no doubt the european union is still there but whether it is coherent is another matter. u is emmanuel macron in france, he has a strong vision of deepening european sovereignty, but frankly most other european leaders are not there any more. the integrationist impulse is over. even your own prime minister in holland responding to macron said "integration for integration‘s sake will only harm future public support for the european union." so when you tell me there is a clear direction of travel, there isn't. there has never been integration for integration‘s sake. never. it has been integration in order to respond to the challenges of today, and the reality of course is that the nation state, or the national state in itself cannot respond any more to the challenges of today. we need a strong european union, i see support for european integration amongst young people, that is the next generation of leaders, is very strong. they are becoming more active, more engaged, more mobilised, so actually i am quite optimistic. frankly, looking at brexit as an example, all one can say

the goals of mr trump himself and some few people within his administration to pick european european union apart strategically because then that would allow him to negotiate within ideally that's what he believes none of that is true and under european law but to negotiate individually with european countries is that there is what he fareed is streak in the u.s. administration and yes mr bennett i'm going to need to the european union i'm going to give mr by the last would this clip ashleigh because we don't have very long left the can the european union remain united against this trump presidency do you think it is not united on on a number of issues for example the north stream dealing with russia there are divisions already and the administration if it still wants can play divide and rule very effective the europe that's why countries like germany france really need to invest very hard in maintaining european unity there now. of pills are probably have to swallow as germany along the way that means we cannot go against the liberalism domestically of poland hungary as forcefully as we wo

the goals of mr trump himself and some few people within his administration to pick european european union apart strategically because then that would allow him to negotiate with in ideally that's what he believes none of that is true and under european law but to negotiate individually with european countries is that there is what he fareed is a streak in the u.s. administration and yes mr bennett i'm going to need to the european union i'm going to give mr bennett a loss would miss clode ashleigh because we don't have very long left the can the european union remain united against this trump presidency do you think it is not united on on a number of issues for example the north stream dealing with russia there are divisions already and the administration if it still wants can play divide and rule very effective the europe that's why countries like germany france really need to invest very hard in maintaining european unity there are no. of pills are probably have to swallow as germany or along the way that means we cannot go against the liberalism domestically of poland hungary as forcef

now, if you leave the european union, if you decide to leave the european union, that is your choice,the british government has drawn: no to the single market, no to a customs union but, given that we now have a certain framework where we can operate — and we want to get this orderly brexit deal done — and in the end this means that both sides will have to show a compromise, but one thing is clear, a country that leaves the european union and the single market can't be in a better position than a country which is a member. this is nothing to do with being nasty, this has nothing to do with — as i often hear in london — there people in brussels interested in punishing the uk — no, it is our interest to get the deal done just as much as the uk side and that's why we should concentrate on the work we still have to do. 80% of the british withdrawal agreement have now been probably concluded but it leaves 20%, we'r still not there yet and that's why the next two and half months will be crucial. also on the table from the british government is a deal struck, drawn up at chequers, called the

the goals of mr trump himself and some few people within his administration to pick european european union apart strategically because then that would allow him to negotiate with in ideally that's what he believes none of that is true and under european law but to negotiate individually with european countries is that there is what he fareed is a streak in the u.s. administration and yes mr bennett i'm going to need to the european union i'm going to give mr benton last would this clear the ashbrook because we don't have very long left the can the european union remain united against this trump presidency do you think it is not united on on a number of issues for example the north stream the dealing with russia there are divisions already in the administration if it's a wants can play divide and rule very effective the europe that's why countries like germany france really need to invest very hard in maintaining european unity there are no. of pills we're probably have to swallow as germany along the way that means we cannot go against the liberalism domestically of poland hungary as force

difference what we have to be just as hard on ourselves as we do with any other state outside the european union and again as i say that's that's a that's a job for the entire of the european political community not just for a single agency which is providing the data and the evidence so that those hard words can be spoken and i see those hard words spoken increasingly. again. is the situation getting better or not at the moment we're in a bad situation but i do see a change of light towards the future and why why because i see more and more governments in this european your union. or even on the top or the junior partner parties which are openly openly discriminating races nationalists right wing parties we're optimists come it's coming from many places for example we're getting more serious about promoting economic equality and so-called socioeconomic rights the dimension of human rights we haven't had a chance to speak much of in this conversation i see it in young people it could sound condescending but jenny warning from traveling around europe meeting with youth groups and with children's

