but it looks like they have all left to nothing and so it will be really interesting to see if the e.u. will go down the line as they have indicated and reach for that list of retaliation products that a terrorist will receive don't you say all lead to nothing but surely this is trump strategy to try to draw out this is far as possible to get his opponents basically desperate for whatever he wants. really hard to say what his actual agenda is some here in brussels say with travel to the us and canada came back. nobody in in the us actually knows on unless from the drum himself what the real agenda is some even suspect that the actual target of all of this is the w t o is the whole architecture of international trade that is on the table here when it comes to the to the terrorists themselves there was some hope that maybe a trade off can be reached that some concessions could be made on the european side that would then allow for for avoiding these tariffs and then there is still i would say now some hope that maybe soft tariffs rather than hearts tariffs can be agreed to so that there would

will impose punitive tariffs on in portage steel and aluminum products from the e.u. they come into effect on friday along with tariffs against canada and mexico steel will face a twenty five percent tariff an aluminum ten percent. after last ditch negotiations in paris you negotiators were unable to get the u.s. to reverse its position the e.u. has already put together a list of u.s. products which will now also face retaliatory import tariffs they range from agricultural produce to motorcycles. well as we try to digest what this all means let's bring in the washington correspondent claire richardson and your correspondent get your comment this hi guys claire want to give you the first word a busy times a where you are america breaking bread with a north korean spy master and slapping its allies and biggest trading tariffs partners with terrorists how do you explain that absolutely it's been a busy week here in washington but look this decision comes after months of uncertainty surrounding these steel and aluminum tariffs the trumpet ministration first announced them

i think the e.u. will just wait donald trump out their problems with him is mostly partisan and ideological if this was hillary clinton leading the charge in the dissolution of this agreement she'd be holding their hand and they'd be going along we were assuming trump is a one term president ok what would make that assumption would make that assumption well. this week when faced with the possibility that a u.s. may put tariffs and saying sions on european companies if they do business with iran now he said what are we americans vassal to which my reply is we yeah you are merkel and merkel said. we. we can no longer rely on the us for our defense too late yeah angela i hate to tell you something honey but the biggest threat to your sovereignty and security is the u.s. ok you know you know ray one of the interesting things is that we have the tribes decision to withdraw from the iran deal but what's really quite remarkable is that we hear from the state department even though the united states is no longer a

trump's decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal comes up at every business meeting how will the e.u. react will there be new sanctions against iran. done shavian has made a lot of contacts through international trade fairs like this one in tehran last year and he has contracts with european companies but now many of his partners are uncertain about the future of the businesses. currently right now we have to sit down and see what's going on basically through the improvement relationship between iran and european companies especially with germany and this is a very good moment in our history we can see who are real partner. and to be a spokes bomb speaks to his staff in the middle east several times a day fire video link from darmstadt in southwestern germany he provides high speed satellite internet to customers in afghanistan pakistan and iran airlines have shown a lot of interest but getting the money together for these kinds of orders could become increasingly problematic that's what one of a what would have worked fine a week ago might be impossible next week getting some of the

president donald trump to abandon it european commission president john kline juncker has said the e.u. will we activate a blocking statute it's used more than twenty years ago to counter u.s. sanctions against cuba libya and iran alone makes it illegal for companies to comply with american sanctions. you know her announced a decision in the capital sofia where has of state we're meeting well in a sign. of a declining transatlantic relations the e.u. council president adulterous cad this also to say today at a press conference. i think the geo political problem is when you have. unpredictable opponent all enemy. of the problem is if your closest friend is unpredictable. it's not a joke throughout and it's that because i think it's a. different problem today was our friends on the other side of atlantic. because how can they agree with president trump was. when he says that unpredictability can be a very useful tool in politics but. are you heard on a bar of ezola is in so you're covering the summit for you a barber of the e.u. a clearly closing around i have just witnessed the european union

e.u. countries i think the key thing to hear will be. the actual action of the government will be if a government is in place with this platform so rather than the words written in the agreement i think we'll have to see whether this government. actually starts starts governing starts running the country and which policies it actually tries to put into action so this could have an impact on other countries both in terms of the rhetoric towards europe and in terms of specific actions. has been a possible going changer in the script poisoning case a new report by german media suggests that burley not turned novacek decades ago and that it shared it with its allies the nerve agent was used in the incident involving former spy surrogate scribal the u.k. blames russia for the attack claiming it was the only country that possessed the substance on these political has more on these revelations. well the headline grabbing revelation in this german media report is that the german intelligence agency the b n d has handed a sample of the novacek ne

