclusions here but what they gave to reason may and that is sort of if you want a gift that she can take back home there where she can say you know my speech where made all these concessions has not fallen on deaf ears and that is that the e.u. has now given a green light to move into preparations of possible future talks about the future relation ship as early as december when the german chancellor as we heard praised me for our willingness to move forward but it's also been critical of brittle being too hesitant what can we make of her comments. it's a difficult situation now on the one hand you heard a number of leaders saying look the financial bill is still

that's why the fortunes changed the e.u. . twenty four year old bryce harper has an impressive and crucial to run to tie the game. ryan zimmerman looks to have bounced back from an injury plagued ten to sixteen because. we will be he added a three run home run moments later it's a lift the nationals to the six three comeback victory against the well there is champion the series of now tied at one one. we lost a game they beat us we go home at one and one and we had king time to and then jay coming up not bad really interesting series well played on both sides and i cannot be happier than i am with our guys right now. over in los angeles the dodgers hosted the arizona diamondbacks but not standard it's got off to a sluggish start to check the data was arizona took the lead up until the fourth inning when the dodgers began to make that comeback. they overturned the deficits leap the game seven to the fifth inning and the going to win it eight five the sunshine is now holding to nothing lead in the back to five national league division

e.u. . they got computers and paid for all the equipment. i think. twenty seven e.u. representatives came to the opening including twelve ambassadors. enough and in fact when in retrospect you ask yourself what the e.u. is thinking they opened a human rights center with me at the helm without really securing that politically . those who know how the state works would have done that differently it didn't work that's probably why they had the courage to open such a center but i was at the opening people gave pretty little speeches and after a week the center was closed again. the secret service men attacked me outside of my house and took me with them. and. they took me to an interrogation center but i wasn't tortured but they beat me. they blindfolded me so i couldn't see who was beating me so i wouldn't recognize them on the second day i was taken to prison and then i was put on trial. i was summoned to the foreign office and i was accused of interfering in syrian internal affairs. or the forty's i was to hold the project immediately which i did i narrowly avoided bec

e.u. in march twenty nine thousand. let me now bring you up to speed with some other stories making news around the want of ghana sounds defense ministry says the taliban have killed at least forty three of gann soldiers and attack that wiped out an army camp in the southern kandahar province this is the third suicide and gun attack in a week taking the death toll to go than one hundred. civilians have been fleeing the syrian city of rock cafe it was taken from so-called islamic state the u.n. says some forty thousand people have poured into the into displacement camps in the past few days u.s. backed fighters are moving land mines and booby traps and are rooting out the remaining extremists investigators in argentina think they found the body of an activist whose disappearance two months ago prompted large demonstrations santiago muldaur not dos was last seen on august first he had been attending an indigenous rights protest near where his body was discovered. a nearly a month after the country's election the german ch

in twenty fourteen but a majority of scots voted to remain in the e.u. during twenty sixteen's bragg's it referendum the first minister nicolas sturgeon says she won't seek another independence vote just yet s.n.p. members had called on her to delay demands until sometime in twenty the twenty. that would give any further consideration to the timing. but. that doesn't mean i will stop making the case for scotland independent at least thirty people have been killed in violence in the north east of democratic republic of congo rebels a group of civilians before fighting the army near the town of benny security forces blame the attack on a ugandan group called the allied democratic forces more than one hundred thousand people are without power in the us after the gulf coast the worst affected states mississippi alabama and louisiana nate quickly weakened and has since been downgraded to a tropical storm but i mean no deaths or injuries reported in the u.s. but up to thirty people were killed on the how to can hit central america hollywood film producer harvey

e.u. zone accountability for the last twenty three years we know that the e.u. is very little idea about how its money is spent and that's always been true disputed before the crisis and it's to nigeria the migrant crisis and the e.u. doesn't know how to manage its money. and you know a lot of the money goes into the bloated bureaucracy and the governments of greece and italy i'm afraid i'm not renowned for the how can i put it it minnesota deficiency or credibility. but it's get back to our breaking news story for you here this hour on r.t. international several people injured in a knife attack in central munich let's go straight to germany now ati's maria financial joining us with the latest samaria updates on this breaking news story. this person has just come out to the media saying that they have detained a suspicious person but at this point they cannot confirm whether this is the man behind such a day morning knife attack in downtown munich they have also said that four people have been injured during the assault and we know that as soon as that happened

