and basically i think position on germany in central eastern europe is more. balance than it was before even a writer except a german many of these leaders would rather accept a german conservative candidate at the top job by the european commission then a socialist dutch person because there was a perception that. even 10 years 15 years off the source 15 years out of your lodge when some countries regardless of they do at home are treated as a 2nd clause or as barely admitted and all accepted and many divisive issues and there are many in the e.u. they won't they were pinioned to be included into policymaking and they feel there is a feeling not only on behalf of these controversial government in poland hungary there's a problem with rule of law by others that. will include their view their views and interest and preferences more than for instance france demands what. you said in your opening statement that that there is a discrepancy between different countries that's reflected in this deal interesting lee enough our report reflected the discrepancy in the w

positional germany in central eastern europe is more. balance than it was before i mean they are rather accept a german of manyy of these leaders would rather accept german conservative candidate. at the top job at european commission then a socialist the dutch person because there was. a perception that. even ten years fifteen years after of four fifteen years after r the lodgement some countries regardless of they do at home are treated as a second class of or s.. barely admitted and accepted. and on many divisive issues and there are many in the u. they want their opinion to be. included into the policy making and they fit therere is a feelig not only on behalf of these controversial government in poland hungary that have problem with with a floor. by the by others that russia fly then. we'll include their view at their views and interests and preferences more than for instance france in a month. tom the event you said in your opening statement that. that -- there is a discrepancy between different countries -- that's reflected in the

i just got back from eastern and central europe. my first trip that involved bilateral meetings with foreign governments was a trip to eastern and central europe. for every country i visited, i relied heavily on adl's work product. in fact, the briefings i received from adl were a key part of my preparation, in addition to all of our government resources, a key part of my preparation going to those countries and having specific strategies and specific asks for ways we can improve upon the situation in those countries. and so i cannot thank you enough. your work product and your impact was felt literally in the last few weeks. before those visits to those countries in central and eastern europe, i want to tell you what else i did. four weeks ago, 4 1/2 weeks ago, i had the great privilege to participate in the first ever official united states government delegation to march of the living. 6 -- [ applause ] >> that's right. 6 united states ambassadors. our ambassadors to poland, israel, germany, the vatican, switzerland, spain, and i,

means i would also the that central and eastern europe as well as italy should be on board. in this both. thank you very much this country has the press conference i think you. are right barbara vessel for us there in brussels barbara we've just been watching donald tusk that you council president speaking there talking about this package nominees they now have formally nominated for the top jobs across the bloc of. the biggest name there was a funded line being nominated as the next commission president barbara let's talk a little bit about what we heard donald say you know he was speaking very carefully even said i want to be very delicate in talking about these choices what did you take away from that. you're talking about of course the next president of the european parliament i mean he knows that parliament would just be jumping up and down screaming if you would sort of even give the slightest hint of frisk riving and name to them so what the european council the heads of state and government here talk about is just suggestions people they could imagine to sort of carr

farmers in scotland the fear of the loss of seasonal workers from eastern europe. also on the show and in his bid to save the komodo dragon by keeping tourists away from where they live. i'm going on in berlin welcome 160000 people in britain have now taken a decision that will reverberate across europe the conservative party has announced the winner of its leadership ballot and with that it's chosen britain's next prime minister boris johnson a figure who selection could herald the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. without any agreement on future relations with its most important trading partner business leaders have vigorously urged to johnson to avoid this but the tumble since the phrase that vote and nearly 3 years ago has already caused damage boris johnson insists he will take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the 31st of october although it would face massive resistance from parliament he says he is ready to leave even without a formal agreement to regulate relations but the latest economic reports suggest deal or no deal leaving the e.u. is unlikely to benefit brita

in scotland fear that it might soon be without seasonal workers from eastern europe. this is business as in berlin welcomed 160000 people in britain have now taken a decision that will reverberate across europe around lunchtime the conservative party will announce the winner off its leadership ballot the chosen one will also become britain's next prime minister odds on favorite is boris johnson and that means no deal breaks it the u.k. out of the e.u. without any agreement on future relations with its most important trading partner will be much more likely than before that while the bridge think time says there's a high likelihood the united kingdom as already entered a recession. a one in 4 chance the u.k. economy is already in recession pending the release of the latest quarterly growth figures has severe downturn in the event of a messy no deal breakfast and sluggish growth in the best case scenario these are the key findings of a report by the u.k.'s national institute of economic and social research about the impact of breakfast. it follows a similar outlook in a

