so europe is tied to russia, russia, 5 europe, basically before moscow. that's also not that bad because there's this. so the idea that russia should build bridges with europe try and push the americans out. do something that trump was wanted to do and establish time with germany primarily, but without the other european countries. that's kind of very close partnership. that's not very working out, but the commercial part of it. and then of course, the problem of ukraine, which right now finds itself in a position where moscow at the will, if it wishes to, can continue to supplied gas to europe with contract obligations, but not sending much or at all to ukraine. that's for sure. let's, let's talk a little bit more about ukraine's options here, michael. but if you crank continues to feel that europe in the united states are not looking out for them on this issue, does that risk join them closer to china's or bit as has been suggested by some? yeah, absolutely. i think the feeling in ukraine is i'd recently return from there is that it's been thrown under

africa into europe. i was going with i was seven indians and they were saving indians and is this do they know each other is this one company when business is it. how do you how do you operate yeah i didn't need to know it or not. the only good you need to know is me the only came to know him to know it when. we were going from one point onward up you say you've you've helped thousands of people to go. europe how many haven't made it ninety percent of them have made it. and it wasn't up to my height but they're still ten percent who have it has some. i hadn't know when he won his mission back which part of the journey is the most dangerous. two to tripoli became the most difficult one why because it is a desert was initially around put on twenty three i live in could only take them for d.s. four days to move from south to tripoli border. into into in the sixteen it takes about three weeks to enter tripoli how much money have you made doing this. she just really. unfair. almost a million i mean under isis

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the shortest way into europe. to stop them europe was build a double barbed wire fence it's a modern version of the great wall of china and more recently the birdland wall while those walls relied on height and guards to keep outsiders of but a spanish fans bristles with electronic surveillance gear but the purpose is the same. offensive replaced much lower was too easily breached with the result battle of the truly desperate saulteaux became a stepping stone into continental europe. under worst. moment on. their own. right here i wonder. if i mean you know i kind of i on my own i mean i've been some in the. if you're going to do is. those who still charms their luck wait in the surrounding forests but if course they're transported back to their countries of origin by the moroccan all qualities . now though there are a growing demand for a more constructive approach to bring about a lasting solution to the problem of illegal immigration. i say. it because. i said. i see a gun i go ahead. on that i feel. this appro

and europe 1st of all europe is made up of many different national countries or with their own history and identity back to the experience of racism and discrimination is common. in both europe and the us and i and i would like to say that it's not so easy to distinguish between slavery in the us and. the colonial history in in europe because it's very much linked so we're talking about systems of oppression white supremacy which is global and racism is global and we can see that also with the with the response with black lives matters so of course of course it's something that came up in in the u.s. but its reach is beyond the u.s. borders you see black lives matters protests since 2015 in the k. other parts of europe and it's becoming something that people can identify with it's not so easy to just say that you know the u.s. had slavery and slavery on only us kind of grounds and perhaps it didn't take place in europe but lots of european historic leaders were involved in the slave trade there were involved when at least 19000 africans died in the in the middle passage . on their way

europe and the greeks they will start to react. the greek train company ois he told us they couldn't move goods for $75.00 days costing them $1000000.00 he lost shipping. i think you domine is the best metaphor for what's happening in europe today in the sense that people are refugees who are fleeing from war and from war zones such as syria but also going to stand in iraq became a problem why because we're at the train track and they were blocking the train trip. so it became a problem for for the for peroration for also other countries not only greece because this way was blocked so on the one can what you can see is. refugees don't have the right to move freely on the other goods can move freely as far and as much as they want. but greece is subject to forces beyond its control. to global financial crash reveals that greece has taken out a mountain of loans from european banks. at the urging of european leaders europe's financial institutions gave greece the biggest loan in history. and most of that money flowed straight back to

