bun she's a member of the german parliament for the green party and she is the green party's european affairs spokesperson thank you very much for being with us this morning. i want to talk about your party's performance in these elections in just a moment but 1st i'd like to get your reaction to the surge in support for the far right alternative for germany how is that changing germany's political landscape. i think that the f.t. has won. and especially in saxony but we also still have to consider that 75 percent have not voted for it and have voted democratically and also that there has been you know a new sign for new governments coming up which can be formed without the a.f.d. so i think you know to still a duty to convince many people that democracy can and will work for them and the thought of the big duty of everything a democratic party but i think you know many expected much worth there's no sign of relief but i think it's our job now to convince everybody the rest of the quarter that democracy works so i think they are black and white and add just a few weeks ago your party was hold

. >> cnn's european affairs commentator dominick thomas joins us now from berlin. wow, so it's again going down to the wire. more chaos. sometimes it all reminds me of monty python, but it is quintessentially english, uncharted territory. but the next few hours are critical, aren't they, in westminster? >> reporter: they are, and i think that the only positive thing one can take at this right now, we've really reached a breaking point, perhaps even a new breaking point. but i think that having boris johnson at the helm and his group, his cabinet of brexiteers after these three years when he allowed the transition and prime minister may to be there, is they're starting to understand while being in the hot seat, what it is really like to deal with this particular issue. and i think that what we have been witnessing in parliament for the last few hours is essentially a fight to the death on the question of brexit with boris johnson's party desperately trying to appeal to nigel farage and to the brexit party without whom they cannot win a general election. and on the o

there was a phone call that was intercepted it was a call between the secretary of state for european affairs victoria nuland and the u.s. ambassador to ukraine geoffrey pyatt. private chats between. you know what. i think. probably. so you had this remarkable phone call. of the u.s. government talking about a coup or how they were playing to restructure the government of ukraine. exactly i'm not saying the whole u.s. government feels that way the there is there is division but the neo conservative element very much to change the strategic dynamic in eastern europe. people and they've been at this for a long time they came in around the issue of propaganda they studied how to create hot buttons for the american people they had this experience when they were getting the american people to get excited about central america back in the 1980. and they've been applying those same strategy ever since they were dedicated to achieving their goals they still want to get rid of certain governments they want a regime change in syria for instance regime change in iran. very skilled at this and they have

watching i want you to take a listen to what we heard today from the french secretary of state for european affairs about what works. we consider that brooks it is not the end of history in the british islands we'll still be the 1st neighbor in the northwest of we will have to work very soon on the future relationship that the british people and the british government and british authorities want to be a with the european union and the people and the industries and the companies and the researchers and all the people that own the european continent we'll still be looking at the u.k. as a place to have exchanges and relationships. i mean how do you read that message there from france it is almost as if she's saying this is all much ado about nothing after breakfast you know history doesn't end. and frankly i couldn't understand you because there's so much noise behind us because the anti tears having a party here. just before parliament and not challenging and saying as you can hear so i did lose you over it because there's a barber virtually we're out of time but i think those people behind you i t

we are moving on from eastern germany to european affairs. brexit is an issue.d she will try and persuade borisjohnson to agree to whatever idea she can agree from their own site. we will wait and see, because this week is going to be very important. i'm sure it will be closely watched in germany. john from die zeld newspaper, think you very much. you're watching bbc news. the headlines this evening. the most powerful storm ever to reach the bahamas has now made landfall. "catastrophic conditions" are forecast. mps from multiple parties will try to push through a law this week to prevent a no deal brexit. germany's far—right celebrates gains in two state elections — but exit polls suggest they've failed to gain overall control in either place. thousands of pro—democracy protesters brought chaos to hong kong international airport today — blocking road and rail links and forcing dozens of flights to be cancelled. police in hong kong have meanwhile been defending the use of force to subdue and arrest large numbers of protesters on the subway system. our china corre

