seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was eight point eight down from nine point eight percent the e.u. twenty eight unemployment rate was seven point four down from eight point three in the same time period all these years after the peak of the economic crisis youth unemployment remains a major area of concern for the european union and over eighteen percent in the euro area according to you are a stat reese spain and italy have the highest youth unemployment rates while germany and the netherlands have the lowest these rates vary significantly of course from country to country depending on individual ongoing economic developments and as i said r.t.e. lunde. thank you and now for a look at unemployment in asia. joins us. hey there barton good to be with you today so let's start with the big player in the hemisphere of course that is going to be china china china an official unemployment rate is just below four percent three point nine five to be exact but as we know those numbers are notoriously unreliable sets given the volatility of the country's g.d.p. growth that swings as high as fourtee

seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was eight point eight down from nine point eight percent the e.u. twenty eight unemployment rate was seven point four down from eight point three in the same time period all these years after the peak of the economic crisis youth unemployment remains a major area of concern for the european union and over eighteen percent in the euro area according to you are a stat reese spain and italy have the highest youth unemployment rates while germany and the netherlands have the lowest these rates vary significantly of course from country to country depending on individual ongoing economic developments and as i said r.t.e. lunde. thanks so much to you and now for a look at unemployment in asia. joins us. hey there barton good to be with you today so let's start with the big player in the hemisphere of course that is going to be china china china an official unemployment rate is just below four percent three point nine five to be exact but as we know those numbers are notoriously unreliable sets given the volatility of the country's g.d.p. growth that swings as hig

e.u. member states but well under a third of that number had actually been relocated by autumn twenty seventeen the greeks feel let down and have barely drawn on extra e.u. funds to expand the camps and improve conditions most greek islanders opposed bigger and more permanent facilities they don't see why they should shoulder the e.u.'s refugee problem alone his local man no longer believes the relocation system will be implemented. the islands of the north indian cannot stand anymore to have hotspots because accommodation fastbreak which is a condition said all of these doctors administration. guard policeman i think that some member states are covered or marks behind the situation and not accepting if you g.'s not fulfilling their grim and that will sign. a strain just over a kilometer wide separates the greek island some hours from turkey in twenty sixteen the turkish coast guard intercepted almost forty thousand refugees and took them back to turkey part of a deal between brussels and ankara i want to find out how refugees are being treated in turkish camps. i'm given access to a facility t

so far the e.u. twentyn have shown remarkable unity on bragg's it but it will get tougher in two thousand and eighteen because with the second phase of the negotiations starting soon future trade relations between the twenty seven remaining member states and the u.k. are on the menu including sectors like the german car industry. that's when their interests in the e.u. might collide. the clock is ticking. migration. euro zone reform and brags that the e.u. needs to agree on all these topics in two thousand and eighteen to take advantage of this window of opportunity to. american journalist james kirchick is author of the end of europe dictators demagogues and the coming dark age and joins us from washington welcome to day w. in that report max hoffman has migration in a uniform and brags that as the a used top problems where they top your list. i think those three are certainly there but i would also add potentially the united states and there are differing attitudes on how to deal with the trumpet ministra

so far the e.u. twentyseven have shown remarkable unity on bragg's it but it will get tougher in two thousand and eighteen because with the second phase of the negotiations starting soon future trade relations between the twenty seven remaining member states and the u.k. are on the menu including sectors like the german car industry that's when national interests in the e.u. might collide. the clock is ticking. migration. euro zone reform and brags that the e.u. needs to agree on all these topics in two thousand and eighteen to take advantage of this window of opportunity to. them and. while the disturbing news now about intel is disclosure that many of its chips have been vulnerable to hackers kristoff that's right brian we're talking about serious loss that could affect billions of computers and smartphones equipped with intel processors now the scramble is on to find a fix but there is more disturbing news in town knew about the flaws well before they became public and the behavior of the company's chief