some countries will be doing doing scenery well there's less so also for eastern europe specifically we do point to. the region as a whole cities and increase in the number of new infections. a subset of that region leaving o. the big country of the region actually sees a slight decrease in in your facts and so much of that has to do with policies that are have been shown to reduce new infections and for the specific region of eastern europe and central asia own an important driver in that region of hiv transmission is transmission among people inject drugs so some of the policies that relate to harm reduction for those for pollution it's have been shown to be a factor in reducing your infections and so there is an issue off adoption of those of policies and so let it all go for honesty's mistake is what exactly should be the focus of those policies. so the policies of course are quite varied according to what are the dominant trans mission modes so as it relates to were people inject drugs important policies will relate to making available. needles and syringes. clean or sterilized

years which is per month i think that it would also create more differentiation within forces eastern europe between the eurozone member states mostly small countries the baltics slovakia's lavinia and the rest of eastern europe which is less integrated economically and. financially we do you and this is where i think the french president michel wants to move the e.u. and germany was as if they think so that they are not true with eastern europeans by you know celebrating this package. whether they know what they what they will get you know their. head i'm going to stop you right there because i want to bring in a very brief report to look at the pressing challenges that in fact europe is facing it's very clear that we need strong leadership in europe. forward to to deal with challenges that actually demand multilateral solutions. the 1st test will be briggs it. britain is currently set to leave the european union at the end of october the new prime minister whether boris johnson or germany hunt will call them brussels to renegotiate. the question is how britain and the other $27.00 states o

race heats up for the next managing director of the imf, the fund hosts an event on central and eastern europe. i'll be speaking shortly to the the deputy managing director of the fund >>> well good morning, and happy monday i want to take you to some of the price market action that we've had over the last couple of hours or so on friday we had wall street close at record highs, but the news of the last 24 hours has been dominated by the gdp number that came out of china 6.2% is the figure while some people are pointing to the fact that the gdp trend is the weakest in seven years, one it's in line with expectations and fixed asset investment stronger than expectations, even retail sales for the month of june in china came in at 9.8% versus 8.3% expectations some of the details were a little stronger, and we'll be discussing that later on in the show the picture for europe is a little more subdued. stoc sto let's switch and talk about sectors. we do have multiple corporate stories we're focused on today and we're just talking about some of them i particularly want to flag that autos finally are

the european council and we talked about that in the interview which is divided between mainly eastern europe and western europe on some of those central questions because you have those right wing populist governments for example in hungary also in poland but nahla also in italy that will be very difficult and without the council. can't really do anything and then of course she needs a majority in the european parliament which has become harder than ever because it's more fragmented than ever and the social democrats already announced today they will be very vigilant to make sure that she keeps all those promises she made in her speech and also the letter she wrote to the social democrats at the beginning of the week so even if she's happy now it will be really really tough to get everything required. to pass legislation in the next 5 years all right marc saltzman for us in strasburg thank you for that reporting. what was left on the line has now a step down from her role as germany's defense minister and she will be succeeded by and i got to come come in power both women attended an officia

it's somewhat busier at the barber shop though employees as well as customers are from eastern europe migrants from the e.u. are needed everywhere they say. no only the father. did this fish for 30 years for this chicken fight but instead of fear that fish far through this is both really easy job as well and also we all know fish smells it's not easy job but also some original politicians have a different view though you are correct that supporters would rather send unemployed scots to work in the fields. to do more jobs when i was a boy. i walked on the farms. what i was cruel you had no holidays. we when i. got where the fault of people coming across to the gas chamber gushed out by that coming across this is actually made. you know there will people put up lot of the opportunity. locals however wouldn't want to live in these containers on the farm and be woken at 5 am to start picking says dimitri alongside other seasonal workers dimitri earns the minimum wage often for 10 to 12 hours a day when they thought we had some grace yeah that the game they would do it if they said. they l

institute in hungary made the whole list of right wing extremists the police the sions in the eastern europe who have very close ties to russia and to the and and to particularly in the context of war were you know crane's so this is context of. pro russian isn't of this party we just kind of historically paradoxical because they are the young nazis i mean they are very much referring to the nazi nazi rhetorics but the connection with russia i think seems to be also something which is very similar in many contexts and the last thing he said what already has been mentioned here they kind of mainstreaming of their ideas into the mainstream right wing parties because for example in poland the right wing extremist parties are losing popularity they're not gaining support significantly but what has really changed is that much of their a genda. can be now seen in the mainstream the same is true about hungary when it's no longer you'll be which is proposing that the extremist right wing views but rather the central right wing foetuses taking their.

