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well certainly as you said barbara a lot of people relieved there in brussels today let's take a closer look now at what some of those issues are that are still up in the air between germany and europe. germany is under mounting pressure without a government and the european union isn't moving forward fast enough for the french president's agenda and europe has to wait with him. if you want to forge a compromise at european level you need to have a strong german government in place i think that there are two real tough issues which need to be settled. paris want to strongly formed the euro zone with its own budget and an e.u. finance minister but until now there's been no concrete response from. there is pressure coming also from paris because next year we will have the european parliament elections bret's that is going to come into the final moments of a new institutional cycle of european but you need solutions before that time is running out for. you without a common approach between paris and berlin the division between eastern and western europe could widen even further this is goi

what do you say brussels leaves willing to weed redraw borders if it comes down to it is that true of all it's. you mean in the sense friend that it's going to draw borders around the european union twenty seven to the side of britain yes indeed because what david is talking has been talking about now is this it's an illusion that's what the e.u. says it exists nowhere in the world no one the world to be a friction is trade as between neighboring countries for nothing you are even in a sort of customs union or you are either in some sort of other arrangement but neither one of those exist as far as you opinion is concerned it cannot exist because the certain rules have to be kept certain rules that are keeping the other twenty seven within the boundaries of the european union and so yes the border will be drawn and what brussels says to this point to this problem is there will be no friction is trade and of course we know there will be no cherry picking you can pick out the goodies from the european union those that you want and leave the rest the way in for instance pay no money into

he is now on trial in brussels in relation to that brussels in relation to that brussels end of the series of events, and he will at some point face trial in france for the bataclan. the fact that this man should have called for his release is, ina should have called for his release is, in a sense, fairly predictable. if he is going to make any demand, it would be the kind of demand that sort of person would make. it doesn't make any sense necessarily that he has any real links to daesh, because as we have seen from the past, most of these claims are done by people who have no actual connection with the group other than what they have come across on the internet. we have had reports that the nearby airport of carcassonne has been temporarily closed, all flights stopped temporarily. is there any suggestion that anybody else has been involved or is that caution in case was an accomplice?” am not sure of anything, but i suspect it is out of caution. i have not seen any report of accomplices being on the loose or feared to be on the loose, but of course, they do not know that. and i imagine

matus in brussels thank you. we made mistakes that is what facebook boss mark zuckerberg has said in response to the data scandal involving his company and data mining firm cambridge analytic in a statement on his facebook profile and in an interview shortly thereafter sucker broke up pollack eyes that promised users a new feature to turn off third party apps apps which came with the analytical allegedly used to harvest private information. it began with an innocent personality quiz and ended up with a fifty million facebook profiles being used to sway elections. now the question is why didn't facebook do more to protect its users dunta. the scientist behind the quiz says he is a scapegoat. did you know what they were going to do with it did you know what their interest was no i mean that's the thing i was pretty heavily siloed of anything as far as funders or clients i found out about donald trump just like everybody else through the news portal to give people more options than just facebook's founder mark zucke

the talks go on between officials but one thing that's really annoying the brussel side and michelle bono has referred to it in recent days is that david davis the lead minister for britain has not been spending that much time in brussels this year as barbara alluded to in ninety's going round different e.u. capitals giving speeches and meeting his fellow ministers to try and really drum up support from other countries for the british positions having said that the british positions are not that clear we as barbara alluded to again we only achieved some principles in december that allowed the impression of momentum to get time get to the next phase but britain then handed over responsibility to the european union to write down the legally of of of what december meant and that has sprung some surprises and it has also left out something the british thought they'd agreed which was there would be no de facto ball. between northern ireland and the rest of great britain yeah i'd like to focus on what has become the biggest bricks and blockade if you will the border between the republic of

celebrate a reprieve from trump's planned steel and aluminum tariffs they have their hands full at the brussels summit working on a final breakthrough deal and france's powerful trade unions take to the streets leading to clashes in some cities they are on strike over new labor reform. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has unveiled up to sixty billion dollars in trade tariffs targeting showing up for alleged theft of intellectual property the move knocked seven hundred points off of the del jones and it drew promises of retaliation from beijing they already faced steep costs for from tariffs on steel and aluminum that go into effect tomorrow. the tariffs will hit more than a thousand categories of chinese goods the identities of which are to come later trump's actions follow a trade investigation into china's acquisition of technology and trade secrets through unfair measures the outcome was no surprise china has built its own domestic industrial base in part by buying co-opting and sometimes hacking secrets from other nations according to trump it was pas

