reforms which have been pushed for by french president in man won't manuel mccaughan and so there's going to be a lot of expectation for support move in. and union forward from germany and also making sure that the european union project continues into the next few decades right and of course these comments come shortly before they formally signed the coalition government coalition agreement in about an hour and a half from now we'll of course bring you live coverage of that when that happens kate be thank you very much for that this not to do business susan the german energy sector is preparing for a major shake up and get has the story for us as far as a meter german utilities heavyweight has agreed to acquire a large stake of energy this is stable subsidiary of its competitor r w e for twenty two billion euros the deal will leave r w e as the continent's second largest producer of green energy with fiona's europe's largest operates of electricity grids and retail now for those of you who have never heard of those two companies either on an r. w. e let's cross over to our financial corr

demands that russia explains itself coming from the western countries i mean the french president manuel mccaughan even included one into his congratulatory message to vladimir putin nato also weighed in on this have a listen we continue to call on russia to provide the complete disclosure of the program britain is to talk to leaders who works with our obligations under the treaty on chemical weapons and i would contrast that with how the russians are. i think what a lot of people find very first thing about this story is that the burden of proof kind of been thrown over to the russian side the message from the u.k. and its allies has been prove you didn't do it. but what you haven't seen is much evidence if any well it doesn't sound like there's a it's a matter of evidence so to speak because the u.k. was the first on this bandwagon of russia bashing and they've been saying that it is highly likely that it is overwhelmingly likely that more school is behind this they are saying that moscow is the only this is the only side that could benefit from poisoning this person they've been saying that the

demands that russia explains itself coming from the western countries i mean the french president manuel mccaughan even included one into his congratulatory message to vladimir putin nato also weighed in on this have a listen we continue to call on russia to provide the complete disclosure of the program britain is to actually this is with our obligations under the treaty on chemical weapons and i would contrast that with how the russians are. i think what a lot of people find very first thing about this story is that the burden of proof is kind of been thrown over to the russian side the message from the u.k. and its allies has been prove you didn't do it. but what you haven't seen is much evidence if any well it's doesn't sound like there's a it's a matter of evidence so to speak because the u.k. was the first on this bandwagon of russia bashing and they've been saying that it is highly likely that it is overwhelmingly likely that more school is behind this they are saying that moscow is the only this is the only side that could benefit from poisoning this person they've been saying that there's

response and what the various leaders are saying about the russian attack on france's president manuel mccaughan he's used much firmer language kate than chancellor angela merkel let's have a listen in to what my aunt had to say to put the quad the high school said everything makes us believe that russia is responsible for the us and others in the joint work of the british and french agencies confirms that. there's if france strongly condemns this unacceptable attack on the soil of an allied nation that they can accept evidence. so a very forceful amount while mccaughan there he also had this to say by the way said i will have the opportunity to talk about this tomorrow with chancellor merkel she's on our way to paris during her paris visit no i will announce in the coming days the measures that we intend to take kate can we expect more sanctions also from the side of france and germany at least from germany side it really depends now on how russia responds and if they co-wrote choose to cooperate with the u.k. and ask all across that they sanctions that you mentioned before clinton and the muck

french president manuel mccaughan wants to work with germany on ambitious e.u. reforms but there may be trouble ahead while germany agrees in principle to his plans for a new e.u. finance minister merkel conservatives are strongly opposed to the eurozone having its aim budget. and if that doesn't keep the german government busy enough in europe there's always breaks it time's running out for a deal with the u.k. due to leave the bloc in just a that a year's time. next up u.s. german relations u.s. president donald trump has unnerved germany by raising the prospect of a trade with europe his threatened tariffs on steel and aluminum could hit the german economy hard merkel wants talks about managing transamerica first ambitions may prove tricky. then this defense germany's signed up to be part of a new e.u. defense union which could pave the way to for many european army but first the german armed forces are in need of modernization a new report has found that facing dramatic personnel and equipment shortages. and that is domestic concerns germany is lacking behin