anna holligan, bbc news, rotterdam.travel to salzburg in austria to make a pitch to fellow eu leaders to back her chequers proposal. european council president donald tusk has warned there is still a risk talks, collapse. adam fleming is in brussels now. theresa may will get an ok welcome when she arrives in salzburg in austria tomorrow because no one in brussels wants to cause any problems for her before the tory party conference in a couple of weeks' time. we have a good idea how brexit will play out at this meeting from the letter donald tusk sent to the 27 eu leaders today, they will meet on thursday at lunchtime without theresa may and have a discussion about the shape of the future relationship, the first time they have talked about that in ages. then they will talk about the endgame is they will talk about the endgame is the negotiations on to their final phase, and decide whether to have an emergency brexit summit in mid—november to wrap everything up. and there will be a really strong reminder that there has to

unopposed german bombers flew low over the center of rotterdam and bombed it into a heap of rubble.the most ruthless exhibitions of savagery the world has ever seen. over 30,000 men, women, and children were killed in the space of 90 minutes. though only 6 months before, hitler had said: the new reich is endeavored to continue the friendship with holland. the dutch will not forget. meantime in belgium, the whole force of nazi blitzkrieg had stormed across its neutral border. the main german attack was directed at the canal merge river line. a seemingly impregnable fortress. the germans had built a replica in czechoslovakia. when the real attack came, it was foolproof. parachute troops, dive bombers, specially trained engineer battalions all working together as a well-trained team. they knew exactly where to cross the river. you will notice that this assault engineer knows exactly where to put his high explosive charge in order to destroy the blackout. the german armies rolled on. meantime, an hour and a half after the german invasion began, allied troops caught the french and belgiu

rotterdam is at the forefront of defensive design.ll court can hold 450,000 gallons of storm runoff. this sloping park atop a shopping center is a storm surge barrier. and this world-class rowing facility doubles as a flood reservoir. the dutch pride themselves on blending form and function. so what is this place? these look like dunes. >> ovink: they are dunes. >> whitaker: but, i take it, this is the netherlands, so these aren't just dunes. >> ovink: no, these are man-made dunes. >> whitaker: henk ovink took us to one of his favorite projects along the north sea. the beach town of katwijk was vulnerable, until dutch engineers created these natural- looking dunes. many beaches in the u.s. have man-made dunes, but they're nothing like this. and these dunes protect the town from a sea surge or a big storm? >> ovink: sea surge, storm, and also we incorporate sea level rise of the future. >> whitaker: they also integrated urban planning. to unclog katwijk's streets when tourists flock to the beach, and to raise the height of the dunes to

coventry was smashed to the status of warsaw and rotterdam. loved ones out of the ruins and saw them to their last resting place in a common grave. [mournful music continues] hitler could kill them, but damned if he could kill their spirit. they knew the bench was as deadly weapon as a rifle and a new enemy had to be destroyed. the day was coming when they would strike back. and how they would strike back. christmas, 1940. [chorus singing "o come let us adore him"] christmas, this season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men. before hitler's first burst of rage against the people who cannot be licked. he cannot bomb them into submission, so he would burn them to ashes. millions of firebombs rained down on the great city of london. in a matter of minutes, more than 1500 different sections of the city burst into flames that merged into the greatest fire in recorded history. in the midst of the fire and destruction, vital water mains were shattered and water pressure was almost entirely cut off. heroes of the night were men of the london fire

coventry was smashed to the status of warsaw and rotterdam. ♪ the people of coventry dug their lovedt resting place in a common grave. ♪ hitler could kill them, but dammed if he could let them. they went back to their laves and machines. they knew the machine bench was as deadly weapon as a rifle and in their hearts there was a grim determination that this enemy had to be destroyed. the day was coming when they would strike back. and how they would strike back. ♪ >> christmas, 1940. ♪ christmas, the season of peace on earth and goodwill toward men. the ironic quiet before hitler's first burst of rage against the people who could not be licked. he couldn't bomb them into submission, so he would burn them to ashes. >> millions of firebombs rained down on the great city of london. in a matter of minutes, more than 1500 different sections of the city burst into roaring flames, flames that swiftly merged into the greatest fire in recorded history. in the midst of the fire and destruction, vital water mains were shattered and water pressure was almost entirely cut off. heroes of the night

