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out of the european union. i started by asking her what reassurances she could give to business leaders who are terrified about the prospect of britain leaving the european union. >> first of all i want to question that business leaders are terrified because business leaders should have the economic advantage over most of us and they would know that you don't need to be in political union with the european union in order to trade with it. there's more than 60 countries worldwide that are not members of the eu but have good free trade agreements with it. if you look at the top ten countries, sorry, six of the top ten countries that actually export to the eu some of them don even have trade agreements at all. we're talking about brazil china, america, they don't have any trade agreements so you can still trade with the european union without being a member of it. we haven't had to become the 51st member of the united states in order to trade with it successfully. so i question whether business leaders are really

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says the european union's plan to tackle the migrant crisis in the mediterranean sea is an important step. they have decided to triple funding. this was announced thursday. leaders also agree to lay the ground work for military action against traffickers. april has seen 1,300 migrants dying at sea. italy says nearly all of the people it rescues in the mediterranean depart from libya. >>reporter: it's difficult to see how the eu could carry out any kind of military intervention against smugglers. it's a shadowy yet network and the current political situation is a problem. there are two rival governments. the eu only recognizes one. most of the departures especially lately have been from the western side where there's the court-appointed government in tripoly. the eu has no dealings with that government and they announced yesterday they would stand against any kind of eu military intervention intervention. and then the other issue, the migrant who is have traveled thousands of kilometers and have reached this point and are adamant they want to risk their lives and reach europe. accordi

>> reporter: because it throws essentially the whole unity of the european union's position on sanctions against russia into doubt. what the e.u. leaders were particularly worried about was that tsipras would come here be offered some deal by the russians that he couldn't refuse, and that the russians would demand in return for this offer, the use of greece's veto within the european union to essentially soften the effect of sanctions on russia. now what we were sort of expecting or at least what was being touted coming into this meeting was that there was going to be possibly some lifting offered by russia of the -- the embargo on trades -- sorry, on food and food products that it hits the whole european union with. there is expectation that maybe it would be lifted from greece, an exemption would be given to them. we didn't get that. what we got at the most from russia was an offer of maybe some partnership, increasing joint companies that would export fruit and vegetations and such things to russia. we also heard that russia would not be offering greece any kind of specific aid packag

>>reporter: the european union has unfairly laid these charges and they're applying recent regulations to old gas contracts. the company says it's unfounded and obeys the law and hopes this can all be resolved. it has ten weeks to respond to the charges. they can, of course also appeal in the courts but if it's un unsuccess unsuccessful, huge fines running into the billions and billions of dollars. the european union is taking a big gamble doing this because as it well knows, russia's main export is fossil fuels and if you go off the companies that are responsible for those exports, in effect you're going after the russian state itself >>> the london trader accused of being involved in a fraud that wiped a trillion dollars off the share market has been granted bail. his passport has also been taken away. he's accused of making millions of dollars for himself in the years before he was arrested. >>reporter: making his first court appearance at westminster magistrate court in london he was told he faced a full extradition hearing in august. he was released on bail of $8 million. the 36-y

that's just part of what the european union are sending in. we have four large aftershocks overnight and into this morning as well. tremors that make people nervous. tremors that make the international airport the only real viable focus and location for people to come in and out of the country comes to a stop when there is an earthquake. >> reporting from the scene and u.s. is part of the international rescue effort under way in nepal as we've said. so far it has sent 70 personnel and 45 tons of cargo. and as we mentioned more is on the way. emergency workers say that the biggest challenge is reaching those remote villages. subina sthes files this report. >> at least 20 people have died just in this area. there is a cluster of old houses which all came tumble down. around six people were bury under here. they were all cremated yesterday. now the entire village is not only in shock but they're quite angry because of the lack of services from the government. this gentleman over here,. >> can you tell us what kind of help you received from the go

an emergency meeting is underway in france of the european union. they are facing criticism for scaling back rescue efforts. immigration has always been a major issue for the e.u. how long ago did they scale back the rescue efforts and is this latest tragedy creating a shift in e.u. policy when it comes to migrants? >> the italian government instituted an operation called our sea and for the 12 months it ran from october 2013 and october 2014 it did pick many people alive out of the mediterranean sea but it was costing many millions of dollars a month and overcall cost over $40 million. the italian government said it could not sustain that. the european union started an operation called try to know, with only a third of the assets and unable to collect as many people alive out of the mediterranean sea. you referred to the problems that the european union has insofar as immigration is concerned. many immigrants when they arrive in sicily say that the countries they want to get two are either sweden and germany particularly germany which receives for

