strike is continuing in france over the government's proposed pension reforms french president emmanuel mack was due to publish and finalize the plans today hundreds of thousands of french workers have marched in opposition to the plans the past week. h.s.b.c. set to pay almost $200000000.00 euros in fines in the united states the bank's private banking unit confessed to helping u.s. citizens evade federal taxes for over a decade his b.c. is just one of numerous face banks slapped with large penalties over tax evasion charges and recently as. since taking power in 2018 ethiopian prime minister ahmed has implemented sweeping political reforms that have won him praise and the nobel peace prize which he collected on tuesday is the o.p.'s economy is also going from strength to strength but a lot remains to be done because foreign investors many attracted to ethiopia by the incredibly cheap wages companies say they aren't breaking the law and support efforts for a minimum living wage in the country but in the meantime despite setting up shiny new tech stuff factories they are profiting from very

> president trump not stopping there,ressing the tit-for-tat directly between french president emmanuel macknlnd turkey's president recep erdogan. >> that is ave , vy nasty statement to 28 crewing them 28 countries. i think that you know you have a very high unemplment rate in france. france is not doi well economically at all. they're starting to tax other people's products. so therefore we are going to tax them. that's taking place right now. and technology we'reng d the juans and everything else st>>in aunited kingdom. ahead of a collegial evening billed by the queen as a opportunity forrs to meet and decide theuture of e nato alliance. hadley gamble at buckingham palace. >> not only did president trump exchange barbs with the french president but the trump administration proposed levies billion-dollar in french 00 impochs. kayla taus has more from washington. >> reporter: as president trump and french president mac discussed nato turkey and isis new tariffs prepared by the u.s. hitting back for the 3% tax on large u.s. tech giants. ump saying the french shouldn't havehe right. >> the ame

this as many of the french people and french unions pushback against the emmanuel mack ron initiativehing through at the moment to try and reform the french economy. we are likely to see similar pages throughout the weekend and into monday. this is bloomberg. ♪ guy: from london, i'm guy johnson. vonnie: from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. this is "the european close" on bloomberg markets. let's check first word news with ritika gupta. ritika: nancy pelosi says the house oil pass articles of impeachment against president trump. she says that vendor achieve abused power for his own personal benefits. >> i am asking our chairman to proceed with articles of impeachment. i commend our committee chairs and our members for their somber approach to actions which the president -- which i wish the president had not made necessary. ritika: on twitter, president trump was defined. he said the democrats had no case and challenge them to move quickly so the nation could move on. the treasury department is sanctioning russian hackers for stealing more than one hundred million dollars from financial ins

he referred to emmanuel mack ron, saying he was napping, saying that nato is brain dead and that he isoing to let the french take advantage of u.s. companies, and if anything, he is the one that will tax them. let's take a look. pres. trump: i want to tax those companies. they are not going to be taxed by france. it was totally out of the blue. he just had the idea emmanuel had the idea, let's tax those companies. i am not going to let people take advantage of american companies. because if anyone is going to take advantage of the american companies, it is not going to be us. -- it is going to be us, not france. frankly, the one that benefits really the least is the united states. timing, maria, of the nato summit is pretty delicate with a lot of differences amongst nato leaders. president trump was pretty critical of nato in the past. with mr.ems to be more stoltenberg. maria: he was very critical of nato. he also took credit for the increased spending, saying the reason why nato members were paying was because i told them to. he said their economy is not doing well. he knows that for

>> i have to say that emmanuel macron's position and stance at the moment, is the single biggest threat to the future of the nato alliance. mack roan declared recently that russia should no longer be viewed as the enemy of nato. he's called the nato alliance brain dead. he supports building a european union army to challenge not only the rushes and the chinese, but the united states as well, and president trump described that as an insulting approach. and the french also spend 1.6% of gdp on defense. emmanuel macron's roll has been deeply helpful. and i think that macron is significantly undermining the nato alliance at a krillically important time. and his remarks are being condemned by many european allies including the german chancellor has taken mr. macron to task for his comments. emmanuel macron has done more to strengthen the alliance rather than undermine it. >> thank you. it's good to see you. >>> chief justice john roberts usually stays out of politics. but he may be deciding the trump presidency. it looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. ♪la-di-la-di-di entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps your hear