u. e are now in the world, and a bitter is if you, from oil to politics the, to both nations are on conflicting. what's behind the breakdown and what impact will it have on the reason this isn't types or, ah, ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm jenny, navigate on saudi arabia and the united arab emirates have been working side by side for many years. they've been close allies on everything from military to economic matters. but a recent dispute at an opec plus meeting has illustrated growing strains between the 2 gulf nations. the morality government rejected a saudi lead deal, which includes extending and existing cap on oil outputs and increasing production in the coming months. the u. a, a block, the agreements calling it unfair and demanding an increase in its own production. but saudi arabia's oil minister has promptly rejected that request. all producing nations have been trying to stabilize the global market, as it slowly recovers in the worst periods of the pandemic. they cut out put last year in an effort to increase falling prices. the saudi energy minister called for compromise

u. e. z refusal prince. i believe he's been sell. mine also said we're looking for a way to balance the interests of producer on consumer countries on for market stability. in general, especially when shortages are expected due to the decrease in stockpiles or saudi arabia and the u. e. have deferred on a number of issues in recent months. the emerging government has downsize, its military presence in the saudi, like holy shit and fighting, who is in yemen, while saudi arabia has taken the lead. and the blockade of cats are despite some reluctance from the u. a e, it also did not join the u. e and some other arab nations and signing a piece deal with israel. saudi arabia as amended rules on imports from other gulf countries that would affect goods made in so called free zones, including those by israel. and it's also threatened to cut off multinational from contracts if they don't relocate to the kingdom. and more recently, the saudi government has been travel to and from the u. a. e. sites in corona virus concerns the, let's not bring in our guest, joining us from rhea as often as either of us yon, who's a researcher and fellow for the secretary and isn't proxies and the secretary and ization p

u. a. e. these are deeply serious charges, but to give you some kind of context to it as well. the indictments indicate that the u. s. e and saudi arabia paid some $1500000000.00 into barracks account following the whole gratian or the nomination of donald trump. as president of the united states in those 3 years. so we are talking about massive sum of money here, and very, very serious charges, particularly that charge of lying to federal agencies. and this is likely to implicate from well, the prosecutors appear to have gone out of a way to say that it went to they say that the former president was among those who were betrayed by the actions of thomas barrack. however, they are already questions floating around about why did the trump administration seek such close ties with saudi arabia. the 1st visit he paid overseas with the u, a. e. and some arguing very strongly that these amount of funds are coming into the advisors account. a possible explanation for the administration's actions. but the what's to be pointed out as well is that although thomas brock and donald trump we

e. u. so how are these countries going to be made to total line? in fact, they can also start without either and hungry that you have not to agree in. and honestly, because taxation is called responsibility for every country. and the d. 20 can start also without these countries. and the calculation here is that the small countries will have to follow sooner or later because they cannot stem themselves against 80 percent of the of the both population which is represented in g 20. and these texts havens have to come up with a different business model. now, there is not go out of business, but they have to, to think about other means to, to, to encourage countries to come to their shows and build up their business there. so it's built in the end not depend on the small countries, but the more big question is with the us, be able to push this through because president bide is facing fears a position against this text revolution in congress boundary. got very boring from when is there the meeting? the g. 20 finance ministers down. thank you. the commiss

most vaccines are effective against the delta variant, but only 2 sharps guarantee a higher level of protection. now amid the new variant and worsening statistics, the e u has launched a digital covey certificate to allow people to travel freely across the block. it is basically a q r code that shows a person's covered status and whether they are non related have tested negative or recovered with antibodies, but is not totally full proof because the certificates are easy to forge. and the system does not check legitimacy. molecular oncology, professor laurence young, highlighted the challenges if we have, as we do differing rates vaccination across europe, then it's going to create some problems i think in terms of travel. and we know that this more infectious variant is spreading. we know the various vaccine platforms that been developed, including the, are and platforms are being modified now and trial individuals to check that we will be able to generate even better protective community against barriers. and i guess it's a case of keeping an eye on levels of, of protection levels of antibodies. so there is a complication to vaccine pulse pools, not o

there are steps always, can be worse. why was the e u so it will prepare to see one of the most complicated issues for european foreign policy. is there any point in pushing ahead with enlargement plan, the perspectives to get membership is also very important. when it comes to foreign policy, it's getting harder to work out would be use stands for too many disagreements among members, too many grand intentions and fine would too little to show for them. my guess this week is or must pipe nice, jared, the foreign affairs committee and he joins me from strasburg. can he play my such a powerful block of nation seems to punch so far below its weight on the world stage. the use for math tides. welcome to complex zone. hello. let's start if we may, with russia, which presents a number of key foreign policy challenges to the e. u. since the seizure of crimea that has imposed a huge variety of sanctions on moscow. can you think of any way in which those sanctions have to any degree change moscow's behavior? well, if you look at the history of s