mark in to get something hammered out in october not just in brussels thank you very much. also in brussels today ceremonies to mark the second anniversary of suicide bombings that killed thirty four people at the city's airport and a metro station at port a moment of silence was held in memory of the victims. prime minister charles michel was among the dignitaries present. at a memorial in the departure. a similar place at the metro station where the second attack took place turning out in nigeria and the homecoming no one was expecting boko haram stream assaf freed most of the hundred ten schoolgirls they snatched from the town of doxy a month ago but the act of semen clemency came with a chilling warning to the parents don't try sending your daughters to school again or we'll be back our correspondent. has this report. there were no limits to the jubilation in dempsey. to the complete surprise of local residents a convoy of pickup trucks out into the town on wednesday morning and released dozens of kidnapped schoolgirls. many of them however are still in shock. that. we

i'm joined now by our brussels correspondent adam flemming. adam, this backing for theresa may is exactly what the prime minister was looking for. the 28 eu leaders are still discussing the subject of russia at this summit, which is going to run into the early hours of tomorrow morning. we are still waiting for the written conclusions in black and white about what they've decided about the salisbury case, but the tweets from donald tusk, the man who chairs the summit, is incredibly significant. he says the eu accept the uk's assessment that it's highly likely russia carried out this attack, and it's worth comparing this in detail with the language we saw from eu foreign ministers at a meeting on monday in brussels when they said the eu takes extremely seriously the uk government's assessment. so this is an upgrade of the language, which i think number ten downing st will be very, very pleased about. this proves that the immense diplomatic effort that the diplomatic machinery has been engaged in over the last few days has worked, theresa may si

-- if brussels does activate its own list of tariffs. the car industry has a lot of skin in the game so there is a reaction here. rolls royce is down by 0.7%. volkswagen off by 1.2% >>> rex tillerson says that president trump made the decision himself to speak to north korea leader kim jong-un tillerson also said that talks between washington and pyongyang will take some weeks to arrange. those proposed talks have been welcomed by sergey lavrov and china's foreign ministry and would be the first time that a sitting american president ever met with a north korean leader trump said he is planning a meeting with kim jong-un on denuclearization he also praised recent talks between kim and south korean officials but the administration is firm this sanctions will be in place until an agreement is reached. the news came as south korea's national security office head and other officials met white house counterparts to talk about their meetings with kim. trump spoke at the white house after meeting with the administration >> kim pledged that nort

the talks go on between officials but one thing that's really annoying the brussel side and michelle obama has referred to it in recent days is that david davis the lead minister for britain has not been spending that much time in brussels this year as barbara lead to do in the ninety's going round different e.u. capitals giving speeches and meeting his fellow ministers to try and really drum up support from other countries for the british positions having said that the british positions are not that clear we as barbara alluded to again we only achieved some principles in december that allowed the impression of momentum to get try and get to the next phase but britain then handed over responsibility to the european union to write down the legally of of of what december meant and that has sprung some surprises and it has also left out something the british thought they'd agreed to which was there would be no de facto ball. between northern ireland and the rest a great person yeah i'd like for us to focus on what has become the biggest bricks and blockade if you will the border between

earlier i asked our brussels correspondent bob are over it's all about the likelihood of success for the last minute efforts to avert these terms not very likely christopher because there has been a paper circulated by the european commission is secret paper but of course most papers here get leaked one way or the other where it's where it says that everybody who's flying to washington these days led to go off all hope more or less so i don't really believe that you can change things till friday but get ready to sort of get into the action and start thinking about the countermeasures and that's why we now have the concrete list off the table just across the board of american production and produce bought it targeted of course because if one looks at it more closely is some states where there are republican governors and senators in place but there's a strong republican majority somehow get a bit more of this they're not there's let go of all hope certainly not the brightest of prospects there what does this tell us for the even some of this taking place at the end of next week. it's

has failed to provide proof in speaking in brussels earlier today u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson said he believed russia was not telling the truth. this is a classic russian strategy of trying to conceal the needle of truth in a haystack all lawyers sound a prescription and what really strikes me talking to european friends and partners today is that twelve years off to be assassination dogs on the libyan coast in london the norte brooding anybody in the movie. well let's bring in our correspondent gary mattis who is standing by for us in brussels hi garrick they even saying today it's taking britain's assessment extremely seriously that isn't a full endorsement why is that. all that is because the e.u. so unqualified solidarity is not directed towards blaming gratia up front but towards the case itself so the e.u. now practically has to wait until they get the verdict from these international. experts on whether this indeed is a russian north h. and if now if it turns out that that is the case then it takes another step to basically step louche wh