we have 600,000 asylum seekers in european union a year. it's a big number but it's only one in 1,000 european citizens. so if one looks at lebanon, jordon, the dramatic impact of the refugees in their economies and societies, it's clear europe can do much more. >> okay. thank you antonio. thank you very much indeed. >>> armenians are marking 100 years since the massacre of their relatives and an -- ancestors in what was ottoman territory during first world war. armenia says 1.5 million people were killed in what this and 20 other governments call the first genocide of the 20th century. >> france fights against nialism, the wiping out of evidence revisionism, to ignore what happened in history is to repeat the massacres >>> turkey has condemned vladimir putin for calling the massacre genocide. protests on the streets of istanbul was attended by hundreds claiming it was a lie. it wasn't genocide. turkey accepts armenians were killed by ottoman forces but denies there was any systemic attack. >>> army commanders in nigeria say they have kille

we the european union are representative even the foreign ministers of the republic of iran as well as the p 3 plus 1 china, france germany, russian federation, the united kingdom and the united states met from 26th march to 2nd april 2015 in switzerland. we gather here to find solutions towards reaching a comprehensive resolution that will ensure the peaceful nature of the iranian nuclear program and the comprehensive lifting of all sanctions. today, we have taken a decisive step. we have reached solutions on key parameters of a joint comprehensive plan of action. the political determination, the goodwill, and the hard work of all parties made it possible. this is a crucial decision laying the basis for the final text on the joint comprehensive plan of action. we can now restart drafting the text. guided by the solutions developed in this place. as iran pushes a peaceful nuclear program, iran's enrichment level will be limited for specific durations and there will be no other enrichment facility. iran's research and development on centrifuges will be carried out on a scope and schedul

it's the european union that is taking charge of this. it's been done on a block level. that's what's taking place there. >> thank you. >> a long an bruising legal battle is playing out in federal court over an environmental disaster in ecuador that began more than 20 years with a class action lawsuit against an american oil giant. paul beban has the details. >> from 1964 to 1992, texaco explored and drilled for oil in northeastern ecuador. the people there accuse texaco, which chevron later bought of spilling thousands of barrels of oil and billions of gallons of toxic waste into the soil and rivers. environmentalists called it a rain forest chernobyl sickening the indigenous people who live a largely traditional lifestyle. >> for us, the amazon is our supermarket. this is where we find our food. the jungle is our pharmacy and we find our medicine here. with the pollution all is gone. >> chevron argued that a forty million-dollar cleanup by texaco and agreement texaco signed in 1998 absolves chevron of all responsibility. chevron's approach was perhaps best summed up by

greece desperately needs money and there's still a wide gap between greece and the european union. essentially, the european union is asking the government to impose austerity measures -- that puts it in an awful bind. >> okay. we've got to leave it there. thank you very much. >>> more now on our top story, the iran nuclear negotiations. in the last few minutes, the u.s. state department has made these comments. >> we're not negotiating in public. we've talked a lot over the last week about the parameters of the framework and we've certainly gone into some detail about them. so we're not going to negotiate on those terms in public. of course there are a number of details that remain to be negotiated. that's why we have the process until the end of june: thousands march into the french capital protesting federal spending cuts. the rally coincides with the second day of nationwide strikes by state radio workers and air traffic controllers. >>> british counterterrorism will take over the police investigation into the murder of a syrian-born imam in london. he was found with gunshot wo

it is the same way with a settlement of migrants that make it to the european union. you have 28 member states and they are clearly not on the same page concerning those topics. brian: max hoffman for us, following those emergency migration talks for us today in brussels. he will talk to you later. -- we will talk to you later. to qualify for refugee status members need to prove they were persecuted. matt: our reporter rg increase has been talking with a nigerian have has in -- that has been deported. reporter: these deportation papers are a sad reminder of the time george vincent spent in europe. he left nigeria because he couldn't find work. he made it to austria before being sent back. he says he wanted to get a job as a cleaner there but it did not work out. >> unfortunately i was without interview, without anything outside back to nigeria. when one is living a life without meaning, your life is nothing. their life is your slips -- their life is useless. reporter: he doesn't have a job or home. he sleeps on the floor at a friends place. when he first left he trave

