they admire her that they are very impressed by her life her career the fact that she grew up in east europe and that she became chancellor of the united germany so they're looking forward to this speech expecting to be given some advise guidance how to become a great leader how to cope with the problem so how to cope with difficult times that are certainly that they are certainly going to face so they are looking forward to this speech and we will see if she really going to be nuts political at all we certainly can expect her to address some issues with regards to the transatlantic relationship that seems to be in the deep crisis in very critical condition right now with donald trump in the white house you ask president who is constantly attacking germany and chancellor merkel and accusing germany of taking advantage of the united states and calling a so and so planning relations i do want to ask you about the background of harvard asking or inviting the chance or to give this address she was invited 5 months ago could this have been a political gesture by the university. well we have to sa

i'm off to hungary in south east europe that has been a member of the e.u. since 2004. it's both cosmopolitan and inward looking. the mood is volatile but nobody really wanted to talk about it with me. i'm not going to talk about the politics well i don't really like to talk about politics because it's not and i thought that here. hungary is also facing a serious brain drain young people are keen to leave disheartened and unwilling to endure the political situation and corruption. in the both of our problems and the current government but i think. while some hunger ariens tried to get out people from outside the european union are keen to come in to find work and have a better life. i have to. actually i try to motivate myself every day. i have a dream legacy the things that i want to achieve. getting i think that's why i'm here. to i just want to regular life for someone i don't want india. in general every 2019 down here cause my bid farewell to his home country serbia and headed straight for the e.u. he felt he had no choice but all he wanted was to earn more than 25

this london derby away to the east in europe, about as far east as you can go before you venture outsidey controversies about where this vinyl is. the fans very disappointed not just with that money they have had to shell out to follow their teams, but the difficulty in getting here. somejust said it but the difficulty in getting here. some just said it was not worth it at all. we will see who is going to lift that europa league trophy in the next couple of hours. a very late kick—off year in the capital of azerbaijan. we are approaching, it will be 11 o'clock, local time. what a journey for some of these fans and the teams also. plenty is riding on the europa league finalfor arsenal plenty is riding on the europa league final for arsenal and chelsea. it is notjust a first european trophy for a quarter of a century that the gunners are chasing in azerbaijan, but a place in the champions league. that is because of their 1—1 draw against brighton on their 1—1 draw against brighton on the 5th of may, that went out of their hands. arsenal has to be in their hands. arsenal has to be in the ch

inside are numerous stores offering import goods from southeast asia, the middle east and europe.ort shops from europe are of an especially large scale with a choice location. merchandise is brought in via railway from the one road, one belt initiative launched in 2014. the total import value in yiwu has since risen by 10%. one newly opened store in the fifth district sells goods imported from india. its wares include incense and clothing. the location of the shop is not the most ideal, but the owner has long been importing goods on his own using surface mail. >> import business is very promising. yesterday, i met -- i w was invited to go to the foreign affairs depepartment in yiwu. they told me that we are very proud to have a man like you in yiwu. and we want you to have a bigigr place and import more products from india. so they want somebody foreigner who are importing and doing business here. >> these import shops have been increasing. the number of shops run by african merchants has surged with the market already home to stores from over 30 african nations. china has been im

a road so it's not about europe and china in china there is a road in the me and there is there are also opportunities in the eurasia. going east of europe. all central asia to do really need the infrastructure let's not forget the. ages so there's a lot to do and those they are do need for a stretch of china one still in a way expand of course it's a business opportunities and they have some capacity. they want to use abroad we call it exporting over the capacity it may be a bad word to use it but there's nothing wrong with it to produce like any country to obviously want to export to the product. as you said at the beginning non-binding so if anything. from a economic. something we can at any time stop it because as we. have to leave it there thank you very much for joining us ok thank you. the united states says it will postpone a key decision on whether to raise import tariffs on foreign cars it be the most damaging move yet for germany and its all important concept or in the president's trade war the 6 month delay is a relief for automakers both here in europe and japan who feed a 25 percent tax. at both japan and the e.u.