one aspect is of course brexit, with moving on from eastern germany now to european affairs, brexit isovernment's own estimation. she will try and persuade borisjohnson to agree to whatever deal she can agree from her own side. you are watching bbc news. the headlines this evening: the cabinet minister reponsible for no deal preparations refuses to commit the government to follow parliament's orders, if it passes no deal legislation. the most powerful storm ever to reach the bahamas has now made landfall. "catastrophic conditions" are forecast. germany's far—right celebrates gains in two state elections — but exit polls suggest they've failed to gain overall control in either place. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's connie. good evening. first this evening — arsenal and tottenham shared the points in today's north london derby. spurs went two ahead in the first half, but the gunners fought back in what was a pulstating 90 minutes. ben croucher was watching. the managers may be friendly, but thatis the managers may be friendly, but that is where the neighb

victoria nuland and geoffrey pia take the assistant secretary undersecretary of state for the european affairs an american investment kind of the time that joe biden was to coordinate the midwife thing of the overthrowing of an elected president in ukraine that's the biggest crime that's in this whole story no one is talking about evil overthrow of a government and as booty for that 2014 crew the sitting vice president's son joe biden gets a seat on the board of ukraine's biggest gas producer this is a transparency neocolonial type movie overthrow of the government you install the son of the vice president even an american citizen was made to ukrainian citizen a before she was made the finance minister then a ukrainian prosecutor's looking into this company and buying votes in public that we had and it's on video that he withheld a credit line of $1000000000.00 until he got that prosecutor fired and he was fired within 6 hours so this points to the other major part of this story that's not being told and that is this is the routine way the u.s. government conducts foreign policy threats intimi

with business leaders to discuss preparations for a cliff edge brexit france's minister for european affairsd my only message is that there will be a future relationship and it's very important that we consider that brexit is not the end of history. a very important reminder. our french correspondent is back on the set >> so they were gathering representatives of countries and they're getting more and more concerned that they're not ready for the hard brexit. what they're saying is difficult to have the ceos of the small companies get ready for brexit and get ready for brexit and the threat hasn't materialized they really need to get ready so they have been showing them that that's part of what they have been putting into place over the last six months. and also about 600 custom offices and be at the boarders and one of the french ministers to show how the port of calais was getting ready. so it's preparations because the french government is concerned about the impact of the hard brexet and it's also a little way to show the british government that come what may we are ready for a hard brex

with us from berlin to talk about this is cnn european affairs commentator dominic thomas.. you are our point man on brexit. this from boris johnson, he'd rather be dead in a ditch than delay brexit one more day, or will he be forced to cooperate with parliament? >> well, parliament is in charge. and parliament ultimately decides his fate. in many ways, you could argue if he does go to brussels to ask for an extension, then in some ways politically, he might very well be dead in a ditch because a general election is going to be premised on whether or not he can get support from the brexit party. and the brexit party are absolutely clear and unambiguous that they don't want him to go back to brussels, and that they are hell bent on having a no deal or hard brexit. so he finds himself in a very difficult situation. ultimately, as things play out here, the goal is to try and trigger a general election. that's what he wants, but right now all the power is being held by the opposition, since he's lost his control over parliament and lost his majority. >> right. still can't rule

. >> and cnn european affairs commentator dominic thomas is with us now from berlin. good to see you. just extraordinary, isn't it? i want to get an idea from you how big a blow this is to prime minister boris johnson and what's the likely outcome of wednesday's vote on a bill that would prevent a no dael brexit on october 31st? >> it's a significant blow. he's been in office for just a few weeks. he lost his majority yesterday in parliament. and he not only lost a vote but it looks as if a bill will make it through parliament and prevent him essentially from enacting a no deal. in other words, he will be forced to go to brussels to ask for an extension if he doesn't have a deal in place by mid october. this is very significant. this ultimately means that if a general election is triggered he now finds himself in the awkward position of potentially having to add to the manifesto a promise that he will repeal this bill should he be elected. and this may be the only way in which he's able to get the brexit party of nigel farage to support him. but the irony of that, of