catalonia is in a sense the story of europe as we know it today i think it's a story old the european union is. last october you remember when they tried to hold a referendum which the party. catherine popularized in catalonia on independence from spain the spanish government sent in paramilitary police to break up a french attacked police stations to seize ballot boxes to attack voters and there was this complete silence from the european union about what was happening and i think since then there's going to gradual realization that really for the small nations of the regions of the europe the european union doesn't really work and it doesn't really work it's run by the big states and then run essentially by germany and germany and france to the extent of worried about what would happen if catalonia broke free again self-determination the brown vacations that would have elsewhere and essentially sided with spain in repressing that democratic referendum and when i talk about it being europe story if we go through the chapters and the spanish civil war arguably missing from british school te

i deeply regret that the uk isn't leaving the european union andi uk isn't leaving the european uniont i have to a cce pt had a different outcome but i have to accept that leave means leave. if you leave the european union, that is your choice and we also accept the red lines the british government has drawn. note to the single market and customs union given that we now have a certain framework where we can operate, and we want to get this orderly brexit deal done, in the end it means both sides will have to show a compromise at one thing is clear, a country that leaves the european union and the single market cannot be in a better position than a country which is a member. this is nothing to do with being nasty, nothing to do with being nasty, nothing to do with being nasty, nothing to do, as i often hear in london, that people in brussels are interested in punishing the uk. no, it is in our interest to get the deal done but we should concentrate on the work we should do. 80% of the british withdrawal agreement have probably been concluded but it leaves 20%. .. also, also on the tabl

when european union behaves turkey that on the turkey needs european union turkey needs european union and european union needs turkey we are everywhere of this but some european countries unfortunately don't see the fact so why so you don't leave you any man or you said your needle tongue trees in the european union actually against turkey's membership made big my shirt off the e.u. countries you members this actually are in favor of turkish if you're going to actually eat a woman bishop any more he said and you struck not you have to love the accuracy of the reaction to this is the reaction of the country who has been waiting at the door for sixty years ok sixty years so how does the way that it is turkey's mistake so why do so many years so why threaten europe in march last year when the diplomatic president what can what kind of threaten in march last year when there's a sematic route with germany was at its height your president said that if europe continues this way no european in any part of the world can walk safely on the streets that's what he said. that's a threat that's a d

with this this is a legislation the european union has in place to protect european businesses from the effect of secondary sanctions of sanctions that the u.s. imposes outside of that we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans in this case to the side with home to trade with so there is also a matter of i would say trade sovereignty to be protected mongering he says european countries are encouraging small and larger companies to increase business with and in iran saying a strong relationship with iran that helps to preserve the twenty fifteen nuclear deal is a security priority for europe. while iranian see european policy as business friendly they say it hasn't changed the reality on the ground it's about time you. will be imposed the harder the station will be for the people and no one is satisfied it was a country that other countries pushed to be like in the past now it's trying to be like other countries the economic situation is horrible. i'm so worried about my life future country and as a young girl i'm worried about my job there are no job opportunities and i'

the european union sticks with a south to choose if nothing comes out of the european commission meeting on redistributing migrants miti chiaki ship the five star and i will not be willing to give twenty billion euros each year to the european union. at its crisis meeting in brussels the european commission criticize the my as comments as unconstructive of live in us in europe threats are useless and don't get you anywhere where you are the only way to solve a problem in europe is to work together in a constructive manner and good will. as the latest talks in brussels ended yet again without resolution europe's divisions over migration are painfully exposed but the chuck d. is not the first rescue vessel to be left in limbo on the mediterranean and it probably won't be the last unless leaders in brussels can find a common way ahead. and joining. in the studio now is to move fisher he's from the n.g.o.s is a boca an organization that campaigns for migrants taking the syria to europe mr fisher thank you for joining us today now your n.-g. o. organized demonstration in munich earlier today