let's not forget the silk road the road it's not about europe and china china there's a road in the me and there is a there are also. your asia. going east of europe. all central asia the to do really need infrastructure let's not forget that this is also southeast asia so there's a lot to do and those are do need to china wants to you know way expand of course it's a business opportunities they have some capacity. they want to use abroad we call it exporting over the capacity it may be a bad word to use it but there's nothing wrong with it to produce like any country they obviously want to exported their products. as you said at the beginning non-binding so if anything if the silk road to turn so from a economic. something we can at any time stop it because we have. to leave it there thank you very much for joining us ok thank you. and just briefly the united states. key decision on whether to raise import tariffs on foreign cars to be the most damaging move yet for germany and its all important in the president's trade wall the 6 month delay is a relief for automakers in europe and japan who fit a 25 percent tax on trump as tangled new

deal europe has taken a series of actions to counter iranian aggression not only in europe but also in the middle east jeremy hunt the u.k. foreign minister it warned specifically warned the us might that they might get something they didn't ask for if they continue with the troop buildup in the region for example obviously europe has a stake in a very peaceful and stable middle east iran has been threatening to conduct attacks so we have put in place defensive measures we are not looking for a war if there is any kinetic action that is going to be started by the iranian regime and that's the message that secretary conveyed yesterday what did you agree on monday your secretary of state and the european foreign ministers are you going to go it together the next months and if yes how well look yesterday you had a norwegian oil tanker that was attacked. and so we also had 2 saudi oil tankers and an m.r.i. of the tanker and so so far we're not sure exactly the cause of that but we did have 4 explosions just a couple of days ago in the gulf and this is very concerning that should be concerning to europe wh

counting on europe in the region also militarily well of course we count on europe europe is a big stakeholder in the middle east also militarily well europe has military assets in europe and in the middle east and so they're a stakeholder it's in their interests in our interests that we have a peaceful and stable middle east the probably have now is that it's hard to imagine a peaceful middle east without a peaceful iran so we are asking iran to behave more like a normal nation and less like a revolutionary cause thank you very much ok. well if you use whatsapp and have it on your smartphone you should listen up what's app says it has discovered a vulnerability that allows remote spyware to be installed on mobile devices a british newspaper reporting that the rogue software was developed by the israeli security firm n.s.o. group whatsapp says the attack may have targeted individuals working for human rights organisations it is urging its 1500000000 users to install the latest update as a precaution. talk about that i'm joined here by my colleague publisher ok so tell me about this until we how is what's being i

however as ago from monday to tuesday, the pressure pushes further east into europe, high pressure comingit brings changes on tuesday for a start it's cold there for the western side of uk, we also see fewer showers with more places dry likely to catch a few showers on eastern private england that the low cloud moves are short with wet weather in the north of scotland. warm with sunshine on southern private england and wales, 21 degrees. in the atlantic a low pressure does not arrive on our shores it pushes the way up front that living well away from it that central low—pressure east france are pretty wea k. central low—pressure east france are pretty weak. chilly start on wednesday, if you showers are around wednesday, if you showers are around wednesday with most places chai, mark cried coming from southwest across wells that northern ireland with a few spots of rain and still rain in north scotland but warm and sunshine in the southeast of england. whether friend on sunshine in the southeast of england. whetherfriend on the scene, not moving very far, at one stage it looks like thursda

hubs of east asia and europe by russian waters that of course means that for instance china is much less. at risk of a u.s. interdiction of u.s. sanctions regime than it would be if its trade all went through areas where the u.s. navy is predominant now it may seem to us and i hope that is the case it's highly unlikely that could be a chinese u.s. conflict but if you are a planner in the pentagon or if you are planning the chinese military you look at the vulnerability of this fast engine of your world trade china to its fact that its exports and imports come see through the indian ocean through the great pacific area where the united states is so strong and you say china to some extent is very vulnerable this could change of course as they if there's a new route across the north of asia far russian water is that why you think mark might bump a also took a swipe essentially at china claiming beijing could be masking it increased military presence in in the arctic. well you would remember that the united states has a sense pioneered the development of a vast network of military presence i