coming very very close to the mainstream politics and also in many countries for example in in eastern europe they are closely connected to football hooliganism and football stadiums are places where much of this will be least nation of radicalised far right happens. now the authorities have been tracking many of these far right movements across europe and there has always been this concern that it could spill over into real violence is this evidence of that with the seizure of these weapons or is this is this just an exception is this the one off do you think. so i don't feel a. thing not just a question but never come to. space for example. the global terrorism and the number of attacks has increased for example in the 13 years prior to 24 that were trying attacks but 3 years prior to. 61 attacks that required the u.k. tunnel program has recorded an increase of 300 percent of referrals to white nationalists since 2012 as compared to 20 percent increase in jihadism cases so this is an evolving terror threat. is gone except. interesting if you centralise networks and then for talking about a

strawberry plantations over don't get to see this side of scotland almost all of them came here from eastern europe. here in around 300 euros a week here. that equals a month's wages in romania and bulgaria. well they were forced. out of what it is and dimitri ion has been spending the summer months in scotland for 7 years now as a name you citizen he never had problems entering the country that brags it could mean the end of freedom of movement. breaks it also has a worrying effect on scottish farmers. the politicians in london neglect and abandon a says angus porter who runs the farm he employs 140 seasonal workers not one of them is british. he struggles to find enough local workers in rural scotland. the future worries him. we've built up an industry entirely based on people coming from the e.u. and without them. well it would be very very difficult i mean i don't. i don't know how you can begin to do our work but also some regional politicians have a different view though brags that supporters would rather send unemployed scots to work in the fields. to do more jobs when i was a boy. i worked

we cannot go straight to mari marie in a professor of politics of eastern europe at italy's university and gen welcome to the program now condi and putin referred to the huge bilateral financial loss from sanctions how much more must the e.u. before it changes that. well they're difficult to say that there will be any kind of change and to tell the truth it's not the 1st time that it is spatially under a. premiership a traitor to say in the european context that it was needed to have such kind of sanctions there yellow green government recently showed explicitly that there would be there would need at sheen change in policies against russia at the moment or we have to also consider that the italian government is very and strongly is related in the european context so it would be difficult to support such a trip such a russian name of course so when it comes to their isolation is there anything it really can do to change brussels mind or sanctions or anything else for that matter what show how it important how important is economic and not only cultural and political relations with russ

get a majority and also you could say with a divided council because you have a rift between eastern europe and the other european countries for example on migration how will you handle this i think we absolutely have to overcome the division of east and west between east and west i know that people in the east on country central european countries often think they are not accepted as they should be and as i've been working as a defense minister very much in those countries i have a lot of friends and they trust me so i know how to work together that we can improve the relationship and there is a division between north and south has to do with questions of competitiveness and flexibility and we have to solve that too why that because europe has to be united there many many big questions we have to tackle and europe has to play a role and we only can do that when we are united ok so what are you doing over the summer. i'll spend it in process of getting my cabinet there the commissioners on board and to work on my work programme that i have to lay down and lay out in october with. president

the people who wanted to come or fromy catholics, jews eastern europe and southern europe, italy, greece, poland, russia. but there were severe restrictions on those people because there were not a great the 1890hem wanted in election. -- counted in the 1890 election. this attitude led to many injustices. the best known was the execution intwo italian anarchists 1927 for a crime they did not commit. -- when ithe cases of say they were anarchists, these were mild anarchists. they were not bomb throwing anarchists. country. divided the do you execute these men were not? by the way, they did not commit the crime they were convicted of having done. it was the murders in south raintree, massachusetts of two people. passos wrote ahn novel in which he talked of the on theseof the country two people and their attempts to execute. they were executed. the night they were facing execution, all over the world, people at american embassies were protesting the killings by the government of these two people. the novelist wrote a poem to mark the event. he said "they have clubbed us off the streets they