possibly not possibly yes the question is what should be done it seems to me that brussels is willing to fight a trade war so they say trump begins it with a trade judy. ed and we do the same and so there would be an escalation i think we should do it the other way around trump is right when he says that you are all. in poses to high tariffs on cut these import jule to use he has a point and we should accept him because it would be better for european concert which we have to wrap each here at this point because our shell has come to an end thank you. yemen is starving. pediatrician a shot mohan helps wherever possible. but there's only so much she can give. eight shipments are delayed. getting patients alone isn't enough to ease the. global three thousand next d.w. . what drives the economy. is the economy people. made in germany always has its finger on the pulse. of the markets the future. temple of. germany. g.w. . what does russia's youth hope for how is freedom of expression theory. wu for your leadership joe travels through russia before the. election he needs the poor and the

katya adler, bbc news, brussels. international chemical weapons experts have arrived in salisbury to examine the nerve agent used to poison the former russian spy, sergei skripal, and his daughter. it comes as eu foreign ministers meeting in brussels have expressed unqualified solidarity with britain, a move strongly criticised by the russian foreign ministry tonight. here, the met police has said it is highly likely the investigation could take many months. here's our diplomatic correspondent james landale. the focus today shifted to the village of durrington, ten miles north of salisbury, where investigators removed a car that was used to pick up yulia skripal from the airport the day before she and her father sergei were attacked with nerve agent. nearby, at the military research complex at porton down, inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog, the opcw, were due to start analysing the nerve agent that british experts believe came from russia. in brussels, the foreign secretary and to brief eu counterp

minister as far as the french president is concerned we're waiting for him to address the media in brussels where he's attending the e.u. summit he was due to begin a media briefing around thirty minutes ago. as you can understand possibly the situation in twelve is a pretty fluid situation he's being briefed as we speak possibly and will eventually come out and speak to the media and we'll take that live as and when he does hear here on al-jazeera in the meantime let's bring it out zero's paul brennan who's in paris and has been following developments in the southwest of france paul what do we know. yeah i think what we heard from edward philippe still stands in the sense that the police are very much treating this as a terrorist act but the statement made by edward phillipe the prime minister was about an hour and a half ago before he departed from eastern france where he was on a prime ministerial visit he's now coming back to paris and some of the numbers in his statement are starting to change a little bit we're hearing from the interior ministry now that two people have been killed at

becomes reality europeans try to avert it how likely is their last minute success we'll get the word from brussels also making money with health care germany's siemens lets its medical equipment division go public can investors really look forward to healthy profits and saturdays at frank stay. on ireland's most famous stout. this is a business i'm christopher caldwell welcome to the white house says there is a more flexibility u.s. president donald trump is negotiating with a number of countries over possible exemptions to new u.s. import tariffs but they didn't clarify which countries are involved now there's no time to waste a week from now increased terrorist on steel and aluminum are set to come into effect meanwhile e.u. officials have prepared a list of u.s. produced items that could face levies in return use economic hit list as pages long and includes american favorites like corn peanut butter whiskey tobacco genes and motorcycles products worth in total two point eight billion euros in annual trade says brussels the list is a reaction to u.s. president donald trump announced tariffs on s

let's return to matters in brussels. joining me now is our brussels reporter, adam fleming, and senior europe correspondent for the guardian, jennifer rankin. welcome. a long day following events throughout the day. jennifer. first, the trade issue, there was anxiety earlier about whether they would get this exemption on steel and aluminium. where are we to come up are they a little more optimistic? they are certainly more optimistic, but it has been a long day and a long night ahead and discussions will go on among eu leaders and they are waiting to hear from the white house what the policy would be. so i think there is more optimism that they will be exempt, but they are not sure whether it will be temporary or more permanent. with regards to brexit which they will talk about tomorrow, there was a bit ofa talk about tomorrow, there was a bit of a delay over christmas and the treaty was to sell —— was signed in december but people thought, is no deal still on the table? suddenly, we have renewed optimism with the si

steel tariffs for now but at the summit in brussels leaders warn that they won't negotiate with pull a gun to their head. i'm sorry kelly welcome thanks for joining us we begin with breaking news this evening from france where a hostage situation appears to be over with the suspected gunman dead it unfolded in a supermarket in the southwestern town of treb close to the city of caucus on the interior minister said three other people have been killed and french media say the perpetrator claimed allegiance to the so-called islamic state. interior minister of the country identified the gunman as twenty six year old known as a small time drug dealer he also gave more details to reporters about a police officer who exchanged himself for one of the hostages in the supermarket have a listen. we had no indication the attacker was radicalized he was known to the authorities as a petty criminal. case officer left his mobile phone switched on inside the supermarket that's how we were able to listen to what was going on in there. when we heard gunshots we decided to intervene. attentively and for