unsurprisingly the co-operative wants to open its own processing plant in greece members are hoping the e.u. will help them out with subsidies. for the next five years planting biased on the machinery and a bigger warehouse so we can collectively. process our state. and have a better product. someone else pinning his hopes on more cooperation and quality is andre s. kyra phillips his stere farm it's a two hour drive away to qualify technician's farm is one of fifteen the tesco like co-operative. looked on them by my distance from the. food store for our final cause in good prices and of course there is a certainty about work and i said before that so i'll put it there for the south hostile to the water comes. with its own outlets that lies its members to pool their resources to milk it produces is cheaper than in the supermarkets and many would say that it's better as well. this collar also employs technician its customer service representatives i'm vendors today should see only one of its kind in the dairy sector its members hope more funding will enable others to set up their own co-ops or what

breaks it is looming over the negotiations this time britain's departure from the e.u. will leave a gaping hole in the accounts of about ten billion euros a year how should this whole be filled should the budget be reduced as the austrian swedes and dutch suggest or a cuts to costly areas such as agriculture on the cards. or policies disproportion it's far too large a share of you spending and it doesn't deliver on the kid with the courts at the end of the day this is a very small part of our population and it receives essentially forty percent of you spending i mean this is such an. even distribution the european commission wants more money to go into the pot and is reportedly proposing an increase from one to one point one percent of the blocks gross domestic product that money could go into defense migration and research one suggestion is an e.u. why digital tax on us tech giants but that's not without complications all of a sudden there would be a real tax capacity which means also some power transfer to brussels and it could have that the majority in the council is not

determined to stand their ground and europe's foreign affairs chief has also reassured iran that the e.u. will abide by the nuclear deal and called on to wrong to do the same and it seems iran is prepared to preserve the deal to. if the five countries remaining in the deal fulfill their commitments and guarantee that the benefits to the islamic republic will be preserved the agreement will remain in place despite the will of america and the zionist regime. meanwhile iran's foreign minister has been gauging support for the nuclear deal he got a positive response when he met his chinese counterpart in beijing now zarif is in moscow and about to sit down with the russian foreign minister. was when a new twist in the so-called russian meddling saga a top u.s. democrat on the senate select committee is those the trunks campaign contacts with the russians may not actually mean collusion i'm reserving my final judgment into we've seen all the witnesses we need to see and this may all be a simply a set of coincidences or maybe it was not the sophistication to realize what was happening there are other

are the so-called imposition of rebalancing measures that the famous list of products where the e.u. will slept arabs long. was very clear we were left with no other choice if you can slip terrorism as well we can do the same is his message in terms of bilateral relations the ties were already strained for the reasons that you alluded to a little earlier could these terrorists push them over the edge. that clearly is a danger but if you listen carefully to look he referred to the u.s. as friends again and again and that was reiterated a number of statements so there is a clear commitment on the part of the e.u. to calm things down the concern really is that this is potentially targeting the w t o it's targeting the entire architecture of international trade and for the european union this is the big concern younger went on for instance to say that at the moment yes the feeling that u.s. friends turn their back to everything that sounds like multilateralism and so that you will see efforts on the part of the european union to work against this targeting multi-lateralism to reach out to the

with mark that the six measure is i will date that precisely because. the e.u. achieved its aim everything is now digitalized you could not escape control there is no will brand can secret the e.u. officials have recognized that three months ago that you cannot keep your information your bank information secret it's on the record in the united states and in the west globally i'm afraid that you sanctions are going to make a masochist out of me i love the sanction russia some more sanctioning some more baby and such an issue some more sanctions tell it will go to chile going to go to you that alex is going to break here but this is really gets down to it's law it's law fair it's law fair now everyone is involved in law if the americans perfected it now.

