a german commission recommends hiking the minimum wage a good or bad thing for business in europe's biggest economy and building a compact bio gas digesters to farmers off expensive and environmentally harmful propane. to business full throttle for the trade dispute it's a backfiring on. a stock market rebound today fizzled out as the u.s. president criticized the motorcycle manufacturer for blaming a hike in judy's for its decision to move some american factories abroad the trade official says wagging her finger telling trump there have to be consequences if you don't respect international global rules. the harley davidson an iconic american brand and now a symbol of u.s. president donald trump's protectionist trade policy. decision to impose tariffs on the motorcycles came after washington introduced levies on steel and aluminum imports. but instead of stepping on the america first bandwagon harley davidson responded by saying it would ship some production overseas. unsurprisingly that didn't go down too well with the protection of the president. characteristically fiery tweeze he wrote h

and german commission has recommended raising the minimum wage next year from eight euros eighty four now to nine years nineteen an idea to boost private consumption in europe's biggest economy the german government's widely expected to be ok the proposals which include a further hike in twenty twenty employees have been required to pay minimum wage in germany since twenty fifteen. and let's check in with daniel cope our financial correspondent and frank just first of all for our international viewers has the minimum wage been successful in germany. when you take a look around you with then nine euros nineteen germany would be the number two in europe with a minimum wage the highest meet women wages being paid in luxembourg with eleven yours fifty five and the lowest in bulgaria with only one euro fifty seven experts are divided if the minimum wage is a success story here in germany are not when you total this affan employ you would make about one thousand four hundred euro before taxes so after taxes run about one thousand euro for a full time job this might work in some rural areas

eight against thank you very much for some more powder positive non-tariff news a german commission has recommended raising the minimum wage next year by four percent to nine euros nineteen an hour the idea is to boost private consumption of europe's biggest economy german government is widely expected to pose as which include a further hike before the end of this decade and ploys have been required to pay minimum wage in germany since twenty fifty. india's economy is growing rapidly but it could be expanding even faster if it weren't for the country's crumbling roads railways and utilities where in dire need of investment now the government is calling on the asian infrastructure investment bank to stump up some of the cash. in delhi getting from a to b. can be quite a challenge heavy traffic and poor signposting are a headache for any commuter but for those in the delivery business subpar infrastructure takes an economic toll to. electricity access is also a major issue with millions of people in the country still without power. perhaps it's no surprise then that indian prime minister

a german commission has recommended raising the minimum wage next year from eight euros eighty four to nine euros nineteen the idea is to boost private consumption in europe's biggest economy the german government is widely expected to ok the proposals which include the hike in twenty twenty employees have been required to pay minimum wage in germany since twenty fifth. to bring in financial correspondent to frankfurt tell our viewers just how successful the minimum wage has been in germany since twenty fifth day. well when the minimum wage discussion has been very controversial here for a long time there are some people who are saying that the money is still not enough with nine years nineteen a full time employee in a supermarket for example would make about one thousand four hundred euros before taxes so after texas around one thousand euro for a full time job this might work but in you know in very expensive cities like frankfurt berlin or munich you are still with this amount of money at the poverty level the other problem is that you would still get almost the same money with the

now finally some non-tariff news a german commission has recommended raising the minimum wage next year from eight euros eighty four an hour to nine euros nineteen in the idea is to boost private consumption in europe's biggest economy the german government is widely expected to ok the proposals which include a further hike in twenty twenty employers have been required to pay a minimum wage in germany since twenty fifteen. the earlier we asked our financial correspondent done to cope about the success of the minimum wage in germany. when you take a look around europe with then nine euros nineteen germany would be the number two in europe with a minimum wage the highest minimum wages being paid in luxembourg with eleven years fifty five and the lowest in bulgaria with only one euro fifty seven experts are divided if the mini wage is a success story here in germany a nod when you total those up and employ you would make about one thousand four hundred euro before taxes so after texas run about one thousand euro for a full time job this might work in some rural areas but in expensive citie

joined a commission of the german bishops conference and is a member of the e.u. commission of the bishops conference or the list goes on. to get them comfortable and i think if we see a phrase to mind my own ordination in rome twenty nine years ago now i have the opportunity to ordain priests every year. to do. this is church the. which is st ignatius of loyola in roman times he was a fullback was a change here in one thousand eight hundred nine by use of cardinal ratzinger who later became pope benedict the sixteenth. bishop over that travels to rome often mostly for work at the vatican he certainly enjoys these visits. rome is a great city and it has always been for me i studied in rome from one thousand nine hundred forty nine hundred ninety and back then the economic political and social climate was very different from what it is now and the lives of his with you know there have always been a lot of friendly people here it's just tough because he points to him mentioning he studied theology and philosophy at the pontifical gregorian university it was a formati

