minister's questions yesterday i'm not trying to the studio by shouldn't say in members of the european parliament martin i understand welcome to that like simon show martina the lighted to be here thank you for having mail and but i haven't the support not not not just the shin thing but i've been really successful in getting the european parliament members did the european commission to to support islands objectives in the in the blitz in the goetia and somehow he managed that. well i would actually say that it has been shin fein it's being in that is about the irish government and also the european parliament and the kind still to understand the importance of the good friday agreement and international agreement that's large that the united nations and the european parliament has a duty and an obligation to uphold international treaties and the county anything that's going to facilitate the damage or violations of time of knowledge was that of the good friday agreement among hundreds of european parliament period absolutely no i have to say that other than the fact in fairness to the m.e. pieces but t

minister's questions yesterday imo joined in the studio by should say in members of the european parliament martin i understand welcome to the exam and show martina the lady to be here thank you for having mail but i wonder so hold out not just the shin theme but i've been really successful in getting the european parliament members did the european commission to to support islands objectives in the in the brics that negotiations on them. well i would actually say that it has been chanting it's been that it's about the irish government and also the european parliament and the kind still understand the importance of the good friday agreement an international agreement that's large that the united nations and the european parliament has a duty and an obligation to uphold international treaties and the county anything that's going to facilitate the damage or finally i'm not knowledgeable sort of the the good friday agreement among you know the hundreds of european parliament period absolutely none. i have to say that other than the fact in fairness to the m.e. pieces but they're all of them saying th

martin mcguinness led that of. once of for us in the european parliament and we met with hundreds and hundreds of m e p's i personally have sat i'm with them all and when the first resolution came to the parliament after article fifty was triggered i am one of the lead negotiators for the left on bracks it for the group where a member of and i resisted are signed up to the joint resolution unless and until we secured that it would protect the good friday agreement in all of its parts that there would be no hardening of the border in ireland and the unique and special circumstances were taken in their kind in fairness when the five hundred sixteen m. e p's folded for that of course the parliament those that didn't consisted of the two your other unionists and me please ukip and british conservatives but all of the other parliamentary piece of where there they supported it but they didn't really understand what all of its parts meant so i took from april until the second resolution and tobar knocking on any piece doors and that was one of the reasons why when we first knocked at the doors we asked them for support for

before others then it should expect that we europeans will define our own economic interests to point for that. martin dolls a member of the hamburg parliament from the left party told us that german businesses are worried at just how wide ranging u.s. sanctions can be. german. economy is afraid as well because you. are strapped so. what even directly. for its infrastructure in favor of. sentence against you this is pure blackmail what is what is going on here you see it. more or less it was it was told to german so if you do not going to have a trade war between the european union. and the united states. there nor stream to pro checked i hope for very much mr smirk will does not give in to this so it's a dirty game it's a dead end game you're watching are to international always a pleasure to have your company hope you join me in half an hour when i come back with updates on our top stories. seventy four design submissions. seven cells links. to judges. and eight hundred sixty nonstop days of. russian w.b. . and a russian pop stuff. show you how. the crimea bridge was built. witnessed the construction of a unique transport artery that will

martin's. this week conflict zone is in sarnath near munich to talk to and give the county she is a member of the european parliament for various conservative christian social union at a time of growing divisions in europe over religion and migration we ask should politicians not be avoiding religious issues. getting a leader will come to conflict zone hello mr friedman it appears that the u.p.a. in you name is mess of the struggling rich religion at the moment particularly you with islam is that it well actually in the member states we have a lot of debates on the question of islam and and a muslim and issues like that on the european union level be concentrating or an on on on on asylum part of how came you by your interest it's now introducing beer debates into the european union these are not two different straighted levels i'm very sorry they are not differentiated and of course on the european level we take note of what's happening in the member states in all of the member states but if you ask me as a politician i'm a member of the european parliament and i have to concentrate on my work i'm doing over there

martin good to have you with us. lawmakers have demanded better data protection and privacy measures from facebook see. mark zuckerberg faced questions at the european parliament in brussels in the wake of a massive data scandal at the company but a byzantine committee process meant sucker perk escaped a grilling on some details even if he made sure to apologize for the social media giants worst failures lots of fake zuckerberg demonstrating in front of the european institutions. but inside the parliament not so much the hearing of the facebook c.e.o. was supposed to take place behind closed doors so that gave some the impression that the privacy of mr zuckerberg was more important than the privacy of facebook users but some e.u. parliamentarians fought back and managed to have the hearing that took place right here in this room live streamed so everyone could see how mark zuckerberg apologized for digital facebook tools causing real world problems once again we haven't done enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well and that goes for fake news foreign interference in elections and developers misusing people's information. we didn't take a