conservative coalition partners this after she hammered out a proposal with french president emmanuel mccall which would see greater financial integration in the euro zone according to the deal the e.u. would set up a euro zone budget to boost investment in the bloc and marco also agreed to plans to turn the european stability mechanism into a monetary fund to help isolate the euro from future crisis however merkel warned that moves toward greater integration can only occur when banks have reduced risk in the financial sector so this is what they were talking about and i would like to discuss this now with our european union correspondent the isil which joins us in brussels and our financial market correspondent who joins us in frankfurt hello to both of you so bob what i'd like to start with you is this is the kind of reform the eurozone needs and will the other seventeen euro zone members agree to that. it is probably monica a first step and it is largely we need to emphasize that in a symbolic step because i'm going market had to give something some sort of success to. who had really stay

french president emmanuel mccall has denounced italy's refusal to take in more than six hundred migrants stranded aboard a rescue ship in the mediterranean president's record accused the italian government of cynicism and said it had an obligation under international law ilia sending ships to help transport the migrants to spain which has offered them refuge the french island of corsica has also offered to take them in. after more than two days stuck at sea the six hundred twenty nine migrants on board of the rescue ship arias are finally heading to a safe haven european n.g.o.s u.s. military rescued them off the libyan coast on saturday night among them unaccompanied minors and pregnant women. the ship was headed toward sicily but italian authorities refused entry as did malta stuck on the high seas the migrants created a diplomatic storm until spain offered to take in the ship. the standoff is the result of a tougher stance on immigration under italy's new government something the european union will likely have to deal with increasingly in the months ahead. just asked for a gesture of

migration crisis the french and german leaders a call for a unified european response but is emmanuel mccall supporting enough to help chancellor merkel how she is under intense pressure but in how coalition to find a solution to the refugee crisis by the end of the month. also on the program record numbers of people running for their lives the un refugee agency estimates sixty nine million people around the world have been forcibly displaced fleeing real violence and persecution. and welcome to the program germany's chancellor is sticking to her position and insisting on a unified their european response to irregular migration and a medical french president emmanuel macro on back cabinets met today to discuss eurozone reform and solutions to europe's migration crisis chancellor merkel said europe should stand up for its democratic principles and call for greater a new solidarity in managing migration. the first being that doesn't even mind we see this as a common challenge we have no one in which we have to look at how we can combat the causes of migration. so this means working for peace i

and migration was also topping the agenda when french president emmanuel mccall met italy's new prime minister jens if it comes to in paris on friday the two men calling for profound changes to the european union's saddam policies talks came after a diplomatic spat earlier this week when paris criticize rome's refusal to let a migrant rescue ship docked at its port. days ago they exchanged harsh words now it's handshakes and back rubs french president emanuel and italian prime minister giuseppe contests are finding common ground despite their differences one is a european cheerleader the other the head of a euro skeptic government but both agree that the current rules for processing asylum seekers in their country of a rival are not working. the concept of a state of first entry must be reviewed whoever set foot in italy sets foot in europe. will be to make the math that today the current system does not work at the moment. the solidarity system is designed with quotas did not deliver satisfactory results we must find a mechanism so each state can bear responsibility for migrants on i

a discussion where she was actually talking about her upcoming meeting with french president emmanuel mccall this is the first time since the new government was created that german ministers will be meeting with their french ministerial counterparts so that is quite a major event and basically she was talking about the main topics they are going to be discussing and she mentioned migration as the second topic on the list saying this is a european challenge and we require a european solution and it's essential to european solidarity and just in a nutshell the reason for that is that if the interior minister were to follow through with his unilateral plan to send refugees back to the first countries they enter essential it all the burden is once again put on those countries those are the countries on the external border of the e.u. greece italy they have borne the brunt of this influx of refugees from the beginning and that obviously is not solidarity when when europe's richest country says hey they're your problem and why is this dispute breaking out now as i mentioned the government has or h

also topped the agenda at a meeting between the leaders of france and italy french president emmanuel mccall once migration policy reforms arguing that europe's response to mass migration has not adapted to the times italian prime minister just to pick on day says he is working on a proposal for what he called a radical paradigm change to migration management the two leaders had a dispute over at least refusal to allow a rescue ship with more than six hundred refugees to dock in an italian port this week all right let's check in now with max hoffman who is covering this bilateral let me to him he is outside the elite a palace in paris where this talk of these talks took place the maxim that they patch things up. least at the outside they patched things up they were very keen on trying to show that they're on the same page here and in my new memoir called the french president said that he really deeply hopes that the two countries france and italy will work hand in hand to solve the most pressing issues and those are of course the migration crisis that we've been talking about but also the co