this latest raid came three months after three men were arrested, suspecting planning attacks in rotterdamce. the seven will appear on court targets in france. the seven will appearon court in targets in france. the seven will appear on court in friday —— in court on friday, meanwhile, the likelihood of a terror attack, say dutch officials, remained substantial. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: pop star to movie star. lady gaga turns oscar—worthy actress in the new movie, a star is born. in all russia's turmoil, it has never come to this. president yeltsin said the day would decide the nation's destiny. the nightmare that so many people had feared for so long is playing out its final act here. russians are killing russians in front of a grandstand audience. it was his humility which produced affection from catholics throughout the world, but his departure is a tragedy for the catholic church. israel's right—winger, ariel sharon, visited the religious compound, and that started the trouble. he wants israel alone to have sovereignty over the holy sites — an idea that's unthinkable to

challenge when it comes to the free movement of goods and is a headache for europe's largest force rotterdam as want companies to prepare for the choppy waters when britain leif's the e.u. . it's still business as usual at the poorest of russia or down. of the twenty ninth of march next year the date britain set to leave the european union that could all change after breakfast at the fifty four million tons of goods traded between the two countries could be subject to new rules. what's very important is that especially also companies that trades which the u.k. are aware of the things that might change for them because no it's quite it's free market goods are going to go in free and after that it will be different because if you have to have experts and for cations if you have imports controls you have to be very proud to do that some thirty eight thousand european companies rely on trade flowing through the ports of russia or down depending on the outcome of brantford negotiations more customs officials and agricultural inspectors may be needed to monitor goods entering the e.u. all the prod

and greg rotterdam of the european team. of the european team.antastic. are fantastic. the working average was about 11, i think. was about 11, i think. they were staggeringly strong. staggeringly strong. merely probably played a big deciding factor in this one. deciding factor in this one. it was not suited to the bigger hitting american players. hitting american players. at a base in a less if you are the course. course. european hands and i think thomas bjorn... bjorn... only two points for the american wild—card picks. wild—card picks. so there is the difference straightaway. difference straightaway. europeans exhibiting in every which way. and mary there. to officials there. to the city of palu, which was badly hit. trapped in the rubble of buildings. including international hotel were just collapsed in the city. the 7. waves as high as six metres. of the red cross and red crescent, and spoke to us from jakarta. now, it's certainly in a strange way, it is advancing. and statistics we have, they get worse. where the epicentre was, which we co

anna holligan reporting there, from the port of rotterdam.xecutive head at harrop fold high in salford. drew povey was suspended in the summer term along with 3 other members of staff, pending an investigation over the incorrect recording of attendance, exclusions and home schooling. mr povey acknowledged there had been administrative errors , but in a tweet, said he could "no longer sit quietly under the threat of "you cannot comment or you will breach your code of conduct". 0ur correspondent, marc ashdown, is following this story that serious educating greater manchester was hugely popular. two people watched it fault. it followed their... much of the popularity was going to the headteacher. since then he has become a champion for disadvantaged pupils. it was a huge surprise when he was suspended with three other members of staff. salford council was investigating issues of how you record attendance data. it is a big issue. 0fsted recently said that schools could be massaging these figures. he maintains they were minor errors and it was hug

coventry was smashed as flat as warsaw and rotterdam. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the people of coventry doug their lovedesting place in a common grave. ♪ >> hitler could kill them, but he could not lick them. they went back to their lathes and machines, for they knew the machine bench was as deadly a weapon as the rifle and in their heart was a determination that this enemy must be destroyed. that the day was coming that the must strike back. and how they would strike back. >> christmas, 1940. >> ♪ o come let us rejoice ♪ o come let us -- ♪ christ our lord ♪ ♪ >> christmas, the season of peace on earth. goodwill toward men. the ironic time before hitler's great burst of rage against a people who could not be licked. he could not bomb them into submission, so he would burn them to ashes. >> millions of firebombs rained down on the great city of london. in a matter of minutes, more than 1500 different sections of the city burst into roaring flames. flames that quickly merged into the greatest fire in recorded history. ♪ in the midst of all the fire and destruction, vital water mains were ruptured. water p

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celadon comes in with its floating farm the world's first floating farm is being constructed and rotterdam's marital wavin are and will house forty dairy cows that will produce around eight hundred liters of milk per day the three level facility will be anchored to the ocean floor in the harbor meaning that in the instance of storms and hurricanes it will remain safe from harm in addition there is a nearby grazing feel for the cows so most experts say the cows well actually prefer the floating farm turns out cows so good seed thick one level will grow grass and other crops to feed the cows and another that will process the dairy products for human consumption into yogurt it's an ice cream and all those good things so it's got a whole new wave of farming looks like it's literally going to be on wait. who is excited that's our show for you today and remember everyone in this world we're not told we're less than that so i tell you all i love you i'm top of the wallace keep on watching the hoss and have a great day and night everyone. emerged . didn't expect that reaction but that sort of. prais