so far the e.u. twenty seven have shown remarkable unity on bragg's it but it will get tougher in two thousand and eighteen because with the second phase of the negotiations starting soon future trade relations between the twenty seven remaining member states and the u.k. are on the menu including sectors like the german car industry. that's when nestle interests in the e.u. might collide. the clock is ticking. migration. euro zone reform. and brags that the e.u. needs to agree on all these topics in two thousand and eighteen to take advantage of this window of opportunity to. them and. we have some tennis news now and serena williams will not be competing at the sponsor stallion open the tennis star was due to make a comeback at just four months after giving birth to her first child she had planned to defend her title having won at melbourne park last year when she was pregnant but she has now pulled out after losing in exhibition match in dobie last weekend saying she needs more time to prepare her withdr

e.u. efforts to prevent fresh arrivals in twenty seventeen and it criticizes the e.u. for its reliance on non e.u. countries to stem the flow of people reaching europe while the number of migrant arrivals by sea was down to one hundred fifty thousand by november last year around half the previous year but the report says the mediterranean remained deadly with nearly three thousand people dead or missing in that same period human rights watch also said the member states who took in the largest number of arrivals were shunned by the remainder of the union and this was because of the dublin regulation under this rule asylum seekers were returned to excellence and greece who then had to take responsibility for them because they were the original e.u. countries of entry in some of twenty seventeen germany suspended those rules and a number of other e.u. states followed suit human rights watch as executive director is kind of the roth launching this year's that world report in paris he blamed the rise of populism for many human rights violations the rise of the populace was

so far the e.u. twentyeven have shown remarkable unity on bragg's it but it will get tougher in two thousand and eighteen because with the second phase of the negotiations starting soon future trade relations between the twenty seven remaining member states and the u.k. are on the menu including sectors like the german car industry that's one national interests in the e.u. might collide. the clock is ticking. migration. euro zone reform and brags that the e.u. needs to agree on all these topics from two thousand and eighteen to take advantage of this window of opportunity to. reporting there aren't some football now and one thing going to sleep aside cologne can say is that it can't get any worse they're dead bottom of the standings with just six points they scratch together thanks to a lone win and three draws they have the war's goals scored in just ten and the worst goals against letting in a whopping thirty two so is there a light at the end of the player tunnel coach stephan written back has one goal f

so far the e.u. twenty seven have shown remarkable unity on bragg's it but it will get tougher in two thousand and eighteen because with the second phase of the negotiations starting soon future trade relations between the twenty seven remaining member states and the u.k. are on the menu including sectors like the german car industry that's when national interests in the e.u. might collide. the clock is ticking. migration. euro zone reform and brags that the e.u. needs to agree on all these topics in two thousand and eighteen to take advantage of this window of opportunity to do. well will they be agreeing on them for more on that i'm here with john wirth a pro e.u. blogger advisor to a number of global organisations good morning john morning thanks for being with us today you know let's focus on what we're looking at is the biggest challenge to the e.u. certainly to german politics right now the migration situation hung garion prime minister viktor orban is in germany today he's going to be talking to a ve

so far the e.u. twentyven have shown remarkable unity on bragg's it but it will get tougher in two thousand and eighteen because with the second phase of the negotiations starting soon future trade relations between the twenty seven remaining member states and the u.k. are on the menu including sectors like the german car industry that's one national interests in the e.u. might collide. the clock is ticking. migration. eurozone reform. and brags that the e.u. needs to agree on all these topics in two thousand and eighteen to take advantage of this window of opportunity to. and to more than a year of deteriorating relations between turkey and germany could we be about to potentially see a breakthrough though the turkish foreign minister called for a new beginning ahead of a bilateral meeting with his german counterpart a major point of contention has been turkey's jailing of german nationals including journalist denis you tell now he has been held in turkey for more than ten months without an indictment in a