to sebastian could she can hardly expect support but french president emmanuel mccall is on assignment. the era of open borders across the whole of the e.u. seems to be over more and more member states are demanding more rigorous security like here on the bell garion turkish border even before sunday's meeting there was agreement on recruiting many more guards to patrol the e.u.'s out of border but it's important not only to strengthen frontex is personal but also extend its mandate to actively fight against traffickers and work together with northern e.u. countries the leaders are united on strengthening libya's coast guard so that migrants can no longer travel to europe by sea and hardliners want to create more reception centers like this one in libya far from the borders some leaders did however voice concerns. have on the. we have our values. and every time we betray them we do damage european values human rights respect for other member states and solidarity keep us together if it's. italian prime minister giuseppe conti once an overhaul of the so-called dublin agreement under whi

recent days italy's deputy prime minister says his country is still waiting for an apology from emmanuel mccall after the french president shop he criticized italy's decision to turn away a migrant rescue boat to do penske has the details. earlier this week a humanitarian vessel was denied the right to dock at a port on italy's island of sicily the rescue ship was carrying over six hundred miners and pregnant women has been scathing in his attack of italy in regards to this situation describing the country's actions as being cynical and irresponsible to who on rusty and we work in the interests of everyone in cases of distress that its ability to respond and in off with the vessel to dock there before they would criticize tasso now asked france to take on nine thousand migrants from their own country. on the basis of the agreements a migrant reallocation from two thousand and fifteen france committed and not just words between the french and its has been escalating but when these e.u. neighbors and i'm seeing some of the evidence being used by i asked a federal judge to impose limits on institu

migration crisis the french and german leaders a call for a unified european response but is emmanuel mccallsupporting enough to help chancellor merkel at home she is under intense of pressure but in how coalition to find a solution to the refugee crisis by the end of the month.

conservative coalition partners this after she hammered out a proposal with french president emmanuel mccall which would see greater financial integration in the euro zone according to the deal the e.u. would set up a euro zone budget to boost investment in the bloc. also agree to plans to turn the european stability mechanism into a monetary fund to help isolate the euro from future crisis however merkel warned that moves toward greater integration can only occur when banks have reduced risk in the financial sector so this is what they were talking about and i would like to discuss this now with our european union correspondent bob these are who joins us in brussels and it's often entre market correspondent who joins us in frankfurt hello to both of you so bob but i'd like to start with you is this the kind of reform the euro zone needs and will the other seventeen euro zone members agree to that. it is probably monica a first step and it is largely we need to emphasize that symbolic step because i'm going market had to give something some sort of success to. who had really stayed a lot wit

some more hardline approach but there is some common ground between medical and french president emmanuel mccall. the era of open borders across the whole of the e.u. seems to be over more and more member states are demanding more rigorous security like here on the boat garion turkish border the leaders are united on strengthening libya's coast guard so that migrants can no longer travel to europe by sea and hardliners want to create more reception centers like this one in libya far from the borders some leaders did however voice concerns. we have our values. and every time we be trying them we do damage italian prime minister giuseppe conti once an overhaul of the so-called dublin agreement under which asylum seekers must be processed in the country they arrive italy says that will ensure a more equal distribution across the e.u. and open the door for bilateral agreements on the repatriation of migrants and that's exactly what angle merkel once she does not want to send refugees back to another member state without that country's agreement after the talk we want to bring together those who are

for a joint european approach to immigration she's been holding talks with the french president emmanuel mccallhead of a crucial e.u. summit next week america has been given a two week deadline by her coalition partners the c.s.u. to achieve an e.u. wide deal but your view of yes some of those migration is a common challenge and the reasons for migration have to be removed we need to work towards peace in countries that aren't gulf war like syria and even ukraine we also need to help with development aid for african countries we need to act in accordance to fashion that is often very difficult our goal is for a common approach in europe we do not want europe to be divided stock markets in asia and europe have taken a hit as fears escalate over a trade war between the u.s. and china the u.s. president has threatened beijing with tariffs on an additional two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods donald trump says that's in retaliation for china slapping terrorists on fifty billion dollars of imports from the u.s. those are the headlines to stay with us next up it's the cure revisited tha