. >> cnn european affairs commentator dominique thomas joins us live now from berlin.d to see you, dominic. so four crushing defeats for boris johnson. with the uk parliament rejecting his no-deal brexit and demand for a snap election, he's looking pretty weak right now and isolated. where is this all going? >> yes, rosemary, he's looking very weak. remember when he won the conservative party election just a couple of weeks ago, he came out with the acronym d.u.d.e. he promised to unite the party. his party has perhaps historically never been more fractured. he has members being booted out of the party, members voting against him. he's been talking about pro- pro-rogation which has backfired. you see a coordinated response from the opposition that have taken control of the legislative agenda. you have a prime minister who can no longer legislate because he's lost his majority and he now essentially has to sit and wait and have the future -- the outcome dictated by the opposition who are now in complete control. >> what do you see as the next step forward? what can we e

during the obama administration, he was the senior director for european affairs. mr.chan, thanks for being here. where does ts leave brexit? e dehiline is five weeks away. what is the practical effect of this ruling today? >> well, it's ita polal bombshell of sorts in that there isn't a writtenonstitution in the u.k. no one knew how the supreme urt was going to act. they didn't pins their words.i they sboris johnson is standing in the way of the constitutional function of parliament, that it's unlawful, that it's void, and parlient was supposed to be suspended for several more weeks. it's meeting tomrow. it hems boris woirs in even more, but therwas aleady legislation passed by parliament before he suspended it that said a no-deal brexit cannot happen. so right now he doesn't have a lot of gnod options o october 17/18, there is a meeting of the heads of state of the e.u. he will go. he will make one last pitch to get a deal. 's probably not going tget it, and at least according to parliament, he has to say, i need an extension. >> brangham: he has to ask the e.u. for

. >>> earlier i spoke with cnn european affairs commentator dominic thomas and i began by asking with johnson looking weak and isolated right now, where is all this going. >> yes, rosemary, he's looking v weak. remember when he won the conservative party election just a few weeks ago, he came out with the acronym d.u.d.e. his goal, first of all, was to deliver brexit by october 31st. that's not going to happen. he promised to unite his party. his party is perhaps historically never been more fractured. he has members being booted out of the party. members voting against him. he's been talking about prorogation, which means that the action of defeating jeremy corbyn or energizing the country has completely backfired because in fact now you see a coordinated response from the opposition who have taken control of the legislative agenda. you have a prime minister that can no longer legislate because he's lost his majority and he now essentially has to sit and wait and have the future of the outcome here dictated by the opposition that are now in complete control. >> so what do you see as

my counterparts in the bureau of european affairs one of the biggest in the departments also officer and former ambassador. it there was, it will take a while to get the fit right but i think at this point it's working very, very smoothly. as a key the office of myself i don't feel like a second-class citizen. -- pd officer. >> i would point to the national security council has inaugurated a strategic communication sort of policy coordination committee which is the ultimate blessing that you either important or problematic but it will take an appointment at solving problems in this case and so i think there is increasing certainly from the beginning of my career, increasing recognition public diplomacy isn't something separate but it is just part of the toolkit to advancing whatever policy interests we are working on. >> okay. i know that our panelists have to rush back and take care of important business, so think we will wrap up at this point. i want to thank you also very much for coming. this is been absolutely fabulous, and hope we can continue the dialogue. >> thank you very mu

parliament the bonus talk from the social democrat see also sits on the bonus talk committee for european union affairs where breaks it course continues to dominate the agenda it's good to have you back on the show i want to ask you were reports late last night after the house of commons passed a bill to request another extension to break said that the european union may not be willing to grant another extension i mean can you confirm anything tonight is the u.s. or is the e.u. now less likely to say yes to a delay. well thanks for having me again i'm not a spokesperson for the european union i think if the messed up policy in politics in the u.k. would lead to something to wanting a delay. 2 of jenner probably some people would listen to that very carefully is that the feeling you get even even in the german parliament that there is a willingness to in of say yes yes again well at this point we don't even know what's going to happen because the prime minister obviously it's difficult to foresee what his next action is but if we do have the choice in the european union as between no deal scenario at th

