meeting in brussels to determine how to strengthen a shaky truce in libya the blocs top diplomat joseph burrell has said any long term peace. requires firm support from europe suggesting that the bloc could restart a naval mission off this and north african countries coast it comes a day after a summit here in berlin where world leaders agreed not to interfere in libya and to respect a u.n. weapons in bargo after 9 years of conflict the leaders of libya's 2 main rival factions are still refusing to meet face to face. the mighty gathered in berlin on a sunday afternoon world powers united in a mission of hope german chancellor angela merkel invited representatives of more than 10 countries to press for a solution to the long running conflict in libya it was only a few hours before they announced a breakthrough no more arms shipments to the war torn country. via. whom we can confirm that we have all agreed to respect the arms embargo. and we'll also monitor it more closely than we have in the past you sense enough to file this. however they haven't gets built up consequences for breaking the emba

foreign policy chief joseph burrell were already thinking about what comes after and what role the e.u. should have in ensuring stability on its southern flank. now to some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. says it will begin testing travelers from china for signs of a new virus at 3 airports virtue of virus causes fever and breathing troubles and the so far infected 40 people killing 2 travelers with signs of the illness will be sent to hospitals for testing. u.s. president donald trump is bringing in some legal heavyweights to defend him in his senate impeachment trial is out and form a independent counsel ken starr who paved the way for bill clinton's impeachment and alan dershowitz who's known for defending 6 defended jeffrey epstein. brazil's culture minister has been fired after using language similar to adult hitler's propaganda minister yosef goebbels. used to use the phrases in a speech to promote a new initiative in brazil focusing on nationalism and religion all of them admitted the similarity but cold of a coincidence. migrants in greece have been p

know i could hear in the comments from the foreign ministers and even from foreign policy chief joseph burrell that they are slowly accepting that perhaps they're not going to be able to keep the deal alive although that's still very much the unified position even as the foreign ministers were meeting as we heard from washington more sanctions were being piled on iran and that puts pressure on the european union as well as on tehran because the e.u. one of the e.u.'s obligations under the iran nuclear deal is to increase trade with with iran and that's impossible with u.s. sanctions threatening both the government of iran and any e.u. company doing business there so this is a very difficult road and in fact my colleague max under just interviewed the lothian foreign minister who said let's face it without the u.s. this is probably dead so we may be hearing more about that and perhaps there is sort of a new realization that there need to be completely new negotiations including the u.s. and possibly getting it back on the table teri schultz in brussels published this in washington thank you. ir

foreign policy chief joseph burrell were already thinking about what comes after and what role the e.u. should have in ensuring stability on its southern flank. u.s. president donald trump has warned iran's supreme leader ayatollah khamenei to be very careful with his words it comes after him in a denounce the united states and urge iranians to unite behind their government in a rare appearance on friday prayers he dismissed trump as a clown adding his support for the iranian people is a pretense the ayatollah also defended iran's military after it admitted shooting down a ukrainian passenger jet by mistake. after weeks of national trauma thousands turned out to see iran's supreme leader in a rare show of strength the men cheered and chanted as ali how many railed against iran's enemies. like. american clowns who falsely and despicably say that we are standing with the iranian people and say they can see who the iranian people. are the few hundreds of people who insulted the picture about martyred and honorable general custom sell the money the iranian people. all rather your branding

foreign policy chief joseph burrell were already thinking about what comes after and what role the e.u. should have in ensuring stability on its southern flank. here in germany 6 members of a neo nazi group have received prison sentences of to 6 years a court in the eastern city of dresden found them guilty of a range of attacks targeting foreigners. to dresden regional court judge said the defendants were rooted in the far right scene and actively sought to spread their ideology 6 members of the so-called free comradeship dresden were convicted for a range of charges including assault and involvement in a criminal organization. to come out of the court to clarify to you that all of the accused that's exactly what deeply racist motives and a strong affinity to naziism those. pictures of hitler swastikas and the like which clearly exemplify the defendant's convictions or your character and or to believe that. the 5 men and one woman were sentenced to between 3 and 6 years in prison their group emerged in the summer of 2015 at the start of the migration crisis when group members were acc