e.u. membership with devastating consequences says. he's a baker and president of the council and entrepreneurs association of. independence would have consequences for all cattle on companies. we're losing market. to twenty seven e.u. member states. and we'd have real problems with terrorists and we wouldn't be competitive anymore. explosion from the e.u. may be problematic for bakers but even more so for bankers. one of the four big financial institutions in spain has decided to make a quick exit to put their customers at ease into the best i must thank you i still feel safe at the moment but if i see any instability i'll take my money out. she's able to work the system and the situation in catalonia i don't really inspire trust i've already withdrawn my savings. spain's economics minister claims the catalan regional government for the insecurity in the population he's not afraid of a brown on the banks story of the. two big banks in catalonia protected by the safety mechanisms of the european central bank the spanish guarantee fund and the federal government. that's why we don't think there'll be any limits on the money that customers can withdraw. from the. independence for catalonia could have a detr

e.u. during twenty six things bragg's it referendum the vice minister nicola sturgeon says she won't seek another independence vote just yet s.n.p. members had called on her to delay demands until sometime in the twenty twenties that wouldn't give any further consideration to the timing. and the thames of. all that doesn't mean i was making the case for scotland being independent still ahead an al-jazeera close race in liberia to find a replacement for africa's first elected female president. and one week on las vegas comes together to mourn the victims of a shooting that killed fifty eight at a country music concert. from one. to an enchanting. that stop by look at the weather across china and taiwan and ready weather conditions here sent across east and there is a germany fine but you see the circulation of cloud and strong winds and that's a system which is developing and it's pushing across northern parts of vietnam and it's going to trundle on into. so i think communications across northern vietnam laos could well be cut at times by this really intense rainfall could cause some real

e.u. clearly the twenty plus billion dollars that she's already offered to pay over a period of two years is not sufficient the figure is much much higher tens of billions of dollars higher potentially which is why they've decided sufficient progress has not been made to be able to move those talks on what reason may's message was pretty clear i think it was that she has come as far as she is able to politically alone without any concessions given in return by the european union she has appealed to them to come along with her she talked talked of a of a joint endeavor to allow progress in these talks to happen the process in group that catalan national assembly is calling on its supporters to withdraw their money from five of spain's largest banks it's a response. the spanish central government plans to suspend the region's autonomy on saturday catalonia as president's car less puja ma has threatened a regional parliament vote on independence if madrid goes ahead a twenty one year old egyptian citizen has been released after four years behind bars in egypt the news of him but he was relea

e.u.'s unaccountable d. for the last twenty three years we know that the e.u. is very little idea about how its money is spent and that's always been through dispute through before the crisis and it's through night during the crisis and the e.u. doesn't know how to manage its money. and you know a lot of the money goes into the bloated bureaucracy and the governments of greece and italy i'm afraid i'm not renowned for the how can i put it it minnesota efficiency or credibility. police in california are set to deploy and test drones in the skies above los angeles initiative has certainly raised concerns of a previously in safety hollywood's recently been making a big deal about the dangers of drone misuse. after years of heated debate the police commissioner of los angeles voted three to one in favor of the one year long drone program however the vote certainly caused a bit of a star among residents of los angeles. to various protests and a show of discontent over the decision police department union president assured the public that the new technology will be u

but davis knows full well with goes beyond the gray walls of brussels twenty seven e.u. leaders must first be convinced progress was stage one has been made german chancellor angela merkel's among those adamant in the patience stick to the timeline you know what it's legalized has returned to europe after sad decision by the british to leave the european union these negotiations are important and will conduct them in such a way that there is as little damage as possible for us here in germany. back in brussels trace shook hands again this was the fifth round of talks the clock is still ticking. and you're up to date with the w. news live from berlin and i'll be back at the top of the hour with more world news followed by the day you can join us.