the shortest way into europe. to stop them europe was build a double barbed wire fence it's a modern version of the great wall of china and more recently the birdland wall while those walls relied on height and guards to keep outsiders at but a spanish fans bristles with electronic surveillance gear but the purpose is the same. offense it replaced much lower was too easily breached with the result of the truly desperate souter became a stepping stone into continental europe. wonder we're. doing. right here i wonder. if my being you know. so over. the. world is. those who still charms their luck wait in the surrounding forests but if court they are transported back to their countries of origin by the moroccan north already. now though there are a growing demand for a more constructive approach to bring about a lasting solution to the problem of illegal immigration. sort of for a time and then even to interrupt i say before. because i don't think i think i said that here. i said ain't going to go ahead. on that i fe

europe itself and europe was never founded to be a global actor the history of the european union was. was to to to organize peace inside europe and economic growth but for the for the difficult birds of the world of the difficult jobs some people say the dirty jobs. were the responsibility of france u.k. and of specially of the united states now when the united states started to withdraw from the scene in syria you can we were able to see there is no very common international politics where somebody went out of the door somebody some others would come in the village and we saw now it's the ceasefire and it's organized but turkey and russia europe doesn't play any role should that change should europe have more i think europe should step up in international affairs therefore it's a new what in syria would you first first of all we should support the cease fire and of course i think at the end of the day everybody wants to see europe as part of the re construction process of syria the next step is that we should have under the u.n. umbrella in geneva a constitutional reform i'm very ha

and in europe itself, united in whatever actions taken against russia, better loan, the us, and europe on the same page. no, no, we haven't seen my student and unity, and there is, 1st of all that a lot of divisions in europe itself because the various countries within europe have different degrees of size. is russia economic science of some country, so much stronger. for example, germany has traditionally build these high dependence on russia, russian hydrocarbon supplies. so yes, there is become fee that the u. s. and a europe pound the same page. and what is that? as well as all the uncertainty doing, you know, to markets, how have they been reacting? what is the sort of, you know, not i will say pre war, but the anticipation the uncertainty doing to market sentiment. you, as i said, the fear itself is already affecting the market and here. well, 1st of all, the russia markets going to be 2.21, and in the last few weeks away. but i want to to see here, best of the last few days, actually this situation has come down. and these happened after russia reacted in a relatively mild fashi

and search out some hope for europe's future. we don't want the state to involved because this is a and momentum people in fact and had to learn here not something i did to. hello there the rain has now east for many of us across queensland the satellite picture isn't picking up a great deal of cloud of talk most of the cloud is actually over the northern territory at the moment and for queensland it's largely fine and dry that should allow the flood waters to recede elsewhere and it's pretty hot imperf at the moment or that's the way it's going to stay as we head through monday and into tuesday temperatures around thirty four or thirty five degrees for us but also southeastern parts of australia where the winds are all feeding up from the south so here it's quite cool with melbourne struggling to get to around twenty one degrees and over towards the east and we've got the remains of a cycle own here that's just working its way towards the southeast so for the north island incredibly stormy very strong winds damaging seas and we'

so i think indeed this shows that people in europe really want more flexibility there's all of europe more demand for. basically having more control over one's own fate i would say that's why we see all these populist movements in europe that are from the left or the right this is what they sort of having common they feel they're losing control over their own fate and indeed also the cuttle on the scottish independence movements they of course have always existed but in the last ten years they have become much more popular and again if we wonder how to deal with that i think we have to look at switzerland sicilian as a country where there's a lot of decentralization we're the decentralized entities the continents can decide it's over taxation policy too much larger extent than was the case elsewhere so and this really helps to keep switzerland together nobody in switzerland wants to wants to sort of secede from the country because the country allows a lot of flexibility people are generally happy with how swiss run this so if the e.u. is wondering how can we become more stable they ha

in terms of the public knowledge in europe. i think initially we would probably say the financial side is important. there are a number of appeals, more money will be needed, those appeals will increase. that's very important than the public, as you said, have been incredibly generous as refugees increasingly move to the west to other countries. there are other things that people don't be volunteering, helping with education translation again, fundraising with helping refugees to really find se and integrate in those society because unfortunately, this is not going to be very short term. it is going to be a bit longer. we think deb camila cause matthew mentioned there at the beginning of december, you temporary protection directive, which is which has been activated now. it was an activated back in 2015 during the refugee crisis there. when we saw people coming from escaping the war in syria and iraq and afghanistan, why is that? why is it being activated now? so i think 1st a bit of background on best temper protection directi