the bonus talk from the social democrat see also sits on the buddhist talk committee for european union affairs where breaks it course continues to dominate the agenda it's good to have you back on the show i want to ask you there were reports late last night after the house of commons passed a bill to request another extension to break said that the european union may not be willing to grant another extension i mean can you confirm anything tonight is the u.s. the e.u. now less likely to say yes to a delay. well thanks for having me again i'm not a spokesperson for the european union i think if the domestic policy in politics in the u.k. would lead to something to wanting a delay. 2 of january probably some people would listen to that very carefully is that the feeling you get even even in the german parliament that there is a willingness to in of say yes yes again well at this point we don't even know what's going to happen because this prime minister obviously it's difficult to foresee what his next action is but if we do have the choice in the european union as between no deal scenario at t

professor ofnd european affairs at king's kit juckes stays with us. this month's fed meeting. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ francine: this is "bloomberg surveillance." i'm francine lacqua in westminster, london. china and the u.s. will resume talks in october. beijing officials plan to visit washington early next month to meet with their american counterparts. that comes after weeks of uncertainty and escalation with the latest round of retaliation resulting in both sides raising tariffs. still with us is kit juckes from societe generale. we have the u.s. jobs report on friday. if we have an agreement to at least not as lately trade war, does that change what we are expecting from the fed? kit: i think the fed is still trying to work out how it can deliver less than the market expects without hurting anything. i think the challenge from listening to all the people at the fed, the market is so far ahead of them and so far ahead of a nowcast of the u.s. economy. people like me will be looking for a global synchronized economic downturn. of course you will end

foreign service officers, served in embassies across europe, deputy assistant secretary for european affairse left the government at the end of the bush administration, since he he served as the head of the mccain institute, think tank at arizona state university designed to carry out john mccain's foreign policy views and his legacy. he's highly respected. i think we're all very surprised to see him in the middle of this in this way. >> i'm curious. when you aren't offering your legal expertise on television, you're leading a global advisory firm. do you believe if the democrats win the fight to get any potential conversations that trump has had with leaders like putin, like mbs, might the release of those transcripts cause damage to the u.s.? isn't there a danger to releasing these transcripts publicly? >> well, there is. leaders talk to the president. they believe the conversations are confidential. to see them exposed has got to be difficult and embarrassing. at the same time that cannot be enough to keep the wrongdoing of anyone including certainly the president, from being exposed. i t

well, arriving for a meeting of the european general affairs council in brussels, belgium's foreign ministerirst issue. there are many discussions in london, and so we are trying to see what are the possibilities to move if it's possible, and to do that, we need to receive some new proposals from london. so without that, it is very difficult to say something. there is a european council on the 17th of october. there, we will see with michel barnier, what are the proposals and the new initiatives coming from london. we don't have the capacity to take initiative. you know that there is a deal. we are in favour of such a deal. is it possible to have some amendments without any difficulty with the red line of the european union, but without the backstop, it is very difficult. what about a northern ireland only backstop? would that be something you can accept? we have said, there are some red lines at the european level, so no. we have a deal and we'rejust waiting for some proposals. it is very difficult to react without a concrete proposal. so we will see if it is possible for michel barnier to

and coming up at 9:15, we'll be speaking to a professor of european politics and foreign affairs to askhat happens next. in other news, reports that thomas cook holidaymakers are being pressured to pay hotel bills after the company went bust. a formal impeachment inquiry into president trump over allegations he pressured ukraine to set up a corruption inquiry into democratjoe biden. look, it'sjust a continuation of the witchhunt. it's the worst witchhunt in political history. we have the strongest economy we've ever had, we have the best unemployment numbers we've ever had. premier league side tottenham are beaten on peanalities by the league two side colchester united — putting them out of the league cup. good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at 9. mps are returning to the house of commons this morning, after that dramatic and historic ruling by the supreme court — that borisjohnson‘s decision to suspend parliament for five weeks was unlawful. the prime minister said he profoundly disagreed with the judges, but would respect their decision. a senior government official said borisjo