and centraln east europe, the main issue for you is your security. if you're somebody from the south is struggling with unemployment, you want to see better innovation growth. if you are somebody with a border that is threatened, you need to see action on migration. it depends where you sit. seriously, ifake has theon of europe feeling that they are not being taken to account, they will say this is not for me. thatve to take seriously this is not one central issue. depending on where you are, you have big issues that have to be taken seriously. erik: we are out of time. one quick final question. if there are one or two issues that you are really watching carefully in the next six months when it comes to the impact of these elections, shaping the future direction of europe, what are you looking at? antoine: if there is one thing that is important, it is that for the first time in 40 years, there is participation. there must be a signal from thisels and the eu that motivation has been taken into account. present, youu were voted more, we take that into

outside the strait of hormuz a key passageway that is used to transport oil from the middle east to asia europeand the united states the assault comes at a time of tension in the region with saudi arabia and the united arab emirates firmly backing u.s. sanctions against fellow oil producer and rival iran. pakistan has reached an agreement for a $6000000000.00 bailout package with the international monetary fund the cash will be paid out over a period of 3 years and will require the country to reform its public finances and slash public debt but will it be enough to tackle the country's economic crisis. pakistan is no stranger to cash injections from the i.m.f. the latest bailout will be the 13th it's received since the $1980.00 s. the country's finance minister says he hopes it will be the last but that will depend on the government's ability to tackle some pretty major economic problems like inflation which rose to 8.8 percent last month soaring government debt currently at well over 70 percent of g.d.p. and projections for a slowdown in growth from over 5 percent in 2018 to just 2.9 percent t

germany's most prized to export the car is in for some competition the east has taken europe by storm now it's up to the continent's biggest economy to decide if the scooters are a hazard or hero. boeing has an update for the software that may have caused the deadly max 8 crashes but the passenger jet remains on the ground. and how the easter sunday attacks have devastated sri lanka's prized tourism industry. and painful let's do business it's a clash of lobby groups environmentalist's against the all powerful car giants germany is said to decide if he should be allowed on the streets the commuter kids most have invaded pavements across europe pedestrians want protection many motorists see them as a has it. their compact and they run on electricity the scooters could be coming to german streets and these 2 women are test drivers sophia and selena both from bombay are. neither of them britain and east scooter before now a representative from the public utilities company gives them a crash course in how it works and they're both excited to hit the street on the new form of transport. in

honey or a pink himalayan salt or gun nuts and spices and we would exported them to the middle east and europe so i was one of those who at some point help them set up some of the business up about this and that enabled me to come and go out of afghanistan more frequently and that was my cover story of the time syllogistic logistics wise are these terror groups efficient at providing supplies information aid exciter and or are they chaotic and i'm disciplined yes and no. no you really hit it on the nail here when you say that they are both disciplined and chaotic jihadism is a concern and the life within in a jihad is groups in who gives you the impression that they are really disciplined and organized but the same time there is an element of chaos. and disorganization and you see it. in a walk working in parallel with each other you see that contradiction in a could this thing so yes sometimes basically you think that it's all going smooth and sometimes no it's a no. totally chaotic it depends on who is in charge at the particular place in a particular time so have you seen how the operations

nationalists and globalists and that's what dominates our political life well if we look to the east of europe to countries like poland and hungary we saw all the governing bodies there winning big again showing support in those countries that have been given perhaps an anti european message in these elections and the last year but moving to central europe now in austria we saw what huge gains for the governing party over the past teams doing incredibly well taking more than 30 percent of the vote and that comes just a week after his government was hit by a scandal and is said to be facing a vote of no confidence later on in the austrian parliament but sebastian kurtz said that he was pleased overwhelmed by this vote and again it shows that despite the scandal public showing their support in the chancellor. i'm usually not to the last 4 words but i'm almost speechless we expected a lot we were optimistic but this is a fantastic result this is never happened before we achieve the best results of all time with the biggest distance from 2nd time it is simply a man believed to be a big significant

east. we should also note that the rift of u.s. and with the u.s. and europe resulted in russia becoming much more developing relations with china and trying to accelerate its turn to the east or pivot to asia. russia and china relations have been the key dimension of this. other developments we have seen, aty mostly make us look russia and china relations. majorwas seen as the safeguard against the damage that was done by the western sanctions as the key partner that did not criticize russia and the key partner was also opposite the opposition to sanctions. since that time, we have seen relations comprehensively have actually entered a new stage. this is already an understandable fact. relations still are mostly focused on political insecurity. we have personal ties between the two leaders, and president that met xie leader jinping, much more times than any other leader in the world. again this is a good personal effort between the leaders. we have seen institutionalized cooperation, on intergovernmental level between the nations. that weecome a practice have

