with weapons sold to it by european nations german chancellor angela merkel and french president emmanuel mccall have a long list of urgent issues to discuss brags that europe trade conflicts are not least of all turkey's offensive against kurdish forces in northern syria. i spoke to president earlier one for an hour today turkey does of course have justified security interest but i believe as does the federal government that the offensive must be stopped in view of the great humanitarian consequences. of humans and the fact that turkey's offensive is being powered by weapon systems acquired from the west angers many berlin in paris of now halted all weapons exports to turkey but that's not enough say german opposition parties the international reaction is feeble we have to hold a very clear stop sign. there to one for his part has threatened europe saying that he'll send 3 and a half 1000000 migrants on into europe if his offensive is called an invasion and it's a threat many experts believe must be taken seriously. mr atta one has shown he's capable of anything he's lock people up so i would t

and that footprint is looking increasingly french as president emmanuel mccall make saw he is seen to take the lead in europe. meeting russian president vladimir putin he has pushed germany out of the diplomatic driving seat over the ukraine conflict markov also took the lead in trying to negotiate a meeting between iran's president rouhani and the us president trump. it's less than a year since germany and france renewed their political viles by signing the our country to you know bilateral cooperation but in this political marriage president markov is increasingly seen as the one wearing the trousers. and the think tanks are beginning to talk. because of the new chancellor making space from a crawl without setting her own agenda. as part of that afghan treaty german and french m.p.'s held their 2nd joint session in berlin last week mccall sent his top diplomat for europe who found german foreign policy restraint unlike in france we're not used to coalitions we are in a system where we have more freedom of movement i would say more cassidy to be a giant in the current situation of th

the globabal slowdown hiring on the rise in france now that's music to o the ears of president emmanuel mccall who's promised to bring the unemployment rate is 7% by the end of his term in twenty twenty two. it's fallen a bit since he took office in twenty seventeen. the official job was answering france currently stands at eight point five percent. and is projected to fall to eight point three percent. by the end of the year. finally for me offshore wind power plays for massive worldwidide growth. according to the international energy agency says the sector could expand fifteen times in size. i tracked around a trillion dollars investment by twenty forty. like the falling cost government subsidies and technological progress. just twenty years the i. a. goes on to say offer when could be the single greatest source of power generation in e europe. i'm'm se this is a very important report because a lot of governments base theirnergy policy and studies offff off what ththe i a says so that was something that a lot of people are looking at and it's also not ann enenvironmentatal group. that's righ

noises at the end of the the summit here which went on on thursday and friday from the likes of emmanuel mccall the french president that he didn't want to see an extension from. the head of the european commission saying he didn't see the need for any prolongation but behind the scenes chancellor merkel of germany was telling her counterparts that it would be inevitable that they would grant an extension if in fact they were facing the prospect of a no deal bricks it now just in the last couple of hours we've heard from khiva that he's the head of the european parliament's breck's it steering committee he said that. the his committee would consider the outcome of the vote and that amendment but he says that whatever happens next to the march is outside parliament in westminster shows just how important a close e.u. u.k. future relationship is so they're very aware that there's a lot of division in britain but they're also aware that in fact they their interests of their member state are islands will be damaged by no deal breaks it so behind the scenes there are senior e.u. officials briefing t

french president emmanuel mccall has led a national tribute to the 4 police officers killed by their own colleague last week the state's knife attack was carried out by a technology administrator who had links to an ultra conservative muslim they'd meant now the government's coming under increased pressure to explain how warnings were missed. to reports from paris. it was a somber ceremony in heavy rain police officers carried the coffins of their 4 colleagues killed in a knife attack on thursday paris's police headquarters by a man who'd worked alongside them for years investigators say the attackers had been radicalized after converting to islam the french president called on the nation to be on guard against what he called dangerous ideas 1st on the block let's come together on stubbs's islamism stop its deadly ideologies or to our nose or rights and i will fly police say the killer was 45 year old mikaela harp on a computer expert who worked for the police and 2003 most recently in the intelligence unit french media report that investigators searching his home found a u.s.b. key