following their meetings with michel body in brussels this week after tourism a double down on britain's exit from the e.u. customs union all the civil coming up in today's going on the ground but first to rex it poses a headache for brussels the neoliberal e.u. project now faces more arguable chaos after sunday's italian elections the country with the highest government debt ratio in the e.u. with youth unemployment. standing at thirty two percent arguably responded to statements from selvi news right wing northern league about migration he's warned of a social war leading to crime even though crime figures in italy down except hate crimes like one last month are up ten fold heavy police presence in the central italian town of mustard arthur where earlier on saturday a man opened fire on foreigners winning six people fear in italy it appears during sunday's election thought to remember that without migrants wherever they come from italy will face a shortfall in its labor market given a plummeting birth rate for now it is a matter of how anti e.u. and anti near liberal any coalition gove

all right rex tillerson will be missed in brussels our correspondent there bubble of easel with an update thank you very much. and well of course i continue to bring you updates on that story as they come in to us for now though we're going to move to syria and iran one hundred civilians have managed to leave the country's besieged eastern ghouta region under a medical evacuation deal with russia syrian state media showed images of civilians arriving at a crossing manned by the syrian army of evacuations come even as the largest rebel group in eastern grew to vow to continue fighting earlier the u.s. warned that if needed it would act to end what it called the in human suffering in syria more than a thousand civilians have been killed in eastern guta since the government says government forces began a siege in mid february. and let's bring a date of you correspondent laura she's monitoring the latest developments from beirut in neighboring lebanon high on szell these are the first evacuations to leave eastern ghouta why has this taken so long. well first of all it is pretty significant ev

laura kunstler, bbc news, brussels. a memorial service has been held today in memory of the five people killed in the westminster terror attack a year ago today. khalid masood, who also died in the attack, drove into pedestrians on westminster bridge before stabbing pc keith palmer outside the houses of parliament. mps observed a minute's silence, and the prime minister laid a wreath in parliament square. vicki young reports. a year ago today on this estate and on westminster bridge, we were visited by what i regard as evil. senior politicians and faith leaders led tributes today to of the attack. westminster fell silent in their honour and remembered the shocking events of a year ago. the fear as khaled massoud ploughed his car into pedestrians on the bridge. the panic as people fled to safety. pc keith palmer was fatally stabbed as he stood on duty protecting parliament. one of his colleagues recalls the moment it happened. mass confusion, really. eventually one of my friends came over and said, who with it, who is th

earlier i asked our brussels correspondent bob or over his all about the likelihood of success for the last minute efforts to avert these terms not very likely christopher coke there has been a paper circulated by the european commission is secret paper but of course most papers here get leaked one way or the other where it's where it says that everybody who's flying to washington these days lead to go off all hope more or less so don't really believe that you can change things to friday but get ready to sort of get into the action and start thinking about the content measures and that's why we now have the concrete list off the table just across the board of american production and produce bought it targeted of course because if one looks at it more closely some states where there are republican governors and senators in place but there's a strong republican majority somehow get a bit more of this they're not there's let go of all hope certainly not the brightest of prospects there what does this tell us for the e.u. summit that's taking place at the end of next week. it's very high t

laura kuenssberg, bbc news, brussels. as those discussions were taking place in brussels, here, officials in salisbury announced that detective sergeant nick bailey, who fell ill after being exposed to the nerve agent, has now been discharged from hospital. but the former russian spy sergei skripal and his daughter are both heavily sedated and unable to communicate in any meaningful way. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford reports. for more than two weeks, detective sergeant nick bailey has have been having what his boss called significant and daunting medical treatment. he had become contaminated while responding to the salisbury nerve agent attack, but now, he's well enough to leave hospital. i'm pleased to say that sergeant nick bailey's condition has now improved and he was discharged from salisbury district hospital this afternoon. i personally want to wish nick and his family well and i know that the staff right across the hospital will want me to share their very best wishes. i'm sure you'll understand t

thank you, christian in brussels. the duchess of cambridge is carrying out her final official engagement today before going on maternity leave. a brother or sister to four—year—old george and his two—year—old sister, charlotte, the new baby will be fifth in line to the throne. meanwhile, wedding invitations to the wedding of prince harry and meghan markle have been sent out. our royal correspondent, sarah campbell, has been giving me more details. 600 invitations are now in the post so tomorrow morning, who knows what might arrive? will be getting up early to check! 600 invitations, the people have been invited to the service at saint georges chapel and a lunchtime reception at st george ‘s hall given by her majesty the queen and an even more select 200 people have been invited to the private reception that evening by the prince of wales. it's quite interesting because the invitation itself is a work of art and on the kensington palace twitter feed, itself is a work of art and on the kensington palace twitte

now british prime minister to resign may has warned the both london and brussels need to start facing some hard facts on brags that she made the comments in a highly anticipated speech laying out her vision for the u.k.'s future relationship with the e.u. britain is set to leave the bloc just twelve months from now. it hasn't just been the winter weather casting a cold chill over the u.k. over the last week relations between london and brussels have been particularly frosty who's up the prime minister to try to warm things up was a call for compromise that drove her speech. this is a negotiation and neither of us can have exactly what we want so i want the broadest deepest possible partnership covering more sectors and cooperating more fully than any free trade agreement anywhere in the world today may said she intends to keep the exchange of goods as frictionless as possible the u.k. may choose to stay in step with some european rules but she reiterated that the u.k. will be leaving the single market. the fact is that every free trade agreement has varying market access depending on

