. >>>> some actionsns are beingngn totourb the use e of neonicscs.n europee, the european union banned 3 neononics for a a perif o o years in 2013.3. the ban targets s neonics used o on plan andnd cereals attraractive to polnanators. in the u united states, the saving america's pollinators act was introduced in congress in 2013. earl blumenauer was one of the sponsors of the bill. >> what we're attempting to do with this legislatition is blow a whistle. stop moving forwaward with the products within the next 6 months that has this potential exceedingly damaging effect and prohibit their use until we'rre able to follow through on the researcrch to pre that thehey're safe. >> but t congressional action is unlikely any time soon. in 2014, neonics were banned by the cities of eugene, oregon and spokane, washington on municipal property. the u.s. fish and wildlife service annonounced pls to ban neonics from all wildlife reffuges by 201616. and the whie house launched an initiative to strengthen federal action to improve pollinator research and to protect pollinator habitat. >> there are thi

do leave the european union, they are concerned that our food and our standards may not be as protected as they have been by the european union and they consider in this piece that the ban have across europe may be watered down if we brexit. some of the scientists are asking our government to allow a form of gene editing which is currently outlawed by the eu. the eu effectively outlawed it injuly. however, in this piece, it claims that this highly promising new technology as the defender to generate huge amounts of money and alleviate world hunger at the same time. it does not say he is going to earn or generate or he was going to rea p earn or generate or he was going to reap the benefits of these huge amounts of money. i know a lot of the activists are concerned these innovations will be patented to the detriment of those countries. those who should benefit from robust crops. one of the problems europe has always suffered from his farmers, they are so amazingly powerful europe have anything to protect its market, it will do. what i have always found very upsetting about european union policy on food is that it is a very selfish policy. and how dare people in brussels

milligrams per milliliter which is three times the nicotine concentration that is loud in the european union. those are bannedpan they abandon israel after only three with on the market so that's a very high nicotine product. you can see it is slick. you can buy online as i high school students refer to and that's a cool cucumber flavor pod in there. >> such coincidence that is my flavor. a lot of the messages note this does look like a usb. >> it looks like usb and so when i show this to anyone under the age of 21 and i say, do you know what this is, they say of course, grandpa, i know what that is. when i show to an adult they often don't know. probably less than 1% of adults have handled one of these. >> something you mentioned to me when we were chatting pregame, a couple years ago, until maybe three years ago adults knew basically nothing about vaping and e-cigarettes. how did that come to the fore and what are the sort of a current lack of awareness that you can find it with bears? >> well, tobacco control has been very successful in this country. we have reduced youth tobacco youth i could use rate by

indicator that farmers used to show that sprayed paraquat a toxic weed killer banned in many countries and the european union its use is blamed on a number of illnesses including a flesh eating bacteria disease which is emerged in northern thailand some farmers have died others have lost limbs in the province of non-board lump who where researchers say contamination from agric emma cools is severe. i really want to see people stop using the chemicals last time i went to the provincial hospital the staff told me there were a lot of patients with similar symptoms as i had thailand's become one of the world's biggest uses of paraquat partly because of its effectiveness on sugarcane plantations as the price of rice fell the government encouraged farmers to grow other crops like sugar which in turn increased demand for paraquat the health ministry recommended that it be banned along with two other chemicals but that was ignored and they continued use approved by a government appointed committee there are now allegations that some members of that committee had conflicts of interest with companies involved in impor

indicator that farmers used to show that sprayed paraquat a toxic weed killer banned in many countries and the european union its use is blamed on a number of illnesses including a flesh eating bacteria disease which is emerged in northern thailand some farmers have died others have lost limbs in the province of non-board lump who where researchers say contamination from agric emma cools is severe. i really want to see people stop using the chemicals last time i went to the provincial hospital the staff told me there were a lot of patients with similar symptoms as i had thailand's become one of the world's biggest uses of paraquat partly because of its effectiveness on sugarcane plantations as the price of rice fell the government encouraged farmers to grow other crops like sugar which in turn increased demand for paraquat the health ministry recommended that it be banned along with two other chemicals but that was ignored and they continued use approved by a government appointed committee there are now allegations that some members of that committee had conflicts of interest with companies involved in impor