forces in europe followed by italy and the u.k. and the u.s. army was almost 2000000 strong on the continent at the end of world war 2 in 1905 that number was brought down significantly 4 years later it was boosted again to more than 400000 military personnel in 1962 as the cold war with the soviet union grew but it was slashed by 2 thirds after the fall of the berlin wall those stationed in germany were gradually reduced over the years but the country has remained a crucial military hub for the u.s. it's where the headquarters for u.s. forces in europe and africa based and it hosts an air base from which soldiers and equipment are transferred to iraq and afghanistan. thank you well let's bring in our guests now and joining us from walpole massachusetts is andrew base of a u.s. military historian and president of the quincy institute for responsible state craft from lynn is only a political analyst and professor in european studies at stanford university berlin and from moscow we have pavel felgenhauer a journalist and defense analyst thank you

europe and do you think europe account and it sounded. not today if the u.s. were to pull out or call back 6 actually from its commitments to nato europe would be woefully short of all the key capabilities needed for small scale interventions much less for the defense of europe against a potentially large scale threat from the russian federation so we need to stay together and rebalance the alliance that's where trump has legitimate grievance with the other allies and mccraw should work on strengthening the european pillar of nato rather than taking europe in a totally separate direction let me bring pavel in and ask this question some of the headaches which russia has had with nato expansion is and what any of that be dealt with if we saw a different sort of common european defense arrangement would that deal with the placement of certain u.s. missile systems that say in poland and so on and so forth or ultimately would we see the same sorts of military postures just with a different. oh those are missiles that have been deployed then. i

i mean, europe and i repeat, europe is the largest owner and investor in africa and around the world. so we're just trying to use and you to a new instrument to gather all the resources that are already being invested by europe, european companies, and european governments, and try to bring in and a one umbrella with a common objective. and these objective is to be when, when we don't want these to be only something that serves european industries, interests, or own european companies, we want also to cooperate with local governments and local business of post. you said it was quite interesting when you sat there and said louise santos were aimed at bringing together an existing trade in existing projects. how much if this is going to be new money the, the headline figure of course, is $300000000000.00 euros of investments over the next 6 years or so. but how much of this is actually new? but we have new at facilities now and most of what will be new will be money brought by actually the private sector and some of the financial institutions that will be there in that will be also asso

particular into 1000 of 121314 with the hundreds of thousands of people crossing into europe now europe is not the same you have breaks it and you have that the rise of the populists of the far west and we're talking about the need to fix the problem of migrants when you have could not be the same again isn't this something this is going to definitely have been a huge impact on the issue of migrants in the near future. well firstly i don't think we should talk about the problem of migrants because the real crisis within europe is the demographic crisis and if europe doesn't actually accept new populations it really will have problems and that is true for every country in europe even those that are most fervently against accepting new populations so i think what we've seen is that the extreme right has been able to exploit the situation that was provoked by the conflict in syria which led to quite a large number of people seeking protection in europe however even during that situation in 2015 the numbers of people arriving in europe were far less than the numbers seeking protection in ot

i was so so very uncomfortable for europe and raising the stakes about future sanctions. absolutely, well, it certainly has succeeded there in raising the stakes under, as given the number of countries that are still receiving russian gas at this time, should we, can we assume that some, or even many are actually paying and roubles? well, there are reports that this is already happening, or at least companies, at least 3 or 4 european countries are now paying and roubles precisely long lines of what chris says, just outline, we don't precisely know whom we have for certainty on hungry from austria. i wouldn't rule out that some german companies are playing the same thing given the role of a difficult situation these days. and i'm not going out. this is, this is going to go about numbers going to go even higher up. i guess the key issue here really is you know, whereas the pressure what, what confesses high the blood pressure from the european side to stay in line. or essentially the pressure to keep up the gas supplies flowing and, and that's where companies find themselv