earlier i asked our brussels correspondent bob or over his all about the likelihood of success for the last minute efforts to avert these terms not very likely kristof because there has been a paper circulated by the european commission is secret paper but of course most papers here get leaked one way or the other where it's where it says that everybody who's flying to washington these days led to go off all hope more or less so i don't really believe that you can change things to friday but get ready to sort of get into the action and start thinking about the content measures and that's why we now have the concrete list off the table just across the board of american production and produce bought it targeted of course because if one looks at it more closely some states where there are republican governors and senators in place but there's a strong republican majority somehow get a bit more of this they're not there's let go of all hope certainly not the brightest of prospects there what does this tell us for the even some adults taking place at the end of next week. it's very high thi

no so far not but you can be sure there's shock and awe in brussels because we have seen last week the start of a trade war is sort of really offensive and aggressive sort of action off donald trump towards the european union and everybody is still busy was that is too busy trying to figure out what does it mean how can we prevent it are there ways to circumvent it or whatever and now comes the next come sort of the next step the next blow because rick citizen had been let's say the reasonable face off american foreign policy scene from the side of the european union he was the man they could still talk to he was he was the man who would sort of come up with a reasonable wording for common conflicts for instance the latest. russia or the he reassured the reason may in london about u.s. support for her reactions to putin and russia and so if he is all of a sudden gone what next who sort of to address their worries and their problems too in washington so it creates further confusion and it is extremely unwelcome for brussels as you said he was seen very much here in europe as the steady

now back to brent and a big day in brussels. brent: exactly right, hobby. eu leaders are try to digest donald trump trump's latest trade moves at the summit in brussels. brexit is the main topic on the agenda. there was relief europe will be exempt from washington's steel tariffs, at least for now. reporter: it is a coup for europe, good news from the u.s. as the eu summit come under way. eu leaders expected this but feel exonerated and see that eu unity raise dividends. >> we made it clear in the commission we don't want a trade war, which would not help anyone. and we made it clear that we are ready and able to undertake adequate countermeasures. first of all, the eu presented a united front. that's good, and also a commitment to free trade and against protectionism. since the beginning of the month, u.s. president trump threatened to levy a 10% tariff on aluminum and steel. however, after intensive negotiations with the european union, washington will exempt the eu and six other nations from the tariffs, for the time being at least. that is when these co

in brussels even needles are relieved that the block has escaped stephen aluminum tallis for the time being and british prime minister to resign mr pleased at the transition period all briggs's has been approved. thus hardliner john bolton is prompts a new national security advisor he's advocated preemptive strikes on north korea and things think the us should dump the iran nuclear deal. on. an unwelcome i'm a touchy ma we begin with breaking news coming in from france efficiency us. situation is underway inside a supermarket security forces are at the scene in the south western town of close to the city of kharkiv song there is contradictory information on the number of victims with the situation still ongoing but they are reports at least one person has been killed it's been reported that the gunman claimed allegiance to the islamic state the french prime minister edward filipe is on his way to tape he has said that the situation is quote very serious. the french government has been quick to respond to the incident doing its best to reassure the public the interior ministry has trea

as joe brussels respond. —— beijing and brussels. asjoe mentioned, we saw a fall in wall street, and asia shares are tracking. 0ur fall in wall street, and asia shares are tracking. our business reporter has more. steel makers are happy, but particularly other makers are not happy at all. -- car-makers as well as asia biggest steel knickers are seeing their shares go into the bread because of these tariffs that president trump are seeing. they are concerned about higher costs, as well as a possible trade war. the fall of these car—makers and steel makers are working on the overall indexis makers are working on the overall index is injapan, indicating 25 is down by 2.5%. the hang seng in hong kong has just opened down by 2.5%. the hang seng in hong kong hasjust opened up, while australia shares are weaker as well. this all has to do with how much they export to america, in terms of steel and aluminium. south korea is the third—largest source of steel to america, accounting for 10%. the two biggest are canada and brazil, as we ment

is a bureau chief in brussels he's covering this story for us hi max good to see you now you spent last week i traveling through italy why is immigration such a divisive issue in this election there are facts and perceptions and we unify course it'll is at the forefront of the whole migration crisis and the mediterranean route has gained more importance over the last two years or so after the western balkans route where many people from syria fled through originally had been close so you had about one hundred nineteen thousand migrants making their way over the mediterranean route to italy last year which is a drop but on a high level so that's not the only reason why this is such an important topic of course the right wing parties are trying to make an important topic of it but you also had a public couple of high profile events terrible events happening in the last months in italy for example a drive by shooting by a right wing extremist of six african migrants and then there was also a gruesome killing of an italian girl where african migrants are being investigated so all this put t