the integrity of the eastern part of the european union actually is not whole. it is politically at risk in many places. then there's the whole question about what if the greeks were to exit what the implications would be what kind of financial consequences. the trans-adriatic pipeline and so on. these are huge geopolitical issues. i'm not saying the germans and french would stand by greece at any price, but i think at the moment, it is going to continue to go down to the wire, as they say. i think they will find a way of trying to keep greece hold. anna: some kind of political solution is your base case. what kind of chances do you put on grexit? george: right now, i think it is pretty small. but if you permit me a wider horizon, i think it is inevitable that greece will be out of the european union, out of the monetary union. it is a question of how it happens and under what circumstances. it is allowed to happen. whether greece gets help on the way out, including a debt restructuring, whether it is a member or not, or whether it ends up -- [indiscernible] i t

union is taking the waves of migrants coming across, and the hundreds who are dying. the e.u. foreign policy chief spoke earlier about the moral imperative that the e.u. felt to deal with this situation. there have also been remarks from the german foreign minister where he said the situation is to deal with the migrants who come across but also happens to deal with the situation on the ground in north africa, in libya in particularly where rival armed groups have fought for position and created a wave of migrants trying to get to the european union. >> dominick kane reporting from luxembourg. >>> we're joined villa skype from milan judith, thank you for your time. why are migrants coming across reached these levels. >> i think we should talk about the number of migrants and asylum seekers who have died so far this year in over three months we're looking at an estimated of over 1,600 people who have died trying to reach safety and a better life in europe. why are people attempting these dangerous journeys, i think most of the people based on our testimonies, our resea

. >>> the european union will improve search and rescue in the mediterranean sea, in response to migrants trying to claim access to southern europe. april has been a deadly month, with more than 1,300 dying at sea. at an emergency summit in brussels e.u. leaders approved a tripling of funding for the operation triton. germany and france committed two ships, the u.k. three. other nations pledged boats, planes and helicopters to save lives. french president francis hollande will seek a u.n. resolution to stop smugglers boats. there was no discussion on what to do with the thousands arriving in europe. >> reporter: these are the bodies of few of the hundreds lost to the mediterranean, to be recovered and laid to rest in malta. the deaths prompted a rethink from europe about its commitment to its humanitarian obligations on the southern border. outside the european council meeting the coffin was the motif for the protesters outraged people were left to die in the sea close to rich countries. "they should give refuge to all of them", said this man, families included. >> many complained about b

european union has accused google of skewing it's searches in favor of its own shopping service, and it's formerly charged the search service under antitrust rules. >> in brussels, european union competition commissioner announced something called a statement of objections against google. initially against its price comparison service google shopping for damaging competition. google controls 90% of up a europe-basedall europe-based web searches. >> if you use that kind of market power to promote something artificially, to favor it in your algorithm by not giving it the same treatment as other services, well, then you have using your dominant position to restrict competition. >> today's move comes after five years of complaints by digital companies who feel they have suffered directly from google's practices. >> very soon after we launched we were struck with an algorithm google search penalty that totally excluded us from the search realm. as a business that's effectively disappearing us from the internet. >> some are seeing this as a crucial test to the new digital economy, and of h

he wants to get out of the european union and the s.m.p. that wants to take scotland out of the u.k. union, he's putting those in the camp of greeance, saying those parties are going to be governed by grievances, whereas he said if the liberal democrats were to enter a coalition of conscience, and that's the line they've been taking for a little while now in terms of their role in government. they've seen themselves as applying some kind of conscience, in their words, to the conservative government. it was really interesting he took the time about this because as we get closer to may 7 and the election, everybody wants to work out what those coalition negotiations or even if it's not coalition, what those negotiations after the election are going to look like between the parties, who's going to be there and what's going to be said behind closed doors. so interesting that he was reminiscing about the gutsy thing that they did, about putting the country first. these are the words that he used just a few moments ago. he was saying this time ar

secretary-general ban ki-moon and the european union's foreign policy shift joined the italian prime minister off the coast, wanting to shelve solidarity. after a week ago over 800 drowned. e.u. leaders are under pressure to help with the matter. the migrant crisis is not just a regional problem says italy. >> we have a big heart, we'll do our part. it must be clear what happens is a worldwide problem. >> indonesia is expected to announce an execution date. including two australians convicted in 2006. for trying to smuggle more than 800 kilograms of heroin. andrew chan and myuran sukamaran could face the firing squad. others are set to be executed. it's been confirmed that they will take place despite pleas for clemency >>> the executions are need the to send a strong message. we have this explanation from jakarta. >> reporter: pleas for mercy poured in from all over the world - the united nations, european union, france brazil, indonesia. it all fell on death areas at the palace. president joko widodo said he doesn't want to discuss the executions and during an exclusive introduce w

