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think your role succeed in that to try to, to get those things back as where they used to be the european council of light, a session on digital space and future technology was sidetracked by a ukrainian representative. kids envoy faced pushback for ignoring the topic altogether. and calling for the murder of vladimir putting instead, the best thing we can do is really to prepare and to, to fulton. that's exactly what we should do. i would not tell you about these a, just like, you know, thank you. thank you and colleagues, support these and thank you for these 2242. it means minus one euro in price, of course, on in front. i think it's very important. we are looking for great investments. the best possible investment in the world today is 22410. thank you very much mister gone. you think i understand your passion and your commitment, but language about getting people is not appropriate in this chamber. i would respectfully suggest that this isn't the 1st time representative gunter ranko use the paste platform to attack the russian president. he was barred from taking the floor for 3 months and 2

since brexit minister will bfeilfépflfijéfal-�*tlétér will a bfeil't'é'pflfije’mlnlétér will a european councilof the agenda. we will have more on that as well in business of e" i". baffle" because of the uk's a" in bjaa" because of the uk's trade course the uk's trade relationship with the eu is extremely and with extremely important and with the tariff coming the 7 the us, 7 the us, we 7 the us, we will 7 the us, we will unpack all ti in us, we will unpack all ti in 20 we will unpack all let's get some of the day's other news now. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has arrived in the us — where he'll become the first foreign leader to meet president trump they're expected to discuss the second phase of the gaza during anti—government protests. of wednesday's mid—air collision between a passenger plane and army helicopter. it is partially submerged in the potomac river. an investigation is ongoing. and forced thousands to flee their homes. in three days. there are growing calls for talks about the escalating crisis in the east of the democratic republic between congolese forces and th

return for increased meanwhile, stock markets fall as president trump goes to brussels for a european council meeting. also coming up on the world today... news from the bbc. we start here in the uk — where a 15 —year—old boy has school in sheffield. in a press conference this afternoon south yorkshire were called to reports of a stabbing at all saints catholic secondary school. it occupies a large site close to sheffield city centre. a news conference confirming people's worst fears. catholic high school. child had been arrested. and remains in our custody at this time. death in parliament this afternoon. we are in contact with the school and the council and investigations are under way. this is the second incident at all saints in recent days. last wednesday, the school was apparently put into lockdown. saying, the reason was due to "threatening behaviour were made of physical violence." remains cordoned off, as an investigation continues into another fatal stabbing involving children at a school. let's turn to the us — and the fallout from canada, mexico and china. to the prospect of tarif

it's the european council. is the european leader who across all these institutions can bring together angela merkel's style? the european side of that conversation, if this issue linkage, the slightly erratic issue linkage comes from the us, that to me is the big risk to watch. >> and is it frederick merits? >> he will certainly be the one who has to step into that role. he's been around in politics for several decades. he has never served in government, so we really collectively need to be watching. his learning curve. >> hasn't been tested. well, carsten, we'll leave it there. look forward to the continued conversations in the weeks and months ahead. appreciate you coming in to speak with us. carsten nickel, managing director at teneo. coming up on the show, norway closes in on becoming the first ev only country. we'll hear from christina bo, secretary general of the norwegian ev association, after this break. >> you put together. >> like a classic, always work your magic. every time we. >> make this valenti

i'm emily carver. >> and i'm emily carver. >> the prime minister is in brussels for the first european councilrump is looking to bash brussels. is this the brightest place for the prime minister to be? >> good question. and the us president, donald trump. well, he looks set to hit the eu with trade tariffs. but could the uk be spared? >> the european union is really out of line. the uk is out of line, but i'm sure that one. i think that one can be worked out. but the european union is it's an. >> and it's been reported that keir starmer met with his vocal coach, an actress, at the height of

european union, saying tariffs are likely there. the uk in his sights. nomia iqbal, bbc news, florida. wang huiyao is the founder and president of and a former counsellor to china's state counciled than expected. canada and mexico. already added. china also has those lessons and absorbing these, they diversify training with countries than the rest of the western countries and china is domestically stimulating. goods because, after all, there's already an imbalance there. confrontation between us and china on this front. i just want to get across something you mentioned about more dialogue talks at high level do you see that as being something that can be easily overcome? you see already that chinese top diplomat has a phone call in a way, that was already lifted, i suppose. solved. to do that and i can see that president trump is working very so heavily on this tariff escalation because china takes china has actually had zero tariffs countries with zero tariffs. for the perspective from canada, i spoke to laura jones — i asked her about the reaction in canada i think canadians are very unified across the country for our trade. 75% of our exports go to the us and they're our bi

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council meeting. he doesn't belong there. we've left the european union and yet he's there talking to these european leaders, many of them who are on their last legs. let's be honest, many of the european economies are doing even more appallingly than ours is at the moment. you've got donald trump threatening eu tariffs, and there he is in brussels. >> at the palais d'egmont. >> at the palais d'egmont. >> no less. >> no less. >> now, now the palais d'egmont, where they're having their big dinner tonight. it's symbolic, because that is where ted heath signed britain up to the eu in the first place, then the eec, of course, 1973, the treaty that got britain in was signed in the precise place where keir starmer is having his dinner with all these leaders tonight. symbology much. >> yeah. we remember on was it friday the 31st of january. there was no number 10 celebration for brexit. was there. i mean is keir starmer trying to get us back in with the european union? i mean, you might think you might think that he's doing the sensible thing here, that eu

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