foreign policy chief joseph burrell is proposing that restarting the a use sofia naval operation to rescue migrants in the mediterranean now that operation was halted due to a dispute over the distribution of refugees across europe the e.u. says it will not take steps to monitor a cease fire until libya's working factions have established a stable troops. in that ceasefire reached yesterday both sides in libya's conflict agreed to nominate a 5 member committee to monitor the country's fragile cease fire and many ordinary libyans however they are viewing these recent peace efforts with some skepticism after 9 years of conflict and with fresh clashes already being reported today around tripoli many libyans know firsthand just how fleeting peace and stability can be. life goes on in tripoli despite renewed assaults around the capital the high level summit in berlin has made no big promises prime minister. who leads the un backed government from tripoli acknowledged a resistance to negotiate from our side we've nominated 5 people and they are now waiting to meet their 5 counterparts but on an

foreign policy chief joseph burrell who are already thinking about what comes after and what role the e.u. should have in ensuring stability on its southern flank. the german city of not is marking the 75th anniversary of the bombing it suffered in the 2nd world war on the night of 16th of january 1945 an air raid by allied forces destroyed much of the city a series of commemorative events are being held over the weekend but many fear that far right groups will use the anniversary to promote their own distorted version of history on friday magda berg locals came out to commemorate the bombing and to voice their opposition to the far right. people filed through the center of town to commemorate the unimaginable hundreds dying as their city burned on friday night to book is gathered in a spirit of reconciliation with a message of warning to far right groups who seek to exploit this anniversary to their own and. other stuff and my loss of suffering happened at the hands of germans without germans world war 2 would never have happened not to would never have been bombed by new courses all

well in washington european commission president ursula vander lion and foreign policy chief joseph burrell came out after an urgent cabinet meeting this morning and said that it is very important for all sides to resume talks now this comes even as some european union governments themselves are condemning the attacks germany france the u.k. even finland have come out and condemned the missile attacks but not vonda lion and burrell they say the e.u. has an important role to play and that role lies in communicating with the iranian regime let's hear what underline had to say this morning. the congress is deeply affects not only the region but all of us and the use of weapons must now give space to dialogue. we all are hold upon to do everything possible to rekindle talk and there cannot be enough out so teary or so phone line talking about a dialogue and of course is huge concern as you said among. those about what's happening but can't even do anything concrete to deescalate the situation. it remains to be see what seen whether this will be effective but the e.u. can in fact play an importa

well interestingly as i mentioned underlying and foreign policy chief joseph burrell came out and simply said they're going to keep talking they didn't give any more concrete measures than that the european union has invited iranian foreign ministers of odds a wreath to brussels and has also called an urgent foreign ministers meeting for friday so perhaps zarif will make his way to brussels for that foreign ministers meeting although we haven't had that confirmed yet and so i think that that the e.u. really does feel that as one of the the trusted negotiators with the iranian regime and very much wanting to keep this nearly dead iranian nuclear deal alive they feel that is their role here because of course washington and tehran do not speak and i think that that's that's what they feel is going to be this important role but it was very interesting that underline said she had very fruitful discussions in her cabinet meeting this morning but didn't give us any more than that and didn't take any questions from journalists about just what the next steps would be so the e.u. may have a rule h

this very moment a european commission president or so live under lion and foreign policy chief joseph burrell are meeting we expect them to come out any minute when it when they planned this this urgent meeting of course the iranian airstrikes hadn't happened yet so they will definitely have to ramp up their response to this of course as our previous guests have said it remains to be seen what the death toll is if any from this attack from iran and that will very much color how leaders respond to that but we'll be hearing from them very shortly it's a bit early to have expected them here in brussels to come out with any response saying that it happened overnight so i mean there has been some reaction from the german government what's the latest. yeah terry the german government has condemned the iranian air strikes and the german defense minister and a great camp karen has been speaking this morning she said that no german service personnel have been harmed in these attacks showing she said that the decision to move 30 training personnel out of central iraq yesterday was the right one. german