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. >>> european union leaders say they're taking action on a crisis in the mediterranean sea. they're holding an emergency summit following the mass drowning of migrants and they are vowing to deal strictly with traffickers and illegal immigrantings. they issued a joint statement on their plans. they agreed to triple funding for coastal patrols and rescue missions and they say they'll strengthen efforts to capture smugglers and take their boats. they also agreed to tighten controls on the flow of illegal immigrants by sending them back to their countries. the eu is asking members to swiftly implement the new measures. leaders will discuss progress at their june summit. >>> u.s. president barack obama has revealed what he calls a terrible tragedy in a drone strike on al qaeda in pakistan. he says an american and italian hostage were killed. and he apologized to the families of the victims. obama called an unscheduled news conference on thursday at the white house. he revealed details of the january attack on a border region between afghanistan and pakistan. it's where a u.s. an

union's -- european union and canada. i think president obama is a person who, in the past, in 2004 spoke against the embargo. in 2008 he said he was ready to talk to raul castro. in 2009, already president all -- at the summit of the americas, he said he wanted a new beginning. i think he had it in his mind to do it, but of course the problem in the united states system is a small minority of right-wing cuban americans and other conservatives were blocking him by, one might say, political terrorism. i think he realized that it was arriving through the last two years of his presidency and he had not moved in the direction that he wanted, and at the same time the latin american and caribbean countries had said in 2012 that if cuba is not present at the summit we are not going, so here you heading on states facing a major diplomatic setback. the summit of the americas process was created by the administration of president clinton in 1994. you had a number of things. it was obvious people policy was wrong, and was not gettin

. >> ifill: now, a look at the anti-trust action the european union has filed against google. we start with a little background. >> today we have adopted a statement of objection to google. >> ifill: after a five-year investigation, the european union has charged google with using its internet search dominance to favor its own google shopping engine. e.u. competition commissioner margrethe vestager: >> what we would like to see, is that consumers are certain to see the best comparison shopping results, and they should not just be shown the google shopping results, if they are >> ifill: the move could lead to billions of dollars in fines for google, which handles more than 90% of internet searches in e.u. countries its u.s. share is around 70%. google responded to the accusations yesterday, insisting that its "shopping results have not harmed the competition," adding, "any economist would say that you typically do not see a ton of innovation in sectors dominated by one player. yet that is exactly what's happening in our world." in a separate probe, the e.u. is looking into goog

. >>> ministers of the european union have agreed to step up measures in response to a migration crisis. they are seeing an influgs of people from africa and the middle east to europe. ministers from 28 eu member states held emergency talks in lux um borg to discuss how to respond to the crisis. they proposed a set of measures. they also agreed to broaden search and rescue operations by an eu mission and they proposed to share the burden of dealing with incoming refugees. >> finally give the idea of a new sense of urgency, a new sense of political will from the european union side to tackle the issue of migration and the trafficking and smuggling of people across the mediterranean. >> but there are differences of opinion over the scale and range of the proposed measures. italian authorities are continuing their search for survivors and bodies from saturday's deadly ship wreck in the mediterranean. a boat containing 700 people capsized off the coast of italy. prosecutors say some rescued were from somalia, nigeria and jips. the boat left egypt and stopped at a port on route to italy. >>>

what does this crisis tell you about the state of the european union? clarence page? clarence: a couple things. one, they're not as united as they would like to be. one big issue you will hear is trying the share the burden of these boat people coming across the mediterranean. right now it's italy, greece, spain carrying most of the burden but across europe you've got a resurgence of far right populism in the midst of economic troubles still lingering and there is is not the same support for high numbers of refugees like we got say with southeast asia. john: why is the death toll rising? clarence: because they've run out of good boats. the fact is all the safe boats are long gone from libya. they take anything floating now. pat: people fleeing from wars, john, are coming endlessly and europe has to -- no way to stop them. europe is aging shrinking and die, its populations. europe simply has no way morally, physically, to stop what is coming. this is what was called -- tom: it was the -- it was called the pat buchanan scenarioio! eleanor: and if europe figures out how