indicator that farmers used to show that sprayed paraquat a toxic weed killer banned in many countries and the european union its use is blamed on a number of illnesses including a flesh eating bacteria disease which is emerged in northern thailand some farmers have died others have lost limbs in the province of. where researches say contamination from agra chemicals is severe. i really want to see people stop using the chemicals last time i went to the provincial hospital the staff told me there were a lot of patients with similar symptoms as i had thailand's become one of the world's biggest uses of paraquat partly because of its effectiveness on sugar cane plantations as the price of rice fell the government encouraged farmers to grow other crops like sugar which in turn increased demand for paraquat the health ministry recommended that it be banned along with two other chemicals but that was ignored and they continued use approved by a government appointed committee there are now allegations that some members of that committee had conflicts of interest with companies involved in importing the chemicals t

bans, and political bias. >>> european commissioner president jean-claude juncker talks up multilateralism in his state of the union and says a united europe is an unavoidable force in world trade >>> angela merkel on the offensive. she uses her bundestag speech to call for solidarity on illegal migration. >>> and the worst storm to hit the carolinas in over 60 years emergency services warns hurricane florence will be extremely dangerous with life threatening storm surges and fierce winds. >>> good morning russia seems to have accelerated its pivot towards the east with vladimir putin taking the stage with the leaders of china, japan, and mongolia. he warned trade tensions would hurt the global economy. president putin urged asian countries to maintain the spirit of economic freedom. >> translator: i wanted to add that i have already said that the world and global economy are coming up against new forms of protectionism today with different kinds of barriers which are increasing in the past times, basic principles of trade, competition, mutual economic benefit are deprecated and undermined they're becoming hostages

in hong kong, from the british foreign office, and even from the european union, they've all said that they are concerned about this banck in 2016 and saw first—hand. briefly tell us how the government is curtailing these freedom of speech, this ability to speak freely. we had those elections that i covered in 2016, they were the first elections since the umbrella protests and we suffer the first time people voting for parties were advocating for independence from china. since then, the government has been cracking down on people who are either running for office or even wanting to register for office and this shows us how seriously the government in hong kong is taking this issue. last year, we had xi jinping come to hong kong and he said advocating for independence was a red line and today what we're seeing is the hong kong government enforcing that. thank you, laura. a yachtsman stranded in the middle of the indian ocean for several days with a severe back injuryhas been rescued. abhilash tomy, from india, hit a storm nearly 2,000 miles off the coast of australia where his boat was overcome by waves 14 meters high.

argued that since the ban was introduced in the eighty's stocks have recovered sufficiently for it to be left as but for anti-whaling countries led by australia the european union and the united states to face of japan's appropriate it's like in japan will continue to hunt whales by making use of a loophole and those so called scientific whaling. whales are the world's biggest sea members and their existence is threatened as ocean pollution increases but they're also highly coveted for whale hunting by japan these japanese ships official mission is to perform scientific research you know not to meet some of the international whaling commission in brazil japan push to bring commercial whaling back they were supported by iceland and norway but the motion failed japan accepted the decision but has threatened consequences if russia are willing based on science is completely denied. if there is no possibility for the different positions and views to courtney's this was mutual understanding and respect. then jump around chris to undertake a fundamental assessment and its position as a member of the sea. the decision is a relief for environmentalists to calling for a

ban on russia's testing laboratory despite widespread opposition in track and field athletes have not convenient under their country's flag since two thousand and fifteen also coming out the european union leaders piled the pressure on british prime minister theresa may telling her parts of her great city proposal will not work and that time is running out. to our correspondent an e.u. summit for him. it's good to have you with us we begin tonight with a decision on doping in sports that has shocked and outraged many around the world today the world anti-doping agency wada voted to lift a ban on russia's anti-doping agency that ban was put into place after a water report accused russia of state backed doping and of attempting to cover up drug abuse while russia hosted the twenty fourteen sochi winter olympics athletes across the globe are criticizing today's decision to lift the ban calling it an insult to clean athletes. the biggest stopping scandal in sports history might be coming to an end the russian anti-doping agency will be reinstated pending some final technicalities the decision has been heavily criticised by various athletes and national doping agencies but is being celebrate

the european union has extended sanctions against russian officials and military officers accused of meddling in ukraine. the eu said there is no reason to suspend the asset freezes and travel bansn nearly 200 people and companies. the eu imposed sanctions after it and asked the peninsula