foreign policy chief to let's just listen to what joseph burrell said. you know that. question really this has been advance into possibility or. not an accident but i don't know and it would be quite responsible for my side to influence news about such a sensitive scene we saw how we could create information. it is not the response that you would expect from. at this stage what are your thoughts well i agree look we've got to be cautious and as your report quite rightly pointed out that when and incidentally like this happens it takes not only weeks months perhaps even years to come to the conclusion as to what the reality was but this is all part of the ratcheting after trying to show that iran is them aligned state iran is doing things which are not really in the interest of the public and then your other report quite rightly which is related to this particular incident is that you know u.s. is good for the world but really i would like you said that you know what mr. trump was saying that they took everything but i think what would be a really good title is that i a

foreign policy chief joseph burrell says the aim of me folk into deals dispute mechanism is to grain iran back into compliance that could spell the end of the year and the return to sanctions. the democrats top presidential candidates have faced off in the final t.v. debate before the start of the primary season i would poll suggests a tight race between a former vice president joe biden a month senator bernie sanders we massachusetts senator elizabeth warren in circles this is the. news from got it from all followers on twitter at the w.'s office of the web site t w dot com. after 18 months of damaging economic conflict the u.s. and china due to sign what they're calling phase one of a trade agreement later today kris kobach from date of business we welcome chris i took us through the essentials of this trip well essentially china agreed to buy much more stuff from the united states let's go through the figures here $30000000000.00 more in agricultural products $50000000000.00 more in energy surprise $80000000000.00 more in manufactured goods now experts are skeptical whether these

destroy is of work and efforts on the rebuilding of this country and you foreign policy chief joseph burrell straight to brussels where we join brussels correspondent to teri schultz welcome terry so where does the bureau. speaking very statesman like but one wonders does anyone besides the e.u. care that the e.u. still backs iran nuclear deal but there have been recent events rendered it it relevant. well truly it isn't helped by mr burrell's rather uninspired. pronouncement that the deal is not dead but you know it's not true that nobody cares about the iran deal anymore that everybody believes it's irrelevant because besides the european union you know who else cares iran cares and that's evidenced by the fact that although it has now breached all obligations under the iran nuclear deal quite openly and flagrantly it did not kick out and specters and that truly would have been the death of the deal because the e.u. relies entirely on the assessments of these international inspectors to determine what it does next so the others the other parties that care about the iran nuclear deal are ch

the foreign policy chief joseph burrell says the 2015 iran nuclear deal is critical for regional stability speaking after an emergency meeting in brussels he said europe wants to maintain the deal but that iran must uphold its obligations. and iran has rejected accusations that one of its missiles mistakenly shot down a ukrainian airliner on wednesday killing all 176 people on board. iran has maintained it should carry out the investigation into the trash after several western countries offered to play a role the head of iran's civil aviation authority has spoken about where the inquiry has got to. the war another on its very obvious when the plane took off from the airport of the 23 minutes of course fire the reason it's not clear though the pilot tried to return to the airport and change the route towards the airport and it shows that he was aware that an accident that happened the crashed on its way back if a missile that hit it it would have crashed in the regional direction he says the plane did not explode to hit the ground but the u.s. navy says one of its warships has been aggressi

even finland have come out and condemned the missile attacks but not vonda lyon and joseph burrell they say the e.u. has an important role to play and that role lies in communicating with the iranian regime let's hear what live under len had to say this morning the con crisis deeply affects not only the region but all of us and the use of weapons must now give space to dialogue. we all are called upon to do everything possible to rekindle talk and there cannot be enough out so theory or so phone line talking about dialogue and of course is a huge concern as you said among. leaders about what's happening but can they even do anything concrete to deescalate the situation. it remains to be see what seen whether this will be effective but the e.u. can in fact play an important role in talking with tehran because it's something that of course washington doesn't do but the e.u. does have an open dialogue with the iranian regime particularly over the nuclear program which the e.u. is trying desperately to save hanging by a very very thin thread at this point the e.u. has invited iranian foreig