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guests from germany by skype is dr anita shook head of the women children and public affairs department for the european council and from yangon and me and more also by skype is john quigley a human rights specialist at fortify rights a nonprofit human rights organization thank you both for joining us anita showed so this new report from the u.n. fact finding mission has now been handed off to the independent investigative mechanism for me and more what happens next. what happens next. i answer this question we have to make sure that the independent this independent mechanic it's not a court itself and that's why it's very important and the record already has said that remain in your kind are under the threat or are facing the genocide genocide so we have to consider that this is independent mechanism is not a code itself but it's the use the evidence to chaz being given collided by the fact cunning mission to prosecute general in the future so it is very important that. international community takes concrete action referring the military the country itself to i.c.c. and to the international criminal co

he speaks to us from doha qatar we also have a need to show head of women and children's affairs for the european council and he joins us from the brook in germany and finally roman a son when they sign is the coordinator of the campaign a media relations at the coalition and he's come in frankfurt germany we also invited several fishel from bangladesh and miramar to join the program but none of them were available guess it is good to have you thank you for your time i want to start here with a comment from bangladesh's foreign minister he says we are willing to send them anywhere to anyone who wants to take them we cannot afford to keep them for years then being the mohammed you were reporting at the end of 2018 from cox's bazaar where so many of the remainder are actually there in refugee camps does this indicate a sense that bangladesh is it is also it is tired it has no more time for handling the rehang a crisis and the refugee situation. it certainly does femi and you know we're starting to hear more of this type of rhetoric from bangladesh officials look bangladesh it's a difficult situatio

guests from germany by skype is dr anita shook head of the women children and public affairs department for the european council and from yangon and me and more also by skype is john quigley a human rights specialist at fortify rights a nonprofit human rights organization thank you both for joining us anita showed so this new report from the u.n. fact finding mission has now been handed off to the independent investigative mechanism for me and more what happens next. what happens next our i answer this question we have to make sure that that in depend this independent mechanic is him it's not a coat itself and that's why it's very important mendo chord already has said that the you know under remain knowing it in are kind stupid are under the thread or are facing the genocide anger and genocide so you're we have to consider that this is independent mechanism is not a coded south but it the used to evidence to chaz being given collided by the effect cunning mission to persecuted a general in the future or so it is very important that international community takes a concrete action referring the minute tr

having a real in-depth understanding or let's call it eastern european and central asian affairs having not only served in ukraine but also in pakistan if i'm not mistaken. he told me that one of his first jobs after leading the state department was running a program called dealing it's complex problems at the national convention in university and i think actually the us state department trained you for dealing it's complex problems. in creating them. [laughter] that went out further ado i'm going asked john to begin and as at traditionally the case, you should move that this at being filmed by cspan2 so we are not following rules we are obviously on the record. >> thank you very much and think you for the invitation to come here. also we will talk about what it means for roque ukrainian russian ukrainian relations. the first thing to understand about president linsky at that he won for reasons having nothing to do it's foreign policy. the people of ukraine, were demonstrating in coals 18 months ago. maybe 24 months ago. they wanted a new phase in political reit leadership. the polls we

guests from germany by skype is dr anita shook head of the women children and public affairs department for the european council and from yangon and me and more also by skype is john quigley a human rights specialist at fortify rights a nonprofit human rights organization thank you both for joining us anita showed so this new report from the u.n. fact finding mission has now been handed off to the independent investigative mechanism for me and more what happens next. what happens next. i answer this question we have to make sure that the independent this independent mechanic it's not a court itself and that's why it's very important and the record already has said that you know remain in your kind are under the threat or are facing the genocide genocide so we have to consider that this is independent mechanism is not a court itself but it's the use the evidence to chaz being given collided by the fact cunning mission to prosecute general in the future so it is very important that. international community takes concrete action referring the military the country itself to i.c.c. and to the international c

catalan issue and the conflict in spain is not a purely local for it's not an internal affair of spain it's in the european parliament and they're in the european parliament they're dealing with something as substantial as finding out whether the european parliament the sovereign and can accept those any piece of those members of the european parliament which have been which have been voted in this case for instance by more than 2000000 people now there's a member states like spain have the right of veto to say who goes to the european parliament and who doesn't go there i think that's wrong but it's there on the table of the european parliament it's an united nations it's a national parliaments it's in the international media it's all over the place this is an international issue. let's face it pro-choice and on what do you think you are a human pain that it's political but my understanding is that the court and especially the supreme court has to follow the law which would have meant that those representatives including mr pritchett mana would have to appear in person before the central electoral committ