thousand and fifteen many of them from syria members of the opposition of the german parliament are preparing to demand commission of inquiries into the chancellor's handling of the vents at the time they were images that unsettled many people in germany. at the height of the migrant crisis thousands and thousands of people were making their way across europe many of them heading for germany. but despite the uncertainty the german chancellor remains convinced her country could cope with the influx. if they are quite simply germany is a strong country the scene we have to adopt when approaching this issue is that we have achieved so much and we will manage it we will manage it and when we come up against obstacles we have to overcome them was this when they are but according to new media reports the chancellor was briefed by the former head of germany's ministry for migration of refugees you're going visor on how he thought his office was not coping at all he reportedly told the chancellor in all its professional experience the new management has never seen a government agency in such a bad state it cannot be expl

air quality in german cities got so bad the e.u. commission filed a lawsuit to make them deal with it this has led to restrictions on diesel vehicles hamburg is the first city to ban diesel cars on two of its main thoroughfares only new diesel vehicles meeting the strict euro six exhaust emissions standards are allowed to drive here but until the city issues wind shield badges police can't readily see if a vehicle meets the required standards or not and the ban has upset almost everyone from shop owners to environmentalists some say the ban doesn't go far enough others think it's not well thought out. they're just doing this for the sake of doing something but it's not coherent it's a rush job. i went and listened all they gave were just stock answers it made me feel sick really. they say the ban is about protecting people but in fact it just means others will suffer more pollution i think that's terrible especially since i also live along one of the detours. a major goal of the ban is to drastically reduce the area's high levels of nitrogen o

there are three days to go before german chancellor angela merkel's mini migration summit in brussels invitations have gone out in the name of the european commission to ten countries including italy greece spain and austria coming maybe more the german chancellor wants as many countries as possible to take back refugees if they've registered their first a preliminary draft of the final declaration points to a clear tightening of the us silent policy including an end to the large scale movement of refugees within the european union the document proposes the establishment of migrant processing centers outside a u. borders also a mechanism for deportations between e.u. countries cash and other welfare provisions would only be available in the countries migrants are registered and there'd be controls at stations in airports to limit cross border movement but the document provoked disagreement as soon as it was leaked italian prime minister to. complain that the paper disregarded his country's position and threatened to boycott this weekend's migration meeting he says italy wants a moratorium on new migrants before it takes any back from other e.u. cou

latest exemption was granted the european commission issued a whole statement that they will not negotiate under threat but just this week the news came that the german finance minister is going to meet with the european commission trade representative and the americans to discuss this tariff specifically and what i want to ask you is whether you believe in principle it's a good idea for the europeans to ask for individual concessions rather than trying to push against what you or i think quite rightly termed the us legal imperialism in other words should they be asking for a privilege or should they be asking for rules that are commonly applied to everybody no no it's not mix issues what you just talked about is terrorist trade and. we are. different there are three different countries the issue is is more fundamentally was a respectful national sovereignty or not and it's the turning point if we miss a point and to see rain in a month capable to show we must be respected then i think it would be a very deadly who for the future of the u.s. but mr bush when you say i agree with you that terrorising individual but at the same time for example the oth

latest exemption was granted the european commission issued a whole statement that they will not negotiate under threat but just this week the news came that the german finance minister is going to meet with the european commission trade representative and damn america to discuss this tariff specifically and what i want to ask you is whether you believe in principle it's a good idea for the europeans to ask for individual concessions rather than trying to push against what you i think quite rightly termed the us legal imperialism in other words should they be asking for a privilege or should they be asking for rules that are commonly applied to everybody no no it's not mix issues the the what you just talked about this terrorist trade and. we. have different terrorists with different countries the issue is is more fundamentally was a respectful national sovereignty or not and it's not turning point if we miss a point and. i'm not capable to show we must be respected then i think it would be a very deadly who for the future of the u.s. but mr bush when you say i agree with you that terrorising individual but at the same time for example the other day