institute in hungary made the whole list of right wing extremists the police the sions in the eastern europe who have very close ties to russia and to the and and to particularly in the context of war were you know crane's so this is context of. pro russian isn't of this party we just kind of historically paradoxical because they are the young nazis i mean they are very much referring to the nazi nazi rhetorics but the connection with russia i think seems to be also something which is very similar in many contexts and the last thing he said what already has been mentioned here they kind of mainstreaming of their ideas into the mainstream right wing parties because for example in poland the right wing extremist parties are losing popularity they're not gaining support significantly but what has really changed is that much of their a genda. can be now seen in the mainstream the same is true about hungary when it's no longer you'll be which is proposing that the extremist right wing views but rather the central right wing foetuses taking their their ideas so i would say. that their impact on po

the people who wanted to come were mostly catholics, jews from eastern europe and southern europe, from italy, from greece, from poland, from russia. but there were severe restrictions on those people because there were not a great many of them counted in the 1890 election. this attitude towards immigrants led to many injustices. and the best-known one was the execution of two italian anarchists in 1927 for a crime they did not commit. thethese are the cases of two men. when i say they were anarchists, these were mild anarchists. they were not bomb throwing anarchists. and it really divided the country. do you execute these men or not? and by the way, they did not commit the crime that they were convicted of having done. and it was the murders in south braintree, massachusetts of two people. the novelist john passos wrote a novel in which he talked of the division of the country on these two people and the attempts to execute them, and they were executed. the night they were facing execution, all over the world, people at american embassies were protesting the killings by the government

welcome back to international weather forecasts well here across parts of northern and north eastern europe it is still the winds we are talking about as well as the cooler air that has moved in and we're talking about temperatures that are into the high teens if you remember just at the beginning of last week in the week before we were talking about a heat wave across much of this area rainy showers across much of the region as well we're going to be seeing warsaw with rain in your forecast at 17 degrees there and berlin at 19 now if you want to know the warmer weather you have to go down south of this boundary right here this is a stationary boundary we have a lot of active weather and thunderstorms on this front so for italy southern portions of france across much of the balkan peninsula as well so for athens 34 degrees here on tuesday and as we go towards wednesday we're going to be seeing much of the same stormy weather continues though across much of north eastern europe and north western russia moscow you can be seeing a lot of rain and winds as well attempt to them of about 20 here

started in 2007 in kenya and is available and other african countries in india and in parts of eastern europe. the account is linked to a mobile phone number users can pay bills or transfer money by text message a large network of employees agents allows for the digital wallets to be topped up one of the interesting things about electronic quality is that in places where the banking system is less developed the least developed you find the higher levels of comfort with using digital well that's simply because people will grasp on to any alternative that works by going the own bank has come to facebook's attention to the plan to its caliber is supposed to be integrated into facebook messenger what's up users could then do world wide payments and facebook's own currency libra the project has raised international criticism but facebook's entrance onto the strongly regulated financial market should give mobile payments another boost i think most likely in the next 5 years we will see big movements towards global while it's capabilities because of players like we chat and facebook and others with

s russian and eastern europe service it's going to have you on the show we've been trying to find out what the condition is right now of mr and whether or not it's safe for him to be back in prison i mean what do we know tonight. well as far as we know he's back in prison so he was released from hospital and he himself wrote the lone explanation to his supporters on the internet on his blog he describes how fell ill in the night from saturday on sunday and that he was brought to the hospital he never felt allergy and this is something which which everybody is startled by so as a person who is. so who has never had such symptoms before suddenly feels sick son his face was red was itching and with those symptoms he was brought to the hospital here you know says i do not believe that the policeman in the detention facility could have poisoned him but he says maybe someone more was in my detention so during the time that i was out so he leaves that question open but as far as i understand at the moment his condition is stable and he's safe. we know that of all the he's in prison right now

belgium other parts of northern france as well $37.00 in london is close to record as well as a say eastern europe isn't bright reds and the west is so i'm sure be talking more about this. is far and the wind is a little bit lighter in the g. and the still on the coast of libya and egypt. it's my privilege to name al-jazeera english the broadcaster of the year the cartels are fighting each other and we've been told that we can't kill you. this is the largest demonstration that's been they held their refugees since over 700 dollars to live near some of the emergency rooms and some of you want to thank the good people of the. 08. recipients of the new crystal coaster of the year. hello again you're watching out is there and here's a reminder for top stories this hour boris johnson is set to become the next prime minister of the united kingdom in the coming hours jobs and has pledged to take the u.k. out of the e.u. by the end of october. iran's deputy foreign minister says tehran will secure the straits of hormuz and not allow any disturbance to the shipping where iran sees the u.k. flag the oil tan