e.u. achieved its aim everything is now digitalized you could not escape control there is no will bend can secret the e.u. officials have recognized that three months ago that you cannot keep your information your bank information secret it's on the record in the united states and in the west globally i'm afraid that you sanctions are going to make a masochist out of me i love the sanction russia some more six months or more but even such an issue some more sanctions tell it will go to chile going to go there we're going to go to the break here but this is really gets down to it's law it's law fair it's law fair now everyone is that involved in law for the americans perfected it now everyone's going to play the same game go ahead yeah i mean it's interesting to see that you know practically speaking of companies do business with iran they make it punished by the us if they don't do business with iran we going to get punished.

e.u. continues as it says it will do in continue its business is normal without the u.s. what the reaction is going to be from the united states now we've also heard just in the moments before i came on to talk to you a short bit from tara ron where they have said that in the future they will be continuing to negotiate with china russia the european union they will continue as normal from the arabian side just without the united states being a part of it so the attention turns back to washington and what will the reaction be from donald trump and others in his administration if this isn't greeted with a similar pullback from europe after donald trump has taken the united states out of the iran deal it seems no love from. i'm europe for the u.s. decision our correspondent peter oliver in berlin thank you very much let's get reaction now from sami ramadani is a middle east expert who joins me live on the line good evening to you sami so that in terms announcement was was pretty scathing the nub of it is the u.s. are out so many moving parts so many interested parties in thi

they are part of the e.u. will they support everything may or juncker are bringing? you see macron from france and angela merkel -- macron is young, energetic, once to bring france into as much as -- we have seen a big -- great deal he is done. about foreign policy is the marathon. they are not even putting their shoes on. there is no clear policy for the e.u. let me -- nora: let me just come in. melinda: quickly, because i want to get to iran. nora: when you look at european efforts to keep up the jcpoa -- melinda: the nuclear agreement. nora: exactly, it is more than just a show. to europeans try to stand up the americans, to some extent, although it is not a position we want to bn. we want to be in a working partnership. we see the german, french and british foreign minister stand up together, trying to work out how we can salvage. it is in our own security interest, by the way. melinda: we have a short report on where things stand with iran. let's take a look at that. and france britain are still committed to the iran nuclear deal. their foreign ministers will wo

speak to in the european union because they're not unified we have it in spades now i think the e.u. will wait donald trump out be that two years four years eight years and i think we've seen as well but i'm for more worried about the internal. stresses within the european union the election of a joint far right far left government in italy noises of dissent in hungary and paul if you really think the europeans can. wait that long it seems to me it seems to me that the mid-term elections in november in the united states will send an indication of what the european they mean wait a few months i don't think they can wait years see you blocking statute his interest it's a nineteen ninety six provision med to be used to protect european companies from the u.s. blockade on cuba so what it's going to do is it's going to ban e.u. companies supposedly from recognize from obeying the rule though it's impossible to judge or and force and it bans european courts from recognizing decisions against companies because of these.

in iran i have to suffer the consequences brought on to me by the americans and if i quit on them e.u. will go after me doesn't this put a u. kompany is between the devil and the deep blue sea how is that making their life easier annoy i don't think that the problem is. all of the companies. in india and the problem is that the promise that went with the. deal was that we would do more. to develop the economy and to increase their living standard of people much much more investment than we have done in the past and what i have said is and i would like to the pete that you cannot expect new major investment in the coming four major companies in particular those who are. who are leading in technology and innovation and what i'm really afraid that the american american action. will. it and we have no real defense against it so regardless of europe's countermeasure state he's saying the deal will survive without the americans i think it could it depends very much on the coal pollution between begun to countries in particular russia china. and to european countries as far as i can see they are c

e.u. reform proposals by the french president. she says the german answer will be ready in time for next month's e.u. summit america made the pledge today in the german parliament the book is talk during a debate on the budget but not all lawmakers are in favor of that magic and they don't like the idea of contributing more german money for brussels. it was money time for. this talk. discussing her proposed budget talked about both how much she wants to invest in germany and whether her government is willing to fork out more for the e.u. france's president in one remark call once additional investment in the block but merkel is cautious though it is nearly all of it would be pretty difficult to put more in the e.u. budget and more in the eurozone budget while still maintaining a used ability kriti area will be talking to france about dilemma in obvious effects and. for the far right populist if the there is no dilemma they say merkel is simply wasting german money. so you will. celebrate president in manama cos plants don't oppose a massive transfer of german ta