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right fromight shanghai told rotterdam, and you , a ratchetingy higher shanghai l.a., shanghai rotterdamopposite direction. ofs is the manifestation actually shipping goods around the world. throughout the trade war's, does it cost? >> it sounds, and you hope that's the sort of message which president trump is getting from the more sensible members of his administration, saying we understand what you are doing, you are trying to squeeze the chinese into making concessions this ishis escalates bad for the world economy and bad for the u.s. economy and your voters. gohow far does this have to for it to have an impact on the fed in the sense that it stops tightening? is it the imposition of all chinese goods? where do you draw the line when you start to a, the fed could cause the tightening here? >> it is difficult to be scientific about it, but we are getting to a point where the u.s. economy is growing strongly, the labor market is tightening, you're beginning to see underlying wage and price pressures. what we know is that this is not ,he point where the fed stops and it is not the stage

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countries wants to get rid of china saw as raw material for its growing economy the dutch port of rotterdam was to gateway sending waste across the ocean to asia was cheaper than processing it in europe we buy a lot of goods from china telephones the laptops plastic goods so we barter their welfare by ship those containers that are so it's very cheap to fill them or plastic toys have come from the same goods and son back to china every year europeans generate twenty five million tonnes of plastic waste of which only a third is collected for resizing out of that food the netherlands would only recycle the high quality plastics for decades the low quality plastics were shipped off to china now that's no longer an option so what does europe do instead the e.u. say lack of capacity to recycle its old place sticks is now beginning to show more waste is getting burned dumb to landfills and even illegally disposed of but there is hope the basic problem of plastics is they go in very many for righties some scientists think this could be a wake up call for the industry forcing companies to use mater

and comes down to the north sea and comes down to rotterdam the other one of course starts at the bering straits goes up the other way and comes down through baton bay in newfoundland and greenland but that those going to be used of course march through september and they even during that time need icebreakers however there is the prediction with global warming and that's why a lot more as you say is going through the arctic with the prediction of global warming by twenty fifty they could be a route that goes literally straight over the top of the arctic. wow that sounds like a reality show to i can see them breaking through the ice and having the amorous on board and will be sixty that. now tell me about which companies are we talking about these big companies and what are the carriers to lose crude oil and they're carrying dry goods mostly crude oil natural gas liquefied gas the major companies of course most musk is a huge container company they carry like twenty thousand containers here one of these huge vast vessels but also costco because costco controls the supply chain and to end

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running it today actually and quite successfully and unlike venice it is no magic so it started off in rotterdam and it has happened in places like ghent or i would feel or even st petersburg now those are all cities that are really quite well off the beaten track of the usual major art market centers and the cities are selected based on sort of how they fit into the current curators concept of the city that's been repeatedly stopped across and shaped over millennia as we know by multiple like grecians and occupations from the phoenicians through the ancient greeks and the romans all the way to the arabs in the normans and that's just maybe the really early ones and so it's a it's a real cross cultural axis in the mediterranean that's one reason it was chosen the other is there very hard campaigning mayor his name is lee lucas orlando and let's see what we can expect from this year's money fest a twelve. palermo a port city on the mediterranean and a place known for its contrasts corrupt criminal but also multicultural and beautiful. it's the venue for this year's manifesto. he told c. palermo's

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this is not a wish list, this is looking at the exemption in rotterdam where although the eu regulationse veterinary checks should be immediately at the border, they are actually 12 miles away in rotterdam. it is looking at eu president, eu law, eu agreements on equivalence with canada and working through that to provide an handset that is valid under eu law rather than a wish list “ an answer. under eu law rather than a wish list —— an answer. on how far we wish to push the prime minister, who would like to answer? the former secretary of state, perhaps? which one? there are three! the most recently departed, shall we say? unlike mr president, it is not an honour that stays with you as you go, i am sorry to tell you. look, we are in the pressurised part of the negotiations. at that point, is people start to look at alternatives. one of the points of this proposal is it focuses on what used to be called in the government issues, max back. in the past, it wasn't pushed one way or the other, this is saying this is the best way to do it. that is what are doing, are doing this on logic, fact