what are the causes, and how the -- how should the european union respond? refugees hope, europe's challenge. our focus this week on dw. laila: hello again. russia is demanding the next from poland after polish authorities denied entry to a russian biker club who were on their way to berlin to mark the soviet victory over the nazis 70 years ago next week. brian: now the 10-man convoy has been at the center of a brewing political storm with the polish prime minister calling them "a provocation." the russian ministry says that warsaw has reacted inappropriately to a noble cause. reporter: it's the end of the road for the night wolves, their victory ride cut short. authorities here say that the dozen or so nationalistic russians cannot continue. it is a stark contrast to saturday's parade, when thousands of supporters gathered in moscow to see the bikers off. 6000 kilometer ride in honor of the red army's role in defeating nazi comments -- nazi germany. they did not all have valid visas to enter the shenzhen zone. their leaders seemed determined. >> it will be

the european union takes legal action against google accusing it of using its dominance on how we search online. >>> the u.n. refugee agency has told al jazeera that hundreds of migrants have died trying to reach europe. 600 people reached port on wednesday. hundreds of others are believed to have died when their boat overturned. the recent deaths were a consequence of a change in european tactics. search and rescue operations were scaled down last year. paul brennan joins us live now from sicily. the numbering seem to be ramping up month after month. what are some of the factors that are contributing to it? >> reporter: yeah this is a very complex picture. it's not just one factor. it's not just desperate refugees fleeing from conflict. there are weather conditions here in the mediterranean, opening a window of opportunity for the traffickers to put those boats to sea, and take the desperate people across the mediterranean, hoping against hope to reach the mainland. the u.n. is saying it is also a change in strategy. italy had an operation which was a search and rescue operation. it wen

i as an mmp coming from pal malta and others from other parts of european union responsibility sharing between all the member states. and when i speak about responsibility sharing and when i speak about solidarity, because solidarity is also key we are not speaking only about monetary aid but we're speaking about concrete resettlement program that will actually make a difference, help when it comes to search aand rescue operations that will actually make a difference and when it comes to solidarity that we as countries and citizens of the southern u member states, still expecting from the european union today. >> but the eu is also considering a civilian and military solution to people smuggling boats how does it deal with people-smugglers themselves? >> should be part of the whole solution and when we speak about the whole solution, i'm not looking at quick fixes. first and foremost we need to have discussions with the countries where mieg migrants are originating. we have been calling i myself have been calling as european parliament for this instability to be addressed for months no

. >> the european union accuses google of cheating competitors. now the search giant could be on the hook for a $6 billion fine. grappling with citizen owe xenophobia. south africans are fleeing for safety. good evening i'm antonio mora. >> and i'm barbara serra. we begin tonight with a major set back for peace in colombia. officials say farc rebels broke a four month ceasefire by attacking and killing 11 government soldiers. today juan manuel santos says there will be peace talks with the group. >> the two sides have been meeting in cuba since 2012. at the same time officials are urging the rebels to release 2,000 underage fighters in their ranks. farc promised to stop recruiting children in their ceasefire but it has apparently fallen apart. john terret has the latest. >> the attack came in southwest province an army hit with gun fire and explosives, in a hamlet called esperanza. meaning hope. >> in a search carried out by the troops the body of a narco terrorist has been found. >> reporter: if that's true, the first since the farc declared a un

the european union's foreign policy speech started by detailing iran's side of the deal. >> as iran pursues a peaceful nuclear ram, iran's enrichment capacity level, and stock pile will be limited for specific durations, and there will be no other enrichment facility. iran's research and development on centrifuges will be carried out on a scope and schedule that's been mutually agreed. international collaboration will be encouraged in agreed areas of research. there will. >> it all includes significant financial and economic sanctions relief for iran. the foreign minister of iran welcoming the agreement to end all u.n. security council sanctions against iran. >> it will be the end of security council resolutions that have been adopted against iran. now, there will be certain limitations that some countries wish to impose against the islamic republic and those limitations, we do not -- which do not include limitations in areas of finance, trade, and economy and may include from their perspective proliferation areas may continue for a brief period of time and then suspended and terminated. >>