it will possibly in that sanctions the same sanctions against russia against e.u. completely let's let's let's remind our audience of the rational because trump wants to do but the europeans not by of american energy cannot be i mean if you you know most of america first make a little bit of sense he makes them an offer they cannot refuse he began but look i think it's another case of chickens coming home to roost at this program we discussed several times that this campaign against his election anyone before his election it reminded us of that campaign say against the vilified dictators so-called dictators in ukraine you know in syria iraq then it was used against trump against the american president in the same way that war sanctions which the united states has been waging against russia against other countries now it is turning against europe you know something that the you never expect that to happen they thought it would be used against other people now it's used against them so that's a very interesting moment. brings up a really good point because what has h

speak to in the european union because they're not unified we have it in spades now i think the e.u. will wait donald trump out be that two years four years eight years and i think we've seen this before but i'm for more worried about the internal. stresses within the european union the election of a joint far right far left government in italy noises of dissent in hungary and paul in order to really think the europeans can wait that long it seems to me it seems to me that the mid-term elections in november in the united states will send an indication of what the european they mean wait a few months by don't think they can wait years see you blocking statute is interesting it's a nineteen ninety six provision med to be used to protect european companies from the u.s. blockade on. so what it's going to do is it's going to ban e.u. companies supposedly from recognize from obeying the rule though it's impossible to judge or and force and it bans european courts from recognizing decisions against companies because of these sanctions and it will open up the european investment bank but german

as our guest i just pointed out it's unclear how far the e.u. will actually go in standing up to the u.s. but it's not just the trump administration's radical approach to diplomacy those creating uncertainty a number of shadow players are also having an impact as american explains the u.s. has left iran yet at the same time someone's jamming their foot in the door while the current secretary of state digs in and lays out the event one of his predecessors wearing up president trumps not weakens our security breaks america's word isolates us from our european allies puts israel at greater risk and powers iran's hard line is and reduces a global leverage to address terence misbehavior while damaging the ability of future administrations to make international agreements it's ludicrous to suggest iran feels less constrained they fired missiles into where americans travel each day followed missiles into israel i would have.

if germany is less reliant on america it will need all the more support from its european neighbors in the coming years e.u. leaders will be searching for ways to develop the union a process that just over half of german support fifty three percent said they want more european cooperation and more powers given to the e.u. by contrast a quarter of those asked said they want powers returned to national governments and european countries to be able to act alone. the president will be key in driving any changes to the e.u. his ideas including european finance minister and a joint eurozone budget. while more than four fifths of germans say it's good that is putting forward proposals about half of them think his financial plans go too far meanwhile a clear majority want their own chancellor to show more passion in making the case for europe. medical also has something to smile about in this poll with fifty one percent approval she remains germany's most popular politician. today at the top of the hour in the meantime of course there's always the web site . of the day. that people vote for information like the pa

e.u. council president dalton skoal so had this to say take a listen all right so i understand we don't have that sound bite for you i will try to get that for you later our correspondents barbara is in sofia covering the e.u. summit there barbara so a europe united against a trump what i wonder is how long can they keep up this united front. at the moment it looks as if they're really standing shoulder to shoulder because there is a very strong mix of emotion here even though we're talking about politics and people like the german chancellor angela merkel are well known for being sort of low key but generally we've heard many words of frustration here and of downright anger was some particularly the french president. and it is a mix of anger on the one side and disappointment on the other because the europeans feel that donald trump is treating them like an enemy like somebody like you know opponent. somebody that he can just run roughshod over and so totally disregard their political will and so they've really felt compelled to stand together and say we will not be treated like this how long this unity will hold is anyb

european commission president john claude junko has said the e.u. willtake steps to reactivate a so-called blocking statute in a bid to save the iran you could call it the law could make it illegal for your companies to comply with american sanctions against iran the so-called blocking statute was last used more than twenty years ago. the u.s. senate has confirmed to china has bill as the cia's first ever female director she faced tough questioning of the her role in running a secret.

european commission president john claude junko has said the e.u. will take steps to reactivate a so-called blocking statute in a bid to save the iran you could call it the law could make it illegal for companies to comply with american sanctions against iran the so-called blocking statute was last used more than twenty years ago.