ambitious infrastructure project aims to boost economic integration across asia, the middle east, africa, and europeive transport network, more than 130 inch countries have signed up so far, including the likes of italy. some commentators have raised concerns that it could be away for the well‘s they economy to expand the reach of its military power. i asked jerry madero from a financial data company whether those fears are well—founded. financial data company whether those fears are well-founded. think its primary core it is a business for prosperity, for building trade and infrastructure. the asia development bank is already quoted at $1.5 trillion worth of infrastructure funding, it is a gapjust in asia. this is a real demand to build prosperity across the region. there is already an incredible amount of international interest in putting real money to work. let us look at the risk rewards for of these asian economies that have participated in this belt and road initiative. what are the risks was gelai was lucky enough to be of the belt and road forum hosted by president xi in beijing. one of the

iran threatened to stem the flow of drugs from middle east to europe and they threatened us with actione middle east. they have proxy melissas who targeted our people. our measure of deterrence to send the uss abraham lincoln and b-52 bombers, if we are attacked by iranian proxies or iran itself we will respond. >> david miller, and has been on air many times. when it comes to iran, jerusalem and riyadh are hardly objective observers. the us war with iran, consistently advocated hard-line us policy, that is why the us should reject their advice, not follow israeli and saudi policies that raise risks of war with iran since their interest don't always align with our own. what do you think of that analysis? >> unhelpful. they are both our allies. we have extraordinarily close partnerships with both of those countries including intelligence exchanges that saved the lives of thousands of americans. i'm not sure i see the value of that but this is policy, let's be clear, this is the trump administration policy, maximum economic pressure on iran causing them a lot of economic pain and it is wh

to international weather forecast out here across europe we're watching 2 particular places that are causing a lot of weather over here towards the east as well as across here in central europe but here in turkey the storms have been quite severe over the last couple of days and unfortunate they are going to continue as we begin the week with very heavy rain across northern parts of turkey as well as into north eastern turkey up towards the north though we are looking at a lot of rain there as well crossing over towards parts of western russia but here across central europe that is where the biggest problem is going to be as we begin the week this area of low pressure really begins to organize and heavy rains can be seen all the way up here towards parts of poland all the way down across parts of italy as well temperatures not too bad with berlin seeing about $25.00 degrees but a little bit cooler out here towards the west with zurich a rainy day for you at 14 degrees well here across the northern part of africa we're seeing quite a few clouds not a lot of rain within those clouds though temperatures hover into the low twenty's for mo

do make lower-cost phones and these are really well-received in parts of africa, the middle east, eastern europedia and other parts of asia and the huawei brand is extremely strong outside of the u.s. even though they are banned in the u.s., there are ways to purchase these phones like on amazon and other non-name retailers. the apart that people are really concerned about with chinese astronauts related to huawei is the telecommunications equipment. that equipment allows you to make phone calls. it is not exactly the handsets themselves but it is all the same brand so that is why you are seeing the impact. wo big parts of the company. if you could predict in two years, who are the top three and in what order? i'm going to hold you to it. itk: please don't hold me to but i would go with huawei, one, , and apple three. going coming up, we work public. how they got so big, so fast, next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this is bloomberg technology. i'm emily chang in san francisco. the world's biggest coal working company wework, owned by the we company, a slew of startups coming to the public market.