e. u shots are t correspondent, cal morphine has more. there is a huge anti vax movement in the united states. many americans are simply refusing to get vaccinated for coven 19. so we figured it wouldn't be too long before the white house started pointing, as usual, suspects russia and china has promoted their own vaccines through messaging that undermines western origin vaccine does help development programs. so you know, that is more than just competition about vaccines. the risk and impact there is that this type of information magnifies the risk of potential side effects associated with western vaccines. this is what the, what the information some of this misinformation is doing. it seems like what the white house spokesperson is saying is that reporting on the findings of u. s. federal agencies is somehow just information because it was the us food and drug administration that came forward and recently warned about the johnson and johnson, single dose, cobra, 1900 vaccine. and the fact that it could actually cause gillian bar syndrom

but at this point, it hasn't yet done are essentially saying the ball is in kind of a shields a court. however, on a governmental level, e, u, member states are somewhat able to fax and bend the rules all most by allowing travelers with vaccines approved by the world health organization to use the passport to. however, this is where it gets even more complicated considering kind of issue of job was widely provided for african countries. the international co backs program says the may is discriminating against those lower income country. any measured the only allows people protected by a subset of w h o approved vaccines to benefit from the reopening of travel into and with that region would effectively create to, to, to system further widening the global vaccine divide. and exacerbating the inequalities they were since the beginning of the year, the british government long hail the co vaccination program. i was that ticket out of the pan demik with a mixed up like this one on. indeed, the rise of the delta veteran here in the united kingdom. we only have to look at the last week alone to see a 46 percent rise in the delta v

and there are steps always can be worse. why was the e u so it will prepare to see one of the most complicated issues for european foreign policy. is there any point in pushing ahead with enlargement plan, the perspectives to get membership is also very important. when it comes to foreign policy, it's getting harder to work out what the use stands for. too many disagreements among members, too many grand intentions and find words to little to show for them. my guess this week is or must pipe nice chairs the parliament foreign affairs committee and he joins me from strasburg. can he explain why such a powerful block of nations seems to punch so far below its weight on the world stage? the news for master pies, welcome to conflict zone. hello. let's start if we may, with russia, which presents a number of key foreign policy challenges to the e. u. since the seizure of crimea the has imposed a huge variety of sanctions on moscow. can you think of any way in which those sanctions have to any degree changed moscow's behavior? well, if you look a

there are steps always can be worse. why was the e u so ill prepared to see one of the most the complicated issues for european foreign policy? is there any point in pushing ahead with enlargement plan, the perspectives to get membership is also very important. when it comes to foreign policy, it's getting harder to work out what the use stands for. too many disagreements among members, too many grand intentions and find words to little to show for them. my guess this week is or must pipe nice, jared, the european economist foreign affairs committee and he joins me from stress book. can he explain why such a powerful block of nations seems to punch so far below its weight? on the world stage? the use for math pipe. welcome to complex own hello. let's start if we may, with russia, which presents a number of key foreign policy challenges to the e. u. since the seizure of crimea, the e. u has imposed a huge variety of sanctions on moscow. can you think of any way in which those sanctions have to any degree changed moscow's behavior? well,

they are fighting against tax havens, but they are creating one themselves for them. 15 percent is okay. that's not ok. i mean, you're building a number of e u. countries like ireland are against the reform, but this will not stop the global corporation tax says us treasury secretary, janet yellen. i should emphasize it's not essential that every country be on board . disagreement contains a kind of enforcement mechanism that can be used to make sure that countries that are pulled out are not able to undermine the global corporation. tax rate is set to come into force in 2023, but negotiations are still ongoing. a final agreement is not expected until a g 20 leader summit in rome and october. if he o p as ruling prosperity party has been declared, the winner of last month national election and a landslide victory secure a prime minister of the osmond. another 5 years in office after coming to power in 2018 abi oversaw profound political reforms and even won the nobel peace prize. but now he's being accused of committing war crimes in the embattled northern region. the supporters of prime minister, amid hearing him on an election day, their v

the u once a similar tax treaty across the whole e u. but so far, islands hungry and estonia are resisting it. there are protests against the g 20 in venice to should a minimum tax agreement be reached there? the pressure on those who don't pay would only increase. i'm not joined by abuse band that he got who is in venice at a g 20 meeting at band. why this agreement now but the d 20 countries need money after the cobra prize. it's said they want to generate up to 150000000000 years more revenue per year. they have to see if the estimates are correct. but anyway, that's the window of opportunity to do it now, because agenda jelena, the new us finance minister is also pushing for this now. and she's setting on betting on international corporation. now this is your, the trumpet and ministration didn't do that. and also there's an appetite to design and new text system for the digital age to get out money from google and other internet. so what will this mean for developing countries that might one to attract more investments with low taxes? while tax havens in developing countries