the european union is taking a gamble. russia's main export is fossil fuels, and if you go after the companies that are responsible for those exports, then in effect you are going after the russian stayed itself. >> a london delayeder accused of -- trader accused of wiping a million off the wall street shares may be extradited to the u.s. he has had his passport confiscated and grand bail at $8 million. >> making his first court appearance at westminster management court nav i'meda singh was told he faced a full extradition hearing in august and was released on bail of $8 million. the 36-year-old financial trader is charged in the united states with commodities fraud and market manipulation that contributed to a multibillion crash on a single day this 2010. according to the u.s. regulators and the department of justice. he operated a one-man trading company from this west london house opposite his parents home not far from heathrow airport. here it's alleged he used computer algorithms to manipulate share prices. he was ac

they want the european union to do more to help people at sea. a large scale ongoing search and rescue operation. that's what used to be in place until november last year. the eu wound that back replaced it with a much smaller operation. there is a dominant idea within the european union that if you make it safe for these people to cross, it makes it more attractive. therefore, more people will do so. at the time that change was made human rights groups warned more people would lose their lives. that is certainly what we've seen today. >> thanks so much phillip black. president obama will be discussing the iran nuclear deal this week when he meets with the crown prince of abu dhabi. he is also the head of the united arab emirates armed forces. the uae have expressed concerns over the nuclear deal with iran. there seems to be some particular concern over dropping sanctions against iran. what is the worry here? >> reporter: that's right. the issue over sanctions is one of the biggest areas of contention as the framework comes together. there's conc

union and a clear sign of the seriousness with which the european union is taking the events of resent days and charged with trying to find some solution but as we have been hearing that may be very difficult indeed sammy. >> all right, thanks so much with dominick cane there. forces loyal to yemen's president have been involved in fierce clashes near the presidential residence. they regained control of the complex in the southern port city of aiden from houthi fighters and the alliance said it destroyed most of the air defense capabilities and cannot be used by the houthis. >> translator: the operation of the houthi groups is becoming more isolated and cannot contact each other across different areas because we targeted communications infrastructure and equipment especially near the saudi border. >> reporter: meanwhile oxfan is criticized the coalition after a warehouse in the region was hit by an air strike and the organization said it shared detailed information about the location of its facilities and that the warehouse had no military value. grant is the head of the advocacy secti

. >>> the european union has laid out a set of measures responding to the migrant crisis in the mediterranean. patrol operations will be strengthened and more money will be spent on destroying smuggler boats. as a boat ran aground off the greek coast. paul brennan has been following developments. >>reporter: being battered by waves clinging to what's left of their boat at the bottom of the screen here a woman is seen trying to protect a young child. recent attention has been focused on africans trying to reach italian waters. this child was saved but three people are already confirmed dead including another youngster. it's not known how many are still missing. >> the captain left us with the boat and ran away and left us alone. >> he ran away with another boat? >> i don't know. maybe. i think so. this small rubber boat do you know what this is? he got in and just ran. >> he left you alone? >> yes. >>reporter: the bodies from saturday night's drowning catastrophe have been brought ashore on malta. as many as 900 died when they capsized off the coast of libya. only 28 were saved. this has been

the european union is for these migrants the promised land. what about the people who are bringing them here it? is very much a question of sa ply a -- sa pupply and demand. and characters trying to make a fast buck off trying to shuffle them from point a to point b. now some are criminal gangs, organized, map here if you've like. and that might start right back in their hometown. and then, a lot of migrants right now are being funneled toward libya and another failed state. parts of that coastline are in the grip of criminal gangs. other parts of the coastline in grip of armed militias. the two are combining here, and then when the migrants arrived. they're charging thousand of dollars, to put them in rust bucket vessels. that is worth millions of dollars. how is europe handling the influx. last year, an effort by italian authorities to launch search-and-rescue operations. wasn't 100% successful. this year the numbers of drownings, shipwrecks are already up. because, the european union, stepped in to replace the italian effort, but really did