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e.u. you can have majority decisions where a number of small number of member states can be again so they can be overpowered and that that decision was to relocate one hundred twenty thousand refugees and a number of eastern european countries have refused to follow this e.u. decision where twenty eight member states basically set well this is how things will work and now they are facing an infringement procedures from the european court of justice against that yeah those procedures are crucial poland is facing severe and unprecedented sanctions from brussels as article seven of course but hungary is vowing to veto any measures against warsaw so are we seeing now the emergence of a new power block inside the e.u. . i think we've always seen in the history of of a clump of twenty eight member states of the forming of alliances and subgroups what is new that in the past these subgroups at least were in favor of deeper integration in favor of sharing burden and showing solidarity and in the case of a number of eastern european countries now that is not the case so that is something new and also given the wave of populist nationalist movements that has also swept over

twenty seven european union ministered voted on monday to approve conditions for further brecht's it talks that state britain will not have a role in e.u. decision making once it leaves the union or during the transition period planned to begin in march of twenty nineteen the e.u. ministers also said that britain will be subject to e.u. laws including any new laws during the transition and for two years after that u.k. brecht secretary david davis played down the announcement and claimed that britain will have the right to negotiate a pact with third parties during the transition but the e.u. is lead negotiator michel barnier says the twenty the twenty seven other members must unanimously approved any such agreements u.k. prime minister theresa may faces rising discord within her conservative party as pro and anti breck's that factions jostle for influence and rival rival maneuvers that to succeed may as the leader of. the federal reserve's open market committee begins two days of meetings today it's the last f.o. and. the meeting run by outgoing chair janet yellen who is completing her four year term sell the reserve governor jay powe

including paris and its suburbs britain has sixteen including london in total twenty three of the twenty eight e.u. countries exceed equality norms germany's environmental agency says two thirds of nitrogen oxide is produced by diesel engines even the cleanest diesels produce this toxic gas even mission has summoned nine environment ministers including germany's baba hendricks to brussels for an equality summit today giving them a final chance to comply with quality standards. singapore is putting the brakes on traffic if you want to buy a car for the first time and drive it you'll have to wait till another vehicle is taken off the roads it's part of measures to ease congestion on singapore's streets the government wants to cap the number of vehicles at five hundred seventy five thousand once they get the go ahead aspiring drivers can then purchase a certificate allowing them to buy a new car in the city if it gets cheap the equivalent of around thirty three thousand euros they can be more expensive than a car let's bring in linda hong our correspondent in singapore linda what what singapore ian s

e.u. country of entry was take over all responsibility for arrivals in the summer of twenty seventeen germany officially suspended such returns the number of other e.u. states followed suit. human rights watch is executive director is kind of the rough launching of this year so world report in paris he blamed the rise of populism for many human rights violations. the rise of the populace was very much a response to genuine grievances that people had they felt left behind economically they were complaining about economic inequality and many people dislike the cultural shifts associated with migration some people fear terrorism and with the authoritarian copy of the stay it is take things which are in the grievances and skilled goat won't be able minorities to say you know it's the migrants who are at fault it's the asylum seekers it's the refugees and that effort to sort of bully a vulnerable minority for the problems of the jury hasn't been amazed at the rise of the populists. when sonia callus kay is director of human rights watch here in germany welcome to g.w. we'll get to populism shortly

e.u. in march twenty nineteen. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in moscow for talks with russian president vladimir putin the two are expected to discuss israel's concerns about an expansion of iran's military involvement in syria russia has close ties with both countries. president. of the philippines has visited all of a province where tens of thousands of people have been displaced by the active volcano mount mayon it's been injecting lava and ash for the past two weeks and geologists say there could be a major eruption within the next couple of days. the philippines most active volcano is at it again for weeks now mount my own has been spewing a white hot cocktail of gas and volcanic debris down its flanks complicating matters nonstop brain is mixing with the volcanic ash and rock that's resulted in fast moving much flows which have damaged roads and could potentially sweep away entire settlements. more than eighty thousand residents have fled their homes and are living in temporary shelters which

e.u. and governments. well twenty seventeen has been a really interesting year for how the so called refugee crisis has developed and how it has impacted on politics really throughout the e.u. and throughout the western world more widely i think we've seen some really worrying trends and how certain xenophobic populist politicians have been able to. take people's fears and really convert that into a deeper fear and in some cases outright hatred towards outsiders or people perceived as outsiders they goes beyond refugees immigrants and asylum seekers it goes on it goes into deeper into this our idea of people who have been there for years and sometimes decades a lot of the central issues mentioned in your report is shifting responsibility for asylum seekers and refugees outside the borders of europe one of the problems with this with this approach. yes the e.u. and many of its member states have this idea of sort of outsourcing what they see as the problem. there's two main areas where they're doing this one is in the