commission. turkish government has refused to allow a member of the german parliament to enter the country as an election observer left party member under a whole co has previously described last year's constitutional referendum in turkey as unfair and accuses him of sympathizing with the outlawed p k k party. in the world cup in russia france to come through in the second of thursday's group c. clashes a first half strike from a killing in pay was enough to settle a tie in france's favor the nineteen year old became the nation's youngest ever world cup goalscorer as france returned to the top of group c. through meanwhile have been eliminated from the composition of the failing to pick up points from an opening to gaps. group c. rival stand mark and australia back into the day with an exciting match in samarra and the danes took the lead after just seven minutes it's like your kids have found christian eriksen whose stunning volley flew past the australian keeper ten minutes before the break australia claimed the humble the referee could solve the v.a.r. and the strains got a penalty melee and

just two days to go before german chancellor angela merkel's mini migration summit invitations have gone out in the name of the european commission to ten countries including italy greece spain belgariad and austria merkel wants as many countries as possible to sign up to a deal whereby asylum seekers would be returned to the e.u. country in which they first registered a draft migration accord pointed to a tightening of the sign and policy the document proposed establishing migrant processing centers outside e.u. borders also a mechanism for deportations between e.u. countries cash and other welfare provisions would only be available in the countries migrants are registered and that be controls at stations and airports to limit cross border movement but the document provokes disagreement as soon as it was leaked italian prime minister just said picante complaining that the paper disregarded his country's position he threatened to boycott this weekend's meeting he says italy wants a moratorium on new migrants before it takes any back from of the e.u. countries cities far right interior minister had already ups the rhetoric the pre

commission. i am an author of two books on the first world war. the most recent, 47 days, how pershing's warriors defeated the german army in world war i. >> how did your interest start? mr. yockelson: it started as a young kid. basically reading books on learning about general pershing. for a number of years, i served as the national archives world war i record specialist. it developed from there. >> we are going to watch some films. >> that is a small town. 15,000 inhabitants, 70 miles east of paris. late may of 1918, the germans launched a big offensive. american troops are supplying the french, trying to stop the german troops, and counterattacking. we see american shoulders heading to cheateau-thierry. to supply the french troops that were needing more troops to be able to stop the huge german offensive. mr. yockelson: this looks like a salvation army worker. female. there were not females in the army directly. they are giving coffee and hot chocolate, which is always popular with the troops. it was not impacted until the second somme? mr. moizan: september 1914, but only for a few days. then, we have action going on. mr. yockelson: the town

upon its accused her of endangering german security with her welcoming approach to migrants. a european commission index of household sentiment fell to an eight-month low in june as raise -- as rising trade tensions dampened optimism. a broader measure of confidence that included business also fell for a sixth straight month. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and at tick toc on twitter, powered by over 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. up, betting ong that box -- bit box. we will talk about all things crypto assets with the ceo of blockchain. this is bloomberg. ♪ caroline: this bike this year's selloff in crypto, exchanges are still opening up. japan's biggest messaging service is opening up a crypto exchange next month. investors are being offered more opportunities to get exposure. for more, we are joined by peter smith, ceo of blockchain. talk to us about how blockchain 's principal strategy is going to be different. peter: the market is really immature, there are not a lot of mature platforms out there that institutions are dealing -- used to dealin

german car manufacturers association call for a free trade deal, ironically by threatening protectionism he is actually giving more oxygen to the arguments for free trade. but will the european commissionels pick up the challenge of the german car manufacturers association and say, ok, mr trump, we'll abolish tariffs on cars between the us and european union. actually what you find in the end is things are not as they seem. it is the european union, the outdated customs union project, this is where the real protectionism is. it's not with america. donald trump is off to meet president putin in helsinki next month. is he undermining the british position and should he be meeting vladimir putin? i think meeting putin is no bad thing. there is a concern, is this going to undermine nato? if he made some sort of bilateral deal with putin's russia, would it undermine nato? i think we are looking at this through the wrong end of the telescope. there is one thing undermining nato and bear in mind that there is the nato summit on the iithjuly, before his trip to the uk, and i think of all the things that will happen on that trump visit it is the nato visit that could be the most confrontational.