redistribution of migrants within the european union the doorbell and doesn't want that aren't you closer to me than to orbit. chip trying to get something good out of everybody victor or ban talks about defending europe's borders about protection in the countries of origin and investment in africa and i agree with him and gloom urkel is proposing a redistribution inside europe and i can agree even with this position in the very near future. what we have to do is help these people so that they don't flee their own countries we should be rapidly investing five hundred million euros in africa i believe that both germany and hungary are right regarding certain issues. but i join us what people do. you saw what's happening in cabinets in germany right at the moment. with the right wing with if you what's happening. somebody said that this is also i'm going to america's fault what's happening there because of the migration crisis do you agree it's coming to america i would say that i'm going to merkel certainly underestimated the risk of a social clash when she claimed that there was space for hundreds of thousands of people in germany but i still remember what happened during

off its european union voting rights ahead of a vote on wednesday and it's a major consensus over the edge of action of the government particularly on immigration to reports from. victor all ban arrived in strasburg to defend himself and his far right policy as any piece debated punishing hungary for breach an e.u. values the prime minister accused the european parliament of blackmail hungry does not give in to blackmail hungry will defend its borders stop illegal migration and will defend its rights to some any piece aided or bands anti immigration an anti e.u. government is violating the rule of law and human rights at the height of europe's migration crisis in twenty fifteen hungry built a fence along its border with serbia and croatia to keep out refugees sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report a particular rest regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the traditional oban says he's been unfairly targeted by a pro migration liberal elite but this one gary in opposition m.e.p. disagrees in contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five or five pe

theresa may preparing to vote down any deal with the european union that the prime minister brings to parliament. good and drug administration consider banning the online sale of e-cigarettes. godlymmissioner's got says the agency is reconsidering the stance because an epidemic of used by teenagers. the agency could move on new regulations by november. global news on air and on tictoc on twitter powered by what 700 journalists and analysts in 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. in london.s 1:00 welcome to bloomberg markets. here are the top stories on bloomberg and around the world we are following. donald trump addresses the united nations general assembly. they say he has achieved new military heights. founders of instagram are leaving facebook amid tensions with mark zuckerberg. now where does the app go? the ceo of one of the world's biggest oil companies. thet, we are halfway into trading day. it has been directionless. >> it has been a bit of a day. 500 relatively flat. big gainer, the energy industry because of the comments by president trump highlighting protectionist rhetoric talking about the iran sanctions that wi

european union. carl, populist fever is still very much in existence across europe >> big story on the continent there, thank you >>> meanwhile, as you probably know, twitter announced it permanently bannednes julia boorstin has a look. >> hey, carl thaerlt. after sus -- that's right, after suspending alex jones, they permanently suspended alex jones from twitter and periscope we took this action based on new reports of tweets and videos posted yesterday twitter referencing videos wednesday that showed him berating a cnn journalist on capitol hill after a long history of offensive behavior, including saying the sandy hook mass shooting was fake now twitter citing policies that prohibit direct threats of violence is going a step further from banning jones, saying he cannot recreate presence under another account to circumvent the ban. twitter joins facebook, youtube, apple, spotify who all removed on limit him on their platforms. facebook deleted four pages run by jones a month ago jones is back posting on facebook after that 30 days expired. he acknowledges the twitter suspension, directs people to his uncensored videos on his website using the facebook web page to do so. appears the ban

a ban on russia's testing laboratory despite widespread opposition russian track and field athletes have not convened it under their country's flag since twenty fifteen also coming up european unionleaders pile the pressure on british prime minister theresa may telling her parts of her great city proposal will not.

european union voting rights act of a vote on wednesday members of major concerns over the direction the government has been taking particularly on immigration that's a butler report from strasbourg. victor all ban arrived in strasburg to defend himself and his far right policy as amy pease debated punishing hungary for breach an e.u. values the prime minister accused the european parliament of blackmail it wasn't hungry does not give in to blackmail hungry will defend its borders stop illegal migration and will defend its rights to some any piece aided or bans anti immigration an anti e.u. government is violating the rule of law and human rights at the height of europe's migration crisis in twenty fifteen hungry built a fence along its border with so b. and croatia to keep out refugees sadly the commission shares the concerns expressed in the report it particularise regards fundamental rights corruption the treatment of roma and the independence of the traditional. oban says he's been unfairly targeted by a pro migration liberal elite but this one gary in opposition m.e.p. disagrees and contradiction with. what mr obama is saying this report is not about migration and refugees but i know five o