it may not get the view from europe with our correspondent in brussels to be sure is taking the he was hoping to get an exemption from these new tabs how realistic is that well i would go further if you listen to cecilia monster and they're expecting to get an exemption she said this morning that in a meeting she has with the u.s. trade representative robert light hisor tomorrow she'll get more details but she says it's simply impossible that president trump can justify putting so putting tariffs on his closest friends in the u.s. his closest allies that there's no reason to think that europe is a national security threat which is the main reason he says that he's doing this so yes she's completely says they expect an exemption well under this rethink your opinion had said if trump's plan doesn't go in it could be met with a talent for it out of me then having to was a triple. well this is another thing monstrous says that they don't want the tariffs but they don't want a trade war and last night. representative federico greeny speaking at the brussels form also says she will not accep

and the greens brussels have while combat as well. no brussels was looking rather skeptical at that coalition of course because the greens are a known factor here the greens in the european parliament are very pro european are strong on the environment strong for solidarity but this is the s.t.p. the liberal party had shown a certain skepticism it was also strong on the tight fiscal policies things that are not welcomed in brussels and so this is really the desired result this is the favorite result for the european union what happened today in bowlen d.w. political correspondent barbara vai's all thank you very much meanwhile another european countries facing some uncertainty this hour italians are casting their ballots in a general election that's turning out to be a tightly contested race a center right coalition anchored by former prime minister silvio berlusconi's fourth party could come out with a majority the economy and immigration have dominated what's been unpredictable campaign and there are more surprises on election day.

trade rep a representative like thais are in brussels on saturday to discuss. while donald trump says unilateral import tariffs his neighbors kind of mexico and nine other pacific rim nations lowering trade barriers that opening them markets with a multilateral free trade agreement which trump rejected off the taking office representatives of the eleven countries met in the capital santiago to sign the comprehensive and progressive transpacific partnership deal c.p.u. t p p the deal sees tariffs slow it all eliminated on a wide range of goods the eleven signatories have combined have a combined population of off a billion people and fourteen percent of global economic output and that's it from me and the business team here. we'll have an update for you in the next hour before you go is a check on real time real time check on the markets at this hour thanks for watching. we'll spain soon harbor europe's largest uranium mine thanks. for stopping. the mayor from the salamanca region is concerned about the environment and for farmers. reputations. those in favor sa

summit in brussels that was supposed to be briggs it even leaders have welcomed their exemption from trump's terrorists but they want it to be permanent here's what they had to say. i'll be working with my shadow e.u. leaders today on is to start to see how we can secure a permanent exemption for the e.u. for the steel tariffs and with this will be about what the next steps might be going through sit well the good thing is that this issue has a reinforced our unity the european commission has spoken with one voice very rapidly so you're happy that in this room when it comes to raising tyrants against the european union will respond with countermeasures that was our collective reaction we want good transatlantic relations but we may also respond if we believe that international trade rules have been violated. that we now draw in our correspondent who was in brussels until guess because maggie warned that if the out of so imposed on the e.u. the bloc will retaliate and that's a pretty strong message coming from the e.u. . the e.u. average or practically is being cautious here they want

summit tonight in brussels max as always thank you very much. here are some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a german court has sentenced an afghan refugee to life in prison for killing a teenage student in the city of freiburg far right groups had seized on the case because the defendant came to germany after being convicted for attempted murder in greece critics say e.u. checks on migrants are inadequate german lawmakers have authorized more troops for afghanistan the maximum number of german forces on the ground will rise to one thousand three hundred the expansion was approved because of the deteriorating security situation in the country the buddhist vary in afghanistan is part of the nato led mission resolute support which provides training and assistance to the afghan army. russia's ambassador to london says britain cannot be trusted in investigating the poisoning of an ex spy and his daughter alexander cold said that britain had accused russia of the attempted murder of sergei's cripple without presenti

not in brussels for once. i'm in london. only with chris mason. we thought we would do our usual little nerdy podcast. in this cupboard. except it's not a cupboard. we are here in the bbc radio theatre with 300 friends. applause. hello, everyone! and, of course, laura and katya are here too! hello! hi! and the reason we're doing it is because it is about a year to go to a brexit, so welcome to brexitcast: the arena spectacular. brexitcast. .. brexitcast, from bbc 5 live and bbc news. brexit means brexit. breaking up is hard. the people voted, they need to get on with it. a process which i can only describe as a dog's brexit. brexit means brexit. but what does brexit mean? hello, brexitcastsers. welcome to — well, just another edition of our podcast — except this time we're in the bbc radio theatre with a studio audience of around 300. the extraordinary thing — and i don't know if you guys feel the same — but us four are meant to be used to go on the television and radio, and that notion that people are watching and listening. but it's quit