but also in the european union. we have the most number of companies on both sides of that channel, we have the most at stake other than the european union member states themselves in this whole brexit process. and i will just say sort of parenthetically it's not going ell. it is way, way behind in terms of where it needs to be. in order for this process to go through it needs to be done in october or november. and their very far from den. and there's still a lot of in-fight twheng u.k. about what do they even want out of this agreement. which is making it hard to reach any kind of agreement. i apologize, i've gone way over. let me stop there and i would be more than happy to take any questions you may have. >> we'll go over here first, there next and then there. >> i'm with "usa today." on the w.t.o. challenges to the steel and alum numb tariffs, when can we expect the w.t.o. to issue a ruling on those? jennifer: the actions were filed immediately after the tariff went into effect. under the rules of the w.t.o., in

worlds indeed breaking refugee law and breaking the european union's own rules that's for sure i'm in strong agreement with what roland said about borders and the need to protect them but i have a different conclusion i disagree that this is a european problem and indeed i think that the or that this can be solved with european measures and i think that the the reflex position of european leaders which is to say that we need to european solution to this problem is precisely wrong it is precisely the fact that we have a european union with a borderless internal space the showing an area which has caused the migration problem in the first place i first visited the song at camp near cali in the late one nine hundred ninety s. the migration crisis that we're talking about now didn't start in two thousand and fifteen it started in the one nine hundred ninety s. when italy joined the schengen zone and from that moment onwards the borders of the mediterranean were on the english channel here and there is a direct relation of cause and effect and what we saw in two thousand and sixteen

petro sanchez and with the continued imprisonment of democratically elected politicians in the european union coming up on the show as even president obama's u.n. ambassador appears to have qualms about her private support for the u.k. backed war in yemen what now for the world's worst humanitarian crisis we go to southern to speak to save the children the stories of a continues to sanction the training of more plain pilots balling the country and on the film's thirtieth anniversary we speak to the award winning director of heathers like a lehman about creating clique's from the cafeteria to congress plus merkel goes to madrid birds. in the spanish civil war to the catalonia referendum is one region of the iberian peninsula emblematic of a fundamental lack of democracy in the european union all of the more coming up in today's going underground but first britain continues to train the warplane pilots bombing yemen as it faces what the u.n. calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis u.k. minority government the dettori is a may defends the policy by saying britain is a great arms exporter we

juliette: donald trump has rejected the european union's removal ofrap tariffs on cars. his comments came hours after trade-- the committee -- commissioner told european parliament lawmakers the eu would be willing to bring down even our car tariffs 20 come all tariffs to zero if the u.s. does the same. >> nope. because they do a lot more auto business than we will ever do. not justall, it is terrorists. they have barriers to our cars. a will take down the barriers and charge us no tax but it is not good enough because they will always sell more cars. habits,bits, consumer or to buy their cars and not our cars. is currencygentine crisis has deepened as an emergency interest rate increased to 60% failed to stop investors from pulling money out of the country. the peso extended losses after the bank raised its measure to a global high. the hike, the second this month, was the latest attempt by policymakers to defend a currency that has lost more than half its value this year. indonesia's rupiah slid to a two decade low, spurring intervention from the central bank as investo

stations to seize ballot boxes to attack voters and there was this complete silence from the european union about what was happening and i think since then it's going to gradually realize that really for the small nations of the regions of the europe the european union doesn't really work and it doesn't really work it's run by the big states and then run essentially by germany and germany and france to the extent of worried about what would happen if catalonia broke free again self-determination the brown vacations that would have elsewhere and essentially sided with spain in repressing that democratic referendum and when i talk about it being a europe story if we go through the chapters and the spanish civil war ghibli missing from british school textbooks is when britain was supporting the fascists there that's how we came to the second world war and we now live in the shadow of what i think is a very important story that if the western democracies had supported the spanish republicans franco. then it would have been a major blow block to the second world war the fact they didn't encourag

among the diplomats and there was a communique issued well before this announcement that said the european union stance on the new tranche of sanctions was a unanimous no we are determined to protect european economic operators in legitimate business with iran this is why european union's updated blocking statute enters into force under seventh of august to protect e.u. companies doing legitimate business but he ran from the impact of u.s. extraterritorial sanctions so what is the blocking start to it well it was initially written into law back in one thousand nine hundred six it was designed to allow european companies to get around a u.s. blockade of cuba however it was significantly rewritten earlier this year to focus on iran what it means essentially is that european companies have to pay no heed to sanctions against a country in which they're doing business say iran in this case and also that any courtroom in a foreign country based on those business dealings another fight in the eyes of the e.u. but put it this way with a hypothetical example say you're an e.u. car manufacturer and you've