report the organization says that the union stepped up efforts to prevent fresh arrivals in twenty seventeen the e.u. has also been criticized for appealing to countries outside of its borders to stem the flow of people trying to reach europe now kenneth roth who is the executive director of human rights watch he launched the world report back in twenty eight team are over other this is the world report for twenty eighteen and he launched it in paris on thursday this is what he had to say have a listen. a year ago as president trump entered the white house it seemed there was no stopping the global wise of autocratic populace around the world political leaders for building support by demonizing minorities attacking us from the rights principles and undermining faith in democratic institutions what's been remarkable in the last year is the enormous resistance to that agenda there is a shift where that resistance has been strong populist advances have been limited but where the populist message of hate and intolerance has been met by capitulation or indifference the populist have flourished. and that

e.u. referendum in twenty six staying but we looked at genda which political party they supported where you would presumably reason we put them on the left right spectrum we look at a whole host of things and actually for gender balance or the representation of ethnic minorities they seem to get a pretty good baby say i need a party political balance you had basically the same number of people in the right of the spectrum as from the left of the spectrum but on the issue of did you support britain coming out of the european union where you've already stated the figures it was sixty eight percent of these probably so voted for remain as far as we can tell in the june twenty sixth a referendum and only thirty two percent for leave now it is true that we are no longer in a referendum period and it is true as the b.b.c. said in a statement they are focused you with but it's no longer a binary choice but the problem is this although there are a wide range of choices do we leave without a day old do we stay in with a transitional period do we stay in the single market do we stay in the customs un

e.u. ministers have agreed to offer the united kingdom a twenty one month transition period after it leaves the e.u. next year officials say the u.k. will keep its status quo e.u. membership during that period but will not have a vote. here in germany there is public outrage tonight at the latest installment of the dirty diesel gate scandal german car makers are facing allegations that they paid for toxic emissions tests on monkeys and humans now the aim was reportedly to give diesel a good name again and to secure valuable tax breaks it clearly backfired. here at the university clinic and in two thousand and thirteen and fourteen a group of twenty five healthy people were made to inhale nitrogen dioxide in varying concentrations over periods of hours several times a week manufacturers' wanted to use the tests to determine exactly how dangerous nitrogen dioxide was to humans the tests were commissioned by the european research organization for environment and health and financed by german car makers v.w. b.m.w. and german pot supplier bosch the study was supposed to be conducted under the c

twenty seven european union ministered voted on monday to approve conditions for further brecht's it talks that state britain will not have a role in e.u. decision making once it leaves the union or during the transition period planned to begin in march of twenty nineteen the e.u. ministers also said that britain will be subject to e.u. laws including any new laws during the transition and for two years after that u.k. brecht secretary david davis played down the announcement and claimed that britain will have the right to negotiate a pact with third parties during the transition but the a use lead negotiator michel barnier says the twenty the twenty seven other members must unanimously approved any such agreements u.k. prime minister theresa may faces rising discord within her conservative party as pro and anti bracks that factions jostle for influence and rival rival maneuvers that to succeed may as the leader of. the federal reserve's open market committee begins two days of meetings today it's the last f.o. and. the meeting run by outgoing chair janet yellen who is completing her four year term federal reserve governor jay powell w

including paris and its suburbs britain has sixteen including london in total twenty three of the twenty eight e.u. countries exceed air quality norms of germany's and our mental agency says to his thirds of night trojan oxides are produced by these legends even the cleanest diesels produce this toxic gas the e.u. commission has summoned nine and vironment ministers including germany's barbara hendricks for an air quality summit today giving them a final chance to comply with air quality standards the meeting ended a shoulder while ago and i asked our correspondent band record what came out of it . germany and the eight other countries pleading for more time basically they say we are a good way but we need more time to match the pollution targets and it's not clear whether the commission is village to give them more time because the infringement procedures against these countries are already running for three years now and this is a question if the commission is willing to give in he didn't. indicate what he's going to do he just said another time and he wants more details until next monday and th