are grappling with today, so given that i was a deputy assistant secretary of state for european and duration affairs right before coming the national intelligence officer for europe in the national intelligence council which is part of the office of director of national intelligence, i experienced the policy versus intel role firsthand in short order and the bottom line is this, if you're a policy official and, again, some of you may noticed but to get everybody together here, your job is to figure out what needs to be done in regional and context and implement, when you are an intelligence official your job is to report the best analysis of the fact that is you have so that senior policymakers can make informed decisions and hopefully the best decisions on a particular issue. so in other words, your job is to report the most relevant information either in written or oral form and then to shut up which is very, very hard to do, i've learned from my own experience, you might see policymakers about to make a terrible mistake, but it's not your job in the intelligence community to say, for god sake's s

from doha called daughter we also have a need to shoot she is head of women and children's affairs for the european council and he joins us from the brook in germany and finally a roman a sun when they sign is the coordinator for campaign and media relations at the coalition and he's come in frankfurt germany we also invited several officials from bangladesh and myanmar to join the program but none of them were available guess it is good to have you thank you for your time i want to start here with a comment from bangladesh's foreign minister he says we are willing to send them anywhere to anyone who wants to take them we cannot afford to keep them for years then being the remainder mohammed you were reporting at the end of 2018 from cox's bazaar where so many of the remainder are actually there there in refugee camps does this indicate a sense that bangladesh is it is also it is tired it has no more time for handling the rigging or crisis and the refugee situation. it certainly does femi and you know we're starting to hear more of this type of rhetoric from bangladesh officials look bangladesh it'

he speaks to us from doha qatar we also have a need to show head of women and children's affairs for the european council and he joins us from the brook in germany and finally roman a son when they sign is the coordinator of the campaign a media relations at the coalition and he's come in frankfurt germany we also invited several fishel from bangladesh and miramar to join the program but none of them were available guess it is good to have you thank you for your time i want to start here with a comment from bangladesh's foreign minister he says we are willing to send them anywhere to anyone who wants to take them we cannot afford to keep them for years then being the mohammed you were reporting at the end of 2018 from cox's bazaar where so many of the remainder are actually there in refugee camps does this indicate a sense that bangladesh is it is also it is tired it has no more time for handling the rehang or crisis and the refugee situation. it certainly does femi and you know we're starting to hear more of this type of rhetoric from bangladesh officials look bangladesh it's a difficult situati

will be speaking to pierre moscovici, european for economic and funny to affairs, andreas , allianz global investors ceo, and stephen badger, mars inc. chairman. lisa: deepening some of the concerns about trade come the s&p lower. crude dropping as well as saudi arabia seems it is getting production online faster than expected. the euro losing versus the dollar. the dollar strengthening despite concerns about turmoil amid the leadership in the u.s.. on-year yields going lower this risk off day. david: joining me now at the bloomberg global business forum is andreas utermann, allianz global investors ceo. it is good to have you here. i want to start with why we are here. it is the climate finance leadership initiative. explain to us what that is. andreas: it is an initiative that michael bloomberg, on behalf of the u.n., kicked off about a month ago. it brings together a significant number of affluent to private sector organizations with the aim of cooperating and coming up with solutions to the climate crisis. that is what we are working on over the last nine months. this summit here will

doing is definitely positive and there's support from hopefully other european partners to do the same ok patrick henningsen global affairs on this thanks very much for coming on to the program and sharing your thoughts thank you. now the british parliament has rejected a request from prime minister barak's johnson to hold an early general election after m.p.'s voted to take control of the commons agenda and pasta built to prevent a no deal drugs it. reports from london. the prime minister last night had lost that vote whereby m.p.'s took control of the legislative agenda and so today what they did was introduce legislation that would seek to frustrate a nose deal drags it which many m.p.'s and in fact many economists feel would be devastating to the u.k. . this morning and throughout the day m.p.'s have been debating and voting and finally passing this bill along to the house of lords which would essentially once it gets approval become law and stop it from taking place also pushing back regs that day from its current october 31st deadline in response to that. try to introduce or did introduce a motion calling for an ear