and japan call the 1st stage of a new trade deal prime minister shinzo aviv joins us president donald trump who described the announcement as phenomenal trump said it would open up japanese markets to $7000000000.00 worth of american products the u.s. trade representative says the deal eliminates tariffs on some japanese food products such as albums and blue book it's all on some industrial goods and it includes an agreement on a digital trade. a top director of the european central bank has handed in her resignation germany's. did not say why she quits 2 years came after she publicly questioned the need for the bank's stimulus policies the e.c.b. recently lowered its lending rate further into negative territory and announced new quantitative easing policies came in for criticism in germany as they were seen as a way of propping up we come in the states. or let's go to the seat of the e.c.b. frank our correspondent standing by. she's the 3rd german to do so why. yes 2 germans before her resigned out of opposition to the loose monetary policy that the e.c.b. was pursuing and the policy