for travel in europe. so will a vaccine curtain end up dividing, rich and full nation? this is inside story. ah hello and welcome to the show. i'm sammy's, a dan, so cove, it $900.00 vaccines, a vital for controlling the pandemic. as we know, widespread immunization is allowing parts of the world, including the u. s. in europe to reopen for tourism and trade. but it's a different story in developing nations. millions of people across africa still waiting to receive their 1st jobs. the w h o warns the continent is facing an extremely aggressive 3rd wave. the african union is covered, 1900 envoy is strongly criticized europe for failing to deliver the millions of doses. it promised we'll bring in our guests in a moment. but 1st, this report from victoria gate and b marie a 57 year old mother of 5 has come to this clinic and can chester to get her 2nd job of the asters in vaccine. the democratic republic of congo is suffering from a 3rd serge of corona, virus infections, as many other parts of africa. i think

if you're a monte, what's in this for europe? well, i think this, this relationship could be literally a reward nowadays to data economy. the flow of data is dominated by 2 polls north america, and east asia. and i think both europe and africa need to become as autonomy as, as possible in the generation of data and the use of data and the digital economy can be mutually rewarding. but i agree with my colleagues, we need to see what are this time europe is serious about taking africa as a business part or a business partner rather than as a development age target. this is, this is real economy. it's the teachers are becoming progress and i think, you know, it's, it's, it was long overdue. well, let's talk more about that points on the difference between you know, investment and development age. well, what's your, what's your view on that, david? money, what's, what's been the problem with europe's relationship in the past that could be improved upon this time? i think the problem was, we'll start with the language. if you look at

the fire that destroyed europe's largest refugee camp last week when 12000 people are still homeless or in the blaze at the morea camp on the greek island of lesbos many of the asylum seekers are refusing to move into a new camp fearing that conditions will be no better and that they may not be allowed to leave a vocal russian opposition politician alexei navalny has posted his 1st picture after his suspected poisoning last month he says he is now breathing unaided after coming out of a medically induced coma last week is advisors also say he expects to return to russia soon the german government says tests show he was poisoned with a soviet not be chuck nerve agent there's the top stories do stay with us there at the stream is up next more news for you after that i phone or. i have and what can you watching the stream today we are looking at 3 compelling coded 19 stories from around caldwell of india's surge in coated cases europe 2nd wave and also the vaccine trials in the united states hoping to involve minorities so much to do so little time if you see or hear something say somet

of trident acquisitions which focuses on investment in oil and gas in eastern europe he's also a former member of russia's parliament and the only member to vote against the alex ation of crimea in 2014 he joins us from kiev via skype darren is principal russia analyst at the global risk consultancy vest maker croft he joins us now from london gentlemen welcome to this edition of inside story ilya part amount of in the caravan to start with you i mean how significant is this in terms of a milestone in the fractious relationship between ukraine and russia that this bridge has finally been built and is it operation well to my mind there's just a lot was. the main. it's already happened when it was a cartridge last year and since that time mark rein is already linked to mainland russia which of course it's extremely symbolic because the reach became the largest infrastructure or to come from. some portion of the sun at the expense of russian taxpayers for example where i mean. i can see. the council the construction of the bridge across the or final the construction of the breach across fr

for germany and for europe. well, it's interesting that every member of the upcoming new government announces that we need to radical changes when it comes to climate change. and they are all pushing for renewables that more needs to be done more than what the previous government has done. and given that we've seen the rising gas prices that could potentially be leveraged on the stand, that it's now high time. and we shouldn't discuss the nitty gritty is of how it is turned is when mail next to a building or all the reasons why it didn't meet the targets that have been defined before. so there are certainly a push coming from the current what was described as a perfect storm that we'll see more efforts and more investment in renewables and decreases the cio strategic dependency from russia. pulses. this is a crisis moment. everybody's looking for leverage. oh, it comes to ukrainian the seem to be pretty much excited about the potential. what might happens next, particularly because they are now going to be part

