results of from this summit is there been anything we can look at and say ok there's some progress here maicon you of course that it's going to was going to going to be to produce some tangible results and that is why he has broadened the agenda he invited african leaders but the topic of inequality even women empowerment on the agenda are not iron on that front you did see some some real some real results come out for instance for the zeile area or 5 countries 5 african countries there who have military troops 7 battalions in that area in order to fight terrorists they will receive money and they will receive training and they will receive a development aid for those areas that have been freed of terrorists so that is some positive news coming out of the g. 7 here again thanks so much for now we'll have much more throughout the course of the final day of the g. 7 summit in b a it's now york thanks very much. well as mentioned the iranian foreign minister made that unexpected appearance at the summit iran wants to defuse tensions of course with the u.s. after washington pulled out of the 2015

was it triggered the yellow vest protests that raged for 5 months and fools president maicon to announce a host of measures to redress economic inequality. that anger has also sparked a trend to its anti establishment an anti elite movements. donald trump's provocative rhetoric chimes with that mood. as does the brig's a debate in britain. was. the target and that anger has federalizing support for populist parties often on the far right. there. in berlin the alternative for germany is now the main opposition party in parliament. life side. while in its early material salvini head of the n.j. immigration league party could soon be crowned the new prime minister. the main drive behind many of their voters economic dissatisfaction. so while the g 7 leaders will be discussing how to fight global inequality there remains a note of what for them to do on their writing. let's talk about some of that work now with claudia smoko she's the head of the globalization and world economy program of the german council on foreign relations thanks very much for coming in this morning let's start out with

that was it triggered the yellow vest protests that raged for 5 months and false president maicon to announce a host of measures to redress economic inequality. that anger has also sparked a trend towards anti establishment an anti elite movements donald trump's provocative rhetoric chimes with that mood. as does the brig's a debate in britain. the. was . and that anger has federalizing support for populist parties often on the far right. that. was in berlin the alternative for germany is now the main opposition party in parliament. life cited. while in italy much hail salvini head of the and jim aggression league party could soon be crowned the new prime minister. the main drive behind many of their voters economic dissatisfaction so while the g 7 leaders will be discussing how to fight global inequality there remains a lot of work for them to do on their own doorstep. let's talk about some of that work now with claudia smoko she's the head of the globalization and world economy program of the german council on foreign relations thanks very much for coming in this morning let's star

there's really no sense that there's going to be any movement on brussels sighed the french president maicon germany's chancellor merkel how well do these 2 actually represent the e.u. stance on back to negotiations. well they are the power brokers in the european union and and i'm sure that boris johnson thought if he were able to change their minds at all if if there were some opening where they said they're willing to renegotiate the withdrawal agreement perhaps the other $25.00 leaders would come along with them but there's no chance of that neither america nor mcquillan gave any indication that they would be willing to renegotiate this withdrawal agreement that remember took 19 months to achieve and which the british parliament has rejected 3 times and the other thing to remember is that even if in some possible world you did get chancellor merkel and president mcclellan to provide an opening you've got the irish prime minister who says there's no way that we're going to let a hard border go up there's you know no way that we're going to reopen this withdrawal agreement and make things

allies and bases across the world and france what are the likely ramifications what are the cup what a maicon that i'm willing to pay and you know how long and how how deep is my in-wall meant and how and more than import more than anything else remember we are going into an election scenario what is the victory speech that i'm going to give and what is the contours of that victory speech this is what is president these are the kind of questions that i believe president trump for be asking michael barrett was just talking about presidential elections in the u.s. i want to ask you about presidential elections in afghanistan they are scheduled they're supposed to happen in september what is the status of that and do you believe they will go ahead as planned. the official position is that presidential elections will happen on the 28th of september and i know in my my time in kabul recently i talked to an awful lot of political actors their. opinion was completely divided there was a wide swathe of opinion who said that we must give prioritize a priority to achieving peace now to spoil in the ele

its relation does not further deteriorates the one maintains a military observer mission in kashmir maicon as joining us from the united nations what more did the secretary general have to say on the situation in kashmir well it's important to note that on thursday last week the pakistan foreign ministry delivered a letter to the secretary general in which it complained of several indian violations in the kashmir area including the use of cluster bombs against civilians it also warned that india was considering revoking article $370.00 providing limited autonomy for kashmir so certainly this was not unexpected by the un however today the un secretary-general expressed the deepest concern about the deterioration in the situation there and this is what his spokesman at to say but i can tell you that we are following with concern the tense situation in the region we are also aware of reports of restrictions on the indian side of kashmir and we urge all parties to exercise restraint i would add that over the past few days the u.n. military observer group in india and pakistan otherwise known a