government starts dishing out advice on what to do in britain crashes out of the european union without a deal between general brussels and things. and this is the soundtrack for social change in georgia. the capital club's in tbilisi on the forefront of the push to get the conservative posts of the country do you listen up and embrace the liberal values. of the warm welcome to you i'm on the thought she the u.s. has slapped a twenty five percent tariff on sixteen billion dollars worth of imports from china this is a second round of targets in response to want to trump accords beijing's on fred trade practices china reacted swiftly with its own high tariffs on over three hundred american products and that means tough times ahead for american region. that export billions in tax to china one of them is a city of rich the brookings institution says no other metro area in the u.s. is being impacted more by the u.s. china trade. xander phenomenon visited the area and sent us this report. from handrails an alloy. junk food and his driver own two sister company in wichita over a wide range of

the five star i will not be willing to give twenty billion euros each year to the european union. at its crisis meeting in brussels the european commission criticize the my as comments as unconstructive. in europe frets are useless and don't get you anywhere the only way to solve a problem in europe is to work together in a constructive manner and good will. as the latest talks in brussels ended yet again without resolution europe's divisions over migration are painfully exposed. is not the first rescue vessel to be left in limbo on the mediterranean and it probably won't be the last unless leaders in brussels can find a common way ahead. of germany's business leader is up and running again kicking off last night with the reigning champions by munich facing another top team hoffenheim the bavarians are going for their title in a row and they were killing to start their campaign with a good result as they finished third last season qualifying for the champions league so the scene was set for tight contest. about to exit the tunnel two of the buddhist leaguers hot shot coaches on the

the european union is offering to compensate legitimate european businesses in iran if they suffer from the new u.s. sanctions but that may not be enough to stop an exodus that has already begun. made in europe iran has signed contracts for billions of dollars worth of. us now the u.s. sanctions mean most of those contracts unlikely to be ripped up it's a grim prospect for europe's biggest aircraft builder and dyna is putting the emergency brakes on to its announced in a press release that it had suspended activities in iran until further notice the e.u. has reiterated its rejection of u.s. sanctions and is encouraging european businesses to carry on dealing with iran to protect european businesses from the effects of second or sanctions of sanctions that u.s. imposes outside of its twenty we believe that it is and it has to be up to the europeans in this case to decide with to trade with. brussels has little leverage against washington but the e.u. wants to help european entrepreneurs in iran. we can hope that the americans won't apply sanctions to european companies or disadvantage th

nations as they've as the european union in brussels has pushed forward with this blocking statuette it's the best weapon they have in their arsenal to try and tackle us sanctions against e.u. companies doing business with iran how affected of effective it will be though well that's anybody's guess at the moment as this is new ground we're entering into. sure ok thanks peter peter over there in berlin and also some conference in washington earlier thanks. but let's get the thoughts now of dr member he's an international economist professor of energy and economics and he's with us now and you're very welcome i'd like to get your opinion on what he has done today to try to enhance these protective measures for european firms do you think they go far enough because as we've heard in that report european firms could still have their u.s. assets sanctioned or frozen. the european union made it clear that they would stay in the iran nuclear agreement and they would not comply with us sanctions against iran and therefore they will continue to buy iranian and crude of course some european co

border and makes it position clear on whether it wants to stay in the customs union with the european union a deal can be reached but the red lines that the u.k. government has drawn are still there so no membership in the single market no membership in the customs union and that makes it exceedingly difficult what's so interesting to have you here with this is that you've spent more than a decade in the european parliament so you know all the ins and outs of the e.u. what downsides are you expecting for the european union should a no deal breaks it happen where the downside is that we said been here the chief negotiator of the e.u. has identified right away and that concerns people first and foremost their e.u. citizens living in the united kingdom who don't know what the future will look like they have british citizens living in the e.u. and germany and france and other countries who don't know exactly what their status is going to be so it's people first and foremost that we have to care about and the second thing is of course great britain is a very important partner in nato ally and we

