course which of course then leads to major traffic jams should imagine this is french president manuel merkel's first big challenge to his reform plans how much support is there for the rail workers. for the time being it's kind of half half half the population is supporting the re workers' strike and the other half are saying you know why are they doing this we should be able to get to work smoothly obviously we have to look at this in the long run this is a strike that is supposed to go on for three months so two days on three days off for three months and that will put a lot of strain on the transport network and also on french people's nerves so let's see what they say in a few weeks times time obviously for amanda marcotte this is very important he wants to show that he is able to reform the country also he wants to show this obviously to his european partners in order to push through his european reform plans as well right where you're saying that this that there's a series of strikes planned over the next three months is that an indication of the rail unions thinking mccall is going to h

course which of course then leads to major traffic jams should imagine this is french president manuel merkel's first big challenge to his reform plans how much support is there for the rail workers. for the time being it's kind of half half half the population is supporting the re workers' strike and the other half are saying you know why are they doing this we should be able to get to work smoothly obviously we have to look at this in the long run this is a strike that is supposed to go on for three months or so two days on three days off for three months and that will put a lot of strain on the transport network and also on french people's nerves so let's see what they say in a few weeks times time obviously for amanda mccann this is very important he wants to show that he is able to reform the country also he wants to show this this obviously to his european partners in order to push through his european reform plans as well right where you're saying that this that there's a series of strikes planned over the next three months is that an indication certainly the rail unions think marco is g

state rail employees planning stoppages two days every week they're angry at french president manuel merkel's plans to reform the industry around half of france's rail stuff are striking the tasha butler is following events forrest she joins me now from paris and commuters will be at the forefront of the disruption what will they be facing on tuesday morning. well i'm outside one of paris's main train stations and i can tell you is a lot quieter than it normally would be on a weekday morning no surprise because as you say four and a half million people are expected to be affected by this strike you've got ninety percent of the high speed trains that connect the major cities in france are simply not working they've been canceled and many of the regional train lines as well so people have really kept away but this affects commuters tourists travelers and of course the economy and it's likely to get worse because we are facing now three months of rolling strikes the railway workers the essence therefore because it's cool they say that they will down tools for two days every three days you can im

french president manuel micron and german chancellor angela merkel have held talks in berlin over reforming the euro zone is pushing for greater economic integration but merkel is skeptical of some of his proposals they're hoping to reach a compromise ahead of a european union summit which is scheduled in june. u.s. prosecutors will not file criminal charges in the death of pop star prince following a two year investigation minnesota authorities is say there is no evidence that the pills which killed him were prescribed by a doctor prince died in two thousand and sixteen of an accidental opioid over to. poland has marked the seventy fifth anniversary of the warsaw ghetto uprising it was the largest single act of jewish resistance against the nazis during world war two polish and israelis dignitaries paid ohmage to the hundreds of jewish fighters who took up arms in one thousand nine hundred eighty three against the occupying german forces and paid with their law suits. through them sick. israel is celebrating the seventieth anniversary of its founding with events across the country prime mi

exemption on still an element of imports from europe runs out german chancellor angela merkel and french president manuel mccall love it u.s. president donald trump last week to try to permanently exempt you lynn says it expects the judi's to take effect with no word yet from the white house others are hoping washington will have a last minute change of heart. and see if that happens how we have been is it to talk about it from the macro economic policy institute at the hunt's book the institute will he or she i think we don't really know it's one of the things of donald trump does things very effectively and we just don't know yet there are some last minute talks with so your mouth you commissioner for trade perhaps you can do something but i don't know you're expecting more than a tweet i'm expecting an entry that was something a little bit it will be a last minute it will be very last minute but this president is so you know we don't really know what he what he's going to do but on the other hand i mean he was very strong and being anti-trade and being protection is so i think the likelihood is higher