e.u. with its twenty eight member states the edges at least could begin to crumble like a dry cake so to speak and simply fall to bits. of news. from an economic standpoint secession could spell disaster for a european member state the flanders region for example contributes some fifty eight percent to belgium's gross domestic product. and the italian regions of the nato and lumber they contribute thirty one percent to italy's g.d.p. e.u. regions with independence movements represent just over eight percent of the union's economic strength but when it comes to going it alone money isn't the primary issue. it has to do with people having problems with the phenomenon of globalization which is indeed difficult to grasp digitalisation and other major developments are making people feel and secure so they're seeking a sense of wellbeing in the immediate the local region as a way of anchoring themselves. they're coming together around what's familiar to find a new political identity. that's. the interesting thing about these nationalists like the catalans is that they are pro european nationalists u

e.u. so the twenty eight order twenty seven if you consider that the u.k. still out. there is only as a way to look at what europe means and as you may know you know my last job. before creating the global com past was as a director of education and you said the council of europe and the council of europe. comprise forty seven countries and member states including russia including turkey including. crain and many other countries that are not part of the e.u. well aware mr buswell let me have them and they're all my question because when we talk about the european identity or the european values which by the way while we're at the center of the ukrainian calling for a conflict i think we in russia at least we mean first and foremost the european union and the values the so-called european values that it sets out to promote you mentioned that europe is still searching for that identity but i don't think this is the kind of view that we get here in russia because we actually think many people think here in russia that the your europe is setting out to impose its values o

start those discussions but davis knows full well this goes beyond the gray walls of brussels twenty seven e.u. leaders must first be convinced progress with stage one has been made german chancellor angela merkel's among those adamant in the patience stick to the timeline you know what it's legalized has returned to europe but after a sad decision by the british to leave the european union these negotiations are important and will conduct them in such a way that there is as little damage as possible for us here in germany. back in brussels face shook hands again this was the fifth round of talks the clock is still ticking. all this week we have brought you the stories of gay men and lesbian women struggling sometimes die for simply being gay in russia but tonight in our final report we mett meet a video blogger who was using his you tube channel to fight anti-gay business policies in the process he discovered some pleasant surprises and he drank a glass or two of milk. that the when you tell people you're gay you have to bear in mind what country you live in. new york i'm a blogger apparently

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e.u. . they got computers and paid for all the equipment. twenty seven e.u. representatives came to the opening including twelve ambassadors. in nuffin and in retrospect you ask yourself what the e.u. is thinking they opened a human rights center with me at the helm without really securing that politically . that's right you know how the state works would have done that differently it didn't work that's probably why they had the courage to open such a center i was at the opening people gave pretty little speeches and after a week the center was closed again. the secret service men attacked me outside of my house and took me with them. and that. they took me to an interrogation center but i wasn't tortured but they beat me. they blindfolded me so i couldn't see who was beating me so i wouldn't recognize them on the second day i was taken to prison and then i was put on trial. and. i was summoned to the foreign office and i was accused of interfering in syrian internal affairs. in order for i was to hold the project immediately which i did i narrowly avoided be

e.u. at the summit. tourism i will have a full fifteen minutes to continue her charm offensive here in brussels convincing the other twenty seven e.u. leaders that she will stand by the commitments that the u.k. has made in the past and will be interesting to see what kind of concessions she can throw in within these fifteen minutes she mentioned the word cooperation for at least four times in that statement we have just heard when she kept on talking she she says that the world cooperation another three times so very conciliatory toward tones here it will be interesting to see how that goes down with the other leaders it's pretty clear that they will follow michel barnier the chief negotiator who has said it's not sufficient progress to move on from the divorce talks into future relations but german chancellor angela merkel said maybe that could be the sort of a gesture may can take away from the summit maybe it will be enough to start these talks in december and to resume also said that britain and the air are within touching distance of a deal on citizens' rights leaders feel the same way. a number of elian eight leade

e.u. is only counting for the last twenty three years we know that the e.u. is very little idea about how its money is spent and that's always been through dispute before the crisis and during the crisis the e.u. doesn't know how to manage its money. and you know a lot of the money goes into the bloated bureaucracy and the governments of greece and italy i'm afraid. for. you to. minnesota deficiency or credibility meanwhile thousands of progress demonstrators took to the streets of rome on saturday. lit. a little bit. of a gathered in the center of the italian capital to rally against racism and demand the rights of a new arrivals be respected among those marching were asylum seekers and refugees a crowd also called for the creation of humanitarian corridors the elimination of national borders and the granting of italian citizenship to the children of migrants. a lightning things up quite a bit now it is an event event to celebrates peace and international friendship and has brought together thousands of young people from around the globe but now the world fe