needs to hedge that's why europe needs to have a plan b. those doubts and the need for the plan for plan b. come at the worst possible moment because europe is the siege by anti-liberal forces also from with from within and by and anti-liberal author terry and powers russia and china from without so it's a very precarious moment but europe doesn't have any other choice i agree with mr goss that of course it's easy to say you're going to pull this off because there are so many countervailing forces but those politicians who believe in europe and to believe that even a big country like germany is no longer enough sufficient to hold its own in this kind of tumultuous world they need to kind of invest to try to convince the public and make the most off this situation that in terms of the turmoil is is indeed unprecedented and should they use you know the issue of iran to come together and stand up to the u.s. on this most of us will go to you. i don't think iran will make much. effect or will have much effect on european public opinion. and thi

incent europe not to intervene and do any kind of where ups that could happen in eastern europe. cornelia, you have winter and you have energy crisis. how are we to blame? is it the post pandemic recovery? is it russia or is it weather related events, particularly last winter? it is the perfect storm you had last winter. you had such a cold winter that star was on plenty shed and i have some sympathy for gas brom again for 1st filling their own storage because they had a cold winter to. so dare storage shoe. it was, was deplete that to, for 1st you know, you 1st look after your own people and then then you go further. so, so that's one thing. then we have obviously the competition as was mentioned between them, asia and europe. for l n g, we're big because china is importing more and more l n g. this year china will become the largest import, the globally of l. n. she, it will, it will supercede japan in that position. and so, so we have, and obviously we have some geopolitical tensions. but, but, but mainly it's the perfect storm of supply and demand. and when it comes to price, yes, obv

and the threat was that they would cleave europe in the united states and allow food to defeat europe in detail, which is, you know, kind of what he's doing. so the problem is, you know, the military capacity, you know, nato cannot muster 100 battalions to match the 100, the times that boots mass on ukraine. so i don't think the west is looking at carrying us militarily. and as i said earlier, we're going to reconstitute something like pershing, that's going to take 15 years. you know, we shut down those assembly lines. so there's a really imbalance your own military side in favor of russia. and i think that leads the west to look towards the political and economic solutions. thank you. are already inclined to fit unfortunately, we're running out of time. let's hope that diplomacy will finally prevail, pavel taken, holla, austin, bennett, and david ross, i really appreciate you. and i thank you and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by visiting our website as a dot com for further discussion. because our facebook page that's facebook dot com forward slash h

the largest asian wholesale market in europe. it's also a hub for trafficking to boulevard. i am sure he darn veggie, should you show it to russia from nevada? yes. carrie very, i'm kind of level the stage shunting, you know, but on there a good movie. he stunned dock and she o latasha latasha after all of chicago de, belinda, should the financing not a huge image with as june was being smuggled through poland. the driver lost control of his minivan. shortly before the border with germany. people was seriously injured in the accident. ha, ha, ha! well, the thought that he can learn logan, i am led away the matter with it all. my mother, when satan jamarion them with the driver and all the passengers on board, including 8 miners were apprehended. it was the starting point for an extensive investigation by polish authorities. the smugglers mobile phones were confiscated and police analyzed the contents, including gps data authorities within able to piece together the smuggling roots more than $100.00 smuggling operations had been c

growing power with economic and political coalition that's an accusation being leveled in australia europe and washington so is there a line between acting like a great power and taking things too far this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i mean ron can i just rent bide your time that famous phrase from china's communist leader deng xiaoping governed its foreign policy for decades but not anymore and its current president xi jinping beijing has become an active some would say aggressive player on the global stage when china banned pork imports from germany the official reason was african swine fever but it was also seen as a warning to the german government to not join u.s. pressure on china australia's products were also blocked after the fish was there called for an investigation into beijing's handling of the corona virus and none of this is new namely a year ago u.s. secretary of state mike pompei accused china of using coercion as a state craft tall beijing's foreign ministry replied. china stands upright with on no we never strong arm others never seek supremacy neve