i think of myself and george the other author i think we have divided opinions and i see the european unionas being undemocratic and run in a very near liberal agenda which is one of the reasons i think it is undemocratic was i think new liberalism tends towards authoritarianism i also think it's interesting coming back to what's happening katter when you contrast that with the same silence towards you know right wing parties reemerging across europe and implementing measures against migrants against muslims and so on you know the european union is not a bastion of democracy chris bambery thank you and that's it for the show will be back on monday july best to get back coups corruption the colonialism in congo one of the most subtle changes the resource rich and poor countries in the world until they get in touch with us by social media will be back on monday like the two years since the birth of the revolutionary and the diversion list repeatedly targeted for assassination by the united states if you don't castro. both of us. but it's not the. last time we chased. each one of the carrying

i say to the european union, john called, would like to negotiate a new trade agreement with either european union. we lost $151 million over the last number of years per year. does anyone know what hundred $51 billion per year is? he respectfully said, mr. president, we are very happy with the deal. i would be happy with it if i were you, too. we weren't happy, because they have barriers up, and they have

and a number of other countries and organizations including the european union so certainly deep concern about the u.s. is international standing as a result of president trump's decision. mike when it comes to international isolation how much concern is there there on that issue. well very much so there is a great awareness among critics of president trump that there are several strong u.s. allies who were involved together in forming there to rein in nuclear deal the united kingdom germany france the european union as i mentioned but also one has got to see this in a context of a number of international agreements on which president trump and his administration have turned their backs agreements reached with these selfsame allies in the past and the u.s. now stands accused by many of its one time friends and allies of actually written egging on the deals one must remember as well that the iranian nuclear deal was underpinned by international law it was it was registered and confirmed by the united nations therefore critics of president tram contend very strongly that the u.s. is worded

we are the european union. we have the internal markets.ut we will not re— negotiate the eu because, yes, brexit will be damaging, even if there is no cliff edge, no crashing out of the eu. if there is a crushing out, it will be even more damaging. but i'm picking the internal market will be the worst scenario and we will not do that. if you say bluff... i have noticed that in recent weeks, in the british media, and you are actually making the same point here, they are trying to kind of intimidate the eu in two, oh, if you do not accept our terms and it will be terrible for you. i think we should be... maybe it is time for little bit of honesty in politics and maybe people should have been told before the brexit referendum on what reality was going to be like a. the vote has taken place, that is clear. that is the situation we have to deal with. and it will hurt. we are not going to one do the internal market. be from me to intimidate anybody, i am looking at the recap —— the reality of what is happening. not in terms of economics but also

the total amount we export to the european union, £164.1 billion. to be the biggest foreign investor in africa among the g7 countries? those are the largest economies in the world. well, we are nearly there already. the us investor and £44.3 billion, the uk just already. the us investor and £44.3 billion, the ukjust behind at £42.7 billion, the ukjust behind at £42.7 billion and france, the third biggest g7 investor, £38 billion. but look at this, in 2011 china invested just £17.8 billion in africa. by 2016, that figure had grown to £41.1 billion. at that rate of change, china will soon overtake britain, showing that competition for african trade is high. the big question is this, will britain leaving the european union be a boost or burden for trade with africa? in the next two, three, four, five years the focus in the uk will be replacing the existing arrangements that exist by the eu. in the long run could the uk do things differently from the eu, could it be generous in certain areas? possibly but it is a question in five or ten years' time. tom

government tries to reassure citizens and businesses in the event that britain crashes out of the european union with a deal it's calling the survival plan it's. good to have you with us to have his former aides have been convicted revelations are swirling about money paid to women over alleged affairs well now u.s. president trump is firing back at opponents who are calling for his impeachment trunked went on fox news to declare that he has not broken any campaign laws he attacked his own attorney general jeff sessions for failing to show loyalty and take control of investigations. here's what trump had to say in response to questions about his political future i'll tell you if i ever got a piece i think the market would crash i think everybody would be very poor. because without this thinking you would see it you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe in reverse you are let's go to washington know our bureau chief alexander phenomenas following another extraordinary development today alexander we heard trump there use the word impeachment which is quite extraordinary for a sitting preside