now is time for the european union to tackle these tragedies without delay. she also spoke about the need to make sure there was a more secure situation in libya the fact europe needed to start helping on the ground and that was a sentiment echoed by the european union itself. they said the reality is stark our actions therefore must be bold these are human lives at stake and european union as a whole has a moral and humanitarian obligation to act. the you're peep commission is consulting with european states, international organizations i understand order to prepare a new strategy which will be adopted by the commission in mid may. what this will entoil, nobody knows yet. you consider the numbers of those coming over, 10,000 migrants rescued in a week, a thousand have drowned over the last week or so. there is quite a pressing need for this to happen. the pope commented on this in his sunday mass. he has spoken with this so many times. in november he warned to the mediterranean was turning into a grave yard for people because so many were dying. he said toda

if the european union wants, it can fine gazprom to the tune of 10%k of their export revenue globally. the russians would say this is another chapter in the war against russia. guy: economic war antagonize. ryan: they are off to athens. as much as people talk about use of gas as a political weapon, it can be a cartrot. you do not hear greeks complaining about gazprom. the greeks are seeking a discount. like 1% overall. lyrically they are close. francine: this is in russia's interest because they are less than other countries. guy: it will annoy the germans. ryan: you would be surprised. the germans get one of the biggest discounts of all of the countries. but absolutely, geopolitically it is helpful to have greece on board. give them cheap gas, maybe they push hard on keeping the sanctions -- lifting the sanctions, rather. then there is the prospect that someday they are calling the turkish stream, which would replace south stream, would become something that involves greece. francine: ryan chilcote with the latest on gazprom. guy: we look ahead to the next hour on bloomberg. bloomber

union will meet on thursday. a 10-point plan was revealed on monday by the even u.'s foreign policy chief after meetings luxembourg come make kane has this report. >> reporter: a moment of silence to mark the deaths of so many migrants. after a day of high-level meetings in luxembourg the even u. foreign policy chief said it was immaterial pear to act. today we are developing a true sense of urgency and solidarity in fighting human trafficking and saving lives and let me add on a personal note. finally so. >> reporter: the even u.'s proposed new measures includes strengthening their mission in nine tore stop migrants from closing no to libya. destroying the boats which are often up seaworthy or illegal. to strengthen and give more money to the titan and poe side an rescue operations and get member states to share responsibility for the resettlement and relocation of refugees. because the country has that born the brunt of the migrant wave says they can no longer cope on their own. >> it's a european emergency. it

european union foreign ministers are to hold urgent talks on the crisis on monday before a summit in rome on thursday. phil lavelle is in rome. first, paul brennan is in catania on the east coast of sicily. paul first to you. can you tell us what the latest is from where you are? >> reporter: well there hasn't been any substantive update in the last couple of hours. the figures are as they were about 120 minutes ago when we last spoke. it was 49 people had been rescued by that. 24 were confirmed dead. as you say, hundreds of people believed to be missing. it's important to remember these that set out from the north linnian are squalid, undorsey worthy boats. they don't have passenger manifests. it's impossible to know exactly how many people were on board, and so estimates are very much based upon survivors bears'testimony bears'testimony. what the sur ivers of this particular event are saying is that there may have been a minimum of 700 people on a boat that was little more than 20 meters long. if so then it really is a catastrophfee. there is a major search and rescue operation ong

. >>> european union members met today searching for a way to deal with the migrants trying to reach europe. paul brennan reports from catania in italy. >> reporter: being battered by waves, clinging to what is left of their boat. at the bottom of the screen here a woman is seen trying to protect a young child. recent attention has been focused on migrants leaving north africa for italian waters. this vessel came from turkey and broke up on the greek island of rhodes. this child was saved but there are confirmed dead including another youngster. it is not known how many are still missing. >> the captain just left us with the boat and ran away. >> he ran away with another boat to turkey? >> i don't know maybe. i think so. he has this small rubber boat. this boat he got in and just like run. >> reporter: and he left you alone? >> yeah. yeah. >> reporter: the bodies from saturday's night drowning catastrophe have now been brought ashore. as many as 900 drowned. just 28 were saved. those survivors are on the way to thesis -- the sicilian port. an estimated 1500 people have drowned in the