in ireland and the netherlands in austria all across europe the greens are strong. the election results reflect a growing political trend in the east 28 member states people are increasingly rejecting establishment traditional mainstream parties and supporting alternatives and floating for courses the center right european peoples party remains the largest bloc in the e.u. parliament but with no majority it'll be forced to seek support to form a pro e.u. coalition there is no is the ability there is no stable majority without the e.p. and that's why the e.p.a. is ready for compromise ready for talks to each other but the have to work together that is our main. the european project was created after world war 2 to ensure that rivalries between countries would never again result in conflict while these elections show that politically europe is more fragmented than ever pro e.u. . polity still retain a majority suggesting that although some voters may be questioning the european union most still believe in it natasha buchla al-jazeera paris. let's go now to our guests

because it was very very furious and happened is people went from china into europe and europe suffered tremendously what's going on and so i just wanted to stop to pertains to the station or public access to the u.s. capitol has been suspended but lawmakers in the house are continuing to discuss the bill to counter the economic and social impact of the coronavirus and also pacing questions about whether lawmakers should stay at home let's get this bill passed 1st and then we'll see where they're from there because the fact is the house is on fire people are concerned about their of course the house and the health of their children democratic presidential candidate joe biden added his voice to the discussion about how best to deal with this ongoing crisis and was harshly critical of the efforts by the trumpet ministration public fears of a compound more pervasive like interest in this president. why adversarial relationship with the truth that he continues to have this stalled public concern about the slow rollout of testing kits this despite claims by the trumpet ministration that anyo

the lucky ones, board buses bound for cities in europe and others wait. this line is long, but it is still moving. now we can to this conflict and the crowd, the traffic, the line at this border crossing it's much smaller and the system is getting across into poland. seems much more organized, much more efficient, but no less tragic for the people that are leaving their country behind ukrainians, trying to get to safety say they feel abandoned by the international community. they know health is coming, but not enough to stop russian invaders destroying their cities, their homes, their lives, the mim, i'm for city not to. i'm not my ukrainians are going to nato, but not to. it's not here in the ukraine. we need real help army weapons, thomas, and what our army needs to do. we need to weapons and there's no weapons in ukraine that would really destroy the russians. each of these women have a husband or father or brother fighting to defend their cities or on the front line . they say they will never leave and help other ukrainians. however, they came at a pl

quota on refugees a plan meant to relocate asylum seekers across europe so let's bring in our guests joining us from budapest is getting a raw and i'm a list of hunger a center for fair political analysis in berlin political analyst and a professor and european studies at stanford university in berlin and by skype from london is matthew goodwin professor of politics and international relations at the university of kent thank you all for joining us good day raj night in budapest let me start with you viktor orban is widely expected to win a third term in this election how much has his anti immigrant agenda helped him to win votes and why is he so popular. i think he has two main forces for him being popular one is the economy economy is has been growing ever since he came into poverty which wasn't true before so that's a plus for him but the other issue is migration. that he she used to create an identity for his base so these base has a very strong identity of european christian ideals and this base resents migration this base resents islam culture and based on that they display sche

therefore, the rest of europe, because germany is the biggest trade partner china in europe. and they, since a february, 4th, signature of the she agreement, many have seen that as a non aggression pact. and so we've seen putting move troops from russia's far east after meeting with she jumping in beijing before the olympics, and he's able to move troops towards ukraine. he couldn't do that unless he had agreement from china. and in addition, you know, they both were the same kind of killer soup shirt and tie, they're coordinating far more in space and other areas. and in that agreement, it's a $5000.00 word agreement. china said that they supported russia, moves in regard to nato, that they would also build a pipeline. and also, you know, there is a question mark over china. how will they act? will they really help russia? so the biggest loser in this is probably russia because they will be far more a junior partner to china than they ever dreamed of. maria deva, if putin was trying to weaken and divide nato, he's done the complete opposite. now has an easy, as ne, strengthe