leaders summit in brussels and this is where are you correspondent garrick mattison standing by with the very latest welcome to you we know that the summit has now ended what did leaders there have to say about the u.s. president now excluding the e.u. from these controversial tariffs at least for the time being. the french president had a very clear message for the u.s. here he called the temporary exemption not satisfactory he also added a warning for the u.s. if you want a way he said look the e.u. does not seek a trade war but if the e.u. would be dragged into a trade war it would respond without weakness and the reason you hear such strong words coming from e.u. leaders is that there is a serious concern that the tariffs are only a first wave in what could be. a bigger or a much bigger and much more intense assault on the architecture of global trade and the u.s. has also i mean for talking about a new deal here they've set a deadline of may first to get a more permanent solution on the table in terms of you know these these tariffs on steel and aluminum imports what does brusse

adam fleming is at that brussels summit for us. adam, some news is coming out about what they have agreed. what could you tell us? what this is all about is that both sides are looking at the draft brexit treaty, about 120 pages long, they're going through it to see the areas where they agree, where they have made progress, and areas where there are still disagreements. in public, both sides are playing all of this town, being very coy, saying wait and see. privately, people are sounding increasingly confident that there has been a significant progress in lots of areas in that withdrawal agreement. in other words, lots of areas in that withdrawal agreement. in otherwords, lots lots of areas in that withdrawal agreement. in other words, lots of it will be covered in green and less of it will be read than you might have thought. the key section that the uk wants to be entirely green is the uk wants to be entirely green is the section on the transition period, what they call the implementation phase. that would be the period where eve

and the greens would brussels have welcomed that as well. no brussels looking rather to kill that coalition of course because the greens are known factor here the greens in the european parliament are very pro european the strong on the environment strong for solidarity but this is the f.t.p. the liberal party had shown a certain skepticism it was also strong on the tight fiscal policies things that are not welcomed in brussels and so this is really the desired result this is the favorite result for the european union what happened today in bowlen d.w. political correspondent barbara vai's all thank you very much meanwhile another european country is facing uncertainty this hour italians are casting their ballots in a general election that's turning out to be a tightly contested race a center right coalition anchored by former prime minister silvio berlusconi's forsyte italia party could gain a majority the economy and migration have dominated what's been an unpredictable campaign and there were more surprises on election day. former italian

our europe correspondent, damian grammaticus, is in brussels. today has been a busy day here in brussels, david davis called it a significant step, mr barnier called ita significant step, mr barnier called it a decisive step. the outline agreement for this transition period that would come in in one year's time when the uk leads the eu, the link all the rules and trading freely but there are crucial issues remain an earlier today the irish foreign minister was here to make sure the irish border issue was not overlooked. first thing this morning and it was the irish foreign minister who was in brussels meeting michel barnier before david davis got there. his aim was to see to it that irish concerns remained uppermost in the brexit negotiations. simon coveney began the day tweeting that he was on an early flight to ensure there would be no backsliding on the irish border issue. after his meeting, eight satisfied looking mr kirby said that solidarity with the eu partners remained strong. —— satisfied looking simon coveney. a little later it was

laura kuenssberg, bbc news, brussels. our europe editor katya adler is in brussels for us. it feels like it was a good summit for theresa may? i would say it was an astounding summit for theresa may. let's start with russia. she came here to brussels, asking the eu leaders to strongly condemn the salisbury attack. they did that, and more. as we heard, and unprecedented diplomatic response which includes the eu recalling its ambassadorfrom russia. these measures from the eu are not just russia. these measures from the eu are notjust in solidarity with the uk, it is also because of widespread concern about russia. but still‘s and then we come to brexit, a hugely symbolic day for brexit. for months, the uk has been calling on the eu to include in brexit negotiations talk of trade and the future relationship after brexit. today, eu leaders said, ok, go ahead. the uk has also been asking for the bridging transition agreement. again, eu leaders said, yes, you can have it. still, part brexit remains a complicated one. there are still big issues to resolve, including the irish bo

brussels decides, in various member states, including in the uk. the bill has been worked out in the early pa rt the bill has been worked out in the early part of the negotiations as an agreement between brussels and the uk as to what it owes for the next year or so before the eu agrees its next budget. the government will have already factored in the spending to its yearly budget so it isn't going to come as a new charge. the money will already be accounted for as part of government spending. it was a question of how long the uk would go on spending money into the eu budget. another person asks about mobile roaming rates being great for the public and business, will we lose them? we don't know, but it will be subject to negotiation. it will be subject to negotiation. it will be subject to negotiation. it will be up to grab. it was agreed as an eu directive, in force across the european union, that there is a cap on charges that mobile phone companies can make when you use their services in different countries around the eu. that won't apply to the