now is the time for the european union as such to tackle these tragedies without delay. we have the duty to save human lives, sharing among all the 28 this duty and the responsibility that for too long has been left only to the southern countries. the european commission says it is consulting with member states and european agencies and with international organizations to prepare a new european migration strategy which will be adopted by the commission in mid may. what that will involve is anybody's guess. the pope has spoken of this problem before it's surprising he used his sunday address to talk about action. >> translator: i make a heart felt appear to international community to react decisively and quickly to see to it that such tragedies are not repeated. >> reporter: this building is where the italian prime minister has spent much of his day with his cabinet in the emergency session and you can see the italian flag and european flag happy together but italy does not feel they are together and feels it has been abandon by europe and left to get on with the crisis a

they will all have to deal with european union. olivia: for viewers -- this news conference is still going on live. tom: brendan you are dying to say something. brendan: this is an up or distinction -- android is not open source. the distinction is coming android is code live away for free by google. google works on the code and hands it out. a huge difference between that and something generally open-source. this is against google has been trying to do for a long time, say we are open-source, and we corporate, but it is difficult. and still hold on to the code and take individual champions. it is a delicate dance. tom: ok. more on google throughout the day. i don't get it. i don't get why this is un-american or on european -- un-european. didn't they say don't be evil and their perspective? speaking of evil -- none other than bill gross discusses -- says our greatest torsion. jason trennert completely agrees. the suggest a move from negative interest rates to normality may be a cause for challenge and it is tension you put on this

. >>> the european union will meet on thursday to follow up on a series of measures to curb the flow of paying grant a 10-point plan was revealed on monday after meetings in luxembourg, dominick kane has this report. >> reporter: a moment of silence to mark the deaths of so many migrants. after a day of high-level meetings in luxembourg the approximatede.u.foreign chair said it was imperative to act. >> today we are developing a truly european sense of urgency and solidarity in fighting human trafficking and saving lives. and let me add on a percentage note finally so. >> reporter: the e.u.'s proposed new measures include strene inning its mission in nine tore try to stop them from cross to go libya where they are often smuggled from, destroying the boats which is offense seaworthy and illegal. to give more money to the rescue operations and get member states to share responsibility for the resettlement and relocation of refugees. because the country that has born the brunt of the migrant wave says it can no longer cope on its own. >> it's a european emergency. so it's not the proble

there is still serious agreement between greece and the european union and grease's various creditors. until those are resolved, greece will not get its hands on $7 billion worth of money it is excited to under the existing old bailout agreement. >> has the climate really changed at this point between greece and its creditors because we were led to believe at least alexis tsipras promised the greek people things would be different this time around, but it does seem as if there is much more difficult times ahead for people there. >> there's now a lot of distrust between greece and its creditors. a lot of mutual suspicion. certainly irritation over mr. tsipras's trip to moscow and the fact that while he was there, he repeated the greek government position that it disagrees with the european union sanctions against russia over its alleged interference in eastern ukraine. then the house being this acrimonious row between greece and germany over the question of germany repaying reparations to greece because of the nazi occupation during the second world war. those sorts of disagreements ar

wheat coming from the european union. we have a tremendous advantage in logistics and being able to supply them top quality products at what i would believe would be a more reasonable price than what they're currently paying for products shipping from those countries all over the world. so i think that there would be an immediate benefit. could there be additional benefits if in fact we are treated like other countries and don't have to go through one state-owned corporation for our products, which i believe and hope would happen, then i think there would be additional benefits. >> one of my concerns is just what you referred to which is having to go through allen port, the state agency there. we talk about the higher quality. i have been to my friend senator bozeman's home state, the extraordinary rice they produce there. the pork products produced in my home state and all of us. we talk about the benefits of lower price, easier transportation, all of those things. and the question is how do we make sure that that lower

. >>> the european union has agreed to triple funding for its med train vinnie navel mission. the funding boost was announced at an emergency summit from brussels this as hundreds more migrants have been rescued by the italian coast guard. 84 were rescued minutes before their boast sank. they were found on an overcrowded rubber dinghy after they sent a distress call. on tuesday italian police restless tuesday two men suspected the hugh pan trashing. theyhuman trafficking.what do we picture to happen in court today and who is giving evidence? >> reporter: well, we are not expecting i don't think to see the two people at the helm effectively in court. the captain and the first mate that have ship that sanction last weekend. this is a preliminary and the judge will hear additional evidence against them and decide whether or not to confirm the charges of homicide which have been laid against them. the arrests were confirmed the process is slightly elongated. yesterday the arrests were confirmed today it's the charges being confirmed. we will, though, expect, hear from some prosecu