now, in rotterdam, where i am from, we have private inspection posts scattered around the harbour, uphern irish border for veterinary checks. that will result in what i call drive—through borders and this concept is not only work for the irish northern ireland border but it can work fall of the eu, so also in dover and calais and elsewhere. thank you. —— for all of the eu. thank you. —— for all of the eu. thank you. —— for all of the eu. thank you and now i am particularly pleased to ask maria caulfield to speak to us, because she has a direct and personal interest in this and has constantly pushed the erjee to ensure that we had a decent and sar bakkali —— answer on the northern ireland republic issue. maria. thank you very much. as someone who has served on both northern ireland and the brexit select committee, the proposals in this paper are reasonable proposals that offer a range of solutions and really challenge the three big challenges to getting a free—trade agreement. firstly, we understand the eu and their concern about maintaining that integrity of the single market and the

the dutch port of rotterdam gateway sending ways to cross the ocean to asia was cheaper and processing it in europe we buy a lot of goods from china telephones laptops plastic goods so we barter. those containers that are empty and so it's very cheap to fill them with all plastic toys that come from the same goods and son back to china every year europeans generate twenty five million tonnes of plastic waste of which only a third is collected for resizing out of that thirty the netherlands would only recycle the high quality plastics for decades the low quality plastics were shipped off to china now that's no longer an option so what does europe do instead the e.u.'s lack of capacity to recycle its own plastics is now beginning to show more waste is getting burned dumped in landfills and even illegally disposed of the basic problem of plastics is they take only very many for itas but there's hope some scientists think this could be a wake up call for the industry forcing companies to use material that easier to recycle if you look at the plastics that are produced today. they are their

the shanghai to rotterdam route, in terms of the rates, they are falling.almost nearing $2400 for a 20 foot container. a few months ago in july, it was just the $1600 mark. the $2400 mark is at its highest ever since december 2014. we can see the divergence that all of the efforts, all of the goods, all of the energy as we raced towards the end of this year towards the trump tariffs coming online that this divergence could very well continue. haidi: thank you so much, ramy inocencio taking a look at one aspect of how this trade war is playing out. let's take you through the stories trending across the bloomberg universe. over on tictoc, one small tries to navigate the confusing waters of an international trade war. terminal subscribers reading all about how women are accusing supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh of sexual assault, who is ready to testify if the terms are fair. analystberg.com, one left his job days after downgrading. we'd stop has taken investors on a ride over the past few days. check of those stories trending on the bloomberg, online, an

parents and grandparents, but there not fully accepted by the european society for their living in rotterdam or in paris or wherever and then a muslim preacher comes along, a bag daddy or and osama bin laden and says you are a member of a muslim community that is great and glorious, has a great history that is being oppressed, muslims are being killed and disregarded all around theworld . you need to have agency coming to syria to fight back . that's why they grow long beard, picked up an ak-47 and engaged in that violent conflict so these are two examples of identity that lead to very bad political results, they lead to violence so identity not only drives democracy but also drives these forms of politics. now we get to what's going on in the liberal democracies. so if you think about the united states and now this is more common use of the word identity but i want to point out that this concept is very broad and it really does apply to a lot of the stuff that's going on outside the united states in other countries around theworld . this assertion of identity. in the united states, i think

12 kilometres away from the border, 12 kilometres away from the border, 12 kilometres away from rotterdamerent rules on all of this. does not foil like there‘s about to be some push to get rid of theresa may. most tory mps do feel the timing would look appalling, if you look at what voters might think just as she heads towards a crucial pa rt just as she heads towards a crucial part of those negotiations with brussels. still surprised you said you were talking to people over lunch earlier, i don‘t know how that fits in... avery lunch earlier, i don‘t know how that fits in... a very quick sandwich! that‘s more like it. joining me now from belfast is sdlp mla claire hanna. what do you make of these proposals we heard this morning. is there a technological answer which has this possibility of moving this whole issue on? no, there isn't and it is difficult to know where to start with how inadequate these proposals are and i‘m glad we have moved on from drones and airships, which was the previous iteration of their drg's the previous iteration of their drg‘s solutions. as your correspondent po

unilever, which makes marmite and dove soap, has headquarters in both london and rotterdam, but it announcedreland. they know some of them, guildford in surrey for instance. a few years ago they were pretty awful. i remember guildford in the 19905, awful. i remember guildford in the 1990s, not very nice at all but i think things have changed. people are putting more effort into high streets, they are seen as different. there is competition now. yes, when you had the supermarkets coming to out—of—town places, the high streets had to get their ideas sorted out and produce some kind of attraction. some dead and some failed. there are some high streets around the country which are pretty awful. joining us now is hemlata narasimhan, head of merchant services at visa europe. what is it then makes a great high street? thank you for having me. we are proud to be partnering with the uk government which is leading this initiative and competition around the great british high street. in terms of what makes a great high street, the criteria sums it up well. it‘s about community, i streets that have inte