iran threatened to halt collaboration with europe to stem the flow of drugs and migrants from the middle eastthreatened us with kinetic action in the middle east, and they've done this before. remember, they try to assassinate the saudi ambassador here in the united states. they have proxy militias all over the middle east will have targeted our people. so it's iran who threatened us, and our measure of deterrence, which was to send the uss abraham lincoln and b-52 bombers and make it very clear statement that if we are attacked weather by iranian proxies or iran itself, we will respond. that's deterrence, and that's how we prevent an iranian miscalculation. >> shannon: i want to read a cnn opinion piece, david miller and richard sapolsky. and aaron david miller has been on our air many times. he writes this and says when it comes to iran, jerusalem and riyadh are hardly objective observers. while both will be at risk in a war, u.s. war with iran, if consistently hard-line u.s. policies. that's precisely why the u.s. should reject their advice. we should not follow israeli and saudi policies

andrew critchlow is head of energy news for europe, middle east and africa at s&p global platts.they can keep exporting oil, can they? there are certain avenues where a cancer pile out of the country, certainly they can turn off transponders on tankers and there has been some recording of that happening and we expect to see more of that in the future. there are certain ways that they can set oil into storage, of course, not all the customers of iranians oil are going to comply was to will be some slippage in terms of compliance to sanctions. expect the adherence to this to be pretty tight, if you look back at last. of sanctions, the actions that were taken by the us government against corporate and the batting —— banking sector are pretty strong deterrent. the outlook if we look at the oil market avoid focus ona look at the oil market avoid focus on a run specifically? prices are going upa on a run specifically? prices are going up a lot ahead of this deadline as it were. they've come offa deadline as it were. they've come off a little bit. what is your take on that and the insur

the honor has long been a bridge between europe's east and west. decades after the cold war it's still a playground for foreign agents who employ methods like the one that helped topple austria's freedom party. political scientist and hunch accost off is also based in vienna he's an expert on the influence moscow exerts on europe's far right far right organizations and parts is. some of the few. political forces in europe that are still ready to cooperate with the kremlin the kremlin needs. in the west. in 2017 russian president vladimir putin attended the wedding of austria's foreign minister a member of the freedom party. and its you tube channel the freedom party celebrates its close ties to putin's united russia party. in. the after party leadership for bridge builders and peacemakers in moscow. in 2016 then head of the freedom party heinz christian structure signed a cooperation pact with the united russia party despite the rift between russia and the e.u. i think about 2000 foot seeing all the developments in 2014 especially the train they mo

it's a great time to just get on out there i know it's early but you know by 5 o'clock most of europe. easteeways and south a freeway is going to filling in quickly so you can beat the rush, especially heading ihto san francisco because here we are winds at 4.48 46 i can see site for 48. we are to have a backup here at the toll plaza so keep that in mind 9 minutes from the bottom of the basij fremont street just get on out there. one across the golden gate doing fine i no problems into or out of san francisco 22 minutes, nevada to the tolls get on over to the richmond center fell while it's still a free 7 minutes and no road work from the tolls out to one on one and traffic tracker showing great numbers for 6 8024 the shore and 8.80 right on time and 8 minutes from san jose to milpitas. fire commission is calling on lawmakers to make changes to how california handles wildfire costs and recovery. so lawmakers are now reviewing the just-released report to come up with legislation to address how the state handles cost recovery a liability from these devastating wildfires. now one of the wildfi

office and as you say i don't see any threat for us from the west for the troops withdrew from east to the europe peacefully they were dismantling their own them by it. was the end of the cold war years of isolation and separation from the west were at and then the berlin wall fell to jubilation in the west. boris yeltsin russia's 1st elected leader transformed the country from the one party soviet system to multi-party democracy. so what went wrong. way the west treated russia would play a powerful role in the course the country would follow my good friend alexander bono expert at the carnegie moscow center has been considering these issues for a long time. or i'm glad that all men are the one in on their i gin steve. stockton come behind of walsh that option which. is going yeah because of dollars at last you see gosh. this one nurse says. anything near city or similar simply things that doesn't your mails that are sending you mostly just. in of the jungle started. just to prove which. nor is it always that i mean. at the even though. sources james much company grow. sinusitis callable. what my

we look at the east coast. europe. and trains like this exist. >> yeah.'re right on the money in terms of the controversy. look, most of the answer has to do with one big word, funding, dollars. california voters passed a $10 billion bond in 2008 with the understanding that the cost of the high-speed rail program would be about $40 billion. over time, the cost has grown to $77 billion for a slimmed down version of the original project. and that project would take even longer to build. so change conditions left critics with a sense that the voters had been duped. >> so why has the cost basically doubled? >> you know, with a project like this, a massive project like this, there's no easy answer. but we do know this. the cost of materials. think of cement, steel, those kinds of things so vital to this project. they have escalated. lawsuits, oh, so many over the acquisition of land have been costly both in time and dollars. so these kinds of escalations, they're not new. even if they're painful, they're not new. look, by the time that the oakland bay bridge n