twenty seven european union minister had voted on monday to approve conditions for further brecht's it talks that state britain will not have a role in the e.u. decision making once it leaves the union or during the transition period planned to begin in march of twenty nineteen the e.u. ministers also said that britain will be subject to e.u. laws including any new laws during the transition and for two years after that u.k. bret's secretary david davis play down the announcement and claim that britain will have the right to negotiate pacts with third parties during the transition but the a use lead negotiator michelle bar and yet it says the twenty the twenty seven other members must unanimously approved any such agreements u.k. prime minister theresa may faces rising discord within her conservative party as pro and anti bracks that factions jostle for influence and rival rival maneuvers to to succeed may as the leader of. the federal reserve's open market committee begins two days of meetings today it's the last f.o. mc meeting run by outgoing chair janet yellen who is completing her four year term federal reserve governor jay powell was s

twenty eighteen where is the e.u. headed. migration reforms. many voices severe view news today on the news. profile. shift living in the digital age today the future of communications. smart for dogs left home alone and a kaleidoscopic vision of cities to come but first promoting integration on you tube there's still plenty of prejudice against refugees in germany a new project is trying to change this helping people who are new to the country make videos where they talk about their experiences. leanna dudu is a originally from damascus she left syria at the beginning of the civil war after living in turkey for a few years she arrived in germany in june last year she wants to launch a youtube channel to talk about the experience of migration. this short stories going to be about like how how you were living in the past and now what are you doing in berlin and why bed and why you chose been an hour and if you are from here what happened in your life what changes you and bet and. she's participating in a workshop called tell your story the proje

e.u. on the first of april twenty ninth saying alright we'll brics it really ever take place i don't think it's happening but we're going to have this discussion i guess held for a feeble there's a lot of yeah in this one. yeah and we're driving down the road again any resolutions for this year at the top i think i've got to get you to tell you. what do you think i mean we're going down that no brakes a path aren't we or are we. the thing is nigel farage as colorful accounts or is he is. as good as he is a grabbing headlines and he has been accused by many on this side as ukip side of just how playing a big stunt just as they stay in the headlines stay in the public debate it doesn't carry that much weight really in the in the british debates it has allowed a whole can of worms to open and maybe he has kick started a debate for once but really his his voice alone doesn't carry that much weight and the whole of the ukip movement apart from ara banks who you identified has really accused him of selling out. by what he said this morning but you may be aware that what he's trying to do now is

e.u. counterparts in brussels today it's a show of unity for the twenty fifteen agreement aimed at ending iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons ministers from germany france britain and the e.u. foreign affairs chief frederica motor rini are expected to voice their support for the deal one day ahead of a key sanctions decision by washington the deal is under threat as u.s. president donald trump will decide on friday whether to reimpose oil sanctions on tehran iran has issued a stark warning to washington vowing to reduce its compliance with the u.n. nuclear watchdog should trump decide not to renew the sanctions waiver. if america fails to meet its commitments and does not sign the sanctions waiver we consider it a violation of the nuclear deal. under such circumstances the islamic republic has its own actions to take. if there is a lack of commitment from the american side they should not expect iran to have the same level of cooperation it has had with the international atomic energy organization over the past two years. oh let's get the latest on those talks taking place today in brussels

to the twenty sixteen vote to leave the e.u. those who can't afford their own cabin cruiser couldn't rent one on britain's many canals sales here have risen as well as the low pound also draws more foreign tourists with the prospect of a cheaper holiday in britain and of course the brits who can no longer afford to holiday abroad because of the weak pound or also rediscovering some green and pleasant back waters. fancy a stay at the beijing marriott don't even try looking for the hotel's website it's been shut down by the chinese government marriott's offense the company had listed taiwan tibet hong kong and macau a separate countries on its website while the latter three are indeed part of china taiwan's international status is more complex with many countries recognizing the island as a sovereign state china's take on the issue is clear. i want to stress that hong kong macau taiwan and tibet old part of china this is not objective facts in the consensus of the international community we welcome foreign companies to come to chi