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on wednesday he will travel to brussels to meet with the chief diplomat of the european union joseph burrell and will then travel to davos in switzerland for the world economic forum where he could meet with the united states president donald trump the question is though if this trip would will do anything to break the deadlock in venezuela where the military still stands behind president maduro and where my daughter himself seems to stand on firmer ground where he was for example a year ago the last time that way though trying to ramp up pressure against him. still ahead here on al-jazeera find out why a historic russian called a meeting at the u.n. is being described as raising this information your gun rights activists in the u.s. come out in force in a state that's become the focus of national debate. hello i'm pleased to say we got some quieter weather into eastern parts of canada now he said parts of the u.s. as well our weather system now in the process pulling out of the way dry up bright clear skies coming in behind at least for a time so that's a picture as we go on into chews day

separately, the eu policy meeting, joseph burrell, calling an emergency meeting today to discuss europe'sstrategy amid rising tensions in the middle east. it comes as french president emmanuel macron has been trying to steer the iranians away from retaliation. the french president is expected to speak on the phone in the next day or so to the iranian president rumannouhanrouhani. >> sue herera joins us now. >> mike pompeo accusing iran of working to this wath efforts to bring peace to afghanistan >> iran has refused to join the regional and international consensus for peace and is, in fact, today actively working to undermine the peace process by continuing its long global effort to support militant groups there >> meantime, iranian's foreign minister says iranian will retaliate against the u.s. for killing its top general at a time and a place where the u.s. will feel the utmost pain. he also said the u.s. declined to issue him a visa to travel to new york for upcoming meetings at the u.n the u.s. responded saying it did not have enough time to process that request >>> new data shows mos

on wednesday he will travel to brussels to meet with the chief diplomat of the european union joseph burrell and will then travel to dabis in switzerland for the world economic forum where he could meet with the united states president donald trump the question is though if this trip would will do anything to break the deadlock in venezuela where the military still stands behind the president of my daughter and where my daughter himself seems to stand on firmer ground where he was for example a year ago the last time that way though trying to ramp up pressure against him. and other stories are following hundreds of migrants from central america forced their way into mexico by waiting through a river at its southern border they became impatient after authorities stopped them from crossing a border bridge connecting guatemala to mexico mexico's stepped up its police presence there with hundreds of national guard troops deployed as migrants threw rocks at them the country is on the mounting pressure though to prevent the immigrants from reaching the u.s. border with president all trump threaten

joseph burrell says any peace settlement will need the block support meanwhile oil prices have risen to more than $65.00 per barrel amid concerns over supplies out of and much of the country's oil infrastructure remains under blockade by have to forces the state oil firm has warned its output will be reduced by more than 90 percent. of the standing by for us in the libyan capital tripoli we'll get reaction in a moment but 1st let's bring in has who's been following diplomatic developments from berlin on what more burrell had to say hashem and particularly the e.u.'s point of view because the e.u. countries have really been divided when it comes to libya so so what extent are they now finding unity on the way forward particularly when it comes to this military mission. so there in this is what is happening on the diplomatic front after the conference where the e.u. in particular and the international community were trying to put up this facade of consensus about how to move forward when it come when it comes to grappling with how to enforce the cease fire agreement and the arms embarg

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fighting broke out south of tripoli just hours after that summit came to an end use top diplomat joseph burrell says any peace settlement will need the block support. is joining us from berlin for more on that what do you think they eat you is hoping to achieve. well daryn yesterday when they were talking about the need to put an end to the conflict in libya they were to keep thinking about 2 things here to ensure the cease fire holds for as long as it takes until the trust is built between the 2 warring factions in libya but to have a genuine ceasefire you have to ensure that arms are not flown into libya the foreign intervention must come to an end and this explains why the e.u. no is thinking about new mechanisms a force of the ground to ensure that this is fire holes and reactivating the naval the mission there was off the coast of libya it was established in 2015 but it was abandoned in 2019 against a backdrop or huge device particular between france and italy about how to deal with the libyan crisis i was talking to libyans yesterday about particularly the presence of peacekeeping forces