e, the euro. other central banks are already exploring options. england is researching its own central bank digital currency cheekily named the brit coin and the u. s. in japan are also investigating so far the e. c. b has promised that any future e euro would be fast, easy, and secure, and that services would be free and payments could be made via card or smartphone. a lot of questions remain unanswered, but there's still time d, c, b official. say the earliest an e euro coin could roll out is 2026. let's just try to get a better understanding of the actual thinking behind the digital. he already had a financial correspondence in frankfort contractors. the race of global currencies is on and if the europeans, if the european central bank once the euro to remain one of the leading reserve currencies of this world, it has to keep the euro up to date. the central bank has to communicate to citizens, businesses international investors, that it's really worth while to have the euro work with it and invest in it. having a digital version of the currency plays an important role here. of course, here in germany, a little bit of german angst is always a

that there was a leak and the capacity to help with the regional states are not the only ones getting involved. portugal, the e u and the united states are training muslim. the army or wanda already has soldiers on the ground. the east african country says it's killed some fighters and it's army is pursuing others. this one is a much bigger and just protecting one or 2. yes, perfect. i think, you know, the situation there is much bigger than just one installation. so we are handling the into, you know, we're spitting with the muslim the can forces to restore order and sunny to in, in a couple of the, the, the conflict in kabul. delgado province began in 2017 thousands of diets and been more than 800000 people, had been displaced. human rights workers worry seen the an extra troops could lead to more rights of decent. the questions i got these moment these if the more of them become government, the muslim becomes security forces. have dutch and they are unable to distinguish the surgeon from celia. and what assurance do we have at the stage that the foot in the truck are hiding from both said they're going to won

so not only do you have consultation if you have this unity issues, which are ensuring that the e u, the largest trading block in the well punches consistently below its weight on the international stage, doesn't it? well that's why i say that we also have to, well, little bit change the mechanism of decision making it and also for insecurity police issues. but what concerns french and german proposal stand where, like, i think that every and each country can make proposals. but yeah, then they are a pm council, we're on 27 president easter place where then they decide what this right to do and, and what's not that this very moment so that actually i don't blame german and french governments for making this proposal because what we also have seen during this last years, when all the meetings between e oh and, and russia have been suspended. we have seen that some member states have had and still having bilateral meetings and then they don't represent eels common positions . so that in this regard to avoid the situation, i guess that don't so certain contacts and then also meetings be

there are steps always can be worse. why was the e u so it will prepare to one of the most complicated issues for european foreign policy. is there any point in pushing ahead with enlargement plan the perspective to get the membership is also very important. when it comes to foreign policy, it's getting harder to work out what the use stands for. too many disagreements among members, too many grand intentions and find words to little to show for them. my guess this week is or must pipe nice, jared european parliament for the fast committee. and he joins me from strasburg. and he explained my, such a powerful block of nations seems to punch so far below its way on the world stage . the news for my pipe welcome to conflict zone. hello. let's start if we may, with russia, which presents a number of key foreign policy challenges to the e. u. since the seizure of crimea, the ear has imposed a huge variety of sanctions on moscow. can you think of any way in which those sanctions have to any degree changed moscow's behavior? well, if you look

u. k. government ready is to lift most coven, 1900 restrictions in the face of rising cases. well, looking to the e. u. now where most countries are on track to reach their goal of getting around 70 percent of their population vaccinated by the end of the summer. but bulgaria is nowhere near that target. it has the lowest vaccination rate in the block. just 16 percent of citizens have received one job so far correspond barbara vsl went to find out what's behind the reluctance. people are not exactly flocking to this explanation center in sophia's jewish by district. today, only a trickle of locals are coming in to get the jap, walked over to the court and more people come they have here we are overall public opinion about the nation has been very skeptical. but over time, let's changing the need. dr. tania is doing his best vaccinating it's speed, handling up to 15 patients for our but he works alone and getting the job into all arms in this district is going to take time. in spring bulgaria didn't have enough vixen, but now people us for, for choice. johnson johnson, the allison johnson and john, which is one dose, you get the ce

central banks are already exploring options. england is researching its own central bank digital currency cheekily named the brit coin and the u. s. and japan are also investigating. so far the e. c. b has promised that any future e euro would be fast, easy, and secure, and that services would be free and payments could be made via card or smartphone. a lot of questions remain unanswered, but there's still time. you see, be official, say the earliest an e euro coin could roll out is 2026. let's just try to get to a better understanding of the actual thinking behind the business. so he already had financial correspondence in frankfort contractors. the race of global currencies is on and if the europeans, if the european central bank once the euro to remain one of the leading reserve currencies of this world, it has to keep the euro up to date, the central bank has to communicate to citizens, businesses international investors that it's really worth while to have the euro work with it and invest in it. having a digital version of the currency plays an important role here. of course, here in germany, a little bit of german angst is always as play many people in the country love c