in general, listening way in europe was found out. so in 1939, 1939, that was the year when the world war 2 stopped. i believe that when the country, which was 25000000 people through the world war 2 and these very country way each piece of land is somebody is great. this country started to war and killing people right now, 20 century europe. it's just impossible to conquer stephanie. earlier this week, switzerland announced that it would freeze russian held financial assets in the country, totaling more than $11000000000.00. it's a big number that's according to the new york times. that's a rather shocking move, given switzerland's long history of neutrality. what, what does that kind of move tell us? it tells me that the global communities really are really running around one point, which is to, to really express their opposition, their frustration, derringer or de outburst with regard to what's ongoing and in ukraine, even smaller countries neutral countries like so as a lend, you mentioned to have joined to chorus i. i must admit,

europe's biggest budget airline cancels two thousand flights it's affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers ryanair says it doesn't have enough highlights to cover holiday leave but what are your rights as a traveler this is inside story. hello again welcome to the program with me peter dopy the cost of purchasing cheap tickets on low cost carriers has proven costly for hundreds of thousands of passengers ryanair europe's biggest budget airline recently canceled some two thousand flights the company says the decision was because of a shuttling blunder among its pilots and cabin crew well as you can imagine that decision spot immediate outrage from frustrated passengers the c.e.o. michael o'leary was forced to apologize saying ryanair quote messed up to make matters worse travel insurance companies have told many of the travelers that hotel and car rental cancellations will not be covered is some of what ryanair passengers had to say. every year i'm not going to five the mechanics of the right i change the style and the conditions the paying conditions and i relate but then of cou

euro zone here you are the euro area and europe its. main trading partner for many countries in the world so the recovery in europe is important for everyone from the u.s. to africa to asia and that's what we have to keep in mind all right but made it clear doesn't just want more business with china he wants more business and trade on a more equal footing does europe have the leverage though to force more equal access to chinese markets well i think that the it was the first step in the european strategy you know it when we when we look at twelve trades champions the u.s. china and europe and we have seen in recent months with donald trump the u.s. for follow not for those now or more if that is that are surely if the strategy so we have to. draw a new a.q. berea between china and europe and that's what one part of. micro strategy in china to say europe is now an important trade partner for to sign off and we have to discuss to find a new way kubrick so that was the first part. the second part it was about risky procedure the thing you

we know there are different views in europe. there are various is on the subject, and it will be up to the european commission to produce an opinion on the basis of which the council will take his responsibilities on board. the council will have to seriously look at some symbolic political and legitimate request in mode. wanted to follow what is and what will have to like the appropriate choices inactive, determined and clear headed manner should you should, you should go with them to miss your legend. gentleman to, to, to, to move on to georgia, accepted all of that or did i, did it know when this war was launched? she put his blood, put him up, thought that he would break your opinion till he was wrong. a post, he probably thought that he would face inertia this excuse paralysis, search for excuses to avoid taking decisions. but he was wrong about when he launched this action. you probably thought that he would take you crime easily and rapidly, but he was wrong because the cranium, people are resistant. probably talk. don't s

a europe i wish to see this is exactly the kind of europe where our founding fathers and mothers they founded the europe in the ashes of the 2nd world war so we as as we created new nations it was very painful to see how if you were only had national interests and self interests in mind how bad things could work out it was important to forge unions with one another. mutual trust and out of that mutual trust we have growth and strength and those of the years which we've been following for. decades so we have this community which has been created in strength and in peace and now today keeping in mind this invisible enemy these basic values of our union have been threatened we have to be able to trust one another we have to rely on one another we have to help each other through these hard times and at this moment it's our biggest obligation to save lives to save our way of living but at this time in the future and i hope it will be soon there will be a day when we will look to the future and then at that time we have to work together to create that future. and then we'll learn our lesson

and it is about europe itself. so i think we need to be very mindful also of the interest of our allies in the region here in europe. i've given you say that what are the implications of this open august packed when it comes to europe's own security future? that is what we are going to have to look at over the next 18 months. how exactly the going to shape up? how much of a compliment is possible? how much bye, and it's possible going to be supported in general, a stable and secure in the pacific region is in europe interest. so how can you support these methods? how can technology cooperation be supported? how can cooperation between part that's in the region and that includes japan, australia, india, even foster, even more. this is in europe interest in general. so also the quad meeting, looking onto it. this is something that is not against europe in any sort of fashion, but stabilizing the region and pushing back against funding. that is something that is very much to europe and interest. it is clear that the u

