the ft carries a warning from outgoing german finance chief wolfgang schauble who says spiralling levels of global debt and liquidity present a major risk to the world economy. and finally, the times is crowing about a new anti—litter plan which involves training birds to put their beaks to good use in this case collecting cigarette butts from city streets. with me isjonathan charles who's the managing director of communications, european bank for reconstruction and development. nice to see you. we have been talking about this for the last hour. catalonia. frontpage in the figaro and other newspapers. thousands in the street. some people saying 300,000, some saying 900,000. the people describing themselves as the silent majority, the people who wa nt the silent majority, the people who want to stay in spain. at this crucial moment, possibly 24 hours away from it ——a declaration of independence. it may not be a 50— 50 split, but on the other hand, you can tell there is quite a fracture. evenif can tell there is quite a fracture. even if it is 40% in favour of leaving, that will cause seri

across the one a draw in a fair or not be heard obviously jepson talk about both gun shy of the wolfgang schauble is the former finance minister and key is the person who's been nominated to be the president of the bundestag and the parliamentarians have been voting on his the nomination tell us more about wolfgang short going what he bring to the role if his election is endorsed. by its indeed important to stress this emirate or because in addition to what jefferson has just said the role of the president of the german parliament or of the speaker has a very important symbolic symbolism and that symbolism is obviously something that parliamentarians here are very interested in preserving because when you have for example the arrival of the a.f.p. to the german parliament when there is a lot of discussion whether the debates will be shifted to the right or whether there's a lot of debate whether discussions will be more and more divisive you obviously need someone as the speaker of the german parliament as president of the german parliament with sufficient authority and also with very good rhetor

wolfgang schauble spoke ahead that there was a danger of new bubbles form iing. from luxembourg that seems like the last hooray from mr. schauble. who will be the main voice in the euro group going forward >> reporter: becky, that's the big question love him or hate him, at the end of the day schauble was the figurehead for the euro group and the foreign ministers. he's been there since 2009 and was the captain of the ship during 2011, 2012 that only feels like it's turning a corner now. perhaps he feels vindicated. you heard us speaking earlier. portugal was one of the hardest hit during the crisis. if you ask them how they feel about schauble pushing at reforms, they said, actually, we did manage to put together this turn around economically the situation is a lot better today and that he will be someone who is missed. he was very well respected by the rest of the committee. now refer to that interview that you mentioned yesterday, schauble said he is interested in maintaining the stability the real challenge for the rest of the euro group going forward is to c

the ft carries a warning from outgoing german finance chief wolfgang schauble who says spiralling levelsent a major risk to the world economy. and finally, the times is crowing about a new anti—litter plan which involves training birds to put their beaks to good use in this case collecting cigarette butts from city streets. with me isjonathan charles who's the managing director of communications, european bank for reconstruction and development. nice to see you. we have been talking about this for the last hour. catalonia.

ma the german lower house of parliament is overwhelmingly elected outgoing finance minister wolfgang schauble as the new parliamentary president five hundred one out of seven hundred nine members of the newly elected boon to star voted for sure the veteran member of chancellor angela merkel's conservative democrats is the longest serving lawmaker in the country in his acceptance speech short to stress the need for parliamentarians to lead by example and work together in his acceptance speech stressed that parliamentarians had to lead by example and maintain a respectful tone. way in which we talk with one another here in parliament can be a role model for society obviously we shouldn't one another here although we have seen that this has occasionally occurred in other parliaments because of me and we don't want to get verbally abusive either farm or we want to show that we're going to salute issues with out losing basic decency. let me now drawing up political correspondent thomas perry who's been to start a tour was we just heard what choice i had to see what you make of his key message as t

well there's been two main words that have stood out after the speech today from wolfgang schauble and those were specs and decency and that's something that all of the m.p.'s here today will be taking away with them from that speech of course that was my so significantly aimed at the a.f.d. those ninety two members of the far right party who have entered the german parliament the bundestag for the first time and show blair has however encouraged much this discussion in the parliament but he's also encouraged a respect in finding those compromises and so we'll see in these coming four years exactly how that turns out now that they have the who of course of being quite outspoken in the past and just four weeks ago when they when they entered when they got the thirteen percent to enter the german parliament and we heard alexander gowland one of the co-leaders of the party saying that the party was going to hound the other parliamentarians and so we'll see exactly how respectful and how much decency there will be in the parliament in the coming weeks and also of course the next four years

in wolfgang schauble has been elected to basically be the referee in parliament.you think his presence in parliament today was reassuring to most members? do they have faith you can make all the parliamentarians behave? kate: it could make a difference but the other mp's and parties have a role in dealing with -- in how they deal with the afd being there. one of their concerns is they do not want parliament to turn into the afd against the other five parliamentary groups. at the same time they will be dealing with how much obviously the af he had a certain amount of time to voice their opinion in parliament but they will be wanting to make sure they are not using that to kind of push any far right ideas, which of course are not going to be aimed at the empty's -- at the mp's, but at the public. brent: there are a lot of challenges in this new parliament. thank you very much. the head of the european parliament is calling for an international investigation into the murder of a maltese journalist. today we parliament discussed the need to discuss journalists and med

another highlight of today is, of course, that wolfgang schauble will be elected as the new presidentf parliament, and tonight at around 6:00 there will be a new round of explanatory talks between the parties. today the big focus is europe, finance and the budget with that, back to you >> all right annette, thank you very much for wrapping everything up for us. i see you tweeted a picture of all the buses that will be shuttling the lawmakers around berlin that was quite interesting. a record number of lawmakers there. >>> let's move back to the u.s u.s. president trump says a popular tax savings deduction will not be curbed to pay for tax cuts lawmakers had proposed the idea of shrinking the tax break for the 401(k) tax retirement program. president trump tweeted there will be no change to your 401(k) this has always been a great and popular tax break that works and it stays >>> president trump is urging china to increase pressure on north korea. previewing the trip, a white house official said that the president will tell his chinese counterpart, xi jinping, to ensure implementation

well emerita they were really two words that stood out in wolfgang schauble speech today and they were respect closely followed by decency and this is a message that was clearly sent to the new members of the new parliament in germany especially those ninety two members of the f.d.a. parliamentary group he did however call he encouraged more discussion but also to reach compromise and of course this is new territory for the german parliament he had dressed up as well in his speech saying as of course this reflects a new aspect as well in german society and this is going to be a very interesting four years now in the in the coming four years of this german parliament to see exactly how by showing the other party's deal with the f.d.a. it's a far right alternative for germany who have just entered the parliament for the first time and can't give a full context what is the role of president in parliament in germany and what does scheuer bring to his new position. well the real idea behind his position is this idea of balance and he'll be direct in the debates once they get underway and he