rather than simple simply proceed yours and dictate to us and blocking everything would you blame brussels for the huge support of the former fascist or leader of the both warmly known of the northern league. well i wouldn't define northern league at the fastest northern league archy used to be a member of the government under but it was calling government i was in the same governmental people coming from the orderly there where good ministers and frankly speaking this is the result of the many mistakes made by europe europe has been making mistakes there while in the me there will be cries is it trying to can team you to in polls is simple oh stereotype rules instead of moving to the rules to win state development and i would say finding a new way to create the jobs and do you think the libya war had an effect in the sense that immigration seems to be such an issue and of course the libya was called the core component which african refugees they were all that out through libya. well i did already another crisis during the still cold arris brings italian pulled into sense and italian gover

—— brussels. he put out a tweet while speaking in finland, where he said that irrespective of brecht —— brexit and the tough negotiations there, he expressed full solidarity with theresa may in the face of what he called the brutal attack most likely inspired by moscow. he said that he was prepared to put this issue on the agenda of the summit. that we have heard similar solidarity from the polish leader, but the issue will be how far the eu believes it can actually go in support of the uk on “— can actually go in support of the uk on —— on this, because this was in international legal terms, as theresa may defined it, she said that this was attack on uk soil. so it eu countries already have significant sanctions in place on russia for its annexation of current media and its involvement in the conflict in eastern uk. —— ukraine. they will stand behind it uk, but whether they will be convinced to go further, that is unclear. boris johnson said that it was britain that led the way wi

migration that's why leaders of sinn fein met for urgent talks with chief negotiator michel barnier in brussels on monday and in the past twenty four hours it was the turn of the u.p.a. the protestant body that is the electoral reason to raise them a as prime minister of britain joining me now is a member of the northern ireland affairs committee and shadow devi spokesperson on human rights and health jim chairman jim thanks for coming on and going to be here underground any concerns that information has more leverage in brussels and when it comes to these border issues. are not the largest party in northern ireland we are we have a relationship. with that are much the government here westminster were so tight and had a candidate in the northern ireland that lies at westminster and i'm just well the at what stage the republicans aren't will have a dose of reality they want a soft border we want a soft border where you know some let's do it well that's a sign of any irish deputy prime minister has already cost down to resume his plan for you know hardboard what they hope to achieve out of this b

and german main industry association is urging politicians in berlin to make their voices heard in brussels and avoid a hard break which could cost german businesses billions bricks it will change aspects of germany's export trade it will not be more complicated but also cost up to nine billion euros more year according to expect estimates the extra costs will be due to terrorists registration procedures and waiting times at borders and german industry representatives can still be reached between the e.u. and great britain. we're calling on both sides to reach an agreement and on british leaders to support the transition phase. but it's but that would give companies until twenty twenty before they have to adjust their business models with. business and the dissatisfied holes and sides of the car industry will be hardest hit according to a study the industry will have to shoulder at least three billion year i was in extra costs cars are among germany's most important export products. last year germany's exports to britain totaled around eighty four point four billion euros that made britain

uncertainty agra chemical giants byron monsanto will be heaving a sigh of relief today last august brussels launched an investigation into the fifty six billion euro merger which would create the world's largest integrated pesticides and seed company our in-depth investigation it raised concerns that the transaction as it was mitchie fight would have significantly reduced coming to sion in a number of markets in europe and globally. it would also significantly have reduced innovation which is very important to develop seeds with a high yield or pests acts that are less toxic and less damaging to the environment as such products for farmers brussels imposed several conditions on bio they included selling parts of its business to german rival b a s a if that deal announced in october would see buy or sell the bulk of its crop seeds units and its glide for say herbicide business to be. in response to these concerns the parties have submitted a remedy package worth. well over six billion euros. this remedy package removes all problematic overlaps between the parties activities. and it ensures t

not sure we can really talk about a strategy here because you have in this tell brussels some of the most experience trade negotiators in the world and they will tell you if you ask them that this kind of thing doesn't take four or five weeks to negotiate but it take months maybe even years so i don't know if we're going to be anywhere else on the first of may then we are at the moment maybe the e.u. will try to convince the trump administration that they are ready to negotiate but it will take more time and the huge problem we have here is that you have two completely different worldviews behind the different positions president wants a bilateral approach between two countries are going to america and a minute about called the whole european union prefers a multilateral approach within the framework of institutions like the world trade organization and that just as. not fit. and they seem to be united in that preference in fact we seen a lot of unity from the e.u. at the summit in particular and also unity against russia tell us a little bit more about that. this was regarding the n