for a joint european approach to immigration she's been holding talks with the french president emmanuel mccall ahead of a crucial you summit next week america is under intense pressure of the issue a coalition partners the c.s.u. have given her two weeks to achieve an e.u. wide deal or they'll take action to reverse her open door policy on refugees but your view of yes some of those migration is a common challenge and the reasons for migration have to be removed we need to work towards peace in countries that are involved in war like syria and even ukraine we also need to help with development aid for african countries we need to act in a coordinated fashion that is often very difficult our goal is for a common approach in europe we do not want europe to be divided. international organization for migration says the number of people either crossing the mediterranean to europe or dying on the way is sharply down over the last few months forty thousand people so far this year compared to double that for the same period in twenty seventeen but numbers trying to cross to spain a sharply up call pan

for a joint european approach to immigration she's been holding talks with the french president emmanuel mccall ahead of a crucial issue summit next week merkel is under intense pressure of the issue of coalition partners the c.s.u. have given her until the summit to achieve an e.u. wide deal although i'll take action to reverse her open door policy on refugees. but your view of yes some of those migration is a common challenge and the reasons for migration have to be removed we need to work towards peace in countries that are involved in war like syria and even ukraine we also need to help with development aid for african countries we need to act in a coordinated fashion that is often very difficult our goal is for a common approach in europe we do not want europe to be divided international organization for migration as the number of people are the crossing the mediterranean to europe or dying on the way is sharply down over the last few months forty thousand people have made the journey so far this year compared to double that same period in twenty seventeen the numbers trying to cross to sp

donald trump to reverse his decision to impose metal tariffs on several allies french president emmanuel mccall and canadian prime minister justin trudeau held talks in ottawa ahead of the g. seven summit on friday tensions over trade threaten to overshadow discussions between the seven worldly doings there are reports of a new effort to end the three year long conflict in yemen or a saudi led coalition is backing the government against hoofy rebels there which is news agency says the un's special envoy has put forward a peace plan proposing the who things hand in that weapons including ballistic missiles in exchange for an end to the coalition bombing campaign it also refers to a transitional government with all political factions equally represented the u.a.e. has hinted that it would support its planned. suspended a deal with greece which allows athens to return. fiji's on migrants who crossed from turkey is semi telling ation for greece's refusal this week to allow the extradition of eight turkish offices who fled to greece after the twenty six tinkerer tent and rescue efforts have been sus

it there because we're looking at the press conference now from chancellor angela merkel and emmanuel mccall which is just started let's listen in to what they have to say. just as you well know my view lots of audience feed they elfin dutch fun solution and this is. the german council of ministers meeting here as well and and my sense is that we've had a good day where the german and french french iran found together a shot at my going to see if the state. really opening a whole new chapter. of an initiative so for the european union but also for german french cooperation because much of what we have decided to you we're going to further work with our colleagues in the european union. and we need to find the responses and this is something that drives us as well we want to have to find its place in and multilateral world we want to play its role when it comes to defending values and conviction this preserving prosperity more peace in the world and preserving our environment this is why this was a day that covered a lot of ground our environment ministers met for a dialogue on the climate an

benjamin netanyahu i arrived at the lease say for talks with emmanuel mccall just a few hours off iran had announced it was increasing its uranium enrichment capacity the israeli prime minister said the move was proof that tehran holds nuclear weapons netanyahu is in europe to urge either leaders to stop supporting the twenty fifty iran nuclear deal in a in a cooler that he's convinced will collapse i didn't ask france to withdraw from the because i think the jury is basically going to be dissolved. by the way the economic forces but i think that there are two possibilities either iran dismantles its nuclear activities unilaterally under this pressure or there may be in the future negotiations for better. a better deal the french president said the iran nuclear deal wasn't perfect but should remain the basis for a wider agreement because there's a need if we think it's not enough but it's a useful building block better than what we have a full of the best things to keep it because as we say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush with you so i agree with you c.p.o. isn't enough but

countries or quit squad the ones who don't fit in with the plans that angela merkel of germany and emmanuel mccall of france have to resolve the immigration situation across as in a panic e.u. sort of way let's be clear here mr tosk is speaking to people who have in some way shape or form change their constitutions change their laws oriented policies which they believe are a way to deal with the crisis but which which have in fact either criminalized helping illegal immigrants or are putting real quotas on the numbers of people who can who can move around in those countries from angela merkel's perspective she had hoped that the mini summit on sunday coming and then the full e.u. summit in brussels at the end of next week would arrive at some sort of solution but now her officials are having to row back from that and say no no no sunday's mini summit is a working group don't expect any conclusions to come and of course yesterday she had to reassure the italian prime minister that there was still room for negotiation that no final draft emerged of what will happen in brussels at the end of next wee