your opinion commission president john claud junko has said the e.u. will take steps to reactivate a so-called blocking statute in a bid to save the iran you could call it the law could make it illegal for companies to comply with american sanctions against iran the so-called blocking statute was last used more than twenty years ago. the u.s. senate has confirmed to cina haspiel as the cia's first ever female director she faced tough questioning up ahead roland running a secret prison.

it on i have to suffer the consequences brought on to me by the americans and if i quit on them e.u. will go after me doesn't this put kompany is between the devil and the deep blue sea how is that making their life easier annoy i don't think that the problem is. all of the companies. in india are on the problem is that the promise that went with. the deal was that we would do more and how to develop the economy. to increase their living standard of people that would mean much much more investment than we have done in the past and what i have said is and i would like to the peat that you cannot expect new major investment in the coming four major companies in particular those who are. who are leading in technology and innovation and i was really afraid that the american american action was will calculate it and we have no real defense against it so regardless of europe's countermeasure still he's saying the deal will survive without the americans i think it could it depends very much on the. between the gun to countries in particular. china and do you hope to european countries as far as

trump's decision to withdraw from the iran nuclear deal comes up at every business meeting how will the e.u. react will there be new sanctions against iran. done j.v. and has made a lot of contacts through international trade fairs like this one in tehran last year and he has contracts with european companies but now many of his partners are uncertain about the future of the businesses. carnes right now we have to sit down and see what's going on basically through the improvement relations between iran and european companies especially with germany and the very moment in our history we can see who are real partner. and to be as book spam speaks to his staff in the middle east several times a day fire video link from darmstadt in southwestern germany he provides high speed satellite internet to customers in afghanistan pakistan and iran. airlines have shown a lot of interest but getting the money together for these kinds of orders could become increasingly problematic that's what one of what would have worked fine a week ago might be impossible next week getting some of the fun these big pro

company it on i have to suffer the consequences brought onto me by the americans and if i quit on them e.u. will go after me doesn't this put a u. companies between the devil and the deep blue sea how is that making their life easier annoy i don't think that the problem is. all of the companies. in india are on the problem is that the promise that went with the. deal was that we would do more and hope to develop the economy. to increase their living standard of people that would mean much much more investment than we have done in the past and what i have said is and i would like to the peat that you cannot expect new major investment in the coming four major companies in particular those who are. who are leading in technology and innovation and liddy afraid that the american american action. will. it and we have no real defense against it so regardless of europe's countermeasure still he's saying the deal will survive without the americans i think it could it depends very much on the coal pollution between begun to countries in particular. china and do you hope to european countries as far as i

the e.u. will stick to the iran deal. your thoughts? orrow the state secretary pompeo will outline a broader approach that will go beyond the au. i believe that's what i takes. iran is aggressive. we need a broad coalition to push back. >> you can do that with countries away from the e.u. >> you can make progress. it would be better if we were on the same team. >> congressman good to see you this morning. thank you so much. that will do it for us. see you tomorrow morning on the fox business network on mornings with maria. it's just a burst pipe, i could fix it. (laugh) no. with claim rateguard your rates won't go up just beacuase of a claim. i totally could've... (wife) nope! switching to allstate is worth it. that skills like teamwork, attention to detail, and customer service are critical to business success. the kind of skills, that work for you. .. termites, feasting on homes 24/7. we're on the move. roger. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. termites never stop trying to get in, we never stop working to keep them o

brecht's it is looming over the negotiations this time britain's departure from the e.u. will leave a gaping hole in the accounts of about ten billion euros a year how should this whole be filled should the budget be reduced as the austrian swedes and dutch suggest or a cuts to costly areas such as agriculture on the cards. or policies disproportion it's far too large a share of you spending and it doesn't deliver on the kit with the courts at the end of the day this is a very small part of the population and it receives essentially forty percent of e.u. spending i mean this is such an. even distribution the european commission wants more money to go into the pot and is reportedly proposing an increase from one to one point one percent of the blocks gross domestic product that money could go into defense migration and research one suggestion is an e.u. why digital tax on us tech giants but that's not without complications all of a sudden there would be. rio tex capacity which means also some power transfer to brussels and it could have that the majority in the council is not r