like it's going for now and we also had discussions between merkel and trump last week and in a separate coal spoke with the french president manuel mccollum so it looks likely e.u. germany likely to side wants the u.s. and a lot of toll trade to talk not to trade war just yet. chimbonda thanks so much for this. i've. funked chinese space station has reentered the earth's atmosphere several years after scientists lost contact with it astronomers say that one spacecraft mostly disintegrated upon re-entry but that some debris appeared to have landed in the remote south pacific the vessel was launched in two thousand and eleven and served as china's first space station scientists had planned a controlled re entry but lost contact with the station in two thousand and sixteen and were unable to fire the engines remotely. got drona is the director general of the european space agency and he joins us now from paris saw thank you so much for talking with us this morning this out of control chinese space station it crashed and burned over uninhabited territory it seems should we consider ourselves lucky i think i'm very lucky because when

like it's going for now and we also had discussions between merkel and trump last week and in a separate coal spoke with the french president manuel mccollum so it looks likely e.u. germany likely to side with the u.s. and a lot of toll trade told not to trade war just yet. jim. thanks so much for this. the gulf nation of bahrain has discovered the biggest oil fields in the country's history the field which is located off the country's west coast will do wolf. according to the bahraini government details about size and extraction viability out to be released by the oil ministry at a news conference later this week but rain isn't a major oil producer it's on the rank fifty seven when it comes to the oil production. thus staying in the region some big changes underway in saudi arabia both economically and culturally tara absolutely and also socially to some degree many many of these changes affecting women that way saudi arabia is known as one of the world's most conservative societies things may be changing though as monika mentioned the reason is or oil falling prices have hit the oil rich chain him hard crown prince mohamed bin s

merkel is on her way to the united states to meet with u.s. president double trouble her visit comes just a day after france's manuel mccrone addressed congress and held talks with the u.s. leader americal took off from berlin for her second visit to washington during trump's presidency. it's expected that she would try to keep u.s. support for the germany back to iran nuclear deal other issues on the agenda during friday's talks are likely to be trade security and energy. so she's got more of what she going to be doing. hi brant and she's going to be here on was actually a very short trip and that's going to be all business and no frills she's going to be in the united states for less than twenty four hours at landing this evening local time and then her first engagements with the united states president donald trump will be tomorrow for a lunch she will have some things to talk about with him there and then she'll head over to the residence of the german ambassador before being a back on a plane to berlin by evening so if you look at this visit it obviously contrasts very sharply to that which we saw earlier this week of a french president.

and merkel and he also spoke with the french president manuel separately and judging by what was said it looks like the e.u. will be siding with a u.s. ship on the just very briefly to take it down one of two notches and look at new consumers what's that mean well if there's more tariffs on certain goods it means they become more expensive so if someone is sitting in china wind is going to be more expensive u.s. wind that is and of course if there's less tariffs on u.s. cards then in europe it means that we could maybe you know buy fords or seven cards much cheaper so we so you think like a cheaper and that's what you're planning on doing and that's good news. business thank you so much for this the gulf nation of bahrain has discovered to the biggest oil field in the country's history the field which is located off the country's west code will dwarf the reins current reserves that's according to the bahraini government details about size and extraction viability to be released by the oil ministry at a news conference later this week a rain isn't a major oil producer it's only right f

and angle of merkel pivotal in ensuring whether or not the iran agreement remains intact kimberly help at al-jazeera at the white house well let's check out some live pictures you can see manuel mccomb there arriving at the andrews air base for his three day visit and which he'll meet the president and talk trade and amongst other things about how to get from to stick to the iran nuclear deal china also backs mccomb so points of view we'll keep you up to date. somali chips have taken over a united arab emirates run military base in the capital mogadishu it follows an order to end military cooperation between the two countries relations between the u.a.e. and somalia have been strained over the g.c.c. crisis which is seen a society like bill cade against the top one how to do so will put stuff in mogadishu. senior somali military off source one or two of the u.a.e. base in mogadishu they say them play mentoring a government order to disband i mean what i submitted through a training program when i went to italy we have taken over everything in this space from now on the government will fund the training and equip the soldiers twenty. hours earlier you a minute to train is how