inevitable that they would have to grant that extension now on saturday the french president emmanuel mccall reportedly contacted boris johnson saying that he wanted to clarify occasion after what had happened in the house of commons that vote on the amendment and that he that an extension would be in nobody's interest that's publicly what they're saying but behind the scenes there's a lot of concerns among the civil service here among the commission and boris johnson's counterparts about a no deal breaks it not least because of the impact that it would have on the republic of ireland so they're not going to hurry to react they're waiting to see what will happen in the next few days in westminster they really want that deal to be passed so they're not going to to do anything before that chance has slipped but if it does look at the end of the month like they'll be a no deal bracks it everyone's betting that there will be an extension the team thank you. now in chile's capital soldiers are patrolling the streets to enforce a curfew and a state of emergency at least 3 people were killed in san

at the state dinner for president emmanuel mccall last year the white house served american one made from french grapes a year later the white house has imposed a 25 percent tariff on french wine made from crunch great i've always liked american ones better than french ones. even though i don't drink wine. the tariff has nothing to do with any agricultural tensions between france and the u.s. the dispute was over the e.u. subsidies for air bus which the world trade organization recently said had harmed u.s. based boeing's bottom line to make things right the w t o says the u.s. can impose $7500000000.00 in tariffs on e.u. goods including wine that's an expensive surprise for small u.s. business owners such as new york wine merchant heather johnston i'm going to have a 25 percent increase on a significant amount of my wines. so all i can hope now is to just remain steady growth in this. scenario is unlikely at best. it's not just french spanish and german wines facing a 25 percent tariff lovers of spanish olive oil will be paying more so too will those buying cheeses and meats butter

leaders summit on thursday french president emmanuel mccall says he wants to believe an agreement has been finalized paul brennan reports from london. the summit is shrouded in cloud but we are almost there the words of prime minister boris johnson at a closed door meeting of his party m.p.'s on wednesday afternoon according to those in the room it was a short bouncy speech short in duration but also short on details and that's because even at this 11th hour intensive negotiations are ongoing i said last week that i thought there was a pathway to possible agreements and that is still my view however the question is whether the negotiators will be able to bridge the remaining gaps in advance of tomorrow's cancer what's important now is that all focus is kept on achieving a deal that there was for everyone. europe's chief negotiator michel barnier gave a morning briefing to e.u. commissioners but that stage significant issues remained unresolved. the lunch break offered a brief glimpse of the u.k.'s chief negotiator david frost but still no news of a deal that he thinks agreed would sti

police intelligence unit races still investigating a motive for the attack the french president emmanuel mccall and prime minister. of both visited the scene in central paris. you deplore this we mourn the death of 4 people 4 employees of the police directorates safe in intelligence units and safe in the proximity security units 3 men one woman 3 police officers and one administrative agents were killed in the trash a butler has the latest from paris. well speaking after the attack the paris prosecutor gave more details about the attack essentially it was a 45 year old man who'd worked in police administration for 20 years in fact had been based in the paris police headquarters this huge building in the center of paris very close to not trigger the paris prosecutor said that a criminal investigation is now being opened into the event to find out exactly what the attackers motivations were now in terms of what we know so far it was about 1 o'clock when the attacker lunged at fellow police officers inside the paris headquarters he had a ceramic knife so it was a knife that would not have been det

at the state dinner for president emmanuel mccall last year the white house served american wine made from french grapes a year later the white house has imposed a 25 percent tariff on french wine made from crunch great i've always liked american wines better than french wines. even though i don't drink wine. the tariff has nothing to do with any agricultural tensions between france and the us the dispute was over the e.u. subsidies for airbus which the world trade organization recently said had harmed u.s. based boeing's bottom line to make things right the w t o's says the u.s. can impose $7500000000.00 in tariffs on e.u. goods including wine that's an expensive surprise for small u.s. business owners such as new york wine merchant had their johnston i'm going to have a 25 percent increase on a significant amount of my wines. so all i can hope now is to just remain steady growth in this scenario is unlikely at best. it's not just french spanish and german wines facing a 25 percent tariff lovers of spanish olive oil will be paying more so too will those buying cheeses and meats butte