on exports to china the european commission vice president in turn calling on china to ease market access restrictions and tackle its overcapacity of steel over. german companies b.m.w. and siemens have joined airbus in voicing their concerns about staying and investing in britain the companies all cite uncertainty surrounding the post breaks that deal with the e.u. a criticism magnified by a new survey among business leaders in six e.u. countries really half of the eight hundred executives whole bible from mckenzie that their firms have reduced investment in the u.k. since the breaks of thought aeronautics company air bus said last week that a no deal scenario might lead to moving thousands of jobs abroad women in saudi arabia no longer stuck in the passenger seat authorities have started to issue driver's licenses to women again on sunday the first female drivers were able to get behind the wheel but to what extent is that a case of giving women more freedom and to what extent is it about giving the economy a boost. getting into the car to drive to work or on our hands it's a first for most saudi women who are literally forced to take a backseat fo

however look at the technocrats the european commission this was a tweet from a journalist from deutsche of al who interviewed a european commissioner who is a german who is a european commissioner for budget and human resources and so here is the tweet from bernard thomas riegert of deutsche of l. the markets and a darkened outlook will teach italy's voters not to vote for populist parties in the next elections told me the commissioner oettinger in exclusive interview for a dose of health news and strasburg i can only hope that. will play a role in the election campaign so looks like there will be another election in italy probably in july or august. and this guy oettinger who is good herman oettinger a german politician and now a european commissioner he's saying that because the markets have reacted so negatively that italian voters should basically learn a lesson and not vote for a populist again right the key phrase there is the markets will teach quote the markets will teach according to the technocrat the german that as we've been saying again going back to two thousand and eight so almost ten years i've been saying this concept which i will

there they will be discussed here and berlin today as german chancellor angela merkel meets with spanish prime minister petro sanchez and european commission president juncker the chancellor is now backing bilateral agreements with countries instead of e.u. wide refugee quotas but will that be enough to satisfy their polls call. nation partners her interior minister from the very christian social union wants migrants to be turned back at germany's borders and he has given merkel a july first deadline to come up with an alternate plan. so the clock is ticking and joining us now to break it all down is to be useful it will correspondent hans bronte joins us here in the studio this morning welcome to you hans we know that merkel is going to meet with her coalition partners to discuss asylum policy a little bit later this evening how far are the sides away from an agreement at this hour or one has to say first of all the disagreement is. consist of party from bavaria the christian social union the interior minister is from the party and he is in fact the person that has been pushing pushing that that's wholesale for who we see if the back. and

commission. and the turkish government has refused to allow a member of the german parliament to enter the country as an observer for this weekend's election and the member of the german left party intended to go as a representative of the organization for security and cooperation in europe he's previously condemned last year's constitutional referendum as unfair the turkish government accuses him of sympathizing with the outlawed p k k party. from correspondent do you. so what tell us more about what president has against. well mr has been an observer of previous elections here in turkey that's what you mentioned including last year's controversial constitutional referendum and back then he harshly criticized the conditions under which the vote was held saying it was not democratic not fair and more than two million votes might have been compromised so he's known as someone who at least once questioned the legitimacy the credibility of turkish election results later on and that might be the more important issue here he was accused by turkish government officials of sympathizing with the band p k

foster was one of ten architects commissioned by the vatican to design a chapel here on the venetian island of sun joint german joining. the twenty a team venice be anon it provides an alternative view of architecture one that focuses on meeting the needs of people one that displays great attention to detail but one that is not set in stone but allows for change in free space. and now we have a date with an architect who decided to live in that would meet up with her in a romantic garden at the other end of the city. gentle ready dean has lived here for many years she considers venice has a second home the architect and professor is also a writer in two thousand and six she established the global award for sustainable architecture awarded to architects engaged in the search for a new method. then i did in free space i have almost as moderates normally again for free space is the theme for the beer all of this year because you set up a global award for sustainable architecture and a walk sustainable and participator global award intermittently do you have the feeling that the world of architecture has changed o

commissioned farmhouse. this is in the hands of the german people some of the farmers and their owner is in dimon this only what animals they will only received once when we come two hundred joining us in what i mean it worked as a let me to have a fire my own place the firm would have a did not but when was the going to be by force with also get everything in sight now is the only thing whatever i want to do something then i have two requests for that i have to buy for them i think the government at the moment the x. leg there kate when people say they are reacting now when people are demanding they are coming up with we want to do this in this in this so they the it's a time bomb and then know that many people are saying we need to join this group because they are talking about lent and we are seeing lent is what we have been dropped off by the germans and if people also start getting into the farms of the germans i don't know how their brothers and sisters will react in berlin if the germans that's feeling unsafe in the media i don't know how it will affect. the millions. development eight that the gym and g