but as we journey towards the south—east of europe, we get this dip in thejet stream and south—east ofnt. —— balkans and greece. there are warnings for flash flooding there.” think the wind is actually quite chilly. it is along the north sea coast at the moment, through the english channel, it's all to do with where the high—pressure sitting. and more of us will notice that when picking up for the rest of the week. let's look at the forecast and how it develops as the week goes on, if you want rain in the garden there is a bit of help coming up for you. this is this afternoon, high early 20s, and some risk of high cloud and apart from that clear blue sky. into tonight, we will keep the clear skies, it may turn a little misty in one or two spots and as we noticed one or two spots and as we noticed on recent nights after the heat of the day, temperatures quite readily drop away, so some spots in east anglia and southern england, cougars colours where temperatures dipped into the low single figures, maybe even flirting with freezing. —— cooler colours. they high—pressure pulling a little

agenda europe should become and i think i'm quoting him here the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy in the world by two thousand and ten and the yardstick for basi us and east asia europe has failed resoundingly the euro is still hard. to do with the euro all along feudalism so yeah a little i will not argue of europe this is. a region of the world only japan is matching europe growth for the lower level at a high level it means you have a high level of stagnation but that wasn't the programme outlined in two thousand and i mean if what we've been listening for what we've been hearing from these young voters is that they are obviously discontented at the established policy of more state intervention of inflating away the costs of bank rescue rescues and of saving a current set that has failed these holidays. must have failed so that it isn't the only then the only one i read. yet i mean why we are. going to mobilize a sure no i mean i guess we can. rightly that's why we are not follow following the established policies of state intervention and keeping a currency union alive thanks if you notice how much we've got to lower taxes and same issue because some

networks particularly in the states also in the middle east and around europe as well. yes you're absolutely right and of course you know there are countries around the world peter particularly in africa particularly in southeast asia who are big customers of weiwei that are soon going to have to make a decision on what technology they use are they with the united states or are they with china now at the moment you know while way sells in about 150 or so countries around the world africa is a very very important market but there will be consumers in those areas who worry about what their why what will happen to their technology their while away hardware 3 months from now because that's when really the the ban that came into effect 2 months ago will start to take effect you know while away anticipated being put on this trade black list it's been stockpiling parts but very soon those parts are going to run out and the question is and it's a question actually that the company couldn't answer today is what happens if that ban becomes permanent and isn't lifted by the trumpe

parliament we do know that they don't intend to keep europe as it is they want to make it implode basically so we basically what's at stake on sunday east the fate of europe and your presidents will have a misnomer cohen said never before has europe been in such danger tell me a little bit more about his fears that well you know last week steve benen the former champ advice was in france to support my in the pen so we see all the populist parties across europe unite and what we see there is that there's a unity of those parties in the in the the will of wanting the does dismantle the dismantling of europe the thing is that they managed to show unity why any other party every other party shows division and that is a very dangerous method that has been a tendency in the past to sort of look or european elections as sort of a little bit boring the people of europe don't know who their politicians are though really don't vote vote very much as your imagination being fired up this time around have you viewing because it is improved a little bit entertaining perhaps the whole process. i mean different it has been a bit different and it's cert

this was different across the north and east of europe will be moving towards our choice to end the weeks across the south and east, that's the trend to end this be, the weather turns cooler and and with showers over the weekend. don't forget you can see a full weather for christ right here and halfan full weather for christ right here and half an hour. hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. the us state of alabama — passes a bill — that would outlaw nearly all abortions. it would become america's strictest abortion legislation ever passed — banning terminations, even in cases of rape or incest. we'll explain what could happen next. new zealand's prime minister heads up a summit in paris — aimed at curbing extremist content online after march's mosque attacks the united states orders all non—emergency personnel to leave iraq — as tensions rise between the us and iran. and we report from yemen as the un says houthi rebels have stuck to a deal to pull out of three ports — a lifeline for the war—torn nation. let's go back to our top story in alabama, the latest us state to push