a number of vaccine candidates are now in the works in europe. a few days after our contract with bio tech, and i'm happy to announce a new agreement. if the fact scene has proven safe and effective against covered 90, every member state will receive the vaccine at the same time on a curve a top basis. and under the same conditions, european governments are particularly worried about the alarming rise in infections . the 5 countries, they're reporting most cases are france, spain, united kingdom, and italy. the european center for disease prevention and control is an agency with a mandate to strengthen europe's defenses against infectious diseases. but there are many who question its purpose. critics say the agency has not been effective in dealing with this crisis and without any executive powers, that recommendations are not legally binding. so, how will the agency convince its member states for a more unified approach to the code 1000 pandemic? the director of the european center for disease prevention and control dr. andrea mon talks to al-ja

commission boss saying there are divisions in europe and they're getting bigger one third of the italian electorate do not want any more migrants on italian soil at all and their logic i guess would be the builders logic which is you don't go to bed up stairs and leave your front door open because if you do when you come down in the morning your t.v. video on your credit cards are gone so there is this fear that european politicians have to be seen to react to or educate the people of europe how does that happen. well i just thought to quickly point out the protection rates for people arriving in italy firm from libya currently about forty percent overall so i wouldn't say that ninety percent of those arriving. and i would also point out that you know the conditions of the abominable and i think we all agree on that but even if you are in iran were in charge of this offshore sentence the states will still not take these people the end because they're still sending the experts to unite safa cities to screen them afterwards if there's no consensus within europe on asylum rules i doubt ther

and again, what brings europe into this? for africa? it brings apart, heard that has a lot of expertise, has a good experience in terms of technology transfer. again, what africans need a lot is to be able to create a, an environment which makes businesses thrive. that is able to develop its own technologies and not be dependent on technology is built and developed elsewhere. so that means strengthening partnerships between universities and the industries and so on, so forth. and this is something that europeans have a lot of experience and at the same time, and i think this is quite crucial. your can be a market or african technology. as i said earlier, my african banking systems are way more developed than the european backend systems when it comes to digital economy. so opening up digital partnerships may very well give african benefee opportunities to expand into european markets. african apps, african tools that are still quite common. i mean, you know, previously who were referring to east africa, the case of em pace a digital mod

it's not just a problem for europe. the rest of the world could go without as rich countries corner the market in a similar way to the vaccines. this year alone, new york natural gas futures are up 106 percent to a high of $5.20 for $1000000.00 british thermal units. it's highest in more than 7 years. but the equivalent gas in europe and asian markets costs $25.00 for $1000000.00 british thermal units. storage sites, a less than 72 percent full. that's the lowest in a decade. or knock on effects. a huge cf industries holdings. one of the was biggest fertilizer groups has been forced to close to plants in the u. k, sparking fears of a looming shortage of ammonium nitrate that could hit food supplies and a shortage of carbon dioxide production could hit the meat to soft drinks. industry will gas is also used a power electricity generation. unsurprisingly, prices of soaring in that market to several energy suppliers have already collapsed in the u. k. governments across europe preparing to hand up money to households the c

needs to hedge that's why europe needs to have a plan b. those doubts and the need for the plan for a plan b. come at the worst possible moment because europe is beseeched by anti liberal forces also from with from within and by and anti-liberal author terry and powers russia and china from without so it's a very precarious moment but europe doesn't have any other choice i agree with mr goss that of course it's easy to say you're pulled this off because there are so many countervailing forces but those politicians who believe in europe and to believe that even a big country like germany is no longer enough sufficient to hold its own in this kind of tumultuous world they need to kind of invest to try to convince the public and make the most off this situation that in terms of the turmoil is is indeed unprecedented and should they use you know the issue of iran to come together and stand up to the u.s. on this most of us will go to you. i don't think iran will make them much. effect or will have much effect on european public opinion. and thi