. >>> european yun union leaders have decided to accelerate trade deals. union leaders have decided to accelerate trade deals.union leaders have decided to accelerate trade deals. >> europe remains the champion of open trade. >> tra trade is central to our economic success. >> japan and the eu are seeking to reach a broad agreement on an economic partnership pact. the remaining stumbling blocks are tariffs on farm produce and cars. eu leaders renewed their commitment on trade in review of protectionist policies of the u.s. trump administration. a far right party advocating protection of domestic industries is gaining ground in france. the eu leaders are expected to spend the final day to discuss ways of deepening integration. we are going to check on markets now. tokyo stock prices opened higher. a weaker yen is boosting sentiment. export related shares are higher. the pharmaceutical and financial sectors are also boosting the index. let's look at currencies. the dollar shooting above 115. that's the highest since the end of january. that's the dollar yen.

and the perception that is being made, unfortunately from russia, whether it was the soviet yun do -- soviet union rusrussia. it is what is reality. if reality is the enemy that is what we have to deal with. how do you combat that? how do you combat this information that's happening? there are many ways. first and foremost if the example of mh 17 in july of 2014, the facts are out there more needs to be done. more investigations, more trials frankly speaking have to be brought. other instances in terms of combatting the disinformation is the movie itself. the movie itself combats all types of misinformation stemming from moscow. it is very fornt have these types of instances, curriculum within our high school social studies programs. i went through the high school systems in the united states and frankly speaking, if i didn't raise the issues unfortunately i don't think much would have been said. i even have an example of russian history from the mid-18 hundreds to the mid-19 hundreds going from russia to communist russia or to the soviet union and talking about five-year plans. it was not necessa